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Description / Table of Contents: Ch 1: Electron Spin Resonance- An Introdcution -- Ch 2: ESR – Applications in Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Science -- Ch 3: ESR Applications in Paleontology and Geochronology -- Ch 4: ESR Applications in Food Science.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I. Introduction -- Chapter 1. Southern Baltic Coastal Systems Analysis: Questions, Conceptions and Red Threads -- Chapter 2. Coastal Ecosystems from a Social-Ecological Perspective -- Part II. Ecological Structures and Functions of the German Baltic Sea Coast -- Chapter 3. The Abiotic Background: Climatic, Hydrological and Geological Conditions of the Southern Baltic -- Chapter 4. Geological and Sedimentary Conditions -- Chapter 5. Environmental Conditions at the Coast: The Terrestrial Ecosystems -- Chapter 6. Environmental Conditions at the Coast: Shoreline Ecosystems -- Chapter 7. Ecosystem and Landscape Functions of the Coast: Recent Research Results -- Chapter 8: Benthic Habitats and Their Inhabitants -- Part III. Ecological Structures and Functions of Coastal Water and Offshore Ecosystems -- Chapter 9. Introducing the Ecological Aspects -- Chapter 10. Baltic Sea Aquatic Ecosystems in a Gradient from Land to Open Sea -- Chapter 11. Comparison of Abiotic Parameters and Dominant Primary Producers Between the Two Main Investigation Areas -- Chapter 12. Short-Term Variability, Long-Term Trends and Seasonal Aspects in the Darß-Zingst Bodden Chain -- Chapter 13. Carbon Fluxes/Food-Webs: Effect of Macrophytes on Food Web Characteristics in Coastal Lagoons -- Chapter 14. Ecological Structure in Benthic Habitats of Offshore Waters -- Chapter 15. Patterns of Bioturbation and Associated Matter Fluxes -- Chapter 16. Seasonal Aspects and Short-Term Variability of the Pelagic Offshore Ecosystems -- Chapter 17. Long-Term Trends of the Offshore Ecosystems -- Chapter 18. Nutrient and Limitation Regimes in Coastal Water Ecosystems -- Part IV. Combining the Aspects: Ecosystem Service Assessment -- Chapter 19. The Human Factor: Coastal Social-Ecological Systems -- Chapter 20. Introduction: The Concept of Ecosystem Service Assessment Applied to Coastal Systems -- Chapter 21. The Missing Links in Ecosystem Service Research -- Chapter 22. Eudaimonic Valuation of Cultural Ecosystem Services -- Chapter 23. Economic Valuation of Cultural Ecosystem Services -- Chapter 24. Spatial Ecosystem Service Assessment Across the Land-Sea-Interface -- Chapter 25. Temporal Changes in Aquatic Ecosystem Services Provision: Approach and Examples -- Chapter 26. Assessing Temporal Changes in Ecosystem Service Provisions: Conceiving Future Pathways -- Part V. Synthesis: Assessment as a Tool for Managing Coastal Ecosystems? -- Chapter 27. Applying the Integrated Approach -- Chapter 28. Mechanisms of Ecosystem Service Production: An Outcome of Ecosystem Functions and Ecological Integrity in Coastal Lagoons -- Chapter 29. Ecosystem Service Assessment in European Coastal and Marine Policies -- Chapter 30. Ecosystem Services and Sustainable Development: The Case for Strong Sustainability -- Chapter 31. Concluding Remarks.

Description / Table of Contents: Foreword: Challenges & Opportunities for LGBT Populations and Cancer in Global Oncology -- Introduction -- Africa -- A Double Dose Of Stigma – Being Gay And Living With Cancer In Kenya -- Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Cancer in South Africa -- Americas -- Making the Situation of TLGBI People around Cancer visible: Observations from the Andean Region -- Cancer Care Challenges for the LGBT Population in Brazil -- Cancer and the SGM Population in Canada and the United States of America -- South-East Asia -- The South-East Asia Region: Societal Conditions for LGBT Health and Cancer Research -- Europe -- Foreword: The Eurocentralasian Lesbian* Community Perspective on Cancer and LBQ women: Advocating for more Research and Activism Collaboration -- LGBT+ and Cancer in the WHO European Region: Current Situation in 12 Eastern European and Central Asian Countries -- Sexual and Gender Minorities and Cancer in Germany: The Striking Absence of Understanding their Cancer-related Needs -- LGBT Populations and Cancer in the UK -- Eastern Mediterranean -- LGBT Populations and Cancer in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: Insights and Challenges with a Focus on Lebanon -- Western Pacific -- LGBT Populations and Cancer in Australia and New Zealand -- Challenges in Cancer Control Confronting the LGBT Population in China: Health Risks, Unique Barriers, and Unmet Needs -- What Have We Learned about Cancer and the Global LGBT Community? -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Introduction of Druggable Lipid Signaling Pathway -- Biosynthetic Enzymes of Membrane Glycerophospholipid Diversity as Therapeutic Targets for Drug Development -- Druggable Prostanoid Pathway -- Targeting Leukotrienes as a Therapeutic Strategy to Prevent Comorbidities Associated with Metabolic Stress -- Epoxy Fatty Acids are Promising Targets for Treatment of Pain, Cardiovascular Disease and Other Indications Characterized by Mitochondrial Dysfunction, Endoplasmic Stress and Inflammation -- Druggable Sphingolipid Pathway -- Druggable Lysophospholipid Pathway -- Druggable targets in endocannabinoid signaling -- Drugging the phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) and phosphatidylinositol 4-kinase (PI4K) family of enzymes for treatment of cancer, immune disorders, and viral/parasitic infections -- Druggable Lipid GPCRs: Past, Present, and Prospects. .

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. European pearl mussel: background information and literature review -- Chapter 3. Materials and methods -- Chapter 4. Results -- Chapter 5. Discussion -- Chapter 6. Conclusions.

Description / Table of Contents: Live Donors of Tissue -- Deceased Tissue Donors -- Banking and Use of Umbilical Cord Blood -- Ocular tissue banking -- Banking of Heart Valves -- Cryopreservation and Banking of Haematopoietic Progenitor Cells -- Storage, Processing and Preservation -- Cryopreservation in tissue banking -- Sterilisation by Irradiation -- Screening the tissue donor for infectious agents -- Contamination in the Tissue Way -- Establishing a Quality System in a Tissue Establishment -- IT System requirements for Tissue and Cell Banking -- Ethical and Regulatory Aspects of Cell and Tissue Banking -- Human embryonic stem cell banking for clinical applications – 20 years from their isolation.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I: Introduction -- Marine Population Genomics: Challenges and Opportunities -- Part II: Marine Microbes -- Part III: Genetic Diversity, Population Structure, and Biogeography -- Population Genomics of Marine Zooplankton -- Population Genomics of Early-Splitting Lineages of Metazoans -- Population Genomics and Biogeography of the Northern Acorn Barnacle (Semibalanus balanoides) Using Pooled Sequencing Approaches -- Part IV: Seascape Genomics -- Seascape Genomics: Contextualizing Adaptive and Neutral Genomic Variation in the Ocean Environment -- Part V: Adaptation, Acclimation, and Speciation -- Clinal Adaptation in the Marine Environment -- The Population Genomics of Parallel Adaptation: Lessons from Threespine Stickleback -- Mechanisms of Adaptive Divergence and Speciation in Littorina saxatilis: Integrating Knowledge from Ecology and Genetics with New Data Emerging from Genomic Studies -- Ecological Speciation in Corals -- Environmental Epigenomics and Its Applications in Marine Organisms -- Part VI: Protection, Conservation, and Management of Marine Organisms -- Marine Invasion Genomics: Revealing Ecological and Evolutionary Consequences of Biological Invasions -- Population Genomics Applied to Fishery Management and Conservation -- Marine Conservation and Marine Protected Areas -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Central dogma of molecular biology -- Impact of chromatin structure -- Epigenetics enables gene expression -- Gene regulation in the context of nuclear architecture -- Core promoter -- TATA box and other core promoter elements -- Genome-wide core promoter identification -- TFIID and Mediator as paradigms of multi-protein complexes -- Site-specific transcription factors and their domains -- Classification of transcription factors -- Activation of transcription factors -- Programing cellular differentiation by transcription factors -- Inflammatory signaling via NF-KB -- Sensing cellular stress via p53 -- The nuclear receptor superfamily -- Molecular interactions of nuclear receptors -- Physiological role of nuclear receptors -- Next-generation sequencing -- Gene regulation in the context of Big Biology -- Exploring genome-wide transcription factor binding -- Integrating epigenome-wide datasets -- Cytosines and their methylation -- Histone modifications -- Gene regulation via chromatin modifiers -- Sensing energy metabolism via chromatin modifiers -- Epigenetics and chromatin -- Genome-wide understanding of epigenetics -- CTCF and genetic imprinting -- Epigenetics in health and disease -- Nucleosome positioning at promoters -- Chromatin remodeling -- Transcriptional dynamics in the presence of chromatin -- Organization of the nucleus -- Non-coding RNAs -- miRNAs and their regulatory potential -- Long ncRNAs -- Enhancer RNAs.

Description / Table of Contents: Intro: Navigating Patagonian freshwaters- and this book -- 1: Are freshwaters wetlands? -- 2: Patagonian Andean lakes and climate change -- 3: Current state and recent changes of glaciers in the Patagonian Andes (35 °S to 55°S) -- 4: Biogeographical patterns of Patagonian freshwater microbiota -- 5: Extreme freshwater ecosystems from Patagonia: The Copahue-Agrio system -- 6: Mercury in aquatic systems of North Patagonia: sources, processes and trophic transfer -- 7: Diversity patterns across aquatic communities from peat bogs -- 8: Hydrologic Systems, water uses and emerging conflicts around freshwater availability in Patagonia -- 9: Land-use effects on aquatic ecosystems: An overview of environmental impacts and tools for ecological assessment -- 10: Patagonian wetlands: vertientes, vegas, mallines,turberas and lagunas -- 11: Fish and fisheries of the Patagonian steppe -- 12: Invasive species: The case of Didymosphenia geminata in Neuquén Province -- 13: Influence of the fish introduction in lakes of the arid Patagonia -- 14: Patagonian cultural limnology: knowledge and water management in Mapuche rural communities -- 15: Political Ecology, water valoration and Water Law deliberation in the Province of Tierra del Nacional de Tierra del Fuego -- 16: Freshwater systems in protected areas in Patagonia -- 17: Amphibians and waterbirds as bridges to conserve aquatic and terrestrial habitat in Patagonia -- 18: Integrated long term conservation strategies to recover the critically endangered Hooded Grebe (Podiceps gallardoi),an endemic waterbird of Austral Patagonia -- Conclusion: Reaching out for the UNDP Sustainable Development Goals in Patagonia.

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Part 1 Basics on coenzyme Q -- Introduction. The current coenzyme Q science and knowledge -- Molecular structure, biosynthesis, and distribution of coenzyme Q -- Coenzyme Q function in mitochondria -- Extramitochondrial coenzyme Q10 in aging -- Regulation of the synthesis of Coenzyme Q10 -- Part 2 Coenzyme Q in aging studies -- Coenzyme Q and aging in C. elegans -- Coenzyme Q and aging in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster -- The aging process and coenzyme Q: clk-1 mouse models -- Reduced coenzyme Q10 decelerates senescence and age-related hearing loss in senescence-accelerated mice by activating mitochondrial functions -- Part 3 Age-related diseases and coenzyme Q -- Coenzyme Q, mtDNA and mitochondrial dysfunction during aging -- Coenzyme Q10 and metabolic syndrome -- Coenzyme Q and age-related neurodegenerative disorders: Parkinson and Alzheimer diseases -- Immunosenescence and CoQ10 -- Coenzyme Q10 in fertility and reproduction -- Part 4 Prolongevity effectors and Coenzyme Q -- Calorie restriction, longevity and coenzyme Q -- Age dependent changes of coenzyme Q levels and its induction in experimental systems -- Effects of coenzyme Q10 supplementation on elderly people -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Ch 1: The seminiferous epithelial cycle of spermatogenesis: Role of non-receptor protein kinases -- Ch 2: Sertoli cells: immunology and spermatogenesis -- Ch 3: Innate immunity and spermatogenesis -- Ch 4: Cell apoptosis and spermatogenesis -- Ch 5: Transcriptional regulation of spermatogenesis -- Ch 6: Sertoli cell cytoskeleton and spermatogenesis -- Ch 7: Leydig cell and spermatogenesis -- Ch 8: Cross-talk of cell junctions to support spermatogenesis -- Ch 9: Coordination of F-actin- and MT-based cytoskeletons to support spermatogenesis -- Ch 10: Regulation of the blood-testis barrier by basement membrane laminin-α2 chain -- Ch 11: Regulation of spermatogenesis by collagens -- Ch 12: Androgen regulation of spermatogenesis -- Ch 13: Use of molecular modeling to study spermatogenesis -- Ch 14: Acrosome biogenesis during spermatogenesis -- Ch 15: Stem cells and spermatogenesis -- Ch 16: Advances in our understanding of spermatogenesis in humans -- Ch 17: Leydig cell function in aging men -- Ch 18: Regulation of human spermatogenesis.

Description / Table of Contents: Past, present and future perspectives of renin angiotensin system -- Biochemical pathways of renin angiotensin system -- Structure-function relationships of angiotensin II receptors -- Signal transduction mechanism of angiotensin II -- Renin angiotensin system: Pathophysiology and clinical implications in cardiovascular disease COVID-19 infection -- Angiotensin II and the pathogenesis of hypertension -- Signaling transduction of angiotensin II in hypertension -- Role of angiotensin II type 1 receptors in vascular remodeling in hypertension -- Molecular and cellular mechanisms of renin-angiotensin system in hypertension -- Tissue renin-angiotensin system and risks in hypertension -- Oxidative stress and angiotensin II-induced hypertension -- Angiotensin II: inflammatory system disorder and hypertension -- Therapeutic approaches for angiotensin receptor blockers in hypertension -- Renin-angiotensin systems: A pivotal role in the development of atherosclerosis -- Angiotensin II induced intracellular signaling pathways in pathogenesis of atherosclerosis -- Cellular and molecular mechanisms of Ang II: Contribution to atherosclerotic plaque vulnerability -- Role of angiotensin II, nitric oxide and reactive oxygen species in atherosclerosis -- The renin-angiotensin system and inflammatory processes in atherosclerotic lesion formation -- Role of renin-angiotensin system in alterations in blood lipids and gene expression in atherogenesis -- Effects of angiotensin-converting enzyme and receptors in atherosclerosis -- Effects of angiotensin II on cardiac arrhythmia and signal transduction -- Angiotensin II induced oxidative stress contribute to ventricular arrhythmias -- Modulation of renin angiotensin system: Beneficial effect on ventricular arrhythmias -- ACE inhibitor and ventricular arrhythmia in ischemic heart disease -- The renin-angiotensin system modulators and cardiac arrhythmias -- Angiotensin receptor blockers in the treatment of arrhythmias -- Angiotensin II induced cardiac hypertrophy and heart failure -- Renin-angiotensin system: Role in cardiac remodeling and subcellular defects in heart failure -- Renin-angiotensin system: Molecular and cellular mechanisms in heart failure -- Role of angiotensin II receptor mRNA expression in heart failure -- Renin angiotensin system: Mitochondrial dysfunction in the progression of heart failure -- Angiotensin II type 1 receptor: Genetic polymorphisms and heart failure -- Angiotensin converting enzyme 2 and angiotensin metabolism in heart failure -- Cellular and molecular mechanisms of renin-angiotensin system blockade in heart failure: An update -- Angiotensin II receptor antagonists: Modulation of the extracellular matrix regulatory system in heart failure.

Description / Table of Contents: Antarctic Seaweeds: Biogeography, Adaptation and Ecosystem Services -- Diversity of Antarctic Seaweeds -- Biogeographic Processes Influencing Antarctic and Sub-Antarctic Seaweeds -- Detached Seaweeds as Important Dispersal Agents Across the Southern Ocean.-Biogeography of Antarctic Seaweeds Facing Climate Changes -- Comparative Phylogeography of Antarctic Seaweeds: Genetic Consequences of Historical Climatic Variations -- Underwater Light Environment of Antarctic Seaweeds -- Production and Biomass of Seaweeds in Newly Ice-Free Areas: Implications for Coastal Processes in a Changing Antarctic Environment -- Carbon Balance Under a Changing Light Environment -- Life History Strategies, Photosynthesis and Stress Tolerance in Propagules of Antarctic Seaweeds -- Form and Function in Antarctic Seaweeds: Photobiological Adaptations, Zonation Patterns and Ecosystem Feedbacks -- Successional Processes in Antarctic Benthic Algae -- Seaweed-Herbivore Interactions: Grazing as Biotic Filtering in Intertidal Antarctic Ecosystems -- Diversity and Functioning of Antarctic Seaweed Microbiomes -- Seaweeds in the Antarctic Marine Coastal Food Web -- Trophic Networks and Ecosystem Functioning -- Chemical Mediation of Antarctic Macroalgal-Grazer Interactions -- Brown Algal Phlorotannins: An Overview of their Functional Roles.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Literature review -- Chapter 2. Results of experimental studies of short peptides (cytogens) in ophthalmology -- Chapter 3. Results of the clinical study of short peptides (cytogens) in ophthalmology -- Conclusion.

