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Description / Table of Contents: Past, present and future perspectives of renin angiotensin system -- Biochemical pathways of renin angiotensin system -- Structure-function relationships of angiotensin II receptors -- Signal transduction mechanism of angiotensin II -- Renin angiotensin system: Pathophysiology and clinical implications in cardiovascular disease COVID-19 infection -- Angiotensin II and the pathogenesis of hypertension -- Signaling transduction of angiotensin II in hypertension -- Role of angiotensin II type 1 receptors in vascular remodeling in hypertension -- Molecular and cellular mechanisms of renin-angiotensin system in hypertension -- Tissue renin-angiotensin system and risks in hypertension -- Oxidative stress and angiotensin II-induced hypertension -- Angiotensin II: inflammatory system disorder and hypertension -- Therapeutic approaches for angiotensin receptor blockers in hypertension -- Renin-angiotensin systems: A pivotal role in the development of atherosclerosis -- Angiotensin II induced intracellular signaling pathways in pathogenesis of atherosclerosis -- Cellular and molecular mechanisms of Ang II: Contribution to atherosclerotic plaque vulnerability -- Role of angiotensin II, nitric oxide and reactive oxygen species in atherosclerosis -- The renin-angiotensin system and inflammatory processes in atherosclerotic lesion formation -- Role of renin-angiotensin system in alterations in blood lipids and gene expression in atherogenesis -- Effects of angiotensin-converting enzyme and receptors in atherosclerosis -- Effects of angiotensin II on cardiac arrhythmia and signal transduction -- Angiotensin II induced oxidative stress contribute to ventricular arrhythmias -- Modulation of renin angiotensin system: Beneficial effect on ventricular arrhythmias -- ACE inhibitor and ventricular arrhythmia in ischemic heart disease -- The renin-angiotensin system modulators and cardiac arrhythmias -- Angiotensin receptor blockers in the treatment of arrhythmias -- Angiotensin II induced cardiac hypertrophy and heart failure -- Renin-angiotensin system: Role in cardiac remodeling and subcellular defects in heart failure -- Renin-angiotensin system: Molecular and cellular mechanisms in heart failure -- Role of angiotensin II receptor mRNA expression in heart failure -- Renin angiotensin system: Mitochondrial dysfunction in the progression of heart failure -- Angiotensin II type 1 receptor: Genetic polymorphisms and heart failure -- Angiotensin converting enzyme 2 and angiotensin metabolism in heart failure -- Cellular and molecular mechanisms of renin-angiotensin system blockade in heart failure: An update -- Angiotensin II receptor antagonists: Modulation of the extracellular matrix regulatory system in heart failure.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. The Quest for Excellence and the Challenge of Gender Equality in Arbovirology: A Celebration of Women’s Contributions to the Field -- 2. Serendipity and Arboviruses -- 3. The Tapestry of Life: Weaving an Arbovirologist -- 4. Arbovirus and Viral Hemorrhagic Fevers Research Inception in Central and West Africa -- 5. From Bwamba to the Present: The Changing Forest of Arbovirology -- 6. Fighting Dengue, Chikungunya and Japanese Encephalitis -- 7. Chronicles of Hantaviruses: Foundations of Epidemiology and Ecology -- 8. Yellow Fever and Other Viruses in West Africa -- 9. The “Golden Age” of Arbovirology, 1950-1969 -- 10. Twenty-Seven Years of Field Studies on Dengue and Aedes Aegypti in Latin America -- 11. 50 Years of Medical Entomology: Miscellaneous Interesting Findings -- 12. Remembrances of Virology Past -- 13. An Overview of Arbovirology in São Paulo State, Southeastern Brazil: Highlighting the Virus Research Center in Ribeirão Preto City -- 14. An Unplanned Career in Arbovirology.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Pandemic-Era Digital Education: Insights from an Undergraduate Medical Programme -- Chapter 2. Use of Lt Systems in Large Class Lab Delivery -- Chapter 3. COVID-19 Adaptations for Biomedical Teaching and Assessment Within the Undergraduate Dental Curriculum -- Chapter 4. One Size Does Not Fit All in Remote Anatomy Teaching -- Chapter 5. From Lecture Halls to Zoom Links: How Can Educational Theory Help Us to Deliver Effective and Engaging Teaching in an Online Environment? -- Chapter 6. Collaborative, Two-Directional Live Streaming to Deliver Hands-on Dissection Experience during the COVID-19 Lockdown -- Chapter 7. Livestreaming Can Augment the Observation of Veterinary Post-mortem Examinations -- Chapter 8. Virtual Reality for Anatomy and Surgical Teaching -- Chapter 9. Can Synchronous Online Near-Peer Teaching Offer the Same Benefits as the Face-to-Face Version When Used in Clinical Neuroanatomy Education? -- Chapter 10. COVID-19 Adaptations with Virtual Microscopy -- Chapter 11. The Challenges of Visualisation During Delivery and Assessment of Clinical Teaching Under COVID-19: A Reflective Account of Problem Solving -- Chapter 12. Not for Room 101.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction-.What is a DMC?-. Is a DMC required?-. Who is On the DMC?-. What are the Legal and Ethical Aspects of DMC?-. How does the DMC work with SDAC and Sponsor and External Groups ? -- What Does a DMC Meeting Look Like -- What data is used for DMC outputs and who programs? -- What is Included in DMC Outputs? -- What does the DMC final DMC outputs look like and how is it delivered? -- What Types of Safety Outputs Does the DMC Receive? -- What types of efficacy outputs does the DMC receive? -- What types of other outputs does the DMC receive? -- What About In-Between DMC Meetings -- What types of formal interim analyses does the DMC review? -- What does the paperwork from meetings look like? -- How does the DMC assess risk-benefit for their decision making? -- What are some examples? -- Conclusions.

Description / Table of Contents: Foreword - Peter Singer -- Introduction: Biomedical Research in One World: Current and Future Challenges -- Part I - Biomedical Research -- Section One - Genetic and Cell Research -- Chap 1: Learning from Icarus: The Impact of CRISPR on Gene Editing Ethics -- Chap 2: Bioethical Decision Making and Genome Editing -- Chap 3: Therapeutic Genome Editing -- Chap 4: Bioethical Decision-Making about Somatic Cell Genome Editing: Sickle-Cell Disease as a Case Study -- Chap 5: Gene Therapy and Germline Cells Research -- Chap 6: Bioethical Quandaries in Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis -- Chap 7: Rare Disease Research -- Chap 8: Limits of Debate: Governance of Human Embryo Research and the Making of the Fourteen-Day Rule -- Chap 9 Human/Non-Human Chimeras -- Chap 10: Human Cloning: Recent Advances and Bioethical Issues -- Section Two - Enhancement Research -- Chap 11: The Evolutionary Optimality Challenge -- Chap 12: Mood Enhancement -- Chap 13: Superior Sport Performance: Ethical and Legal Issues -- Chap 14: Arguments over Life Extension in Contemporary Bioethics -- Section Three - Research with Human Biological Samples and Health Data -- Chap 15: Research with Human Biological Samples. Systematization of the Phases and Affected Rights -- Chap 16: Biobanks for Biomedical Research: Evolution and Future -- Chap 17: Biobanking in Global Health & Research -- Chap 18: Ethical and Legal Considerations in Genomic Data Sharing: Evolution of the Discourse and the Road Ahead -- Section Four - Biomedical Challenges in Research -- Chap 19: Human Challenge Trials in Pandemics: Risks and Benefits -- Chap 20: Ethical Considerations for Vaccine Research -- Chap 21: Global Health Partnerships and Emerging Infectious Disease -- Chap 22: Precision Medicine -- Chap 23: The Development, Implementation, and Oversight of Artificial -- Intelligence in Health Care: Legal and Ethical Issues -- Part II - Animals, Food and Environment -- Section One - Using Animals in Scientific Research -- Chap 24: The Use of Animals in Basic Biological Research -- Chap 25: The Use of Animals in the Study of Human Disease: Key Roles of General Ethical Principles -- Chap 26: Ethical Issues Concerning Genetically Modified Animals for the Study of Human Diseases -- Chap 27: Of Mice-Rats and Pig-Men: Ethical Issues in the Development of Human/Nonhuman Chimeras -- Chap 28: Animals in Research in Pharmaceutical Industry -- Chap 29: Animal Use in Toxicity Studies -- Chap 30: Ethical Issues from the Use of Animals in the Cosmetics and Fashion Industries -- Chap 31: Is it Time to Phase Out the Use of all Nonhuman Primates in Invasive Research? -- Chap 32: Growing Human Organs Inside Animals -- Chap 33: Animal Cloning -- Section Two - Decision Making and Alternatives to Animal Use in Research -- Chap 34: Replacement, Reduction and Refinement -- Chap 35: Integrating Human and Nonhuman Research Ethics -- Chap 36: Regulation of Animal Research -- Section Three - GMOs for Global Challenges -- Chap 37: Ethical Issues in Genetically Modified Foods: From Transgenesis to CRISPR-Cas9 Genome Editing Technology -- Chap 38: GMOs and Human and Environmental Safety -- Chap 39: GMOs and Sustainable Agriculture.

Description / Table of Contents: Senescence opposed to longevity -- Genetics, the language of Proteomics -- Plants Uncover Senescence Animals Way Off Humans -- Rejuvenation stops Senescence -- Overlap of Senescence with Disease -- Mosaic Restricted to the Individuum -- Remaining Time until Death -- Laboratory Checkups -- eroprotectors.

Description / Table of Contents: Foreword: On Handbooks -- Introduction -- Scientific Integrity and Institutional Ethics: Challenges and Perspectives -- Part I - Research Ethics -- Section One - Scientific Integrity and Research Misconduct -- Chap 1: Data Alteration -- Chap 2: Research Misconduct and Questionable Research Practices -- Chap 3: Ethics of Authorship -- Chap 4: Dissemination of Research Results -- Chap 5: Conflicts of Interest in Research -- Chap 6: A Priori Publication Agreements to Improve Adherence to Ethics in Research Publications -- Section Two - Conducting Ethical Research -- Chap 7: Freedom of Scientific Research and Primacy of Human Being: Practical and Epistemological Tensions -- Chap 8: Exploitation in Biomedical Research -- Chap 9: Selection of Research Subjects: Methodological and Ethical Issues -- Chap 10: Confidentiality and Privacy in Digital Clinical Trials -- Chap 11: Dematerialization and Intellectual Property in the Biosciences -- Part II - Institutional Ethics and Bioethics Committees -- Section One - Institutional Ethics -- Chap 12: Historical Development of Institutional Ethics and Bioethics -- Chap 13: Principles of Institutional Ethics -- Chap 14: Institutional Review Boards (IRB): US Perspectives -- Chap 15: Decision Making within Institutions -- Chap 16: Scientific Advances, Ethical Oversight and Legal Institutionality -- Section Two - Ethics and Bioethics Committees -- Chap 17: Members and Structure of Institutional Bioethics Committees -- Chap 18: Foundations of Bioethical Decision-Making in Bioethics and Biolaw -- Chap 19: Just Doing Bioethics': Policy, Principle, and Process -- Chap 20: Ethics Education and Institutional Ethics Committees -- Chap 21: Role of Ethics Committees in Emergency Use of Unproven Interventions Outside Research -- Chap 22: The Ethics of Resource Allocation in Pandemics: A Bayesian Model -- Section Three - Bioethical Issues in Institutional Ethics -- Chap 23: Scientific Knowledge and Social Responsibility -- Chap 24: Conscientious Objection -- Chap 25: Institutional Liability in Research -- Chap 26: Research Assessments Should Recognize Responsible Research Practices. Narrative Review of a Lively Debate and Promising Developments -- Chap 27: Coercion in Mental Health Treatment.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. WHO Critical Priority Escherichia coli in Latin America: A One Health Challenge for a PostPandemic World -- Chapter 2. Recent progress on enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC) and antibiotic resistance in pathogenic E. coli -- Chapter 3. New concepts on domestic and wild reservoirs, and transmission of E. coli and its environment -- Chapter 4. New molecular mechanisms of virulence and pathogenesis in E. coli.-Chapter 5. Bovine reservoir of STEC and EPEC: advances and new contributions -- Chapter 6. Phages and Escherichia coli -- Chapter 7. Insights into animal carriage and pathogen surveillance in Latin America: the case of STEC and APEC -- Chapter 8. Shiga Toxin and its effect on the Central Nervous System -- Chapter 9. Relevance of Escherichia coli in fresh produce safety -- Chapter 10. Quantitative Microbial Risk Assessment of Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome due to Beef Consumption: Impact of Interventions to Reduce the Presence of Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli -- Chapter 11. An Updated Overview on the Resistance and Virulence of UPEC -- Chapter 12. Interactions of pathogenic Escherichia coli with gut microbiota -- Chapter 13. Emergence of Hybrid Escherichia coli Strains -- Chapter 14. Genomic analysis of pathogenic E. coli strains in Latin America -- Chapter 15. Therapeutic options for diarrheagenic Escherichia coli.

Description / Table of Contents: Brain Tissue Oxygen and BOLD fMRI Under Different Levels Of Neuronal Activity -- Cerebral Microcirculation and Oxygenation Modulation by Transcranial Alternating Current Stimulation in Awake and Anesthetized Mice -- The Effect of Hypercapnia on Cortical Metabolic Rate and Mitochondrial Redox Status -- Relationship Between Left-Right Dominancy of Prefrontal Cortex Activity and Heart Rate During Rest and Task Periods: An fNIRS Study -- Relationship Between Cognitive Function, Oral Conditions and Systemic Metabolic Function in the Elderly -- Pro-survival Phenotype of HIF-1α: Neuroprotection through Inflammatory Mechanisms -- Infradian Rhythms in Cerebrovascular Oxygenation and Blood Volume in Humans at Rest: A 5-year Study -- Mechanisms of Photostimulation of Brain’s Waste Disposal System: the Role of Singlet Oxygen -- Changes of Arterial and Venous Cerebral Blood Flow Correlation in Moderate-to-Severe Traumatic Brain Injury: A CT Perfusion Study -- Cerebral Net Water Uptake in Posttraumatic Cerebral Ischemia -- Brainstem Damage Underlies Changes in Hypoxic Ventilatory Response following Cardiac Arrest and Resuscitation in Rats -- Differences Between Good, Moderate and Poor Performers of a Verbal Fluency Task under Blue Light Exposure: An SPA-fNIRS Study -- Sex-specific and Dose-dependent Effects of Drag-Reducing Polymers on Microcirculation and Tissue Oxygenation in Rats after Traumatic Brain Injury -- Accuracy of Tissue Oxygen Saturation Measurements of a Textile-based NIRS Sensor -- Understanding the Role of Caveolae in Oxygen Buffering: The Effect of Membrane Curvature -- The Significance of Lipids for the Absorption and Release of Oxygen in Biological Organisms -- How Skin Color Depends on Tissue Oxygenation -- Tissue Concentration Analysis of Sulfur, Calcium and Oxygen in novel Skin Primo Nodes After Acupuncture -- Primo Vessels Inside Lymphatic Vessels are Absent in an ALS Mouse Model -- The Impact of Heterogeneous Cell Density in Hypoxic Tumors Treated with Radiotherapy -- A Critical Analysis of Possible Mechanisms for the Oxygen Effect in Radiation Therapy with FLASH -- Hyperhydration of Cancers: A Characteristic Biophysical Trait Strongly Increasing O2, CO2, Glucose and Lactate Diffusivities, and Improving Thermophysical Properties of Solid Malignancies -- No Difference in Muscle Basal Oxygenation in a Bedridden Population pre and Post Rehabilitation -- Relationship between Muscle Deoxygenation and Cardiac Output in Subjects without Attenuation of Deoxygenation Hemoglobin Concentration near the end of Ramp Cycling Exercise: A Longitudinal Study -- Image Reconstruction Using Deep Learning for Near-Infrared Optical Tomography: Generalization Assessment -- Neonatal Brain Temperature Monitoring Based on Broadband Near-Infrared Spectroscopy -- Time Domain Near-Infrared Optical Tomography Utilizing Full Temporal Data: A Simulation Study -- BIAN: A Multilayer Microfluidic-Based Tissue-Mimicking Phantom for Near-Infrared Imaging -- Do Vascular and Extracellular Measurements Consistently Reflect Intracellular pO2? Observation of Tissue Oxygenation Changes using Remote Photoplesysmography with a Smartphone -- Neurovascular, Metabolic, and Glymphatic Dynamics of the Brain Measured with fNIRS -- Imaging Cerebral Blood Vessels Using Near-Infrared Optical Tomography: A Simulation Study -- Reduced Cerebrovascular Oxygenation in Individuals with Post-Acute COVID-19 Syndrome (PACS) (“Long COVID”) -- Insufficient Oxygen Supplementation During Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation Leads to Unfavorable Biological Response While Hyperoxygenation Contributes to Metabolic Compensation -- Block of the Angiotensin Pathways Affects Flow-Volume Spirometry in Patients With SARS-CoV-2 Infection -- A Prospective Observational Pilot Study on the Effects of the Activity-based Stress Release Program on the Mental State and Autonomic Nervous System in Psychiatric patients. .

Description / Table of Contents: PART I: Fundamental Aspects -- Chapter 1. Definition of Tremor -- Chapter 2. Membrane Mechanisms of Tremor -- Chapter 3 Advances in the Genetics of Human Tremor -- Chapter 4. Two origins of tremors related to the Guillain-Mollaret triangle: the forward model-related tremor and the inferior olive oscillation-related tremor -- PART II:Tremor in Clinical Practice -- Chapter 5. Physiologic Tremor -- Chapter 6. Rest Tremor -- Chapter 7. Postural Tremors -- Chapter 8. Isometric Tremor -- Chapter 9. Essential Tremor and Other Forms of Kinetic Tremor -- Chapter 10. Cerebellar lesions and tremor -- Chapter 11. Orthostatic Tremor -- Chapter 12. Posttraumatic Tremor and Other Posttraumatic Movement Disorders -- Chapter 13 Tremor in Childhood -- Chapter 14. Metabolic Causes of Tremor -- Chapter 15. Drug-Induced Tremor -- Chapter 16. Tremor: The Clinical Approach to Reach the Diagnosis -- PART III: Assessment of tremor -- Chapter 17. Signal Processing -- Chapter 18. Diffusion imaging in Tremor -- Chapter 19. The role of the noradrenergic system in tremor pathogenesis -- Chapter 20. Metabolic Networks in Parkinson’s Disease -- PART IV: Therapies -- Chapter 21. Deep brain stimulation for tremor -- Chapter 22 Mechatronic Devices for Upper Limb Tremor.

