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Description / Table of Contents: 1. Translational Neuroscience of Speech and Language Disorders: State of the Art. -2. Translational Neuroscience of Aphasia and Adult Language Rehabilitation. -3. Treatment and intervention approaches for the improvement of language abilities in neurodegenerative diseases -- 4. Neural and Genetic Mechanisms of Dyslexia -- 5. The role of memory systems in neurodevelopmental disorders of language -- 6. Transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) and Language/Speech: Can patients benefit from a combined therapeutic approach? -- 7. Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Aphasia Rehabilitation -- 8. The Cerebellum: A Therapeutic Target in Treating Speech and Language Disorders -- 9. Navigated rTMS for Mapping the Language Network in Preoperative Settings: Current Status and Future Prospects -- 10. Presurgical Language fMRI in Epilepsy: An Introduction -- 11. Lesion-symptom mapping in speech and language disorders: a translational perspective.

Description / Table of Contents: Neurosecretion: A Historical Overview -- Neurosecretion: Hypothalamic Somata versus Neurohypophysial Terminals -- Cyclic ADP-Ribose and Heat Regulate Oxytocin Release via CD38 and TRPM2 in the Hypothalamus -- Somato-Dendritic Secretion of Neuropeptides -- Neurosecretory Vesicles: Structure, Distribution, Release and Breakdown -- Molecular Controls on Regulated Neurotransmitter and Neurohormone Secretion -- Secretory Astrocytes -- Action Potential-Induced Ca2+ Influx for Both Acute and Sustained Insulin Secretion in Pancreatic Beta Cells -- Plasticity in the Morphology of Lactotrophs and Folliculo-Stellate Cells and Prolactin Secretion -- Neuroendocrine and Metabolic Regulation of Plasma Growth Hormone Secretory Profiles -- Role of the TWIK-Related Potassium (TREK)-1 Channels in the Regulation of Adrenocorticotropic Hormone (ACTH) Secretion from Pituitary Corticotropes -- How Do Bacterial Neurotoxins Affect Neurosecretion? -- Secretory Mechanisms in Paramecium.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Hairy Roots Biotechnology Unzipped: A Journey of Reality and Promises -- Chapter 2. Hairy Roots as a Source of Tropane Alkaloids -- Chapter 3. Induction, Metabolite Analysis and Transgenesis of Hairy Roots From Coleus Forskohlii -- Chapter 4. Establishment of Hairy Roots of Endangered Himalayan Plantswertiachirata: A Sustainable Alternative to Extraction from Nature -- Chapter 5. A Protocol for the Selection of Spontaneous Variants From Established Catharanthusroseus Hairy Root Cultures -- Chapter 6. Strategies for the Optimization of Culture Conditions for Increasing Metabolite Production Through Hairy Root Cultures. Monoterpenoid Indole Alkaloid Production in Catharanthus Roseus Hairy Roots -- Chapter 7. Protocol for Enhanced Withaferin-a Production in Elicited Withania Somnifera (l.)Dunal Hairy Root Cultures -- Chapter 8. Establishment of Hairy Root Cultures of Pentalinonandrieuxii for the Production of Betulinic Acid -- Chapter 9. Tropane Alkaloid Production by the Establishment Of Hairy Root Cultures of Brugmansia Candida and Elicitation -- Chapter 10. Elicitation as an Essential Strategy For Enhancing Anthraquinone Accumulation In Hairy Root Cultures of Rubia Tinctorum -- Chapter 11. Establishment of Hairy Root Cultures for the Production of Biopharmaceuticals and Optimization of Methods for Recombinant Protein Secretion In The Culture Medium -- Chapter 12. An Improved Protocol for Agrobacterium Rhizogenes-Mediated Transformation of Recalcitrant Plants for Root Biology Studies: A Case Study of Tea Plants (Camellia Sinensis Var. Sinensis) -- Chapter 13 Functional Analysis of Plant Genes Related to Arbuscular Mycorrhiza Symbiosis Using Agrobacterium Rhizogenes-Mediated Root Transformation and Hairy Root Production -- Chapter 14. Functional Characterization of Genes Involved in Legume Nodulation Using Hairy Root Cultures -- Chapter 15. Fluidigm Biomark Diagnostic Panel for Analysis of the Expression of Nicotiana Tabacum Genes, Associated with Alkaloid Synthesis. .

Description / Table of Contents: Ch 1: Listening to All Voices: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Understanding Hearing in Aging -- Ch 2: Genetic and Molecular Aspects of the Aging Auditory System -- Ch 3: The Aging Cochlea and Auditory Nerve -- Ch 4: Age-Related Changes in the Auditory Brainstem and Inferior Colliculus -- Ch 5: Age related changes in the primate auditory cortex -- Ch 6: The Aging Auditory System: Electrophysiology -- Ch 7: Age-Related Changes in Segregation of Sound Sources -- Ch 8: Causes and Consequences of Age-Related Hearing Loss -- Ch 9: Age-Related Changes in Speech Understanding: Peripheral versus Cognitive Influences -- Ch 10: Aging, Hearing Loss, and Listening Effort: Imaging Studies of the Aging Listener -- Ch 11: Functional Consequences of Impaired Hearing in Older Adults and Implications for Intervention -- Ch 12: Emerging Clinical Translational Treatment Strategies for Age-Related Hearing Loss.

Description / Table of Contents: Photonic crystals for biomolecule sensing applications -- Recent advances in Surface Plasmon Resonance for biosensing applications and future prospects -- Surface-enhanced Raman Scattering for biology and medicine -- Nanophotonic techniques for single cell analysis -- Biointerface Characterization by Nonlinear Optical Spectroscopy -- Chemiluminescence and its biomedical applications -- Luminescent Conjugated Polymer Dots for Biomedical Applications -- Dark-Field Hyperspectral Imaging (DF-HSI) Modalities for Characterization of Single Molecule and Cellular Processes -- Additive Manufacturing Technologies based on Photopolymerization.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Preliminaries -- Fuzzy spatial objects (fuzzy geometry and topology, set theoretic operations) -- Mathematical morphology -- Distances and similarities between fuzzy sets -- Machine learning in image processing and understanding -- Fusion -- Spatial relations -- Structural representations.

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: Part I: HISTORY -- Chapter 1: Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy: from its beginnings to Daniel Carleton Gajdusek -- Part II: GENERAL ASPECTS OF PRIONS -- Chapter 2: The Rich Chemistry of the Copper and Zinc Sites in Cellular Prion Protein -- Chapter 3: Mammalian Prion Structures -- Chapter 4: Insoluble Cellular Prion Protein and Other Neurodegeneration-related Misfolded Protein Aggregates in the Brain of Asymptomatic Individuals -- Part III: CONVERSION AND STRAIN OF PRIONS -- Chapter 5: Prion Conversion and Deformed Templating -- Chapter 6: Prion Strain Interference -- Chapter 7: Molecular Mechanisms Encoding Strains of Prions and Prion-Like Misfolded Proteins -- Chapter 8: Cofactor Involvement in Prion Propagation -- Chapter 9: Prion Protein Conversion and Lipids -- Part IV: ENVIRONMENT AND TRANSMISSION OF PRIONS -- Chapter 10: Prions in the Environment -- Chapter 11: Environmentally Acquired Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy -- Chapter 12: Risk of Transmission of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease by Blood Transfusion -- Chapter 13: Species Barriers in Prion Disease -- Part V: MODELLING OF PRIONS -- Chapter 14: Modeling the Cell Biology of Prions -- Chapter 15: Transgenic Mice Modelling in Prion Diseases -- Chapter 16: Stem Cell Models in Prion Research -- Chapter 17: Drosophila Models of Prion Diseases -- Part VI: HUMAN PRION DISEASES AND OTHER PATHOLOGIES -- Chapter 18: Human Sporadic Prion Diseases -- Chapter 19 Genetic Creutzfeldt-Jakob and Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker Diseases -- Chapter 20: Glycoform-selective Prions in Sporadic and Inherited Variably Protease-sensitive Prionopathies -- Chapter 21: The Spectrum of Tau Pathology in Human Prion Disease -- Chapter 22: Prion Protein Complex with mGluR5 Mediates Amyloid-ß Synaptic Loss in Alzheimer’s Disease -- Chapter 23: Prion and Cancers -- Chapter 24: Protective Role of Cellular Prion Protein in Tissue Ischemic/Reperfusion Injury -- Part VII: ANIMAL PRION DISEASES -- Chapter 25: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy -- Chapter 26: Classical and Atypical Scrapie in Sheep and Goats -- Chapter 27: Research models for studying chronic wasting disease -- Part VIII: YEAST PRIONS -- Chapter 28: Introduction to Yeast and Fungal Prions -- Chapter 29: Yeast Prions Are Folded, In-Register Parallel Amyloids Subject to Multiple Anti-prion Systems -- Part IX: DIAGNOSIS AND HUMAN PRION SURVEILLANCE -- Chapter 30: Real-time quaking-induced conversion (QuIC) assays for the detection and diagnosis of human prion diseases -- Chapter 31: Protein Misfolding Cyclic Amplification -- Chapter 32: Skin Misfolded Proteins as Biomarkers for Diagnosis of Prion and Prion-like Diseases -- Chapter 33: Diagnosis of Prion Disease: Conventional Approaches -- Chapter 34: Human Prion Disease Surveillance -- Part X: TREATMENT -- Chapter 35: Overview on Treatment of Prion Diseases and Decontamination of Prions -- Chapter 36: Gene Therapy Strategies for Prophylactic and Therapeutic Treatments of Human Prion Diseases -- Chapter 37: Immunomodulation.

