Books in Life sciences

Craft Beer

1st Edition
May 1, 2025
Patrizia Romano + 2 more
English
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Recently, both researchers and consumers have shown strong and growing interest in craft beer, which is characterized by its small batches, local breweries, and unique varieties. Craft Beer: New Frontiers in Brewing Science provides a comprehensive picture of the craft beer market, history and legal definition, brewing processes, and the qualities and styles of the end product. It emphasizes traditional and innovative microbial resources involved in the fermentation process, as well as safety, nutrition, and emerging problems, such as the sustainability of the production process.Craft Beer: New Frontiers in Brewing Science is the first and only scientific text to comprehensively summarize this exciting field. Researchers and students in interested brewing science, as well as industry specialists from beer companies will all benefit from this unique resource.

Plant-Based Milk Alternatives and Human Health

1st Edition
May 1, 2025
Hassan Vatanparast
English
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Plant-Based Milk Alternatives and Human Health: Current Trends, Nutrition, and Public Health Implications covers plant-based milk alternatives and their impact on human health and nutrition. The book includes information on global national dietary recommendations, consumption trends, and public health concerns, and draws economic and health comparisons between conventional dairy milk and plant-based milk alternatives. Additional topics included are the history and commercialization of plant-based milks, their role in ethical issues, their influence on social well-being, and their impact on agriculture, business, and economics. Finally, the authors present projections for the future role and impact of plant-based milk alternatives in a global setting.This reference will be of particular interest to researchers in nutrition, food and beverage science, and public health who focus on dairy milk and milk alternatives, beverage companies and product developers in the non-dairy milk space, as well as governmental organizations that provide health recommendations.

Formulating and Implementing Pharmaceutical Pricing Policies

1st Edition
May 1, 2025
Zaheer Babar
English
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Formulating and implementing pharmaceutical pricing policies: Challenges, case studies and lessons learned from medicine price control provides readers with a framework to understand and analyze several medicine pricing policies. Through case studies from countries across geographies and income tiers, the book explores the challenges and opportunities related to price control experiences.Studying policies from Australia, New Zealand, China, the European Union, South Africa, India among other countries, the book discusses approaches, strategies, and the underlying pharmaceutical pricing practices used to provide advice for formulating highly effective policies. Alongside the cases, this book covers appropriate research methods for pricing analysis, the essential components of pricing policy, data quality, and the generic structure of a pharmaceutical pricing policy.Formulating and implementing pharmaceutical pricing policies: Challenges, case studies and lessons learned from medicine price control discusses how a medicine pricing policy is formed, why they differ from country to country based on the local health system, and what results can be achieved. This book is an important reference for pharma professionals, regulatory agencies, and policy makers. Researchers investigating Pharmacoeconomics, and overall healthcare cost will also benefit from the analysis framework described in this book.

Blindness

1st Edition
Volume 292
May 1, 2025
Danny Ball + 1 more
English
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Blindness, Volume 292 in the Progress in Brain Research series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors. Chapters in this new release include Temperature as a circadian timing cue in the visually impaired, Visual experience affects neural correlates of audio-haptic integration: A case study of non-sighted individuals, Visual experience affects neural correlates of audio-haptic integration: A case study of non-sighted individuals, Measuring residual visual function after cerebral damage – a potential path for optimizing rehabilitation approaches, and Persistence of training-induced visual improvements after occipital stroke, amongst other topics.Other chapters in this release include Well-being, mental health, and sleep in children and young people with vision impairment: A narrative review, Changes to the brain due to visual impairment, Information Processing in People with Visual Impairments, Case studies of the migraine aura in the blind or partially sighted, HABEMO: an innovative haptic tool for investigating the bodily representation of mental states in individuals with visual impairments, and Affect in the dark: navigating the complex landscape of social cognition in blindness, and An overview of quality of life and visual outcomes in AMD.

Safety and Sustainability Aspects of Food Packaging

1st Edition
May 1, 2025
Swarna Jaiswal + 2 more
English
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Safety and Sustainability Aspects of Food Packaging is a volume of the Sustainable Food Packaging series and serves as a comprehensive guide to the multifaceted world of food packaging. Organized into three sections, this book covers the foundations of food packaging, sustainable food packaging, and legal and regulatory aspects of food packaging. Section 1 provides an overview of the historical background and current trends in food packaging, different types of food packaging materials, and their properties and applications. Section 2 explores innovative solutions for sustainable packaging materials, packaging optimization, logistics, and carbon footprint reduction, edible and biodegradable food packaging, the environmental impact of food packaging, life cycle analysis, and design for recycling and the circular economy. Section 3 delves into regulatory and legal considerations in food packaging, consumer perception, marketing claims, safety considerations, packaging labelling, compliance, and consumer education. With the growing importance of sustainability and increasing regulatory requirements, this series of books represents a comprehensive guide to navigating this rapidly evolving landscape.

