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Description / Table of Contents: (1) Introduction on different applications of molecular tools to answer novel questions in the field of population genetics/genomics of endangered mammals (Mike Bruford, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University, UK) -- (2) Climate change impact at the genetic level: patterns in the Couesi's rice rat Oryzomys couesi (Ella Vázquez Domínguez, Instituto de Ecología, UNAM, Mexico) -- (3) Use of molecular and demographic data to prioritize populations of black-tailed prairie dogs (Cynomys ludovicianus) from Chihuahua, Mexico for conservation (Luis Eguiarte Fruns, Instituto de Ecología, UNAM, Mexico) -- (4) Anthropogenic and Historic Movements of American Black Bears Shape Contemporary Population Structure (Emily Puckett, Division of Molecular Sciences, University of Missouri, USA) -- (5) How many ESUs are of conservation interest within some species of Neotropical carnivores (Felidae, Canidae, Ursidae, Mustelidae and Procyonidae)? : Individual mitocondrial genes versus mitogenomics (Manuel Ruiz García, Departamento de Biología, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Spain) -- (6) Phylogeographic footprint of armadillo colonization in North America (María Clara Arteaga, Departamento de Biología de la Conservación, Mexico) -- (7) Koala conservation in Queensland: a role for a living genome bank in genetic rescue? (Jenny Seddon, School of Veterinary Science, The University of Queensland, Australia) -- (8) Noninvasive genetics sheds light on the status, phylogeography, and evolution of the most elusive carnivores: The case of the snow leopard (Jan Janecka, Department of Biological Sciences, Duquesne University, USA) -- (9) Documenting genetic diversity in changing populations for management and conservation (Jennifer Leonard, Conservation and Evolutionary Genetics, Estación Biológica de Doñana, Spain) -- (10) Conservation genetic of gray brocket deer (Mazama gouazoubira) in the southern of the distribution range (Susana González, Departamento de Biodiversidad y Genética, Universidad de Uruguay) -- (11) Noninvasive Genetic Monitoring of the Elusive European Wildcat as a Tool for Science-Based Wildlife Conservation (Katharina Steyer, Seckenberg Research Institute, Germany) -- (12) Conservation genetics in bats: current progress and future prospects (Serena Dool, University of Greifswald, Germany) -- (13) From dung to demography: Using noninvasive methods to study elephants inside and outside protected areas (Lori Eggert, Division of Biological Sciences, University of Missouri, USA) -- (14) Effect of the habitat connectivity in the genetic variability of the Volcano rabbit (Romerolagus diazi) (Jorge Ortega/Leslie Montes/José Antonio Guerrero, Escuela Nacional de Ciencias Biológicas, Instituto Politécnico Nacional) -- (15) Different immune system diversity for city life: comparing major histocompatiblity complex alleles in San Joaquin kit fox (Vulpes macrotis mutica) (Jesus Maldonado/Tammy R Wilbert, Masoumeh Sikaroodi, Brian Cypher, Christine Van Horn Job, Katherine Ralls, and Patrick M. Gillevet, Center for Conservation Genomics, Smithsonian Institue, Washington, DC, USA) -- (16) Conclusion: current state and future prospects of conservation genomics in mammals (Jorge Ortega, Jesus Maldonado).

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Preface -- 2. Improving the efficacy of biological control by ecostacking -- 3. Integrative biological control approaches in Chinese agriculture, Biodiversity enhancement for improving biological control -- 4. Perennial wildflower strips to enhance natural enemies of insect pests in Belgium -- 5. Flower strips for ecosytem services in Switzerland, Felix Herzog, Agroscope, Zurich Switzerland -- 6. Enhancement of natural control functioning of rice insect pests by manipulating biodiversity in rice-based ecosystems -- 7. Cover crops enhance biological control of insect pests in apple orchards in China -- 8. Enhancement of natural control function in aphids by intercropping and infochemical releasers in wheat ecosystem -- 9. Crop diversity and disease control,Specific techniques to enhance ecostacking -- 10. Ecological enhancement of arthropod natural enemy application in biological control -- 11. Chemical ecology of egg parasitoids in crop protection -- 12. Current knowledge on the migratory moth Autographa gamma as basis for future chemo-ecological research -- 13. The development of biocontrol products and their applications in the field -- 14. Effects of insecticides on pollen beetles (Brassicogethes aeneus) and their tersilochine parasitoids in Germany -- 15. How microbiome approaches can assist market development for biological control -- 16. Successful use of entomopathogenic nematodes to control a defoliator outbreak in an environmentally sensitive area -- 17. Bees and medicinal plants -- 18. Climate change implications -- 19. Night warming on predator-prey interactions: implications for biological control -- 20. Landscape-level drivers of biocontrol and case study from local to regional scale under climate change in China -- 21. Spotted Wing Drosophila-blueberry interactions.

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Concerns and Threats of Heavy Metals Contamination on Aquatic Ecosystem -- Pollution in Aquatic Environs: Sources and consequences -- A Recent Scenario of Groundwater Quality in Northwest Himalaya, India -- Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: Toxic Effects and their Bioremediation Strategies -- Mechanisms and importance of phytoremediation -- Role of Soil Biota and Associated Threats -- Viability of in-situ and ex-situ bioremediation approaches for degradation of noxious substances in stressed environs -- Bioremediation: A viable approach for degradation of petroleum hydrocarbon -- Application of macrophytes for remediation of wastewater in constructed wetlands -- Application of Biotechnology for restoration of degraded environs -- Role of Free Floating Aquatic Macrophytes in abatement of the disturbed Environs -- Genetically Modified Microbes as Biofertilizers -- Nanotechnology: A Modern Waste management approach -- Restoration of Heavy Metal Contaminated Environs through Ectomycorrhizal Symbiosis -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: I. Biology of Plant defence -- 1.Plant defense in biological pest control -- 2. Specialized metabolites and plant defence -- 3.Sources of variation in defensive traits in Quercus species -- 4.Glycans as Modulators of Plant Defense -- 5.Biological Control and Need of a Strategic Shift -- II. Use of natural compounds -- 6.Polyphenolic Compounds Obtained from OMWW -- 7.small molecules of natural origin -- 8.Pinus polyphenols and antifungal activities -- 9.stilbenoid-enriched grape cane extracts in biocontrol -- III. Use of biological agents -- 10.Biological control of postharvest diseases -- 11.Sorghum allelopathy for sustainable weed management -- 12.Chaetomium as biocontrol agent on plant pathogens -- 13.Fusaria strains as biocontrol agents -- 14. Fungi as biological control -parasitic nematodes -- 15.Control of pepper powdery mildew -- 16.Molecular Mechanisms of Nematode- Microbe Interactions -- VI. Market and commercialization -- 17.Trends for commercialization of Biocontrol Agent.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter1. Taming the Land, A Historical Perspective -- Chapter2. The Ecological Connection in Farming, Ranching, and Gardening -- Chapter3. Hydrology and Erosion Processes -- Chapter4. Cover Crop Dynamics on Hydrology and Erosion -- Chapter5. Vegetation Effects on Hydrology and Erosion: Grazinglands -- Chapter6. Organic Matter: The Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth -- Chapter7. Soil-Hydrology-Plant Assessment Technologies for Cropland, Rangeland, Pastureland, and Gardens.

Description / Table of Contents: Ch 1: Electron Spin Resonance- An Introdcution -- Ch 2: ESR – Applications in Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Science -- Ch 3: ESR Applications in Paleontology and Geochronology -- Ch 4: ESR Applications in Food Science.

Description / Table of Contents: 1.1 General Introduction Principal -- 2. Zoloogical Groups -- 2.1 Arachnids -- 2.2 Insects: Migrants, endemics, and old to new pests -- 2.3 Freshwater decapod crustaceans: the challenges of documenting and preserving a very diverse fauna -- 2.4 Mexican molluscs: In the process of a 'silent extinction' -- 2.5 Amphibians and reptiles -- 2.6 Anthropocene impacts on the Mexican freshwater fish fauna -- 2.7 Mexican avifaunas of the Anthropocene -- 2.8 Marine birds -- 2.9 Terrestrial mammals -- 2.10 Marine mammals -- 2.11Mexican bats: conservation challenges in the Anthropocene -- 3. Ecosytems -- 3.1 The impact of the growth of urban environments on Mexican fauna -- 3.2 Anchialine fauna of the Yucatan Peninsula -- 3.3 Semi-terrestrial and aquatic invertebrates and fish in mangroves in México -- 3.4 Defaunation of Mexican tropical forests3.5 Mezcal boom and extinction debts in Mexican arid ecosystems -- 3.6 Deep sea life -- 3.7 The importance of agroecosystems for the Mexican fauna -- 3.8 The salamanders of the Mexican cloud forest -- 3.9 Human effects on caves in Mexico -- 3.10 Fauna of lakes and rivers -- 3.11 Coral reef faunal assemblages in the Mexican Caribbean: assessing the cryptic biodiversity -- 4 Processes -- 4.1 Contemporary climate change impacts on Mexican fauna -- 4.2 Invasive alien species of invertebrates and fishes introduced to Mexican freshwater systems -- 4.3 Are marine fisheries sustainable? -- 4.4 Pest dynamics in Mexican forests -- 4.5 Pollination by wild and managed animal vectors -- 4.6 Social participation strategies for the conservation of Mexican fauna -- 4.7 Citizen science for deep ocean biodiversity: a crowdsourcing tool in support of conservation -- 4.8 Legal actions for the conservation of fauna.

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. Biology and Culture -- Chapter 1. Speciesism in Biology and Culture: How Human Exceptionalism is Pushing Planetary Boundaries -- Chapter 2. Race and Human Genomic Variation -- Chapter 3. Science Without Species: Doing Science With Tree-Thinking -- Part II. Culture and History -- Chapter 4. The Colonization of Islands as Microcosms for Human Impacts on an Interplanetary Scale -- Chapter 5. Species, God, and Dominion -- Chapter 6. Symbols and How We Came to be Human -- Part III. Conservation and Law -- Chapter 7. Law and Nature: Human, Nonhuman, and Ecosystem Rights -- Chapter 8. A Phylogenetic Approach to Conservation: Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning for a Changing Globe -- Part IV. Sustainability and the Future -- Chapter 9. Energy and Society: Toward a Sustainable Future.

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Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- 1. Causes and Effects of Pesticide and Metal Pollution on Different Ecosystems -- 2. Ecotoxicology of Heavy Metals: Sources, Effects and Toxicity -- 3. Role of Modern Innovative Techniques for Assessing and Monitoring Heavy Metal and Pesticide Pollution in Different Environments -- 4. Global Scenario of Remediation Techniques to Combat Pesticide Pollution -- 5. Mycoremediation: A Sustainable Approach for Pesticide Pollution Abatement -- 6. Bio-pesticides: Application and Possible Mechanism of Action -- 7. Values of Biofertilizers for Sustainable Management in Agricultural Industries -- 8.Role of Macrophytes in Spontaneous Lacustrine Phytofiltration -- 9. Phytoremediation of Heavy Metals Using Salix (Willows) -- 10. Photo catalysis: An Effective Tool for Treatment of Dyes Contaminated Wastewater -- 11. Removal of dyes from waste water by Micellar Enhanced Ultrafiltration -- 12. Biofilm: an innovative modern technology for aquatic pollution remediation -- 13. Heavy Metal Soil Contamination and Bioremediation -- 14. Environmental Biotechnology: For Sustainable Future -- 15. Global Environmental Regulations for Management of Pesticides -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- About the Authors -- List of Reviewers -- Chapter 1. The History and Distinctions of Conservation Biology -- Chapter 2. Biodiversity: Concept, Measurement, and Management -- Chapter 3. Human Presence and the Need for Conservation -- Chapter 4. Climate Change and its Impact on Conservation -- Chapter 5. Conservation Genetics -- Chapter 6. The Conservation of Populations: Theory, Analysis, Application -- Chapter 7. The Conservation of Terrestrial Habitat and Landscapes -- Chapter 8. The Conservation of Aquatic Systems -- Chapter 9. Conservation Through Ecosystem Management -- Chapter 10. Values and Ethics in Conservation -- Chapter 11. Conservation Economics and Sustainable Development -- Chapter 12. The Legal Foundations of Conservation Biology -- Chapter 13. Conservation as Vocation -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 Introduction to Environment -- Chapter 2 Components of the Earth -- Chapter 3 Earth and its Resources -- Chapter 4 Basics of Ecosystem -- Chapter 5 Major Biochemical Cycles -- Chapter 6 Biodiversity and its Conservation -- Chapter 7 Air Pollution and its Mitigation -- Chapter 8 Pollution and its Mitigation -- Chapter 9 Soil Pollution and its Mitigation -- Chapter 10 Oil Pollution -- Chapter 11 Human Population and the Environment -- Chapter 12 Climate Change: Threat of Era.

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Introduction of Druggable Lipid Signaling Pathway -- Biosynthetic Enzymes of Membrane Glycerophospholipid Diversity as Therapeutic Targets for Drug Development -- Druggable Prostanoid Pathway -- Targeting Leukotrienes as a Therapeutic Strategy to Prevent Comorbidities Associated with Metabolic Stress -- Epoxy Fatty Acids are Promising Targets for Treatment of Pain, Cardiovascular Disease and Other Indications Characterized by Mitochondrial Dysfunction, Endoplasmic Stress and Inflammation -- Druggable Sphingolipid Pathway -- Druggable Lysophospholipid Pathway -- Druggable targets in endocannabinoid signaling -- Drugging the phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) and phosphatidylinositol 4-kinase (PI4K) family of enzymes for treatment of cancer, immune disorders, and viral/parasitic infections -- Druggable Lipid GPCRs: Past, Present, and Prospects. .

