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Dyslipidemia
(2019)
Dyslipidemia is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease, which is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality around the globe, particularly among aging populations. Lipoprotein disorders, frequently encountered ...
Biology of Trypanosoma cruzi
(2019)
Trypanosoma cruzi, an important zoonotic protozoan that causes Chagas disease, affects at least 8 million people in Latin America. Chagas disease is an important life-long infection in humans that can be divided into ...
Concepts of Semiconductor Photocatalysis
(2019)
This book "Concepts of Semiconductor Photocatalysis" contains recent research on the preparation, characterization, and potential applications of the semiconductor photocatalyst. This research is promising and has received ...
Visual Object Tracking with Deep Neural Networks
(2019)
Visual object tracking (VOT) and face recognition (FR) are essential tasks in computer vision with various real-world applications including human-computer interaction, autonomous vehicles, robotics, motion-based recognition, ...
Cobalt Compounds and Applications
(2019)
In addition to theoretical information, this book provides information on cobalt compounds and nanoparticles made at selected universities and research centers around the world.This book includes information on new cobalt ...
Inflammatory Heart Diseases
(2019)
Inflammatory Heart Diseases presents comprehensive information on pericardial diseases, cardiomyopathies, and atherosclerotic cardiovascular diseases. Chapters are written by experts in the field and cover such topics as ...
Energy Storage Devices
(2019)
Energy storage will be a very important part of the near future, and its effectiveness will be crucial for most future technologies. Energy can be stored in several different ways and these differ in terms of the type and ...
Depigmentation
(2019)
Depigmentation, lightening of the skin and mucosa, can be caused by local or systemic conditions, and there may be partial or complete loss of pigment. Although depigmented patches may not matter in Caucasians, it is very ...
Peptide Synthesis
(2019)
Peptide synthesis includes an array of techniques and procedures that enable the preparation of materials ranging from small peptides to large proteins. Many synthetic peptides have commercial and pharmaceutical applications, ...
Patch Clamp Technique
(2012)
This book is a stimulating and interesting addition to the collected works on Patch clamp technique. Patch Clamping is an electrophysiological technique, which measures the electric current generated by a living cell, due ...
Trends in Electromagnetism
(2012)
Among the branches of classical physics, electromagnetism is the domain which experiences the most spectacular development, both in its fundamental and practical aspects. The quantum corrections which generate non-linear ...
Hydroponics
(2012)
Hydroponics-A standard methodology for plant biological researches provides useful information on the requirements and techniques needs to be considered in order to grow crops successfully in hydroponics. The main focuses ...
Selected Topics on Optical Amplifiers in Present Scenario
(2012)
With the explosion of information traffic, the role of optics becomes very significant to fulfill the demand of super fast computing and data processing and the role of optical amplifier is indispensable in optical ...
Atomic Force Microscopy
(2012)
With the advent of the atomic force microscope (AFM) came an extremely valuable analytical resource and technique useful for the qualitative and quantitative surface analysis with sub-nanometer resolution. In addition, ...
Advances in Immunoassay Technology
(2012)
From the basic in vitro study of a specific biomolecule to the diagnosis or prognosis of a specific disease, one of the most widely used technology is immunoassays. By using a specific antibody to recognize the biomolecule ...
Video Compression
(2012)
Even though video compression has become a mature field, a lot of research is still ongoing. Indeed, as the quality of the compressed video for a given size or bit rate increases, so does users’ level of expectations and ...
Time Management
(2012)
The time management is worthy goal of many human activities. It concerns variety problems related to goals definition, assessment of available resources, control of management policies, scheduling of decisions. This book ...
Distillation
(2012)
Distillation modeling and several applications mostly in food processing field are discussed under three sections in the present book. The provided modeling chapters aimed both the thermodynamic mathematical fundamentals ...
Updates in Volcanology
(2016)
Updates in Volcanology - From Volcano Modeling to Volcano Geology is a new book that is based on book chapters offered by various authors to provide a snapshot of current trends in volcanological researches. Following a ...
Energy-Efficient Approaches in Industrial Applications
(2019)
A large amount of energy is consumed in the industry to meet the power needed for production processes. In order to meet the heat and mechanical power needs required for many industrial processes, natural gas, petroleum ...
