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    • Advances in Smart Medical Textiles

      • 1st Edition
      • December 2, 2015
      • Lieva van Langenhove
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Advances in Smart Medical Textiles: Treatments and Health Monitoring provides comprehensive coverage on smart textiles, the emerging and important materials that are finding applications in the fields of medicine and healthcare. The book explores the range of smart textiles available for use in medicine and the transfer of these innovative technologies into medical applications. Early chapters survey various smart fibers, fabrics, and finishes, while subsequent sections focus on the role of smart textiles in treating patients, from wound care to rehabilitation, and the use of textile-based sensors and wearable electronics for monitoring patient health.

    • Sex Differences in the Central Nervous System

      • 1st Edition
      • September 14, 2015
      • Rebecca M. Shansky
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Sex Differences in the Central Nervous System offers a comprehensive examination of the current state of sex differences research, from both the basic science and clinical research perspectives. Given the current NIH directive that funded preclinical research must consider both females and males, this topic is of interest to an increasing percentage of the neuroscience research population. The volume serves as an invaluable resource, offering coverage of a wide range of topics: sex differences in cognition, learning, and memory, sex hormone signaling mechanisms, neuroimmune interactions, epigenetics, social behavior, neurologic disease, psychological disorders, and stress. Discussions of research in both animal models and human patient populations are included.

    • Understanding the Basics of QSAR for Applications in Pharmaceutical Sciences and Risk Assessment

      • 1st Edition
      • March 3, 2015
      • Kunal Roy + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Understanding the Basics of QSAR for Applications in Pharmaceutical Sciences and Risk Assessment describes the historical evolution of quantitative structure-activity relationship (QSAR) approaches and their fundamental principles. This book includes clear, introductory coverage of the statistical methods applied in QSAR and new QSAR techniques, such as HQSAR and G-QSAR. Containing real-world examples that illustrate important methodologies, this book identifies QSAR as a valuable tool for many different applications, including drug discovery, predictive toxicology and risk assessment. Written in a straightforward and engaging manner, this is the ideal resource for all those looking for general and practical knowledge of QSAR methods.

    • The Prefrontal Cortex

      • 5th Edition
      • May 22, 2015
      • Joaquin Fuster
      • English
      • Hardback
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      The Prefrontal Cortex, Fifth Edition, provides users with a thoroughly updated version of this comprehensive work that has historically served as the classic reference on this part of the brain. The book offers a unifying, interdisciplinary perspective that is lacking in other volumes written about the frontal lobes, and is, once again, written by the award-winning author who discovered "memory cells," the physiological substrate of working memory. The fifth edition constitutes a comprehensive update, including all the major advances made on the physiology and cognitive neuroscience of the region since publication in 2008. All chapters have been fully revised, and the overview of prefrontal functions now interprets experimental data within the theoretical framework of the new paradigm of cortical structure and dynamics (the Cognit Paradigm), addressing the accompanying social, economic, and cultural implications.

    • Innovation and Future Trends in Food Manufacturing and Supply Chain Technologies

      • 1st Edition
      • November 17, 2015
      • Craig Leadley
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Innovation and Future Trends in Food Manufacturing and Supply Chain Technologies focuses on emerging and future trends in food manufacturing and supply chain technologies, examining the drivers of change and innovation in the food industry and the current and future ways of addressing issues such as energy reduction and rising costs in food manufacture. Part One looks at innovation in the food supply chain, while Part Two covers emerging technologies in food processing and packaging. Subsequent sections explore innovative food preservation technologies in themed chapters and sustainability and future research needs in food manufacturing.

    • Neurology, An Issue of Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 42-2
      • June 4, 2015
      • Paula Gregory
      • English
      • Hardback
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      This issue of Primary Care: Clinics in Office Practice, edited by Dr. Paula Gregory, is devoted to Neurology. Articles in this issue include: Dementia; Guillain Barre Syndrome; Multiple Sclerosis; Migraine and Migraine Variants: Keys to Diagnosis and Management; Medication and Toxin-Induced Neurological Syndrome; Approach to the Patient with Parkinson's Disease; Neurootologic Disease: Presentation, Diagnosis, and Management; Epilepsy: Current Evidence-Based Paradigms for Diagnosis and Treatment; Vertigo and the Dizzy Patient; and Sports-related Traumatic Brain Injury.

    • Computational Methods for Understanding Riboswitches

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 553
      • February 19, 2015
      • English
      • Hardback
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      This new volume of Methods in Enzymology continues the legacy of this premier serial with quality chapters authored by leaders in the field. This volume covers computational prediction RNA structure and dynamics, including such topics as computational modeling of RNA secondary and tertiary structures, riboswitch dynamics, and ion-RNA, ligand-RNA and DNA-RNA interactions.

    • Advances in Food and Nutrition Research

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 74
      • January 22, 2015
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Advances in Food and Nutrition Research recognizes the integral relationship between the food and nutritional sciences and brings together outstanding and comprehensive reviews that highlight this relationship. Contributions detail scientific developments in the broad areas of food science and nutrition and are intended to provide those in academia and industry with the latest information on emerging research in these constantly evolving sciences.

    • Advances in Cancer Research

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 127
      • June 18, 2015
      • English
      • Hardback
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      • eBook
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      Advances in Cancer Research provides invaluable information on the exciting and fast-moving field of cancer research. Here, once again, outstanding and original reviews are presented on a variety of topics, including taxane-anti-androgen... cross-resistance in advanced prostate cancer and proteasome inhibitors in the treatment of multiple myeloma.

    • Plant Factory

      • 1st Edition
      • October 2, 2015
      • Toyoki Kozai + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Plant Factory: An Indoor Vertical Farming System for Efficient Quality Food Production provides information on a field that is helping to offset the threats that unusual weather and shortages of land and natural resources bring to the food supply. As alternative options are needed to ensure adequate and efficient production of food, this book represents the only available resource to take a practical approach to the planning, design, and implementation of plant factory (PF) practices to yield food crops. The PF systems described in this book are based on a plant production system with artificial (electric) lights and include case studies providing lessons learned and best practices from both industrial and crop specific programs. With insights into the economics as well as the science of PF programs, this book is ideal for those in academic as well as industrial settings.

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