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Diversifying Food and Diets
Using Agricultural Biodiversity to Improve Nutrition and Health
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2013
Currently 868 million people are undernourished and 195 million children under five years of age are stunted. At the same time, over 1 billion people are overweight and obese in both the developed and developing world. Diseases previously associated with affluence, such as cancer, diabetes and cardio-vascular...
How Innovation "Reimbursement from Medicare" or, "Medicare Advantage" Was Created
SHORT STORY # 43. Nonfiction series #1 - # 60.
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2016
The author, in this short story, describes her real life innovation. That is: how she created her greatest innovation – from conception to completion. This innovation sparked entirely new industry. Thousands of new jobs were created and brought billions of dollars in new revenues every year to many...
Visual Prosthetics
Physiology, Bioengineering, Rehabilitation
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2011
Visual Prosthetics provides an in-depth analysis of the principles of operation, current state, anticipated developments, and functional aspects of visual prosthetics restoring sight to visually impaired individuals. This volume uniquely describes the human visual system in health and disease in a...
Molecular Imaging of the Brain
Using Multi-Quantum Coherence and Diagnostics of Brain Disorders
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2012
This book examines multi-quantum magnetic resonance imaging methods and the diagnostics of brain disorders. It consists of two Parts. The part I is initially devoted towards the basic concepts of the conventional single quantum MRI techniques. It is supplemented by the basic knowledge required to...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
This handbook was designed as a reference tool for forest geneticists, tree breeders and other tree improvement personnel, as well as a textbook for university courses and short-courses at the graduate level in quantitative genetics.
The chapters focus on the decision points faced by quantitative...
by T.D. Lekkas, J.B. Jahnel, C.J. Nokes
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Drinking water quality has been a matter of concern for several decades. Disinfection of drinking water improves its microbiological quality and prevents disease outbreaks. However, continuously increasing scientific research concerns the presence of organic and inorganic contaminants in water. Many...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
During the course of the last two decades, the health effects of tea and its catechins have been docmnented in nmnerous scientific studies and the scientific basis of these effects has been elaborated. Professor Kuroda and Dr. Hara provide in this volmne a translation of a thorough and extensive book...
Antibody-Drug Conjugates
The 21st Century Magic Bullets for Cancer
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2015
This authoritative volume provides a holistic picture of antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs). Fourteen comprehensive chapters are divided into six sections including an introduction to ADCs, the ADC construct, development issues, landscape, IP and pharmacoeconomics, case studies, and the future of the...
Global Approach in Safety Testing
ICH Guidelines Explained
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
This volume will consider one of ICH’s major categories, Safety i.e. topics relating to in vitro and in vivo pre-clinical studies (Carcinogenicity Testing, Genotoxicity Testing, etc.). Since the start of the ICH process, many guidelines have been written, but even after ICH6 no explanations have...
by Robert L. Shewfelt, Alicia Orta-Ramirez, Andrew D. Clarke
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2015
Written as an introductory food science textbook that excites students and fosters learning, the first edition of Introducing Food Science broke new ground. With an easy-to-read format and innovative sections such as Looking Back, Remember This!, and Looking Ahead, it quickly became popular with students and professors alike. This newly r
Foodborne Pathogens
Hazards, Risk Analysis and Control
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Effective control of pathogens continues to be of great importance to the food industry. The first edition of Foodborne pathogens quickly established itself as an essential guide for all those involved in the management of microbiological hazards at any stage in the food production chain. This major...
by Mustafa Aral ARAL
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2010
Environmental Modeling and Health Risk Analysis (ACTS/RISK) The purpose of this book is to provide the reader with an integrated perspective on several ?elds. First, it discusses the ?elds of environmental modeling in general and multimedia (the term “multimedia” is used throughout the text to...
by K. Dane Wittrup, Gregory L. Verdine
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
This volume of Methods in Enzymology looks at Protein Engineering for Therapeutics. The chapters provide an invaluable resource for academics, researchers and students alike. With an international board of authors, this volume is split into sections that cover subjects such as Antibodies, Protein...
Fed-Batch Cultures
Principles and Applications of Semi-Batch Bioreactors
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Many, if not most, industrially important fermentation and bioreactor operations are carried out in fed-batch mode, producing a wide variety of products. In spite of this, there is no single book that deals with fed-batch operations. This is the first book that presents all the necessary background...