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Nature-Inspired Sensors

  • 1st Edition
  • October 23, 2024
  • Hossam Haick
  • English
  • Paperback
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Nature-Inspired Sensors presents and discusses the basic principles and latest developments in nature-inspired sensing and biosensing materials as well as the design and mechanisms for analyzing their potential in multifunctional sensing applications.The book starts with a comprehensive review of certain fundamental mechanisms in different living creatures, including humans, animals, and plants. It presents and discusses ways for imitating various nature-inspired structural features and their functional properties, such as hierarchical, interlocked, porous, and bristle-like structures and hetero-layered brick-and-mortar structures.It also highlights the utility of these structures and their properties for sensing functions, which include static coloration, self-cleaning, adhesive, underwater navigation and object detection, electric charge generation, and sensitive olfactory functions for detecting various substances. This is followed by an appraisal of accumulating knowledge and its translation from the laboratory to the point-of-care phase, using selective sensors as well as desktop and wearable artificial sensing devices, for example, electronic noses and electronic skins, in conjunction with AI-assisted data processing and decision-making in the targeted field of application.In addition, the book offers an insight into the challenges of continuing the development of nature-inspired smart sensing and biosensing technology and their wider availability, which can be substantially improved. It is a valuable reference for graduates, undergraduates, researchers, and working professionals in the fields of chemistry, materials science, and biomedical and environmental science.

Handbook of Sourdough Microbiota and Fermentation

  • 1st Edition
  • October 23, 2024
  • Fatih Ozogul + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Handbook of Sourdough Microbiota and Fermentation: Food Safety, Health Benefits, and Product Development links the cereal and sourdough-based microorganisms, fermentations and microbial metabolites with food hygiene and safety, functional and health promoting properties, and their potential interest to be employed in the agro-food sector and beyond. Structured in a way that provides the latest findings and most recent approaches and trends on sourdough this book also emphasizes the biotechnological aspects, such as fermentation, food processing and the use of beneficial microorganisms and their metabolites in different ways and in different industries. Written by experts from a multidisciplinary perspective, this book is a remarkable reference to a wide range of audiences with different backgrounds, from academics and researchers in food science to industrial food engineers and technicians, food plant managers, and new product and processing developers/managers in food packaging and preservation.

Mechanical Circulatory and Respiratory Support

  • 2nd Edition
  • October 23, 2024
  • Shaun D. Gregory + 4 more
  • English
  • Hardback
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Mechanical Circulatory and Respiratory Support, Second Edition, continues to provide a comprehensive overview of the past, present and future development of mechanical circulatory and respiratory support devices. This new edition provides an update on the field while also introducing new elements within the field such as ex-vivo perfusion, devices for HFpEF, design for manufacture, oxygenator design, and more content on route to market.Chapters from over 60 internationally-renowned experts focuses on the entire life-cycle of mechanical circulatory and respiratory support – from the descent into heart and lung failure, alternative medical management, device options, device design, implantation techniques, complications and medical management of the supported patient, patient-device interactions, cost effectiveness, route to market and a view to the future.This second edition is a useful resource for biomedical engineers and clinicians who are designing new mechanical circulatory or respiratory support devices, while also providing a comprehensive guide of the entire field for those who are already familiar with some areas and want to learn more. Reviews of the most cutting-edge research are provided throughout each chapter, along with guides on how to design new devices and which areas require specific focus for future research and development.

Unveiling the Proteolytic Networks of Parasites

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 126
  • October 23, 2024
  • Jan Dvorak
  • English
  • Hardback
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Unveiling the Proteolytic Networks of Parasites, Volume 125 presents a cutting-edge exploration of specific proteases across a spectrum of parasitic organisms. Top researchers in the field conduct multifaceted examinations, shedding light on the distinct roles of these proteases within significant parasite groups, including malaria, trematodes, nematodes, and blood-feeding arthropods. Chapters in this new release include Bioinformatic analysis of proteases across multiple helminth species: a case study using Wormbase, UniProt and Merops databases, Proteasomes of parasites, Proteases of Trematodes as a promising drug targets-tentative title, Astacins, and metalloproteases in nematodes, and Proteases of bloodfeeding arthropods.

Human and Animal Microbiome Engineering

  • 1st Edition
  • October 23, 2024
  • Dharumadurai Dhanasekaran + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Human and Animal Microbiome Engineering provides both basic and detailed information about microbiome engineering for the health enhancement of humans and animal populations. The book provides updated information about current research topics in this emerging field, including microbiome gene therapy, engineered probiotics, and smart living biotic machines for the release of therapeutics. The book is divided into 4 sections covering microbiome engineering application with a focus on future perspectives in human health and enhancement; microbiome engineering in human health and disease including real-world case studies; animal microbiome engineering essentials; and microbiome engineering for livestock improvement.This is the perfect reference for researchers and scientists to further explore the relationship between host and microbiome and discover novel ideas about the concepts of microbiome engineering in the health enhancement of humans and animal populations.