Description / Table of Contents: Attenuation of Bnip3 Mediated Doxorubicin-Induced Cell Death in Cardiac Myocytes -- Sex Dependent Regulation of Circadian Rhythms in Health and Disease -- Circadian Pharmacological Approach to Treat Myocardial Infarct -- GPER Function as a Determinant of the Progression of Atherosclerotic Disease in Women -- Novel Therapeutic Approach to Treat Cardiac-Rheumatology in Females -- Correlation between Sex, Immigration Status, Ethnicity, and Long-term Outcomes of Ischemic Stroke -- Risk Assessment and Predictive Modelling for The Heart-Brain Interface in Women -- Insomnia Interventions for Female Cardiac Patients -- Aortic Stenosis Progression, Cardiac Damage, and Survival: Comparison Between Men and Women -- Treatment and Management of Valvular Heart Disease and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis -- Association of Mortality and Acute Aortic Events with Ascending Aortic Aneurysm -- Improving Diagnosis and Treatment for Patients Who Suffer Spontaneous Coronary Artery Dissection (SCAD) -- Preeclampsia and Future Cardiovascular Health -- Cardiovascular Disease in Women with a History of Pregnancy Complications -- Hormone Replacement Treatment for Cardiovascular Disease -- Cardiovascular Mortality Following Early-Stage Breast Cancer -- Lipid Management for the Prevention of Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease in Women -- Sex Differences in Cardiac Rehabilitation Enrollment -- Promoting Exercise and Physical Activity in Female Patients with Heart Disease -- Sex and Gender Differences in the Diagnosis, Treatment, and Outcomes of Coronary Artery Disease -- Sex Differences in Arterial Aging and its Implications on Cardiovascular Diseases -- Impact of a Novel Community-Based Lifestyle Intervention Program on Type 2 Diabetes and Cardiovascular Risk -- Clinical Outcomes Related to Heart Failure and Pulmonary Hypertension -- Examination of Health-Related Quality of Life in Women with Coronary Artery Disease -- The Risks and Benefits of Implantable Cardioverter-Defibrillator Generator Replacement -- The Effects and Roles of Estrogen in Managing Hypertension in Menopausal Women -- The Effects of Menopausal Hormone Therapy on the Vascular System -- Influence of Sex Differences in Non-Obstructive Coronary Artery Disease -- Diet1 and Resistance to High Cholesterol Levels and Cardiovascular Disease -- Interventions to Improve Clinical Outcomes Following Hospitalization for Heart Failure -- Sex-Dependent Cardioprotective Effects of the Phytoestrogen Resveratrol -- Blood Pressure Across a Woman's Life Cycle -- Women’s Fitness Levels and Heart Rate Response to Exercise -- Supervised Exercise Therapy Through Cardiac Rehabilitation following Peripheral Arterial Disease -- Sex Differences in ANT2-Mediated ATP Import into Mitochondria for Protection Against Hypoxia Lethal Injury.

Description / Table of Contents: Fundamentals of Tree and Vine Physiology -- Mechanical Management of Modern Planar Fruit Tree Canopies -- Orchard Water Management -- Vineyard Water Management -- Pests and diseases management -- Advanced Technologies for Crop-load Management -- Mechanical Harvesting -- Autonomous Platforms -- Management Information Systems and Emerging Technologies -- Economic and Societal Aspects.

Description / Table of Contents: Part 1: Setting the scene -- Chapter 1: Life after Academia: Launching your Pharma/Biotech Career -- Chapter 2: Competences for Pharmacists -- Chapter 3: Job and Career Opportunities in the Pharmaceutical Industry: An Overview -- Part 2: Opportunities along the drug/product life cycle -- Chapter 4: Career Opportunities in Toxicology -- Chapter 5: Job Possibilities in Clinical Research -- Chapter 6: How to Get and Develop a Career in a Market Access Role in the Medical Devices Industry -- Chapter 7: Job Opportunities in Pharmaceutical Marketing -- Chapter 8: Working in Medical Affairs and Clinical Operations: Life-Changing Careers -- Chapter 9: The Role of Medical Science Liaison -- Chapter 10: Career Development for Physicians in the Biopharmaceutical Industry -- Part 3: Opportunities in Supportive Functions -- Chapter 11: Job and Career Opportunities in Regulatory Affairs/Science -- Chapter 12: Job Opportunities in Clinical Research Quality Assurance -- Chapter 13: Job Opportunities in Quality Assurance Related to Manufacturing of Medicinal Products -- Part 4: Other Opportunities in the Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sector -- Chapter 14: Careers Perspective in a Science and Technology Park -- Chapter 15: To be or not to be: Entrepreneurship and Enterprise Creation as a Way to Innovate in Life Sciences -- Chapter 16: How to Become a Successful Hospital and Community Pharmacist -- Part 5: Practical tips and tricks -- Chapter 17: A Successful Career in the Life Sciences Industry: How to Write your Strongest Resumé and Ace that Interview -- Chapter 18: Skill Building for Career Advancement: Public Speaking and Networking -- Chapter 19: Training Opportunities for a Career in the Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Industry/Sector.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction on Tuberculosis: Integrated Studies for a Complex Disease -- 2. Global Tuberculosis Epidemiology -- 3. Heterogeneity in Tuberculosis -- 4. The Unequivocal Relationship between Tuberculosis and Tobacco: Integration of Two Maladies -- 5. Relationship between Pre-existing Cancer and Tuberculosis -- 6. Laboratory Diagnosis of Tuberculosis -- 7. The Role of Diagnostic Microdevices in the Fight Against Tuberculosis -- 8. Immunodiagnostics of Tuberculosis: Recent Discoveries -- 9. Role of Bronchoscopy in Diagnostics and Treatment of Tuberculosis -- 10. Diagnosis of Childhood Tuberculosis in Low- and Middle-income Countries -- 11. Pediatric Tuberculosis: Current Evidence for Laboratory Diagnosis -- 12. A Multidisciplinary Approach Towards Finding and Treating All Tuberculosis Patients -- 13. Chemotherapy for Drug-Susceptible Tuberculosis -- 14. The Pharmacokinetic and Pharmacodynamic Properties of Antitubercular Medications -- 15. Immune Approaches In Tuberculosis Treatment -- 16. Inhalation Therapy in Pulmonary Tuberculosis -- 17. Role of Micronutrients in Tuberculosis Management -- 18. Drug Resistance in Tuberculosis: Mechanisms, Diagnosis, New Responses, and the Need for An Integrated Approach -- 19. Resistance in Tuberculosis: Molecular Mechanisms and Modulation -- 20. Personalized Tuberculosis Care for Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis -- 21. Important Targets and Inhibitors of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis -- 22. P-type ATPases: A Relevant Component in Mycobacterium tuberculosis Viability -- 23. The Challenges of Antitubercular Drug Discovery -- 24. Exploring Decaprenylphosphoryl-β-D-ribose 2’-Epimerase 1 (DprE1): A Target for Anti-Tubercular Drugs -- 25. Energy Pathways in Mycobacterium Tuberculosis -- 26. Drug Discovery for Non-Tuberculous Mycobacteria: Recent Updates -- 27. Challenges for Contact Tracing and Tuberculosis Preventive Therapy Scale-up -- 28. Exploring Problematizations Underlying Tuberculosis Control Strategies: A Cross-Country Analysis of India and Kenya -- 29. Challenges in Prevention and Management of Tuberculosis -- 30. Tuberculosis in Contacts and Healthcare Workers -- 31. Tuberculosis Among People Who Use Drugs: Multilevel Considerations for Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment -- 32. Anti-Tumor Necrosis Factor-α Antagonists and Tuberculosis -- 33. Breast Tuberculosis -- 34. Central Nervous System Tuberculosis: Pathogenesis, Diagnosis, and Management -- 35. Pleural Tuberculosis -- 36. Ocular Tuberculosis -- 37. Ocular Tuberculosis: Biomarkers for Risk Stratification -- 38. Bone and Joint Tuberculosis -- 39. Abdominal Tuberculosis: Pathogenesis, Clinical Features, and Diagnosis -- 40. Bovine Tuberculosis at The Interface of Cattle, Wildlife, and Humans -- 41. Evolution and Molecular Characteristics of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis and Mycobacterium Bovis -- 42. Animal Tuberculosis: Gross Lesions and Anatomopathological Diagnosis -- 43. Estimation of Microbial Mutation Rates in Tuberculosis Research -- 44. The Role of Epigenetics in the Development of Anti-Tuberculosis Drug Resistance -- 45. Multiomics Integration of Tuberculosis Pathogenesis -- 46. Lung Microbiome in Tuberculosis -- 47. The Correlation of Microbiota and Host Epigenome in Tuberculosis -- 48. The Pathogenesis and Progression of Sarcoidosis from The Standpoint of Tuberculosis -- 49. Tuberculosis: A Historical and Global Bioethical Perspective -- 50. The Problem of Tuberculosis: Myths, Stigma, and Mimics -- 51. Tuberculosis: Integrated Studies for a Complex Disease 2050.

Description / Table of Contents: Overview of Freeze Drying -- Characterization and Determination of Freeze Drying Properties of Frozen Formulations – Case Studies -- Beyond pH: Acid/base relationships in frozen and freeze-dried pharmaceuticals -- Concepts and Strategies in the Design of Formulation for Freeze Drying -- Formulation Design for Freeze Drying - Case studies of Stabilization of Proteins -- Challenges and Considerations in the Development of a High Protein Concentration Lyophilized Drug Product -- Freeze-drying of thermosensible pharmaceuticals with organic co-solvent + water formulations -- Primary container closure system selection for lyophilized drug products -- Vial Breakage During Lyophilization -- The Nucleation of Ice -- Stresses, Stabilization, and Recent Insights in Freezing of Biologics -- Lyophilization Process Understanding and Scale-up using ab initio Vial Heat Transfer Modeling -- Secondary drying: Challenges and Considerations -- Design and Process Considerations in Spray Freeze Drying -- LyoPRONTO: Deterministic and Probabilistic Modeling. Tutorial and Case Study -- Utilizing Solid-State NMR Spectroscopy to Assess Properties of Lyophilized Formulations -- Design of Moisture Studies for a Lyophilized Product -- Laser-Based Headspace Moisture Analysis for Rapid Nondestructive Moisture Determination of Lyophilized Products -- Application of PAT in Real-time Monitoring and Controlling of Lyophilization Process -- Process Analytical Technology (PAT) for Lyophilization Process Monitoring and End Point Detection -- Advances in Process Analytical Technology – A Small Scale Freeze-Dryer for Process Analysis, Optimization, and Transfer -- Overview of Heat and Mass Transfer Modeling in Lyophilization to Create Design Spaces and Improve Process Analytical Tool (PAT) Capability -- Application of QbD elements in the Development and Manufacturing of a Lyophilized product -- Characterization of Freeze Dryer -- Scale-up and Technology Transfer of a Lyophilization Process -- Lyophilization Validation: Process Design and Modeling -- Lyophilization Validation: Process Qualification and Continued Process Verification -- Homogeneity Assessment of Lyohilized Biological Drug Products During Process Performance Qualification -- Informed Manufacturing through the use of Big Data Analytics for Freeze Drying Process & Equipment -- Multivariate Analysis for Process Understanding, Continuous Process Verification and Condition Monitoring of Lyophilization Processes -- Lyophilized Drug Product Cake Appearance: What Is Acceptable?.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Management of Biobanks -- Chapter 2. Quality Management -- Chapter 3. Documentation and Records -- Chapter 4. Human Resources Management -- Chapter 5. Ethical and Legal Aspects -- Chapter 6. Supplies, Materials Management -- Chapter 7. Equipment -- Chapter 8. Traceability -- Chapter 9. Environmental and Staff Hygiene -- Chapter 10. Biobanking Processes and Quality Control -- Chapter 11. Deviations, Nonconforming Product/Data or Service -- Chapter 12. Audits -- Chapter 13. Improvement -- Chapter 14. Biobank Cooperation in the Scientific, Research and Development Area -- Chapter 15. Safety and Security.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction on Integrated Science of Global Epidemics -- Emerging Viral Infections in Human Population -- One Health as An Integrated Approach: Perspectives from Public Services for Mitigation of Future Epidemics -- Multipronged Approach to Combat COVID-19: Lessons from Previous Pandemics for the Future -- Response to Disease Outbreaks in Africa: A Call to Build Resilient Health Systems -- Navigating Global Public Influenza Surveillance Systems for Reliable Forecasting -- Three Respiratory Syndrome Epidemics (SARS, MERS, COVID-19) in Two Decades: Clinical Epidemiological Considerations -- Epidemic in Complex Networks and Some Ideas About the Impact of Isolation Strategies in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic -- Optimal Control: Application and Applicability in Times of Pandemics -- Analysis of A COVID-19 Model Implementing SocialDistancing as An Optimal Control Strategy -- Impact of Policy Implementations on the Propagation of COVID-19 Before Vaccine -- Environmental Factors Associated with Global Pandemic Transmission and Morbidity -- Urbanization and the Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases: Towards the Social Framing of Global Responses -- Pandemics and Mass Casualties: Cornerstones of Management -- Social Marketing Contributions to Mitigate Global Epidemics -- The Significance of Super Intelligence of Artificial Intelligence Agencies in the Social Savageries of COVID-19: An Appraisal -- Integration of Sex and Gender Approaches in National Ethics Committees’ Mandate to Appraise COVID-19 Research Protocols: Lessons from West Africa -- Psychology, Law, Ethics, Telehealth, and the Global Pandemic -- Physical Inactivity, Sedentarism, and Low Fitness: A Worldwide Pandemic for Public Health -- The Global Epidemic of Diabesity: Are We Heading for An Unsustainable Future? -- Nutrition, Function, and Quality of Life in Older Adults Socially Isolated Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Focus on Telehealth Interventions -- Africa’s Response to Pandemics -- Vaccine Hesitancy and Refusal: History, Causes, Mitigation Strategies -- Vaccine Compliance versus Trust in a Pandemic -- Child Development in A Crisis: A Pandemic -- HIV/AIDS Problems and Policies in Adolescent Population -- Addressing Needs of Foreign Schoolchildren to Combat a Global Epidemic of Dengue Virus Infection: Transnational and Trans-sectoral Initiatives -- Integrated Science of Global Epidemics 2050.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I: Molecules, Genes, Cells and Mechanisms -- Chapter 1: An Introduction to Human Cancers -- Chapter 2: Cancer Genetics -- Chapter 3: DNA Damage and DNA Repair -- Chapter 4: Oncogenes -- Chapter 5: Tumor Suppressor Genes -- Chapter 6: Cancer Pathways -- Chapter 7: Cell Death and Replicative Senescence in Cancer -- Chapter 8: Cancer Epigenetics -- Chapter 9: Invasion and Metastasis -- Part II: Human Cancers -- Chapter 10: Leukemias And Lymphomas -- Chapter 11: Pediatric Cancers -- Chapter 12: Cancers of the Skin -- Chapter 13: Colorectal Cancer -- Chapter 14: Bladder Cancer -- Chapter 15: Lung Cancer -- Chapter 16: Renal Cell Carcinomas -- Chapter 17: Liver Cancer -- Chapter 18: Gastric Cancer -- Chapter 19: Breast Cancer -- Chapter 20: Prostate Cancer -- Part Iii: Prevention, Diagnostics and Therapy -- Chapter 21: Cancer Prevention -- Chapter 22: Cancer Diagnostics -- Chapter 23: Cancer Therapy.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: The Structure And Function Of Living Organisms -- Chapter 2: Energy In Biology – Demand And Use -- Chapter 3: Information – Its Role And Meaning In Organism -- Chapter 4: Regulation In Biological Systems -- Chapter 5: Interrelationship In Organized Biological Systems. .

