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Genomic Medicine in Emerging Economies

1st Edition
June 20, 2018
George P. Patrinos + 1 more
English
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Originally thought to be available only to the world’s wealthiest nations, genomic medicine has developed into a broad range of clinical methods and technologies whose concrete applications are also revolutionizing health systems in many of the world’s resource-limited nations. Genomic Medicine in Emerging Economies: Genomics for Every Nation provides in-depth analysis and key examples of the implementation of medical genomics in low-income nations across the globe, demonstrating how this advancing medical science has already transformed health systems and led to improved patient care in Indonesian, Chilean, Malaysian, Argentinian, Chinese, Sri Lankan, and Colombian populations among others. In addition to defining tools, diagnostics, and treatment pathways at the population-wide level for medical geneticists, genomic researchers, and public health workers to apply in their own work, this book offers an essential, case-study based approach needed to understand how genomic medicine can be used to improve disease-management in a diverse range of economic and social contexts.

Enzymes of Energy Technology

1st Edition
Volume 613
November 30, 2018
Fraser Armstrong
English
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Enzymes of Energy Technology, Volume 613 in the Methods in Enzymology series, highlights new advances in the field, with this updated volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors. Chapters include Purification of fully active and crystallizable photosystem II from thermophilic cyanobacteria, Production and manipulation of [NiFeSe]-hydrogenase... for renewable hydrogen research, Hydrogen production by [FeFe]-hydrogenases, Production and properties of enzymes that activate and produce carbon monoxide, Recombinant [NiFe]-hydrogenases from E. coli, Working with nitrogenase, Oxygen--tolerant [NiFe]-hydrogenases, Cytoplasmic and Membrane Bound Hydrogenases from the hyperthermophile Pyrococcus furiosus, and more. Additional sections cover Enzymatic conversion of methane into useful chemicals, Production and investigations of trans-membrane electron transfer protein, Characterization of post-translational modifications in methyl-coenzyme M reductase in diverse methanogens by mass-spectrometry, Reductive activation of carbon dioxide by formate dehydrogenases, and Lytic polysaccharide monooxygenases in biofuel processing. 14. Production and manipulation of blue copper oxidases for technological applications Yasmina Mekmouche

Neurology of Pregnancy, An Issue of Neurologic Clinics

1st Edition
Volume 37-1
December 28, 2018
Mary Angel O'Neal
English
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This issue of Neurologic Clinics, guest edited by Dr. Mary Angela O’Neal, with consulting editor Randolph W. Evans, will focus on Neurology of Pregnancy. Topics include, but are not limited to, Neuro-Ophthalmologic... Disorders in Pregnancy, Management of Demyelinating Disorders in Pregnancy, Postpartum Neuropathies, Management of Myasthenia Gravis during Pregnancy, Headache in Pregnancy and Postpartum, Epilepsy, Pituitary Disorders, Stroke, Imaging Considerations in Pregnancy, and Connective Tissue Disorders in Pregnancy.

Cognitive Prosthethics

1st Edition
November 22, 2018
Maxime Derian
English
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Computerized machines can be found in many forms and all around us – in our pockets, and even sometimes in our body. For many of us, they are now essential elements of everyday life. When it comes to smartphones, connected objects, medical digital devices and e-health, these digital tools have proliferated in our environment, continually transforming our modes of social organization. They act as prostheses and orthotics that “enhance” our cognitive capacities and influence our inherent behaviors. Are digital tools that perpetually envelop the body and the spirit able to overwhelm the social order? Could our cognitive prosthetics lead to permanent, radical change to our society, which could become similar to a hive? This book explores this reflection, which is at the center of social research on digital tools.

