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This book presents the advanced statistical methods for mapping pharmacogenetic control by integrating pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic principles of drug-body interactions. This book is suitable for graduate students and researchers in the field of biology, medicine, bioinformatics and drug design and delivery.

This book is designed to help students interested in biomedical engineering learn the essential concepts of biology and molecular biology. Serving as a practical guide to molecular engineering, the book will help students realize the unique approach they can take to tackle modern biomedical problems and challenges, given their training in physics, mathematics, chemistry, and other quantitative topics.

A comprehensive reference to molecular gastronomy, this book highlights techniques that have enabled chefs to achieve new and better ways of preparing food. The book takes an interdisciplinary approach encompassing the physics, biology, and chemistry of food as well as food preparation along with practical tips on molecular cooking. It offers an introductory overview and perspective on key issues and contains a complete A-Z guide to scientific terminology, ingredients, tools, and methods, as well as innovative recipes by world-renowned chefs.

With an updated edition including new material in additional chapters, this one-of-a-kind handbook covers not only current standardization efforts, but also anthropometry and optimal working postures, ergonomic human computer interactions, legal protection, occupational health and safety, and military human factor principles.

This book provides essential information on the fundamental principles of physical properties of agricultural materials as a whole and as ingredients for foods. It discusses their implication on product quality as engineering material. The chapters provide detailed discussions of current research and development of modern equipment and instrumentation as they apply to physical property measurement and determination methodologies. The book can be used as a textbook for food science and biological engineering students and as a reference for food product developers.

This book covers the basic principles of lasers, including different kind of industrial/research lasers available and their comparative analysis based on output power, wavelength, beam quality, portability and wall plug efficiency. It presents the fundamentals of laser materials processing techniques.

This gives a comprehensive introduction to the (standard) statistical analysis based on the theory of martingales and develops entropy methods in order to treat dependent data in the framework of martingales. The author starts a summary of the martingale theory, and then proceeds to give full proofs of the martingale central limit theorems.

This book describes the structures of a wide range of alloys with crystalline, quasicrystalline, and amorphous on the development of advanced alloys and ceramics for structural and functional applications. The fundamentals of memory effect, reverse transformation in nanoscale, and pseudoelasticity are discussed with emphasis on their applications.

The book focuses on problem solving for practitioners and model building for academicians under multivariate situations. This book helps readers in understanding the issues, such as knowing variability, extracting patterns, building relationships, and making objective decisions.

This book focuses on current research and methodologies developed for re-engineering cancer clinical trials and also for "hot" areas in drug development trials such as adaptive design, seamless Phase 2-3 trials, and personalized medicine using biomarkers. Background statistical methodology is summarized in the Appendix.

Research on mixed models has been extensive over the most recent decade. This book differs from the authors' previous monographs on longitudinal data in that it focuses on mixed models of a linear, generalized linear and nonlinear type. The book pays attention to recent developments that include diagnostics, semi-parametric methodology, non-normal random effects, multivariate longitudinal data, high-dimensional outcomes, joint modeling of longitudinal and survival data and discrimination and classification based on longitudinal data using mixed models.

This book illustrates how the choice of relevant data collection and data analysis techniques is critical for a sound and objective description of the complexity of space-time patterns and processes in ecology and the aquatic sciences. It reviews the concept of complexity in a general ecological context, before introducing a unifying definition of complexity in marine ecology. The book shows that convincing results can arise from very simple, sound, and well-thought-out approaches. The authors underline the risks related to modern techniques of data assimilation that can lead to data inundation, a loss of focus, and ultimately an erroneous scientific approach.

This book addresses the integration of new devices (such as the iPhone), new technologies (such as cloud computing and green computing), and new software systems in pervasive and ubiquitous computing from the point of view of security, trust, and privacy (STP). It provides an overview of recent progress in ubiquitous and pervasive computing, examining current practices, trends, and challenges. The book covers theoretical approaches, mathematical models, empirical research, practical implementations, and diverse application areas, along with a rich and useful presentation of strategies for security issues in different computing areas.