Description / Table of Contents: Part 1: Introduction to squirrels of the world and their conservation trends. Chapter 1: The World’s Squirrel Taxonomy -- Chapter 2: Evolution, habitat trends, and extinction rate estimates of the world squirrels -- Part 2: Squirrels of the world in the Anthropocene. Chapter 3: Habitat Trends and the Squirrel-Human Interface -- Chapter 4: A Meta-analysis based on Open Access Big Data Mining of Global Predicted Squirrel Distribution Models with Machine Learning for IUCN Conservation Status and Trend Policy Assessments -- Chapter 5: Squirrels in Cities -- Chapter : Squirrels in the Tropics -- Chapter 7: Squirrels on Islands -- Chapter 8: Tree squirrels in old-growth forests? -- Chapter 9: Can squirrels be used as indicators to identify and protect old-growth forest reserves? -- Chapter 10: Squirrel Economics -- Part 3: Problems and governance in the squirrel world. Chapter 11: Squirrel Hunting Regulations and Enforcement (Or Lack Thereof) -- Chapter 12: Where do the World’s Squirrel Hotspots and Coldspots of 230+ species go with Climate change 2100? -- Chapter 13: Squirrel’s marginalization and modern lack of conservation and poor sustainability outlook as a call to good action -- Part 4: First conclusions and the way forward. Chapter 14: A Conservation Management SWOT analysis for over 300 Squirrels of the World using 132 GIS layers confirming the PESTLE assessment -- Chapter 15: First Conclusions, Success stories, and Calls-to-action for the conservation of the world’s squirrels.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I. The History and Philosophy of Medical Imaging -- Chapter 1. Re:Viewing Observation. The Philosophy of Medical Imaging -- Part II. Innovation in Imaging Technologies -- Chapter 2. Emerging Imaging Techniques in Anatomy: For Teaching, Research and Clinical Practice -- Chapter 3. Mapping of Orthopaedic Fractures for Optimal Surgical Guidance -- Chapter 4. Visualising the Dural Venous Sinuses Using Volume Tracing, a Novel Approach -- Chapter 5. Placental Morphology and Morphometry: Is It a Prerequisite for Future Pathological Investigations? -- Part III. Art-Based Practice and Body Science -- Chapter 6. Drawing: A Dialogue across Disciplines -- Chapter 7. Visualizing the Human Body Using an Artistic Approach -- Chapter 8. Construction of Facial Composites from Eyewitness Memory.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Malignant Glioma -- Chapter 2. Benign Glioma -- Chapter3. Meningioma and Other Meningeal Tumors -- Chapter4. Epondymomas in Pediatric and Adults -- Chapter5. Medulloblastomas in Pediatric and Adults -- Chapter6. Benign and Malignant Tumors of The Pineal Region -- Chapter7. The Tumors of Choroid Plexus and Other Ventricular Tumors -- Chapter8. Embryonal Tumors of The Central Nervous System with Multilayered Rosettes and Atypical Teratoid/Rhabdoid Tumors -- Chapter9. Glioneuronal and Neuronal Tumors of the Central Nervous System -- Chapter10. Benign and Malignant Tumors of the Pituitary Gland -- Chapter11. Craniopharyngioma in Pediatric and Adults -- Chapter12. Schwannomas of Brain and Spinal Cord -- Chapter13. Other Nerve-Sheet Tumors of Brain and Spinal Cord -- Chapter14. Hemangioblastomas and Other Vascular Originating Tumors of Brain or Spinal Cord -- Chapter15. Brain and Spinal Cord Tumors of Embryonic Origin -- Chapter16. Brain and Spinal Tumors Originating from the Germ Line Cells -- Chapter17. Benign Brain and Spinal Tumors Originating from Bone or Cartilage -- Chapter18. Benign Spinal Tumors -- Chapter19. Other Less Prevalent Tumors of the Central Nervous System -- Chapter20. Brain and/or Spinal Cord Tumors Accompanied with Other Diseases or Syndromes -- Chapter21. Psychological and Psychiatric Aspects of Brain and Spinal Cord Tumors -- Chapter22. A Brief Explanation on Surgical Approaches for Treatment of Different Brain Tumors.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. The human genome and its variations -- 2. Gene expression and chromatin -- 3. The basal transcriptional machinery -- 4. Transcription factors and signal transduction -- 5. A key transcription factor family: Nuclear receptors -- 6. DNA methylation -- 7. Histone modifications -- 8. Chromatin remodeling and organization -- 9. Regulatory impact of non-coding RNA -- 10. Genome-wide principles of gene regulation -- 11. Epigenetics in development -- 12. Epigenetics and aging -- 13. Epigenetics and disease -- 14. Cells and tissues of the immune system -- 15. Innate immunity and inflammation -- 16. Adaptive immunity and antigen receptor diversity -- 17. B cell immunity: BCRs, antibodies and their effector functions -- 18. Antigen-presenting cells and MHCs -- 19. T cell immunity: TCRs and their effector functions -- 20. Immunity to bacterial pathogens and the microbiome -- 21. Immunity to viral pathogens and the virome -- 22. Tolerance and transplantation immunology -- 23. Immunological hypersensitivities: Allergy and autoimmunity -- 24. Introduction to cancer -- 25. Oncogenes, signal transduction and the hallmarks of cancer -- 26 Tumor suppressor genes and cell fate control -- 27. Multistep tumorigenesis and genome instability -- 28. Cancer genomics -- 29. Cancer epigenomics.-30. Aging and cancer -- 31. Tumor microenvironment -- 32 Metastasis and cachexia -- 33. Cancer immunology -- 34 Architecture of cancer therapies -- 35 Nutrition and common diseases -- 36 Interference of the human genome with nutrients -- 37. Nutritional epigenetics, signaling and aging -- 38. Chronic inflammation and metabolic stress -- 39. Obesity -- 40. Insulin resistance and diabetes -- 41. Heart disease and the metabolic syndrome -- 42 Epigenetics, inflammation and disease.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Interdisciplinarity, GIScience, and Socio-environmental Research in Latin America -- Chapter 2. Using Spatial Time-series and Field Data to Understand Cultural Drivers of Land Change: Connecting Land Conflict and Land Change in Eastern Amazonia -- Chapter 3. Crossing Boundaries: Transboundary Geographic Information in the Amazon Borderlands of Peru and Brazil -- Chapter 4. Territorial Implications of Economic Diversification in the Waorani Ancestral Lands -- Chapter 5. New Insights on Water Quality and Land Use Dynamics in the Napo Region of Western Amazonia -- Chapter 6. From Mapping to Guiding: An Emergent Framework for the Multiple Uses of Remote Sensing and GIScience in Socio-Environmental Research in the Peruvian Andes -- Chapter 7. The Use of Remote Sensing in Air Pollution Control and Public Health -- Chapter 8. Human-environmental Interactions and their Impacts on Temperate Forests in the Exploradores Valley in Western Patagonia -- Chapter 9. El Chaltén, Argentine Patagonia: A successful Combination of Conservation and Tourism? -- Chapter 10. GIS Approaches to Environmental Justice in Mexico’s Oil and Gas Production Zones with Implications for Latin America -- Chapter 11. Contributions to Socio-Environmental Research through Participatory GIS in Archaeology -- Chapter 12. Comparing Volunteered Data Acquisition Methods on Informal Settlements in Mexico City and São Paulo: a Citizen Participation Ladder for VGI -- Chapter 13. CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES Interdisciplinary GIScience Research on Human-environment Dynamics in Latin America.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: 202 Application of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Surveying and Mapping in Mines: A Review -- Chapter 2: 147 Traditional and Advanced Techniques for Extraction of Large Dimension Stone Blocks for Rock-cladding and Monumental Purposes -- Chapter 3: 017 Mining-induced Land Subsidence Detected by Persistent Scatterer InSAR: Case Study in Pniówek Coal Mine, Silesian Voivodeship, Poland -- Chapter 4: 156 Slope Stability Evaluation of Fenghuangshan Landfill Under Rainfall Condition: A Case Study -- Chapter 5: 117 Forecasting PM10 Concentration from Blasting Operations in Open-Pit Mines Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Inference System -- Chapter 6: 066 Assessing the Effect of Open-pit Mining Activities and Urbanization on Fine Particulate Matter (PM2.5) Concentration by Using Remote Sensing Imagery. A Case Study in Binh Duong Province, Vietnam -- Chapter 7: 016 Effect of Loading Frequency on the Liquefaction Resistance of Poorly Graded Sand -- Chapter 8: 144 An Automatic Method for Clay Minerals Extraction from Landsat 8 OLI Data. A Case Study in Chi Linh City, Hai Duong Province -- Chapter 9: 009 Evaluation of the Precision of SARAL/AltiKa and Sentinel-3A Satellite Altimetry Data over the Vietnam Sea and Its Surroundings -- Chapter 10: 070 Detection of GNSS-TEC Noise Related to the Tonga Volcanic Eruption Using Optimization Machine Learning Techniques and Integrated Data -- Chapter 11: 149 Stability of Road Embankments on Weak Soils -- Chapter 12: 053 Indirect Georeferencing in Terrestrial Laser Scanning: One-step and Two-step Approaches -- Chapter 13: 196 Technological Solutions for Fly Ash and Red Mud Upcycling Approach the Vietnam's Government Target of Net-zero Carbon By 2050 -- Chapter 14: 153 Pile-soil Interaction Mechanism and Optimization Measures Based on Finite Element Method -- Chapter 15: 055 Determination of Illegal Signs of Coal Mining Expansion in Thai Nguyen Province, Vietnam From a Combination of Radar and Optical Imagery Mine Production Tracking Platform and Its Initial Application in the Digital Transformation for a Vietnamese Coal Exploitation Company Chapter 21: 163 Shear Strength of Poorly Graded Granular Material in Multi-stage Direct Shear Test -- Chapter 22: 152 High–resolution Seismic Reflection Survey of Young Sediment at Can Gio Coast, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam -- Chapter 23: 140 Analysis of Geological Structures by 2D Magnetotelluric Inversion in Bang Hot Spring Area, Quang Binh Province -- Chapter 24: 119 Physicochemical characteristics of the Middle Triassic Limestone in Ha Nam Province, Vietnam and the Ability of Adsorption of Heavy Metal Ions from Aqueous Environments -- Chapter 25: 159 Local Mechanical Behaviors of Steel Box Girder During Skew Incremental Launching -- Chapter 26: 094 GIS Applications in Land Adaptability Mapping for Perennial Industrial Crops in Nghe An Province -- Chapter 27: 083 Land-use and Land-cover Change Detection and Classification to Analyze Dynamics of Dragon Fruit Farming in Sand Dunes Area of Binh Thuan Province of Vietnam -- Chapter 28: 059 Random Forest Analysis of Land Use and Land Cover Change Using Sentinel-2 Data in Van Yen, Yen Bai Province -- Chapter 29: 155 Engineering Geological Problems of Foundation Pit Construction in Quaternary Strata: Taking Suzhou Area as An example Chapter 30: 034 Roof Condition Characteristics Affecting the Stability of Coal Pillars and Retained Roadway -- Chapter 31: 194 On the Flow Assurance for Un-Insulated Subsea Pipeline Systems: Application on the Multiphase Pipeline from Pearl Field to FPSO Ruby II Offshore Vietnam -- Chapter 32: 017 Detection of Underground Anomalies by Evaluation of Ground Penetrating Radar Attribute Combination -- Chapter 33: 157 Dynamic Failure Process of Soil Particles at the End of Shield Tunnel Based on Discrete Element -- Chapter 34: 205 Early Triassic Tectonic Evolution in the Northeastern Kontum Massif: New Constrains from the S-type Granite in Ba To Area, Quang Ngai Province, Central Vietnam -- Chapter 35: 035 Proposal of Study on InSAR-based Land Subsidence Analysis as Basis for Subsequent Hydro-mechanical Modeling: A Case Study of the Hanoi City, Vietnam.

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

Description / Table of Contents: Geometric Reference Frames -- Combined IVS Contribution to the ITRF2020 -- An Experimental Combination of IGS repro3 Campaign’s Orbit Products Using a Variance Component Estimation Strategy -- The Correlations of the Helmert Transformation Parameters as an Additional Auxiliary Diagnostic Tool for Terrestrial Reference Frames Quality Assessment -- Shimosato Co-Location of the SLR and GNSS Stations -- Local Ties at SLR Station Riga -- Datum Problem Handling in Local Tie Surveys at Wettzell and Metsähovi -- Close Range Photogrammetry for High-Precision Reference Point Determination: A Proof of Concept at Satellite Observing System Wettzell -- Frame Accuracy of Combined EPN Weekly Coordinate Solutions -- The Atlantic Network of Geodynamic and Space Stations (RAEGE): A Spanish-Portuguese Infrastructure of Geodetic Stations -- ITRF Densification in Cyprus -- Geodetic Analyses at the National Geographic Institute of Spain -- Large-Scale Dimensional Metrology for Geodesy - First Results from the European GeoMetre Project -- Bureau of Products and Standards: Description and Promotion of Geodetic Products -- Physical Height Systems -- Can an Earth Gravitational Model Augmented by a Topographic Gravity Field Model Realize the International Height Reference System Accurately? -- Assessing Molodensky’s Heights: A Rebuttal -- On the Accuracy of Geoid Heights Derived from Discrete GNSS/Levelling Data Using Kriging Interpolation -- Gravimetric Geoid Modeling by Stokes and Second Helmert’s Condensation Method in Yogyakarta, Indonesia -- A Geodetic Determination of the Gravitational Potential Difference Toward a 100-km-scale Clock Frequency Comparison in a Plate Subduction Zone -- Validation of the Hellenic Gravity Network in the Frame of the ModernGravNet Project -- Global Gravity Field Modeling -- Combined Gravity Solution from SLR and GRACE/GRACE-FO -- Contribution of LARES SLR Data to Co-estimated Earth Geopotential Coefficients -- Determination and Combination of Monthly Gravity Field Time Series from Kinematic Orbits of GRACE, GRACE-FO and Swarm -- Topographic Gravity Field Modelling for Improving High-Resolution Global Gravity Field Models -- The Benefit of Accelerometers Based on Cold Atom Interferometry for Future Satellite Gravity Missions -- Kalman-Filter Based Hybridization of Classic and Cold Atom Interferometry Accelerometers for Future Satellite Gravity Missions -- Gravimetry by Nanoscale Parametric Amplifiers Driven by Radiation-Induced Dispersion Force Modulation -- Earth Rotation -- On the Improvement of Combined EOP Series by Adding 24-hour VLBI Sessions to VLBI Intensives and GNSS Data -- Investigating the Relationship Between Length of Day and El-Niño Using Wavelet Coherence Method -- Estimation of Earth Rotation Parameter UT1 from Lunar Laser Ranging Observations -- Surface Deformation Monitoring -- Determination of a GNSS-Based Velocity Field of the African Continent -- Vertical Land Motion at Tide Gauges Observed by GNSS: A New GFZ-TIGA Solution -- CyCLOPS: A National Integrated GNSS/InSAR Strategic Research Infrastructure for Monitoring Geohazards and Forming the Next Generation Datum of the Republic of Cyprus -- GNSS Positioning -- Dilution of Precision (DOP) Factors for Evaluating Observations to Galileo Satellites with VLBI -- On the Limits of State-of-the-Art GNSS Receivers in Frequency Transfer -- On the Effect of Antenna Calibration Errors on Geodetic Estimates: Investigation on Zero and Double Difference Approaches -- Estimation and Calibration of Codephase Center Correction Using the Empirical Mode Decomposition -- On the Potential of Image Similarity Metrics for Comparing Phase Center Corrections -- Multipath Characterization Using Ray-Tracing in Urban Trenches -- Bounding the Residual Tropospheric Error by Interval Analysis -- Precise Orbit Determination of CubeSats Using Proposed Observations Weighting Model -- Geodetic Atmospheric and Remote Sensing -- Optimal TEC Forecast Models Based on Machine Learning and Time Series Analysis Techniques – A Preliminary Study on the Ring of Fire -- Sensitivity of Shipborne GNSS Troposphere Retrieval to Processing Parameters -- Application of the Total Variation Method in Near Real-Time GNSS Tropospheric Tomography -- Comparison of the Effective Isotropic Radiated Power Parameter in CYGNSS v2.1 and v3.0 Level 1 Data and Its Impact on Soil Moisture Estimation -- Cross-Polarization Correction for Soil Moisture Retrieval Using GNSS SNR Data.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1-Land use and land cover change: advancing with geographic information science -- Chapter 2-Land use in Ontario: challenges in land use classification -- Chapter 3-The golden horseshoe: land use from past to present -- Chapter 4-First nations reserves in Ontario: effects of urban sprawl -- Chapter 5-Archaeological heritage and urban sprawl: corridors of change -- Chapter 6-The cityscape: urban growth in Toronto -- Chapter 7-Land use and health perception -- Chapter 8-Environmental injustice in southern Ontario -- Chapter 9-Happiness and land use. .

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Vegetation Fires and Biomass Burning in South/Southeast Asia – An Overview -- Section I: Mapping , Monitoring and Modeling of Vegetation Fires -- 2. Wildfire monitoring using infrared bands and spatial resolution effects -- 3. Status and Drivers of Forest Fires in Myanmar -- 4. Vegetation Fires and Entropy Variations In Myanmar -- 5. Crop residue burning and forest fire emissions in Nepal -- 6. Firewood Burning Dynamics by the Sri Lankan Households: Trends, Patterns, and Implications -- 7. Burnt Area Signal Variations in Agriculture and Forested Landscapes of India - A Case Study Using Sentinel A/B Synthetic Aperture Radar -- 8. Application of Interferometry SAR for Monitoring of Peatland Areas– Case Studies in Indonesia -- 9. Active Fire Monitoring of Thailand and Upper ASEAN by Earth Observation Data: benefits, lessons learned and what still needs to be known -- 10. Detecting Vegetation Regrowth after Fires in Small Watershed Settings Using Remotely Sensed Data and Local Community Participation Approach -- 11. Long-Term Spatiotemporal Distribution of Fire over Maritime Continent and their Responses to Climate Anomalies -- 12. Vegetation Fires in Laos - An Overview -- 13. Vegetation Fires, Fire Radiative Power and Intermediate Fire Occurrence Intensity (IFOI) Hypothesis Testing in Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia -- 14. Analyzing fire behavior and calibrating a fire growth model in a seasonal dry tropical forest area -- Section II: Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Air Pollution -- 15. Spatiotemporally resolved pollutant emissions from biomass burning in Asia -- 16. Twenty-year variations of aerosol optical depth over Asia in relation to anthropogenic and biomass burning emissions -- 17. Light Absorption Properties of Biomass Burning Emissions in Bangladesh: Current State of Knowledge -- 18. Remote Sensing of greenhouse gases and aerosols from agricultural residue burning over Pakistan -- 19. A comparative study of energy, emissions and economic efficiency of various cookstoves in Nepal -- 20. Estimation of Ultrafine Particulate Matter Emissions from Biomass Burning Using Satellite Imaging and Burn Severity -- 21. Characteristics of Transboundary Haze and General Aerosol over Pulau Pinang, Malaysia -- 22. Measurements of atmospheric carbon dioxide emissions from fire-prone peatlands in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, using ground-based instruments -- 23. Air Pollution Caused by Deep Peatland Fire in Central Kalimantan -- 24. Chemical Speciation of PM0 Emissions from Peat Burning Emission in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia -- 25. GHG emissions estimation from Peatland fires in Indonesia – Review and Importance of Combustion Factor -- 26. Forest Fire Emissions in Equatorial Asia and Their Recent Delay Anomaly in the Dry Season -- Section III: Air Pollution Modeling and Decision Support Systems -- 27. Impact of vegetation fires on regional aerosol black carbon over South and East Asia -- 28. Detection and Modeling of South Asian Biomass Burning Aerosols from both Macro- and Micro-perspective -- 29. Remote sensing of agricultural biomass burning aerosols, gaseous compounds, long-distance transport and impact on air quality -- 30. Agricultural fires in Northeast China: Characteristics, Impacts, and Challenges -- 31. Air Pollution Modelling in Southeast Asia – An Overview -- 32. Trace gases and air quality in Northwestern Vietnam during recurrent biomass burning on the Indochina Peninsula since 0 – Field Observations and Atmospheric Simulations -- 33. Southeast Asian Transboundary Haze in the Southern Philippines, and Meteorological Drivers -- 34. An Operational Fire Danger Rating System for Thailand and Lower Mekong Region: Development, Utilization, and Experiences -- 35. Fires Hotspot Forecasting in Indonesia Using Long Short-Term Memory Algorithm and MODIS Datasets.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Chapter1. Physical Setting of Nile Delta Coast -- Chapter2. Geomorphometric of Nile Delta Coastline -- Chapter3. Coastline Change Detection -- Chapter4. GIS – based Modeling of Sea-Level Rise by the end of 21th century -- Chapter5. Coastal Erosion Hazard Mapping -- Chapte6. Multi-Criteria Coastal Vulnerability Assessment -- Conclusion and Recommendations.