Description / Table of Contents: Part 1 -- Optically-Pumped Magnetometers Compatible with Large Transient Magnetic Fields -- Small animal biomagnetism applications -- Supine OPM-MEG in Multi-layer Cylindrical Shield -- Ambulatory MEG Arrays -- Part 2 -- "Tri-axial helium-4 optically-pumped -- magnetometers for MEG" -- Person-Sized Magnetoencephalography Systems with Optically Pumped Magnetometers -- On-scalp MEG with High-Tc SQUIDs -- "Fiber Coupled OPM in Purely Coil -- Shielded Environment" -- SERF-OPM usability for MEG in two-layer shielded rooms -- Turning OPM-MEG into a Wearable Technology -- Part 3 -- OPM Gradiometer for Magnetorelaxometry -- Unshielded High Bandwidth Magnetorelaxometry of Magnetic Nanoparticles with Optically Pumped Magnetometers -- Adult Magnetocardiography: Principles and Clinical Practice -- Fetal Magnetocardiography with OPMs -- Emerging MR sensors for biomagnetic measurements -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction Food and Brain -- 2. Food and Behavior -- 3. Food and Psychological Wellbeing -- 4. Food and Cognition -- 5. Autism and Food -- 6. Healthy Brains: Types of Food and their Active Pharmacological Ingredients -- 5. Dieting: Importance of Diet and Diet Types -- 6. Nutrigenomics -- 7. Epigenetics -- 8. Gut Microbiota (microbiome) -- 9. Personalized Nutrition -- 10. Vegetables -- 11. Fruits -- 12. Nuts, Seeds and Spices -- 13. Grains [Oats, Barley & Quinoa] -- 14. Seafood [fish like Salmon, Oyster, Sea vegetables (algae)] -- 15. Other -- 16. Autism Management through Food and Diet -- 17. Personalized Nutrition Therapy.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction: Fluorescent materials for cell imaging -- Chapter 2: Semiconductor quantum dots for cell imaging -- Chapter 3: Carbon nanodots for cell imaging -- Chapter 4: Silicon nanoparticles for cell imaging -- Chapter 5: Fluorescent metal nanoclusters for bioimaging -- Chapter 6: Lanthanide-based upconversion nanoparticles for bioimaging applications -- Chapter 7: Conjugated polymers and polymer dots for cell imaging -- Chapter 8: Aggregation-induced emission (AIE) probes for cell imaging -- Chapter 9: Luminescent coordination compounds for cell imaging.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Analgosedation -- Chapter 2. Inhalational Anesthetics -- Chapter 3. Intravenous Anesthetic Agents -- Chapter 4. Local Anesthetics -- Chapter 5. Neuromuscular Blocking Drugs (nmbds) -- Chapter 6. Reversal Agents and Antagonists -- Chapter 7. Anticholinergics -- Chapter 8. Anti-epileptic Drugs (aeds) -- Chapter 9. Osmotherapy -- Chapter 10. Antibiotics -- Chapter 11. Anti-viral -- Chapter 12. Antifungal -- Chapter 13. Anticoagulants and Antiplatelets -- Chapter 14. Glucocorticoids -- Chapter 15. Antihypertensives -- Chapter 16. Vasopressors -- Chapter17. Antipsychotics -- Chapter 18. Miscellaneous drugs. .

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: 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: Part 1. Microalgae in Food Product Development -- Chapter 1. Food and high value products from microalgae: market opportunities and challenges -- Chapter 2. Algae as a mainstream food ingredient: demand and supply perspective -- Chapter 3. Microalgae pigments: a source of natural food color -- Chapter 4. Algal biotechnology: a sustainable route for omega-3 fatty acids and carotenoids production -- Part 2. Microalgae in Health Product Development -- Chapter 5. Microalgae in human health and medicine -- Chapter 6. Astaxanthin production from microalgae -- Chapter 7. Microalgae nutraceuticals: the role of lutein in human health -- Part 3. Microalgae for Cosmetic Formulations -- Chapter 8. Algae and Aging -- Chapter 9. Extracts and bioactives from microalgae (sensu stricto): opportunities and challenges for a new generation of cosmetics -- Part 4. Other High Value Application -- Chapter 10. Microalgae as Vaccine Delivery System to Aquatic Organisms -- Chapter 11. Microalgal as a sustainable source for bioplastic -- Chapter 12. Microalgae as biofertillizer in modern agriculture -- Part 5. Biomass Production -- Chapter 13. Microalgae biomass production, drying and storage -- Chapter 14. Microalgal carbohydrate and proteins: synthesis, extraction, application and challenges -- Chapter 15. Pretreatment and lipid extraction from wet microalgae: Challenges, potential and application for industrial scale application.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1.Current Advances in Nanotechnology and Medicine -- Chapter 2. Least Explored Small Wonders: Nano-biotechnology -- Chapter 3. Modern Approaches in Nanomedicine for neuroAIDS and CNS drug delivery -- Chapter 4. Nanobiotechnology: Paving the way to personalized medicine -- Chapter 5. Nanomedicine in cancer stem cell therapy -- Chapter 6. Nanobiosensor: Current Trends and Applications -- Chapter 7. Transition Metal Oxide Nanoparticles: A New Horizon in Cancer Treatment -- Chapter 8. Nanomedicine meets microRNA expression and function in prostate cancer -- Chapter 9. Biomedical applications of Viral Nanoparticles in vaccine therapy -- Chapter 10. HIV: Biology to Nanomedicine -- Chapter 11. Current Advances in Phage Inspired Nanocarriers Based Therapy -- Chapter 12. Nanophytotherapeutic potential of Essential Oils against Candida infections -- Chapter 13. Molecular tests for the Diagnosis of Tuberculosis: Nanodiagnostics Approaches -- Chapter 14. Molecular Mechanisms of drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: Role of nanoparticles against Multi-Drug Resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) -- Chapter 15. Nano-Mass spectrometry (nano-MS) based lipidomics -- Chapter 16. Techniques to understand Mycobacterial Lipids and use of Lipid Based Nanoformulations for Tuberculosis Management -- Chapter 17. Recent trends and challenges in Patches for cardiac tissue reengineering: role of Nanomaterials -- Chapter 18. Cyclic dinucleotides: Big roles of small molecules and its role in nanotechnology and medicine -- Chapter 19. Antibodies: Biology to Therapeutics and its role in nanomedicine -- Chapter 20. Nanotoxicology in Medicine -- Chapter 21. Antibody-targeted nanoparticles for cancer treatment -- Chapter 22. Nanoparticle mediated combined photothermal and photodynamic therapy -- Chapter 23. Nanotechnology based devices and its applications in medicine- Chapter 24. Opportunities in clinical translation and commercialization of nanomedicine. .

Description / Table of Contents: Rodents -- Carnivores -- Sheep and goats -- Swine -- Rabbits -- Bovines -- Non-human primates -- Humans -- Squirrels.

Description / Table of Contents: Immobilization: Then and Now -- Cell immobilization strategies for tissue engineering: Recent trends and future perspectives -- Strategies and advancement in growth factor immobilizable ECM for tissue engineering -- Prospects Of Cell Immobilization In Cancer Research And Immunotherapy -- Nano systems for repairing retinal degeneration -- Systemic drug delivery to the posterior segment of the eye: Overcoming blood-retinal barrier through smart drug design and nanotechnology -- The effects of irradiation with cold atmospheric-pressure plasma on cellular function -- Immobilization of biomolecules on plasma functionalized surfaces for biomedical applications -- A wide portray of Upconversion-nanoparticles: surface modification for bio-applications -- Advances in Amphiphilic Assemblies and its Immobilization in Room Temperature Supercooled Matrices. .

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: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2.General Rules of Brain Morphogenesis in Vertebrates: An Hourglass Model -- Chapter 3.Neural Tube Formation -- Chapter 4.Subdivisions of Neural tube along the Dorsoventral Axis -- Chapter 5. Subdivisions of Neural Tube along the Rostrocaudal Axis: Neuromeric Models -- Chapter 6.Left-right Patterning of Neural Tube -- Chapter 7. Ventriculo-pial Patterning of Neural Tube -- Chapter 8.Development of Neural Circuits in Neural Tube -- Chapter 9.From Neural Tube to Larval Brain: Blood Vessels and Proliferative Zones -- Chapter 10. Development of Telencephalon -- Chapter 11. Development of Diencephalon, Optic Tectum, and Cerebellum -- Chapter 12. Nervous System in Medaka Larvae -- Chapter 13.From Larval Brain to Adult Brain and Summary of Telencephalic Ontogenesis -- Chapter 14. Adult Brain and General Brain Functions -- Chapter 15. Functional Neuroanatomy of Teleost Brains.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction to Acute, Chronic, and Episodic Pain -- Inflammation and Pain -- Animal Models of Pain and Anti-inflammatory Treatments -- Inflammatory Mediators, Nociceptors, and Their Interactions in Pain -- Immune and Glial Cells in Pain and Their Interactions with Nociceptive Neurons -- Sex Differences in Neuroimmune Interactions and Pain -- Neuroimmune Interactions in Itch -- Toll-like Receptors in Pain and Itch -- Immunotherapy and Pain -- Cell Therapy and Regenerative Pain Medicine - Preclinical Studies -- Cell-based Therapies in Pain Management -- Platelet-Rich Plasma and Autologous Conditioned Serum: Non-Cellular Biologic Therapies for Neuroimmune Modulation and the Treatment of Arthritis Pain -- Exercise and Diet in the Control of Inflammation and Pain -- Mechanism-Based Pain Therapies -- Neuromodulation in Pain Management -- What Patients Need to Know about Pain Therapy?.

Description / Table of Contents: Hematopoietic Stem Cells -- Mesenchymal Stem Cells -- Cord Blood Stem Cells -- Neural Stem Cells and Their Niche -- Skeletal Muscle Stem Cells -- Heart Muscle Tissue Engineering -- Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells -- Epigenetics of Somatic Cell Reprogramming -- Human Pluripotent Stem Cells and Neural Regeneration -- Dopaminergic Neuron-Related Stem Cells -- Liver Disease Modelling -- Organoids in Developmental Biology Research and Application -- Extracellular Vesicles -- Ethics in Stem Cell Applications.

Description / Table of Contents: Sleep: Basic and Historical Aspects -- Sleep: Findings in Invertebrates and Lower Vertebrates -- Sleep: Evolutionary and Adaptive Changes in Birds and Mammals -- Sleep Loss: What Does it do to our Brain and Body -- Sleep: Neural Optimization as An Ultimate Function for Memory Consolidation -- Sleep: Disorders and Clinical Implications.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Evolution of Artificial Heart Technology -- Chapter 2. Mechanisms of Heart Failure -- Chapter 3. Basis of Artificial Heart Technologies -- Chapter 4. Artificial Heart: Rotary Pump -- Chapter 5. Artificial Heart: Volume-Displacement Pump -- Chapter 6. Total Artificial Heart -- Chapter 7. Evaluation of Artificial Hearts -- Chapter 8. Selection of Artificial Heart Devices -- Chapter 9. Therapy Management of VADs -- Chapter 10. Challenges of Artificial Heart Devices -- Chapter 11. A Primary Study for Biocompatible Ventricular Assist Devices.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Using electrical stimulation to explore and augment the functions of parietal-frontal cortical networks in primates -- 2. Multi-system benefits of epidural stimulation following spinal cord injury. 3. Neurostimulator for hippocampal memory prosthesis -- 4. Modern approaches to augmenting the brain functions -- 5. Brain machine interfaces within a critical perspective -- 6. An implantable wireless device for ECoG and cortical stimulation -- 7. BCI Performance improvement by special low jitter quasi-steady State VEP paradigm -- 8. Communication with Brain-Computer Interfaces in Medical Decision-Making -- 9. Neuroprotection and neurocognitive augmentation by photobiomodulation -- 10. Avoiding partial sleep - the way for augmentation of brain function -- 11. Augmentation of brain functions by nanotechnology -- 12. The impact of ageing and age-related comorbidities on stroke outcome in animal models and humans -- 13. Diagnostic markers of sub-clinical depression based on functional connectivity -- 14. Transcranial magnetic stimulation in autism spectrum disorders: modulating brainwave abnormalities and behaviors -- 15. Neurofeedback training with concurrent psychophysiological monitoring in children with autism spectrum disorder with comorbid attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder -- 16. Augmentation through interconnection: brain-nets and telemedicine -- 17. Cognitive augmentation via a brain/cloud interface -- 18. Augmentation of neuro-marketing by neural technology -- 19. Augmentation of nutrition by nanotechnology -- 20. Neural spintronics: noninvasive augmentation of brain functions -- 21. Does the power to suppress an action make us free? -- 22. Deep brain stimulation for Parkinson’s disease-future directions for enhancing motor function -- 23. Neuromodulation for gait -- 24. Augmentation and rehabilitation with active orthotic devices -- 25. Effects of rTMS on behavioral and electrocortical measures of error monitoring and correction function in children with autism spectrum disorder -- 26. Affective Virtual Reality Gaming for Autism -- 27. A machine learning approach to automatic phobia therapy with virtual reality -- 28. Vision augmentation by pharmacological enhancement of the visual experience -- 29. Cognitive enhancing substances and the developing brain: risks and benefits -- 30. Pharmacological approaches in the augmentation and recovery of brain function.

