Bøger udgivet af Jenny Stanford Publishing

Several developed countries are facing serious problems in medical environments owing to the aging society, and extension of healthy lifetime has become a big challenge. Biomedical engineering, in addition to life sciences and medicine, can help tackle these problems. Innovative technologies concerning minimally invasive treatment, prognosis and early diagnosis, point-of-care testing, regenerative medicine, and personalized medicine need to be developed to realize a healthy aging society.This book presents cutting-edge research in biomedical engineering from materials, devices, imaging, and information perspectives. The contributors are senior members of the Research Center for Biomedical Engineering, supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan. All chapters are results of collaborative research in engineering and life sciences and cover nanotechnology, materials, optical sensing technology, imaging technology, image processing technology, and biomechanics, all of which are important areas in biomedical engineering. The book will be a useful resource for researchers, students, and readers who are interested in biomedical engineering.

This book is an inspirational story about how an unusual idea got started, hit the ground running, and took flight. Solar Decathlon (SD) was created in response to the need for innovative solutions to address a global problem: fossil-fuel dependence as a contributing factor in climate change.

This book summarizes a decade of research on its topic, while each specific perspective either formed in advance, or arose in the process of ethnography and its analysis. The book explores various aspects of Christian music in British Columbia, Washington State, and Oregon, but primarily its historical facets and local palette.

This book explores the field of plasmonic nanomaterials and their significant impact on organic synthesis and catalysis comprehensively and provides an in-depth understanding of the characterization techniques used for studying these unique materials.

In an interdisciplinary approach that integrates three scientific fields¿technical, social, and humanities¿the challenges of noise control from the perspective of acoustic ecology are defined. The concept of acoustic ecology is applied to evoke sound and music management and design solutions for the benefit of well-being.

This book focuses on the advances in terahertz source technologies both from photonics and electronics (solid-state and vacuum-state) points of view.

This book presents critical discussions of some of these traditions in connection with the issue of identity. The discussions capture country and city life, illustrate foundational myths, bring secular traditions closer to Christianity, explore surviving cultural strategies, etc.

This book does not provide blueprints ready to start the developments of new quantum gravity weaponry and strategies, but it draws the line that would suffice to awake the right forces and trigger the best developments ¿ before the bad guys get the gist.

This book is a collection of articles spanning two decades that shows how the newer publications have evolved from the older ones. The book is, in particular, suitable for the researchers and general readers who are looking for inspiration on how ideas develop over decades.

This book deals with most of the methods that have been used or developed for diagnosing dengue. It addresses the timeline for the evolution of the virus in the body, the body¿s response from the onset of fever, and the role of diagnostics as time progresses.

This book covers the events related to the binary opposition of form vs. work, that is, the interaction of formalists and integralists. It also presents the history and evolution of the Soviet music theory viewed from the standpoint of an insider.

This book overviews the physiology of muscular hypertrophy, preassessment while planning a rehabilitation regime, practical applications of blood flow restriction training (BFRT) in various clinical scenarios and their evidence, and future scope of BFRT in the health and fitness industry.

This book presents an overview of the rapidly developing field of nanotechnology applications in drug delivery systems and covers a variety of technologies and materials that help in achieving vast variation in the particle size needed in technology and drug delivery-based research.

This book summarizes the lifetime work of Dr K. Mohan Iyer and is based on his research done at the University of Liverpool, UK, where he devised a "modified posterior approach to the hip joint" and has been following it from 1981 till today.

This book appraises the role of lipid-based drug delivery systems (LBDDSs) with respect to the bioavailability and controlled delivery of complex drug molecules for improving their clinical viability.

The book provides detailed information on the range of natural food preservatives with their applications in different product sectors. It is a collection of the research and experiences of an international team of experts and is a valuable tool for all those who are related to the advancements and production of safe and healthy foods.

