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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: Part I. Introduction -- Chapter 1. Southern Baltic Coastal Systems Analysis: Questions, Conceptions and Red Threads -- Chapter 2. Coastal Ecosystems from a Social-Ecological Perspective -- Part II. Ecological Structures and Functions of the German Baltic Sea Coast -- Chapter 3. The Abiotic Background: Climatic, Hydrological and Geological Conditions of the Southern Baltic -- Chapter 4. Geological and Sedimentary Conditions -- Chapter 5. Environmental Conditions at the Coast: The Terrestrial Ecosystems -- Chapter 6. Environmental Conditions at the Coast: Shoreline Ecosystems -- Chapter 7. Ecosystem and Landscape Functions of the Coast: Recent Research Results -- Chapter 8: Benthic Habitats and Their Inhabitants -- Part III. Ecological Structures and Functions of Coastal Water and Offshore Ecosystems -- Chapter 9. Introducing the Ecological Aspects -- Chapter 10. Baltic Sea Aquatic Ecosystems in a Gradient from Land to Open Sea -- Chapter 11. Comparison of Abiotic Parameters and Dominant Primary Producers Between the Two Main Investigation Areas -- Chapter 12. Short-Term Variability, Long-Term Trends and Seasonal Aspects in the Darß-Zingst Bodden Chain -- Chapter 13. Carbon Fluxes/Food-Webs: Effect of Macrophytes on Food Web Characteristics in Coastal Lagoons -- Chapter 14. Ecological Structure in Benthic Habitats of Offshore Waters -- Chapter 15. Patterns of Bioturbation and Associated Matter Fluxes -- Chapter 16. Seasonal Aspects and Short-Term Variability of the Pelagic Offshore Ecosystems -- Chapter 17. Long-Term Trends of the Offshore Ecosystems -- Chapter 18. Nutrient and Limitation Regimes in Coastal Water Ecosystems -- Part IV. Combining the Aspects: Ecosystem Service Assessment -- Chapter 19. The Human Factor: Coastal Social-Ecological Systems -- Chapter 20. Introduction: The Concept of Ecosystem Service Assessment Applied to Coastal Systems -- Chapter 21. The Missing Links in Ecosystem Service Research -- Chapter 22. Eudaimonic Valuation of Cultural Ecosystem Services -- Chapter 23. Economic Valuation of Cultural Ecosystem Services -- Chapter 24. Spatial Ecosystem Service Assessment Across the Land-Sea-Interface -- Chapter 25. Temporal Changes in Aquatic Ecosystem Services Provision: Approach and Examples -- Chapter 26. Assessing Temporal Changes in Ecosystem Service Provisions: Conceiving Future Pathways -- Part V. Synthesis: Assessment as a Tool for Managing Coastal Ecosystems? -- Chapter 27. Applying the Integrated Approach -- Chapter 28. Mechanisms of Ecosystem Service Production: An Outcome of Ecosystem Functions and Ecological Integrity in Coastal Lagoons -- Chapter 29. Ecosystem Service Assessment in European Coastal and Marine Policies -- Chapter 30. Ecosystem Services and Sustainable Development: The Case for Strong Sustainability -- Chapter 31. Concluding Remarks.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I: HISTORY -- Chapter 1: Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy: from its beginnings to Daniel Carleton Gajdusek -- Part II: GENERAL ASPECTS OF PRIONS -- Chapter 2: The Rich Chemistry of the Copper and Zinc Sites in Cellular Prion Protein -- Chapter 3: Mammalian Prion Structures -- Chapter 4: Insoluble Cellular Prion Protein and Other Neurodegeneration-related Misfolded Protein Aggregates in the Brain of Asymptomatic Individuals -- Part III: CONVERSION AND STRAIN OF PRIONS -- Chapter 5: Prion Conversion and Deformed Templating -- Chapter 6: Prion Strain Interference -- Chapter 7: Molecular Mechanisms Encoding Strains of Prions and Prion-Like Misfolded Proteins -- Chapter 8: Cofactor Involvement in Prion Propagation -- Chapter 9: Prion Protein Conversion and Lipids -- Part IV: ENVIRONMENT AND TRANSMISSION OF PRIONS -- Chapter 10: Prions in the Environment -- Chapter 11: Environmentally Acquired Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathy -- Chapter 12: Risk of Transmission of Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease by Blood Transfusion -- Chapter 13: Species Barriers in Prion Disease -- Part V: MODELLING OF PRIONS -- Chapter 14: Modeling the Cell Biology of Prions -- Chapter 15: Transgenic Mice Modelling in Prion Diseases -- Chapter 16: Stem Cell Models in Prion Research -- Chapter 17: Drosophila Models of Prion Diseases -- Part VI: HUMAN PRION DISEASES AND OTHER PATHOLOGIES -- Chapter 18: Human Sporadic Prion Diseases -- Chapter 19 Genetic Creutzfeldt-Jakob and Gerstmann-Sträussler-Scheinker Diseases -- Chapter 20: Glycoform-selective Prions in Sporadic and Inherited Variably Protease-sensitive Prionopathies -- Chapter 21: The Spectrum of Tau Pathology in Human Prion Disease -- Chapter 22: Prion Protein Complex with mGluR5 Mediates Amyloid-ß Synaptic Loss in Alzheimer’s Disease -- Chapter 23: Prion and Cancers -- Chapter 24: Protective Role of Cellular Prion Protein in Tissue Ischemic/Reperfusion Injury -- Part VII: ANIMAL PRION DISEASES -- Chapter 25: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy -- Chapter 26: Classical and Atypical Scrapie in Sheep and Goats -- Chapter 27: Research models for studying chronic wasting disease -- Part VIII: YEAST PRIONS -- Chapter 28: Introduction to Yeast and Fungal Prions -- Chapter 29: Yeast Prions Are Folded, In-Register Parallel Amyloids Subject to Multiple Anti-prion Systems -- Part IX: DIAGNOSIS AND HUMAN PRION SURVEILLANCE -- Chapter 30: Real-time quaking-induced conversion (QuIC) assays for the detection and diagnosis of human prion diseases -- Chapter 31: Protein Misfolding Cyclic Amplification -- Chapter 32: Skin Misfolded Proteins as Biomarkers for Diagnosis of Prion and Prion-like Diseases -- Chapter 33: Diagnosis of Prion Disease: Conventional Approaches -- Chapter 34: Human Prion Disease Surveillance -- Part X: TREATMENT -- Chapter 35: Overview on Treatment of Prion Diseases and Decontamination of Prions -- Chapter 36: Gene Therapy Strategies for Prophylactic and Therapeutic Treatments of Human Prion Diseases -- Chapter 37: Immunomodulation.

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

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Part 1-Human Influences on Primate Habitats -- Forest Fragmentation -- Primates in Regenerating Forest -- Responses of primates to roads: Dispersal barriers, mortality, and secondary effects -- Hunting by humans -- Primate-dog interactions -- Primate Tourism -- Infectious disease -- Climate change impacts on non-human primates – what have we modelled and what do we do now? -- PART 2: PRIMATES IN HUMAN-DOMINATED LANSCAPES -- Community-based conservation strategies to promote primate conservation in agricultural landscapes -- Translocated primate populations -- Translocated primate populations -- Exploring the human-primate interface -- Planning primate conservation in shared landscapes -- Non-pathogenic influences on primate health and behaviour -- PART 3: PRIMATES IN CAPTIVITY -- Anthropogenic and observer effects on primate behaviour: Perspectives on the continuum of wild-captive behaviour -- The primate pet trade -- Rescue, rehabilitation, and reintroduction.

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Description / Table of Contents: 1. Conducting polymers as drug release systems -- 2. Electrospinning for drug delivery applications -- 3. Melt-electrospinning and electrowriting for pharmaceutical and biomedical applications -- 4. Pharmaceutical Spray Drying -- 5. Vat photopolymerization 3D printing for drug delivery applications -- 6. Semi-solid extrusion 3D printing for the development of dosage forms for special patient groups -- 7. Binder-Jetting Powder bed 3D‐printing for the fabrication of drug delivery systems -- 8. 3D printing for localized cancer therapy -- 9. 4D Printing in Pharmaceutics & Biomedical Applications -- 10. Lithography in Drug-Delivery -- 11. Micro-moulding and its application to drug delivery -- 12. Supercritical Fluids: A Promising Technique in Pharmaceutics -- 13. Microfluidics as a tool for the synthesis of advanced drug delivery systems -- 14. Nanofluidic Technologies for Drug Screening and Drug Delivery -- 15. Nanoparticles at the stage of clinical trials -- 16. Nasal drug delivery systems for the treatment of diseases of the central nervous system and tuberculosis -- 17. Regulatory aspects and barriers in using ground-breaking technologies. .

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Alkaline Extraction–Isoelectric Precipitation of Plant Proteins -- Chapter 2. Air Classification of Plant Proteins -- Chapter 3. Barometric Membrane Technologies for Plant Protein Purification -- Chapter 4. Electro-Activation as Emerging Technology for Proteins Extraction from Plant Materials: Theory and Applications -- Chapter 5. Emerging Solvent Extraction Technologies for Plant Protein Extraction: Aqueous Two-Phase Extraction; Deep Eutectic Solvent; Subcritical Water Extraction -- Chapter 6. Enzyme-Assisted Extraction of Plant Proteins -- Chapter 7. High Pressure for Plant Protein Extraction -- Chapter 8. High Voltage Electrical Treatments as an Eco-Efficient Approach for Plant Proteins Processing -- Chapter 9. Microwave-Assisted Extraction of Plant Proteins -- Chapter 10. Micellar Precipitation and Reverse Micelle Extraction of Plant Proteins -- Chapter 11. Application of Ultrasound Technology in Plant-Based Proteins: Improving Extraction, Physicochemical, Functional, and Nutritional Properties -- Chapter 12. Impact of Green Extraction Technologies on Plant Protein Content and Quality -- Chapter 13. Effects of Extraction Technologies on the Functionalities and Applications of Plant Proteins.