Description / Table of Contents: Autophagy and Alzheimer’s Disease -- Autophagy and Parkinson’s Disease -- Autophagy and Motor Neuron Diseases -- Autophagy and Prion Disease -- Autophagy and Lysosome Storage Disorders -- Autophagy and Mitochondrial Encephalomyopathies -- Autophagy and Ischemic Stroke -- Autophagy and Hemorrhagic Stroke -- Autophagy and Polyglutamine Disease -- Autophagy and Epilepsy -- Autophagy in Neurodevelopmental Disorders -- Autophagy and Pituitary Adenoma -- Autophagy in Schizophrenia -- Autophagy and Hypertension -- Autophagy and Myocardial Ischemia -- Autophagy and Heart Failure -- Autophagy, Myocarditis and Cardiomyopathy -- Autophagy, Hyperlipidemia and Atherosclerosis -- Application of Autophagy in Cardiovascular Diseases -- Autophagy and Tumorigenesis -- Autophagy and Tumour Stem Cells -- Autophagy and Tumour Metastasis -- Autophagy and Tumor Cell Death -- Autophagy and Tumour Chemotherapy -- Autophagy and Tumour Radiotherapy -- Autophagy and Inflammatory Diseases -- Autophagy and Immune-related Diseases -- Autophagy and Autoimmune Diseases -- Autophagy and Bacterial Infection -- Autophagy and Viral Infection -- Autophagy and Thyroid Disease -- Autophagy and Obesity and Diabetes -- Autophagy and Obesity-related Reproductive Dysfunction -- Autophagy and Acute Kidney Injury -- Autophagy and Glomerular Diseases -- Autophagy and Diabetic Nephropathy -- Autophagy and Liver Diseases -- Autophagy and Gastrointestinal Diseases -- Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Autophagy -- Autophagy and Pulmonary Fibrosis -- Asthma and Autophagy -- Autophagy and Other respiratory diseases -- Autophagy and Leukemia -- Autophagy and Lymphoma -- Autophagy and Myeloma -- The Function and Mechanisms of Autophagy in Traumatic Brain Injury -- The Function and Mechanisms of Autophagy in Spinal Cord Injury -- The Function and Mechanisms of Autophagy in Trauma of Other Parts of the Body -- The Prospects of Therapeutic Potential and Drug Development Targeting Autophagy in Cancer -- Progress of Anti-aging Drugs Targeting Autophagy -- Drug Development and Treatment of Autophagy in Other Diseases -- Systems Biology Approaches in Autophagy Research -- Natural Product Regulates Autophagy in Cancer -- Regulation of Autophagy in Neurodegenerative Diseases by Natural Products -- Regulation of Autophagy in Cardiovascular Diseases by Natural Products.

Description / Table of Contents: An overview of genome editing in cardiovascular and metabolic diseases -- Bioinformatics research methodology of genome editing in cardiovascular and metabolic diseases -- Online databases of genome editing in cardiovascular and metabolic diseases -- Application of systems biology for genome editing involved in regulating of cardiovascular and metabolic diseases -- Bioinformatics for reducing off-targets in cardiovascular and metabolic diseases -- Genome editing and cardiac regeneration -- Genome editing and myocardial development -- Genome editing and heart failure -- Genome editing and pathological cardiac hypertrophy -- Genome editing and cardiac remodeling -- Genome editing and diabetic cardiomyopathy -- Genome editing and cardiac arrhythmias -- Genome editing and atrial fibrillation -- Genome editing and muscle atrophy -- Genome editing and obesity -- Genome editing and fatty liver -- Genome editing and diabetes -- Genome editing and gout -- Genome editing and protein energy malnutrition -- Genome therapy and cardiovascular diseases -- Therapeutics in metabolic diseases -- Gene editing and human iPSCs in cardiovascular and editing diseases -- Prospective advances in genome editing investigation.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Pesticide and xenobiotic metabolism in aquatic organisms -- 2. Endocrine disrupting activity of xenobiotics in aquatic animals -- 3. Water contamination through xenobiotics and their toxic effects on aquatic animals -- 4. Cypermethrin induced reproductive toxicity in zebrafish: biochemical and molecular perspective -- 5. Impact of Pesticides Application on Aquatic Environments And Biodiversity -- 6. Impact of microplastics on reproductive and physiological aspects of aquatic inhabitants -- 7. The Impact of Xenobiotics in Development & Reproduction of fresh water Fishes -- 8. Mixtures and Reproduction in Aquatic Organisms – benefits and challenges -- 9. Phytoestrogens as Endocrine-Disrupting Agents In Aquaculture -- 10. A Proteomic Approach to Studying the Effects of Xenobiotics on Aquatic Living Organisms -- 11. Role of Cytochrome P450 in xenobiotic metabolism in fishes -- 12. Pharmacokinetic-Pharmacodynamic modelling of Xenobiotics: Fate and effect in Aquatic Animals -- 13. Occurrence of xenoestrogen alkylphenols (Octylphenols and Nonylphenol), and its impact on the aquatic ecosystem -- 14. Xenobiotics' effect on fish reproduction and development -- 15. Scientometric analysis of ecotoxicological investigations of xenobiotics in aquatic animals -- 16. Toxic effects of nanomaterials on aquatic animals and their future prospective -- 17. Microplastic Contamination in Aquatic organisms: An Ecotoxicological perspective -- 18. Effect of xenobiotics and their degradation in aquatic life -- 19. Transcriptome analysis of aquatic species exposed to endocrine disruptors -- 20. Fundamentals of genotoxicity and antiparasitic drugs associated with genotoxicity in fish -- 21. Endocrine disrupting compounds (EDCs) as emerging aquatic contaminants: Emphasis on Reproduction and Development.

Description / Table of Contents: Part 1: What is Salivary Bioscience, Why is it Important, and How Do We Study It? -- Chapter 1: Foundations of Interdisciplinary Salivary Bioscience: An Introduction (Granger et al.) -- Chapter 2: Salivary Gland Anatomy and Physiology (Hernández et al.) -- Chapter 3: Saliva Collection, Handing, Transport, and Storage: Special Considerations and Best Practices for Interdisciplinary Salivary Bioscience(Padilla et al.) -- Chapter 4: Analytical Strategies and Tactics in Salivary Bioscience (Riis et al.) -- Part 2: Physiology and Development Research and Applications (Part 2 Editor: Dr. Jenna Riis) -- Chapter 5: Salivary Bioscience, Human Stress, and the Hypothalamic Pituitary Adrenal Axis (Clow et al.) -- Chapter 6: The Use of Saliva for Genetics and Epigenetics Research (Nemoda et al.) -- Chapter 7: Saliva as a Window Into the Human Oral Microbiome and Metabolome(Whiteson et al.) -- Chapter 8: Salivaomics, saliva Exo-somics, and Saliva Liquid Biopsy (Wong et al.) -- Chapter 9: Salivary Bioscience, Immunity, and Inflammation (Riis et al.) -- Chapter 10:Salivary Bioscience and Human Development (Hibel et al.) -- Part 3: Biomedical Research and Related Applications (Part 3 Editor: Dr. Elizabeth Thomas) -- Chapter 11: Biomedical Research and Related Applications:Current Assay Methods and Quality Requirements in Oral Fluid Diagnostics Applications (Granger S. et al.) -- Chapter 12: Salivary Biomarkers and Neurodegenerative Conditions (Thomas et al.) -- Chapter 13: The Use of Antibodies in Saliva to Measure PathogenExposure and Infection(Heaney et al.) -- Chapter 14: Salivary Bioscience and Pain (Payne et al.) -- Chapter 15: Salivary Bioscience and Environmental Exposure Assessment (Panuwet et al.) -- Chapter 16: Saliva and Drugs of Abuse (Navazesh et al.) -- Chapter 17: Therapeutic Drug Monitoring in Saliva (Thomas) -- Chapter 18: Salivary Bioscience and Periodontal Medicine (Freire et al.) -- Chapter 19: Salivary Bioscience and Cancer (Navazesh et al.) -- Part 4: Psychosocial Research and Applications(Part 4 Editor: Dr. Kate Ryan Kuhlman) -- Chapter 20: Salivary Bioscience in Clinical Psychologyand Psychiatry(Kuhlman) -- Chapter 21: Salivary Bioscience Research in Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine (Hoyt et al.) -- chapter 22: The Neuroscience of Human Social Behavior: A Review of How Testosterone and Cortisol Underpin Competition and Affiliation Dynamics (Kornienko et al.) -- chapter 23: Salivary Studies of the Social Neuroscience of Human-animal Interaction (Pendry et al.) -- Part 5: Population Health Research and Applications(Part 5 Editor: Dr. Marcus Taylor) -- Chapter 24: Salivary Bioscience and Military, Space, and OperationalResearch(Roma et al.) -- Chapter 25: Salivary Bioscience Research Related to Prenatal Adversity (Eiden et al.) -- Chapter 26: Salivary Bioscience and Pediatrics (Johnson et al.) -- Chapter 27: Use of saliva to better understand the experience of adulthood and aging(Almeida et al.) -- Chapter 28: Salivary Bioscience and Research on Animal Welfare and Conservation Science(Staley et al.) -- Part 6: The Way Forward: Future Directions for the Science and Practice of Salivary Bioscience -- Chapter 29:Applications of Salivary Bioscience to Precision Medicine (Kuhlman) -- Chapter 30:Public Health and IndustryApplications of Salivary Bioscience (Riis et al.) -- Chapter 31: Envisioning the Future of Interdisciplinary Salivary Bioscience (Granger et al.).

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Chapter1. Advances in experimental research about periodontitis: lessons from the past, ideas for the future (Julien Santi-Rocca) -- Part I: Periodontal microbiota -- Chapter 2. Microbiota in Periodontitis: advances in the omic era (Shao Bing Fong, Emile Boyer, Martine Bonnaure-Mallet, Vincent Meuric) -- Chapter 3. Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans: from basic to advanced research (Abdelhadi Hbibi, Amal Bouziane, Badiaa Lyoussi, Mimoun Zouhdi, Driss Benazza) -- Chapter 4. Meta-analyses on the Periodontal Archaeome (Jéssica Alves de Cena, Yuri Silvestre-Barbosa, Aline Belmok, Cristine Miron Stefani, Cynthia Maria Kyaw, Nailê Damé-Teixeira) -- Chapter 5. Parasites in periodontal health and disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis (David Felipe Martin-Garcia, Malik Sallam, Gabriela Garcia, Julien Santi-Rocca) -- Chapter 6. Fungi - a component of the oral microbiome involved in periodontal diseases (Justyna Karkowska-Kuleta, Dorota Satala, Magdalena Smolarz, Marcin Zawrotniak, Maria Rapala-Kozik) -- Chapter 7. Herpesviruses in periodontitis: An umbrella review (Aleksandar Jakovljevic, Miroslav Andric, Jelena Jacimovic, Jelena Milasin, Javier Enrique Botero) -- Part II: Periodontitis pathophysiology -- Chapter 8. Recent updates on microbial biofilms in periodontitis: an analysis of in vitro biofilm models (Maick Meneguzzo Prado, Nathalia Figueiredo, Andréa Pimenta, Tamires Szeremeske Miranda, Magda Feres, Luciene Cristina Figueiredo, Josiane de Almeida, Bruno Bueno-Silva) -- Chapter 9. Update on B cell response in periodontitis (Julien Demoersman, Jacques Olivier Pers) -- Chapter 10. Polarization profiles of T lymphocytes and macrophages responses in periodontitis (Franco Cavalla, Marcela Hernández) -- Chapter 11. Complementary experimental methods in genetics open up new avenues of research to elucidate the pathogenesis of periodontitis (Arne S. Schaefer) -- Part III: Periodontitis-associated conditions -- Chapter 12. Update on the bidirectional link between diabetes and periodontitis (Leila Salhi, Michèle Reners) -- Chapter 13. Periodontitis as a risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease: the experimental journey so far, with hope of therapy (Alice Harding, Shalini Kanagasingam, Richard Welbury, Sim K. Singhrao) -- Chapter 14. Cardiovascular diseases and periodontitis (Peter Riis Hansen, Palle Holmstrup) -- Part IV: Therapeutic management of periodontitis -- Chapter 15. Update on the role of cytokines as oral biomarkers in the diagnosis of periodontitis (Triana Blanco-Pintos, Alba Regueira-Iglesias, Carlos Balsa-Castro, Inmaculada Tomás) -- Chapter 16. Non-surgical periodontal treatment: SRP and innovative therapeutic approaches (Alexia Vinel, Antoine Al Halabi, Sébastien Roumi, Hélène Le Neindre, Pierre Millavet, Marion Simon, Constance Cuny, Jean-Sébastien Barthet, Pierre Barthet, Sara Laurencin-Dalicieux) -- Chapter 17. Update on the roles of oral hygiene and plaque control on periodontal disease (Leila Salhi, Bruno De Carvalho, Michèle Reners) -- Chapter 18. Multi-photonic adjunctive therapy for the management of periodontitis: recent advances and new treatment approach (Marco Giannelli, Daniele Bani) -- Chapter 19. Probiotics during the therapeutic management of periodontitis (Flavia Furlaneto, Karin Hitomi Ishikawa, Michel Reis Messora, Marcia P A Mayer) -- Chapter 20. Periodontal cell therapy: a systematic review and meta-analysis (Antoine Dubuc, Valérie Planat-Bénard, Mathieu Marty, Paul Monsarrat, Philippe Kémoun) -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction to emerging technologies in biomedical sciences -- Chapter 2. Bioprospecting : boon or curse -- Chapter 3. Growing need for interdisciplinary biomedical research -- Chapter 4. Interplay between theory and experiment : a future approach for biomedical research -- Chapter 5.past, present and future perspectives of biomedical innovation in india -- Chapter 6. Systems biology approaches to study disease comorbidities -- Chapter 7. Bioinformatics the interactome of multidisciplinary approaches -- Chapter 8. Role of artificial intelligence in diagnosis of infectious diseases -- Chapter 9. Dna digital data storage breakthroughs in biomedical research. Chapter 10. Biomedical applications cloud-based iot -- Chapter 11. Next generation sequencing in cancer research -- Chapter 12. Crispr: genome editing and beyond -- Chapter 13. Omics in tuberculosis diagnosis : today and tomorrow -- Chapter 14. Advances in proteomic approaches for chronic kidney disease -- Chapter 15. 3 d bioprinting of tissues and organs : a new paradigm in regenerative medicine and biomedical engineering -- Chapter 16. Virtual planning, rapid prototyping and 3-d printing in orthopedic surgery -- Chapter 17. Tissue chips: contemporary applications and advancementstissue chips: contemporary applications and advancements -- Chapter 18. Flow cytometry for measuring neutrophil function -- Chapter 19. Flow cytometer for understanding genome size variation among medicinal herbs and non-edible oil trees of northeast india -- Chapter 20. Raman spectroscopy applications for bacterial detection -- Chapter 21. Microfluidic point-of-care diagnostic devices: a contemporary relevance. Chapter 22. Fluorescent dots for breast cancer management -- Chapter 23. Molecular mimicry : unravelling the role of autoantibodies in autoimmune diseases and infertility -- Chapter 24. Strategies of vaccine development -- Chapter 25. Preclinical models of intimal hyperplasia and restenosis to predict clinical events and develop novel therapies -- Chapter 26. Sphingolipids : a roadmap from biomarker identification to clinical application -- Chapter 27. Future of gastrointestinal endoscopy -- Chapter 28. Beating heart in a box : the future of cardiac transplant -- Chapter 29. The journey of coronary stent technology -- Chapter 30. Materiovigilance in clinical surgery.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Epidemiology of Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma in Indian Scenario -- Chapter 2. Risk factors for Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma in the Indian population -- Chapter 3. Molecular Carcinopathogenesis in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma -- Chapter 4. Inflammation and Infection in Cancer -- Chapter 5. Role of Inflammation and Infection in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma -- Chapter 6. Normal Microbiome of Oral cavity -- Chapter 7. Oral Microbiome in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma -- Chapter 8. Microbial Dysbiosis in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma -- Chapter 9. Bacteria induced carcinopathogenesis in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma -- Chapter 10. Virus induced carcinopathogenesis in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma -- Chapter 11. Fungi: Culprits or Bystanders in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma -- Chapter 12. Microbial ‘omics’ in Oral Squamous Cell Carcinoma -- Chapter 13. Implications and Future perspectives.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Pandemic-Era Digital Education: Insights from an Undergraduate Medical Programme -- Chapter 2. Use of Lt Systems in Large Class Lab Delivery -- Chapter 3. COVID-19 Adaptations for Biomedical Teaching and Assessment Within the Undergraduate Dental Curriculum -- Chapter 4. One Size Does Not Fit All in Remote Anatomy Teaching -- Chapter 5. From Lecture Halls to Zoom Links: How Can Educational Theory Help Us to Deliver Effective and Engaging Teaching in an Online Environment? -- Chapter 6. Collaborative, Two-Directional Live Streaming to Deliver Hands-on Dissection Experience during the COVID-19 Lockdown -- Chapter 7. Livestreaming Can Augment the Observation of Veterinary Post-mortem Examinations -- Chapter 8. Virtual Reality for Anatomy and Surgical Teaching -- Chapter 9. Can Synchronous Online Near-Peer Teaching Offer the Same Benefits as the Face-to-Face Version When Used in Clinical Neuroanatomy Education? -- Chapter 10. COVID-19 Adaptations with Virtual Microscopy -- Chapter 11. The Challenges of Visualisation During Delivery and Assessment of Clinical Teaching Under COVID-19: A Reflective Account of Problem Solving -- Chapter 12. Not for Room 101.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Magnetic Field Parameters and Biological Sample Differences that Lead to Differential Bioeffects -- Chapter 2. Static Magnetic Field Direction-induced Differential Biological Effects -- Chapter 3. Magnetic Properties of Biological Samples -- Chapter 4. Molecular Mechanisms for Electromagnetic Field Biosensing -- Chapter 5. Controlling Cell Membrane Potential with Static Non-uniform Magnetic Fields -- Chapter 6. Impact of Static Magnetic Fields on Cells -- Chapter 7. Impact of Static Magnetic Fields on Microorganisms, Plants and Animals -- Chapter 8. Static Magnetic Fields on Human Bodies -- Chapter 9. Potential Applications of Static Magnetic Fields in Cancer Treatment -- Chapter 10. Effects of Static Magnetic Fields on Diabetes and Its Complications -- Chapter 11. Impacts of Static Magnetic Field on Bone Health -- Chapter 12. Effects of Static Magnetic Fields on the Immune System -- Chapter 13. Biological Effects of Static Magnetic Fields on the Nervous System -- Chapter 14. The Biological Effects of Long-term Static Magnetic Field Exposure -- Chapter 15. Prospects, Pitfalls, and Opportunities for Human Static Magnetic Field Therapy.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Myosin Structure -- Cargo Binding by Unconventional Myosins -- Cryo-EM of Actin-Myosin Structures -- Small Molecule Effectors of Myosin Function -- Single-Molecule Biophysical Techniques to Study Actomyosin Force Transduction -- High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy to Study Myosin Motility -- How Myosin 5 Walks Deduced from Single-Molecule Biophysical Approaches -- How Actin Tracks Affect Myosin Motors -- Myosins in the Nucleus -- Myosins in Cytokinesis -- Myosins and Disease -- Myosins and Hearing -- The Actomyosin Systems in Apicomplexa -- Approaches to Identify and Characterise MYO6-Cargo Interactions -- Class IX Myosins: Motorized RhoGAP Signaling Molecules -- Myosin X -- Myosin XVI -- Myosin XVIII -- Myosin XIX.

