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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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Sensory Regeneration in the Inner Ear: History, Strategies and Prospects -- Non-mammalian Hair Cell Regeneration: Cellular Mechanisms of Morphological and Functional Recovery -- Cell Junctions and the Mechanics of Hair Cell Regeneration -- Mammalian Hair Cell Regeneration -- Specification and Plasticity of Mammalian Cochlear Hair Cell Progenitors -- Inner Ear Cells from Stem Cells – a Path Towards Inner Ear Cell Regeneration -- Spiral ganglion neuron regeneration in the cochlea: regeneration of synapses, axons and cells -- Genetic and Epigenetic Strategies for Promoting Hair Cell Regeneration in the Mature Mammalian Inner Ear.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction to neurogenetics -- Chapter 2. Neurogenetic analysis in Caenorhabditis elegans -- Chapter 3. Regionalisation of the early nervous system -- Chapter 4. Early neurogenesis and gliogenesis in Drosophila -- Chapter 5. Neural stem cells and brain tumour models in Drosophila -- Chapter 6. Eye development in Drosophila: from photoreceptor specification to terminal differentiation -- Chapter 7. Neurogenetics of memory, learning and forgetting -- Chapter 8. Evolution and origins of nervous systems -- Chapter 9. Neural stem and progenitor cells in the mammalian brain -- Chapter 10. Models of neurodegenerative diseases.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I. Concepts -- Chapter 1. A History of Immune and Neuroendocrine System Interactions -- Chapter 2. Philosophical Perspectives on Neuroendocrine-Immune Interactions: The Building Block Model and Complementary Neuro-Endocrine-Immune-Microbiota Systems Approaches -- Chapter 3. The Behavioural Immune System of Lower Vertebrates -- Part II. Regulatory Pathways -- Chapter 4. Cytokines and Hypothalamo-Pituitary-Adrenal Axis Activation: Now a Classic of Immune-Neuroendocrine System Interactions -- Chapter 5. Catecholamines and Immunomodulation -- Chapter 6. Neuroendocrine-immune Interactions in Major Depressive Disorder: Glucocorticoids and Glucocorticoid Receptors -- Chapter 7. Brain Fluids, Blood-Brain Interfaces, and Their Involvement in Neuroimmune Regulation During Development and in Adulthood -- Chapter 8. Neuropeptide Binding Autoantibodies Regulating Neuroendocrine Communications -- Part III. Modulation -- Chapter 9. Postnatal Development of Neuroimmune Responses -- Chapter 10. Sex Differences in Neuroendocrine-Immune Interactions -- Chapter 11. Biological Clocks and Immune Function -- Chapter 12. Influence of the Gut Microbiota on Neuroendocrine-Immune Interactions -- Part IV. Disease -- Chapter 13. Energy Balance and Neuroendocrine-Immune Regulation in Chronic Inflammatory and Neoplastic Diseases: An Evolutionary Perspective -- Chapter 14. Autonomic, Immune, Metabolic and Neuroendocrine Dimensions of Anorexia Nervosa: An Integrative View.

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Description / Table of Contents: Molecular Biomarkers.Somatic instability/Telomeres,- Genetic modifiers -- Current clinical trial biomarkers.-Pharmacodynamic biomarkers for Htt-lowering therapeutics.-Inflammatory biomarkers.-Sleep dysregulation markers.-Mitochondrial/Oxidative stress biomarkers.-Microbiomics -- Metabolomics.-Proteomics.-Transcriptomics.-Lipidomics.-Imaging marker overview.-Retinal imaging biomarkers -- MRI - non-invasive functional MRI measures -- The evolution of clinical trial methodology.-Digital biomarkers -- The future of telehealth -- Summary and future trends.

Description / Table of Contents: Part 1 General considerations -- Human iPS for clinical applications and cellular products -- 3D-printed iPS disease models -- Part 2 CNS iPSC and organoids -- iPS-derived neurons and brain organoids from patients (brain) -- iPS-derived RGCs (eye) -- iPS-derived glia (brain) -- iPSC to model blood-brain barrier endothelial cells -- Part 3 iPSC-derived nociceptive neurons -- IPSC-based peripheral nerve modeling -- Part 4 Non-neuronal specialized cell types -- iPSC-based drug screening of differentiated cardiomyocyte subtypes -- iPSC-based cardiac disease modeling: from cell to tissue -- iPSC-derived corneal endothelial cell -- iPSC-derived trabecular meshwork (eye) -- iPSC for in vitro disease modeling of diabetes.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- 1: Water Resources from a Global Perspective -- 2: Necessity of IWRM and Water Services -- 3: South Africa’s Continued Freshwater Decline and Current State -- 4: Decline in Informed Water Management -- 5: Continued Lack of Water Service Delivery -- 6: Progressive Deterioration of Water Quality -- 7: Main Issues Requiring Attention and Addressing Continued Deterioration -- 8: Transforming the Predicament into Problems.

Description / Table of Contents: Geomorphological and Geological Properties of Plitvice Lakes Area -- Hydrology, Hydrogeology and Hydromorphology of the Plitvice Lakes Area -- Water Chemistry -- Environmental Isotope Studies at the Plitvice Lakes -- Recent Tufa Deposition -- Springs of the Plitvice Lakes.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Water for energy versus energy for water -- Chapter 3. Energy sectors that use water -- Chapter 4. The context of the development of the World hydropower sector -- Chapter 5. The impact of drought on the hydropower domain -- Chapter 6. Force majeure -- Chapter 7. Sample contractual provisions, which must be contained in a force majeure contract -- Chapter 8. Concrete cases of invocation of force majeure -- Chapter 9. Romania, in a European energy context -- Chapter 10. Settlement of the dispute, in case the force majeure clause is invoked by Hidroelectrica SA -- Chapter 11. Electricity, systemic crises and environmental policies.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Characterisation of Flood Events – Event Separation and Flood Typology -- Chapter 3. Univariate Flood-Type-specific Flood Statistics -- Chapter 4. Multivariate Flood-Type specific Flood Statistics under consideration of tributary impacts -- Chapter 5. Regionalisation of Flood-type specific distributions -- Chapter 6. Main applications of the new methodology -- Chapter 7. Summary and outlook -- Appendix.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Valorization of olive tree by-products by co-composting -- Chapter 2: Olive oil mill wastewaters treatment methods -- Chapter 3: Olive mill wastewater: Treatment and valorization -- Chapter 4: Valuable materials from OMW -- Chapter 5: Study the value of olive mill wastewater and their impact on the receiving environment -- Chapter 6: A state-of-art review on the use of olive-oil mill wastewater for human purposes -- Chapter 7: Olive mill waste water bioactive molecules: applications in animal farming -- Chapter 8: Physicochemical characterization and estimation of the pollution degree of olive oil mill wastewaters from the cold extraction system and the traditional system -- Chapter 9: Characterization of top soils subjected to poorly controlled olive oil production wastewater and its effect on litter decomposition -- Chapter 10: Open ponds for effluent storage, a pertinent issue to olive mill wastewater (OMW) management in a circular economy context: Benefits and environmental impact -- Chapter 11: Olive mill wastewaters (OMWWs) a natural tank gorged with bioactive molecules -- Chapter 12: Management of olive oil mill wastewater in Morocco: Production, impacts, and treatment -- Chapter 13: Turkey’s olive mill wastewater (OMWW) problems and some suggestions -- Chapter 14: Future trends in olive industry waste management: A literature review.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Evapotranspiration importance in water resources management through cutting-edge approaches of Remote sensing and machine learning algorithms (Ali Raza) -- Chapter 2. Application of Remote Sensing and GIS for Morphometric Analysis: A Case Study of Burhanpur Watershed (Abhishek Patel) -- Chapter 3. A GIS-based DRASTIC approach for Aquifer vulnerability assessment: Study conducted in the Municipal Corporation region of Ranchi, Jharkhand (Shivam Saw) -- Chapter 4. Evaluation of Infiltration Models in an Agricultural Catchment Using Guelph Permeameter in Mysuru District (Harshith Y) -- Chapter 5. Investigation of trends and variability associated with the SPI and SPEI as a drought prediction tools in Gujarat regions, India (Paras Hirapara) -- Chapter 6. Fluoride mobilization and provenance identification in semi-arid conditions: A Hydrochemical and Isotopic approach (Abhinav Patel) -- Chapter 7. A comparative study of different inverse groundwater models for aquifer parameter estimation (Sharad Patel) -- Chapter 8. Water resources and irrigation management using GIS and Remote Sensing techniques: Case of Multan district (Pakistan) (Ali Raza).

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter1. GIS-based Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis for Identifying Rainwater Harvesting Structures Sites in a Semi-Arid River Basin -- Chapter2. Hydrochemical Investigation and Water Quality Mapping in and around Pallikarnai Marsh Land Area in Chennai, India -- Chapter3. Catchment Scale Modeling of Land Use and Land Cover Dynamics -- Chapter4. Urban Floods: A Case Study of Patna Floods 2019, Natural or Anthropogenic?- Chapter5. Flood Susceptibility Zonation using Dempster-Shafer Evidential Belief Function (EBF) Method in Chalakudy Taluk, Kerala, India -- Chapter6. Impact of Urbanization on Ganga River Basin: An Overview in the Context of Natural Surface Water Resources -- Chapter7. Urban Water Scarcity: A Global Challenge and Impending Solutions -- Chapter8. Groundwater Scarcity in Urban Areas is a Major Issue - Case Studies from West Bengal -- Chapter9. Impact of Urbanization and River Morphology on Groundwater System in Patna Urban Area, Bihar, India -- Chapter10. Aquifer Storage and Recovery: Key Issues and Feasibility -- Chapter11. Temporal Prediction of Groundwater Levels: A Gap in Generalization -- Chapter12. Suitability of Groundwater for Drinking and Agricultural Use in Patna District, Bihar, India -- Chapter13. Groundwater Potential Assessment using GIS-based Weighted Linear Combination Technique: A Case Study of Hard Rock Terrain around Bhopal, India -- Chapter14. The Effect of Urbanization on Groundwater Quality and Hydrochemical Characteristics in Ennore Coastal Aquifers of Chennai, South India -- Chapter15. Groundwater Contamination in Parts of Northwestern Hyderabad- A Hydrogeochemical and Geospatial Approach -- Chapter16. Spatio-Temporal Dynamics of Groundwater Recharge in Dras Sub-Basin of Upper Indus River Basin, Western Himalayas -- Chapter17. Impact of Urbanization on Groundwater in Changing Climatic Scenario: A Case Study.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Sustainable utilization of wastewater: an overview -- Chapter 2. Productions of Bioenergy from Wastewater -- Chapter 3. Production of Biogas from wastewater -- Chapter 4. Various treatment technology for generation of Biogas -- Chapter 5. Biohydrogen production from wastewater -- Chapter 6. Various treatment technologies for the generation of biohydrogen from sludge and wastewater -- Chapter 7. Lipid biomass to Biodiesel -- Chapter 8. Biopolymers from wastewater -- Chapter 9. Recovery of nutrients from wastewater -- Chapter 10. Recovery of various metals from wastewater -- Chapter 11. Resource recovery from wastewater -- 12. Biofertilizers from wastewater -- Chapter 13. Microbial fuel cell and wastewater treatment -- Chapter 14. Various applications of Sludge as resources -- Chapter 15. Future research on the sustainable utilization of wastewater as resources -- Chapter 16. Aerobic treatment of high-strength ammonium wastewater-nitrogen removal via nitrate -- Chapter 17. Thermophilic aerobic biological wastewater treatment -- Chapter 18. Aerobic treatment of winery wastewater using jet-loop activated sludge reactor -- Chapter 19. Advancements in the application of aerobic granular biomass technology for sustainable treatment of wastewater.

