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Modern Aspects of Bulk Crystal and Thin Film Preparation
(2012)
In modern research and development, materials manufacturing crystal growth is known as a way to solve a wide range of technological tasks in the fabrication of materials with preset properties. This book allows a reader ...
Wavelet Transforms and Their Recent Applications in Biology and Geoscience
(2012)
This book reports on recent applications in biology and geoscience. Among them we mention the application of wavelet transforms in the treatment of EEG signals, the dimensionality reduction of the gait recognition framework, ...
Photosynthesis
(2013)
Among the myriads of volumes dedicated to various aspects of photosynthesis, the current one is singular in integrating an update of the most recent insights on this most important biological process in the biosphere. While ...
Chapter 8 Signalling DNA Damage
(2012)
During our lifetime, the genome is constantly being exposed to different types of damage caused either by exogenous sources (radiations and/or genotoxic compound) but also as byproducts of endogenous processes (reactive ...
Chapter 1 Alloy Steel: Properties and Use First-Principles Quantum Mechanical Approach to Stainless Steel Alloys
(2011)
Accurate description of materials requires the most advanced atomic-scale techniques from both experimental and theoretical areas. In spite of the vast number of available techniques,
however, the experimental study of ...
Chapter 3 Xenotropic Murine Leukemia Virus-Related Virus as a Case Study: Using a Precautionary Risk Management Approach for Emerging Blood-Borne Pathogens in Canada
(2012)
In October 2009 it was reported that 68 of 101 patients with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) in the United States, when tested, were infected with a novel gamma retrovirus, xenotropic
murine leukemia virus-related virus ...
Chapter 9 Poisson Noise Removal in Spherical Multichannel Images: Application to Fermi Data
(2012)
The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope, which was launched by NASA in June 2008, is a powerful space observatory which studies the high-energy gamma-ray sky Atwood (2009).
Fermi’s main instrument, the Large Area Telescope ...
Chapter 9 Laser Pulses Characterization with Pyroelectric Sensors
(2010)
There are many industrial and medical applications of CO2 (λ=10.6 μm) and Nd:YAG (λ=1.06 μm) infrared lasers for which the quality of the process are tightly connected to the
characteristic of the laser pulse. These two ...
The Continuum of Health Risk Assessments
(2012)
This book presents a collection of health risk assessments for known and emerging hazards that span a continuum. Case studies for existing health risks include psychoactive drug usage in delivery truck drivers and using ...
Laser Pulse Phenomena and Applications
(2010)
Pulsed lasers are available in the gas, liquid, and the solid state. These lasers are also enormously versatile in their output characteristics yielding emission from very large energy pulses to very high peak-power pulses. ...
Alloy Steel - Properties and Use
(2011)
The sections in this book are devoted to new approaches and usages of stainless steels, the influence of the environments on the behavior of certain classes of steels, new structural concepts to understand some fatigue ...
Protein Phosphorylation in Human Health
(2012)
15 chapters on protein phosphorylation and human health written by expert scientists. Covers most important research hot points, such as Akt, AMPK and mTOR. Bridges the basic protein phosphorylation pathways with human ...
Chapter 11 Charge Carrier Dynamics in Organometal Halide Perovskite Probed by Time-Resolved Electrical Measurements
(2016)
This chapter presents the fate of the charge carriers from the moment of its photogeneration in the perovskite to injection and transport into electrodes. Time-resolved electrical measurement techniques, terahertz (THz) ...
Chapter 8 Non-thermal Plasma Technology for the Improvement of Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine - A Review
(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 5 Plasma Modified Textiles for Biomedical Applications
(2015)
In the textile market industry, technical textiles are one of the fastest growing businesses. Part of that industry consists of textiles for medical and healthcare applications and are responsible for a continuous increase ...
Chapter 15 Brain Tumors and the Lynch Syndrome
(2011)
Lynch syndrome (LS) (MIM No. 120435-6), previously known as hereditary nonpolyposis colorectal cancer (HNPCC) (Boland, 2005), is an autosomal dominant disorder caused by
germline mutation in one of the DNA mismatch ...
Chapter 4 Numerical Modelling of Industrial Induction
(2011)
Induction heating is a physical process extensively used in the metallurgical industry for different applications involving metal melting. The main components of an induction heating
system are an induction coil connected ...
Perovskite Materials - Synthesis, Characterisation, Properties, and Applications
(2016)
The book summarizes the current state of the know-how in the field of perovskite materials: synthesis, characterization, properties, and applications. Most chapters include a review on the actual knowledge and cutting-edge ...
Advances in Induction and Microwave Heating of Mineral and Organic Materials
(2011)
The book offers comprehensive coverage of the broad range of scientific knowledge in the fields of advances in induction and microwave heating of mineral and organic materials. Beginning with industry application in many ...
Molecular Regulation of Endocytosis
(2012)
Molecular Regulation of Endocytosis is a compilation of scientific "short stories" about the entry of external substances into cells. As one can see from the chapters, endocytosis regulates diverse processes such as ...
