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Writing scientific publications is a fundamental step in the research process. Furthermore, as science becomes more interdisciplinary and the number of journals continues to expand, individual papers increasingly need to stand out to be read and have any form of impact. It is widely assumed that students and early career scientists will simply acquire the necessary expertise. However, this could not be further from the truth - many early career scientists find writing both intimidating and overwhelming; writing is a skill that needs to be learnt and actively developed. This novel book's fundamental principle is simple - the reader must come first. The purpose of a scientific paper is to pass on knowledge, and so impactful writing must focus on attracting, holding, and illuminating readers. The authors demonstrate how just a few simple pointers can significantly improve both writing quality and impact. They tackle each component of a paper in turn, providing a simple framework that makes clear what needs to be included (and what doesn't!), and in what order. They also provide advice for writing up different types of science, from laboratory experiments to theoretical modelling. The focus throughout is on the need to use simple, jargon-free English, and to assume that the reader has little or no prior knowledge. In summary, the book is about writing better scientific papers that are more likely to be read and have impact. Scientific Papers Made Easy is targeted at a broad audience of students and professionals, across the biological, life, and human sciences. It uses simple biological and human examples that assume no prior knowledge and will resonate with any scientist.

This book gathers selected, extended and revised contributions to the 17th International Symposium on Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering and the 5th Conference on Imaging and Visualization (CMBBE 2021), held online on September 7-9, 2021, from Bonn, Germany. It reports on cutting-edge models, algorithms and imaging techniques for studying cells, tissues and organs in normal and pathological conditions. It covers numerical and machine learning methods, finite element modeling and virtual reality techniques, applied to understand biomechanics of movement, fluid and soft tissue biomechanics. It also reports on related advances in rehabilitation, surgery and diagnosis. All in all, this book offers a timely snapshot of the latest research and current challenges at the interface between biomedical engineering, computational biomechanics and biological imaging. Thus, it is expected to provide a source of inspiration for future research and cross-disciplinary collaborations.

More than 2,500 abstracts of papers published in a period of 44 years (1956-1998) of nematological research makes the Cumulative Abstract Index to Nematologica an indispensable tool for research workers, agricultural industrialists and university teachers. The abstract index will greatly facilitate access to quality papers on the subject of nematodes (taxonomy, physiology, morphology and genetics), crop protection research, molecular biology in nematological research, nematode parasites, nematophagous fungi, arthropods and soil free-living nematodes and will be a valuable aid to researchers. The Index is even more valuable if used in combination with the General Index published as part of the regular publication program of Nematologica (issue 43 (3-4), May 1997). This general Index volume consists of an Index to Authors and Titles, a Systematic and Subject Index to Nematodes, a Systematic and Subject Index to Hosts/Parasites, and an Index to Methods. The Index can be specifically used to find references to certain nematode species, whereas the abstracts of the actual papers are readily found in the chronologically ordered Cumulative Abstract Index to Nematologica.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Workshop on Biomedical Image Registration, WBIR 2024, held in conjunction with the 27th International conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2024, in Marrakesh, Morocco in October 2024. The 28 full papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions. These papers have been categorized under the following topical sections: Architectures; Robustness; Atlas/ Fusion; Feature/ Similarity Learning & Efficiency.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology, CMSB 2023, held in Luxembourg City, Luxembourg, during September 13–15, 2023. The 14 full papers and 3 tool papers presented in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 28 submissions. CMSB focuses on modeling, simulation, analysis, design and control of biological systems and covers the broad field of computational methods and tools in systems and synthetic biology and their applications.

Contains 67 original papers by nearly 100 of the world's leading specialists. Together with abstracts and literature references for 37 presentations not represented by papers, this volume provides complete coverage of the Conference and a comprehensive overview of modern research on the polychaete annelids, one of the most important groups of marine invertebrates and constituents of marine benthos. Taxonomic and subject indices of all papers and abstracts provide ready access to the contained information. Richly illustrated, this book is provided with numerous line drawings, and photomicrographs, electron micrographs. Over 60 taxa are newly described or reassigned, and detailed reviews, revisions or redescriptions are provided for five families, one subfamily and numerous genera and species, with many illustrations of new and redescribed taxa and a pictorial key to the maglonids of Thailand.

This two-volume set LNCS 14134 and LNCS 14135 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, IWANN 2023, held in Ponta Delgada, Portugal, during June 19–21, 2023.The 108 full papers presented in this two-volume set were carefully reviewed and selected from 149 submissions.The papers in Part I are organized in topical sections on advanced topics in computational intelligence; advances in artificial neural networks; ANN HW-accelerators; applications of machine learning in biomedicine and healthcare; and applications of machine learning in time series analysis. The papers in Part II are organized in topical sections on deep learning and applications; deep learning applied to computer vision and robotics; general applications of artificial intelligence; interaction with neural systems in both health and disease; machine learning for 4.0 industry solutions; neural networks in chemistry and materialcharacterization; ordinal classification; real world applications of BCI systems; and spiking neural networks: applications and algorithms.