Description / Table of Contents: Part 1: Background and Setting -- Chapter 1. Introduction (Simi Kamal) -- Chapter 2: Water Resource Potential: Status and Overview (Mohsin Hafeez and Muhammad Arshad) -- Chapter 3: Water Supply and Demand: National and Regional Trends (Shahid Ahmad and Ghufran Ahmad) -- Chapter 4: Water Infrastructure and Institutional Setting (from Chapter 8) (Muhammad Arshad and Fahad Amjad) -- Chapter 5:Political Economy of Water (Erum Sattar) -- Part 2. Sectoral Specific Issues -- Chapter 6: Water and Agriculture – a major area of water policy reforms (Kalim Qamar, Robina Wahaj, Asif Sharif and Mahmood Ahmad) -- Chapter 7: Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation (Naseer Ahmad, and Mitsuo Yoshida) -- Chapter 8: Water Storage and Hydropower (Daud Ahmad and Aslam Rasheed) -- Part 3. Sector-wide Issues -- Chapter 9: Water Pricing, Demand Management, and Allocative Efficiency (Mahmood Ahmad and Ahsan Tayyab) -- Chapter 10: Groundwater Overexploitation and Water Mismanagement (Sanval Nasim) -- Chapter 11: Water Quality and Salinity (Muhammad Abid Bodla, Mohammad Ashraf and Vaqar Zakaria) -- Part 4. Regional. International and Future Issues -- Chapter 12: Wastewater treatment in Pakistan: Issue, challenges and solution (Fozia Parveen, and Sher Jamal Khan) -- Chapter 13: Water Treaties: National and international (Azeem Shah, Erum Sattar) -- Chapter 14: Water and Climate Change: A New Challenge (Asif Khan , Muhammad Zia-ur-Rahman Hashmi and Aisha Khan) -- Chapter 15: Developing knowledge-based capacity for resource management and service delivery (Skill, Information, and Technology-based Resource Management and Service Delivery) (Abubakr Muhammad and James Wescoat) -- Part 5. Looking Ahead -- Chapter 16: Toward Secure Water Future: Timeframe and Strategies (Mahmood Ahmad , Abubakr Muhammad and Ahsan Tayyab ). .

Description / Table of Contents: Water as key resource in Circular Economy -- Impact Of Climate Change on Water Status: Challenges and Emerging Solutions -- Integrated Water Management - Directions of Activities and Policies -- Circular Water Management in Smart Cities -- The Influence of Mineral Parameters on the Geochemistry of Heavy Metals in Bottom Sediments -- Sustainable Water Use in Agriculture - Circular Economy Approach -- Innovative Solutions in the Transition to Circular Economy in Water Sector -- Advanced Treatment Technologies in Removal of Pollutants from Water and Wastewater -- The Role of Water Recycling in Building a Circular Economy in the Textile Industry -- The Role of Water Recycling in Building a Circular Economy in the Textile Industry -- Preliminary Microbiological Risk Assessment for Local Water Reuse in a Small MBR Waste Water Treatment Plant -- Can Remote Sensing be a Useful Tool to Increase Water Reuse in Agriculture? -- Nutrients Recovery in Water and Wastewater Sector -- Technologies for Nutrient Recovery From Municipal Wastewater -- Circular Economy in Domestic and Industrial Waste Waters: Challenges and Opportunities -- Monitoring of Circular Economy Implementation in Water Sector -- Water Footprint of Business and Circular Economy -- Economic, Social and Environmental Dimensions in the Circular Economy (CE) Monitoring Framework in Water and Wastewater Sector -- Circular Economy Indicators and Measures in Water and Wastewater Sector – Case Study -- Business Opportunities in Water and Wastewater Sector as a Part of the Resolve Framework -- Circular Economy Implementation in the Water Sector: Wastewater Treatment Plant Tychy-Urbanowice Case Study -- Wastewater-Based Circular Economy Operations in East Kolkata Wetlands (The Largest Ramasar Site in South Asia), India.

Description / Table of Contents: 1-Attitudes and smoking prevalence among undergraduate students in central Greece -- 2-Care of patients with Alzheimer’s disease -- 3-Regulation of antioxidant enzymes levels in rat brain -- 4-NIRS-based assessment of cerebral oxygenation during high definition anodal transcranial direct current stimulation in patients with posttraumatic encephalopathy -- 5-Cerebral critical closing pressure at concomitant traumatic brain injury -- 6-The role of inflammatory biomarkers as a diagnostic tool for possible late-life cognitive decline and dementias -- 7-The Development of Antisense RNA Treatments using Engineered Protein Substrates -- 8-Biomarker-driven analysis using high-throughput approaches in neuroinflammation and neurodegenerative diseases -- 9-Sensitive and Stereo specific high-performance liquid chromatographic method for flurbiprofen in human plasma -- 10-Genotypic and Clinical Analysis of a Thalassemia Major Cohort: An Observational Study -- 11-Design and Validation of a New Diagnostic Tool for the Differentiation of Pathological Voices in Parkinsonian Patients -- 12-Effects of an 8-Week Stress Management Program in Women with Breast Cancer: A Randomized Controlled Trial -- 13-The Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale: Translation and Validation in the Greek Language in Adolescents -- 14-Stress system activation analysis in Greek female adolescents: a bioimpedance study -- 15-Kisspeptin and the genetic obesity interactome -- 16-The importance of diagnostic and prognostic biomarkers identification and classification towards understanding ALS pathogenesis -- 17-Entropy in Cardiac Autonomic Nervous System of Adolescents with General Learning Disabilities or Dyslexia -- 18-Ebola virus disease and current therapeutic strategies; A review -- 19-Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy effect on “Kinesia Paradoxa” Brain Circuits -- 20-Early and Very Early GRIM19 and MCL1 Expression are Correlated to Late Acquired Prednisolone Effects in a T-Cell Acute Leukemia Cell Line -- 21-Phospholipid Fatty Acid Profile of Spirulina platensis -- 22-Chronic systemic inflammation measured by bioimpedance technology before and after sleeve gastrectomy: a feasibility study -- 23-Synthesis and Biological Evaluation Substituted Thiophene Derivatives -- 24-Force spectroscopy in mechanical protein domains unfolding -- 25-Investigating the genetic component of Parkinson’s Disease -- 26-Urticaria from the Neurodermatological Perspective: A Temporal Analysis of Urticaria and Cognition -- 27-Novel Low-Noise CMOS Bioamplifier for the Characterization of Neurodegenerative Diseases -- 28-The Kentucky Inventory of Mindfulness Skills in Greek Undergraduate and Postgraduate Students -- 29-Synthesis, in silico stuiesand biological evaluation of 1, 3 ,4 oxadiazino indole derivatives -- 30-Designing and screening of new schiff bases of indole derivatives for anti-bacterial activity by in-silico methods and docking studies -- 31-Use of vitamin D bolus in fortified juice for improving vitamin D status in children with Cerebral Palsy -- 32-Microbes and the games they play -- 33-Impurity Profiling and Identification of 2,6 diisopropylphenol by Raman spectroscopy -- 34-Cultural Accommodation of the Strengthening Families Program for Parents and Young Adolescents 10-14: Greek Phase I & II Study -- 35-The effect of nutrients on Alzheimer’s disease biomarkers: A metabolomic approach -- 36-The impact of exercising in the quality of life of people with Aementia-Alzheimer disease -- 37-Advanced Health Technologies and Nanotechnologies in Neurodegenerative Diseases -- 38-Phenotype and genotype study in a case of frontometaphyseal dysplasia 1 -- 39-Craniofacial and neurological phenotype in a case of oculodentodigital syndrome -- 40-Clinical and molecular study of common thrombophilia mutation prothrombin G20210A -- 41-Prenatal genetic testing for X-linked hypohidrotic ectodermal dysplasia -- 42-Preimplantation genetic testing for spastic paraplegia type 3 -- 43-Synthesis, anti-inflammatory activity and in-silico studies of some new 3-({P-DIMETHYLAMINO}BENZYLIDENE YDRAZINYLIDENE)-1,3-DIHYDRO-2H-INDOLE-2-ONE DERIVATIVES -- 44-Design, characterization and docking studies of some novel isatin derivatives for anticonvulsant and antidepressant activity -- 45-Skin mirrors Brain: A Chance for Alzheimer’s Disease Research -- 46-Mitochondrial homeostasis in neurodegeneration and ageing -- 47-The Alzheimer's Disease Chronicles: will evidence triumph over adversity? -- 48-Liposomes: Production Methods and Application in Alzheimer’s Disease -- 49-Developing Treatments for Alzheimer’s and Related Disorders with Precision Medicine: A Vision -- 50-Biomarkers and Precision Medicine in Alzheimer’s Disease -- 51-The role of microRNAs in thrombosis -- 52-Photo-oxygenation: an innovative new therapeutic approach against amyloidoses.