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Part 1. Introduction to 'Problematic Wildlife II'. Problematic species are increasing, in a world that is constantly changing -- Chapter 1. The need and relevance of the book. Problematic Wildlife and the Modern World -- Part 2. From direct danger to humans to negative impact on human activities -- Chapter 2. Large Felid Predators and ‘Man-eaters’: Can we successfully balance conservation of endangered apex predators with the safety and needs of rapidly expanding human populations? -- Chapter 3. A large carnivore among people and livestock: the common leopard -- Chapter 4. Recent changes in wolf habitat occupancy and feeding habits in Italy: implications for conservation and reducing conflict with humans -- Part 3. Urban wildlife conflicts are an emerging problem -- Chapter 5. ‘Good’ and ‘bad’ urban wildlife -- Chapter 6. Wildlife and traffic – an inevitable but not unsolvable problem? -- Chapter 7. The colonization of the Western Yellow-legged Gull (Larus michahellis) in an Italian city: evolution and management of the phenomenon -- Part 4. Hunting and eco-tourism: possible mechanisms for conservation and coexistence? -- Chapter 8. How hunting and wildlife conservation can coexist. Review and case studies -- Chapter 9. What do we know about wild boar in Iberia? -- Chapter 10. Travelling in a fragile world: The value of Ecotourism -- Part 5. Species extinction -- Chapter 11. Assessing presence, decline and extinction for the conservation of difficult-to-observe species -- Chapter 12. Extinct or perhaps surviving relict populations of big cats. Their controversial stories and implications for conservation -- Part 6. Zoos, Conservation, Animal Rights -- Chapter 13. Alternative facts and alternative views: Scientists, managers, and animal rights activists -- Chapter 14. Zoos and conservation in the Anthropocene: opportunities and problems -- Chapter 15. Problematic Animals in the Zoo: the issue of charismatic megafauna -- Chapter 16. Cryptic problematic species and troublesome taxonomists: A tale of the Apennine bear and the Nile white rhinoceros -- Chapter 17. Communication and wildlife conservation (grey wolf and brown bear in Italy) -- Part 7. Humans and Herpetofauna -- Chapter 18. Snakes, snakebites, and humans -- Chapter 19. Giant Snake-Human Relationships -- Chapter 20. Risk assessment model for brown treesnake introduction into the continental United States -- Chapter 21. The Asian toad (Duttaphrynus melanostictus) in Madagascar: A report of an ongoing invasion -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Section I - General considerations -- Chap 1 - Introduction Maria Eugenia Farias (LIMLA, Argentina) -- Chap 2 - Origin and evolution of the central Andes: deserts, salars lakes and volcanoes R.Alonso (U. Nacional de Salta, Argentina) and W. Rojas (Eramine Sudámerica S.A., Argentina) -- Chap 3 - Modern microbilies mats and endovaporite system in Andean lakes: a general approach Maria Eugenia Farias (LIMLA, Argentina) -- Section II - Preandean and andean atacam desert: life at limits -- Chap 4 - Desert polyextreme environment and lithobiontic habitats J. Wierzchos, C. Ascaso, O. Artieda and M.C. Casero (Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Spain) -- Chap 5 - Desert microbiology J. Di Ruggiero (Johns Hopkins University, USA) and M.C. Casero (Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Spain) -- Chap 6 - Desert biosignatures P. Vitek (The Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic) and J. Wierzchos (Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, Spain) -- Chap 7 - Microbial characterization of Andean Vega's soil C. Belfiore, M.E. Farias (LIMLA, Argentina) and M. Contreras (Centro de Ecología Aplicada, Chile) -- Section III - Life in Andean Volcanoes and Fumaroles -- Chap 8 - Limits to microbial life at the altitudinal and dry extremes for life on Earth at Llullaillaco and Socompa Volcacones S. Scmidt and P. Sowell (University of Colorado, USA) -- Chap 9 - The biogeochemistry of microorganisms in the geothermal features of El Tatio Geyser Field, Chile K.D. Myers (Columbia University, USA), A.S. Angel (University of Tennessee, USA) and P.C. Bennett (The University of Texas at Austin, USA) -- Chap 10 - The unique holoarchea dominated biofilms associated Diamante Lake inside Galan Volcanoes Microbialites N. Rascova (Aix Marseille Université, France) and M.E. Farias (LIMLA, Argentina) -- Section IV - Endoevaporites and Mats in Salars and Wetlands -- Chap 11 - Endoevaporites dominated by Arquea at Laguna Tebenquiche M.C. Rasuk (LIMLA, Argentina), Pieter V. (University of Connecticut, USA), A.B. Fernández (University of Sevilla, Spain) and M.E. Farias (LIMLA, Argentina) -- Chap 12 - Rare microbial biosphere in Salar de Huasco: hyperdiversity in polyextreme aquatic ecosystem C. Dorador, N. Miranda, V. Ávalos (Universidad de Antofagasta, Chile), V. Molina (Universidad de Playa Ancha, Chile) and M. Hengst (Universidad Católica del Norte, Chile) -- Chap 13 - Microbiome of evaporites and microbial mats in the Salar de Llamara, Atacama desert M. Rasuk and M.E. Farias (LIMLA, Argentina) -- Chap 14 - Microbial diversity in athalassohaline Argentinean salterns M.R. Mora-Ruiz and R. Rosselló-Móra (Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies, Spain) -- Section V - Microbialites at lakes -- Chap 15 - Physicochemical and microbiological processes in carbonate precipitation in hypersaline lakes: the laguna Negra case F.J. Gomez (Centro de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Terra, Argentina), L.C. Kah (University of Tennessee, USA), C. Mlewski, F.J. Boidi (Centro de Investigaciones en Ciencias de la Terra, Argentina) and E. Gerard (Université Paris Diderot, France) -- Chap 16 - Microbialites Laguna Socompa V. Albarracin and M.E. Farias (LIMLA, Argentina) -- Chap 17 - Microbialites oncolites and mats at Laguna La Brava P. Visscher (University of Connecticut, USA), M. Contreras (Centro de Ecologia Aplicada, Chile) and M.E. Farias (LIMLA, Argentina) -- Chap 18 - Modern microbiolites of Pozo Bravo lake, Salas de Antofalla, Antofagasta de la Sierra, Catamarca A.I. Lencina, M.N. Soria (PROIMI, Argentina), R. Palma (Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina) and M.E. Farias (LIMLA, Argentina) -- Section VI - Extremolites: microbes surviving in Andean microbial ecosystems -- Chap 19 - Light sensing and mechanisms of adaptation to high solar irradiation V.H. Albarracín, M. Gorriti, L. Portero, F. Zannier (PROIMI, Argentina), W. Gärtner (Max Planck Institute, Germany) and M.E. Farias (LIMLA, Argentina) -- Chap 20 - Linear megaplasmids spreading the Andean Resistome M.F. Perez and J.R. Dib (LIMLA, Argentina) -- Chap 21 - Arsenic: Not as bad as it sounds Visscher (University of Connecticut, USA), Gallagher, Contreras (Centro de Ecologia Aplicada, Chile), Farias (Universidad Nacional de La Plata, Argentina), Philippot (Univesité Paris Diderot, France), Sancho-Tomas and Somogyi (Synchroton Soleil, France) -- Section VII - Prospecting and protecting singular ecosystems -- Chap 22 - Conservation of extremophile communities in complex ecosystems M. Contreras (Centro de Ecologia Aplicada, Chile) -- Chap 23 - Integral prospection of Andean Microbial Ecosystem Project M.E Farias (LIMLA, Argentina) -- Index -- .

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. European pearl mussel: background information and literature review -- Chapter 3. Materials and methods -- Chapter 4. Results -- Chapter 5. Discussion -- Chapter 6. Conclusions.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Na+/K+-ATPase Drives Most Asymmetric Transports and Modulates the Phenotype of Epithelial Cells -- 2. Na+-K+-2Cl- Cotransporter -- 3. Thiazide-sensitive NaCl Cotransporter -- 4. NBCe1, an Electrogenic Na+ Bicarbonate Cotransporter, in Epithelia -- 5. Na+/H+ Exchangers in Epithelia -- 6. Sugar Transport Across Epithelia -- 7. Amino Acid Transporters of Epithelia -- 8. Structure-Dynamic and Regulatory Specificities of Epithelial Na+/Ca2+ Exchangers (NCX) -- 9. Urea Transporters in Health and Disease -- 10. H,K-ATPases in Epithelia -- 11. Zinc Transporters Involved in Vectorial Zinc Transport in Intestinal Epithelial Cells -- 12. Properties, Structure and Function of the Solute Carrier 26 Family of Anion Transporters -- 13. ClC-2 Chloride Channels -- 14. The Role of the Endosomal Chloride/Proton Antiporter ClC-5 in Proximal Tubule Endocytosis and Kidney Physiology -- 15. CFTR and Cystic Fibrosis: A Need for Personalized Medicine -- 16. Molecular Physiology and Pharmacology of the Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator -- 17. TMEM16 Proteins (Anoctamins) in Epithelia -- 18. Epithelial Sodium Channels (ENaC) -- 19. ROMK and Bartter Syndrome Type 2 -- 20. Inwardly-rectifying K+ channel 4.1 regulates renal K+ excretion in the aldosterone-sensitive distal nephron -- 21. Small-molecule Pharmacology of Epithelial Inward Rectifier Potassium Channels -- 22. KCa3.1 in Epithelia -- 23. BK Channels in Epithelia -- 24. Recent Developments in the Pharmacology of Epithelial Ca2+-Activated K+ channels -- 25. KCNE regulation of KCNQ channels -- 26. Orai Channels -- 27. Trp Channels in Renal Epithelia -- 28. P2X receptors in Epithelia -- 29. The Polycystins and Polycystic Kidney Disease -- 30. Renal Aquaporins in Health and Disease.

Description / Table of Contents: Live Donors of Tissue -- Deceased Tissue Donors -- Banking and Use of Umbilical Cord Blood -- Ocular tissue banking -- Banking of Heart Valves -- Cryopreservation and Banking of Haematopoietic Progenitor Cells -- Storage, Processing and Preservation -- Cryopreservation in tissue banking -- Sterilisation by Irradiation -- Screening the tissue donor for infectious agents -- Contamination in the Tissue Way -- Establishing a Quality System in a Tissue Establishment -- IT System requirements for Tissue and Cell Banking -- Ethical and Regulatory Aspects of Cell and Tissue Banking -- Human embryonic stem cell banking for clinical applications – 20 years from their isolation.

Description / Table of Contents: Central dogma of molecular biology -- Impact of chromatin structure -- Epigenetics enables gene expression -- Gene regulation in the context of nuclear architecture -- Core promoter -- TATA box and other core promoter elements -- Genome-wide core promoter identification -- TFIID and Mediator as paradigms of multi-protein complexes -- Site-specific transcription factors and their domains -- Classification of transcription factors -- Activation of transcription factors -- Programing cellular differentiation by transcription factors -- Inflammatory signaling via NF-KB -- Sensing cellular stress via p53 -- The nuclear receptor superfamily -- Molecular interactions of nuclear receptors -- Physiological role of nuclear receptors -- Next-generation sequencing -- Gene regulation in the context of Big Biology -- Exploring genome-wide transcription factor binding -- Integrating epigenome-wide datasets -- Cytosines and their methylation -- Histone modifications -- Gene regulation via chromatin modifiers -- Sensing energy metabolism via chromatin modifiers -- Epigenetics and chromatin -- Genome-wide understanding of epigenetics -- CTCF and genetic imprinting -- Epigenetics in health and disease -- Nucleosome positioning at promoters -- Chromatin remodeling -- Transcriptional dynamics in the presence of chromatin -- Organization of the nucleus -- Non-coding RNAs -- miRNAs and their regulatory potential -- Long ncRNAs -- Enhancer RNAs.

Description / Table of Contents: Intro: Navigating Patagonian freshwaters- and this book -- 1: Are freshwaters wetlands? -- 2: Patagonian Andean lakes and climate change -- 3: Current state and recent changes of glaciers in the Patagonian Andes (35 °S to 55°S) -- 4: Biogeographical patterns of Patagonian freshwater microbiota -- 5: Extreme freshwater ecosystems from Patagonia: The Copahue-Agrio system -- 6: Mercury in aquatic systems of North Patagonia: sources, processes and trophic transfer -- 7: Diversity patterns across aquatic communities from peat bogs -- 8: Hydrologic Systems, water uses and emerging conflicts around freshwater availability in Patagonia -- 9: Land-use effects on aquatic ecosystems: An overview of environmental impacts and tools for ecological assessment -- 10: Patagonian wetlands: vertientes, vegas, mallines,turberas and lagunas -- 11: Fish and fisheries of the Patagonian steppe -- 12: Invasive species: The case of Didymosphenia geminata in Neuquén Province -- 13: Influence of the fish introduction in lakes of the arid Patagonia -- 14: Patagonian cultural limnology: knowledge and water management in Mapuche rural communities -- 15: Political Ecology, water valoration and Water Law deliberation in the Province of Tierra del Nacional de Tierra del Fuego -- 16: Freshwater systems in protected areas in Patagonia -- 17: Amphibians and waterbirds as bridges to conserve aquatic and terrestrial habitat in Patagonia -- 18: Integrated long term conservation strategies to recover the critically endangered Hooded Grebe (Podiceps gallardoi),an endemic waterbird of Austral Patagonia -- Conclusion: Reaching out for the UNDP Sustainable Development Goals in Patagonia.

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Part 1 Basics on coenzyme Q -- Introduction. The current coenzyme Q science and knowledge -- Molecular structure, biosynthesis, and distribution of coenzyme Q -- Coenzyme Q function in mitochondria -- Extramitochondrial coenzyme Q10 in aging -- Regulation of the synthesis of Coenzyme Q10 -- Part 2 Coenzyme Q in aging studies -- Coenzyme Q and aging in C. elegans -- Coenzyme Q and aging in the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster -- The aging process and coenzyme Q: clk-1 mouse models -- Reduced coenzyme Q10 decelerates senescence and age-related hearing loss in senescence-accelerated mice by activating mitochondrial functions -- Part 3 Age-related diseases and coenzyme Q -- Coenzyme Q, mtDNA and mitochondrial dysfunction during aging -- Coenzyme Q10 and metabolic syndrome -- Coenzyme Q and age-related neurodegenerative disorders: Parkinson and Alzheimer diseases -- Immunosenescence and CoQ10 -- Coenzyme Q10 in fertility and reproduction -- Part 4 Prolongevity effectors and Coenzyme Q -- Calorie restriction, longevity and coenzyme Q -- Age dependent changes of coenzyme Q levels and its induction in experimental systems -- Effects of coenzyme Q10 supplementation on elderly people -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Historical review of research on Arctic and Subarctic Aleocharinae -- Material and methods -- Impact of climate change on northern fauna and flora -- Aleocharinae as indicators of change -- Faunal analysis and discussion -- Key to tribes occurring in Arctic and Subarctic zones -- Tribe Gymnusini Heer, 1839 -- Tribe Aleocharini Fleming, 1821 -- Tribe Oxypodini C.G. Thomson, 1859 -- Tribe Tachyusini C.G. Thomson, 1859 -- Tribe Hypocyphtini Laporte, 1835 -- Tribe Myllaenini Ganglbauer, 1895 -- Tribe Liparocephalini Fenyes, 1918 -- Tribe Homalotini Heer, 1839 -- Tribe Placusini Mulsant and Rey, 1871 -- Tribe Athetini Casey, 1910 -- Tribe Falagriini Mulsant and Rey, 1873.

