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CRISPR for Climate-Smart and Sustainable Agriculture

1st Edition
March 29, 2025
Jen-Tsung Chen
English
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CRISPR for Climate-Smart and Sustainable Agriculture summarizes the current genome editing technology being used in food and energy crops. It presents methods and applications of CRISPR tools for breeding climate-smart and stress-tolerant crops that are better able to resist biotic and abiotic stressors due to climate change.Gene editing tools are increasingly seen as options for improving plant health and productivity. CRISPR is one such emerging and quickly advancing crucial technology for the research field of plant physiology, plant molecular biology, and crop breeding. CRISPR for Climate-Smart and Sustainable Agriculture focuses on genetic engineering using CRISPR technology for precision breeding of crops to achieve climate resilience, stress tolerance, and higher yield. Organized by specific plant challenges, this book presents expert insights from around the globe, providing updated knowledge of CRISPR with an emphasis on facing climate change and supporting sustainable agriculture.This volume in the Genome Modified Plants and Microbes in Food and Agriculture series will be valuable for researchers, academics, and advanced-level students seeking to understand and advance the use of CRISPR technologies toward the UN Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Agreement.

Preclinical Landscape in Cancer Research

1st Edition
March 29, 2025
Ranjita Shegokar + 1 more
English
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Preclinical Cancer Landscape discusses the issues in preclinical-to-clini... translatability of molecularly targeted cancer therapies and the need to better align tumour biology in patients With a strong focus on the status, challenges, prospects and the need of robustness of preclinical cancer research, the book acknowledges that the bar for reproducibility in performing and presenting preclinical studies must be raised to facilitate a transparent discovery process that frequently and consistently leads to significant patient benefit. In 22 chapters this book describes the current status of preclinical research in multiple cancers. This book is a timely and valuable resource for health professionals, scientists and researchers, health practitioners, students, and all those who wish to broaden their knowledge in the allied field. " Preclinical landscape in cancer research " is written by experts in the field and informed with facts directly from manufacturers. Pharmaceutical scientists, medical researchers, biomedical engineers and clinical professionals will find this an essential reference.

Explainable AI in Healthcare Imaging for Medical Diagnoses

1st Edition
March 29, 2025
Tanzila Saba + 2 more
English
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In an era where Artificial Intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing healthcare, Explainable AI in Healthcare Imaging for Precision Medicine addresses the critical need for transparency, trust, and accountability in AI-driven medical technologies. As AI becomes an integral part of clinical decision-making, especially in imaging and precision medicine, the question of how AI reaches its conclusions grows increasingly significant. This book explores how Explainable AI (XAI) is transforming healthcare by making AI systems more interpretable, reliable, and transparent, empowering clinicians and enhancing patient outcomes.Through a comprehensive examination of the latest research, real-world case studies, and expert insights, this book delves into the application of XAI in medical imaging, disease diagnosis, treatment planning, and personalized care. It discusses the technical methodologies behind XAI, the challenges and opportunities of its integration into healthcare, and the ethical and regulatory considerations that will shape the future of AI-assisted medical decisions.Key areas of focus include the role of XAI in improving diagnostic accuracy in fields such as radiology, pathology, and genomics and its potential to enhance collaboration between AI systems, healthcare professionals, and patients. The book also highlights practical applications of XAI in personalized medicine, showing how explainable models help tailor treatments to individual patients, and discusses how XAI can contribute to reducing bias and improving fairness in medical decision-making.Writ... by leading experts in AI, healthcare, and precision medicine, Explain[S3G1] able AI in Healthcare Imaging for Precision Medicine is an essential resource for researchers, clinicians, students, and policymakers. Whether you are looking to stay at the forefront of AI innovations in healthcare or seeking to understand how explainability can build trust in AI systems, this book provides the insights and knowledge needed to navigate the evolving landscape of AI in medicine. It invites readers to explore how XAI can revolutionize healthcare and precision medicine, shaping a future where AI is both powerful and trustworthy.

Multifunctional Nanostructured Coatings

1st Edition
March 29, 2025
Manviri Rani + 1 more
English
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Multifunctional Nanostructured Coatings: Biomedical, Environmental, and Energy Applications offers core and advanced information about various nanomaterials and their synthetic approaches to nanostructured coatings. The book focuses on the application of multifunctional nanostructured coatings (MNCs) in the areas of biomedicine, the environment, and energy, and presents the latest advances in the design, preparation, characterization, and fabrication of MNCs. Techniques covered in the book include chemical deposition (including plasma-assisted deposition) and physical deposition methods such as magnetron sputtering, arc evaporation, electron-beam evaporation, and ion-beam sputtering.In addition, the book also explores the use of multifunctional ZnO/TiO2 nanoarray composite coatings, Ta- and Si-doped multifunctional bioactive nanostructured films, in situ-generated titanium-oxo clusters, and silver nanoparticles. It will be useful for researchers working in the areas of materials science, coating technologies, nanotechnology, sustainability, and environmental engineering.

