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  • Contamination of Water

    Health Risk Assessment and Treatment Strategies
    • 1st Edition
    • Arif Ahamad + 2 more
    • English
    Water containing significant amounts of inorganic and organic contaminants can have serious environmental consequences and serious health implications when ingested. Contamination of Water: Health Risk Assessment and Treatment Strategies takes an interconnected look at the various pollutants, the source of contamination, the effects of contamination on aquatic ecosystems and human health, and what the potential mitigation strategies are. This book is organized into three sections. The first section examines the sources of potential contamination. This includes considering the current scenario of heavy metal and pesticide contamination in water as well as the regions impacted due to industrialization, mining, or urbanization. The second section goes on to discuss water contamination and health risks caused by toxic elements, radiological contaminants, microplastics and nanoparticles, and pharmaceutical and personal care products. This book concludes with a section exploring efficient low-cost treatment technologies and remediation strategies that remove toxic pollutants from water. Contamination of Water incorporates both theoretical and practical information that will be useful for researchers, professors, graduate students, and professionals working on water contamination, environmental and health impacts, and the management and treatment of water resources.

  • Wood Degradation and Ligninolytic Fungi

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 99
    • English
    Wood Degradation and Ligninolytic Fungi, Volume 99 summarizes current knowledge on wood degradation by fungi. Chapters in this new release include Intracellular detoxification strategies of lignolytic fungi, Cell signaling during wood degradation, Evolution of ligninolytic systems in fungi, Diversity and distribution of lignolytic fungi, Fungal catalysts for lignin valorization: applied aspects, Expression of fungal lignocellulolytic genes in the environment, Wood degradation in grapevine disease, Imaging wood degradation, Lignin degradation by ascomycetes, and more. The increasing interest for wood decaying fungi over the past few years has sparked great potential for their use in biomass valorization, their important function in global carbon cycle, and for the damages they can cause on wood materials, hence this new release includes updates on these and related topics.

  • Big Data's Threat to Liberty

    Surveillance, Nudging, and the Curation of Information
    • 1st Edition
    • Henrik Skaug Saetra
    • English
    Big Data permeates all aspects of modern life, and while there is no shortage of potential benefits resulting from this, author Henrik Skaug Sætra argues that we must also understand the threats Big Data poses to liberty. The issues discussed in Big Data’s Threat to Liberty: Surveillance, Nudging, and the Curation of Information are related to how we are constantly under surveillance. Data is gathered from our homes, our cars, our smartphones, various devices around the house, and public sources such as facial recognition enabled camera surveillance and various websites and social networks. Furthermore, the information gathered is used to influence our actions. Detailed personality profiles are utilized in order to make us purchase products and services, or pay our taxes, through tailor-made nudges aimed at irrational and subconscious mechanisms, and delivered with a level of precision only possible with Big Data-driven algorithmic curation of data. Finally, the information we receive through various media is curated by algorithms, and even people are curated in order to satisfy our desires. By providing us with what the algorithm believes we want, we are spared from the exposure of unpleasant information, and even unpleasant people. The ideological landscapes we traverse are thus characterized by conformity, and a concomitant tyranny of popular opinion becomes ever more coercive as this occurs.The question is: How does being constantly watched, manipulated, and having our world-views shaped as just described affect our freedom? In this book it is argued that Big Data’s threat to individual liberty is routinely misunderstood and underappreciated due to (a) vagueness resulting from the concept of liberty being used without it being defined, or (b) the use of definitions based on flawed understandings of what liberty is. In this new and unique contribution to the ethics of Big Data and artificial intelligence, both these challenges are thoroughly addressed.

  • Chirurgie endoscopique endonasale

    • 1st Edition
    • Patron Vincent + 1 more
    • French
    La chirurgie endoscopique endonasale est une chirurgie récente, dont la réputation était, encore il y a quelques années, celle d’une « chirurgie aveugle et aveuglante » tant ses complications pouvaient être graves et fréquentes. Aujourd’hui les progrès techniques et technologiques permettent d’améliorer la plupart des pathologies nasosinusiennes avec des suites opératoires simples. Pourtant, nombre de chirurgiens limitent toujours leur pratique aux procédures élémentaires par méconnaissance des techniques actuelles. Très didactique et richement illustré, ce livre apportera au praticien toutes les connaissances anatomiques, radiologiques et techniques nécessaires pour réaliser l’ensemble des procédures endoscopiques courantes. Chaque intervention y est décrite « pas à pas », depuis la préparation de l’intervention jusqu’aux suites opératoires. Une iconographie abondante et de nombreux conseils pratiques en font un ouvrage au plus proche de l’enseignement de terrain réalisé au bloc opératoire. L’ouvrage est complété par de nombreuses vidéos en ligne

  • Monoclonal Antibodies

    Physicochemical Analysis
    • 1st Edition
    • Harleen Kaur + 1 more
    • English
    Monoclonal antibodies (mAbs) are naturally occurring complex biomolecules. New engineering methods have turned mAbs into a leading therapeutic modality for addressing immunotherapeutic challenges and led to the rise of mAbs as the dominant class of protein therapeutics. mAbs have already demonstrated a great potential in developing safe and reliable treatments for complex diseases and creating more affordable healthcare alternatives. Developing mAbs into well-characterized antibody therapeutics that meet regulatory expectations, however, is extremely challenging. Obstacles to overcome include the determination and development of physiochemical characteristics such as aggregation, fragmentation, charge variants, identity, carbohydrate structure, and higher-order structure (HOS). This book dives deep into mAbs structure and the array of physiochemical testing and characterization methods that need to be developed and validated to establish a mAb as a therapeutic molecule. The main focus of this book is on physiochemical aspects, including the importance of establishing quality attributes such as glycosylation, primary sequence, purity, and HOS and elucidating the structure of new antibody formats by mass spectrometry. Each of the aforementioned quality attributes has been discussed in detail; this will help scientists in researching and developing biopharmaceuticals and biosimilars to find practical solutions to physicochemical testing and characterization.

  • Inter-Organellar Ca2+ Signaling in Health and Disease - Part B

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 363
    • English
    International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology reviews and details current advances in cell and molecular biology. The IRCMB series has a worldwide readership, maintaining a high standard by publishing invited articles on important and timely topics that are authored by prominent cell and molecular biologists. The articles published in IRCMB have a high impact and an average cited half-life of 9 years. This great resource ranks high amongst scientific journals dealing with cell biology.

  • Advances in Cancer Research

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 152
    • English
    Advances in Cancer Research, Volume 152, the latest release in this ongoing, well-regarded serial, provides invaluable information on the exciting and fast-moving field of cancer research.

  • Advances in Applied Microbiology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 116
    • English
    Advances in Applied Microbiology, Volume 116 continues the comprehensive reach of this widely read and authoritative review source in microbiology. Users will find invaluable references and information on a variety of areas relating to the topic of microbiology, with this release focusing on the lipid production by oleaginous yeasts.

  • Photoacoustic Probes for In Vivo Imaging

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 657
    • English
    Methods in Enzymology series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors.

  • Advances in Virus Research

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 110
    • Thomas Mettenleiter + 2 more
    • English
    Advances in Virus Research series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors.

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