Description / Table of Contents: Ch 1: The seminiferous epithelial cycle of spermatogenesis: Role of non-receptor protein kinases -- Ch 2: Sertoli cells: immunology and spermatogenesis -- Ch 3: Innate immunity and spermatogenesis -- Ch 4: Cell apoptosis and spermatogenesis -- Ch 5: Transcriptional regulation of spermatogenesis -- Ch 6: Sertoli cell cytoskeleton and spermatogenesis -- Ch 7: Leydig cell and spermatogenesis -- Ch 8: Cross-talk of cell junctions to support spermatogenesis -- Ch 9: Coordination of F-actin- and MT-based cytoskeletons to support spermatogenesis -- Ch 10: Regulation of the blood-testis barrier by basement membrane laminin-α2 chain -- Ch 11: Regulation of spermatogenesis by collagens -- Ch 12: Androgen regulation of spermatogenesis -- Ch 13: Use of molecular modeling to study spermatogenesis -- Ch 14: Acrosome biogenesis during spermatogenesis -- Ch 15: Stem cells and spermatogenesis -- Ch 16: Advances in our understanding of spermatogenesis in humans -- Ch 17: Leydig cell function in aging men -- Ch 18: Regulation of human spermatogenesis.

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: Preface -- List of symbols -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Descriptive Models -- 3. Carbon Balance -- 4. Tree Structure -- 5. Carbon Balance and Structure -- 6. Competition -- 7. Tree structure revisited: Eco-evolutionary models -- 8. Predicting stand growth: parameters, drivers and modular inputs -- 9. Calibration -- 10. Applications and future outlook -- Solutions to Exercises -- References -- Author Index -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: An introduction to reproducibility in the context of animal research -- Rodent Genetics -- Animal and environmental factors that influence reproducibility -- Microbiology and Microbiome -- Effects of untreated pain, anesthesia and analgesia in animal experimentation -- Why do we need a statistical experiment design -- Statistical tests and Sample size calculations -- Design of experiments -- Scholarly Publishing and Scientific Reproducibility -- Systematic reviews -- Planning animal experiments.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Literature review -- Chapter 2. Results of experimental studies of short peptides (cytogens) in ophthalmology -- Chapter 3. Results of the clinical study of short peptides (cytogens) in ophthalmology -- Conclusion.

Description / Table of Contents: Section I - Historical and general background -1) History of Discovery of the Patagonian Lizards -- 2) Lizards within the cultural and symbolic context of Patagonia -- Section II - Land, climate and vegetation background - 3) Landscapes and geology, a general introduction to the land of reptiles -- 4) Paleoclimatology of Patagonia since the Cretaceous to the Holocene -- 5) Geographical singularities of the Patagonian climate -- 6) Major phytogeographic units of Patagonia -- 7) The Patagonian fossil lizards -- Section III - Diversity and current knowledge of Patagonian lizards - 8) Naming the diversity: taxonomy of current species of Patagonian lizards -- 9) Phylogenetics, phylogeography and biogeography of Patagonian Steppe lizards -- 10) Phylogeography of lizards in Chile: the role of the history of geographic space on the distribution of its intraspecific diversity -- 11) General ecology of Patagonian lizards -- 12) Reproductive biology of lizards from cold and harsh environments of Patagonia Argentina -- 13) Effects of global warming on ecophysiology of lizards of Patagonia, Argentina -- 14) Conservation of lizards from Patagonia: current status, trends and management proposals.

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: Introduction -- Clinical and Evolutionary Perspectives on the Primate Foot: A Historical and Contemporary View -- The Primate Ankle and Hindfoot -- The Primate Midfoot and Human Longitudinal Arch -- The Primate Forefoot -- Myology of the Primate Foot -- The Integument and Associated Structures of the Primate Foot -- Experimental Research on Foot Use and Function During Climbing by Primates -- Foot Posture During Quadrupedal Walking in Primates -- Primate Foot Use During Bipedal Walking -- Running in Addition to Walking Helped Shape the Human Foot -- The Feet of Paleogene Primates -- Miocene Ape Feet -- The Early Hominin Foot -- The Feet of Fossil Homo -- Locomotor behavior of the sloth lemurs (Palaeopropithecidae) and the function and anatomy of a foot adapted for suspensory locomotion -- Recent Developments and Future Directions for the Study of Primate Feet.

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: Part 1: What is Salivary Bioscience, Why is it Important, and How Do We Study It? -- Chapter 1: Foundations of Interdisciplinary Salivary Bioscience: An Introduction (Granger et al.) -- Chapter 2: Salivary Gland Anatomy and Physiology (Hernández et al.) -- Chapter 3: Saliva Collection, Handing, Transport, and Storage: Special Considerations and Best Practices for Interdisciplinary Salivary Bioscience(Padilla et al.) -- Chapter 4: Analytical Strategies and Tactics in Salivary Bioscience (Riis et al.) -- Part 2: Physiology and Development Research and Applications (Part 2 Editor: Dr. Jenna Riis) -- Chapter 5: Salivary Bioscience, Human Stress, and the Hypothalamic Pituitary Adrenal Axis (Clow et al.) -- Chapter 6: The Use of Saliva for Genetics and Epigenetics Research (Nemoda et al.) -- Chapter 7: Saliva as a Window Into the Human Oral Microbiome and Metabolome(Whiteson et al.) -- Chapter 8: Salivaomics, saliva Exo-somics, and Saliva Liquid Biopsy (Wong et al.) -- Chapter 9: Salivary Bioscience, Immunity, and Inflammation (Riis et al.) -- Chapter 10:Salivary Bioscience and Human Development (Hibel et al.) -- Part 3: Biomedical Research and Related Applications (Part 3 Editor: Dr. Elizabeth Thomas) -- Chapter 11: Biomedical Research and Related Applications:Current Assay Methods and Quality Requirements in Oral Fluid Diagnostics Applications (Granger S. et al.) -- Chapter 12: Salivary Biomarkers and Neurodegenerative Conditions (Thomas et al.) -- Chapter 13: The Use of Antibodies in Saliva to Measure PathogenExposure and Infection(Heaney et al.) -- Chapter 14: Salivary Bioscience and Pain (Payne et al.) -- Chapter 15: Salivary Bioscience and Environmental Exposure Assessment (Panuwet et al.) -- Chapter 16: Saliva and Drugs of Abuse (Navazesh et al.) -- Chapter 17: Therapeutic Drug Monitoring in Saliva (Thomas) -- Chapter 18: Salivary Bioscience and Periodontal Medicine (Freire et al.) -- Chapter 19: Salivary Bioscience and Cancer (Navazesh et al.) -- Part 4: Psychosocial Research and Applications(Part 4 Editor: Dr. Kate Ryan Kuhlman) -- Chapter 20: Salivary Bioscience in Clinical Psychologyand Psychiatry(Kuhlman) -- Chapter 21: Salivary Bioscience Research in Health Psychology and Behavioral Medicine (Hoyt et al.) -- chapter 22: The Neuroscience of Human Social Behavior: A Review of How Testosterone and Cortisol Underpin Competition and Affiliation Dynamics (Kornienko et al.) -- chapter 23: Salivary Studies of the Social Neuroscience of Human-animal Interaction (Pendry et al.) -- Part 5: Population Health Research and Applications(Part 5 Editor: Dr. Marcus Taylor) -- Chapter 24: Salivary Bioscience and Military, Space, and OperationalResearch(Roma et al.) -- Chapter 25: Salivary Bioscience Research Related to Prenatal Adversity (Eiden et al.) -- Chapter 26: Salivary Bioscience and Pediatrics (Johnson et al.) -- Chapter 27: Use of saliva to better understand the experience of adulthood and aging(Almeida et al.) -- Chapter 28: Salivary Bioscience and Research on Animal Welfare and Conservation Science(Staley et al.) -- Part 6: The Way Forward: Future Directions for the Science and Practice of Salivary Bioscience -- Chapter 29:Applications of Salivary Bioscience to Precision Medicine (Kuhlman) -- Chapter 30:Public Health and IndustryApplications of Salivary Bioscience (Riis et al.) -- Chapter 31: Envisioning the Future of Interdisciplinary Salivary Bioscience (Granger et al.).

Description / Table of Contents: Section 1: Historical Background -- Chapter 1: Mast cell/platelet heparanase/Heparan sulfate biosynthesis and turnover -- Chapter 2: gene cloning/overview -- Chapter 3: gene cloning/melanoma metastasis -- Chapter 4: gene cloning/cancer/immune system -- Chapter 5: heparin/HS modifying enzymes -- Section 2: Crystal Structure/substrate specificity/gene regulation -- Chapter 6: crystal structure -- Chapter 7: molecular dynamics, KKDC peptide -- Chapter 8: Biochemistry/active site -- Chapter 9: substrate specificity -- Chapter 10: gene regulation, promoter/Egr1/methylation -- Chapter 11: SNPs -- polymorphism -- Chapter 12: Splice variants -- Section 3: Cell & tumor biology (general functions & mode of action) -- Chapter 13: Exosomes/heparan sulfate/heparanse -- Chapter 14: Exosomes/drug resistance -- Chapter 15: Nuclear heparanse/transcriptional activity -- Chapter 16: Non-Enzymatic functions/Signal transduction/cellular trafficking/autophagy -- Chapter 17: Heparan sulfate/stem cells/inflammation -- Chapter 18: Danger signals/HS/platelet heparanse -- Chapter 19: Heparanse/Intergrins/Melanoma -- Section 3: Immune Cells/Immnuno-Modulation -- Chapter 20: Heparain. Heparanse and Selectins in Cancer Metastasis and Inflamation --- Chapter 21: Trans-Endithelial Migration, Lymphocytes, Neutrophils/T-cells --Chapter 22: Macrophages, dendritic cells, autoimmunity -- Chapter 23: Macrophages, Heparanse and the tumor microenvironment, neutralizing antibodies -- Chapter 24: NK Cells -- Section 4: Cancer (heparanse in specific types of cancer) -- Chapter 25: Myeloma, inhbition, drug resistance -- Chapter 26: Breast Cancer/Pancreatic Cancer/Cancer and Inflammation -- Chapter 27: Brain Metastasis/MIR-1258 -- Chapter 28: Gastric cancer/immunization -- Chapter 29: Head and Neck Cancer -- Chapter 30: Glioma -- Chapter 31: Sarcoma -- Section 5: Inhibitors/clinical trails/cancer -- Chapter 32: Chemistry/synthesis of heparanse inhibitors PI-88, PG -- Chapter 33: PG series/biology/Tumor models and clinical trial -- Chapter 34:Chemically modified heparins/Heparin mimetics -- Chapter 35: Medicinal Chemistry (Ronesparstat/small molecules/clinical trials) - Section 6: Other indications/diseases -- Chapter 36: IBD/inflammation and cancer/diabetes/obesity -- Chapter 37: Immune Diabetes -- Chapter 38 Inflammation, Sepsis/Amyloidosis -- Chapter 39: Kidney dysfunction -- Chapter 40: Fibrosis -- Chapter 41: Viral infection -- Chapter 42: Cariomyocytes/Endothelial cell-cardiomyocyte crosstakl in diabetic cariomyopathy -- Chapter 43: Eye research -- Chapter 44: atheroscelerosis, nuclear localization -- Chapter 45: Yona Nadir (coagulation/tissue factor) -- Section 7: Heparanse-2 (Hpa2) -- Chapter 46: Hpa2 gene cloning -- Chapter 47: UFS -- urofacial syndrome/peripheral neuropathy -- Chapter 48: Hpa2: tumor suppressor.

