Engineering is where human knowledge meets real-world problems and solves them. It's the source of some of our greatest inventions, from the wheel to the jet engine. Marshall Brain, creator of the How Stuff Works series and a professor at the Engineering Entrepreneurs Programme at NCSU, provides a detailed look at 250 milestones in the discipline. He covers the various areas, including chemical…
The effects of neurodegenerative diseases on speech are well known. Phonation, articulation, prosody and fluency are speech characteristics strongly affected by Parkinson’s Disease (PD) [1]. On the other hand, it is also well known that neuroacustical stimulation based on binaural beats may modify the brain activity measured in the cortex by…
In 2019, the Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded to John B. Goodenough, M. Stanley Whittingham, and Akira Yoshino for their research in improving battery technology. It is the invention of lithium-ion battery (LIB). The energy density of LIB with high discharge voltage (3.6 V) is nearly twice that of Ni-Cd batteries, and excellent cycle life and higher level of intrinsic safety have been …
Following his hugely successful The Math Book and The Physics Book, Clifford Pickover now chronicles the advancement of medicine in 250 entertaining, illustrated landmark events. Touching on such diverse subspecialties as genetics, pharmacology, neurology, sexology, and immunology, Pickover intersperses “obvious” historical milestones--the Hippocratic Oath, general anesthesia, the Human Gen…
The experience of the Covid-19 pandemic has significantly accelerated ongoing transactions between twenty-first-century biomedical and informational technologies. The sight of hundreds of millions worldwide submitting their bodies to experimental vaccines suggests that the modes of human security laid out by Michel Foucault in his Collège de France lectures may in fact have moved into a new ti…
Benson's Microbiological Applications has been the gold standard of microbiology laboratory manuals for over 30 years. The 77 self-contained, clearly-illustrated exercises, and four-color format with a wealth of added photographs makes this the ideal lab manual. Appropriate for either a majors or non-majors lab course, this manual assumes no prior organic chemistry course has been taken.
• Written as per the latest curriculum of MBBS and MD (Microbiology) • Rearranges all the chapters in as sequential format and thoroughly updated and expanded to include new data • Adds the recent advances in each topic such as vaccine trials in Leishmania and Malaria, drug resistance in malaria. The new and fresh look reinvigorates the reading experience • Includes many new ph…
eterinary Pharmacology and Therapeutics, Tenth Edition is a fully updated and revised version of the gold-standard reference on the use of drug therapy in all major veterinary species. Provides current, detailed information on using drug therapies in all major domestic animal species Organized logically by drug class and treatment indication, with exhaustive information on the rational us…
Saunders Handbook of Veterinary Drugs, 4th Edition includes entries for 550 drugs, with convenient appendices summarizing clinically relevant information at a glance. New to this edition are 25 new drug monographs and easy access to drug content on any mobile device. Written by clinical pharmacology expert Mark Papich, this handy reference includes a companion website containing more than 150 c…
The sphere packing bound by Shannon [18] provides a lower bound to the frameerror rate (FER) achievable by an(n,k,d)code but is not directly applicable tobinary codes. Gallager [4] presented his coding theorem for the average FER forthe ensemble of all random binary(n,k,d)codes. There are 2npossible binarycombinations for each codeword which in terms of then-dimensional signal spacehyp…
The Paris Agreement adopted in December 2015 sets out the trend toward decar-bonization, which calls for net zero GHG emissions by the latter half of this century.Along with this trend not a few countries have set ambitious emission reductiontargets to address it, and among them Japan officially set an 80% reduction target for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 2050 in the Plan for Global Warmin…
Fresh water is essential for human life [1, 2]. Securing fresh water is one of the most important issues for humankind. However, human population has increased steadily, and millions of people are concentrated in metropolitan cities [3, 4]. The amount of natural freshwater is insufficient to meet the demands of the population [5]. Thus, fresh wate…
The chapter will describe the studies which the book project has finallyfeatured and how the analysis and thesis forming part of the book havebeen arranged. The chapter will describe and show how the thoroughstudy of the subject –High Speed Product Development Processes andModels Based on Networks (NB HS PD)– together with the explo-rative analysis of the product development system of gener…
This book makes the case that literary studies can play a key role in un-derstanding public debates in present-day pluralist democracies1 – by his-toricizing and contextualizing them through readings of carefully selected literary texts. The debates I discuss include those on different conceptions of liberty (as they arose, say, during the COVID pandemic), on identity politics an…
Discover the amazing inventions throughout history that have shaped the world as we know it. This stunning visual guide explores and explains the greatest inventions, ideas, and discoveries throughout the ages, and introduces their inventors. From fire, stone tools, and the wheel to ploughs and paper, discover the first inventions that shaped societies and grew mighty civilizations and empir…
Complete absence or existence of limited quantified recipes has negatively impacted on optimal gains from dietary activities being promoted by the Ministry of Health (MoH) and Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock and Fisheries (MoALF) towards alleviating food and nutrition insecurity, and ultimately malnutrition. The lack of reliable quantified recipes in the country may have therefore led to inc…