Description / Table of Contents: Deep Learning in Medical Image Analysis -- Medical Image Synthesis via Deep Learning -- Deep Learning for Pulmonary Image Analysis: Classification, Detection, and Segmentation -- Deep Learning Computer Aided Diagnosis for Breast Lesion in Digital Mammogram -- Decision support system for lung cancer using PET/CT and microscopic images -- Lesion Image Synthesis using DCGANs for Metastatic Liver Cancer Detection -- Retinopathy analysis based on deep convolution neural network -- Diagnosis of Glaucoma on retinal fundus images using deep learning: detection of nerve fiber layer defect and optic disc analysis -- Automatic segmentation of multiple organs on 3D CT images by using deep learning approaches -- Techniques and Applications in Skin OCT Analysis -- Deep Learning Technique for Musculoskeletal Analysis -- Index.

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: Bacterial Endophytes: Diversity, Functional Importance, and Potential for Manipulation -- Rhizosphere Carbon Turnover from Cradle to Grave: The Role of Microbe–Plant Interactions -- Root–Soil–Microbe Interactions Mediating Nutrient Fluxes in the Rhizosphere -- Diazotrophic Nitrogen Fixation in the Rhizosphere and Endosphere -- Root Microbiome Structure and Microbial Succession in the Rhizosphere -- Rhizosphere Legacy: Plant Root Interactions with the Soil and Its Biome -- Rhizosphere Microbiome and Soil-Borne Diseases -- Root Disease Impacts on Root-Rhizosphere Microbial Communities -- Newly Introduced or Modified Genes in Plants Potentially Modulate the Host Microbiome -- Rhizosphere Plant–Microbe Interactions Under Abiotic Stress -- Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi Interactions in the Rhizosphere -- Microbial–Faunal Interactions in the Rhizosphere -- Inter-Organismal Signaling in the Rhizosphere -- Molecular Mechanisms of Plant–Microbe Interactions in the Rhizosphere as Targets for Improving Plant Productivity -- Inoculation Effects in the Rhizosphere: Diversity and Function.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I. What Is Wrong with Health? What Should the Future of Health Be? -- INNOVATION DESIGN for the FUTURE of HEALTH -- Health Innovations from an Innovators’ Perspective -- From SICKCARE to HEALTHCARE to HEALTH -- Future Look on Health: Opportunities -- Navigating Towards a Future of “One Health” -- Part II. Exponential Medicine + Technologies + Mindset -- Exponential Technologies for an Exponential Medicine -- Exponential Medicine: Challenges of Human Spaceflight Bringing Innovations for Earth—A Case Study -- Healthy Longevity -- The Science of Health Longevity -- Space Healthtech: Innovation Base for Longevity -- Part III. Future Health Value Propositions -- Healthcare the Melting Pot of Technology, Humanity, and Confusion -- Democratize Health Delivery -- Health Innovation Process: Definitions and Short Methodology Introductions -- Prevention, Prediction, Personalization, and Participation as Key Components in Future Health -- Digital Health Business Models: Transformation Is on the Horizon -- Value Propositions for Future Health Developments: Digital, Portable, Connected, Experience-Enhancing, Supportive, Patient-Centric, and Affordable -- (Digital) Patient Journey and Empowerment: Digital Twin -- Part IV. Innovation Methodology Basics -- Stanford Biodesign as Base: Empathy and Patient Centricity as the Main Driver -- Purpose Launchpad Methodology: Introduction -- Design Thinking for Innovations in Healthcare -- VPC to BMC to Exponential Canvas: Canvas Interconnectivity for Exponential Scaling -- Innovation Methodology I3 EME: Awareness for Biomedical Engineers -- Part V. Ethics + Health Innovation -- Integrating Ethical Considerations into Innovation Design -- Part VI. Health Innovation Design -- Case Studies Used Throughout the Book: Innovation Categories Explained -- Why Is Healthcare Different with Respect to Innovation and Entrepreneurial Activities? -- Purpose Launchpad Health (PLH) Methodology Introduction -- Part VII. Purpose Launchpad Health -- Purpose Launchpad Health: Exploration and Evaluation Phases—Actual Case Studies -- Part VIII. Health Leadership, Skills and other Methodologies -- Soft Skills Needed for Problem Understanding and Innovation Generation -- Leadership in Healthcare: A Novel Approach. Healthcare Executives’ Traits, Styles, and Approaches -- Future Skills Framework in Healthcare -- Porter’s Five Forces Analysis: Quo Vadis Immunotherapy Industry -- Part IX. Health Entrepreneurship -- Global Health Markets and Their Different Needs -- Patient: Health Relation and Digital Health Entrepreneurship -- Health Start-Up: Create Impact and be Investment Ready Intra- and Entre-Preneurs -- Regulatory Issues for Health Innovations -- Innovation Think Tank Frameworks for Resolving “The Innovator’s Dilemma” in Healthcare -- A Primer on Patents and IP for Health Innovations -- Successfully Implementing Ambidexterity in the Medical Industry -- Reverse Innovation: Circumvent Digital Health Transformation Issues -- Part X. Health Innovation Education and Incubation -- Health Innovation Design: “CAMPing” for the Unmet Clinical Need -- Health Technology Innovation Generation (HTIG) Lecture and Project Classes at AGH University -- Health Innovation Design at a University: INKA INNOLAB at Otto-von-Guericke-University -- Clinical Innovation at Acibadem Biodesign Center -- Example of a Needs-Driven Innovation Training Program: The BioMedical Design Novo Nordisk Foundation Fellowship Program -- Addressing the Healthcare Needs with Innovation Think Tank Global Infrastructure and its Methodology -- The Power of a Collaborative Ecosystem: Introducing the Edison™ Accelerator -- HealthTec Networks and Clusters (Global): Innovation Clusters in Medtech in Europe -- Leadership-Compass: “Networking and Synapting Empowered by Health Captains” -- Part XI. Purpose Launchpad Health: Toolset Templates and Principles -- PLH Templates and Principles.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Neural Circuits Underlying Innate Fear -- Chapter 2: Neurobiology and Neural Circuits of Aggression -- Chapter 3: Neural Regulation of Feeding Behavior -- Chapter 4: Neural Circuits for Reward -- Chapter 5: Neuronal response and behavioral modulation in social interaction -- Chapter 6: Neural circuit mechanisms that underlie parental care -- Chapter 7: Spatial navigation -- Chapter 8: Neural circuits for sleep-wake regulation.

Description / Table of Contents: Carbon materials from various sources for composite materials -- Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polymer (CFRP) Composites: Machining Aspects and Opportunities for Manufacturing Industries -- Surface modification of graphene nanoplatelets (GNP) towards preparation of natural/synthetic rubber blend nanocomposites -- Mechanical properties of nanoclay composite materials -- Fireproof capability of rigid polyurethane foam based composite materials -- Structural behavior of composite materials in fire -- Natural resources based green composite materials -- Composite materials for wind turbine structure -- Electrochromic Smart Windows: An Energy-efficient Technology -- Graphitic Carbon Nitride/ Metal Oxides Nanocomposites and Their Applications in Engineering -- Application of Nanofiber-based Composites: Progressive Health Impact -- Polymer-based Nanocomposite: Recent Trends in Safety Assessments in biomedical applications -- Modern approach of hydroxyapatite based composites for biomedical applications -- Hybrid Composite in Orthopedic applications -- Polymer-based composite in biomedical applications -- Components of All-solid-state Ion-Selective Electrodes (AS-ISEs) -- Nanocellulose and Nanocellulose-based Composites for Food Applications -- Nanocomposite Materials in Food Packaging: Opportunities, Challenges and Safety Assessment -- Biodegradability and Composite Coatings: Past, Present and Future Prospects -- Nanocomposite Film for Food Packaging: Opening Doors to Future Applications -- Functional Chitosan-Based Composites for Potential Application in Food Industry -- Metal-insulator-metal as a biosensing platfrom .

Description / Table of Contents: Molecular imaging of the human emotion circuit -- The neurocognitive mechanisms of unconscious emotional responses -- Social and Affective Neuroscience of Embodiment -- The neuroscience of beauty -- Mirror Neurons … in action: ERPs and neuroimaging evidence -- Sex differences in social cognition -- Development of morality and emotional processing -- Trust in Social Interaction: From Dyads to Civilizations -- The time has come to be mindwanderful: Mind wandering and the intuitive psychology mode -- Social Cognition development and socio affective dysfunction in childhood and adolescence -- Clinical neuroscience meets second-person neuropsychiatry -- EEG and ERPs in the study of Language and Social Knowledge -- fMRI and fNIRS methods for social brain studies: hyperscanning possibilities -- Modulating the Social and Affective Brain with transcranial stimulation techniques -- What our eyes can tell us about our social and affective brain? -- Facial EMG – Investigating the interplay of facial muscles and emotions.

Description / Table of Contents: 1.An Introduction to Beta Glucan and Beta Glucanases -- 2.Industrial Applications of Beta Glucanases -- 3.Microbial Sources of Beta Glucanase Enzymes -- 4.Role of Beta Glucanases in Animal Nutrition -- 5.Betaglucanse in Breweries -- 6. Exploitation of Actinobacteria for Beta Glucanolytic enzymes –Screening and Characterisation -- 7.Structural Characterisation of Beta Glucanase Genes from Actinobacteria -- 8.Application of Codon Optimization in Actinobacterial Beta Glucanases -- 9.Actinobacterial Beta Glucanases: Recombinant Expression of in E. coli -- 10.Purification and Properties of Recombinant Beta Glucanases Enzymes -- 11.Fungal Beta Glucanases -- 12.Industrial Production and Characterisation of Beta Glucanases -- 13.Protein Engineering of Beta Glucanase Enzymes -- 14.Biotechnological Avenues in Hybrid Beta Glucanase Enzyme Production.