Description / Table of Contents: Part 1. Multi-hazards monitoring -- Chapter 1. Evaluating the Multi Hazards Threats Due to Aridity, Sea Level Upsurge in the Coastal Areas of North Tamil Nadu, South India -- Chapter 2. Active Tectonics and Associated Channel shifting pattern of Neora river basin, Darjeeling Himalaya -- Chapter 3. Estimating Soil Loss Rate and Sediment Yield of the Proposed Ngololweni Earth Dam, Kingdom of Eswatini -- Chapter 4. Flood susceptibility mapping using GIS and multi-criteria decision analysis in Dibrugarh district of Assam, North-East India -- chapter 5. Effects of climatic hazards on agriculture in the Teesta basin of Bangladesh -- Chapter 6. Mizoram, the capital of landslide: A review of articles published on landslides in Mizoram, India -- Chapter 7. Deployment of Geostatistical and Geospatial Technology for Groundwater Quality Vulnerability Assessment Using Hydrogeochemical Parameters: A Case Study of NCT Delhi -- Chapter 8. A Literature Review of the Impact of Covid-19 Pandemic on Land Surface Temperature and Air Quality of India -- Chapter 9. Seasonal and Inter-Annual Variation of Chlorophyll and Sea Surface Temperature in Northern and Southern Arabian Sea, India -- Chapter 10. Application of a geospatial based subjective MCDM method for flood susceptibility modeling in Teesta River basin, West Bengal, India -- Chapter 11. Flood Frequency Analysis of Baitarani River using three probability distributions -- Chapter 12. Application of Analytical hierarchy process (AHP) method to flood risk assessment at Sub-Himalayan region using geospatial data: A case study of Alipurduar district, West Bengal, India -- Chapter 13. Remote Sensing and GIS Based Landslide Susceptibility Mapping: A Case Study from Kegalle District, Sri Lanka -- Chapter 14. Landslide Susceptibility Evaluation And Analysis: A Review On Articles Published During 2000 To 2020 -- Chapter 15. Assessment of the social impact of arsenicosis through groundwater arsenic poisoning in Maldah district -- Chapter 16. Ground water depletion zonation using Geospatial technique and TOPSIS in Raipur District, Chhattisgarh, India -- Part-II. Multi-hazards Management -- Chapter 17. Terrain Sensitivity guided and People’s Perception based Risk Area Management of the hills of Darjeeling district, India -- Chapter 18. Wastewater treatment in India- a new perspective -- Chapter 19. Adaptation to climate change in agriculture at Teesta basin in Bangladesh -- Chapter 20. Land use/Land cover change detection through the spatial approach: a case study of the Badiadka panchayath, Kerala -- Chapter 21. Application of AHP and Geospatial technology in Groundwater potentiality mapping: A Case Study from Tamil Nadu, India -- Chapter 22. Expected Climate-Induced Alterations in Sugarcane Yield Distribution and Its Agronomic Adaptation Strategies -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Chaptre 1. Brain and Spinal Cord Tumors Among the Life-Threatening Health Problems: An Introduction -- Chaptre 2. Epidemiology of Brain and Spinal Cord Tumors -- Chaptre 3. The Role of Neuro-inflammation and Innate Immunity in Pathophysiology of Brain and Spinal Cord Tumors -- Chaptre 4. The Role of Cellular Immunity and Adaptive Immunity in Pathophysiology of Brain and Spinal Cord Tumors -- Chaptre 5. Immunotherapy as a New Therapeutic Approach for Brain and Spinal Cord Tumors -- Chaptre 6. Cell of Origin of Brain and Spinal Cord Tumors -- Chaptre 7. The Role of Bioinformatics and Imaging Models in Tumorigenesis and Treatment Response of Brain and Spinal Cord Neoplasms -- Chaptre 8. The Role of Epigenetics in Brain and Spinal Cord Tumors -- Chaptre 9. Stem Cells and Targeted Gene Therapy in Brain and Spinal Cord Tumors -- Chaptre 10. Nutrition and Diet: A Double-Edged Sword in Development and Treatment of Brain Tumors -- Chaptre 11. The Role of Nanotechnology in Brain Tumors -- Chaptre 12. The Role of Nanotechnology in Spinal Cord Tumors -- Chaptre 13. The Economic Burden of Malignant Brain Tumors.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 A short introduction to vaccines -- Chapter 2 Thermostability of vaccines -- Chapter 3 Drying technologies for vaccines -- Chapter 4 Aseptic spray drying technology -- Chapter 5 Design of experiment studies and scale-up -- Chapter 6 Applications of spray dried vaccines.-Chapter 7 Conclusions and future perspectives of spray-dried vaccines.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I. Microscopy -- Chapter 1. Advances in Microscopy and Its Applications with Special Reference to Fluorescence Microscope: An Overview -- Chapter 2. Visualisation of Host-Pathogen Communication -- Chapter 3. A Review of Pathology and Analysis of Approaches to Easing Kidney Disease Impact: Host-Pathogen Communication and Biomedical Visualization Perspective -- Part II. Radiology and Patient Care -- Chapter 4. The Evolution of Equipment and Technology for Visualising the Larynx and Airway -- Chapter 5. The Impact of Technological Innovation on Dentistry -- Chapter 6. Advanced 3D Visualization and 3D Printing in Radiology -- Chapter 7. 3D Visualisation of the Spine -- Part III. Anatomy Education -- Chapter 8. Visualization in Anatomy Education -- Chapter 9. Visualizing Anatomy in Dental Morphology Education -- Chapter 10. Flashcards: The Preferred Online Game-Based Study Tool Self-Selected by Students to Review Medical Histology Image Content.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Implications of renin-angiotensin system in health and disease -- 2. Renin angiotensin system and aging -- 3. The interplay of the renin-angiotensin system and solid organ transplantation -- 4. Correlation between renin angiotensin system and infectious disease -- 5. Emerging contributions of endocrine pathophysiology in virus-related infectious disease -- 6. Understanding the renin-angiotensin system in coronavirus disease 2019 -- 7. Metabolomics approach in differentiating RAS responses in ARDS (Acute respiratory distress syndrome) and SAR-CoV-2 -- 8. A Comprehensive review of the impact of the renin angiotensin system in the liver, lung, infectious diseases and cancers -- 9. Application of biosensors for monitoring changes in renin angiotensin system (RAS) in cancers and lung diseases -- 10. Bioinformatics study on renin angiotensin in lung, and liver cancer using plant-based extracts -- 11. Role of renin-angiotensin system in the pathogenesis and progression of non-alcoholic fatty liver -- 12. The classical and nonclassical renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system in liver cirrhosis -- 13. Renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system role in organ fibrosis -- 14. Role of renin angiotensin-aldosterone system in kidney homeostasis -- 15. Renin-angiotensin system in chronic kidney disease: Implications in stroke outcome -- 16. The renin-angiotensin system and cancer -- 17. Renin-angiotensin system and cancer: From laboratory to clinics -- 18. Role of renin-angiotensin system in cancer cachexia -- 19. Renin angiotensin system activity in different cancers: Mechanistic insight and preclinical studies -- 20. The new dimension of the renin-angiotensin system in the hallmarks of cancer -- 21. Renin-angiotensin system in hematological malignancies -- 22. Renin angiotensin system (RAS): The common thread between cancer and heart failure -- 23. Renin-angiotensin system: a potential therapeutic target for colorectal cancer -- 24. Anticancer role of natural phenolic acids by targeting angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) -- 25. Angiotensin-(1-7): A Prospective Cancer Therapeutic.

Description / Table of Contents: Preface (Brianne K. Connizzo, Lin Han, Robert L. Sah) -- Scientific Impact -- Chapter 1. Aggrecan and Hyaluronan: The infamous Cartilage Polyelectrolytes- Then and Now (Anna Plaas, Meghan Moran, John Sandy, Vincent Hascall) -- Chapter 2. Understanding the Influence of Local Physical Stimuli on Chondrocyte Behavior (Byumsu Ki, Lawrence J. Bonassar) -- Chapter 3. Multiscale In Silico Modeling of Cartilage Injuries (Rami K. Korhonen, Atte S.A. Eskelinen, Gustavo A. Orozco, Amir Esrafilian, Cristina Florea, and Petri Tanska) -- Chapter 4. In Vitro Models and Proteomics in Osteoarthritis Research (Martin Rydén, Patrik Önnerfjord) -- Chapter 5. Nanomechanics of Aggrecan: A New Perspective on Cartilage Biomechanics, Disease and Regeneration (Chao Wang, Elizabeth R. Kahle, Lin Han) -- Chapter 6. Computational Modelling for Managing Pathways to Cartilage Failure (Saeed Miramini, David W. Smith, Bruce S. Gardiner, Lihai Zhang) -- Chapter 7. Gene Delivery to Chondrocytes (Christopher V. Nagelli, Christopher H. Evans, Rodolfo E. De la Vega) -- Chapter 8. Mechanical Articular Cartilage Injury Models and Their Relevance in Advancing Therapeutic Strategies (Bodo Kurz, Melanie L Hart, Bernd Rolauffs) -- Chapter 9. Hip Osteoarthritis: Bench to Bedside Perspective (Young-Jo Kim) -- Chapter 10. Harnessing Growth Factor Interactions to Optimize Articular Cartilage Repair (Stephen B. Trippel) -- Personal Tributes -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Chapter 1. Transcriptomics of the carotid body (Audrys G. Pauza, David Murphy and Julian F. R. Paton) -- Chapter 2. The adult carotid body: a germinal niche at the service of physiology (Ricardo Pardal) -- Chapter 3. Evidences that sympathetic overactivity and neurogenic hypertension correlate with changes in the respiratory pattern in rodent models of experimental hypoxia (Benedito H. Machado) -- Chapter 4. Control of arterial hypertension by the AhR blocker CH-223191: a chronopharmacological study in chronic intermittent hypoxia conditions (António B. Pimpão, Cátia Sousa, Maria J. Correia, Nuno R. Coelho, Emília Monteiro, António F. Melo Júnior and Sofia A. Pereira) -- Chapter 5. Three days of chronic intermittent hypoxia induces β1-adrenoceptor dependent increases in left ventricular contractility (Anthony L. Marullo, Eric F. Lucking, Daniel Pender, Pardeep Dhaliwal and Ken D. O’Halloran) -- Chapter 6. The beneficial effect of the blockade of stim-activated TRPC-ORAI channels on vascular remodeling and pulmonary hypertension inducedby intermittent hypoxia is independent of oxidative stress (Rodrigo Iturriaga and Sebastián Castillo-Galán) -- Chapter 7. Intermittent hypoxia and weight loss: insights into etiology of the sleep apnea phenotype (Marianne Gagnon, Stéphanie Fournier, François Marcouiller, Loralie Guay, Vincent Joseph, Natalie J Michael and Richard Kinkead) -- Chapter 8. Effects of gestational intermittent hypoxia on placental morphology andfetal development in a murine model of sleep apnea (Esther Valverde-Pérez, Jesús Prieto-Lloret, Elvira Gonzalez-Obeso, María I. Cabero, Maria L. Nieto, Marta I. Pablos, Ana Obeso, Angela Gomez-Niño, Rosa M. Cárdaba-García, Asunción Rocher and Elena Olea) -- Chapter 9. Ventilatory effects of acute intermittent hypoxia in conscious dystrophic mice (Michael N. Maxwell, Anthony L. Marullo, Aoife D. Slyne, Eric F. Lucking and Ken D. O’Halloran) -- Chapter 10. Intermittent hypoxia and diet-induced obesity on the intestinal wall morphology in a murine model of sleep apnoea (Esther Valverde-Pérez, Elena Olea, Ana Obeso, Jesús Prieto-Lloret, Asunción Rocher and Elvira Gonzalez-Obeso) -- Chapter 11. Enhanced peripheral chemoreflex drive is associated with cardiorespiratory disorders in mice with coronary heart disease (Liena Bravo, Katherin V. Pereyra, Hugo S. Diaz, Mariajosé Flores, Karla G. Schwarz, Camilo Toledo, Esteban Díaz-Jara, Leticia González, Marcelo E. Andia and Rodrigo Del Rio) -- Chapter 12. Role of peripheral chemoreceptors on enhanced central chemoreflex drive in non-ischemic heart failure (Katherin Pereyra, Esteban Díaz-Jara, Paulina Arias, Liena Bravo, Camilo Toledo, Karla Schwarz and Rodrigo Del Rio) -- Chapter 13. Effect of carotid body denervation on systemic endothelial function in a diabetic animal model (Marlene D. Cabral, Fátima O. Martins, Inês B. Martins, Bernardete F. Melo, Joana F. Sacramento, Silvia V. Conde and Jesus Prieto-Lloret) -- Chapter 14. Contribution of carotid bodies on pulmonary function during normoxia and acute hypoxia (Karla G. Schwarz, Maríajose Flores, Nicolas Voituron and Rodrigo Del Rio) -- Chapter 15. Increased abdominal perimeter differently affect respiratory function in men and women (Joana F. Sacramento, Iolanda Caires, Maria P. Guarino, Maria J. Ribeiro, João C. P. Santiago, Ana T. Timóteo, Mafalda Selas, Miguel Mota-Carmo and Silvia V. Conde) -- Chapter 16. Carotid body resection prevents short-term spatial memory decline in prediabetic rats without changing insulin signaling in the hippocampus and prefrontal cortex (Adriana M. Capucho, Ana Chegão, Fátima O. Martins, Bernardete F. Melo, Natália Madeira, Joana F. Sacramento, Rosalina Fonseca, Hugo Vicente Miranda and Sílvia V. Conde) -- Chapter 17. Constitutive Expression of Hif2a Confers Acute O2 Sensitivity to Carotid Body Glomus Cells (Olalla Colinas, Alejandro Moreno-Domínguez, Patricia Ortega-Sáenz and José López-Barneo) -- Chapter 18. Of mice and men, and plethysmography systems: does LKB1 determine the set point of carotid body chemosensitivity and the hypoxic ventilatory response? (A. Mark Evans) -- Chapter 19. Analyzing angiotensin II receptor type 1 clustering in PC12 cells in response to hypoxia using direct stochastic optical reconstruction microscopy (dSTORM) (Hayyaf S. Aldossary, Daniel J. Nieves, Deirdre M Kavanagh, Dylan Owen, Clare J Ray, Prem Kumar, Andrew M. Coney and Andrew P. Holmes) -- Chapter 20. The Carotid Body “Tripartite Synapse”: Role of Gliotransmission (The Carotid Body “Tripartite Synapse”: Role of Gliotransmission) -- Chapter 21. Necroptosis contributes to reduced carotid body-mediated chemoreflex function during aging in mice (Esteban Díaz-Jara, Karla G Schwarz, Angelica Ríos-Gallardo, Camilo Toledo, Julio A Alcayaga, Felipe A Court and Rodrigo Del Rio) -- Chapter 22. Chronic metformin administration does not alter carotid sinus nerve activity in control rats (Joana F. Sacramento, Bernardete F. Melo, Jesus Prieto-Lloret and Silvia V. Conde) -- Concluding remarks.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Lysine demethylation in pathogenesis -- Chapter 2. Targeting the LSD1/KDM1 Family of Lysine Demethylases in Cancer and Other Human Diseases -- Chapter 3. KDM2 demethylases as drug targets -- Chapter 4. Role of histone demethylase KDM3 (JMJD1) in transcriptional regulation and cancer progression -- Chapter 5. KDM4 demethylases as drug targets -- Chapter 6. KDM5 lysine demethylases in pathogenesis, from basic science discovery to the clinic -- Chapter 7. Context-dependent functions of lysine demethylases in physiology and disease -- Chapter 8. KDM7 demethylases as drug targets.

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- 1. PPPM innovation in primary, secondary, and tertiary care -- 2. Suboptimal Health Innovation: From Bench to Bedside -- 3. What is the routine mitochondrial health check-up good for? A holistic approch in the framework of 3P nedicine -- 4. Prehabilitation as an integral procedure in predictive, preventive, and personalized medicine and modern and effective healthcare -- 5. Pathophysiology of the acute pain chronification and the possibilities of its prediction and prevention -- 6. Prevention and prediction of body posture defects in children aged 5-6 years -- 7. A powerful paradigm: Predictive, preventive, and personalized medicine with multiomics of human pituitary adenomas -- 8. Critical Role of Telemedicine as a Platform for Preventive, Predictive and Personalized Diabetes Care During the COVID-19 Pandemics -- 9. Gut microbiome and liver dieases from the perspective of 3PM – the predictive, preventive, and personalized medicine -- 10. Computer–Aided Breast Cancer Classification Framework for Predictive, Preventive, and Personalized Medicine -- 11. Preventive and Personalized Strategies in Ambulatory and Clinical Cardiac Electrophysiology -- 12. Wound healing from bench to bedside: a PPPM bridge between physical therapies and chronic inflammation -- 13. Advantages of thermovision imaging for PPPM approach to diabetic foot -- 14. Predictive, Preventive and Personalized approach in Sleep Medicine -- 15. Chronic mental disorders - limitations and perspectives of prediction, prevention, diagnosis and personalized treatment in psychiatry -- 16. Development of artificial intelligence algorithms to analyse weather conditions for the prediction of cerebrovascular accidents -- 17. Periodontal health status is pivotal for an effective disease prediction, targeted prevention and personalised treatments of associated pathologies -- 18. Does the evaluation of ocular blood supply play a role in glaucoma diagnostics and prognosis of progression? -- 19. Wearable Revolution: Predictive, Preventive, Personalized Medicine (PPPM) Par Excellence.

Description / Table of Contents: Foreword -- Cardiac mechanoperception and mechanotransduction - Mechanisms of stretch sensing in cardiomyocytes and implications for cardiomyopathy -- Mechanotransduction in heart development -- Mechanobiology of cardiac growth in health and disease -- The role of mechanosensitive signaling cascades in repair and fibrotic remodeling of the infarcted heart -- Mechanobiology of cardiac fibroblasts in cardiac remodelling -- Mechanobiology of cardiac remodelling in cardiomyopathy -- Biophysical Stretch Induced Differentiation and Maturation of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell-derived Cardiomyocytes -- Mechanical Considerations of Myocardial Tissue and Cardiac Regeneration -- Mechanobiology of Exercise-Induced Cardiac Remodeling in Health and Disease -- Cardiac microvascular endothelial cells and pressure overload-induced cardiac fibrosis -- Cellular and Subcellular Mechanisms of Ventricular Mechano-Arrhythmogenesis -- Computational biomechanics of ventricular dyssynchrony and resynchronization therapy -- Therapeutic innovations for heart failure.

Description / Table of Contents: Part 1: Patient-Centric Considerations.-Medicine Optimisation in Older -- Acceptability of drug formulations in older patients and effect on patient adherence -- Geriatric biopharmaceutics -- Excipient safety in older adults -- Part 2: Pharmaceutical Formulations Development for older Patients -- Oral and oromucosal formulation development and in vitro characterisation – patient-centric approaches for older adults -- Pulmonary drug delivery systems for older people -- Transdermal drug delivery systems for older patients -- Part 3 :Advanced Drug Delivery Systems for Older Patients -- Advanced oral drug delivery systems for older patients -- The ageing microbiome, pharmaceutical considerations and therapeutic opportunities -- Application of 3D printing in geriatric medicines, -- Application of electrospraying and advanced fabrication methods in geriatric medicines -- Vaccine development for older patients.

