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In vielen Ingenieurstudiengangen brauchen die Studierenden eine Einfuhrung in die Biologie, wofur im Studienplan meist nur ein kleines Zeitfenster zur Verfugung steht. Dieses Buch soll das konzentrierte Nacharbeiten und eine gezielte Vorbereitung auf Prufungen ermoeglichen und Neugierde wecken. In diesem Kurzlehrbuch werden die wichtige Zusammenhange und Funktionsprinzipien der modernen Biologie, die generelle Methodik und die wesentlichen Eigenschaften der Lebewesen und Lebensgemeinschaften vo...

This book provides a complete overview of significant design challenges in respect to circuit miniaturization and power reduction of the neural recording system, along with circuit topologies, architecture trends, and (post-silicon) circuit optimization algorithms. The introduced novel circuits for signal conditioning, quantization, and classification, as well as system configurations focus on optimized power-per-area performance, from the spatial resolution (i.e. number of channels), feasible w...

Intelligence-Based Medicine: Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, and Human Cognition in Clinical Medicine and Healthcare provides a multidisciplinary and comprehensive survey of artificial intelligence concepts and methodologies with real life applications in healthcare and medicine. Authored by a senior physician-data scientist, the book presents an intellectual and academic interface between the medical and the data science domains that is symmetric and balanced. The content consists of bas...

After the introductory chapters in each volume, the material in each chapter starts out with definitions and engineering formulas, applies these to the individual gases, and proceeds to advanced theory at the molecular level. The formulas and theory are illustrated with examples throughout. Uncertainty, in both measurement and prediction, is a recurring theme throughout both volumes. The engineering formulas are suited to engineering and science students at the undergraduate level. The advan...

Handbook of Artificial Intelligence in Biomedical Engineering focuses on recent AI technologies and applications that provide some very promising solutions and enhanced technology in the biomedical field. Recent advancements in computational techniques, such as machine learning, Internet of Things (IoT), and big data, accelerate the deployment of biomedical devices in various healthcare applications. This volume explores how artificial intelligence (AI) can be applied to these expert systems by...

This multivolume work covers all aspects of membrane science and technology--from basic phenomena to the most advanced applications and future perspectives. Modern membrane engineering is critical to the development of process-intensification strategies and to the stimulation of industrial growth. The work presents researchers and industrial managers with an indispensable tool toward achieving these aims. * Covers membrane science theory and economics, as well as applications ranging from chemic...

Viruses do not behave as other microbes; their life cycles require infecting healthy cells, commandeering their cellular apparatus, replicating and then killing the host cell. Methods for virus detection and identification have been developed only in the past few decades. These recently developed methods include molecular, physical, and proteomic techniques. All these approaches (Electron Microscopy, Molecular, Direct Counting, and Mass Spectrometry Proteomics) to detection and identification ar...

EEG Brain Signal Classification for Epileptic Seizure Disorder Detection provides the knowledge necessary to classify EEG brain signals to detect epileptic seizures using machine learning techniques. Chapters present an overview of machine learning techniques and the tools available, discuss previous studies, present empirical studies on the performance of the NN and SVM classifiers, discuss RBF neural networks trained with an improved PSO algorithm for epilepsy identification, and cover ABC alg...

Electroactive polymer (EAP) materials with large displacement response are showing great potential. The ability to induce large actuation strains such as stretching, squeezing, and bending makes these resilient materials remarkably similar to biological muscles. This book describes the mechanics of natural muscles and how EAP actuators mimic their actions. It examines materials, EAP function at the molecular level, and methods for predicting polymer response to external electric fields. The text...

This monograph deals with the results of the authors' research on both the study of the transport equation (the linear Boltzmann equation) and its applications in X-ray tomography. The introduction contains an outline of the text and deals with certain aspects of the methodology. The first part of the volume is devoted to the investigation of known and new problems for the stationary transport equation of a general form. New problems are treated as problems of tomography. The second part deals w...

This comprehensive book presents a modern concept in biophysics  based on recently published research. It highlights various aspects of the biophysical fundamentals and techniques that are currently used to study different physical properties of biomolecules, and relates the biological phenomenon with the underlying physical concepts. The content is divided into nine chapters summarizing  the structural details of proteins, including recently discovered novel folds, higher order structures of nu...

For undergraduate/graduate-level courses in Laboratory Management in programs of clinical laboratory science (medical technology). Utilizing a problem-based approach, this book provides insights and guidance into the principles of laboratory management, human resources management, financial management, and laboratory operations. Its problem-based approach and use of case studies helps students develop requisite skills that laboratory managers will need to create solutions to today's problems an...

According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), 115 Americans die each day from an opioid overdose, which averages one death every 12.5 minutes. Between 1999 and 2016, the number of drug overdoses catapulted by 300 percent, with injection drug use increasing by 93 percent between 2004 and 2014 and opioid-related hospital admissions increasing by 58 percent over the past decade. And an inexorable sequela of the opioid epidemic is the spread of infectious diseases. To address th...

Meik Kunz erforscht die Interaktion zwischen den Wachstumshormonen Cytokinin und Auxin und untersucht deren Zusammenspiel im Hinblick auf die pflanzliche Immunabwehr. Der Autor zeigt zudem mittels einer eigens entwickelten Methode die Möglichkeit auf, wie in einer Transkriptom-Interaktom-Analyse zentrale funktionelle Netzwerkknoten (sogenannte Hubproteine) einer Cytokinin-vermittelten Immunabwehr identifiziert werden können. Begleitend wurde eine für den Forschungsalltag zugeschnittene Datenbank...