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: Chapter 1 - Systematic Errors in Longitudinal Measurements -- Chapter 2 - Endodontic Treatment and Vertical Root Fracture -- Chapter 3 - Debonding of Resin Composite Restorations -- Chapter 4 - Attenuation of Curing Light through Resin Composite Restorations -- Chapter 5 - Release of Ions or Molecules from Dental Restorations -- Chapter 6 - Heat Generated from Dental Resin Composites during Curing -- Chapter 7 - Mechanical Failure of Dental Restorations – The Weakest-Link Theory -- Chapter 8 - Stability of Dental Implants -- Chapter 9 - Kinetics of Photo-polymerization -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Growth of Biofuels Sector: Opportunities, Challenges and Outlook -- Chapter 2. Bioconversion of Agro-Industrial Residues to Second-Generation Bioethanol -- Chapter 3. Catalytic Transformation of Ethanol to Industrially Relevant Fine Chemicals -- Chapter 4. Selective Bioethanol Conversion to Chemicals and Fuels via Advanced Catalytic Approaches -- Chapter 5. A Spotlight on Butanol and Propanol as Next-Generation Synthetic Fuels -- Chapter 6. Technological Advancements in the Production and Application of Biomethanol -- Chapter 7. Biorefinery Approaches for Production of Fuels and Chemicals from Lignocellulosic and Algal Feedstocks -- Chapter 8. Conversion of Rice Husk and Nutshells into Gaseous, Liquid and Solid Biofuels -- Chapter 9. A Review of Thermochemical and Biochemical Conversion of Miscanthus to Biofuels -- Chapter 10. Process Improvements and Techno-Economic Feasibility of Hydrothermal Liquefaction and Pyrolysis of Biomass for Bio-Crude Oil Production -- Chapter 11. Biocrude Oil Production via Hydrothermal Liquefaction of Algae and Upgradation Techniques to Liquid Transportation Fuels -- Chapter 12. Co-pyrolysis of Lignocellulosic Biomass and Polymeric Wastes for Liquid Oil Production -- Chapter 13. Conversion of Waste Biomass to Bio-oils and Upgradation by Hydrothermal Liquefaction, Gasification and Hydrodeoxygenation -- Chapter 14. Upgrading of Bio-oil from Biomass Pyrolysis: Current Status and Future Development -- Chapter 15. Heterogeneous catalysis in Hydroxymethylfurfural Conversion to Fuels and Chemicals -- Chapter 16. Conversion of Glycerol to Value-added Products -- Chapter 17. Recent Advances in Steam Reforming of Glycerol for Syngas Production -- Chapter 18. Conversion of Biogas to Syngas via Catalytic Carbon Dioxide Reforming Reaction: An Overview of Thermodynamic Aspects, Catalytic Design and Reaction Kinetics -- Chapter 19. Opportunities of Biodiesel Compatibility as a Modern Combustion Engine Fuel -- Chapter 20. Current Advancements in Microbial Fuel Cell Technologies.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Why study Drug Resistant Epilepsy? -- Chapter 2: Pharmacoresistance in Epilepsy -- Chapter 3: Experimental models for the study of drug-resistant epilepsy -- Chapter 4: On Complexity and Emergence: Linking the Hypotheses of Pharmacoresistance in Epilepsy -- Chapter 5: Role of High-Frequency Oscillation Networks in Managing Pharmacoresistant Epilepsy -- Chapter 6: Transporter hypothesis in pharmacoresistant epilepsies. Is it at the central or peripheral level? -- Chapter 7: Changes in Targets as an Explanation for Drug Resistance in Epilepsy -- Chapter 8: Cellular and molecular mechanisms of neuroinflammation in drug-resistant epilepsy -- Chapter 9: Contribution of the antiepileptic drug administration regime to avoid the development and/or establishment of pharmacoresistant epilepsy -- Chapter 10: Pharmacogenetics in Epilepsy and Refractory Epilepsy -- Chapter 11: Seizures Induce Hypoxia or Hypoxia Induces Seizures. A Perverse Relationship that Increases the Risk of SUDEP -- Chapter 12: Neonatal excitotoxicity triggers degenerative processes related to seizure susceptibility and pharmacoresistance -- Chapter 13: Cerebrovascular remodeling and the role of vascular endothelial growth factor in the epileptic brain and pharmacoresistance -- Chapter 14: The Role of JNK3 in Epilepsy and Neurodegeneration -- Chapter 15: Application of proteomics in the study of molecular markers in epilepsy -- Chapter 16: GABAergic neurotransmission abnormalities in pharmacoresistant epilepsy: experimental and human studies -- Chapter 17: Genes involved in pharmacoresistant epilepsy -- Chapter 18: Drug-resistant Epilepsy and the Influence of Age, Gender and Comorbid Disorders -- Chapter 19: Indications for Intracerebral Recording in Candidates for Epilepsy Surgery -- Chapter 20: On the Development of New Drugs for the Treatment of Drug Resistant Epilepsy: An Update on Different Approaches to Different Hypotheses -- Chapter 21: Physical exercise as a strategy to reduce seizure susceptibility -- Chapter 22: Ketogenic Diet and Drug-resistant Epilepsy -- Chapter 23: Modulating P-glycoprotein Regulation as a Therapeutic Strategy for Pharmacoresistant Epilepsy -- Chapter 24: Vagus Nerve Stimulation for Intractable Seizures -- Chapter 25: Non Invasive Brain Stimulation as a potential Therapeutic Procedure in drug-resistant epilepsy -- Chapter 26: Effects of transcranial focal electrical stimulation via concentric ring electrodes on seizure activity.

Description / Table of Contents: The development of the cerebellum: from the beginnings -- Part I: Responsibilities and liabilities -- Chapter2. The embryology and anatomy of the cerebellum -- Chapter 3. Cellular and genetic programs underlying cerebellum development -- Chapter 4. Early Purkinje Cell Development and the Origins of Cerebellar Patterning. - Chapter 5. Development of the Fish Cerebellum. -Chapter 6. Cerebellar developmental disorders and cerebellar nuclei -- Chapter 7. Motor circuit abnormalities during cerebellar development -- Chapter8. Developmental disorders of the cerebellum and neurotrophic factors -- Chapter9. Apoptosis, Autophagy, and Unfolded Protein Response and Cerebellar Development -- Chapter10. The ubiquitin proteasome system and cerebellar developmental disease -- Chapter11. Epigenetics and Cerebellar Neurodevelopmental Disorders -- Chapter12.. Hormonal regulation of cerebellar development and its disorders -- Chapter13. Infections of the Cerebellum -- Chapter14. Neuroimmune mechanisms of cerebellar development and its developmental disorders -- Chapter15. Teratogenic influences on cerebellar development -- Chapter16. Primary pediatric brain tumors of the posterior fossa -- Chapter17. Primary pediatric brain tumors of the posterior fossa -- Chapter18. Can cerebellar neurodevelopmental disorders affect behavioral disorders or vice versa -- Chapter19. Neurodevelopmental disorders of the cerebellum: autism spectrum disorder -- Chapter20. Congenital cerebellar disease -- Chapter21. Clinical features, assessment, and management of patients with developmental and other cerebellar disorders -- Chapter22. Epidemiology of cerebellar disorders -- Chapter23. Cerebellar transplantation: a potential model to study repair and development of neurons and circuits in the cerebellum. - Chapter 24. Non-coding RNAs and cerebellar development. - Chapter 25. Defining the Cerebellar Cytoarchitecture Using MRI. .

Description / Table of Contents: PART 1: WAKEFULNESS -- Chapter 1. Exploring Oscillations in Expert Sensorimotor Anticipation: the Tennis Return of Serve -- Chapter 2. Theta Rhythm in Hippocampus and Cognition -- Chapter 3. Oscillations and Synchrony in Attention -- Christian Keitel, Gregor Thut, and Joachim Gross -- Chapter 4. Pathological High-Frequency Oscillations in Mesial Temporal Lobe Epilepsy -- PART TWO: SLEEP -- Chapter 5. Cellular Mechanisms of Thalamocortical Oscillations in the Sleeping Brain -- Chapter 6. Neuroimaging of Brain Oscillations During Human Sleep -- Chapter 7. A Role for Neuronal Oscillations of Sleep in Memory and Cognition -- Chapter 8. Sleep Oscillations and Aging -- Chapter 9. Sleep Oscillations and Psychiatric Disorders.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1_Biomass to liquid fuels: Recent trends in techniques in catalytic conversions -- Chapter 2_Towards sustainable production of hydrogen and biogas from biomass residues -- Chapter 3_ Biorefinery for biofuel production: A Case Study -- Chapter 4_Techno economic analysis and profitability analysis of biofuel production -- Chapter 5_Life cycle analysis and environmnetal impact of bio fuel production -- Chapter 6_Valorization of non lignocellulosic bio waste for BioChemicals -- Chapter 7_State of art technologies for production of biochemicals from biomass -- Chapter 8_Nutraceuticals functional foods and specialty chemicals -- Chapter 9_Technoeconomical analysis of BioChemical production: A Case study -- Chapter 10_Life cycle assessment and sustainability for production of pectin -- Chapter 11_Production of biofertilizers from agro residue: sustainability issues and challenges -- Chapter 12_Utilization of activated carbon obtained from biomass in waste water treatment -- Chapter 13_Sustanability and life cycle assessment of nano-materials from biomass -- Chapter 14_Biorefinery approach for production of enzymes from fruit peel waste -- Chapter 15_Production of Biomaterials: A Case study.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Application of reinforcement and deep learning techniques in brain machine interfaces -- Chapter 2: Specific muscle activation patterns in athletic and orthopedic populations: considerations for using surface electromyography in assistive and biofeedback device applications -- Chapter 3: Kineto-dynamic modeling of human upper limb for robotic manipulators and assistive applications -- Chapter 4: Learning from the human hand: force control and perception using a soft-synergy prosthetic hand and non-invasive haptic feedback -- Chapter 5: Design of a soft glove-based robotic hand exoskeleton with embedded synergies -- Chapter 6: Model predictive control based knee actuator allocation during a standing-up motion with a powered exoskeleton and functional electrical stimulation -- Chapter 7: Deep brain stimulation for gait and postural disturbances in Parkinson’s disease -- Chapter 8: Cognitive and physiological intent for the adaptation of motor prostheses -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Bateson, Cybernetics, and Nonverbal Communication -- Chapter 2: Analog and Digital Communication, and Similar Contrasts -- Chapter3: The Slash Mark: Gregory Bateson’s Cybernetic Semiotic -- Chapter4: Intention Movements and Peacemaking Ceremonies -- Chapter5: Relational Communication in Octopus -- Chapter6: Cuban Missile Crisis -- Chapter7: False and True Lessons from the Cuban Missile Crisis -- Chapter8: A Level too Low.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. The sugar-nucleotide providing enzyme, opportunity and future in the antibody and peptide medicine area -- Chapter 2. The Next Generation of Microalgae-Based Products -- Chapter 3. Advanced techniques for enzymatic and chemical bleaching for pulp and paper industries -- Chapter 4. Commercial bioinoculant development: Techniques and challenges -- Chapter 5. Protein nanostructures with purpose-designed properties in biotechnology and medicine -- Chapter 6. Recent advances in biosynthetic production of Biopigments from microlagae -- Chapter 7. Revealing of the features of the oxidative enzyme production by white-rot basidiomycetes during fermentation of plant raw materials -- Chapter 8. Endophytic bacterial applications in phytoremediation of organic pollutants and toxic metals -- Chapter 9. Biotechnological interventions for Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi (AMF) based biofertilizer: technological perspectives -- Chapter 10. Probiotics and prebiotics: Techniques used and its relevance -- Chapter 11. Techniques of Evaluation of the chemical and microbiological quality of the coastal environment -- Chapter 12. Enzyme engineering techniques for biotechnological applications.

