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Chinese Dates
A Traditional Functional Food
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
Chinese Dates: A Traditional Functional Food delivers unique information on Chinese dates (jujubes) as typical ethical foods and traditional health-promoting foods. It conveys a better understanding of Asian food cultures and provides historical information in regard to traditional functional foods and their dietary applications. It discusses the h
by Pasqualina Laganà, Emanuela Avventuroso, Giovanni Romano
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2017
This brief addresses important aspects of food additives. Through four chapters, the authors describe the chemistry of food additives, the regulatory classification of additives on a large-scale, the risks involved in using chemicals for food preparation – including implications this has on food...
Healthcare Engineering
Proceedings of CAETS 2015 Convocation on Pathways to Sustainability
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2016
The book contains the proceedings of CAETS 2015 Convocation on ‘Pathways to Sustainability: Energy, Mobility and Healthcare Engineering’ that was held on October 13-14, 2015 in New Delhi. This 3 volume proceedings provide an international forum for discussion and communication of engineering...
Uncertainty in Biology
A Computational Modeling Approach
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2015
Computational modeling allows to reduce, refine and replace animal experimentation as well as to translate findings obtained in these experiments to the human background. However these biomedical problems are inherently complex with a myriad of influencing factors, which strongly complicates the model...
Human Motion Simulation
Predictive Dynamics
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2013
Simulate realistic human motion in a virtual world with an optimization-based approach to motion prediction. With this approach, motion is governed by human performance measures, such as speed and energy, which act as objective functions to be optimized. Constraints on joint torques and angles are...
Chemical Modeling for Air Resources
Fundamentals, Applications, and Corroborative Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
Chemical Modeling for Air Resources describes fundamental topics in chemical modeling and its scientific and regulatory applications in air pollution problems, such as ozone hole, acid rain, climate change, particulate matter, and other air toxins. A number of corroborative analysis methods are described...
EEG Signal Analysis and Classification
Techniques and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2017
This book presents advanced methodologies in two areas related to electroencephalogram (EEG) signals: detection of epileptic seizures and identification of mental states in brain computer interface (BCI) systems. The proposed methods enable the extraction of this vital information from EEG signals...
by Wen Yu
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
PID Control with Intelligent Compensation for Exoskeleton Robots explains how to use neural PD and PID controls to reduce integration gain, and provides explicit conditions on how to select linear PID gains using proof of semi-global asymptotic stability and local asymptotic stability with a velocity...
Meshless Methods in Biomechanics
Bone Tissue Remodelling Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2014
This book presents the complete formulation of a new advanced discretization meshless technique: the Natural Neighbour Radial Point Interpolation Method (NNRPIM). In addition, two of the most popular meshless methods, the EFGM and the RPIM, are fully presented. Being a truly meshless method, the major...
Acid Mine Drainage in South Africa
Development Actors, Policy Impacts, and Broader Implications
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2016
This SpringerBrief focuses on Acid Mine Drainage (AMD) in the three basins in the Witwatersrand, South Africa. It provides a background to AMD and its impactsfrom a social science perspective.The South African government and non-governmental organizations’ response to AMD is assessed, as well the...
Neuro-Robotics
From Brain Machine Interfaces to Rehabilitation Robotics
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Neuro-robotics is one of the most multidisciplinary fields of the last decades, fusing information and knowledge from neuroscience, engineering and computer science. This book focuses on the results from the strategic alliance between Neuroscience and Robotics that help the scientific community to...
Bioactive Food as Dietary Interventions for Liver and Gastrointestinal Disease
Bioactive Foods in Chronic Disease States
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2012
Bioactive Food as Dietary Interventions for Liver and Gastrointestinal Disease provides valuable insights for those seeking nutritional treatment options for those suffering from liver and/or related gastrointestinal disease including Crohn’s, allergies, and colitis among others. Information is...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2017
This book covers the most up-to-date photoaffinity labeling method to tackle the key loop module involved in the binding process of a bioactive small molecule to its host protein. The book introduces rational points for preparing powerful photoaffinity probes, keys for the efficient analysis of labeled...
Chromatographic Fingerprint Analysis of Herbal Medicines Volume V
Thin-Layer and High Performance Liquid Chromatography of Chinese Drugs
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Volume V of this manual provides an overview of the analytical investigation of numerous additional Chinese herbal drugs that are commonly used in Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). It illustrates the detailed chromatographic analysis of the main compounds with colored TLC photographs and HPLC peak...