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Artificial Intelligence Applications for Brain–Computer Interfaces

1st Edition
January 10, 2025
Abdulhamit Subasi + 3 more
English
Paperback
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Artificial Intelligence Applications for Brain-Computer Interfaces focuses on the advancements, challenges, and prospects of future technologies involving noninvasive brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). It includes the processing and analysis of multimodal signals, integrated computation-acquisit... devices, and implantable neuro techniques. This book not only provides cross-disciplinary research in BCI but also presents divergent applications on telerehabilitation, emotion recognition, neuro-rehabilitation... cognitive workload assessments, and ambient assisted living solutions. In 15 chapters, this book describes how BCIs connect the brain with external devices like computers and electronic gadgets. It analyzes the neural signals from the brain to obtain insights from the brain patterns using multiple noninvasive wearable sensors. It gives insight into how sensor outcomes are processed through machine-intelligent models to draw inferences. Each chapter starts with the importance, problem statement, and motivation. A description of the proposed methodology is provided, and related works are also presented. Each chapter can be read independently, and therefore, the book is a valuable resource for researchers, health professionals, postgraduate students, postdoc researchers, and academicians in the fields of BCI, prosthesis, computer vision, and mental state estimation, and all those who wish to broaden their knowledge in the allied field.

Digital Healthcare, Digital Transformation and Citizen Empowerment in Asia-Pacific and Europe for a Healthier Society

1st Edition
January 9, 2025
Patricia Ordonez de Pablos + 2 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Digital Healthcare, Digital Transformation and Citizen Empowerment in Asia-Pacific and Europe for a Healthier Society explores the potential of advanced IT in healthcare. This book shares insights on leveraging IT tools to address global disruptions like the pandemic, offering case studies from various regions, innovative topics in digital healthcare, lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic, and recommendations for policymakers worldwide. This title is a valuable resource for researchers, clinicians, CEOs, and policymakers seeking to learn from both failures and successes and harness the potential of advanced information technologies to enhance healthcare systems and services.

Primate Adaptation and Evolution

4th Edition
December 19, 2024
John G. Fleagle + 2 more
English
Hardback
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eBook
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Primate Adaptation and Evolution, Fourth Edition provides key features of extant families and references to more detailed texts. The book sets the scene and creates space for a thorough updating of exciting developments in primate paleontology and a reconstruction through early hominid species of our own human origins. This updated version covers recent developments in primate paleontology, the latest taxonomy, and includes new visuals, including helpful illustrations and evolutionary trees. It is an ideal text for undergraduate and post-graduate students studying the evolution and functional ecology of primates and early fossil hominids.The book retains its grounding in the extant primate groups as the best way to understand the fossil trail and evolution of these modern forms. However, this coverage is now more streamlined, referring to the many new and excellent books on living primate ecology and adaptation - a field that has burgeoned since this book's first publication.

Plant Biochemistry

6th Edition
December 16, 2024
Birgit Piechulla + 1 more
English
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Plant Biochemistry, Sixth Edition examines the molecular mechanisms of photosynthesis and highlights and expands this view to all facets facilitating plant life. It delivers the fundamental knowledge of plant biochemistry and explains the biological processes of life, including growth, development, senescence, and interactions between organisms and the environment, with chemical reactions. This book is suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in plant physiology, plant pathology, plant cell biology, and other plant sciences, researchers in industries actively involved in agribusiness, other biotechnology enterprises, and researchers in agronomy, agriculture, plant development and related areas.Covering a broad spectrum of topics in plant biochemistry, this book explores photosynthesis, energy metabolism, carbohydrate synthesis, photorespiration, starch biosynthesis and degradation, sulfate assimilation and nitrogen and nitrate assimilation and biosynthesis of plant proteins. The new edition delineates areas of latest and future research and includes a new and cutting-edge chapter on chlorophyll degradation.

Coastal Dolphins and Porpoises

1st Edition
December 8, 2024
Thomas Allen Jefferson
Thomas Allen Jefferson
English
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Coastal Dolphins and Porpoises: Ridgway and Harrison's Handbook of Marine Mammals, Volume One, the first volume in the Handbook of Marine Mammals series, covers some of the world's most beautiful, intelligent, and highly adapted mammals that inhabit our seas and oceans. As our knowledge of marine mammals grows, the need exists for a reliable and complete reference to the ecology and biology of these fascinating creatures. Scientists, conservationists, and informed laypersons will find books in this series to be a definitive review of all the world's living whales, dolphins, porpoises, seals, sea lions, sea cows, and marine otters and bears.This volume consists of species review chapters written by leading global experts on a variety of coastal marine species of dolphins and porpoises. Each chapter includes a description of the species followed by sections on distribution and abundance, anatomy, physiology, behavior, ecology, reproduction, parasites, diseases, and the impacts of human activities on the species.