This two-volume set LNCS 14134 and LNCS 14135 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, IWANN 2023, held in Ponta Delgada, Portugal, during June 19–21, 2023. The 108 full papers presented in this two-volume set were carefully reviewed and selected from 149 submissions. The papers in Part I are organized in topical sections on advanced topics in computational intelligence; advances in artificial neural networks; ANN HW-accelerators; applications of machine learning in biomedicine and healthcare; and applications of machine learning in time series analysis. The papers in Part II are organized in topical sections on deep learning and applications; deep learning applied to computer vision and robotics; general applications of artificial intelligence; interaction with neural systems in both health and disease; machine learning for 4.0 industry solutions; neural networks in chemistry and material characterization; ordinal classification; real world applications of BCI systems; and spiking neural networks: applications and algorithms.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th Annual RECOMB Satellite Workshop on Comparative Genomics, RECOMB-CG 2023 which took place in Istanbul, Turkey, in April 2023. The 15 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 25 submissions. The papers present cutting edge research in comparative genomics, with an emphasis on computational approaches and novel experimental results.Chapters'Inferring Clusters of Orthologous and Paralogous Transcripts'and'Gene Order Phylogeny via Ancestral Genome Reconstruction under Dollo'are published Open Access under Creative Commons Attribution license (CC BY 4.0).

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International Work-Conference on IWBBIO 2023, held in Meloneras, Gran Canaria, Spain, during July 12-14, 2022. The total of 79 papers presented in the proceedings, was carefully reviewed and selected from 209 submissions. The papers cove the latest ideas and realizations in the foundations, theory, models, and applications for interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research encompassing disciplines of computer science, mathematics, statistics, biology, bioinformatics, and biomedicine.

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International Work-Conference on IWBBIO 2023, held in Meloneras, Gran Canaria, Spain, during July 12-14, 2022. The total of 79 papers presented in the proceedings, was carefully reviewed and selected from 209 submissions. The papers cove the latest ideas and realizations in the foundations, theory, models, and applications for interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research encompassing disciplines of computer science, mathematics, statistics, biology, bioinformatics, and biomedicine.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th Annual RECOMB Satellite Workshop on Comparative Genomics, RECOMB-CG which took place in La Jolla, USA, during May 20-21, 2022. The 18 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 28 submissions. The papers were organized in topical sections on evolution; phylogenetics; homology and reconciliation; genome rearrangements; metagenomics; and genomic sequencing.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology, CMSB 2022, held in Bucharest, Romania, in September 2022.The 13 full papers and 4 tool papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 43 submissions. CMSB focuses on modeling, simulation, analysis, design and control of biological systems. The papers are arranged thematically as follows: Chemical reaction networks; Boolean networks; continuous and hybrid models; machine learning; software.

This book constitutes the refereed joint proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Interpretability of Machine Intelligence in Medical Image Computing, iMIMIC 2022, held in September 2022, in conjunction with the 25th International Conference on Medical Imaging and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2022.The 10 full papers presented at iMIMIC 2022 were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions each. The iMIMIC papers focus on introducing the challenges and opportunities related to the topic of interpretability of machine learning systems in the context of medical imaging and computer assisted intervention.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Workshop on Biomedical Image Registration, WBIR 2020, which was supposed to be held in Munich, Germany, in July 2022.The 11 full and poster papers together with 17 short papers included in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submitted papers. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: optimization, deep learning architectures, neuroimaging, diffeomorphisms, uncertainty, topology and metrics.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Computational Methods in Systems Biology, CMSB 2024, which took place in Pisa, Italy, during September 16-18, 2024. The 11 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 23 submissions. They deal with computational methods and tools in systems and synthetic biology and their applications, focusing on topics such as modeling and simulation; high-performance methods for computational systems biology; identification of biological systems; applications of machine learning; network modeling, analysis, and inference; automated parameter and model synthesis; model integration and biological databases; multiscale modeling and analysis methods; design, analysis, and verification methods for synthetic biology; methods for biomolecular computing and engineered molecular devices; data-based approaches for systems and synthetic biology; optimality and control of biological systems; modeling, analysis, and control of microbial communities. The conference welcomes new theoretical results with potential applications to systems and synthetic biology, as well as novel applications and case studies of existing methods, tools, or frameworks.

