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  • 2
    Monograph non-lending collection
    Monograph non-lending collection
    Leiden : Nijhoff ; 1.2009 -
    Call number: IASS 17.92082
    Type of Medium: Monograph non-lending collection
    ISSN: 1876-8814
    Language: English
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  • 3
    Call number: (DE-599)GBV03709842X
    Type of Medium: Monograph available for loan
    Language: German
    Location: MOP - must be ordered
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  • 4
    Call number: PIK N 453-17-91096
    Type of Medium: Monograph available for loan
    Pages: 50 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme
    Language: German
    Location: A 18 - must be ordered
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  • 5
    Monograph available for loan
    Monograph available for loan
    Stuttgart : Schweizerbart Science Publishers ; Volume 1, number 1 (1978)-
    Call number: M 18.91571
    Type of Medium: Monograph available for loan
    Pages: 134 Seiten
    ISSN: 2363-7196
    Series Statement: Global tectonics and metallogeny : special issue Vol. 10/2-4
    Classification:
    Tectonics
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Global tectonics and metallogeny
    Language: English
    Location: Upper compact magazine
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  • 6
    Call number: 3/S 07.0034(2017)
    In: Annual report
    Type of Medium: Monograph available for loan
    Pages: 51 Seiten
    ISSN: 1865-6439 , 1865-6447
    URL: Volltext  (kostenfrei)
    Parallel Title: Annual report ... / Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres
    Language: English
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  • 7
    Type of Medium: Monograph available for loan
    Pages: Bände (Loseblattsammlung)
    ISBN: 9783963144509 , 3963144505
    Subsequent Title: Fortsetzung von EnEV und Energieausweise ...
    Language: German
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  • 8
    Call number: S 90.0066(162,1)
    In: Geologisches Jahrbuch / A
    Type of Medium: Series available for loan
    Pages: 261 Seiten , Ill., 1 DVD-ROM (12 cm) und 1 Tafel-Beil. ([2] S.)
    ISBN: 9783510968534
    Series Statement: Geologisches Jahrbuch 162
    Classification:
    Engineering Geophysics
    Language: German
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  • 9
    Call number: Z 06.0500
    Type of Medium: Journal available for loan
    Pages: 30 cm
    ISSN: 1824-7741
    Former Title: Vorgänger Geologisch-paläontologische Mitteilungen, Innsbruck
    Language: German , English
    Note: Ersch. unregelmäßig , Beiträge teilweise in Englisch
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  • 10
    Call number: IASS 15.89494
    Type of Medium: Monograph available for loan
    Pages: Losebl.-Ausg.
    Edition: Stand: Oktober 2010
    ISBN: 9783768501828
    Language: German
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  • 11
    Monograph available for loan
    Monograph available for loan
    [Edgecumbe, N.Z.] : A. Muller
    Call number: M 15.89146
    Description / Table of Contents: An account of the results of the 2 March 1987 earthquake in the eastern Bay of Plenty and the aftermath's effects on the people and places on the Rangitaiki Plains
    Type of Medium: Monograph available for loan
    Pages: 223 S., , Ill.
    Language: English
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    Monograph available for loan
    Monograph available for loan
    Garmisch-Partenkirchen : Institut für atmosphärische Umweltforschung der Fraunhofer- Gesellschaft
    Call number: MOP 44829 / Mitte
    Type of Medium: Monograph available for loan
    Pages: 25 S. , graph. Darst.
    Language: English
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  • 13
    Monograph available for loan
    Monograph available for loan
    London : Penguin Books
    Type of Medium: Monograph available for loan
    ISBN: 9780141985206
    Language: English
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  • 14
    Call number: AWI A3-20-93434-2
    In: Meteorologische Abhandlungen / Institut für Meteorologie und Geophysik der Freien Universität Berlin, Band XXXII, Heft 2
    Type of Medium: Series available for loan
    Pages: 218 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Meteorologische Abhandlungen / Institut für Meteorologie und Geophysik der Freien Universität Berlin 32,2
    Language: German
    Note: Zugleich: Dissertation, Freie Unversität Berlin, [ca. 1963] , INHALTSVERZEICHNIS PROBLEMSTELLUNG UND ZIELSETZUNG 1. BEMERKUNGEN ZUM BEOBACHTUNGSGELÄNDE UND ZUM BEOBACHTUNGSMATERIAL 1.1 Das Beobachtungsgelände 1.2 Das Beobachtungsmaterial 2. HOMOGENITÄTSBETRACHTUNGEN 2.1 Temperatur 2.2 Niederschlag 2.3 Wind 2.4 Sonnenschein und Bewölkung 3. TEMPERATURVERHÄLTNISSE 3.1 Monats- und Jahreswerte 3.2 Tageswerte 3.3 Pentadenwerte 3.4 Häufigkeitsbetrachtungen 3.5 Interdiurne Veränderlichkeit 3.6 Der tägliche Gang 3.7 Vorkommen bestimmter Schwellenwerte 3.71 Frost- und Eistage 3.72 Sommer- und Tropentage 4. DER WASSERGEHALT DER LUFT 4.1 Monats- und Jahreswerte 4.2 Tageswerte 4.3 Häufigkeitsbetrachtungen 4.4 Interdiurne Veränderlichkeit 4.5 Der tägliche Gang 5. BEWÖLKUNGSVERHÄLTNISSE 5.1 Monats- und Jahreswerte 5.2 Tageswerte 5.3 Häufigkeitsbetrachtungen 5.4 Der tägliche Gang 5.5 Heitere und trübe Tage 5.6 Nebel 6. SONNENSCHEIN 6.1 Monats- und Jahreswerte 6.2 Tageswerte 6.3 Der tägliche Gang 7. NIEDERSCHLAGSVERHÄLTNISSE 7.1 Monats- und Jahreswerte 7.2 Niederschlagsbereitschaft 7.3 Tageswerte 7.4 Der tägliche Gang 7.5 Häufigkeitsbetrachtungen 7.6 Niederschlags- und Trockenperioden 7.7 Niederschlag und Wind· 7.8 Schneeverhältnisse 7.81 Schneefall und Schneedecke 7.82 Schneehöhe 7.9 Gewitter 8. WINDVERHÄLTNISSE 8.1 Windrichtung 8.2 Windgeschwindigkeit 8.21 Der jährliche Gang 8.22 Häufigkeitsbetrachtungen 8.23 Sturmtage und Windstillen 8.24 Der tägliche Gang 9.ZUSAMMENFASSUNG VERZEICHNIS DER TEXTTABELLEN VERZEICHNIS DER ABBILDUNGEN LITERATURVERZEICHNIS TABELLENANHANG
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    Call number: AWI A3-20-93434
    In: Meteorologische Abhandlungen / Institut für Meteorologie und Geophysik der Freien Universität Berlin, Band XXXII, Heft 1
    Type of Medium: Series available for loan
    Pages: 121 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Meteorologische Abhandlungen / Institut für Meteorologie und Geophysik der Freien Universität Berlin 32,1
    Language: German
    Note: Zugleich: Dissertation, Freie Unversität Berlin, [ca. 1963] , INHALTSVERZEICHNIS PROBLEMSTELLUNG UND ZIELSETZUNG 1. BEMERKUNGEN ZUM BEOBACHTUNGSGELÄNDE UND ZUM BEOBACHTUNGSMATERIAL 1.1 Das Beobachtungsgelände 1.2 Das Beobachtungsmaterial 2. HOMOGENITÄTSBETRACHTUNGEN 2.1 Temperatur 2.2 Niederschlag 2.3 Wind 2.4 Sonnenschein und Bewölkung 3. TEMPERATURVERHÄLTNISSE 3.1 Monats- und Jahreswerte 3.2 Tageswerte 3.3 Pentadenwerte 3.4 Häufigkeitsbetrachtungen 3.5 Interdiurne Veränderlichkeit 3.6 Der tägliche Gang 3.7 Vorkommen bestimmter Schwellenwerte 3.71 Frost- und Eistage 3.72 Sommer- und Tropentage 4. DER WASSERGEHALT DER LUFT 4.1 Monats- und Jahreswerte 4.2 Tageswerte 4.3 Häufigkeitsbetrachtungen 4.4 Interdiurne Veränderlichkeit 4.5 Der tägliche Gang 5. BEWÖLKUNGSVERHÄLTNISSE 5.1 Monats- und Jahreswerte 5.2 Tageswerte 5.3 Häufigkeitsbetrachtungen 5.4 Der tägliche Gang 5.5 Heitere und trübe Tage 5.6 Nebel 6. SONNENSCHEIN 6.1 Monats- und Jahreswerte 6.2 Tageswerte 6.3 Der tägliche Gang 7. NIEDERSCHLAGSVERHÄLTNISSE 7.1 Monats- und Jahreswerte 7.2 Niederschlagsbereitschaft 7.3 Tageswerte 7.4 Der tägliche Gang 7.5 Häufigkeitsbetrachtungen 7.6 Niederschlags- und Trockenperioden 7.7 Niederschlag und Wind· 7.8 Schneeverhältnisse 7.81 Schneefall und Schneedecke 7.82 Schneehöhe 7.9 Gewitter 8. WINDVERHÄLTNISSE 8.1 Windrichtung 8.2 Windgeschwindigkeit 8.21 Der jährliche Gang 8.22 Häufigkeitsbetrachtungen 8.23 Sturmtage und Windstillen 8.24 Der tägliche Gang 9.ZUSAMMENFASSUNG VERZEICHNIS DER TEXTTABELLEN VERZEICHNIS DER ABBILDUNGEN LITERATURVERZEICHNIS TABELLENANHANG
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    Call number: IASS 22.95033
    Type of Medium: Monograph available for loan
    Pages: 378 S , 225 mm x 135 mm
    ISBN: 3899421876 , 978-3-89942-187-3
    Series Statement: Edition panta rei
    Language: German
    Note: Zugl.: Marburg (Lahn), Univ., Habil.-Schr., 2004 u.d.T.: Gutmann, Mathias: Die Medialität des Erfahrens
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  • 17
    Journal available for loan
    Journal available for loan
    Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck ; 1.1884 - 48.1931; N.F. 1.1932/33 - 10.1943/44(1945),3; 11.1948/49(1949) -
    Call number: ZS 22.95039
    Type of Medium: Journal available for loan
    Pages: Online-Ressource
    ISSN: 1614-0974 , 0015-2218 , 0015-2218
    Language: German , English
    Note: N.F. entfällt ab 57.2000. - Volltext auch als Teil einer Datenbank verfügbar , Ersch. ab 2000 in engl. Sprache mit dt. Hauptsacht.
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  • 18
    Call number: AWI G6-19-92375
    In: Berichte / Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Institut für Geowissenschaften, Nr. 9
    Type of Medium: Monograph available for loan
    Pages: 278 Seiten , Illustrationen
    ISSN: 0175-9302
    Series Statement: Berichte / Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Institut für Geowissenschaften 9
    Language: German
    Note: Zugleich: Dissertation, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, 1999 , INHALTSVERZEICHNIS 1. Einleitung 1.1 Kenntnisstand und offene Fragen 1.2 Fragestellung und Ziele dieser Arbeit 2. Umweltbedingungen in den Arbeitsgebieten 2.1 Hydrographie, Eisverhältnisse und NAO 2.2 Zur Variation von Wassertiefe und Breite der Dänemarkstraße und zur Vereisung Islands während des letzten Glazials 3. Methoden 3.1 Auswahl der Kernstationen 3.2 Probennahme und Analysen (Übersicht) 3.3 Zur Rekonstruktion von Paläobedingungen im Oberflächenwasser Zur Aussage stabiler Isotopenverhältnisse in planktischen Foraminiferen Zur Messung stabiler Isotopenverhältnisse Zur Massenspektrometrie Zur Rekonstruktion von Oberflächentemperaturen Alkane und Alkohole als Maß für Staubeintrag Eistranspmtiertes Material und vulkanische Aschen 3.4 Zur Rekonstruktion von Paläobedingungen im Zwischen-/ Tiefenwasser Häufigkeit von Cibicides- und anderen benthischen Arten (inkl. Taxonomie) Stabile Isotopenverhältnisse in benthischen Foraminiferen 3.5 AMS 14C-Datierungen Probenreinigung 3. 6 Hauptelementanalysen von vulkanischen Asche-Leithorizonten 3. 7 Geomagnetische Meßgrößen und magnetische Suszeptibiltät 3.8 Techniken zur Spektralanalyse 4. Methodische Ergebnisse 4.1 Zum Einfluß der Probenreinigung auf δ18O-/ δ13C-Werte 4.2 Probleme bei der langfristigen Reproduzierbarkeit von δ18O-Zeitreihen 4.3 Einfluß der Korngröße und Artendefinition planktischer Foraminiferen auf SST-Rekonstruktionen in hohen Breiten 4.4 Vergleich der stabilen Isotopenwerte von Cibicides lobatulus und Cibicidoides wuellerstorfi 5. Stratigraphische Grundlagen und Tiefenprofile der Klimasignale 5.1 Stratigraphische Korrelation zwischen parallel-gekernten GKG- und SL-/KL-Profilen 5.2 Flanktische δ18O-/ δ13C-Kurven, 14C-Alter und biostratigraphische Fixpunkte Westliches Islandbecken Kern PS2644 Kern PS2646 Kern PS2647 Kern 23351 Vøring-Plateau Kern 23071 Kern 23074 5.3 Benthische δ18O-/ δ13C-Werte in Kern PS2644 5.4 Siliziklastische Sedimentkomponenten: Eistransportiertes Material Westliches Islandbecken Kern PS2644 Kern PS2646 Kern PS2647 Vøring-Plateau Kern 23071 Kern 23074 5.5 Vulkanische Glasscherben in Kern PS2644: Wind- und Eiseintrag 5.6 Geochemie und Alter einzelner Tephralagen als Leithorizonte Westliches Islandbecken Kern PS2644 Kern PS2646 Kern PS2647 Vøring-Plateau Kern 23071 Kern 23074 5.7 Magnetische Suszeptibilität in den Kernen PS2644, PS2646 und PS2647 Kern PS2644 Kern PS2646 und PS2647 5.8 Geomagnetische Feldintensität und Richtungsänderungen in Kern PS2644 5.9 Variation von Planktonfauna und -flora Westliches Islandbecken: Kern PS2644 Kern PS2646 und PS2647 Vøring-Plateau: Kern 23071 und 23074 5.10 Benthische Foraminiferen in Kern PS2644 6. Entwicklung von Temperatur und Salzgehalt nördlich der Dänemark-Straße 6.1 Variation der Oberflächentemperatur nach Planktonforaminiferen 6.2 Variation der Oberflächentemperatur nach Uk37 6.3 Variation der Oberflächensalinität 7. Die Feinstratigraphie von Kern PS2644 als Basis für eine Eichung der 14C-Altersskala 22 - 55 ka 7.1 Korrelation zwischen den Klimasignalen in Kern PS2644 und der GISP2-Klimakurve zum Kalibrieren der 14C-Alter und Erstellen eines Altersmodells Tephrachronologische Marker Korrelationsparameter und -regeln Sonderfälle/ Probleme bei der Korrelation 7.2 Alters-stratigraphische Korrelation der Klimakurven von Kern 23071 und 23074 7.3 Variation der Altersanomalien zwischen 20 und 55 14C-ka 7.4 Variabilität des planktischen 14C-Reservoiralters in Schmelzwasserbeeinflußten Seegebieten Variation der planktischen 14C-Alter unmittelbar an der Basis von Heinrich-Ereignis 4 Unterschiede zwischen planktischen und benthischen 14C-Altern in der westlichen Islandsee. Zur Erklärung der inversen Altersdifferenzen 7.5 Differenz zwischen 14C- und Kalenderalter: Zeitliche Variation unter Einfluß des Erdmagnetfeldes - Modell und Befund 7.6 Sedimentationsraten der Kerne 23071, 23074 und PS2644 nach dem GISP2-Altersmodell Vøring-Plateau: Kerne 23071 und 23074 Südwest-Islandsee: Kern PS2644 8. Klimaoszillationen im Europäischen Nordmeer in der Zeit und Frequenzdomäne 8.1 "Der Einzelzyklus" in den Klimakurven von Kern PS2644 8.2 Zur Veränderlichkeit der Warm- und Kaltextreme sowie Zyklenlänge Besonderheiten in der Zyklenlänge Variation der Kalt-(Stadiale) Variation der Interstadiale 8.3 Periodizitäten der Klimasignale im Frequenzband der D.-Oe.-Zyklen. Der D.-Oe.-Zyklus von 1470 J., seine Multiplen und harmonischen Schwingungen Weitere Frequenzen: 1000-1150 Jahre- und 490- 510 Jahre-Zyklizitäten Höhere Frequenzen im Bereich von Jahrhunderten und Dekaden 8.4 Phasenbeziehungen und (örtliche) Steuemngsmechanismen der Dansgaard-Oeschger-Zyklen 9. Schlußfolgerungen Danksagung Literaturverzeichnis Anhang
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    Journal available for loan
    Journal available for loan
    München : Altop Verlag ; 2007 -
    Call number: Z 19.92410
    Type of Medium: Journal available for loan
    Pages: 30 cm
    ISSN: 1865-4266
    Former Title: Vorg. Nachhaltiges Wirtschaften in Deutschland
    Language: German
    Note: Ungezählte Beil. ab 2010: Special , Ersch. jährl. 4x
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    Publication Date: 2023-01-10
    Description: Wo stehen wir eigentlich in der Debatte um Suffizienz und Wohlstand nach dem Angriffskrieg Russlands gegen die Ukraine? Darauf versucht Wolfgang Sachs eine Antwort zugeben. In seinem zweiteiligen Essay plädiert er für eine Ökonomie des "Genug" als Gegenmittel zur Herrschaft des "Immermehr" und legt seine Überlegungen zu den Themen Suffizienz und Wohlstand dar.  Eingangs vermisst er die Energiepolitik zwischen Krieg und Anthropozän um dann zu der Schlussfolgerung zu gelangen, dass auch die erneuerbaren Energien nicht unendlich seien. Der expansiven Moderne könne man nur durch Suffizienz beikommen, und zwar nicht nur durch persönliche Genügsamkeit, sondern gerade durch Suffizienz in Technik, Geografie und der Menge von Produkten. Das veranschaulicht er an zahlreichen Beispielen aus den Bereichen Verkehr, Strukturentwicklung, Kreislaufwirtschaft und aus der Landwirtschaft. Als Abschluss bricht er eine Lanze für den Liberalismus, aber nicht nur für die individuelle Freiheit, vielmehr auch für die "Gleichfreiheit", die Freiheit aller Erdenbürger*innen. Das sei das heimliche Programm der Suffizienz.