Description / Table of Contents: Values of single-cell sequencing and methylation in molecular diagnosis and therapy -- Single-cell sequencing in human diseases -- Single-cell sequencing of T cell receptors: A perspective on the technological development and translational application -- DNA Methylation in pulmonary fibrosis -- Molecular regulation and clinical significance of caveolin-1 methylation in chronic lung diseases -- Research advances on DNA methylation in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis -- DNA Methylation in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease -- Single cell sequencing: a new dimension in cancer diagnosis -- The Role of Methylation in the CpG Island of the ARHI Promoter Region in Cancers -- Clinical Significance of P16 Gene Methylation in Lung Cancer -- Application of single-cell RNA sequencing in pancreatic cancer and the endocrine pancreas -- Single Cell Sequencing in GU Malignancies -- PI3K Isoform-Selective Inhibitors in Cancer -- Single cell RNA sequencing in human disease: Renal, pancreatic, and viral diseases -- Single-cell sequencing in human genital infections -- PI3kinase Inhibitors in Thrombosis and Cardiovascular Disease -- Use of single-cell microfluidic technology towards therapeutic antibody discovery from single B cells.

Description / Table of Contents: Part 1 General and Principles of Toxicology -- A Historical Glimpse and Stalwarts -- General Toxicology -- Principles of Toxicology -- Mechanism of Toxicity -- Part 2 Disposition and Kinetics -- Disposition of Toxicants -- Toxicokinetic of Xenobiotics -- Part3 Organ Toxicity -- Target Organ Toxicity -- Part4 Non-Organ-Directed Toxicity -- chemical carcinogenesis -- Genetic Toxicology -- Developmental Toxicology -- Part5 Toxic Agents -- Pesticides -- Metals and Micronutrients -- Solvents. Gasses and Vapors -- Toxicology of Nanomaterial Particles -- Toxic Effects of Calories -- Part6 Plants, Biotoxins and Food Poisonings -- Plant Toxicity -- Biotoxins and Venomous Organisms -- Poisonous Foods and Food Poisonings -- Part7 Radioactive Materials -- Radiation and Radioactive Materials -- Part8 Applications of Toxicology -- Food Toxicology -- Ecotoxicology -- Environmental Toxicology -- Analytical and Clinical Toxicology -- Occupational Toxicology. .

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Christopher Clark and Ellen Garland -- Ch 1: Overview. Christopher Clark -- Ch. 2: Anatomy and physiology. Joy Reidenberg -- Ch. 3: Movement, Residency & Migration. Alex Zerbini and Sue Moore,- Ch. 4: Feeding strategies. Ari Friedlaender -- Ch. 5: Molecular genetics. Emma Carroll -- Ch. 6: Social organization. Peter Tyack -- Ch. 7: Ethological and bioacoustic variability. Christopher Clark -- Ch. 8: Baleen whale culture. Ellen Garland and Emma Carroll -- Ch. 9: Blue whale – Global diversity & behavioral variability in a specialist. Ana Sirovic -- Ch. 10: Humpback whale – Global diversity & behavioral plasticity in a court jester. Rebecca Dunlop -- Ch. 11: Humpback whale song - Global diversity & behavioral plasticity in a court jester. Danielle Cholewiak, Sal Cerchio and Ellen Garland -- Ch. 12: Bowhead whale – Acoustic variability in the almost-a-right whale that went north. Kate Stafford -- Ch. 13: Right whales - From north to south, what’s the big difference? Susan Parks -- Ch. 14: Minke Whale – Diversity and variability. Denise Risch -- Ch. 15: Omura’s Whale – An enigma. Sal Cerchio. .

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1.Deciphering New Drug Targets in Alzheimer’s Disease -- Chapter 2. Novel Therapeutic Targets for Treating Alzheimer’s Disease -- Chapter 3. Modified Investigation Tools and Techniques Useful in Alzheimer’s Disease Research -- Chapter 4. Dual Specificity Tyrosine Phosphorylation Regulated Kinase1A (DYRK1A) Inhibitors: The Quest for a Disease-Modifying Treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease -- Chapter 5. β-secretase as a primary drug target of Alzheimer disease: Function, Structure, and Inhibition -- Chapter 6. Endocrine Receptors: The Potential Therapeutic Targets for Alzheimer’s -- Chapter 7. Calcium Channels as a Potential Therapeutic Target for Alzheimer’s Disease -- Chapter 8. Traversing Through the Trajectory of Pathogenic Astrocytes in Alzheimer’s Disease -- Chapter 9. Targeting Mitochondrial Dynamics as a Restorative Approach in the Treatment of Alzheimer’s Disease -- Chapter 10. Epigenetic Therapy for Alzheimer’s Disease -- Chapter 11. Exploring the Diverse Roles of GSK-3ß Kinase in Alzheimer’s Disease -- Chapter 12. Role of Target Fishing in Discovery of Novel Anti-Alzheimer’s Agents: In Silico Applications -- Chapter 13. Multi-Target Directed Ligand Approach in Anti-Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery -- Chapter 14. Investigating the Role of Tau Proteins in Alzheimer’s Disease-From Typical Functioning MAPs to Aberrant Fibrillary Deposits in the Brain -- Chapter 15. The Overview of Drugs Used in Alzheimer’s Disease and Their Molecular Targets.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I: An overview of cancer and its mechanisms -- 1-A brief overview of cancer, its mechanisms, and prevention methods -- 2-MECHANISMS INVOLVED IN CARCINOGENESIS -- Part II: Functional foods/nutraceuticals as chemo preventive agents -- 3-Tomato (lycopene and β-carotene) and cancer -- 4-Essential Oils from Aromatic Plants in cancer prevention and treatment -- 5-Bee propolis (caffeic acid phenethyl ester) against cancer -- 6-Brown Algae (Fucoxanthin) Against Cancer -- 7-Cruciferous vegetables (indole-3-carbinol, isothiocyanates) against cancer -- 8-Crustacea (carotenoids namely astaxanthins) against cancer -- 9-Curcuma and breast cancer: a focus on cell signaling pathways -- 10-FRUITS AND VEGETABLES IN CANCER -- 11-Garlic: Allyl Sulfur Compounds and Cancer Prevention -- 12-Ginger (gingerols and 6-shogaol) against cancer -- 13-Saffron (crocins) against cancer -- 14-OLIVE LEAF (OLEUROPEIN) AND ITS ROLE IN CANCER: THERAPEUTIC UPDATES -- 15-Honey against cancer -- 16-Soybeans and phytoestrogen rich foods (genistein, daidzein) against cancer -- 17-Tea (catechins including (-)-epigallocatechin-3-gallate) and cancer -- 18-Probiotics and Cancer -- Part III: The role of nutrients in the prevention of cancer -- 19-Vitamins (C, D and E) against cancer -- 20-Minerals (namely selenium) and cancer -- 21-Dietary fibers/beta-glucan and cancer -- 22-Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and Cancer.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: The importance of regionalized management of medicine -- Alcohol use disorders -- Public-private partnerships management in health care: The Portuguese experience -- Management of Clinical Precision Medicine -- Artificial Intelligence in medical management -- Advanced Demand Forecasting and Inventory Management Methods in Hospital Pharmacy -- Clinical Application of Cell-Based Therapies Opportunities and Challenges -- Management of Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) in Precision Medicine -- Exploration on the Reform of County Medical Integration -- The Regionalization of Medical Management: The Practice and Exploration of Established Fudan-Minhang Medical Alliance -- Bed-occupancy management and hospital planning: a handbook -- Management of severe childhood pneumonia in low resource setting -- The role of mitochondrial-targeted antioxidant, MitoQ, in neurodegenerative disease -- Progression of mitochondria research for clinical potentials -- DNA methylation in pulmonary inflammatory diseases -- Synthetic lethality and lung cancer.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. A Historical and Technological Background to Organs-on-a-Chip -- Chapter 2. Applications of microfluidics -- Chapter 3. Microfluidics based Organ-on-a-chip for cell biology studies -- Chapter 4. Microfluidics in Chemical biology -- Chapter 5. Role of microfluidics in drug delivery -- Chapter 6. Microfluidics in drug discovery -- Chapter 7. Microfludic based sensors -- Chapter 8. Background and Organs-on-a-Chip -- Chapter 9. Culture and co-culture of cells for multi organ on chip -- Chapter 10.Cells and organs on a chip in biomedical sciences -- Chapter 11. Futuristic aspects of organ on a chip -- Chapter 12. Development of Human on a chip -- Chapter 13. Multi-organ on a chip for personalized medicine -- Chapter 14. Development and application of Microfluids in organoid formation -- Chapter 15. Liver on a chip -- Chapter 16. Placenta on Chip: A Modern approach to probe feto-maternal interface -- Chapter 17. Microfluidic retina-on-chip -- Chapter 18. Heart on a chip -- Chapter 19. Kidney on a chip -- Chapter 20. Lungs on a chip -- Chapter 21. Brain on a chip -- Chapter 22. Skin on a chip -- Chapter 23. Organs-on-a-chip in preclinical studies -- Chapter 24. Application of organ on chip in blood brain barrier model -- Chapter 25. Multi organs on a chip in disease modeling -- Chapter 26. Prospects of Medical device on a chip -- Chapter 27. Lab on a chip for precision Medicine -- Chapter 28. Tumour-on-a-chip : Perfusion systems to model the extracellular breast tumour microenvironment:from tumour progression to metastasis formation -- Chapter 29. Building Human In Vitro 3D Models to Replace Animal Studies: During Drug Discovery Reearch: Scientific, Ethical and Regulatory Considerations.

Description / Table of Contents: The Coral Tree at the End of the World: Introductory Notes to Coralline Mythology and Folklore from the Indian and Pacific oceans -- The Marine Animal Forests Of South Africa: Importance For Bioregionalisation And Marine Spatial Planning -- Coral and reef fish communities in the thermally extreme Persian/Arabian Gulf: Insights into potential climate change effects -- Marginal reefs in the Anthropocene: they are not Noah’s Ark -- Animal Forests in Submarine Caves -- The Tubeworm Forests of Hydrothermal Vents and Cold Seeps -- Bryozoans: the ‘forgotten’ bioconstructors -- Polychaetes as habitat former: structure and function -- Chemical war in marine animal forests: Natural products and chemical interactions -- The nursery role of marine animal forests -- From Trees To Octocorals: The Role Of Self-Thinning And Shading In Underwater Animal Forests -- Marine animal forests as Carbon immobilizers or why we should preserve these three-dimensional alive structures -- Invasive alien species and their effects on marine animal forests -- Plastics, an additional threat for coral ecosystems -- Visual methods for monitoring mesophotic-to-deep reefs and animal forests: finding a compromise between analytical effort and result quality -- Advances in the Marine Animal Forests Scientific Outreach and Citizen Science.

Description / Table of Contents: Ch 1: Overview of Microbial NGS -- Ch 2: WGS for Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing -- Ch 3: WGS for Bacterial Virulence Assessment -- Ch 4: Epidemiological Typing by WGS -- Ch 5: Bioinformatics Approaches for WGS Analysis -- Ch 6: WGS for Clinical Virology -- Ch 7: WGS for Clinical Mycology -- Ch 8: WGS for Clinical Parasitology -- Ch 9: Long Read Sequencing -- Ch 10: Aspects of WGS Integration -- Ch 11: Microbiome Analysis -- Ch 12: Metagenomics of Environmental Samples -- Ch 13: Clinical Metagenomics -- Ch 14: Metagenomics for Pathogen Discovery -- Ch 15: Advanced Applications for MALDI-TOF: Typing -- Ch 16: Advanced Applications for MALDI-TOF: Infectious Diseases and Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing (AST) -- Ch 17: Omics for Food and Water Microbiology -- Ch 18: Omics for Forensic and Post-Mortem Microbiology -- Ch 19: Omics for Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance -- Ch 20: Total Laboratory Automation.

Description / Table of Contents: Graviola Fruit Extraction by Ionic Liquid Microwave-assisted Extraction (IL-MAE) -- Role of Ionic Liquids in the Enzyme Stabilization: A Case Study with Trichoderma ressie Cellulase -- Role of Ionic Liquids in the Processing of Lignocellulosic Biomass -- Proliferation of rat amniotic stem cell (AFSC) on modified surface microcarrier -- Application of spectroscopic methods for the analysis of non-halal meats in food products: A narrative review -- Identification of Potential Biomarkers of Porcine Gelatin -- Gamma Ray Mutagenesis on Bacteria Isolated from Shrimp Farm Mud for Microbial Fuel Cell Enhancement and Degradation of Organic Waste -- Effect of temperature on antibacterial activity and fatty acid methyl esters of Carica papaya seed extract -- Solid-state Fermentation of Agro-industrial Waste Using Heterofermentative Lacti Acid Bacteria -- Synthesis of chitosan-folic acid nanoparticles as a drug delivery system for propolis compounds.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. General Overview of the Origins and Pathology of Ovarian Cancer -- Chapter 2_An Introduction to the Current Management of Ovarian Cancer in the Era of Precision Oncology -- Chapter 3_The Hallmarks of Ovarian Cancer: Actionable Genetics, Targetable Pathways and Predictive Biomarkers -- Chapter 4_Genetic Alterations in Ovarian Cancer as Prognostic and Predictive Biomarkers of Therapy Response and Surgical Outcomes -- Chapter 5_The Emergence of Circulating Tumor DNA in the Management of Ovarian Cancer -- Chapter 6_Proteomic Biomarkers for Early Detection and Patients’ Stratification in Ovarian Cancer -- Chapter 7_Cutting-edge Technologies and Ovarian Cancer.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 Lake Alchichica: History of Human Settlements -- Chapter 2 Geological Evolution of the Alchichica Crater -- Chapter 3 Paleoenvironmental Change in Central Mexico During the Last 20,000 Years -- Chapter 4 Recent Climate of Serdán-Oriental Basin -- Chapter 5 Hydrogeology and Hydrochemistry of the Serdán-Oriental Basin and the Lake Alchichica -- Chapter 6 Meteorological Regime, Local Climate, and Hydrodynamics of Lake Alchichica -- Chapter 7 Physicochemical Characteristics -- Chapter 8 The Littoral Environment -- Chapter 9 Aquatic Vegetation -- Chapter 10 The Littoral Community -- Chapter 11 Bacterioplankton -- Chapter 12 -- Phytoplankton of Alchichica: A Unique Community for an Oligotrophic Lake -- Chapter 13 Protozooplankton -- Chapter 14 Metazooplankton: The Joys and Challenges of Living in a Saline, Oligotrophic, Warm Monomictic Lake -- Chapter 15 Alchichica Silverside -- Chapter 16 -- The Axolotl of Alchichica -- Chapter 17 The Deep Benthic Zone. - Chapter 18 Lake Metabolism. - Chapter 19 Lake Food Webs -- Chapter 20 Diversity and Endemisms -- Chapter 21 Conservation Actions -- Chapter 22 Microbialites: Diversity Hotspots in the Mexican Plateau -- Chapter 23 The Lake Alchichica from an Astrobiological Perspective -- Chapter 24 Lake Alchichica Traditions, Myths, and Legends: Interviews with Local Residents. .