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- How we got here, and where we need to go: The bitter fight about meat and climate -- The consequences for climate of meat consumption -- The Limits of Vegetarianism -- The Benefits of Modern Efficiency -- The Limits of Efficiency -- The Miracle of Grass -- The limits of grass -- Lightening our Carbon Hoofprint -- Policy Pathways -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction to Acute, Chronic, and Episodic Pain -- Inflammation and Pain -- Animal Models of Pain and Anti-inflammatory Treatments -- Inflammatory Mediators, Nociceptors, and Their Interactions in Pain -- Immune and Glial Cells in Pain and Their Interactions with Nociceptive Neurons -- Sex Differences in Neuroimmune Interactions and Pain -- Neuroimmune Interactions in Itch -- Toll-like Receptors in Pain and Itch -- Immunotherapy and Pain -- Cell Therapy and Regenerative Pain Medicine - Preclinical Studies -- Cell-based Therapies in Pain Management -- Platelet-Rich Plasma and Autologous Conditioned Serum: Non-Cellular Biologic Therapies for Neuroimmune Modulation and the Treatment of Arthritis Pain -- Exercise and Diet in the Control of Inflammation and Pain -- Mechanism-Based Pain Therapies -- Neuromodulation in Pain Management -- What Patients Need to Know about Pain Therapy?.

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

Description / Table of Contents: New drugs in synthesis research for Malaria -- New drugs in synthesis research for TB -- New drugs in synthesis viral -- Nanotechnology in Malaria diagnosis -- Nanotechnology in TB diagnosis -- Nanotechnology based vaccination Malaria -- Nanotechnology based vaccination TB -- Disease models in Malaria research -- Disease models in TB research -- Disease models in Viral research -- Viral diseases- cellular understanding of disease : Vaccine development -- Pneumonia- infection -- bacterial pnuemonia -- Lipid based DDS in pneumonia -- hepatitis -- Recent Developments in the Treatment of Bacterial Meningitis -- Bacterial Urinary Tract Infections -- E.coli.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Putting Smart into Nutrition -- Chapter 2. Mozatching Feed Characteristics to Animal Requirements Through Plant Breeding -- Chapter 3. Circular Feed Production and Consumption in The Context Of Smart Animal Nutrition -- Chapter 4. Assessment of The Nutritive Value of Individual Feeds and Diets by Novel Technologies -- Chapter 5. Large Scale Phenotyping and Genotyping: State of The Art and Emerging Challenges -- Chapter 6. Mathematical and Statistical Approaches to The Challenge of Forecasting Animal Performance for The Purposes of Precision Livestock Feeding -- Chapter 7. Smart Pig Nutrition in the Digital Era -- Chapter 8. Smart Poultry Nutrition -- Chapter 9. Advanced Technology in Aquaculture – Smart Feeding in Marine Fish Farms -- 10. Smart Nutrition of Extensively Kept Ruminants -- Chapter 11. The Potential Contribution of Smart Animal Nutrition in Reducing The Environmental Impacts of Livestock Systems.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 Bread Industry Sustainability Life Cycle Assessment -- Chapter 2 Product Environmental Footprint and Bread Industry -- Chapter 3 Life Cycle Assessment and Product Environmental Footprint - recommendations for integral optimization of economic and environmental performance -- Chapter 4 Ensuring sustainability of baking industry in North Macedonia -- Chapter 5 Sustainability approach of the baking industry along the food supply chain -- Chapter 6 Sustainability assessment of the baking industry complying with standards requirements: a case of Romania -- Chapter 7 Across American overview on sustainability approach throughout baking industry: An analytical-descriptive approach -- Chapter 8 Asian Overview on Sustainability Approach in Baking Industry -- Chapter 9 African Experience in Ensuring Sustainability in Baking -- Chapter 10 Indian experience in ensuring sustainability in baking industry -- Chapter 11 Measuring Baking Business Performance -- Chapter 12 Forming the efficient business model for bakery -- Chapter 13 Assessment of the sustainable competitiveness of agricultural enterprises on the grain market: case of Ukraine -- Chapter 14 Economic viability and sustainability in baking industry/ Simeuna - bread producer with own grain production -- Chapter 15 Impact of Bakery Innovation on Business Resilience Growth -- Chapter 16 Innovation in the commercial system of the small bakery industry -- New business models in food systems for farmers and companies, based on multi-actor approach -- Chapter 18 The role of rural women in bread industry – Job creation and retention in rural areas.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Physiological and Metabolic Functions of the Intestinal Epithelium: From the Small to the Large Intestine -- Chapter 2. Intestine Offers Board and Lodging for Intestinal Microbes on a Short- or Long-Term Stay -- Chapter 3. Metabolism of Dietary Substrates by Intestinal Bacteria and Consequences for the Host Intestine -- Chapter 4. Alimentation, Bacterial Metabolites, and Host Intestinal Epithelium -- Chapter 5. Modification of the Bacterial Metabolites by the Host after Absorption, and Consequences for the Peripheral Tissues’ Metabolism, Physiology, and Pathophysiology -- Chapter 6. Lessons to Be Learned from Clinical and Experimental Research on the Intestinal Microbiota Metabolic Activity for Health Benefit and Perspectives.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Part I: Scientifi Underpinnings, early expectations, and emerging challenges from the global inoculation experience -- Chapter 2: Appraisal of Some of the Key Postulates Underlying mRNA Vaccines -- Chapter 3: Relevance for mRNA vaccine safety -- Chapter 4: From Challenges to Opportunities and Open Questions -- Chapter 5: The challenge of evaluating vaccine safety and effectiveness -- Chapter 6: Safeguarding against the analog of antimicrobial-resistance development -- Chapter 7: Scales, pseudoscales, the human factor, and a way forward -- Part II: A deeper dive into mRNA vaccine safety and security, and developments until Delta -- Chapter 8: mRNA Vaccine safety and efficacy - official criteria when AEs are caused by the injection -- Chapter 9: mRNA Covid-19 vaccines best reflect effective pharmaceuticals - basic considerations and LNPs -- Chapter 10: mRNA Covid-19 pharmaceuticals and the spike antigen -- Chapter 11: Other facets of SARS-CoV-2 immunity, the risk of immune tolerance and T cell exhaustion -- Part III: The Omicron variants -- Chapter 12: Omicron -- Chapter 13: Conclusion.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction: Environmental Pollution and Biotechnological Solutions -- Chapter 2. Bioremediation Using Microalgae and Cyanobacteria and Biomass Production -- Chapter 3. Removal of Heavy Metals and Organic Pollutants by Marine Microalgae -- Chapter 4. Algal-Bacterial Consortiums, from Fundamental Interactions to Environmental Applications -- Chapter 5. Biodegradation of Environmental Pollutants by Marine Yeasts -- Chapter 6. Sustainable Direct Digital Manufacturing Using Marine Resources -- Chapter 7. Exploiting Marine Fungi in the Removal of Hazardous Pollutants and Biomass Valorisation -- Chapter 8. Marine Bacteria for Bioremediation -- Chapter 9. Marine Bacteria for Biofertilizers -- Chapter 10. Marine Sponges for Bioremediation Purposes and for Secondary Metabolites Production -- Chapter 11. Genetic Modification: A Gateway to Stimulate the Industrial Production of Biofuels -- Chapter 12. “Omics” Technologies in Biodegradation Processes -- Chapter 13. Conclusion: Environmental Protection ‒ Our Common Responsibility.

Description / Table of Contents: Molecular imaging of the human emotion circuit -- The neurocognitive mechanisms of unconscious emotional responses -- Social and Affective Neuroscience of Embodiment -- The neuroscience of beauty -- Mirror Neurons … in action: ERPs and neuroimaging evidence -- Sex differences in social cognition -- Development of morality and emotional processing -- Trust in Social Interaction: From Dyads to Civilizations -- The time has come to be mindwanderful: Mind wandering and the intuitive psychology mode -- Social Cognition development and socio affective dysfunction in childhood and adolescence -- Clinical neuroscience meets second-person neuropsychiatry -- EEG and ERPs in the study of Language and Social Knowledge -- fMRI and fNIRS methods for social brain studies: hyperscanning possibilities -- Modulating the Social and Affective Brain with transcranial stimulation techniques -- What our eyes can tell us about our social and affective brain? -- Facial EMG – Investigating the interplay of facial muscles and emotions.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Vibrio Infections and the Twenty-First Century -- Chapter 2. New Insights into Vibrio Cholerae Biofilms from Molecular Biophysics to Microbial Ecology -- Chapter 3. Type VI Secretion Systems: Environmental and Intra-Host Competition of Vibrio cholerae -- Chapter 4. Motility Control as a Possible Link Between Quorum Sensing to Surface Attachment in Vibrio Species -- Chapter 5. The Vibrio Polar Flagellum: Structure and Regulation -- Chapter 6. Environmental Reservoirs of Pathogenic Vibrio Spp. and Their Role in Disease: The List Keeps Expanding -- Chapter 7. Cholera Dynamics and the Emergence of Pandemic Vibrio cholerae -- Chapter 8. Role of Bacteriophages in the Evolution of Pathogenic Vibrios and Lessons for Phage Therapy -- Chapter 9. Vibrio vulnificus, an Underestimated Zoonotic Pathogen -- Chapter 10. The Role of Nutrients and Nutritional Signals in the Pathogenesis of Vibrio cholerae -- Chapter 11. Stress Responses in Pathogenic Vibrios and Their Role in Host and Environmental Survival -- Chapter 12. Vibrio parahaemolyticus Epidemiology and Pathogenesis: Novel Insights on an Emerging Foodborne Pathogen -- Chapter 13. The Viable but Non-Culturable (VBNC) State in Vibrio Species: Why Studying the VBNC State Now, Is More Exciting than Ever -- Chapter 14. Structural Insights into Regulation of Vibrio Virulence Gene Networks -- Chapter 15. When Vibrios Take Flight: A Meta-Analysis of Pathogenic Vibrio Species in Wild and Domestic Birds -- Chapter 16. What Whole Genome Sequencing Has Told Us About Pathogenic Vibrios.

Description / Table of Contents: Platform to improve proteomic evaluation to cancer therapy -- Epigenetics in cancer therapy -- Diagnosis of metastatic cancer -- Intervention of the microbiome for cancer therapy -- Lipid nanocarriers in cancer therapy -- Polymeric nanocarriers in cancer therapy -- Inorganic nanocarriers in cancer therapy -- Functionalization of nanostructures in cancer treatment -- Nano-fabrication technologies as cancer models -- Monoclonal antibodies in nanosystems as a strategy for cancer treatment -- Peptides and proteins in nanosystems as a strategy for cancer treatment -- Gene silencing for cancer therapy -- Nanotechnology to correct mitochondrial disorders in cancer diseases -- Chronobiology and nanotechnology to personalized cancer therapy -- Mannosylated nanovaccines in cancer immunotherapy -- Performance of anticancer DNA nanovaccines -- Anticancer messenger RNA nanovaccines -- Nanoparticles for imaging diagnostic techniques in cancer -- Nanomaterials for cancer phototheragnostic -- Photoimmunological therapies for cancer -- Microneedle-based delivery devices for cancer therapy -- Clinical trials involving nanocarriers in cancer therapy.

