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Chapter Hydrohysteroid Dehydrogenases – Biological Role and Clinical Importance – Review
(2012)
Communications engineering / telecommunications
Chapter Genetics of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
(2012)
Space science
Chapter Genetics of Familial Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
(2012)
Electronics engineering
Chapter Secure Platform Over Wireless Sensor Networks
(2012)
Life sciences: general issues
Chapter Insights Arising from Gene Expression Profiling in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
(2012)
Public health & preventive medicine
Chapter Refinement of Protein Tertiary Structure by Using Spin-Spin Coupling Constants from Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Measurements
(2012)
Communications engineering / telecommunications
Chapter Dissipative Solitons in Fibre Lasers
(2016)
During the last few years, large-scale efforts towards realizing high-photonic integration densities have put SOAs in the spotlight once again. Hence, the need to develop a complete framework for SOA-induced signal distortion ...
Chapter Bioreactor-Based Bone Tissue Engineering
(2016)
Omega-3 (ω-3) and omega-6 (ω-6) are polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs) that play critical role in human health and have to be provided by food. In the brain, PUFAs are also precursors of endocannabinoids. The aim of this ...
Chapter Carbon Nanotube (CNT)-Reinforced Metal Matrix Bulk Composites: Manufacturing and Evaluation
(2016)
This chapter deals with the blending and processing methods of CNT-reinforced metal matrix bulk composites (Al/CNT, Cu/CNT and Ni/CNT) in terms of solid-state processing, referring mainly to the research works of the last ...
Chapter High and Efficient Production of Nanomaterials by Microfluidic Reactor Approaches
(2016)
The in vivo analysis of a model organism, such as the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, enables fundamental biomedical studies, including development, genetics, and neurobiology. In recent years, microfluidics technology ...
Chapter Biomarkers in Rare Genetic Diseases
(2016)
Today, as the need of new regenerative solutions is steadily increasing, the demand for new bio-devices with smart functionality is pushing material scientists to develop new synthesis concepts. Indeed, the conventional ...
Chapter Progress in Polymer Thermoelectrics
(2016)
This chapter focuses on the relationship between structural and magnetic properties of cubic spinel ferrite MFe2O4 (M = Mg, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu and Zn) nanoparticles (NPs). First, a brief overview of the preparation methods ...
Chapter Viscoelasticity in Foot-Ground Interaction
(2016)
Dynamical models of robots performing tasks in contact with objects or the environment are difficult to obtain. Therefore, different methods of learning the dynamics of tasks have been proposed. In this chapter, we present ...
Chapter Nature-Inspired Nanotechnology and Smart Magnetic Activation: Two Groundbreaking Approaches Toward a New Generation of Biomaterials for Hard Tissue Regeneration
(2016)
Diatomite is a natural porous silica material of sedimentary origin, formed by remains of diatom skeletons called “frustules.” The abundance in many areas of the world and the peculiar physico-chemical properties made ...
Chapter Remote Sensing Studies of Urban Canopies: 3D Radiative Transfer Modeling
(2016)
Need for better understanding and more accurate estimation of radiative fluxes in urban environments, specifically urban surface albedo and exitance, motivates development of new remote sensing and three‐dimensional (3D) ...
Chapter Lake La Salada de Chiprana (NE Spain), an Example of an Athalassic Salt Lake in a Cultural Landscape
(2016)
On a global scale, athalassic inland salt lakes are abundant, albeit restricted to semiarid and arid climates. La Salada de Chiprana is unique in Western Europe, because it is a permanent and relatively deep (up to 5.6 m) ...
Chapter Emerging Techniques for Assessment of Sensorimotor Impairments after Spinal Cord Injury
(2016)
Mechanical properties of the plantar soft tissue, which acts as the interface between the skeleton and the ground, play an important role in distributing the force underneath the foot and in influencing the load transfer ...
Chapter Urban Gardening: From Cost Avoidance to Profit Making — Example from Ljubljana, Slovenia
(2016)
Non-thermal plasma technology is one of those techniques that suffer relatively little from diffusion limits, slow kinetics, and complex geometries compared to more traditional liquid-based chemical surface modification ...
Chapter Solution Combustion Synthesis: Applications in Oxide Electronics
(2016)
In this article, the degree of concentration of wages in Spain at the provincial and regional levels is estimated using the latest available micro-data corresponding to the Structure of Earnings Survey 2010 (N = 216.769). ...