Description / Table of Contents: Section I: Neurodegenerative diseases -- Chapter 1: Nanowired delivery of cerebrolysin together with antibodies to amyloid beta peptide, phosphorylated tau and tumor necrosis factor alpha induces superior neuroprotection in Alzheimer's disease brain pathology exacerbated by sleep deprivation -- Chapter 2: Nanodelivery of histamine H3/H4 receptor modulators BF2649 and clobenpropit with antibodies to amyloid beta peptide in combination with alpha synuclein reduces brain pathology in Parkinson's disease -- Chapter 3: Co-administration of nanowired DL-3-n-butylphthalide (DL-NBP) together with mesenchymal stem cells, monoclonal antibodies to alpha synuclein and TDP-43 (TAR DNA-binding protein 43) enhance superior neuroprotection in Parkinson's disease following concussive head injury -- Chapter 4: Neuroprotective effects of nanowired delivery of cerebrolysin with mesenchymal stem cells and monoclonal antibodies to neuronal nitric oxide synthase in brain pathology following Alzheimer’s disease exacerbated by concussive head injury -- Section II: Central Nervous system Trauma -- Chapter 5: Co-administration of nanowired monoclonal antibodies to inducible nitric oxide synthase and tumor necrosis factor-alpha together with antioxidant H-290/51 reduces SiO2-nanoparticles induced exacerbation of pathophysiology of spinal cord trauma -- Chapter 6: Nanowired delivery of cerebrolysin with mesenchymal stem cells attenuates heat stress induced exacerbation of neuropathology following brain blast injury -- Chapter 7: Co-administration of nanowired oxiracetam and neprilysin with monoclonal antibodies to amyloid beta peptide and p-tau thwarted exacerbation of brain pathology in concussive head injury at hot environment -- Section III. Stress and Drugs of abuse -- Chapter 8: Nanowired delivery of mesenchymal stem cells with antioxidant compound H-290/51 reduces exacerbation of methamphetamine neurotoxicity in hot environment -- Chapter 9: TiO2-nanowired delivery of Chinese extract of Gingko biloba EGb-761 and bilobalide BN-52021 enhanced neuroprotective effects of cerebrolysin following spinal cord injury at cold environment -- Chapter 10: Nanowired delivery of curcumin attenuates methamphetamine neurotoxicity and elevates levels of dopamine and brain derived neurotrophic factor.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Integrate and fire: RC circuits to model neurons and reward monkeys -- 2. Neuronal spike trains, stochastic point processes, and why George Gerstein’s papers are still worth reading -- 3. Visual Functions of Inferior Temporal Cortex -- 4. Early Days in the Gerstein Lab: Neuronal Plasticity in 1, 2, and 3 Dimensions -- 5. Patterns in Spike Trains -- 6. Introduction to the Gravity Papers -- 7. On correlations and interactions between neurons and with George Gerstein -- 8. Significance of Correlations between Spike Trains -- 9. Spatial-Temporal Spike Patterns -- 10. Does Cross Correlation Have a Unique Interpretation? -- 11. Neuronal Plasticity and my Experience Working with George L. Gerstein -- 12. Auditory Experiments and Modeling -- 13. Thinking about Analysis Methods with George in Philadelphia, Cambridge and Newcastle -- 14. Higher-order Correlations and Synfire Chains -- Nencki Award for George L. Gerstein.

Description / Table of Contents: Soundscape – The Development of a New Discipline -- Soundscape: A Construct of Human Perception -- Soundscape: The Holistic Understanding of Acoustic Environments -- Soundscape and Urban Planning -- Architectural Soundscapes: Theories, Methods, and Practice -- Psychoacoustics in Soundscape Research -- Measurements and Techniques in Soundscape Research -- Triangulation as a Tool in Soundscape Research -- Soundscape and Health -- Hospital Soundscape -- How to Put Soundscape into Practice.

Description / Table of Contents: The Architecture of the Presynaptic Release Site.-Cytomatrix Proteins in Presynaptic Terminal. - Multiple Modes of Fusion and Retrieval at the Calyx of Held Synapse -- Roles of SNARE Proteins in Synaptic Vesicle Fusion -- Calcium Sensors of Neurotransmitter Release. - Roles and Sources of Calcium in Synaptic Exocytosis -- Regulation of Presynaptic Calcium Channels -- Roles of mUnc13/UNC-13 and mUnc18/UNC-18 in Neurotransmitter Release. - The role of tomosyn in the regulation of neurotransmitter exocytosis. -Roles of complexins in Neurotransmitter Release. -Regulation of Neurotransmitter Release by AIPR-1/AIP and calstabins. - The Role of Potassium Channels in the Regulation of Neurotransmitter Release -- Roles of Neuropeptides in Synaptic Function. - Transsynaptic Regulation of Presynaptic Release Machinery in Central Synapses by Cell Adhesion Molecules. - Lipids and Secretory Vesicle Exocytosis -- Synaptic Vesicle Endocytosis.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction -- 2. Diversity and evolution of jellyfish visual systems, Mollusks -- 3. Scallops distributed eyes -- 4. Chiton dispersed visual systems, Annelids -- 5. Errant polychaetes Arthropods -- 6. Spider eyes -- 7. Myriapod eyes -- 8. Insect ocelli -- 9. Batflies, copepods or larval stomatopods -- 10 -- Hyperiid amphipods, Echinoderms -- 11. Brittle star vision -- 12. Starfish vision.

Description / Table of Contents: Editorial -- Dystonia in childhood - how insights from paediatric research enrich the network theory of dystonia -- Focal Dystonia and the Stress-Network -- Limbic influences in Musicians dystonia -- Network perspective on task-specific dystonia -- Electromyography as a method for distinguising dystonia-like behavior in mice -- Deep brain stimulation of the interposed cerebellar nuclei in a mouse model of dystonia -- Applications of Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation for understanding and treating dystonia -- Brain connectivity in dystonia: evidence from Magnetoencephalography -- Dysfunctional networks in functional dystonia -- Collicular-pulvinar-amygdala axis and adult-onset idiopathic focal dystonia syndrome -- Neuromodulation in dystonia -- Electrophysiological properties of pallidal cells in cervical dystonia patients undergoing unilateral DBS -- Clinical implications of dystonia as a neural network disorder.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. The Psychiatrist and Pathologist Aloysius Alzheimer and His Seminal Findings -- Chapter 3. Alzheimer’s Disease Research After 1945: The Recommencement -- Chapter 4. Alzheimer’s Research Goes Deeper – Ultrastructural Electron Microscopy Studies -- Chapter 5. Focus on Neurochemistry Led to the Cholinergic Hypothesis of Alzheimer’s Disease -- Chapter 6. The Glutamatergic-Hypothesis of Alzheimer’s Disease -- Chapter 7. Biochemistry and Genetics Points Out a Prime Suspect for Causing Alzheimer’s Disease -- Chapter 8. Getting to the Bottom of It: Amyloid Beta Peptide Is Derived from a Larger Precursor -- Chapter 9. Step by Step Towards an Amyloid Beta Peptide-Based Hypothesis of Alzheimer’s Disease -- Chapter 10. Concerns about the Amyloid Cascade Hypothesis and Reappraisals -- Chapter 11. Ignorance or Conspiracy? Or Just an Amyloid Firewall that Blocks Alternative Ideas? -- Chapter 12. In the Slip Stream of Amyloid: The Tau and Tangle Hypothesis -- Chapter 13. Focus on Tauopathies and Beyond -- Chapter 14. Alzheimer’s Research Gains Momentum and Spreads Out -- Chapter 15. The Amyloid Cascade Hypothesis Has to Deliver, Finally -- Chapter 16. Beyond APP, PSEN1, PSEN2, and APOE: What Else Does the Genome Tell Us? Chapter 17. Alternative Hypotheses and Observations that were Somehow Lost on the Way -- Chapter 18. Is the Persistence of the Amyloid Cascade Hypothesis a Result of Constant Confirmation Bias? -- Chapter 19. Driving Forces of Alzheimer’s Research Directions -- Chapter 20. Thirty Years after the Launch of the Amyloid Cascade Hypothesis: Is There a Shift of Gears at Last? -- Chapter 21. "If You Change the Way You Look at Things, Things You Look at Change".

Description / Table of Contents: High Resolution Imaging Mass Spectrometry of Human Donor Eye: Photoreceptor Cells and Basal Laminar Deposits of Age-related Macular Degeneration -- The non-canonical role of Complement Factor H in Retinal Pigment Epithelium (RPE) cells and implications for Age-related Macular Degeneration -- Macular Pigment Carotenoids and Bisretinoid A2E -- Disturbed matrix metalloproteinases activity in age-related macular degeneraton -- Current views on Chr10q26 contribuiton to age-related macular degeneration -- Untargeted lipidomic profiling of aged human retina with and without age-related macular degeneration (AMD) -- Decoding Race and Age-Relation Macular Degeneration: GPR 143 Activity is the Key -- Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor gamma coactivator 1 alpha ( PGC-1x): a transcriptional regulator at the interface of aging and age-related macular degeneration? -- Regulation of ABCA1 by miR-33 and miR-34a in the aging eye -- The role of gene expression regulation on genetic risk of Age-related Macular Degeneration -- Elastin layer in Bruch's membrane as a target for immunizatio or tolerization to modulate patthology in the mouse model of somke-induced ocular injury -- Repuprosing drugs for treatment of age-relation macular degeneration -- Extracellular Vesicle RNA Contents as Biomarkers for Ocular Diseases -- Proteomics of retinal extracellular vesicles: a reviw inot an unexplored mechanism in retinal health and AMD pathogenesis -- Prime Editing Strategy to Instally the PRHP2 c.828+1G A mutations -- Analysis of CRB1 Pathogenic Variants Correctable with CRISPR Base and Prime Editing -- Generation of an Avian Myeloblastosis Virus (AMV) Reverse Transcriptase Prime Editor -- Pre-existing neutralizing antibodies against different adeno-associated virus serotypes in humans and large animal models for gene therapy -- Optimization of Capillary-based Western Blotting for MYO7A -- AAV Serotypes and Their Suitability for Retinal Gene Therapy -- Gene Augmentation ofautosomal dominant CRX-associated retinopathies -- Txnip gene therapy of retinitis pigmentosa improves cone health Factors affecting readthrough of natural versus premature termination codons -- Integrating Computational Approaches to Predict the Effect of Genetic Variants on Protein Stability in Retinal Degenerative Disease -- Network biology and medcine to resuce: Applications for retinal disease mechanisms and therapy -- Non-sydromic Retinal Degeneration Caused by Pathogenic Variants in Joubert Syndrome Genes -- Exonic variants that affect splicing- an opportunity for "hidden" mutations causing inherited retinal diseases -- Enhanced S-cone Syndrome, a Mini-Review -- The role of microglia in Inherited Retinal Diseases -- CD68: potential contributor to inflammation and RPE cell dystrophy -- Gene Expression of Clusterin, Tissue Inhibitor of Metalloproteinase-1, and Their receptors in Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cells and Muller Glial Cells is Modulated by Inflammatory Stresses -- Axonal Transport Defects in Retinal Ganglion Cells -- Connexins biology in the pathophysiology of retinal diseases -- Role of Nuclear NAD +in Retinal Homeostasis -- Retinal pigmented epithelium-derived ectopic norrin does not promote intraretinal angiogenesis in transgenic mice -- Caveolin-1 Muller glia exist as heat-resistant,high molecular weight complexes -- Role of VLC-PUFAs in Retinal and Macular Degeneration -- Ocular amyloid , condensates, and aggregates - higher order protein assemblies participate in both retinal degeneration and function -- Photoreceptor ion channels in signaling and disease -- The role of peripherin-2 /ROM1 complexes in photoreceptor outer segment disc morphogenesis -- Human mutations in Arl3, a small GTPase involved inlipidated cargo delibery to the cilia cause retinatl dystropthy -- Genotype-Phenotype Association in ABCA4-Associated Retinopathy -- Retinal pathoconnectomics: A Window into Neurodegeneration -- The role of Ceramide in Inherited Retinal Disease Pathology -- Extracelluar Matix: the Unexplored Aspects of Retinal Pathologies and Regeneration -- Role of TFEB in diseases assocaited with lysosomal dysfunction -- Retinoic acid receptor -related oprhan receptors (RORs) in eye development and disease -- A novel mouse model for Late-Onset Retinal Degeneration (L-ORD) devekios RPE abnormalities due to the loss of C1qtnf5/Ctrp5 -- Comparison of mouse models of autosomal dominant retinitis pigmentosa due to P23H muations of Rhodopsin -- Compensatory Cone-Mediated Mechanisms in Inherited Retinal Degeneration Mouse Models: A Functional and Gene Expression Analsyis -- Inhibition of Ryanodine Receptor 1 Reduces Endoplasmic Reticulum (ER) Sress and Promotes ER Protein Degradation in Cyclic Nucleotide-gated Channel Deficiency -- Mouse choroid proteome revisited: foucs on aging -- Morphological and functional comparison of mice models for retinitis pigmentosa -- Current Advancements in Mouse Models of Retinal Disease -- Single-cell Itrnacriptomic Profiling of Muller Glia in the rd10 Retina -- Methods for in vivo characterization of proteostatis in the mouse retina -- Absence or PRCD leads to dysregulation in lipie Homeostatis resulting in disorganizationof photorecptor outer segment structure -- Expansion Microscopy of Mouse Photoreceptro Cilia -- Rod photorecptor specific ablation of Metformin target, AMPK, in preclinical model of autosomal recessvie retinitis pigmentosa -- TLR2 is highly overexpressed in retinal myeloid cells in the rd10 mouse model of retinitis pigmentosa -- Environmental light has an essentail effrect on the diseasae expression in a dominant RPE65 mutation -- Microglia Preserve Visual Function in A Mouse Model of Retinitis Pigmentosa with Rhodopsin-P23H Mutant -- Measuring the release of lactate from wild-type and rd1 mouse retina -- Aerobic glycolysis in photorecptors supports energy demand in the absence of mitochondrial coupling -- Redox Status in Retinitis Pigmentosa -- Perspectives on retinal dolichol metabolism and visual deficits in dolichol metalbolism-associated inherited disorders -- Retinal metabolic profile on IMPG2 deficiency mice with subretinal lesions -- Glutathione-coating of liposomes enhances the delivery of hydrophillic cargo to the inner nuclear layer in retinal cultures -- Modification of Mueller glial cell fate and proliferation with the use of small molecules -- A potential neuroprotective role for pyruvate kinase 2 in retinal degeneration -- Critical role of VEGF as a direct regulator of photorecptor function -- Lysine Ubiquitylation Drives Rhodopsin Protein Turnover -- In-silico prediction of MYO!C Rhodopsin Interactions and its Significance in Protein Localization and Visual Function -- A ciliary branched actin netowrk drives photoreceptor disc morphogenesis -- Revisiting the daily timing of POS phagocytosis -- Inhibition of Bacterial Peoptidoglycan Cytopahty by Retina Pigment Epithelial PGRP2 Amidase -- Understanding ischemic retinopathies: the role of Succinate and its recpto^T mutation -- Inducing neural regeneratio nfrom glia using proneural bHLH transcription factors.