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    Repository Name: Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt, Energie
    Language: German
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    Publication Date: 2023-01-10
    Description: Wo stehen wir eigentlich in der Debatte um Suffizienz und Wohlstand nach dem Angriffskrieg Russlands gegen die Ukraine? Darauf versucht Wolfgang Sachs eine Antwort zugeben. In seinem zweiteiligen Essay plädiert er für eine Ökonomie des "Genug" als Gegenmittel zur Herrschaft des "Immermehr" und legt seine Überlegungen zu den Themen Suffizienz und Wohlstand dar.  Eingangs vermisst er die Energiepolitik zwischen Krieg und Anthropozän um dann zu der Schlussfolgerung zu gelangen, dass auch die erneuerbaren Energien nicht unendlich seien. Der expansiven Moderne könne man nur durch Suffizienz beikommen, und zwar nicht nur durch persönliche Genügsamkeit, sondern gerade durch Suffizienz in Technik, Geografie und der Menge von Produkten. Das veranschaulicht er an zahlreichen Beispielen aus den Bereichen Verkehr, Strukturentwicklung, Kreislaufwirtschaft und aus der Landwirtschaft. Als Abschluss bricht er eine Lanze für den Liberalismus, aber nicht nur für die individuelle Freiheit, vielmehr auch für die "Gleichfreiheit", die Freiheit aller Erdenbürger*innen. Das sei das heimliche Programm der Suffizienz.
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    Repository Name: Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt, Energie
    Language: German
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    Publication Date: 2023-04-24
    Description: Innovative digital technologies open up new opportun­ ities for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to improve energy efficiency and energy management behavior. The question is: How far will SMEs be capable of profiting from the benefits of these new technologies? Using technology screening, this study identifies smart metering and mobile energy monitoring as digital technologies best addressing SMEs' specific demands. In addition, potentials and limitations of the technologies are investigated in two qualitative in-depth field trials. Barriers to adopting digitally enabled energy management practices are examined. The results indicate that visualising energy data enables SMEs to pursue new energy management practices for reducing energy consumption and costs (such as peak load analysis). SMEs need extensive guidance to identify and pursue these strategies. In conclusion, an exploratory adoption model for digitally enabled energy management practices is developed. Hypotheses for future experimental studies and policy implications are derived.
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    Repository Name: Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt, Energie
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    Publication Date: 2023-10-16
    Description: The steel industry is responsible for a quarter of all industrial greenhouse gas emissions. So far, the environmental savings are mainly due to steel recycling. Besides recycling, the circular economy offers strategies to increase material efficiency and thus decrease the primary raw material demand. However, the potentials remain unexploited because circular economy concepts with a higher degree of circularity are not considered. The presented case study of an industrial machining knife illustrates how the production process can be improved by implementing various circular strategies. The environmental performance is analyzed by calculating and comparing the carbon footprint, the cumulative energy demand and the material footprint, and the material efficiency indicator. The results show that the implementation of the three overarching strategies of the circular economy - narrowing, closing, and slowing - contributes to a significant increase in material efficiency. The implementation also has a positive effect on the overall environmental performance. The circular production processes require less energy and resources and cause fewer emissions. Auxiliary processes such as additional transport routes are relevant, as they can reduce or even overcompensate for savings. These processes must be adequately considered and designed.
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    Repository Name: Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt, Energie
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-08
    Description: Die Stärkung der Digitalisierung im Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement und das Schaffen einer einheitlichen sowie konsistenten Datenbasis können Unternehmen maßgeblich unterstützen, steigenden Nachhaltigkeitsanforderungen zu entsprechen und die Transparenz zur Nachhaltigkeit des Wirtschaftens zu gewährleisten. Dieser Beitrag stellt Anforderungen und einen serviceorientierten Ansatz zur Entwicklung einer Plattform für datengestütztes Nachhaltigkeitsmanagement in produzierenden Unternehmen vor.
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    Repository Name: Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt, Energie
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    Publication Date: 2023-03-27
    Description: The impending climate catastrophe gives rise to an increased environmental awareness among many designers, who direct their work towards the paradigm of sustainability. While designing with an "ecological lens" is necessarily oriented towards the future, we highlight the past as an inspiring realm to explore. Rather than recycling materials, we encourage the recycling of ideas as a combination of historiographic and speculative design methods. We will present a framework that extends the idea of design as a "projecting" activity into the idea of design as a constant negotiation process about the relevance and appropriateness of current and past technologies. Design revolves not just about what will be, but to a large extent about what should remain and what should recur, or as Jan Michl put it: "seeing design as redesign" (Michl 2002). We will illustrate the thought of designing futures with pasts by means of a research project that aims at developing a refrigerator for circular economy. The refrigerator - as the currently dominant technology to preserve food - will serve as a starting point to show how artefacts and architecture as well as human skills and knowledge in the preparation and preservation of food are historically interlinked. The history of food preservation unfolds not only along the evolution of the refrigerator, but encompasses household techniques like smoking, curing and fermenting, as well as long-forgotten architectural "answers" such as deep-freeze community buildings. We will revisit three historical examples of food preservation and present the method ‘throwing’ past ideas into the future. Three main arguments are presented in this richly illustrated paper: First, that historiography is a form of designing, second, that designing is constituted and influenced by path dependencies (cf. David 1985) that are deeply rooted in the past and third, that the past is a valuable source of inspiration when designing for sustainable development. Looking at history becomes a way of "mental window shopping" (Simon 1985, 188) for approaches that are to be reactivated and transformed.
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    Repository Name: Wuppertal Institut für Klima, Umwelt, Energie
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    Publication Date: 2023-03-24
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    Publication Date: 2023-03-24
    Description: Four broad categories capture countries' political and economic barriers to quit coal. Use these to tailor solutions.
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    Publication Date: 2023-03-24
    Description: Bundesweit gibt es über 32.000 allgemeinbildende Schulen - mit riesigen Klimaschutzpotenzialen. Das Projekt Schools4Future befähigt Kinder und Jugendliche darin, selbst daraus einen klimaneutralen Lernort zu machen. Interesse und Einsparmöglichkeiten sind riesig.
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    Publication Date: 2023-03-24
    Description: At the end of March 2022, the European Commission published its new EU Strategy for Sustainable and Circular Textiles. Its ambitious vision is to reduce textile waste, promote circular measures and minimise the negative environmental impacts of the textile industry. But what would a textile industry that keeps textiles in a closed loop look like, and what political conditions would be required in Germany? This Zukunftsimpuls paper by the Wuppertal Institute points to the role that Germany could play in the transformation towards a circular textile industry.
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    Publication Date: 2023-03-24
    Description: Als die 15-jährige Greta Thunberg an einem Freitag im August 2018 vor dem schwedischen Parlamentsgebäude in Stockholm ihren einsamen Klimastreik begann, ahnte niemand, dass sie in den Folgejahren unter anderem auf zwei Weltklimakonferenzen und vor der UN-Vollversammlung als Repräsentantin der größten Jugendbewegung der Welt - Fridays for Future - vielbeachtete Reden halten würde. Das, was Greta Thunberg auf der Weltbühne der Politik gelungen ist, sollte auch klimaschutzengagierten Schülerinnen in der Kommunalpolitik ermöglicht werden. Sie sollten von Entscheidungsträgerinnen und Entscheidungsträgern gehört und ernst genommen werden. Um ihren Forderungen für klimafreundliche Schulen auch gegenüber Kommunalpolitikerinnen und Kommunalpolitikern mehr Nachdruck verleihen zu können, müssen sie aber auch gestärkt und qualifiziert werden. So die Kernanliegen des Projekts Schools4Future, welches vom Wuppertal Institut sowie dem Büro Ö-quadrat aus Freiburg durchgeführt und vom Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Klimaschutz gefördert wird.
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    Publication Date: 2023-03-24
    Description: Research on environmental behaviour is often overlooked in literature on regime destabilization in energy transitions. This study addresses that gap by focusing on socio-political and demographic factors shaping support for carbon regime destabilization policies in one of the most carbon-intensive regions of Europe. Carbon-intensive industries, especially coal mining and coal-based power generation, are often concentrated in a few carbon-intensive regions. Therefore, decarbonization actions will affect those regions particularly strongly. Correspondingly, carbon-intensive regions often exert significant political influence on the two climate mitigation policies at the national level. Focusing on Poland, we investigate socio-political and demographic factors that correlate with the approval or rejection of the two climate mitigation policies: increasing taxes on fossil fuels such as oil, gas, and coal and using public money to subsidize renewable energy such as wind and solar power in Poland and its carbon-intensive Silesia region. Using logistic regression with individual-level data derived from the 2016 European Social Survey (ESS) and the 2014 Chapel Hill Expert Survey (CHES), we find party-political ideology to be an important predictor at the national level but much less so at the regional level. Specifically, voting for right-wing party is not a divisive factor for individual support of the two climate mitigation policies either nationally or regionally. More interestingly, populism is a strong factor in support of increasing taxes on fossil fuel in the carbon-intensive Silesia region but is less important concerning in support of using public money to subsidize renewable energy in Poland overall. These results show the heterogeneity of right-wing party and populism within the support for the two climate mitigation policies. Socio-demographic factors, especially age, gender, education level, employment status, and employment sector, have even more complex and heterogeneous components in support of the two climate mitigation policies at the national and regional levels. Identifying the complex socio-political and demographic factors of climate mitigation policies across different national versus carbon-intensive regional contexts is an essential step for generating in situ decarbonization strategies.
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    Publication Date: 2023-03-24
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    Publication Date: 2023-07-07
    Description: Die aktuellen Berichte des Weltklimarates (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC) und des International Resource Panel zeigen erneut die Dringlichkeit einer umfassenden sozial-ökologischen Transformation auf. Das bedeutet, dass die Umsetzung der "Agenda 2030", welche im Jahr 2015 durch die Vereinten Nationen beschlossen wurde, als ein international geltendes Maßnahmenprogramm zur Umsetzung einer nachhaltigen Entwicklung gesetzt und ihr ein zentraler politischer Stellenwert zugeordnet werden muss. Das SDG 12 "Nachhaltige Konsum- und Produktionsmuster sicherstellen" setzt die besondere Rolle nachhaltiger Produktions- und Konsummuster als Ausgangspunkt für eine Klima- und Ressourcenwende und Generationen- sowie soziale Gerechtigkeit. Der Zukunftsimpuls formuliert zehn Botschaften zur Umsetzung von SDG 12 "Nachhaltige Konsum- und Produktionsmuster sicherstellen" als Ausgangspunkt einer großen Transformation. Es beleuchtet kurz und knapp vielfältige Handlungsvoraussetzungen als auch Akteurinnen und Akteure, die relevant für die Verwirklichung einer nachhaltigen Zukunft sind. Der Zukunftsimpuls thematisiert unter anderem die Vorbildfunktion des Staates, die Chancen, die sich auf kommunaler Ebene bieten und die internationale Perspektive, welche sich durch globale Kooperationen und stetigen Wissens- und Erfahrungsaustausch auszeichnen sollte. Ein weiterer Fokus liegt auf nachhaltiger Produktion und nachhaltigem Konsum. Dies lässt sich durch die Stärkung des Nachhaltigkeitsbewusstseins und der -kompetenz sowie der Schaffung von ausreichend Gelegenheiten erreichen, damit einer dynamisch wachsenden Gruppe nachhaltiges Produzieren und nachhaltiger Konsum ermöglicht wird. Ziel ist daher die Bildung eines politischen und gesetzlichen Rahmens, welcher nachhaltige Lebensstile als auch nachhaltige Produktions- und Dienstleistungssysteme begünstigt, fördert und als Daseinsvorsorge sieht. Um die Entwicklung und Fortschritte zu sichern, bedarf es neuer Indikatoren und regelmäßiger Monitorings, die Handlungslücken in Realzeit aufdecken und das Schließen der Lücken ermöglichen. Die Umsetzung des SDG 12 benötigt einen Rahmen, der von Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft getragen wird.
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    Publication Date: 2023-07-07
    Description: The challenges and also potentials of the energy transition are tremendous in Germany, as well as in Japan. Sometimes, structures of the old energy world need "creative destruction" to clear the way for innovations for a decarbonized, low-risk energy system. In these times of disruptive changes, a constructive and sometimes controversial dialog within leading industrial nation as Japan and Germany over the energy transition is even more important. The German-Japanese Energy Transition Council (GJETC) released a summarizing report for the first project phase 2016-2018. It includes jointly formulated recommendations for politics as well as a controversial dialogue part. The Council jointly states and recommends that: Ambitious long-term targets and strategies for a low-carbon energy system must be defined and ambitiously implemented; Germany and Japan as high technology countries need to take the leadership. Both countries will have to restructure their energy systems substantially until 2050 while maintaining their competitiveness and securing energy supply. Highest priority is given to the forced implementation of efficiency technologies and renewable energies, despite different views on nuclear energy. In both countries all relevant stakeholders - but above all the decision-makers on all levels of energy policy - need to increase their efforts for a successful implementation of the energy transition. Design of the electricity market needs more incentives for flexibility options and for the extensive expansion of variable power generation, alongside with strategies for cost reduction for electricity from photovoltaic and wind energy. The implementation gap of the energy efficiency needs to be closed by an innovative energy policy package to promote the principle of "Energy Efficiency First". Synergies and co-benefits of an enhanced energy and resource efficiency policy need to be realized. Co-existence of central infrastructure and the growing diversity of the activities for decentralization (citizens funding, energy cooperatives, establishment of public utility companies) should be supported. Scientific cooperation can be intensified by a joint working group for scenarios and by the establishment of an academic exchange program.
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    Publication Date: 2023-07-07
    Description: Die global gesehen größte Gesundheitsbedrohung des 21. Jahrhunderts ist der Klimawandel. Krankenhäuser müssen sich zwangsläufig vermehrt mit den Folgen des Klimawandels auseinandersetzen, wenn neue Krankheitserreger aus fernen Ländern auftreten oder wenn ältere Menschen, chronisch Kranke, Kinder oder anderweitig besonders betroffene Menschen an heißen Tagen mit bislang unerreichten Hitzerekorden dehydrieren mit der Folge von Herzkreislaufproblemen. Eine Untersuchung des Robert Koch-Instituts kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass allein in den drei Sommern zwischen 2018 und 2020 in Deutschland über 19.000 Menschen aufgrund der Hitze gestorben sind. Der Gesundheitssektor trägt aber auch wesentlich zur Klimakrise bei, indem er selbst für einen erheblichen Teil der klimaschädlichen Emissionen verantwortlich ist. Dieser Wuppertal Report zeigt einen Weg, wie Krankenhäuser perspektivisch Teil der Lösung der derzeit größten Transformationsherausforderung werden können. Dabei sind Krankenhäuser ein Mikrokosmos der Gesellschaft. In ihnen spiegelt sich förmlich alles, was das Leben einer Gesellschaft hinsichtlich der Herausforderung des Klimaschutzes ausmacht: Strom- und Wärmeversorgung, Mobilität, Ernährung, Ressourcenverbrauch und Abfall. Der vorliegende Wuppertal Report macht deutlich, dass Krankenhäuser als Reallabore des bevorstehenden Transformationsprozesses, hin zu einer klimagerechten und ressourcenleichten Gesellschaft verstanden werden können. Das für die Krankenhausgesellschaft Nordrhein-Westfalen e. V. (KGNW) entwickelte Zielbild Klimaneutrales Krankenhaus gibt Krankenhäusern umsetzungsorientierte Hinweise darauf, wie sie sich auf den Weg zur Klimaneutralität begeben können: Es identifiziert klimaschutzrelevante Handlungsfelder im Betrieb. Es verdeutlicht, wie die KGNW die Krankenhäuser in NRW auf ihrem Weg in Richtung Klimaneutralität unterstützen kann. Es motiviert, Klimaschutz als wichtiges Unternehmensziel aktiv anzugehen.