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 11th International Work-Conference on IWBBIO 2023, held in Gran Canaria, Spain, during July 15-17, 2022. The 54 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 148 submissions. They were organized in the following topical sections: Biomarker Identification, Biomedical Engineering, Biomedical Signal Analysis, E-Health.

This two-volume set LNBI 14881-14882 constitutes - in conjunction with the 13-volume set LNCS 14862-14874 and the 6-volume set LNAI 14875-14880 - the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2024, held in Tianjin, China, during August 5-8, 2024. The total of 863 regular papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 2189 submissions. The intelligent computing annual conference primarily aims to promote research, development and application of advanced intelligent computing techniques by providing a vibrant and effective forum across a variety of disciplines. This conference has a further aim of increasing the awareness of industry of advanced intelligent computing techniques and the economic benefits that can be gained by implementing them. The intelligent computing technology includes a range of techniques such as Artificial Intelligence, Pattern Recognition, Evolutionary Computing, Informatics Theories and Applications, Computational Neuroscience & Bioscience, Soft Computing, Human Computer Interface Issues, etc.

This two-volume set LNBI 14881-14882 constitutes - in conjunction with the 13-volume set LNCS 14862-14874 and the 6-volume set LNAI 14875-14880 - the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2024, held in Tianjin, China, during August 5-8, 2024. The total of 863 regular papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 2189 submissions. The intelligent computing annual conference primarily aims to promote research, development and application of advanced intelligent computing techniques by providing a vibrant and effective forum across a variety of disciplines. This conference has a further aim of increasing the awareness of industry of advanced intelligent computing techniques and the economic benefits that can be gained by implementing them. The intelligent computing technology includes a range of techniques such as Artificial Intelligence, Pattern Recognition, Evolutionary Computing, Informatics Theories and Applications, Computational Neuroscience & Bioscience, Soft Computing, Human Computer Interface Issues, etc.

Evolutionary thinking provides insights into many different areas in the research and practice of medicine and public health. It takes specialties such as medical microbiology, epidemiology, oncology, gynecology, and psychiatry that had become increasingly siloed and places them in a larger framework. This foundational structure enables students to view medical knowledge as an integrated whole, underpinned by general principles rather than a loose collection of disparate facts. The discipline of evolutionary medicine continues to advance rapidly as new results come in showing where the insights pay off and where they do not. Its conceptual foundations have also been strengthened in papers not yet reflected in the textbooks, so a new edition is therefore timely. At the same time, the teaching of evolutionary medicine has also been steadily gaining momentum both in courses that prepare undergraduates for medical school in North America and in other contexts worldwide. Evolutionary Medicine is intended for undergraduate students preparing for careers in medicine and public health, students in schools of medicine and public health, and medical professionals curious about the insights that evolutionary thinking can bring to their field. It will also be relevant to students and researchers in the fields of evolutionary biology, anthropology, developmental biology, and genetics. It highlights the most important insights in a relatively brief and compelling book that does not attempt encyclopedic coverage of a rapidly changing field.

This book gathers high-quality research papers presented at the 4th International Conference on Frontiers in Computing and Systems (COMSYS 2023) held at Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India, during 16–17 October 2023. The book is divided into two volumes, and it covers research in “cyber-physical systems for real-life applications” pertaining to AI, machine learning and data science; devices, circuits, and systems; computational biology, biomedical informatics, and network medicine; communication networks, cloud computing, and IoT; image, video, and signal processing; and security and privacy.

This book is the second edition of the one originally published in 2016, which focused on state-of-the-art microfluidic research in medical and biological applications. Similar to the first edition, beginners in the field —undergraduates, engineers, biologists, medical and pharmaceutical researchers—will easily learn to understand microfluidic-based medical and biological applications. Because a wide range of topics is summarized here, it also helps experts to learn more about fields outside their own specialties. In this second edition, significant revisions have been made to chapters covering technologies that have seen major advancements, such as acoustofluidics, protein crystallography, organ-on-a-chip systems, nanopore sensing, and paper-based microfluidics. In addition, the chapters on cancer diagnosis using exosomes and single-cell sequencing using droplet microfluidics, which are attracting attention as new technologies, have been newly added. Readers will be convinced that microfluidic devices have great potential for medical and biological applications.

This volume constitutes the proceedings of the 11th International Work-Conference on IWBBIO 2023, held in Meloneras, Gran Canaria, Spain, during July 15-17, 2022. The 54 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 148 submissions. They were organized in the following topical sections: Healthcare and Diseases, Machine Learning in Bioinformatics, New Advances in Deep Learning in Bioinformatics and Biomedicine, Novel Methodologies and Applications in Bioinformatics and Biomedicine.

