Publications
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Clinical Management of Shock
(2020)
Shock is a physiological state of war! From a healthcare provider perspective, the word “shock” is associated with a mixed array of feelings, including dread, well-founded fear, and deep respect. The physiological state ...
Microorganisms
(2020)
The recent breakthrough in microbial studies has applied next-generation sequencing (NGS), a massive omics analysis, to the composition and structure of microbial communities. NGS can identify microbes without the need for ...
Selected Topics in Child and Adolescent Mental Health
(2020)
This book addresses a variety of critical themes that relate to child and adolescent mental health and working memory. It focuses on various theoretical perspectives as well as highlighting implications for practice. The ...
Heavy Metal Toxicity in Public Health
(2020)
It is often said that the “dosage” of any substance determines its remedy or poison effect. Heavy metal sources encompass sewage, pesticides, fertilizers, environmental contamination, occupational exposure/contact through ...
Innovations in Higher Education
(2020)
Higher education contributes to the development of countries and their competitiveness in a global marketplace. However, to remain relevant and meet the demands of an ever-changing world, institutions and their operations ...
DNA Methylation Mechanism
(2020)
‘Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication’- Leonardo Da Vinci The methylation that occurs simply by attaching one or more methyl molecules to a DNA molecule continues to confuse the scientific world by creating highly ...
Engineering Steels and High Entropy-Alloys
(2020)
"This book entitled “Engineering Steels and High Entropy-Alloys” presents an overview of various types of advanced steels and high entropy alloys. It also discusses the current research trends, problems, and applications ...
Somatosensory and Motor Research
(2020)
Motor functions such as muscle strength and joint range of motion as well as somatosensory functions that enable a person to interpret bodily sensation are necessary and important for physical activity and exercise. ...
Nanogenerators
(2020)
This book provides an introduction to nanogenerators, which are the newest technological advancement in the field of energy conversion. Chapters discuss the physics behind energy conversion using detailed research results ...
Sarcoidosis and Granulomatosis
(2020)
Sarcoidosis is a multi-organ, granulomatous disease the etiology of which remains unknown. It is characterized by T-cell dysfunction and B-cell hyperactivity with increased local immune activity and inflammation that leads ...
Superhydrophobic Surfaces
(2020)
During the past decade, the superhydrophobic surfaces, bio-inspired non-wettable surfaces, have aroused worldwide interest. The super water-repellant surface has special characteristics such as low surface energy as well ...
Basic and Clinical Understanding of Microcirculation
(2020)
Microcirculation is key to providing enough nutrition and oxygen from head to toe. This is possible only through an extensive network of blood vessels spread around the body. Effect of microcirculation abnormalities stretch ...
Applications of Biochar for Environmental Safety
(2020)
Biochar is a carbon-rich material produced from the pyrolysis of organic materials from agricultural and forestry biomass at a relatively low temperature in the absence of oxygen. As such, it has potential for solving many ...
CO2 Sequestration
(2020)
This book discusses different strategies that can be adopted by agriculture and industry to enhance CO2 sequestration and reduce the impacts of global warming and climate change. Written by researchers from different fields, ...
Modelling and Control of Switched Reluctance Machines
(2020)
Today, switched reluctance machines (SRMs) play an increasingly important role in various sectors due to advantages such as robustness, simplicity of construction, low cost, insensitivity to high temperatures, and high ...
Thermodynamics and Energy Engineering
(2020)
This book is a primary survey of basic thermodynamic concepts that will allow one to predict states of a fuel cell system, including potential, temperature, pressure, volume and moles. The specific topics explored include ...
Accelerators and Colliders
(2020)
Since the mid-twentieth century, accelerators and colliders have been at the forefront of science and technology in the fields of space, medicine, energy, and others. This book presents sophisticated knowledge about ...
Water Quality
(2020)
Water Quality – Science, Assessments and Policy examines many of the scientific issues; national, regional and local assessment practices and results; and national policy issues related to water quality. Chapters focus on ...
Autonomous Vehicle and Smart Traffic
(2020)
Long-term forecasting of technology has become extremely difficult due to the rapid realization of any suggested idea. Communication and software technologies can compensate for the problems that may arise during the ...
