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  • Theranostics and Precision Medicine for the Management of Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Volume 2

    Diagnosis, Therapeutic Targets, and Molecular Mechanisms
    • 1st Edition
    • Ganji Purnachandra Nagaraju + 1 more
    • English
    Theranostics and Precision Medicine for the Management of Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Volume Two: Diagnosis, Therapeutic Targets and Molecular Mechanisms for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Progression provides comprehensive information about ongoing research and clinical data surrounding liver cancer. The book presents detailed descriptions about diagnostics and therapeutic options for easy understanding, with a focus on precision medicine approaches to improve treatment outcomes. The volume discusses topics such as computational approaches for identification of biomarkers, enzymes and pathways of HCC, circulating and epigenetic biomarkers, drug resistance, metabolic pathways, and small molecule-target therapies. In addition, it discusses immunotherapies, immune check point inhibitors and nanotechnology-based therapies. This book is a valuable resource for cancer researchers, oncologists, graduate students, hepathologists and members of biomedical research who need to understand more about liver cancer to apply in their research work or clinical setting.

  • Academic Voices

    A Conversation on New Approaches to Teaching and Learning in the post-COVID World
    • 1st Edition
    • Upasana Gitanjali Singh + 3 more
    • English
    Academia's Digital Voice: A Conversation on 21st Century Higher Education provides critical information on an area that needs particular attention given the rapid introduction and immersion into digital technologies that took place during the pandemic, including quality assurance and assessment. Sections discuss the rapid changes called into question as student mobility, pedagogical readiness of academics, technological readiness of institutions, student readiness to adopt online learning, the value of higher education, the value of distance learning, and the changing role of administration and faculty were thrust upon institutions. The unprecedented speed of international lockdowns caused by the pandemic necessitated HEIs to make rapid changes in both teaching and assessment approaches. The quality of these and sacrosanctity of the academic voice has long been the central tenet of higher education. While history is replete with challenges to this, the current, rapid shift to online education may represent the greatest threat and opportunity so far.

  • Defence from Invertebrates to Mammals: Focus on Tonic Immobility

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 271
    • English
    Defence from Invertebrates to Mammals: Focus on Tonic Immobility, Volume 273 in the Progress in Brain Research series, highlights new advances in the field. Chapters in this new release include Defensive responses in invertebrates, Introduction to defensive behavior in vertebrates, Neural circuits of fear and defensive behavior, Fear-associated factors modulating TI, Environmental, ecological and methodological factors of TI Modulation, The neuroethological approach to defense in rabbits, Neurophysiological mechanisms of TI, Neuromediators, brain areas and circuits involved in defense responses, Autonomic correlates of defense responses, Neuroendocrine correlates of stress and TI, Pain control during TI and other immobility models, and more.

  • Individual Differences and Personality

    • 4th Edition
    • Michael C. Ashton
    • English
    Individual Differences and Personality, Fourth Edition provides a comprehensive overview of research regarding what personality is and how and why it differs between people. This book begins with a description of the study of personality and then presents basic principles of personality measurement, the concept of personality traits, and the major dimensions of personality variation. Further chapters review personality change and stability, biological causal mechanisms, genetic and environmental influences, and evolutionary adaptive function. Personality disorders are examined as are life outcomes (such as relationships, work, and health) that are predicted by personality characteristics. In addition, the book examines important individual differences beyond personality, such as mental abilities, religious beliefs, political attitudes, and sexuality. Revisions to the fourth edition include updates to all chapters and substantial new content. For example, the developmental change chapter includes new studies of long-term stability, and the biological bases chapter includes new research about the effects of dopamine-like substances on impulse control. The genetics chapter has been heavily revised to cover recent meta-analyses and large-scale studies of the heritability of personality traits. In the chapter on the evolutionary function of personality, the discussion of sex differences is expanded to include cross-cultural variation. The chapter on personality and life outcomes includes new coverage of rating the personality of one's hypothetical ideal partner. The chapter on mental ability has updates on brain volume and IQ and on motivation and IQ.