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Part 1 Landscapes -- Mountain Landscapes and Watersheds of the Hindu-Kush Himalaya (HKH) and their Biogeography: A descriptive overview and introduction for 18 nations in the Anthropocene -- HKH in the global and climate context: Major weather systems, monsoon, Asian Brown Cloud (ABC) and global connections -- From the mountains and glaciers down to the rivers to the estuaries and oceans: A tale of 18 rivers -- HKH in the global and marine context: Major estuaries, 2 billion people and global food security -- A view from space on Poyang Lake: What we can already see and what it means -- Poyang Lake: A local view downstream from the Hindu Kush Himalaya. The Future of Biodiversity in the Changing Watersheds of Kashmir Himalaya, Pakistan: Conservation Challenges and Opportunities -- Towards a Landscape Perspective of Diseases in Plants: An Overview and Review of a Critical but Overlooked Ecology Issue in the Hindu Kush-Himalayan Region -- Change of Hindu Kush Himalaya region through photo monitoring -- Paper parks in the Hindu Kush Himalaya region -- Forestry Management in Nepal: An example and a review of growth & yield -- Part 2 Concepts, Cultures, Religions and the Mind -- What it is like to be a land-locked nation: Examples from Nepal and Bhutan -- Ethnobiology and indigenous regimes in the conservation of species, watersheds, and landscapes: Experiences and evidences from the Hindu Kush-Himalayan nations for a global application -- Spirituality beats it all: A quick overview, self-organization and great value of (indigenous) religions: 2,000 years later -- The terror of your mind: Fear, Anxiety, inherent Chaos and Self-doubt in Himalaya expeditions and research -- Part 3 Real-world Policy, Conservation Management of Wildlife, Habitat, and Biodiversity Data -- The relevance and role of Mid-elevation for conservation in the Hindu Kush Himalaya: A Nepal example -- Nature and landscape governance in royal times: Experiences from the Shah and Rana regimes in Nepal re-assembled from literature and interview data -- Urban Ecology in shops and housing: An example of culture, religion and how (nesting) Barn Swallows, House and Tree Swallows create for a lively human-wildlife link at the commercial interface -- Pallas’s Cat in Annapurna, Nepal: What we know thus far and what is to come -- Status of otters in Nepal: A link with ancient waterways and people -- Wildlife Diplomacy and Gifting in the Hindu Kush-Himalaya region: A chronological history and opinion of Nepalese literates -- Birds of Nepal: their status and conservation especially with regards to watershed perspectives -- A governance analysis of the snow leopard, its habitat and data: Who owns charismatic animals and who drives and uses the agenda for what?- The Annapurna Conservation Area Project (ACAP): Towards a success story in landscape feature and watershed conservation management -- The forgotten species and their data: Museums in Nepal and examples -- A rather short story of the GIS data layers in HKH -- A pollination, insect and IUCN view: Ecological Services matter the most -- Sarus Cranes and Stork species hotspots from geo-referenced rapid assessments in Lumbini: Holy species and religious attitudes drive entire ecological communities and services for the benefit of a nation -- Part 4 Very Serious Problems in the HKH nations -- A ‘global change’ eulogy, sermons and obituaries: Everest, the models, the reality, the governmental mis-behavior, associated institutional terror and the global abuse of the Hindu Kush-Himalaya region -- The gods are angry: A first-hand account and an experience of the earthquake in hindsight -- Hydrodams: Death by over 500 cuts and blockages virtually build without Impact Assessment -- Hydrodams again: Lost Dolphins, expensive Gharials, cut Fish migration, and energy for non-sustainable mining and societies abroad fueling non-democratric governance and industry -- Persistent evidence for a dramatic decline in Langurs in Nepal, and likely elsewhere, too -- Snow Leopards in 2100?- The fate of the great woodpeckers and hornbills in Nepal: No big trees, no life -- Poaching and illegal Trade of Wildlife: What do the media say for the Nepali-Chinese and Nepali-Indian border?- Looking at Road and Railroad Development Data in the Hindu Kush-Himalaya: Rock-solid impacts created by Globalization, The World Bank and its affiliates, as well as by the Great Himalaya Trail -- Why do some many Nepalis, medical doctors, CEOs and Hedge Fund Managers get sick or die on Everest (Sagarmatha, Chomolungma) ? A review and indicators that capitalism went awful while searching human dignity and itself -- Part 5 A fresh look and successful templates for HKH: Business as usual is dead -- Small and effective NGOs as a role model for bigger success: The Global Primate Network (now ‘Third Pole Conservancy’) -- When Micro drives the Macro: A fresh look at disease and their massive contributions in the Himalaya -- What Mining has in stock down river for Mongolia and beyond: A personal assessment of watersheds and rivers -- Good Citizen Science experience downstream of Everest: The Koshi Birding Club -- Citizen Science experience: Green Youth Club promoting Cranes in Lumbini region -- When governments cannot do it anymore and capitalism, neoliberal policies and globalization get imposed without democracy: Self-organization beyond E. Ostrom -- Quo Vadis the Hindu Kush-Himalaya Realistic Sustainable Development horror scenarios while climate change, human increase and global conservation decay rise further?- Index. .

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: Preface -- Tissue-specific cell signaling: introduction -- Beyond the brain signaling -- Cell signaling within pituitary, the master gland of the endocrine system -- Cell signaling within endocrine glands: thyroid, parathyroids and adrenal glands -- Signaling pathways governing activation of innate immune cells -- Cell activation and signaling in lymphocytes -- Signaling pathways involved in kidney and urinary tract physiology and pathology -- More than androgens: hormonal and paracrine signaling in prostate development and homeostasis -- Testicular signaling: team work in sperm production -- Sperm signaling specificity: from sperm maturation until oocyte recognition -- Hormone signaling pathways in the postnatal mammary gland -- Oogenesis signaling: from development to environmental plasticity and aging -- Key signaling pathways in the cardiovascular system -- Growth factor signaling in the maintenance of adult lung homeostasis -- The signaling pathways involved in the regulation of skeletal muscle plasticity -- Adipocyte-specific signaling.

Description / Table of Contents: Prologue -- Introduction -- 1)Setting the scene -- Biodiversity and cultivation -- 2)Edible ectomycorrhizal fungi and their cultivation in china -- 3)Climate change, biotechnology and mexican neotropical edible ectomycorrhizal mushrooms -- 4)Diversity and importance of edible ectomycorrhizal fungi in guatemala -- 5)Advances in the cultivation of Lactarius deliciosus (saffron milk cap) in new zealand -- 6)Edible mushrooms and their cultural importance in yunnan, china -- 7)Advances in desert truffle mycorrhization and cultivation -- case studies -- 8)Diversity, biogeographic distribution, ecology and ectomycorrhizal relationships of the edible porcini mushrooms (Boletus s. str., Boletaceae) worldwide: state of the art and an annotated check-list -- 9)Recent insights in the phylogeny, species diversity and culinary uses of milkcap genera Lactarius and Lactifluus -- 10)Advances in the cultivation of truffles in canada -- 11)Diversity and ecology of edible mushrooms from patagonia native forests, argentina -- 12)Truffle cultivation in the south of france: socio-economic characteristics -- 13)Ethnomycology in europe: the past, the present, and the future -- ecology with emphasis on wild edible fungi -- 14)Interactions between soil mesofauna and edible ectomycorrhizal mushrooms -- 15)Diversity and importance of edible mushrooms in ectomycorrhizal communities on mexican neotropics -- 16)A checklist of ectomycorrhizal mushrooms associated to Quercus humboldtii in colombia -- 17)Modifications of community structure in ectomycorrhizal artic fungi as a consequence of global warming.

Description / Table of Contents: Foreword -- Preface -- Part 1. General thoughts on transdisciplinarity, economics and ecology -- Chapter 1. Towards a transdisciplinary ecological economics: a cognitive approach -- Chapter 2. The ‘Tragedy of the Commons’ and the role of the money interest rate -- Chapter 3. Allocative efficiency and property rights in ecological economics: why we need to distinguish between man-made capital and natural resources -- Part 2. Chile -- Chapter 4. Subsidizing green deserts in southern Chile – between fast growth and sustainability of Forest Management -- Chapter 5. Land use as a socio-ecological system: developing a transdisciplinary approach to studies of land use change in south-central Chile -- Chapter 6. Between extractivism and conservation: tree plantations, forest reserves, and peasant territorialities in Los Ríos, Chile -- Chapter 7. Land tenure insecurity and forest conservation in Chile: the case of the Mapuche Huilliche indigenous communities in the coastal range rainforests of Mapu Lahual -- Chapter 8. Towards a New Forest Model for Chile: managing forest ecosystems to increase their social, ecological and economic benefits -- Chapter 9. On ecosystem dynamics for the conservation of wetlands and forest -- Part 3. Brazil -- Chapter 10. Transdisciplinary case study approaches to the ecological restoration of rainforest ecosystems -- Chapter 11. Forest governance in Brazil and Chile: institutions and practices in the implementation of sustainable management of native forests -- Chapter 12. Municipal private natural heritage reserves: uses and attributions of Natural Protected Areas in the city of Curitiba (PR) -- Chapter 13. Understanding adoption and design of incentive-based forest conservation policies: a case study of the SISA Program in Acre, Brazil -- Conclusions -- Index.

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 -- Myosin Structure -- Cargo Binding by Unconventional Myosins -- Cryo-EM of Actin-Myosin Structures -- Small Molecule Effectors of Myosin Function -- Single-Molecule Biophysical Techniques to Study Actomyosin Force Transduction -- High-Speed Atomic Force Microscopy to Study Myosin Motility -- How Myosin 5 Walks Deduced from Single-Molecule Biophysical Approaches -- How Actin Tracks Affect Myosin Motors -- Myosins in the Nucleus -- Myosins in Cytokinesis -- Myosins and Disease -- Myosins and Hearing -- The Actomyosin Systems in Apicomplexa -- Approaches to Identify and Characterise MYO6-Cargo Interactions -- Class IX Myosins: Motorized RhoGAP Signaling Molecules -- Myosin X -- Myosin XVI -- Myosin XVIII -- Myosin XIX.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Biodiversity offsets and no net loss - introduction, problem statement and research questions -- Chapter 2. Developing a typology of biodiversity offsets using an internet and expert based approach - methods and materials -- Chapter 3. Applying the concept of voluntariness to explain behavior towards environmental conservation -- Chapter 4.Voluntariness of biodiversity offsets -- Chapter 5. Development of a typology of biodiversity offsets -- Chapter 6. Illustrative case studies for different types of biodiversity offsets -- Chapter 7. Discussion of the development of a typology of biodiversity offsets -- Chapter 8. Putting the developed typology of biodiversity offsets into context: some conclusions -- Chapter 9. Outlook: potential for further improvement and research on the developed typology of biodiversity offsets.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Historical review of research on British Columbia taxa -- Material and Methods -- British Columbia – hotspot of Canadian biodiversity -- Faunal analysis and discussion -- List of recorded species of eastern Canadian Aleocharinae and their composition -- Key to tribes of Aleocharinae occurring in eastern Canada -- Tribe Gymnusini Heer, 1839 -- Tribe Aleocharini Fleming, 1821 -- Tribe Oxypodini C.G. Thomson, 1859 -- Tribe Tachyusini C.G. Thomson, 1859 -- Tribe Hypocyphtini Laporte, 1835 -- Tribe Myllaenini Ganglbauer, 1895 -- Tribe Liparocephalini Fenyes, 1918 -- Tribe Autaliini C.G. Thomson, 1859 -- Tribe Homalotini Heer, 1839 -- Tribe Placusini Mulsant and Rey, 1871 -- Tribe Athetini Casey, 1910 -- Tribe Falagriini Mulsant and Rey, 1873 -- Tribe Lomechusini Fleming, 1821.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Chapter 1. GMOs, Biodiversity and Ecosystem Processes Part I: GM CROPS AND THEIR IMPACTS -- Chapter 2. Impact of GM crops on farmland biodiversity -- Chapter 3. GM crops: Resistance development and impact on biodiversity -- Chapter 4. Impact of Genetically Modified Crops on the Biodiversity of Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungi -- Chapter 5. GMOs – Impact on Non-Target Arthropods -- Chapter 6. Impacts of Genetically Engineered Crops on the Soil Microbiome, Biological Processes and Ecosystem Services -- Chapter 7. Environmental analytical and ecotoxicological aspects of Bt maize in the Pannonian Biogeographical Region of the European Union. Part II: GM INSECTS -- Chapter 8. GM Insect biodiversity and ecological interactions -- Chapter 9. Invasive Species Control and Resolution of Wildlife Damage Conflicts: a Framework for Chemical and Genetically-based Management Methods -- Chapter 10. Risk assessment of transgenic silkworms -- Part III: GM VERTEBRATES -- Chapter 11. Genetically Engineered Fish: potential impacts on aquaculture, biodiversity, and the environment -- Chapter 12. GM Farm Animals: Potential Impact on Biodiversity Including Ethical Concerns -- Chapter 13. GM Animals: Biodiversity and Bioethical Concerns and Analysis -- Part IV: RISK ASSESSMENT -- Chapter 14. Hypothesis-led ecological risk assessment of GM crops to support decision-making about product use -- Chapter 15. Risk assessment of insect-resistant genetically modified crops on non-target arthropods and benefits to associated biodiversity of agro-ecosystems -- Chapter 16. Ecological Risk Assessment for soil invertebrate biodiversity and ecosystem services -- Part V: GENE DRIVE APPROACHES -- Chapter 17. Engineered Gene Drives: Ecological, environmental, and societal concerns -- Chapter 18. Engineered Gene Drives and their Value in the Control of Vector Borne Diseases, Weeds, Pests and Invasive Species -- Chapter 19. Evaluating Gene Drive Approaches for Public Benefit -- Part VI: GOVERNANCE AND REGULATION -- Chapter 20. Governance of Emerging Technologies/Applications in the Bio/Life Sciences: Genome Editing and Synthetic Biology -- Part VII: ANNEX A -- National legal perspectives. Africa. Chapter 21. Botswana - Genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and Synthetic biology: Their potential applications and the legal perspectives -- Chapter 22. Democratic Republic of the Congo - GMOs/synthetic biology rules/regulations and biodiversity: A legal perspective -- Chapter 23. Kenya - A Review of Regulation of Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) - Case Study of Kenya. Chapter 24. South Africa - Synthetic Biology Regulatory Considerations and Biodiversity: A Legal Perspective for South Africa -- Chapter 25. Tunisia - The Use of Modern Biotechnology in Tunisia: Regulatory Framework -- Chapter 26. Zimbabwe - The status of Biosafety in Zimbabwe: A legal perspective. Americas -- Chapter 27. Argentina - Regulatory Framework for Genetically Modified Organisms (GMOs) -- Chapter 28. Colombia - GMOs/innovative biotechnology regulations -- Chapter 29. Ecuador - Modern biotechnology in Ecuador: development and legal framework -- Chapter 30. Honduras - GMOs/synthetic biology rules/regulations and biodiversity: A legal perspective from Honduras -- Chapter 31. Venezuela - GMOs/regulations and biodiversity: A legal perspective in Venezuela -- Asia -- Chapter 32. India - GMOs/Synthetic Biology rules/regulations and biodiversity: A legal perspective from India -- Chapter 33. Malaysia - Genetic modifications and synthetic biology regulations and biodiversity: A legal perspective for Malaysia -- Chapter 34. Pakistan - Synthetic Biology: challenges and opportunities from a biodiversity perspective in Pakistan -- Chapter 35. Thailand - GMOs and synthetic biology regulations: Thailand perspective -- Australasia -- Chapter 36. Australia - Biodiversity Considerations as Part of the Regulation of GMOs, Including Synthetic Organisms -- Chapter 37. New Zealand - GMO Rules and Regulations in New Zealand -- Europe -- Chapter 38. Czech Republic - GMO Regulations and Biodiversity: A Legal Perspective -- Chapter 39. Hungary - Hungary’s GMO-free policy and its legal background -- Chapter 40. Italy - GMOs and synthetic biology rules/regulations and biodiversity: the legal perspective of Italy -- Chapter 41. Norway - The Norwegian Gene Technology Act: Protection of Biodiversity -- Chapter 42. Slovenia - GMOs and synthetic biology regulations and biodiversity: A Slovenian legal perspective.