Public Health in Developing Countries
(2020)
Public health entails the use of models, technologies, experience and evidence derived through consumer participation, translational research and population sciences to protect and improve the health of the population. ...
Renewable Energy
(2020)
The demand for secure, affordable and clean energy is a priority call to humanity. Challenges associated with conventional energy resources, such as depletion of fossil fuels, high costs and associated greenhouse gas ...
Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulations
(2020)
Fluid flows are encountered in our daily life as well as in engineering industries. Identifying the temporal and spatial distribution of fluid dynamic properties is essential in analyzing the processes related to flows. ...
Sustainable Sewage Sludge Management and Resource Efficiency
(2020)
Creating decent living conditions for all people while decoupling economic growth from the increasing use of virgin resources and environmental impacts is the major challenge of this millennium. There are many approaches ...
Maternal and Child Health Matters Around the World
(2020)
This edited volume, “Maternal and Child Health Matters Around the World”, is a collection of reviewed and relevant research chapters, offering a comprehensive overview of recent developments in the field of medicine. The ...
Essential Oils
(2020)
Essential oils have been used for centuries by communities all over the world in various areas and for various purposes. These include uses in medicine, flavoring, perfumery, cosmetics, insecticides, fungicides, and ...
Empathy Study
(2020)
Empathy, as it relates to behavioral counseling, is the ability of the counselor to get into the client’s phenomenological world and experience it as if it is one’s own while putting aside one’s own feelings and accepting ...
Industrial Robotics
(2020)
In this book, a new approach to the Industry 4.0 revolution is given. New policies and challenges appear and education in robotics also needs to be adapted to this new era. Together with new factory conceptualization, novel ...
Animal Reproduction in Veterinary Medicine
(2021)
Despite efforts to control udder health in cattle, are the causes of mastitis are on the rise. Although at first glance the birth process seems normal in domestic pigs, what could be the problem? What are the clinical ...
Perovskite and Piezoelectric Materials
(2021)
Investigating in the area of perovskite materials and the fabrication of devices for properties in optoelectronics, we have presented a brief outline of perovskite materials. The authors present a fairly comprehensive ...
Outdoor Recreation
(2021)
Outdoor recreation refers to recreation/activity executed outdoors, most commonly in natural settings. At least in many high-income countries, outdoor recreation is by many considered as an attractive activity during spare ...
Psycho-Social Aspects of Human Sexuality and Ethics
(2021)
With the emerging newer trends in sexuality and clashes with the traditional practice of human sexuality, there is a need for introspection and a framework of ethical principles that may guide human sexuality and its ...
Neurodegenerative Diseases
(2021)
Neurodegenerative diseases represent a very large group of heterogeneous disorders affecting specific subtypes of neurons in the brain. This book contributes insight both to the awareness of the brain and its neurodegenerative ...
Nano- and Microencapsulation
(2021)
Nano- or micro-encapsulation is used in many different fields and industries, including pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, food, and agrochemicals. It offers advantages for various applications, especially drug delivery. ...
Food Security in Africa
(2021)
This edited volume “Food Security in Africa” is a collection of reviewed and relevant research chapters offering a comprehensive overview of recent developments in the field of food safety and availability, water issues, ...
Molecular Biotechnology
(2021)
Biotechnology is a unit of engineering biology that studies ways of using living organisms, their systems, or metabolic products to solve technological problems. This book describes the modern trends and progress in ...
Methods in Molecular Medicine
(2021)
Treatment risk and response to therapy prediction can be forecasted through early diagnosis, which improves prognosis reliability and effectiveness of therapies. This book covers contemporary advances in molecular markers, ...
AI and Learning Systems
(2021)
Over the last few years, interest in the industrial applications of AI and learning systems has surged. This book covers the recent developments and provides a broad perspective of the key challenges that characterize the ...
Renewable Energy
(2021)
This book discusses renewable energy resources and systems as well as energy efficiency. It contains twenty-three chapters over six sections that address a multitude of renewable energy types, including solar and photovoltaic, ...
Glaciers and the Polar Environment
(2021)
Glaciers and Polar regions provide important clues to understanding the past and present status of the Earth system, as well as to predict future forms of our planet. In particular, Antarctica, composed of an ice-covered ...
