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Chapter Schistosomiasis: Setting Routes for Drug Discovery
(2016)
Air quality sampling campaigns in three European subway systems (Barcelona, Athens and Oporto) were conducted in order to characterise particulate matter (PM) to better understand the main factors controlling it. PM mass ...
Chapter Laser Annealing as a Platform for Plasmonic Nanostructuring
(2017)
This chapter investigates the personal factors that influence intention to purchase gluten‐free products (GFPs) in Spain by non‐celiac consumers. To achieve this objective, a survey was conducted with 222 consumers in a ...
Chapter A common approach to foster prevention and recovery of forest fires in Mediterranean Europe
(2017)
Most countries of Mediterranean Europe are strongly affected by forest fires, with major socio-economic and environmental impacts that can spread over several regions and countries. A transnational approach allows creating ...
Chapter Characterisation of Airborne Particulate Matter in Different European Subway Systems
(2017)
Hypoxia-reoxygenation injury is a commonly used in vitro model of ischemia, which is useful to study the recovery processes following the hypoxic period. Hypoxia can be rapidly induced in vitro by replacing the culture ...
Chapter Globally Optimised Energy-Efficient Data Centres
(2017)
A great deal of energy in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) systems can be wasted by software, regardless of how energy-efficient the underlying hardware is. To avoid such waste, programmers need to understand ...
Chapter Measuring Energy
(2017)
Data centres are part of today's critical information and communication infrastructure, and the majority of business transactions as well as much of our digital life now depend on them. At the same time, data centres are ...
Chapter Effect of Local Delivery of GDNF Conjugated Iron Oxide Nanoparticles on Nerve Regeneration along Long Chitosan Nerve Guide
(2017)
Local delivery of neurotrophic factors is a pillar of neural repair strategies in the peripheral nervous system. The main disadvantage of the free growth factors is their short half‐life of few minutes. In previous studies, ...
Chapter European Health System Typologies: Last 30 Years Under Review
(2017)
The quest of the researcher to classify national health systems into homogeneous groups has a long history. In this paper, the last 30 years are divided in two periods (1985–2000 and 2000–2015) in order to present and ...
Chapter Remote Sensing for Non‐Technical Survey
(2017)
Ergonomic Design Thinking (EDT) is a project management methodology that takes advantage of two important concepts or themes in carrying out project actions. The first is Design Thinking itself, a project management approach ...
Chapter Nanotoxicity in cancer research: technical protocols and tips considerations for the use of 3D tumour spheroids
(2018)
The poor clinical translation of oncological nanomedicine products is one of the greatest challenges faced by research today. The use of reductionist in vitro models of human cancer and non-predictive animal models is ...