Legume Seed Nutraceutical Research
(2019)
Legumes are a main source of nitrogen-rich edible seeds and constitute a major source of food for a significant part of the world's population. Particularly, they are the most relevant sources of plant proteins with ...
Simulation Modelling Practice and Theory
(2019)
The influx of data in the world today needs analysis that no one method can handle. Some reports estimated the influx of data would reach 163 zitabytes by 2025, hence the need for simulation and modeling theory and practice. ...
Serotonin
(2019)
My scientific journey brought me from Lanzhou in China, Leuven in Belgium, Bethesda in the USA, all the way to San Diego. Sometimes I pick up an assortment of scattered seashells while walking along the beautiful Torrey ...
Animal Genetics
(2019)
Animal genetics is a field of science with important theoretical and practical significance in finding the answers for the actual problems of mankind. We hope that the readers will discover some new facts regarding the ...
Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA)
(2019)
This book is a concise review of medically important applications of Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) in medicine. It covers both basic knowledge of HLA and its main clinical applications in medical practice. Its two major ...
Gene Regulation
(2019)
Genes store life data and information in genetic language. In accordance with the Central Dogma, life data are located in DNA sequences in the format of genes and the information is transcribed into transient molecules of ...
Pharmacovigilance
(2019)
The book "Pharmacovigilance" describes the pathway to understand that pharmacovigilance plays a specialized and pivotal role in ensuring ongoing safety of medicinal products. Written in plain English, the book is concise, ...
Adenoviruses
(2019)
Adenoviruses are among the most studied and at the same time most mysterious of viruses. In this book, the authors highlight the achievements in the study of animal and human adenoviruses, chemotherapy of adenovirus ...
Strategies to Reduce Hospital Mortality in Lower and Middle Income Countries (LMICs) and Resource-Limited Settings
(2019)
This book examines experiences in resource-limited settings, including Low- and Middle-Income Countries (LMICs) and covers a mix of strategies to reduce hospital mortality in these settings. These include population-level ...
Technological Innovation in the Olive Oil Production Chain
(2019)
Technological innovation has undergone unprecedented development; this evolution can offer extraordinary opportunities for product qualification, which today has not been adequately exploited due to a lack of vision. It ...
Electron Microscopy
(2019)
TEM and SEM have contributed greatly to the progress of various research fields, which has been accelerated in the last few decades by highly functional electron microscopes and microscopy. In this tide of microscopy, ...
Quantum Cryptography in Advanced Networks
(2019)
Proposed 35 years ago, quantum cryptography (QC) and its most prominent part quantum key distribution (QKD) attracts more and more attention. Significant progress has been made in both its theory and practice from many ...
Tyrosine Kinases as Druggable Targets in Cancer
(2019)
Protein tyrosine kinase (PTK) deregulation contributes to growth of cancer and many other diseases. The development of small-molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) that target the deregulated PTKs, such as epidermal ...
Risk Management in Construction Projects
(2019)
A project risk could be described as anything that could impact the fundamentals of a project performance timeline, performance, or budget. So, risk management, then, could be described as the deliberate processes of ...
Recent Advances in Heat Pipes
(2019)
Heat pipes are considered as an effective thermal solution, particularly in high heat flux applications and in situations where there is a combination of nonuniform heat loading, limited airflow over the heat-generating ...
Basic Principles and Practice in Surgery
(2019)
This publication aims to support young doctors and surgery residents during their training period. A surgical residency is a crucial period for a young doctor. A great volume of theoretical information along with difficult ...
Interstitial Lung Diseases
(2019)
Interstitial lung diseases are rare and diffuse, and their diagnosis is a challenge because it requires a multidisciplinary approach. Future trends in the treatment of these diseases requires knowledge of the molecular ...
Arctic Studies
(2019)
The Arctic region is the keystone to understanding the present status ofcurrently ongoing Earth systems and to predicting future imagesof our planet as viewed from northern high latitudes. The Arctic region,composed of ...
Advanced Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Applications
(2019)
Computers and machines were developed to reduce time consumption and manual human efforts to complete projects efficiently. With fast-growing technologies in the field, we have finally reached a stage where almost everyone ...
Epilepsy
(2019)
Epilepsy is the most common neurological disorder globally, affecting approximately 50 million people of all ages. It is one of the oldest diseases described in literature from remote ancient civilizations 2000-3000 years ...