Resources of Water
(2021)
Water is a limited natural resource indispensable for human existence. Water resources exist in the form of glaciers, oceans, rainwater, groundwater, and surface water. Uncontrolled population growth, urbanization, and ...
Clay Science and Technology
(2021)
This book presents the state-of-the-art results of synthesis, characterization, modification, and technological applications of clays, clay minerals, and materials based on clay minerals, such as polymer–clay nanocomposites ...
Hydrology
(2021)
In this book, an attempt is made to highlight the recent advances in Hydrology. The several topics examined in this book form the underpinnings of larger-scale considerations, including but not limited to topics such as ...
New Insights Into Metabolic Syndrome
(2021)
Contributors to this book have reviewed research from the fields of metabolic syndromes in view of their own research. The chapters cover the neural mechanisms of food intake and proposed factors related to obesity. The ...
Entrepreneurship
(2021)
Entrepreneurship plays an exceptional role in the development of economies and is a vital source of change in all aspects of society. This book tries to facilitate a fundamental rethinking of entrepreneurial activity and ...
Wavelet Theory
(2021)
The wavelet is a powerful mathematical tool that plays an important role in science and technology. This book looks at some of the most creative and popular applications of wavelets including biomedical signal processing, ...
Nuclear Power Plants
(2021)
This book will shed light on some hot topics related to nuclear power plants starting from uranium ore processing to fabrication through enrichment and finally to nuclear fuel at nuclear reactors. This book will hopefully ...
Macrophages
(2021)
This book is a collection of chapters that discuss methodologies, resources, and technologies by dedicated authors. This book has addressed the significance of macrophages in infectious disease, tumor metabolism, and ...
Bone Regeneration
(2012)
Bone is a specialized connective tissue, most prominently characterized by its mineralized organic matrix that imparts the physical properties that allow bone tissue to resist load, to support functional organs, and to ...
eLearning
(2012)
The term was coined when electronics, with the personal computer, was very popular and internet was still at its dawn. It is a very successful term, by now firmly in schools, universities, and SMEs education and training. ...
Image Restoration
(2012)
This book represents a sample of recent contributions of researchers all around the world in the field of image restoration. The book consists of 15 chapters organized in three main sections (Theory, Applications, ...
Embolic Disease
(2020)
In the realm of medical practice, the word “embolism” has many implications to many people, with most providers instinctively placing this word within an inherently negative context. Derived from the Greek word, ἐμβολισμός, ...
Water Chemistry
(2020)
Water, which plays an important role in every aspect of our daily lives, is the most valuable natural resource we have on this planet. Drinking, bathing, cooking, regeneration, cleaning, production, energy, and many other ...
Selected Aspects of Non-Profit Organisations
(2020)
The volatility of the economy, political instability, and greater demands on not-for-profit organisations (non-profits) will require considerable rethinking and refocusing for many organisations. These days, non-profits ...
Fashion Industry
(2020)
Fashion is a lot more than providing an answer to primary needs. It is a way of communication, of distinction, of proclaiming a unique taste and expressing the belonging to a group. Sometimes to an exclusive group. Currently, ...
Nanocrystalline Materials
(2020)
The term "nanocrystalline materials" relates to the sizes of structural elements. The range of application of these materials is huge, such as more efficient catalysts, films, magnetic materials, protective coatings, and ...
New Advances on Fermentation Processes
(2020)
In recent years, there has been an increase in the concern of society and industries about how food and beverages are produced, the production of natural compounds as well as the concern of industries on fermentation-based ...
Periodontal Disease
(2020)
This book aims to provide readers with the latest updates and an informative overview of the most successful diagnostic aids for periodontal diseases. This book is divided into three sections. Section 1 discusses the ...
Oil and Gas Wells
(2020)
The aim of this book is to present some advances in different aspects of oil and gas technology. Two chapters are dedicated to the scientific research in the domain of reservoir engineering and characterization. Four ...
Smart Healthcare
(2020)
Over the last 150 years, advances in technology have revolutionized health care and as a result increased the average human lifespan by approximately 50%. Smart medicine is the use of algorithms and automated technology ...
Crustacea
(2020)
This book is divided into five sections. The first section is about Biology and Ecology, and includes the following chapters: “Crustacean”, ”The robber crab Birgus latro (Linnaeus, 1767)”, “Scyllarid lobster biology and ...