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    • Microplastics in Agriculture and Food Science

      • 1st Edition
      • February 27, 2025
      • Pasquale Avino + 2 more
      • English
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      Microplastics in Agriculture and Food Science: Methods for Identification and Remediation presents fundamental insights into the sources of microplastics and their impact on important agricultural, food, and environmental resources. Presenting insights into these highly related fields, this book is the first to enable cross- and multidisciplinary understanding and application.Micropla... are tiny particles created during plastic production as well as those particles remaining when plastic degrades and breaks down. They are sometimes difficult to identify, and the methods for qualifying and classifying them are not always clear despite the importance of their recognition and remediation. With insights into analytical methods including the challenges, this book addresses microplastics from the farm to the food pyramid, highlighting the issues they raise and the options for removing them.Written by a global team of experts, this volume contributes to further understanding and addressing of this increasing global challenge, and is an excellent resource for researchers in agricultural science, environmental science, and food science (particularly food chemistry and food packaging).

    • Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease

      • 1st Edition
      • March 26, 2025
      • Dennis Chan
      • English
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      Early Detection of Alzheimer’s Disease: Biological and Technological Advances aims to introduce to a wide audience the high global priority problem of detecting AD prior to dementia onset. According to the Alzheimer’s Association, 5.8 million Americans are living with Alzheimer’s and care costs will cost the nation approximately $290 billion (2019 Alzheimer’s Disease Facts and Figures). With the failure of recent AD drug trials, many hypothesize that by the time symptoms appear, it is too late to be treated. Early detection can offer benefits such as more choice of medications, ability to participate in clinical trials, more time for family and for care planning. This book outlines potential solutions to the above problem using opportunities arising from the technology revolution, advances in neuroscience, and molecular biology. Most importantly, it discusses a paradigm shift from a reactive to a proactive diagnostic approach, aiming to detect disease before occurrence of symptoms. Topics covered include the use of sensing technologies (e.g. smartphones, smartwatches, Internet of Things) to detect early disease-related changes, the application of data science (machine learning/AI) to extract otherwise invisible disease features from these datasets and the potential to personalize diagnosis based on tracking changes in individual behaviours. Advances in blood-based biomarkers, brain imaging, and the potential for early diagnosis to aid interventions (lifestyle, dietary, pharmacological) to delay future development of dementia are also discussed.

    • Translational Cardiology

      • 1st Edition
      • January 20, 2025
      • Jeffrey A. Bakal + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Translational Cardiology provides a cardiology-specific instructional guide to translational medical research that will serve as a practical, step-by-step roadmap for taking a biomedical device, potential therapeutic agent, or research question from idea through demonstrated clinical benefit. Fundamentally, the volume aims to help bridge the gap between current research and practice. Written by a team of expert medical, biomedical engineering, and clinical research experts in cardiology, this book provides a clear process for understanding, designing, executing, and analyzing clinical and translational research.

    • Patterns, Function and Application of Seed Microbiome

      • 1st Edition
      • February 6, 2025
      • Mohammad Yaseen Mir + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Patterns, Function and Application of Seed Microbiome: Bacteria, Fungi and Viruses presents the current understanding of seed and microbiota associations, emphasizing recent findings that highlight the latest insights into these interactions, and how they may ultimately influence plant ecology, health and productivity in both natural and agricultural systems. The development and dispersal of seeds and their transition to seedlings are among the most critical stages of the life cycle of plants and seed health is of crucial global importance for producing both quantity and high quality crops to feed world’s population. It is important for seeds to be produced that contain the best hybrid embryo so that it is free of diseases, includes beneficial endophytes and ensures a healthy start of a seedling. Focusing on the role of seed microbiota, their transmission and implications for producing healthier seeds as well as the relationship between the seed microbiome and primed plant resistance this book reveals the targeted use of the seed microbiome to enrich the soil biodiversity and its resilience and its resulting impact on plant health and yield. also explores the importance of nanotechnology in the development and production of crops for both improved plant production, and plant protection. It explores the different microbes that are vectored onto and within the seeds of both cultivated and non-cultivated plants, with an emphasis on the importance and roles of seed microbiomes in sustainable agriculture. It explains how to change seeds to increase microbiome vectoring; repairing damaged ones, and conserves seed microbiota. It also present seed microbiome roles for plant health and design effective microbiome engineering.