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Introduction -- Self-assembly, Entropy Forces, and Kelvin Equation -- Humidity Dependent Structural Phase Transitions, Layering Transitions, and Long Nucleation Times -- Long Range Condensations of Humid Air -- Large Oscillatory Forces and Self-Assembled Water Chains -- Two-phase Water and its Coil-to-Bridge Transitions -- Summary and Outlook -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction: Rapid Technological Advancements amid Rising Concerns of Misuse -- Chapter 2: Background: Genome Editing with Programmable Nucleases -- Chapter 3: Applying Genetic Engineering to Biological Weapons -- Chapter 4: Risk of Misuse Assessment: Part I -- Chapter 5: Risk of Misuse Assessment: Part II -- Chapter 6: Raising the Alarm on CRISPR -- Chapter 7: Conclusion: Reducing the Perils from the Misuse of Genome Editing.

Description / Table of Contents: Dose Optimization: A Useful Tool in Radiation Protection -- Digital Radiography: A Technical Review -- Optimization Strategies in Digital Radiography -- Computed Tomography: A Technical Review.

Description / Table of Contents: Reference genome sequence of flax -- Repeat DNA sequences in flax genomes -- Pale flax (Linum bienne): an underexplored flax wild relative -- Flax breeding -- QTL mapping: strategy, progress and prospects in flax -- Genetics of abiotic stress in flax. QTL and candidate genes for flax disease resistance -- Key stages of flax bast fiber development through the prism of transcriptomics -- Metabolomics and transcriptomics-based tools for linseed improvement.

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

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Practical Aspects of NMR-Based Metabolomics -- Compound Identification in Mass Spectrometry-Based Metabolomics -- METABOLOMICS USING NMR – Avoiding the ‘Black-Box’ -- Natural products drug discovery: on silica or in silico?- Quantitative NMR Methods in Metabolomics -- Advancements in pulsed stable isotope resolved metabolomics -- Metabolomics in Cell Biology -- NMR-based metabolomics to evaluate individual response to treatments -- Pharmacometabolomics of Asthma as a road map to Precision Medicine -- Prospective metabolomic studies in precision medicine -- Chemotherapy-induced Peripheral Neuropathy -- Metabolomics of Respiratory Diseases.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. A brief history of phytoremediation using wetlands (Marinus L. Otte) -- Chapter 2. Phytoremediation using tropical wetlands: Are temperate treatment wetlands sound models? (Daniel Campbell) -- Chapter 3. Tropical and subtropical plant species used for phytoremediation in treatment wetlands (Hernán Ricardo Hadad) -- Chapter 4. Wetlands for bioremediation in Pakistan (Muhammad Afzal) -- Chapter 5. Urban wetlands in the tropics – Taiwan as an example (Wei-Ta Fang) -- Chapter 6. Treatment of urban stormwater through constructed wetlands – experiences and practical guidance for tropical and non-tropical settings (Swapan Paul) -- Chapter 7. Phytoremediation of agricultural pollutants in the Tropics (Megan L. Murray) -- Chapter 8. Wetlands to treat mining tailings in the Tropics of Central and South America (Aurora M. Pat-Espadas) -- Chapter 9. Bioremediation and biofuel production using microalgae (Wei-Ta Fang) -- Chapter 10. Wetlands for remediation in Africa: Threats and opportunities (Oscar Omondi Donde) -- Chapter 11. Cost and benefits of treatment wetlands in the Tropics (Marco A. Rodríguez-Domínguez).

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Part I: Electricity Within Humans -- Basic Unit of Human Electricity -- Electric Potential at Rest -- Electrical Potential at Action -- Receptor Potentials -- Conduction and Control of Electrical Potentials -- Part II: Electricity From Humans -- Electrical Signal From the Heart -- Electrical Signal From the Brain -- Electrical Signals From Other Muscles and Neurons -- Brain-Computer Interface -- Electrical Signals for Human Identification and Authentication -- Part III: Electricity Toward Humans -- Electrical Stimulation for the Heart -- Electrical Stimulation for the Brain -- Electrical Stimulation for the Hearing and Vision Disabled -- Electrical Stimulation of Nerves and Muscles -- Health-Related Effects of Electricity.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Mycotoxins and Their Producers: Diversity, Side Effects and Control -- Chapter 2. Seed-Borne Mycoflora and Their Management -- Chapter 3. Rhizosphere Mycobiome: Roles, Diversity, and Dynamics -- Chapter 4. Phyllosphere Mycobiome: Diversity and Function -- Chapter 5. Plant Mycobiome in Sustainable Agriculture -- Chapter 6. Plant-Fungus Interactions in Rust Diseases -- Chapter 7. Rust Haustoria -- Chapter 8. Recent Advancement in Fungal Biocontrol Agents -- Chapter 9. New Perspectives on Fungal Siderophores -- Chapter 10. Biogenic Synthesis of Nanoparticles Mediated by Fungi -- Chapter 11. Plant Growth-Promoting Fungi for Growth Improvement and Resistance Induction -- Chapter 12. An Insight into Fungi in Forest Ecosystems -- Chapter 13. Recent Progress on Fungal Enzymes -- Chapter 14. Endophytic Fungi as Sources of Novel Natural Compounds -- Chapter 15. Symbiotic Relationships with Fungi: From Mutualism to Parasitism -- Chapter 15. Symbiotic Relationships with Fungi: From Mutualism to Parasitism -- Chapter 16. Roles and Benefits of Mycorrhiza -- Chapter 17. Mycorrhizal Networks: A Secret Interplant Communication System -- Chapter 18. Impacts of Climate Change on Plant Mycobiome. .

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter. 1. Patterns of insect evolution -- Chapter. 2. Overview of insect midgut function -- Chapter. 3. Types and chemistry of diets -- Chapter. 4. Ordinary digestive enzymes -- Chapter. 5. Midgut cells, microvillar membranes and secretory mechanisms -- Chapter. 6. Midgut pH buffering, nutrient absorption, fluid fluxes, and enzyme recycling -- Chapter. 7. Midgut extracellular layers and their function -- Chapter. 8. Endocrine regulation of insect digestion -- Chapter. 9. Recruitment of lysosomal cysteine and aspartic endopeptidases as digestive enzymes -- Chapter. 10. Plant, bacterial, and fungal cell wall degrading enzymes -- Chapter. 11. Mechanisms of avoiding the action of plant inhibitors on digestion -- Chapter. 12. Role of microorganisms in digestion and nutrition -- Chapter. 13. Molecular view of digestion and absorption in the major insect orders -- Chapter. 14. General trends in the evolution of digestive systems -- Chapter. 15. New technologies of insect control that act through the gut.

Description / Table of Contents: Habitat: Sunlit Rocky Grounds -- Habitat: Shady Rocky Grounds -- Habitat: Dark Caves -- Habitat: Intertidal Zone -- Habitat: Sandy Grounds -- Habitat: Seagrass -- Habitat: Muddy Grounds -- Habitat: Open Waters -- Humans and the Sea.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I. Communicating Visualisation -- Chapter 1. Science Communication and Biomedical Visualization – Two Sides of the Same Coin -- Chapter 2. Putting the Cart Before the Horse? Developing a Blended Anatomy Curriculum Supplemented by Cadaveric Anatomy -- Part II. Innovating Visualisation -- Chapter 3. The Third Dimension: 3D Printed Replicas and Other Alternatives to Cadaver-Based Learning -- Chapter 4. Evaluating a Photogrammetry-based Video for Undergraduate Anatomy Education -- Chapter 5. Virtual Microscopy Goes Global: The Images Are Virtual and the Problems Are Real -- Chapter 6. Online, Interactive, Digital Visualisation Resources That Enhance Histology Education -- Chapter 7. Leading Transformation in Medical Education Through Extended Reality -- Chapter 8. Visualisation Approaches in Technology-Enhanced Medical Simulation Learning: Current Evidence and Future Directions -- Chapter 9. Visualisation through Participatory/Interactive Theatre for the Health Sciences.

Description / Table of Contents: Part-Dicotyledons -- 1. Basal Lineages -- 2. Magnoliids -- 3. Eudicots -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Part 1. CTC Technologies -- Affinity -- Physical -- ctDNA -- miRNA -- Exosomes -- Part 2 -- Biology of CTC -- Dormancy -- Culture -- EMT -- ctDNA and Exosomes -- Cells in circulation with CTC -- Part 3 -- CTC Analysis -- IHC, FISH, and other molecular assays -- Functional characterization -- Advanced microscopy and AI -- Analysis of non-cellular circulating markers -- Part 4 -- Clinical Applications of the Liquid Biopsy -- Early detection and cancer screening -- Prognosis and therapeutic monitoring -- Applications in Clinical Trials -- Applications in Drug Development.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction (MCG and FN) -- Updates on ATMP regulations from EU: experience with PRIME procedure and list of approved ATMP -- EU portal for clinical trials application -- European Pharmacopoeia texts on gene therapy medicinal products -- Updates on ATMP regulations from UK after Brexit and list of approved ATMP -- Updates on ATMP regulations from Switzerland and list of approved ATMP -- Updates on ATMP regulations from US FDA: experience with breakthrough/accelerated procedures and list of approved ATMP -- Updates on ATMP regulations from Canada and list of approved ATMP -- Updates on ATMP regulations from Brasil and list of approved ATMP -- Updates on ATMP regulations from Singapore and list of approved ATMP -- Updates on ATMP regulations from Japan: experience with new law and list of approved ATMP -- Updates on ATMP regulations from South Korea and list of approved ATMP -- Updates on ATMP regulations from Taiwan and list of approved ATMP -- Updates on ATMP regulations from Thailand and list of approved ATMP -- ATMP regulations in China and list of approved ATMP -- ATMP regulations in Australia and list of approved ATMP -- ATMP regulations in India and list of approved ATMP -- International harmonization programs. .

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction to Construction and Demolition Debris -- Chapter 2. Construction Materials and their Properties -- Chapter 3. CDD Composition -- Chapter 4. Generation -- Chapter 5. Hazardous and Dangerous Materials in CDD -- Chapter 6. CDD Recycling Approaches and Policies -- Chapter 7. Processing CDD for Recycling -- Chapter 8. Markets for Materials Recovered from CDD -- Chapter 9. CDD Landfills -- Chapter 10. Managing Disaster Debris -- Chapter 11. Sustainable Construction Materials Management.

