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  • Waste to Resources

    Unlocking Potential Applications of Agricultural Waste
    • 1st Edition
    • Arup Giri + 3 more
    • English
    Waste to Resources: Unlocking Potential Applications of Agricultural Waste is a comprehensive textbook that explores various types of agricultural waste, their sources, and composition. Growing environmental concerns create a need to deploy sustainable processes within agriculture. This book sheds light on waste management techniques, covering both theory and practice, and advocates for re-framing agricultural waste as a valuable resource. It takes into account the latest research and regulatory considerations to give a well-rounded understanding of the subject. This textbook is an essential resource for upper-level undergraduate students, researchers, and professionals in environmental science and agricultural biology.The introductory chapters provide an overview of agricultural waste, including crop residues, livestock waste, pesticides, and chemical waste, and describe the environmental implications of these categories. The subsequent chapters delve into waste management techniques such as biogas production, nutrient recovery, recycling, and composting. The final chapter explores the regulatory and policy issues related to sustainable agricultural waste management.
  • Advances in Parasitology

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 130
    • English
    Unveiling the Proteolytic Networks of Parasites, Volume 130 in the Advances in Parasitology series, presents a cutting-edge exploration of specific proteases across a spectrum of parasitic organisms. Top researchers in the field conduct multifaceted examinations, shedding light on the distinct roles of these proteases within significant parasite groups, including malaria, trematodes, nematodes, and blood-feeding arthropods. Chapters in this new release include The roundworm Ascaris: recent advances and progress towards elimination, Genetically modified helminths as pharmaceutical bio-factories, Epithelial cytokines in helminth infections, Schistosoma eggs: from conception to eggs-creation, Helminth extracellular vesicles: roles in and beyond parasite-host communication, and more.
  • Imaging of the Temporomandibular Joint, An Issue of Neuroimaging Clinics of North America

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 35-4
    • Dania Tamimi + 1 more
    • English
    In this issue of Neuroimaging Clinics, guest editors Drs. Dania Tamimi, Kaan Orhan; and Ingrid Różyło-Kalinowska bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Imaging of the Temporomandibular Joint. Top experts provide a broad overview of the temporomandibular joint, with articles on anatomy and imaging modalities, followed by articles on imaging of specific TMJ issues: internal derangement/degenera... joint disease, inflammatory arthritides, trauma, congenital conditions, benign and malignant tumors, post-operative changes of the temporomandibular joint, and more.
  • γδ T Cells in Health and Disease Part B

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 398
    • English
    γδ T Cells in Health and Disease, Part B provides a comprehensive and up-to-date overview of the diverse roles that γδ T cells play in human physiology and pathology. This volume builds on foundational knowledge to explore advanced topics and recent discoveries in γδ T cell biology, with a particular focus on their mechanisms of action, functional diversity, and implications for clinical practice. Chapters in this new release cover Development of gd T cells, Human T-cell receptor inborn errors of immunity shed light on the real-life role of γδ vs αβ T lymphocytes, and much more.Other sections explore Deciphering the Role of γδ T cells in Skin Inflammatory Diseases: Insights from Psoriasis, Atopic Dermatitis, and Alopecia Areata, Role of gd T cells in zoonosis infection, γδ T cells in Escherichia coli infection and Gamma-delta T cells in breast cancer: dual role in tumor immunity and emerging therapeutic approaches.
  • Advances in Applied Mechanics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 63
    • English
    Advances in Applied Mechanics, Volume 63 highlights new advances, with this volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors. Chapters in this release cover higher order discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods for the contact problems, Anisotropic Recovery-Based Error Estimators and Mesh Adaptation Tailored for Real-Life Engineering Innovation, Adaptive mesh refinement on Cartesian meshes applied to the mixed finite element discretization of the multigroup neutron diffusion equations, and more.Other sections cover a posteriori error analysis for Finite Element approximation of some groundwater models Part I: Linear models, a posteriori error estimates for low frequency electromagnetic computations, and more.
  • The Impact of Vitamin D on Health and Disease

    Beyond the Bones
    • 1st Edition
    • Rehana Rehman + 1 more
    • English
    The Impact of Vitamin D on Health and Disease: Beyond the Bones is a complete resource which consolidates recent advances in basic sciences related to Vitamin D, providing a synthesized and up-to-date overview of molecular mechanisms, genetics, epigenetics, and microbiome interactions. The book enhances the understanding of not only the clinical implications of Vitamin D but also provides practical guidance for optimizing patient care in diverse health contexts to improve decision making, personalize patient care and preventive health measures. It is a reader-friendly guide that recognizes Vitamin D and its role in reproductive physiology, bridging the gap between research and clinical applications, offering insights into the practical implications of Vitamin D deficiency on metabolic conditions and fertility outcomes. This is a practical guide to provide a roadmap for scientists to contribute to the evolving field of Vitamin D research to inform and inspire further research studies.
  • Psychophysics and Experimental Phenomenology of Pattern Cognition

    • 2nd Edition
    • Jiro Hamada
    • English
    Psychophysics and Experimental Phenomenology of Pattern Cognition, Second Edition delves into the cognitive processes involved in pattern recognition and the specialized systems that handle these processes. Topics covered include symmetry cognition, contour perception, geometric illusions, weight sensation, as well as repetitive and dot patterns. By integrating aspects of psychophysics and experimental phenomenology, the book offers a thorough exploration of pattern cognition from both physical and mental sensory viewpoints, offering a holistic understanding of this cognitive system. New to the second edition are updated models, including one which can draw theoretical curves of rod function, new experimental data on unifiedness as examined in a three-stage serial model. This edition also includes brand new chapters on
  • Hypnosis: Part A

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 184
    • English
    Hypnosis, Volume 184 in the International Review of Neurobiology series, highlights advancements in the field, featuring contributions from an international board of authors. This volume explores interesting topics, including Hierarchies of control in hypnotic responding, Predictive processing, Echoes of the self: A neurophenomenologica... journey into the shifting realms of selfhood in neutral hypnosis, Heterogeneity in high hypnotic responding, Functional differences between hypnotic hallucination and imagination: A neural network perspective, Hypnotic suggestibility and the neural dynamics of hypnotic responding, Updating the physiology of hypnotizability: Cerebellum and insula, The Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation (NIBS) in the modulation of hypnotic experience and hypnotizability, and more.Other sections cover Experimental pain modulation via hypnosis: Neurophysiological perspectives, Hypnosis and affective neuroscience, Hypnotic suggestion in the modulation of sleep, Advances and future directions in the clinical and cognitive neuroscience of hypnosis, Symptom modeling using hypnosis: Neuroimaging and psychopathology, Clinical neuroscience of placebo and suggestion, and much more.
  • Peripheral Neuropathies, An Issue of Neurologic Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 43-4
    • Richard J. Barohn + 1 more
    • English
    In this issue of Neurologic Clinics, guest editors Drs. Richard J. Barohn and Mazen M. Dimachkie bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Peripheral Neuropathies. Top experts discuss a pattern-recognition approach to neuropathy and neuronopathy; laboratory evaluation of peripheral neuropathy; entrapment neuropathies; cryptogenic sensory polyneuropathy and metabolic syndrome; and more.
  • Age-Related Hearing Loss, Brain Health, and Dementia

    • 1st Edition
    • Helen E. Nuttall + 2 more
    • English
    Age-Related Hearing Loss, Brain Health, and Dementia reviews the effects of hearing loss on the brain and examines the most up-to-date perspectives on the possible causal relation between hearing loss and cognitive impairment. Through this synthesis, the book explores the links between hearing loss and the brain to improve understanding and promote better hearing for better brain health.