A natural long-chain polymer, chitin is the main component of the cell walls of fungi, the exoskeletons of arthropods (including crustaceans and insects), the radulas of mollusks, and the beaks and internal shells of cephalopods.
This textbook has been written primarily for undergraduate students of pharmacy, toxicology, and medicine who require a concise reference book on basic endocrine function and dysfunction.
Aquatic Ecosystems and Microbial Biofilms: Significance, Dynamics, Prevention and Control provides a systematic introduction and review of state-of-the-art information on microbial biofilms in aquatic ecosystems and their control.
This book explains the intricacies of one-way shape memory polymers (SMPs), with a particular emphasis on solvent-responsive SMPs focusing on fundamental pathways and key principles crucial to the development of these materials.
The magnificent Himalayan Mountains, the highest in the world and home to the famed Mount Everest and K2, are also imbued with a rich diversity of ethnic fermented foods.
Existing ERP systems are being used to support an increasing amount of critical e-business initiatives, even though this is far from their original purpose.
With the successful mapping of the human genome, we have entered an age of unprecedented opportunity in which researchers are beginning to apply this vast repository of knowledge to the treatment of human disease.
The only source on the subject to offer both an overview and a disease-based approach, this reference text spans the wide array of technical, methodological, regulatory, and ethical issues related to pharmacogenetics and stresses the impact of pharmacogenetic data on patient care and management.
Oligopeptides and oligonucleotides, jointly defined as TIDES, have been neglected in the past as potential drugs due to their short half-life and practical difficulties in the manufacturing processes.
Particle Technology and Applications presents the theoretical and technological background of particle science and explores up-to-date applications of particle technologies in the chemical, petrochemical, energy, mechanical, and materials industries.
The book highlights the importance of intelligent decision-making in advanced production systems, and optimization of process parameters using fuzzy-based multi-criteria decision-making tools.
Computational Insights into Catalytic Transformations, Volume 75 in the Advances in Catalysis series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on topics including Quantum Chemical Investigations on Electrophilic F/CF3/SCF3 Transfer Hypervalent Iodine Reagents, Combining DFT and experimental studies in enantioselective catalysis.
Providing the necessary basis for any developments of theoretical thermodynamic models, this book provides a complete collection of practical thermodynamic data for a variety of applications, including: basic and applied chemistry, chemical engineering, thermodynamic research, computational modeling, membrane science and technology, and environmental and green chemistry.
Rethinking Manufacturing: Next Generation Sensors and Devices by Microfabrication, Volume 64 in the Advances in Chemical Engineering series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on topics such as Electronic Textiles (E-textiles), Technologies and materials for breath sensing and monitoring, Wearable energy storage, Micro-3D printed sensors, 3D printing of composites, Stimuli responsive polymer nanocomposites: applicability to additive manufacturing.
This handbook discusses biological risk engineering, an extension of industrial hygiene that involves the assessment, control, and decontamination of indoor biological risks.
"e;Of immense use as the authors highlight the overall ethnography of big pharma in the healthcare sector, with the opportunities and challenges in the outside world.
Illustrating techniques in model development, signal processing, data reconciliation, process monitoring, quality assurance, intelligent real-time process supervision, and fault detection and diagnosis, Batch Fermentation offers valuable simulation and control strategies for batch fermentation applications in the food, pharmaceutical, and chemical industries.
One of few books to cover all aspects of cyclin-dependent kinases (CDKs), this volume examines CDKs as molecular and functional entities, their role in various disease processes, and their potential for pharmacological modulation.
This comprehensive new book provides up-to-date information on many types of Asian prepared foods-their origin, preparation methods, processing principles, technical innovation, quality factors, nutritional values, and market potential.
Examining the chemical modification of biological polymers and the emerging applications of this technology, Chemical Modification of Biological Polymers reflects the change in emphasis in this subsection of biotechnology from the study of protein structure and function toward applications in therapeutics and diagnostics.
China is the world's top agricultural producer according to a World Trade Organization 2010 report, but a growing number of alarming safety issues has put the world's top manufacturer of food on the defensive.
Proceedings of the 3rd International Seminar of the International Federation for Heat Treatment held in Melbourne, in 1991 with the special focus on 'Quenching and Carburising'.
The Nobel Prize is the highest award in science, as is the case with nonscience fields too, and it is, therefore, arguably the most internationally recognized award in the world.
Electrochemical Polymer Electrolyte Membranes covers PEMs from fundamentals to applications, describing their structure, properties, characterization, synthesis, and use in electrochemical energy storage and solar energy conversion technologies.
Many companies conduct Lean training and projects, but few have tapped the wealth of ideas in the minds of their staff like Baylor Scott and White Health.