Description / Table of Contents: Global health and Viral diseases past, present and Future -- Drug resistance and statistics and patent status -- cellular understanding viral diseases -- Viral: current treatment options -- Mucosal drug delivery strategies for antiviral intervention -- Micro, nano emulsions in viral -- Novel formulation approaches to treat Ebola- virus -- Ebola- drug delivery -- Polymers for Bio sensing Applications in antiviral therapy and diagnosis -- Nanotechnology: A Stepping Stone towards Viral Hepatitis Treatment and Prevention in Children -- Recent Developments in the Treatment of Influenza -- Covid 19: from molecular pathogenesis to potential repurposed treatments -- Nano drug delivery systems for Covid-19-drug delivery -- Exploring the link between malaria and Covid 19 -- Characterization of biofunctionalized nanoparticles in ID -- Covid- azithromycin-ritonavir -- Strategies to combat Covid-19 drug delivery -- Phytomolecules and NDDS Covid-19.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 The History of Cannabis -- Chapter 2 The Bioactive Components of Plants -- Chapter 3 Chemical Constituents of Cannabis -- Chapter 4 The Bioactive Components of Cannabis -- Chapter 5 Neurological Effects of Cannabis -- Chapter 6 Psychotropic Effects of Cannabis -- Chapter 7 The Analgesic effects of Cannabis -- Chapter 8 Cannabis and Perinatal Development -- Chapter 9 Cannabis and Multiple Sclerosis -- Chapter 10 Cannabis and Cancer -- Chapter 11 Cannabis and Parkinson’s disease -- Chapter 12 Cannabis and the Skin -- Chapter 13 Antiviral Activities of Cannabis -- Chapter 14 Alkaline Phosphatase Stimulation.

Description / Table of Contents: Forecasting of SARS-COV-2 dynamic: beyond the classical SIR model -- Derivation of OED methods for applications in cytogenetic biodosimetry -- Minimum Phi-divergence tests for ophthalmological data grouped in clusters -- Multimodality test for determining which genes distinguish oncological patients -- Exploring the relationship between different cancer sites using disease mapping models -- Advances in flow cytometry gating based on distances and divergences in probability spaces -- Application of quantile regression models for biomedical data -- Hippocampus shape analysis via skeletal models and kernel smoothing -- Methods for analysis of microbiome count data with applications -- The FMM model as a classifier of cardiovascular pathologies -- A novel statistical insight of the circadian markers that govern cardiac rhythms -- Sleep and circadian synchronization assessment from multivariate recordings. .

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

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Red Blood cells -- Stem cells -- Hepatocytes -- Epithelial cells -- Fibroblasts -- Neurons -- Muscles -- Endocrine cells -- White blood cells -- Oocytes -- Sperm cells -- Immune system -- Cancer -- Conclusion.

Description / Table of Contents: Basics of Modern Computer Systems (Unix/Linux Centric) -- The Python Programming Language ( A tool to enter the world of Machine Learning) -- Basic Math -- Introduction to the World of Bioinformatics -- Introduction to Artificial Intelligence & ML -- Fundamentals of ML -- Applications in the field of Bioinformatics -- Case Studies and a Minor Project -- Future Prospects -- Further Readings.

Description / Table of Contents: Section-I: Introduction to nanomaterials for drug delivery -- Introduction to Nanomaterials for drug delivery -- Section-II: Nanomaterials-based drug delivery systems for Therapeutic applications -- Polymer-based nanomaterials -- Lipid-based nanomaterials -- Vesicular nanomaterials -- Hybrid nanomaterials -- Section-III: Nanomaterials-based drug delivery systems for Theranostic applications -- Magnetic nanoparticles -- Quantum dots -- Upconversion nanoparticles -- Gold nanoparticles -- Carbon-based nanoparticles -- Graphene-based nanoparticles -- Section-IV: Nanomaterials toxicity & clinical translation -- Nanotoxicology: an overview -- Patenting nanomaterials: Regulatory aspects -- Clinical perspectives: Translating nanomaterials from laboratory to clinic.

Description / Table of Contents: Almond genome analysis and breeding -- Labelling Almond Genome: SAM, QTLs and Association mapping -- Identification of natural variation in almond target genes -- Recent advances on almond bitterness expression at genomic and trascriptomic level -- Recent advances on flower self-incompatibility expression at genomic and transcriptomic level -- Molecular basis of abiotic and biotic stresses in almond -- Genomics for fruit quality traits in almond: QTLs vs Association mapping -- Transcriptional changes associated with flower bud dormancy in almond and other Prunus species: DNA sequence motifs, mRNA and miRNA expression, transcription factors, chromatin modifications and phytohormone signaling -- Almond transcriptome analysis using high-throughput sequencing technologies -- Almond miRNA expression and horticultural implications.

Description / Table of Contents: Clinical impact of automatic diagnostic systems -- Lung segmentation from XRay -- Lung segmentation from CT Scan -- Covid Automatic Diagnostic based on XRay -- Covid Automatic Diagnostic based on CTScan -- Cardiovascular analysis of covid patients based on ECG -- Cognitive analysis of covid patients based on EEG -- AI Controlled Mechanical Ventilator for COVID-19 patients.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I: THE BAOBAB -- Chapter 1. The distinguishing features of the tree of life and the baobab -- Chapter. 2. The Hadza and studies that document their use of the baobab -- Part II: THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK -- Chapter. 3. Hominin adaptation as the development of a gendered forager division of labor -- Chapter. 4. Correlated handiness and bipedality as the outcome of the multidimensional selective pressures of the forager way of life -- Part III: MATERIAL CULTURE AND TECHNOLOGY -- Chapter. 5. Africa’s premier fiber tree -- Chapter. 6. The baobab and container -- Chapter. 7. The baobab and fire in hominin evolution -- Part IV: ENVIRONMENTAL CONSIDERATIONS -- Chapter. 8. The baobab and Hadza acquisition, management and use of water -- Chapter. 9. Baobab seasonality -- PART V: BAOBAB RESOURCES: FOOD, HEALTH, AND EXCHANGE BENEFITS -- Chapter. 10. The Hadza preeminent fruit tree -- Chapter. 11. Baobab beverages -- Chapter. 12. Africa’s honey tree -- Chapter. 13. The baobab and birds -- Chapter. 14. The Hadza diet and the baobab as a source of other animal foods -- Chapter. 15. The baobab as a hunger-time tree of life -- Chapter. 16. The baobab and health -- Chapter. 17. The baobab and exchange -- Part VI: THE INSPIRATIONAL VALUE OF THE BAOBAB -- Chapter. 18. The baobab in Hadza inspirational life -- Chapter. 19. The baobab as a fertility tree -- Chapter. 20. Other inspirational uses of the baobab -- Chapter. 21. The baobab and danger -- Chapter. 22. The baobab and death -- Part VII. THE HADZA AND BAOBAB REGENERATION -- Chapter. 23. The baobab and Hadza central-place residential camps -- Chapter. 24. Hadza influence on baobab regeneration -- Chapter. 25. The Hadza baobab retreat -- Literature cited -- Index. .

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. The COVID-19 Pandemic: SARS-CoV-2 Structure, Infection, Transmission, Symptomology and Variants of Concern -- Chapter 2. Long-term Vaccination and Treatment Strategies for COVID-19 Disease and Future Coronavirus Pandemics -- Chapter 3. Consequences of the Lockdown - Domestic Violence during the COVID-19 Pandemic -- Chapter 4. Psychological distress impact of Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak on three continents: A systematic review and meta-analysis -- Chapter 5. A Molecular Biomarker-based Triage Approach for Targeted Treatment of Post-COVID-19 Syndrome Patients with Persistent Neurological or Neuropsychiatric Symptoms -- Chapter 6. Genetic Associations with Coronavirus Susceptibility and Disease Severity -- Chapter 7. COVID Diagnostics: from Molecules to Omics -- Chapter 8. Assessing Biomarkers in Viral Infection -- Chapter 9. Proteomic Investigation of COVID-19 Severity During the Tsunamis Second Wave in Mumbai -- Chapter 10. NMR-Metabolomics in COVID-19 Research -- Chapter 11. Potential Biomarkers of Mitochondrial Dysfunction Associated with COVID-19 Infection -- Chapter 12. Red Cell Distribution Width as a Prognostic Indicator for Mortality and ICU Admission in Patients with COVID-19 -- Chapter 13. Predicting the COVID-19 Patients Status using Chest CT Scan Findings: A Risk Assessment Model Based on Decision Tree Analysis -- Chapter 14. Inferring Recombination Events in SARS-CoV-2 Variants In Silico -- Chapter 15. Amplicon-based Nanopore Sequencing of Patients Infected by the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron (B.1.1.529) Variant in India -- Chapter 16. Perspectives on Rapid Antigen Tests for Downstream Validation and Development of Theranostics -- Chapter 17. Machine Learning and COVID-19: Lessons from SARS-CoV-2 -- Chapter 18. The Relationship between Psoriasis, COVID-19 Infection and Vaccination during Treatment of Patients -- Chapter 19. Immunogenicity of Inactivated SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine (BBIBP-CorV; Sinopharm) and Short-term Clinical Outcomes in Vaccinated Solid Organ Transplant Recipients: A Prospective Cohort Study -- Chapter 20. Spices and Biomarkers of COVID-19: A Mechanistic and Therapeutic Perspective -- Chapter 21. Antiviral Mechanisms of Curcumin and its Derivatives in Prevention and Treatment of COVID-19: A review -- Chapter 22. Evaluation of Curcumin-Piperine Supplementation in COVID-19 Patients Admitted to the Intensive Care: A Double-Blind, Randomized Controlled Trial -- Chapter 23. Chronobiological Efficacy of Combined Therapy of Pelargonium Sidoides and Melatonin in Acute and Persistent Cases of COVID-19: A Hypothetical Approach -- Chapter 24. The Potential Effect of Royal Jelly on Biomarkers Related to COVID-19 Infection and Severe Progression -- Chapter 25. Statins: Beneficial Effects in Treatment of COVID-19 -- Chapter 26. Multiplex Immunoassay Approaches Using Luminex® xMAP® Technology for the Study of COVID-19 Disease -- Chapter 27. Rapid Detection of SARS-CoV-2 Variants of Concern by Genomic Surveillance Techniques.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction: The Relevance of Anthropogenic Factors to Coral Reef Conservation in the Coastal Areas of the East China Sea -- Chapter 2. Transitional Coral Ecosystem of Taiwan in the Era of Changing Climate -- Chapter 3. Dynamics of Coral Reef Communities in the Sekisei Lagoon, Japan, Following the Severe Mass Bleaching Event of 2016 -- Chapter 4. Succession and Emergence of Corals in High-Latitude (Temperate) Areas of Eastern Asia into the Future -- Chapter 5. Succession and Spread of Coral Diseases and Coral-Killing Sponges with Special Reference to Microbes in Southeast Asia and Adjacent Waters -- Chapter 6. Succession of Ocean Acidification and its Effects on Reef-Building Corals -- Chapter 7. Anthropogenic Stresses in Coral Reefs and Adjacent Ecosystems of the East China Sea -- Chapter 8. Development of a Compact Experimental System for Ecotoxicological Experiments on Acropora spp. -- Chapter 9. Effects of Anthropogenic Chemicals on Hermatypic Corals with Special Reference to Gene Expression -- Chapter 10. Perspective for the Conservation of Coral Reefs in the East China Sea.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Cancer as a Disease of Cell Proliferation -- Chapter 2: Genetic and Chromosomal Instability -- Chapter 3: Cancer as a Disease of Defective Cell Cycle Checkpoint Function -- Chapter 4: The DNA Damage Checkpoint -- Chapter 5: Dynamics of the Spindle Assembly Checkpoint -- Chapter 6: Cancer as a Disease of Complexity: The Dynamics of Drug Resistance -- Chapter 7: Chronic Myeloid Leukaemia: a One-Hit Malignancy -- Chapter 8: Chronic Myelomonocytic Leukaemia: a Three-Hit Malignancy -- Chapter 9: The Cancer Stem Cell and Tumour Progression -- Chapter 10: Evading the antitumour immune response -- Chapter 11: Implications of Evolutionary Dynamics for Cancer Treatment and Prevention -- Chapter 12: In science, all conclusions are provisional.