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Emerging Technologies : Gateway to Understand Molecular Insight of Diseases, Newer Drugs, Their Design and Targeting -- Chapter 2. Polypharmacology: New Paradigms in Drug Development -- Chapter 3. Drug Repurposing in Biomedical Research : Benefits and Challenges -- Chapter 4. Computational Methods for Drug Repurposing -- Chapter 5. Genomic Approaches for Drug Repositioning -- Chapter 6. Organ-On-A- Chip: Novel in-Vitro Model For Drug Discovery -- Chapter 7. Precision Radiomolecular Oncology: Challenging the Classical Statistical Evidence Based Medicine -- Chapter 8. Drug Repositioning of the Phenylpiperazine Derivative Naftopidil in Prostate Cancer Treatment -- Chapter 9. Biomarker Based Drug Discovery and Reverse Translational Approach -- Chapter 10. Nanotechnology in Dentistry -- Chapter 11. Nanoparticles a Potential Breakthrough in Counteracting Multidrug-Resistant Bacterial Infections: A Holistic View on Underlying Mechanisms and Antibacterial Properties -- Chapter 12. Emerging Role of Cannabinoid System Modulators in Treatment of Cancer -- Chapter 13. Nanodrugs : A Futuristic Approach for Treating Nephrolithiasis -- Chapter 14. Lipo Dermaceuticals : Technological Transformation -- Chapter 15. The Importance of Drug Dose Adjustment in Elderly Patients with Special Considerations for Patients on Diverse Co-Medications and Antidepressants -- Chapter 16. Role of Microfluidics and Nano Fluidics in Managing CAD -- Chapter 17. Targeted Gene Delivery Through Magnetofection: The New Face of Medicine -- Chapter 18. Qbd-Steered Systematic Development of Drug Delivery Nanoconstructs : Vital Precepts, Retrospect and Prospects -- Chapter 19. Nanoemulsions: A Potential Advanced Nanocarrier Platform for Herbal Drug Delivery -- Chapter 20. Sirna Encapsulated Nanoparticles for Targeting Dorsal Root Ganglion (Drg) in Diabetic Neuropathic Pain -- Chapter 21. EGFR Targeted Quinazoline Clubbed Heterocycles as Anti-Cancer Agents. Chapter 22. Therapeutic Human Monoclonal Antibodies -- Chapter 23. Hydroxyapatites and Their Biomedical Applications -- Chapter 24. Recent Progress in Applications of Magnetic Nanoparticles in Medicine: A Review -- Chapter 25. Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell Therapy: A Cutting Edge Therapy for Multiple Myeloma -- Chapter 26. Nanoparticles-Associated Lipopeptides: A New Class of Antimicrobials -- Chapter 27. Antimicrobial Applications of Engineered Metal-Based Nanomaterials -- Chapter 28. Strengthening Immunity-Ayurveda & Medicinal Plants -- Chapter 29. The Pathophysiology of Liver Disorders and Pharmacotherapy Options with Special Reference to Traditional Herbal Medicines: A Comprehensive Review -- Chapter 30. Polymeric Vehicles for Controlled Delivery of Ayurvedic Drugs for Wound Management.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Bioreceptors -- Chapter 3. Catalytic Biosensors -- Chapter 4. Affinity Biosensors -- Chapter 5. Affinity Biosensors -- Chapter 6. Label-free Biosensors -- Chapter 7. Bioreceptor Immobilization -- Chapter 8. Biochips. Chapter 9. Genome Sequencing -- Chapter 10. Genome Sequencing -- Chapter 11. Micro Electrode Arrays, Implants and Organs-on-a-Chip -- Appendix.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I. Search for novel tumor epitopes related to carbohydrates -- Chapter 1.1. The ganglioside structures: chemistry and biochemistry -- Chapter 1.2. Fucosylated proteins as cancer biomarkers -- Part II. Assembly of glycoconjugates -- Chapter 2.1. Siglec-7 and synthetic sialylpolymer -- Chapter 2.2. Role of Sialyl-Tn antigen in Cancer Metastasis -- Chapter 2.3. Insights into the Role of Chondroitin Sulfate in Cancer -- Part III. Signaling pathways modulated by glycosylation -- Chapter 3.1. Significance of FUT8in pancreatic cancer and others -- Chapter 3.2. Effects of Bullfrog sialic acid-binding lectin in cancer cells -- Part IV. Interaction between carbohydrate and carbohydrate-recognizing molecules -- Chapter 4.1. Opposite functions of mono- and disialylated glycosphingolipids on the membrane of cancer cells -- Chapter 4.2. Tumor progression through interaction of mucins with lectins and subsequent signal transduction -- Part V. Clinical trials targeting glycosignals -- Chapter 5.1. Immunotherapy of Neuroblastoma Targeting GD2 and Beyond.

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Chapter 1: Evolution of Bilateria from a Meiofauna Perspective – Miniaturization in the Focus -- Chapter 2: Meiofauna Shaping Biogeochemical Processes -- Chapter 3: Meiofauna and Biofilms – the Slimy Universe -- Chapter 4: Meiofauna Meets Microbes: Chemosynthetic Symbioses -- Chapter 5: Marine Meiofauna Diversity and Biogeography – Paradigms and challenges -- Chapter 6: Freshwater Meiofauna – a Biota with Different Rules? -- Chapter 7: Hidden Players – Meiofauna Mediates Ecosystem Effects of Anthropogenic Disturbances in the Ocean -- Chapter 8: Deep-Sea Meiofauna – a World of its Own or Deeply Connected? -- Chapter 9: Polar Meiofauna – Antipoles or Parallels? -- Chapter 10: Cave Meiofauna - Models for Ecology and Evolution -- Chapter 11: Meiofauna – Adapted to Life at the Limits -- Concluding Remarks -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Evolution – Analisa Berta -- Sensory and cognition – Tentative Colleen Reichmuth and others -- Communication – Isabelle Charrier -- Physiology – Dan Crocker -- Movement – Luis Huckstadt and Ryan Reisinger -- Navigation – Patrick Robinson -- Foraging ecology and behavior – Don Bowen -- Reproductive behavior and lactation strategies – Dan Costa and Jen Maresh -- Breeding behavior – Paddy Pomeroy and Kelly Robinson -- Conservation – Samantha Simmons and others.

Description / Table of Contents: Basic structure, physiology and biochemistry of connective tissues and extracellular matrix collagens -- Tendon Extracellular Matrix Assembly, Maintenance and Dysregulation Throughout Life -- Basic Components of Connective Tissues and Extracellular Matrix: Fibronectin, Fibrinogen, Laminin, Elastin, Fibrillins, Fibulins, Matrilins, Tenascins and Thrombospondins -- Proteoglycans and Diseases of Soft Tissues -- Growth Factor Roles in Soft Tissue Physiology and Pathophysiology -- Connective Tissue Disorders and Cardiovascular Complications: The Indomitable Role of Transforming Growth Factor-β Signaling -- The Pathophysiology and Pathogenesis of Marfan Syndrome -- Ehlers-Danlos syndromes, joint hypermobility and hypermobility spectrum disorders -- Ehlers–Danlos Syndrome Associated with Glycosaminoglycan Abnormalities -- Loeys-Dietz Syndrome -- Meester-Loeys syndrome -- Clinical and Molecular Delineation of Cutis Laxa Syndromes: Paradigms for Elastic Fiber Homeostasis -- Collagen VI Muscle Disorders: Mutation Types, Pathogenic Mechanisms and Approaches to Therapy -- Connective Tissue Disorders in Domestic Animals.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Marine Biotechnology: A Frontier for the Discovery of Nutraceuticals, Energy, and Its Role in Meeting 21st Century Food Demands -- 2. Biotechnological Utilization of the Marine Environment for Food, Drugs and Energy -- 3. Grouper Hybridization: An Effective Biotechnological Tool for Food Security -- 4. The Application of Molecular Markers to Fish Breeding and Aquaculture -- 5. Aquaculture and Applications of Green Seaweeds of the Genus Caulerpa J.V. Lamouroux, 1809 -- 6. Potential and Challenges of Sea Cucumber Holothuria Scabra Mariculture in Sabah, Malaysia -- 7. Sea Cucumber (Echinodermata: Holothuroidea) Species Diversity on the West Coast of Sabah, Malaysia -- 8. Sea Cucumbers: Source of Nutritional, Medicinal, and Cosmeceutical Products -- 9. Marine Biotechnology and its Applications in Drug Discovery -- 10. Bacteriophage as Therapeutic Strategy Against Pathogenic Vibrio -- 11. Bacterial Diversity in the Marine Environment and the Cutting-edge Tools for Isolation, Identification, and Characterization of the Marine Microbiome -- 12. Biotechnological Applications of Jellyfish-Derived Products -- 13. Application of Biotechnology in White Syndrome Coral Disease Identification -- 14. The Synergy of Remote Sensing in Marine Invasion Science -- 15. The Utilization of Agro-based Wastes by Marine Phototrophic Microbes -- 16. Artificial Intelligence Methods in Marine Biotechnology.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Alkanes, composition, constitution, and configuration -- 2. Functional groups -- 3. Electronic structure of organic molecules -- 4. Alkenes and alkynes -- 5. Substitutions on saturated carbon atom -- 6. Nucleophilic additions -- 7. Stereochemistry, symmetry, and molecular chirality -- 8. Derivatives of carboxylic acids -- 9. Electrophilic substitutions -- 10. Pericyclic reactions -- 11. Organic natural products -- 12. Organic supramolecular and supermolecular structures.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Chapter 1. Food packaging industry - An introduction -- Chapter 2. Toward Smarter Food Packaging -- Chapter 3. Novel packaging development, assessment and authentication using smart technologies, non-invasive biometric sensory tools, and artificial intelligence -- Chapter 4. Biodegradable packaging materials and techniques to improve their performance -- Chapter 5. Smart Freshness Indicator for Animal Based Products Packaging - Current Status.-Chapter 6. Packaging of dairy products-Emerging strategies -- Chapter 7. Functional packaging materials for fishery products applications -- Chapter 8. Edible films and coatings: Major challenges and potential applications in food Packaging: A Review.-Chapter 9. Role of sensors to improve food/beverage packaging -- Chapter 10. Functional nanomaterials for food packaging applications -- Chapter 11. Rules and regulations related with packaging.

Description / Table of Contents: Clinical features, diagnostic evaluation and management of COVID-19 patients -- Outbreak of COVID-19: A Detailed Overview and Its Consequences -- A paradigm gap in host-pathogen interaction studies: Lesson from the COVID-19 pandemic -- SARS/CoV-2: Behavioral Host Manipulation -- Management of COVID-19 in the Intensive Care Unit -- First wave of Covid-19 pandemic in Italy: data and evidence -- Risk factors for COVID-19: diabetes, hypertension and obesity -- Current challenges for the effective management of the COVID-19 pandemic -- COVID-19 Outbreak Challenges in Indian Migrant Pregnant and Lactating Mothers: Learnt Lesson Demands Phronesis and Hierarchical Strategies for Such Future Pandemics -- COVID-19 and Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation -- COVID-19's Clinical-Pathological Evidence in Relation to its Repercussion on the Central and Peripheral Nervous System -- Anatomopathological Aspects and Clinical Correlation of COVID-19: A Systematic Review -- SARS-CoV-2 liability: the hidden mystery behind its presentation in children.

Description / Table of Contents: Origin and structural biology of Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) -- The Molecular Virology of Coronaviruses with Special Reference to SARS-CoV-2 -- Epidemiology, transmission and molecular immunopathology of SARS-CoV-2 -- Epidemiology and Etiopathogeny of Covid-19 -- Immunological and Hematological Response in COVID-19 -- Toll-like receptors (TLRs) as Therapeutic Targets for Treating SARS-CoV-2: An Immunobiological Perspective -- Potential drug strategies to target Coronaviruses -- Possible therapeutic intervention strategies for COVID-19 by manipulating the cellular proteostasis network -- The potential impact of statins in the treatment of patients with COVID-19 infection -- Anticoronavirus activity of water-soluble pristine C60 fullerenes: in vitro and in silico screening -- Application of Nanoscale materials and nanotechnology against viral infection: A special focus on Coronaviruses -- Obesity: A Risk Factor for Covid-19 -- Cytokine Storm and Failed Resolution in COVID-19: Taking Cue from Multiple Sclerosis.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. The COVID-19 Pandemic: SARS-CoV-2 Structure, Infection, Transmission, Symptomology and Variants of Concern -- Chapter 2. Long-term Vaccination and Treatment Strategies for COVID-19 Disease and Future Coronavirus Pandemics -- Chapter 3. Consequences of the Lockdown - Domestic Violence during the COVID-19 Pandemic -- Chapter 4. Psychological distress impact of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak on three continents: A systematic review and meta-analysis -- Chapter 5. A Molecular Biomarker-based Triage Approach for Targeted Treatment of Post-COVID-19 Syndrome Patients with Persistent Neurological or Neuropsychiatric Symptoms -- Chapter 6. Genetic Associations with Coronavirus Susceptibility and Disease Severity -- Chapter 7. COVID Diagnostics: from Molecules to Omics -- Chapter 8. Assessing Biomarkers in Viral Infection -- Chapter 9. Proteomic Investigation of COVID-19 Severity During the Tsunamis Second Wave in Mumbai -- Chapter 10. NMR-Metabolomics in COVID-19 Research -- Chapter 11. Potential Biomarkers of Mitochondrial Dysfunction Associated with COVID-19 Infection -- Chapter 12. Red Cell Distribution Width as a Prognostic Indicator for Mortality and ICU Admission in Patients with COVID-19 -- Chapter 13. Predicting the COVID-19 Patients Status using Chest CT Scan Findings: A Risk Assessment Model Based on Decision Tree Analysis -- Chapter 14. Inferring Recombination Events in SARS-CoV-2 Variants In Silico -- Chapter 15. Amplicon-based Nanopore Sequencing of Patients Infected by the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron (B.1.1.529) Variant in India -- Chapter 16. Perspectives on Rapid Antigen Tests for Downstream Validation and Development of Theranostics -- Chapter 17. Machine Learning and COVID-19: Lessons from SARS-CoV-2 -- Chapter 18. The Relationship between Psoriasis, COVID-19 Infection and Vaccination during Treatment of Patients -- Chapter 19. Immunogenicity of Inactivated SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine (BBIBP-CorV; Sinopharm) and Short-term Clinical Outcomes in Vaccinated Solid Organ Transplant Recipients: A Prospective Cohort Study -- Chapter 20. Spices and Biomarkers of COVID-19: A Mechanistic and Therapeutic Perspective -- Chapter 21. Antiviral Mechanisms of Curcumin and its Derivatives in Prevention and Treatment of COVID-19: A review -- Chapter 22. Evaluation of Curcumin-Piperine Supplementation in COVID-19 Patients Admitted to the Intensive Care: A Double-Blind, Randomized Controlled Trial -- Chapter 23. Chronobiological Efficacy of Combined Therapy of Pelargonium Sidoides and Melatonin in Acute and Persistent Cases of COVID-19: A Hypothetical Approach -- Chapter 24. The Potential Effect of Royal Jelly on Biomarkers Related to COVID-19 Infection and Severe Progression -- Chapter 25. Statins: Beneficial Effects in Treatment of COVID-19 -- Chapter 26. Multiplex Immunoassay Approaches Using Luminex® xMAP® Technology for the Study of COVID-19 Disease -- Chapter 27. Rapid Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern by Genomic Surveillance Techniques.

