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  • The World's Health Care Crisis

    Geopolitical and Climate Change Challenges
    • 1st book:metaData.edition
    • Ibis Sanchez Serrano
    • publicationLanguages:en
    The World’s Health Care Crisis: Geopolitical and Climate Change Challenges focuses on the global health care crisis, providing information on new challenges the world is experiencing, such as COVID-19, massive world migration, overpopulation, threats of global famine, nuclear war, the emergence of new infectious diseases around the planet, climate change, and their effects on health care. The book's target audience includes professionals of health systems, biomedical innovation, and global health supply chains investors and Directors in Chief, decision-makers in public health, multilateral institutions in regulatory, legislative, and executive areas, researchers, health sciences students, health economists, economist associations, pharmaco-economists, historians, and more.

  • Chia Seeds

    Applications in the Agri-food Industry
    • 1st book:metaData.edition
    • Shivani Pathania contributors.plusContributors
    • publicationLanguages:en
    Chia Seeds: Applications in the Agri-food Industry is a comprehensive guide to the properties of chia biomass (seeds, leaves, and ingredients/products thereof) and their utilization in the agri-food industry and beyond. The book is based on the analysis of chia value chain and summarizes the scientific, technical, and health aspects of chia (Salvia hispanica L.). Divided into 3 sections, it fills a critical gap in the literature by providing a comprehensive overview of chia biomass available to address key global bioeconomy and United Nation Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) challenges.User will find advanced information for the utilization of chia-based biomass based on their specific properties, application of eco-efficient technologies for their processing and conversion into a variety of products for different groups of consumers, including those with special needs (e.g. celiac patients, vegans and vegetarians). In addition, the book offers practical guidance on the development of new value chains and their integration within the existing agri-food systems.

  • Challenges and Trends in Food Safety

    Contamination, Public Health, and Control Measures
    • 1st book:metaData.edition
    • João Miguel Rocha contributors.plusContributors
    • publicationLanguages:en
    Challenges and Trends in Food Safety: Contamination, Public Health, and Control Measures provides a comprehensive review of the most recent available knowledge about microbiological, chemical and physical risks associated with food consumption. The book also provides a useful future outlook of new trends, and advanced and novel technologies for ensuring food safety and food security. Divided into five sections, the title covers the systems leading to food contamination, food science in service of food security and public health in the first section. Biological hazards and threats for food safety and effective control measures are covered in the second section, while the third one discusses the chemical hazards of food and effective control measures. The fourth section covers physical hazards of food and effective control measures and the final section brings practical solutions, future trends and advanced technologies for ensuring food safety. Edited by a team of experts in the field of Food Safety, Microbilogy and Defense, this book is an ultimate reference, serving as a guide to elaborate on food contamination from various aspects.

  • Sustainable Microalgal Biorefinery

    • 1st book:metaData.edition
    • Naim Rashid contributors.plusContributors
    • publicationLanguages:en
    Sustainable Microalgal Biorefinery, the latest release in Elsevier's Developments in Microbial Cell Factories: From Design to Commercial Production series, provides an overview of microalgae at the cellular level, along with their potential uses across a range of industries. Beginning with an introduction to microalgae biorefinery systems and the latest research and limitations, the book delves into the fundamental aspects of microalgae and their potential applications, such as biofuel production, water treatment, bioplastics production, carbon capture, aquaculture feed, and high-value bioproducts, including food, biotechnology, and pharmaceuticals. Photobioreactors design for microalgae are also covered, as well as genetic modifications to achieve desired bio-products. The book also focuses on assessing the social, environmental, and economic sustainability of microalgae technologies and how microalgae contributes to achieving UN SDG goals. This latest volume provides researchers with valuable insights into the transformation of traditional algal research and the recent trends of resource recovery and integrated technology that can be utilized to enhance sustainability and commercialization potential of microalgae.

  • Nutritional Strategies, Predictive Models, and Sustainable Policies

    • 1st book:metaData.edition
    • Sandeep K. Panda contributors.plusContributors
    • publicationLanguages:en
    Nutritional Strategies, Predictive Models, and Sustainable Policies brings together scientists, professors, and policymakers from over 10 countries to cover strategies and approaches to improve human health by focusing on the nutritional needs of children, pregnant women, and patients from around the world. Sections cover existing policies in specific geographical areas, critical reviews on the scientific updates of maternal, pediatric, and geriatric nutrition and how the Pandemic disrupted nutritional strategies, review predictive models on different nutrition categories for certain diseases and cancers, and highlight international and regional policies related to nutrition in war affected countries.

  • Resource Evaluation and Deep Processing of Edible Insects

    • 1st book:metaData.edition
    • Jun Wang contributors.plusContributors
    • publicationLanguages:en
    Resource Evaluation and Deep Processing of Edible Insects: Silk peptide and protein for advanced applications presents the latest progress in the processing, analysis, and application of edible insect resources, mainly focusing on the resource evaluation and deep processing methods to retrieve valuable products from the constituents of the by-products of edible insects. The book combines discursive chapters that bring the latest in resource evaluation, with discussions on novel extraction techniques, biological approaches, microbial transformations, green chemistry and microfluidic technologies. It also covers analytical and biological systems, step-by-step and readily reproducible biological and chemical protocols for analyzing edible insect resources.Edible insect resources as raw materials for the food industry for sustainability are also outlined in this book. These techniques support the latest progress in cross-disciplinary research that integrates the different scales of biotechnological and biological complexity. Edited by a team of experts in the field, this book is an excellent resource for researchers with a background in biotechnology, biological and chemical engineering, agriculture, and food chemistry, and covers a broad range of topics in agriculture sustainability and food production.

