Biology, life sciences

Environmental pollution emanating from rapid industrialization, population growth, and urbanization has been considered a major problem in recent years that affects biodiversity, ecosystems, and human health by contaminating soil and water.

This edited book covers all aspects of omics approaches used for the varietal improvement of millets in changing climatic conditions.

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 reports the latest research and successful industrial case studies on sustainable technologies in the oil palm industry, ranging from plantation, processing to waste handling.

This book provides essential information on the role of phytonanotechnology in the removal of environmental pollutants and covers recent advances in experimental and theoretical studies on plant-derived nanoparticles.

The book compiles the latest advances in food chemistry.

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 authored book is primarily for the readers who are in search of how to use basic concepts of statistics in the field of fishery science.

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 covers all aspects of hybrid breeding technologies applied for crop improvement in major field crops.

This book collates various aspects of stress tolerance in crop plants.

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

This book illustrates the importance of microbiome interactions in sustainable agriculture and the environment.

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 focuses on the important discoveries of the small molecule-, peptide-, and protein-based virus entry inhibitors and discusses advance of the development of different type of virus entry inhibitors as a novel class of antiviral drugs for treatment and prevention of viral infection.

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 book aims to systemically summarize the key findings about Innate lymphoid cells (ILCs) and present the consensus of current views and prospective.

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 series consists of 3 volumes covering the basic science (Volume 1), clinical science (Volume 2) and the technology and methodology (Volume 3) of autophagy.

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.