Description / Table of Contents: The Purinergic Signaling: Overview -- Adenosine A2A Receptor-containing Heteromers and Neuroprotection -- Purinergic Signaling in Brain Physiology -- Neurotrophic Actions of Adenosine and Guanosine: Implications for Neural Development and Regeneration? -- Purinergic Signaling in Neurogenesis and Neural Fate Determination: Current Knowledge and Future Challenges -- Purinergic Signaling in Autism Spectrum Disorder -- Purinergic Signaling in Depression -- Roles of Purinergic Receptors in Alzheimer's Disease -- Purinergic Signaling in Basal Ganglia Diseases: Parkinson's Disease -- A Step in the ALS Direction: Lessons from the Purinome -- Purinergic P2 Receptors in Epilepsy -- Purinergic Signaling in Neuroinflammation -- Purinergic Signaling in Brain Tumors -- Development of Purinergic Receptor Agonists and Antagonists -- Acupuncture for Counteracting P2X4 and P2X7 Receptor Involvement in Neuroinflammation.

Description / Table of Contents: The promises and pitfalls of Virtual Reality -- Setting up your VR neuroscience laboratory -- Monitoring the autonomic system in VR -- Monitoring brain activity in VR: EEG and neuroimaging -- Eye-tracking and Pupillometry in VR -- VR for Movement and Action Science -- VR for Vision Science -- VR for Emotion -- VR for Thinking and Creativity -- VR for Social Cognition -- VR as a window into Consciousness -- Aging -- Learning -- Pain -- Cognitive and motor rehabilitation -- VR for Mental Health.

Description / Table of Contents: An Ecological-network-analysis Input-output Model for Analyzing Energy Consumption in Fujian Province -- High-accuracy Machine Learning Models to Estimate Above Ground Biomass over Tropical Closed Evergreen Forest Areas from Satellite Data -- An Integrated Bi-level Optimization Model for Planning Water-food-energy Nexus System under Uncertainty -- Evaluating the Effects of Environmental Stress on Leaf Chlorophyll Content as an Index for Tree Health -- Optimizing Water Resources Allocation and Hydropower Generation for Supporting Reservoir Management -- Climate Change Impacts on Agriculture and Water Resource Management in the North China Plain -- Analysis on the Response of Lake Level Changes: a Hybrid Stepwise-cluster Factorial Approach -- A Comparative study of Geometric and Exponential Laws in Modelling the Distribution of Daily Precipitation Duration's -- Planning Water-food-energy Nexus System towards Sustainable Development under Uncertainty -- Assessment of Climate Change Impacts on Streamflow - A case Study of Naryn River Basin, Central Asia -- Multiple Linear Regression Model of environmental variables, predictors of global solar radiation in the area of East Lima, Peru -- Development of a Bayesian Copula-based Spatial-temporal Method for Multivariate Drought Risk Analysis -- Hydro-meteorological Big Data Integration and Application Service in the Yangtze River Basin -- Global INDCs Gap, Dilemma and Innovative Path of Carbon Sink Increase -- What are the Embedded Emissions from Industrial Consumption? -- Sustainable Cities, Rescue of Original Construction Methods and Use of Technology. A Literary Review -- The Impact of Urban Green-infrastructure Development on the Price of Surrounding Real Estate: A case study of Taichung City’s Central District -- Numerical Investigation of a 600 MW Tangentially Fired Boiler with Different Particle Sizes of Pulverized Coal -- Sustainable Energy Planning Based on the Electrical Grid and Green Energy Transition in Kenya between 2019 to 2030. Design, Implementation and Evaluation of an Industrial Water Treatment System in El Coca, Ecuador in Accordance with National Guidelines -- Bio-inspired Hierarchical Porous TiO2 for Photodegradation of Organic Pollutant under Solar Irradiation -- Enhanced Membrane Fouling Control and Trace Organic Compounds Removal by Coupling Coagulation and Adsorption in an Electric Field -- Platinum Nanoparticles Embed in Pt Single Atoms Doped Carbon for Efficient Oxygen Reduction Reaction -- The Influence of Stibnite Grain Size on the Oxidative Dissolution Process and Isotope (S,O) Characteristics -- Contribution of Constructed Wetlands for Reclaimed Water Production: A Review -- Chemical Characteristics and Fluorine Enrichment Mechanism of High Fluoride Groundwater in Aksu Area, Xinjiang -- Pollution Characteristics of VOCs in Atmospheric Background Air of Jinan Cities -- Ultra-selective and room temperature NO2 sensor based on PPy/MXene isotype junction -- Spatio-seasonal variation assessment of water quality based on GIS techniques to identify pollution sources in Mantaro basin -- Enhance the Performance of Electrospun Forward Osmosis Membrane by Introducing a Carbon Nanotube Interlayer -- Applicability of ion exchange with the combination of air stripping for ammonium removal and recovery -- Confining peroxymonosulfate activation in carbon nanotube intercalated nitrogen doped reduced graphene oxide membrane for enhanced water treatment: The role of nanoconfinement effect -- Achieving rapid and deep autotrophic nitrogen removal from wastewater in aeration sponge iron biofilter: Simultaneous nitrification, Feammox, NDFO and Anammox -- Metabolomic pathway regulation to achieve optimal control of inorganic carbon in anammox process -- Essential oils of plants as biocides against microorganisms isolated from Portuguese Convent of Christ in Tomar -- Understanding the biodegradation and impact of metronidazole in mesophilic and thermophilic anaerobic fermentation -- The potential of peripheral neighborhoods for the development of urban green in Latin American cities, the case of Algeria, Quito, Ecuador -- Potential for Nature-based solutions to Mitigate Impacts of Climate Change -- Agritourism and Territorial Development in Rural Areas in Morocco: Impact Study at the Level of the Fes-meknes Region (Morocco).

Description / Table of Contents: Part I. Revisiting ’Grand Theories.-1. Introduction: Mixing Water and International Relations Theory -- 2. The Theories of International Relations and The Hy-dropolitical Cycle: The Hydro-trap and the Anarchic Nature of Water Conflict -- 3.Exploring the Sub-state–Supra-state Nexus in Transboundary Water Politics -- 4.Trust in Transboundary Water Cooperation: A Social Construc-tivist Approach -- Part II. Conflict and Cooperation over Transboundary Waters -- 5.Hydro-Hegemony in East and Southeast Asia: The Case of the Lancang/Mekong River -- 6.Reframing Trans-boundary Water Security -- 7.Water for Peace Revisited: Reconsidering Securitization’s Role in Water Cooperation -- Part III. Transboundary Water Diplomacy -- 8.The Evolution of Water Diplomacy Frameworks: The Eu-phrates-Tigris Basin as a Case Study -- 9.Is Salmon Surprise on the Table? Indigenous Rights and Multi-Stakeholder Diplomacy in the Renegotiation of the Columbia River Treaty -- 10.The Role of Data Sharing in Transboundary Waterways: The Case of the Helmand River Basin -- Part IV. New Perspectives on Transboundary Waters -- 11.Discourses and Hydropolitics: Stock-Taking and Future Directions.-12.The Upstream-Downstream Structural Disparity and Transbound-ary Challenges of Public Health -- 13.Transboundary Water Management Among Small Island Develop-ing States: Dynamics of Conflict and Cooperation -- 14.Conclusion: The Role of IR Theories in Trans-boundary Water Politics.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. An introduction to the rivers of southern Chile and Patagonia(Carlos Oyarzun) -- Chapter 2. Disturbance and Ecosystem Function of Pacific Patagonia Rivers(Brian Reid) -- Chapter 3. Morphologic adjustments in rivers affected by volcanic eruptions, Chile(Andrés Iroumé, Ramon J. Batalla) -- Chapter 4. The geomorphic signatures in a radial drainage system affected by the recent eruption of the Calbuco volcano, Lake district, Chile(Christopher Sepúlveda, Bruno Mazzorana, Hector Ulloa, Andres Iroumé) -- Chapter 5. Investigating the geomorphological footprint of Glacier Lake Outbust Floods (GLOFs) in Patagonian Rivers(Diego Bahamondes, Bruno Mazzorana, Pablo Iribarren, Hector Ulloa) -- Chapter 6. Cascading impacts of GLOFs in fluvial systems: the Laguna Espontánea GLOF in Patagonia(Pablo Iribarren Anacona, Luca Mao, Valeria Zingaretti, Gonzalo Durán, Ivan Rojas, Camila Bañales-Seguel) -- Chapter 7. Large Wood – Research in Chile: a retrospective and prospective view(Héctor Ulloa, Andrés Iroumé) -- Chapter 8. Improving the channel network management after a large infrequent disturbance, taking advantage of sediment connectivity analysis(Lorenzo Martini, Lorenzo Picco, Marco Cavalli, Andrés Iroumé) -- Chapter 9. Mitigating complex flood risks in Southern Chile: Towards a sustainable strategy(Bruno Mazzorana, V. Ruiz-Villanueva, B. Gems, Carlos Oyarzún) -- Chapter 10. Cascading processes and complex risks in Chile: lessons learnt and remaining challenges(V. Ruiz-Villanueva, Bruno Mazzorana).

