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Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1.Genetic tinkering of crops for sustainable development – 2020 and Beyond -- Chapter 2.Genetic improvement of rice for food and nutritional security 3.Improvement of wheat (Triticum spp.) through gene manipulation -- Chapter 4. Transgenic finger millet [Eleusine coracana (L.) Gaertn.] for crop improvement -- Chapter 5. Transgenic pigeon pea [Cajanus cajan (L). Millsp.] -- Chapter 6. Genetically engineered chickpea: Potential of an orphan legume to achieve food and nutritional security by 2050 -- Chapter 7. Progress in genetic engineering of cowpea for insect pest and virus resistance -- Chapter 8. Peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) transgenic plants for abiotic stress tolerance -- Chapter 9. Genetic engineering of sunflower (Helianthus annuus L.) for important agronomic traits -- Chapter 10. Genetic engineering in safflower (Carthamus tinctorius L.): Retrospect and prospect -- Chapter 11. Nutritional value, in vitro regeneration and development of transgenic Cucurbita pepo and C. maxima for stress tolerance: An overview -- Chapter 12. Sugarcane transgenics: Developments and opportunities .

Description / Table of Contents: 1 Modeling in Biomechanics 1 -- 1.1 The different perspectives 2 -- 1.1.1 The engineering approach 2 -- 1.1.2 The clinical approach 2 -- 1.1.3 The pre- clinical approaches 2 -- 1.2 Opportunities and challenges 2 -- 1.3 Statistical analysis 3 -- 1.3.1 Probability distributions 4 -- 1.3.2 Hypothesis testing 7 -- 1.3.3 Correlation amongst variables 9 -- 1.3.4 Regression modeling 10 -- 1.3.5 Mean difference test 13 -- 1.3.6 Study design 14 -- 1.4 Model definition 16 -- 1.5 Model development and testing 17 -- 1.5.1 Sensitivity analysis 17 -- 1.5.3 Validation 21 -- 1.6 Case study: Biomechanical Rupture Risk Assessment (BRRA) 21 -- 1.6.1 Short comings of the current AAA risk assessment 21 -- 1.6.2 Intended Model Application (IMA) 21 -- 1.6.3 Failure hypothesis 22 -- 1.6.4 Work flow and diagnostic information 22 -- 1.6.5 Key modeling assumptions 23 -- 1.6.6 Clinical validation 24 -- 1.7 Summary and conclusion 25 -- Appendix: Biomechanics Modeling 27 -- A.1 Definitions and terminology in statistics 27 -- 2 The circulatory system 29 -- 2.1 Physiology 29 -- 2.1.1 Vascular system 29 -- 2.1.2 Key concepts 31 -- 2.1.3 Cells in the vascular system 32 -- 2.1.4 Macrocirculation 33 -- 2.1.5 Lymphatic system 37 -- 2.1.6 Microcirculation 38 -- 2.1.7 Hemodynamic regulation 41 -- 2.2 Mechanical system properties 42 -- 2.2.1 Vascular pressure 43 -- 2.2.2 Vascular flow 44 -- 2.2.3 Vascular resistance 45 -- 2.2.4 Transcapillary transport 45 -- 2.3 Modeling the macrocirculation 45 -- 2.3.1 Windkessel (WK) models 46 -- 2.3.2 Vessel network modeling 57 -- 2.4 Modeling the Microcirculation 63 -- 2.4.1 Transcapillary concentration difference 63 -- 2.4.2 Filtration 65 -- 2.5 Summary and conclusion 70 -- Appendix: Mathematical preliminaries 72 -- A.1 Complex numbers 72 -- A.2 Fourier series approximation 72 -- Appendix: Basic circuit elements 73 -- B.1 Resistor element 73 -- B.2 Capacitor element 73 -- B.3 Inductor element 74 -- Appendix: Transport mechanisms 74 -- C.1 Diffusion 74 -- C.2 Advection 75 -- Appendix: Osmosis 75 -- D.1 Osmotic pressure 75 -- D.2 Transport across semipermeable membranes 76 -- 3 Continuum Mechanics 77 -- 3.1 Kinematics 78 -- 3.1.1 Deformation gradient 78 -- 3.1.2 Multiplicative decomposition 79 -- 3.1.3 Polar decomposition 79 -- 3.1.4 Deformation of the line element 79 -- 3.1.5 Deformation of the volume element 80 -- 3.1.6 Deformation of the area element 80 -- 3.1.7 Concept of strain 81 -- 3.2 Concept of stress 85 -- 3.2.1 Cauchy stress theorem 86 -- 3.2.2 Principal stresses 87 -- 3.2.3 Isochoric and volumetric stress 89 -- 3.2.4 Octahedral stress and von Mises stress 89 -- 3.2.5 Cauchy stress in rotated coordinates 91 -- 3.2.6 First Piola-Kirchhoff stress 91 -- 3.2.7 Second Piola-Kirchhoff stress 92 -- 3.2.8 Implication of material incompressibility on the stress state 93 -- 3.3 Material time derivatives 94 -- 3.3.1 Kinematic variables 94 -- 3.3.2 Stress rates 95 -- 3.3.3 Power-conjugate stress and strain rates 96 -- 3.4 Constitutive modeling 97 -- 3.4.1 Some mechanical properties of materials 97 -- 3.4.2 Linear elastic material 100 -- 3.4.3 Hyperelasticity 102 -- 3.4.4 Viscoelasticity 105 -- 3.5 Governing laws 113 -- 3.5.1 Mass balance 114 -- 3.5.2 Balance of linear momentum 116 -- 3.5.3 Maxwell transport and localization 118 -- 3.5.4 Thermodynamic principles 119 -- 3.6 General principles 125 -- 3.6.1 Free body diagram 125 -- 3.6.2 Initial Boundary Value Problem 126 -- 3.6.3 Principle of Virtual -- 3.7 Damage and failure 129 -- 3.7.1 Physical consequences 129 -- 3.7.2 Strain localization 130 -- 3.7.3 Linear Fracture Mechanics 132 -- 3.7.4 J -- Integral 133 -- 3.7.5 Cohesive zone modeling 133 -- 3.8 Multiphasic continuum theories 134 -- 3.8.1 Mixture theory 134 -- 3.8.2 Poroelasticity theory 134 -- 3.9 Summary and conclusion 135 -- Appendix: Mathematical preliminaries 136 -- A.1 Laplace and Fourier transforms 136 -- A.2 Matrix algebra 136 -- A.2.1 Trace of a matrix 137 -- A.2.2 Identity matrix 137 -- A.2.3 Determinant of a matrix 137 -- A.2.4 Inverse and orthogonal matrix 138 -- A.2.5 Linear vector transform 138 -- A.2.6 Eigenvalue problem 138 -- A.2.7 Relation between the trace and the eigenvalues 139 -- A.2.8 Cayley-Hamilton theorem 139 -- A.3 Vector algebra 140 -- A.3.1 Basic vector operations 140 -- A.3.2 Coordinate transformation 142 -- A.4 Tensor algebra 144 -- A.4.1 Spherical tensor 144 -- A.4.2 Tensor operations 145 -- A.4.3 Invariants of second-order tensors 145 -- A.5 Vector and tensor calculus 146 -- A.5.1 Local changes of field variables 146 -- A.5.2 Divergence theorem 147 -- Appendix: Some useful Laplace and Fourier transforms 148 -- B.1 Laplace transforms 148 -- B.2 Fourier transforms 150 -- Appendix: Some useful tensor relations 151 -- 4 Conduit vessels 153 -- 4.1 Histology and morphology of the vessel wall 154 -- 4.1.1 Layered vessel wall organization 154 -- 4.1.2 Differences between arteries and veins 155 -- 4.1.3 Extra Cellular Matrix (ECM) 156 -- 4.1.4 Cells 157 -- 4.2 Mechanical properties and experimental observations 158 -- 4.2.1 Aorta 160 -- 4.2.2 Carotid artery 161 -- 4.2.3 Coronary artery 162 -- 4.2.4 Iliac artery 163 -- 4.3 Vascular diseases 163 -- 4.3.1 Diagnostic examinations 164 -- 4.3.2 Atherosclerosis 165 -- 4.3.3 Biomechanical factors in atherosclerosis 167 -- 4.3.4 Carotid artery disease 169 -- 4.3.5 Coronary heart disease 171 -- 4.3.6 Aneurysm disease 172 -- 4.4 Vascular adaptation 174 -- 4.5 Constitutive descriptions 175 -- 4.5.1 Capacity of a vessel segment 176 -- 4.5.2 Hyperelasticity for incompressible solids 177 -- 4.5.3 Purely phenomenological descriptions 178 -- 4.5.4 Histo-mechanical descriptions 183 -- 4.5.5 General theory of fibrous connective tissue 185 -- 4.5.6 Residual stress and load -- free configuration 188 -- 4.5.7 Visco-elastic descriptions 189 -- 4.5.8 Damage and failure descriptions 191 -- 4.5.9 Non-passive vessel wall properties 194 -- 4.6 Identification of constitutive parameters 194 -- 4.6.1 Analytical vessel wall models 197 -- 4.6.2 Optimization problem 199 -- 4.7 Case study: Wall stress analysis of the normal and aneurysmatic -- infrarenal aorta 205 -- 4.7.1 the analysis type 205 -- 4.7.2 Setting the boundary conditions- Dirichlet boundary 205 -- 4.7.3 Setting the loading conditions - Neuman boundary 205 -- 4.7.4 Setting the vascular wall properties 206 -- 4.7.5 Setting the output options 206 -- 4.8 Summary and Conclusion 206 -- Appendix: Protocol experimental vessel wall testing 208 -- A.1 Tissue harvesting and sample preparation 208 -- A.2 Test protocol definition and data recording 208 -- A.3 Acquired -- x CONTENTS -- 5 Blood flow 211 -- 5.1 Blood composition 211 -- 5.1.1 Erythrocyte (or red blood cell) 212 -- 5.1.2 Leukocyte (or white blood cell) 212 -- 5.1.3 Thrombocyte (or platelet) 213 -- 5.1.4 Plasma 213 -- 5.2 Forces acting at blood particles 214 -- 5.2.1 Drag force 214 -- 5.2.2 Gravitational and inertia forces 214 -- 5.2.3 Forces related to fluid pressure 214 -- 5.2.4 Forces related to fluid velocity and shear stress 215 -- 5.2.5 Forces arising from collisions 216 -- 5.2.6 Chemical and electrical forces 216 -- 5.2.7 Segregation of blood particles 218 -- 5.3 Blood rheology modeling 218 -- 5.3.1 Alteration of blood microstructure with the shear rate 218 -- 5.3.2 Modeling generalized Newtonian fluids 219 -- 5.3.3 Single-phase viscosity models for blood 220 -- 5.3.4 Composition-based viscosity models for blood 221 -- 5.4 Blood damage 224 -- 5.5 Description of incompressible flows 224 -- 5.5.1 Energy conservation 224 -- 5.5.2 Linear momentum conservation 226 -- 5.6 Blood flow phenomena 232 -- 5.6.1 Laminar and turbulent flow 232 -- 5.6.2 Boundary layer flow 233 -- 5.6.3 Blood flow through circular tubes 233 -- 5.6.4 Multi-dimensional flow phenomena 234 -- 5.7 Case study: Wall Shear Stress (WSS) analysis of the normal and -- aneurysmatic infrarenal aorta 236 -- 5.7.1 Setting the analysis type 236 -- 5.7.2 Setting the boundary conditions -Dirichlet boundary 236 -- 5.7.3 Setting the loading conditions -Neuman boundary 237 -- 5.7.4 Setting the blood rheological properties 237 -- 5.7.5 Setting the output options 237 -- 5.8 Summary and conclusion 238 -- Appendix: Mathematical preliminaries 239 -- 6 The vascular wall, an active entity 241 -- 6.1 Vasoreactivity 242 -- 6.1.1 Structure of contractile SMC 242 -- 6.1.2 SMC contraction regulation 243 -- 6.2 Arteriogenesis 243 -- 6.3 Angiogenesis 244 -- 6.4 Damage, healing and failure 244 -- 6.5 Modeling frameworks 244 -- 6.5.1 Open system governing laws 245 -- 6.5.2 Kinematics-based growth description 246 -- 6.5.3 Tensorial distribution of volume growth 248 -- 6.5.4 Homeostatic growth 249 -- 6.5.5 Continues turnover-based growth description 252 -- 6.5.6 Other formulations 256 -- 6.5.7 Applications of growth descriptions 257 -- 6.6 Conclusion and Discussion 258 -- 6.7 Applications 259 -- 6.7.1 Tensile testing the passive and active vessel wall 259 -- 6.7.2 Biaxially loaded vessel wall patch 260 -- 6.7.3 Ring testing of vessel segments 262 -- References 265 -- Problem Solutions 287 -- Index 373.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. An Introduction of Research Approaches in Urban Agricultural and Community Contexts (Levon T. Esters) -- Chapter 2. What Role Does Motivation and Engagement in Garden-Based Education Play for Science Learning in At-Risk Middle School Students? A Self-Determination Theory Perspective (Ellen Skinner and Una Chi) -- Chapter 3. Developing a Researchable Question: Open Inquiry in a School Garden (Eric Berson and Isha DeCoito) -- Chapter 4. Science in the Learning Gardens: Designing Middle School Curriculum Integrated with Next Generation Science Standards (Dilafruz Williams, Sybil Kelley, and Cary Sneider) -- Chapter 5. Science in Action: Biological and Ecological Principals of Urban Agriculture (Bruna Irene Grimberg and Fabian D. Menalled) -- Chapter 6. Urban Agricultural Experiences: Focusing on 21st Century Learning Skills and Integrating Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Education (Isha DeCoito) -- Chapter 7. Developing Environmental Action Competence in an Urban High School Agriculture and Environmental Program (Anne Stephens and Heidi Ballard) -- Chapter 8. Growing a Culture of Sustainability: Urban Agriculture Experiences and Undergraduate Student Attachments and Behaviors (Kerri LaCharite) -- Chapter 9. An Overview of Urban Agriculture Youth Programs in Major Cities of the U.S. and the Integration of STEM Curriculum and Activities (Alex Moscovitz and Tara Pisani Gareau).