Description / Table of Contents: Part 1: History of Nonhuman Primates in Captivity and Primate Welfare in different Settings -- Chapter 1: The History of Primates in Zoos -- Chapter 2: The History of Chimpanzees in Biomedical Research -- Chapter 3: Using Primates in Captivity: Research, Conservation, and Education -- Chapter 4: The Welfare of Primates in Zoo -- Chapter 5: Welfare of Primates in Laboratories: Opportunities for Improvement.– Chapter 6: The Welfare of Primates Kept as Pets and Entertainers -- Chapter 7: Primates Under Human Care in Developing Countries: Examples from Latin America -- Part 2: Assessing Nonhuman Primate Welfare -- Chapter 8: Using Behavior to Assess Primate Welfare -- Chapter 9: Cognitive Bias Tasks: A New Set of Approaches to Assess Welfare in Nonhuman Primates -- Chapter 10: Physiological Measures of Welfare -- Chapter 11: Questionnaires and Their Use in Primate Welfare -- Part 3: Nonhuman Primate Housing and Husbandry -- Chapter 12: Meeting Cognitive, Behavioral, and Social Needs of Primates in Captivity -- Chapter 13: Primate Breeding Colonies: Colony Management and Welfare -- Chapter 14: Common Husbandry, Housing, and Animal Care Practices -- Chapter 15: Housing and Husbandry for Primates in Zoos -- Chapter 16: Humane End Points and End of Life in Primates Used in Laboratories -- Part 4: Individual Differences, Application, and Improvement of Nonhuman Primate Welfare -- Chapter 17: Primate Personality and Welfare -- Chapter 18: Sociality, Health, and Welfare in Nonhuman Primates -- Chapter 19: Benefits of Improving Welfare in Captive Primates -- Chapter 20: Enrichment -- Chapter 21: Challenging Cognitive Enrichment: Examples from Caring for the Chimpanzees in the Kumamoto Sanctuary, Japan and Bossou, Guinea -- Chapter 22: Training Research Primates -- Part 5: Biomedical Research, Ethics, and Legislation surrounding Nonhuman Primate Welfare -- Chapter 23: Arguments Against Using Nonhuman Primates in Research -- Chapter 24: The Indispensable Contribution of Nonhuman Primates to Biomedical Research -- Chapter 25: An unexpected symbiosis of animal welfare and clinical relevance in a refined nonhuman primate model of human autoimmune disease -- Chapter 26: Animal Welfare, Animal Rights, and a Sanctuary Ethos -- Chapter 27: The Welfare Impact of Regulations, Policies, Guidelines and Directives and Nonhuman Primate Welfare.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Critique -- The Ideal Study -- What Can Go Wrong? -- Does It Really Go Wrong? -- The Consequences -- Construction -- Summary and Conclusions.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introductory chapter: Early applications and evolution of blockchain implementations in medicine -- 2. Can Blockchain Technology Change Contemporary Medicine As It Is Currently Understood? -- 3. The Current State of Healthcare Information Exchange (HIE) and Proposing a Blockchain HIE Infrastructure -- 4. An amalgamation of blockchain and connected health for combating COVID-19 -- 5. Applications of Blockchain Technology in the COVID-19 Era. 6. Distributed Ledgers and Immunity Passports: The Intersection of Clinical Medicine and Digital Technology -- 7. Digital Identity, Computational Reliabilism, and the Future of IOMT: Epistemic Reasoning and The Role of Blockchain in Removing Human Tampering from Pharmacovigilance Decision Making -- 8. Potential implementations of blockchain technology in patient safety: A high-level overview -- 9. Blockchain in Medical Education -- 10. Blockchain in Education: Linking Competency Assessment with Credentialing -- 11. Optimizing Blockchain Technology in Academic Medicine -- 12. Distributed Research Networks -- 13. Use of Blockchain Technology for Implantable Medical Device Tracking -- 14. Application of Blockchain Technology in Healthcare Supply Chains.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Principles of molecular recognition -- 2. Theoretical Aspects -- 3. Molecular Recognition Units in Sensor Constructions -- 4. Binding blocks and Interfaces Designed for Sensing -- 5. Probing the properties of continuous media and interfaces -- 6. Detection of Ions and Low-molecular Targets -- 7. Detection of Biological Macromolecules and Recognition of harmful microbes -- 8. Sensing Inside the Living Cells -- 9. Ex-vivo Clinical Diagnostics -- 10. Imaging in vivo -- 11. Theranostics: Combining Targeting, Imaging and Therapy -- 12. Opening new horizons.

Description / Table of Contents: Foreword -- Acknowledgement -- Chapter I. DEVELOPMENTS IN KNOWLEDGE OF PLANT DERIVED NATURAL PRODUCTS PHARMACOGNOSY IN THE 21ST CENTURY -- Chapter II. QUALITY REQUIREMENTS FOR HERBAL DRUGS; ANALYTICAL METHODS -- Chapter III. BIOSYNTHESIS OF PLANT SUBSTANCES; BIOGENETIC RELATIONSHIPS -- Chapter IV. DISCUSSION OF HERBAL DRUGS BASED ON THE BIOGENETIC CLASSIFICATION OF THEIR MAIN ACTIVE COMPONENTS -- Chapter V. BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITY OF COMPOUNDS OF PLANT ORIGIN -- Chapter VI. PLANT BIOTECHNOLOGY -- Chapter VII. APPENDIX -- Abbreviations.

Description / Table of Contents: Chap 1. Research Environment -- Chap 2. Training, Supervision and Mentoring -- Chap 3. Research Procedures -- Chap 4. Safeguards -- Chap 5. Data Practices and Management -- Chap 6. Collaborative Working -- Chap 7. Publication and Dissemination -- Chap 8. Reviewing, Evaluating and Editing -- Chap 9. How to deal with allegations of misconduct.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Biochemistry of hyaluronan synthesis -- Chapter 2: Update on hyaluronan in development -- Chapter 3: Long non-coding RNAs and epigenetic regulation of hyaluronan synthesis -- Chapter 4: The hyaluronan-rich zones of plasma membrane protrusions and extracellular vesicles -- Chapter 5: Hyaluronan in Kidney Fibrosis -- Chapter 6: Inter-α-inhibitor proteins: A review of structure and function -- Chapter 7: CD44: Does CD44v6 adversely impact the prognosis of cancer patients? -- Chapter 8: The pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of 4-methylumbelliferone and its glucuronide metabolite in mice -- Chapter 9: The role of hyaluronan in skin wound healing -- Chapter 10: Sulfated hyaluronan: a novel player in cancer therapeutic and bioengineering approaches.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction and History of Meningiomas -- Chapter 2. Clinical Presentation and Prognosis -- Chapter 3. Imaging Characteristics of Meningiomas -- Chapter 4. Histopathology of Meningiomas -- Chapter 5. Skull Base Meningiomas -- Chapter 6. Spinal Meningiomas -- Chapter 7. Surgical Therapies -- Chapter 8. Radiation Therapies -- Chapter 9. Illustrative Cases -- Chapter 10. Advances in CNS Tumor Classification -- Chapter 11. Genomic Landscape -- Chapter 12. Radiation-Induced Meningiomas -- Chapter 13. Meningioma Predisposing Syndromes -- Chapter 14. Epigentic Landscape -- Chapter 15. Immune Profile -- Chapter 16. PDX Models/Mouse Models/Cell Lines -- Chapter 17. Novel Medical Therapies -- Chapter 18. Quality of Life in Menigioma Patients -- Chapter 19. Illustrative Cases: Revisited with Adjuvant Molecular Data -- Chapter 20. Future Directions in Management.

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Part I: Backscatter Coefficient methods -- Chapter 1. Quantitative Ultrasound: an Emerging Technology for Detecting, Diagnosing, Imaging, Evaluating, and Monitoring Disease (Ernie Feleppa) -- Chapter 2. Quantitative Ultrasound: Scattering theory (Michael Oelze) -- Chapter 3. Quantitative Ultrasound: Experimental implementation (Michael Oelze) -- Chapter 4. Extracting Quantitative Ultrasonic Parameters from the Backscatter Coefficient (Aiguo Han) -- Part II: Attenuation Estimation Methods -- Chapter 5. Attenuation Compensation and Estimation (Timothy Bigelow and Yassin Labyed) -- Chapter 6. Recent advances in attenuation estimation (Ivan Rosado Mendez) -- Part III: Envelope Statistics Methods -- Chapter 7. Review of envelope statistics models for quantitative ultrasound imaging and tissue characterization (Francois Destrempes and Guy Cloutier) -- Chapter 8. Information entropy and its applications (Po-Hsaing Tsui) -- Part IV: Ultrasound Computed Tomography -- Chapter 9. Ultrasound Tomography (Nicole Ruiter, Torsten Hopp, Michael Zapf and Hartmut Gemmek) -- Chapter 10. Full Wave Inversion and Inverse Scattering in Ultrasound Tomography/Volography (James Wiskin) -- Chapter 11. Clinical Importance of 3D Volography in Breast Imaging (John Klock) -- Part V: Acoustic microcopy -- Chapter 12. Acoustic Microscopy (Yoshifumi Saijo) -- Chapter 13. Advanced Topics in Quantitative Acoustic Microscopy (Cameron Hoerig and Jonathan Mamou) -- Part VI: Phantoms for Quantitative Ultrasound -- Chapter 14. Phantoms for Quantitative Ultrasound (Tim Stiles) -- Index.

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

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 -- The Basics -- Chapter 2. Collecting Specimen and Harvesting Tissues -- Chapter 3. Drugs Administration -- Chapter 4. Surgical Principles -- Chapter 5. Vascular Surgery. .

Description / Table of Contents: Sleep and circadian clock : Novel players in health impacts and Aging -- Cells and circuits of the suprachiasmatic nucleus and the control of circadian behaviour and sleep -- Circadian roles in sleep -- Age-related decline in the central circadian clock -- Cellular clocks in senescent cells -- Optimum sleep for healthy aging.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Malaria Epidemiology in China: a Historical Review -- Chapter 2: A Fact Sheet on Malaria: Global Status and Significant Species -- Chapter 3: Malaria-free in China: A Story of more than 70 Years -- Chapter 4: Malaria Parasites: Species, Life Cycle and Morphology -- Chapter 5: Pathogenesis and Clinical Features of Malaria -- Chapter 6: Morphology of Malaria Parasites at the Erythrocytic Stage -- Chapter 7: Immunodiagonsis of Malaria -- Chapter 8: Molecular Basis of Malaria Pathogenesis -- Chapter 9: Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning in Malaria Diagnosis -- Chapter 10: Current Treatments for Malaria -- Chapter 11: Artemisinin Resistance in the Malaria Parasite Plasmodium falciparum -- Chapter 12: Traditional Chinese Medicines for Malaria Therapy.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Part 1. History of UPE research -- Mitogenetic rays -- Oxidation, free-radicals and ultraweak luminescence -- Biophotons and the International Institute of Biophysics (IIB) -- Part 2. Physics of light and light research -- Physics of photon emission -- Chemiluminescence as a tool for free radical research -- Highly sensitive imaging and spectral analysis of UPE from biological systems and their application -- Part 3. Molecular mechnisms of UPE -- Free radicals in biology -- Ultraweak luminescence from aqueous systems -- Chemiluminescence in oxidation of hydrocarbons: mechanistic fundamentals -- Chemiluminescence in oxidation of fatty acids and lipids -- Chemiluminescence in protein oxidation -- Emitters of endogenous biological chemiluminescence: quantum chemical modeling insights -- Enzymatic sources of free radicals -- Part 4. UPE research in life science -- Luminescence of animal tissues and vegetable oils -- Ultraweak photon emission from human body in relation to anatomy and histology -- Chronobiological aspects of spontaneous ultra-weak photon emission in humans: Ultradian, circadian and infradian rhythms -- Autoluminescence in seedlings: applications -- Application potentiality of Delayed Luminescence in Medicine, Biology and Food Quality researches -- Part 5. Mitogenetic effect and related phenomena: unresolved problems of UPE -- Mitogenetic effect: preface -- Mitogenetic effect in biological systems -- Physical properties of mitogenetic radiation -- Secondary, degradation and necrobiotic radiation -- Mitogenetic research in medicine: radiation of blood and cancer diagnostics -- Part 6. Non-chemical distant interaction hypothesis - pro et contra -- Non-chemical distant interaction: preface -- The possible functions of electromagnetic cell communication -- Understanding of Fritz-Albert Popp’s biophoton theory from the viewpoint of a biologist -- Limits to the information transfer through UPE -- Quantum nonlocality and biological coherence -- Part 7. Perspectives -- Integrating ultraweak photon emission in mitochondrial research -- Selected biophysical methods for enhancing biological autoluminescence -- Upconverting nanoparticles as sources of singlet oxygen -- Upconverting nanoparticles as sources of singlet oxygen -- Delayed Luminescence as a tool to study the structures of systems of biological interest and their collective long-living excited states -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: The Scientific Discovery of Merapi: From Ancient Javanese Sources to the 21st Century -- Physical Environment and Human Context at Merapi Volcano: A Complex Balance Between Accessing Livelihoods and Coping With Volcanic Hazards -- Merapi and Its Dynamic 'Disaster Culture' -- The Geodynamic Setting and Geological Context of Merapi Volcano in Central Java, Indonesia -- Crustal Structure and Ascent of Fluids and Melts Beneath Merapi: Insights From Geophysical Investigations -- Geological History, Chronology and Magmatic Evolution of Merapi -- The Godean Debris Avalanche Deposit From a Sector Collapse of Merapi Volcano.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction to Participatory Mapping Software and Evaluation -- Chapter 2: Collector for ArcGIS -- Chapter 3: Field Papers -- Chapter 4: GeoODK -- Chapter 5: Maptionnaire -- Chapter 6: KoBoToolbox -- Chapter 7: SeaSketch -- Chapter 8: Sapelli -- Chapter 9: Survey123 -- Chapter 10: Ushahidi -- Chapter 11: Mapeo -- Chapter 12: Terrastories -- Chapter 13: Portable OpenStreetMap -- Chapter 14: MapBox -- Chapter 15: Trends and Conclusions.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- An Assessment of Dry Animal Dung to Power Generation and Investigation of A Possible Solar-Biogas Synergy -- An Assessment of the effects of Environmental factors on postharvest storage of some crops cultivated in Kaduna -- Analysis of Garment Manufacturing Process: A Case study (SUR Military and Civil clothing Factory) -- Application of Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process for Replan of Omdurman Islamic University Main Campus to ensure Sustainable Environment -- Biological Nitrogen Removal of Monoethanolamine (MEA) from Petrochemical Wastewater using Activated Sludge Process -- Biological Organic Removals of Monoethanolamine (MEA) in an Activated Sludge System -- Bioremediation of Domestic Wastewater Using Pistia Stratiotes and Lemna Minor Plants -- Comparative Review of Global and Malaysian Green Building Rating Systems: Literature review -- Determination of Quality Parameters of Biodiesel from Feedlot Manure for Optimization of Production Process Conditions -- Developing performance dashboard for operational KPIs of water distribution network -- Development of Artificial Intelligence Techniques in Predicting Water Quality Parameters for Effective Project Management in A Complex River System.

Description / Table of Contents: Modern Methods of Rock Mass Characterisation and Rock Fall Monitoring: A Review -- Rock Mass Characterization and Rockfall Monitoring: Traditional Approaches -- Criteria of the Prehistoric Rock Avalanches Identification and Discrimination -- Stability Assessment of Markundi Hills Using Q-slope, SMR and Simulation Tools -- Geotechnical Investigation of Landslide in Ooty, India -- Geomechanical and Kinematic Stability Analysis of Unstable Slopes (near 9th km stone) on Palani – Kodaikkanal Ghat Section in Tamil Nadu -- Geological and Geotechnical Studies of Nungkao Landslide along Imphal-Jiribam National Highway, NH-37, Manipur, India -- Stability Assessment of Lateritic Soil Slope along NH-66, Ratnagiri Maharashtra, India -- Rockfall Hazard: A Comprehensive Review of Current Mitigation Practices -- Debris Flow Hazard in India: Current Status, Research Trends, and Emerging Challenges -- Early Warning System for Rainfall Induced Landslide – A Laboratory Prototype Model -- Study and Instrumental Monitoring of Landslides at the "Russkie Gorki" Site in the Mzymta River Valley, Sochi Region, Russia -- Application of Scoops3D and GIS for Assessing Landslide Hazard in Trung Chai Commune, Sapa, Vietnam -- Landslide Susceptibility Assessment using Frequency Ratio Model in Turung Mamring, South District of Sikkim, India -- Mapping of Annual Ground Displacement using Remote Sensing Methods for Critical Slopes along the Bhagirathi River in Uttarakhand, India -- Landslides Inventory of Active Ramgarh Thrust Zone through Image Processing and GIS Techniques in Sikkim, India -- Landslide Susceptibility Zonation Mapping using Frequency Ratio, Information Value Model, and Logistic Regression Model: A Case Study of Kohima District in Nagaland, India -- Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Technology for Slope Hazard Assessment, Monitoring, and Post Failure Management -- Landslide Hazard Assessment Using Machine Learning and GIS -- Social and Economic Impacts of Kotropi Landslide on National Highways of Himalayas – A Case Study. .