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    Publication Date: 2023-07-07
    Description: Innerhalb des Projekts "Digitalisierung gestalten - Transformation zur Nachhaltigkeit ermöglichen" werden die besonderen Transformationspotenziale der Digitalisierung herausgearbeitet und für Deutschland am Beispiel der ausgewählten Handlungsfelder Mobilität, Circular Economy sowie Landwirtschaft und Ernährung diskutiert. Dieser Bericht adressiert das Handlungsfeld einer klimaschonenden und ressourceneffizienten Kreislaufwirtschaft, die Circular Economy. Bisher wird Kreislaufwirtschaft dabei vor allem mit Fokus auf Recycling und Wiederverwertung von Materialien diskutiert. Das greift jedoch zu kurz - es muss um die Skalierung von neuen, ressourcenschonenden Geschäftsmodellen und der umfassenden Transformation von Wertschöpfungsketten und Industriestrukturen gehen. Die Analyse zeigt: richtig eingesetzt ist Digitalisierung unverzichtbar für diesen Wandel. Der vorliegende Bericht möchte Anstöße für diesen Weg liefern und neue Impulse für eine klima- und ressourcenschonende Industrietransformation in Deutschland setzen. Der Bericht verarbeitet dabei Ergebnisse eines interdisziplinären Workshops zum Thema "Die digital-ökologische Industrietransformation gestalten - Geschäftsmodelle und politische Rahmenbedingungen für Klima- und Ressourcenschutz" mit Expertinnen und Experten aus Forschung, Zivilgesellschaft, Behörden und Privatunternehmen.
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    Publication Date: 2023-07-07
    Description: The German-Japanese Energy Transition Council (GJETC) was established in 2016 by experts from research institutions, energy policy think tanks, and practitioners in Germany and Japan. The objectives and main activities of the Council and the supporting secretariats are to identify and analyze current and future issues regarding policy frameworks, markets, infrastructure, and technological developments in the energy transition, and to hold Council meetings to exchange ideas and propose better policies and strategies. In its second project phase (2018-2020), the GJETC had six members from academia on the Japanese side, and eight members on the German side, with one Co-Chair from each country. From October 2018 to March 2020, the GJETC worked on and debated six topics: 1) Digitalization and the energy transition. 2) Hydrogen society. 3) Review of German and Japanese long-term energy scenarios and their evaluation mechanism. 4) Buildings, energy efficiency, heating/cooling. 5) Integration costs of renewable energies. 6) Transport and sector coupling. The outputs and the recommendations of the second phase of the GJETC are summarized in this report.
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    Publication Date: 2023-07-07
    Description: Das Wirtschafts- und Strukturprogramm für das Rheinische Zukunftsrevier enthält eine Reihe von Zielen, die demonstrieren sollen, wie der European Green Deal modellhaft im Rheinischen Revier bis 2038 umgesetzt werden kann. Das Konzept der "Ressourcenwende" stellt dabei einen Lösungsweg für die erfolgreiche Umsetzung dieser Transformation dar. Das Wuppertal Institut hat vor diesem Hintergrund gemeinsam mit der Prognos AG die vorliegende Studie zu einer regionalen Ressourcenwende im Rheinischen Revier erarbeitet. Das Rheinische Revier ist geprägt durch die Gewinnung, Verstromung und Veredelung von Braunkohle. Darüber hinaus haben sich hier - aufgrund der Nähe zu bedeutenden europäischen Transportwegen und einer zentralen Lage zu wichtigen Märkten in Europa - viele weitere Branchen angesiedelt, wie etwa die Metall-, Chemie- und Aluminiumbranche. Im Hinblick auf den von der Bundesregierung und Nordrhein-Westfalen (NRW) beschlossenen Braunkohleausstieg 2030 und den European Green Deal wird die Notwendigkeit eines Wandels der energie- und ressourcenintensiven Industrien hin zu einer treibhausgasneutralen und ressourcenleichten Wirtschaft im Rheinischen Revier mehr als deutlich. Welchen Fußabdruck hinterlässt das Rheinische Revier, welche innovativen Ressourcenstrategien sollte die Region verfolgen und wie kann dies gemessen werden? Zu dieser Fragestellung haben die Forschenden ein methodisches Konzept einer regionalen Ressourcenwende für das Rheinischen Revier erarbeitet. Die Ressourcenwende selbst begrenzt sich dabei nicht nur auf Primärrohstoffe, sondern nimmt auch die Aspekte wie Bodennutzung bzw. Flächenverbrauch und Biodiversität bzw. Ökosystemleistungen in den Blick und setzt diese in den Kontext eines regionalen Kreislaufwirtschaftssystems.
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    Description: The sales of pedelecs are currently skyrocketing in Germany and in many other places. As a low-carbon means of mobility, pedelecs have the potential to make a substantial contribution to the mobility transition. This thesis employs practice theory as proposed by Shove et al. (2012) to investigate this quickly evolving phenomenon. The analysis is based on interviews with e-bike commuters which were investigated using template analysis and exploratory memos. To obtain a broad picture the practice, a maximum variance sampling strategy was carried out in two cities that vary substantially with regard to velomobility: Wuppertal and Münster. This thesis one hand presents the first encompassing account on the practice elements which commuting by pedelec is composed of. It hence contributes to the debate about the depiction of practices. Furthermore, the thesis finds that pedelec commuting should be conceptualized as a variant of velomobility and not as a variant of motoring or as an independent practice. Yet, the elements integrated in pedelec-commuting are found to clearly differ from those of cycling, so that pedelec-commuting meets the requirements of everyday life much better than commuting on non-electrified bikes. The findings of this thesis suggest several pathways to strengthening this novel practice. The capacity of e-biking to serve mundane trips can for example be supported through the normalization of the use of weather- and transport relevant materials and competences. Deeper linkages with interacting practices from other sectors, such as an integration of cycling materials (GPS-trackers) into policing practices, can also con-tribute to this goal. With regard to research, the present work offers starting points for quantifications, for example on the relative importance of single elements as well as on the characteristics of their relations among each other or with regard to typical constellations of elements.
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    Publication Date: 2023-05-15
    Description: The transformation of society into sustainable structures is one of the most important tasks for the future. That cities have a decisive role to play in this transformation process has been known at least since Rio 1992. They have enormous pressure to act for change: They are at the same time problem and solution for sustainable development. Currently there is another significant development for cities - the need and external pressure to be "smart", often understood merely as applying the latest digital technologies to become more efficient. The Smart City and the Sustainable City can work hand in hand or hinder each other, depending on their interpretation. In this study we focus on five Smart Cities in Western Germany to get a closer look at how they shape their processes and whether the underlying motivation is to become a technologically Smart City, focus on sustainable development, or both. With the help of the innovation biography research method, we show how cities shape the dynamic process towards forming a Smart City, the role sustainable urban development plays in the process, who the actors involved are, and the important role improved knowledge management then plays for the diffusion of the Smart Sustainable City within the region. It becomes clear how important communication and narratives are both in the process within each City towards forming a Smart Sustainable City and for the first step of diffusion, the adaptation of other cities within the region. This study is intended to serve both as a basis for cross-regional consideration and dialogue for the transfer of successful processes.
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    Publication Date: 2023-05-15
    Description: Food and nutrition systems are linked to all Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which makes their transition toward social-ecological behavior patterns crucial for an overarching sustainability transformation. The perspective of (urban) logistics is of special interest. It couples the production and consumption physically and virtually. In this context, we shed light on the design of the turnover point of food in urban areas from the supply chain toward consumers and contribute to an overarching systemic perspective toward establishing a sustainable multilevel food system. We describe current patterns in urban food systems and propose several principles for sustainable design of (urban) food systems based on concepts such as (regional) collaboration and food literacy. Using these principles, we provide four design scenarios that concretely imagine future urban food consumption and production patterns titled "slow stock supply service," "deliver into the daily walk," "central district food depot," "super food action place." With this work we provide a starting for reflecting whether certain combinations of principles actually lead to patterns of daily life that are feasible, acceptable, or desirable. Moreover, we provide an initial qualitative assessment to stimulate further research that explores scenario pathways and incorporates additional indicators regarding the impact on social-ecological. We open up various research questions with regard to the overarching question of how urban food logistics should be designed to be consistent with the SDGs.
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    Publication Date: 2023-05-15
    Description: To limit global warming, the use of carbon capture and storage technologies (CCS) is considered to be of major importance. In addition to the technical-economic, ecological and political aspects, the question of social acceptance is a decisive factor for the implementation of such low-carbon technologies. This study is the first literature review addressing the acceptance of industrial CCS (iCCS). In contrast to electricity generation, the technical options for large-scale reduction of CO2 emissions in the energy-intensive industry sector are not sufficient to achieve the targeted GHG neutrality in the industrial sector without the use of CCS. Therefore, it will be crucial to determine which factors influence the acceptance of iCCS and how these findings can be used for policy and industry decision-making processes. The results show that there has been limited research on the acceptance of iCCS. In addition, the study highlights some important differences between the acceptance of iCCS and CCS. Due to the technical diversity of future iCCS applications, future acceptance research must be able to better address the complexity of the research subject.
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    Publication Date: 2023-05-15
    Description: Transponder-based Aircraft Detection Lighting Systems (ADLS) are increasingly used in wind turbines to limit beacon operation times, reduce light emissions, and increase wind energy acceptance. The systems use digital technologies such as receivers of digital transponder signals, LTE/5G, and other information and communication technology. The use of ADLS will be mandatory in Germany both for new and existing wind turbines with a height of 〉100 m from 2023 (onshore) and 2024 (offshore), so a nationwide rollout is expected to start during 2022. To fully realize the benefits while avoiding risks and bottlenecks, a thorough and holistic understanding of the efforts required and the impacts caused along the life cycle of an ADLS is essential. Therefore, this study presents the first multi-aspect holistic evaluation of an ADLS. A framework for evaluating digital applications in the energy sector, previously developed by the authors, is refined and applied. The framework is based on multi-criteria analysis (MCA), life cycle assessment (LCA), and expert interviews. On an aggregated level, the MCA results show an overall positive impact from all stakeholders’ perspectives. Most positive impacts are found in the society and politics category, while most negative impacts are of technical nature. The LCA of the ADLS reveals a slightly negative impact, but this impact is negligible when compared to the total life cycle impact of the wind turbines of which the ADLS is a part. Besides the aggregated evaluation, detailed information on potential implementation risks, bottlenecks, and levers for life cycle improvement are presented. In particular, the worldwide scarcity of the required semiconductors, in combination with the general lack of technicians in Germany, lead to the authors’ recommendation for a limited prolongation of the planned rollout period. This period should be used by decision-makers to ensure the availability of technical components and installation capacities. A pooling of ADLS installations in larger regions could improve plannability for manufacturers and installers. Furthermore, an ADLS implementation in other countries could be supported by an early holistic evaluation using the presented framework.
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    Publication Date: 2023-05-15
    Description: The study investigates if causal claims based on a theory-of-change approach for impact reporting are credible. The authors use their most recent impact report for a Social Bond to show how theory-based logic models can be used to map the sustainability claims of issuers to quantifiable indicators. A single project family (homeownership loans) is then used as a case study to test the underlying hypotheses of the sustainability claims. By applying Bayes Theorem, evidence for and against the claims is weighted to calculate the degree to which the belief in the claims is warranted. The authors found that only one out of three claims describe a probable cause–effect chain for social benefits from the loans. The other two claims either require more primary data to be corroborated or should be re-defined to link the intervention more closely and robustly with the overarching societal goals. However, all previous reported indicators are below the thresholds of the most conservative estimates for fractions of beneficiaries in the paper at hand. We conclude that the combination of a Theory-of-Change with a Bayesian Analysis is an effective way to test the plausibility of sustainability claims and to mitigate biases. Nevertheless, the method is - in the presented form - also too elaborate and time-consuming for impact reporting in the sustainable finance market.
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    Publication Date: 2023-05-15
    Description: The food system plays a crucial role in mitigating climate change. Even if fossil fuel emissions are halted immediately, current trends in global food systems may prevent the achieving of the Paris Agreement's climate targets. The high degree of variability and uncertainty involved in calculating diet-related greenhouse gas emissions limits the ability to evaluate reduction potentials to remain below a global warming of 1.5 or 2 degrees. This study assessed Western European dietary patterns while accounting for uncertainty and variability. An extensive literature review provided value ranges for climate impacts of animal-based foods to conduct an uncertainty analysis via Monte Carlo simulation. The resulting carbon footprints were assessed against food system-specific greenhouse gas emission thresholds. The range and absolute value of a diet carbon footprint become larger the higher the amount of products with highly varying emission values in the diet. All dietary pattern carbon footprints overshoot the 1.5 degrees threshold. The vegan, vegetarian, and diet with low animal-based food intake were predominantly below the 2 degrees threshold. Omnivorous diets with more animal-based product content trespassed them. Reducing animal-based foods is a powerful strategy to decrease emissions. However, further mitigation strategies are required to achieve climate goals.
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    Publication Date: 2023-07-27
    Description: The transport sector accounts for 20 per cent of the greenhouse gas emissions in Germany and it is therefore key to success for German climate policy. At present, however, there is no other sector with a wider gap in missing the trajectory to climate neutrality. The present study, conducted on behalf of Huawei within the project "Shaping the Digital Transformation - Digital Solution Systems for the Sustainability Transition", points out new pathways towards a sustainable and climate friendly transition of the transport sector. The report specifies concrete options to follow up on the ambitious goals of the new coalition agreement to foster clean and digital mobility solutions. The authors refined eight theses on how digitalisation can foster sustainable mobility solutions and how to shape a supporting policy framework, which is aligning the financial and regulatory guardrails for ramping up a sustainable mobility system while gradually phasing down the usage of private cars.
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    Publication Date: 2023-07-27
    Description: Der Verkehrssektor verursacht rund 20 Prozent der Treibhausgas-Emissionen in Deutschland und ist damit unverzichtbar, um die nationalen Klimaschutzziele zu erreichen. Doch in keinem anderen Sektor liegen Wunsch und Wirklichkeit auf dem Weg zur Klimaneutralität noch so weit auseinander wie im Verkehrssektor. Die vorliegende Studie zeigt daher neue Wege für den Einstieg in eine klimaschonende und nachhaltige Verkehrswende in Deutschland. Sie liefert Handlungsoptionen für die Umsetzung der Ziele des Koalitionsvertrags zum Ausbau ambitionierter, digitaler Mobilitätslösungen. Die Forschenden formulieren acht Thesen, wie sich das Potenzial der Digitalisierung für eine nachhaltige Mobilität nutzen lässt und welche politische Flankierung und Unterstützung dafür erforderlich sind. Entscheidend sei demnach die finanziellen und regulatorischen Leitplanken so auszugestalten, dass sie einerseits den schnellen Ausbau des digitalisierten Umweltverbunds vorantreiben und andererseits zu einer schrittweisen Eingrenzung des Pkw-Verkehrs führen.
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    Publication Date: 2023-05-09
    Description: Ziel des Projektes war es, eine ressourceneffiziente Kreislauschließung in der Kunststoffwirtschaft durch verschiedene digitale Software und Sensorlösungen zu ermöglichen. Das Projekt war in folgende Arbeitspakete gegliedert: Arbeitspaket 1: Bestimmung der Ist-Situation. Arbeitspaket 2.1: Entwicklung innovativer Prozessmesstechnik. Arbeitspaket 2.2: F&E zu einer digitalen Applikation. Arbeitspaket 2.3: Konzeption eines Wertschöpfungsnetzwerkes. Arbeitspaket 3.1: Erprobung und Optimierung. Arbeitspaket 3.1: Nachhaltigkeitsbewertung. Arbeitspaket 4: Aktivierung und Dissemination der Ergebnisse. Arbeitspaket 5: Kommunikation. Arbeitspaket 6: Projektmanagement. Die Projekt-Ergebnisse werden im vorliegenden Abschlussbericht, gegliedert in diese Arbeitspakete, vorgestellt.
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    Publication Date: 2023-05-26
    Description: Community-based approaches to natural resource management are being discussed and experienced as promising ways for pursuing ecological conservation and socio-economic development simultaneously. However, the multiplicity of levels, scales, objectives and actors that are involved in sustainability transformations tends to be challenging for such bottom-up approaches. Collaborative and polycentric governance schemes are proposed for dealing with those challenges. What has not been fully explored is how knowledge from local contexts of community-based initiatives can be diffused to influence practices on higher levels and/or in other local contexts. This study explores how theoretical advances in the diffusion of grassroots innovation can contribute to understanding and supporting the diffusion of knowledge and practices from community-based initiatives and proposes a transdisciplinary approach to diffusion. For that aim, we develop an analytical perspective on the diffusion of grassroots innovations that takes into consideration the multiplicity of actors, levels and scales, the different qualities/types of knowledge and practices, as well as their respective contributions. We focus on the multiplicity and situatedness of cognitive frames and conceptualize the diffusion of grassroots innovations as a transdisciplinary process. In this way three different diffusion pathways are derived in which the knowledge and practices of grassroots initiatives can be processed in order to promote their (re)interpretation and (re)application in situations and by actors that do not share the cognitive frame and the local context of the originating grassroots initiative. The application of the developed approach is illustrated through transdisciplinary research for the diffusion of sustainable family farming innovations in Colombia. This conceptualization accounts for the emergence of multiplicity as an outcome of diffusion by emphasizing difference as a core resource in building sustainable futures.