Description / Table of Contents: Targeting Ion Channels for Cancer Treatment: Current Progress and Future Challenges -- Novel Therapeutic Approaches of Ion Channels and Transporters in Cancer -- Ion Channels in Cancer: Orchestrators of Electrical Signaling and Cellular Crosstalk -- Potassium and Chloride Ion Channels in Cancer: A Novel Paradigm for Cancer Therapeutics -- Potassium and Calcium Channel Complexes as Novel Targets for Cancer Research -- Solute Carrier Transportome in Chemotherapy-Induced Adverse Drug Reactions -- Ion Transport and Radioresistance -- Ion Transporting Proteins and Cancer: Progress and Perspectives.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Part I. Historical Perspectives -- Vertebrates of Upper Mesopotamia: Present Evidence and Archaeological Data -- Fishing Gears and Methods: A Comparison of Ancient Mesopotamia and Other Ancient Worlds -- Ichthyological Characteristics Available in the Fish Images Existed in the Art of the Ancient Mesopotamia -- The Effectiveness of Ancient Mesopotamian Medical Practices: The Example of šūšu-Licorice -- Part II. The Abiotic Aspects of the Tigris–Euphrates River System -- Management of Water Resources Using Storage Reservoirs -- Estimation of Irrigated Agricultural Area and Water Consumption in Iraq -- The Nature of Tigris–Euphrates Rivers Flow: Current Status and Future Prospective -- Streamflow Alteration Impacts with Particular Reference to the Lower Zab River, Tributary of the Tigris River -- Ecohydrology in Iraq: Challenges and its Future Pathways -- Oil Pollution in the Shatt Al-Arab River and its Estuary 1980–2018 -- Pesticides in the Waters, Sediments, and Biota of the Shatt Al-Arab River for the Period 1980–2017 -- Surface Water Salinity of the Euphrates, Tigris, and Shatt al-Arab Rivers -- Renewable Energy for Water–Energy Nexus in Euphrates and Tigris River Basin: A Literature Review -- Impacts of Dams on Aquatic Biodiversity, Fisheries, Fishes and Their Environment: Problems that Could Be Present in Iraq with Recommendations -- Water, Politics and Dams in the Mesopotamia Basin of the Northern Middle East: How Turkey Instrumentalises the South-Eastern Anatolia Project for Political, Military and Strategic Interests -- Dams and their Impacts on Fishes in Iran -- Part III. The Biotic Aspects of the Tigris–Euphrates River System -- Preliminary Review of the Aquatic Biodiversity in Al-Kahla River, Missan Province, Iraq -- Freshwater Fish Biodiversity in Iraq: Importance, Threats, Status, and Conservation Challenges -- Effect of Climate Changes on the Freshwater Biodiversity in the Mesopotamian Plain: Recommendations for Avoidance and Plans for the Future -- River Corridors as a Refuge for Freshwater Biodiversity: Basic Information and Recommendations to the Policymakers for Possible Implications in Iraq -- Biodiversity of Fungi in Aquatic Environment of Iraq -- Potability of Drinking Water in Basra-Iraq -- Algal Studies in Iraqi Inland Waters. A Review -- The Distribution of Epilitic Diatoms in the Turkish Part of the Tigris-Euphrates River Basin -- Plant Biodiversity in Shatt Al-Arab Estuary and Ecological Variations -- Medicinal Plants of Shatt al-Arab River and Adjacent Area -- The Role of Plants as a Canopy in the Inland Waters: Basic Information for Application in Iraq -- The Zooplankton Fauna of the Turkish Part of the Euphrates-Tigris River Basin -- Kinds and Distribution of Icthyoplankton in Shatt Al-Arab River -- Rotifer Diversity in Iranian Waters: A Review -- Biodiversity of the Freshwater Amphipods in Iran -- The Freshwater Molluscs of the Mesopotamian Plain -- Freshwater Annelida of Iraq -- A Critical Checklist of the Inland Fishes Native to the Euphrates and Tigris Drainages -- Fish Fauna of Shatt al-Arab River, Basrah, Iraq: A More than Quarter a Century of Changes -- The Common Carp, Cyprinus carpio: Effect on the Environment and the Indigenous Fish Species in Iraq -- The Good and the Bad in Releasing the Grass Carp Ctenopharyngodon idella in the Freshwater System: Recommendations for the Policymakers in Iraq -- The Avifauna of Tigris and Euphrates River Basin -- The Feasible Approaches to Assist Migratory Birds Visiting the Southern Reaches of Mesopotamia -- A Proposal for Establishing Bird Observatory Centre in the South of Iraq -- The Potential Role of Waterbirds as a Vector in Dispersing Invertebrates and Plants in the South of Iraq -- The Wild Mammals of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers Basin -- The Amphibians and Reptiles of Euphrates and Tigris Basin -- A Preliminary Pictorial Guide to the Herpetofauna of Tigris and Euphrates River Basin -- Policy Guidance for Sustainable Aquaculture in the Inland Waters of Iraq -- How Possible to Use the Desert Area in Iraq for Aquaculture Industry: Basic Facts and Recommondations -- Aquaculture Industry in Iraq: Past, Present, and Future Perspectives -- Towards an Improved Tilapia Farming in Iraq: Recommendations for Future Application -- Information and Recommendations of Aquaculture Stress and its Source in Hatcheries: The Iraqi Aquaculture Industry Investors -- Exotic and Invasive Freshwater Fishes in the Tigris-Euphrates River System -- Part IV. Water Resources -- The Ecology and Modelling of the Freshwater Ecosystems in Iran -- Enhancing Rural Women’s Participation in Fisheries in Iraq -- The Impact of Destructive Fishing Gear on the Fish Biodiversity in the Inland Waters of Iraq -- Evaluating Variations in Fisheries by Means of Fishers’ Information: Suggested Methodology to Improve Small-Scale Fisheries in Rivers in Iraq -- A Possibility to Apply a Traditional Fisheries Enforcement Programme in the Inland Waters of Iraq -- Market-Resource Relations and Fish Seller Livelihood as Seen in Inland Waters of Iraq -- The Potential Impact of Deformities in Fishes upon Aquatic Production: Case of Iraq -- The Impact of some Social Taboos on Fisheries in Iraq -- Inland Water Fishes and Fisheries in Iran -- The Possibility of Introducing an Inland Fisheries Education in Iraq -- The Marine and Diadromous Fisheries of Iraq -- Part V. Stress of the Environment of the Two Rivers -- Fish Deformities in the Freshwater Fishes of Iraq: A Short Review and a Study Case on the Indian Catfish Heteropneustes fossilis -- The Phenomenon of Fluctuating Asymmetry: As Fish Welfare Indicator Represented by Case Study from the Freshwater Fishes of Iraq -- The Studies on Sediments Pollution by Different Types of Metals in Turkey -- Macroplastic and Microplastic in the Freshwater Environment of Southern Iraq: Evidences Obtained from Freshwater Fish Species -- Heavy Metals in Freshwater Invertebrates of Iran: A Review on the Bioaccumulation and Effects -- Fish Parasites of Tigris and Euphrates River Systems -- The Parasites of Fishes of the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers: Iraq and Turkey -- Ornamental Fishes: A Looming Danger for Inland Fish Diversity of Iraq -- Part VI. The Health of the Human Community Inhabiting Freshwater Zones -- Aquatic Snails as a Vector of Diseases to the Human in Iran -- Death by Drowning in Rivers in Iraq -- The Dangerous Catfish Species in the Freshwater System of Iraq: First Time Reports on Cases of Envenomation -- Fish Species of the Order Cypriniformes as a Source of Ichthyootoxin and Ichthyogallotoxin in Iraq: Cases Reports -- First Reports on Cases of Hallucinatory Fish Poisoning (Ichthyoallyeinotoxism) and Scombrotoxic Fish Poisoning in Iraq -- Part. VII. Conservation -- Freshwater Management and Conservation in Iran: Past, Present, and Future -- The Need of Biodiversity Conservation Strategies in Iraq: The State of Protected Areas -- Benthic Macroinvertebrates of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in Turkey -- Freshwater Ecosystem Conservation in Iraq: Recommendations for Management -- Utilising Phenotypic Difference to Regulate Protection Value: A Scheme for Application of a Novel Approach to the Inland Water of Iraq -- Hatchery-Reared Fish Stocks Released into the Wild: A Conservation Problem as Seen in a Case Study from Iraq -- Part VIII. Social Perspectives -- Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full? An Appraisal of the Four Decades of Turkey’s Southeastern Anatolia Project (GAP) -- Part IX. Food Security -- How Possible to Build Rice–Fish Farming in Iraq in order to Support Food Security Plan: Positive and the Negative Aspects -- The Importance of Non-commercial and Small-Sized Fish Species: A Proposal for an Additional Revenue to Iraq -- Sociocultural Aspects Influence Food Consumption Habits in Iraq: Management of Food Security -- A Preliminary Investigation of Determinants of Food Security in Rural Areas of Basrah Province, Iraq.

Description / Table of Contents: PART I: Fundamental Aspects -- Chapter 1. Definition of Tremor -- Chapter 2. Membrane Mechanisms of Tremor -- Chapter 3 Advances in the Genetics of Human Tremor -- Chapter 4. Two origins of tremors related to the Guillain-Mollaret triangle: the forward model-related tremor and the inferior olive oscillation-related tremor -- PART II:Tremor in Clinical Practice -- Chapter 5. Physiologic Tremor -- Chapter 6. Rest Tremor -- Chapter 7. Postural Tremors -- Chapter 8. Isometric Tremor -- Chapter 9. Essential Tremor and Other Forms of Kinetic Tremor -- Chapter 10. Cerebellar lesions and tremor -- Chapter 11. Orthostatic Tremor -- Chapter 12. Posttraumatic Tremor and Other Posttraumatic Movement Disorders -- Chapter 13 Tremor in Childhood -- Chapter 14. Metabolic Causes of Tremor -- Chapter 15. Drug-Induced Tremor -- Chapter 16. Tremor: The Clinical Approach to Reach the Diagnosis -- PART III: Assessment of tremor -- Chapter 17. Signal Processing -- Chapter 18. Diffusion imaging in Tremor -- Chapter 19. The role of the noradrenergic system in tremor pathogenesis -- Chapter 20. Metabolic Networks in Parkinson’s Disease -- PART IV: Therapies -- Chapter 21. Deep brain stimulation for tremor -- Chapter 22 Mechatronic Devices for Upper Limb Tremor.

Description / Table of Contents: Microplastic research publications from 1991 to 2020 -- Characterization and toxicology of microplastics in soils, water and air -- Coral feeding behavior on microplastics -- Microplastics remediation in the aqueous environment -- Removal of environmental microplastics by advanced oxidation processes -- Techniques for removal and degradation of microplastics -- Occurrence and removal of microplastics in wastewater treatment plants -- Microplastic souces, transport, exposure, analysis and removal -- Airborne microplastics in outdoor and indoor environments -- Nanoplastic sources, characterization, ecological impact, remediation and policies -- Microplastics in soil-plant systems.

Description / Table of Contents: Module 1_Introduction to Forensic Science & Crime -- Module 2_Criminalistics -- Module 3_ Forensic Biological Sciences -- Module 4_Forensic Physical Sciences -- Module 5_Forensic Chemical Sciences -- Module 6_Emerging fields in Trends in Forensics.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1_ Recent developments in Biosensor Technology for Fisheries and Aquaculture -- Chapter 2_Application of CRISPR-Cas9 Technology in Fish -- Chapter 3_ Nano-technological applications in Aquatic Health Management -- Chapter 4_Phenotypic plasticity and transgenerational immune priming: opportunities and potential in fisheries -- Chapter 5_Heat shock proteins in stress response: a promising tool for fish health management -- Chapter 6_Immunostimulants: Boon for disease management in Aquaculture -- Chapter 7_Molecular markers and their application in fisheries and aquaculture -- Chapter 8_Applications of Electronics in Fisheries and Aquaculture -- Chapter 9_Metatranscriptomics: A tool to study the host-microbe interactions and functional profile of fish intestinal microbiota under changing environmental conditions -- Chapter 10_Bioremediation and its application in aquaculture -- Chapter 11_Application of Probiotics in Aquaculture -- Chapter 12_Identifying novel antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs): Important aspect of metagenomic research.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1_ An Introduction to the Functions and Ecosystems Services associated with aquatic macrophytes -- Chapter 2_ Factors structuring Aquatic Macrophytes -- Chapter 3_ Aquatic Macrophytes: Ecology, Function and Services in Niger Delta, Nigeria -- Chapter 4_ Environmental and Ecological Importance of Indian Aquatic Macrophytes -- Chapter 5_ Macrophytes used as complementary medicines for curing human ailments to facilitate livelihood opportunities -- Chapter 6_ Macrophytes and their role in wetland ecosystems -- Chapter 7_ Ecotoxicology of REEs in aquatic macrophytes and prospect for bioremediation of REEs -- Chapter 8_ Efficiency of Aquatic Plants for Remediation of Wastewater -- Chapter 9_ Phytoremediation of organic contaminants: An ecofriendly approach based application of aquatic macrophytes -- Chapter 10_ Remediation of heavy metals by different aquatic macrophytes -- Chapter 11_ Translocations of heavy metals in aquatic macrophytes naturally grown in the riverine ecosystem -- Chapter 12_ Enhanced Effluent Treatment and Bioelectricity Generation Using Coupled Constructed Wetland-Microbial Fuel Cell (CW-MFC) Technology: Challenges and Opportunities -- Chapter 13_ Role of microbial communities and aquatic macrophytes in constructed wetlands for tannery wastewater treatment: Challenges and opportunities -- Chapter 14_ Role of plant-bacteria association in constructed wetlands for the removal of iron (Fe) from contaminated water. .

Description / Table of Contents: 1 Forensic Dna Analysis: A Powerful Investigative Tool -- 2 “Crime Scene Management Within Forensic Science-Forensic Techniques For Criminal Investigations -- 3 Small Size, Big Impact: Insects For Cadaver Examination -- 4 Dermatoglyphics & Other Impressions: Deciphering The Potential Of A Unique Hominid Niche -- 5 Postmortem Toxicology: A facet of drugs of expedites crimes -- 6 Forensic Biology: A Passport For Biological Evidence -- 7 Sexual offences: Recent methods of Investigation -- 8 Investigation Of Disaster Victim Identification -- 9 Review On Clinical Forensic Medicine -- 10 Firearms and Ammunitions: A sentient approach in criminal investigation -- 11 Digital and Cyber Forensics: A Contemporary evolution in Forensic Sciences -- 12 Fire Investigation: Arson Or Accidental -- 13 Psychological Evaluations: An Indoor game of Criminal Minds -- 14 Competence of Evidences: A Pragmatic Approach in Court of Law -- 15 Penology: A friend or foe for criminal justice system -- 16 Chain Of Custody: Scaling The Investigation To The Event. .