Advances in Bioengineering
(2015)
The technological approach and the high level of innovation make bioengineering extremely dynamic and this forces researchers to continuous updating. It involves the publication of the results of the latest scientific ...
Management of CNS Tumors
(2011)
Management of CNS Tumors is a selected review of Central Nervous System (CNS) tumors with particular emphasis on pathological classification and complex treatment algorithms for each common tumor type. Additional detailed ...
Chapter 13 Modelling Seismic Wave Propagation for Geophysical Imaging
(2012)
The Earth is an heterogeneous complex media from the mineral composition scale (10−6m) to the global scale ( 106m). The reconstruction of its structure is a quite challenging problem because sampling methodologies are ...
Seismic Waves - Research and Analysis
(2012)
The importance of seismic wave research lies not only in our ability to understand and predict earthquakes and tsunamis, it also reveals information on the Earth's composition and features in much the same way as it led ...
Chapter 31 Central Immune Senescence, Reversal Potentials
(2012)
Ageing is a complex process that affects all living organisms. Senescence is not only conceivable in multicellular organisms, but also in unicellulars. Unlike certain diseases that
have specific morbidity rates, ageing ...
Chapter 11 Metabolomics in the Analysis of Inflammatory Diseases
(2012)
Most infections and traumatic injuries are cleared or repaired relatively rapidly and metabolic homoeostasis is soon restored. However, there is a broad range of inflammatory
diseases which involve chronic activation of ...
Chapter 14 Coupled Enzyme Activity and Thermal Shift Screening of the Maybridge Rule of 3 Fragment Library Against Trypanosoma brucei Choline Kinase; A Genetically Validated Drug Target
(2013)
In this study we interrogate 630 compounds of the Maybridge Rule of 3 Fragment Library for compounds that interact with, and inhibit TbCK. The Maybridge Rule of 3 Fragment Library is a small collection of quantifiable ...
Anopheles mosquitoes
(2013)
Anopheles mosquitoes are highly important insects due to their involvement in the transmission of human malaria and its devastating consequences in endemic countries worldwide. In 2010 alone, malaria was responsible for ...
Metabolomics
(2012)
Metabolomics is a rapidly emerging field in life sciences, which aims to identify and quantify metabolites in a biological system. Analytical chemistry is combined with sophisticated informatics and statistics tools to ...
Applications of Monte Carlo Methods in Biology, Medicine and Other Fields of Science
(2011)
This volume is an eclectic mix of applications of Monte Carlo methods in many fields of research should not be surprising, because of the ubiquitous use of these methods in many fields of human endeavor. In an attempt to ...
Senescence
(2012)
The book "Senescence" is aimed to describe all the phenomena related to aging and senescence of all forms of life on Earth, i.e. plants, animals and the human beings. The book contains 36 carefully reviewed chapters written ...
Chapter 4 Applications of Monte Carlo Simulation in Modelling of Biochemical Processes
(2012)
The biochemical models describing complex and dynamic metabolic systems are typically multi-parametric and non-linear, thus the identification of their parameters requires nonlinear
regression analysis of the experimental ...
Chapter 5 Computational Analysis and Integration of MeDIP-seq Methylome Data
(2016)
The combinatorial number of possible methylomes in biological time and space is astronomical. Consequently, the computational analysis of methylomes needs to cater for a variety of data, throughput and resolution. Here, ...
Chapter 8 Highlights on Anopheles nili and Anopheles moucheti, Malaria Vectors in Africa
(2013)
In this chapter, we review knowledge gained so far on mosquitoes from An. moucheti and closely related species, as well as the An. nili complex. We highlight specific bionomical, ecological and genetic attributes that ...
Next Generation Sequencing - Advances, Applications and Challenges
(2016)
Next generation sequencing (NGS) has surpassed the traditional Sanger sequencing method to become the main choice for large-scale, genome-wide sequencing studies with ultra-high-throughput production and a huge reduction ...
Drug Discovery
(2013)
Natural products are a constant source of potentially active compounds for the treatment of various disorders. The Middle East and tropical regions are believed to have the richest supplies of natural products in the world. ...
Happiness and the Psychology of Enlightenment
(2025)
Whilst happiness usually comes from how we think and feel about our life (eventbased wellbeing), enlightenment is an internal experience not sourced from this process (inner wellbeing). In this volume, we look from a ...
Interpersonal Relationships in the Contemporary 21st Century Society
(2025)
In this book, teachers, researchers, students, professionals, policymakers, and citizens will find meaningful reflections on the (re)construction of human relationships in today's society. The work encourages ...
Burned Out
(2025)
Explore the comprehensive examination of stress and burnout in public service with this edited volume, compiled by Dr. Leonard Bright, featuring contributions from esteemed scholars worldwide. This book investigates the ...
Women's Health Updates
(2025)
Women's Health Updates is a book that covers current topics in global health care for women of all ages. This textbook covers topics related to contraception, maternal-fetal medicine, gynecologic cancer, and menopause. It ...