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    Publication Date: 2023-05-26
    Description: Public catering has become increasingly important in recent years. With increasing annual customers, the sector's impact on the environment is also growing continuously. At the same time, public catering offers a lever to promote sustainable nutrition that has rarely been used so far. Small changes in kitchen practices and food offers can thus be multiplied into a significant positive impact on environmental challenges, such as climate change or loss of biodiversity due to the large number of servings. In contrast to private households, management decisions in public catering can influence the food-related environmental impact of thousands of customers. This article deals with the nationwide level of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and resource use in the German public catering segment "business" and its saving potentials by different scenarios of unsupported and supported recipe revision. In this paper, we define "unsupported" as the intuitive optimization of recipes by employees of public catering businesses. In contrast, "supported" approaches had to meet specific target goals, for example of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Ernährung; engl. German Nutrition Society or the sustainable level. Specifically, we will test how (A) an unsupported recipe revision, (B) a recipe revision based on dietary recommendations and (C) a recipe revision using scientific guidance affect the environmental impact of a dish. As a methodological framework, an online survey of public catering companies was conducted as well as a scenario analysis at menu level and at nationwide level. The results are based on empirical data on the one hand, and on extrapolations on the other. The results show that the nationwide implementation of recipe revision according to scientific guidance-such as concrete target goals for the GHG emissions per serving-can save up to 44% of resource use in the German business catering sector (which corresponds to 3.4 million tons of resources per year) and as much as 40% of GHG emissions (0.6 million tons GHG emissions per year). Even in the scenario of unsupported recipe revision, GHG and resource savings of up to 20% can be realized. The results show that public catering can reduce its material and carbon footprint by 20% overnight. Moreover, the findings show indications for the sustainable transformation of public catering. Nevertheless, it must be noted that these are some first steps of the transformation, which will require further changes with even greater impacts and political activities.
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    Publication Date: 2023-05-26
    Description: Sufficiency measures are potentially decisive for the decarbonisation of energy systems but rarely considered in energy policy and modelling. Just as efficiency and renewable energies, the diffusion of demand-side solutions to climate change also relies on policy-making. Our extensive literature review of European and national sufficiency policies fills a gap in existing databases. We present almost 300 policy instruments clustered into relevant categories and publish them as "Energy Sufficiency Policy Database". This paper provides a description of the data clustering, the set-up of the database and an analysis of the policy instruments. A key insight is that sufficiency policy includes much more than bans of products or information tools leaving the responsibility to individuals. It is a comprehensive instrument mix of all policy types, not only enabling sufficiency action, but also reducing currently existing barriers. A policy database can serve as a good starting point for policy recommendations and modelling, further research is needed on barriers and demand-reduction potentials of sufficiency policy instruments.
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    Publication Date: 2023-05-26
    Description: Nigeria is Africa's top cement producer and could be on course to be one of the top producers globally. The goal of this study is to identify and critically examine the pathways available to Nigeria to meet its decarbonisation goals in the cement sector. Based on a literature review, the study assesses demand drivers and decarbonisation potentials for the sector. It then presents two different quantitative pathways for growth in production of cement by 2050, and three different pathways for decarbonisation of the sector. Using published data and a scenario analysis tool, the study calculates how the sector's emissions might evolve under each of these pathways. The results indicate that, in the most ambitious scenario, emissions from the sector can plateau by the late 2030s, resulting in an overall increase of 21% by 2050 (compared to 2015 levels). Achieving this scenario is necessary in order to put the sector on a path to net zero emissions beyond 2050. The scenario is driven by reductions in both energy-related and process emissions, as well as a small share of carbon capture and storage and demand management. A moderately ambitious scenario that relies mostly on savings on energy-related emissions results in an 84% increase in emissions by 2050. Finally, the Business-as-Usual scenario results in an almost tripling of emissions by 2050. The results indicate a strong potential for policies to drive improvements in energy efficiency and clinker-to-cement ratio. Critical areas of uncertainty within the assumptions include the production rates (including the evolution of the export market) and the fuel mix.
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    Publication Date: 2023-02-06
    Description: The Glasgow climate conference marked a symbolic juncture, lying half-way between the adoption of the UNFCCC in 1992 and the year 2050 in which according to the IPCC special report on the 1.5°C limit net zero CO2 emissions need to be reached, globally, in order to maintain a good chance of achieving the 1.5°C limit. This article undertakes an assessment of what the UNFCCC and in particular the Paris Agreement and its implementation process have actually achieved so far up to and including the results of the Glasgow conference. The article discusses efforts at ambition raising both within and outside the formal diplomatic process, the finalization of the implementation rules of the Paris Agreement, as well as progress on gender responsiveness, climate finance, adaptation and loss and damage. In summary, the Paris Agreement and its implementation can be considered a success as it is having a discernible impact on the behavior of parties as well as on non-party actors. However, significant further efforts will be required to actually achieve the objectives of the Agreement.
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    Publication Date: 2023-02-08
    Description: A growing number of transformative research practices that redefine the role of science in engaging with local - mostly urban - transformation processes have emerged in recent decades. However, while education is considered a key driver for sustainability transformations, higher education has been slow to develop and implement dedicated, appropriate and effective transformative education programmes and learning modules. In this paper, we present a framework of design principles for transformative learning modules in higher education. These principles are derived from two growing discourses: higher education sustainability learning, and transdisciplinary and transformative research - both of which are centrally anchored in the field of sustainable development and sustainability science. The principles presented provide guidance for course leaders in higher education to create learning modules aimed at enabling students to become engaged in transdisciplinary and transformative research that fosters sustainability transitions in local and urban contexts. We use the Transformative Innovation Lab (TIL) - a learning course developed and tested at two German universities - as an example of how the design principles can be applied. The module, which runs over two semesters, supports Masters students in their process of developing real-world laboratories and exploring urban sustainability transitions through collaborative experimentation with local practice partners. We discuss the factors that enable and limit the implementation of transformative learning modules and outline aspects of the novel roles adopted by lecturers in transformative teaching environments. Moreover, we highlight the need for both institutional change and transformative teaching formats that go beyond transformative research as key for driving universities to take responsibility for collaboratively fostering sustainability transitions in their local contexts.
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    Publication Date: 2023-02-08
    Description: The circle is a ubiquitous metaphor in the current scientific and political debate on possible strategies for coping with the changes brought by the so-called "Anthropocene". Terms such as "recycling", "upcycling", "downcycling", "life cycle" or "circular economy" all refer to the same geometric shape, which in turn can be found in numerous diagrams illustrating the respective design approaches and political strategies. But how does the circle shape the way we think and act as designers? Is it an appropriate metaphor to guide us to feasible actions, or is its degree of simplification too far removed from reality? In this article we look at the circular economy as a designed model, and question the circle as a communication tool for the cultural project of sustainability. As the circle may carry the risk of an oversimplified, unattainable, even disillusioning ideal, we discuss various alternative images and forms for their potential to become metaphors of alternative models. The hole, the plate, the pasture, the wheel, the mill wheel, the hamster wheel, the vortex, the double helix, the spider web and the rhizome - as metaphors, they each open up different perspectives and approaches to reality, they each construct different relationships and dependencies between nature and culture. The aim of this article is less about postulating the end of the circle as a metaphor in the sustainability debate, as it is about to fathom the circle's ends as a metaphorical tool. In other words, when does the metaphor of the circle become too abstract? As designers we can say that falling in love with a form right at the beginning of a design process can be rather limiting, as hardly any alternatives will be considered, and all further decisions are subordinated to achieving the desired shape. Therefore, we would like to emphasise the contingency of the circular economy as a model. We would like to welcome the thought that the circle has an "end".
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    Publication Date: 2023-02-08
    Description: Although smart energy technologies (SETs) can fulfill multiple tasks in increasingly decarbonized and digitalized energy systems, market diffusion is still limited. This study investigates which beliefs influence consumers' intention to adopt two smart-energy offerings, whether the rapid growth of the smart home market will now drive SET adoption, and if consumer-driven diffusion will lead to sustainability potentials being realized. Building on UTAUT2, a new theoretical model is proposed, and a consumer acceptance survey was conducted in Germany (n = 700). Results indicate that a growing smart home market will not increase SET adoption and that "adjustable green defaults" should be introduced.
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    Publication Date: 2023-02-28
    Description: In Argentina, renewable energies are promoted as a way of decarbonising the electricity mix and providing reliable energy services. The national goal is to generate 20% of electricity from renewable sources by 2025. However, despite significant natural potential, solar photovoltaic still represents only a small share of Argentina's total electricity generation. Although this picture may look bleak, a wide range of market segments relating to decentralised photovoltaic generation in Argentina have developed. The general objective of this study is to examine the dynamics that currently enable or constrain the diffusion of distributed photovoltaic systems in Argentina. By applying the Technical Innovation System (TIS) approach, the aim is to understand which functions of the system are strong/weak and how these are influenced by endogenous/exogenous system strengths and weaknesses. To that end, a mixed method research strategy is applied. The exploratory sequential research design allows first to explore system strengths and weaknesses based on qualitative approaches, and then to further analyse the contextual embeddedness and the level of importance of the identified variables using quantitative survey instruments. Thereby, this study provides an important analytical method that contributes to a more nuanced understanding of the interdependencies of the TIS. The empirical results indicate that system weaknesses are shaped to a large extent by the overall contextual dynamics - such as political instability, energy subsidies and high inflation rates. System strengths relate to both the TIS itself (particularly knowledge development through pilot projects and market formation through provincial and national support programmes), to contextual relationships (linked to the availability of educational institutions that enable the rapid diffusion of knowledge) and to the importance of rural areas as protected spaces for the application of photovoltaic systems. Consequently, the study highlights the challenges to overcome for the broader diffusion of distributed photovoltaic generation.
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-22
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-22
    Description: Vor dem Hintergrund der zunehmenden Auswirkungen der Klimakrise und der durch den Angriffskriegs Russlands gegen die Ukraine entstandenen Energie- und Rohstoffversorgungsprobleme ist die Bundesregierung zu einem schnellen und zielführenden Handeln gezwungen. Neben der Herstellung von Versorgungssicherheit müssen die durch stark steigende Energie- und Lebensmittelpreise entstehenden sozialen Härten abgefedert werden. Um diese Aufgabe bestmöglich zu bewältigen, bedarf es eines politischen Instruments, das notwendige Veränderungen der Lebens- und Wirtschaftsweise ermöglicht und soziale Belastungen in den Krisen auffängt. Mit Blick auf diese Problemstellung werden in diesem Wuppertal Report bereits vorhandene politische Instrumente, deren Mittel nicht zweckgebunden verwendet werden müssen, einer SWOT-Analyse unterzogen und erste Ideen für ein sogenanntes Transformationsgeld vorgestellt, das die Mehrdimensionalität der derzeitigen Problemlage berücksichtigt. Das Transformationsgeld ist als zweckungebundene staatliche Transferleistung konzipiert, um die Freiheit der Konsument*innen nicht einzuschränken und Preiseffekte nicht zu nivellieren. Die Höhe der Transferleistung hängt von der ökonomischen Situation des Haushalts ab und soll nicht nur eine Kompensation der Mehrkosten darstellen, sondern gesellschaftliche Teilhabe ermöglichen. Abseits des Transformationsgelds liefert die Kurzstudie auch eine Einschätzung der Autor*innen, was aus ihrer Sicht kurzfristig gegen die bestehenden Probleme getan werden sollte.
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    Publication Date: 2024-01-18
    Description: The project "Plastic Credits - Financing the Transition to the Global Circular Economy" supports the implementation of a waste management structure in India's rural regions. By that it aims to improve the current waste collection and treatment structures in the pilot regions Goa, Maharashtra, and Kerala. Herein, the project focuses on low value plastics (LVP), and especially multi-layer plastics (MLP), that have no market value. In order to analyze the environmental impacts of the project, an Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) was conducted. The considered environmental components comprise: greenhouse gas emissions, usage of primary resources, impacts on marine and terrestrial wildlife, standard of living, and economic costs.
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    Publication Date: 2023-12-20
    Description: In warm and hot climates, ceiling fans and/or air conditioners (ACs) are used to maintain thermal comfort. Ceiling fans provide air movement near the skin, which enhances the evaporation of sweat, reduces heat stress, and enhances thermal comfort. This is also called the cooling effect. However, AC usage behaviour and the effects of elevated air speed through the use of ceiling fans on indoor operative temperature during AC usage are not widely studied. This study investigated the optimum AC (cooling) set point temperature and air velocity necessary for maintaining thermal comfort while achieving energy conservation, in mixed-mode buildings in India, through field studies by using used custom-built Internet of Things (IOT) devices. In the current study, the results indicate a 79% probability that comfort conditions can be maintained by achieving a temperature drop of 3K. If this drop can be achieved, as much as possible, through passive measures, the duration of AC operation and its energy consumption are reduced, at least by 67.5 and 58.4%, respectively. During the air-conditioned period, there is a possibility that the cooing effect is reduced because of increase in operative temperature due to ceiling fan operation. Therefore, the optimum solution is to maintain the highest AC set point and minimum fan speed setting that are acceptable.
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    Publication Date: 2024-04-16
    Description: Das Zusammenspiel von aufstrebenden Technologiefeldern eröffnet neue Potenziale für die Nachhaltigkeitstransformation. Gleichzeitig erzeugt es komplexe Umweltbelastungen, die bisher kaum sichtbar und noch weniger gestaltbar sind. Für eine nachhaltige Digitalisierung brauchen wir jetzt ein Verständnis für die ökologischen Wechselwirkungen des zukünftigen Digitalsystems. Am Beispiel der Machine Economy und der ihr zugrunde liegenden Technologien Internet of Things, Künstliche Intelligenz und Distributed Ledger Technologie bzw. Blockchain machen wir in diesem Forschungsbericht Umweltwirkungen transparent und Ansatzpunkte greifbar - damit Digitalisierung ganzheitlich ökologisch gestaltbar wird.
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    Cham :Springer International Publishing :
    Keywords: Biochemistry. ; Renewable energy sources. ; Environmental engineering. ; Biotechnology. ; Bioremediation. ; Sustainability. ; Biochemistry. ; Renewable Energy. ; Environmental Engineering/Biotechnology. ; Sustainability.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Fractionation strategies -- Chapter 3. Biochemical conversion of cellulose -- Chapter 4. Biochemical conversion of hemicellulose -- Chapter 5. Biochemical conversion of lignin -- Chapter 6. Thermochemical conversion of cellulose and hemicellulose -- Chapter 7. Thermochemical conversion of lignin -- Chapter 8. Material application of lignin -- Chapter 9. TEA for evaluating biorefinery strategies.
    Abstract: This book focuses on the technologies developed for the conversion of all three biomass components, i.e. cellulose, hemicellulose and lignin, and their constituents, to fuels and high-value products. Both biochemical and thermochemical approaches are reviewed. Additionally, the developed technologies are described in detail and their potential applications as well as their commercial status are discussed. The early attempts to produce fuel ethanol from lignocellulosic biomass feedstock focused solely on the biological conversion of cellulose because the only organism that had been used successfully for commercial production of ethanol, i.e. Saccharomyces cerevisiae, could only ferment glucose, which was obtained from the hydrolysis of cellulose. Hemicellulose and lignin were considered as wastes in these processes and were normally removed in pretreatment processes to enhance enzymatic hydrolysis of the remaining cellulose. However, this approach was not economically feasible and as a result, the biorefinery concept was developed. In a biorefinery, in addition to ethanol, various higher-value products are produced from hemicellulose and lignin, which were previously not considered. Consequently, technologies were developed for the fractionation of biomass and conversion of hemicellulose and lignin to fuels and high-value products to improve the economic feasibility. Written and edited by a team of investigators with many years of experience in biomass processing research and development, this book is an informative resource for postgraduate students and researchers interested in biorefinery and biofuel technologies both in academia- and commercial laboratories.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: IX, 245 p. 43 illus., 19 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783031058356
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    Keywords: Botany. ; Botanical chemistry. ; Plant physiology. ; Agriculture. ; Plant Science. ; Plant Biochemistry. ; Plant Physiology. ; Agriculture.
    Description / Table of Contents: How the three organ-produced signals: auxin, cytokinin and gibberellin, induce and regulate wood formation and adaptation -- Role of plant growth regulators in the plant-environment interaction and epigenetic regulation of auxin -- The role of auxin and cytokinin signaling components in de novo shoot organogenesis -- Mechanism of crosstalk between cytokinin and gibberellin -- In vitro responses of some Mediterranean fruit crops to auxin, cytokinin and gibberellin treatments -- Integrative approach of the root architecture by interaction between auxin and nutrients -- Insights into Biosynthesis and Signaling of Cytokinins during Plant Growth, Development and Stress Tolerance -- Cytokinin signaling in plants under salt stress -- Auxin and Cytokinin Signaling in Plant Stress Response -- Gibberellins' cross talk and signal transduction in plant stress response -- Crosstalk between Salicylic acid and Auxins, Cytokinins and Gibberellins under biotic stress -- Understanding the crosstalk between chromatin remodeling mechanism and phytohormones signaling for maintenance of plant developmental plasticity: an insight -- Phytohormone-mediated regulation of sprouting in tuber and storage root crops -- Role of phytohormones in plant-microbial interaction -- Iron toxicity tolerance in rice: roles of auxins and gibberellins -- New auxin and cytokinin related compounds based on synthetic low molecular weight heterocycles.
    Abstract: Plant hormones have pivotal roles in the regulation of plant growth, development, and reproduction. Their signaling pathways are interconnected in a complex network, which provides plants with an enormous regulatory potential to rapidly adapt to their environment and to utilize their limited resources for growth and survival in a cost-efficient manner. Auxin is a hormone molecule whose activity levels are most important for its regulatory roles during plant cell, organ, and tissue development. Therefore, the precise regulation of auxin levels is an essential mechanism to fine-tune the activity of this powerful hormone during plant growth and development. Likewise, cytokinins exhibit a wide range of physiological functions, including regulation of shoot and root apical meristems, stimulation of branching, vascular development, chloroplast differentiation, stabilization of the structure and function of the photosynthetic machinery, delay of senescence, stomata opening, and elevation of the sink strength and nutritional signaling. Moreover, gibberellins also regulate many aspects of plant growth and development including seed germination, stem elongation, leaf expansion, and flower and fruit development. The broad implication of gibberellins in plant development is strictly associated with tight regulation of their metabolism by multiple environmental and endogenous factors, ranging from light and temperature to other hormones including feedback control. Understanding the significant roles of these phytohormones in plant biology, the current subject has attracted the attention of scientists from across the globe. This comprehensive volume “Auxins, Cytokinins and Gibberellins Signaling in Plants” highlights the various prospects involved in the current scenario. The book comprises the chapters from diverse areas dealing with biotechnology, molecular biology, proteomics, genomics, metabolomics, etc.