CHANEL has always been a pioneer of modernity, defining trends in luxury and beauty for more than 100 years. It is a company seeking to constantly reinvent itself, embrace innovation, and challenge existing boundaries through its creativity. CHANEL, following the legacy of our founder, assumes an influentialrole in society and strives to be exemplary in everything we do. CHANEL’s internal mi…
The Good Practice Guides (GPG) are considered by both the Codex Alimentarius and the European Commission (Regulation on Official Controls (EU) 2017/625 - official controls throughout the food chain1 Hazard Analysis Critical Control Points (HACCP) principles) and thus to prevent and control SPS risks. The Guide of Good Practices that has been elaborated for the Avocado sector is based not only …
The compilation of this recipe book fits nicely with the main object of the Country Women’s Association of Victoria. That object is “to improve conditions by community service as they affect the welfare of women and children”. By growing fruits and veggies in our gardens we can be sure of eating fresh foods with the maximum nutritional values. Who could resist the appeal of a crunchy tur…
Approximately 75% of emerging infectious diseases are zoonoses, and the rate of emergence of zoonotic diseases is on the rise. Bats are being increasingly recognised as an important reservoir of zoonotic viruses of different families, including SARS coronavirus, Nipah virus, Hendra virus and Ebola virus. Understanding bats’ role in emerging zoonotic diseases is crucial to this rapidly expandi…
In 1976 a deadly virus emerged from the Congo forest. As swiftly as it came, it disappeared, leaving no trace. Over the four decades since, Ebola has emerged sporadically, each time to devastating effect. It can kill up to 90 percent of its victims. In between these outbreaks, it is untraceable, hiding deep in the jungle. The search is on to find Ebola's elusive host animal. And until we find i…
Plagues in World History provides a concise, comparative world history of catastrophic infectious diseases, including plague, smallpox, tuberculosis, cholera, influenza, and AIDS. Geographically, these diseases have spread across the entire globe; temporally, they stretch from the sixth century to the present. John Aberth considers not only the varied impact that disease has had upon human hist…
Pruning (including training) is one of the most important activities to be performed on a mango plantation to obtain maximum quantitative and qualitative yield. The main objective of pruning in mango cultivation is to create a good tree structure that permits good light penetration, resistance to wind, less sensitivity to pests and diseases, and easy application of aerial treatments and …
Petroliam Nasional Berhad (PETRONAS) is a leading global energy company committed to powering society’s progress in a responsible and sustainable manner. With close to 50,000 employees and a global reach spanning over 100 countries, we are ranked among the world’s largest corporations by revenue in the Fortune Media IP Ltd’s 2022 Fortune Global 500® list. As Malaysia’s national oil and…
Since mid-2020, there has been a broad rise in mineral and coal prices driven by a strong demand recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic and the restoration of business activities, as well as some pandemic-related supply constraints. The upward trend in mineral prices continued during the first quarter of 2022, with mineral prices surging and reaching record highs in March 2022. The upward trend in…
Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) is a process of care comprising a number of steps. Initially, a multidimensional holistic assessment of an older person considers health and wellbeing and leads to the formulation of a plan to address issues which are of concern to the older person (and their family and carers when relevant). Interventions are then arranged in support of the plan. Progre…
In the European Union (EU) over 250,000 public organizations spend around 2 tril-lion € annually, which is about 14% of GDP, procuring works, supplies, and ser-vices. Also, in countries outside the EU, around 12% of the GDP is spent by public organizations. This can add up to values between 5000 and 8000 € per citizen per year. Despite the considerable impact that public …
Freshwater is sustaining life on our planet but is under increasing pressure due to popula-tion growth, increased water consumption and pollution as well as climate change. Facing freshwater scarcity is one of the major challenges of the 21st century and included in the Sustainable Development Goals as a fundamental target of the international community UN (2015). …
In June 1947, a group of nuclear scientists from the former Manhattan Projectlaunched theBulletin of the Atomic Scientists, a magazine that monitors newdevelopments in the life sciences and technology that could inflict irrevocableharm to humanity. That first issue had a simple image on its cover, a clock with itshands set at 7 min to midnight, that was the Bulletin’s visual metaphor to warn …
Megatrends are “large social, economic, political and technological changes [that]are slow to form, and once in place, they influence us for some time” (Kotler2002,p. 137). Trends, as an indication into a direction of change, are driven by megatrends.Forexample,agingpopulationisamegatrendandsomeofitstrendsarebuyinghabits,and workforce gaps. Megatrends are observed over decades (15+years) an…
Process mining can be defined as follows:process mining aims to improve opera-tional processes through the systematic use of event data[1,2]. By using a com-bination of event data and process models, process mining techniques provideinsights, identify bottlenecks and deviations, anticipate and diagnose perfor-mance and compliance problems, and support the automation or removal ofrepetitive work…
The cultivation and harvesting of sugar beets (roots and leaves) is one of themost labour and energy consuming work processes in the agricultural industry.The most important task in sugar beet farming is to improve the quality of sugarbeet root crop harvesting and reduce energy costs for harvesting. This primarilyconcerns reductions in losses and damage of root crops, as well as a reduction in…