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction (Moray J Campbell & Charlotte L Bevan) -- Overview (Jason Carroll) -- Part I: Reproduction and Development -- Chapter 1. Nuclear receptors in pregnancy and outcomes: clinical perspective (Luiza Borges Manna & Catherine Williamson) -- Chapter 2. Female Reproductive Systems: hormone dependence and receptor expression (Philippa TK Saunders) -- Chapter 3. Nuclear receptors in ovarian function (Darryl Russell & Doan Thao Dinh) -- Part II: Metabolism -- Chapter 4. Nuclear receptors in energy metabolism (Alina Walth, Stephan Herzig & Maria Rohm) -- Chapter 5. Nuclear Receptors and lipid sensing (James L Thorne and Giorgia Cioccoloni) -- Part III: Central Systems -- Chapter 6. Corticosteroid receptors in Cardiac health and disease (Jessica Ivy, Gillian Gray, Megan Holmes, Martin Denvir, Karen Chapman) -- Chapter 7. Physiological convergence and antagonism between GR and PPARγ in inflammation and metabolism (Marija Dacic, Gayathri Shibu and Inez Rogatsky) -- Chapter 8. Circadian Rhythm and Nuclear Receptors (David W Ray) -- Chapter 9. Vitamin D and gut health (James C Fleet) -- Part IV: Cancer -- Chapter 10. Estrogen Receptor alpha and ESR1 Mutations in Breast Cancer (Jaymin Patel & Rinath Jeselsohn) -- Chapter 11. AR structural variants and prostate cancer (Laura Cato) -- Chapter 12. ERβ and inflammation (Linnea Hases, Amena Archer & Cecilia Williams) -- Chapter 13. Genomic insights into non-steroidal nuclear receptors in prostate and breast cancer (Sajad A Wani & Moray Campbell) -- Part V: New developments in transcriptional control by nuclear receptors -- Chapter 14. Protein condensation in the nuclear receptor family; implications for transcriptional output (Monique Appelman, Elle Hollaar, Jurian Schuijers & Saskia WC van Mil) -- Chapter 15. Prostate cancer epigenetic plasticity and enhancer heterogeneity: molecular causes, consequences and clinical implications (Jeroen Kneppers, Andries M Bergman & Wilbert Zwart) -- Chapter 16. Epigenetic coregulation of androgen receptor signaling (Rayzel Fernandes, Damien A. Leach & Charlotte Bevan) -- Part VI: Clinical Translation -- Chapter 17. Cllnical Translation: Targeting the Estrogen Receptor (Jennifer O. Lauchle & Ciara Metcalfe) -- Chapter 18. Drugging the undruggable: targeting the N-terminal domain of nuclear hormone receptors (Marianne Sadar) -- Chapter 19. Genetic Variation and Mendelian Randomization approaches (Mojgan Yazdanpanah, Nahid Yazdanpanah & Despoina Manousaki) -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. The Importance of Integrating the Visual Arts into the Medical Curriculum -- Chapter 2. Using Medical Illustration to Improve Understanding of Endometriosis -- Chapter 3. Editorial Medical and Scientific Illustration -- Chapter 4. Current Approaches in Narrative Medical Visualization -- Chapter 5. Animation for Science Communication: A Description of the Production Process and Contexts for Using Science Animation -- Chapter 6. Effect of the Rings: A Visual Story Design Comparing Three Chemical Characters -- Chapter 7. Diabetes Year One, Random Fluctuations and Mental Goblins: Auto-Ethnographic Pathographies and Medical Comics -- Chapter 8. Playing with Science: Games as a Medium of Science Communication -- Chapter 9. Increasing Microbiology Literacy about the Public Health Threat of Antimicrobial Resistance Through Art-Science Interactions -- Chapter 10. Collaged Creatures: Using Collage Art Practice and Posthuman Ethics to Discuss Bioengineering Hybrids.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I. Introduction -- Chapter 1. Insights from Cuban Coral Reefs -- Part II. History -- Chapter 2. Research History of Corals and Coral Reefs in Cuba -- Part III. Description -- Chapter 3. Physical-Geographic Characteristics of Cuban Reefs -- Chapter 4. Outline of the Geology, Geomorphology and Evolution of the Late Qua-ternary Shelf and Uplifted Marine Terraces of Cuba; Tectonic and Sea Level Control of Present Day Coral Reef Distribution -- Chapter 5. A Remote Sensing Appraisal of the Extent and Geomorphological Diversity of the Coral Reefs of Cuba -- Part IV. Biota -- Chapter 6. Macrophytes Associated with Cuban Coral Reefs -- Chapter 7. Sponges: Conspicuous Inhabitants of the Cuban Coral Reefs and Their Potential as Bioindicators of Contamination -- Chapter 8. Species List of Cuban Stony Corals: Class Anthozoa, Order Scleractinia; Class Hydrozoa, Suborders Capitata and Filifera -- Chapter 9. Octocoral Forests: Distribution, Abundance, and Species Richness in Cuban Coral Reefs -- Chapter 10. Current State of Knowledge of Reef Mollusks in Cuba -- Chapter 11. Herbivory on Cuban Coral Reefs -- Chapter 12. Chronology of the Lionfish Invasion in Cuba and Evaluation of Impacts on Native Reef Fishes -- Chapter 13. Sharks and Rays in Cuban Coral Reefs: Ecology, Fisheries, and Conservation -- Chapter 14. Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems of Cuba -- Part V. Ecology, Conservation and Management -- Chapter 15. Status of Cuban Coral Reefs -- Chapter 16. Population Genetics of Cuba’s Scleractinian Corals -- Chapter 17. Multiple Cumulative Effects on Coral Reefs of the Northwestern Cuban Region -- Chapter 18. Guanahacabibes National Park: Research, Monitoring and Man-Agement for the Conservation of Coral Reefs -- Chapter 19. Ciénaga de Zapata Biosphere Reserve: Integrating Science with the Management of Coral Reefs -- Chapter 20. Coral Reefs in Cuban Marine Protected Areas -- Part VI. Economic Valuation -- Chapter 21. Economic Valuation of the Coral Reefs of Jardines de la Reina and Punta Francés National Parks, Cuba -- Chapter 22. The Economic Value of Coral Reefs in the Context of Marine Protected Areas: Experiences of the South Cuban Archipelago Project -- Chapter 23. Fish Can Be More Valuable Alive Than Dead.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. An Introduction to Scaffolds, Biomaterial Surfaces, and Stem Cells -- Part I. Structural Scaffolds and Bio-activation -- Chapter 2. Polymeric and Biomimetic ECM Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering Applications -- Chapter 3. Versatile Hydrogels in Regenerative Medicine -- Chapter 4. Multilayer Microcapsules with Tailored Structures and Properties as Delivery Carriers for Drugs and Growth Factors -- Part II Biomaterials Surfaces/Interfaces and Bio-interactions. Chapter 5. Interactions of Biomaterial Surfaces with Proteins and Cells -- Chapter 6. Surface Modification of Tissue Engineering Scaffolds -- Chapter 7. Gradient Biomaterials and Their Impact on Cell Migration -- Chapter 8. Stem Cell Differentiation Mediated by Biomaterials/Surfaces -- Part III Regeneration of Some Clinic-Targeted Tissues -- Chapter 9. Cartilage Regeneration -- Chapter 10. Skin Regeneration -- Chapter 11. Regeneration of Blood Vessels -- Chapter 12. Cardiac repair and regeneration -- Chapter 13. Nerve Regeneration.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. A Global View of the Cold-Water Coral Reefs of the World -- Chapter 2. Biology, Ecology and Threats to Cold-Water Corals on Brazil’s Deep-Sea Margin -- Chapter 3. Cold-Water Corals of the World: Gulf of Mexico -- Chapter 4. Cold-Water Coral Reefs of the Southeastern United States -- Chapter 5. Norwegian Coral Reefs -- Chapter 6. Waters of Ireland and the UK -- Chapter 7. Life and Death of Cold-Water Corals across the Mediterranean Sea -- Chapter 8. Cold-Water Coral Reefs in the Oxygen Minimum Zones off West Africa -- Chapter 9. New Zealand: South West Pacific Region -- Chapter 10. Deep-Sea Corals of the North and Central Pacific Seamounts.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I. Fish Resources and Fishing Areas of the Western Balkans -- Chapter 1. Fish Resources of Inland Waters and Fisheries in Slovenia, Management, Sustainability and Conservation -- Chapter 2. Inland Fisheries in Croatia: Historical Aspects, Fish Resources, Management and Conservation -- Chapter 3. Fish Resources and Fisheries in Bosnia and Herzegovina – Overview, Sustainability, and Conservation -- Chapter 4. Inland Fisheries in Serbia: Historical Aspect, Fish Resources, Management and Conservation -- Chapter 5. The Freshwater Fish Resources and Freshwater Fisheries of Montenegro, Management, Sustainability and Conservation – With a Special Perspective on Lake Skadar -- Chapter 6. Fish and Fisheries of the Republic of North Macedonia, Current Situation and Its Perspective -- Chapter 7. Fish Resources of Inland Waters and Fisheries in Albania, Management, Sustainability and Conservation -- Part II. Some Fish Species of the Western Balkans Important for Fisheries and Conservation -- Chapter 8. Freshwater Crayfish of Western Balkan: Is It Possible to Use Them Sustainably or Do They Need Prompt Conservation Actions? -- Chapter 9. Salmonid Fish Species – Opportunities for Sustainable Use under Multiple Pressures and Current Climatic Change -- Chapter 10. Past and Future of Sturgeon Species (Acipenseridae) in Western Balkans – Case for Permanent Conservation or Sustainable Management -- Part III. Effects of Stressors on Inland Water Ecosystems and Fish Resources -- Chapter 11. Eutrophication of Fishing Waters and the Influence of Cyanobacterial Occurrence and Blooming on Fish Resources – Case Studies in Serbia -- Chapter 12. Pollution of Fishing Waters of the Western Balkan – Potentially Toxic Elements and Their Impact on the Ecological Sustainability of Fish Resources -- Chapter 13. Invasive Macroinvertebrate and Fish Species and Their Impact on Fish Resources: A Case Study on Fishing Waters of Serbia -- Part IV. Fish Stock Assessment Methods -- Chapter 14. A Brief Overview of the Development of the ES-HIPPO Model for Assessing the Sustainability and Conservation Priorities of Fish, Fish Resources, and Inland Water Habitats -- Part V. Conservation and Aquaculture -- Chapter 15. Тhe Role and Importance of Aquaculture for the Ecological Sustainability of Fish Resources in the Inland Water of Serbia -- Chapter 16. Huchen Hucho hucho (Linnaeus, 1758) in Croatia: Distribution, Genetic Diversity, Threats and Conservation -- Chapter 17. Future Perspective of Sustainable Development of Freshwater Fisheries and Conservation of Threatened Fish Species, Crustaceans and Molluscs -- Part VI. Social Aspect -- Chapter 18. Political and Socio-Economic aspects of Fisheries in Inland and Coastal Waters of the Western Balkan -- Chapter 19. Fish Resources of the Western Balkans, Sustainable Use and/or Conservation?.

Description / Table of Contents: Inter-Relationship Between the Inflammation and Heat Shock Protein in Cancer Development: A Possible Target for Diagnosis and Cancer Immunotherapy -- Chaperonin Hsp60 and Cancer Therapies -- Combined Thermotherapy and Heat Shock Protein Modulation for Tumor Treatment -- Small Molecule Inhibitors Targeting Heat Shock Response Pathways: Lessons from Clinical and Preclinical Studies in Cancer Therapeutics -- Multifaceted Roles of Heat Shock Factor 1 (HSF1) in Cancer -- Exploring the Role of Heat Shock Proteins in the Development of Gastric Cancer -- Heat Shock Proteins in Atrial Fibrillation -- Threading Microarrays into Novel Applications -- Regulation of Kaposi’s Sarcoma-associated Herpesvirus Biology by Host Molecular Chaperones -- Role of Heat Shock Factors in Diseases and Immunity -- Heat Shock Proteins and Pain -- Regulates Cellular Senescence: Role of the DHRS2-MDM2-p53 Pathway -- Huntingtin Yeast Two-Hybrid Protein K (HYPK): An Intrinsically Unstructured Heat Shock Inducible Protein with diverse Cellular and Molecular Functions -- Roles of Heat Shock Proteins on Antigen Presentation -- Heat shock proteins mediate anastasis and plasticity of thermotolerant cells.

Description / Table of Contents: Approaches Towards Synthetic Signal Transduction in Phospholipid Bilayers -- Development of Novel Versatile Theranostic Platforms Based on Titanate Nanotubes: Towards Safe Nanocarriers for Biomedical Applications -- Metal-organic Framework—Polymer Mixed-Matrix Membranes -- Insights into Adaptive Selforganized Supramolecular Structures from Molecular Modeling and Visualization -- Self-Assembled Metallacages as Drug Delivery Systems: Design Concepts and Challenge -- Functional Microporous Polymer Networks: Synthesis and Applications -- A Story on Carbon Dioxide and its Hydration -- Inverse Design and Hierarchical Multiscale Modelling of Biological Matter -- DNA-Directed Self-assembly of Macromolecular Structures -- Luminescent Complexes and their Assemblies : from Understanding to Artificial Virus -- Tailor-Made Polymers and Nanoparticles for Applications in Nanomedicine -- Squalene-based Nanomedicines : An Original and Efficient Approach for the Treatment of Neurological Disorders without Crossing the Blood-Brain Barrier -- Biodegradable Nanoparticles for Specific Drug Transport -- Multivalent rotaxanes designed as antibiofilm agents -- Measuring Ionic Transport through Lipid Bilayers -- Polymeric Carriers for Transporting Nucleic Acids - Contributions to the Field -- Smart Polymeric Materials for Drug Delivery -- Supramolecular Guanosine-quadruplex Hydrogels and Hydrogel Composites for Cell Growth Applications -- Hydrogelation of Chitosan with Monoaldehydes towards Biomaterials with Tuned Properties -- Inorganic Nanoarticles as Free Radical Scavengers -- A Microbiological Epilogue - Nosocomial Infections -- Molecular Dynamic Simulations and In Silico Analysis of Supramolecular Self-Assembled Structures -- Validation of the Non Toxicity of Non Viral Genetic -- Kinetics Transport of Ions/Water Through Nano-Scale Channels : Review And Update.

Description / Table of Contents: Targeted Drug Delivery from Titanium Implants: A Review of Challenges and Approaches -- Reliability of Magnetic Resonance Tractography in Predicting Early Clinical Improvements in Patients with Diffuse Axonal Injury -- Integrated Thermal Rehabilitation: a New Therapeutic Approach for Disabilities -- The Cat Pet as a Source Intensification of Atopic Dermatitis -- Clinical Course and Outcome of Community Acquired Bacterial Meningitis in Cancer Patients -- Influence of Coping Strategy on Perception of Anxiety and Depression in Patients with Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer -- Inflammatory Markers during Continuous High Cut-Off Hemodialysis in Patients with Septic Shock and Acute Kidney Injury -- Body Composition and Biochemical Markers of Nutrition in Non-Dialysis Dependent Chronic Kidney Disease -- Biocompatibility of hemodialysis -- Decreasing Vaccination Coverage Rates against Hepatitis B and Tuberculosis in Newborns -- Virological and Epidemiological Situation in the Influenza Epidemic Seasons 2016/17 and 2017/18 in Poland -- Epidemic Influenza Seasons from 2008 to 2018 in Poland: A Focused Review of Virological Characteristics.

Description / Table of Contents: 1-Dimensional Convolution Neural Network Classification Technique for Gene Expression Data -- Classification of Sequences with Deep Artificial Neural Networks: Representation and Architectural Issues -- A Deep Learning Model for MicroRNA-Target Binding -- Recurrent Neural Networks Architectures for Accidental Fall Detection on Wearable Embedded Devices -- Medical Image Retrieval System using Deep Learning Techniques -- Medical Image Fusion using Deep Learning -- Deep Learning for Histopathological Image Analysis -- Innovative Deep Learning Approach for Biomedical Data Instantiation and Visualization -- Convolutional Neural Networks in Advanced Biomedical Imaging Applications -- Deep Learning for Lung Disease Detection from Chest X-Rays Images -- Deep Learning in Multi-Omics Data Integration in Cancer Diagnostic -- Using Deep Learning with Canadian Primary Care Data for Disease Diagnosis -- Brain Tumor Segmentation and Surveillance with Deep Artificial Neural Networks.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I. Healthcare -- Chapter 1. Is It Time to FONA Friend? A Novel Mixed Reality Front of Neck Access Simulator -- Chapter 2. “Learning About Skin Breakdown” – Design, Development and Evaluation of an Augmented Reality Application to Inform about Pressure Ulcers (sores) and Moisture Lesions -- Chapter 3. The Use of 3D-Printing and Injection Moulding in the Development of a Low-Cost, Perfused Renal Malignancy Model for Training of Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Partial Nephrectomy -- Chapter 4. The Co-IMMUNicate App: An Engaging and Entertaining Education Resource on Immunity to Respiratory Viruses -- Part II. Education -- Chapter 5. Application of AR and 3D Technology for Learning Neuroanatomy -- Chapter 6. Communicative Powers of Interactive Digital Mediums in the Field of Polyomics -- Chapter 7. SkilletonVR: Canine Skeleton VR -- Chapter 8. Using Holograms to Engage Young People with Anatomy -- Chapter 9. The Digital Dolphin: Are 3D Mobile Based and Interactive Models a Useful Aid to Volunteers on Stranding Schemes Learning the Basic Anatomy and Pathology of Cetaceans? -- Chapter 10. The Impact of the COVID Crisis on Anatomical Education: A Systematic Review.