Chapter Securing the Home Energy Management Platform
(2016)
Recently, many efforts have been done to chemically functionalize sensors surface to achieve selectivity towards diagnostics targets, such as DNA, RNA fragments and protein tumoural biomarkers, through the surface ...
Chapter State of the Art of Magnetic Gears, their Design, and Characteristics with Respect to EV Application
(2016)
This chapter briefly explains the advantage of using magnetic gears (MGs) for transportation applications. Usually, a traction EV unit consists of, besides the engine or motor, a mechanical gear. The drawbacks of using ...
Chapter Photocatalytic Properties of Commercially Available TiO2 Powders for Pollution Control
(2016)
Infrared (IR) radiation comprises a beam located in the electromagnetic radiation family; it arises from the thermal vibrations of radiation that have longer wavelengths than visible light, but shorter wavelengths than ...
Chapter A Review of Compliant Movement Primitives
(2016)
Neurodegenerative diseases are being modelled in-vitro using human patient-specific, induced pluripotent stem cells and transgenic embryonic stem cells to determine more about disease mechanisms, as well as to discover new ...
Chapter Genetic Algorithm Optimization of an Energy Storage System Design and Fuzzy Logic Supervision for Battery Electric Vehicles
(2016)
This chapter presents a methodology to optimize the capacity and power of the ultracapacitor (UC) energy storage device and also the fuzzy logic supervision strategy for a battery electric vehicle (BEV) equipped with ...
Chapter Energy Efficiency for 5G Multi-Tier Cellular Networks
(2016)
This chapter provides an introduction to quantifying the energy consumed by software. It is written for computer scientists, software engineers, embedded system developers and programmers who want to understand how to ...
Chapter Above‐Ground Biomass Estimation with High Spatial Resolution Satellite Images
(2017)
Assessment and monitoring of forest biomass are frequently done with allometric functions per species for inventory plots. The estimation per area unit is carried out with an extrapolation method. In this chapter, a review ...
Chapter Energy-Aware Software Engineering
(2017)
Polystyrene (PS) is a petroleum‐based plastic made from styrene (vinyl benzene) monomer. Since it was first commercially produced in 1930, it has been used for a wide range of commercial, packaging and building purposes. ...
Chapter Airborne and Ground-Borne Noise and Vibration from Urban Rail Transit Systems
(2017)
This chapter addresses recent progress in the field of polymer thermoelectric materials. It covers a brief introduction to intrinsically conductive polymers and its motivation for thermoelectric utilization. A review about ...
Chapter Operational Validation of Search and Rescue Robots
(2017)
This chapter describes how the different ICARUS unmanned search and rescue tools have been evaluated and validated using operational benchmarking techniques. Two large‐scale simulated disaster scenarios were organized: a ...
Chapter RoCKIn@Home: Domestic Robots Challenge
(2017)
Service robots performing complex tasks involving people in houses or public environments are becoming more and more common, and there is a huge interest from both the research and the industrial point of view. The RoCKIn@Home ...
Chapter Peripheral Nerve Reconstruction Using Enriched Chitosan Conduits
(2017)
The repair of peripheral nerve traumatic lesions still represents a major cause of permanent motor and sensory impairment. In case of substance loss, a nerve guide should be used to bridge the proximal with the distal stump ...
Chapter Multi-Period Attack-Aware Optical Network Planning under Demand Uncertainty
(2017)
In this chapter, novel attack‐aware routing and wavelength assignment (Aa‐RWA) algorithms for multiperiod network planning are proposed. The considered physical layer attacks addressed in this chapter are high‐power jamming ...
Chapter Unmanned Ground and Aerial Robots Supporting Mine Action Activities
(2017)
Lightweight protective structures and materials such as the personal protective equipment (PPE) for explosive ordnance disposal (EOD) personnel are frequently under investigation globally. Their mechanical response to ...
Chapter Electrochemistry of Surfactants
(2017)
The interaction of light with matter has triggered the interest of scientists for a long time. The area of plasmonics emerges in this context through the interaction of light with valence electrons in metals. The random ...
Chapter Hyperglycemia-Induced Endothelial Dysfunction
(2018)
Glucose-induced endothelial dysfunction plays a fundamental role in the development of diabetic vascular complications and glycemic control (the foundation of diabetes care) provides limited protection against the ...
Chapter Selected endothelial responses after ionizing radiation exposure
(2018)
Along with the development of novel chemotherapeutic agents, radiation therapy has revolutionized the prognosis of patients with various cancers. However, with a longer life expectancy, radiation treatment-related comorbidity, ...