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    Pages: IX, 377 p. 63 illus., 39 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783031054273
    Series Statement: Signaling and Communication in Plants,
    DDC: 580
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    Keywords: Plant anatomy. ; Plant physiology. ; Landscape architecture. ; Plant diseases. ; Agriculture. ; Plant Anatomy and Morphology. ; Plant Physiology. ; Landscape Architecture. ; Plant Pathology. ; Agriculture.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Nomenclature -- 2. Lycopods And Monilophytes -- 3. Gymnosperms -- 4. Angiosperms: Flowering Plants -- Index.
    Abstract: Horticulture has remained far behind in understanding of botanical principles. Recent phylogenetic (DNA-based) reorganization of higher plants has revolutionized taxonomic treatments of all biological entities, even when morphology does not completely agree with their organization. This book is an example of applying principals of botanical phylogenetic taxonomy to assemble genera, species, and cultivars of 200 vascular plant families of ferns, gymnosperms, and angiosperms that are cultivated for enhancement of human living space; homes, gardens, and parks. The emphases are on cultivated species but examples of some plants are often shown in the wild and in landscapes. In providing descriptions, it is assumed that students and other interested individuals have no background in general botany (plant characteristics), or nomenclature. Fundamental features of all plant groups discussed are fully illustrated by original watercolor drawings or photographs. Discussion of the families is grounded on recent botanical phylogenetic treatments, which is based on common ancestry (monophyly). Of course, phylogenetic taxonomy is not a new concept, and was originally based on morphological characteristics; it is the DNA-based phylogeny that has revolutionized modern biological classifications. In practical terms, this book represents the horticultural treatment that corresponds to phylogenetic-based botanical taxonomy, to which is added cultigens and cultivated genera and species. Hence, the harmony between horticultural and botanical taxonomy. This book covers phylogenetic-based taxonomy of Ferns, Gymnosperms, and Angiosperms (Monocots). A companion volume covers Angiosperms (Eudicots).
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    Pages: XXV, 700 p. 551 illus., 549 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783031115615
    DDC: 571.32
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    Keywords: Medicine Research. ; Biology Research. ; Medical policy. ; Quality of life. ; Biomedical Research. ; Health Policy. ; Quality of Life Research.
    Description / Table of Contents: Foreword: Challenges & Opportunities for LGBT Populations and Cancer in Global Oncology -- Introduction -- Africa -- A Double Dose Of Stigma – Being Gay And Living With Cancer In Kenya -- Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity and Cancer in South Africa -- Americas -- Making the Situation of TLGBI People around Cancer visible: Observations from the Andean Region -- Cancer Care Challenges for the LGBT Population in Brazil -- Cancer and the SGM Population in Canada and the United States of America -- South-East Asia -- The South-East Asia Region: Societal Conditions for LGBT Health and Cancer Research -- Europe -- Foreword: The Eurocentralasian Lesbian* Community Perspective on Cancer and LBQ women: Advocating for more Research and Activism Collaboration -- LGBT+ and Cancer in the WHO European Region: Current Situation in 12 Eastern European and Central Asian Countries -- Sexual and Gender Minorities and Cancer in Germany: The Striking Absence of Understanding their Cancer-related Needs -- LGBT Populations and Cancer in the UK -- Eastern Mediterranean -- LGBT Populations and Cancer in the Eastern Mediterranean Region: Insights and Challenges with a Focus on Lebanon -- Western Pacific -- LGBT Populations and Cancer in Australia and New Zealand -- Challenges in Cancer Control Confronting the LGBT Population in China: Health Risks, Unique Barriers, and Unmet Needs -- What Have We Learned about Cancer and the Global LGBT Community? -- Index.
    Abstract: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) also known as sexual and gender minority (SGM) populations have been the focus of global attention. Most importantly, LGBT populations have been addressed in the context of human rights in multiple reports and other activities by the United Nations and other international organizations. There is great variation among countries in the recognition of LGBT individuals’ human rights. A global focus on LGBT populations’ health is still limited, with the notable exception of HIV research. This book on LGBT populations and cancer in the global context is, therefore, an important step in that it will broaden the focus on LGBT populations’ health. Globally, cancer is the second leading cause of death. Cancer morbidity and mortality are increasing disproportionately among populations in lower-income countries. A review conducted by the World Health Organization (WHO) found that of the 82% of member states (158) countries, only 35% of the national cancer control plans addresses vulnerable population, including LGBT populations. These findings reflect an increasing awareness about equity when addressing cancer prevention and control, including LGBT populations. This book addresses LGBT populations’ cancer burden across countries that range from high- to low-income countries to support efforts in diverse countries that are working towards reducing LGBT populations’ cancer burden. It documents place-specific challenges that impede progress towards reducing the LGBT cancer burden as well as critically assesses the variation in cancer control efforts that target LGBT populations and cancer to support progress at a global scale. This book includes six sections that cover the six WHO regions, with each chapter written by an author from the specific region s/he is covering. Each chapter makes use of a template that contextualizes the region, local data collection/availability, risk factors, cancer prevention, detection, diagnosis, treatment, and survivorship.
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    Pages: X, 335 p. 3 illus., 2 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783031065859
    DDC: 610.72
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    Keywords: Neurology . ; Internal medicine. ; Psychiatry. ; Neurology. ; Internal Medicine. ; Psychiatry.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Evolving approaches to identifying genetic risk variants for sleep disorders -- Chapter 2. Neurobiology of sleep-wake control -- Chapter 3. Prostaglandins, adenosine and histaminergic system in the regulation of sleep and wakefulness -- Chapter 4.Sleep and Neuronal Plasticity -- Chapter 5. Epidemiology of Insufficient Sleep -- Chapter 6.Social Factors in Insufficient Sleep -- Chapter 7. Sleep Loss and the Unfolded Protein Response -- Chapter 8. Biological and genetic mechanisms of sleepiness in Obstructive Sleep Apnea and Cardiovascular Disease -- Chapter 9.Diaphragm EMG recording and its application in sleep medicine -- Chapter 10. Chronic Intermittent Hypoxia in Patients with OSA -- Chapter 11.Neural injury in models of intermittent hypoxia -- Chapter 12. Narcolepsy and Orexin/hypocretin -- Chapter 13.Circadian Rhythm Sleep-Wake Disorders: Mechanisms and Treatment.
    Abstract: The aim of this book is to provide health care professionals with an overview of the main aspects of recent advances in sleep medicine, with an emphasis on advancing basic science into clinical medicine. It is divided into three main parts. The first part is to cover the basic sleep mechanisms which includes genetics in sleep, and neural and humoral regulation of sleep and wakefulness. The second part focuses on the epidemiology of sleep, and the final part consists of the pathophysiological mechanisms of snoring and sleep apnea and other common sleep disorders as well as the consequences. The content of this book is written by experts and sleep specialists from all over the world and this book aims to optimize the health of individuals by “translating” bench side findings into clinical practice.
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    Pages: VI, 282 p. 43 illus. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9789402421682
    Series Statement: Translational Medicine Research,
    DDC: 616.8
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    Keywords: Agriculture. ; Nutrition   . ; Animal biotechnology. ; Agriculture. ; Nutrition. ; Animal Biotechnology.
    Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- 1. Impact of sex steroids on the stress response and welfare in female farm ruminants (Aline Freitas-de-Melo and Rodolfo Ungerfeld) -- 2. Insights from proteomics in kidney disease diagnosis and various in vitro and in vivo experimental models (Vikram Patial, Garima Dadhich, and Rajiv Kumar) -- 3. Generation of gene edited pigs (S. Navarro-Serna, C. Piñeiro-Silva, R Romar, J. Parrington, and J Gadea) -- 4. Dietary anti-nutritional factors and their roles in livestock nutrition (Salma H. Abu Hafsa, Ayman A. Hassan, Mona M.MY. Elghandour, Alberto Barbabosa-Pliego, Miguel Mellado, and Abdelfattah Z.M. Salem) -- 5. Genetic engineering tools and techniques in livestock production (Ranjitha H.B., Madhu Ramesh, Subhasmita Behera, Dhanesh ValiyaValappil, Suresh H. Basagoudanavar, and Anjum Sherasiya) -- 6. Mineral Ions in Regulation of Hypothalamic-Pituitary-Ovarian Axis (Mustafa Hassan Jan, Harpreet Singh, and Shikha Kapil) -- 7. Molecular Insights of Compromised Female Reproduction in Ruminants under Metabolic and Nutritional Stress (S. Nandi, S. K Tripathi, PSP Gupta, and S. Mondal) -- Index.
    Abstract: This 2nd book provides fundamental concepts and recent applications of biotechnological methods, such as genetic selection, breeding methods and genetic engineering tools. Biotechnology has remarkably improved the productivity of livestock by increasing the reproduction efficiency and decreasing the generation time. The chapters detail the mechanisms of methods for animal reproduction and breeding methods. This book focus on the impact of minerals, steroids metabolic stress, nutritional stress and anti-nutritional factors on the livestock reproduction.
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    Pages: XV, 255 p. 32 illus., 25 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783031074967
    Series Statement: Sustainable Agriculture Reviews, 57
    DDC: 630
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    Keywords: Plant diseases. ; Agriculture. ; Agricultural genome mapping. ; Agricultural biotechnology. ; Genetics. ; Plant Pathology. ; Agriculture. ; Agricultural Genetics. ; Agricultural Biotechnology. ; Genetics and Genomics.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Newer Genetic Tools, Techniques, Vectors, Promoters and Molecular Markers for Genetic Engineering of Herbivorous Insects -- Chapter 2.Innovative Molecular Approaches for Pest Management -- Chapter 3. Modern Molecular Tools for Insect Diagnostics -- Chapter 4. Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and IOT in Pest Management -- Chapter 5. Genetic Tools for Integrated Management of Pests on Honey Bees in the Tropics -- Chapter 6. Genetics and Genomics of Bombyx mori L -- Chapter 7. Enhancing Genetic Efficiency of natural Enemies of Crop Pests -- Chapter 8. Application of Genetic Engineering Technologies to Manage Crop Pests and Diseases in Vietnam -- Chapter 9. Advances, Prospects and Limitations of Genetic Tools for Pest Management Strategies in Sri Lanka -- Chapter 10. Management of Pests Using Genetic Tools in Africa -- Chapter 11. Genetic Tools for the Management of Phytophagous Mites -- Chapter 12. Management of Potato Cyst Nematode (Globodera sp.) Using Biotechnological Approaches -- Chapter 13.Genetic and Molecular Approaches for Management of Potato Viral Diseases and their Vectors. Chapter 14. Genetic variation and Molecular ools for the Management of Brinjal Shoot and Fruit Borer Leucinodes orbonalis Guenée (Lepidoptera: Crambidae) -- Chapter 15. Management of Noctuid Pests using Genetic Tools -- Chapter 16. Genetics and Management of Pest Fruit Flies -- Chapter 17. Molecular Insights into Wing Polymorphism and Migration Patterns of Planthoppers -- Chapter 18. Genetic Engineering Technologies for Management of Crambid Pests -- Chapter 19.Intervention of Modern Genetic Tools for Managing Insect Pests of Fruit Crops -- Chapter 20.Advanced Molecular Diagnostic Tools for Longhorn Beetles -- Chapter 21.Molecular Characterization and Genetic Interventions in an Invasive Spiralling Whitefly Aleurodicus dispersus Russell -- Chapter 22.Recent Genetic Tools for the Management of Stored Product Pests -- Chapter 23.Genetic Tools for Insecticide Resistance Management -- Chapter 24.Genetic improvement of pigeon-pea(Cajanus cajan(L.) Millsp.) and Insect Resistance: strategies and achievements -- Chapter 25.Bruchid Resistance Studies in Blackgram Using Molecular Tools -- Chapter 26.Inducing Insect Resistance in Sesame by Innovative Genetic Manipulation using Mutagens -- Chapter 27.Advances in Insect Resistance Breeding Against Brown Planthopper and Gallmidge in Rice -- Chapter 28.Adoption of Molecular Tools for Combatting the Arthropod Pests.
    Abstract: This contributed volume aims at bringing together all the genetic engineering tools for managing various types of crop pests. The main focus of this book is to explore the application of these tools in pest management. Major pest groups covered in this book are insects, mites and nematodes. The first section covers all major genetic tools and molecular approaches. The second section deals with genetic tools for of beneficial containing three chapters involving honey bees, silkworms and natural enemies. Next section deals with genetic interactions against pests in diverse geographical regions with special focus on Africa, Vietnam and Sri Lanka. Sections four and five addresses diverse aspects as management of pests, genetic behavior, gene expression, plasticity, pathways and interactions and options for mitigation of pests. It serves as a useful resource for professionals in the fields of entomology, agronomy, horticulture, ecology, and environmental sciences, as well as to agricultural producers and plant biotechnologists. .
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    Pages: XXI, 669 p. 1 illus. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9789811902642
    DDC: 571.92
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    Keywords: Biology. ; Pharmaceutical chemistry. ; Biochemistry. ; Pharmacology. ; Cytology. ; Biological Sciences. ; Pharmaceutics. ; Biological Chemistry. ; Pharmacology. ; Cell Biology.
    Description / Table of Contents: Bioanalytical Support in Drug Discovery and Development,- Monoclonal Antibodies -- Antibody Drug Conjugates (ADCS) -- Bispecifics and Fusion Proteins -- Emerging Modalities-Part A- (Gene Therapy and Cell Therapy) -- Emerging Modalities Part B (Peptides, Oligonucleotide Based Therapy, Vaccines. .
    Abstract: The book provides a comprehensive review of the fundamental and practical aspects of bioanalytical support and the integral role it plays in the development of safe and efficacious biopharmaceutical drugs with speed and cost-effectiveness. The book focuses on a broad range of conventional and emerging biopharmaceutical modalities including monoclonal antibody-based therapeutics, gene therapy, cell therapy, peptides and oligonucleotides. The book starts with an introductory overview of bioanalysis showcasing the integral role it plays in understanding the drug disposition (pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics and immunogenicity) and the progression of bioanalytical strategy as the drug progresses through discovery and development stages of the program, taking into consideration the continually evolving regulatory landscape. The book further diversifies into individual biopharmaceutical modalities - monoclonal antibodies, antibody-drug conjugates, bispecifics, Fc-fusion proteins, gene therapies, cell therapies, peptides and oligonucleotides. The individual chapters focus on modality-specific bioanalytical assay strategies, critical reagents, assay formats, analytical platforms, associated bioanalytical challenges and mitigation strategies, industry best practices, and the latest understanding of regulatory guidance as applicable to the fast-growing biopharmaceutical landscape.
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    Pages: IX, 160 p. 25 illus., 19 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783030971939
    Series Statement: AAPS Advances in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Series, 57
    DDC: 570
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    Keywords: Evolution (Biology). ; Biology Philosophy. ; Linguistics. ; Cognitive science. ; Cognitive psychology. ; Evolutionary Biology. ; Philosophy of Biology. ; Linguistics. ; Cognitive Science. ; Cognitive Psychology.
    Description / Table of Contents: Narrative and persuasion -- Two models of communication -- Beyond the social brain -- The narrative brain -- Stories without language.
    Abstract: This book explores the evolutionary and cognitive foundations of human communication, focusing on narrative as its distinctive dimension. Within a framework of continuity with both the communication of our hominin predecessors and that of non-human animals, the book is about a twofold proposal. It includes the idea that (human and animal) communication has an intrinsically persuasive nature along with the hypothesis that humans developed narrative forms of communication in order to enhance their persuasive abilities. In this view, narrative persuasion becomes the feature that distinguishes human communication from animal communication. The study of the transition from animal communication to language addresses both the selective pressures that led communication for persuasive purposes to take a narrative form and the cognitive architectures and expressive systems that enabled our ancestors to cope with the selective pressures of persuasive/narrative-based communication. Language evolution is interdisciplinary, even from the specific perspective of evolutionary pragmatics chosen here. Therefore, this book is intended for researchers working in fields such as cognitive sciences, philosophy, evolutionary biology, cognitive psychology, and primatology. It also represents a valuable resource for advanced students in cognitive sciences, linguistics, and philosophy.
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    Pages: XIII, 138 p. 3 illus., 2 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783031092060
    Series Statement: Interdisciplinary Evolution Research, 7
    DDC: 576.8
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    Keywords: Botany. ; Plant biotechnology. ; Pharmaceutical chemistry. ; Agriculture. ; Proteins . ; Plant Science. ; Plant Biotechnology. ; Pharmaceutics. ; Agriculture. ; Protein Biochemistry.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter. 1. Molecular Farming in Plants: Introduction and Applications -- Chapter. 2. Tools and Techniques Used in Plant Molecular Farming -- Chapter. 3. Production of plant natural products in heterologous microbial species -- Chapter. 4. Sustainable Manufacturing of Vaccines, Antibodies, and other Pharmaceuticals -- Chapter. 5. Limitations, Biosafety, ethics, regulatory issues in molecular farming in plants -- Chapter. 6. Conclusion and Perspectives.