Description / Table of Contents: Foreword -- Preface -- Chemical fertilizers and their impact on soil health -- Microbial Bioremediation of Pesticides/Herbicides in Soil -- Pollution cleaning up techniques -- Role of Mushrooms in the Bioremediation of Soil -- Microbial degradation of organic constituents for sustainable development -- Traditional farming practices and its consequences -- Soil organic matter and its impact on soil properties and nutrient status -- Sustainable Agricultural Practices -- Values of Composting -- Introduction to Microbiota and Biofertilizers -- Fungi and their potential as Biofertilizers -- Bacillus thuringiensis as a Biofertilizer and Plant Growth Promoter -- Cyanobacteria as Sustainable Microbiome for Agricultural Industries -- Intercropping: A Substitute but Identical of Biofertilizers -- Application of Phyllosphere Microbiota as Biofertilizers -- Biofertilizers: A Viable tool for future organic agriculture -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: PRELIMINARY (ToC of second edition) 1 Plant ecology at high elevations -- The concept of limitation -- A regional and historical account -- The challenge of alpine plant research -- 2 The alpine life zone -- Altitudinal boundaries -- Global alpine land area -- Alpine plant diversity -- Origin of alpine floras -- Alpine growth forms -- 3 Alpine climate -- Which alpine climate -- Common features of alpine climates -- Regional features of alpine climates -- 4 The climate plants experience -- Interactions of relief, wind and sun -- How alpine plants influence their climate -- The geographic variation of alpine climate -- 5 Life under snow: protection and limitation -- Temperatures under snow -- Solar radiation under snow -- Gas concentrations under snow -- Plant responses to snowpack -- 6 Alpine soils -- Physics of alpine soil formation -- The organic compound -- The interaction of organic and inorganic compounds -- 7 Alpine treelines -- About trees and lines -- Current altitudinal positions of climatic treelines -- Treeline-climate relationships -- Intrazonal variations and pantropical plateauing of alpine treelines -- Treelines in the past -- Attempts at a functional explanation of treelines -- A hypothesis for treeline formation -- Growth trends near treelines -- Evidence for sink limitation -- 8 Climatic stress -- Survival of low temperature extremes -- Avoidance and tolerance of low temperature extremes -- Heat stress in alpine plants -- Ultraviolet radiation — a stress factor -- 9 Water relations -- Ecosystem water balance -- Soil moisture at high altitudes -- Plant water relations — a brief review of principles -- Water relations of alpine plants -- Desiccation stress -- Water relations of special plant types -- 10 Mineral nutrition -- Soil nutrients -- The nutrient status of alpine plants -- Nutrient cycling and nutrient budgets -- Nitrogen fixation -- Mycorrhiza -- Responses of vegetation to variable nutrient supply -- 11 Uptake and loss of carbon -- Photosynthetic capacity of alpine plants -- Photosynthetic responses to the environment -- Daily carbon gain of leaves -- The seasonal carbon gain of leaves -- C4 and CAM photosynthesis at high altitudes -- Tissue respiration of alpine plants -- Ecosystem carbon balance -- 12 Carbon investments -- Non-structural carbohydrates -- Lipids and energy content -- Carbon costs of leaves and roots -- Whole plant carbon allocation -- 13 Growth dynamics and phenology -- Seasonal growth -- Diurnal leaf extension -- Rates of plant dry matter accumulation -- Functional duration of leaves and roots -- 14 Cell division and tissue formation -- Cell size and plant size -- Mitosis and the cell cycle -- From meristem activity to growth control -- 15 Plant biomass production -- The structure of alpine plant canopies -- Primary productivity of alpine vegetation -- Plant dry matter pools -- Biomass losses through herbivores -- 16 Plant reproduction -- Flowering and pollination -- Seed development and seed size -- Germination -- Alpine seed banks and natural recruitment -- Clonal propagation -- Alpine plant age -- Community processes -- 17 Global change at high elevation -- Alpine land use -- The impact of altered atmospheric chemistry -- Climatic change and alpine ecosystems -- References (with chapter annotation) -- Taxonomic index (genera) -- Geographical index -- Color plates -- Plant life forms -- The alpine life zone -- Environmental stress -- The human dimension.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I. Cancer -- Ubiquitin-Regulated Cell Proliferation and Cancer -- Ubiquitin, SUMO, and Nedd8 as Therapeutic Targets in Cancer -- The Proteasome System in Health and Disease -- Proteostasis Dysregulation in Pancreatic Cancer -- Divergent Modulation of Proteostasis in Prostate Cancer -- Resistance to the Proteasome Inhibitors: Lessons from Multiple Myeloma and Mantle Cell Lymphoma -- Part II. Neurodegeneration -- Altered Proteostasis in Neurodegenerative Tauopathies -- The Ubiquitin System in Alzheimer’s Disease -- The Interplay Between Proteostasis Systems and Parkinson’s Disease -- Machado–Joseph Disease: A Stress Combating Deubiquitylating Enzyme Changing Sides -- Part III. Infection, Inflammation and Developmental Disorders -- SUMO and Cytoplasmic RNA Viruses: From Enemies to Best Friends -- The Role of Proteostasis in the Regulation of Cardiac Intercellular Communication -- By the Tips of Your Cilia: Ciliogenesis in the Retina and the Ubiquitin-Proteasome System -- TRIM E3 Ubiquitin Ligases in Rare Genetic Disorders -- Part IV. Diet -- We Are What We Eat: Ubiquitin–Proteasome System (UPS) Modulation Through Dietary Products.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction: Ecological Subsidies as a Framework for Understanding Contaminant Fate, Exposure, and Effects at the Land-Water Interface -- Part I: Ecological Subsidies Drive Exposure -- Chapter 2: Ecological Factors Controlling Insect-Mediated Methylmercury Flux from Aquatic to Terrestrial Ecosystems: Lessons Learned from Mesocosm and Pond Experiments -- Chapter 3: Pathways of Contaminant Transport Across the Aquatic-Terrestrial Interface: Implications for Terrestrial Consumers, Ecosystems and Management -- Part II: Exposure Drives Ecological Subsidies -- Chapter 4: Agriculture and Mining Contamination Contribute to a Productivity Gradient Driving Cross-Ecosystem Associations between Stream Insects and Riparian Arachnids -- Chapter 5: Cross-Ecosystem Linkages and Trace Metals at the Land-Water Interface -- Chapter 6: Metamorphosis and the Impact of Contaminants on Ecological Subsidies -- Part III: Other Global Stressors -- Chapter 7: Variables Affecting Resource Subsidies from Streams and Rivers to Land and their Susceptibility to Global Change Stressors -- Chapter 8: Beyond “Donors and Recipients”: Impacts of Species Gains and Losses Reverberate among Ecosystems due to Changes in Resource Subsidies -- Part IV: Management Applications and Tools -- Chapter 9: Practical Considerations for the Incorporation of Insect-Mediated Contaminant Flux into Ecological Risk Assessments -- Chapter 10: When Nutrients Become Contaminants in Aquatic Systems: Identifying Responses to Guide Terrestrial-Derived Detrital Endpoint Development for Managers -- Chapter 11: Mesocosms to Evaluate Aquatic-Terrestrial Contaminant Linkages using Aquatic Insect Emergence: Utility for Aquatic Life Criteria Development -- Chapter 12: Studying Effects of Contaminants on Aquatic-Terrestrial Subsidies: Experimental Designs using Outdoor and Indoor Mesocosms and Microcosms -- Part V: Syntheses -- Chapter 13: Ecological Networks as a Framework for Understanding and Predicting Contaminant Movement across the Land-Water Interface -- Chapter: 14: Synthesis: A Framework for Predicting the Dark Side of Ecological Subsidies.

Description / Table of Contents: Part 1 General and Principles of Toxicology -- A Historical Glimpse and Stalwarts -- General Toxicology -- Principles of Toxicology -- Mechanism of Toxicity -- Part 2 Disposition and Kinetics -- Disposition of Toxicants -- Toxicokinetic of Xenobiotics -- Part3 Organ Toxicity -- Target Organ Toxicity -- Part4 Non-Organ-Directed Toxicity -- chemical carcinogenesis -- Genetic Toxicology -- Developmental Toxicology -- Part5 Toxic Agents -- Pesticides -- Metals and Micronutrients -- Solvents. Gasses and Vapors -- Toxicology of Nanomaterial Particles -- Toxic Effects of Calories -- Part6 Plants, Biotoxins and Food Poisonings -- Plant Toxicity -- Biotoxins and Venomous Organisms -- Poisonous Foods and Food Poisonings -- Part7 Radioactive Materials -- Radiation and Radioactive Materials -- Part8 Applications of Toxicology -- Food Toxicology -- Ecotoxicology -- Environmental Toxicology -- Analytical and Clinical Toxicology -- Occupational Toxicology. .

Description / Table of Contents: Part 1: Historical and biogeographical aspects -- The Atlantic Forest: an introduction to the megadiverse forest of Southern America -- The Atlantic Forest Ecological History: from pre-history to the Anthropocene -- The North-eastern Atlantic Forest: biogeographical, historical and current aspects in the Sugarcane Zone -- The Hileia Baiana - an assessment of natural and historical aspects of the land use and degradation of the central corridor of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest -- The southern Atlantic Forest: Use, degradation, and perspectives for conservation -- Part II – Biodiversity -- Tree diversity in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest: biases and general patterns using different sources of information -- Vascular Epiphytes of the Atlantic Forest: diversity and community ecology -- Social Insects of the Atlantic Forest -- Tetrapod diversity in the Atlantic Forest: maps and gaps -- Freshwater Studies in Atlantic Forest: general overview and prospects -- Part III – Threats -- Land-cover changes and an uncertain future: will the Brazilian Atlantic Forest lose the chance to become a hopespot? -- Climate change and biodiversity in the Atlantic Forest: best climatic models, predicted changes and impacts, and adaptation options -- Non-native species introductions, invasions, and biotic homogenization in the Atlantic Forest -- Causes and consequences of large-scale defaunation in the Atlantic forest -- Pollination systems in the Atlantic Forest: characterization, threats, and opportunities -- IV - Opportunities -- Atlantic Forest: ecosystem services linking people and biodiversity -- Changing the agriculture paradigm in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest: the importance of agroforestry -- Engaging people for large-scale forest restoration: Governance lessons from the Atlantic Forest of Brazil -- The Atlantic Forest Trail: connecting people, biodiversity and protected areas -- Conservation initiatives in the Brazilian Atlantic forest -- Financing conservation in the Brazilian Atlantic Forest -- Integrating researchers for understanding the biodiversity in Atlantic Forest -- The future of the Atlantic Forest.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Current and Futuristic Roadmap of Ovarian Cancer Management: An Overview -- 2. Epithelial ovarian cancer and cancer stem cells -- 3. Ovarian Cancer: Therapeutic Strategies to Overcome Immune Suppression -- 4. Pharmacological effects of natural components against ovarian cancer and mechanisms -- 5. Modeling the Early Steps of Ovarian Cancer Dissemination in an Organotypic Culture of the Human Peritoneal Cavity -- 6. PAX8, an emerging player in Ovarian Cancer -- 7. Single Cell RNA Sequencing of Ovarian Cancer: Promises and Challenges.-8. Enforced expression of METCAM/MUC18 decreases in vitro motility and invasiveness and tumorigenesis and in vivo tumorigenesis of human ovarian cancer BG-1 cells -- 9. 3D Models for Ovarian Cancer -- 10. Ovarian Cancer Stem Cells: Characterization and Role in Tumorigenesis.

Description / Table of Contents: History of freshwater red algae; taxonomic diversity and phylogeny; biogeographic trends; how to collect freshwater red algae; scope and organization of this book -- Subphylum Cyanidiophytina: Class Cyanidiophyceae; Subphylum Proteorhodophytina: Classes Compsopogonophyceae, Porphyridiophyceae, Rhodellophyceae and Stylonematophyceae -- Subphylum Eurhodophytina: Classes Bangiophyceae and Florideophyceae (Subclasses Corallinophycidae, Hildenbrandiophycidae and Rhodymeniophycidae) -- Subphylum Eurhodophytina: Class Florideophyceae, Subclass Nemaliophycidae, Orders Acrochaetiales, Balbianiales and Thoreales -- Subphylum Eurhodophytina: Class Florideophyceae, Subclass Nemaliophycidae, Order Batrachospermales.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction: Christopher Clark and Ellen Garland -- Ch 1: Overview. Christopher Clark -- Ch. 2: Anatomy and physiology. Joy Reidenberg -- Ch. 3: Movement, Residency & Migration. Alex Zerbini and Sue Moore,- Ch. 4: Feeding strategies. Ari Friedlaender -- Ch. 5: Molecular genetics. Emma Carroll -- Ch. 6: Social organization. Peter Tyack -- Ch. 7: Ethological and bioacoustic variability. Christopher Clark -- Ch. 8: Baleen whale culture. Ellen Garland and Emma Carroll -- Ch. 9: Blue whale – Global diversity & behavioral variability in a specialist. Ana Sirovic -- Ch. 10: Humpback whale – Global diversity & behavioral plasticity in a court jester. Rebecca Dunlop -- Ch. 11: Humpback whale song - Global diversity & behavioral plasticity in a court jester. Danielle Cholewiak, Sal Cerchio and Ellen Garland -- Ch. 12: Bowhead whale – Acoustic variability in the almost-a-right whale that went north. Kate Stafford -- Ch. 13: Right whales - From north to south, what’s the big difference? Susan Parks -- Ch. 14: Minke Whale – Diversity and variability. Denise Risch -- Ch. 15: Omura’s Whale – An enigma. Sal Cerchio. .