Description / Table of Contents: Part I. General hydrographic description of the Haut-Congo Basin -- Chapter 1. Introduction to the general geography of the DRC -- Chapter 2. Early shipping on the Haut-Congo -- Chapter 3. From the source to Kisangani: The Upper-Congo -- Chapter 4. From Kisangani to Mbandaka: The High Middle-Congo and Ubangi -- Chapter 5. The Low Middle-Congo: From Mbandaka to Tsumbiri -- Chapter 6. The last stretch to Kinshasa: The Congo Couloir -- Chapter 7. The Upper-Kasai watershed -- Chapter 8. The Sankuru, Fimi-Lukenie and Lower-Kasai tributaries -- Chapter 9. The Kwango and Kwilu River watersheds -- Chapter 10. The Congo Cataracts -- Part II. Early European mapping of the Maritime Congo River -- Chapter 11. The first Europeans venture up the Congo Estuary -- Chapter 12. The Kouilou-Niari, an alternative access? -- Chapter 13. The voyage from Europe to Congo -- Part III. The Hydrography of the Maritime Congo River -- Chapter 14. Introduction to the Bas-Congo -- Chapter 15. Early maps of the maritime river -- Chapter 16. The acute need for bathymetric surveys -- Chapter 17. Hydrographic basics in the tropics -- Chapter 18. A new navigation channel in the making -- Chapter 19. The Mateba Deceiving Bend (Barrage du Faux Bras de Mateba) -- Chapter 20. Difficult years -- Chapter 21. Independence in 1960 -- Chapter 22. Based on detailed land surveys -- Chapter 23. Epilogue: A concept for the future?

Description / Table of Contents: State of Art, Definition of New Concepts of Sponge City and Blue Green Infrastructures -- Sustainable Water Management and Hybrid Infrastructures -- Analysis of Climatic Parameters in Urban Area -- Measuring Selected Physical Parameters of Hybrid Infrastructure -- Subjective Indoor Environmental Quality in Green Office Buildings.

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: Rodents -- Carnivores -- Sheep and goats -- Swine -- Rabbits -- Bovines -- Non-human primates -- Humans -- Squirrels.

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. 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: 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 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: CLINICAL PROFILE AND TREATMENTS -- ADHD in children and adults: diagnosis and prognosis -- Treatment strategies -- Psychostimulants – treatment efficacy and problems -- Recent developments and future options for pharmacological treatments for ADHD -- GENETICS -- Genetics of ADHD (including CNVs) -- Genes , cognitive function and ADHD -- Epigenetics and ADHD -- CO-MORBIDITY -- ADHD and comorbid depression -- ADHD and autism -- Aggression and ADHD -- Obesity and ADHD (+ cytokines?) -- Sleep circadian rhythms and ADHD -- Substance misuse -- ASSESSING BRAIN FUNCTION / DYSFUNCTION -- EEG and ADHD (the skeptical view) -- Update on imaging – with connectivity -- Visual processing substrates for ADHD -- Cortical microstructure / connectivity -- ANIMAL AND IN VITRO STUDIES -- Critique of animal models -- Update on circuits for impulsive behaviour -- Zebrafish -- Update on DA transporter and ADHD -- Arousal, noradrenaline and ADHD -- FUTURE DIRECTIONS -- Stem cells for disease modelling -- Microbiome and ADHD -- Adult ADHD.

Description / Table of Contents: Learning the Languages -- Humanity’s Search for Mind and the Subject: A Brief Review of the Evolution of Neuropsychobiology -- An “Ideographic,” Suprapersonal Language of Rules and Universal Symbols: Alwyn Scott and Nonlinear Dynamics -- A “Demotic,” First-Person Language of the Individual and the Social System: Apuleius and the Myth of Psyche -- The Language of the Objective Observer: Gerald Edelman and Neurodarwinism: Antonio Damasio and the Feeling of Knowing -- Seeking the Understanding -- Consciousness -- The Unconscious -- The Database -- Affectivity -- The Neural/Mental Gap: Intuition, Self and Ego, a Trilingual Map -- Applying the Knowledge -- The Three Languages and Science: A New Scientific Paradigm? -- The Three Languages and Treatment -- The Psychotherapeutic Dialogue: Intersubjectivity -- The Role of a New Science for Psyche Upon Society and Culture.

Description / Table of Contents: Treatments Against Glutamatergic Excitotoxicity in Ischemic Stroke -- Definitions and Concepts of Stress -- Role of Glutamatergic Neurotransmission in the Pathophysiology of Stress-Related Disorders and Chronic Stress Response -- Current Glutamatergic Treatments and Future Directions for Glutamate-Based Management of Chronic Stress and Stress-Related Disorders -- The Role of the Glutamate System in Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Glutamate-Based Treatments -- Glutamate in Migraine Neurobiology and Treatment -- Astrocyte Glutamate Transporter EAAT2 in Alzheimer Dementia -- The Glutamatergic System as a Target for the Development of New Pharmacological Treatments of Bipolar Disorder -- CNS Glutamate in Impulsive Aggression -- Glutamatergic Treatments for Parkinsons' Disease -- The Modulation of Glutamatergic Signaling as a Potential Therapeutic Strategy for Major Depression -- Glutamate-Based Treatment for Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis/Motor Neuron Disease -- Modulation of Glutamate for Chronic Pain Management -- Pharmacological Role of Glutamate Transporters in Substance Use Disorders -- Glutamate in Multiple Sclerosis: From Pathophysiology to Treatments -- The Role of Glutamate Dysregulation in the Etiology of ADHD -- Glutamate, Glutamatergic Drugs and Schizophrenia -- Glutamate and Epilepsy: An Insight from Temporal Lobe Epilepsy -- Glutamate Function in Anxiety Disorders and OCD: Evidence from Clinical and Translational Studies -- Modulators of Glutamatergic Signaling as Potential Treatments for Autism Spectrum Disorders.

Description / Table of Contents: PART I. Cellular Scale -- Chapter 1. Modelling Neurons in 3D at the Nanoscale -- Chapter 2. Modelling Dendrites and Spatially-Distributed Neuronal Membrane Properties -- Chapter 3. A User's Guide to Generalized Integrate-and-Fire Models -- Chapter 4. Neuron-glia Interactions and Brain Circuits -- Chapter 5. Short-term Synaptic Plasticity: Microscopic Modelling and (some) Computational Implications -- PART II. Molecular Scale -- Chapter 6. The Mean Field Approach for Populations of Spiking Neurons -- Chapter 7. Multidimensional Dynamical Systems with Noise -- Chapter 8. Computing Extracellular Electric Potentials from Neuronal Simulations -- Chapter 9. Bringing Anatomical Information into Neuronal Network Models -- PART III. Network Scale -- Chapter 10. Computational Concepts for Reconstructing and Simulating Brain Tissue -- Chapter 11. Reconstruction of the Hippocampus -- Chapter 12. Challenges for Place and Grid Cell Models -- Chapter 13. Whole-Brain Modelling: Past, Present, and Future.

Description / Table of Contents: Establishing the molecular and functional diversity of spinal motoneurons -- Chloride homeostasis in developing motoneurons -- Normal development and pathology of motoneurons: anatomy, electrophysiological properties, firing patterns and circuit connectivity -- Homeostatic regulation of motoneuron properties in development -- Homeostatic plasticity of the mammalian neuromuscular junction -- Diversity of mammalian motoneurons and motor units -- Synaptic projections of motoneurons within the spinal cord -- Recruitment of motoneurons -- Electrical properties of adult mammalian motoneurons.-The cellular basis for the generation of firing patterns in human motor units -- Motoneuronal regulation of central pattern generator and network function -- Extraocular motoneurons and neurotrophism -- Motoneuron diseases -- Electrical and morphological properties of developing motoneurons in postnatal mice and early abnormalities in sod1 transgenic mice -- From physiological properties to selective vulnerability of motor units in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis. .

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Evaluation of Groundwater Resources in West of the Nile Valley, Egypt: A Comprehensive Review -- Fundamentals of Groundwater Modeling Methods and a Focused Review on the Groundwater Models of the Nile Valley Aquifer -- Contamination Sources Along the Nile Valley, Egypt and Its Impact on Groundwater -- Environmental Impacts of Treated Wastewater Contaminates on Groundwater Quality in the Nile River Valley, Egypt.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Discoursing River from Physical and Social Backdrops -- 2. Rivers in Distress : A Geo-Ecological consideration -- 3. Incorporating hydromorphological assessments in the fluvial geomorphology domain for transitioning towards Restorative River Science – Context, Concepts and Criteria -- 4. The Role of Rivers on Man and Society reflected in Literature: A critical study of a few selected River-oriented popular Bengali Novels in Geographical Perspective -- 5. An assessment of human impact on Bhagirathi river in Murshidabad district : From reverence to responsibility. .

Description / Table of Contents: Understanding Hydrology of Indian Himalayan landscapes- A Review -- Development of a semi-distributed rainfall-runoff model for water budgeting in macropore dominated hilly river basins -- Hydrological Simulation Using Coupled ANN-SCS Approach in Pagladiya Watershed: A Sub-catchment of Brahmaputra River Basin -- Water erosion risks mapping using RUSLE model in the Mohamed Ben Abdelkrim El Khattabi Dam watershed (Central Coastal Rif, Morocco).

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Perspectives on Hydro-Social Relations in Urban Mountain Contexts. Chapter 3. Research Design -- Chapter 4. Socio-Environmental Context of Urban Waterscapes in Leh -- Chapter 5. Urbanisation and the Impact on Water Use in Leh -- Chapter 6. Discussion: The Uneven Waterscape of Leh -- Chapter 7. Conclusion.