This book gathers high-quality research papers presented at the 4th International Conference on Frontiers in Computing and Systems (COMSYS 2023) held at Indian Institute of Technology Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India, during 16–17 October 2023. The book is divided into two volumes, and it covers research in “cyber-physical systems for real-life applications” pertaining to AI, machine learning and data science; devices, circuits, and systems; computational biology, biomedical informatics, and network medicine; communication networks, cloud computing, and IoT; image, video, and signal processing; and security and privacy.

A hands-on approach to quantitative reasoning in the life sciencesQuantitative Biosciences establishes the quantitative principles of how living systems work across scales, drawing on classic and modern discoveries to present a case study approach that links mechanisms, models, and measurements. Each case study is organized around a central question in the life sciences: Are mutations dependent on selection? How do cells respond to fluctuating signals in the environment? How do organisms move in flocks given local sensing? How does the size of an epidemic depend on its initial speed of spread? Each question provides the basis for introducing landmark advances in the life sciences while teaching students—whether from the life sciences, physics, computational sciences, engineering, or mathematics—how to reason quantitatively about living systems given uncertainty.Draws on real-world case studies in molecular and cellular biosciences, organismal behavior and physiology, and populations and ecological communitiesStand-alone lab guides available in Python, R, and MATLAB help students move from learning in the classroom to doing research in practiceHomework exercises build on the lab guides, emphasizing computational model development and analysis rather than pencil-and-paper derivationsSuitable for capstone undergraduate classes, foundational graduate classes, or as part of interdisciplinary courses for students from quantitative backgroundsCan be used as part of conventional, flipped, or hybrid instruction formatsAdditional materials available to instructors, including lesson plans and homework solutions

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, MLMI 2024, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2024, Marrakesh, Morocco, on October 6, 2024. The 63 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 100 submissions. They focus on major trends and challenges in the above-mentioned area, aiming to identify new-cutting-edge techniques and their uses in medical imaging using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 15th International Workshop on Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, MLMI 2023, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2024, Marrakesh, Morocco, on October 6, 2024. The 63 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 100 submissions. They focus on major trends and challenges in the above-mentioned area, aiming to identify new-cutting-edge techniques and their uses in medical imaging using artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).

What drove the building of the first megalithic monuments and lifestyle changes that launched Western civilization? This exploration of the human experience of special sound in ancient ritual and ceremonial spaces brings a new perspective for anyone with an interest in prehistory and human development in its most pivotal days. From Göbekli Tepe in Anatolia to megalithic temples in Malta to passage tombs in Ireland, the world's oldest buildings and the newest scientific research combine for a look at the Western Neolithic Revolution that goes where no one has gone before. With original photos and illustrations, Megaliths, Music and the Mind assembles content from the worlds of archaeology, architecture, anthropology, ethnomusicology, genetics, neuroscience, physics, and more. Fascinating pieces of evidence are set side by side, resulting in a stunning premise. This book is a core overview focused on the rediscovery of an ill-understood sensory element of developing culture, with hope for therapeutic application in the modern world. Material from the out-of-print booklet Listening for Ancient Gods has been expanded and updated in this volume, which also includes select papers from OTSF Archaeoacoustics International Conferences, plus a personal account from one of the founding fathers of new-age music.

This book presents a collection of high-quality research papers, presented at the Second International Symposium on Bioinformatics and Biomedicine (BioInfoMed'2022). It offers a comprehensive look into some of the fastest growing fields of science, such as biomedicine, bioinformatics, artificial intelligence, and mathematical modeling. The different chapters of the work include both practical solutions and strictly scientific considerations expanding knowledge about the future bioinformatics and biomedical engineering challenges. We believe that the presented works will have a great impact not only on the development and the application of new methods for modeling, decision making and data mining in healthcare and biomedicine, but also it will provide a source of inspiration for researchers who can implement the proposed methods into their practice and scientific studies.