  • Cryo-EM Methods and Management

    • 1st book:metaData.edition
    • Edward T. Eng contributors.plusContributors
    • publicationLanguages:en
    Cryo-EM Methods and Management provides a detailed introduction to the latest advances of cryo-EM, from technical innovations to the logistical challenges of maintaining a modern cryo-EM facility. The book consists of four parts, beginning with an overview of cryo-EM. It then moves on to discuss Cryo-EM workflows, with chapters focusing on sample handling and preparation, data collection and hardware, and data procession and visualization. The third part centers on aspects of cryo-EM infrastructure and community building, considering facility set-up and management, monitoring facility performance, instrumentation monitoring , data sharing and standards, and training and development standards. The book then closes with a section looking towards future prospects for cryo-EM. This is an ideal reference for cryo-EM facility and lab managers, providing guidance to the often-overlooked aspect of facility building and management. Additionally researchers working with cryo-EM across molecular biology, structural biology, cell biology and biochemistry will benefit from this book.

  • Glycobiology of the Immune System and Disease

    • 1st book:metaData.edition
    • Shyamasree Ghosh
    • publicationLanguages:en
    Glycobiology of the Immune System and Disease explores the integration of state-of-the-art glycobiology and immunology to raise awareness of the multifaceted roles of glycans and lectins in the immune system. Glycobiology is a rapidly growing field in biology, with relevance to biomedicine, biotechnology and basic research. Considering the central role that glycans play in immune interactions, glycoproteins and carbohydrates are becoming the targets of next-generation therapeutics, vaccines and diagnostics. Programmed remodeling of host glycans can modulate infection, autoimmunity, and cancer, while microbial glycoconjugates can serve as canonical innate receptor agonists that induce B cell and T cell activation. This important reference investigates microbial and mammalian glycans and their protein-binding partners (lectins) and shows the role they play in all innate and adaptive immune responses. With its comprehensive overview of the field, it is an important resource for academicians, graduate and post graduate students as well as professors and faculty in the field of research in glycobiology and immunology.

  • Humanizing Artificial Touch

    Skin, Sensing, and Structures
    • 1st book:metaData.edition
    • John-John Cabibihan
    • publicationLanguages:en
    Humanizing Artificial Touch: Skin, Sensing, and Structures contains recent advances in artificial skin modelling and robotic tactile sensing technologies, integrating these in the structure of an artificial hand mimicking its important features. This book will give special treatment to the relationship between the artificial skin material and embedded tactile sensors, describing how artificial skin and embedded sensors can be designed and constructed using 3D printing technologies with case examples on how these were created for amputees achieve a more a natural and rich human-robot tactile interaction.This book is oriented towards students, researchers, and clinical practitioners who are working in the design and construction of artificial hands for prosthetics and social robotics.

  • Brain Pathologies and Disorders

    • 1st book:metaData.edition
    • Ayman S. El-Baz contributors.plusContributors
    • publicationLanguages:en
    Neural engineering is an emerging and fast-moving interdisciplinary research area that combines engineering with (a) electronic and photonic technologies, (b) computer science, (c) physics, (d) chemistry, (e) mathematics, and (f) cellular, molecular, cognitive, and behavioral neuroscience. This helps us understand the organizational principles and underlying mechanisms of the biology of neural systems and to further to study the behavioral dynamics and complexity of neural systems in nature.The field of neural engineering deals with many aspects of basic and clinical problems associated with neural dysfunction, including (i) the representation of sensory and motor information, (ii) electrical stimulation of the neuromuscular system to control muscle activation and movement, (iii) the analysis and visualization of complex neural systems at multiscale from the single cell to system levels to understand the underlying mechanisms, (iv) development of novel electronic and photonic devices and techniques for experimental probing, the neural simulation studies, (v) the design and development of human–machine interface systems and artificial vision sensors, and (vi) neural prosthesis to restore and enhance the impaired sensory and motor systems and functions.To highlight this emerging discipline, Dr. Ayman El-Baz and Dr. Jasjit Suri have developed Advances in Neural Engineering, covering the broad spectrum of neural engineering subfields and applications. This Series includes 7 volumes in the following order: Volume 1: Signal Processing Strategies, Volume 2: Brain-Computer Interfaces, Volume 3: Diagnostic Imaging Systems, Volume 4: Brain Pathologies and Disorders, Volume 5: Computing and Data Technologies, Volume 6: Advanced Brain Imaging Techniques and Volume 7: Neural Science Ethics.Volume 4 provides a comprehensive review of brain pathologies and disorders, including Parkinson’s Disease, Alzheimer’s Disease, Attention-Deficit/Hy... Disorder, and Tourette’s Syndrome. The authors discuss existing challenges in the domain of diagnosis, detection, analysis, treatment modalities, as well as possible research directions.

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