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Overview: Presents state-of-the-art of research on antimicrobial peptides in human medicine.Elucidates the immunomodulatory aspects of AMP.Discusses the potential therapeutic use of AMPThis book focuses on the importance of human antimicrobial peptides (AMP) in keeping the host healthy and preventing infectious diseases. The first chapters deal with several examples of the role of AMP in different epithelial organs (skin and wound healing, eye, lung, genito-urinary tract, gut), which are exposed to different kinds of infectious microorganisms and as a result produce different patterns of AMP.

Overview: The contributors to this volume reference a shared, longitudinal corpus of spontaneous conversation elicited in natural settings from speakers with moderate to late moderate Alzheimer‘s Disease, utilizing other collections as appropriate, to analyze conversation, discourse and written text by and about Alzheimer‘s speech. Cross-disciplinary contributions from the USA, Canada, New Zealand and Germany, representing linguistics, gerontology, geriatric nursing, computer science, and communications disorders report on empirically-based investigations of social and pragmatic language compe

Overview: Presents the state of the art in the field of ambient assisted living.Explains the potential of novel methodologies and technologies to enhance well-being and promote active ageing.Offers a special fo.This book documents the state of the art in the field of ambient assisted living (AAL), highlighting the impressive potential of novel methodologies and technologies to enhance well-being and promote active ageing. It covers a broad range of topics, with sections on technological sensors and platforms, social robotics for assistance, assistance and care applications, health and medical

Overview: Focuses on various important areas of mathematics in which approximation methods play an essential role.Reader will be exposed to convexity theory, polynomial inequalities, extremal problems, predicti.This contributed volume focuses on various important areas of mathematics in which approximation methods play an essential role. It features cutting-edge research on a wide spectrum of analytic inequalities with emphasis on differential and integral inequalities in the spirit of functional analysis, operator theory, nonlinear analysis, variational calculus, featuring a plethora of appli

Overview: Introduces various widely used alginate-based biomaterials.Covers updated information, current research trends, informatics, and all aspects of applications.Highlights both the drug delivery strategieThis book focuses on recent trends of research on alginate-based biomaterials in Drug Delivery strategies and biomedical engineering. It contains the widely used alginate-based biomaterials as micro to nano-controlled drug delivery (oral, ocular delivery, topical delivery, etc.) and its fabrication technology, characterization, and biomedical aspects (such as cancer therapy, tissue engin

Overview: Presents an analytical approach to Corporate Finance to comprehend the mathematical foundations of the topic.Offers specific learning take-aways to help students understand the overall content.Explain.This book draws readers’ attention to the financial aspects of daily life at a corporation by combining a robust mathematical setting and the explanation and derivation of the most popular models of the firm. Intended for third-year undergraduate students of business finance, quantitative finance, and financial mathematics, as well as first-year postgraduate students, it is based on the

Overview: Seit Jahrzehnten befindet sich die Landwirtschaft in einem Strukturwandel, der mit zahlreichen Entwicklungen einhergeht. Neben einer veränderten Arbeitsstruktur und -organisation nimmt der Strukturwandel auch Einfluss auf die (Erwerbs-)Biographien der Menschen, die in der Landwirtschaft arbeiten. Auf Grundlage qualitativer Interviews mit Betriebsleiter*innen aus Niedersachsen sowie Vertreter*innen landwirtschaftlicher Organisationen befasst sich das vorliegende Buch mit den aktuellen und zukünftigen Rahmenbedingungen für die Lebensgestaltung im höheren Alter von selbstständigen Landw

Overview: Standard reference book with selected and easily retrievable data from the fields of physics and chemistry collected by acknowledged international scientists.Includes supplementary material: Volume 32 of Group III is a supplement to volume III/19 and deals with the magnetic properties of metals, alloys and metallic compounds which contain at least one transition element..The present subvolume .III/32C. provides comprehensive and evaluated data on magnetic properties of alloys and compounds of d-elements with main group elements published mainly in the previous decade.978-3-540-69415-

Overview: .This 2 volume-set of IFIP AICT 583 and 584 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 16th IFIP WG 12.5 International Conference on Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations, AIAI 2020, held in Neos Marmaras, Greece, in June 2020.*.The 70 full papers and 5 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 149 submissions. They cover a broad range of topics related to technical, legal, and ethical aspects of artificial intelligence systems and their applications and are organized in the following sections:.Part I: classification; clustering - unsupervised l

Overview: Provides a complete and concise overview about software testing in agile projects.Includes experiences and examples from concrete software development projects of various companies.Describes the use o.This book is written by testers for testers. In ten chapters, the authors provide answers to key questions in agile projects. They deal with cultural change processes for agile testing, with questions regarding the approach and organization of software testing, with the use of methods, techniques and tools, especially test automation, and with the redefined role of the tester in agile p

