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Methods of Animal Experimentation, Volume IV focuses on research problems related to animal experimentation, including aging, nutrition, and environmental studies. It summarizes therapeutic implications of animal experimentation methods to human application.
Chapter 1 presents an introduction to inhalation chambers including discussions of the types of inhalation tests, inhalation equipment and technology, methods of generation and measurement of contaminants, and some of the specialized techniques available for the pulmonary exposure of animals. Chapter 2 provides practical information about methods and the auditory abilities of animals. Chapter 3 outlines some basic properties of the vertebrate olfactory systems and summarizes selected experimental methods and findings in olfactory research. The concluding chapter describes the use of vertebrate laboratory animals in gustatory research, including some procedures unique to taste research.
Research scientists, medical researchers, and olfaction and gustatory experts will find this book invaluable.

• Tercera edición de una obra muy consolidada entre el público a lo largo de sus sucesivas ediciones como guía práctica y de referencia para el estudio de los fundamentos del método científico y, en concreto, el diseño y desarrollo de un protocolo de estudio y la lectura e interpretación crítica de un artículo científico.
• A partir de su experiencia académica, docente y clínica, los autores ofrecen un texto fundamental que combina los contenidos teóricos con los temas prácticos (como, por ejemplo, la financiación de una investigación o cómo ponerla en práctica), para todos los que inician una investigación científica o quieren saber en qué consiste la investigación: revisión de los distintos tipos de estudio, definición y establecimiento de los objetivos de estudio, proceso de recogida de datos e interpretación de los resultados, que es una de las partes fundamentales del libro.

• Cuidados de Salud Avanzados es una colección de monografías dirigidas a profesionales de la salud y estudiantes de posgrado, máster y doctorado, dentro del ámbito de las ciencias de la salud.
• Este manual pretende ser una herramienta útil que ayude a los profesionales de la salud a programar de forma eficaz intervenciones educativas con resultados satisfactorios para la población.
• Presenta claves que permitirán a los profesionales desarrollar proyectos educativos en salud en diferentes ámbitos, como los centros de salud, las escuelas y entornos comunitarios u hospitalarios.
• El usuario podrá adquirir con su lectura las siguientes competencias:

- Reflexionar sobre los principios de la educación para la salud, así como sobre la teoría y la práctica de los abordajes educativos en salud, desde una perspectiva crítica.

- Comprender los aspectos que determinan los comportamientos, su origen, sus características y su abordaje para ayudar a su transformación en el proceso educativo.

- Desarrollar las fases para la elaboración de proyectos de educación para la salud.

- Desarrollar las herramientas y los recursos metodológicos básicos para una programación efectiva en proyectos de educación para la salud.

- Analizar y contextualizar los focos más relevantes de trabajo en promoción de salud mediante técnicas educativas.

Security problems have evolved in the corporate world because of technological changes, such as using the Internet as a means of communication. With this, the creation, transmission, and storage of information may represent security problem.
Metrics and Methods for Security Risk Management is of interest, especially since the 9/11 terror attacks, because it addresses the ways to manage risk security in the corporate world. The book aims to provide information about the fundamentals of security risks and the corresponding components, an analytical approach to risk assessments and mitigation, and quantitative methods to assess the risk components. In addition, it also discusses the physical models, principles, and quantitative methods needed to assess the risk components. The by-products of the methodology used include security standards, audits, risk metrics, and program frameworks.
Security professionals, as well as scientists and engineers who are working on technical issues related to security problems will find this book relevant and useful.

* Offers an integrated approach to assessing security risk * Addresses homeland security as well as IT and physical security issues * Describes vital safeguards for ensuring true business continuity

Self-assembled nanostructures based on peptides and proteins have been investigated and presented as biomaterials with an impressive potential for a broad range of applications such as microfabrication, biosensing platforms, drug delivery systems, bioelectronics and tissue reparation. Through self-assembly peptides can give rise to a range of well-defined nanostructures such as nanotubes, nanofibers, nanoparticles, nanotapes, gels and nanorods. However, there are challenges when trying to integrate these biological nanostructures in the development of sensing devices or drug-delivery systems – challenges such as controlling the size during synthesis, the stability in liquid environments and manipulation.

In "Micro and Nanofabrication Using Self-assembled Biological Nanostructures" the options and challenges when using self-assembled peptide nanostructures in micro and nanofabrication are discussed. The publication covers different ways to manipulate, deposit and immobilize on specific locations these biological nanostructures in order to use them in the fabrication of new structures or as part of biosensing platforms. Examples where researchers used biological nanostructures for those types of applications are provided. Finally, future applications are discussed as well as parameters to accelerate and expand the use of these biological building blocks in nano- and micro-fabrication processes by taking advantage of their impressive properties such as low-cost and short synthesis time.