MATHEMATICAL MACROEVOLUTION IN DIATOM RESEARCH Buy this book to learn how to use mathematics in macroevolution research and apply mathematics to study complex biological problems. This book contains recent research in mathematical and analytical studies on diatoms. These studies reflect the complex and intricate nature of the problems being analyzed and the need to use mathematics as an aid in finding solutions. Diatoms are important components of marine food webs, the silica and carbon cycles, primary productivity, and carbon sequestration. Their uniqueness as glass-encased unicells and their presence throughout geologic history exemplifies the need to better understand such organisms. Explicating the role of diatoms in the biological world is no more urgent than their role as environmental and climate indicators, and as such, is aided by the mathematical studies in this book. The volume contains twelve original research papers as chapters. Macroevolutionary science topics covered are morphological analysis, morphospace analysis, adaptation, food web dynamics, origination-extinction and diversity, biogeography, life cycle dynamics, complexity, symmetry, and evolvability. Mathematics used in the chapters include stochastic and delay differential and partial differential equations, differential geometry, probability theory, ergodic theory, group theory, knot theory, statistical distributions, chaos theory, and combinatorics. Applied sciences used in the chapters include networks, machine learning, robotics, computer vision, image processing, pattern recognition, and dynamical systems. The volume covers a diverse range of mathematical treatments of topics in diatom research. Audience Diatom researchers, mathematical biologists, evolutionary and macroevolutionary biologists, paleontologists, paleobiologists, theoretical biologists, as well as researchers in applied mathematics, algorithm sciences, complex systems science, computational sciences, informatics, computer vision and image processing sciences, nanoscience, the biofuels industry, and applied engineering.

This book constitutes the Third 3D Head and Neck Tumor Segmentation in PET/CT Challenge, HECKTOR 2022, which was held in conjunction with the 25th International Conference on Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention, MICCAI 2022, on September 22, 2022.The 22 contributions presented, as well as an overview paper, were carefully reviewed and selected from 24 submissions. This challenge aims to evaluate and compare the current state-of-the-art methods for automatic head and neck tumor segmentation. In the context of this challenge, a dataset of 883 delineated PET/CT images was made available for training.

This book presents contributions from the MICCAI 2022 Computational Biomechanics for Medicine Workshop.'Computational Biomechanics for Medicine - towards translation and better patient outcomes” comprises papers accepted for the MICCAI Computational Biomechanics for Medicine Workshop held in 2022 in Singapore. The content focuses on applications of computational biomechanics to computer-integrated medicine, which includes MICCAI topics of Medical Image Computing, Computer-Aided Modeling and Evaluation of Surgical Procedures, and Imaging, Analysis Methods for Image Guided Therapies, Computational Physiology, and Medical Robotics. Specific topics covered include medical image analysis, image-guided surgery, surgical simulation, surgical intervention planning, disease prognosis and diagnostics, analysis of injury mechanisms, implant and prostheses design, as well as artificial organ design and medical robotics. This book details state-of-the-art progress in the above fields to researchers, students, and professionals.

The present volume is an attempt to present the work of eminent researchers related to the field of aquatic habitats pollution, its effect on their fauna, flora and management of these habitats. It comprises of 17 research papers and reviews on above aspects. This book will be very useful publication for Hydrobiologists, Fishery biologists, Aquaculturists and Post-graduate students of Ecology and Environmental Sciences in various respects.

This book gathers high-quality research papers presented at the 3rd International Conference on Frontiers in Computing and Systems (COMSYS 2022) held at Indian Institute of Technology Ropar, Punjab, India, during December 19–21, 2022. The book covers research in “cyber-physical systems for real-life applications” pertaining to AI, machine learning, and data science; devices, circuits, and systems; computational biology, biomedical informatics and network medicine; communication networks, cloud computing and IoT; image, video and signal processing; and security and privacy.

This book includes selected papers from the 6th International Conference on Computational Vision and Bio Inspired Computing (ICCVBIC 2022), held in Coimbatore, India, from November 18 to 19, 2022. This volume presents state-of-the-art research innovations in computational vision and bio-inspired techniques. It includes theoretical and practical aspects of bio-inspired computing techniques, like machine learning, sensor-based models, evolutionary optimization and big data modeling and management that make use of effectual computing processes in the bio-inspired systems.

This book presents contributions from the MICCAI 2021 Computational Biomechanics for Medicine Workshop.'Computational Biomechanics for Medicine - towards translation and better patient outcomes” comprises papers accepted for the MICCAI Computational Biomechanics for Medicine Workshop held virtually in conjunction with Medical Image Computing and Computer Assisted Intervention conference 2021, based in Strasbourg. The content focuses on methods and applications of computational biomechanics to medical image analysis, image-guided surgery, surgical simulation, surgical intervention planning, disease prognosis and diagnostics, analysis of injury mechanisms, implant and prostheses design, as well as artificial organ design and medical robotics. This book details state-of-the-art progress in the above fields to researchers, students, and professionals.