Written by two pioneers in the field, this book offers the first practical and complete introduction to the basic principles of photoacoustic imaging in biomedicine. It covers basic tissue optics, radio frequency properties, physics of ultrasound in tissue, photoacoustics theory, photo acoustic computed tomography, and photoacoustic scanning tomography with ultrasonic resolution. Capturing the state of the art in photoacoustic imaging for biomedical applications, each chapter presents discussions of current imaging systems, spatial resolutions, and limitations of each approach.

A comprehensive introduction to the technical and socioeconomic issues surrounding global energy, this text presents a fresh new treatment on the fundamentals of energy science, technology, and policy implications. It addresses the need for diversity in any nation¿s energy portfolio and the educational requirements of scientists, engineers, and policymakers today. Taking an introductory yet rigorous approach, the book covers alternative and sustainable supply strategies, such as wind and solar. It uses real-life examples of current and future technologies and offers many hands-on exercises.

Designed for medical researchers without a background in statistics, this text takes readers easily from basic boxplots and t-tests to linear and logistic regression and survival analysis to more complex generalized linear and nonlinear models and longitudinal data analysis. With many examples and data drawn from real biomedical research, the book focuses on practical statistical analyses using SPSS. It requires no prior statistical background and only assumes familiarity with elementary mathematics. A solutions manual and figures slides are available with qualifying course adoption.

Written in response to a recognized need for suitable and appropriate publication of DVI material, this book aids in improving preparedness for future mass disaster events and increases awareness through past history and experience. The book presents past mass fatality incidents in Australasia and South East Asia from the perspective of the investigative/legal and medical/scientific specialists who performed the victim identification in the jurisdiction in which each disaster occurred. It presents a selected, historical record of past mass fatality events and includes candid discussion of potential areas for improvement in preparedness and future deployment capabilities.

Chirality plays a major role in biological processes and the enantiomers of a bioactive molecule often possess different biological effects. Accurate assessment is critical as isomeric impurities may have unwanted toxicological, pharmacological, or other effects. Separation techniques remain the method of choice for this area of drug research but there is a great deal of trial and error in choosing a particular column for a chiral separation. This book gives a rationale for choosing a stationary phase that is based on the relationship that exists between the analytes and the chiral stationary phases. The text provides examples to underline the separation mechanism.

An introduction to a new paradigm in social, technological, and scientific discourse, this book presents an overview of statistical methods for describing, modeling, and inferring biological networks using genomic and other types of data. It covers a large variety of modern statistical techniques, such as sparse graphical models, state space models, Boolean networks, and hidden Markov models. The authors address gene transcription data, microRNAs, ChIP-chip, and RNAi data. Along with end-of-chapter exercises, the text includes many real-world examples with implementations using a dedicated R package.

With discussions on many developments in Bayesian methodologies, this work considers statistical issues in biomedical research. It includes an overview of Bayesian statistics, a discussion of rates and proportions with applications in clinical and other population-based studies, and developments in clinical trial design.

Over the years, food quality assurance practices have changed dramatically, including the wide acceptance worldwide of the HACCP and the ISO 9000 series of standards. This title covers food safety risk analysis, with regard to food bioterrorism, traceability, foods derived from genetically modified organisms, and natural health products.

Urban Community Practice provides an orientation to urban community practice as a core method for all practitioners. Readers will learn a common framework and practical skills for planning and implementing change in communities and organizations. This book emphasizes principles including social and economic justice and empowerment through an examination of racism and other intersecting oppressions, constituent-led change efforts, and an asset-based orientation to practice in urban settings and other social environments.

Pornography: Anthropological Perspectives on the Manufacture of Intimacy shows how pornography functions as a cultural object.

This textbook provides a comprehensive and systematic coverage of regional policy, dealing with core theories and looking at contemporary challenges in practice, addressing regional policy across the world.

This book examines the phenomenon of social withdrawal in Japan, which ranges from school non-attendance to extreme forms of isolation and confinement, known as hikikomori.