Description / Table of Contents: Part 1: Quality by Design (QbD) -- Chapter 1. Pharmaceutical Quality by Design (QbD) overview and major elements -- Chapter 2. Fundamentals of design of experiments and optimization: designs for factor screening and data analysis in pre-response surface methodology -- Chapter 3. Fundamentals of design of experiments and optimization: experimental designs in response surface methodology -- Chapter 4. Fundamentals of design of experiments and optimization: data modeling in response surface methodology -- Chapter 5. Quality by Design in pharmaceutical product and process development -- Chapter 6. A Quality by Design update on nano-drug delivery systems -- Chapter 7. Control strategies of solid dosage forms by PAT tools -- Part 2: Analytical Quality by Design (AQbD) -- Chapter 8. Analytical Quality by Design Fundamentals, Compendial and Regulatory Perspectives -- Chapter 9. Analytical Target Profile (ATP) and Method Operable Design Region (MODR) -- Chapter 10: Quality by Design applications to development of analytical methods for quality control of pharmaceuticals -- Chapter 11. Design of Experiments Applied to the Extraction of Active Compounds. .

Description / Table of Contents: History of Sensory Analysis -- Psychological Considerations in Sensory Analysis -- Physiology of Sensory Perception -- Dairy Products Evaluation Competitions -- Fluid Milk and Cream Products -- Butter -- Creamed Cottage Cheese -- Yogurt -- Cheddar and Cheddar-Type Cheese -- Ice Cream and Related Products -- Concentrated and Dried Milk Products -- Pasteurized Process Cheese -- Sour Cream and Related Products -- Swiss Cheese and Related Products -- Mozzarella -- Latin American Cheeses -- Mold-ripened cheeses -- Goat and Sheep Cheeses -- Modern Sensory Practices.

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

Description / Table of Contents: Section I: Introduction to Forest Entomology -- 1. Introduction to and the Importance of Insects -- 2. Form and Function -- 3. Forest Arthropod Biodiversity -- 4. Insect Ecology -- 5. Forest Insect Population Dynamics -- 6. Forest Insect -Natural Enemy Interactions -- 7. Forest Insect-Plant Interactions -- 8. Insects and Forest Succession. Section II: Categories of Insects that Damage Trees -- 9. Foliage Feeders -- 10. Bark Beetles -- 11. Ambrosia Beetles -- 12. Woodborers in Forest Stands -- 13. Sap-sucking Forest Pests -- 14. Gall Formers -- 15. Tip, Shoot, Root and Regeneration Pests -- 16. Insects of Reproductive Structures -- Section III: Management of Forest Insect Pests -- 17. IPM: the Forest Context -- 18. Spatial Dynamics of Forest Insects -- 19. Monitoring and Surveillance of Forest Insects -- 20. Silviculture -- Section IV: Future Prospects -- 21. Forest Health in the Anthropocene -- 22. Climate Change and Forest Insect Pests -- 23. Forest Insect Invasions and their Management.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter. 1. Yeast as a source of exogenous enzymes in feeding ruminants -- Chapter. 2. Yeast culture and direct-fed microbes: Modes of action and beneficial applications in ruminants -- Chapter. 3. Effects of Exogenous Enzymes on the Nutritive value of some Fibrous Forage in Ruminants -- Chapter. 4. Exogenous fibrolytic enzymes: for the better utilization of Guinea grass and rice straw as ruminant feeds -- Chapter. 5. Role of Exogenous Enzymes in Feed Digestibility and Reducing the Emission Intensity of Enteric Methane Production in Ruminants -- Chapter. 6. Inclusion of exogenous fibrolytic enzymes in the diets of dairy cows and ewes: Effect on milk yield and milk composition -- Chapter. 7. Determining the Effect Enzyme Addition to Locally Available Forages in Mongolia Using In Vitro and In Vivo Techniques -- Chapter. 8. Fungi as a source of exogenous enzymes to feed ruminants -- Chapter. 9. Dietary inclusion of exogenous fibrolytic enzyme in southern China to enhance fibrous feed utilization by goats and cattle.

Description / Table of Contents: Towards the Development of a Conceptual Framework of BioCities -- Urban sustainable futures: concepts and policies leading to BioCities -- Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functions as Pillars of BioCities -- Green Infrastructure and Urban Forests for BioCities: Strategic and Adaptive Management -- Mitigation and Adaptation for Climate Change: The Role of BioCities and Nature Based Solutions -- BioCities as Promotors of Health and Wellbeing -- Forests, Forest Products and Services to Activate a Circular Bioeconomy for City Transformation -- Innovative Design, Materials, and Construction Models for BioCities -- The Social Environment of BioCities -- From BioCities to BioRegions and Back: Transforming Urban-Rural Relationships -- The Enabling Environment for BioCities -- Towards BioCities – The Pathway to Transition.

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

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

Description / Table of Contents: Part 1. Economic, Legal, and Technological Support of Quality Management and Sustainable Development in the Digital Agro-Industrial Complex -- Sustainable Development of Agro-industrial Complex and Food Security through Digital Agriculture: Contribution of Robots, Big Data, and AI -- State and Development of Cotton Production in Kyrgyzstan -- Model Lawmaking as a Condition for Stable Development of Beekeeping Activities in CIS Countries -- Algorithms and Tools of Digital Marketing for the Sustainable Development of Agricultural Tourism Businesses -- Digitalization as a Factor in Improving the Efficiency of Agricultural Production and Living Standards of the Rural Population in Russia -- Improvement of the Grain Quality Assessment System in context of the North Kazakhstan Region -- Agricultural Organizations as the Basis of the Production Segment of Sustainable Development of Social, Ecological, and Economic Systems -- Improvement of Agricultural Policy of Kazakhstan in Improving the Use of Labor Potential of Rural Areas -- Transformation of Purchasing Behavior in Choosing Meat and Meat Products as an Important Aspect in the Development of the AIC -- Part 2. Russian and International Agricultural Policies for Food Security -- Assessment of the Effectiveness of Dairy Farming -- The Role of Agricultural Protectionism in National Food Security.[ Some Aspects of Food Security in the Kyrgyz Republic -- Monitoring in the Agricultural Sector, Economic Indicators of the Agricultural Sector in Cyprus -- Foreign Economic Relations of the European Union Countries and Their Assessment in the Context of Implementing the New Common Agricultural Policy -- Development of Agricultural Cooperation as the Basis for Digitalization of the Agricultural Sector of the Kyrgyz Republic -- The Role and Place of Russia in the World Market of Meat and Meat Products -- Changes in Global Production and Trade of Major Tropical Fruits -- Factors and Trends in the Development of International Trade in Fruit and Berry Products.

Description / Table of Contents: AI in longevity -- Automated reporting of medical diagnostic imaging for early disease and aging biomarkers detection -- Risk forecasting tools based on the collected information for two types of occupational diseases -- Obtaining longevity footprints in DNA methylation data using different machine learning approaches -- The role of assistive technology in regulating the behavioural and psychological symptoms of dementia -- Epidemiology, genetics and epigenetics of Biological Aging: one or more aging systems? -- Temporal relation prediction from Electronic Health Records using Graph Neural Networks and Transformers Embeddings -- In silico screening of life-extending drugs using machine learning and omics data -- An overview of kernel methods for identifying genetic association with health-related traits -- Artificial Intelligence approaches for skin anti-aging and skin resilience research -- AI in genomics and epigenomics -- The utility of information theory based methods in the research of aging and longevity -- AI for Longevity: getting past the Mechanical Turk model will take Good Data -- Leveraging algorithmic and human networks to cure human aging: Holistic understanding of Longevity via Generative Cooperative Networks, Hybrid Bayesian/Neural/Logical AI and Tokenomics-Mediated Crowdsourcing. .

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

Description / Table of Contents: 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: Introduction Part I -- The spectrum of asthma epidemiology -- Disease prevalence and burden -- Climate considerations in asthma and impacts of climate change -- Asthma across the ages: children, women, and the elderly -- Asthma as a systemic disease: neurologic, cardiac and metabolic changes in asthma -- Social determinants of health in asthma -- Part II. Mechanistic heterogeneity in asthma, -Phenotypes and endotypes -- Heterogeneity of treatment response to asthma (including mild-moderate asthma) -- Regional airway involvement: Imaging heterogeneity in ventilation, mucus and remodeling -- Biobehavioral determinants of asthma, including CNS influences and dietary/nutrition -- Integrative/ Systems levels studies -- Part III. Severe and difficult to treat asthma endotypes -- Definition, phenotyping of severe asthma, including cluster analysis -- Asthma exacerbations: patient features and potential long-term implications -- Innate inflammation driven remodeling -- Adaptive immunity and remodeling -- Part IV. Influence of heterogeneity on approaches to management -- Approaches to management of asthma -- Guidelines for stepped care and self-monitoring -- Global considerations in asthma treatment - management in low resource settings -- Update on biomarker-driven approaches and precision medicine- adaptive clinical trials e.g., PRECISE -- Conclusion and future directions.

