Life sciences: general issues

This book provides the latest research progress on genome editing in cardiovascular and metabolic diseases and includes bioinformatics research methodology of genome editing.

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

This edited book covers all aspects of forest deforestation and degradation in detail and their link to land degradation.

This book represents the latest research on urban forestry in a Malaysian context.

This book introduces cutting-edge studies on the spectrum of sex.

This book analyzes potential yields of six major food crops - rice, wheat, maize, potato, soybean and rapeseed worldwide using both qualitative and quantitative approaches to study both China's and global food security under climate change.

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 provides complete information on the cornerstones of precision medicine through the omics approach.

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

This book covers broader application of biotechnology for the protection of environment through different bioremediation and biodegradation techniques developed for removal of environmental contaminants including the recently discovered contaminants.

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

This book focuses on the multi-omics big-data integration, the data-mining techniques and the cutting-edge omics researches in principles and applications for a deep understanding of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) and diseases from the following aspects: (1) Basics about multi-omics data and analytical methods for TCM and diseases.

The book deals with the pricing of ecosystem services provided by agriculture.

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

This book provides updated and comprehensive information on the evaluation of the river basin environment, along with its management and conservation.

This book highlights the recent advances in the field of microbial engineering and its application in human healthcare.

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

This book introduces ecology of tropical cloud forests in China, a high-altitudinal tropical forest.

This book demonstrates that population structure and dynamics can be reconstructed by stochastic analysis.

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 focuses on both high-density lipoproteins (HDL) metabolism and related diseases from the perspectives of the world-class experts in HDL.

This book presents the latest research findings on the laterality of fish and other animals.

The book is about global energy use, its past and present, and its increasingly uncertain future.

This book includes selected papers from the 5th International Conference on Computational Vision and Bio Inspired Computing (ICCVBIC 2021), held in Coimbatore, India, during November 25-26, 2021.

This book provides complete and up-to-date information on sika deer biology and its management, focusing on their life history with an integrated approach of population dynamics, morphology, genetics, and evolution.

This book highlights the multi-pronged strategy for achieving sustainable rural domestic water supply in India.

This book presents the definition of aeolian desertification and uncovers its processes, driving factors, and consequences, and focuses on measures to effectively combat aeolian desertification in Northeast Asia.

This book introduces the translational informatics applied to most aspects of virus infection, including tracking of virus origin, detection and prevention of infection, drug discovery, and vaccine design as well as smart city-level monitoring and controlling of the virus epidemic by government.

This book describes the author's work on the development of sequence-specific DNA binders for the therapy of mitochondrial diseases.

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 thesis presents a simple, yet highly effective surface engineering solution that uses non-covalent binding peptides to control the autophagy-inducing activity of nanomaterials and nanodevices.

This book assesses the capacity of the rural populace in terms of their ability to perceive a change in climatic variables and, if so, how they react to these changes in order to minimize the adverse effect of climate change.

This book offers an in-depth and comprehensive review on current understanding of regulatory ncRNAs in complex diseases from a view of bioinformatics.

The focus of this book is on providing students with insights into geometry that can help them understand deep learning from a unified perspective.

This book highlights the likely impacts of climate change in terms of global and national water securities, how different countries are attempting to address these complex problems and to what extent they are likely to succeed.

This edited book cover over 200 mushrooms with detailed profiles of all the species.

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

This book represents a first attempt to comprehensively discuss and investigate causes and potential implications of changing patterns of spouse pairing in Japan and to consider similarities and differences with patterns observed in the USA and other low-fertility Western societies.

The emerging biotechnologies have significantly advanced the study of biological mechanisms.

This book provides an essential overview of the basic principles of imaging modalities, accompanied by examples of their applications in modern clinical and associated pre-clinical studies.

This book presents best selected research papers presented at the 3rd International Conference on Cognitive Informatics and Soft Computing (CISC 2020), held at Balasore College of Engineering & Technology, Balasore, Odisha, India, from 12 to 13 December 2020.

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 features a comprehensive analysis of the development of shale gas resources in China, with a focus on the potential environmental impacts that may result.

This book provides a unified framework for various currently available mathematical models that are used to analyze progression and regression in cancer development, and to predict its dynamics with respect to therapeutic interventions.

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

This book focuses on histone mutations, especially those mutations closely related to cancer.

This book focuses on the latest cutting-edge research for achieving sustainable development goals during urbanisation in the Belt and Road Initiative Era.

This book highlights the genomic findings, observations, and analysis of DNA/RNA sequences and protein structure of the dreadful virus of this decade- COVID-19.

This book gathers outstanding research papers presented at the International Conference on Frontiers in Computing and Systems (COMSYS 2020), held on January 13-15, 2019 at Jalpaiguri Government Engineering College, West Bengal, India and jointly organized by the Department of Computer Science & Engineering and Department of Electronics & Communication Engineering.

This book addresses the development of both DNA-sequence-selective and DNA-form-selective ligands, with the aim of creating potential molecular probes and therapeutic agents for non-canonical DNA structure-caused human diseases.