Description / Table of Contents: Part 1: Setting the scene -- Chapter 1: Life after Academia: Launching your Pharma/Biotech Career -- Chapter 2: Competences for Pharmacists -- Chapter 3: Job and Career Opportunities in the Pharmaceutical Industry: An Overview -- Part 2: Opportunities along the drug/product life cycle -- Chapter 4: Career Opportunities in Toxicology -- Chapter 5: Job Possibilities in Clinical Research -- Chapter 6: How to Get and Develop a Career in a Market Access Role in the Medical Devices Industry -- Chapter 7: Job Opportunities in Pharmaceutical Marketing -- Chapter 8: Working in Medical Affairs and Clinical Operations: Life-Changing Careers -- Chapter 9: The Role of Medical Science Liaison -- Chapter 10: Career Development for Physicians in the Biopharmaceutical Industry -- Part 3: Opportunities in Supportive Functions -- Chapter 11: Job and Career Opportunities in Regulatory Affairs/Science -- Chapter 12: Job Opportunities in Clinical Research Quality Assurance -- Chapter 13: Job Opportunities in Quality Assurance Related to Manufacturing of Medicinal Products -- Part 4: Other Opportunities in the Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sector -- Chapter 14: Careers Perspective in a Science and Technology Park -- Chapter 15: To be or not to be: Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Creation as a Way to Innovate in Life Sciences -- Chapter 16: How to Become a Successful Hospital and Community Pharmacist -- Part 5: Practical tips and tricks -- Chapter 17: A Successful Career in the Life Sciences Industry: How to Write your Strongest Resumé and Ace that Interview -- Chapter 18: Skill Building for Career Advancement: Public Speaking and Networking -- Chapter 19: Training Opportunities for a Career in the Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Industry/Sector.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction on Tuberculosis: Integrated Studies for a Complex Disease -- 2. Global Tuberculosis Epidemiology -- 3. Heterogeneity in Tuberculosis -- 4. The Unequivocal Relationship between Tuberculosis and Tobacco: Integration of Two Maladies -- 5. Relationship between Pre-existing Cancer and Tuberculosis -- 6. Laboratory Diagnosis of Tuberculosis -- 7. The Role of Diagnostic Microdevices in the Fight Against Tuberculosis -- 8. Immunodiagnostics of Tuberculosis: Recent Discoveries -- 9. Role of Bronchoscopy in Diagnostics and Treatment of Tuberculosis -- 10. Diagnosis of Childhood Tuberculosis in Low- and Middle-income Countries -- 11. Pediatric Tuberculosis: Current Evidence for Laboratory Diagnosis -- 12. A Multidisciplinary Approach Towards Finding and Treating All Tuberculosis Patients -- 13. Chemotherapy for Drug-Susceptible Tuberculosis -- 14. The Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Properties of Antitubercular Medications -- 15. Immune Approaches In Tuberculosis Treatment -- 16. Inhalation Therapy in Pulmonary Tuberculosis -- 17. Role of Micronutrients in Tuberculosis Management -- 18. Drug Resistance in Tuberculosis: Mechanisms, Diagnosis, New Responses, and the Need for An Integrated Approach -- 19. Resistance in Tuberculosis: Molecular Mechanisms and Modulation -- 20. Personalized Tuberculosis Care for Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis -- 21. Important Targets and Inhibitors of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis -- 22. P-type ATPases: A Relevant Component in Mycobacterium tuberculosis Viability -- 23. The Challenges of Antitubercular Drug Discovery -- 24. Exploring Decaprenylphosphoryl-β-D-ribose 2’-Epimerase 1 (DprE1): A Target for Anti-Tubercular Drugs -- 25. Energy Pathways in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis -- 26. Drug Discovery for Non-Tuberculous Mycobacteria: Recent Updates -- 27. Challenges for Contact Tracing and Tuberculosis Preventive Therapy Scale-up -- 28. Exploring Problematizations Underlying Tuberculosis Control Strategies: A Cross-Country Analysis of India and Kenya -- 29. Challenges in Prevention and Management of Tuberculosis -- 30. Tuberculosis in Contacts and Healthcare Workers -- 31. Tuberculosis Among People Who Use Drugs: Multilevel Considerations for Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment -- 32. Anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor-α Antagonists and Tuberculosis -- 33. Breast Tuberculosis -- 34. Central Nervous System Tuberculosis: Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, and Management -- 35. Pleural Tuberculosis -- 36. Ocular Tuberculosis -- 37. Ocular Tuberculosis: Biomarkers for Risk Stratification -- 38. Bone and Joint Tuberculosis -- 39. Abdominal Tuberculosis: Pathogenesis, Clinical Features, and Diagnosis -- 40. Bovine Tuberculosis at The Interface of Cattle, Wildlife, and Humans -- 41. Evolution and Molecular Characteristics of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis and Mycobacterium Bovis -- 42. Animal Tuberculosis: Gross Lesions and Anatomopathological Diagnosis -- 43. Estimation of Microbial Mutation Rates in Tuberculosis Research -- 44. The Role of Epigenetics in the Development of Anti-Tuberculosis Drug Resistance -- 45. Multiomics Integration of Tuberculosis Pathogenesis -- 46. Lung Microbiome in Tuberculosis -- 47. The Correlation of Microbiota and Host Epigenome in Tuberculosis -- 48. The Pathogenesis and Progression of Sarcoidosis from The Standpoint of Tuberculosis -- 49. Tuberculosis: A Historical and Global Bioethical Perspective -- 50. The Problem of Tuberculosis: Myths, Stigma, and Mimics -- 51. Tuberculosis: Integrated Studies for a Complex Disease 2050.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction. The Lake Charr: Biology, Ecology, Distribution, and Management -- Distribution -- Paleoecology -- Ecological Diversity -- Genetic Diversity -- Habitat -- Movement Ecology and Behavior -- Life History and Population Dynamics -- Trophic Ecology -- Reproduction -- Contaminants and Ecotoxicology -- A General, Life History Based Model for Sustainable Exploitation of Lake Charr across their Range -- Terminology Issues in Lake Charr Early Development.

Description / Table of Contents: Part 1 Introduction to Microbial Engineering -- 1 Exploring the Potential of Microbial Engineering: The Prospect, Promise and Essence -- Part 2 Microbial Engineering Approaches -- 2 Role of System Biology in Microbial System -- 3 Synthetic Biology: Refining Human Health -- 4 Probiotic Engineering: A focus on Inflammatory Bowel Disease -- 5 Engineering microbes for smart diagnostics & Lab on Chip -- 6 Bacteriophage and Virus Engineering -- 7 CRISPR Technologies: A tool for Engineering Microbes -- Part 3 Health Benefits -- 8 Recombinant Vaccines: The Revolution Ahead -- 9 Microbe-Host Metabolic Interaction- Probiotic Approach -- 10 Designer Microbes: Oncotherapy approach -- 11 The human gut microbiome in health, disease and therapeutics -- 12 Use of Engineered Bacteria for Production of Green Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals -- 13 Fat Fighting Microbes. Part 4 Innovation & Translation -- 14 Scale-up of engineering strain for industrial applications -- 15 Affordable therapeutics through Engineered Microbes -- 16 COVID-19: Lesson Learnt from Diagnostics to therapeutics. .

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1_Introduction to NanoScience, NanoTechnology, and NanoParticles -- Chapter 2_NanoScience and Bioprospecting -- Chapter 3_Nanomaterials and their use in Biomedicine -- Chapter 4_Nano scaffolds and Tissue Engineering -- Module 5_NanoScience Research in Regenerative Medicine -- Chapter 6_Nanomaterials in Food: Probiotics -- Chapter 7_Eco-compatible Single format Nanobioantibody -- Chapter 8_ NanoScience and DNA barcoding.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I. Introduction -- Using the Concepts and Tools of Social Ecological Systems and Ecosystem Services to Advance the Practice of Ecosystem-Based Management -- Part II. Foundational Concepts -- Advancing Aquatic Ecosystem-Based Management with Full Consideration of the Social-Ecological System -- Ecosystem-Based Management: Moving from Concept to Practice -- From DPSIR the DAPSI(W)R(M) Emerges… a Butterfly – ‘protecting the natural stuff and delivering the human stuff’ -- The Promise and Pitfalls of Ecosystem Services Classification and Valuation -- Approaches for Estimating the Supply of Ecosystem Services: Concepts for Ecosystem-Based Management in Coastal and Marine Environments -- The Final Ecosystem Goods & Services (FEGS) Approach: A Beneficiary-Centric Method to Support Ecosystem-Based Management -- Part III. Tools and Techniques -- Ecosystem-Based Management and Natural Capital Accounting -- Establishing a Common Framework for Strategic Communications in Ecosystem-Based Management and the Natural Science -- Prioritizing Stakeholders, Beneficiaries, and Environmental Attributes: A Tool for Ecosystem-Based Management -- Linkage Frameworks: An Exploration Tool for Complex Systems in Ecosystem-Based Management -- Projecting Changes to Coastal and Estuarine Ecosystem Goods and Services – Models and Tools -- An Integrated Multi-Model Decision Support Framework for Evaluating Ecosystem-Based Management Options for Coupled Human-Natural Systems -- Mathematical Modeling for Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM) and Ecosystem Goods and Services (EGS) Assessment -- The Ecosystem Services Gradient: A Descriptive Model for Identifying Levels of Meaningful Change -- Rapid Benefit Indicator Tools -- Part IV. Governance -- The Ecosystem Approach in International Marine Environmental Law and Governance -- Ecosystem-Based Management (EBM) and Ecosystem Services in EU Law, Policy and Governance -- Ecosystem Services in U.S. Environmental Law and Governance for the Ecosystem-Based Management Practitioner -- Unravelling the Relationship between Ecosystem-Based Management, Integrated Coastal Zone Management And Marine Spatial Planning -- Part V. Case Studies -- Models and Mapping Tools to Inform Resilience Planning After Disasters: A Case Study of Hurricane Sandy and Long Island Ecosystem Services -- Ecosystem-Based Management to Support Conservation and Restoration Efforts in the Danube Basin -- Combining Methods to Establish Potential Management Measures for Invasive Species Elodea nutallii in Lough Erne Northern Ireland -- Mitigating Negative Unintended Impacts on Biodiversity in the Natura 2000 Vouga Estuary (Ria de Aveiro, Portugal) -- Ecosystem-Based Management for More Effective and Equitable Marine Protected Areas: A Case Study on the Faial-Pico Channel Marine Protected Area, Azores -- Using Stakeholder Engagement, Translational Science and Decision Support Tools for Ecosystem-Based Management in the Florida Everglades -- Remediation to Restoration to Revitalization: Engaging Communities to Support Ecosystem-Based Management and Improve Human Wellbeing at Clean-up Sites -- Predicting Future Vegetated Landscapes Under Climate Change: Application of the Environmental Stratification Methodology to Protected Areas in the Lower Mekong Basin.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Millets-an Overview -- Chapter 2. Millet Cultivation an Overview -- Chapter 3. Millet Storage and Pest Management -- Chapter 4. Major Millets Processing -- Chapter 5. Minor millet processing and its impacts on composition -- Chapter 6. Chemistry of Millets: Major and Minor Constituents -- Chapter 7. Nutritional properties of millets: neglected cereals with potentials to combat malnutrition -- Chapter 8. Post-harvest Treatments and Storage of millets -- Chapter 9. Millet Milling Technologies -- Chapter 10. Effect of Processing on Functional Characteristics, Physiochemical Properties, and Nutritional Accessibility of Millets -- Chapter 11. Emerging Technologies in Millet Processing -- Chapter 12. Millet Food Products -- Chapter 13. Byproducts from Millet Processing Industry -- Chapter 14. Quality Standards for Millets -- Chapter 15. Millet Industry Scenario -- Chapter 16. Toxins in Millets.-.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. The tumor microenvironment -- Chapter 2. Methods of formulation of polymeric nanoparticles -- Chapter 3. Natural polymers based nanoparticles targeted to solid tumors -- Chapter 4. Optimization of physicochemical properties of polymeric nanoparticles for targeting solid tumors -- Chapter 5. Passive and active targeting approaches for solid tumors -- Chapter 6. Polymeric nanoparticles entrapping natural drugs for cancer therapy -- Chapter 7. Polymeric nanoparticles entrapping drug combinations targeted to solid tumors -- Chapter 8. Ligands specific to over-expressed receptors in solid tumors -- Chapter 9. Ligand targeted polymeric nanoparticles for cancer chemotherapy -- Chapter 10. Polymeric nanoparticles as theranostics for targeting solid tumors -- Chapter 11. Oral delivery of polymeric nanoparticles for solid tumors -- Chapter 12. Polymeric nanoparticles to target glioblastoma tumors -- Chapter 13. Polymeric nanoparticles to target lung cancer -- Chapter 14. Polymer based nanoplatforms for targeting breast cancer -- Chapter 15. PH-Sensitive polymeric nanoparticles for cancer treatment -- Chapter 16. Polymeric nanoplatforms for targeted treatment of prostate cancer -- Chapter 17. Cellular internalization and toxicity of polymeric nanoparticles -- Chapter 18. Prospects and challenges in the treatment of solid tumors.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction on Integrated Science of Global Epidemics -- Emerging Viral Infections in Human Population -- One Health as An Integrated Approach: Perspectives from Public Services for Mitigation of Future Epidemics -- Multipronged Approach to Combat COVID-19: Lessons from Previous Pandemics for the Future -- Response to Disease Outbreaks in Africa: A Call to Build Resilient Health Systems -- Navigating Global Public Influenza Surveillance Systems for Reliable Forecasting -- Three Respiratory Syndrome Epidemics (SARS, MERS, COVID-19) in Two Decades: Clinical Epidemiological Considerations -- Epidemic in Complex Networks and Some Ideas About the Impact of Isolation Strategies in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic -- Optimal Control: Application and Applicability in Times of Pandemics -- Analysis of A COVID-19 Model Implementing SocialDistancing as An Optimal Control Strategy -- Impact of Policy Implementations on the Propagation of COVID-19 Before Vaccine -- Environmental Factors Associated with Global Pandemic Transmission and Morbidity -- Urbanization and the Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases: Towards the Social Framing of Global Responses -- Pandemics and Mass Casualties: Cornerstones of Management -- Social Marketing Contributions to Mitigate Global Epidemics -- The Significance of Super Intelligence of Artificial Intelligence Agencies in the Social Savageries of COVID-19: An Appraisal -- Integration of Sex and Gender Approaches in National Ethics Committees’ Mandate to Appraise COVID-19 Research Protocols: Lessons from West Africa -- Psychology, Law, Ethics, Telehealth, and the Global Pandemic -- Physical Inactivity, Sedentarism, and Low Fitness: A Worldwide Pandemic for Public Health -- The Global Epidemic of Diabesity: Are We Heading for An Unsustainable Future? -- Nutrition, Function, and Quality of Life in Older Adults Socially Isolated Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Focus on Telehealth Interventions -- Africa’s Response to Pandemics -- Vaccine Hesitancy and Refusal: History, Causes, Mitigation Strategies -- Vaccine Compliance versus Trust in a Pandemic -- Child Development in A Crisis: A Pandemic -- HIV/AIDS Problems and Policies in Adolescent Population -- Addressing Needs of Foreign Schoolchildren to Combat a Global Epidemic of Dengue Virus Infection: Transnational and Trans-sectoral Initiatives -- Integrated Science of Global Epidemics 2050.

Description / Table of Contents: Section I – Introduction to Spermatology Symposium -- Chapter 1. The XIIIth International Symposium on Spermatology -- Chapter 2. Fifty Years of the Spermatology Symposium -- Chapter 3. Spermatology in Sweden -- Section II – Are Sperm at the Verge of Extinction? -- Chapter 4. Temporal trends in human sperm counts: Findings and implications -- `Chapter 5. Is Decreasing Sperm Concentrations a Sign of a General Decay in Fertility Potential? -- Chapter 6. Environmental toxicants and sperm production in men and animals -- Section III – Sperm DNA – protection and delivery of a complete and undamaged genome? -- Chapter 7. Post-testicular sperm DNA oxidation: what to be afraid of? -- Chapter 8. Sperm as a possible source of transgenerational epimutations and genetic instability -- Chapter 9. Complex population of chromatin-associated proteins identified in mature sperm of the European sea bass (Dicentrarchuslabrax) through high-throughput proteomic analysis -- Chapter 10. Does Cinnamtannin B-1 protects or destabilize sperm DNA? Contradictory results of SCSA® and TUNEL Invited presentations -- Chapter 11. Peripubertal serum dioxin concentrations and sperm methylome of young Russian adults -- Chapter 12. Sperm DNA fragmentation in human split ejaculates -- Section IV - Sperm Competition, Evolution and Sperm-Egg Interaction -- Chapter 13. The sexual cascade: evolutionary dynamics of sperm competition -- Chapter 14. Genotype-phenotype associations in relation to evolution of sperm form and function -- Chapter 15. From mouse to human: New aspects of sperm transport and fertilization using cutting edge technologies -- Chapter 16. First Snapshot of How Sperm Binds the Egg at the Molecular Level -- Chapter 17. The Typical and Atypical Centrioles and Their Potential Roles in the Sperm and Embryo -- Chapter 18. Adaptive modifications of the regulation of sperm motility in the diversification of reproductive modes of amphibians -- Section V - Genetic aspects of sperm production and performance and its effects on the offspring -- Chapter 19. When cilia go bad - the complex genetics of ciliopathies -- Chapter 20. Within-Ejaculate Sperm Selection and its Implications for Assisted Reproduction Technologies -- Chapter 21. Requirements for informative and robust computational measures of sperm motility -- Chapter 22. Effect of cryopreservation on the genome of sperm in animal and humans -- Chapter 23. Mutations in the CFAP-coding Genes Lead to Male Infertility with Multiple Morphological Abnormalities of the Sperm Flagella -- Chapter 24. The mouse-specific Gly-to-Cys mutation in mammalian acrosin is a cause of impairment in proteolytic activity -- Chapter 25. Chemical and genetic approaches to identify C. elegans spermiogenesis-related factors -- Section V -CASA - Advances and Challenges -- Chapter 26. CASA in the clinical andrology laboratory -- Chapter 27. Process and Data Management of Casa in Animal Spermatozoa -- Chapter 28. Relationship between flagellar movement and head trajectory at higher frame rates-is this still a valid approach for CASA? -- Chapter 29. CASA a Suitable tool for epidemiology and reprotox studies -- Section VI -Challenges for Sperm Function In Vitro -- Chapter 30. Common challenges for sperm in vitro- causes and consequences -- Chapter 31. Main effects of in vitro manipulation of spermatozoa -- Chapter 32. Effect of Melatonin on Capacitation and Ca2+ Distribution in Red Deer Spermatozoa -- Chapter 33. Unravelling the signal transduction pathways of novel mitochondrial peroxiporins in activated piscine spermatozoa -- Chapter 34. Prolonged chilled preservation and preliminary investigations of energy production of koala (Phascolarctos cinereus) spermatozoa -- Chapter 35. Sperm motion and metabolism in physiological conditions -- Chapter 36. Gametes collision in fresh water fish: evidences of guidance and selection -- Chapter 37. Lectin-binding pattern changes on the bovine sperm after differently induced process of capacitation -- Section VII -Heterogeneity of Sperm Morphology and Laboratory Techniques to Overcome Assessment Challenges -- Chapter 38. Have we conquered sperm morphology analysis in different mammalian species as analysed by CASMA? -- Chapter 39. Progress with sperm morphology evaluation after the strict criteria prognosis groups era due to the introduction of the new lower reference limit values for semen parameters of the 2010 WHO manual -- Chapter 40. A structured assessment for the assessment of human sperm morphology -- Chapter 41. On the Indispensability for Standardization of the Basic Examination of Human Semen -- Chapter 42. A simple but dramatic technical improvement in the Diff Quik stain protocol used for preparing specimens for sperm morphology evaluation (Improved Diff Quik stain protocol for preparation of sperm morphology evaluation specimens) -- Section VII - Fertility and Infertility -- Chapter 43. Intracellular Viruses Identification in Sperm Assay of Patients with Fertility problems -- Chapter 44. Association between vitamin D intake and vitamin D status with semen parameters among young men in Southern Spain -- Chapter 45. Single cell analysis of intracellular calcium signalling of patient sperm and its relation to IVF success -- Chapter 46. Sperm from a patient with a homozygous in-frame deletion in CATSPERE lack functional CatSper expression and fail to fertilise at IVF -- Chapter 47. Changes in pattern of protein phosphorylation in bull testicular and epididymal sperm -- Chapter 48. Proteomics and biomarker identification in improved sperm motility parameters after 4 h of ejaculatory abstinence -- Chapter 49. HSP90A may control spermatogenesis of Asian elephant (Elephas maximus) cryptorchid testes -- Chapter 50. Improved sperm function in human sperm subpopulations: a model for studying subfertility -- Chapter 51. Absence of BSP protein have not important effect on male infertility. .