Description / Table of Contents: Part I: An overview of cancer and its mechanisms -- 1-A brief overview of cancer, its mechanisms, and prevention methods -- 2-MECHANISMS INVOLVED IN CARCINOGENESIS -- Part II: Functional foods/nutraceuticals as chemo preventive agents -- 3-Tomato (lycopene and β-carotene) and cancer -- 4-Essential Oils from Aromatic Plants in cancer prevention and treatment -- 5-Bee propolis (caffeic acid phenethyl ester) against cancer -- 6-Brown Algae (Fucoxanthin) Against Cancer -- 7-Cruciferous vegetables (indole-3-carbinol, isothiocyanates) against cancer -- 8-Crustacea (carotenoids namely astaxanthins) against cancer -- 9-Curcuma and breast cancer: a focus on cell signaling pathways -- 10-FRUITS AND VEGETABLES IN CANCER -- 11-Garlic: Allyl Sulfur Compounds and Cancer Prevention -- 12-Ginger (gingerols and 6-shogaol) against cancer -- 13-Saffron (crocins) against cancer -- 14-OLIVE LEAF (OLEUROPEIN) AND ITS ROLE IN CANCER: THERAPEUTIC UPDATES -- 15-Honey against cancer -- 16-Soybeans and phytoestrogen rich foods (genistein, daidzein) against cancer -- 17-Tea (catechins including (-)-epigallocatechin-3-gallate) and cancer -- 18-Probiotics and Cancer -- Part III: The role of nutrients in the prevention of cancer -- 19-Vitamins (C, D and E) against cancer -- 20-Minerals (namely selenium) and cancer -- 21-Dietary fibers/beta-glucan and cancer -- 22-Omega-3 Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids and Cancer.

Description / Table of Contents: 1.Introduction to Drugs, Drug Targets and Drug Resistance -- 2.Drugs Resistance in Bacterial Diseases -- 3.Drugs Resistance Against Viral Diseases -- 4.Drug Resistance in Protozoal Infections -- 5.Antifungal Drugs: Mechanism of Action and Resistance -- 6.Drug Resistance in Ear, Nose, and Throat Infections -- 7.Drug Resistance in Skin Diseases -- 8.Drugs Resistance in Lungs Diseases -- 9.Neurological Disorders: Biochemistry of Drug Resistance and Future Challenges -- 10.Drug Resistance in Kidney Diseases -- 11.Drugs resistance in Heart Diseases -- 12.Drugs Resistance in Liver Disease -- 13.Drug Resistance in Cancer -- 14.Drugs Resistance and Treatment Failure in HIV and / or AIDS -- 15.Drug Resistance in Reproductive Diseases -- 16.Drug Resistance in Diabetes -- 17.Drug Resistance in Rheumatological Diseases -- 18.Pherotypes in Streptococcus pneumoniae and Role of CSP-1 and CSP-2 in Antibiotic Susceptibility and Resistance; Towards Development of Live Attenuated Vaccine Candidates in Inducing Netosis Based Acquired Immune Response -- 19.Hypoxia, Obesity and Drug Resistance; Towards Sustainable Development Goals and Globalization -- 20.Genetic and Molecular Mechanisms of Multidrug-resistance in Uropathogens and Novel Therapeutic Combat -- 21.Drugs Resistance Management.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Physiology and Functional Anatomy -- Chapter 3. Sensory Systems -- Chapter 4. Biology of Stress -- Chapter 5. Normal Behaviour -- Chapter 6. Social Behaviour as a Challenge for Welfare -- Chapter 7. Brains, Behaviour, and Cognition: Multiple Misconceptions -- Chapter 8. Psychological and Behavioural Principles and Problems -- Chapter 9. Effects of Ontogeny, Rearing Conditions, and Individual Differences on Behaviour: Welfare, Conservation, and Invasive Species Implications -- Chapter 10. Controlled Deprivation and Enrichment -- Chapter 11. Effects of Noise and Light -- Chapter 12. Ethologically Informed Design and DEEP Ethology in Theory and Practice -- Chapter 13. Spatial and Thermal Factors -- Chapter 14. Nutritional Considerations -- Chapter 15. Naturalistic Versus Unnaturalistic Environments -- Chapter 16. Evidential Thresholds for Species Suitability in Captivity -- Chapter 17. Record Keeping as an Aid to Captive Care -- Chapter 18. Arbitrary Husbandry Practices and Misconceptions -- Chapter 19. Miscellaneous Factors.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction (Deborah C. Hayes, Becky K. Kerns, Toral Patel-Weynand, and Deborah M. Finch) -- Chapter 2. Impacts of Invasive Species in Terrestrial and Aquatic Systems in the United States (Albert E. Mayfield III, Steven J. Seybold, Wendell R. Haag, M. Tracy Johnson, Becky K. Kerns, John C. Kilgo, Daniel J. Larkin, Rima D. Lucardi, Bruce D. Moltzan, Dean E. Pearson, John D. Rothlisberger, Jeffrey D. Schardt, Michael K. Schwartz, and Michael K. Young) -- Chapter 3. Impacts of Invasive Species on Forest and Grassland Ecosystem Processes in the United States (Chelcy Ford Miniat, Jennifer M. Fraterrigo, Steven T. Brantley, Mac A. Callaham, Jr., Susan Cordell, Jeffrey S. Dukes, Christian P. Giardina, Shibu Jose, and Gary Lovett) -- Chapter 4. Effects of Climate Change on Invasive Species (Deborah M. Finch, Jack L. Butler, Justin B. Runyon, Christopher J. Fettig, Francis F. Kilkenny, Shibu Jose, Susan J. Frankel, Samuel A. Cushman, Richard C. Cobb, Jeffrey S. Dukes, Jeffrey A. Hicke, and Sybill K. Amelon) -- Chapter 5. Invasive Species Response to Natural and Anthropogenic Disturbance (Susan E. Meyer, Mac A. Callaham, Jr., Jane E. Stewart, and Steven D. Warren) -- Chapter 6. Early Intervention Strategies for Invasive Species Management: Connections Between Risk Assessment, Prevention Efforts, Eradication, and Other Rapid Responses (Robert C. Venette, Doria R. Gordon, Jennifer Juzwik, Frank H. Koch, Andrew M. Liebhold, Robert K.D. Peterson, Sharlene E. Sing, and Denys Yemshanov) -- Chapter 7. Management of Landscapes for Established Invasive Species (Therese M. Poland, Jennifer Juzwik, Allen Rowley, Cynthia D. Huebner, John C. Kilgo, Vanessa M. Lopez, Deanna H. Olson, Dean Pearson, Robert Progar, Robert Rabaglia, John D. Rothlisberger, Justin B. Runyon, and Sharlene E. Sing) -- Chapter 8. Restoration of Landscapes and Habitats Affected by Established Invasive Species (Jennifer Koch, Dean E. Pearson, Cynthia D. Huebner, Michael K. Young, and Richard A. Sniezko) -- Chapter 9. Sectoral Impacts of Invasive Species in the United States and Approaches to Management (Anne S. Marsh, Deborah C. Hayes, Patrice N. Klein, Nicole Zimmerman, Alison Dalsimer, Douglas A. Burkett, Cynthia D. Huebner, Robert Rabaglia, Laura A. Meyerson, Bonnie L. Harper-Lore, Jamie L. Davidson, Marla R. Emery, Travis Warziniack, Rebecca Flitcroft, Becky K. Kerns, and Vanessa M. Lopez) -- Chapter 10. Inventory and Monitoring of Invasive Species (Sonja Oswalt, Chris Oswalt, Alycia Crall, Robert Rabaglia, Michael Schwartz, and Becky K. Kerns) -- Chapter 11. Tools and Technologies for Quantifying Spread and Impacts of Invasive Species (Matt Reeves, Inés Ibáñez, Dana Blumenthal, Gang Chen, Qinfeng Guo, Catherine Jarnevich, Jennifer Koch, Frank Sapio, Michael K. Schwartz, Bruce K. Wylie, and Stephen Boyte) -- Chapter 12. Social and Cultural Dynamics of Non-Native Invasive Species (John Schelhas, Janice Alexander, Mark Brunson, Tommy Cabe, Alycia Crall, Michael J. Dockry, Marla R. Emery, Susan J. Frankel, Nina Hapner, Caleb R. Hickman, Rebecca Jordan, Michael J. LaVoie, Zhao Ma, Ross K. Meentemeyer, Joe Starinchak, and Jelena Vukomanovic) -- Chapter 13. The Role of International Cooperation in Invasive Species Research (Andrew Liebhold, Faith Campbell, Doria R. Gordon, Qinfeng Guo, Nathan Havill, Bradley Kinder, Richard MacKenzie, David R. Lance, Dean Pearson, Sharlene E. Sing, Travis Warziniack, Robert C. Venette, and Denys Yemshanov) -- Chapter 14. Economics of Invasive Species (Travis Warziniack, Robert G. Haight, Denys Yemshanov, Jenny L. Apriesnig, Thomas P. Holmes, Amanda M. Countryman, John D. Rothlisberger, and Christopher Haberland) -- Chapter 15. Legislation and Policy (Faith T. Campbell, Hilda Diaz-Soltero, and Deborah C. Hayes) -- Chapter 16. Future Invasive Species Research Challenges and Opportunities (Becky K. Kerns, Therese M. Poland, Robert C. Venette, Toral Patel-Weynand, Deborah M. Finch, Allen Rowley, Deborah C. Hayes, Mike Ielmini) -- APPENDIX 1: Regional Summaries.

Description / Table of Contents: The Coral Tree at the End of the World: Introductory Notes to Coralline Mythology and Folklore from the Indian and Pacific oceans -- The Marine Animal Forests Of South Africa: Importance For Bioregionalisation And Marine Spatial Planning -- Coral and reef fish communities in the thermally extreme Persian/Arabian Gulf: Insights into potential climate change effects -- Marginal reefs in the Anthropocene: they are not Noah’s Ark -- Animal Forests in Submarine Caves -- The Tubeworm Forests of Hydrothermal Vents and Cold Seeps -- Bryozoans: the ‘forgotten’ bioconstructors -- Polychaetes as habitat former: structure and function -- Chemical war in marine animal forests: Natural products and chemical interactions -- The nursery role of marine animal forests -- From Trees To Octocorals: The Role Of Self-Thinning And Shading In Underwater Animal Forests -- Marine animal forests as Carbon immobilizers or why we should preserve these three-dimensional alive structures -- Invasive alien species and their effects on marine animal forests -- Plastics, an additional threat for coral ecosystems -- Visual methods for monitoring mesophotic-to-deep reefs and animal forests: finding a compromise between analytical effort and result quality -- Advances in the Marine Animal Forests Scientific Outreach and Citizen Science.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Can GPCRs be targeted to control inflammation in asthma? -- 2. Cellular and molecular processes in pulmonary hypertension -- 3. INFLAMMATORY PATHWAYS IN SARCOIDOSIS -- 4. Innate Immune Responses and Pulmonary Diseases -- 5. Interstitial Lung Disease associated with Connective Tissue Diseases -- 6. Molecular mechanisms of vascular damage during lung injury -- 7. Neurotrophin Regulation and Signaling in Airway Smooth Muscle -- 8. Novel Thoracic MRI approaches for the assessment of pulmonary physiology and inflammation -- 9. Overview on Interactive Role of Inflammation, Reactive Oxygen Species and Calcium signaling in Asthma, COPD and Pulmonary Hypertension -- 10. Protein S-palmitoylation and lung diseases -- 11. Redox role of ROS and inflammation in pulmonary diseases -- 12. Semaphorin3E/PlexinD1 axis in asthma: what we know so far -- 13. Serine protease inhibitors to treat lung inflammatory diseases -- 14. Sex and Gender Differences in Lung Disease -- 15. Sex hormones and lung inflammation -- 16. Synopsis of Clinical Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS).

Description / Table of Contents: Ch 1: Overview of Microbial NGS -- Ch 2: WGS for Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing -- Ch 3: WGS for Bacterial Virulence Assessment -- Ch 4: Epidemiological Typing by WGS -- Ch 5: Bioinformatics Approaches for WGS Analysis -- Ch 6: WGS for Clinical Virology -- Ch 7: WGS for Clinical Mycology -- Ch 8: WGS for Clinical Parasitology -- Ch 9: Long Read Sequencing -- Ch 10: Aspects of WGS Integration -- Ch 11: Microbiome Analysis -- Ch 12: Metagenomics of Environmental Samples -- Ch 13: Clinical Metagenomics -- Ch 14: Metagenomics for Pathogen Discovery -- Ch 15: Advanced Applications for MALDI-TOF: Typing -- Ch 16: Advanced Applications for MALDI-TOF: Infectious Diseases and Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing (AST) -- Ch 17: Omics for Food and Water Microbiology -- Ch 18: Omics for Forensic and Post-Mortem Microbiology -- Ch 19: Omics for Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance -- Ch 20: Total Laboratory Automation.

