Books in Life sciences

Robotics and Artificial Intelligence in Sports Medicine and Sports Services

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Olfa Boubaker
English

Sport embodies fundamental values such as health, discipline, respect, and teamwork, promoting both well-being and economic growth. Today, the sports industry is undergoing a technological revolution driven by robotics and AI, which are reshaping training methodologies, injury management, and event operations. Robotics and Artificial Intelligence in Sports Medicine and Sports Services explores cutting-edge innovations in sports science, medicine, and event management, focusing on optimizing athlete performance, injury prevention, and rehabilitation. It examines the transformative impact of wearable sensors, IoT devices, AI-powered virtual and augmented reality, and LLM-based predictive models that are redefining training and recovery strategies. Rehabilitation robotics and exoskeletons are opening new frontiers for clinicians and physiotherapists, providing advanced solutions for recovery and mobility. Furthermore, AI-driven drones enhance performance monitoring, crowd safety, and fan engagement, while service robots streamline logistics and event management in smart stadiums, contributing to sustainable development through technological innovation. This book serves as a comprehensive resource for engineers, clinicians, physiotherapists, coaches, and policymakers seeking to integrate smart technologies into sports science and medicine.

The World's Health Care Crisis

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Ibis Sanchez Serrano
English
Paperback
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eBook
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The World’s Health Care Crisis: Geopolitical and Climate Change Challenges focuses on the global health care crisis, providing information on new challenges the world is experiencing, such as COVID-19, massive world migration, overpopulation, threats of global famine, nuclear war, the emergence of new infectious diseases around the planet, climate change, and their effects on health care. The book's target audience includes professionals of health systems, biomedical innovation, and global health supply chains investors and Directors in Chief, decision-makers in public health, multilateral institutions in regulatory, legislative, and executive areas, researchers, health sciences students, health economists, economist associations, pharmaco-economists, historians, and more.

Isothermal Titration Calorimetry in Enzymology

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Anthony Mittermaier + 1 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Isothermal Titration Calorimetry in Enzymology: Techniques and Applications provides a thorough, practical overview of ITC as a productive and powerful tool for quantifying enzyme catalysis and interactions with substrates, products, cofactors, and inhibitors. Here, global experts in the methodology discuss the full capabilities of ITC and how it may be applied in research, medicine, and industry and offer a basis to continue leveraging ITC as its uses expand and evolve. This book bridges the gap between research and application by giving extensive technical details on cutting edge ITC techniques across a wide swath of both ITC kinetics measurements and ITC thermodynamic measurements, alongside case studies illustrating the depth of knowledge that can be obtained. Applications discussed include measuring binding kinetics by ITC, analyzing ITC kinetic data, in vivo enzyme kinetics by ITC, analyzing enzyme kinetics in crowded solutions, studying catalysis of biological substrates, interpreting ITC binding curves, ITC in drug discovery, ITC in the development of cancer therapeutics, ITC analysis of aminoglycoside resistance enzymes, studying enzyme interactions with toxic metals, using ITC to study ubiquitination, and ITC studies of glycoside hydrolases, among others.

Methods for the Study of Microbial Biofilms

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Abhishek Guldhe + 2 more
English

Methods for the study of microbial biofilms: Current Trends and Recent Advancements provides a detailed overview of the latest techniques for the study of biofilms. The book explores a wide range of methods for the characterization and study of cells within biofilms, including microscopy techniques, genomic approaches, transcriptomics, proteomic and proteogenomic tools. Computational and mathematical modelling are also covered.Chapters investigate the physiology of biofilm cells, gene expression pathways related to the formation, maturation and dispersion of biofilms, and molecular factors governing the biofilm formation and development, providing an overview of techniques that can be used at the cellular and molecular level. This book provides a broad overview of the biofilm field, along with the range of techniques that can be used to study and better understand them.

A Quick Reference to Obstetric Anesthesia

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Preet Mohinder Singh + 1 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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A Quick Reference to Obstetric Anesthesia is a comprehensive resource on the latest in anesthetic care for the pregnant patient. It covers the newest evidence on various critical topics in obstetric anesthesia, helping scientists identify opportunities for translational research. The inclusion of recommended perioperative protocols provides definitive references for optimal care. This book serves as an "in the moment" tool for solving challenging clinical problems, while functioning as a reference for both experienced clinicians and trainees. It also includes relevant patient management protocols, plus numerous emerging topics which are lacking in presently available texts.A Quick Reference to Obstetric Anesthesia is meant for anyone seeking immediately accessible research for real-time care of pregnant patients. Its approachable yet deep knowledge base will be appreciated by obstetric professionals at every level.

