Biology, life sciences

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.

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.

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 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.

This book provides everything from basic knowledge to the recent understandings of avian reproductive physiology, covering many unique aspects.

This book focuses on neuro-engineering and neural computing, a multi-disciplinary field of research attracting considerable attention from engineers, neuroscientists, microbiologists and material scientists.

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 provides a comprehensive insight into the current research trends and ongoing advances in biomedical applications of magnetic nanoparticles.

This book covers different aspects of biodegradable packaging, such as their sourcing and application in food industries.

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.

This book summarizes the various microfluidic-based approaches for single-cell capture, isolation, manipulation, culture and observation, lysis, and analysis.

This book presents an overview of antimicrobial peptides (AMPs), their mechanisms of antimicrobial action, other activities, and various problems that must still be overcome regarding their clinical application.

This book presents essential studies and cutting-edge research results on tau, which is attracting increasing interest as a target for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease.

This book reviews all important aspects of anxiety disorders with the aim of shedding new light on these disorders through combined understanding of traditional and novel paradigms.

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The volume provides a review of statistical development and application in the area of human genomics, including candidate gene mapping, linkage analysis, population-based genome-wide association, exon sequencing, and whole genome sequencing analysis.

This edited book discusses how effective soil carbon management plans and policies will ultimately make agriculture more secure against climate change and soil degradation.

This book describes the precise mechanisms by which insulin resistance and diabetes mellitus (DM) act as risk factors for Alzheimer's disease (AD).

This volume presents the proceedings of the Brazilian Congress on Biomedical Engineering (CBEB 2018).