    Abstract: Molecular farming is a biotechnological approach that includes the genetic adjustment of agricultural products to create proteins and chemicals for profitable and pharmaceutical purposes. Plant molecular farming describes the manufacture of recombinant proteins and other biologically active product in plants. This approach depends on a genetic transformation of plants that can be accomplished by the methods of stable gene transfer, such as gene transfer to nuclei and chloroplasts, and unstable transfer methods like viral vectors. The requirement for recombinant proteins in terms of quality, quantity, and diversity is increasing exponentially This demand is traditionally met by recombinant protein construction technologies and the engineering of orthodox expression systems based on bacteria or mammalian cell cultures. However, majority of developing countries cannot afford the high costs of medicine derived from such existing methods. Hence, we need to produce not only the new drugs but also the cheaper versions of those already present in the market. Plant molecular farming is considered as a cost-effective technology that has grown and advanced tremendously over the past two decades. This book summarizes the advances and challenges of plant molecular farming for all those who are working on or have an interest in this rapidly emerging area of research.
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    Pages: IX, 77 p. 10 illus., 9 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783031127946
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Plant Science,
    DDC: 580
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    Keywords: Food science. ; Chemistry, Organic. ; Food Science. ; Organic Chemistry.
    Description / Table of Contents: Mass and Energy Balances -- Elements of fluid flow -- Elements of Heat transfer -- Elements of Mass transfer -- Reaction kinetics -- Phase and Reaction Equilibrium, and phase transitions -- Thermal processing of foods -- Environmental issues in food engineering -- An engineering view of the fate of food in the Gastrointestinal tract (GIT) -- A selection of engineering methodologies for food product realization -- Index.
    Abstract: As an introductory text book on food engineering principles, this text gives students a firm, quantitative foundation in all aspects of food process and product formulation, packaging, manufacturing processes; engineering aspects of the fate of food in the GI tract; engineering principles of the environmental impact of foods; and principles of process economics and project management. The contents are based on a new definition of Food Engineering which is fit-for-purpose for this day and age: Food Engineering is the work of designing, formulating and manipulating food products which have desired sensory, satiety, health and well-being responses; and developing - across various operational scales - designs for the lowest environmental impact processing, packaging and storage systems capable of realizing the products. Based on this definition, Engineering Principles for Food Process and Product Realization re-defines the core competencies of food engineering, covers the engineering principles needed for food process and product design, and examines the engineering principles relevant to the interactions between food on the one hand, and human health, security and environment on the other – which are the key drivers for the growth of food business. With security, human health and environmental legacy driving business, the engineering paradigm must shift from being farm and preservation focused to becoming consumer focused - which this book aims to achieve. All of these topics are covered at a level that is easy to read and absorb, but with challenging questions and problems which require knowledge integration across topics. This book is uniquely placed to serve as an effective launching pad for undertaking further studies on advanced topics and concepts relating to the design of food processes and products.
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    Pages: XI, 249 p. 90 illus., 12 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783031075704
    Series Statement: Food Engineering Series,
    DDC: 641.3
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    Keywords: Neuropharmacology. ; Psychiatry. ; Neurology . ; Neuropharmacology. ; Psychiatry. ; Neurology.
    Description / Table of Contents: Dosing psychedelics and MDMA -- Psychedelic Group Therapy -- Set and Setting: Aesthetic experiences and their contribution to psychedelic therapies -- Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy for Social Adaptability in Autistic Adults -- Foundations for Training Psychedelic Therapists -- Ayahuasca for the Treatment of Depression -- Psilocybin for the Treatment of Depression -- Ketamine for the Treatment of Depression -- The Potential of Psychedelics for End of Life and Palliative Care -- Psychedelic-Assisted Therapy for Addiction and Potential Mechanisms of Action -- Psilocybin for Tobacco Use Disorder -- Psychedelic Drugs as Anti-Inflammatory Agents -- Psilocybin for the Treatment of Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder -- Psilocybin for the Treatment of Headache and Pain Disorders -- Psilocybin for the Treatment of Neurodegenerative Disorders -- Psilocybin for Trauma-Related Disorders.
    Abstract: Psychedelic therapies are gaining traction as potential treatments for a wide range of indications, but the structure and delivery of psychedelic therapies are a sharp departure from more traditional models of psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy for psychiatric and other medical disorders. This may be critical to their success. The current volume provides a comprehensive review of the state of the science of psychedelic therapies, including discussion of models and approaches to psychedelic therapies as well as the current status of safety and efficacy data for mood, substance use, trauma, obsessive-compulsive, neurodevelopmental, neurodegenerative disorders, neurological, and inflammatory disorders.
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    Pages: VIII, 332 p. 100 illus., 30 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783031121845
    Series Statement: Current Topics in Behavioral Neurosciences, 56
    DDC: 615.78
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    Keywords: Neurosciences. ; Biomedical engineering. ; Nanotechnology. ; Biophysics. ; Imaging systems in biology. ; Neuroscience. ; Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering. ; Nanoengineering. ; Bioanalysis and Bioimaging. ; Biological Imaging.
    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.
    Abstract: This contributed volume reviews the latest advances in all the new technologies currently developed for MagnetoEncephaloGraphy (MEG) recordings, as well as sensor technologies and integrated sensor arrays for on-scalp MEG. The book gives an account of the first MEG imaging studies and explores the new field of feasible, experimental paradigms of on-scalp MEG. This is an ideal book for engineers, researchers, and students in the neurosciences interested in MEG imaging. .
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    Pages: IX, 315 p. 104 illus., 88 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783031053634
    DDC: 612.8
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    Keywords: Medical genetics. ; Reproductive health. ; Midwifery. ; Immunology. ; Medical Genetics. ; Reproductive Medicine. ; Midwifery. ; Immunology.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Historical Background of Immune Infertility Associated with Anti-Sperm Antibody (ASA) in Women -- Chapter 2. Detection of Anti-Sperm Antibody (ASA) in Women -- Chapter 3. Causes of Immune Infertility in Women with Anti-Sperm Antibody (ASA) -- Chapter 4. Production of Anti-Sperm Antibody (ASA) in Women -- Chapter 5. Non-Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) Treatments for Infertile Women with Anti-Sperm Antibody (ASA) -- Chapter 6. Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) as a Treatment for Infertile Women with Anti-Sperm Antibody (ASA) -- Chapter 7. Historical Background of Immune Infertility Associated with Anti-Sperm Antibody (ASA) in Men -- Chapter 8. Detection of Anti-Sperm Antibody (ASA) in Men -- Chapter 9. Causes of Immune Infertility in Men with Anti-Sperm Antibody (ASA) -- Chapter 10. Production of Anti-Sperm Antibody (ASA) in Men -- Chapter 11. Classical Treatments for Infertile Men with Anti-Sperm Antibody (ASA) -- Chapter 12. Assisted Reproductive technology (ART) as A Treatment for Infertile Men with ASA -- Chapter 13. Development of Immunocontraceptives in Famale -- Chapter 14. Development of Immunocontraceptives in Male -- Chapter 15. Wildlife Overpopulation Control -- Chapter 16. Structure of ZP -- Chapter 17. Function of ZP -- Chapter 18. Human ZP -- Chapter 19. ZP in Assisted Reproductive Technology -- Chapter 20. Infertility and Anti-ZP antibody (AZPA) -- Chapter 21. ZP-based Immunocontraceptive vaccine.
    Abstract: This book describes the biology, diagnosis, treatment and the latest research on anti-sperm antibody (ASA) and anti-zona pellucida antibody (AZPA) produced in some infertile patients. It summarizes ASA in both men and women, and presents new research to serve as a guideline for medical treatment, which currently varies considerably. It also discusses the recently identified target antigens of these antibodies, and the latest immunocontraceptive development projects. The book features chapters on AZPA explaining the biological structure and function of the zona pellucida, and describing the abnormality and the antibody. It also provides insights into their evolution, presenting the differences in taxonomy, mammalian physiological functions and the morphologically and immunologically unique human zona pellucida. Gamete Immunology is a valuable resource for researchers, and postdocs who are curious about new research on ASA and AZPA. It offers clinicians and embryologists who are interested in gamete immunology diverse perspectives as well as the basis for new ideas to treat the antibodies and develop contraceptive vaccinogens.
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    Pages: XV, 279 p. 1 illus. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9789811696251
    DDC: 616.042
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    Keywords: Microbiology. ; Agriculture. ; Industrial microbiology. ; Microbiology. ; Agriculture. ; Industrial Microbiology.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria for Sustainable Agriculture -- Chapter 2. Plant Microbes Interactions and Its Effect on Crop Productivity -- Chapter 3. Rhizobacterial biostimulants: efficacy in enhanced productivity and sustainable agriculture -- Chapter 4. The Role of Arbuscular Mycorrhiza in Sustainable Agriculture -- Chapter 5. Biocontrol Efficacy of Biomass and Secondary Metabolites of P. fluorescens Against Predominant Pest Affecting Agricultural Fields -- Chapter 6. Exopolysaccharide-producing Azotobacter for bioremediation of heavy metal-contaminated soil -- Chapter 7. Utilization of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi to boom the Efficiency and Product nature of Horticultural Crops -- Chapter 8. Microbial Remediation of Persistent Agrochemicals -- Chapter 9. Microbes Based Pesticides for Insect Pest Control and Their Management -- Chapter 10. In-silico Tools and Approach of CRISPR Application in Agriculture -- Chapter 11. Application of Bioinformatics in the Plant Pathology Research -- Chapter 12. New Age Genomic Measures for Uncovering Plant-Microbiome Interactions: Tools, Pipelines and Guidance Map for Genomic Data Mining -- Chapter 13. Bioinformatics: A Tool for Sustainable Agriculture -- Chapter 14. Recent Advances in Deep Learning CNN Models for Plant Disease Detection.
    Abstract: This book, the second volume of Advances in Agricultural and Industrial Microbiology is the compilation of modern technologies with scientific advancement in promoting plant growth by rhizobacterial biostimulants, endophytic microbes, and arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi. The volume also highlights the critical roles of soil microbes in the biocontrol of plant pathogens/diseases, bioremediation of toxic agrochemicals, and nitrogen fixation. Agricultural sustainability and environmental management strongly depend on microbial communities. Management of soil fertility is the key aspect that is facilitated by soil microbes and their interactions.The book also has a section focuses on the in-silico approaches and techniques involved in agriculture which enhances the readers’ understandings of plant-pathogen interactions, prediction of pathogenicity, improving variety through CRISPER, and its role in the agroindustry. Additionally, the interventions of ICTs (Information and Communication Technologies) have benefited agricultural stakeholders, i.e., farmers to policymakers, in predicting and combating them. The covered topics of the microbial domain and computational tools have high implications for the researchers, students, faculty, and scientists working on these areas.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: IX, 263 p. 1 illus. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9789811696824
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    Keywords: Post-translational modification. ; Bioinformatics. ; Molecular biology. ; Nervous system Diseases. ; Post-translational Modifications. ; Computational and Systems Biology. ; Molecular Biology. ; Neurological Disorders.
    Description / Table of Contents: Protein extraction and sample preparation methods for shotgun proteomics with central nervous system cells and brain tissue -- Phosphopeptide enrichment techniques: a pivotal step for phosphoproteomic studies -- Post-Translational Modifications during Brain Development -- Aberrant protein glycosylation in brain cancers, with emphasis on glioblastoma -- Post-Translational Modification in Muscular Dystrophies -- Post-translational Modifications in Parkinson’s Disease -- Histone Modifications in Neurological Disorders -- Mitochondrial dysregulation and the influence in neurodegenerative diseases -- PTMs: A missing piece for schizophrenia studies -- Post-Translational Modifications in Brain Diseases: A Future for Biomarkers -- Index.
    Abstract: This new volume, a part of the Proteomics, Metabolomics, Interactomics and Systems Biology series, will explain how proteomic studies of post-translational modifications (PTMs) can be applied to neurodegenerative diseases and relevant studies. The goal of the book is to increase awareness among researchers about how PTMs may be helpful in understanding mechanisms in various neurodegenerative diseases through proteomic studies. This book will serve as a tool for those who want to begin work in the proteomics field and explore how to implement PTMs studies into their work. Chapter authors will describe different PTMs enrichment methods developed by experts in the field so that researchers may learn to apply these methods and techniques to new studies. Divided into three sections, chapters will cover sample preparation, data quality, enrichment techniques, guidelines on how to analyze PTMs, and explain the role of PTMs and different brain diseases. Among those topics includes will be brain cancer, SLA disease, Parkinsons disease, muscular dystrophies, and schizophrenia. This volume will be useful for researchers and students studying brain and neurodegenerative diseases who are interested in delving into work with proteomic studies and PTMs. .
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: VIII, 146 p. 13 illus., 11 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783031054600
    Series Statement: Proteomics, Metabolomics, Interactomics and Systems Biology, 1382
    DDC: 572.645
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    Keywords: Invertebrates. ; Freshwater ecology. ; Marine ecology. ; Invertebrate Zoology. ; Freshwater and Marine Ecology.
    Description / Table of Contents: Identification Key: Freshwater Invertebrates -- Sponges: Porifera -- Cnidarians: Cnidaria -- Flatworms: Platyhelminthes -- Hairybacks: Gastrotricha; Water Bears: Tardigrada -- Rotifers: Rotifera -- Horsehair Worms: Nematomorpha; Roundworms: Nematoda -- Snails, Limpets and Mussels: Mollusca -- Segmented Worms: Annelida -- Aquatic Spiders and Mites: Chelicerata -- Crustaceans: Crustacea -- Springtails: Collembola -- Mayflies: Ephemeroptera -- Dragonflies and Damselflies: Odonata -- Stoneflies: Plecoptera -- Water Bugs: Heteroptera -- Beetles: Coleoptera -- Sialidae, Osmylidae, Sisyridae -- Caddisflies: Trichoptera -- Moths: Lepidoptera -- True Flies: Diptera -- Moss Animals: Bryozoa.
    Abstract: This up-to-date guidebook on freshwater invertebrates of the central European region is a richly illustrated work, providing an excellent source of systematic information on freshwater macroinvertebrates. Numerous colour photos and additional vector graphic figures allow readers to identify specific species at a higher taxonomic level (family). The book is supplemented by video sequences. Freshwater Invertebrates in Central Europe – A Field Guide is a must-have for all those interested in the freshwater animals of central Europe such as animal scientists and ecologists, as well as students attending classes on freshwater invertebrate.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: X, 527 p. 525 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 2nd ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783030953232
    DDC: 592
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    Keywords: Immunology. ; Medicine Research. ; Biology Research. ; Gynecology . ; Human physiology. ; Immunology. ; Biomedical Research. ; Gynecology. ; Human Physiology.
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Recurrent Pregnancy Loss and Recurrent Implantation Failure -- Chapter 3: Immune System -- Chapter 4: Immunology of Pregnancy (Reproductive Immunology) -- Chapter 5: Diagnosis of Alloimmune factor -- Part II -- Chapter 6: Introduction -- Chapter 7: History of LIT -- Chapter 8: Mechanism of Action of LIT -- Chapter 9: Procedure of LIT -- Chapter 10: Safety of LIT -- Chapter 11: Controversies about LIT – REMIS Study -- Chapter 12: Cochrane Reviews & LIT -- Chapter 13: Recent Meta-analyses & LIT -- Chapter 14: Review of International studies of LIT -- Chapter 15: Case Studies -- Chapter 16: Future of LIT.
    Abstract: Recurrent Miscarriages (RM) & Implantation Failure (IF) have remained an enigma to clinicians and researchers. Even after ruling out all possible causative factors, 50-60% cases still remain “Unexplained’. A majority of these so called “Unexplained” cases are now found to have immunological basis. This book is going into the Immunological aspects of these clinical dilemmas, demystifying the role of Immunology and Immunotherapy in RM and IF. The authors have been working in the field of Reproductive Immunology and Immunotherapy for the last 25 years and they have come out with this book combining the international studies with their own experience. The purpose of writing this book is to provide a comprehensive treatise about Immunotherapy, so that it can become an acceptable modality of treatment in cases where it is needed and is effective. The book discusses the basics in Reproductive Immunology. The immunological changes occurring during pregnancy, the role of Cell mediated Immunity (T cells), Humoral Immunity including cytokines is explained. The normal immunological mechanisms protecting the embryo are highlighted and how these mechanisms are disturbed leading to RM and IF, is also explained. The first and the most discussed method of Immunotherapy is Lymphocyte Immunization Therapy (LIT). The book has given a complete overview of LIT, describing how it created euphoria when it was first introduced, how it gradually went into disrepute and how it is now making a comeback. As the authors have personal experience of LIT, the book gives a detailed and complete information about this active form of immunotherapy. The book has a special section on case studies where the authors have given some clinical case reports (including some of their own), who were treated for immunological factor in RM/IF and were treated with Immunotherapy. These cases can be a useful guide to the readers. The book will be useful not only for undergraduate and postgraduate students but also for clinicians in their practice and for researchers for review of developments in the field.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XVIII, 147 p. 33 illus., 30 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9789811929601
    DDC: 571.96
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    Keywords: Evolution (Biology). ; Environment. ; History. ; Conservation biology. ; Ecology . ; Ethics. ; Environmental sciences Social aspects. ; Evolutionary Biology. ; Environmental Sciences. ; History. ; Conservation Biology. ; Moral Philosophy and Applied Ethics. ; Environmental Social Sciences.