    • Insect Anatomy

      • 1st Edition
      • July 25, 2025
      • Bernard Moussian
      • English
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      Insect Anatomy: Structure and Function provides both morphological and anatomical descriptions of insect tissues and organs and the underlying genetic mechanisms of their function using updated methods. Insects play important roles in diverse ecosystems, with subsequent, tremendous impacts on human society through disease, agriculture effects, and more. Both beneficial and detrimental insect species continuously challenge agriculture and medicine. Written by international experts of insect morphology and anatomy, this book offers concise descriptions of all parts of an insect’s anatomy, including the brain and nervous system, tracheal system, blood, reproductive organs, and kidney system.

    • The Future of Human Evolution

      • 1st Edition
      • November 28, 2025
      • Rene J. Herrera + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      The Future of Human Evolution provides a discussion of how cultural, biological and microevolutionary (drift, selection, and mutation) pressures might affect our future as a species. The book is split into twelve chapters, beginning with evolutionary forecasting, and gene and culture coevolution. It then discusses life expectancy and population growth, followed by chapters on mutation rates, climate change and diet. This book also explores artificial selection and ‘designer babies’, trans-humanism and artificial intelligence (machine-human symbiosis), inequality and the colonization of space. The Future of Human Evolution serves as a valuable resource for both researchers and students studying human evolution and human population genetics, as well as non-academics with an interest in human evolution.

    • Advancing Healthcare through Decision Intelligence

      • 1st Edition
      • March 28, 2025
      • Somen Dey + 4 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Advancing Healthcare through Decision Intelligence: Machine Learning, Robotics, and Analytics in Biomedical Informatics demonstrates real-world applications of decision intelligence - specifically machine learning, robotics, and analytics - to drive innovation and improvements in healthcare delivery and outcomes. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in decision intelligence technologies, and offers a practical resource that can help navigate through the complex landscape of healthcare decision-making. In 5 themes Advancing Healthcare through Decision Intelligence: Machine Learning, Robotics, and Analytics in Biomedical Informatics focuses on the use of data analytics aad management techniques in healthcare to improve decision-making and healthcare outcomes, on the use of robotics, robots and genomics to improve biomedical informatics, on the use of genomics, clinical decision support systems (CDSS), machine learning, and deep learning to improve precision medicine and personalized treatment and on the ethical implications of using artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare, ensuring trust in the technology, and making sure that it can be explained and understood by all stakeholders. This book is a valuable resource for health professionals, scientists and researchers, health practitioners, students, and all those who wish to broaden their knowledge in the allied field.

    • Parkinson's Disease, An Issue of Neurologic Clinics

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 43-2
      • May 23, 2025
      • Joseph Jankovic
      • English
      • Hardback
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      In this issue of Neurologic Clinics, guest editor Dr. Joseph Jankovic brings his considerable expertise to the topic of Parkinson's Disease. Top experts cover key topics in the field, including James Parkinson and other historical aspects of Parkinson’s disease; precision medicine in Parkinson’s disease; prodromal Parkinson’s disease; biomarkers in Parkinson’s disease; disease-modifying therapies in Parkinson’s disease; and many more.

    • Appetite Interrupted

      • 1st Edition
      • November 1, 2025
      • James A. Carr
      • English
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      Appetite Interrupted: The Role of Predators in Shaping the Behavioral Ecology and Physiology of Satiety explores how mechanisms suppress feeding in vertebrates within both physiological and ecological contexts. Highlighting predation's role as a selective pressure, the book identifies novel neuroendocrine pathways through future research. Written by an expert, it systematically examines the behavioral ecology, evolutionary pressures, physiological processes, and stressors affecting foraging and feeding behaviors in vertebrates. The book covers why animals stop eating, selective pressures driving the evolution of hunger suppression mechanisms, and physiological controls inhibiting feeding, including stress, anxiety, and fear.It concludes with humans' pathways and obesity evolution, offering practical applications for human nutrition.

    • Cordyceps Fungus

      • 1st Edition
      • September 26, 2025
      • Jian-Yong wu + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Cordyceps Fungus: Scientific Discoveries and Health Products provides a systematic and comprehensive description of the process technology, product quality and beneficial functions, and underlying scientific background of cordyceps. The book covers the development of knowledge and technology in related areas, such as polysaccharides as major bioactive ingredients, biological characteristics, chemical composition and bioactivities, traditional uses and mycelial fermentation of cordyceps sinensis, besides analysis and characterization, bioactivity assessment, anti-inflammation activity, and conclusions and future perspectives of cordyceps fungus.Written by world-leading authorities in the area, this book serves not only as a valuable reference for this special and valuable fungal species, but also for other medicinal fungi.

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