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Chapter The Cross Talk among Autophagy, Ubiquitination, and DNA Repair: An Overview
(2018)
Cellular plasticity is modulated by protein posttranslational modifications, which act on most intracellular pathways. Ubiquitination is a versatile posttranslational modification (PTM) that influences protein fate, ...
Chapter The Multiple Roles of Tyrosinase-Related Protein-2/L- Dopachrome Tautomerase in Melanoma: Biomarker, Therapeutic Target, and Molecular Driver in Tumor Progression
(2018)
Cutaneous malignant melanoma (CMM), which is ranked as the 8th most common cancers in the US, makes 4–7% of skin cancers but it causes approximately 80% of skin cancer deaths. CMM is characterized by insidious and fast ...
Diesel and Gasoline Engines
(2020)
The internal combustion engine was invented around 1790 by various scientists and engineers worldwide. Since then the engines have gone through many modifications and improvements. Today, different applications of engines ...
The Delivery of Nanoparticles
(2012)
Nanoparticle is a general challenge for today's technology and the near future observations of science. Nanoparticles cover mostly all types of sciences and manufacturing technologies. The properties of this particle are ...
Chapter Carbon Nanotube (CNT)-Reinforced Metal Matrix Bulk Composites: Manufacturing and Evaluation
(2016)
This chapter deals with the blending and processing methods of CNT-reinforced metal matrix bulk composites (Al/CNT, Cu/CNT and Ni/CNT) in terms of solid-state processing, referring mainly to the research works of the last ...
Chapter User Experience Results of Setting Free a Service Robot for Older Adults at Home
(2018)
The chapter presents the analysis of user trials where, for the first time, a service robot was set free in the home of users. Different to previous studies there was no pre-specified schedule of tasks to execute. The goal ...
Chapter Hydrothermal Synthesis of Zinc Tin Oxide Nanostructures for Photocatalysis, Energy Harvesting and Electronics
(2020)
The massification of Internet of Things (IoT) and Smart Surfaces has increased the demand for nanomaterials excelling at specific properties required for their target application, but also offering multifunctionality, ...
Chapter Determinants of Established Entrepreneurs’ Innovative Activity in Northern and Western Europe
(2018)
For established entrepreneurs from Western European economies (WEEs) and Northern European economies (NEEs), we estimated relationships between firms’ innovative activity and their owner-managers’ educational level, the ...
Chapter Unmanned Maritime Systems for Search and Rescue
(2017)
The development of maritime unmanned tools for search and rescue operations is not a trivial task. A great part of maritime unmanned systems developed did not target such application, being more focused on environmental ...
Chapter Design Issues and Challenges of File Systems for Flash Memories
(2011)
Biotechnology
Chapter Crystalline Silicon Thin Film Solar Cells
(2011)
Computer networking & communications
Chapter Principles and Methodologies for the Determination of Shelf-Life in Foods
(2012)
Diseases & disorders
Chapter Introductory Chapter: Why Do We Need Rapid Detection of Pathogens?
(2018)
Biotechnology
Chapter Lidar Mapping of Near-Surface Aerosol Fields
(2016)
Near-surface atmospheric measurements over urban or industrial areas aimed at assisting the air-quality monitoring attain increasing societal significance due to the strong and direct impact of aerosol pollutions in the ...
Chapter Telomere Maintenance in Organisms without Telomerase
(2011)
Biochemistry
Chapter Risk Management to Enhance Performance in the Construction SME Sector; Theory and Case Study
(2018)
Dynamic changes and increasing competition in global markets have caused changes in the management of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Due to this fact, many SME companies try to implement different methods for strategy ...
Chapter From Cellulose Dissolution and Regeneration to Added Value Applications — Synergism Between Molecular Understanding and Material Development
(2015)
Laser ablation (LA) and spark discharge (SD) techniques are commonly used for nanoparticle (NP) formation. The produced NPs have found numerous applications in such areas as electronics, biomedicine, textile production, ...
Chapter ICARUS Training and Support System
(2017)
The ICARUS unmanned tools act as gatherers, which acquire enormous amount of information. The management of all these data requires the careful consideration of an intelligent support system. This chapter discusses the ...
Chapter Networking Applications for Embedded Systems
(2012)
Embedded systems
Chapter Large Scale Capacitive Skin for Robots
(2012)
Communications engineering / telecommunications
Chapter Networking Applications for Embedded Systems
(2012)
Embedded systems
Chapter Boron Studies in Interdisciplinary Fields Employing Nuclear Track Detectors (NTDs)
(2011)
Pollution & threats to the environment
Chapter Myasthenia Gravis: New Insights into the Effect of MuSK Antibodies and Acetylcholinesterase Inhibitors
(2011)
Electricity, electromagnetism & magnetism
Chapter Designing Heterogeneous-mHealth Apps for Cystic Fibrosis Adults
(2020)
In this chapter, we will discuss the design and development of a patient passport mHealth application for Cystic Fibrosis adults from ideation to app-store release. By allowing the patients access to their own unique data, ...
Chapter Nanocomposites for Vehicle Structural Applications
(2011)
Storage media & peripherals
Chapter Earth Observation for Urban Climate Monitoring: Surface Cover and Land Surface Temperature
(2018)
The rate at which global climate change is happening is arguably the most pressing environmental challenge of the century, and it affects our cities. Climate change exerts added stress on urban areas through increased ...
Chapter Subjective Factors in Flight Safety
(2012)
Real time operating systems
Chapter Challenges for Cost-Effective Microalgae Anaerobic Digestion
(2013)
Human-computer interaction
Chapter Manganese: A New Emerging Contaminant in the Environment
(2012)
Physiology
Chapter Tidal Turbine Generators
(2020)
Recently, tidal stream turbines have become a preferable mode of harvesting tidal energy. The main issue for low utilization of tidal energy is the high levelized cost of energy (LCoE) from tidal stream turbines. A major ...
Chapter European Health System Typologies: Last 30 Years Under Review
(2017)
The quest of the researcher to classify national health systems into homogeneous groups has a long history. In this paper, the last 30 years are divided in two periods (1985–2000 and 2000–2015) in order to present and ...
Chapter Recycling of Polymeric Composite Materials
(2018)
This chapter treats studies about the methods and technologies used to recycle the polymeric composite materials and develop new recipes using waste of polymer composite materials resulted from recycling. Composite materials ...
Chapter Nanoscale Architectures for Smart Bio-Interfaces: Advances and Challenges
(2011)
Volcanology & seismology
Drug Discovery
(2013)
Natural products are a constant source of potentially active compounds for the treatment of various disorders. The Middle East and tropical regions are believed to have the richest supplies of natural products in the world. ...
Chapter Genetic Algorithm Optimization of an Energy Storage System Design and Fuzzy Logic Supervision for Battery Electric Vehicles
(2016)
This chapter presents a methodology to optimize the capacity and power of the ultracapacitor (UC) energy storage device and also the fuzzy logic supervision strategy for a battery electric vehicle (BEV) equipped with ...
Chapter POLICRYPS Composite Materials: Features and Applications
(2011)
Physical chemistry
Chapter Sorption Detoxification as an Addition to Conventional Therapy of Acute Radiation Sickness and Iatrogenic Leukopenia
(2019)
Leukopenia is an essential part of the clinical course of acute radiation sickness and is a side effect of anti-cancer treatment. In both situations, the main factors which determine the survival are the degree of bone ...