Electrospinning and Electrospraying Encapsulation of Food Bioactive Compounds

1st Edition
March 29, 2025
Hadis Rostamabadi + 2 more
English
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Electrospinning and Electrospraying Encapsulation of Food Bioactive Compounds provides comprehensive approaches utilized to fabricate structured polymer fibers and particles for designing bioactive delivery systems through electrospinning and electrospraying. Divided into four parts, the chapters review practical applications, scale-up/industriali... challenges and new opportunities.This book examines electrospinning and electrospraying encapsulation, characterization approaches of bioactive-loaded electrospun fibers/electrosprayi... particles, and application of bioactive-loaded electrospun fibers/electrospraye... particles. Edited by experts in the field, this book will be of great interest to researchers, practitioners, and those who work in the various fields of encapsulation, nutraceutical, pharmaceutical, and food ingredients.

Metabolites as Signals in Immunity and Inflammation

1st Edition
March 28, 2025
Zbigniew Zasłona + 2 more
English
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Metabolites as Signals in Immunity and Inflammation describes the revolution in the definition of the word metabolism, highlighting changes in thinking about the whole field of immunology. These changes occur thanks to breakthrough experiments in basic research, and with the help of new technologies that allow for the testing of immunology hypotheses. In recent years, a substantial number of findings have been made around immunometabolism. What is emerging is a complex interplay between metabolic reprogramming and immunity, which is providing an extra dimension to our understanding of the immune system in health and disease.

Neuroglia in Neurologic and Psychiatric Disorders, Part II

1st Edition
Volume 210
March 28, 2025
English
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Neuroglia in Neurologic and Psychiatric Disorders, Part II discusses glia relative to neurologic and psychiatric disorders, emphasizing cross-disease-glial cell dysfunctions. Driven by advances in genetics, transcriptomics, electrophysiologic and imaging techniques, as well as by the increase in knowledge on neuropathologic features and underlying disease mechanisms, this book bridges the gap between neuroglia basic science and neuroglia clinical research.

Advancing Healthcare through Decision Intelligence

1st Edition
March 28, 2025
Somen Dey + 4 more
English
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Advancing Healthcare through Decision Intelligence: Machine Learning, Robotics, and Analytics in Biomedical Informatics demonstrates real-world applications of decision intelligence - specifically machine learning, robotics, and analytics - to drive innovation and improvements in healthcare delivery and outcomes. The book provides a comprehensive overview of the latest developments in decision intelligence technologies, and offers a practical resource that can help navigate through the complex landscape of healthcare decision-making. In 5 themes Advancing Healthcare through Decision Intelligence: Machine Learning, Robotics, and Analytics in Biomedical Informatics focuses on the use of data analytics aad management techniques in healthcare to improve decision-making and healthcare outcomes, on the use of robotics, robots and genomics to improve biomedical informatics, on the use of genomics, clinical decision support systems (CDSS), machine learning, and deep learning to improve precision medicine and personalized treatment and on the ethical implications of using artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare, ensuring trust in the technology, and making sure that it can be explained and understood by all stakeholders. This book is a valuable resource for health professionals, scientists and researchers, health practitioners, students, and all those who wish to broaden their knowledge in the allied field.

Python for Quantum Chemistry

1st Edition
Volume 23
March 28, 2025
Qiming Sun
English
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Quantum chemistry requires ever higher computational performance, with more and more sophisticated and dedicated Python scripts being required to solve challenging problems. Although resources for basic use of Python are widely (and often freely) available online and in literature, truly cohesive materials for advanced Python programming skills are lacking.Qiming Sun, a developer of the popular Python package PySCF, provides a comprehensive, end-to-end practical resource for researchers and engineers who have basic Python programming experiences chiefly in computational chemistry but want to take their use of the software forwards to the next level, the book provides an insightful exploration of Numpy, Pandas, and other data analysis tools. Readers will learn how to manage their Python computational projects in a professional way, with various tools and protocols for computational chemistry research and general scientific computing tasks exhibited and analysed from a technical perspective. Multiple programming paradigms including object-oriented, functional, meta-programming, dynamic, concurrent, and vector-oriented are illustrated in various technology scenarios allowing readers to properly use them to enhance their program projects. Readers will also learn how to use the presented optimization technologies to speed up their Python applications, even to the level as fast as a native C++ implementation. The applications of these technologies are then demonstrated using quantum chemistry Python applications.Python for Quantum Chemistry: A Full Stack Programming Guide is written primarily for graduate students, researchers and software engineers working primarily in the fields of theoretical chemistry, computational chemistry, condensed matter physics, material modelling, molecular simulations, and quantum computing.

Advances in Food and Nutrition Research

1st Edition
Volume 114
March 28, 2025
English
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Advances in Food and Nutrition Research, Volume 114, the latest release in this ongoing series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on the Nutraceutical potential of Mediterranean agri-food wastes and wild plants: green extraction and bioactive characterization, Yeast extract as a more sustainable food ingredient: Insights into flavor and bioactivity, Physical and chemical food safety hazards and associated health risks in seafood: a Mediterranean Perspective (Part I), Biochemical and microbial food safety hazards in seafood: A Mediterranean Perspective (Part II), Assessing food digestion in the elderly using in vitro gastrointestinal models, and much more.Additional chapters focus on Recent Advances in Non-Invasive Techniques for Assessing Food Quality: Applications and Innovations, Recent advances in carbohydrate phase behavior and rheology. Implications for processing and product formulation, and Recent advances in chemistry, biochemistry, and nutrition of dates palm fruit (Phoenix dactylifera L.) cultivars.

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