Description / Table of Contents: Springs as essential water sources for dependent ecosystems in karst -- Small standing-water ecosystems in the transitional temperate climate of the Western Balkans -- Conservation value and habitat diversity of fluvial lakes and gravel pits in river-floodplain systems -- Fountains - overlooked small water bodies in the urban areas -- Temporary ponds in Mediterranean islands: oases of biodiversity -- Riparian springs – challenges from a neglected habitat -- Ecological characteristics and specifics of spring habitats in Bosnia and Herzegovina -- Algae in shallow and small water bodies of Serbia: a frame for species and habitat protection -- Springs and headwater streams in Serbia: the hidden diversity and ecology of aquatic invertebrates. Springs of Southeastern Serbia with a focus on the Vlasina Plateau: different types of challenges for the macroinvertebrate community. Gastropods in small water bodies of the Western Balkans – Endangerments and threats. Importance of small water bodies for diversity of leeches (Hirudinea) of Western Balkan -- Karst springs: isolated ecosystem ecology from the water mite perspective -- Large branchiopods in Small Water bodies: A case study of the Ramsar site „Bardača Wetland“ (NW Republic of Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina) -- How important are small lotic habitats of the Western Balkans for local mayflies? -- Fish communities over the Danube wetlands in Serbia and Croatia -- The importance of small water bodies’ conservation for maintaining local amphibian diversity in the Western Balkans -- Human impact induces shifts in trophic composition and diversity of consumer communities in small freshwater ecosystems. Pollution of small lakes and ponds of the Western Balkans - assessment of levels of potentially toxic elements. Conclusions: Small water bodies of the Western Balkans – values and threats. .

Description / Table of Contents: Performance improvement of usbr vi stilling basin model for pipe outlet -- Rain water harvesting for the main campus of jaipur national university, jagatpura, Jaipur -- Bio Inspired Genetic Algorithm for Optimal Design of Water Distribution Networks -- Drought assessment using various drought indices: a case study of banaskantha district -- Top surface soil moisture retrieval using c- band synthetic aperture radar over kudremukh grasslands -- Meteorological drought assessment in the bharathapuzha river basin -- Experimental and numerical analysis of mean pressure coefficient on C-shaped building with and without round corner. .

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: The Irrigation Future of India: Overview, Synthesis and Way Forward -- Chapter 2: Indian Irrigation Sector: Overall Physical Setting and Institutional Context -- Chapter 3: Diagnosing Water Crisis in India: Results from a Case Study of Maharashtra State -- Chapter 4: Temporal Trends and Regional Patterns in Development of Irrigation in India -- Chapter 5: Is the Impact of Irrigation in Agricultural Output Declining in India?: A Disaggregated Analysis -- Chapter 6: Groundwater Irrigation in India: Development, Overexploitation and Sustainability -- Chapter 7: Losers and Gainers of Groundwater Irrigation Development: Results from a Study of Peninsular India -- Chapter 8: Poverty Reducing Role of Groundwater Irrigation: Evidence from a Cross-Sectional Analysis -- Chapter 9: Financial Performance of India’s Irrigation Sector: Past, Present and Future -- Chapter 10: Turnaround of Financial Recovery in Irrigation Sector: A Case Study of Maharashtra State -- Chapter 11: Tank Irrigation in India: Why is it Declining? -- Chapter 12: Performance of Tank Irrigation in India: A Case Study of Andhra Pradesh -- Chapter 13: Effects of Urbanisation on Tank Irrigation: A Case Study of Tamil Nadu -- Chapter 14: Innovative Farm Practice and Water Use Efficiency: A Study of the System of Rice Intensification under Different Irrigated Settings in South India -- Chapter 15: Extent and Scope for the Adoption of Water Saving Technologies: An Analysis of Drip and Sprinkler Irrigation in India -- Chapter 16: Economic Impact of Drip Irrigation: An Empirical Analysis with Farm Level Data -- Chapter 17: Summary and Policy Pointers.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Revisiting Abundance Theory -- Chapter 3. Water Abundance and Water Incompatibilities in New Zealand -- Chapter 4. Research Design -- Chapter 5. Glenorchy -- Chapter 6. Ashburton -- Chapter 7. Analysis -- Chapter 8. Conflict Intentionality Classification -- Chapter 9. Research Intersections and Limitations -- Chapter 10. Conclusions.

Description / Table of Contents: Part 1 -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Chapter 2 Global water sytems -- Part 2 -- Chapter 3 Optical Remote Sensing Systems -- Chapter 4 Satellite Geodetic Missions -- Part 3 -- Chapter 5 GEE Chapter -- Part 4 -- Chapter 6 Remote Sensing of Freshwater Habitats -- Chapter 7 Remot esensing of vegetation changes -- Part 5 -- Chapter 8 groundwater from space -- Part 6 -- Chapter 9 Impacts of Climate Change on Hydrological Cycle -- Chapter 10 Drought metrics and Indicators -- Part 7 -- Chapter 11 Hydrolological variability -- Part 8 -- Chapter 12 Statistical methods in hydrology -- Part 9 -- Chapter 13 SA_JoH -- Part 10 -- Chapter 14 JoH_Regional -- Part 11 -- Chapter 15 STOTEN -- Chapter 16 Climatic Change -- Part 12 -- Chapter 17 Flinders -- Chapter 18 Mitchell -- Part 13 -- Chapter 19 Brazil drought -- Chapter 20 LCB STOTEN -- Appendix.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction - Ponds of Indian Sundarban as an important socio-ecological systems -- Assessment of Pond water quality and its impact on health and local livelihood in the Indian Sundarban -- Role of Fe2+ on the enhancement of Phytoplankton Community in pond system of Indian Sundarban -- Role of controlled lime treatment on the productivity of pond ecosystem. .

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter1. River Health and Ecology: Perspective View and Approach -- Chapter2. Arthropods: an important bioindicator to decipher the health of the water of South Asian Rivers -- Chapter3. Anthropogenic stress on river health: with special reference to Kangsabati river, West Bengal, India -- Chapter4. Role of modern biotechnology in the era of river water pollution -- Chapter5. Assessment of chitinolytic bacteria isolated from zooplankton of freshwater ecosystem -- Chapter6. Microplastics in freshwater riverine systems: brief profile, trophic level transfer and probable remediation -- Chapter7. Assessment of River Health through Water and Biological Characteristics -- Chapter8. Estimating Water Quality of the Sundarban Coastal Zone (India) using Landsat Series Satellite Data and Ground Observations -- Chapter9. Anthropogenic impacts on hydro-morphodynamic behaviour in the middle - lower course of Subarnarekha river, India -- Chapter10. Perturbation of the health of riverine ecosystem and its impact on the biogeochemical, ecological and molecular perspectives -- Chapter11. Assessment of habitat quality in quarried reach of alluvial river -- Chapter12. Physicochemical and microbial indicators for water quality assessment in an industrial catchment of river Damodar, India -- Chapter13. Assessment of heavy metal concentration in selected fish species in Subarnarekha River, India -- Chapter14. Assessment of water pollution and aquatic toxicity of the Churni River, India -- Chapter15. River corridor mapping and monitoring using Geospatial Technology -- Chapter16. Micro-plastic pollution in freshwater systems: A potential environmental threat -- Chapter17. Sand and Gravel Mining and its Consequences on Morphometry of Raidak-II River in Eastern Dooars, India -- Chapter18. Resuscitating the regional rivers: a crusade against cauvery crisis and coloured legislations.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter1. Introduction -- Chapter2. Properties of groundwater and its importance -- Chapter3. Groundwater and Health in Semi-arid and Arid Regions -- Chapter4. Groundwater Quality Status of Semi-Arid and Arid Regions -- Chapter5. Assessment of Groundwater Quality mapping for drinking purpose in semi-arid and arid regions of India -- Chapter6. Elimination of Fluoride from Drinking groundwater water Supplies -- Chapter7. Remote Sensing and GIS for groundwater geochemistry -- Chapter8. Groundwater and Artificial Recharge Planning -- Chapter9. Assessment of the appropriateness of drinking and irrigation groundwater -- Chapter10. Hydrological process in arid and semi-arid region -- Chapter11. Factors influencing hydrological process -- Chapter12. Human Health risk assessment -- Chapter13. Climate change Impact of nitrate contamination on human health -- Chapter14. Climate change Impact of fluoride contamination on human health -- Chapter15. Heavy metals influencing factors -- Chapter16. Mitigation Measures of Fluoride and Nitrate Contaminated Regions -- Chapter17. Hydrologic modelling for ungauged basins: An overview of past, present and future directions -- Chapter18 -- Appraising the groundwater potential of Liddar sub-basin (western Himalayas) using geospatial techniques -- Chapter19. Groundwater Potential Zones (GPZ) delineation in Dhamani river basin in Kolhapur district, Maharashtra, India, using Remote Sensing (RS), Geographical Information System (GIS) and Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA) techniques -- Chapter20. Assessment of groundwater potential zone mapping for development of semi-arid region through AHP and GIS techniques -- Chapter21/ Assessment of Groundwater Prospective zone in Adigrat Town and its surrounding area using Geospatial Technology -- Chapter22. Computation of rainfall infiltrates into Coastal soil of Andhra pradesh, India -- Chapter23. Feasibility assessment of low-cost filter to adopt in roof top rain water harvesting (RWH) -- Chapter24. Prioritization of sub-watershed through Morphometric Analysis of Amaravathi Watershed using Geoinformatic Techniques -- Chapter25. Conclusion – Climate Change Impact on Groundwater Resources.

Description / Table of Contents: Luminal Chemoreceptors and Intrinsic Nerves -- Key Modulators of Digestive Motor Function -- Comparative and evolutionary aspects of the ENS -- Exploring synaptic transmission in the ENS: electrophysiology, functional studies and modelling -- Mucosal Serotonin5 -- Ca2+ signaling in Interstitial cells of Cajal: The mechanistic basis for many GI motility behaviors -- Identifying types of neurons in the enteric nervous systes -- Clinico-Pathological Features of severe gut dysmotility -- Purinergic signaling in the ENS -- Myogenic and neural control in concert -- colonic response to physiological and chemical stimuli -- Molecular targets to alleviate enteric neuropathy and gastrointestinal dysfunction -- The emerging role of the gut-brain microbiota axis in neurodevelopmental disorders -- A view on how enteric neurons monitor luminal content -- Interaction of the microbiota and the developing ENS -- Influence of the circadian rhythm on enteric nervous system function -- Mechanosensitive Enteric Neurons (MEN) at work -- Neurogenetic investigation of the ENS and gut motility -- The shaggy dog story of enteric signaling: serotonin, a molecular megillah -- Contribution of enteric neuroglial remodelling to inflammatory bowel disease and cancer evolution -- Examining cellular metabolism in the enteric nervous system -- Embryonic development of motility: a bottom-up approach to the workings of the intestine -- Quantitative analysis of intestinal movements with spatiotemporal maps -- The roles of Mas related G-protein coupled receptors in the gut -- Refining Enteric Neural Circuitry by Quantitative Morphology, Transcriptomics and Function in Mice” -- Extrinsic modulation of enteric circuits that regulate colon function in health and disease -- Activating and Modeling ENS Circuits in Mouse Colon -- Neurons, macrophages and glia: the role of intercellular communication for gut motility -- Modelling development of the ENS: What's been done and what's next -- Epithelial 5-HT4 receptors as a target for treating constipation and colitis -- Activity in Enteric Neural circuits underlying propulsion -- Contribution of the ENS to autoimmune diseases and irritable bowel syndrome.