  • Web-Scale Discovery Services

    Principles, Applications, Discovery Tools and Development Hypotheses
    • 1st Edition
    • Roberto Raieli
    • English
    Web-Scale Discovery Services: Principles, Applications, Discovery Tools and Development Hypotheses summarizes and presents the state-of-the-art in WSDS. The title promotes a middle-way between finding the best tool for each particular need and the search for the most reliable systems. The title identifies basic theoretical problems and offers practical solutions for librarians. The volume offers a summary of ideas from around the world, giving a new perspective that is backed up by strong theory. Offering a vision for libraries, this book also allows archivists, museum specialists, computer scientists, commercial operators and interested users to deepen their culture and information literacy. The great number of information sources now available and the changing habits of web users has led to the development of Web Scale Discovery Services (WSDS). The goal of these systems and techniques is to make catalogues, databases, institutional repositories, Open Access archives and other databases searchable and discoverable through a single point of access. The diffusion of systems and connections between data disseminated by libraries and published by other institutions poses a challenge to understanding discovery in the modern library.

  • Neurosurgical Management of Psychiatric Disorders, Part A

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 270
    • English
    Neurosurgical Management of Psychiatric Disorders, Part A, Volume 266, the latest release in the Progress in Brain Research series, highlights new advances in the field with this new volume covering interesting chapters, including Pathophysiology and Animal Models of Psychiatric Disorders, Neuroimaging of Psychiatric Disorders, History of Psychosurgery, Ethics of Psychosurgery, Medicolegal Aspects and Regulatory Issues of Psychosurgery, Psychiatric Mimics of Neurosurgical Disorders, Seizures and Pseudoseizures: The Great Divide, Pitfalls of Psychiatric Patients Selection for Functional Neurosurgery, Modern Surgical Strategies for Management of Psychiatric Disorders, Neuromodulation for Behavioral Disorders, and more.

  • Handbook of International Economics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 5
    • English
    Handbook of International Economics, Fifth Edition provides a definitive reference and teaching supplement for researchers and advanced graduate students. It includes self-contained surveys of the current state of a branch of economics in the form of chapters prepared by leading specialists. These surveys summarize not only received results but also newer developments from journal articles and discussion papers. Some original material is included, but the handbook's main goal is to provide comprehensive and accessible surveys. While this is a useful reference for professional collections, it's also a great resource for supplementary readings for advanced courses for graduate students in economics.

  • Engaging Boys and Men in Sexual Assault Prevention

    Theory, Research, and Practice
    • 1st Edition
    • Lindsay M. Orchowski + 1 more
    • English
    Engaging Boys and Men in Sexual Assault Prevention: Theory, Research and Practice explores sexual assault prevention programs for boys and men. Following an ecosystemic perspective, the book examines individual risk and protective factors, discusses initiatives to prevent sexual aggression (i.e., bystander intervention programs, given their use among men), covers programs that specifically seek to engage boys and men in sexual assault prevention, presents key risk and protective factors for sexual aggression (i.e., healthy masculinity, rape myth acceptance), and describes the need and rationale for sexual assault prevention efforts.

  • Transportation Operations Management

    • 1st Edition
    • Darren J. Prokop
    • English
    Transportation Operations Management provides the analytical tools and industry-wide context necessary to understand and address the critical real-world problems in transportation operations and planning that shippers, carriers, and third-party logistics providers face every day.The book examines operational problems from all transportation modes—air, motor carrier, water vessel, pipeline, and rail—to show how these interact in the real world of today’s carriers and shippers. The book also outlines and analyzes key issues such as designing efficient domestic and international transportation networks; choosing optimal locations within market spaces; designing infrastructure to manage network congestion; leveraging intermodalism for operational flexibility; leveraging techniques for costing, pricing, and revenue management; using tracking technology for decisionmaking; maintaining regulatory compliance in operations; and managing environmental stewardship.Paying particular attention to the influence of the logistical constraints of time, physical space, and location, the book reveals the key role of transportation in strategic and tactical decision-making. The book uses mathematical techniques such as the theory of capacity management, the microeconomics of costing and pricing, risk management, linear optimization, productivity measurement, queueing theory, and complex scheduling. The book also uses real-world problems with their actual marketplace constraints in technology, geography, and government regulations to provide an applied context to the techniques examined.

  • New Methods and Approaches for Studying Child Development

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 62
    • Jeffrey J. Lockman + 1 more
    • English
    New Methods and Approaches for Studying Child Development, Volume 62 in the Advances in Child Development and Behavior series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors.

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