Description / Table of Contents: Part I: Terrestrial, Shipboard and Airborne Gravimetry -- Measurement of Absolute Gravity and Deflection of the Vertical at Sea -- Multi-scenario Evaluation of the Direct Method in Strapdown Airborne and Shipborne Gravimetry -- Improving Gravity Estimation Accuracy for the GT-2A Airborne Gravimeter Using Spline-Based Gravity Models -- Gravimetric Studies in the Sea of Japan -- About Identification of Instrument Error Parameters for a Gravity Gradiometer -- Numerical Model of Moving-Base Rotating Accelerometer Gravity Gradiometer -- New Algorithm for Gravity Vector Estimation from Airborne Data Using Spherical Scaling Functions -- Results of Astro-measurements of the Deflection of Vertical Using the New Observation Technique -- Observations with gPhone Gravimeter in Moscow -- Part II: Absolute Gravimetry -- On Uncertainties of Laser Interferometric Absolute Ballistic Gravimeters due to Magnetic Effects in the Free-Fall Gravity Measurements -- Evaluation of Systematic Errors in the Compact Absolute Gravimeter TAG-1 for Network Monitoring of Volcanic Activities -- Design of New Launch and Interferometer Systems for the IMGC-02 Absolute Gravimeter -- Twelve Years of High Frequency Absolute Gravity Measurements at the UK’s Space Geodesy Facility: Systematic Signals and Comparison with SLR Heights -- Part III: Relative Gravimetry and Applications -- Studying the Evolution of Resolution Capabilities and Approximation Accuracy of Global Models by Spectral Characteristics -- The Role of Non-tidal Atmospheric Loading in the Task of Gravity Field Estimation by Inter-satellite Measurements -- Formation of Self-consistent Navigational Gravity Maps of Local Areas and Joint Assessment of Their Navigation Quality -- Methods of Bistatic GNSS-radio Altimetry for Determining Height Profile of the Ocean and Their Experimental Verification -- Absolute and Relative Gravity Measurements at Volcanoes: Current State and New Developments Under the NEWTON-g Project -- The Effect of Measurement Preprocessing in the Gravity-Aided Navigation -- Sensitivity of Algorithms for Estimating the Gravity Disturbance Vector to Its Model Uncertainty.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Remote Sensing and Artificial Intelligence for Urban Environmental Studies -- Chapter 2. A Systematic Review on the Application of Geospatial Technology and Artificial Intelligence in Urban Growth Modeling -- Chapter 3. Urban Expansion Monitoring Using Machine Learning Algorithms on Google Earth Engine Platform and Cellular Automata Model: A Case Study of Raiganj Municipality, West Bengal, India -- Chapter 4. Multi-Temporal Dynamics of Land Use Land Cover Change and Urban Expansion in the Tropical Coastal District of Kozhikode -- Chapter 5. Land Use Land Cover Change Modeling and Forecasting in Mumbai City by Integrating Cellular Automata and Artificial Neural Network -- Chapter 6. Monitoring Urban Sprawl Using Geo-Spatial Technology: A Case Study of Kanpur City, India -- Chapter 7. Studying Urban Growth Dynamics in Indo–Gangetic Plain -- Chapter 8. Monitoring and Prediction of Spatiotemporal Land Use Land Cover Change Using Markov Chain Cellular Automata Model in Barisal, Bangladesh -- Chapter 9. Urban Change Detection Analysis Using Big Data and Machine Learning: A Review -- Chapter 10. Urban Green and Blue Spaces Dynamics – A Geospatial Analysis using Remote Sensing, Machine Learning and Landscape Metrics in Rajshahi Metropolitan City, Bangladesh -- Chapter 11. Quantifying the Impact of Urban Greenspace Pattern to Land Surface Temperature: Evidence from an Urban Agglomeration of Eastern India -- Chapter 12. Urban Effects on Hydrological Status and Trophic State in Peri-Urban Wetland -- Chapter 13. Integrated Urban Decarbonization Planning Tool for Global Cities -- Chapter 14. Perception of Ecosystem Services from Urban Green Space: A Case from An Urban and A Peri-Urban Green Space in English Bazar Urban Agglomeration, Eastern India -- Chapter 15. Monitoring Spatio-Temporal Reduction of An Urban Wetland Using Landsat Time Series Analysis: A Case Study of Deepor Beel, Assam, India -- Chapter 16. GIS-Based Methodology and World Urban Database and Access Portal Tools (WUDAPT) For Mapping Local Climatic Zones: A Study of Kolkata -- Chapter 17. Air pollutants-induced environmental critical zones in capital city of India -- Chapter 18. Nexus Between Anthropogenic Heat Flux and Urban Heat Island -- Chapter 19. Impact of Urbanisation on Land Use Land Cover Change and Land Surface Temperature in a Satellite Town -- Chapter 20. Identifying the Flood Hazard Zones in Urban Area Using Flood Hazard Index (FHI) – A Case of Capital City of India -- Chapter 21. An Assessment of Traffic Noise Level in Agartala Municipal Corporation Using Geo-Spatial Technology in Tripura, India -- Chapter 22. Solid Waste Management Scenario of Raiganj Municipality, West Bengal, India -- Chapter 23. Integration of Advanced Technologies in Urban Waste Management -- Chapter 24. Rethinking the Urban Form and Quality of Walking Experience Using Geospatial Technology -- Chapter 25. A Remote Sensing and GIS Based Approach for Assessment of Drinking Water Quality and Its Association with Land-Use Land-Cover in Azamgarh City, India -- Chapter 26. Urban Planning in Perspective of UN Sustainable Development Goal – 11 Using Geospatial Technology: A Case Study of Kolkata Megapolis (India) -- Chapter 27. An Introduction to Big Data and its Possible Utility in the Urban Context -- Chapter 28. Rethinking Progress in Approaches and Techniques for the Urban Environmental Studies.

Description / Table of Contents: In Memoriam -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part I. Foundations of geopedology -- Chapter 2. Theoretical framework -- Chapter 3. Relations between geomorphology and pedology: brief review -- Chapter 4. The geopedologic approach -- Chapter 5. The pedologic landscape: organisation of the soil material -- Chapter 6. The geomorphic landscape: criteria for classifying geoforms -- Chapter 7. The geomorphic landscape: classification of geoforms -- Chapter 8. The geomorphic landscape: the attributes of geoforms -- Part II. Approaches to soil-landscape patterns analysis -- Chapter 9. Knowledge is power: where Digital Soil Mapping needs geopedology -- Chapter 10. Geodiversity and Geopedology in a logarithmic universe -- Chapter 11. Algorithms for quantitative Pedology -- Chapter 12. Interaction of geological and pedological processes in the genesis of soils with gypsum, northern Patagonia, Argentina -- Chapter 13. Use of soil maps to interpret soil-landform assemblages and soil-landscape evolution -- Part III. Methods and techniques applied to pattern recognition and mapping -- Chapter 14. Digital soil texture maps of Argentina and their relationship soil-forming factors and processes -- Chapter 15. Synergistic use of radar and optical image data for improved land use and land cover assessment: a case study in the north of Entre Rios province (Argentina) -- Chapter 16. Landslide susceptibility mapping using supervised learning methods - case study: southwestern Colombia -- Chapter 17. Polygenic vertisols and “hidden” vertisols of the Paraná river basin, Argentina -- Chapter 18. Mapping gilgai micro-relief and its impact on dryland agricultural landscapes using time series of NDVI derived from Sentinel-2 imagery -- Part IV. Applications in land degradation and geohazard studies -- Chapter 19. Gully erosion analysis. Why geopedology matters? -- Chapter 20. Soil erosion assessment and mitigation scenarios based on Geopedology in northwestern Patagonia, Argentina -- Chapter 21. Adequacy of soil information resulting from geopedology-based predictive soil mapping for assessing land degradation: case studies in Thailand and Iran -- Chapter 22. Exploring the contribution of geopedology to the implementation of national frameworks for land degradation neutrality -- Part V. Applications in land use planning and Policy -- Chapter 23. Geo-pedological approach for land use planning: case studies from India -- Chapter 24. Geopedologic information, foundation for soil conservation: Land evaluation, land use allocation and associated conservation practices -- Chapter 25. The relevance of geopedology for policy making and soil security -- Chapter 26. Significance of land cover change for soil regulating ecosystem services using Maine’s Climate Action Plan as a case study -- Chapter 27. Upscaling the integrated Terroir zoning through Digital Soil Mapping disaggregation: a case study in the designation of origin Campo de Borja -- Part VI. Synthesis -- Chapter 28. Concluding remarks and outlook.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 -Theoretical Foundations of Total Socioenvironmental System (TSES) -- Chapter 2-Analytical Frameworks of TSES -- Chapter 3 - Building Temporally Compatible TSES Dataset -- Chapter 4 - Empirically investigating time-series causality between grassland productivity and socio-environmental factors, Inner Mongolia as a Case Study -- Chapter 5 - Empirical evaluation of urban sustainability from underlying causal structures and legacy effects: The prefecture cities in China as a Case Study -- Chapter 6 - Constructing Spatially Compatible TSES Dataset: Examining Urban Declining in Southeast Michigan as the case study -- Chapter 7 -Empirically examining spatial processes of urban declining: Southeast Michigan as the case study -- Chapter 8 - Modeling grassland deterioration considering spatial variations and time-lag effects at a finer geographical scale -- Chapter 9 - Innovations, Limitations, and Future Directions of TSES.

Description / Table of Contents: 1-Using the GIS of regional boundaries to analyse historical data on population and GDP -- 2-The urbanization process: Covering the evolution of 7,269 cities in Europe, 1870-2020 -- 3-The spread of railways in Europe: 1830-2020 -- 4-Main roads in Europe: from 1835 to the first motorway network -- 5-European ports : a location analysis -- 6-A combined view of the impact of transport infrastructure on population distribution and urbanization processes in Europe -- 7-Using Historical Aerial Photographs to Study Long Term Landscape Dynamics -- 8-The Transport Revolution on Land and Sea: Fishing and Railways in Great Britain, Spain and Portugal, 1840-1914 -- 9-Mapping one century of accessibility on the French railway network, 1830-1930 -- 10-The Expansion of Mail Service and Railways in Britain and France, 1840-1914 -- 11-The Historical Economic Geography of Worker Welfare Ratios and Skill Premiums Across 603 Cantons of Southwest France based on ca. 1857 L’enquete Agricole Archival Data -- 12-The uses of census data to study the evolution of two indicators of human development: infant mortality and fertility in Europe -- 13-The use of urban cartography to analyse the spread of cities through history -- 14-Identifying historical landscapes and cultural heritage using GIS.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter1. Flood Susceptibility Mapping Using a Frequency Ratio Model: A Case Study of Chai Nat Province, Thailand -- Chapter2. Influence of Hydrosphere Material Knowledge on the Attitude of High School Students in Conducting Water Conservation in Brebes Regency, Indonesia -- Chapter3. Optimizing multi-reservoir systems with the aid of genetic algorithm: Mahanadi reservoir project complex,Chhattisgarh -- Chapter4. Monitoring of Morphological Change in Lam Phachi River Using Geo-Informatics System -- Chapter5. Developing Scenario of Plastic Waste Leakage in Jakarta Hydrology Environment using Seasonal Data Condition and Socio-Economic Aspects -- Chapter6. Measurement of PM10, PM2.5, NO2, and SO2 Using Sensors -- Chapter7. Encoding Social Media Wording Indexes to Analyse PM2.5 Problem Perception -- Chapter8. Noise mapping of different zones in an urban area during Deepawali festival -- Chapter9. Digital Twins in farming with the implementation of agricultural technologies -- Chapter10. A cross-comparison between Rice Crop Monitoring System: GISTDA and International Asian Harvest mOnitoring system for Rice (INAHOR): JAXA -- Chapter11. Evaluation MODIS and Sentinel-2 data for detecting crop residue burned area -- Chapter12. Machine Learning Approach with Environmental Pollution and Geospatial Information for Mapping Poverty in Thailand -- Chapter13. Integration of Machine Learning Algorithms and Time-series Satellite images on Land Use/Land Cover Mapping with Google Earth Engine -- Chapter14. Sugarcane and Cassava Classification using Machine Learning Approach based on Multi-temporal Remote Sensing Data Analysis -- Chapter15. Google Earth Engine algorithm for Evaluating the Performance of Landsat OLI-8 and Sentinel-2 in Mangrove Monitoring -- Chapter16. Estimation of Aboveground Biomass and Carbon Stock using Remote Sensing Data for Sakaerat Environmental Research Station, Thailand -- Chapter17. Determination of Land Suitability for Oil Palm with Multi-Dimension Decision Support using Analytic Network Process (ANP) in Southern Thailand -- Chapter18. Land use change and ecosystem service variations in Huai Luang River basin, Udon Thani province, Thailand -- Chapter19. The Ability to Access Attractions for the Elderly from Public Transport in Bangkok Metropolis.