Diamond's supreme properties can be realized by chemical vapor deposition (CVD) of diamond films with many applications, such as cutting tools, tweeter diaphragms, deep ultraviolet light-emitting diodes, radomes, CPU transistors, quantum computer, and MEMs. This volume provides extensive reviews on various CVD methods with examples. Meanwhile, there are other forms of carbon coatings, including diamond-like carbon, carbon nanotubes, and graphene. These carbon coatings possess properties derived from diamond. For example, graphene is actually flattened diamond's (111) face with superb electrical and thermal conductivities. For the first time, this book reveals a catalytic method to grow single-crystal graphene, whose applications are expected in heat spreaders, battery electrodes, interconnected circuits, and 6G antennae.

This original research monograph concerns various aspects of how (based on the decompositions of vertices of hypercube graphs with respect to their symmetric cycles) the vertex sets of related discrete hypercubes, as well as the power sets of the corresponding ground sets, emerge from rank 2 oriented matroids, from underlying rank 2 systems of linear inequalities, and thus literally from arrangements of straight lines crossing a common point on a piece of paper. It reveals some beautiful and earlier-hidden fragments in the true foundations of discrete mathematics. The central observation made and discussed in the book from various viewpoints consists in that 2t subsets of a finite t-element set Et, which form in a natural way a cyclic structure (well, just t subsets that are the vertices of a path in the cycle suffice), allow us to construct any of 2t subsets of the set Et by means of a more than elementary voting procedure expressed in basic linear algebraic terms. The monograph will be of interest to researchers, students, and readers in the fields of discrete mathematics, theoretical computer science, Boolean function theory, enumerative combinatorics and combinatorics on words, combinatorial optimization, coding theory, and discrete and computational geometry.

This book is an anthology of philosophical essays. Its principle is simple: the moments of our life are original. What we perceive and think does not arise from an elusive and illusive entity called God, Soul or External World. This setting, in line with philosophical and scientific trends, is the starting point for reaching a coherent and innovative solution to the problems of knowledge. In the foreground we encounter the relationship between the mind and the brain, where the terms are composed according to the analogy with music and the musical score, and then the basis of time and the sense of the Big Bang. These are the frame and sketch of the book.

The book describes mathematical tools that allow to solve partial differential equations, typical of physical problems. Another original and unique feature of this book is the emphasis on the mathematical formulation of the problems, as well as the analysis of several alternative ways to solve them.

This book examines this startling relationship between the image on the Shroud of Turin and the "Miracle of the Holy Fire." As this amazing relationship becomes more broadly known, the world will be shocked and inevitably changed.

This book gives a true reflection of the vast area of research in green composites as it has contributions from internationally recognized experts in the field of green polymer materials, representing a wide range of disciplines, backgrounds, and expertise.

This book provides a collection of reviews of some of the recent developments in nuclear physics research at intermediate energies carried out throughout the world. In addition, the book identifies potential research directions and technologies that will drive future innovations.

Each volume in the Current Issues in Medicine series is a stand¿alone text that provides a broad survey of various critical topics¿all accomplished in a user-friendly yet interconnected format. This volume addresses advances in medical imaging, detection, and diagnostic technologies.

The book is organized into five main topics: a short history of the Chinese environment, efforts for the remediation of air and water, ecosystem restoration, emerging measures for decarbonization, and megatrends that contribute to environmental protection.

The book describes a successful approach in which, based on cryo-EM data, all states visited by the molecule in thermal equilibrium are mapped by manifold embedding¿a method of geometric machine learning¿and the energy landscape of the molecule is derived.

This book focuses on the basic and practical concepts of clinical biochemistry. It deals with the understanding of urine analysis; carbohydrate, protein, and lipid analyses; and diabetes and lipid profile.

The membrane is a highly elaborate structure that undertakes many important biological activities, including material transport, signal transduction, energy transfer, and enzymatic reaction. This book introduces the concept of `omics¿ into membranes and proposes the term `biomembranomics.¿

Photovoltaics (PV), the solar power, is the world leader in clean and sustainable energy today. It has become low-cost and affordable for everybody: Millions of people have already invested in it. This book reports on the euphoria resulting from solar PV that started about half a century ago in the United States, followed by Japan.

This book is a collection of the work of prominent researchers in the field from different countries. The book is unique as it describes both sensors and detectors based on plasmonics and their practical applications in a single book, a feature not found in any book so far.