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  • Emerging Contaminants

    Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment
    • 1st Edition
    • March 26, 2024
    • Arpna Kumari + 4 more
    • English
    Emerging Contaminants: Sustainable Agriculture and the Environment provides a thorough, comprehensive, and interdisciplinary overview of the many categories of emerging pollutants, including pharmaceuticals, insecticides, personal care items, and industrial chemicals, that are currently impacting the environment. With insights into the exposure associated consequences on crops and edible plants, this book is designed to enable foundational understanding as the basis for future research, as well as providing practical application guidance in current environments.Water resource shortages, declining arable land, environmental contamination with different exiting or ECs, shortcomings in the procedures for protecting cultivated land, and inefficiencies in the management of land tenure rights continue to pose challenges for agricultural sustainable development around the world. This book focuses on the impacts of ECs on sustainable agricultural production and explores possible response approaches.Following an introduction to environmental contaminants, this book discusses their fate in soils, presents the most up-to-date analytical methods for detecting them in different environmental matrices, and addresses current regulatory restrictions. Finally, this book ends with a chapter dedicated to conclusions and future perspectives.Emergin... Contaminants is an ideal resource for researchers and professionals from a variety of sciences including agricultural, plant, and environmental.

  • Molecular Impacts of Nanoparticles on Plants and Algae

    • 1st Edition
    • March 26, 2024
    • Huseyin Tombuloglu + 4 more
    • English
    Molecular Impacts of Nanoparticles on Plants and Algae covers molecular mechanisms of plants/algae related to cellular uptake, translocation of nanoparticles, and genome, transcriptome, proteome, and metabolome responses against it. The book introduces readers to state-of-the-art developments and trends of nanoparticles and plants/algae including interactions of nanoparticles with biological compounds in vitro. Nanoscience and nanotechnology have rapidly been developed in the last few decades, and they have a wide range of applications in industry, medicine, food, and agriculture. In agriculture, nanoparticles (NPs) have successfully been used for growth regulation, crop protection and improvement. This book presents the most recent findings on nanoparticle and plant/algae interaction by focusing on molecular response mechanisms at genome, transcriptome, proteome and metabolome levels. In addition, uptake and translocation mechanism of nanoparticles are assessed both in plant and algae. Throughout this book, the latest developments and discoveries are highlighted, along with open problems and future challenges in molecular mechanisms of plants/algae as a response of nanoparticles.

  • Treatise on Estuarine and Coastal Science

    • 2nd Edition
    • March 25, 2024
    • Daniel Baird + 1 more
    • English
    Treatise on Estuarine and Coastal Science, Seven Volume Set is the most up-to-date reference work for system based coastal and estuarine ecosystem science and management. It addresses the big issues facing the estuaries and coastal zone; in particular how to best use multi- and inter-disciplinary science to ensure the sustainability of the environment. It focusses on the need to protect and maintain the natural functioning of the estuaries and coasts worldwide while delivering the ecosystem services from which society extract goods and benefits.Structured chapters, written by leaders in the field, include reference lists and additional reading, copious diagrams, case-studies, and especially provide synthesis diagrams and conceptual models of complex issues. The Treatise covers both the natural and social sciences, serving a wide audience which ranges from undergraduate students to established researchers and practitioners. The work avoids autecological studies but focusses on inter-linked physical-chemical-bi... processes and associated socio-economic issues in the coastal zone. It examines estuaries and coasts, and their interactions and feedbacks with humanity, from the inland catchment/river basin to the ocean shelf.The new edition builds on and expands the previous version with significant updates and a whole new section on Climate Change and Coastal Ecosystems, covering the resistance and resilience of the estuaries, coasts and other transitional habitats to climate change, thereby determining changes and responses needed over the coming decades.

  • Advanced Vaccination Technologies for Infectious and Chronic Diseases

    A guide to Vaccinology
    • 1st Edition
    • March 25, 2024
    • Vasso Apostolopoulos + 2 more
    • English
    Advanced Vaccination Technologies for Infectious and Chronic Diseases is a comprehensive guide that delves into the intricate details of vaccine design, development across various platforms, and the path to commercialization. This book provides an introductory overview of vaccines, covering various types, developmental methodologies, delivery systems, adjuvants, immunization, and measurement of vaccine efficacy. It also showcases examples of vaccine research efforts targeting infectious diseases, autoimmune disorders, and cancer. The book concludes by exploring cutting-edge advances in proteogenomics, immunopeptidomics, and future vaccine technologies.The primary objective of this book is to inform a broad scientific audience about the fundamental concepts underlying vaccine and immunology. Further, it serves as an invaluable reference for understanding the critical steps in the journey from discovery to regulatory processes for human clinical trials, addressing common misconceptions and presenting factual information about vaccinations. Advanced Vaccination Technologies for Infectious and Chronic Diseases is a requisite reference for occupational health professionals whose roles involve supervision of immunization programs such as those working within the National Health Service, some sectors of higher education, or the pharmaceutical industry. It also caters to those researchers engaged in vaccine development and all who want to learn the processes involved from laboratory research to final product.

