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Description / Table of Contents: Part I Brain Oxygenation and Function -- Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Measured Cerebral Blood Flow from Spontaneous Oxygenation Changes in Neonatal Brain Injury -- Nonlinear Transfer Entropy to Assess the Neurovascular Coupling in Premature Neonates -- Reference Value of Brain Tissue Oxygen Saturation in Newborns Immediately after Birth -- Relationship between Brain Tissue Oxygenation and Metabolism during Rewarming after Neonatal Hypoxia-Ischaemia Relates to Initial Electrical Abnormality -- Impact of Skull Thickness on Cerebral NIRS Oximetry in Neonates: An in silico Study -- Resuscitation with Drag Reducing Polymer after Traumatic Brain Injury with Hemorrhagic Shock Reduces Microthrombosis and Oxidative -- Anodal Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Improves Impaired Cerebrovascular Reactivity in Traumatized Mouse Brain -- Comparative Analysis of Simultaneous Transcranial Doppler and Perfusion Computed Tomography for Cerebral Perfusion Evaluation in Patients with Traumatic Brain Injury -- Meningeal Lymphatic Pathway of Brain Clearing from the Blood after Hhaemorrhagic Injuries -- Relationship between Cerebral Oxygenation and Skin Blood Flow at the Frontal Lobe during Progressive Hypoxia: Impact of Acute Hypotension -- Cerebral Autoregulation during Active Standing Test in Juvenile Patients with Instantaneous Orthostatic Hypotension -- Cerebral Blood Oxygenation Changes in Juvenile Patients with Delayed Orthostatic Hypotension during an Active Standing Test -- Relationship Between Cognitive Dysfunction and Systemic Metabolic Disorders in Elderly: Dementia Might be a Systematic Disease -- Relationship Between Cerebral Blood Oxygenation and Electrical Activity During Mental Stress Tasks: Simultaneous Measurements of NIRS and EEG -- Right-Left Asymmetry of Prefrontal Cerebral Oxygenation: Does it Depend on Systemic Physiological Activity, Absolute Tissue Oxygenation or Hemoglobin Concentration?- Effect of Gum Chewing on PFC Activity during Discomfort Sound Stimulation -- Effect of Mastication Muscle Activity on Prefrontal Cortex NIRS Measurement: a Pilot Study -- Part II Tumor Oxygenation and Metabolism -- Hypoxia Compromises Anti-Cancer Immune Responses - Peter Vaupel Lecture -- ‘Oxygen Level in a Tissue’ - What do Available Measurements Really Report?- Clinical and Statistical Considerations when Assessing Oxygen Levels in Tumors: Illustrative Results from Clinical EPR Oximetry Studies -- Fatal Alliance of Hypoxia-/HIF-1α-driven Microenvironmental Traits Promoting Cancer Progression -- Quantification of Tumor Oxygenation based on FMISO PET: Influence of Location and Oxygen Level of the Well-Oxygenated Reference Region -- Pathways of Oxygen Diffusion in Cells and Tissues: Hydrophobic channeling via networked lipids -- Part III Muscle Oxygenation and Sports Medicine -- Effect of Exercise Duration on Post-exercise Persistence of Oxyhemoglobin Changes in the Premotor Cortex: A Near-infrared Spectroscopy Study in Moderate-intensity Cycling Exercise -- Relationship Between Muscle Oxygen Saturation and Exercise Load in Patients with Malignant Hematopoietic Disease -- Comparison of the Effects of Continuous and Intermittent Exercise on Cerebral Oxygenation and Cognitive Function -- Relationship between Exercise Capacity and Muscle O2Hb saturation in Patients before Hematopoietic Stem-Cell Transplantation -- Differences in Muscle O2 Dynamics During Treadmill Exercise Between Aerobic Capacity-matched Overweight and Normal-weight Adults -- Cerebral Oxygenation Dynamics of the Prefrontal Cortex and Motor-Related Area During Cardiopulmonary Exercise Test: A Near-infrared Spectroscopy Study -- Reduced Optical Path Length in the Vastus Lateralis during Ramp Cycling Exercise -- Improvements in Skeletal Muscle can be Detected using Broadband NIRS in First-Time Marathon Runners -- Comparison of Two NIRS Tissue Oximeters (Moxy and Nimo) for Non-invasive Assessment of Muscle Oxygenation and Perfusion -- Part IV Cell Metabolism and Tissue Oxygenation -- Effects of Pulsed Magnetic Field on the Hemolysis of Erythrocytes Exposed to Oxidative Stress -- Role of Microtubule-associated Factors in HIF1α Nuclear Translocation -- Extracellular