Advances in Virus Research

  • 1st Edition
  • Volume 120
  • October 23, 2024
  • Robin MacDiarmid + 2 more
  • English
  • Hardback
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Advances in Virus Research, Volume 120, the latest release in this esteemed series, presents the latest research and developments in viruses.

Intelligent Medicine on Prediction of Pelvic Lymph Node Metastasis

  • 1st Edition
  • October 23, 2024
  • Haixian Zhang + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Intelligent Medicine on Prediction of Pelvic Lymph Node Metastasis focuses on leveraging intelligent medical techniques to predict lymph node metastasis, using pelvic cancer as a primary case study. Combined with the actual clinical application scenarios, this book introduces deep neural network models, application systems, and carries out method concentrated on the four major links of lymph node location, partition, segmentation and metastasis prediction, aiming to provide theoretical and experimental reference for researchers in this field. In 8 chapters this title introduces the reader to intelligent medicine and deep neural networks, summarises the intelligent biological neural network and the classical artificial neural network, introduces several commonly used network architectures and a new neural network model, and introduces the deep learning based algorithms on lymph nodes metastasis prediction, summarising the method and experimental results. This book is a friendly learning tool, providing beginners and researchers with an in-depth knowledge of deep learning and how to develop intelligent medicine methods in lymph node metastasis prediction.

Emery and Rimoin’s Principles and Practice of Medical Genetics and Genomics

  • 7th Edition
  • October 22, 2024
  • Reed E. Pyeritz + 2 more
  • English
  • Hardback
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For decades, Emery and Rimoin’s Principles and Practice of Medical Genetics and Genomics has served as the ultimate resource for clinicians integrating genetics and genomics into medical practice. With detailed coverage in contributions from more than 250 of the world’s most trusted authorities in medical genetics and a series of 11 volumes available for individual sale, the Seventh Edition of this classic reference includes the latest information on seminal topics such as prenatal diagnosis, genome sequencing, public health genetics, genetic counseling, and management and treatment strategies to complete its coverage of this growing field for students, health providers, and researchers involved in the care of patients with genetic conditions, and increasingly, all areas of health and disease. This comprehensive yet practical resource emphasizes theory and research fundamentals related to the applications of medical genetics and genomics across the full spectrum of inherited disorders and applications to medicine more broadly.In this volume, leading physicians and researchers thoroughly examine medical genetics and genomics as applied to developmental disorders, as well as genetic conditions that affect hearing and vision. Here genetic researchers, students, and health professionals will find new and fully revised chapters on human developmental genetics, disorders affecting craniofacial development, chromosomal abnormalities, including aneuploidies and structural abnormalities, hereditary hearing impairment, and various genetic conditions of the eye.With regular advances in genomic technologies propelling precision medicine into the clinic, Emery and Rimoin’s Principles and Practice of Medical Genetics and Genomics, Seventh Edition bridges the gap between high-level molecular genetics and practical application and serves as an invaluable clinical tool for health professionals and researchers.

Mass Transfer Operations in the Food Industry

  • 1st Edition
  • October 22, 2024
  • Seid Mahdi Jafari + 1 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Mass Transfer Operations in the Food Industry, a new volume in the Unit Operations and Processing Equipment in the Food Industry series, explains the processing operations and equipment necessary for mass transfer processes, including crystallization, distillation, gas adsorption, and ionic exchange. These processes and unit operations are very important in the manufacture of products such as salt, sugar, edible oils and flavorings, essential oils, soft drinks, etc. All chapters emphasize basic texts relating to experimental, theoretical, computational, and/or applications of food engineering principles and the relevant processing equipment to mass transfer unit operations.Written by experts in the field of food engineering in a simple and dynamic way, this book targets industrial engineers working in the field of food processing and within food factories to make them more familiar with the particular food processing operations and equipment.

Plant-Based Proteins

  • 1st Edition
  • October 22, 2024
  • Fatih Ozogul + 2 more
  • English
  • Paperback
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Plant-based Proteins: Sources, Extraction, Applications, Value-chain and Sustainability provides the latest findings and most recent approaches and trends on clean label proteins. Divided into six sections, including Cereal-based proteins, Pseudocereal-based proteins, Protein from pulses, Protein from seeds and nuts, Protein from fruits and vegetables, and Plant-based proteins (value-chain and sustainability), the book extensively covers the composition, quality characteristics, and comparative analysis of plant- and animal-based proteins and their potential industrial applications.A comprehensive reference offering the state-of-the-art necessary insights on the recent and potential uses of plant proteins, this book is an excellent resource for academics and researchers in food science and engineering as well as industrial food engineers and technicians.

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