Tabata Training: The Science and History of HIIT provides evidence and mechanism(s) that explain the beneficial effects Tabata training has on diseases like diabetes, cardiovascular diseases and colon cancer. The book also includes coverage of maximal oxygen uptake as an essential parameter of both sport and health-oriented fitness for researchers and exercisers. HIIT was first prepared for young adults, but nowadays, evidence has been accumulated to prescribe it to adult men and women. For kids, several papers have reported beneficial effects of Tabata training on normal and obese pupils of elementary to high school students as well as for physical education classes. Recent studies showed that not only improving sport performance, Tabata training contributes to good health outcomes in adults. - Provides evidence accumulated in Dr. Tabata's laboratory - Contains viewpoints of applied physiology to basic biology - Includes practical tips for the reader to apply Tabata training to their exercise routine

Master's Thesis from the year 2017 in the subject Didactics - Biolology, grade: 1.0,, course: Master of Arts in Education, language: English, abstract: The study assessed the teachers'expectations, problems, and challenges with Grade 7 Science in the K-12 Basic Education Curriculum. It also examines what assistance is provided by the administrators. The study was conducted in two National High Schools in the Philippines for the school year 2015-2016. This study used descriptive research design which employed the mixed method using questionnaire which was substantiated with the semi-structured interview and focus group discussion. The findings revealed that the teachers have high expectations particularly on the assessment of learning, teaching strategies, benefits to learners, nature of the curriculum and teaching approaches for the Grade 7 Science in the K-12 Basic Education Curriculum. The teachers were mostly challenged in developing instructional materials, providing activities that would master the competencies or skills of the learners, disciplining learners and making remedial activities. The Grade 7 Science Teachers encountered problems with learners who do not submit written outputs, students'difficulty in expressing their ideas, they do not bring materials for the experiment and they lack competence in teaching the core subjects. The Administrators provided assistance to the Grade 7 Science Teachers by sending the said teachers to training and seminar; providing them with worksheets on various science activities from LRMDS Website/internet; and in the production of test papers for the summative test.

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 13th International Workshop on Machine Learning in Medical Imaging, MLMI 2022, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2022, in Singapore, in September 2022. The 48 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 64 submissions. They focus on major trends and challenges in the above-mentioned area, aiming to identify new-cutting-edge techniques and their uses in medical imaging. Topics dealt with are: deep learning, generative adversarial learning, ensemble learning, sparse learning, multi-task learning, multi-view learning, manifold learning, and reinforcement learning, with their applications to medical image analysis, computer-aided detection and diagnosis, multi-modality fusion, image reconstruction, image retrieval, cellular image analysis, molecular imaging, digital pathology, etc.

This book gathers outstanding research papers presented at the 2nd International Conference on Frontiers in Computing and Systems (COMSYS 2021), organized by Department of Electronics and Communication Engineering and Department of Information Technology, North-Eastern Hill University, Shillong, Meghalaya, India held during September 29–October 1, 2021. The book presents the latest research and results in various fields of machine learning, computational intelligence, VLSI, networks and systems, computational biology, and security, making it a rich source of reference material for academia and industry alike.

In Molecular and Computational Modeling of Cardiac Function, a group of prominent professors and researchers explain the fundamental concepts of molecular modeling and illustrate the biomedical applications. The book covers the following topics: Principles of atomistic modeling and simulation of biomolecular systems. Using atomistic modeling to predict the cardiotoxicity of an arrhythmia drug molecule. Bifurcation phenomena in cardiac system as control design of automaticity and arrhythmia. Modeling the role of myoglobin as a fatty acid transporter. Population-based computational approaches to investigate cardiac arrhythmia.

Despite the phenomenal clinical success of antibody-based biopharmaceuticals in recent years, discovery and development of these novel biomedicines remains a costly, time-consuming, and risky endeavor with low probability of success. To bring better biomedicines to patients faster, we have come up with a strategic vision of Biopharmaceutical Informatics which calls for syncretic use of computation and experiment at all stages of biologic drug discovery and pre-clinical development cycles to improve probability of successful clinical outcomes. Biopharmaceutical Informatics also encourages industry and academic scientists supporting various aspects of biotherapeutic drug discovery and development cycles to learn from our collective experiences of successes and, more importantly, failures. The insights gained from such learnings shall help us improve the rate of successful translation of drug discoveries into drug products available to clinicians and patients, reduce costs, and increase the speed of biologic drug discovery and development. Hopefully, the efficiencies gained from implementing such insights shall make novel biomedicines more affordable for patients.This unique volume describes ways to invent and commercialize biomedicines more efficiently: Calls for digital transformation of biopharmaceutical industry by appropriately collecting, curating, and making available discovery and pre-clinical development project data using FAIR principles Describes applications of artificial intelligence and machine learning (AIML) in discovery of antibodies in silico (DAbI) starting with antigen design, constructing inherently developable antibody libraries, finding hits, identifying lead candidates, and optimizing them Details applications of AIML, physics-based computational design methods, and other bioinformatics tools in fields such as developability assessments, formulation and excipient design, analytical and bioprocess development, and pharmacology Presents pharmacokinetics/pharmacodynamics (PK/PD) and Quantitative Systems Pharmacology (QSP) models for biopharmaceuticals Describes uses of AIML in bispecific and multi-specific formats Dr Sandeep Kumar has also edited a collection of articles dedicated to this topic which can be found in the Taylor and Francis journal mAbs.