Description / Table of Contents: Graviola Fruit Extraction by Ionic Liquid Microwave-assisted Extraction (IL-MAE) -- Role of Ionic Liquids in the Enzyme Stabilization: A Case Study with Trichoderma ressie Cellulase -- Role of Ionic Liquids in the Processing of Lignocellulosic Biomass -- Proliferation of rat amniotic stem cell (AFSC) on modified surface microcarrier -- Application of spectroscopic methods for the analysis of non-halal meats in food products: A narrative review -- Identification of Potential Biomarkers of Porcine Gelatin -- Gamma Ray Mutagenesis on Bacteria Isolated from Shrimp Farm Mud for Microbial Fuel Cell Enhancement and Degradation of Organic Waste -- Effect of temperature on antibacterial activity and fatty acid methyl esters of Carica papaya seed extract -- Solid-state Fermentation of Agro-industrial Waste Using Heterofermentative Lacti Acid Bacteria -- Synthesis of chitosan-folic acid nanoparticles as a drug delivery system for propolis compounds.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction to Fire Ecology across USA Forested Ecosystems: Past, Present, and Future (Cathryn H. Greenberg, Beverly S. Collins, Scott Goodrick, Michael C. Stambaugh, and Gary R. Wein) -- Chapter 2. The Role of Fire in the Dynamics of Piedmont Vegetation (Joanna Spooner, Robert K. Peet, Michael P. Schafale, Alan S. Weakley and Thomas R. Wentworth) -- Chapter 3. Fire Ecology and Fire Management of Southeastern Coastal Plain Pine Ecosystems (Jeff S. Glitzenstein, J. Stephen Brewer, Ronald. E. Masters, J. Morgan Varner, and J. Kevin Hiers) -- Chapter 4. Fire Ecology and Management in Eastern Broadleaf and Appalachian Forests (Mary A. Arthur, J. Morgan Varner, Charles W. Lafon, Heather D. Alexander, Daniel C. Dey, Craig A. Harper, Sally P. Horn, Todd F. Hutchinson, Tara L. Keyser, Marcus A. Lashley, Christopher E. Moorman, and Callie J. Schweitzer) -- Chapter 5. Fire Ecology and Management of Forest Ecosystems in the Western Central Hardwoods and Prairie-Forest Border (Michael C. Stambaugh, Benjamin O. Knapp, and Daniel C. Dey) -- Chapter 6. Fire in Floodplain Forests of the Southeastern USA hy (Paul R. Gagnon, Loretta L. Battaglia, Brice B. Hanberry, William H. Conner, and Sammy L. King) -- Chapter 7. History and Future of Fire in Hardwood and Conifer Forests of the Great Lakes-Northeastern Forest Region, USA(Lee E. Frelich, Craig G. Lorimer, and Michael C. Stambaugh) -- Chapter 8. Fire Ecology of Rocky Mountain Forests(Sharon M. Hood, Brian J. Harvey, Paula J. Fornwalt, Cameron E. Naficy, Winslow D. Hansen, Kimberley T. Davis, Mike A. Battaglia, Camille Stevens-Rumann, Victoria Saab) -- Chapter 9. Fire Ecology of the North American Mediterranean-Climate Zone(Hugh D. Safford, Ramona J. Butz, Gabrielle N. Bohlman, Michelle Coppoletta, Becky L. Estes, Shana E. Gross, Kyle E. Merriam, Marc D. Meyer, Nicole A. Molinari, and Amarina Wuenschel) -- Chapter 10. Fire Ecology and Management in Pacific Northwest Forests(Matthew J. Reilly, Jessica E. Halofsky, Meg A. Krawchuk, Daniel C. Donato, Paul F. Hessburg, James Johnston, Andrew Merschel, Mark E. Swanson, Joshua S. Halofsky, and Thomas A. Spies) -- Chapter 11. Fire Ecology and Management of Southwestern Forests(Peter Z. Fulé, Catrin M. Edgeley, Carol L. Chambers, Serra Hoagland, Blanca Céspedes) -- Chapter 12. Fire and Forests in the 21st Century: Managing Resilience under Changing Climates and Fire Regimes in USA Forests(James M. Vose, David L. Peterson, Christopher J. Fettig, Jessica E. Halofsky, J. Kevin Hiers, Robert E. Keane, Rachel Loehman, and Michael C. Stambaugh).

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Bioreceptors -- Chapter 3. Catalytic Biosensors -- Chapter 4. Affinity Biosensors -- Chapter 5. Affinity Biosensors -- Chapter 6. Label-free Biosensors -- Chapter 7. Bioreceptor Immobilization -- Chapter 8. Biochips. Chapter 9. Genome Sequencing -- Chapter 10. Genome Sequencing -- Chapter 11. Micro Electrode Arrays, Implants and Organs-on-a-Chip -- Appendix.

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Agroforestry for Ecosystem Services -- Agroforestry Practices for Soil Conservation and Resilient Agriculture -- Soil Health Ecosystem Services of Agroforestry -- Below-Ground Services in Vineyard Agroforestry Systems -- Selected Soil Properties Among Agroforestry, Natural Forest, Traditional Agriculture, and Palm Oil Land Uses in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia -- Water Quality and Quantity Benefits of Agroforestry and Processes: Long-Term Case Studies from Missouri, USA -- Enhanced Ecosystem Services Provided by Silvopastures -- Silvopasture for Food Security in a Changing Climate -- Potential Indicators to Assess the Sustainability of South American Forests Under Silvopastoral Management -- The Role of Temperate Agroforestry Practices in Supporting Pollinators -- Agroforestry for Biodiversity Conservation -- Cultural Ecosystem Services in Agroforests -- Carbon Sequestration Potential of Agroforestry in India -- Ecosystem Services of Agroforestry -- Agroforestry Integration and Multifunctional Landscape Planning for Enhanced Ecosystem Services from Treed Habitats -- Economic Valuation of Agroforestry Ecosystem Services -- Bibliography -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Evolution – Analisa Berta -- Sensory and cognition – Tentative Colleen Reichmuth and others -- Communication – Isabelle Charrier -- Physiology – Dan Crocker -- Movement – Luis Huckstadt and Ryan Reisinger -- Navigation – Patrick Robinson -- Foraging ecology and behavior – Don Bowen -- Reproductive behavior and lactation strategies – Dan Costa and Jen Maresh -- Breeding behavior – Paddy Pomeroy and Kelly Robinson -- Conservation – Samantha Simmons and others.

Description / Table of Contents: Basic structure, physiology and biochemistry of connective tissues and extracellular matrix collagens -- Tendon Extracellular Matrix Assembly, Maintenance and Dysregulation Throughout Life -- Basic Components of Connective Tissues and Extracellular Matrix: Fibronectin, Fibrinogen, Laminin, Elastin, Fibrillins, Fibulins, Matrilins, Tenascins and Thrombospondins -- Proteoglycans and Diseases of Soft Tissues -- Growth Factor Roles in Soft Tissue Physiology and Pathophysiology -- Connective Tissue Disorders and Cardiovascular Complications: The Indomitable Role of Transforming Growth Factor-β Signaling -- The Pathophysiology and Pathogenesis of Marfan Syndrome -- Ehlers-Danlos syndromes, joint hypermobility and hypermobility spectrum disorders -- Ehlers–Danlos Syndrome Associated with Glycosaminoglycan Abnormalities -- Loeys-Dietz Syndrome -- Meester-Loeys syndrome -- Clinical and Molecular Delineation of Cutis Laxa Syndromes: Paradigms for Elastic Fiber Homeostasis -- Collagen VI Muscle Disorders: Mutation Types, Pathogenic Mechanisms and Approaches to Therapy -- Connective Tissue Disorders in Domestic Animals.

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: 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: Preface Part I: Morphology and function of spiders- What do spiders look like? -- How do spiders hear, smell, taste, and sense? -- How do spiders see?- How do spiders move? -How can spiders grow despite their outer skeleton? -- Spider venom -- Spider silk -- Prey catch and spider webs -- How do spiders feed and digest?- Sex of spiders Part II: We live in a world full of spiders- Some like it cold -- how spiders survive adverse seasons -- How do spiders defend themselves against enemies? -The importance of spiders in our environment -- Species richness of spiders -- Worldwide import and spread of spiders -- Spiders in and at our house- Fascinating spiders- Part III: our emotional side towards spiders- Fear of spiders -- Communication about spiders -- spiders and humans: a tense relationship? -Spiders as pets?- Appendix- Common spider families- How to determine spiders?-Authors- Association for the Promotion of Spider Research- References- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: 1 Introduction -- Part I: Forest and woodland biomes -- 2 White sand ecosystems in the Amazon basin: geographic distribution, distinctive features, and ecology. An overview -- 3 The forests of the Rio Negro basin in the north-western Amazon: a phytosociological classification -- 4 Amazon caatinga complex: sclerophyllous vegetation on nutrient-poor white sand soils -- Part II: Meadow biomes -- 5 Mapping white-sand ecosystems by integrating Global PALSAR-2 and SENTINEL-1 with NDVI (LANDSAT data) -- 6 The study areas: landscapes and soils -- 7 Soil properties, formation, distribution, and classification -- 8 Origin and sources of sand: from highlands to lowlands -- 9 Sand dynamics and distribution: a geo-sedimentological approach -- 10 Features and trends of meadow landscape evolution -- 11 Meadow phytodiversity: flora, endemism, vegetation types, and geographic distribution patterns -- 12 Synthesis: white-sand and meadow-vegetation relationships.

Description / Table of Contents: Clinical features, diagnostic evaluation and management of COVID-19 patients -- Outbreak of COVID-19: A Detailed Overview and Its Consequences -- A paradigm gap in host-pathogen interaction studies: Lesson from the COVID-19 pandemic -- SARS/CoV-2: Behavioral Host Manipulation -- Management of COVID-19 in the Intensive Care Unit -- First wave of Covid-19 pandemic in Italy: data and evidence -- Risk factors for COVID-19: diabetes, hypertension and obesity -- Current challenges for the effective management of the COVID-19 pandemic -- COVID-19 Outbreak Challenges in Indian Migrant Pregnant and Lactating Mothers: Learnt Lesson Demands Phronesis and Hierarchical Strategies for Such Future Pandemics -- COVID-19 and Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation -- COVID-19's Clinical-Pathological Evidence in Relation to its Repercussion on the Central and Peripheral Nervous System -- Anatomopathological Aspects and Clinical Correlation of COVID-19: A Systematic Review -- SARS-CoV-2 liability: the hidden mystery behind its presentation in children.

Description / Table of Contents: Origin and structural biology of Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) -- The Molecular Virology of Coronaviruses with Special Reference to SARS-CoV-2 -- Epidemiology, transmission and molecular immunopathology of SARS-CoV-2 -- Epidemiology and Etiopathogeny of Covid-19 -- Immunological and Hematological Response in COVID-19 -- Toll-like receptors (TLRs) as Therapeutic Targets for Treating SARS-CoV-2: An Immunobiological Perspective -- Potential drug strategies to target Coronaviruses -- Possible therapeutic intervention strategies for COVID-19 by manipulating the cellular proteostasis network -- The potential impact of statins in the treatment of patients with COVID-19 infection -- Anticoronavirus activity of water-soluble pristine C60 fullerenes: in vitro and in silico screening -- Application of Nanoscale materials and nanotechnology against viral infection: A special focus on Coronaviruses -- Obesity: A Risk Factor for Covid-19 -- Cytokine Storm and Failed Resolution in COVID-19: Taking Cue from Multiple Sclerosis.

Description / Table of Contents: 1 General Introduction -- 2 Peace Ecology in the Anthropocene for Africa -- 3 Civil Society, Climate Change, Security Risks Management and Peacebuilding in the Anthropocene -- 4 Faith-based Organisations and Environmental Peace: Impact of Laudato Si’ and Its Relevance in the Anthropocene -- 5 Healing Nature and Creation in the Anthropocene: A Reflection on the Role of Religion -- 6 Empowering Women to Build Peace: A Case Study of Grace to Heal Trust in Lupane District -- 7 Peacebuilding through Indigenous Knowledge Systems: Lessons from Civil Society Organisations in Zimbabwe -- 8 Civil Society and Peacebuilding in the Kivu Provinces of the Democratic Republic of Congo -- 9 Zimbabwe’s National Peace and Reconciliation Commission and Civil Society: Partners in Peacebuilding? -- 10 Civil Society and Peacebuilding in the Democratic Republic of Congo: Opportunities, Challenges and Recommendations -- 11 Promoting Democratisation in DR Congo: The Case Study of Act for Transparent and Peaceful Elections -- 12 Civil Society Organisations and School Peace Clubs in South Africa: An Outcome Evaluation -- 13 The Challenges and Opportunities for Civil Society in Peacebuilding: Lessons from the Matabeleland Collective, Zimbabwe -- 14 The Role of Civil Society Participation in Social Cohesion Processes in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.-15 Building the Capacity of Civil Society Organisations in Nonviolent Campaigning: A Case Study from South Sudan -- 16 How Informal Peace Committees Complement Macro-infrastructures for Peace in Zimbabwe -- 17 Protecting and Nurturing Children Born from Rape in South Kivu Communities: A Challenge for Civil Society -- 18 Indigenous Peacebuilding Approaches and the Accountability of Former Child Soldiers: African Case Studies -- 19 Navigating Channels for Civil Society Participation in Conflict Prevention and Peace-Making in the African Peace & Security Architecture -- 20 Centre-periphery Relations Between Civil Society Organisations and External Funding Partners: A Case Study of South Kivu’s Peace and Development Agenda. .

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: 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: Part I: Ecological and Evolutionary pathways -- Chapter 1: The Ecological and Applied Potential of Baccharis -- Chapter 2: Baccharis: Diversity and Distribution -- Chapter 3: The Evolution of Genetic Studies of Baccharis -- Chapter 4: Intersexual Differences in Demography, Resource Investment, and Herbivory in Baccharis -- Chapter 5: Multitrophic and Indirect Interactions in the Baccharis dracunculifolia System -- Chapter 6: Endophytic Fungi of Baccharis -- Chapter 7: Baccharis as Nurse Plants -- Chapter 8: Biological Invasion by Baccharis -- Part II: Structure and Chemistry of Baccharis -- Chapter 9: Morpho-anatomical Characteristics of Species of Baccharis -- Chapter 10: Essential Oils of Baccharis: Chemical Composition and Biological Activities -- Chapter 11: Flavonoids of Baccharis -- Chapter 12: Chemistry and Biological Activities of Phenolic Compounds from Baccharis Genus -- Chapter 13: Baccharis Terpenoid Compounds -- Chapter 14: Macrocyclic Trichothecenes of Baccharis -- Chapter 15: Livestock Intoxication by Baccharis -- Part III: Baccharis: Applications and Innovations -- Chapter 16: An Overview of the Cultural and Popular Use of Baccharis -- Chapter 17: CPQBA 1: First Cultivar Registered and Protected From a Brazilian Medicinal Plant -- Chapter 18: Perspectives of Baccharis Secondary Metabolites as Sources for New Anticancer Drug Candidates -- Chapter 19: Innovation and Knowledge of Prospective Studies on the Genus Baccharis -- Part IV: Propolis of Baccharis -- Chapter 20: Chemical Constituents and Antioxidant Properties of Green Propolis -- Chapter 21: Possible Role of Propolis-derived Components in the Prevention and Treatment of Obesity and Diabetes -- Chapter 22: Effects of the Green Propolis on the Immune Response -- Chapter 23: From Innovation to Market: an Analysis of the Propolis Production Chain.