Description / Table of Contents: Section A: Food Processing and Technology Innovations -- Chapter 1. Food Innovation and Sustainable Development: A Bio-economics Perception -- Chapter 2. Fermented pearl millet weaning food: an innovation of food technology and application in food processing and management -- Chapter 3. Processing methodologies for few crops in India: Arecanut, betelvine, cashew, cocoa and oil palm -- Chapter 4. Omega 3 fatty acid from plant sources and its application in Food Technology -- Chapter 5. Taizzy Smoked Cheese -- Chapter 6. Plant-Based Milk Substitutes: A novel non-dairy source -- Chapter 7. Makhana: Dry Food and a potential aquatic cash crop.-Chapter 8. An insight over creal β glucan as functional ingredient -- Section B: Food and Industrial Microbiology -- Chapter 9. Rediscovering Medicinal activity and Food Significance of Shogaol (4, 6, 8, 10 and 12): A comprehensive view.-Chapter 10. Exopolysaccarides derived from Beneficial Microorganisms: Antimicrobial, Food and Health benefits.-Chapter 11. Biofilm threat for food and industrial microbiology: An approach for its Elimination Using Herbal food components -- Chapter 12. Cyanobacterial exopolysaccharides as natural source for food packaging application.-Chapter 13. Microbial laccase production and its industrial applications -- Chapter 14. Lichens are the next promising candidates for active compounds.-Chapter 15. Microbial Production and Applications of L-lysine.-Chapter 16. Pomegranate peel: Nutritional values and its emerging potential for use in food systems -- Section C: Food Technology and Environmental Biotechnology -- Chapter 17. Bio-fertilizer from Trichoderma: Boom for Agriculture Production and Management of soil-borne and root-borne plant pathogens -- Chapter 18. Influence of heavy metal on food security: Recent advances -- Chapter 19. Utilization and management of agro and food processing waste -- Chapter 20. Nexus between Climate Change and Food Innovation Technology: Recent Advances -- Chapter 21. Antibiotic Residues in Food: A Global Concern for Human Health -- Chapter 22. Effects of toxicant from pesticides on food security: Current developments -- Chapter 23. Cr pollution, its impact and mitigation -- Chapter 24. Biosorption: A Novel Biotechnological Application For Removal of Hazardous Pollutants -- Section D: Agriculture, Food, Nutrition and Health Security -- Chapter 25. Emerging dichlorvos-based air freshener pertube kidney function in male albino rats -- Chapter 26. Consumption of green chilli& its nutritious effect on human health -- Chapter 27. Synthesis, characterization and evaluation of toxicity of melatonin loaded poly (D, L-lactic acid) Nano-Particles (Mel-PLA-Nano-Particles) and its putative use in osteoporosis -- Chapter 28. Nutritional Physiology -- Chapter 29. Caffeine: Nutraceutical and Health Benefit of Caffeine Containing Commodities and Products -- Chapter 30. Nutraceuticals potential of major edible oilseeds of India -- Chapter 31. Elimination of fungal Leaf Mosaic disease of Bottle Gourd (LagenariaSiceraria ) using Fungo-Phage Therapy: A possible approach for food security with plant protection -- Chapter 32. β- sitosterol - predominant phytosterol of therapeutic potential -- Chapter 33. Odonto-nutraceuticals: Phytochemicals for Oral Health Care -- Chapter 34. Pharmacological potential of thymol -- Chapter 35. TRIKATU- transforming food into medicines -- Chapter 36. Dietary factors associated with cancer. .

Description / Table of Contents: Photoperiodism and Circannual Timing: Introduction and Historical Perspective.-The Pars Tuberalis and Seasonal Timing -- Tanycytes and Their Pivotal Role in Seasonal Physiological Adaptations -- Epigenetic Mechanisms in Developmental and Seasonal Programs -- Plasticity of Neuroendocrine Mechanisms Regulating Seasonal Reproduction in Sheep -- Clocks and Calendrars in Birds -- Calendar Timing in Teleost Fish -- Action of Light on the Neuroendocrine Axis -- Seasons, Clocks, and Mood -- Photoperiodic Modulation of Clock Gene Expression in the SCN -- Circadian Timekeeping in the Suprachiasmatic Nucleus: Genes, Neurotransmitters, Neurons and Astrocytes. .

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Opportunities for real time monitoring of biomolecules using FRET-based nanosensors -- Chapter 2. Current status of nanosensors in biological sciences -- Chapter 3. Biosensor: An Approach Towards a Sustainable Environment -- Chapter 4. Nanobiosensor in health sector: The milestones achieved and future prospects -- Chapter 5. Nanosensors based on DNA as an emerging technology for the detection of disease -- Chapter 6. Genetically Encoded Nanobiosensors for Nutrients and their applications -- Chapter 7. Development of highly sensitive optical sensors based on Carbon Nanotube (CNTs) -- Chapter 8. Recent advances of Fluorescent Resonance Energy Transfer-based nanosensors for the detection of human ailments -- Chapter 9. Application Of Nanosensors in Agriculture and Food Processing -- Chapter 10. Fluorescent Protein pairs and their application in FRET-based Nanobiosensors -- Chapter 11. Probes for Detection of Free Radicles -- .

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Global Alignment of PPI Networks -- Chapter 2: Integrated Network-Based Computational Analysis for Drug Development -- Chapter 3: Effective Random Walk Models for Comparative Network Analysis -- Chapter 4: Computational Methods for Protein-Protein Interaction Network Alignment -- Chapter 5: Network Propagation for the Analysis of Multi_Omics Data -- Chapter 6: Motifs in Biological Networks -- Chapter 7: Bio Fabric Visualization of Network Alignments -- Chapter 8: Module Identification of Biological Networks via Graph Partition -- Chapter 9: Network Module Detection to Decipher the Heterogeneity of Cancer Mutations.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Behavioural variant FTD: recent advances in the diagnosis and understanding of the disorder -- 2. The neuropsychiatry of frontotemporal dementia -- 3. Nosology and Neuropathology of Language in Primary Progressive Aphasia -- 4. Measuring Behavior and Cognition in FTLD -- 5. Clinical update on C9orf72: FTD, ALS and beyond -- 6. Clinical aspects of familial FTLD associated with MAPT and GRN mutations -- 7. Neuroimaging in Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration -- 8. The FTD Prevention Initiative - linking together genetic FTD cohort studies -- 9. Fluid Biomarkers of Frontotemporal Lobar Degeneration -- 10. Cross-cultural perspectives on frontotemporal degeneration -- 11. Clinical characteristics and Neuropathology of PSP, CBD and Related 4R-Tauopathies -- 12. Tau protein and frontotemporal dementias -- 13. FTLD-TDP pathological subtypes: clinical and mechanistic significance -- 14. Lysosomal dysfunction as a pathogenic mechanism in FTD: Evidence from PGRN and TMEM106B genetics and biology -- 15. Future trends in understanding the pathological role of TDP-43 and FUS proteins -- 16. Description of a new data resource for FTD including multiomic data on human post mortem brain (MAPT, GRN, C9orf72), matching mouse models and iPS models -- 17. Mendelian and sporadic FTD: avenues from genetics to disease pathways through in-silico prediction and modeling -- 18. FTLD treatment: Current Practice and Future Possibilities.

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. ApoE: A Risk Factor for Dementia -- Chapter 2. Infection-Induced Systemic Inflammation and Dementia -- Chapter 3. Role of Impaired Insulin Signaling in the Pathogenesis of Dementia -- Chapter 4. Sex Hormones as Risk Factors of Dementia -- Chapter 5. Mitophagy Impairments as Culprit of Alzheimer’s Disease -- Chapter 6. Parkinson’s Disease: Neurochemistry and Pharmacological Treatment -- Chapter 7. Emerging Roles of TREM2 in Neurodegenerative Diseases -- Chapter 8. Molecular Mechanisms Underlying the Role of HSPB8 in Neurodegeneration -- Chapter 9. Molecular Insights into the Role of ER Stress in Neurodegenerative Diseases. Chapter 10. Role of Hypertension and Hyperlipidemia in the Pathogenesis of Dementia -- Chapter 11. Behavioral Abnormalities of Gut Microbiota and Progression of Dementia -- Chapter 12. Gut-Brain Axis in Alzheimer's Disease: Interplay between Cholecystokinin, Dysbiosis, and Brain-Derived Neurotrophic Factor -- Chapter 13. Cholesterol and Dementia: A Possible Therapeutic Approach -- Chapter 14. Therapeutic Potential of PPARs in Alzheimer’s Disease -- Chapter 15. Exploring the Role of Statins in Reversing the Cognitive and Neurovascular Dysfunctions in Dementia -- Chapter 16. Role of Immunotherapy in Ameliorating Proteopathic Dementia -- Chapter 17. Hypoxic-Hyperoxic Training in Dementia -- Chapter 18. Music Therapy in Dementia -- Chapter 19. Beneficial Effects of Citrus Flavonoids against Aβ Pathology in Alzheimer’s Disease -- Chapter 20. Therapeutic Potential of Phytochemicals: Lessons Learned from Streptozotocin-Induced Sporadic Alzheimer’s Disease -- Chapter 21. Concept of Amnesia and Dementia in Unani System of Medicine -- Chapter 22. Nanotechnological Applications in the Diagnosis and Treatment of Alzheimer’s Dementia.

Description / Table of Contents: 1 Regenerative Therapies in Ischemic Stroke Recovery -- 2 Application of Nanotechnology In Stroke Recovery -- 3 Nanotechnology: A daydream for advanced Imaging, Diagnosis and Therapeutic Approach for Cerebral Ischemia -- 4 Cell-Mediated Neurorestorative Mechanisms Underpinning Beneficial Effects in Ischemic Stroke -- 5 Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells for the Treatment of Neurodegenerative Disease: Current and Future Prospects -- 6 Imaging of Stem Cell Therapy for Stroke and Beyond -- 7 Nano-Medicine Mediated Stem Cell Therapeutics In Stroke -- 8 The Influence of Preconditioning on the Homing Behaviour of Stem Cells -- 9 Role of microRNAs in stroke pathology and recovery -- 10 Exosomes as a diagnostic tool and stem cells exosomes as a promising cell-based cell-free therapeutic tool for ischemic stroke 11 Role of nanomedicine in treating ischemic stroke -- 12 Insights into therapeutic targets in stroke -- 13 Signalling Pathways of Interest for Recovery from Ischemic Stroke.

Description / Table of Contents: Part 1 -- Conventional nanosized drug delivery systems for cancer applications -- Homing peptides for cancer therapy -- Radiolabeling of theranostic nanosystems -- Boosting nanomedicine efficacy with hyperbaric oxygen therapy -- Part 2 -- Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles as Carriers for Biomolecules in Cancer Therapy -- Clearable Nanoparticles for Cancer Photothermal Therapy -- Biohybrid Nanosystems for Cancer Treatment: Merging the Best of Two Worlds -- Electrospun Nanofibers for Cancer Therapy -- Nanoneedle-based materials for intracellular studies -- Part 3 -- In vitro assays for nanoparticle-cancer cell interaction studies -- 3D tumor spheroid models for in vitro therapeutic screening of nanoparticles -- In vitro and in vivo tumor models for the evaluation of anticancer nanoparticles -- Part 4 -- Nanotechnology for the Development of Nanovaccines in Cancer Immunotherapy -- Viral nanoparticles: cancer vaccines and immune modulators -- Industrial Perspective on Cancer Immunotherapy -- Index.

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: Module 1. Introduction -- Module 2. Screening of Biosurfactants -- Module 3. Commercial production, optimization and purification -- Module 4. Industrial and environmental applications -- Module 5. Role of biosurfactants in Agriculture and soil reclamation -- Module 6. Toxicity assessment.

Description / Table of Contents: Neural Dynamics in Motor and Sensory Systems and in Cognitive Functions -- Cognitive Network and Multi-Scale Neural Network Dynamics -- Neuroengineering, Neuroinformation and Brain Computer Interaction -- Modelling Higher-Order Functions and Dysfunctions -- Oscillation, Synchronization, Neural Plasticity, and Coordination Dynamics from Neural to Social Systems.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I Differentiation-Integration Dynamics: Ultimate Causes -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Purposeless Design -- Chapter 3: Darwinian Evolutionary Theory -- Chapter 4: Principles of Differentiation and Integration -- Chapter 5: The Information Trend in Science -- Chapter 6: Is Social Cohesion a Different Mechanism of Evolution? -- Part II Roots and Mechanisms: Proximate Causes -- Chapter 7: Fundamental Physical Forces, Genes, and Epigenetics -- Chapter 8: Biological Origins -- Chapter 9: Neural Mechanisms of Sociality -- Chapter 10: Psychological Features -- Chapter 11: Cognitive Science Underpinnings -- Chapter 12: A Sociological Systems Theory -- Chapter 13: Developmental Roots -- Chapter 14: Metaphysical, Religious, and Spiritual Aspects -- Part III Survival Value -- Chapter 15: Sociality’s Survival Value -- Part IV Conclusions -- Chapter 16: A New Framework: A Theory of Integration.

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. Conceptualising Pain in Critically-Ill Neonates or Infants -- Chapter 2. Pain in the Fetus and the Preterm Baby -- Chapter 3. Developmental Influences on the Meanings of Pain in Children -- Chapter 4. “Ooh, You Got to Holler Sometime:” Pain Meaning and Experiences of Black Older Adults -- Chapter 5. Exploring the Meaning of Chronic Low Back Pain as a Life of ‘Living Death’ in Rural Nigeria -- Chapter 6. Painworld: A Phenomenological View of Veteran Experiences of Living with Chronic Pain -- Chapter 7. “It’s Just One of Them Things You’ve Got to Try and Manage”: Meanings of Pain for People with Brain Injury.

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Geography, Economy and Nationality of Shimenkan of Weining -- Methodist Churches in Zhaotong -- Shimenkan and Christianity -- Governance of the Miao nationality by the national government in Weining -- The Miao Nationality in Weining in Early People's Republic of China -- Social Reform of the Miao nationality in Weining -- Cooperative and People's Movement in Weining -- Socialist Education Movement" and "the Cultural Revolution" in Weining -- Reform and Opening up of Weining -- Shimenkan after Reform and Opening up -- Conclusion.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Environment as a feminist issue -- 3. Silesian coal: history of Silesian industrialisation, the emergence of industrial society and its present restructuring -- 4. Silesian modernizations: analysis of the discourses of change -- 5. Coal perception in the region -- 6. Silesian narratives about the energy and ecology -- 7. The changing roles and values of Silesian women -- 8. Silesian women’s identity: the might of myth -- 9. Women's activity: "I" towards the change -- 10. Post-coal Silesia – the emergence of new regional identity -- 11. Upper Silesia: towards a sustainable future?.

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: 1.How Immune-inflammatory processes link neurodegenerative and psychiatric disorders -- 2.Gut-Microbiota-Brain Axis: pathophysiological mechanism in neuropsychiatric disorders -- 3.Microbiome- induced autoimmunity and novel therapeutic intervention -- 4.The key role of microlia and circulating monocytes in etipathology neuropsychiatric disorders -- 5.Neuro-immuno-epigenetics of prenatal psychological stress -- 6.C-reactive protein (CRP): a potent inflammation biomarker in psychiatric disorders -- 7.Neuroinflammation, neurognesis and neuroprotection in schizophrenia -- 8.Autoimmue psycosis: concept, clinical manifestation and management -- 9.Stress, autonomic nervous system and kynurenine pathway in major depression -- 10.Brain-gut-microbiome axis in major depression : novel therapeutic approach -- 11.Glial-Neuronal Interaction in Synapses: A Possible Mechanism of the Pathophysiology of Bipolar Disorder -- 12.Neuroimmaging of inflammation in depression and anxiety disorders -- 13.Neuroinflammation and immune-kynureinine pathway in anxiety disorders -- 14.Inflammatory-mediated responses in development of neurogeneartive diseases -- 15.The connection between gut-brain axis and PTSD -- 16.Eating disorders : Gut microbiota-immune-brain interactions -- 17.Sleep-immune crosstalk and sleep disorders -- 18.Obsessive-compulsive disorder: immuno-inflammatory disorder? -- 19.Cytokine, neuroinflammation and neurodeneration in Alzheimer’s disease -- 20.Molecular imaging of neuroinflammation in Alzheimer's disease and MCI -- 21.The role of N-Methyl-D-Aspartate Receptor Neurotransmission and mictobiota in Alzheimer’s disease -- 22.Neuroglial activation and neuroinflammation in the brain of patients with autism -- 23.Suicide and inflammation -- 24.Anti-inflammatory effect of Traditional Chinese Medicine on the concept of Mind-body interface -- 25.Anti-inflammatory therapy as a promising target in neupsychiatric disorders.

Description / Table of Contents: Tools for optogenetic probing of nociceptive pathways; Monitoring activity -- An open science model to accelerate the generation, implementation and distribution of optogenetics and viral tools -- Vagal neuroinflammation accompanying respiratory viral infection: An overview of mechanisms and possible clinical significance -- Stress-induced Visceral Analgesia: Concept and Pathways -- Evidence of early life stress exposure and epigenetic modifications in functional chronic pain disorders -- EPIGENETIC REGULATION OF STRESS-INDUCED VISCERAL PAIN -- The biomechanics and mechanotransduction in visceral nociception -- VISCERAL NOCICEPTION IN GASTROINTESTINAL DISEASE -- Epithelial-Neuronal Communication in Visceral Pain -- Physiological Mechanisms Underpinning Heightened Perception of Visceral Afferent Signalling in Irritable Bowel Syndrome -- A fentanyl analogue that activates u-opioid receptors in acidified tissues inhibits colitis pain without opioid side effects -- Signalling in the Gut -- Translating colonic sensory afferent peripheral mechanosensitivity into the spinal cord dorsal horn -- Translating colonic afferent peripheral sensitivity into the spinal cord dorsal horn -- Neuron-Microglia Dynamic Duo in Chronic Abdominal Pain -- Pre-clinical Models of Endometriosis -- Spinal afferent innervation of the uterus -- Post-infectious bladder hypersensitivity in the development of Interstitial Cystitis/Bladder Pain Syndrome (IC/BPS).

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Chapter 1. Religion outside one’s homeland -- Chapter 2. Asylum seekers, immigrants, new Europeans: setting the scene -- Chapter 3. Young foreign Christian Catholics: a portrait -- Chapter 4. Being Muslim in Hard Times in Europe: New Opportunities and Old Challenges -- Chapter 5. God will save us! Faith, identity and practices in refugee welcoming centers -- Chapter 6. Similarities and differences: the Me3 generation at the mirror -- Chapter 7. Does religious capital still matter? Local secularized societies face with a renewal of religious pluralism -- Concluding remarks.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Brief Introduction to CRISPR Cas 9 -- Chapter 2: Introduction To Anticipatory Ethics -- Chapter 3: CRISPR, Phenomenology and Lived Experience -- Chapter 4: CRISPR and the Concept of Personhood -- Chapter 5: The use and access to CRISPR in historically socio-economically disadvantaged and marginalized communities -- Chapter 6: Future use of CRISPR: Gene Drive -- Chapter 7: Future use of CRISPR II: CRISPR Kill Switches -- Chapter 8: Domestic and International Regulation of CRISPR -- Chapter 9: Policy Recommendations with respect to CRISPR Germline Editing in Humans -- Chapter 10: Conclusions.

Description / Table of Contents: Optical coherence tomography in brain gliomas detection and peritumoral white matter state evaluation -- Two Photon Fluorescence Lifetime Imaging of Reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide in Brain Research -- Types of Raman Scattering Techniques for Neurodegenerative Diseases -- Drosophila brain advanced multiphoton imaging -- Myelin imaging -- Brainbow: Principle, Technique and Applications -- Photoacoustic Imaging of Brain -- Photodynamic therapy of brain diseases -- Advanced Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) of Brain -- Indirect imaging -- Multimodal Noninvasive Imaging Strategies for Clinically Monitoring Degenerative Disorders of the Brain -- Machine learning approach in brain imaging -- Transgenic Brain mapping Techniques in Drosophila melanogaster -- Behavioural phenotyping to study cognitive and non-cognitive symptoms in the rodent model of Alzheimer's disease.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I: Introduction -- Chapter 1. Sustainable technologies for recycling organic solid wastes -- Part II: Production of Biofuels and Chemicals by Thermo-chemical Conversion Processes -- Chapter 2. Recent advances in the catalytic co-pyrolysis of lignocellulosic biomass and different polymer wastes: from laboratory scale to pilot plant -- Chapter 3. Roadmap to Low-Cost Catalytic Pyrolysis of Plastic Wastes for Production of Liquid Fuels -- Chapter 4. Production of Valuable Compounds from Leaves by Supercritical CO2 Extraction -- Part III: Production of Biofuels and Chemicals by Biodegradation -- Chapter 5. Recovery of biohydrogen and biomethane by anaerobic fermentation of organic solid waste -- Chapter 6 Recycling of multiple organic solid wastes into biogas via anaerobic digestion -- Chapter 7. Recycling of multiple organic solid wastes into chemicals via biodegradation -- Part IV Production of Liquid Biofuels with New Technologies -- Chapter 8. Producing value-added products from organic bioresources via Photo-BioCatalytic processes -- Chapter 9. Depolymerisation of fossil fuel and biomass-derived polyesters -- Chapter 10 Producing Value-added Products from Organic Solid Wastes with Mechanochemical Processes -- Chapter 11. Fundamentals of Hydrothermal Processing of Biomass-Related Molecules for Converting Organic Solid Wastes into Chemical Products -- Chapter 12 Third Generation Biorefineries Using Micro- and Macro-Algae -- Part V. Techno-Economic Analysis -- Chapter 13. Prospects and perspectives for producing biodiesel, bioethanol and bio-chemicals from fruit waste: Case study in Brazil and Serbia -- Chapter 14. Sustainable Recycling and Valorization of Organic Solid Wastes for Fuels and Fertilizers.

