Medicine: general issues

This book discusses several mathematical models highlighting the disease dynamics of psoriasis and its control.

This edited volume approaches the life experiences and well-being of Japanese people from an empirical perspective.

This book systemically presents the latest research on renal fibrosis, covering all the major topics in the field, including the possible mechanisms, biomarkers, and strategies for prevention and treatment of chronic kidney disease (CKD).

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

This volume covers the science of ALDH enzymes in relation to chronic disease processes and the future therapeutic potentials of targeting ALDH in these processes.

This book systematically discusses the pathogenesis, prevention, and the current and potential clinical treatment of hearing loss, as well as the latest advances in hearing research.

This book is designed for anyone involved in surgical education.

This book summarizes the latest advances in pain research.

This book investigates the professional needs and training requirements of an ever-changing public service workforce in Australia and the United Kingdom.

The book addresses the development of muscle atrophy, which can be caused by denervation, disuse, excessive fasting, aging, and a variety of diseases including heart failure, chronic kidney diseases and cancers.

This book elucidates how advances in genomics research are being applied in connection with heart diseases.

This book provides an overview of recent advances in the study of aging and aging related diseases, discussing the topics at individual, organ, tissue, cell, and molecular levels.

This volume covers the emerging area of science, Clinical Lipidomics, which is the application of lipidology to the understanding of physiological and pathophysiological changes of lipidomes, with a special focus on lipidomic profiles in human diseases.

The book focuses on various detection targets applied in single cell studies, including tumor tissue cells, circulating tumor cells (CTCs), disseminated tumor cells (DTCs), circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA), cell-free DNA (cfDNA) and cancer stem cells (CSCs).

This book examines service-learning - a valuable means of promoting civic engagement and youth leadership in students by enabling them to apply their knowledge to needy people in the community.

This book asserts that women attain higher levels of health in the mothering role when they achieve increased control over their own health, lifestyle and environment.

This volume covers a state-of-the-art illustration of recent discoveries concerning obesity-related fatty liver diseases and liver cancer.

This book examines how legal causation inference and epidemiological causal inference can be harmonized within the realm of jurisprudence, exploring why legal causation and epidemiological causation differ from each other and defining related problems.

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

This book describes key practices to bring school mental health programs to scale in a sustainable and effective manner.

This book studies young people's use of psychoactive drugs and its social and psychological correlates in Hong Kong.

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

This book highlights electromagnetic actuation (EMA) and sensing systems for a broad range of applications including targeted drug delivery, drug-release-rate control, catheterization, intravitreal needleless injections, wireless magnetic capsule endoscopy, and micromanipulations.

This book provides a clear, comprehensible and up-to-date description of how Small Angle Scattering (SAS) can help structural biology researchers.

This book discusses recent research in innate immunity, which has revealed a large number of receptors that sense the presence of microorganisms or cellular damage in tissues.

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 book focuses on the health impacts of air pollution in China, especially the epidemiology-based exposure-response functions for the mortality, morbidity, and hospital admissions for respiratory diseases, cardiovascular diseases, lung cancer, and mental health related to pollution.

This resource supports evidence-informed approaches to improving the cultural competence of health service delivery.

This book highlights the latest advances in functional micro/nano imaging probes and their applications for biomedical imaging and therapy.

This book provides insightful observations and analyses of Asian citizens' behaviour associated with requests to get a permit in conditions typically characterized by bureaucratic callousness.

This book provides the first comprehensive coverage of the quickly evolving research field of membrane contact sites (MCS).

This book focuses on nanorobotic agents and stem cells for biomedical applications.

The book provides and intensive overview on exosomes in cardiovascular diseases, its potential as biomarkers, as well as pathological and therapeutic effects.

This book delivers timely research on the various interfaces of family and work, and their impacts on individual wellbeing in East and Southeast Asia.

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

The book provides an intensive overview on exercise for cardiovascular disease prevention and treatment, from basic research to clinical practice.

The book provides an intensive overview on exercise for cardiovascular disease prevention and treatment, from basic research to clinical practice.

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 explores the early-stage detection of cancer using polarized light.

This book provides a critical review of the theory and practice of University Social Responsibility.

This Brief introduces SuperParamagnetic Iron Oxide Nanoparticles (SPIONs), the different synthesis approaches, their applications in the field of diagnostics and treatment and finally as theranostic agents in cancer.

This brief summarizes different types of organic and inorganic nanomaterials for drug delivery in cancer therapy.

This brief highlights recent research advances in the area of nano-therapeutics.

Providing a fascinating insight into the factors that influence individual choices regarding eating habits, diet and other behavioral patterns relevant to obesity, this book offers a new perspective about the relationship of obesity to poverty and inequality.

This book utilizes quantitative research methods to identify the relationship between the level of mindfulness and demographic factors among university students in Malaysia.

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

This book describes the multiple aspects of (i) preparation of the magnetic core, (ii) the stabilization with different coatings, (iii) the physico-chemical characterization and (iv) the vectorization to obtain specific nanosystems.

Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD) is a highly prevalent hereditary renal disorder in which fluid-filled cysts are appeared in both kidneys.

This book introduces readers to essential methods and applications in translational biomedical informatics, which include biomedical big data, cloud computing and algorithms for understanding omics data, imaging data, electronic health records and public health data.