  • Novel Formulations and Future Trends

    Recent and Future Trends in Pharmaceutics, Volume 3
    • 1st Edition
    • March 25, 2024
    • Amit Kumar Nayak + 1 more
    • English
    Novel Formulations and Future Trends, Volume Three in the Recent and Future Trends in Pharmaceutics series, explores aspects of pharmaceutics with an original approach focused on technology, novelties and future trends. It discusses the most important developments in drug delivery, including important and exciting areas such as mucosal, implantable, transdermal, gastroretentive, vaccine and targeted drug delivery systems. The field of pharmaceutics is highly dynamic and rapidly expanding day-by-day so it demands a variety of amplified efforts for designing and developing pharmaceutical processes and formulation strategies. This is an essential reference for researchers in academia and industry as well as advanced graduate students.New technologies are also explored including 3D printing and computational pharmaceutics.

  • Microbial Diversity in the Genomic Era

    Functional Diversity and Community Analysis
    • 2nd Edition
    • March 23, 2024
    • Surajit Das + 1 more
    • English
    Microbial Diversity in the Genomic Era: Functional Diversity and Community Analysis, Second Edition presents techniques used for microbial taxonomy and phylogeny, along with their applications and respective strengths and challenges. The book incorporates recently developed biosystematics methods and approaches to assess microbial taxonomy, with suitable recommendations for where to apply them across the range of bacterial identification and infectious disease research. Sections provide a broad overview of microbial genomics research and microbiome directed medicine and update on molecular tools for microbial diversity research, extremophilic microbial diversity, functional microbial diversity across application areas, microbial diversity and infectious disease research, and future directions. Step-by-step methodologies are provided for key techniques, along with applied case studies that break down recent research studies into practical components, thus illuminating pathways for new studies across the field.

  • Computational Intelligence in Protein-Ligand Interaction Analysis

    • 1st Edition
    • March 22, 2024
    • Bing Wang + 2 more
    • English
    Computational Intelligence in Protein-Ligand Interaction Analysis presents computational techniques for predicting protein-ligand interactions, recognizing protein interaction sites, and identifying protein drug targets. The book emphasizes novel approaches to protein-ligand interactions, including machine learning and deep learning, presenting a state-of-the-art suite of skills for researchers. The volume represents a resource for scientists, detailing the fundamentals of computational methods, showing how to use computational algorithms to study protein interaction data, and giving scientific explanations for biological data through computational intelligence. Fourteen chapters offer a comprehensive guide to protein interaction data and computational intelligence methods for protein-ligand interactions.

  • Anoxygenic Phototrophic Bacteria

    • 1st Edition
    • March 22, 2024
    • Keizo Shimada + 1 more
    • English
    Anoxygenic Phototrophic Bacteria is a comprehensive overview of phototrophic bacteriacovering the following: overview of photosynthesis and phototrophic bacteria; systematicsand characteristics of each taxon; ecology and cultivation; photosynthetic electrontransfer systems; metabolism; pigments and lipids; light-harvesting systems and reactioncenters; photosynthetic genes and regulation of gene expression; origin and evolution ofphotosynthesis; and the utilization of phototrophic bacteria.Chapters are written by some of Japan’s leading researchers in the area, providing researchersin photosynthesis, bacterial physiology, microbial ecology, artificial photosynthesis,bioph... biochemistry, industrial chemistry a highly detailed, up-to-date and thoroughlycross-refe... book in this interdisciplinary area. With very few books being published overthe last 25 years on the topic, this book especially fills a crucial need for young researchersand those working at the margins of interdisciplinary fields.

  • Open Electronic Data Capture Tools for Medical and Biomedical Research and Medical Allied Professionals

    • 1st Edition
    • March 21, 2024
    • Ashish Pundhir + 2 more
    • English
    Open Electronic Data Capture Tools for Medical and Biomedical Research and Medical Allied Professionals explains the step-by-step of collecting and treating research data in a didactic manner. The book discusses four freely available data capture tools whose common feature is data collection and entry being done simultaneously rather than separately, thus saving resources and minimizing potential errors. It highlights the comparative features of each data capture tool, helping readers to understand the advantage and disadvantage of each one to decide which tool can be used to fulfill their needs.This is a valuable resource for researchers, students, and members of the biomedical and medical fields who need to learn more about data mining and management to improve the quality of their research work.

  • Improving and Tailoring Enzymes for Food Quality and Functionality

    • 2nd Edition
    • March 21, 2024
    • Rickey Y. Yada + 1 more
    • English
    Improving and Tailoring Enzymes for Food Quality and Functionality, Second Edition covers the most relevant information demanded in the production, engineering, and application of enzymes. The title is very detailed and an important cross-discipline resource that merges academia and industry. This totally revised new edition covers a broad range of topics related to enzymes and their use in food, presenting both the fundamental theory and practical application, updated with interesting novel information on biosensors, waste, valorization, up-cycling and engineering perspectives, besides an increased focus on sustainability.

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