Description / Table of Contents: Aim of the book -- Basic principles and technology of nadh and multiparametric monitoring used in studying cortical spreading depression (csd) -- Single point and multisite monitoring of brain nadh fluorescence under csd -- Sequence of physiological responses recorded during induced csd event -- Spontaneous development of csd related to brain pathophysiological conditions -- The effects of brain metabolic and other perturbations on the responses to induced csd -- Effects of pharmacological agents on csd -- Clinical monitoring of csd in the human brain -- CSD and the lifenlight score (lls) -- Discussion and conclusions -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I. Basic Principles of Cerebellar Function in Emotion -- Chapter 1. Introduction into the Role of the Cerebellum in Emotion -- Chapter 2. Principles of Brain and Emotion: Beyond the Cortico-Centric Bias -- Chapter 3. Cerebellum and Emotion Processing -- Chapter 4. Cerebellum and Emotion Recognition -- Chapter 5. Cerebellum and Emotion Memory -- Part II. Cells and Molecules of Emotions in the Cerebellum -- Chapter 6. Topography of Emotions in Cerebellum as Appraised by Functional Imaging -- Chapter 7. The Neurophysiology of the Cerebellum in Emotion -- Chapter 8. Non-invasive Brain Stimulation of the Cerebellum in Emotion -- Part III. Cerebellum and Emotion in High Order Domains -- Chapter 9. Reward-Based Learning and Emotional Habit Formation in the Cerebellum -- Chapter 10. Cerebellar Contribution to Emotional Body Language Perception -- Chapter 11. Influence of Pain on Cognitive Dysfunction and Emotion Dysregulation in Chiari Malformation Type I -- Chapter 12. Cerebellum and Emotion in Morality -- Chapter 13. Music and the Cerebellum -- Chapter 14. The Cerebellum and Beauty: The Impact of the Cerebellum in Art Experience and Creativity -- Chapter 15. Cerebellum and Emotion in Social Behavior -- Chapter 16. Cerebellum, Embodied Emotions, and Psychological Traits -- Part IV. Cerebellum and Emotion Disorders -- Chapter 17. The Cerebellum and Disorders of Emotion -- Chapter 18. Cerebellum and Neurorehabilitation in Emotion with a Focus on Neuromodulation -- Part V. Perspectives -- Chapter 19. Current and Future Perspectives of the Cerebellum in Affective Neurosciences.

Description / Table of Contents: Part 1: Basic Facts and Ideas for a Brain -- Chapter 1: The brain is an organ for information processing -- Chapter 2: The organization and improvement of behavior.-Chapter 3: A neuronal realization of the survival algorithm -- Chapter4: On the structure and function of cortical areas -- Part 2: Thinking in Cell Assemblies -- Chapter 5: Cognitive mental processes realized by cell assemblies in the cortex -- Chapter 6: A Model of Language Understanding by Interacting Cortical Areas -- Chapter 7: Can we accept a mechanistic description of our mental processes? -- Part 3: Further Developments until Today -- Chapter 8: Developments in Computer Science and Technical Applications -- Chapter 9: New Results from Brain Research and Neuroscience -- Chapter 10: Development of Brain Theory -- Chapter 11: Do we need Cognitive Neuroscience?. .

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction on THINKING: Bioengineering of Science and Art -- Thinking as A Philosophical, Theological and Psychological Phenomenon -- How to Think about Human-Animal Differences in Thinking: Two Cases of Marginal Analogy in the Philosophical Explication of Animal Cognition -- Homo Pictor’: A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origins of Human Thinking -- Idealism and Science of Life: An Intersection between Philosophy and Biology -- Embodied Creativity and Symbolic Variation in The Evolution of Life -- Within the Box: Captives of our Own Mind -- The Dialectic of Mind and Matter in The Trialectic Approach: A New Path of The Cognition Process -- Efforts Deployed in the Penetration of “Thought” -- Pseudo-Thinking and Real Thinking -- Three Paradoxes of Thought: Thought Power Measured -- A New Philosophical Paradigm of Thinking for Particular Sciences: Physics, Cognitive Science, and Biology -- Indicators of Variation in Thinking Actions and Reactions -- Multidimensional Thinking: Economizing Thinking and Maximizing Outcomes -- How You Know What I Know That She Said About You: Theory of Mind, Intentionality and the Evolutionary Roots of Artistic Practice -- A Philosophical Perspective on the Bioengineering of Art: Ethical Shifts in Mimesis -- Thinking Through the Body: Art and Philosophy in Dialogue -- Mechanism vs. Organism: A Loosely Kantian Perspective and its Implications for Bioengineering -- New Media Art: The Liminal Space Between Thinking and Perceiving -- Towards a New Science of Interfaces: Bridging Art and Engineering -- Art as Metacognitive Tool for Critical Thinking in Engineering -- Dimensions of Thinking, Reflecting, and Knowing through Design -- Thinking Through Sound: Music Listening as A Model for Enhanced Cognition -- Poetic Thinking and the Constitution of Our World: On Language and Reality -- Thinking as the Invention of New Aspects within Language-Games -- Literature as a Genealogy of the Social Sciences Thought -- How Rational Thought Is Conceived in Christian Doctrine: The Case of Saint Thomas Aquinas -- The Interest of Religion on Ethical Thought in Science -- Thinking, Politics, and the Evolutionary Process of Societies -- Information Processing in Reasoning in the Environment of Forbidden Sentences -- The impact of economic science on human thinking -- Generations of Systems Thinking: Models for Future Learning -- Systems Thinking and Action for An Entrepreneurial Journey Towards the House of Lab Science -- Systems Approach for Modeling Multifactorial Human Interactions that Affect Ecological and Environmental Systems -- Cradle to Cradle and Cradle to Grave: Discussing the Case of Eco-Coffins -- THINKING 2050: Bioengineering of Science and Art.

Description / Table of Contents: Discovery science chapters -- Effects of AEDs on behaviour -- How to separate effects of seizures when studying behaviour -- Depression-like behaviour in epilepsy models -- Are behavioural deficits core components of epilepsy? -- Does stress trigger seizures: evidence from animal models? -- Early life stress and epilepsy -- disease models and epilepsy -- Disease modification in epilepsy: behavioural accompaniments -- Clinical chapters -- Do psychotropic drugs cause epileptic seizures? A review of the available evidence. Peri-ictal and para-ictal psychiatric phenomena: a relatively common yet unrecognized disorder -- Can we anticipate and prevent the occurrence of iatrogenic psychiatric events caused by antiepileptic drugs and epilepsy surgery? -- Are psychiatric disorders a risk for the development of treatment-resistant epilepsy? Temporal lobectomy: does it worsen or improve presurgical psychiatric disorders? -- Suicidality in epilepsy: does it share common pathogenic mechanisms with epilepsy? -- Psychotic disorders in epilepsy: do they differ from primary psychosis? -- Do neurobiologic aspects of primary psychiatric disorders account for the relatively high prevalence of psychiatric comorbidities in epilepsy? -- Are psychogenic non-epileptic seizures really the expression of a psychogenic process?

Description / Table of Contents: 1-Measuring Sex Differences and Similarities -- 2-Prenatal Steroid Hormones and Sex Differences in Juvenile Rhesus Macaque Behavior -- 3-Biological Approaches to Studying Gender Development -- 4-Social Influences on Gender Development: Theory and Context -- 5-Contemporary Cognitive Approaches to Gender Development: New Schemas, New Directions, and New Conceptualizations of Gender -- 6-Origins and Consequences of Childhood Gender Segregation: Towards an Integrative Developmental Systems Model -- 7-Gender, Toys, and Play: How Gendered Early Experiences Shape Later Development -- 8-Family Gender Socialization in Childhood and Adolescence -- 9-Gender Stereotypes and Education -- 10-Gender-Based Discrimination in Childhood and Adolescence -- 11-Gender and Sexuality in Disorders/Differences of Sex Development -- 12-Sexuality Development in Childhood -- 13-Sexual Pleasure in Adolescence: A Developmental Sexual Embodiment Perspective -- 14-Pornography Use in Adolescence and Young Adulthood -- 15-A Review of Theoretical Models and Lifespan Approaches to the Study of Sexual Offending -- 16-Learned but Not Chosen: A Reward Competition Feedback Model for the Origins of Sexual Preferences and Orientations -- 17-Carving the Biodevelopment of Same-Sex Sexual Orientation at Its Joints -- 18-Mental Health Among LGBT Youth -- 19-Asexuality: When Sexual Attraction is Lacking -- 20-Erotic Target Identity Inversions -- 21-Consensual Non-monogamy from a Developmental Perspective.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Neural Tissue and its Signals -- Chapter 3: Measurements -- Chapter 4: Source Models -- Chapter 5: Forward Models -- Chapter 6: Inverse Methods -- Chapter 7: Assessment -- Chapter 8: Applications.

Description / Table of Contents: Part 1: Mechanisms underlying brain changes during sensitive periods -- Development of functional properties in the early visual system: new appreciations of the roles of lateral geniculate nucleus -- Maturation of Corticolimbic Functional Connectivity during Sensitive Periods of Brain Development -- Microglia and sensitive periods in brain development -- Is Adolescence a Sensitive Period for the Development of Incentive Reward Motivation? Part 2: The influences of positive and negative factors during sensitive periods -- Physical Activity, Fitness and Executive Functions in Youth: Effects, Moderators and Mechanisms -- Nutrition and brain development.-Understanding sensitive period effects in musical training -- Sensitive periods for recovery from early brain injury -- Part 3: Community level impact of sensitive periods: analyses and applications -- Statistical Modeling of Sensitive Period Effects Using the Structured Life Course Modeling Approach (SLCMA) -- Capitalizing on neuroplasticity across development to redirect pathways from juvenile justice involvement.

