Biology, life sciences

This book highlights the interdisciplinary study of cognition, mind and behavior from an information processing perspective, and describes related applications to health informatics.

This contributed volume contains 25 chapters from leading international scientists working on dengue and Zika viruses, who came together in Praia do Tofo in Mozambique to discuss the latest developments in the fields of epidemiology, pathogenesis, structural virology, immunology, antiviral drug discovery and development, vaccine efficacy, and mosquito control programs.

This volume comprises the select proceedings of the annual convention of the Computer Society of India.

This book introduces readers to the biology of leukemia stem cells (LSCs) and emphasizes the necessity and importance of targeting LSCs in the treatment of hematopoietic malignancies.

This book presents a comprehensive overview of important immune molecules and their structure-function relationships.

The book describes molecular principles and mechanisms by which mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) can drive the occurrence of diseases and the latest understanding of mtDNA biology.

The book features selected high-quality papers presented in International Conference on Computing, Power and Communication Technologies 2019 (GUCON 2019), organized by Galgotias University, India, in September 2019.

This two-volume set LNBI 14881-14882 constitutes - in conjunction with the 13-volume set LNCS 14862-14874 and the 6-volume set LNAI 14875-14880 - the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2024, held in Tianjin, China, during August 5-8, 2024.

The aim of the Protein Reviews is to serve as a publication vehicle for review articles that focus on crucial current vigorous aspects of protein structure, function, evolution and genetics.

This book highlights the applications of soft computing techniques in medical bioinformatics.

This book gathers the proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Electrical Bioimpedance (ICEBI 2019), held on June 9-14, in Joinville, Santa Catarina, Brazil.

This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date review of current understanding of periostin and its importance for human health and disease.

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

This book provides a concise yet comprehensive review of the morphological, biochemical, electrical, mechanical, and metabolic properties of vascular smooth muscle, the regulation of vascular activities and the intracellular signaling involved.

The Prokaryotes is a comprehensive, multi-authored, peer reviewed reference work on Bacteria and Achaea.

The Prokaryotes is a comprehensive, multi-authored, peer reviewed reference work on Bacteria and Achaea.

The book compiles the latest advances in food chemistry.

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 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 highlights 12 major plants in the Asteraceae family from the aspects of traditional uses as food and medicine, phytochemistry, and pharmacological activities.

This book presents a synopsis, with an innovative approach, of abundance, types and conditions of work performed in the tropical plantation and natural forests.

This book presents the advancement of coating materials technology especially in agriculture, particularly for fertilizers.

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

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 introduces transplantation in rodents as useful tools used in studying transplant immunobiology.

This book explores Ireland's Marriage Bar, examining its impact on women's lives and the predominantly feminised nursing profession.

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

This book provides insights into recent developments in the use of mulching in agroecosystems with emphasis on the major pros and cons.

This book encapsulates and occupies recent advances and state-of-the-art applications of nature-inspired computing (NIC) techniques in the field of bioinformatics and computational biology, which would aid medical sciences in various clinical applications.

This book focuses on the recent innovations and therapeutic potentials of regenerative medicine and discusses the applications of stem cells, biomaterials, and tissue engineering in regenerative medicine.

This book describes the development of novel protein-RNA-binding assays and their applications in a high-throughput manner for the identification of small-molecule modulators of protein-RNA interactions to treat cancer and COVID-19.

The Prokaryotes is a comprehensive, multi-authored, peer reviewed reference work on Bacteria and Achaea.

This book provides a detailed overview of the progress and challenges of non-traditional approaches for tackling antimicrobial resistance.

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

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 is an elaborate account of the effects of abiotic stressors on cereals crops.

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

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.

Leading researchers are specially invited to provide a complete understanding of a key topic within the multidisciplinary fields of physiology, biochemistry and pharmacology.

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 provides a comprehensive reference for various plant bioactive compounds for research and pharmacological significance across the entire spectrum of phytochemical genomics.

This book constitutes the refereed joint proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Interpretability of Machine Intelligence in Medical Image Computing, iMIMIC 2022,  held in September 2022, in conjunction with the 25th International Conference on Medical Imaging and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2022.

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

The book addresses recent advances in biofortification using different approaches like foliar fertilizer, plant breeding, and genetic engineering as well as its utilization for improvement of nutritional quality of cereals.

The book summarizes the emerging topic about the effects of SMF on biological samples ranging from single molecules, subcellular compartments, and cells to whole organisms.

In the context of rising adverse effects of climate change on agriculture, there is a need for advanced methods and practices to manage soils for production of food and energy.

The book presents a conceptual and methodological basis for the mathematical and computational analysis of genomes.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, MLMI 2022, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2022, in Singapore, in September 2022.