Cancer Intersections is an ethnographic analysis of the complex and paradoxical efforts to access neoliberal, market-based oncological treatments in Colombia, a country where all patients are legally guaranteed access to medical services, including high-cost ones. Drawing on years of fieldwork in Cali, Camilo Sanz explores the deep entanglements between medical, legal, and policy practices that…
How conventional and experimental prototypes and series created an architecture for all. Mass housing and prefabrication shaped global modernist architecture like no other aspect of industrialised construction. This book offers a comprehensive exploration of how both conventional and experimental prototypes and series gave rise to an architecture for all and responded to crises, nation-building…
The history of early modern medicine often makes for depressing reading. It implies that people fell ill, took ineffective remedies, and died. A few snippets from Roy and Dorothy Porter’s classic study, In Sickness and in Health, encapsulate this pes-simism: they speak of the ‘universal sickness, suffering, and woe’ of the early mod-ern past, a time in which ‘people died like f…
This guide for patients has been prepared by the Anticancer Fund as a service to patients, to help patients and their relatives better understand the nature of endometrial cancer and appreciate the best treatment choices available according to the subtype of endometrial cancer. We recommend that patients ask their doctors about the tests or types of treatments needed for their type and stage of…
Cancer concerns us all in one way or another. In 2020, 2.7 million people in the European Union were diagnosed with the disease, and another 1.3 million people lost their lives to it. Cancer is an individual diagnosis that has important impacts on patients, but it also severely affects the lives of their families and friends. Europe urgently needs a renewed commitment to cancer prevention, t…
Every day in hospitals, doctors’ surgeries, and school sick bays around the world, children (including adolescents) present with what have come to be known as functional somatic symptoms. These symptoms are ones that cannot be explained by an identifiable disease process—even after an extensive medical assessment has been done. They reflect, instead, …
In his professional journey, travelling through an upcoming field of surgery with apparently unlimited possibilities, Kees van Laarhoven witnessed major milestones and breakthroughs. Already as a medical student, he was amazed by surgical courage. During residency, he experienced hard work, diligence and perseverance of surgical professionals. Today as a surgeon with over 25 years of clinical e…
There are many ways to define health. Health is defined by the World Health Organization (WHO) as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” [1, 2] This definition has recently been challenged by a team of international experts who suggested that health be defined as “the ability to adapt and …
Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS), once known as “cot death”, has been a somewhat controversial term that on one hand has been criticized for not being a proper diagnosis with pathognomonic features, contrasting on the other hand with situations where it has been uncritically and inconsistently applied to all manner of infant deaths. It has been argued that SIDS …
This book bridges a long-standing gap between obscure references in tropical botany and the gardener's need for an accurate, practical guide with clear photographs. Incorporating the latest advances in plant taxonomy from the definitive text of Dr. Walter Judd, the book is a rare work of scrupulous research — and magnificent photography — that will be as useful to the gardener as it is to t…
Sexual addiction is a problem that affects millions of people. Maureen Canning, LMFT, who has extensive experience treating sex addicts, explains its roots and how those afflicted can recover. This book also explains the poisonous childhood seeds that lead to public scandals like the revelations involving former congressman Mark Foley. Canning shows how compulsions are the product…
Oligonucleotides are short single-stranded sections of DNA orRNA that contain 20-deoxyribo-nucleosides or ribo-nucleosides,respectively, which are linked by 30–50phosphodiester linkages(Fig.1a). Antisense oligonucleotides are those that are complemen-tary to a section of naturally occurring RNA, such as an mRNA or aviral RNA, to form Watson–Crick base pairs and to thus inhibit abiological f…
Sex is at the core of our identities. And when it becomes a compulsion, it can unravel our lives. Out of the Shadows is the premier work on this disorder, written by a pioneer in its treatment. Revised and updated to include the latest research--and to address the exploding phenomenon of cybersex addiction--this third edition identifies the danger signs, explains the dynamics, and describes the…
In the final volume of the series, Chertok recounts the period of 1968 to 1974. Much has been written in the West on the history of the Soviet space program but few Westerners have read direct first-hand accounts of the men and women who were behind the many Russian accomplishments in exploring space. The memoirs of Academician Boris Chertok, translated from the original Russian, fills that ga…
In this third volume Chertok continues his fascinating narrative on the early history of the Soviet space program, from 1961 to 1967, arguably the peak of the effort. Much has been written in the West on the history of the Soviet space program but few Westerners have read direct first-hand accounts of the men and women who were behind the many Russian accomplishments in exploring space. The …
Much has been written in the West on the history of the Soviet space program but few Westerners have read direct first-hand accounts of the men and women who were behind the many Russian accomplishments in exploring space. The memoirs of Academician Boris Chertok, translated from the original Russian, fills that gap. In these writings, spread over four volumes, Chertok not only describes and re…
Much has been written in the West on the history of the Soviet space program but few Westerners have read direct first-hand accounts of the men and women who were behind the many Russian accomplishments in exploring space. The memoirs of Academician Boris Chertok, translated from the original Russian, fills that gap. In these writings, spread over four volumes, Chertok not only describes and re…