Description / Table of Contents: Methods for studying the interactions in biogenic–abiogenic systems -- Geochemistry of biogenic-abiogenic systems -- Biomineralization and nature-like materials and technologies-Medical geology -- Organic mineralogy-Biomineral interactions in soil-Effect of microorganisms on natural and artificial materials -- Philosophical and historical aspects of interdisciplinary research.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Rotational Raman scattering through narrow-band interference filters: investigating uncertainties using a new Rayleigh scattering code developed within ACTRIS -- Chapter 2. Performance of Low-Cost, Diode-Based HSRL System with Simplified Optical Setup -- Chapter 3. Sensitivity Study on the Performance of the Single Calculus Chain Aerosol Layering Module -- Chapter 4. Particle Complex Refractive Index From 3+2 HSRL/Raman Lidar Measurements: Conditions of Accurate Retrieval, Uncertainties and Constraints Provided by Information About RH -- Chapter 5. Field Testing of a Diode-Laser-Based Micro Pulse Differential Absorption Lidar System to Measure Atmospheric Thermodynamic Variables -- Chapter 6. SEMICONDUCTOR LIDAR FOR QUANTITATIVE ATMOSPHERIC PROFILING -- Chapter 7. Atomic Barium Vapor Filter for Ultraviolet High Spectral Resolution Lidar -- Chapter 8. Future Lidars for Cutting-Edge Sciences in Ionosphere-Thermosphere-Mesosphere-Stratosphere Physics and Space-Atmosphere Coupling -- Chapter 9. Polarization Lidar for Monitoring Dust Particle Orientation: First Measurements -- Chapter 10. Dust flow distribution measurement by low coherence Doppler lidar -- Chapter 11. A Multi-wavelength LED lidar for near ground atmospheric monitoring -- Chapter 12. Development of low-cost high-spectral-resolution lidar using compact multimode laser for air quality measurement -- Chapter 13. Deep Learning Based Convective Boundary Layer Determination for Aerosol and Wind Profiles observed by Wind Lidar -- Chapter 14. LITES: Laboratory Investigations of Atmospheric Aerosol Composition by Raman-Scattering and Fluorescence Spectra -- Chapter 15. Performance Simulation of a Raman Lidar for the Retrieval of CO2 Atmospheric Profiles -- Chapter 16. ALL FIBER FREE-RUNNING DUAL-COMB RANGING SYSTEM -- Chapter 17. gPCE Uncertainty Quantication Modeling of LiDAR for Bathymetric and Earth Science Applications -- Chapter 18. When can Poisson random variables be approximated as Gaussian? -- Chapter 19. Enhancing the Performance of the MicroPulse DIAL through Poisson Total Variation Signal Processing -- Chapter 20. Development of Micro Pulse Lidar Network (MPLNET) Level 3 Satellite Validation Products in Advance of the EarthCARE Mission -- Chapter 21. 3D Point Cloud Classification using Drone-based Scanning LIDAR and Signal Diversity -- Chapter 22. Design and Validation of an Elastic Lidar Simulator for Testing Potential New Systems for Aerosol Typing -- Chapter 23. Performance of Pulsed Wind Lidar Based on Optical Hybrid -- Chapter 24. Demonstrating Capabilities of Multiple-Beam Airborne Doppler Lidar Using a LES-based Simulator -- Chapter 25. All-Solid State Iron Resonance Lidar for Measurement of Temperature and Winds in the Upper Mesosphere and Lower Thermosphere -- Chapter 26. Improved Remote Operation Capabilities for the NASA GSFC Tropospheric Ozone Lidar for Routine Ozone Profiling for Satellite Evaluation -- Chapter 27. A wind, temperature, H2O and CO2 scanning lidar mobile observatory for a 3D thermodynamic view of the atmosphere -- Chapter 28. Low-Cost and Lightweight Hyperspectral Lidar for Mapping Vegetation Fluorescence -- Chapter 29. SO2 Plumes Observation with LMOL: Theory, Modeling, and Validation -- Chapter 30. Possible Use of Iodine Absorption/Fluorescence Cell in High-Spectral-Resolution Lidar -- Chapter 31. Ten Years of Interdisciplinary Lidar Applications at SCNU, Guangzhou -- Chapter 32. Feasibility studies of the dual-polarization imaging lidar based on the division-of-focal-plane scheme for atmospheric remote sensing -- Chapter 33. An Algorithm to Retrieve Aerosol Optical Properties from ATLID and MSI Measurements -- Chapter 34. Observation of Polar Stratospheric Clouds at Dome C, Antarctica -- Chapter 35. Laboratory Evaluation of the Lidar Particle Depolarization Ratio (PDR) of Sulfates, Soot, and Mineral Dust at 180.0° Lidar Backscattering Angle -- Chapter 36. Fresh biomass burning aerosol observed in Potenza with multiwavelength Raman Lidar and sun-photometer -- Chapter 37. Aerosol Studies with Spectrometric Fluorescence and Raman Lidar -- Chapter 38. Continuous Observations of Aerosol-Weather Relationship from a Horizontal Lidar to Simulate Monitoring of Radioactive Dust in Fukashima, Japan -- Chapter 39. Statistical Simulation of Laser Pulse Propagation through Cirrus-cloudy Atmosphere -- Chapter 40. Aerosol Spatial Distribution Observed by a Mobile Vehicle Lidar with Optics for Near Range Detection -- Chapter 41. Cloud Base Height Correlation between a Co-located Micro-Pulse Lidar and a Lufft CHM15k Ceilometer -- Chapter 42. Comparison of Local and Transregional Atmospheric Particles Over the Urmia Lake in Northwest Iran, Using a Polarization Lidar Recordings -- Chapter 43. Properties of Polar Stratospheric Clouds over the European Arctic from Ground-Based Lidar -- Chapter 44. Two decades analysis of cirrus cloud radiative effects by lidar observations in the frame of NASA MPLNET lidar network -- Chapter 45. Temporal Variability of the Aerosol Properties Using a Cimel Sun/Lunar Photometer over Thessaloniki, Greece: Synergy With the Upgraded THELISYS Lidar System -- Chapter 46. Long-Term Changes of Optical Properties of Mineral Dust and Its Mixtures Derived from Raman Polariza-tion Water Vapor Lidar in Central Europe -- Chapter 47. Planetary Boundary Layer Height Measurements Using MicroPulse DIAL -- Chapter 48. Performance Modeling of a Diode-Laser-Based Direct Detection Doppler Lidar -- Chapter 49. Observation of Water Vapor Profiles by Raman Lidar with 266 nm laser in Tokyo -- Chapter 50. A 355-NM DIRECT-DETECTION DOPPLER WIND LIDAR FOR VERTICAL ATMOSPHERIC MOTION -- Chapter 51. Aircraft Wake Vortex Recognition and Classification Based on Coherent Doppler Lidar and Convolutional Neural Networks -- Chapter 52. MicroPulse Differential Absorption Lidar for Temperature Retrieval in the Lower Troposphere -- Chapter 53. Long Term Calibration of a Pure Rotational Raman Lidar for Temperature Measurements Using Radiosondes and Solar Background -- Chapter 54. Powerful Raman-Lidar for water vapor in the free troposphere and lower stratosphere as well as temperature in the stratosphere and mesosphere -- Chapter 55. Observation of Rainfall Velocity and Raindrop Size Using Power Spectrum of Coherent Doppler Lidar -- Chapter 56. Comparison of Lower Tropospheric Water Vapor Vertical Distribution Measured with Raman lidar and DIAL and Their Impact of Data Assimilation in Numerical Weather Prediction Model -- Chapter 57. Temperature Variations in the Middle Atmosphere Studied with Rayleigh Lidar at Haikou (19.9°N, 110.3°E) -- Chapter 58. Convective boundary layer sensible and latent heat flux lidar observations and towards new model parametrizations -- Chapter 59. Observation of Structure of Marine Atmospheric Boundary Layer by Ceilometer over the Kuroshio Current.-Chapter 60. ABL Height Different Estimation by Lidar in the Frame of HyMeX SOP1 Campaign -- Chapter 61. Temporal Evolution of Wavelength and Orientation of Atmospheric Canopy Waves -- Chapter 62. Assessment of Planetary Boundary Layer Height Variations over a Mountain Region in Western Himalayas -- Chapter 63. Analysis of Updraft Characteristics from an Airborne Micro-Pulsed Doppler Lidar During FIREX-AQ -- Chapter 64. Diurnal Variability of MLH and Ozone in NYC Urban and Coastal Area from an Integrated Observation during LISTOS 2018 -- Chapter 65. Boundary Layer Dynamics, Aerosol Composition, and Air Quality in the Urban Background of Stuttgart in Winter -- Chapter 66. DIAL Ozone Measurement Capability Added to NASA’s HSRL-2 Instrument Demonstrates Troposheric Ozone Variability Over Houston Area -- Chapter 67. Trajectory Analysis of CO2 Concentration Increase Events in the Nocturnal Atmospheric Boundary Layer Observed by the Differential Absorption Lidar -- Chapter 68. Efficiency Assessment of Single Cell Raman Gas Mixture for DIAL Ozone Lidar -- Chapter 69. COmpact RamaN lidar for Atmospheric CO2 and ThERmodyNamic ProfilING - CONCERNING -- Chapter 70. Characterization of Recent Aerosol Events Occurring in the Subtropical North Atlantic Region Using a CIMEL CE376 GPN Micro-LiDAR -- Chapter 71. Tropospheric Ozone Differential Absorption Lidar (DIAL) Development at New York City -- Chapter 72. Accounting for the polarizing effects introduced from non ideal quarter-wave plates in lidar measurements of the circular depolarization ratio -- Chapter 73. Investigating the geometrical and optical properties of the persistent stratospheric aerosol layer observed over Thessaloniki, Greece during 2019 -- Chapter 74. New Lidar Data Processing Techniques for Improving the Detection Range and Accuracy of Atmospheric Gravity Wave Measurements -- Chapter 75. Extending the Useful Range of Fluorescence LIDAR Data by Applying the Layered Binning Technique -- Chapter 76. Interaction between sea wave and surface atmosphere by shallow angle LED lidar -- Chapter 77. First results of the COLOR (CDOM-proxy retrieval from aeOLus ObseRvations) project -- Chapter 78. Dual wavelength heterodyne LDA for velocity and size distribution measurements in ocean water flows -- Chapter 79. Mitigation Strategy for the Impact of Low Energy Laser Pulses in CALIOP Calibration and Level 2 Retrievals -- Chapter 80. Introducing the Cloud Aerosol Lidar for Global Scale Observations of the Ocean-Land-Atmosphere System – CALIGOLA -- Chapter 81. An Overview of the NASA Atmosphere Observing System Inclined Mission (AOS-I) and the Role of Backscatter Lidar -- Chapter 82. Proposal for the Space-borne Integrated Path Differential Absorption (IPDA) Lidar for Lower Tropospheric Water Vapor Observations -- Chapter 83. Assimilation of Aerosol Observations from the Future Spaceborne Lidar Onboard the AOS Mission into the MOCAGE Chemistry-Transport Model -- Chapter 84. Aerosol Optical Properties over Western Himalayas Region by Raman Lidar during the December 2019 Annular Solar Eclipse -- Chapte.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Papua New Guinea (PNG)…the new nation and a global experimental sustainability success of a re-newed tribal governance: Insights from the misunderstood modern control study -- Chapter 2: The land of Papua New Guinea: A quick conservation reader for what CEOs and Directors ought to know -- Chapter 3: The oceans surrounding Papua New Guinea: A habitat view for sustainable fisheries and an acknowledged lack of carrying capacity knowledge of the ocean ecosystem -- Chapter 4: Deep Times of Papua New Guinea with over 47,000 years nothing ‘relevant’ happening: Why it matters for the world’s future as a leading sustainable steady-state economy role model and a Sustainability Super-Nation -- Chapter 5: Colonial After-Times in Papua New Guinea: Urgency for Repatriation, Biodiversity Compensation and Fair Treatment to Assure a Better Global Future -- Chapter 6: Biodiversity of Papua New Guinea (PNG): Attempting a More Meaningful Conservation Description and Approach of its Use, Co-Evolution, Generic Status and Grim Outlook -- Chapter 7: Papua New Guinea as a global sustainability leader: Confronting per capita metrics with GIS layers and social engineering -- Chapter 8: Fundamental Humanitarian Sustainability issues in Papua New Guinea: SDGs to fail us further on biodiversity and wilderness conservation -- Chapter 9: In Bed with a Big Bad Neighbor for Life: The Middle Power of Australia as a Domestic, Cultural, Political, Material and Environmental Sustainability Problem for Papua New Guinea and beyond ? -- Chapter 10: Betel nut, Coconuts/copra, Chocolate, Strawberries, Coffee, Apples, Spam and Fish in Papua New Guinea: From highly-bred species and sustainability concepts over diseases and DNA into global market repercussions and wholesale (environmental) bankruptcy -- Chapter 11: Papua New Guinea: Australia’s failed dream, some failed states and the widely acknowledged outer facism -- Chapter 12: Destruction by Mining and Drilling on a global scale, with Papua New Guinea fully embedded: A meta-analysis contribution about the resource curse, global bankruptcy, destruction, terror and death favors Mother Earth -- Chapter 13: Seafloor mining around Papua New Guinea: Just another ‘Big Deal’ gone bust -- Chapter 14: “Come and Dive” in Papua New Guinea: Surfing, Reefs, paper park MPAs, and marine conservation issues in PNG beyond sharks, whales, crocodiles, seagrass and ‘developing a resource’ -- Chapter 15: Timber and Forestry in Papua New Guinea: Still no publicly available forest inventory data or growth & yield tables despite Google Earth, Microsoft Cloud, NGOs, international development aid, REDD, satellites and drones applied last decade for a science-based forestry -- Chapter 16: Papua New Guinea as a paradise (of weaponized diseases): AIDS/HIV, African Swine Fever, Malaria, Avian Influenza, weaponized viruses and wider Public Health ? -- Chapter 17: Papua New Guinea and Climate Change (and REED/REDD+): The ‘Western Carbon Cult’ as a new hostile relationship that was friendly though throughout most of Mother Earth’s history -- Chapter 18: Sustainability Impacts from the Australian Arc of Perceived Terror, Tyranny and ‘Development Aid/Help’ in Papua New Guinea and some surrounding regions -- Chapter 19: Papua New Guinea, Education, Science and Space Exploration: A primer, and the bad roles of Christianity and Oxford/Cambridge, again, calling for an improved and globally inclusive STEM-type Cybereducation for ‘the bush’ and global sustainability -- Chapter 20: Case study: The YUS (Yupno, Uruwa and Sam rivers) Landscape, Huon Peninsula in Papua New Guinea as an ongoing and world-leading success story despite international coffee and National Park model landgrabs -- Chapter 21: Case Study on Outsider Impacts by Exploration, Mining, Science and NGOs: An honest look at Crater Mountain in Papua New Guinea -- Chapter 22: “Pacifism as a Western Pathology” ? A case review of Bougainville terror, civil war and independence, civil unrest, missing mining impact studies, and why the nation construct of modern Papua New Guinea could fall apart soon due its colonial creators -- Chapter 23: Case study of Urban Ecology: Who runs the shots in Port Moresby (POM) ? An attempted exposure and review of cliques and their profiles in a global crime hotspot -- Chapter 24: RAMU sugar in Papua New Guinea from Fiji: Take-home lessons from another perverted project based on the neoliberalism principle -- Chapter 25: Role of outside nations in Papua New Guinea’s sustainability model: China, U.S. UK, the EU, Russia, Australia, NZ and Japan need Bob Marley and the Dalai Lama coming to the rescue -- Chapter 26: Papua New Guinea from a modern Anthropology perspective: PNG 1, Western World 0. Bob Marley and the tribes remain the judges -- Chapter 27: 100 open access GIS layers and their analysis and message: Human Footprints of the last 100 years destroyed a civilization that is c. 50,000 years old, and more -- Chapter 28: Why are there no Squirrels in Papua New Guinea ? Inference from a global open access data prediction model -- Chapter 29: A SWAT and PESTL analysis for PNG using 113 GIS Layers: Data cannot lie -- Chapter 30: Some very easy lessons from Papua New Guinea’s “Garden of Abundance” for the wider global good: Indigenous, Tribal and Marxist views, Bob Marley as the public role model, destructive Neoliberalism, Reality and Globalization failures are not Rocket Science -- Chapter 31: Bringing it all home: Where on earth is Papua New Guinea, its society, their environment and well-being heading ? Examples of Western Failure and Forwards to the Roots, in your own garden without social engineering!.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter1. Detection of Coccolithophore bloom episodes in Algiers Bay using satellite and in-situ analysis -- Chapter2. Multiscale spatiotemporal NDVI mapping of salt marshes using Sentinel-2, Dove, and UAV imagery in the Bay of Mont-Saint-Michel, France -- Chapter3. Contribution of near and mid infrared wavebands to mapping fine-scale coastal ecogeomorphological features -- Chapter4. Monitoring land cover change in the south-eastern Baltic sea since the 1980s by remote sensing -- Chapter5. Assessment of land cover changes in the Allala watershed based on object based image analysis using Landsat and Sentinel-2 images -- Chapter6. Deep Learning based Bathymetry Mapping from Multispectral Satellite Data around Europa Island -- Chapter7. Assessment of coastal vulnerability to erosion risk using geospatial and remote sensing methods (case of Jerba Island, Tunisia) -- Chapter8. A Random Forest approach for evaluating forest cover changes outside dikes with Sentinel images -- Chapter9. Spatial monitoring of coastal protection dikes case-study of the touristic beach “Palm Beach, west-Algiers Algeria’’ -- Chapter10. Monitoring shoreline changes in the Vietnamese Mekong delta coastal zone using satellite images and wave reduction structures -- Chapter11. Automatic detection of hydrodynamical and biological indicators of the shoreline using a convolutional neural network -- Chapter12. Very high-resolution monitoring and evaluation of tidal and ecological restoration in Beaussais’ bay -- Chapter13. Assessment of shoreline change of Jerba Island based on remote sensing data and GIS using DSAS tools -- Chapter14. New insights into the shallow morpho-sedimentary patterns using high-resolution topo-bathymetric lidar: the case study of the Bay of Saint-Malo -- Chapter15. Spatial modeling of the benthic biodiversity using topo-bathymetric lidar and neural networks -- Chapter16. Local circalittoral rocky seascape structuring fish community: insights from a photogrammetric approach -- Chapter17. Local circalittoral rocky seascape structuring fish community: insights from a photogrammetric approach -- Chapter18. Increasing the nature-based coastal protection using bathymetric lidar, terrain classification, network modelling: reefs of Saint-Malo’s lagoon?.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Locally Refined Splines -- Adaptive surface Fitting with Local Refinement: LR B-spline Surfaces -- A Statistical Criterion to Judge the Goodness of Fit of LR B-splines Surface Approximation -- LR B-splines for Representation of Terrain and Seabed: Data Fusion, Outliers, and Voids -- LR B-spline Surfaces and Volumes for Deformation Analysis of Terrain Data -- Conclusion.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Remote Sensing -- Chapter 3: Special Features of Remote Sensing Big Data -- Chapter 4: Remote Sensing Big Data Collection Challenges and Cyberinfrastructure and Sensor Web Solutions -- Chapter 5: Remote Sensing Big Data Computing -- Chapter 6: Remote Sensing Big Data Management -- Chapter 7: Standards for Big Data Management -- Chapter 8: Implementation Examples of Big Data Management Systems for Remote Sensing -- Chapter 9: Big Data Analytics for Remote Sensing-Concepts and standards -- Chapter 10: Big Data Analytic Platforms -- Chapter 11: Algorithmic Design Considerations of Big Data Analytics -- Chapter 12: Machine learning and data mining algorithms for geospatial big data -- Chapter 13: Modeling, prediction, and decision making based on remote sensing big data -- Chapter 14: Examples of remote sensing applications of big data analytics-fusion of diverse earth observation data -- Chapter 15: Examples of remote sensing applications of big data analytics-agricultural drought monitoring and forecasting -- Chapter 16: Examples of remote sensing applications of big data analytics-land cover time series creation -- Chapter 17: Geospatial big data initiatives in the world -- Chapter 18: Challenges and opportunities in remote sensing big data.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction to ArcGISPro -- Chapter 2: Data Classification and Layout in ArcGISPro -- Chapter 3: Data Acquisition -- Chapter 4: Coordinate Systems and Projections -- Chapter 5: Working with Geodatabase -- Chapter 6: Data Editing and Topology -- Chapter 7: Geoprocessing -- Chapter 8: Site Suitability and Data Modelling -- Chapter 9: Geocoding -- Chapter 10: Working with Raster -- Chapter 11: Spatial Interpolation -- Chapter 12: Watershed Delineation -- Chapter 13: Special Statistics -- Chapter 14: Network Analyst -- Chapter 15: 3-D Analyst -- Chapter 16: ArcGIS Online and Web Maps.

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.

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

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Chapter1. Advances in experimental research about periodontitis: lessons from the past, ideas for the future (Julien Santi-Rocca) -- Part I: Periodontal microbiota -- Chapter 2. Microbiota in Periodontitis: advances in the omic era (Shao Bing Fong, Emile Boyer, Martine Bonnaure-Mallet, Vincent Meuric) -- Chapter 3. Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans: from basic to advanced research (Abdelhadi Hbibi, Amal Bouziane, Badiaa Lyoussi, Mimoun Zouhdi, Driss Benazza) -- Chapter 4. Meta-analyses on the Periodontal Archaeome (Jéssica Alves de Cena, Yuri Silvestre-Barbosa, Aline Belmok, Cristine Miron Stefani, Cynthia Maria Kyaw, Nailê Damé-Teixeira) -- Chapter 5. Parasites in periodontal health and disease: a systematic review and meta-analysis (David Felipe Martin-Garcia, Malik Sallam, Gabriela Garcia, Julien Santi-Rocca) -- Chapter 6. Fungi - a component of the oral microbiome involved in periodontal diseases (Justyna Karkowska-Kuleta, Dorota Satala, Magdalena Smolarz, Marcin Zawrotniak, Maria Rapala-Kozik) -- Chapter 7. Herpesviruses in periodontitis: An umbrella review (Aleksandar Jakovljevic, Miroslav Andric, Jelena Jacimovic, Jelena Milasin, Javier Enrique Botero) -- Part II: Periodontitis pathophysiology -- Chapter 8. Recent updates on microbial biofilms in periodontitis: an analysis of in vitro biofilm models (Maick Meneguzzo Prado, Nathalia Figueiredo, Andréa Pimenta, Tamires Szeremeske Miranda, Magda Feres, Luciene Cristina Figueiredo, Josiane de Almeida, Bruno Bueno-Silva) -- Chapter 9. Update on B cell response in periodontitis (Julien Demoersman, Jacques Olivier Pers) -- Chapter 10. Polarization profiles of T lymphocytes and macrophages responses in periodontitis (Franco Cavalla, Marcela Hernández) -- Chapter 11. Complementary experimental methods in genetics open up new avenues of research to elucidate the pathogenesis of periodontitis (Arne S. Schaefer) -- Part III: Periodontitis-associated conditions -- Chapter 12. Update on the bidirectional link between diabetes and periodontitis (Leila Salhi, Michèle Reners) -- Chapter 13. Periodontitis as a risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease: the experimental journey so far, with hope of therapy (Alice Harding, Shalini Kanagasingam, Richard Welbury, Sim K. Singhrao) -- Chapter 14. Cardiovascular diseases and periodontitis (Peter Riis Hansen, Palle Holmstrup) -- Part IV: Therapeutic management of periodontitis -- Chapter 15. Update on the role of cytokines as oral biomarkers in the diagnosis of periodontitis (Triana Blanco-Pintos, Alba Regueira-Iglesias, Carlos Balsa-Castro, Inmaculada Tomás) -- Chapter 16. Non-surgical periodontal treatment: SRP and innovative therapeutic approaches (Alexia Vinel, Antoine Al Halabi, Sébastien Roumi, Hélène Le Neindre, Pierre Millavet, Marion Simon, Constance Cuny, Jean-Sébastien Barthet, Pierre Barthet, Sara Laurencin-Dalicieux) -- Chapter 17. Update on the roles of oral hygiene and plaque control on periodontal disease (Leila Salhi, Bruno De Carvalho, Michèle Reners) -- Chapter 18. Multi-photonic adjunctive therapy for the management of periodontitis: recent advances and new treatment approach (Marco Giannelli, Daniele Bani) -- Chapter 19. Probiotics during the therapeutic management of periodontitis (Flavia Furlaneto, Karin Hitomi Ishikawa, Michel Reis Messora, Marcia P A Mayer) -- Chapter 20. Periodontal cell therapy: a systematic review and meta-analysis (Antoine Dubuc, Valérie Planat-Bénard, Mathieu Marty, Paul Monsarrat, Philippe Kémoun) -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I. Introduction: The Pathway to Publishing -- Part II. Most common errors -- 1. General research and writing practices -- 2. Content of quantitative papers -- 3. Mechanics of writing -- 4. Grammatical structures and stylistic strategies -- 5. Achieving clarity and conciseness -- 6. Recording scientific data -- 7. Approaching publication -- 8. Slide and poster presentations.