Description / Table of Contents: Western blotting: How it began -- 2. Basics of Western Blotting -- 3.Basic Calculations in Western Blotting -- 4.Choosing The Right Antibody For Western Blotting -- 5. Sample Preparation -- 6. Blocking membranes at places that do not have transferred proteins -- 7. A Basic Method for Western Blotting -- 8. Trouble Shooting Western Blotting -- 9. Using Biotin to demonstrate western and dot blotting in University Practical Classes- A Guide To Instructors -- 10. Nitrocellulose Membrane Art -- 11. The Use Of A Harmless Invisible Ink To Send Secret Messages On Nitrocellulose Membranes And As A Substitute For The Harmful Radioactive Ink Used As A Marker In ECL Membrane Assays -- 12. Fingerprinting On Nitrocellulose And Polyvinylidene Difluoride Membrane -- 13. Spectrometric Determination Of Protein For Electrophoresis -- 14. Concentrating Proteins For Western Blotting -- 15. Dissolving Proteins Using Lysis Buffer -- 16. Blotting And Detecting Glycosaminoglycans -- 17. Passive Blotting From Tissue Slices -- 18. Localizing Proteins by Tissue Printing -- 19. Ultrasound Blotting -- 20. Obtaining Several Blots From A Single SDS-PAGE Gel By Passive Transfer -- 21. Diffusion Blotting From SDS-PAGE Gels Supported By Solid Plastic -- 22. Dot-Immunobinding -- 23. Simultaneous Immunoblotting Analysis With Activity Gel Electrophoresis -- 24. Protein Blotting By Centrifugation -- 25. Blotting And Immunostaining Of Multiple Antigenic Peptides -- 26. High Molecular Weight Protein Blotting Using Agarose Gel Electrophoresis -- 27. Cetyltrimethylammonium bromide PAGE And Eastern Blotting -- 28. Purification Of Autoantibodies Bound To An Autoantigen Immobilized On A Membrane Strip -- 29. Miniaturized Blotting -- 30. Affinity Immunoblotting -- 31. Transferring Coomassie Blue Stained Proteins from Polyacrylamide Gels To Transparencies -- 32. Protein Transfer From Immobilized pH Gradient Gels -- 33. SDS PAGE To Immunoblotting In Sixty Minutes -- 34. Western Blot Analysis Of Protein-DNA Complexes Formed DuringGel Shift Experiments -- 35. Electrophoretic Transfer Of High And Low Molecular Weight Proteins To Membranes Using Heat -- 36. Grid-immunoblotting -- 37. Far-western Blotting -- 38. Native Electrophoresis And Western Blot Analysis -- 39. Efficient Electroblotting Of Low Molecular Weight Protein After Staining With Coomassie -- 40. Avoiding Non-specific Binding Of Secondary Antibodies In Immunoblotting By Double-blotting -- 41.A Brief Introduction To Other Protein Blotting Methods -- 42. Quantitative Computerized Western Blotting In Detail -- 43. Common Problems In Electrophoresis.