Description / Table of Contents: Diversity, Distribution, and Biology of Sea Cucumber -- Nutritional Components of Sea Cucumber and the Biochemical Characteristics of Autolytic Enzymes -- The Functional Components of Sea Cucumber and their Nutritional and Biological Activities -- Traditional Processing Technologies and Products of Sea Cucumber: Historical Review -- The Pretreatment Technology of Raw Sea Cucumber and New Processing Technology of Salted Sea Cucumber -- The New Processing Technology of Dried Sea Cucumber Products -- Ready-to-Eat Sea Cucumber Products and Collagen Stabilization Technology -- The Extraction, Separation Technology and New Product Development of Sulfated Polysaccharides from Sea Cucumber -- The Extraction, Separation Technology and New Product Development of Functional Lipids from Sea Cucumber -- The Extraction, Separation Technology and New Product Development of Collagen Peptides from Sea Cucumber -- The Quality Management Systems and Standards of Sea Cucumber Products -- Food Safety Issues and Regulatory Requirements of Sea Cucumber Products and Their Internationalization.

Description / Table of Contents: Section I: Understanding Grant Writing: What is your Aim (Ambition-Interest-Mission), and what you want to do -- What is a grant? How to prepare for writing a grant proposal application -- Funders Perspective: What the funding body expects from researchers? -- Funding organizations for science and healthcare -- Obtaining letters of support -- Section II: The process for grant writing: Writing a Grant Proposal for a Single Centre Study: step-by-step approach -- Budgeting the project-detailing the required funding and expenditure -- Proving the competency of the researcher and the adequacy of the infrastructure to carry out the research -- Agreement and MOU – ethical and legal aspects of funding for healthcare research -- Write an impressive cover page (Covering letter) and abstract for the grant proposal application -- Surveillance plan and site visit – Roles and rights of the researcher and the funding agency -- Sources of funding and acknowledgment – Good Clinical Practice Guidelines -- Writing a grant proposal for a Collaborative study -- Checklist for grant proposal – Mandatory elements -- Tips for improvising the chance of getting the grant -- Dealing with The Rejected Grant Proposal- Learning From The Mistakes -- Section III: Grant writing for specific regional funding organizations: Preparing a grant proposal for medical research in the UK -- Preparing a grant proposal for the USA -- Preparing a Grant Proposal for Australia -- Proposal Writing for Grant Application in Malaysia -- Grant writing for other Asian countries.

Description / Table of Contents: Overload of Medical Documentation: A Disincentive for Healthcare Professionals -- Epidemiologic Benefits of Pneumococcal Vaccine Introduction into Preventive Vaccination Programs -- Serum Vitamin D and Immunogenicity of Influenza Vaccination in the Elderly -- Influenza A (H1N1) and Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) Coinfection in a Newborn Child: A Case Report -- Thoracic Manifestation of Granulomatosis with Polyangiitis: A Case Report -- The Natural Course of Impaired Fasting Glucose -- Oleosins: A Short Allergy Review -- Shortage of Physicians: A Critical Review -- Fluid Therapy in Patients Undergoing Abdominal Surgery: A Bumpy Road Towards Individualized Management -- Manual Pressure Release and Low-Grade Electrical Peripheral Receptor Stimulation in Nonspecific Low Back Pain: A Randomized Controlled Trial -- Human Inhalation Study with Zinc Oxide: Analysis of Zinc Levels and Biomarkers in Exhaled Breath Condensate. Cognitive Function After Lung Transplantation.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Geological history and transition of the biota of Lake Biwa -- 2. Biodiversity of Lake Biwa -- 3. Ecological changes in Lake Biwa -- 4. History of the relationship between people and Lake Biwa -- 5.The use of Lake Biwa and people’s lifestyle -- 6. Evolving issues toward improvement of Lake Biwa – Yodo river basin governance -- 7. Environmental conservation of Lake Biwa.

Description / Table of Contents: Chance, Choice and Cichlids -- Frontiers in Cichlid Research: A History of Scientific Advancement -- Ecological Opportunity, Genetic Variation, and the Origins of African Cichlid Radiations -- Evolution in the Fast Lane: Diversity, Ecology, and Speciation of Cichlids in the lower Congo River -- Neotropical Riverine Cichlids: Adaptive Radiation and Macroevolution at Continental Scales -- Sympatric and Allopatric Diversification in the Adaptive Radiation of Midas Cichlids in Nicaraguan Lakes -- The Consequences of Anthropogenic Stressors on Cichlid Fish Communities: Revisiting Lakes Victoria, Kyoga, and Nabugabo -- Rapid Evolutionary Responses in Cichlids: Genetics of Adaptation, Morphology and Taxonomic Implications -- Identifying and Conserving Tilapiine Cichlid Species in the 21st Century -- Introduced Cichlids in the Americas: Distribution Patterns, Invasion Ecology, and Impacts -- The Evolutionary Ecology of Cichlid Vision -- The Mechanosensory Lateral Line System of Cichlid Fishes: From Anatomy to Behavior -- Sonic Cichlids -- The Evolution of Enhanced Cichlid Hearing: Functional Morphology and the Role of Ecoacoustical Factors -- Parental Care in Cichlid Fishes -- Cichlids as a model system for studying social behaviour and evolution -- Integrative Neurobiology of Social Behavior in Cichlid Fish -- Respiratory Ecology of Cichlids -- Feeding Ecology of Lake Tanganyika Cichlids -- Patterns of Trophic Evolution: Integration and Modularity of the Cichlid Skull -- An Evo-devo View of Post-genomic African Cichlid Biology: Enhanced Models for Evolution and Biomedicine.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. The historical studies underpinning the concept of hair follicle neogenesis (Higgins C, Jahoda C) -- Chapter 2. Hair regeneration and rejuvenation: pipeline of medical and technical strategies (Limbu S, Kemp P) -- Chapter 3. Cells and structures involved in hair follicle regeneration: an introduction (Tsai J, Garza LA) -- Chapter 4. The dermal papilla and hair follicle regeneration: Engineering strategies to improve dermal papilla inductivity (Pantelireis N, Clavel C) -- Chapter 5. Dermal sheath and hair follicle regeneration (Yoshida Y, Tsuboi K, Kishimoto J) -- Chapter 6. Epithelial-mesenchymal interactions between hair follicles and dermal adipose tissue (Ramos R, Plikus MV) -- Chapter 7. Lymphatic vasculature and hair follicle regeneration (Cazorla A, Perez-Moreno M) -- Chapter 8. In vitro and ex vivo hair follicle models to explore therapeutic options for hair regeneration (Bertolini M, Piccini I, McElwee KJ) -- Chapter 9. Extracellular vesicles including exosomes for hair follicle regeneration (Aberdam E, le Riche A, Bordes S, Closs B, Park BS, Aberdam D) -- Chapter 10. Stem cell-based therapies for hair loss: what is the evidence from a clinical perspective? (Park BS, Choi HI) -- Chapter 11. Induced pluripotent stem cell approach for hair follicle regeneration (Pinto A, Terskikh AV) -- Chapter 12. Biofabrication technologies in hair neoformation (Abreu CM, Gasperini L, Marques AP) -- Chapter 13. Wound healing induced hair follicle regeneration (Jiang Y, Myung P) -- Chapter 14. Hair follicles in wound healing and skin remodeling (Plotczyk M, Jimenez F) .

Description / Table of Contents: Part I What is Molecular Hydrogen Medicine? -- Chapter 1 The power of hydrogen molecules uncovered -- Chapter 2 Development of Molecular Hydrogen Medicine -- Chapter 3 From the front-line of research – Interviews -- Chapter 4 Physiological effects of the hydrogen molecule -- Chapter 5 Some fundamental properties of hydrogen and water -- Chapter 6 Functions of heavy water in living organisms -- Chapter 7 The future of Molecular Hydrogen Medicine -- Part II Tracing the History of Life and Hydrogen -- Chapter 8 The genesis of life in the world of hydrogen, Eons ago- Chapter 9 Drastic changes of living organisms in the oxygen age -- Chapter 10 Since the appearance of humans.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I - Tropical and Subtropical Brazilian Coastal Zone -- 1. Brazilian Coastal Zone: Mangroves and Salt Marshes -- 2. Zonation and succession of mangrove and salt marsh ecosystems: typical and associated vegetation species -- Part II - The Mangrove Ecosystem -- 3. Variability of Mangroves along the Brazilian Coast -- 4. Ecophysiological and phenology aspects of mangrove species on the Brazilian coast -- 5. Genetic and epigenetic diversity of mangrove plants: markers of adaptation in a changing environment -- 6. A Review on litterfall in Brazilian mangroves -- Part III - The Salt Marsh Ecosystem -- 7. Brazilian salt marshes -- Part IV - The Mangroves and Salt Marshes Associates -- 8. Microbial diversity and microbial food chain -- 9. Brazilian mangrove and salt marsh macroalgal communities -- 10. Invertebrates: Ecology macro and meiofauna associated with mangroves and marshes Brazilian -- 11. Biodiversity, ecology and socioeconomic importance of brachyuran crabs from Brazilian mangroves and salt marshes -- 12. Fish composition in mangroves and salt marshes along the Brazilian coast -- 13. Birds associated with mangroves and salt marshes in Brazil -- 14. Marine mammals and mangroves and mangroves and salt marshes in Brazil: past, present and potencial scenarios -- Part V - Conservation Strategies -- 15. Historical ecology of mangroves: investigating the past to conserve the future -- 16. Economic valuation as a tool for conservation of the Brazilian marine biodiversity of mangrove and salt marsh ecosystems -- 17. Mangrove protected areas in Brazil: controversies and perspectives -- 18. Contributions of environmental education to mangrove conservation -- 19. Magrove and salt marsh ecosystems: what to expect from climate changes -- 20. Coastal zone adaptive management -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Age-Rage Stress In The Pathophysiology Of Atherosclerosis And Its Treatment -- Chapter 2. Stem Cells In Dermatology: What The Future May Hold -- Chapter 3. Current Advances And Future Avenues In Endocrinology -- Chapter 4. Autologous Conditioned Serum In Lumbar And Cervical Radiculopathy: A Systematic Review -- Chapter 5. Bench To Bedside In Ophthalmology -- Chapter 6. Rapid Eye Movement In Sleep And Dream Sleep -- Chapter 7. Novel Cellular-Stress Models With Implications In Understanding And Treating Ent Pathologies -- Chapter 8. Respiratory Disorders : Contemporary Issues In 2020 -- Chapter 9. Discovery Of Hepatitis Viruses And Two Nobel Prizes : A Tale Of Observations Serendipity Collaboration Research Institute Inter Predated And Game Changing Innovation. Chapter 10. Conventional And Modern Approaches For Clinical And Laboratory Diagnosis Of Tuberculosis -- Chapter 11. Gut Microbes In Cardiovascular Diseases -- Chapter 12. Heart Failure – Future Perspectives -- Chapter 13. IL-10 : A Key Molecular In The Mitigation Of Heart Failure -- Chapter 14. Gene Therapy In Liver Disease : Challenges And Outcomes -- Chapter 15. Interrupting Crystal To Calculus Conversion : The Future Of Research In Urolithiasis -- Chapter 16. Stem Cells – Medical Marvel In Management Of Kidney Diseases -- Chapter 17. Deciphering The Code Of Male Infertility : Genetic Tests, Counselling And Molecular Basis Of Spermatogenic Failure -- Chapter 18. Translational Epidemiology In Cancer Research : The Less Travelled Path -- Chapter 19. Adenosine Pathway In Genitourinary Malignancies: A Promising Immunotherapeutic Target -- Chapter 20. Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors In Cancer Therapy: A Ray Of Hope -- Chapter 21. Recent Developments In The Immunotherapeutic Approaches For Cancer Treatment. Chapter 22. Thrombotic Complications In Women : Risks And Prevention -- Chapter 23. Biomedical Science And Women Health -- Chapter 24. Advances In The Role Of Macronutrients In Human Health And Diseases.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Metabolism of endogenous H2S and its metabolites -- A common molecular switch for H2S to regulate multiple protein targets -- The protective role of H2S in the heart -- The proangiogenic effects of H2S -- H2S and the immune system -- Protection of H2S on the neurons -- The role of H2S in the metabolism of glucose and lipids -- Regulation of the ion channels by H2S -- The epigenetic mechanisms for H2S signalling -- The development of H2S donor.

Description / Table of Contents: Standing up to Climate Change ̶ Creating Prospects for a Sustainable Future in Rural Iran -- Part I. Water and Land Use Challenges in Iran -- Water Resources and Water Security in the MENA Region -- Water Management in Iran: Appearance and Reality -- Contemporary Water Resource Management and Its Role in Tackling Land Degradation and Desertification in Iran -- Part II. Water and Land Use Challenges in the Zayandeh Rud Basin -- Zayandeh Rud River Basin: A Region of Economic and Social Relevance in the Central Plateau of Iran -- Returning Periods of Drought and Climate Change in the Zayandeh Rud River Basin -- Hydrological Modelling of Spatial and Temporal Changes of Blue and Green Water Resources in the Zayandeh Rud River Basin -- Part III. Water and Land Use Challenges in the Roodasht Region -- Realizing the Dynamic of Water Scarcity, Land Use Change and Environmental Degradation in Roodasht, Iran -- Structural Evolution of the Zayandeh Rud River Basin Based on Historical Climate Changes -- Evaluation of Lead and Cadmium Contamination in the Zayandeh Rud River -- Dust Production Crisis Following the Recent Droughts in the Eastern Part of the Zayandeh Rud River Basin -- Part IV. Possible Solutions for the Region -- Participatory Development of Strategies for the Transformation of Agriculture in the Zayandeh Rud River Basin -- Environmental Capacity Building Program for the Residents of the Zayandeh Rud Basin -- Adaptive Land and Water Management: A Regional Action Plan for Roodasht to Cope with Climate Change -- A Short Ecological History of Varzaneh: Adaptive Responses to and Resilience Against the Adversity of Drought -- Determination of Net Water Requirement of Crops and Gardens in Order to Optimize the Management of Water Demand in Agricultural Sector -- Increasing Water and Energy Productivity via Replacing Abiotic Stress Tolerant Forages in East of Zayandeh Rud River Basin.

Description / Table of Contents: Part One: Basic Concepts in Precision Oncology -- Chapter 1. Design and Implementation of a precision oncology workflow -- Chapter 2. An overview of cancer genome sequencing -- Chapter 3. Software infrastructures for precision medicine workflows -- Part Two: Current Computational Methods and Tools in Precision Oncology -- Chapter 4. Somatic and germline variant calling from next-generation sequencing data -- Chapter 5. Identification of copy number alterations from next-generation sequencing data -- Chapter 6. Genome-wide discovery of large-scale structural variants from next-generation sequencing data -- Chapter 7. Assessment of microsatellite instability from next-generation sequencing data -- Chapter 8. Computational approaches for the investigation of intra-tumor heterogeneity and clonal evolution from bulk sequencing data -- Chapter 9. Analysis of the transcriptome for precision oncology applications -- Chapter 10. Computational methods for drug repurposing -- Chapter 11. Pathway for analysis for precision oncology applications -- Chapter 12. Identification of fusion transcripts from RNA-seq -- Chapter 13. Computational resources for the interpretation of variations in cancer -- Chapter 14. Analysis of electronic health records for precision oncology -- Chapter 15. Network approaches for precision oncology -- Chapter 16. Experimental validation of genomic alterations -- Part Three: Advanced Concepts - The Future of Precision Oncology -- Chapter 17. Molecular profiling of liquid biopsies for precision oncology -- Chapter 18. Artificial intelligence for precision oncology -- Chapter 19. Single-cell technologies in precision oncology -- Chapter 20. Computational approaches for precision immuno-oncology -- Chapter 21. Multi-pmics profiling of the tumor microenvironment -- Chapter 22. Epigenetic and precision oncology -- Chapter 23. Next generation knowledge bases to support precision oncology. .