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Engineering Applications in Livestock Production

  • 1st Edition
  • January 20, 2024
  • Ayon Tarafdar + 4 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Engineering Applications in Livestock Production covers the recent advancements and technological developments in the field of livestock production engineering in great detail. The major advances covered in this book include the use of artificial intelligence, image processing, Internet of Things, novel animal product processing technologies, farm automation systems, sensor technology, bioengineering practices and even engineered housing systems among others.

Handbook of Digital Technologies in Movement Disorders

  • 1st Edition
  • January 20, 2024
  • Roongroj Bhidayasiri + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Handbook of Digital Technologies in Movement Disorders aims to unite these factors to provide a comprehensive guide to patient focused treatments for movement disorders. Sections cover an introduction to digital technologies, concepts, and terminologies, review various perspectives on technology in movement disorders, including patient and medical professionals, and present technologies used in detecting, measuring progression, and determining response to treatments. Additional chapters review the technology used in various treatments of movement disorders, including assistive and robotic technologies. Finally, the last section examines the challenges with technology, including privacy and other ethical issues. Over the past few years, there have been fundamental changes in the diagnosing and treating patients with chronic diseases, significantly affecting management of neurological movement disorders. In addition, the health and fitness sector developed several devices to better classify, track, and potentially treat chronic diseases. Both handling and interpreting these large datasets has been revolutionized, by machine and deep learning approaches, leading to new and more effective therapies, resulting in longer survival rates.

Pharmacology for Pharmacy Technicians

  • 4th Edition
  • January 18, 2024
  • Kathy Moscou + 1 more
  • English
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Build a solid foundation in pharmacology with this all-in-one resource! Combining a comprehensive textbook with workbook exercises, Pharmacology for Pharmacy Technicians, 4th Edition helps you understand the principles of pharmacology and apply them to the daily activities and challenges seen in the practice setting. Full-color photos and illustrations make it easier to master concepts, and an in-depth review designed specifically for pharmacy technicians meets the requirements of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) for anatomy and physiology and pharmacology. Written by a pharmacist and a pharmacy technician, Kathy Moscou and Karen Snipe — each with extensive experience in the field — this book helps you master the expanding role of the pharmacy technician and launch a successful and rewarding career in Pharmacy Technology.

Insulin

  • 1st Edition
  • January 18, 2024
  • Andrew J. Krentz
  • English
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Insulin: Deficiency, Excess and Resistance in Human Disease provides an overview of the role of insulin in the pathogenesis of prevalent non-communicable diseases such as obesity, type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer, along with a comprehensive review of insulin replacement therapies and novel cardioprotective and insulin-sensitizing drugs. Notable advances in precision diagnosis and therapy for single gene subtypes of diabetes in recent years are also discussed.The discovery of insulin and its lifesaving introduction into clinical practice is one of the most celebrated accomplishments of medical science. However, despite decades of progress and major technical advances, the goal of providing insulin replacement therapy that truly mimics normal physiology remains elusive.

Living Donor Organ Transplantation

  • 2nd Edition
  • January 18, 2024
  • Rainer W.G. Gruessner + 1 more
  • English
  • Hardback
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Living Donor Organ Transplantation, Second Edition puts the entire discipline in perspective while guiding readers step-by-step through the most common organ transplant surgeries. This two-volume set is organized into five cohesive parts, and featuring numerous surgical illustrations, this sourcebook delivers an incisive look at every key consideration for general surgeons who perform transplantations, from patient selection to recipient workup and outcomes. The books emphasize the most humanitarian approaches and provide content on living donor uterus transplantation, new operative techniques, including the use of robotic and minimally invasive transplant procedures, new immunosuppressive regimens, new protocols of tolerance induction, including stem cell therapy and transplantation, and more.Chapter authors are international leaders in their fields and represent institutions from four continents (Americas: USA, Argentina, Brazil, Canada; Europe: France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Sweden, UK; Asia: China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan; Australia).

Designer Drugs

  • 1st Edition
  • January 17, 2024
  • Roy Gerona
  • English
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A title in the Emerging Issues in Analytical Chemistry series, Designer Drugs: Chemistry, Analysis, Regulation, Toxicology, Epidemiology & Legislation of New Psychoactive Substances presents both an overview and a guide to techniques for designer drug analysis. Proliferation of the synthesis and use of designer drugs is a serious public health problem with social, economic, and legal implications. Whether abuse is studied at the population level or the individual level, researchers need both background and highly detailed technical information on specific drugs and drug classes in order to combat the proliferation and highly damaging consequences of these substances. Author Roy Gerona provides a comprehensive discussion that emphasizes the potential threat to society, presents the ongoing challenges confronting the various laboratory approaches to detection and identification of new chemical entities, and informs the development of improved analytical solutions for use in legislation, law enforcement, and treatment.Designer Drugs: Chemistry, Analysis, Regulation, Toxicology, Epidemiology & Legislation of New Psychoactive Substances offers an introduction to the field and a source of information on specific drugs, drug effects, and analytical tools to a wide audience for anyone studying or engaging in designer drug analysis. Analytical and medical chemists, pharmacologist, toxicologists, and students, researchers, and policy makers in the fields of drug abuse, medicine, public health, and forensics will greatly benefit from this essential text.

Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing in Medical Imaging

  • 1st Edition
  • January 17, 2024
  • Walid A. Zgallai + 1 more
  • English
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Artificial Intelligence and Image Processing in Medical Imaging deals with the applications of processing medical images with a view of improving the quality of the data in order to facilitate better decision- making. The book covers the basics of medical imaging and the fundamentals of image processing. It explains spatial and frequency domain applications of image processing, introduces image compression techniques and their applications, and covers image segmentation techniques and their applications. The book includes object detection and classification applications and provides an overall background to statistical analysis in biomedical systems. The role of Machine Learning, including Neural Networks, Deep Learning, and the implications of the expansion of artificial intelligence is also covered. With contributions from prominent researchers worldwide, this book provides up-to-date and comprehensive coverage of AI applications in image processing where readers will find the latest information with clear examples and illustrations.

Phytomanagement as a nature-based solution for polluted soils

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 109
  • January 17, 2024
  • Michel Chalot
  • English
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Phytoremediation, Volume 109 in the Advances in Botanical Research series, highlights new advances on phytoremediation. Chapters in this new release include Plant-microbiome interactions and their role in recovering ecosystems from organic contaminants, Aquatic macrophytes: the potential candidate for polluted water phytoremediation, Rare earth elements in plants : uptake, accumulation and tolerance, Poplar as a woody model for phytomanagement strategies, Plant-based remediation of industrially contaminated soils: principles and case study, Phytoremediation of Arsenic contaminated soils by hyperaccumulating fern Pteris vittata, Effects of phytomanagement of heavy metal polluted soils with woody plants on functional activity and functional genes abundance and diversity, and more.Other chapters cover Cucurbits for cleanup of soils contaminated with persistent and emerging organic pollutants: state of the art, future perspectives and challenges, Phytoremediaton in the Guadiamar Green Corridor (SW Spain): trends of trace element uptake by plants and effects on soil fungal diversity, and Metal hyperaccumulation mechanisms in plants.

Polymers for Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Applications

  • 1st Edition
  • January 16, 2024
  • Vandana Patravale + 2 more
  • English
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Polymers for Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Applications: Fundamentals, Selection, and Preparation supports the successful selection, design, and development of polymers with the required properties and performance for a range of advanced pharmaceutical and biomedical applications. The book begins by introducing polymers for pharmaceutical and biomedical applications, examining classification, basic properties, structures, and grades. This is followed by in-depth chapters on synthesis and modification, characterization techniques, and dissolution and solubility of polymers for pharmaceutical applications. Key applications are highlighted, with chapters explaining the preparation of polymers for conventional dosage, modified drug delivery, conjugates, advanced drug and gene delivery, medical devices, pharmaceutical packaging, and more. Throughout the book, the aim is to provide accessible, step-by-step coverage supported by diagrams and case studies. This is a valuable resource for all those who are newly approaching the field of polymers and product development for pharmaceutical and biomedical applications. This includes researchers and advanced students across polymer science, pharmaceutical science, biomaterials, biomedicine, healthcare, and chemistry, and scientists and R&D professionals in an industrial setting.

Safe Major Hepatectomy after Preoperative Liver Regeneration

  • 1st Edition
  • January 16, 2024
  • Yoshihiro Sakamoto + 1 more
  • English
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Safe Major Hepatectomy After Preoperative Liver Regeneration: Preoperative PVE, Two-Stage Hepatectomy, ALPPS and Hepatic Vein Deprivation provides both history and recent topics of major hepatectomy after liver regeneration—as well as the basic background of liver regeneration—allowing liver surgeons, general surgeons, and hepatologists to increase the safety of major hepatectomy in patients suffering from advanced liver disease. This reference provides importance guidance to cutting edge topics, including the molecular mechanism of liver regeneration after preoperative portal vein embolization (PVE), two-stage hepatectomy, associating liver partition and portal vein occlusion for staged hepatectomy (ALPPS) and results of hepatic vein occlusion.The mortality rate after major hepatectomies is high worldwide and there is a need to establish a strategy for safe major hepatectomies, and hepatectomy after preoperative liver regeneration is a key process to prevent posthepatectomy liver failure (PHLF).

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