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: Chap 1: Disturbance ecology: a guideline -- Chap 2: Definitions and quantifications -- Chap 3: Concepts -- Chap 4: Abiotic disturbances -- Chap 5: Biotic disturbances -- Chap 6: Anthropogenic disturbances -- Chap 7: Disturbances in global change -- Chap 8: Disturbances and management.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Part I. Historical Perspectives -- Vertebrates of Upper Mesopotamia: Present Evidence and Archaeological Data -- Fishing Gears and Methods: A Comparison of Ancient Mesopotamia and Other Ancient Worlds -- Ichthyological Characteristics Available in the Fish Images Existed in the Art of the Ancient Mesopotamia -- The Effectiveness of Ancient Mesopotamian Medical Practices: The Example of šūšu-Licorice -- Part II. The Abiotic Aspects of the Tigris–Euphrates River System -- Management of Water Resources Using Storage Reservoirs -- Estimation of Irrigated Agricultural Area and Water Consumption in Iraq -- The Nature of Tigris–Euphrates Rivers Flow: Current Status and Future Prospective -- Streamflow Alteration Impacts with Particular Reference to the Lower Zab River, Tributary of the Tigris River -- Ecohydrology in Iraq: Challenges and its Future Pathways -- Oil Pollution in the Shatt Al-Arab River and its Estuary 1980–2018 -- Pesticides in the Waters, Sediments, and Biota of the Shatt Al-Arab River for the Period 1980–2017 -- Surface Water Salinity of the Euphrates, Tigris, and Shatt al-Arab Rivers -- Renewable Energy for Water–Energy Nexus in Euphrates and Tigris River Basin: A Literature Review -- Impacts of Dams on Aquatic Biodiversity, Fisheries, Fishes and Their Environment: Problems that Could Be Present in Iraq with Recommendations -- Water, Politics and Dams in the Mesopotamia Basin of the Northern Middle East: How Turkey Instrumentalises the South-Eastern Anatolia Project for Political, Military and Strategic Interests -- Dams and their Impacts on Fishes in Iran -- Part III. The Biotic Aspects of the Tigris–Euphrates River System -- Preliminary Review of the Aquatic Biodiversity in Al-Kahla River, Missan Province, Iraq -- Freshwater Fish Biodiversity in Iraq: Importance, Threats, Status, and Conservation Challenges -- Effect of Climate Changes on the Freshwater Biodiversity in the Mesopotamian Plain: Recommendations for Avoidance and Plans for the Future -- River Corridors as a Refuge for Freshwater Biodiversity: Basic Information and Recommendations to the Policymakers for Possible Implications in Iraq -- Biodiversity of Fungi in Aquatic Environment of Iraq -- Potability of Drinking Water in Basra-Iraq -- Algal Studies in Iraqi Inland Waters. A Review -- The Distribution of Epilitic Diatoms in the Turkish Part of the Tigris-Euphrates River Basin -- Plant Biodiversity in Shatt Al-Arab Estuary and Ecological Variations -- Medicinal Plants of Shatt al-Arab River and Adjacent Area -- The Role of Plants as a Canopy in the Inland Waters: Basic Information for Application in Iraq -- The Zooplankton Fauna of the Turkish Part of the Euphrates-Tigris River Basin -- Kinds and Distribution of Icthyoplankton in Shatt Al-Arab River -- Rotifer Diversity in Iranian Waters: A Review -- Biodiversity of the Freshwater Amphipods in Iran -- The Freshwater Molluscs of the Mesopotamian Plain -- Freshwater Annelida of Iraq -- A Critical Checklist of the Inland Fishes Native to the Euphrates and Tigris Drainages -- Fish Fauna of Shatt al-Arab River, Basrah, Iraq: A More than Quarter a Century of Changes -- The Common Carp, Cyprinus carpio: Effect on the Environment and the Indigenous Fish Species in Iraq -- The Good and the Bad in Releasing the Grass Carp Ctenopharyngodon idella in the Freshwater System: Recommendations for the Policymakers in Iraq -- The Avifauna of Tigris and Euphrates River Basin -- The Feasible Approaches to Assist Migratory Birds Visiting the Southern Reaches of Mesopotamia -- A Proposal for Establishing Bird Observatory Centre in the South of Iraq -- The Potential Role of Waterbirds as a Vector in Dispersing Invertebrates and Plants in the South of Iraq -- The Wild Mammals of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers Basin -- The Amphibians and Reptiles of Euphrates and Tigris Basin -- A Preliminary Pictorial Guide to the Herpetofauna of Tigris and Euphrates River Basin -- Policy Guidance for Sustainable Aquaculture in the Inland Waters of Iraq -- How Possible to Use the Desert Area in Iraq for Aquaculture Industry: Basic Facts and Recommondations -- Aquaculture Industry in Iraq: Past, Present, and Future Perspectives -- Towards an Improved Tilapia Farming in Iraq: Recommendations for Future Application -- Information and Recommendations of Aquaculture Stress and its Source in Hatcheries: The Iraqi Aquaculture Industry Investors -- Exotic and Invasive Freshwater Fishes in the Tigris-Euphrates River System -- Part IV. Water Resources -- The Ecology and Modelling of the Freshwater Ecosystems in Iran -- Enhancing Rural Women’s Participation in Fisheries in Iraq -- The Impact of Destructive Fishing Gear on the Fish Biodiversity in the Inland Waters of Iraq -- Evaluating Variations in Fisheries by Means of Fishers’ Information: Suggested Methodology to Improve Small-Scale Fisheries in Rivers in Iraq -- A Possibility to Apply a Traditional Fisheries Enforcement Programme in the Inland Waters of Iraq -- Market-Resource Relations and Fish Seller Livelihood as Seen in Inland Waters of Iraq -- The Potential Impact of Deformities in Fishes upon Aquatic Production: Case of Iraq -- The Impact of some Social Taboos on Fisheries in Iraq -- Inland Water Fishes and Fisheries in Iran -- The Possibility of Introducing an Inland Fisheries Education in Iraq -- The Marine and Diadromous Fisheries of Iraq -- Part V. Stress of the Environment of the Two Rivers -- Fish Deformities in the Freshwater Fishes of Iraq: A Short Review and a Study Case on the Indian Catfish Heteropneustes fossilis -- The Phenomenon of Fluctuating Asymmetry: As Fish Welfare Indicator Represented by Case Study from the Freshwater Fishes of Iraq -- The Studies on Sediments Pollution by Different Types of Metals in Turkey -- Macroplastic and Microplastic in the Freshwater Environment of Southern Iraq: Evidences Obtained from Freshwater Fish Species -- Heavy Metals in Freshwater Invertebrates of Iran: A Review on the Bioaccumulation and Effects -- Fish Parasites of Tigris and Euphrates River Systems -- The Parasites of Fishes of the Euphrates and Tigris Rivers: Iraq and Turkey -- Ornamental Fishes: A Looming Danger for Inland Fish Diversity of Iraq -- Part VI. The Health of the Human Community Inhabiting Freshwater Zones -- Aquatic Snails as a Vector of Diseases to the Human in Iran -- Death by Drowning in Rivers in Iraq -- The Dangerous Catfish Species in the Freshwater System of Iraq: First Time Reports on Cases of Envenomation -- Fish Species of the Order Cypriniformes as a Source of Ichthyootoxin and Ichthyogallotoxin in Iraq: Cases Reports -- First Reports on Cases of Hallucinatory Fish Poisoning (Ichthyoallyeinotoxism) and Scombrotoxic Fish Poisoning in Iraq -- Part. VII. Conservation -- Freshwater Management and Conservation in Iran: Past, Present, and Future -- The Need of Biodiversity Conservation Strategies in Iraq: The State of Protected Areas -- Benthic Macroinvertebrates of the Tigris and Euphrates Rivers in Turkey -- Freshwater Ecosystem Conservation in Iraq: Recommendations for Management -- Utilising Phenotypic Difference to Regulate Protection Value: A Scheme for Application of a Novel Approach to the Inland Water of Iraq -- Hatchery-Reared Fish Stocks Released into the Wild: A Conservation Problem as Seen in a Case Study from Iraq -- Part VIII. Social Perspectives -- Is the Glass Half Empty or Half Full? An Appraisal of the Four Decades of Turkey’s Southeastern Anatolia Project (GAP) -- Part IX. Food Security -- How Possible to Build Rice–Fish Farming in Iraq in order to Support Food Security Plan: Positive and the Negative Aspects -- The Importance of Non-commercial and Small-Sized Fish Species: A Proposal for an Additional Revenue to Iraq -- Sociocultural Aspects Influence Food Consumption Habits in Iraq: Management of Food Security -- A Preliminary Investigation of Determinants of Food Security in Rural Areas of Basrah Province, Iraq.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction to Field Environmental Philosophy: A New Methodological Approach for Biocultural Education and Conservation -- Part I: FIELD ENVIRONMENTAL PHILOSOPHY: CONCEPTS AND CASE STUDIES -- Chapter 2. Introduction Part I. Field Environmental Philosophy: Concepts and Case Studies -- Chapter 3. The Multiple Lenses of Ecotourism with a Hand-Lens: Fundamental Concepts and Practices -- Chapter 4. Underwater with a Hand Lens: Ecological Sciences and Environmental Ethics to Value Freshwater Biodiversity -- Chapter 5. Sub-Antarctic High Andean “Gardeners:” Cultivating Caring Relationships -- Chapter 6. “Pay attention, dive with eyes wide open:” a Field Environmental Philosophy activity to foster reciprocity between people and nature -- Chapter 7. The Eyes of The Tree: Applying Field Environmental Philosophy to Tackle Conservation Problems at Long Term Socio-Ecological Research Sites -- Chapter 8. Starfishes and Sky Stars: Field Environmental Philosophy Education and Ecotourism Experiences in Baja California, México -- Chapter 9. Biocitizen’s Approach to Biotic Wonder, Citizenship, and Field Environmental Philosophy -- Chapter 10. Inter-species and Inter-cultural Encounters: The Education and Biocultural Ethics Program of the Omora Ethnobotanical Park -- Chapter 11. Beyond Field Environmental Philosophy: Integrating Science Education and Technology -- Part II: EDUCATION “ON THE RAZOR’S EDGE” -- Chapter 12. Introduction Part II. Education “On the Razor’s Edge” -- Chapter 13. Liberation Philosophy and Biocultural Education. A Latin American Journey -- Chapter 14. Collaborative Action Research for Biocultural Heritage Conservation -- Chapter 15. Education as a Driver of Extinction of Experience or Conservation of Biocultural Heritage -- Chapter 16. Aldo Leopold as Educator: His Legacy for Field Environmental Philosophy -- Chapter 17. Leopold’s Cultural Harvest, Biocultural Tourism and Field Environmental Philosophy -- Chapter 18. A Material Ecological Ethic for Biocultural Education: Relations Between Life on Earth and Humanity -- Chapter 19. Challenging the Dominant Grand Narrative in Global Education and Culture -- Part III: BIOCULTURAL RECONNECTION. RECOVERING THE SENSE OF COMMUNITY THROUGH EDUCATION -- Chapter 20. Introduction Part III. Biocultural Reconnection. Recovering the Sense of Community Through Education -- Chapter 21. Small, Silent and (In)Significant: Childhood as a Minoritarian Experience of Education -- Chapter 22. Communities of Philosophical Inquiry for the Empowerment of Ecological Agency -- Chapter 23. Biocultural Resilience Through Educational Tourism in Cholula, Mexico -- Chapter 24. Collaborative Action Research with the Jotï in Venezuela: Experiences in Autoethnography and TEK Vitality Assessment -- Chapter 25. Hand-Print CARE: Intergenerational and Plural Knowledge in Schools -- Chapter 26. The Enviro-Champs Movement: Co-Researching Transformation Through Training Processes in a Post COVID World -- Part IV: INTRODUCTION TO PLATFORMS FOR INTEGRATING THE SCIENCES, ARTS, AND HUMANITIES INTO PARTICIPATORY EDUCATION -- Chapter 27. Introduction Part IV. Introduction to Platforms for Integrating the Sciences, Arts, and Humanities into Participatory Education -- Chapter 28. Bridge the Channel, Enhance the Inclusivity: A Comparison Between Flagship Species-Centered and Moss-Centered Conservation in Chile and China -- Chapter 29. Biocultural Conservation in Biosphere Reserves in Temperate Regions of Chile, Estonia, Germany, and Sweden -- Chapter 30. Mindfulness and Reconnection with Freshwater Ecosystems at the Meadows Center Education Program -- Chapter 31. Nature, Humans, and Education: Ecohumanism as an Integrative Guiding Paradigm for Values Education and Teacher Training in Israel -- Chapter 32. The H.J. Andrews Experimental Forest Long-Term Ecological Research Program, Oregon, USA: A Historical Biocultural Perspective -- Chapter 33. Screens on Trails: Digital Environmental Science, Arts, And Humanities Learning for Biocultural Conservation -- Chapter 34. Reframing Sense of Place: A Goal for Environmental Education and an Indicator Supporting Social-Ecological Resilience.

Description / Table of Contents: Flowering phenology in a restinga community: seven years of study -- Dioecy: the dimorphic sexual system and pollination in restinga vegetation -- Male and female sterility in flowering plants -- Broad-scale variation of phytoplankton richness in Brazilian inland waters -- The Importance of Palynology to Taxonomy -- Ecological Palynology -- Scientific Exploration Commission (1859-1861): Freire Allemão and the invisible network of collaborators -- The former Imperial Plant Nursery of Quinta da Boa Vista -- Medicinal plants used in Quilombola communities in Piranga, State of Minas Gerais, Brazil -- From mulungu to mamulengo”: The sharing of knowledge among teachers, academic researchers and mamulengueiros (traditional puppeteers) in a participatory workshop -- Biocultural heritage through museological narrative as a way of return on research in historical ethnobotany -- Conclusion of the reflections on Aspects of Brazilian Floristic Diversity: From Botany to Traditional Communities.

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.