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The Action of Hormones in Plants and Invertebrates focuses on the mechanisms of action of hormones in plants and invertebrates, including auxins, vitamins, steroids, and carotenoids. The book considers plant growth hormones, hormone-like substances in fungi, and hormones in insects and crustaceans.
This volume is organized into four chapters and begins with a historical overview of the concept of hormones in plants, and then describes assay methods for auxins, along with auxin chemistry, transport, and role in tropisms. The discussion moves to other plant hormones such as wound hormones, flower-forming hormones, vitamins, steroids, carotenoids, rhizocaline, and caulocaline. The book then methodically explains insect hormones and their sources; the role of hormones in reproduction and postembryonic development; and hormone-induced color change in insects. This volume also offers information on the mode of action and physicochemical properties of insect hormones. The book concludes with a chapter on the biological effects of hormones on Crustacea, from sex characteristics to color change, molting and growth, retinal pigment movements, locomotion, and ovarian development.
This book will be of interest to biologists, zoologists, botanists, and endocrinologists.

Active Power Line Conditioners: Design, Simulation and Implementation for Improving Power Quality presents a rigorous theoretical and practical approach to active power line conditioners, one of the subjects of most interest in the field of power quality. Its broad approach offers a journey that will allow power engineering professionals, researchers, and graduate students to learn more about the latest landmarks on the different APLC configurations for load active compensation.

By introducing the issues and equipment needs that arise when correcting the lack of power quality in power grids, this book helps define power terms according to the IEEE Standard 1459. Detailed chapters discuss instantaneous reactive power theory and the theoretical framework that enabled the practical development of APLCs, in both its original and modified formulations, along with other proposals.

Different APLCs configurations for load compensation are explored, including shunt APF, series APF, hybrid APF, and shunt combined with series APF, also known as UPQC. The book includes simulation examples carefully developed and ready for download from the book’s companion website, along with different case studies where real APLCs have been developed.

Finally, the new paradigm brought by the emergence of distribution systems with dispersed generation, such as the use of small power units based on gas technology or renewable energy sources, is discussed in a chapter where mitigation technologies are addressed in a distributed environment.

• Combines the development of theories, control strategies, and the most widespread practical implementations of active power line conditioners, along with the most recent new approaches
• Details updated and practical content on periodic disturbances mitigation technologies with special emphasis on distributed generation systems
• Includes over 28 practical simulation examples in Matlab-Simulink which are available for download at the book’s companion website, with 4 reproducible case studies from real APLCs

• El objetivo de la obra consiste en actualizar los datos de eficacia y seguridad acerca de la terapia anti-VEGF (vascular endothelial growth factor) en las enfermedades de la retina y de la coroides. Esta terapia es la más utilizada en la actualidad en el tratamiento de la neovascularización coroidea (NVC), secundaria a la degeneración macular asociada a la edad (DMAE).
• La obra está dividida en 25 capítulos. Los capítulos 1-12 están fundamentalmente dedicados a la DMAE, revisando los principales ensayos clínicos con fármacos anti-VEGF, su aplicación en la práctica clínica y el estudio de terapias de combinación. Los capítulos 13-20 están dedicados al tratamiento con fármacos anti-VEGF de otras enfermedades, tales como miopía patológica, retinopatía diabética y oclusiones venosas retinianas. Los capítulos 21 y 22 abordan la seguridad de la terapia anti-VEGF, tanto a nivel ocular como sistémico. Los capítulos 23 y 24 tienen un alto interés práctico, ya que tratan sobre la relación coste-eficacia y organización de una unidad de terapia anti-VEGF. El último capítulo (25) revisa los nuevos fármacos anti-VEGF que se encuentran actualmente en estudio. Todos los capítulos pretenden hacer un enfoque eminentemente práctico e incorporan tablas y figuras adicionales complementarias al texto.
• La obra está especialmente dirigida al oftalmólogo especializado en retina (retinólogo) y al oftalmólogo general. También está dirigida al médico de familia, internista o geriatra interesado en esta temática.
• La obra está coordinada y dirigida por el Dr. Luis Arias, el cual ha reunido a un elevado número de colaboradores (24), todos ellos expertos reputados en la disciplina. Dichos colaboradores han sido escogidos por su contrastada experiencia en el diagnóstico y tratamiento de las enfermedades de la retina y mácula, por lo que constituyen una esmerada selección de los mejores especialistas del territorio español.
• El Dr. Arias es médico adjunto del Servicio de Oftalmología, Sección de Retina y Vítreo del Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge (Barcelona). Asimismo, desarrolla su labor asistencial en el ámbito privado en el Institut de la Màcula i de la Retina en el Centro Médico Teknon (Barcelona). A todo ello, hay que añadirle su experiencia académica, ya que desde 2004 es profesor asociado de Oftalmología en la Facultad de Medicina de la Universidad de Barcelona y también es tutor docente de los MIR de la especialidad de Oftalmología del Hospital Universitari de Bellvitge.

Adapting High Hydrostatic Pressure (HPP) for Food Processing Operations presents commercial benefits of HPP technology for specific processing operations in the food industry, including raw and ready-to-eat (RTE) meat processing, dairy and seafood products, drinks and beverages, and other emerging processes.

The book presents high hydrostatic pressure processing (HPP) for treatment of different groups of raw and finished products, focusing on specific pressure-induced effects that will lead to different biological impacts, and the information necessary for specifying HPP process and equipment. It also discusses phenomena of compression heating, the HPP in-container principle, requirements for plastic materials, factors affecting efficacy of HPP treatments, and available commercial systems. Additionally, the book provides updated information on the regulatory status of HPP technology around the world.

This book is an ideal concise resource for food process engineers, food technologists, product developers, federal and state regulators, equipment manufacturers, graduate students, and educators involved in research and development.

• Includes case studies for HPP treatment of commercially produced foods with information regarding different HPP processing equipment
• Gives examples of specific applications for meat and poultry products treatments, fresh juices and beverages, and seafood
• Covers energy savings, environmental aspects of HPP technology, and regulatory status

Biological imaging at the cellular level, particularly in vivo, is a key enabling tool for understanding biological processes, disease diagnosis and drug development. Unfortunately, specimens under observation often introduce optical aberrations that degrade the imaging resolution, particularly when imaging deep into tissue. Adaptive optics counteracts these effects. This technology, originally developed and applied in astronomy, has been increasingly applied to ophthalmics and microscopy. This book introduces the key concepts and technologies behind adaptive optics. The wide diversity of imaging methods used in biological imaging requires multiple approaches to adaptive optics. Methods fall into two broad categories--those that use a direct measurement of the aberration and those that do not. Relative advantages of each are described. Application results are presented. Finally, current technology trends and promising future application areas are discussed.