Acidosis Regulates the Expression of Inflammatory Mediators in Rat Epithelial Cells -- Part V Methodology of O2 Measurements -- Reducing False Alarm Rates in Neonatal Intensive Care: A New Machine Learning Approach -- Development of an IoT-based Monitoring System for Healthcare: A Preliminary Study -- Developing a Model to Simulate the Effect of Hypothermia on Cerebral Blood Flow and Metabolism -- Validation and Comparison of Monte Carlo and Finite Element Method in Forward Modeling for Near Infrared Optical Tomography -- Development of a Cuff-less Blood Pressure Monitoring System and its Application -- Usefulness of a New Device to Monitor Cerebral Blood Oxygenation using NIRS during Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation in Patients with Cardiac Arrest: A Pilot Study -- Application of Peripheral Near Infrared Spectroscopy to Assess Risk Factors in Patient with Coronary Artery Disease: Part 1 -- Broadband NIRS Cerebral Evaluation of the Hemodynamic and Oxidative State of Cytochrome-c-oxidase Responses to +Gz Acceleration in Healthy Volunteers -- Time-resolved NIROT ‘Pioneer’ System for Imaging Oxygenation of the Preterm Brain: Preliminary Results -- Application of Peripheral Near Infrared Spectroscopy to Assess Risk Factors in Patient with Coronary Artery Disease: Part 2 -- Optimization of Band Selection in Multispectral and Narrow-Band Imaging: An Analytical Approach -- Fabrication and Optical Characterization of Gelatin-Based Phantoms for Tissue Oximetry -- Two-Photon Autofluorescence Imaging of Fixed Tissues: Feasibility and Potential Values for Biomedical Applications -- Part VI Special Topics -- Acute Anemia Induces Erythropoiesis in Rat Organ Surface Primo-Vascular Tissue -- Analysis and Differential Expression of Primo Genes using RNA-Seq and qRT-PCR Experiments -- Acupuncture Inhibits the Increase in Alpha-synuclein in Substantia nigra in an MPTP- induced Parkinsonism Mouse Model -- On the Biomarkers of Alzheimer’s Disease -- Effective Murine Model Induction for Niche Study in Immune Cells against Leukemia -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction -- A. Anatomical consideration of the thoracic spine -- B. Anesthetic consideration of the thoracic spine surgery -- C. Clinical presentation of the thoracic spinal compression -- 2. Thoracic disc herniation -- A. Transforaminal endoscopic approach with foraminoplasty -- B. Thoracoscopic approach -- C. Minithoracotomy and discectomy -- D. Minimally invasive Posterior approach -- 3. Ossification of the ligamentum flavum -- A. Microscopic decompression -- B. Endoscopic decompression -- 4. Ossification of the posterior longitudinal ligament -- A. Mini-Thoracotomy and OPLL resection -- B. Thoracoscopic approach -- C. Oblique paraspinal approach -- 5. Trauma -- A. Vertebroplasty and Kyphoplasty -- B. Minimally invasive reconstruction of vertebral body in Kummell’s disease -- C. Minithoracotomy and Corpectomy using Expandable cage -- 6. Arachnoid cyst -- A. Minimally invasive resection of thoracic arachnoid cyst -- 7. Tumor -- A. Minimally invasive resection of IDEM tumor -- B. Stereotactic Radiosurgery of thoracic spine -- 8. Deformity on the thoracic spine -- A. Adolescent Idiopathic Scoliosis -- B. Posttraumatic deformity -- C. Proximal Junctional Kyphosis -- 9. Interventional treatment -- A. CT and ultrasound guided block -- B. Epidural Neuroplasty -- 10. Intraoperative Neuromonitoring -- 11. Robotic surgery in thoracic spine -- 12. Navigation for thoracic spine surgery. .

Description / Table of Contents: Contents: Chapter 1: Responding to Climate Change: Introduction and Overview ; Chapter 2: Sustaining Growth and Mitigating Climate Change: Are the Costs of Mitigation Underestimated? ; Chapter 3: Tradable Carbon Allowances: The Experience of the European Union and Lessons Learned ; Chapter 4: Energy and Climate Change Policy: Perspectives from the International Energy Agency ; Chapter 5: The Political Economy of Climate Change ; Chapter 6: Climate Change Meets Trade in Promoting Green Growth: Potential Conflicts and Synergies ; Chapter 7: Terms of Trade in Korea: Causes of Decline Since the Mid-1990s and Implications for Green Growth ; Chapter 8: Low Carbon Green Growth and Energy Policy in Korea ; Chapter 9: Issues in Establishing a Carbon Market in Korea