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 ...