Description / Table of Contents: Plant Breeding from Classical Genetics to Molecular Approaches for Food and Nutrition Security -- Nanotechnology in Agriculture -- Contribution and Impact of Mutant Varieties on Food Security -- Mutation Breeding: Protocol and Role in crop improvement -- Transgenic Techniques for Plant Improvement: A brief Overview -- Mutagenesis and Transgenesis in Plant Breeding -- Crop Biofortification: Plant Breeding and Biotechnological Interventions to Combat Malnutrition -- In Vitro Techniques in Plant Breeding -- Crop improvement for sustainable food and nutritional security: Applications of mutagenesis and in vitro techniques -- Forward and Reverse Genetics in Crop Breeding -- Genetic mutations and molecular detection techniques in plant breeding -- RNA interference (RNAi) technology: an effective tool in plant breeding -- Doubled Haploid Production- Mechanism and Utilization in Plant Breeding -- TILLING and Eco-Tilling: Concept, Progress and its role in crop improvement -- Genome-Wide Association Study: A Powerful Approach to Map QTLs in Crop Plants -- Genome Editing - Mechanism and Utilization in Plant Breeding -- CRISPR/CAS: The Beginning of a New Era in Crop Improvement -- Next Generation Sequencing in Plant Breeding: Challenges and Possibilities.

Description / Table of Contents: Genetics of sex differences in immunity -- The influence of sex hormones and X chromosome in immune responses -- Sex Differences in HIV Infection -- Chapter 6: Effects of Biological Sex and Pregnancy on SARS-CoV-2 Pathogenesis and Vaccine Outcomes -- Biological sex and pregnancy affect influenza pathogenesis and vaccination -- Sex and gender differences in tuberculosis pathogenesis and treatment outcomes -- Sex-Linked Differences in Malaria Risk Across the Lifespan -- Sex Difference in Amebiasis -- Sex Differential and Non-Specific Effects of Vaccines Over the Life Course -- Immunology of pregnancy and systemic consequences.

Description / Table of Contents: Part 1: The Silk Roads: Past and Future -- Chapter 1: Network expansion and disease spread along the former and present straits of the Silk Road(s) and other international straits -- Chapter 2: Belt and Road Initiative Revisited -- Chapter 3: Economic Development and Health Care Status in Silk Road Countries -- Chapter 4: Traditional medicines along the BRI countries -- Part 2: Parasite and Disease Spread along the Silk Roads: A Review to date -- Chapter 5: Infectious diseases in Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) countries -- Chapter 6: Disease details on plague (Black Death), cholera, brucellosis, and tick-borne encephalitis along the Silk Road(s) of former and recent times -- Chapter 7: Plague disease – from Asia to Europe and back along the Silk Road -- Chapter 8: Dengue along the silk road -- Chapter 9: Intestinal Parasites at the Xuanquanzhi relay station on the Silk Road 2,000 Years Ago -- Chapter 10: Dicrocoelium in Iran: From Bronze Age to the 21st century -- Chapter 11: Development of vaccines to stop endemic of hydatid diseases and promote connectivity of BRI.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction to Biomaterials -- Biodegradable Polymers -- Natural and semi-natural polymers -- Fundamentals and Biomedical Applications of Smart Hydrogels -- Engineering biomaterials for nucleic acid-based therapies -- Mechanics of Biomaterials for Regenerative Medicine -- Biomaterials for controlled drug delivery applications -- BIOMATERIALS APPLICATION: IMPLANTS -- Living Biomaterials -- Therapeutic Polymer Conjugates and their Characterization -- Biocompatibility of Polymers -- Sterilization techniques of biomaterials (implants and medical devices).

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Permaculture principles, practices, and environmentalism (Jungho Suh) -- 2. Sources and solubilization of phosphatic fertilizers (Waleed Fouad Abobatta, Amr Mahmoud Abdel Gawad, Haythum M. Salem, Mohamed A. Abdel-Salam, Taghred A. Hashim) -- 3. Organic phosphorous as an alternative to mineral phosphatic fertilizers (Muhammad Zaina, Muhammad Adeelb, Noman Shakoor, Muhammad Arslan Ahmad, Saliha Maqboole, Jiusheng Li, Shafeeq Ur-Rahman, Xu Ming, Asif Iqbal, Waqar Afzal Malik, Aiwang Duan) -- 4. Adaptive responses of crop species against phosphorus deficiency (Mehtab Muhammad Aslam, Aisha Lawan Idris, Eyalira Jacob Okal, Muhammad Waseem) -- 5. Biochar for sustainable phosphorus management in agroecosystems (Komel Jehangir, Muhammad Riaz, Rashid Mahmood, Muhammad Arif) -- 6. Phenotyping for assessing genotypic variation in phosphorus use efficiency (Amjad Farooq, Waqas Shafqat Chattha, Muhammad Tehseen Azhar, Azeem Iqbal Khan, Amir Shakeel) -- 7. Advanced biotechnological tools for improving phosphorus 1 use efficiency (Hafiza Aasia Malik, Atta Ur Rahman, Fazal Akbar, Nisar Ahmad, Syed Shujait Ali, Muhammad Suleman, Shahid Ali, Zahid Hussain, Nasib Zaman, Akhtar Rasool, Muzafar Shah, Muhammad Israr, Asif Iqbal) -- 8. Role of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi in plant phosphorus acquisition for sustainable agriculture (Muhammad Riaz, Muhammad Tehseen Azhar, Muhammad Kamran, Omar Aziz, Xiurong Wang) -- 9. Phosphorus cycle enzymes to remedy soil phosphorus deficiency (Alhassan Idris Gabasawa) -- 10. Phosphorus nutrition enhancement of biological nitrogen 1 fixation in pastures (Suleiman Kehinde Bello1, Taofeek Olatunbosun Muraina, Saheed Olaide Jimoh, Ibraheem Olamide Olasupo, Samaila Usman) -- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction: Impact of Nanotechnology on Plant Cell Biology -- Part I Cellular Mechanisms -- 2. Effect of Nanomaterials on Water and Solutes Translocation in Plants -- 3. Response of Plant Photosynthesis to Nanomaterials -- 4. Impact of Nanomaterials on Chlorophyll Content in Plants -- 5. Interactions of Nanomaterials with Plant Pigments -- 6. Impact of Nanomaterials on Plant Secondary Metabolism -- 7. Toxic Effects of Nanomaterials on Plant Cellular Mechanisms -- Part II Cellular Macromolecules -- 8. Interaction of Nanoparticles with Plant Macromolecules: Carbohydrates and Lipids -- 9. Interaction of Nanomaterials with Plant Macromolecules: Nucleic Acid, Proteins and Hormones -- 10. Influence of Nanomaterials on Non-Enzymatic Antioxidant Defense Activities in Plants -- 11. 2D-Nanosheets Based Hybrid Nanomaterials Interaction with Plants -- Part III Agricultural Implications -- 12. Nanomaterial Impact on Plant Morphology, Physiology and Productivity -- 13. Role of Nanomaterials in Improving Crop Productivity -- 14. Role of Nanomaterials in Plant Cell and Tissue Culture -- 15. Role of Nanomaterials in Improving the Nutritional Value of Crops -- 16. Role of Nanomaterials in Improving Crop Tolerance to Abiotic Stress -- 17. Plant Mediation to Tolerate Cadmium Stress with Selenium and Nano-selenium -- 18. Synthesis and Applications of Cellulose Nanomaterials Derived from Agricultural Waste and Byproducts.

Description / Table of Contents: Theoretical analysis of the evolution of viral populations in sequence space, and empirical fitness landscapes -- Self-organized maps to derive fitness landscapes from deep sequencing data -- Mutations to overcome viral resistance in plants -- The role of recombination in the generation of new begomovirus phenotypes -- Plant virus adaptation to new hosts -- Viral fitness, host interactions, and resistance to antiviral agents -- Viral fitness and evolution of hepatitis C virus -- Population dynamics and fitness variations of hemorrhagic RNA viruses -- Coronavirus genome sequences, variation, and disease implications -- Epilogue: viral populations from a theoretical and experimental perspective.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter. 1. The utilization of speed breeding and genome editing to achieve zero hunger -- Chapter. 2. Multiomics approach for crop improvement under climate change -- Chapter. 3. The intervention of multi-omics approaches for developing abiotic stress resistance in cotton crops under climate change -- Chapter. 4. Big data revolution and machine learning to solve genetic mysteries in crop breeding -- Chapter. 5. Applications of multi-omics approaches for food and nutritional security -- Chapter. 6. Applications of high throughput phenotypic phenomics -- Chapter. 7. Basil (Ocimum basilicum L.) : Botany, Genetic resource, Cultivation, Conservation, and Stress factors -- Chapter. 8. Multi-Omics Approaches for Breeding in Medicinal Plants -- Chapter. 9. Applications of some nanoparticles and responses of medicinal and aromatic plants under stress conditions -- Chapter. 10. Sustainable agriculture through technological innovations -- Chapter. 11. Sustainable Rice Production under Biotic and Abiotic Stress Challenges -- Chapter. 12. Emerging Techniques to Develop Biotic Stress Resistance in Fruits and Vegetables -- Chapter. 13. Genome editing in crops to control insect pests -- Chapter. 14. CRISPR revolution in gene editing, targeting plant stress tolerance and physiology -- Chapter. 15. Genomics for Abiotic Stress Resistance in Legumes -- Chapter. 16. Genetic and molecular factors modulating phosphorous use efficiency in plants -- Chapter. 17. Recent Trends in Genome Editing Technologies for Agricultural Crops Improvement -- Chapter. 18. Recent trends and applications of omics based knowledge to end global food hunger -- Chapter. 19. Nutritional enhancement in horticultural crops by CRISPR/ Cas9: status and future prospects -- Chapter. 20. Physiological interventions of antioxidants in crop plants under multiple abiotic stresses -- Chapter. 21. Proteomics and its scope to study salt stress tolerance in quinoa -- Chapter. 22. Sustainable Cotton Production in Punjab: Failure and its Mitigating Strategies -- Chapter. 23. Biosafety and biosecurity in genetically modified crops.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introduction – Perspectives on Health and Social Care -- Chapter 2: New Perspectives: Foucault and applicability to Health and Social Care -- Chapter 3: A Foucauldian Analysis of Health and Social Care -- Chapter 4: Surveillance and Health and Social Care -- Chapter 5: Governmentality and Health and Social Care -- Chapter 6: Performativity and Health and Social Care -- Chapter 7: Power and Health and Social Care -- Chapter 8: Narrative, Health, Care and Family -- Chapter 9: Health and Care in the Risk Society -- Chapter 10: Towards Global Health?.

