Elsevier science jun 2025 (16 Ergebnisse)

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - The Visual Identity of the Book: From the Renaissance to the Digital Age provides a framework that considers the 'materiality' of the book (from printed to digital/electronic), the aspects of the stakeholders in the publishing chain, the traditional and ongoing promotion strategies, reader engagement, and personalized publishing services. The aim of the book is to interpret current issues in the publishing industry and to provide an overview of the evolution of the visual appearance/identity of the book in order to approach and explain current issues and to discuss aspects of visual information and aesthetics of the book.Other sections introduce promotion strategies, publish policies, and provide a methodological framework that can also be used in the book business.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Great American Diseases: Their Effects on the Course of North American History, Second Edition covers significant disease epidemics that have shaped North American history, from the arrival of Smallpox with the first Europeans to the COVID-19 pandemic. It includes an introduction to the basic science of diseases, the history of vaccination in the Americas, and discussions on various diseases and their pathogens. The text concludes with a chapter on notable animal disease outbreaks. Delving deeper, the book provides engaging chapters on the societal impacts of epidemics and the evolution of medical responses.It presents a fascinating intersection of microbiology, immunology, and epidemiology enriched with contemporary outbreak examples and educational resources for biomedical students.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Hosting Capacity Aspects in Distribution Networks Towards Sustainable Energy Systems is a comprehensive guidebook that delves into the critical aspects of power systems. It emphasizes the essential developments necessary to support the transition towards sustainable energy sources. The book begins by laying down the fundamental principles of hosting capacity in energy systems, highlighting modern challenges in the shift to renewable and distributed energy sources. It underscores the pivotal role hosting capacity plays in the planning and operation of successful systems, offering readers a solid foundation on which to build their understanding.Subsequent chapters are dedicated to providing detailed explanations on various practical hosting capacity calculation methods and enhancement techniques. The book also introduces available tools and software solutions to address hosting capacity issues. By compiling the latest insights and advancements in this crucial yet under-explored area, this book serves as an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and engineers. It aids in planning hosting capacity aspects for the successful integration of renewable and sustainable energy systems.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - 3D Bioprinting in Cancer Applications is an all-encompassing guide covering both fundamentals concerning biofabrication principles and intricate protocols for precise construction of biomimetric 3D systems supporting advanced cell culture development that faithfully recapitulates human disease hallmarks, with a special focus on cancer. This title fills the void left by existing publications overlooking essential aspects associated with combining multimodal medical imaging alongside precision cancer treatment options. In 12 chapters 3D Bioprinting in Cancer Applications leads the reader from an introduction to bioprinting technologies for cancer models, to models for immunotherapy and tumour-immune interaction, to biomimetrics 3D models to the applications of all these models in 3D bioprinted cancer models . 3D Bioprinting in Cancer Applications uniquely combines distinct modalities under a unified framework suitable not only for seasoned veterans but also newly minted trainees encountering these sophisticated practices for the first time.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Hosting Capacity Aspects in Distribution Networks Towards Sustainable Energy Systems is a comprehensive guidebook that delves into the critical aspects of power systems. It emphasizes the essential developments necessary to support the transition towards sustainable energy sources. The book begins by laying down the fundamental principles of hosting capacity in energy systems, highlighting modern challenges in the shift to renewable and distributed energy sources. It underscores the pivotal role hosting capacity plays in the planning and operation of successful systems, offering readers a solid foundation on which to build their understanding.Subsequent chapters are dedicated to providing detailed explanations on various practical hosting capacity calculation methods and enhancement techniques. The book also introduces available tools and software solutions to address hosting capacity issues. By compiling the latest insights and advancements in this crucial yet under-explored area, this book serves as an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and engineers. It aids in planning hosting capacity aspects for the successful integration of renewable and sustainable energy systems. 294 pp. Englisch.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Clinical Pathophysiology of Hypertension, Diabetes, and Other Stress and Lifestyle Associated Diseases presents mathematical and physical basis to apply in practice for a better understanding of some common and not so common diseases brough on by stress and lifestyle. Chapters cover new findings in hypertension, arrhythmias, diabetes, nephropathy, and periodontal disease. Written by Dr. Tetsuya Watanabe, President of Watanabe Institute of Mathematical Biology and Watanabe Clinic of Oral Surgery in Hamamatsu, Japan, for clinical doctors, medical research doctors, pathophysiological scientists, pharmaceutical scientists, and biologists and physicists in bioengineering.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Diagnostic Landscape in Cancer Landscape examines the combined impact of prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer. With a strong focus on the status, challenges, and prospects of diagnostic tools and technology, the book also examines the clinical translation-related knowledge and prognosis of different organ related cancers. In 22 chapters, the book describes current and new diagnostic tools in twenty different cancers and explores how innovations in the cancer diagnostic space could make cancer screening and early detection more straightforward.This book is a timely and valuable resource for health professionals, scientists, researchers, health practitioners, students, and all those who wish to broaden their knowledge in the allied field.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Application of Adult Stem Cells in Regenerative Medicine offers a comprehensive overview of tissue engineering using adult stem cells to treat various disorders throughout the human body. The book introduces readers to adult stem cells, tissue engineering, and their application in regenerative medicine. It covers many new and up-to-date techniques, providing a solid foundation for understanding the field. Written by global leaders, this resource is invaluable for anyone studying, researching, or working in the areas of adult stem cells, tissue engineering, or regenerative medicine.The book is divided into three parts. Part One provides an introduction to adult stem cells and their application in regenerative medicine. Part Two focuses on different body organ systems, including the nervous, respiratory, digestive, urinary, circulatory, endocrine, skeletal, reproductive, muscular, and ocular systems. Part Three concludes with a review of the future of adult stem cells in regenerative medicine. This structure ensures that readers gain a thorough understanding of the current state and future potential of adult stem cells in treating various disorders.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Raising Genomics Literacy, Knowledge, and Awareness is a unique resource which describes the importance of genomic literacy for the effective and streamlined implementation of genomic medicine and pharmacogenomics globally. It provides evidence and expert opinion to decipher the role of genomic and pharmacogenomic literacy to illustrate the evidence, value, and need of raising genomics awareness and education among healthcare professionals, students, and the general public. This text can be used by researchers and graduate students pursuing research in this area.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Non-thermal Processing of Major Food Macromolecules provides comprehensive knowledge on state-of-the-art approaches utilized to process foods and/or modify their physicochemical structural - along with the technofunctional attributes of food macromolecules (i.e., protein, starch, lipids) - through novel non-thermal processing techniques. Sections explore the impact of non-thermal processing on proteins, starches, and on lipids and present the challenges for the food application of non-thermal processing treatments, thus suggesting how to push the food application of these architectures forward around the world.Edited by a team of experts in the field, this book is a great resource for researchers and industry personnel working in the various fields of non-thermal processing treatments, particularly in the food areas. …