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I. Biology and Culture -- Chapter 1. Speciesism in Biology and Culture: How Human Exceptionalism is Pushing Planetary Boundaries -- Chapter 2. Race and Human Genomic Variation -- Chapter 3. Science Without Species: Doing Science With Tree-Thinking -- Part II. Culture and History -- Chapter 4. The Colonization of Islands as Microcosms for Human Impacts on an Interplanetary Scale -- Chapter 5. Species, God, and Dominion -- Chapter 6. Symbols and How We Came to be Human -- Part III. Conservation and Law -- Chapter 7. Law and Nature: Human, Nonhuman, and Ecosystem Rights -- Chapter 8. A Phylogenetic Approach to Conservation: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning for a Changing Globe -- Part IV. Sustainability and the Future -- Chapter 9. Energy and Society: Toward a Sustainable Future.
    Abstract: This open access book explores a wide-ranging discussion about the sociopolitical, cultural, and scientific ramifications of speciesism and world views that derive from it. In this light, it integrates subjects across the natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities. The 21st-century western world is anthropocentric to an extreme; we adopt unreasonably self-centered and self-serving ideas and lifestyles. Americans consume more energy resources per person than most other nations on Earth and have little concept of how human ecology and population biology interface with global sustainability. We draw upon religion, popular culture, politics, and technology to justify our views and actions, yet remain self-centered because our considerations rarely extend beyond our immediate interests. Stepping upward on the hierarchy from “racism,” “speciesism” likewise refers to the view that unique natural kinds (species) exist and are an important structural element of biodiversity. This ideology manifests in the cultural idea that humans are distinct from and intrinsically superior to other forms of life. It further carries a plurality of implications for how we perceive ourselves in relation to nature, how we view Judeo-Christian religions and their tenets, how we respond to scientific data about social problems such as climate change, and how willing we are to change our actions in the face of evidence. .
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    Pages: XVI, 203 p. 28 illus., 20 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783030990312
    DDC: 576.8
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    Keywords: Ecology . ; Conservation biology. ; Biotic communities. ; Population biology. ; Plant ecology. ; Animal culture. ; Ecology. ; Conservation Biology. ; Community and Population Ecology. ; Plant Ecology. ; Animal Science.
    Description / Table of Contents: Section 1 -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Section 2. Plant Diversity -- Chapter 2. Status, issues and challenges of biodiversity:Lower plants (Non-vascular) -- Chapter 3. Status, issues and Challenges of Biodiversity:Higher Plants -- Chapter 4. Status, issues and challenges of biodiversity: Trees and Shrubs -- Chapter 5. Underutilized Plant Strength of India -- Section 3. Faunal Diversity -- Chapter 6. Status, Issues and Challenges of Biodiversity: Invertebrate -- Chapter 7. Diversity, Distribution and Endemicity of Herpetofauna in Different Biogeographic Zones and Biodiversity Hotpots of India -- Chapter 8. Status, Issues, and Challenges of Biodiversity: Wild Animals -- Chapter 9. Indian Avian Diversity:Status, Challenges and Solutions -- Chapter 10. Status, Issues and Challenges of Indian Livestock Biodiversity -- Section 4. Ecosystem Diversity -- Chapter 11. Agricultural Crop Diversity: Status, Challenges and Solutions -- Chapter 12. Biodiversity of Agriculturally Important Insects: Status, Issues and Challenges -- Chapter 13. Biodiversity Issues and Challenges:Non-Agriculture Insects -- Chapter 14. Status, issues and challenges of biodiversity: Forest Insects -- Chapter 15. Status, Issues and Challenges of Biodiversity: Marine Biota -- Chapter 16. Diatoms the living jewels their biodiversity, phycosphere and associated phenotypic plasticity: a lesson to learn from current pandemic of corona virus -- Chapter 17. Plant Diversity at Ecosystems level in India: Dynamics and Status -- Chapter 18. Faunal Diversity at Ecosystems level in India: Dynamics and Status -- Section 5. Challenges and reasons of Biodiversity loss -- Chapter 19. Challenges on Account of Invasive Alien Terrestrial Plants -- Chapter 20. Alien Invasive Aquatic Fauna:Challenges and Mitigation -- Chapter 21. Reasons of Biodiversity Loss in India -- Section 6. Efforts Conservation -- Chapter 22. Conservation of National Biodiversity: Efforts of the Indian Government -- Chapter 23. Legal Framework for Conservation of Biodiversity in India -- Chapter 24. Index.
    Abstract: This contributed book is based on the current status of biodiversity in India, issues and challenges faced by the authorities involved in conservation efforts, and the imperative role of various direct and indirect stakeholders in biodiversity conservation. The book discusses the current status of different forms of biodiversity in India, challenges faced by stakeholders, issues and reasons for biodiversity losses, and efforts by government through various laws, policies, and programs in a concise and comprehensive manner throughout its many chapters. In this way, readers can access diverse information on Indian biodiversity through this book. It is compiled by leading experts in the field of conservation. In 18 chapters, it covers biodiversity of both fauna and flora, on land and in aquatic ecosystems, legal and policy aspects, as well as innovative conservation tool and techniques. It is useful for undergraduates and graduate students and also educates policy planners, bureaucrats, foresters, and researchers in India and abroad.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: X, 665 p. 1 illus. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9789811697777
    DDC: 577
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    Keywords: Biophysics. ; Cell interaction. ; Biomedical engineering. ; Cardiovascular system. ; Physiology. ; Cardiography. ; Molecular biology. ; Clinical biochemistry. ; Mechanobiological Cell Signaling. ; Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering. ; Cardiovascular Physiology. ; Cardiography. ; Molecular Biology. ; Medical Biochemistry.
    Description / Table of Contents: Part 1: Cardiac Signaling -- Chapter 1: Calcium-Dependent Signaling in Cardiac Myocytes -- Chapter 2: Organization of Ca2+ Signaling Microdomains in Cardiac Myocytes -- Chapter 3: Stress Kinase Signaling in Cardiac Myocytes -- Chapter 4: Cardiotoxicity and cardiac cell signaling -- Chapter 5: Protein Phosphatase Signaling in Cardiac Myocytes -- Chapter 6: Metabolic Regulation of Mitochondrial Dynamics and Cardiac Function -- Chapter 7: NADPH Oxidase System Mediates Cholesterol Secoaldehyde-Induced Oxidative Stress and Cytotoxicity in H9c2 Cardiomyocytes -- Chapter 8: Lipid Mediators in Cardiovascular Physiology and Disease -- Chapter 9: Cardiac Inflammasome and Arrhythmia -- Chapter 10: Myocardial Fibrosis: Cell Signaling and In Vitro Modeling -- Chapter 11: Neural regulation of cardiac rhythm -- Part 2: Vascular Signaling -- Chapter 12: Mechanisms of lipoproteins and reverse cholesterol transport in atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease -- Chapter 13: Atherosclerotic plaque regression: Future perspective -- Chapter 14: Role of Bioactive Lipid, Phosphatidic Acid in Hypercholesterolemia Drug-induced Myotoxicity – Statin-induced Phospholipase D (PLD) Lipid Signaling in Skeletal Muscle Cells -- Chapter 15: Cell-Cell Communication in the Vascular Endothelium -- Chapter 16: Lysophosphatidic acid regulates endothelial barrier integrity -- Chapter 17: Regulation of Vascular Endothelial Barrier Integrity and Function by Lipid-Derived Mediators -- Chapter 18: Hyperglycemic Oxoaldehyde (Glyoxal)-induced Vascular Endothelial Cell Damage through Oxidative Stress is protected by Thiol Iron Chelator, Dimercaptosuccinic Acid – Role of Iron in Diabetic Vascular Endothelial Dysfunction.
    Abstract: This contributed volume focuses on cardiovascular diseases (CVDs), and explores the ways in which signaling mechanisms at the biochemical, molecular, and cellular levels in the blood vessels (vascular) and heart contribute to the underlying causes of development and progression of the CVDs. This volume covers unique topics such as oxidant signaling in vascular and heart diseases and health, cytoskeletal signaling in vascular health and disease, phospholipase signaling in CVDs, lipid signaling in vascular and myocardial health and diseases, and drug discovery in cellular signaling for cardiovascular diseases. This book assembles the most important discoveries made by leaders on the cellular signaling mechanisms operating behind the development and progression of life-threatening CVDs. It is an extremely useful resource for the investigators in the field of CVDs, and opens the discussion for further discovery of efficient management and effective treatment of the CVDs.
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    Pages: XVIII, 527 p. 83 illus., 59 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783031083099
    DDC: 571.4
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    Singapore :Springer Nature Singapore :
    Keywords: Parasitology. ; Internal medicine. ; Microbiology. ; Parasitology. ; Internal Medicine. ; Microbiology.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Parasite taxonomy, Classification of Zoonoses -- Chapter 2. Host Parasite Relationship and Spectrum of Clinical Manifestations -- Chapter 3. Parasitic Immunology -- Chapter 4. Parasite Genomics -- Chapter 5. Parasite Proteomics -- Chapter 6. Epidemiology of Parasitic Zoonoses -- Chapter 7. Diagnosis of Parasitic Zoonoses -- Chapter 8. Treatment and Management of Parasitic Zoonoses -- Chapter 9. Drug Resistance in Parasites -- Chapter 10. Zoonotic potential of Bioterrorism -- Chapter 11. Prevention, Surveillance, and Control of Parasitic Zoonoses -- Chapter 12. Toxoplasmosis -- Chapter 13. Giardiasis -- Chapter 14. Leishmaniasis -- Chapter 15. Trypanosomiasis -- Chapter 16. Malaria -- Chapter 17. Babesiosis -- Chapter 18. Cryptosporidiosis -- Chapter 19. Sarcocystosis. -- Chapter 20. Balantidiasis -- Chapter 21. Schistosomiasis -- Chapter 22. Fascioliasis -- Chapter 23. Fasciolopsiasis -- Chapter 24. Paragonomiasis -- Chapter 25. Echinostomiasis -- Chapter 26. Ophistorchiasis -- Chapter 27. Clonerchiasis -- Chapter 28. Heterophyes, Metagonimus, Dirocelium, Trogolotrema, and Watsonia infections -- Chapter 29. Diphyllobothriasis -- Chapter 30. Taeniasis -- Chapter 31. Echinococciasis -- Chapter 32. Sparganosis -- Chapter 33. Dipyllidiosis -- Chapter 34. Hymenolepsiasis -- Chapter 35. Coenurosis -- Chapter 36. Bertiella, Inermicapsifer, and Raillietinal infections -- Chapter 37. Trichinellosis -- Chapter 38. Dracunculiasis -- Chapter 39. Capillariasis -- Chapter 40. Strongyloidosis -- Chapter 41. Ancylostomiasis -- Chapter 42. Ascariasis -- Chapter 43. Dioctophymasis -- Chapter 44. Angiostrongylus and Trichostrongylus infections -- Chapter 45. Toxocariasis -- Chapter 46. Anisakiasis -- Chapter 47. Gnathostomiasis -- Chapter 48. Dirofilariasis -- Chapter 49. Thelaziasis -- Chapter 50. Gongylonemiasis -- Chapter 51. Termidens infections -- Chapter 52. Larva Migrans -- Chapter 53. Oesophagostomum and Mammomonogamus infections -- Chapter 54. Pentastomiasis -- Chapter 55. Scabies -- Chapter 56. Myiasis -- Chapter 57. Tungiasis -- Chapter 58. Ticks, Mites, Fleas -- Chapter 59. Allergenic MitesInfestations caused by Ectoparasites.
    Abstract: This textbook, which is the first volume in the series Microbial Zoonoses, provides a comprehensive overview of the diagnosis, treatment and control of zoonotic parasitic diseases. The book is divided into two sections; the first section discusses the classification of parasitic zoonoses and includes general information on the diagnosis, treatment, epidemiology, prevention, and control of parasitic zoonoses. It also describes the biological features of these organisms, host-parasite interactions, and the disease spectrum, as well as the importance of public health control measures, such as surveillance, and prophylactic measures in controlling these diseases. The second section explores the important zoonotic diseases caused by ectoparasites, protozoan and helminths parasites. It also reviews the life cycle, pathogenesis, pathology, immunology and clinical manifestations, modern diagnostic methods, treatment regimen, prevention, control, and epidemiology of these parasites. Cutting across the disciplines, this book serves as a guide to postgraduate students, faculty members, public health experts, and medical administrators who are interested in the management of these parasitic zoonotic infections.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XXVII, 655 p. 239 illus., 219 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9789811672040
    Series Statement: Microbial Zoonoses,
    DDC: 571.999
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    Keywords: Cytology. ; Bioinformatics. ; Imaging systems in biology. ; Cell Biology. ; Computational and Systems Biology. ; Biological Imaging.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Batch Processing Methods in ImageJ -- Python: Data Handling, Analysis and Plotting -- Building a Bioimage Analysis Workflow Using Deep Learning -- GPU-Accelerating ImageJ Macro Image Processing Workflows Using CLIJ -- How to Do the Deconstruction of Bioimage Analysis Workflows: A Case Study with SurfCut -- i.2.i. with the (Fruit) Fly: Quantifying Position Effect Variegation in Drosophila Melanogaster -- A MATLAB Pipeline for Spatiotemporal Quantification of Monolayer Cell Migration.
    Abstract: This open access textbook aims at providing detailed explanations on how to design and construct image analysis workflows to successfully conduct bioimage analysis. Addressing the main challenges in image data analysis, where acquisition by powerful imaging devices results in very large amounts of collected image data, the book discusses techniques relying on batch and GPU programming, as well as on powerful deep learning-based algorithms. In addition, downstream data processing techniques are introduced, such as Python libraries for data organization, plotting, and visualizations. Finally, by studying the way individual unique ideas are implemented in the workflows, readers are carefully guided through how the parameters driving biological systems are revealed by analyzing image data. These studies include segmentation of plant tissue epidermis, analysis of the spatial pattern of the eye development in fruit flies, and the analysis of collective cell migration dynamics. The presented content extends the Bioimage Data Analysis Workflows textbook (Miura, Sladoje, 2020), published in this same series, with new contributions and advanced material, while preserving the well-appreciated pedagogical approach adopted and promoted during the training schools for bioimage analysis organized within NEUBIAS – the Network of European Bioimage Analysts. This textbook is intended for advanced students in various fields of the life sciences and biomedicine, as well as staff scientists and faculty members who conduct regular quantitative analyses of microscopy images.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: X, 212 p. 265 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783030763947
    Series Statement: Learning Materials in Biosciences,
    DDC: 571.6
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    Keywords: Food science. ; Food Analysis. ; Chemistry. ; Sustainability. ; Food Engineering. ; Food Science. ; Food Chemistry. ; Sustainability.
    Description / Table of Contents: Part I: Introduction -- 1.Sustainability in food science and food industry: where are we now? – Viewpoints of the EFFoST Working Group on Sustainable Food Systems -- 2. Innovative processing: from raw material (culture), harvesting, post harvesting, processing, and applications -- Part II: Mechanism of action of nonthermal processing technologies (NTP) -- 3. Fundamental mechanisms of action -- 4. Electro-technologies: pulsed electric fields, cold plasma, radio-frequency and oscillating magnetic fields, electrohydrodynamic processing, electron beam processing and ionizing radiation -- 5. Pressure-based technologies: high pressure processing; supercritical and subcritical fluid processing -- 6. Mechanical technologies: ultrasound, and hydrodynamic cavitation -- 7. Non-electro-technologies: gamma rays, UV light, pulsed light, ozonation, photodynamic and membrane processing -- 8. Non-electro-technologies: gamma rays, UV light, ozone, photodynamic and membrane processing -- Part 3: Implementation of novel nonthermal technologies in agri-food-bio sciences -- 9. Nonthermal Processing Technologies: Synergies and new applications in food engineering -- 10. Implementation of novel nonthermal plasma air cleaner in a plant factory -- 11. LED-based photosensitization – a prospect for visible light-driven nonthermal fresh produce sanitation -- 12. Electrospinning Technology: Its Process Conditions and Food Packaging Applications -- 13. Application of encapsulation technology in the agri-food sector -- Part 4. Nonthermal processing legislation -- 14. Overview of legislation across the globe, diagnostics and standards which provide a legal and regulatory framework in which NTP is used worldwide -- 15. Current technology readiness levels (TRL) of nonthermal technologies and research gaps for improved process control and integration into existing production lines -- 16. Industry implementation (scale-up): Clients’ experience towards understanding of how regulations are affecting novel product development -- 17. Supercritical fluids as a tool for sustainable manufacturing of added value products -- Part 5 Mechanisms of validation of nonthermal processes in biomaterials and agri-food applications -- 18. Current validation of NTP technologies and overview of their current and potential implementation in the production chain including agri-food wastes -- Part 6. Sustainable perspective of nonthermal technologies -- 19. New product development from marine sources and side streams valorization using nonthermal processing technologies -- 20. Efficient production of functional and bioactive compounds and foods for use in food, pharma, cosmetic and other industries -- 21. Decontamination of fruit juices by combination of high intensity pulsed light and other nonthermal technologies -- 22. Food-On-A-Chip: Relevance of Microfluidics in food processing -- Part 7. Food waste management and sustainable parameters analysis -- 21. Analysis and comparison of environmental impacts of nonthermal food technologies -- 22. Emerging non-thermal processing of food waste and by-products for sustainable food systems - selected cases -- 23. Strategies for commercializing scientific results and combining separate processes into complex technologies -- 24 Sustainable processing through efficient use of energy and minimizing waste production -- 25. Food Safety and Security (HACCP and HAZOP) for Consumers and Workers (Nonthermal Technologies and their use) -- Part 8. Success stories of industrial implementation of nonthermal technologies -- 26.: Innovative success stories on commercial non-thermal technologies - interviews of major food industries working in this area. .