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

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Sex and Behavior -- Chapter 2. Genetic Tools to Investigate the Consequences of Sex -- Chapter 3. Skulls, Teeth, and Sex -- Chapter 4. Cetacean Evolution: Copulatory and Birthing Consequences of Pelvic and Hindlimb Reduction -- Chapter 5. Sexual Anatomy of Female Cetaceans: Art and Science Contribute Insights into Functionality -- Chapter 6. Interspecific Comparison of Reproductive Strategies -- Chapter 7. Non-Conceptive Sexual Behavior in Cetaceans: Comparison of Form and Function -- Chapter 8. Play, Sexual Display, or Just Boredom Relief? -- Chapter 9. Sexual Behaviors of Odontocetes in Managed Care -- Chapter 10. Infanticide and Sexual Conflict in Cetaceans -- Chapter 11. Drone Perspectives on Cetacean Mating and Sex -- Chapter 12. Inter- and Intrapopulation Variation in Bottlenose Dolphin Mating Strategies -- Chapter 13. Sex and Sexual Strategies in Deep-Diving Risso's Dolphins -- Chapter 14. Sociosexual Behavior of Nocturnally Foraging Dusky and Spinner Dolphins -- Chapter 15. Life History Parameters, Sociobiology, and Reproductive Strategies of Pilot Whales -- Chapter 16. Sex in Killer Whales: Behavior, Exogamy and the Evolution of Sexual Strategies in the Ocean’s Apex Predator -- Chapter 17. Beaked Whale Sexual Dimorphism, Mating Strategies, and Diversification -- Chapter 18. Sexual Behavior and Anatomy in Porpoises -- Chapter 19. Sperm Whale Reproductive Strategies: Current Knowledge and Future Directions -- Chapter 20. Reproductive Tactics in Baleen Whales -- Chapter 21. Gray Whale Sex, Reproductive Behavior, and Social Strategies -- Chapter 22. Bowhead Whale Reproductive Strategies -- Chapter 23. Right Whale Sexual Strategies and Behavior -- Chapter 24. Cetacean Sociality, Reproduction, and Conservation.

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

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

Description / Table of Contents: Viral RNA as a Branched Polymer -- RNA Multiscale Simulations as an Interplay of Electrostatic, Mechanical Properties, and Structures Inside Viruses -- Establishing the Length Limit of RNA Packaged In Vitro by Spherical Virus-Like Particles -- The Multiple Regulatory Roles of Single-stranded RNA Viral Genomes in Virion Formation and Infection -- Creating Artificial Viruses using Self-assembled Proteins and Polypeptides -- Construction of Higher-order VLP-based Materials and Their Effect on Diffusion and Partitioning -- Assembly of Coronaviruses and CoV-like-particles -- Norovirus – A Viral Capsid in Perpetual Flux -- Structural Alterations in Non-enveloped Viruses During Disassembly -- Physical Virology with Atomic Force and Fluorescence Microscopies: Stability, Disassembly and Genome Release -- Virus Mechanics: A Structure-Based Biological Perspective -- Cryo-electron Microscopy and Cryo-electron Tomography of Viruses -- Bacteriophage Lambda as a Nano Theranostic Platform -- Therapeutic Interfering Particles (tips): Escape-Resistant Antiviral Against SARS-CoV-2.

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Exponential Growth and Decay -- 2.1 Exponential Growth -- 2.2 Exponential Decay -- 2.3 Summary -- 2.4 Exercises -- 2.5 References- 3 Discrete Time Models -- 3.1 Solutions of the discrete logistic -- 3.2 Enhancements to the Discrete Logistic Function -- 3.3 Summary -- 3.4 Exercises -- 3.5 References- 4 Fixed Points, Stability, and Cobwebbing -- 4.1 Fixed Points and Cobwebbing -- 4.2 Linear Stability Analysis -- 4.3 Summary -- 4.4 Exercises -- 4.5 References- 5 Population Genetics Models -- 5.1 Two Phenotypes Case -- 5.2 Three Phenotypes Case -- 5.3 Summary -- 5.4 Exercises -- 5.5 References- 6 Chaotic Systems -- 6.1 Robert May’s Model -- 6.2 Solving the Model -- 6.3 Model Fixed Points -- 6.4 Summary -- 6.5 Exercises -- 6.6 References- 7 Continuous Time Models -- 7.1 The Continuous Logistic Equation -- 7.2 Equilibrium States and their Stability -- 7.3 Continuous Logistic Equation with Harvesting -- 7.4 Summary -- 7.5 Exercises -- 7.6 References- -- 8 Organism-Organism Interaction Models -- 8.1 Interaction Models Introduction -- 8.2 Competition -- 8.3 Predator-Prey -- 8.4 Mutualism -- 8.5 Summary -- 8.6 Exercises -- 8.7 References- 9 Host-Parasitoid Models -- 9.1 Beddington Model -- 9.2 Some Solutions of the Beddington Model -- 9.3 MATLAB Solution for the Host-Parasitoid Model -- 9.4 Python Solution for the Host-Parasitoid Model -- 9.5 Summary -- 9.6 Exercises -- 9.7 References- 10 Competition Models with Logistic Term -- 10.1Addition of Logistic Term to Competition Models -- 10.2 Predator-Prey-Prey Three Species Model -- 10.3Predator-Prey-Prey Model Solutions -- 10.4 Summary -- 10.5Exercises -- 10.6References- 11 Infectious Disease Models -- 11.1 Basic Compartment Modeling Approaches -- 11.2SI Model -- 11.3SI model with Growth in S -- 11.4 Applications using Mathematica -- 11.5 Applications using MATLAB -- 11.6 Summary -- 11.7 Exercises -- 11.8 References- 12 Organism Environment Interactions -- 12.1 Introduction to Energy Budgets -- 12.2 Radiation -- 12.3 Convection -- 12.4 Transpiration -- 12.5 Total Energy Budget -- 12.6 Solving the Budget: Newton’s Method for Root Finding -- 12.7 Experimenting with the Leaf Energy Budget -- 12.8 Summary -- 12.9 Exercises -- 12.10 References- 13 Appendix 1: Brief Review of Differential Equations in Calculus- 14 Appendix 2: Numerical Solutions of ODEs- 15 Appendix 3: Tutorial on Mathematica- 16 Appendix 4: Tutorial on MATLAB- 17 Appendix 5: Tutorial on Python Programming- Index.

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- PART 1: To fear or not -- Disambiguating fear as an emotional state vs. threat detection. Molecular and Neural circuits of fear extinction. Psychological and theoretical elements on the concept of fear extinction. Neural circuit of fear extinction: psychophysiology -- PART 2: Individual differences in fear extinction -- The impact of sex differences and sex hormones on fear extinction. Impact of sleep on fear extinction. Impact of stress and exercise on fear extinction. Intersect between the intrinsic and extrinsic factors that modulate fear extinction -- PART 3: Psychopathology -- Fear extinction and its relevance to psychopathology. Developmental fear and its extinction imaging. Fear extinction and adult psychopathology -- Part 4: Therapeutics and neuromodulations of fear extinction -- Exposure therapy and other behavioral therapeutics targeting fear extinction circuits. Novel pharmacotherapeutics targeting fear extinction circuits. Reconsolidation and its link and impact on fear extinction. Technological advances in exposure therapy: virtual and augmented reality. Novel approaches using neurostimulation targeting fear extinction.

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

Description / Table of Contents: Part 1: Background -- chapter 1: A good life for cattle: Concepts and Progress -- Chapter 2: Using behaviour to understand and assess welfare in cattle -- Chapter 3: Assessingcattle welfare: physiology and immunology -- Part 2: Challenges in different systems -- Chapter 4: Housing of Dairy Cattle: Enhancing Movement Opportunity in Housing Systems -- Chapter 5: Welfare of dairy cows in pasture-based systems -- Chapter 6: Welfare of beef cattle in extensive systems -- Chapter 7: Welfare of beef cattle in intensive systems -- Part 3: Consideration of key aspects of cattle welfare -- Chapter 8: The Welfare of Cattle at Slaughter -- Chapter 9: The human-animal relationship and cattle welfare -- Chapter 10: Welfare at calving and of the growing animals -- Chapter 11: Precision Livestock Farming Technologies for Dairy and Beef Production -- Chapter 12: Strategies and tools for genetic selection in dairy cattle and their application to improving animal welfare -- Part 4: Case studies -- Chapter 13: The sustainability of cattle production systems -- Chapter 14: The sheltering of unwanted cows in India -- Chapter 15: Cattle Welfare in Smallholder Dairy and Pastoralist Beef systems in Sub-Saharan Africa -- Chapter 16: Welfare and health challenges of 'new entry' dairying: A Practitioner’s Perspective.

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

Description / Table of Contents: Preface -- Numbers and mathematical symbols: natural, rational, irrational and complex numbers/complex plane: formula reading, often used symbols in mathematical formulas -- Equations: equalities and inequalities: expansions, series: fractional equations: equation solving techniques: various rules (such as Cramer’s rule) to solve equations: introduction to basic functions (e.g. square, square root) -- Trigonometry: trigonometric ratios, angles: trigonometric functions (sin, cos, tan) and their complex definitions: epicycles: Fourier series and transform -- Vectors: geometric interpretation of vectors: vector addition/subtraction, scalar multiplication: projections: inner product (including related aspects such as correlation, independence and orthogonality) -- Matrices: basic matrix manipulations e.g. multiplication and inversion with examples such as the Jacobian, affine transformation, and rotation: Principal Component analysis in matrix notation -- Differentiation: limits and infinity: continuity of a function: the differential: basic differentiation rules: partial differential equations: introduction to dynamic systems -- Integration: explanation in terms of antiderivatives and area under the curve: basic integration rules: convolution -- statistics -- differential equations.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1 Skeletal muscle’s role in prenatal inter-organ communication: a phenogenomic study with qualitative citation analysis -- Chapter 2 Roles of skeletal muscle in development: a bioinformatics and systems biology overview -- Chapter 3 Overview of head muscles with special emphasis on extraocular muscle development -- Chapter 4 Building a co-ordinated musculoskeletal system: the plasticity of the developing skeleton in response to muscle contractions -- Chapter 5 Upper and lower motor neurons and the skeletal muscle: implication for the Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) -- Chapter 6 Mechanics of Lung Development -- Chapter 7 Angular and linear accelerations, ear, and the skeletal muscle.