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Advanced Industrial Lead-Acid Batteries, the latest release in the Electrochemical Power Sources: Fundamentals, Systems, and Applications series, presents a detailed accounting of reserve and motive power industrial lead-acid batteries, also including recent developments and new applications. Lead-acid batteries (LAB) for reserve and motive power applications have, in recent years, undergone an evolutionary process triggered by novel developments in telecommunication, information technology, material handling, and renewable energy applications. This book details those advances, giving users the latest information on this rapidly advancing field.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Advances in DNA and mRNA-Based Strategies for Cancer Immunotherapy, Volume 165 in the Advances in Immunology series, presents current developments and comprehensive reviews in DNA and mRNA vaccines: Significant therapeutic approach against cancer management, Nanoparticles for mRNA-based cancer immunotherapy, Nucleic acid Delivery as a therapeutic approach in cancer immunotherapy, Plasmid DNA and mRNA: Delivery approaches and challenges, Viral & Non-viral Delivery of mRNA against Cancer Cell, Progress in Modifying and Delivering mRNA therapies for Cancer Immunotherapy, and more.Other chapters cover mRNA-Based Cancer Vaccines: A Novel Approach to Melanoma Treatment, Therapeutic mRNAs for cancer immunotherapy: from structure to delivery, Harnessing the immune system: Insights into cancer vaccines, Lipid Nanoparticle-Mediated mRNA Delivery in Cancer Immunotherapy, Immunotherapy Perspectives in the Era of B-Cell Editing in Cancer Treatment, Personalized Precision: Revolutionizing Cancer Treatment with mRNA-Based Vaccines in Melanoma Therapy, Revolutionizing Cancer Treatment: Exploring Novel Immunotherapeutics, Checkpoints, bispecifics, and Vaccines in Development, and more. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Medicinal Plant Research in Africa, second edition is an updated and complete reference on the pharmacology of most relevant African species and their phytochemical properties. Although pharmacopoeias of most African countries are available and contain an impressive number of medicinal plants used for various therapeutic purposes, however there was no global standard book on the nature and specificity of chemicals isolated in African medicinal plants. This book has set the standard when it first published in 2013 and now is updated with novel phytochemicals belonging to diverse classes of terpenoids, phenolics, and alkaloids. The first chapter cover monoterpenes and related phytochemicals and is followed by sesquiterpenes on chapter two. Chapter tri reviews diterpenoids and chapter four provides an overview of triterpenes and steroids. Essential oils, simple phenols, phenolic acids and related esters come next in chapters five and six, respectively. The following chapters cover coumarins, flavonoids, quinones, xanthones, lignans and stilbenes. Tannins, alkaloids, and ceramides. Chapters 15 to 20 focus on specific health conditions starting with antibiotic infection, antimalarial and other antiprotozoal diseases, cytotoxic and anticancer activity, anti-inflammatory and analgesic action, antidiabetic botanicals and the applications of African plant phytochemicals on reproductive, cardiovascular, and central nervous systems conditions. The final chapter covers the market and industry updates since the first edition published. 'Medicinal Plant Research in Africa, 2 Ed.' provides a complete overview of the main phytochemical principles present in the African flora and their pharmaceutical use. Pharmaceutical scientists, Ethnopharmacists, botanists, and medicinal chemists will benefit from the content organization and the inclusion of the most recent methods for structural identification of phytochemicals, pharmacological techniques, and data interpretation.…

