Life sciences: general issues

This book provides an overview of the current status of land degradation globally and the different approaches used for its restoration.

This book is a machine-generated literature overview of the legal and ethical debates over privacy and data protection measures in the last three decades, showcasing the expectations vis-à-vis realities of their presence and application in different sectors.

Is there a unified definition of anesthesia?

The edited book serves as a reference on indicators of environmental pollution and how to sustainably ascertain the effects of different pollutants on life forms.

This book offers a geospatial technology approach to data mining techniques, data analysis, modeling, risk assessment, and visualization, as well as management strategies in many elements of river basin risks.

This book discusses the possibilities, reach, challenges, and limitations of agroforestry in new contexts where the security of food, nutrition, and the environment are equally vital.

Environmental conditions and processes are one of the major pillars on which the human well-being rests.

This book is intended to provide a hitherto missing English-language overview of a multi-year research project in which a comprehensive methodology was developed to assess a rule-based classification of the habitat services, the primary net biomass productivity and carbon sequestration capacity.

This book concerns two subthemes, 'temperature sensing' and 'temperature-responding systems', addressing the questions of how temperature is sensed and how temperature is related to biological functions, respectively.

As transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) continues to expand from a tool of neuroscience research into a growing array of clinical applications, it presents a number of open questions that both invite and complicate ethical evaluation.

This volume presents a comprehensive compilation of chapters whose topics were presented at the 2nd International Conference on Mathematical Analysis and Application in Modeling (CMAAM-2023), held at the Department of Mathematics & the Center for Mathematical Biology and Ecology, Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, from 9-11 October 2023.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of how to utilize the bioconvergence revolution to substantially enhance research productivity.

Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI) is now recognized as beneficial in terms of maintaining water flows and thermal comfort in urban areas.

Blue-Green Infrastructure (BGI) is now recognized as beneficial in terms of maintaining water flows and thermal comfort in urban areas.

This book aims to provide a comprehensive overview of how climate change affects planetary health and what this means for our collective future.

This book is a machine-generated literature overview of the legal and ethical debates over privacy and data protection measures in the last three decades, showcasing the expectations vis-à-vis realities of their presence and application in different sectors.

The book dissects the role of oxidative stress in the pathogenesis of the leading causes of global morbidity and mortality, i.

This book comprehensively covers all aspects of distribution, taxonomy, life cycle, cultivation, application in traditional medicine, their secondary metabolites, and their biological properties, along with various parameters to yield improvement in selected species of Cordyceps.

This book sheds new light on the transformative role of microorganisms in waste management, offering a comprehensive overview of microbial waste management strategies and their applications.

Soil biota is an important and fundamental part of terrestrial ecology.

This book promotes policy frameworks and economic models facilitating large-scale ocean renewable energy deployment.

soft Design explores an emerging design language of emotional aesthetics that merges emotive and sensory design with ancient and new technology to create multidimensional and multisensorial experiences.

This book discusses the convergence between nanotechnology and sustainability detailing the advances in addressing global challenges in achieving technological advancement in nanoscience.

There are countless reports on microorganisms and their special abilities.

People living in the mountains maintain a unique relationship with their surrounding environment.

Now in its second edition, this concise textbook provides an overview of the field of nutrigenomics, a topic at the intersection of nutrition and genetics that explores how dietary molecules interact with our genome and epigenome to influence health and disease.

The 2nd edition of this book builds on the success of its predecessor, offering a comprehensive overview of recent advances and emerging applications in the area of laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS).

This book describes the philosophy of medicine as a subset of the philosophy of science.

 This edited book covers various bioinoculants for sustainable crop production under the changing global climate.

This book addresses increasing concerns regarding the relationship between social capital and disaster, highlighting conceptual definitions related to social capital and disaster, family, community, vulnerability, disaster experience, and preparedness.

This book focuses on biological engineering techniques, multi-omics big-data integration, and data-mining techniques, as well as cutting-edge researches in principles and applications of several synthetic biology applications.

This book traces the history and coherence of the use of the word 'representations' from its origins, particularly in the description of artefacts, to its use in the description of so-called mental and neural representations in the mind and in the brain.

Meliponini, the stingless bees of the tropics, process and store honey, pollen and plant resins to maintain their colonies.

This book highlights a need to engage research and innovation for energy production from waste given the challenges of insufficient electricity in most developing countries.

In recent years, extensive research on stochastic processes such as neuron networks, molecular motors, dynamics models, anomalous diffusion, and disordered media has led to the development of various methods for applying the Classical and Quantum Smoluchowski Equation to these phenomena.

This book is a comprehensive exploration of the science and clinical applications of fasting, with a particular focus on its effects on body weight and metabolic disease risk factors.

This book is a reference material on how to sustainably manage water crises.

This book sheds new light on the effects of aging and movement disorders on movement control during walking and postural tasks.

This book integrates various scientific approaches, including bioremediation and nanomaterials, to address environmental challenges posed by living organisms.

This book delves into the intricate relationship between alcohol and the brain across different stages of life, offering groundbreaking insights from preclinical and clinical studies.

The medicinal and aromatic plants have immensely benefited humankind since ancient times for therapeutic, cosmetic, and nutritional properties.

People living in the mountains maintain a unique relationship with their surrounding environment.

This contributed volume addresses the global scale of urbanization and its impacts on biodiversity.

This book integrates various scientific approaches, including bioremediation and nanomaterials, to address environmental challenges posed by living organisms.

Forest Degradation and Management - An Indian Perspective provides an overview of the dynamics and challenges surrounding forest degradation in India.

This book bridges the gap of basic research in male reproductive biology and its relationship to clinical studies.

The book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 18th International Meeting on Computational Intelligence Methods for Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, CIBB 2023, held in Padova, Italy, during September 6–8, 2023.

This edited volume, titled "e;Advances in Agri-Food Systems"e; is the first volume that comprises of contributed chapters from 16 leading experts in the fields of agriculture and allied sectors.

This edited volume, titled "e;Advances in Agri-Food Systems"e; is the first volume that comprises of contributed chapters from 16 leading experts in the fields of agriculture and allied sectors.

Aging is a topic that concerns all of us, since none of us can escape it.