Overview: Überblick über die Struktur der alpinen Landgesellschaft in Österreich.Der ländliche Raum, Genderaspekte, Agro-food und Landwirtschaft.Open-Access-Publikation.Freier, uneingeschränkter Zugang zum Buch.Dieses Open-Access-Buch bietet Einblicke in die Bandbreite agrar- und regional-soziologischer Forschung und eng verwandter Disziplinen in Österreich. Es widmet sich den vielfältigen Lebensrealitäten von Akteurinnen und Akteuren in ländlichen, insbesondere alpinen Regionen. Die Beiträge beleuchten Themen wie Wandlungsprozesse und Zukunftsperspektiven, Sozialkapital und Lebensqualität, We

Overview: Latest research on the theory and applications of recent advances on agent-based decision making in healthcare.State-of-the-Art book.Written by leading experts in this fieldThis book is a continuation of the previous volumes of our series on Advanced Computational Intelligence Paradigms in Healthcare. The recent advances in computational intelligence paradigms have highlighted the need of intelligent systems in healthcare. This volume provides the reader a glimpse of the current state of the art in intelligent supportsystem design in the field of healthcare. The book reports a sample

Overview: Ein fächerübergreifendes Schwerpunktthema dieses Buches bilden die Fortschritte beim Einsatz von Ersatz- und Ergänzungsmethoden zu Tierversuchen in der Lehre und Ausbildung in den verschiedenen Disziplinen der biomedizinischen Wissenschaften. Anschließendstellen Vertreter der chemisch-pharmazeutischen Industrie Möglichkeiten des Ersatzes von Tierversuchen bei der Qualitätskontrolle von Arzneimitteln vor, dabei wurde erstmals als zukunftsweisender Aspekt die Verwendung von gentechnologisch veränderten Zellen anstelle von Ganztierversuchen herausgestellt. Einzelnen Unternehmen gelang e

Overview: Fast-track conference proceedings State-of-the-art research Up-to-date results.Includes supplementary material: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th China Conference of Wireless Sensor Networks, held in Xi‘an, China, in October/November 2014. The 64 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 365 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on power control and management; network architecture and deployment; positioning and location-based services in wireless sensor networks; security and privacy; wireless communication systems and

Overview: Explores the applications of autophagy in various human diseases, focusing on therapeutic approaches.Chapters are contributed by leading authorities.Also includes useful discussions of studies derivedThis timely volume explores the impact of autophagy in various human diseases, emphasizing the cell biological aspects and focusing on therapeutic approaches to these diseases. .The chapters cover autophagy and its potential applications on diseases ranging from obesity, osteoarthritis, pulmonary fibrosis, and inflammation, through ALS, Parkinson‘s, retinal degeneration, breast cancer, a

Overview: .The three volume-set LNCS 11476, 11477, and 11478 constitute the thoroughly refereed proceedings of the 38th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, EUROCRYPT 2019,held in Darmstadt, Germany, in May 2019..The 76 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 327 submissions. The papers are organized into the following topical sections: ABE and CCA security; succinct arguments and secure messaging; obfuscation; block ciphers; differential privacy; bounds for symmetric cryptography; non-malleability; blockchain and c

Overview: ACT staat voor Acceptance and Commitment Therapy. ACT is een nieuwe vorm voor cognitieve gedragstherapie die snel populair geworden is in Nederland en in opkomst is in België.Dit boek is bedoeld als opstapje voor hulpverleners die geen, of maar weinig ervaring hebben met ACT. De theorie achter ACT en de filosofie van waaruit ACT wordt bedreven worden beknopt en in begrijpelijke taal uitgelegd. Er is uitgebreid aandacht voor de therapeutische relatie, iets wat binnen ACT niet slechts als randvoorwaarde, maar als een essentieel element wordt opgevat. Het overgrote deel van het boek wor

Overview: Algebra konkret und problemorientiert.Einführung Mathislikelove;asimpleidea, butitcangetcomplicated. R. Drabek Dieses Buch handelt von einem klassischen Problem der Algebra und seiner Geschichte. Beschrieben wird die Suche nach Lösungsformeln für Polynomgleichungen in einer Unbekannten und wie die dabei hinzun- menden Misserfolge letztlich zu Erkenntnissen ganz anderer Art führten und zwar zu solchen mit höchst grundlegender Bedeutung. Schauen wir uns den Gegenstand, der über drei Jahrhunderte viele der besten Mathematiker beschäftigte, schon einmal kurz an. Sie, verehrte Leserin bez

Overview: As the aquaculture industry has expanded throughout the world, it has embraced the experiences of many fields of study to meet increasing technological challenges. The complexities of modern hatchery methodology, more intensive growout systems, and the application of diverse biological and physical sciences to aquatic animal husbandry have reached beyona the ability of most aquaculturists to enjoy an in-depth knowledge of all phases of the aquaculture process. More importantly, in order for tne culturist to have at hand the information necessary to make basic decisions, it requires a

Overview: Proceedings of the workshops of the 25th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems EngineeringThis book constitutes the thoroughly refereed proceedings of eight international workshops held in Valencia, Spain, in conjunction with the 25th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2013, in June 2013.The 36 full and 12 short papers have undertaken a high-quality and selective acceptance policy, resulting in acceptance rates of up to 50% for full research papers. The eight workshops were Approaches for Enterprise Engineering Research (App