Description / Table of Contents: The Potassium Cycle and Its Relationship to Recommendation Development -- Inputs: Potassium Sources for Agricultural Systems -- Outputs: Potassium Losses from Agricultural Systems -- Rhizosphere Processes and Root Traits Determining the Acquisition of Soil Potassium -- Potassium Use Efficiency of Plants -- Considerations for Unharvested Plant Potassium -- Considering Soil Potassium Pools with Dissimilar Plant Availability -- Using Soil Tests to Evaluate Plant Availability of Potassium in Soils -- Evaluating Plant Potassium Status -- How Closely is Potassium Mass Balance Related to Soil Test Changes -- Assessing Potassium Mass Balances in Different Countries and Scales -- Considerations for Selecting Potassium Placement Methods in Soil -- Timing Potassium Applications to Synchronize with Plant Demand -- Broadening the Objectives of Future Potassium Recommendations -- Improving Human Nutrition: A Critical Objective for Potassium Recommendations for Agricultural Crops.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Taxonomic history -- Relationships and Phylogeny -- Fossils -- Wood anatomy -- Pollen -- Chemistry -- Chromosomes -- Morphology of Humiriaceae -- Systematic treatment of Humiriaceae -- Literature Cited -- Numerical list of taxa -- List of exsiccatae -- Index of scientific names -- Index of local names.

Description / Table of Contents: Forum Lectures and Special Lecture: On the prediction of landslides and their consequences -- Design recommendations for single and dual rigid debris flow barriers with and without basal clearance -- The rockfall failure hazard assessment: summary and new advances -- Progress and lessons learned from responses to landslide disasters -- Behind-the-scenes in mitigation of landslides and other geohazards in low income countries - in memory of Hiroshi Fukuoka -- The impact of climate change on landslide hazard and risk -- Sendai Landslide Partnerships, Kyoto Landslide Commitment, and International programme on Landslides: Kyoto 2020 Commitment for Global Promotion of Understanding and Reducing Landslide Disaster Risk -- International Consortium on Landslides -- The ICL journal Landslides - 16 years of capacity development for landslide risk reduction -- UNESCO/KU/ICL UNITWIN Cooperation Programme-Members and recent activities -- International Programme on Landslides (IPL) -- SATREPS project for Sri Lanka with regard to “Development of early warning technology of Rain-induced Rapid and Long-travelling Landslides” -- Central Asia – rockslides' and rock avalanches' treasury and workbook -- Results of recent monitoring activities on landslide Umka, Belgrade, Serbia - IPL 181 -- Landslides in Weathered Flysch: From Activation to Deposition (WCoE 2017-2020) -- Report of the Croatian WCoE 2017-2020: From landslide mapping to risk assessment -- LARAM School: an ongoing experience -- Advanced technologies for Landslides (WCoE 2017-2020) -- Extreme rainfall event and its aftermath analysis - IPL 210 project progress report -- Complex geomorphological and engineering geological research of landslides with adverse societal impacts -- Report of the IPL-219, IPL-220 and Croatian WCoE 2017-2020: From landslide investigation to landslide prediction and stabilization -- Landslide-induced Tsunamis: Simulation of Tsunami waves induced by coastal and submarine landslides in Japan -- On the use of statistical analysis to understand submarine landslide processes and assess their hazard -- The continuing underestimated tsunami hazard from submarine landslides -- December 11, 2018 landslide and 90-m icy tsunami in the Bureya water reservoir -- The link between upper-slope submarine landslides and mass transport deposits in the hadal trenchs -- Tsunami from the San Andrés Landslide on El Hierro, Canary Islands: first attempt using simple scenario -- A sedimentological study of turbidite layers on a deep–sea terrace in the Japan Trench -- Flank failure of the volcanic Turtle Island and the submarine landslide in the southernmost Okinawa Trough -- Numerical simulation for tsunami generation due to a landslide -- Dealing with mass flow-induced tsunamis at Stromboli volcano: monitoring strategies through multi-platform remote sensing -- Detailed seafloor observation on a deep-sea terrace along the Japan Trench after the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake -- Landslides at UNESCO designates sites and contribution from WMO, FAO, IRDR -- Landslides at UNESCO-designated sites -- Traditional knowledge and local expertise in landslide risk mitigation of world heritages sites -- Reconstruction of the slope instability conditions before the 2016 failure in an urbanized district of Florence (Italy), a UNESCO World Heritage Site -- Integrating Kinematic analysis and Infrared Thermography for instability processes