A First Course in Systems Biology, Third Edition is an introduction to the growing field of systems biology for advanced undergraduates and graduate students. Its focus is the design and analysis of computational models and their applications to diverse biomedical phenomena, from simple networks and kinetics to complex pathway systems, signal transduction, personalized medicine, and interacting populations. The book begins with the fundamentals of computational modeling, then reviews features of the molecular inventories that bring biological systems to life and ends with case studies that reflect some of the frontiers in systems biology. In this way, the First Course provides the reader with a comprehensive background and with access to methods for executing standard tasks of biomedical systems analysis, exposure to the modern literature, and a foundation for launching into specialized projects that address biomedical questions with theoretical and computational means.This third edition has been thoroughly updated. It provides an introduction to agent-based and multiscale modeling, a deeper account of biological design principles, and the optimization of metabolic flux distributions. This edition also discusses novel topics of synthetic biology, personalized medicine, and virtual clinical trials that are just emerging on the horizon of this field.

How and why did humans get to be so clever and thoughtful? The beginning of the Stone Age, marked by the invention of stone tools, has traditionally dominated discussions about the origin and evolution of human intelligence. However, feminist anthropologists have long theorized that the first tools were actually nests, slings, and baskets that would not have survived in the archaeological record. In The Botanic Age, leading evolutionary anthropologist Dean Falk argues that millions of years of weaving botanical materials and woodworking preceded the Stone Age, facilitating the basic neurological underpinnings for humankind's later creative and technological inventions. She further suggests that mothers and infants may hold the key to understanding a series of events that eventually kindled the emergence of advanced cognitive abilities, including language and music. The Botanic Age takes readers millions of years into the past to a time before our relatives began living full-time on the ground. From stationary hominin sleeping trees in Africa to beached trees on the shores of Indonesia, the impact of the Botanic Age on hominin evolution was far-reaching. Only from this vantage point “in the trees” can we really begin to understand how and why our ancestors evolved – and how we became human.

This authoritative volume brings together decades of insights from one of the longest terrestrial fossil records on the planet.The fabled Himalayas have isolated and sheltered the Indian subcontinent for millions of years. The Siwalik sequence of sediments at their feet has been a treasure trove of visions into the past for generations of paleontologists, preserving an immense 20 million years of terrestrial ecosystems'fossil record. The Siwalik sequence reveals a unique forest wonderland of diverse animal species: from huge elephant relatives, great rhinos, and sabertooth cats, to mongooses, swamp rats, crocodiles, and catfish. Regional climate change eventually caused this forest ecosystem to unravel, as grasslands replaced the forests and established the habitats and animals of the modern ecosystems of the Indus and Ganges rivers.In At the Foot of the Himalayas, celebrated paleontologists Catherine Badgley, Michèle Morgan, and David Pilbeam bring together a collection of world-renowned scholars to present an interdisciplinary approach to documenting and interpreting this fossil record. By investigating changes in landscape, climate, and vertebrate species diversity, their analysis reveals insights into a central question about biodiversity: which evolutionary developments were influenced by changes in climate, and which were caused by interactions among the species themselves? This groundbreaking book illuminates for the first time a mysterious and vibrant paleontological past, bringing together more than 40 years of exciting international collaborative studies that forge invaluable knowledge pathways for the ecologists, evolutionary scientists, and paleontologists of the future, and pose important questions about our fragile ecosystems in the present day.

A geneticist and internationally recognized anti-racism educator provides a powerful, science-based rebuttal to common fallacies about human difference. Well-meaning physicians, parents, and even scientists today often spread misinformation about what biology can and can't tell us about our bodies, minds, and identities. In this accessible, myth-busting book, geneticist Shoumita Dasgupta draws on the latest science to correct common misconceptions about how much of our social identities are actually based in genetics. Dasgupta weaves together history, current affairs, and cutting-edge science to break down how genetic concepts are misused and how we can approach scientific evidence in a socially responsible way. With a unifying and intersectional approach disentangling biology from bigotry, the book moves beyond race and gender to incorporate categories like sexual orientation, disability, and class. Where Biology Ends and Bias Begins is an invaluable, empowering resource for biologists, geneticists, science educators, and anyone working against bias in their community.

