Biology, life sciences

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th Brazilian Symposium on Bioinformatics on Advances in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, BSB 2022, which took place in Buzios, Brazil, in  September 2022.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 18th International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and Applications, ISBRA 2022, held in Haifa, Israel, in November 14-17, 2022.

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.

What is pediatric suffering, and how is the suffering of sick children different from that of sick adults?

This book investigates the complex interrelationships between neuroscience, arts, technical design, and the spectrum of neurodivergent conditions, introducing the emerging topic of neuroarts.

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 revised edition offers an approach to information theory that is more general than the classical approach of Shannon.

 This book offers a concise and clear overview of medically important parasites.

This book provides a comprehensive discussion of the development and evolution of flatfish metamorphosis.

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.

This book collects research papers on the economic and social impact of earth sciences.

This book introduces the role of cation-p interactions in chemistry, biology, and polymer materials science.

This book provides the reader with a thorough understanding of schizophrenia as a complex brain disorder by explaining the various aspects investigated for its cognizance from epigenetics to chemistry and physics to computational approaches.

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.

The edited book covers the climate change impact broadly across the ecosystems including increasing pressure on livelihood and food supplies to the society.

This book provides a comprehensive review of hermaphroditism in fishes.

This book tells the story of the discovery of microRNA (miRNA) quantum code, the basic theory of biological data science for medical investigation with miRNA, to its implementation.

This book is first part of the 3 volume set focusing on basic and advanced methods for using microbiology as an entrepreneurial venture.

This book highlights the technicalities of plant breeding in a seed-business environment and explains the crucial aspects of the value chain.

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

This protocol book provides detailed procedures for the isolation of cyanobacteria, extraction, quantification, and detection of cyanotoxins.

This book provides an overview of various procedures involved in hybrid seed production of field and vegetable crops, including historical development and principles, maintenance of seed purity of parental lines, evolution of breeding systems, male sterility and self-incompatibility.

Biofertilizer refers to the live or latent microbial inoculants capable of enhancing plant growth through direct and indirect mechanisms.

Tropical root and tuber crops form an important group of food crops for millions of people (about one-fifth of the world population), especially those living in the tropical and sub-tropical zones.

This book offers a fresh perspective on how science and religion are connected, and how prayer aligns with the laws of nature.

The book presents new and novel perceptions about ailments alleviating the effects of several mushroom species.

This book emphasizes on cutting-edge next-generation smart plant breeding approaches for maximizing the use of genomic resources generated by high-throughput genomics in the post-genomic era.

These books bring together a panel of expert arbovirologists who recall the history of arbovirology from very personal perspectives.

The book provides information on the sources of arsenic contamination of groundwater and their impacts in the first part of the book consisting of 8 chapters.

This edited volume provides state-of-the-art overview of abiotic stress responses and tolerance mechanisms of different legume crops viz.

This book summarizes the progress made to functional immobilize G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) through site-specific or orientated recognition in both non-covalent and covalent manners.

This book examines the latest manifestations of resource competition.

 This book provides an overview of the essential characteristics and clinical applications of therapeutic proteins against human diseases, including cancers, immune disorders, infections, and other diseases.

This book describes various microneurosurgical techniques from anatomy to clinical practice.

This edited book aims to focus on microbial diversity in arid lands and deserts versus specific microbial assemblages associated with plants.

This book provides a knowledge base of the existing indigenous and local water knowledge, values, and practices, and how this water knowledge can be mainstreamed into the decision-making process.

This textbook addresses global and local environmental problems and the involvement of microorganisms in their development and remediation.

The book addresses the gaps in the body of knowledge from two grounds.

This contributed volume describes management practices based on interdisciplinary and convergence science approaches from different disciplines of agricultural science to enhance the resilience of dryland agriculture.

This book primarily examines human-animal and human-plant interactions in Asian forests (Southeast Asia and Japan) and inland waters (China).

This book studies the low-carbon transformation path of the automotive industry.

The book deals with dual role of reactive oxygen species (ROS) which is beneficial and harmful at below and above threshold limits, respectively.

This book highlights the interrelation between cell cycle regulators and breast cancer phenotypes.

This book brings together comprehensive multi-disciplinary knowledge on diverse aspects of the Himalayan treeline ecotone which is considered one of the most sensitive ecosystems to climate change.

This volume in the Epigenetics and Human Health series explores the intersection of diet and epigenetic modifications.