assessment in the rupestrian monastery complex of David Gareja (Georgia) -- Shallow landslide susceptibility assessment in the High City of Antananarivo (Madagascar) -- Thermo-mechanical cliff stability at tomb KV42 in the Valley of the Kings, Egypt -- Collaboration in MHEWS through an Integrated Way: The Great Efforts Contributed by Multi-stakeholder Partnership at National, Regional and International Levels -- Resilient Watershed Management: Landscape Approach to Climate Change and Disaster Risk Reduction -- Integrating DRR into the conservation and management mechanisms of the internationally designated sites – view of IRDR -- Landslide hazard and risk assessment for civil protection early response -- Size matters: the impact of small, medium and large landslide disasters -- Practices of Public Participation Early Warning System for Geological Hazards in China -- Education and Capacity Development for Risk Management and Risk Governance -- Early warning systems in Italy: state-of-the-art and future trends -- Community-based landslide risk management in contrasting social environments, cases from the Czech Republic -- Refinement Progresses on Freeway Slope Maintenance after a Huge Landslide Disaster -- Landslide exposure community-based mapping: a first encounter in a small rural locality of Mexico -- Co-producing data and decision support tools to reduce landslide risk in the humid tropics -- ICT-based landslide disaster simulation drill: Road to achieve 2030 global commitment -- A Preliminary Work of Safety Potential Analysis Model for Anchors Used on Freeway Slopes -- Initial Experiences of Community Involvement in an Early Warning System in Informal Settlements in Medellín, Colombia -- Capacity Building and Community Preparedness towards Landslide Disaster in Pagerharjo Village, Kulon Progo Regency of Yogyakarta, Indonesia -- Protection of a cultural heritage site in Croatia from rockfall occurrences -- Cutting-edge technologies aiming for better outcomes of landslide disaster mitigation.

Description / Table of Contents: Kyenotes: Landslide Recognition and Mapping for Slope Disaster Risk Reduction and Management - Keynote Speech -- Landslide susceptibility mapping by interpretation of aerial photographs, AHP and precise DEM -- Landslide recognition and mapping: New landslide inventory map of the Sudetes Mountains (south-western Poland) -- Gullies as landforms for landslide initiation – examples from the Dubračina River Basin (Croatia) -- Opportunities and challenges of the object-oriented automatic landslide detection from the high resolution Digital Elevation Model -- Can Repeat LiDAR Surveys Locate Future Massive Landslides? -- Semi-automatic Landslide Inventory Mapping with Multiresolution Segmentation Process: A Case Study from Ulus District (Bartin, NW Turkey) -- Landslide mapping based on UAV and SfM – Case study of the 2018 Prnjavor Čuntićki landslide, Croatia -- Developing recognition and simple mapping by UAV/SfM for local resident in mountainous area in Vietnam – A case study in Po Xi Ngai Community, Laocai province -- Landslide activity classification based on Sentinel-1 satellite radar interferometry data -- Updating Landslide Activity State and Intensity by Means of Persistent Scatterer Interferometry -- Damming predisposition of river networks: a mapping methodology -- Landslides along Halong-Vandon Expressway in Quang Ninh province, Vietnam -- Landslide hazard assessment and zonation – susceptibility modelling: New data on geological conditions of landslide activity on Vorobyovy Gory (Moscow, Russia) -- Impact of agricultural management in vineyards to landslides susceptibility in Italian Apennines -- Landslide susceptibility in two secondary rivers of La Ciénega watershed, Nevado de Toluca volcano, Mexico -- An Ordinal Scale Weighting Approach for Susceptibility Mapping Around Tehri Dam, Uttarakhand, India -- Potential Analysis of Deep-seated Landslides Caused by Typhoon Morakot Using Slope Unit -- Landslide susceptibility assessment using binary logistic regression in northern Philippines Landslide Hazard Mapping of Penang Island Malaysia based on Multilayer Perceptron Approach -- Landslide Susceptibility Mapping Based on the Deep Belief Network: A Case Study in Sichuan Province, China -- A Comparative study of deep learning and conventional neural network forevaluating landslide susceptibility using landslide initiation zones -- Landslide susceptibility assessment by ensemble-based Machine Learning models -- Application of Machine Learning Algorithms and Their Ensemble for Landslide Susceptibility Mapping -- Overcoming data scarcity related issues for landslide susceptibility modeling with machine learning -- Practical accounting of uncertainties in data-driven landslide susceptibility models. Examples from the Lanzhou case study -- Assessment of shallow landslides susceptibility using SHALSTAB and SINMAP at Serra do Mar, Brazil -- Regional slope stability analysis in landslide hazard assessment context, North Macedonia example -- Applying the Newmark model in the assessment of earthquake triggered landslides during the 2017 Ms 7.0 Jiuzhaigou earthquake, China -- Evaluation of secondary landslide susceptibility for the rescue activity using LiDAR UAV data -- Methodology for landslides assessment causing river channel obstructions and the consequent water shortage in rural communities -- Landslide hazard assessment and zonation – temporal and size modelling: Landslide Size Distribution Characteristics of Cretaceous and Eocene Flysch Assemblages in the Western Black Sea Region of Turkey -- A statistical exploratory analysis of inventoried slide-type movements for South Tyrol (Italy) -- Assessing landslide volume for landform hazard zoning purposes -- Empirical relationships to estimate the probability of runout exceedance for various landslide types -- Rapid sensitivity analysis for reducing uncertainty in landslide hazard assessment -- Applying debris flow simulation for detailed hazard and risk mapping -- Debris-Flow Peak Discharge Calculation Model Based on Erosion Zoning -- Assessment of rainfall-induced landslides in Tomioka city, Gunma Prefecture, Japan (Oct 2019) based on a simple prediction model and assumption parameters -- Rainfall-induced lahar occurrences shortly after eruptions and its initiation processes in Japan -- Spatiotemporal Assessment of Geological Hazard Safety along Railway Engineering using a Novel Method: A Case Study of the Sichuan-Tibet Railway, China -- Slope Stability and Landslide Hazard in Volubilis Archaeological Site (Morocco) -- Landslide data and information for disaster mitigation: Slope Hazard and Risk Mapping Project (PBRC) – An Overview of Disaster Risk Reduction Initiative -- Risk-informed Land Use Planning for Landslide Disaster Risk Reduction -- Landslides in steep-slope agricultural landscapes -- From satellite images to field survey: a complete scheme of lanslide InSAR monitoring -- Slope disaster risk reduction map as a communication tool for community based DRR in Japan & Vietnam -- Landslide vulnerability of people, communities and the built environment: People vulnerability to landslide: risky behaviours and dangerous conditions by gender and age -- Using mixed-methods to understand community vulnerability to debris flows in Montecito, CA -- Innovation in analysis and forecasting of vulnerability to slow-moving landslides -- Sentinel-1 PSI data for the evaluation of landslide geohazard and impact -- On the use of UAVs for landslide exposure of households: La Gloria neighbourhood, Teziutlán, Puebla -- Ordinal Logistic Regression to automatic classify shallow landslide risk level in Sao Paulo city, Brazil -- Site-specific risk assessment of buildings exposed to rock fall in India- A case study -- Cutting-edge technologies aiming for better outcomes of landslide disaster mitigation.

Description / Table of Contents: Sex Differences in Respiratory Physiology -- Sex Differences in the Anatomy of the Airways and the Lungs: Impact on Dysanapsis across the Lifespan -- Sex Steroids and Their Influence in Lung Diseases Across the Lifespan -- Sex Differences in the Developing Lung: Implications for Disease -- Neonatal Lung Disease: Mechanisms Driving Sex Differences -- Sex Differences in Cystic Fibrosis Across the Lifespan -- Sex Differences in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease -- Sex-Differences in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension -- Sex and Gender Differences in the Susceptibility to Environmental Exposures -- Respiratory Sex Differences in Response to Smoke Exposure -- Sex Differences in Adaptive Immunity in Chronic Lung Disease -- Network Medicine and Systems Biology Considerations to Understand Sex Differences in Lung Disease -- Sex Differences in Respiratory Infection -- Androgen Excess in Women and the Respiratory System -- Sex Differences in Circadian Biology: Influences on Lung Health and Disease -- Sex Differences in the Coronavirus Disease 2019.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I – The molecules of life -- Introduction: Life is made of molecules! -- The chemistry and physics of life -- The families of biological molecules -- Part II – The interplay and regulation of metabolism -- Introduction to metabolism -- The regulation of metabolism -- Energy conservation in metabolism: the mechanisms of ATP synthesis -- Catabolism of the major biomolecules -- Metabolic responses to hyperglycemia -- Regulation and integration of metabolism during hypoglycemia -- Regulation and integration of metabolism during physical activity -- Control of body weight and the modern metabolic diseases -- Index.