Description / Table of Contents: A historical and evolutionary view of tight junctions -- Tricellular tight junctions -- Mechanosensitivity of tight junctions -- Intracellular traffic and non-canonical roles of ZO-2 protein -- Impact of claudin-2 and occludin expression in inflammation disorders -- Tight junctions in the inflamed gut -- Intestinal barrier disruption by enteropathogenic Escherichia coli -- Tight junction barrier function regulation by microbiota -- Claudin-7 participation in cell-substrate adhesion, cell migration, salt balance in the renal collecting duct and gut cell renewal and differentiation -- Regulation of the alveolar epithelial barrier by claudin-5 -- Regulation of the blood-retinal barrier by occludin phosphorylation, norrin and sonic hedgehog signaling -- Transmigration of metastatic cells through the blood-brain barrier -- Endocytosis of tight junction proteins -- Regulated degradation of claudins. .

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Alkanes, composition, constitution, and configuration -- 2. Functional groups -- 3. Electronic structure of organic molecules -- 4. Alkenes and alkynes -- 5. Substitutions on saturated carbon atom -- 6. Nucleophilic additions -- 7. Stereochemistry, symmetry, and molecular chirality -- 8. Derivatives of carboxylic acids -- 9. Electrophilic substitutions -- 10. Pericyclic reactions -- 11. Organic natural products -- 12. Organic supramolecular and supermolecular structures.

Description / Table of Contents: Part 1: Functions of Macropinocytosis -- Chapter 1: Functional Diversity of Macropinocytosis -- Chapter 2: Macropinocytosis and Cancer: From Tumor Stress to Signaling Pathways -- Chapter 3: The amoebal model for micropinocytosis -- Chapter 4: Extracellular ATP and macropinocytosis -- Chapter 5: Macropinocytosis and Cell Migration: Don't drink an drive -- Chapter 6: Macropinocytosis in phagocyte function and immunity -- Part 2: Signaling Mechanisms Driving Macropinocytosis -- Chapter 7: Roles of 3' Phosphoinositides in Macropinocytosis -- Chapter 8: Signaling pathways that regulate macropinocytosis in mammalian cells -- Chapter 9: Wnt, GSK3 and Macropinocytosis -- Chapter 10: Kras addiction promotes cancer cell adapation in harsh microenvironment through micropinocytosis -- Chapter 11: Kras-independent macropinocytosis in pancreatic cancer.

Description / Table of Contents: Prologue: Many questions, no answers -- Part 1: Crisis, what crisis...? -- 1. Too Late -- 2. Don’t Rely on Your Prescription -- 3. Chronic Disease? -- 4. No Prevention -- 5. Male Plus Low Income = Double Whammy -- 6. False Incentives -- 7. The End of Big Pharma -- 8. Research Not for Patients -- 9. Organ-Based Medicine -- 10. Interjection 1: How Healthy Do You Want to Be?.-Part 2: The Medicine of the Future -- 11. Re-Discover the Whole Patient -- 12. Research for patients -- 13. Know Your Genes -- 14. Outnumbered -- 15. Your Exposome -- 16. Big Data Medicine -- 17. Healed -- 18. Well-Tech -- 19. Interjection 2: Superhumans -- Part 3: The Future has Begun... -- 20. Self-diagnosis -- 21. Self-therapy -- 22. Your Digital Twin. Epilogue: Nobody Is Sick Anymore -- Appendix 1: Special Page 1 -- Appendix 2: Special Page 2. .

Description / Table of Contents: Targeting Ion Channels for Cancer Treatment: Current Progress and Future Challenges -- Novel Therapeutic Approaches of Ion Channels and Transporters in Cancer -- Ion Channels in Cancer: Orchestrators of Electrical Signaling and Cellular Crosstalk -- Potassium and Chloride Ion Channels in Cancer: A Novel Paradigm for Cancer Therapeutics -- Potassium and Calcium Channel Complexes as Novel Targets for Cancer Research -- Solute Carrier Transportome in Chemotherapy-Induced Adverse Drug Reactions -- Ion Transport and Radioresistance -- Ion Transporting Proteins and Cancer: Progress and Perspectives.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction (Moray J Campbell & Charlotte L Bevan) -- Overview (Jason Carroll) -- Part I: Reproduction and Development -- Chapter 1. Nuclear receptors in pregnancy and outcomes: clinical perspective (Luiza Borges Manna & Catherine Williamson) -- Chapter 2. Female Reproductive Systems: hormone dependence and receptor expression (Philippa TK Saunders) -- Chapter 3. Nuclear receptors in ovarian function (Darryl Russell & Doan Thao Dinh) -- Part II: Metabolism -- Chapter 4. Nuclear receptors in energy metabolism (Alina Walth, Stephan Herzig & Maria Rohm) -- Chapter 5. Nuclear Receptors and lipid sensing (James L Thorne and Giorgia Cioccoloni) -- Part III: Central Systems -- Chapter 6. Corticosteroid receptors in Cardiac health and disease (Jessica Ivy, Gillian Gray, Megan Holmes, Martin Denvir, Karen Chapman) -- Chapter 7. Physiological convergence and antagonism between GR and PPARγ in inflammation and metabolism (Marija Dacic, Gayathri Shibu and Inez Rogatsky) -- Chapter 8. Circadian Rhythm and Nuclear Receptors (David W Ray) -- Chapter 9. Vitamin D and gut health (James C Fleet) -- Part IV: Cancer -- Chapter 10. Estrogen Receptor alpha and ESR1 Mutations in Breast Cancer (Jaymin Patel & Rinath Jeselsohn) -- Chapter 11. AR structural variants and prostate cancer (Laura Cato) -- Chapter 12. ERβ and inflammation (Linnea Hases, Amena Archer & Cecilia Williams) -- Chapter 13. Genomic insights into non-steroidal nuclear receptors in prostate and breast cancer (Sajad A Wani & Moray Campbell) -- Part V: New developments in transcriptional control by nuclear receptors -- Chapter 14. Protein condensation in the nuclear receptor family; implications for transcriptional output (Monique Appelman, Elle Hollaar, Jurian Schuijers & Saskia WC van Mil) -- Chapter 15. Prostate cancer epigenetic plasticity and enhancer heterogeneity: molecular causes, consequences and clinical implications (Jeroen Kneppers, Andries M Bergman & Wilbert Zwart) -- Chapter 16. Epigenetic coregulation of androgen receptor signaling (Rayzel Fernandes, Damien A. Leach & Charlotte Bevan) -- Part VI: Clinical Translation -- Chapter 17. Cllnical Translation: Targeting the Estrogen Receptor (Jennifer O. Lauchle & Ciara Metcalfe) -- Chapter 18. Drugging the undruggable: targeting the N-terminal domain of nuclear hormone receptors (Marianne Sadar) -- Chapter 19. Genetic Variation and Mendelian Randomization approaches (Mojgan Yazdanpanah, Nahid Yazdanpanah & Despoina Manousaki) -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I. Healthcare -- Chapter 1. Is It Time to FONA Friend? A Novel Mixed Reality Front of Neck Access Simulator -- Chapter 2. “Learning About Skin Breakdown” – Design, Development and Evaluation of an Augmented Reality Application to Inform about Pressure Ulcers (sores) and Moisture Lesions -- Chapter 3. The Use of 3D-Printing and Injection Moulding in the Development of a Low-Cost, Perfused Renal Malignancy Model for Training of Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Partial Nephrectomy -- Chapter 4. The Co-IMMUNicate App: An Engaging and Entertaining Education Resource on Immunity to Respiratory Viruses -- Part II. Education -- Chapter 5. Application of AR and 3D Technology for Learning Neuroanatomy -- Chapter 6. Communicative Powers of Interactive Digital Mediums in the Field of Polyomics -- Chapter 7. SkilletonVR: Canine Skeleton VR -- Chapter 8. Using Holograms to Engage Young People with Anatomy -- Chapter 9. The Digital Dolphin: Are 3D Mobile Based and Interactive Models a Useful Aid to Volunteers on Stranding Schemes Learning the Basic Anatomy and Pathology of Cetaceans? -- Chapter 10. The Impact of the COVID Crisis on Anatomical Education: A Systematic Review.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 - The Agriculture Eras -- Chapter 2 - Global Navigation Satellite Systems -- Chapter 3 - Spatial and Temporal Variability Analysis -- Chapter 4 - Images and Remote Sensing Applied to Agricultural Management -- Chapter 5 - Geoprocessing Applied to Crop Management -- Chapter 6 - Sampling and Interpretation of Maps -- Chapter 7 - Agricultural Drones’ Application -- Chapter 8 - Sensors and Actuators -- Chapter 9 - Control and Automation Systems in Agricultural Machinery -- Chapter 10 - Digital Irrigation -- Chapter 11 - Digital Livestock Farming -- Chapter 12 - Internet of Things In Agriculture -- Chapter 13 - Data transmission, cloud computing and Big Data -- Chapter 14 - Machine Learning -- Chapter 15 - Platforms, Applications and Software -- Chapter 16 - Digital Data: Cycle, Standardization, Quality, Sharing and Security -- Chapter 17 - Case Study: SLC Agrícola -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Geo-hazards in Langtang, Nepal -- 2. Impact of climate change on the onset of floods in the Ganges river in Bangladesh -- 3. Water issues in Sri Lanka -- 4. NDVI variability in Bangladesh -- 5. Agro-ecosystems in the Brahmaputra Valley, India -- 6. Going, going, gone? Declining vegetation health in Nepal -- 7. Politics of Urban Land use Planning in South Asia 8. Environmental issues in Myanmar -- 9. Above ground biomass assessment and carbon sequestration potentials in Bhutan -- 10. Prioritization of flood prone villages in Indo-Bangladesh using analytical hierarchy process and geospatial techniques.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. The tumor microenvironment -- Chapter 2. Methods of formulation of polymeric nanoparticles -- Chapter 3. Natural polymers based nanoparticles targeted to solid tumors -- Chapter 4. Optimization of physicochemical properties of polymeric nanoparticles for targeting solid tumors -- Chapter 5. Passive and active targeting approaches for solid tumors -- Chapter 6. Polymeric nanoparticles entrapping natural drugs for cancer therapy -- Chapter 7. Polymeric nanoparticles entrapping drug combinations targeted to solid tumors -- Chapter 8. Ligands specific to over-expressed receptors in solid tumors -- Chapter 9. Ligand targeted polymeric nanoparticles for cancer chemotherapy -- Chapter 10. Polymeric nanoparticles as theranostics for targeting solid tumors -- Chapter 11. Oral delivery of polymeric nanoparticles for solid tumors -- Chapter 12. Polymeric nanoparticles to target glioblastoma tumors -- Chapter 13. Polymeric nanoparticles to target lung cancer -- Chapter 14. Polymer based nanoplatforms for targeting breast cancer -- Chapter 15. PH-Sensitive polymeric nanoparticles for cancer treatment -- Chapter 16. Polymeric nanoplatforms for targeted treatment of prostate cancer -- Chapter 17. Cellular internalization and toxicity of polymeric nanoparticles -- Chapter 18. Prospects and challenges in the treatment of solid tumors.

Description / Table of Contents: Involvement of Endothelial Nitric Oxide Synthase in Cerebral Microcirculation and Oxygenation in Traumatic Brain Injury -- Imaging cerebral energy metabolism in healthy infants -- Changes in cerebral oxygenation and systemic physiology during a verbal fluency task: Differences between men and women -- Brain Tissue Conductivity in Focal Cerebral Ischemia -- Physical stress Attenuates Cognitive inhibition: An fNIRS Examination -- Changes in Prefrontal Cortical Oxygenation During Tilt Table Orthostatic Hypotension in Subarachnoid Haemorrhage Patients -- Effects of different optical properties of head tissues on near-infrared spectroscopy Using Monte Carlo Simulations -- Frontal cerebral oxygenation in humans at rest: A mirror symmetry in the correlation with cardiorespiratory activity -- Photomodulation of lymphatic delivery of bevacizumab to the brain: the role of singlet oxygen -- NIRS-based study of local cerebral oxygenation during transcranial direct current stimulation in patients with mild traumatic brain injury -- Postnatal Exposure to Brief Hypoxia Alters Brain VEGF Expression and Capillary Density in Adult Mice -- Impaired Cognitive Performance in Mice Exposed to Prolonged Hyperoxia -- Chronic Ketosis Modulates HIF1α-Mediated Inflammatory Response in Rat Brain -- Motor Imagery and Frontal Head Oxygenation: An fNIRS Study -- Non-invasive detection of persistent cortical hypoxia in Multiple Sclerosis using frequency domain near-infrared spectroscopy (fdNIRS) -- Evaluation of intraoperative end-tidal Carbon dioxide change relates to length hospitalization in peridiaphragmatic surgery: a pilot study -- Pulmonary Embolism in COVID-19 patients is not related to a worsening in tissue oxygenation -- Cardiovascular risk score and gas exchange in COVID-19 patients: no correlation -- Heme Oxygenase 1/ High Mobility Group Box 1 pathway may have a possible role in Covid-19 ARDS (Acute respiratory distress syndrome): a pilot histological study -- Silent Hypoxemia in COVID-19 pneumonia -- Low Flow and Microvascular Shunts: A Final Common Pathway to Cerebrovascular Disease: A Working Hypothesis -- A case of intracranial vertebral artery stenosis treated with percutaneous transluminal angioplasty and stenting guided by brain oximetry -- Assessment of Optimal Arterial Pressure with Near-Infrared Spectroscopy in Traumatic Brain Injury Patients -- Effects of exercise-diet therapy on cognitive function in healthy elderly people evaluated by deep learning based on basic blood test data -- NIRS studies show reduced interhemispheric functional connectivity in individuals with Multiple Sclerosis that exhibit cortical hypoxia -- Eye Tracking Parameters Correlate With the Level of Cerebral Oxygen Saturation in Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: A Preliminary Study -- Critical closing pressure of cerebral circulation at concomitant moderate-to-severe traumatic brain injury -- Hybrid convolutional neural network (hCNN) for image reconstruction in near-infrared optical tomography -- Cross-frequency coupling between brain and body biosignals: A systemic physiology augmented functional near-infrared spectroscopy hyperscanning study -- Machine learning distinguishes familiar from unfamiliar pairs of subjects performing an eye contact task: A systemic physiology augmented functional near-infrared spectroscopy hyperscanning study -- Assessing Neurovascular Coupling Using Wavelet Coherence in Neonates With Asphyxia -- Basic examination of hemoglobin phase of oxygenation and deoxygenation in resting state and task periods in adults using fNIRS -- Development and validation of robust and cost-effective liquid heterogeneous phantom for time domain near-infrared optical tomography -- Effect of Exercise Therapy on Stress Response Evaluated by IoMT Monitoring System -- Improved optical tissue model for tissue oximetry imaging applications -- In vitro validation of a new tissue oximeter using visible light -- Photon and Proton Dose Painting based on Oxygen Distribution – Feasibility Study and Tumour Control Probability Assessment -- Effect of Acidosis-Induced Signalling Pathways on Mitochondrial O2 Consumption of Tumour Cells -- Feasibility of non-invasive measurement of tumor NAD(H) by in vivo phosphorus-31 magnetic resonance spectroscopy -- Acidosis-induced regulation of Egr1 and Ccn1 in vitro and in experimental tumors in vivo -- Perfusion-Limited Hypoxia Determines the Outcome of Radiation Therapy of Hypoxic Tumours -- Improved Oxygenation of Human Skin, Subcutis and Superficial Cancers upon Mild Hyperthermia Delivered by wIRA-Irradiation -- Blood Supply and Oxygenation Status of the Liver: From Physiology to Malignancy -- Optical Redox Imaging Is Responsive to TGFβ Receptor Signaling in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Cells -- Evaluation of betulinic acid derivatives as PET tracers for hypoxia-induced carbonic anhydrase IX (CA IX) expression -- Role of the mTOR signaling pathway during extracellular acidosis in tumor cells -- Feasibility Study of Remote Contactless Perfusion Imaging with Consumer-Grade Mobile Camera -- Stability of a Novel PEGylation site on a Putative Hemoglobin Based Oxygen Carrier -- Oxygen storage in stacked phospholipid membranes under an oxygen gradient as a model for myelin sheaths -- Confocal laser and electron microscopic investigation of gap junctions in anaplastic astrocytomas -- A radiation biological analysis of the oxygen effect as a possible mechanism in FLASH -- Assessment of nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide in human tissues by in vivo phosphorus-31 magnetic resonance spectroscopic imaging at 1.5 Tesla -- Drag-Reducing Polymers Improve Vascular Hemodynamics and Tissue Oxygen Supply in Mouse Model of Diabetes Mellitus -- Hemorheologic Enhancement of Cerebral Perfusion increases oxygen supply and reduces Ab plaques deposition in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s Disease -- Calorimetric Characterization of the Binding Reaction Between Human Ferric Hemoglobins and Haptoglobin to Develop a Drug for Removal of Cell-Free Haemoglobin -- Feasibility To Measure Tissue Oxygen Saturation Using Textile-integrated Polymer Optical Fibers -- Effect of Atorvastatin on Microcirculation Evaluated by Vascular Occlusion Test with Peripheral Near lnfrared Spectroscop -- Flow characteristics of the conjugate of anti-CD3 monoclonal antibodies and magnetic nanoparticle in the PBS and the blood vessel -- Cerebrovascular Reserve (CVR) and Stages of Hemodynamic Compromise -- On the mechanism of sustained mitochondrial membrane potential without functioning complex IV -- Further evidence that gradients of extracellular pH direct migration of MDA-MB-231 cells in vitro -- Blood Flow and Respiratory Gas Exchange in the Human Placenta at Term: A Data Update -- Oxyhaemoglobin Level Measured Using Near-Infrared Spectrometer is Associated with Brain Mitochondrial Dysfunction After Cardiac Arrest in Rats -- Changes in Oxygenation Levels During Moderate Altitude Simulation (Hypoxia-Induced): A Pilot Study Investigating the Impact of Skin Pigmentation in Pulse Oximetry -- The Intramuscular Circulation is Affected by Neck and Shoulder Pain -- Intramuscular circulation of the lumbar multifidus in different trunk positions on standing -- Numerical Optimization of a NIRS Device for Monitoring Tissue Oxygen Saturation -- Upper trapezius muscle tonicity, assessed by palpation, relates to change in tissue oxygenation and structure as measured by Time-Domain Near Infrared Spectroscopy -- Perceived exertion correlates with multiple physiological parameters during cardiopulmonary exercise testing -- Systemic and Quadriceps Muscle O2 Dynamics in Subjects without Attenuation Point of Deoxygenated Hemoglobin Concentration during Ramp Cycling Exercise -- Jaw-Clenching Intensity Effects on Masseter Oxygen Dynamics and Fatigue: A NIRS Oximetry Study. .