Description / Table of Contents: PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- SECTION I – IN THE BEGINNING -- CHAPTER 1. WADING IN ̶ INTRODUCTION TO THE FISH-BIRD -- General Discussion of Penguins and Substance of the Book -- An Impressive Number of Penguin Species: Evolution of Their Unique Capabilities -- Penguin Species Radiation and the Ontogeny of Their Watery World -- Penguin Evolution: Body Size and Climate -- Penguin Evolution: Radiation into Vacant Niches -- Penguin Evolution: Body Size and Crossing the Sea-Land Boundary -- CHAPTER 2. LAND AHOY! A TIRESOME BUSINESS -- Crossing the Land-Ocean Interface is Affected by Body Size -- Why and How Often do Penguins Come Ashore? -- Tying Land-life to the At-sea Life of Fish-Birds: Foraging and Breeding -- Success Vary with Prey Availability -- Molt ̶Necessary, Brief Respite from the Sea -- SECTION II – PENGUIN MARINE HAUNTS AND FOOD HABITS -- CHAPTER 3.FISH-BIRDS AT HOME IN THEIR OCEAN HABITATS -- Oceanographic Fronts and Water Masses Important to Penguins: General Discussion -- Penguins Require High Productivity Water Masses -- Large Scale: Oceanographic Boundaries and At-sea Distributions of Penguins -- Southern Boundary of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current -- Emperor and King penguins -- Adélie and Chinstrap penguins -- Antarctic Polar Front and Subantarctic Front -- Gentoo and Yellow-eyed penguins -- Macaroni and Royal penguins -- Northern and Southern Rockhopper, Fiordland, Snares penguins -- Subtropical Front and Continental Boundary Currents -- Galápagos, Humboldt, Magellanic, African penguins -- Little penguins -- Meso- and Small-Scale Ocean Processes Facilitating Penguin Exploits -- Island wakes -- Headland wakes -- Shelves and banks -- Submarine canyons -- Shelfbreak fronts -- Marginal ice zones -- Thermo-/haloclines -- CHAPTER 4. SEA FOOD ̶ THE FISH-BIRD MENU -- General Considerations -- Diet Quality: Survival in Cold Water -- Energy density of prey -- Prey size may or may not differ by penguin size -- Prey availability -- Diet Comparison among Penguin Species -- Polar/subpolar, mesopelagic penguins -- Subpolar, demersal/benthic, continental-shelf penguins -- Temperate, upper water column, continental-insular shelf penguins -- Polar, upper water column, continental shelf/slope penguins -- Subpolar, upper water column, continental slope/pelagic penguins -- Polar, upper water column, continental slope/pelagic penguins -- CHAPTER 5. ECOLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES OF DIET COMPOSITION -- Intraspecific Competition among Penguins -- Foraging Range is Key: General Discussion -- Penguin Species’ Central-Place Foraging Range Patterns -- Sex Differences in Foraging -- Interspecific Competition Involving Penguins -- Penguins Eat A lot! -- Competition between Penguin Species -- Competition between penguins and other seabirds -- Competition between penguins and marine mammals -- Competition between penguins and industrial fisheries -- SECTION III – THE HARDWARE OF A FISH-BIRD -- CHAPTER 6. THE SLIPPERY SHAPE, HOT AIR AND THE POWERHOUSE – HOW FISH-BIRDS SWIM -- Water – Hard Taskmaster -- The Four Forces Relevant to Penguins -- Vertical Forces – Weight and Upthrust -- Buoyancy: How Much Air Do Penguins Hold? -- Buoyancy and Bergmann’s Rule revisited -- Horizontal Forces: Drag -- The Interplay of Drag and Upthrust in Gliding Penguins -- The Drag Devil is in the Detail -- The Penguin Powerhouse -- How Penguins Swim -- The Effect of Upthrust and Body Angle on Penguin Thrust and Lift Forces -- Top Speeds; Power and Upthrust -- The Energy Costs of Swimming -- General considerations -- Specific considerations -- ’Sensible’ Swim Strategies and Costs of Transport -- Cruising speed and integrating speed with the cost of transport, -- and beyond -- CHAPTER 7. HOT PENGUINS ̶ COLD WATER -- Resting and Floating Penguins -- The Metabolic Rate of Floating Penguins -- Patterns of Heat Loss to the Sea -- Overall Body Insulation/Conductance -- The Nature of Penguin Insulation -- Active Penguins -- Activity Produces Heat -- Greater Depths Impose a Higher Heat Tax -- Consuming Prey Imposes a Heat Tax -- Embracing The Fish in the Fish-bird -- CHAPTER 8. FISH-BIRDS – THE INSIDE STORY -- Diving Physiology -- Surface issues – Uptake of oxygen -- Oxygen Management Underwater -- Role of the Air Spaces -- Gas Exchange to Body Tissues -- The Aerobic Dive Limit and Beyond -- The Importance of Size in Dive Performance -- Duration -- Depth -- Penguins Under Pressure – Beating the Squeeze and the Bends -- Barotrauma -- Beating the Bends -- A Gut Reaction in Fish-Birds -- Gastric Emptying -- Rotting Food -- The Eyes Have It -- SECTION IV – THE SOFTWARE OF FISH-BIRDS -- CHAPTER 9. EMBRACING THE DEPTHS - THE PENGUIN DIVE -- Submergence -- The time underwater – basic dive descriptors -- Dive profiles -- Dive distance-depth profiles -- Dive aspect ratios -- Horizontal dive directionality/tortuosity -- The Multifunctionality of Dives -- Basic dive types -- T-dives for travelling -- V-dives (water column assessment) -- P-dives (parabolic – prospecting with no prey capture) -- Po-dives (parabolic dives with circular trajectory) -- U-dives (depth-directed prospecting) -- W-dives/Up-dives (U-dives with prey pursuit) -- Depth Duration Effects Over Multiple Dives -- CHAPTER 10. FISH-BIRD STRATEGIES ̶ THE SEARCH FOR FICKLE PREY -- Decisions, Decisions, Decisions – How Fish-Birds Search for Prey -- Heading in the Right Direction -- Dealing with Prey Patchiness -- In-depth Considerations: -- Time-based efficiency -- Energy-based efficiency -- Superficial Considerations: Surface Pauses and Inspired Tactics -- Being Picky about Food -- Fish-Birds and Smart Strategies -- CHAPTER 11. THE FINAL SECONDS – HOW FISH-BIRDS CAPTURE PREY -- Prey Acquisition, a Departure from the Dive ‘Norm’ -- Performance Metrics for Prey Capture -- Catching Solitary Prey -- Changing buoyancy with depth affects prey capture strategies -- Prey pursuit against interfaces -- Exploiting Aggregated Prey -- Crustaceans -- Fish -- Non-corralling feeding behavior -- Clarity on Limitations of Penguin Vision -- SECTION V – PENGUINS IN A FICKLE ENVIRONMENT -- CHAPTER 12. TURNING THE TABLES – FISH-BIRDS ON THE MENU -- Basic Law of the Sea: Big Fish Eat Little Fish -- Seals as Predators -- Seals’ hunting behavior -- Penguins avoiding seals -- Fur Seals as Predators -- Sea Lions as Predators -- Killer Whales as Predators -- Sharks as Predators -- CHAPTER 13. PENGUINS ADJUSTING TO A CHANGING OCEAN -- Penguins Have Always Been Challenged by a Changing Ocean -- Prehistoric response to a changing ocean -- Possible prehistoric changes to penguins’ food web -- The Anthropocene: How will Penguins Cope, Now Also Dealing with Humans? -- Response to long-term climate change -- Response to short-term ocean climate variation -- Response to marine pollution -- CHAPTER 14. NOT FORGETTING ̶ -- The Social Side - Behavior and Communication at Sea -- Penguin flock fusion/cohesion -- Penguin flock fission/fragmentation -- Navigation -- Long range -- Medium to short-range -- Understanding the Daily ‘Wash’ -- Air flux in diving penguins, an aspect of ‘washing’ -- Are Auks Really ‘Northern Penguins’? -- Research Tags – the Flip Side for Evolutionarily-Honed Fish-Birds -- SECTION VI -- CHAPTER 15. PENGUINS ̶ WHY THE HYPE? -- Sources of Hype -- Us -- Many people -- Researchers -- The Transition -- The fascination of species -- Beyond the transition -- Role in Ecosystems -- Biomimicry -- Our Last Word.

Description / Table of Contents: Part I: General topics -- Geothermal habitats and adaptations of thermophilic microbes -- Diversity of thermophilic prokaryotes -- Molecular basis for thermostability -- Cultivation techniques and molecular methods of identification of thermophilic, anaerobic bacteria -- Part II: Biochemistry and Physiology of thermophiles -- Physiology of chemoheterotrophic thermoanaerobes -- Part III: Biotechnological Applications -- Thermostable enzymes and their applications -- Production of biofuels by thermoanaerobic bacteria -- Production of fine chemicals by thermophilic, anaerobic bacteria -- Part IV: Future aspects -- Potential of anaerobic thermophiles and future prospects.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. An Introduction to the Dytiscidae: Their Diversity, Historical Importance, Cultural Significance, and Other Musings -- Chapter 2. Larval Chaetotaxy of World Dytiscidae (Coleoptera: Adephaga) and Implications for the Study of Hydradephaga -- Chapter 3. The Phylogeny and Classification of Predaceous Diving Beetles (Coleoptera: Dytiscidae) -- Chapter 4. Predaceous Diving Beetle Sexual Systems -- Chapter 5. Morphology, Anatomy, and Physiological Aspects of Dytiscids -- Chapter 6. Chemical Ecology and Biochemistry of Dytiscidae -- Chapter 7. Community Patterns in Dytiscids -- Chapter 8. Predator-Prey Ecology of Dytiscids -- Chapter 9. The Unique Australian Subterranean Dytiscidae: Diversity, Biology, and Evolution -- Chapter 10. Habitats Supporting Dytiscid Life -- Chapter 11. Dispersal in Dytiscidae -- Chapter 12. The Conservation of Predaceous Diving Beetles: Knowns, Unknowns and Anecdotes.

Description / Table of Contents: Introduction -- Preliminaries -- Fuzzy spatial objects (fuzzy geometry and topology, set theoretic operations) -- Mathematical morphology -- Distances and similarities between fuzzy sets -- Machine learning in image processing and understanding -- Fusion -- Spatial relations -- Structural representations.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. Forest Land Use/Cover Change -- Chapter 3. Forest Classifications and Working Circles -- Chapter 4. National Parks, Wildlife Sanctuaries, and Conservation Reserves -- Chapter 5. Forest Diversity and Distribution -- Chapter 6. Forest Stocks and Products -- Chapter 7. Environmental Index -- Chapter 8. Ecosystem Goods and Services -- Chapter 9. Drivers of Forest Degradation and Conservation Measures -- Chapter 10. Climate Change and Forests -- Chapter 11. Cultural and Socio-Economic Significance of Forests -- Chapter 12. Sustainable Forest Management -- Chapter 13. Conclusions.

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