Feline Behavior and Welfare

1st Edition
December 3, 2024
Valarie V. Tynes
English
Paperback
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Feline Behavior and Welfare provides current and updated information for the veterinary practitioner regarding normal feline behavior and problem behavior. It includes solid background on feline ethology as well as practical information on preventing, diagnosing, managing and treating the most common feline behavior problems. Written by noted experts in the field of behavior and welfare, the book covers normal behaviors, prevention of feline behavior problems, and treatment of feline behavior problems. It presents cats as unique reflections of their nearest ancestor and explains how the nature of feline behavior poses problems when we confine cats to our homes.Preventive strategies are presented in clear and practical terms, with problem behaviors covered in an easy to reference style so that clinicians can readily locate answers to some of clients most frequently asked questions. This book will be a valuable resource for anyone working with cats.

Global Oculoplastics

1st Edition
December 1, 2024
Morris E Hartstein + 1 more
English
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Global Oculoplastics provides details on addressing a large range of oculofacial plastic procedures with a focus on situations in the resource-poor setting where there may be minimal equipment or supplies. Through comprehensive descriptions, photographs, diagrams, and illustrations, practitioners will gain practical knowledge essential for providing high-quality care under challenging conditions. In addition, for those wishing to effect systemic change, there are chapters about working successfully in complicated medical situations worldwide.This book is organized into two distinct parts. Part 1 delves into the foundational aspects of global ophthalmology, addressing why cultural sensitivity, ethics, and collaboration with local partners are crucial. It also prepares professionals for working in environments with limited resources, such as unreliable electricity, water, and sterilization facilities.Part 2 shifts focus to the practical application of oculoplastic techniques. It covers various conditions encountered during global missions and offers guidance on delivering effective surgical care with limited resources and implants.This book is designed to be a critical resource for practitioners facing the daily challenges of addressing complex oculofacial issues in resource-poor settings. Its straightforward, yet thorough, "how-to" method descriptions will be particularly useful for surgeons tackling a wide range of oculoplastic conditions.

Endoscopy-Past, Present, and Future

1st Edition
December 1, 2024
Jonathan Cohen + 1 more
English
Hardback
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Endoscopy-Past, Present, and Future: The NYSGE at 50 commemorates a significant milestone - the 50th Anniversary of NYSGE. In honor of this occasion, prominent voices within the Society explore pivotal advancements in the realm of gastrointestinal endoscopy, a journey that has unfolded since the group's inception in 1974. These essays intricately weave the narrative of the indispensable role NYSGE members have played in shaping the landscape. While the spotlight is cast on the pioneering strides made by NYSGE's endoscopists and researchers, the volume also examines how these breakthroughs intertwine with the contemporary state of various endoscopic disciplines.The book's chapters take readers on a comprehensive journey through the evolution of gastroenterology and endoscopy. Opening with a historical overview, the first chapter delves into the visionary founding of NYSGE and its subsequent growth. Highlighting figures like Florence Lefcourt and Doris Barnie, the chapter underscores their pivotal roles in establishing the society. It traces the development of the nurses program, NYSGE courses, and global collaborations, offering a glimpse into transformative advancements on the horizon. Following chapters spotlight pivotal achievements, such as the trajectory of polypectomy from its inception to televideo mentoring, and more.

Effects of Climate Change on Forests

1st Edition
November 30, 2024
Fabrizio D'Aprile
English
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Effects of Climate Change on Forests: An Evidence-Based Primer for Sustainable Management of Temperate and Mediterranean Forests presents concepts, case studies and the application of theories about forest management under climate change. It provides invaluable insight to how forest planning and management tie into the ecological functioning and resilience of the forest, and does so by utilizing a concept weakly implemented in traditional forest planning: namely, by following the variability in growth, and other processes, over time. This shift in focus better incorporates the services provided by forests, and allows for better adaptation planning to help temperate forests not only survive but thrive in the face of climate change. Real-world case studies demonstrate how to effectively manage temperate forests under climate change, using the results of evidence-based research.

How to Treat Low Back Pain

1st Edition
November 30, 2024
Timothy R. Deer + 1 more
English
Hardback
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How to Treat Low Back Pain: A Guide for Treating Causes of Low Back Pain for Physicians and APPs focuses on current technology and cutting-edge treatment options, all validated by data. Each chapter presents a thorough review of patient selection, procedure technique, and potential adverse complications for each recommended treatment. Written by experts in the field for practitioners and clinicians treating low back pain, and with anatomic artwork and illustrations throughout, the book covers all aspects of lower back pain, the leading cause of disability in developed countries, with the number of people affected worldwide increasing annually.In recent years, there has been a substantial increase in health care costs to treat low back pain, and most of these treatments simply provide symptomatic relief with few strategies that actually contribute to correcting the underlying cause.

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