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Sustainable Packaging Strengthened by Biomass: Applications and Advancements explores the pivotal role of bioplastics in addressing packaging concerns within the food industry, enhancing delivery chains and streamlining waste management. Each chapter offers a detailed analysis, providing a thorough overview of present and future biodegradable materials. From untapped natural resources to bio-based materials like polyhydroxyalkanoate and polylactic acid, users will discover key components shaping the industry. The book also examines surface modification, biocomposites, and additives, emphasizing their role in adjusting biodegradability and properties, particularly in gas and moisture barriers.This is a must-read guide for those seeking a concise understanding of sustainable packaging and its transformative impact on the future.…

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Weathering: The Testing Manual provides guidelines and procedures for conducting weathering tests on various materials and products to simulate the effects of exposure. The methods of weathering discussed are based on requirements of ASTM, ISO, BS, Ford, GM, IEC, IEEE, MIL, PV, SAE, UL, and VDA standards. The book details the methods used, their differences, parameter settings, and hardware that is commercially available for performing the tests. Also included is information on sample preparation, evaluation methods, frequency of data collection, data analysis and interpretation, and reporting.This book is an excellent companion piece to the Handbook of Weathering, Seventh Edition, as well as The Encyclopedia of Polymer Degradation, with the former serving as a monographic source of knowledge on various aspects of weathering, and the latter outlining the limitations and challenges of presently conducted weathering studies to formulate needs and directions for transition from present comparative evaluation to knowledge-based utilization of existing resources. These three books together are powerful tools for chemists, chemical engineers, materials scientists, environmental chemists, legislators, teachers, and students. …

Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - Handbook of Material Weathering, Seventh Edition is an essential guide on the effects of weathering on polymers and industrial products, presenting theory, stress factors, methods of weathering and testing, and the effects of additives and environmental stress cracking. The book provides graphical illustrations and numerical data to examine the weathering of major polymers and industrial products, including mechanisms of degradation, effect of thermal processes, and characteristic changes in properties. Final sections discuss recycling, corrosion, weathering, and the weathering of stone.This book is an important reference source for those involved in studying material durability, producing materials for outdoor use and actinic exposure, research chemists in the photochemistry field, chemists and material scientists designing new materials, users of manufactured products, those who control the quality of manufactured products, and students who want to apply their knowledge to real materials. …