Life sciences: general issues

This book highlights major issues related to big data analysis using computational intelligence techniques, mostly interdisciplinary in nature.

This book introduces the core concepts of bloodstain pattern analysis that help to understand and make independent contributions to crime scenes accurately.

This book reviews all aspects of major depressive disorder (MDD), casting light on its neurobiological underpinnings and describing the most recent advances in management.

The novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has posed a major threat to human life and health.

This book features original research papers presented at the International Conference on Computational and Applied Mathematics, held at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, India during November 23-25, 2018.

This book presents original research works by researchers, engineers and practitioners in the field of artificial intelligence and cognitive computing.

This book focuses on the frontiers of neural interface technology, including hardware, software, neural decoding and encoding, control systems, and system integration.

The ocean is a major source of income for many coastal nations, particularly in the developing world.

This book provides a series of compelling evidence that shows that humans have innate fear of snakes.

Selfie: Poetry, Social Change & Ecological Connection presents the first general theory that links poetry in environmental thought to poetry as an environment.

Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) has emerged as an important gas signalling molecule in a series of organs/tissues, on the diseases of which it plays protective roles, such as proangiogenic effects in ischemic tissues, antiapoptotic effects in the cardiomyocytes, regularization of fatal arrhythmia in myocardial infarction, amelioration of inflammation in autoimmune diseases, modification of neuronal transmission, increase in sodium excretion from the kidney, and amelioration of insulin resistance, etc.

This book offers a state-of-the-art report on recent discoveries concerning the basic and clinical, neuroscientific and psychiatric findings in depression research.

This book summarizes the latest advances in pain research.

This book presents pioneering findings on the characterization of cellular regulation and function for three recently identified protein posttranslational modifications (PTMs): lysine malonylation (Kmal), glutarylation (Kglu) and crotonylation (Kcr).

This book contains selected papers presented at ICGEC 2021, the 14th International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing, held from October 21-23, 2021 in Jilin City, China.

This book includes selected papers from the 4th International Conference on Computational Vision and Bio Inspired Computing (ICCVBIC 2020), held in Coimbatore, India, from November 19 to 20, 2020.

This book gathers relatively recent and significant topics in the field of ion channel research.

With the rapid development of biotechnologies, single-cell sequencing has become an important tool for understanding the molecular mechanisms of diseases, defining cellular heterogeneities and characteristics, and identifying intercellular communications and single-cell-based biomarkers.

This book highlights the recent advances of thermodynamics and biophysics in drug delivery nanosystems and in biomedical nanodevices.

This book proposes the use of green infrastructure to balance biodiversity conservation and disaster management.

This book collects the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of environmental science and sustainable development, which were presented by scholars and researchers at the 2021 6th Asia Conference on Environment and Sustainable Development, held in Phuket, Thailand, November 6-8, 2021.

This book introduces Catholic social teaching (CST) and its teaching on the common good to the reader and applies them in the realm of public health to critically analyze the major global issues of COVID-19 that undermine public interest.

This book introduces novel purification technology for the complex oligonucleotide libraries.

This book provides essential insights into designing a localized DNA circuit to promote the rate of desired hybridization reactions over undesired leak reactions in the bulk solution.

This edited volume provides comprehensive and latest information on the fungal biodiversity in its morphological characters, bioactive molecules, pathogenicity and virulence, and its impacts on crop production and sustainable management of agricultural productivity towards resolving global food security issues.

This edited book brings out a comprehensive account of the faunal diversity in Great Nicobar Biosphere Reserve which is part of the Sundaland Biodiversity hotspot.

The book constitutes selected high quality papers presented in International Conference on Computing, Power and Communication Technologies 2018 (GUCON 2018) organised by Galgotias University, India, in September 2018.

The book presents new approaches and methods for solving real-world problems.

The book presents new approaches and methods for solving real-world problems.

This book reviews the scientific literature and the authors' own research linking aluminum neurotoxicity with cognitive impairment and Alzheimer's disease (AD).

This book puts forward a new mathematical theory to study chaotic phenomenon.

This book is the first of two volumes that together offer a comprehensive account of cutting-edge advances in the development of biomaterials for use within tissue engineering and regenerative medicine.

This edited volume approaches the life experiences and well-being of Japanese people from an empirical perspective.

This book features high-quality papers presented at the International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Informatics (ICCII 2018), which was held on 28-29 December 2018 at the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, JNTUH College of Engineering, Hyderabad, India.

This volume presents the proceedings of the Brazilian Congress on Biomedical Engineering (CBEB 2018).

This book brings out the most comprehensive and up-to-date information on the taxonomy, biodiversity, and ecology of climbers in India.

Much research has focused on the basic cellular and molecular biological aspects of stem cells.

In this book, Per Bauhn does three things.

This volume presents part of the proceedings of NERC 2022, with an emphasis on conservation of bio-diversity in North-east India.

This book reviews the relationship between cytokines, glia, and neurons in the pathophysiology of neuropsychiatric disorders and examines the mechanisms of action of the drugs used for the treatment of these disorders.

Why does a hospital need an ethics consultation?

This book introduces aquaculture ecology as a science of the interaction between commercial aquatic organisms as well as their farming activities and the environment, including the rationales of building and management of aquaculture systems.

This book, now in an extensively revised second edition, provides a comprehensive summary of the latest knowledge regarding glycosignals and a thorough analysis of their involvement in not only cancers but also other refractory conditions such as chronic inflammatory disorders.

This book focuses on the new concept of bioeconomy which collects the wisdom from life science, medicine and economics.

This book comprehensively evaluates the morphological and clinical aspects of the peripheral nervous system and its involvement in various pathologies.

This edited book is focused on SDG 15.

This book provides an overview of the sources, occurrence, fate and solution of microplastics.

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.

This book covers different physiological processes, tools, and their application in crop breeding.

The book deals with latest research achievements of Brassica scientists using omics approaches in understanding host-pathogen interaction, molecular detection, identification, and functional characterization of effectors/genes including pathogenomics and biometabolomics.