Description / Table of Contents: Histopathological Basis for Acupuncture -- Current Advances in Mathematical Models of Initial Response to Mechanical Stimulation at Acupoint -- Signal Transduction in Acupoints -- Cellular Mechanisms in Acupuncture Effects -- Chemical and Physical Characteristics of Moxibustion -- Imaging of Acupuncture’s Effects: From Bedside to Bench -- Meridians – Neurosensory Organs within the System of Homeostatic Regulation -- Meridian-Viscera Correlationship: Theory and Mechanism of the Heart Meridian-Heart-Brain Interactions -- Autonomic Function and Electroacupuncture -- Understanding of Myofasial Trigger Points: Acupuncture verses Dry Needling -- Current Research in Silver Needle Acupuncture for Myofascitis -- Acupuncture in Supportive Care for Breast Cancer Survivors -- Alternative Therapies for Chemotherapy-Induced Peripheral Neuropathy -- Acupuncture and Related Techniques for Perioperative Care of Surgical Patients -- Hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal Axis: A Bridge between acupuncture and diseases -- Neurobiological Mechanism of Acupuncture Analgesia in Chronic Somatic Pain -- Analgesic Effects of Acupuncture on Orofacial Pain -- Itch and the Antipruritic Effect of Acupuncture -- Acupuncture for Autism Spectrum Disorders -- Acupuncture Treatment for Multiple Sclerosis -- The Clinical and Experimental Study on Acupuncture for Children with Cerebral Palsy -- Beneficial Effect of Acupuncture on Depressive Disorders -- Acupuncture and Alzheimer’s Disease -- Acupuncture Treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease -- Electroacupuncture against Ischemic Brain Injury: Efficacy, optimal conditions and Mechanisms.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter. 1. Introduction -- Chapter. 2. Eusociality -- Chapter. 3. Brain and social environment -- Chapter. 4. Socio-biological interactions -- Chapter. 5. Social Inequality -- Chapter. 6. Culture and evolution -- Chapter. 7. Means of social coercion -- Chapter. 8. Population growth and the collective brain -- Chapter. 9. Tooling and technology -- Chapter. 10. The Homo sapiens, evolution of the warmonger human -- Chapter. 11. Factors of our human future -- Chapter. 12. On the human dimension -- Chapter. 13. Our species’ hypothetical alternatives.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Methodology -- Urban Water Governance -- River Basin Governance -- The implementation of IWRM/IRBM in São Paulo -- The Implementation of UWM in São Paulo -- The Implementation of IWRM/IRBM in Mexico City -- The Implementation of UWM in Mexico City -- Comparing São Paulo and Mexico City: Evidence of Scalar Mismatches -- Towards a Theory of Metropolitan Water Governance.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction to “Insights into Egypt’s Strategy to Meet the Sustainable Development Goals and Agenda 2030: Researchers Contributions” (El-Sayed Ewis Omran) -- Chapter 2. Overview of the Poverty, Food Security and Nutrition Situation in Egypt (Mona A. Outhman) -- Chapter 3. Long-term control of desertification: Is organic farming superior to conventional? Soil and established arid cultivation practices at SEKEM, Egypt (Lorenz Huebner) -- Chapter 4. The Effect of COVID-19 on the Egyptian Education System and the Role of Digitalization (Marwa Biltagy) -- Chapter 5. Culture and Principles of Equity and Gender Equality as a Basis of Holistic Sustainable Development at SEKEM, Egypt (Lorenz Huebner) -- Chapter 6. Integrated Hydrological Modeling and Geoinformatics for Harvesting and Simulating Mountain torrents on the Area Stretching between Port Sudan and Ras Bennas, Red Sea (El-Sayed E. Omran) -- Chapter 7. Role of Green Energy in Sustainable Development in Egypt (Nadia M. Eshra) -- Chapter 8. Resources of the Renewable Energy in Egypt (Nadia M. Eshra) -- Chapter 9. Utilizing Renewable Energy as a means to Achieve SDGs (Raad H. S. Al-Jibouri) -- Chapter 10. Economic Growth, Employment and Decent Work as a Sustainable Development Policy for all (Harb A. El. Hasseen El-bardisy) -- Chapter 11. Proposed Guidelines For Planning Of Egyptian Fishing Ports (Mahmoud Sharaan) -- Chapter 12. The Impact of Human-Induced in Mining Operations on the Increased Risk of Torrents in the Wadi Allaqi Basin (Mohamed E. Dandrawy) -- Chapter 13. Climate Considerations in the Planning and Sustainability of Egyptian Cities (El-Sayed E. Omran) -- Chapter 14. Life Under Lake Nasser: Water Quality As A Means to Achieving The Egypt's Agenda 2030 (El-Sayed E. Omran) -- Chapter 15. Soil-Water Properties for Reduce Land Degradation Along the High Dam Lake, Egypt (El-Sayed E. Omran) -- Chapter 16. Update, Conclusions, and Recommendations to “Egypt’s Strategy to Meet the Sustainable Development Goals and Agenda 2030” (El-Sayed E. Omran).

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Fundamentals of Satellite Remote Sensing -- 2. Water Resources in the Middle East -- 3. The Suitability of Satellite Remote Sensing and GIS Technologies For Mapping, Monitoring and Managing Water Resources in The Middle East -- 4. Atmospheric Rivers and Precipitation in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) -- 5. Inventory of Shared Water Resources in Western Asia Revisited: Selected Pilot Areas for the Application of Remote Sensing -- 6. GIS-based multi-criteria approach to assess water resources vulnerability in a changing climate over the Arab Domain -- 7. Unraveling the spatio-temporal dynamics of satellite-inferred water resources in the Arabian Peninsula -- 8. A Technical Note on Least Squares Mascon Fitting to GRACE Satellite Data to Estimate Total Water Storage Changes in The Middle East -- 9. Spatial-Temporal Change of a Dam Lake Area Using Remote Sensing and Meteorological Drought Indices -- 10. Forecasting Domestic Water Demand using Meteorological and Satellite data: Case study of Greater Beirut Area -- 11. MODIS Satellite Images and TRMM Products to Compare Rainfall and Streamflow along the Coastal Rivers of Lebanon -- 12. Water balance and demand for different environmental changes and management scenarios in the Hasbani Basin, Lebanon using WEAP model and remotely sensed data -- 13. Agricultural Water Management in the Nile Delta Using Remote Sensing Techniques -- 14. Studying Hydrological Characteristics of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, Palestine Using GIS and Remote Sensing Data -- 15. Landsat Satellite Images for Lineaments Detection: A Tool to Identify Groundwater Productivity in Lebanon -- 16. Using information from remote sensing to estimate groundwater: GRACE and Sentinel-1 satellites -- 17. Volcanic Terrains Reveal Bright Hydrogeological Prospects in Saudi Arabia: A GIS & RSA Linked Research on Harrat Rahat -- 18. Regional mapping of groundwater potential zones in the Saudi Arabia using remote sensing and machine learning algorithms -- 19. A DRASTIC-based Fuzzy C-Means Clustering Technique for Evaluating Groundwater Vulnerability under Uncertainty -- 20. Prospects of Retrieving Non-Optical Water Quality Properties with Remote Sensing Techniques -- 21. The potential of different reflectance based algorithms to retrieve Phycocyanin concentration through remote sensing. Application to a hypereutrophic Mediterranean lake -- 22. Remote sensing of water quality for human use of Shat Al-Hilla, Iraq.

Description / Table of Contents: Regional Adaptation of Water Quality Algorithms for Monitoring Inland Waters: Case Study from Irish Lakes -- Optical remote sensing in Lake Trasimeno: understanding from applications across diverse temporal, spectral and spatial scales -- Satellite instrumentation and technique for oil pollution monitoring of the seas -- Satellite instrumentation and technique for monitoring of seawater quality -- Inland Water altimetry: technological progress and applications -- Generic Strategy for Consistency Validation of the Satellite-, In-situ-, and Reanalysis - based Climate Data Records (CDRs) Essential Climate Variables (ECVs) -- Optical spectroscopy for on line water monitoring -- Fiber optic technology for environmental monitoring: state of the art and application in the Observatory of transfers in the Vadose Zone- (O-ZNS) -- Plants, vital players in the terrestrial water cycle -- Improving water quality and security with advanced sensors and indirect water sensing methods.

Description / Table of Contents: Water: How Secure are We under Climate Change? -- Influence of stemflow measurement on interception estimation under Eucalyptus plantations -- Strategic Human Resources in Water Sources Development -- Water Budget Monitoring of the Ganga River Basin using remote sensing data and GIS -- Evaluation of SWAT Model for Simulating the Water Balance Components for the DudhKoshi River Basin in Nepal -- Development Policy Framework Towards Riverfront Development (RFD)- A Study on Mula- Mutha Riverfront Pune, Maharashtra, India -- Rejuvenating Water Wisdom: A Route to Resilience. .

Description / Table of Contents: Geospatial Technology for Geomorphology Mapping and its Applications -- Geospatial technology for estimation of geomorphological characteristics of an ungauged watershed -- Long Term Analysis of River Migration Pattern using Geospatial Techniques – A case study of upper part of the Ganga River, India -- Space borne Scatterometers for understanding the large-scale land hydrological processes -- Wetland Classification and Monitoring Using Time Series Earth Observation Data and Machine Learning Algorithm: A Case Study in Upper Ganga River Stretch.

Description / Table of Contents: Effect of bed permeability on flow turbulence in gravel-bed stream -- Study on Erosion and Undercut of Cohesive River Bank – An Experimental Approach -- Hydraulic design of reservoir in permeable pavement for mitigating urban storm water -- Analytical expression for measurement of discharge using conical obstruction in a small rectangular channel -- Efficient numerical algorithm for flow field around vertically submerged tandem and aligned circular cylinders. .

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Invisible Water Law and Governance - At Heart of Equity and Sustainability Concerns -- Groundwater Overexploitation, Changing Crops, a New Wine Region and Legally Binding Allocation Plans -- Climate Change Effects and Non-Legally Binding Groundwater Plans to Improve the Governance of Hidden Waters -- A Cutting-edge Water Law, Strong Water Institutions and the Problem of Groundwater Excess -- When is Enough, Enough? Environmental Annihilation, Social Exploitation, Chemicals Running Through Groundwater and A Legal-Mix -- A Sandy-beach Paradise, Groundwater Exploitation and Groundwater Governance Through Communal Water Boards -- Groundwater, Bans on free Grazing, Tree Felling and Drilling Wells -- Between Law and Practice -- Conclusion.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Challenges of Modeling for Water Quality Management -- 2. Data Analysis to Understand the Modeled System -- 3. River BOD/DO Modeling with New Twists -- 4. Eutrophication Modeling: Algal Blooms, Nutrients, and Dissolved Oxygen -- 5. Modeling Analysis for pH -- 6. Modeling Pathogens in Natural Waters and Sediments -- 7. Toxics and Emerging Chemicals -- 8. Mixing Zone Analysis.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Unconventional water resources as a response to global water scarcity and contribution to food, ecosystems, and sustainable development -- Rain enhancement through cloud seeding (Ali Abshaev, Hail Suppression Research Center, Nalchik, Russia) -- Fog water harvesting (Jamila Bargach, Dar Si Hmad Project, Sidi Ifni, Morocco) -- Micro-catchment rainwater harvesting (Theib Oweis, International Center for Agricultural Research in Dry Areas, ICARDA, Jordan) -- Offshore water (Mark Person, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, USA) -- Onshore deep groundwater (Mark Person, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, USA) -- Municipal wastewater (Birguy Lamizana, United Nations Environment Programme, UNEP, Nairobi, Kenya) -- Agricultural drainage water (J.D. Oster, University of California, Riverside, USA) -- Water transportation through icebergs towing (Nicholas Sloane, Resolve Marine Group, South Africa) -- Ballast water held in tanks and cargo holds of ships (Marlos De Souza, FAO) -- Desalinated water (Nikolay Voutchkov, Desalination Technologies Research Institute, Saline Water Conversion Corporation, SWCC, Jubail, Saudi Arabia) -- Governance, policies, and institutional and human capacity (Renée Martin-Nagle, A Ripple Effect PLC, Ebensburg, Pennsylvania, USA) -- Social and environmental tradeoffs (TBC) -- Economics and innovative financing mechanisms in a circular economy (Francesc Hernández-Sancho, University of Valencia, Spain; Edeltraud Guenther, UNU-FLORES) -- Way forward to harness the potential of unconventional water resources.