EL FENÓMENO LITERARIO DE LOS ÚLTIMOS AÑOS Vuelve el tándem más exitoso para abordar el mayor misterio de la naturaleza humana: nuestro cerebro «El cerebro vive en un cuarto oscuro». «Tal es el gran misterio al que nos enfrentamos», afirma Arsuaga en este libro en el que el sapiens y el neandertal afrontan el mayor desafío de su proyecto en común, el más complejo, el que supone abrir una puerta a lo ignorado. Vivimos con la paradoja de que, pese a los avances de la neurociencia en los últimos años, el cerebro, que rige nuestra conexión con el mundo, continúa siendo el gran desconocido. La identidad, la inteligencia la natural y la artificial y la memoria, así como las condiciones para que saltara la chispa y surgiera la conciencia que nos distingue a los humanos del resto de las especies constituyen las tramas de este libro, todas ellas atravesadas por la sabiduría y el humor, y por el eje narrativo de la singular relación entre el científico y el novelista. La crítica ha dicho: «La fiesta de la inteligencia». David Broncano «Un libro para su cerebro y para su formación humana, cívica y científica, sobre todo. […] Un viaje con dos hombres sabios que tratarán de explicarte, de esbozarte el sueño de un claro laberinto que labra un arduo cristal: el infinito, que es el cerebro». Bernardo Munuera Montero, Zenda «Millás y Arsuaga parecen haber encontrado una fórmula perfecta que combina ingenio, entretenimiento y pulgación. Un diálogo pertidísimo». Marta Domínguez, Página dos (RTVE) «Un sabio, divertido y puntilloso combate de boxeo entre un Homo sapiens y un neandertal [que] casan ciencia, literatura y humor. [...] Un apasionante viaje por las profundidades de la materia gris». Miguel Lorenci, Ideal de Granada «Yo prefiero a los clásicos, y Arsuaga y Millás lo son. Dos señores sabios, curiosos, entretenidos y tan distintos que se han hecho como Quijote y Sancho. Y así van cabalgando juntos. [...] Yo estoy disfrutando de volver a tenerlos en mis manos». Sandra Faginas, La Voz de Galicia «Un portento de originalidad que mezcla ciencia, pulgación e imaginación con toneladas de ironía para entender de dónde venimos, quiénes somos y adónde vamos». Miguel Lorenci, La Verdad «Una extraña pareja, una suerte de Walter Matthau y Jack Lemmon a la española. Dos mentes inquietas que se han unido para escribir [...], cuestionar y traer al lenguaje del común de los mortales planteamientos y reflexiones». Pilar Martín, EFE «Un fascinante viaje por la existencia humana, donde el humor pilota la nave». César Suárez, Telva «Se une la erudición brutal de Arsuaga a la capacidad interpretativa y narrativa de Millás». Andreu Buenafuente «Un libro especial. Distinto. Hasta los autores reconocen haber alumbrado un nuevo género». El Cultural «Una maravilla. Un libro lleno de humor y de bondad. Sí, bondad. Un libro que busca entender el misterio de la vida». Manuel Vilas

Active Peptides for Skin Care is one of the first books on the market that specifically deals with the application of peptides in the field of skin care. The book outlines the basic background to skin and peptides, describes the technical methods for transdermal administration of peptides to exert their effects, and introduces the key issue of quality control methods commonly used to ensure the effectiveness and safety of peptides.The book also covers the mechanism of action and application cases of different efficacies of skin peptides, such as: whitening and spot removal, prolonging and repairing, anti-allergy and soothing, anti-hair loss and growth, improving wrinkles, breast enlargement and slimming, acne repair, eye care, repairing stretch marks, etc. - Provides an overview of the basics of skin and peptides and describes the technical means of transdermal delivery of peptides for their application - Introduces the key issue of the quality control methods commonly used to ensure the efficacy and safety of peptides - Discusses the mechanism of action and application cases of different skin active peptides, such as whitening and spot removal, prolonging and repairing, anti-allergy and soothing, hair loss prevention, wrinkle improvement, slimming, acne, eye care, stretch mark repair, etc.

This book will provide a thorough understanding of the Cytology, Genetics and Molecular Biology. This book provides the unique illustrations, with strong molecular biology concepts. The book is also supported with a comprehensive glossary and index at the end. This text is designed for students taking a course in Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, Microbiology, Genetics, Biology, Pharmacology, Biotechnology, Biochemistry and Agriculture.

This book deals with the basic concepts of Plant Science including botanical micro technique and microtomy, staining techniques, molecular techniques, plant tissue culture, electron microscopy, and cryopreservation and germplasm storage.It is the outcome of several decades of research and teaching in plant biology to undergraduate and postgraduate students of Plant Science, Horticulture, Microbiology, and Biotechnology.Print edition not for sale in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka.