Biology, life sciences

As coined in the book of Nassim Taleb, antifragility is a property of a system to gain from uncertainty, randomness, and volatility, opposite to what fragility would incur.

This book covers wide aspects of algal technology and algae-based biorefinery aspects.

This proposed book aims to present an analysis of several crisis issues induced by global climate changes and implications at the micro-level, particularly from the perspective of ground-based study.

Molecular hydrogen (H2) has emerged as a promising therapeutic and preventive medical gas.

What happens if you fall into a black hole?

Who has the answer to the world's fuel problems?

Biologist John Spicer shows how closely our future is linked with that of biodiversity while navigating readers through some key problems facing our planet, including mass extinctions, population explosions, habitat destruction, and pollution.

This book reviews the physiological and therapeutic applications of extracellular vesicles (EV) of different cell types.

This book highlights microbial products and their applications in the health sector.

This book is proposed to be a collection of excellently peer-reviewed research from the 2023 14th International Conference on Environmental Science and Development (ICESD 2023), which will be held during May 25-27, 2023, in Xiamen, China.

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

Delve into the fascinating world of soil science with "e;The Urban Soil Guide,"e; a comprehensive manual designed for everyone from science beginners to seasoned horticulturists.

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.

This volume brings together the latest basic and clinical research examining the effects and underlying mechanisms of psychedelic drugs.

The book covers a variety of topics which include data mining and data warehousing, high performance computing, parallel and distributed computing, computational intelligence, soft computing, big data, cloud computing, grid computing, cognitive computing, image processing, computer networks, wireless networks, social networks, wireless sensor networks, information and network security, web security, internet of things, bioinformatics and geoinformatics.

This book highlights the experimental investigations that have been carried out on magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography (MRI & CT) images using state-of-the-art Computational Image processing techniques, and tabulates the statistical values wherever necessary.

This book systematically illustrates the underlying mechanisms of spatial variation in ecosystem carbon fluxes.

This brief provides a broad overview of protein-engineering research, offering a glimpse of the most common experimental methods.

Unlike bacteria and viruses, which are based on DNA and RNA, prions are unique as disease-causing agents since they are misfolded proteins.

This book explores the use of various plant polysaccharides for pharmaceutical purposes, including drug delivery.

This book introduces and reviews several topics for each human herpesvirus.

This edited book contains a compilation of 14 advanced academic chapters dealing with the structure and function of membrane protein complexes.

This thesis studies the impact of food processing on the stability and antioxidant capacity of anthocyanins in aqueous and real food systems.

The book discusses invasive-species problems in agriculture, forests and aquatic ecosystems, highlighting the invasive mechanisms and management of the selected invasive species.

This book presents interdisciplinary research on cognition, mind and behavior from an information processing perspective.

This book highlights the current state of the art in single cell analysis, an area that involves many fields of science - from clinical hematology, functional analysis and drug screening, to platelet and microparticle analysis, marine biology and fundamental cancer research.

This volume presents the proceedings of the International Conference on Biomedical and Health Informatics (ICBHI).

This book focuses on a topical and timely aspect of prokaryotic biology - the biology of prokaryotic multiple chaperonins.

This book moves away from the frameworks that have traditionally guided ethical decision-making in the Western clinical setting, towards an inclusive, non-coercive and, reflective dialogic approach to moral decision-making.

This book offers a comprehensive introduction to translational efforts in breast cancer, addressing the latest approaches to precision medicine based on the current state of understanding of breast cancer.

This book summarizes the emerging experimental evidence on hair-cell mechanotransduction, and covers hair's cellular structure, biophysical properties, molecular components and functions.

This book presents an overview of the current state of research on ultrashort electric field pulses of high intensity and their use in biology and medicine.

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 offers a state-of-the-art report on recent discoveries concerning viral, bacterial, and parasite infectious cancers.

This book highlights a new biomedical signal processing method of extracting a specific underlying signal from possibly noisy multi-channel recordings, and shows that the method is suitable for extracting independent components from the measured electroencephalogram (EEG) signal.

This book is about the transformation of the biomedical information to smart healthcare, the chapters are designed to discuss the health associated factors such as genetics, lifestyle, nutrition and environmental factors.

This contributed volume offers a comprehensive and detailed overview of the various aspects of long non-coding RNAs and discusses their emerging significance.

This book offers an essential introduction for all graduate students and researchers who are working on or interested in mechanotransduction using fruit flies as their model organisms.

The book addresses the interplay of healthcare and big data management.

This book is the first one to examine the cause and effect of elderly people's healthy life expectancy, providing models that are easy to understand.

This book comprehensively introduces recent important studies on coral reefs from various research fields including biology, ecology, chemistry, the earth sciences, and conservation studies.

This book reviews the functions and roles of DJ-1 in various oxidative stress-related diseases and applications of DJ-1 and its binding compounds to the diseases.

This book focuses on Blakiston's fish owl and the red-crowned crane as umbrella species.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of ZIC-family research.

This book offers an essential guide to RNA activation (RNAa), an emerging and fascinating new field.

This book introduces readers to volatile compounds of staple foods, while also systematically highlighting the processing technologies of potato staple foods, which will be of great importance in promoting the virtuous circle and structural upgrading of Potato consumption patterns are gradually changing from fresh to processed formulations, (e.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the role of neuroglia in neurodegenerative diseases.