Description / Table of Contents: Part 1: Considering sex and gender in research studies -- Sex and Gender Science -- Best practices in the study of sex? -- Best practices in the study of Gender Differences -- The special case of a lack of sex differences – the naked mole rat? -- Lateralization and -- Part 2: Sex differences in cognitive and mental health across the lifespan -- Depression -- Schizophrenia -- Immune and neurodevelopmental disorders – autism? -- Social Cognition -- Cognition and cognitive ageing -- Part 3: Diseases of the brain and relevance of sex -- Epilepsy -- Stroke -- AD -- Parkinson’s -- Multiple Sclerosis.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction to Biobanking -- Scientific Relevance, Problems and the Destitution for Principles of Biobanks and Biobanking Activities -- Types of Biobanks -- Ethical and Legal Principles in the Field of Biobanking -- Business Planning for Biobanks -- Biobanking Concepts Specific for Developing Countries -- Methods of Implementation and Set-up of National Biobanking Networks -- Implementation of Ethical and Legal Considerations in a Biobanking Network -- Collection and Management of Samples -- Quality Control and Risk Management in Biobanks -- Governance and Stakeholder Analysis -- Biobanking IT Systems, Database Structure and Web Applications -- Management Model and Sustainability Plan of Biobanks -- Sustainability Plan and Project Management of a Biobanking Network -- Establishing a Biobank Using Standardisation -- Science and Innovation of Biobanks -- Running a Biobank Network -- Infrastructure: Delivering on the Promise of Biobanking -- Design Considerations and Equipment of Biobanks -- Software Tools for Biobanking in LMICs -- The Importance of Cancer Biobanks in Low- and Middle-Income Countries -- Biobanking in Paediatrics: A Look from Armenia as a Middle-Income Country -- Biobanking of the Central Nervous System -- The Importance of Biobanking COVID-19 Samples -- Oncobiobanking in a Middle-Income Country: The Example of Russia -- Sustainability of Biobanks and Biobanking in LMICs -- Biobanks for Enabling Research and Development by Trusted Patient Data Environment -- Future Perspective of the Biobanking Field.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Vegetable Oils and Animal Fats: Sources, Properties and Recovery -- Chapter 2. Exotic Oil: Sources, Properties and Recovery -- Chapter 3. Seed Oil: Sources, Properties and Recovery -- Chapter 4. Vegetable Oil Refining -- Chapter 5. MINOR COMPONENTS IN EDIBLE OIL -- Chapter 6. Blending, Hydrogenation, Fractionation and Interesterification Processing -- Chapter 7. Ionic Liquid as a Green Solvent for Lipid Processing -- Chapter 8. Diacylglycerol Oil: Health Benefits, Synthesis and Applications -- Chapter 9. Medium-and Long-Chain Triacylglycerol: Production, Health Effects and Applications -- Chapter 10. Enzymatic synthesis of human milk fat substitutes -- Chapter 11. Cocoa Butter Alternatives for Food Applications -- Chapter 12. Oleogel: Production and Application -- Chapter 13. Characterization of Nanoemulsions: The Way Forward -- Chapter 14. Processing Contaminants In Edible Oil -- Chapter 15. Enzymatic Biodiesel Production from Low-Quality Waste Oils and Non-edible Oils: Current Status and Future Prospects -- Chapter 16. Sustainability and Traceability in the Malaysian Oil Palm Industry -- Chapter 17. Adulteration in Oils and Fats Industry.

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: Part I: Basic Science of Cerebellum and Ataxias -- Functional anatomy of the cerebellum -- Cerebellar physiology -- Cerebellar biochemistry/pharmacology -- Genetics of dominant ataxias -- Autosomal and X-linked degenerative ataxias: from genetics to promising therapeutics -- Seeking therapies for Spinocerebellar Ataxia: from gene silencing to systems-based approaches -- Ion Channel Genes and Ataxia -- Part II: Biomarkers and tools of trials -- How to Design a Therapeutic Trial in SCAs -- Therapy development for spinocerebellar ataxia: Rating Scales and Biomarkers -- Clinical rating scales for ataxia -- Scale for Ocular motor Disorders in Ataxia (SODA): Procedures and Basic Understanding -- Cerebellar learning in the prism adaptation task -- Blood and CSF biomarkers in autosomal dominant cerebellar ataxias -- Part III: Autosomal Dominant Cerebellar Ataxias -- Riluzole in progressive cerebellar ataxias -- ASOs against ATXN2 in preclinical and phase 1 trials -- Antisense oligonucleotide therapy against SCA3 -- Spinocerebellar ataxia type 7: From mechanistic pathways to therapeutic opportunities -- Experimental neurotransplantation for cerebellar ataxias -- Development of mesenchymal stem cells therapy for the treatment of polyglutamine SCA: from bench to bedside -- Cerebello-Spinal tDCS as Rehabilitative Intervention in Neurodegenerative Ataxia -- Cerebellar Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation in Cerebellar Ataxias -- Physical therapy in Cerebellar Ataxia -- Part IV: Autosomal Recessive Cerebellar Ataxias -- Recent advances on therapeutic approaches for Friedreich’s Ataxia -- Therapeutic use of interferon gamma in Friedreich ataxia -- Metabolic treatments of cerebellar ataxia -- Clinical Trials in Fragile X-Associated Tremor/Ataxia Syndrome -- Part V: Sporadic Ataxias -- Therapeutic strategies in immune-mediated cerebellar ataxias -- Coenzyme Q10 in MSA -- State of the Art and History of Therapeutics in Ataxias.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Nutrition and Metabolism: Foundations for Animal Growth, Development, Reproduction, and Health -- Chapter 2: Insights into the Regulation of Implantation and Placentation in Humans, Rodents, Sheep, and Pigs -- Chapter 3: A Role for Fructose Metabolism in Development of Sheep and Pig Conceptuses -- Chapter 4: Nutritional Regulation of Embryonic Survival, Growth and Development -- Chapter 5: Phosphate, Calcium, and Vitamin D: Key Regulators of Fetal and Placental Development in Mammals -- Chapter 6: Nutritional and Physiological Regulation of Water Transport in the Conceptus -- Chapter 7: Amino Acids in Microbial Metabolism and Function -- Chapter 8: Potential Replacements for Antibiotic Growth Promoters in Poultry: Interactions at the Gut Level and their Impact on Host Immunity -- Chapter 9: Microbiomes in the Intestine of Developing Pigs: Implications for Nutrition and Health -- Chapter 10: L-Arginine Nutrition and Metabolism in Ruminants -- Chapter 11: Hepatic Glucose Metabolism and Its Disorders in Fish -- Chapter 12: Protein-Sourced Feedstuffs for Aquatic Animals -- Chapter 13: Functional Molecules of Intestinal Mucosal Products in Animal Nutrition and Health -- Chapter 14: Use of Genome Editing Techniques to Produce Transgenic Farm Animals -- Chapter 15: Cows as Bioreactors for the Production of Nutritionally and Biomedically Significant Proteins -- Chapter 16: Use of Agriculturally Important Animals as Models in Biomedical Research -- Chapter 17: Pigs (Sus Scrofa) in Biomedical Research.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Neuroglia in psychiatric disorders -- Chapter 1. Astrocytes: The housekeepers and guardians of the CNS -- Chapter 2. Principles of astrogliopathology -- Chapter 3. Morphological appearance of astroglia in neuropsychiatric disorders -- Chapter 4. Astrocytes and neurotransmission: Glutamate and GABA in cognitive and mood disorders -- Chapter 5. Astroglia in bipolar disorder -- Chapter 6. Astroglia abnormalities in mood disorders -- Chapter 7. Astroglia in major depression and suicide -- Chapter 8. Neuroglia in Schizophrenia -- Chapter 9. Glutamate turnover in Schizophrenia -- Chapter 10. Astroglia and dopanime transmission in Schizophrenia -- Chapter 11. Kynurenic acid in Schyzophrenia -- Chapter 12. Astrocytes in addictive disorders -- Chapter 13. Astroglia in the vulnerability and maintenance of alcohol dependence -- Chapter 14. Astroglia in response to stress -- Chapter 15. Astroglia and Obsessive compulsive disorder -- Chapter 16. Astrocytes in regulation of food intake -- Chapter 17. Astrocytes in anorexia nervosa -- Chapter 18. Astroglial serotonin receptors as the central target of classic antidepressants -- Chapter 19. Lithium targets astrocytes -- Epilogue.

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: Chapter 1: Understanding the Mechanisms of Dendritic Arbor Development: Integrated Experimental and Computational Approaches -- Chapter 2: Autophagy Mechanisms for Brain Recovery. Keep It Clean, Keep It Alive -- Chapter 3: Environmental enrichment and functional plasticity in the hippocampus, an update on the mechanisms involved -- Chapter 4: Translatable Models of Brain and Cognitive Reserve -- Chapter 5: Cognitive Reserve: A Life-Course Perspective -- Chapter 6: Neural Correlates of Brain Reserve: A Neuroimaging Perspective -- Chapter 7: Non-pharmacological Approaches Based on Mind-Body Medicine to Enhancement of Cognitive and Brain Reserve in Humans -- Chapter 8: Roles of Synaptic Plasticity in Functional Recovery After Brain Injury -- Chapter 9: Integrated Methods of Neuromodulation for Guiding Recovery Following Stroke -- Chapter 10: Resilience in Brain Networks After Stroke -- Chapter 11: Epigenetics and brain plasticity: back to function -- Chapter 12: Functional Role of Physical Exercise and Omega-3 Fatty Acids on Depression and Mood Disorders -- Chapter 13: BRAIN RECOVERY IN CHILDHOOD: THE INTERACTION BETWEEN DEVELOPMENTAL PLASTICITY AND REGENERATIVE MECHANISMS -- Chapter 14: Estrogen Neuroprotective Activity After Stroke and Spinal Cord Injury -- Chapter 15: Making Meaning of Acquired Brain Injury: Resources for Functional Recovery -- Chapter 16: An Update on Premorbid Personality Traits and Brain Recovery - Another Aspect of Resilience -- Chapter 17: Psychological Aspects of Recovery After Brain Injury: A Focus on Psychodynamic Factors -- Chapter 18: Artificial Intelligence applications for Traumatic Brain Injury research and clinical management.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Biotechnological Approaches in Fish Health Management -- Chapter 2. RNA Interference and Its Potential Applications in Aquatic Animal Health Management -- Chapter 3. Biotechnological Advances in the Development of Outer Membrane Protein-Based Vaccines for Use in Aquaculture -- Chapter 4. Application Of Carbon Nanotubes In Advancement Of Fish Vaccine -- Chapter 5. Biotechnological Interventions In Developing Vaccines Against Aeromonas Infection In Aquaculture -- Chapter 6. Gene Editing Technology For Fish Health Management -- Chapter 7. Applications of Fish Cell Cultures -- Chapter 8. Recent Advances In Antimicrobial Peptides To Improve Fish Health -- Chapter 9. Gut Microbiome Research: A New Avenue For Aquaculture Disease Management. Chapter 10. Recent Understanding of Immunological Defence in Freshwater Pearl Mussel for Better Health Management -- Chapter 11. Prebiotic-Synbiotic Nexus: Critical Dietary Role in Aquaculture -- Chapter 12. Biofloc Technology: An Eco-Based Emerging Avenue In Aquaculture Health Management -- Chapter 13. Metabolomic Advances in Fish Nutritional Research and Health Management -- Chapter 14. Vaccines to Prevent Diseases in Aquaculture -- Chapter 15. A Progress on Biotechnological Advances on Immunostimulants and Gene Interaction -- Chapter 16. Probiotic Supplements in Aquaculture: Latest Developments & Future Trend -- Chapter 17. Heat Shock Proteins (Chaperones) and Role in Aquatic Animal Disease Management -- Chapter 18. Nanotechnology in Fish Health and Welfare: Recent Advancements and New Perspectives -- Chapter 19. Advances in Management Methods for Argulosis in Aquaculture -- Chapter 20. Metagenomic Approaches to Identify Fish Gut Microbiome and The Effect of Prebiotic Supplements on Gut Microbes and Health Management -- Chapter 21. Microbiome Interventions for The Prevention and Control of Disease Outbreaks in Shrimp Aquaculture. Chapter 22. Reinventing the Micronutrients Beyond Nutrition: Functions in Immune Modulation and Stress Mitigation of Fish -- Chapter 23. Health-Promoting Effects of Amino Acids in Fish -- Chapter 24. Application of Indian Pennywort Centella Asiatica in Carp Aquaculture Against Flavobacterium Columnare Infection.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. The Auditory Cognitive Neuroscience of Speech Perception in Context -- 2. Subcortical Processing of Speech Sounds -- 3. Cortical Representation of Speech Sounds: Insights from Intracranial Electrophysiology -- 4. A Parsimonious Look at Neural Oscillations in Speech Perception -- 5. Extracting Language Content From Speech Sounds: The Information Theoretic Approach -- 6. Speech Perception under Adverse Listening Conditions -- 7. Adaptive Plasticity in Perceiving Speech Sounds -- 8. Development of Speech Perception -- 9. Interactions Between Audition and Cognition in Hearing Loss and Aging.