    Abstract: This book addresses important questions on the legislation, regulations, sustainability, technology transfer, safety of biomaterials and mechanism of action of nonthermal processing on the molecular level of biomaterials and its impact on health. The chapters take an interdisciplinary approach that is of interest to specialists from engineering, physics, chemistry, agriculture, life sciences and beyond, with a focus on further development of existing and new applications of nonthermal processing and their combination with other methods in the processing of biomaterials, agriculture, biotechnology and the re-use of waste and by-products. Nonthermal Processing in Agri-Food-Bio Sciences: Sustainability and Future Goals aims to boost further developments and applications of nonthermal technologies to develop healthier products, to ensure consumer approval for these innovative technologies and to improve the sustainability of biomaterials production. The industrial application of nonthermal processing has led to an increase in innovative value products and the overall improvement of production capacity. Nonthermal processes use less energy and chemicals, reduce processing times, have less environmental impact, produce less waste and have the potential for industrial scale-up and a return-on-investment in under 5 years. According to The United Nations and the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, 17 goals should be incorporated within development projects, and researchers are starting to use novel techniques to meet them. In covering the fundamental engineering theories underlying nonthermal processing, this book will aid in this mission. The book overviews the advantages and disadvantages of novel technologies, over to sustainability goals to correct steps for the scale-up and return on investment. The book includes the chemistry and physics of nonthermal processing technologies, dedicated to specialists and researchers from a wide range of subject areas. Interdisciplinary scientists and engineers, sustainability experts can use this text to aid in their work in green technologies.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: VIII, 791 p. 124 illus., 74 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783030924157
    Series Statement: Food Engineering Series,
    DDC: 664
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    Keywords: Neurosciences. ; Animal culture. ; Veterinary medicine. ; Neuroscience. ; Animal Science. ; Veterinary Science.
    Description / Table of Contents: Rodents -- Carnivores -- Sheep and goats -- Swine -- Rabbits -- Bovines -- Non-human primates -- Humans -- Squirrels.
    Abstract: Modern neuroscience has presented new opportunities for exploring the molecular and neural mechanisms controlling specific social responses. This book reviews insights into the neural circuits underlying a particularly fascinating form of social interaction, parental behavior. This book presents a detailed review of maternal and paternal behavior of particular mammalian species. It offer neuroscientists a spectrum of specific mammals that can be used as experimental models to explore particular topics on the functions of the nervous system. It shows that results coming from the laboratory can be translated into useful information for raising mammals on the farm, and it stimulates biologists to gain insights into the underpinnings of the complex mechanisms governing mammalian behavior in the wild. It also discusses the implications of this research for human parental behavior. .
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: V, 309 p. 45 illus., 39 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783030977627
    Series Statement: Advances in Neurobiology, 27
    DDC: 612.8
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    Keywords: Phylogeny. ; Biology Technique. ; Gene expression. ; Bioinformatics. ; Phylogenetics. ; Gene Expression Analysis. ; Bioinformatics.
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction to phylogenetic trees -- A divergence time story: the rise and fall of the molecular clock -- Estimating phylogenetic trees -- Estimating divergence times -- Estimating common ancestors -- Testing theories of molecular evolution -- Recommendations for further reading -- Appendix A: Intermittent point processes -- Appendix B: Poisson processes with Lévy-stable substitution rates.
    Abstract: This book serves as a brief introduction to phylogenetic trees and molecular evolution for biologists and biology students. It does so by presenting the main concepts in a variety of ways: first visually, then in a history, next in a dice game, and finally in simple equations. The content is primarily designed to introduce upper-level undergraduate and graduate students of biology to phylogenetic tree reconstruction and the underlying models of molecular evolution. A unique feature also of interest to experienced researchers is the emphasis on simple ways to quantify the uncertainty in the results more fully than is possible with standard methods.
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    Pages: XIII, 106 p. 21 illus., 14 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783031119583
    Series Statement: SpringerBriefs in Systems Biology,
    DDC: 576.88
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    Keywords: Freshwater ecology. ; Marine ecology. ; Conservation biology. ; Ecology . ; Geography. ; Environment. ; Power resources. ; Freshwater and Marine Ecology. ; Conservation Biology. ; Regional Geography. ; Environmental Sciences. ; Natural Resource and Energy Economics.
    Description / Table of Contents: Intro: Navigating Patagonian freshwaters- and this book -- 1: Are freshwaters wetlands? -- 2: Patagonian Andean lakes and climate change -- 3: Current state and recent changes of glaciers in the Patagonian Andes (35 °S to 55°S) -- 4: Biogeographical patterns of Patagonian freshwater microbiota -- 5: Extreme freshwater ecosystems from Patagonia: The Copahue-Agrio system -- 6: Mercury in aquatic systems of North Patagonia: sources, processes and trophic transfer -- 7: Diversity patterns across aquatic communities from peat bogs -- 8: Hydrologic Systems, water uses and emerging conflicts around freshwater availability in Patagonia -- 9: Land-use effects on aquatic ecosystems: An overview of environmental impacts and tools for ecological assessment -- 10: Patagonian wetlands: vertientes, vegas, mallines,turberas and lagunas -- 11: Fish and fisheries of the Patagonian steppe -- 12: Invasive species: The case of Didymosphenia geminata in Neuquén Province -- 13: Influence of the fish introduction in lakes of the arid Patagonia -- 14: Patagonian cultural limnology: knowledge and water management in Mapuche rural communities -- 15: Political Ecology, water valoration and Water Law deliberation in the Province of Tierra del Nacional de Tierra del Fuego -- 16: Freshwater systems in protected areas in Patagonia -- 17: Amphibians and waterbirds as bridges to conserve aquatic and terrestrial habitat in Patagonia -- 18: Integrated long term conservation strategies to recover the critically endangered Hooded Grebe (Podiceps gallardoi),an endemic waterbird of Austral Patagonia -- Conclusion: Reaching out for the UNDP Sustainable Development Goals in Patagonia.
    Abstract: The Freshwaters of Patagonia adopts a socioecological approach, in which experts from across Patagonia review recent, scientifically rigorous literature and data of their own, thus synthesizing the current knowledge directly relevant to understand the present state and future trends of icefields, freshwater and wetland ecosystems in this region. The book’s organization into three parts provides a studied and comprehensive view on the patterns and processes of the various ecosystems in Patagonia, and describes the sociological aspects of freshwater ecosystems, as well as characterizes the conservation of the freshwater and wetland ecosystems, in Patagonia. The chapters offer a broad, state-of-the-art overview of the current status of glaciers, freshwater and wetland ecosystems of this region, as well as studies of both local and large scale biodiversity patterns, and study cases of extreme and naturally polluted environments.The volume concludes with the current status of Patagonian freshwaters, and discusses the scientific, legal and administrative tools aimed at their sustainable management within the framework of the UNEP Sustainable Development Goals 2030 Agenda. A broad audience of students, scientists, engineers, environmental managers, and policy makers will be interested in this volume.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XI, 541 p. 104 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783031100277
    Series Statement: Natural and Social Sciences of Patagonia,
    DDC: 577.6
    Language: English
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    Cham :Springer International Publishing :
    Keywords: Medical genetics. ; Medicinal chemistry. ; Nanomedicine. ; Cancer Treatment. ; Medical Genetics. ; Medicinal Chemistry. ; Nanomedicine and Nanotoxicology. ; Cancer Therapy.
    Description / Table of Contents: The Democratization of RNA Therapeutics -- Supramolecular Strategies for mRNA Delivery -- In Vitro-Transcribed mRNAs as a New Generation of Therapeutics in the Dawn of 21st Century: Exploitation of Peptides as Carriers for their Intracellular Delivery -- Effective Delivery of mRNA Therapeutics and Vaccines Using Lipid Nanoparticles -- Messenger RNA Therapeutics -- Formulation, Delivery and Application of mRNA Therapeutics In Respiratory Diseases -- Clinical Applications of mRNA Formulated In Lipid Nanoparticles -- Preparation of Messenger RNA Loaded Nanomedicine Applied on Tissue Engineering And Regenerative Medicine -- Lipid Nanoparticle-Mediated Delivery of mRNA Therapeutics: Immune Activation By Ionizable Cationic Lipids -- Adjuvants, the Elephant in the Room for RNA Vaccines -- Addressing Skin with Modified mRNA Constructs for Novel Therapies -- mRNA-Based Cancer Immunotherapies -- From Bench to Bedside: The Journey of an mRNA Drug Candidate Into a Medicine -- Synthetic mRNA Gene Therapies for Chronic HBV Infection -- Delivery Vehicles for Self-Amplifying RNA -- Delivery Technologies of mRNA Vaccines -- Nanosystems: The Key in Formulations of mRNA for Several Pathologies -- Messenger RNA Nanoformulation For Cancer Vaccine -- Preparation of Synthetic mRNAs for In Vivo Applications – Overview and Considerations -- Messenger RNA for Prophylaxis -- Nuclear Export of mRNA with Disease Pathogenesis and Therapeutic Potentials -- Messenger RNA Therapeutics: Start of a New Era in Medicine -- mRNA Delivery Technologies for Therapeutic Applications.
    Abstract: This book focuses on the fundamentals and applications of messenger RNA (mRNA)-based therapeutics and discusses the strengths and key challenges of this emerging class of drugs. In the past 30 years, extensive research and technological development in many areas have contributed to the emergence of in vitro transcribed mRNA as a therapeutic that has now reached clinical testing. Formulations that protect the mRNA from nucleases and accelerate its cellular uptake, combined with improvements to the mRNA molecules themselves, have been critical advancements for mRNAs to become viable therapeutics. Though once regarded as a serious impediment, the transient nature of mRNA technology is now considered a major advantage in making mRNA therapies safe and, ultimately, a potential game changer in the field of medicine. This new book in the RNA Technologies series provides a state-of-the-art overview on the emerging field of mRNA therapeutics covering essential strategies for formulation, delivery, and application. It also reviews the promising role in cancer immunotherapy, respiratory diseases, and chronic HBV infection and discusses RNA vaccines in light of the current COVID-19 pandemic. mRNA-based approaches have great potential to revolutionize molecular biology, cell biology, biomedical research, and medicine. Thus, this handbook is an essential resource for researchers in academia and industry contributing to the development of this new area of therapeutics.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: XII, 446 p. 68 illus., 57 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783031084157
    Series Statement: RNA Technologies, 13
    DDC: 616.042
    Language: English
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    Cham :Springer International Publishing :
    Keywords: Cancer. ; Oncology. ; Immunology. ; Metastasis. ; Cytology. ; Cancer Biology. ; Oncology. ; Immunology. ; Metastasis. ; Cell Biology.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. A Systemic View of Metastatic Disease: Inter-organ Crosstalk and Therapeutic Implications -- Part I. Systemic Regulation in Metastatic Disease -- Chapter 2. Systemic Regulation of Metastatic Disease by Extracellular Vesicles and Particles -- Chapter 3. Bone Metastasis: Systemic Regulation and Impact on Host -- Chapter 4. Targeting Metastatic Disease: Challenges and New Opportunities -- Part II. Cachexia: A Debilitating Systemic Effect of Cancer -- Chapter 5. Signaling Pathways That Promote Muscle Catabolism in Cachexia -- Chapter 6. The Role of Interleukin-6 Cytokines in Cancer Cachexia -- Chapter 7. NF-kB Signaling in the Macroenvironment of Cancer Cachexia -- Part III. Therapy-induced Muscle Wasting -- Chapter 8. Therapy-induced Toxicities Associated with the Onset of Cachexia -- Chapter 9. Bone-muscle Crosstalk in Advanced Cancer and Chemotherapy -- Part IV. Preventing and Targeting Cachexia in Cancer -- Chapter 10. New Developments in Targeting Cancer Cachexia -- Chapter 11. Exercise: A Critical Component of Cachexia Prevention and Therapy in Cancer.
    Abstract: This textbook discusses the systemic consequences of cancer, covering a range of topics from tumor-promoting systemic effects to the development of cachexia, as summarized in the introductory chapter 1. Part I of this textbook focuses on tumor-promoting systemic effects and begins with a chapter on how tumor-derived extracellular vesicles and particles lay the foundation for future metastases (Chapter 2). Chapter 3 discusses how metastatic cells that have colonized the bone impact the local bone microenvironment, neighboring muscles, and host physiology. Chapter 4 summarizes the available strategies for targeting metastatic cancer and emphasizes the need to incorporate a systemic view of the disease. Following this overview of the systemic effects of cancer progression, Part II of the textbook discusses cancer-induced cachexia, a debilitating systemic effect of advanced cancer. Chapters 5-7 examine the key signaling pathways (interleukin-6/GP130, NF-kB, and muscle proteolysis) that drive the development of cancer cachexia. Chapters 8 and 9 in Part III of this textbook explore how toxicities from anti-cancer therapy are associated with the onset of cachexia in cancer patients, and provide insight into potential approaches to simultaneously target both cancer and cachexia. Chapters 10 and 11 (Part IV) conclude this textbook by outlining promising approaches for the diagnosis and treatment of cachexia as well as strategies to prevent the development of cachexia through exercise. An understanding of the systemic effects of cancer is essential for the design of effective anti-cancer and anti-cachexia treatment strategies. As such, this textbook provides key information for both students and scientists engaged in cancer research and oncology.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: VI, 203 p. 1 illus. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783031095184
    DDC: 571.978
    Language: English
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    Keywords: Human physiology. ; Medical education. ; Premedical education. ; Ultrasonics. ; Human Physiology. ; Medical Education. ; Premedical Education. ; Ultrasonics.
    Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Using Ultrasound to Teach Physiology – An Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Basics of Ultrasound Physics -- Chapter 3: Ultrasound of the Vascular System -- Chapter 4: Ultrasound of the Heart -- Chapter 5: Ultrasound of the Respiratory System -- Chapter 6: Ultrasound of the Gastrointestinal System -- Chapter 7: Ultrasound of the Urinary System -- Chapter 8: Ultrasound of the Musculoskeletal System -- Chapter 9: Ultrasound of the Endocrine System -- Chapter 10: Ultrasound of the Reproductive System -- Chapter 11: Ultrasound of the Nervous System -- Chapter 12: Introducing Ultrasound into a Physiology Course from A to Z.
    Abstract: This book will be of interest to anyone who wants to use ultrasound to understand human physiology both in the clinical setting and the classroom. Tremendous advances in ultrasound technology have resulted in portable ultrasound systems that are easy to use, produce excellent images, and are affordable with quality hand-held and laptop-sized systems costing between $2K and $20K. These systems are now being used at the patient bedside or point of care by almost all medical and surgical specialities from primary care to orthopaedic surgery. These portable systems, especially the hand-held devices, are now being called the stethoscopes of the 21st century and will likely be used by many that are presently using stethoscopes including physicians, nurses, physician assistants, medics and other health professionals. Ultrasound began to be used in medical student education in the 1990s and is steadily becoming a common teaching tool for courses like anatomy and physiology. It is a visual, highly interactive learning tool that bridges the basic and clinical sciences and allows the learner to observe physiology principles in a living model. Ultrasound is also being used to teach other health professions students as well as undergraduate college students and high school students. Despite this interest there are no books available that provide an introduction to ultrasound and how it can be used to enhance the teaching of physiology. This e-book will do just that as well as offer “How to Scan” videos with example laboratory exercises to further engage learners.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: X, 323 p. 305 illus., 275 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9781071618639
    Series Statement: Physiology in Health and Disease,
    DDC: 612
    Language: English
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  • 100
    Keywords: Stress (Physiology). ; Plants. ; Molecular biology. ; Agriculture. ; Biotechnology. ; Plant Stress Responses. ; Molecular Biology. ; Agriculture. ; Biotechnology. ; Plant Signalling.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Targeted genome editing techniques in plant defense regulation -- 2. Synthetic promoters in regulating disease gene expression -- 3. Transcription factors associated with defense response against fungal biotrophs -- 4. Transcription factors associated with defense response against fungal necrotrophs -- 5. Transcription factors associated with defense response against viruses -- 6. Role of microbial bio-agents as elicitors in plant defense regulation -- 7. Transcriptional Factors Response under Biotic Stress in Wheat -- 8. Potential Transcription Factors for Biotic Stress Tolerance in Sugarcane -- 9. Role of transcription factors in response to biotic stresses in Maize -- 10. Role of transcription factors in response to biotic stresses in Pearl millet -- 11. Role of transcription factors in response to biotic stresses in Tomato -- 12. Role of transcription factors in response to biotic stresses in potato (Solanum tuberosum L.).
    Abstract: With the erratic changes in climate, crop plants are facing many forms of biotic stresses. When plants are under stress, among several gene families, regulatory genes play a vital role in signal transduction in modulating the expression of genes underpinning several defense pathways and targeting regulatory proteins (viz, transcription factors (TFs)) can be the alternative. Transcription factors directly regulate the downstream R genes and are excellent candidates for disease resistance breeding. Till date, numerous transcription factors have been identified and characterized structurally and functionally. Of them, TF families such as WRKY, NAC, Whirly, Apetala2 (AP2), ethylene responsive elements (ERF) etc. are found to be associated with transcriptional reprogramming of plant defense response. These TFs are responsive to the pathogen’s PAMPs/DAMPs - host’s PRR protein interactions and specifically binds to the cis-elements of defense genes and regulate their expression. With this background, realizing the importance of TFs in resistance breeding, this book discusses the recent research and developments in this field for various crops.
    Type of Medium: Online Resource
    Pages: VIII, 247 p. 26 illus., 25 illus. in color. , online resource.
    Edition: 1st ed. 2022.
    ISBN: 9783031129902
    DDC: 581.788
    Language: English
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