Fundamentals of Biologicals Regulation

2nd Edition
November 1, 2025
Rebecca Sheets + 6 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Fundamentals of Biologicals Regulation: Vaccines and Biotechnology Medicines, Second Edition serves as an introduction to the international regulatory arena in which biologicals are developed, offering an overview of processes and insights into the scientific concepts underpinning global regulations. The book provides in-depth coverage of Quality by Design, Combination Products, Quality Target Product Profiles, Risk Management Plans, REMS, and switching from reliance on in vivo to in vitro analytical methods. It reflects new developments and processes accelerated by the COVID-19 vaccine experience, including emergency use authorizations and conditional marking authorizations. New pedagogic elements and case studies have been added to improve learning outcomes.This book provides multiple levels of readership, with guidance on basic concepts, a detailed look at regulatory challenges, and practical insights into how regulators consider regulatory science and regulatory process issues across various regions, with an emphasis on the European Medicines Agency and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

Space Physiology

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Alan Hargens
English
Hardback
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eBook
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Space Physiology: From Earth to Space and Back Again provides readers with new and authoritative information about current and important topics related to risks in space. The book covers translation of Earth-based physiology to astronaut health and Earth applications of space research. Topics include adaptations of various systems to space, including bone, microcirculation, microcirculation, skeletal and smooth muscles, headward fluid shifts as well as integrated countermeasures to maintain well-being and health in space.This is a volume in Elsevier’s new series Hot Topics in Physiology, published in association with the International Union of Physiological Sciences (IUPS). It is an ideal reference for academics and researchers (space physiology and medicine, rehabilitation medicine, biochemistry and cell biology, molecular biology) at Undergrad, Masters, PhD, and Post-Doc levels.

Spider Systematics and Taxonomy

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Dimitar Dimitrov + 1 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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In the last decade or so, a large number of new spider species have been discovered and described, and many genera and families have been revised. Yet, a single comprehensive resource has been lacking to update spider taxonomy. Spider Systematics and Taxonomy aims to present these major developments in the field, as well as to show how technological advancements have driven these changes. Spider groups covered in most detail are those which have recently seen the most significant discoveries and changes. Later chapters highlight the impact of recent technological developments on our knowledge of spider taxonomy, with topics including phylogenomics, artificial intelligence, and novel imaging technologies. Finally, an outlook on future priorities for spider taxonomy research as well as expected developments will be explored.Spider Systematics and Taxonomy is a valuable reference with illustrations and vivid photographs included throughout to showcase spider diversity and relationships. This will serve as a key resource for arachnology researchers, graduate and postgraduate students wishing to come up to date on the latest advances in the field. Researchers in adjacent fields and those working in taxonomy generally will also benefit from this work.

Nutritional Strategies, Predictive Models, and Sustainable Policies

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Sandeep K. Panda + 2 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Nutritional Strategies, Predictive Models, and Sustainable Policies brings together scientists, professors, and policymakers from over 10 countries to cover strategies and approaches to improve human health by focusing on the nutritional needs of children, pregnant women, and patients from around the world. Sections cover existing policies in specific geographical areas, critical reviews on the scientific updates of maternal, pediatric, and geriatric nutrition and how the Pandemic disrupted nutritional strategies, review predictive models on different nutrition categories for certain diseases and cancers, and highlight international and regional policies related to nutrition in war affected countries.

Lateral Flow Assays

1st Edition
November 1, 2025
Sibel Ayşıl Özkan + 1 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Lateral Flow Assays: From Bench to Market provides a detailed understanding of lateral flow assays (LFAs), the technologies behind them, and their potential uses. Sections cover the key elements of LFAs before delving into a range of different LFA types, including aptamer-based and SERS-based LFAs. Applications across the biosciences and beyond are explored, such as virus detection, including Covid-19, bacteria detection, hormonal detection and cancer biomarkers. LFAs for the detection of narcotics, environmental pollutants, food additives, allergens, toxins and metabolites are also explored. The book then discusses the commercialization aspects of LFAs before looking at future developments.This book offers a complete overview of these biosensors and is an ideal reference for researchers and lab technicians across the biomedical sciences who work with these devices. It is also relevant to researchers and practitioners in food chemistry, the environmental industry, and pharmaceutical companies, in addition to those involved in the development of lateral flow devices.

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