Neurosensory Disorders in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

1st Edition
November 24, 2018
Michael E. Hoffer + 1 more
English
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Mild traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI or Concussion) is an increasingly common public health issue in sports, military environments, and life in today’s active world. Despite a great deal of study and public attention to this disorder, knowledge about optimal diagnostic, prognostic, and treatment information remains lacking. Neurosensory symptoms have been shown to be the most frequent complications of mTBI in both the acute and chronic setting. Neurosensory Disorders in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury brings together both the basic science work as well as the clinical work in mTBI into one volume to provide a comprehensive examination of the neurosensory issues associated with this disorder. Coverage includes chapters on defining mild Traumatic Brain Injury, neurosensory consequences, neurosensory disorders in clinical practice, and diagnosis and treatment for neurosensory disorders in mTBI. This book is written for clinicians, researchers, residents and students in neurology and neuroscience.

Biscuit, Cookie and Cracker Production

1st Edition
July 10, 2018
Iain Davidson
English
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Biscuit, Cookie, and Cracker Production: Process, Production, and Packaging Equipment is a practical reference that brings a complete description of the process and equipment necessary for automated food production in the food/biscuit industry. The book describes the existing and emerging technologies in biscuit making and production, bringing a valuable asset to R&D personnel and students in food technology and engineering areas. Full of clear illustrations, photos and text describing types of biscuits, cookies and crackers, ingredients, test bakery equipment, dough piece forming, biscuit baking ovens, biscuit cooling and handling, and processing and packaging, this book presents a timely resource on the topic.

Brain Banking

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Volume 150
February 27, 2018
English
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Brain Banking, Volume 150, serves as the only book on the market offering comprehensive coverage of the functional realities of brain banking. It focuses on brain donor recruitment strategies, brain bank networks, ethical issues, brain dissection/tissue processing/tissue dissemination, neuropathological diagnosis, brain donor data, and techniques in brain tissue analysis. In accordance with massive initiatives, such as BRAIN and the EU Human Brain Project, abnormalities and potential therapeutic targets of neurological and psychiatric disorders need to be validated in human brain tissue, thus requiring substantial numbers of well characterized human brains of high tissue quality with neurological and psychiatric diseases.

Case Studies in the Wine Industry

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November 27, 2018
Cristina Santini + 1 more
English
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Case Studies in the Wine Industry aims to close the gap between academic researchers and industry professionals through real world scenarios and field-based research. The book explores how consumer and sensory science has been implemented in the wine industry to achieve certain goals, including the rejuvenation of product image, the shaping of new market places, the achievement of market differentiation and geographical diffusion, the achievement of customer loyalty, and the promotion of traditional features of the product. There is an emerging demand from wine industry professionals and undergraduate and postgraduate students who attend business and agricultural studies courses who want to gain practical information through real cases and field-based research.

Pet-to-Man Travelling Staphylococci

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March 14, 2018
Vincenzo Savini
English
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Pet-to-Man Travelling Staphylococci: A World in Progress explores Staphylococci, a dangerous pathogen that affects both humans and animals with a wide range of infection states. This bacteria can spread rapidly as a commensal organism in both humans and pets, and is an agent of disease. Staphylococci are potentially highly virulent pathogens which require urgent medical attention. In addition, Staphylococci remain a threat within hospital environments, where they can quickly spread across a patient population. This book explores the organisms' resistance to many compounds used to treat them, treatment failure and multidrug resistant staphylococci, amongst other related topics.

Interventional Inflammatory Bowel Disease: Endoscopic Management and Treatment of Complications

1st Edition
January 16, 2018
Bo Shen
English
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Interventional Inflammatory Bowel Diseases: Endoscopic Management and Treatment of Complications covers the preparation, principle, techniques, and damage control of complications in endoscopic therapy, providing the ultimate guidance in endoscopic management of IBD. With contributions from a panel of international leading experts in the field, perspectives are included from GI pathologists, GI radiologists, gastroenterologists, advanced endoscopists, IBD specialists and colorectal surgeons. Recommendations from experts are also included within each chapter. By bridging medical and surgical treatment modalities for IBD, this is the perfect reference for GI researchers, medical students, therapeutic GI endoscopists, IBD specialists, surgeons and advanced health care providers.

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