Description / Table of Contents: PART I. Glial-Neuronal Interactions in the Control of Hypothalamic Development -- The Role of Microglia in the Developing Hypothalamus -- PART II. Glial-Neuronal Interactions in the Control of the Magnocellular Neuroendocrine System -- Functional Consequences of Morphological Plasticity in the Adult Hypothalamo-Neurohypophysial System -- Fenestrated Capillary and Dynamic Neuro-Glial-Vascula Reorganization of the Adult Neurohypophysis -- Astrocyte-Magnocellular Neuron Interactions in Hypothalamic Memory -- The Multifaceted Roles of Hypothalamic Astrocytes and Microglial Cells in Neuroendocrine and Autonomic Regulation in Health and Disease -- PART III. Gial-Neuronal Interactions in the Control of Metabolic Function -- Control of Systemic Metabolism by Astrocytes in the Brain -- Glia-Neuron Communication: Not a One-way Street -- PART IV. Glial-Neuronal Interactions in the Control of the Stress Response -- Retrograde Signaling Via Dendritic Activation of Glial-Neuronal Circuits -- PART V. Glial-Neuronal Interactions in the Control of Reproductive Function -- Microglia, Hormones, and Behavior -- Hypothalamic Astrocytes and the Role of Neuroprogesterone in Estrogen Positive Feedback -- PART VI. Glial-Neuronal Interactions that Link Brain and Periphery -- Unveiling the Importance of Tanycytes in the Control of the Dialogue Between the Brain and the Periphery -- Tanycyte Regulation of Hypophysiotropic TRH Neurons.

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: 1. Introduction to the complexity of cell surface and tissue matrix glycoconjugates. -- 2. Introduction to cells comprising the nervous system. -- 3. Synthesis -- processing -- and function of N-glycans in N-glycoproteins. -- 4. Synthesis of O-linked glycoconjugates in the nervous system. -- 5. Chemistry and function of glycosaminoglycans in the nervous system. -- 6. Use of glycan-targeted antibodies/lectins to study the expression/function of glycosyltransferases in the nervous system. -- 7. Capillary electrophoresis and mass spectrometry-based glycosylation analysis in glycomics and glycoproteomics. -- 8. Structural analysis of oligosaccharides and glycoconjugates using NMR. -- 9. Glycolipid and glycoprotein expression during neural development. -- 10. Gangliosides and cell surface ganglioside glycohydrolases in the nervous system (request them to include gal-cer and sulfatide). -- 11. Role of myelin-associated glycoproteins in the peripheral nervous system. -- 12. Glycosignaling: a general review. -- 13. Glycosphingolipids in the regulation of the nervous system. -- 14. O-GlcNAcylation of neuronal proteins: Roles in neuronal functions and in neurodegeneration. -- 15. Glycoconjugates in nuclear membranes. -- 16. N-glycosylation in regulation of the nervous system. -- 17. Role of carbohydrates in the interaction of pathogens with neural cells. -- 18. Glycoconjugate changes in aging and age-related diseases. -- 19. Gangliosides and glycolipids in neurodegenerative disorders. -- 20. Inborn errors of glycosphingolipid catabolism and potential treatment. -- 21. Neurological aspects of human glycosylation disorders. -- 22. Glycoconjugates and neural tumors. -- 23. Galectins and neuroinflammation . -- 24. Glycoconjugates and neuroimmunological diseases. -- 25. Targeting nanoparticle drug carriers to the brain. -- 26. Use of quantum dots to treat inherited lysosomal storage diseases. -- 27. MALDI-FTICR MS imaging of nervous system glycoconjugates.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I Preclinical Research: Neuroendocrine Mechanisms of Social Bonds and Separation Stress in Rodents, Dogs, and Other Species -- Methods and Challenges in Investigating Sex-Specific Consequences of Social Stressors in Adolescence in Rats: Is It the Stress or the Social or the Stage of Development?- Social stress-induced neuroinflammation and mitochondrial dysfunction as a link to depression and cardiovascular disease comorbidity -- Mean Girls: Social Stress Models for Female Rodents -- Development of Mixed Anxiety/ Depression-Like State as a Consequence of Chronic Anxiety: Review of Experimental Data -- Unravelling the Neuroinflammatory Mechanisms Underlying the Effects of Social Defeat Stress on Use of Drugs of Abuse -- Social Stress and Aggression in Murine Models -- More or less: glucocorticoid roles in aggression -- Neurobiological Bases of Urges for Alcohol Consumption After Social Stress -- Epigenetics of Aggression -- Part II Human Research: Early Life Stress and Neurodevelopment in Adolescence: Implications for Risk and Adaptation -- Effects of Parenting Environment on Child and Adolescent Social-Emotional Brain Function -- The Stressed Brain: Neural Underpinnings of Social Stress Processing in Humans -- Social Acts and Anticipation of Social Feedback -- Clinical Outcomes of Severe Forms of Early Social Stress -- Childhood Violence Exposure, Inflammation, and Cardiometabolic Health -- Social Support Effects on Neural Stress and Alcohol Reward Responses -- Neural Underpinnings of Social Stress in Human Addiction.

Description / Table of Contents: Section I. Anhedonia – History, Etiology, and Assessments -- 1. Historical Perspective -- 2. Clinical and Behavioral Assessments -- 3. Developmental Trajectories: Preclinical -- 4. Developmental Trajectories: Clinical -- 5. Genetics Contributions -- 6. Environmental Contributions -- Section II. Anhedonia in Psychiatric and Neurological Disorders -- 7. Depression and Bipolar Disorder -- 8. Schizophrenia -- 9. Substance Use Disorder -- 10. Nicotine Dependence -- 11. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder -- 12. Anxiety -- 13. Eating Disorders -- 14. Autism and Developmental Disorders -- 15. Neurodegenerative Disorders -- Section III. Reward Processing Systems in Anhedonia -- Reward Responsiveness -- 16. Pleasure -- 17. Anticipation -- Reward Valuation -- 18. Reward Value – Delay and Reward Magnitude -- 19. Effort/Motivation -- Reward Learning -- 20. Reward Prediction Error -- 21. Probabilistic and Reinforcement Learning -- Section IV. Treatments -- 22. Pharmacological Treatments for Anhedonia -- 23. Psychological Treatments for Anhedonia -- 24. Neurostimulation -- Section V. Special Topics -- 25. Inflammation and Anhedonia -- 26. Computational Modeling of Anhedonia -- 27. Anhedonia and Suicide.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction: What are dendritic spines? -- Chapter 2: Techniques to render dendritic spines visible in the microscope -- Chapter 3: Electrophysiology of dendritic spines: information processing, dynamic compartmentalization and synaptic plasticity -- Chapter 4: Dendritic spines, synaptogenesis and synaptic pruning for the developmental organization of brain circuits -- Chapter 5: Neurotrophic factors and dendritic spines -- Chapter 6: Glial cell modulation of dendritic spine structure and synaptic function -- Chapter 7: Dendritic spines in learning and memory: from first discoveries to current insights -- Chapter 8: Steroid hormone interaction with dendritic spines: implications for neuropsychiatric disease -- Chapter 9: Morphological features of human dendritic spines.

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- PART 1: To fear or not -- Disambiguating fear as an emotional state vs. threat detection. Molecular and Neural circuits of fear extinction. Psychological and theoretical elements on the concept of fear extinction. Neural circuit of fear extinction: psychophysiology -- PART 2: Individual differences in fear extinction -- The impact of sex differences and sex hormones on fear extinction. Impact of sleep on fear extinction. Impact of stress and exercise on fear extinction. Intersect between the intrinsic and extrinsic factors that modulate fear extinction -- PART 3: Psychopathology -- Fear extinction and its relevance to psychopathology. Developmental fear and its extinction imaging. Fear extinction and adult psychopathology -- Part 4: Therapeutics and neuromodulations of fear extinction -- Exposure therapy and other behavioral therapeutics targeting fear extinction circuits. Novel pharmacotherapeutics targeting fear extinction circuits. Reconsolidation and its link and impact on fear extinction. Technological advances in exposure therapy: virtual and augmented reality. Novel approaches using neurostimulation targeting fear extinction.

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. Bioenergy Crops in the Perspective of Climate Change -- 2. Major and Potential Biofuel Crops -- 3. Biotechnological approaches for the production of Bioenergy -- 4. Integrated OMIC approaches for bioenergy crops -- 5. Genomics of Bioenergy Crops -- 6. Omics Approaches for Sorghum: Paving the Way to a Resilient and Sustainable Bioenergy Future -- 7. Exploring Omics Approaches to Enhance Stress Tolerance in Soybean for Sustainable Bioenergy Production -- 8. Advanced and Sustainable Approaches in Sugarcane Crop Improvements with Reference to Environmental Stresses -- 9. Role of endophytes in the regulation of metabolome in bioenergy crops -- 10. Cotton Stalks - Potential Biofuel Recourses for Sustainable Environment -- 11. Harmful Insects in Some Biofuel Plants and Their Biology -- 12. Perspectives use of mustards in biofuel production in Turkey -- 13. Current status and future prospectus of Bioenergy crops.

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. 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.