Roles of Osmolytes in Changing Environment

1st Edition
May 1, 2025
Azamal Husen
English
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Roles of Osmolytes in Changing Environment is the only available comprehensive coverage of the recent advances in our understanding on how plants coordinate with different osmolytes, and their role in improving the tolerance of plants under stress conditions. Including insights of their effect against cold, heat, UV, submergence, wounding, extremes of temperature, drought, salinity, high metal concentrations, water logging, pollution, and nutrient deficiency stress, the book also explains the role of various osmolytes against phytopathogenic viruses, bacteria, fungi, algae, nematodes, and insects. Understanding the significance of different osmolytes for sustainable plant growth and production under diverse stress situations is increasingly important for both crop and non-crop plants. This volume presents the latest research and inspires further research toward osmolyte use in developing stress tolerance in plants. Roles of Osmolytes in Changing Environment is a valuable resource for scientists, researchers and advanced level students working in plant biology, plant physiology, plant stress physiology, plant biochemistry, botanical or crop sciences, environmental sciences, and ecological sciences.

Human Centric Integration of 6G enabled technologies for Modern Society

1st Edition
May 1, 2025
Amit Kumar Tyagi + 1 more
English
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6G-Enabled Technologies for Modern Society: Fundamentals, Applications, Analysis and Challenges serves as a comprehensive reference, addressing the information needs of professionals by providing deep information about the fundamentals and applications of 6G, enabling them to make informed decisions in the dynamic landscape of advanced communication technologies. In 24 chapters the book introduces the reader to the 6G technology, the evolution of wireless communication, the integration of artificial intelligence, provides Use Cases and Applications of 6G Technology, and insights into the challenges, future trends and emerging technologies includes the applications of 6G technology in remote healthcare services, patient monitoring, and medical diagnostics.6G-Enabled Technologies for Modern Society: Fundamentals, Applications, Analysis and Challenges redefines the way we connect, communicate, and collaborate with emerging technologies in this smart era of 6G technology. The title benefits from a collective wealth of knowledge and perspectives. This diversity enriches the content, providing readers with insights from various angles, setting it apart from publications authored or edited by a limited number of individuals.

Tumor-Targeting with Stimuli-Responsive Vesicular Nanocarriers

1st Edition
May 1, 2025
Ankit Jain + 2 more
English
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Tumour-Targeting with Stimuli Responsive Vesicular Nanocarriers: Basics to Emerging Applications not only acquaints scientists and science interns with the fundamental knowledge of the experimental aspects and state-of-the-art technology for vesicular carriers to equip their rational application in tumor targeting, but also provides a holistic understanding of regulatory concerns, patents, and clinical trials. In 15 chapters. this book provides basics and advances in stimuli-responsive vesicular carriers for tumor targeting based on findings outlined in highly organized tables, illustrative figures, and flow charts.With a focus on the extrapolation of bioengineering tools in the domain of vesicular carriers, stimuli-responsive features concerning tumors, drug delivery approaches, and associated challenges, it helps readers to define the major gaps in knowledge that can lead to significant scientific discoveries in therapy, diagnosis, and theragnosis of cancer.

Protien Aggregation

1st Edition
Volume 145
May 1, 2025
Rossen Donev
English
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Protein Aggregation, book provides valuable insights into the factors driving protein aggregation, the impact on cellular function, and the role in various diseases, offering a comprehensive overview for researchers and professionals in the field of biomedicine and biochemistry.

Healthcare Frontiers in the Metaverse

1st Edition
April 25, 2025
Shalli Rani
English
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Healthcare Frontiers in the Metaverse: Innovations and Impacts provides a deeper comprehension of the metaverse's revolutionary effects on patient care, medical education, and operational procedures in the healthcare sector. The book Includes both the fundamentals of patient experience, provider practices, and the overall framework of the healthcare business as the democratisation of medical education through virtual simulations and the individualised care enabled by AI-driven diagnostics. In 14 chapters “Healthcare Frontiers in the Metaverse: Innovations and Impacts” leads the reader to an introduction to, definition, elements, treatment and diagnostic in healthcare in metaverse, the next evolution in social connection and the successor to the mobile internet. It describes the role of robots and give a view on the future scope and challenges. " Exploration of Healthcare in Metaverse: Innovations and Impacts” serves as a road map for technologists and policymakers influencing the direction of healthcare as well as a help book for medical practitioners integrating metaverse technologies into their practice.

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