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Nutrition is an environmental factor modulating physiology throughout life and especially brain function. Nutrients in the brain can either fuel brain cells, contribute to tissue architecture, or initiate signaling pathways through their derivatives. Nutrients ultimately participate in brain development, cognitive and emotional behaviors, and can influence the susceptibility to develop brain pathologies. This book is a selection of current research on the impact of diet on brain function. Chapters include the role of lipids and glucose on the brain, nutrition and autophagy, and consequences of enteral feeding on brain-gut interactions. Taken together, this book targets all scientists, clinicians, teachers, and students eager to learn more about the impact of nutrition on brain function.

This book discusses the application of bioinformatics in cancer disease management. It covers general aspects of cancer as a disease but also as a success story in the translation of omics data in clinical settings. It provides an overview of the specific applications of bioinformatics tools in cancer epidemiology, prevention, and screening and in the identification of novel genetic and molecular biomarkers involved in cancer development. This is accomplished through the inclusion of numerous examples of the use of bioinformatics in precision oncology.

In the era of minimally invasive dentistry, the prevention and early detection of caries are central to maintaining long-term oral health. The book discusses risk assessment models, preventive strategies such as fluoride application and sealants, patient education, and the role of diet and oral hygiene. At the same time, it addresses advanced restorative concepts and materials, including adhesive systems, composite resins, glass ionomer cements, and novel bioactive restorative technologies that aim to preserve as much natural tooth structure as possible. Each chapter is carefully structured to bridge the gap between theory and clinical application. Through this integration of prevention and restoration, Dental Caries -From Prevention to Restoration aims to foster a holistic approach to oral health, prioritizing early intervention, minimally invasive principles, and lifelong maintenance of dental function and aesthetics. This book is intended for dental students, educators, and practitioners who seek a deeper understanding of caries management, from preventive approaches to comprehensive restorative care.

Advances in miniaturization of sensors, actuators, and smart systems are receiving substantial industrial attention, and a wide variety of transducers are commercially available or with high potential to impact emerging markets. Substituting existing products based on bulk materials, in fields such as automotive, environment, food, robotics, medicine, biotechnology, communications, and other technologies, with reduced size, lower cost, and higher performance, is now possible, with potential for manufacturing using advanced silicon integrated circuits technology or alternative additive techniques from the mili- to the nano-scale. In this Special Issue, which is focused on piezoelectric transducers, a wide range of topics are covered, including the design, fabrication, characterization, packaging, and system integration or final applications of mili/micro/nano-electro-mechanical systems based transducers.

The 21st century is set to be the century of challenges in terms of sustainable urban planning and land management. There is no planet B for us; so identifying urban and territorial challenges in our territories, such as reaching land use policies, diagnosing natural hazards, making urban mobility more sustainable, or controlling land resource consumption, is non-negotiable for our generation. Planning land uses that are compatible with the ecosystem services of the territory and managing them using public–private cooperation systems is a vast challenge for our global society. Human activities do not frequently include the maintenance of the ecosystem services of the territory among their objectives. Therefore, this field of research must help to guarantee the maintenance of natural resources, also called natural capital, which are necessary for the social and economic activities of our global society. This reprint collects some relevant case studies and approaches on future challenges in sustainable urban planning and territorial management for the next century. Its content addresses relevant experiences and works on topics such urban and land use planning, environmental management, sustainable mobility, GIS analysis, flooding assessment, landscape analysis, and regional studies using remote sensing tools, among others. Proposals including innovative frameworks or new analysis methodologies are also included in this reprint as an indicator of what are the current trends in research in this field of knowledge.

Abortion trail activists are national and transnational organizations and movements that enable access to safe abortion – this open access book adopts a global perspective to explore their historic contribution to reproductive justice, their innovative work, and the continuing and emergent problems they face. Deirdre Duffy offers the first dedicated analysis of both the historic and on-going relationship between groups supporting access to abortion and abortion politics, drawing on theoretical perspectives and debates including post-colonialism, feminist anarchism and health activism. Challenging assumptions about the achievements of pro-choice politics, Duffy examines the race-based exclusions within and created by dominant historic pro-choice narratives, critiquing the prochoice movements’ whiteness, and the limitations of a focus on legal change. Case studies are drawn from across the Global North and South, including examples from Argentina, Kenya, Poland, the Netherlands, and Ireland. The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Lancaster University.

Este libro recorre la trayectoria universitaria de Mariano Ruiz-Funes desde su cátedra de derecho penal en Murcia hasta su actividad de articulista, conferenciante y docente en la UNAM. Se presenta la lucha intelectual desde el exilio contra la depuración del profesorado en la postguerra y contra la instrumentación franquista de la universidad. This book traces the academic career of Mariano Ruiz-Funes from his chair of criminal law in Murcia to his activity as a columnist, lecturer and teacher at UNAM. It presents the intellectual struggle from exile against the purge of the teaching staff in the post-war period and against the Francoist instrumentalization of the university.

Context in Literary and Cultural Studies is an interdisciplinary volume that deals with the challenges of studying works of art and literature in their historical context today. The relationship between artworks and context has long been a central concern for aesthetic and cultural disciplines, and the question of context has been asked anew in all eras. Developments in contemporary culture and technology, as well as new theoretical and methodological orientations in the humanities, once again prompt us to rethink context in literary and cultural studies. This volume takes up that challenge. Introducing readers to new developments in literary and cultural theory, Context in Literary and Cultural Studies connects all disciplines related to these areas to provide an interdisciplinary overview of the challenges different scholarly fields today meet in their studies of artworks in context. Spanning a number of countries, and covering subjects from nineteenth-century novels to rave culture, the chapters together constitute an informed, diverse and wide-ranging discussion.

In computing, overclocking refers to the common practice of increasing the clock rate of a computer to exceed that certified by the manufacturer. The concept is seductive but overclocking may destroy your motherboard or system memory, even irreparably corrupt the hard drive. Volume 4 of the Video Game Art Reader (VGAR) proposes overclocking as a metaphor for how games are produced and experienced today, and the temporal compressions and expansions of the many historical lineages that have shaped game art and culture. Contributors reflect on the many ways in which overclocking can be read as a means of oppression but also a strategy to raise awareness of how inequities have shaped video games.

Né en 1910, Pham Van Ky est le premier Vietnamien à introduire, grâce à un fond de pensée taoïste et à un sens aigu de la complémentarité des opposés, un moment d’altérité vietnamienne dans la littérature française. Après ses premières contributions littéraires (en poésie, dans les revues), il part en 1938 pour la France où — à l’exception d’un bref retour à Hanoï en 1970 — il s’installe à demeure, et engage une carrière (romans, théâtre) avec une audience notable dans les années 1950-60 ; en 1961, Perdre la demeure obtient le grand prix du roman de l’Académie française. Collaborant avec la Radiodiffusion française à partir de 1947, il réalise nombre de pièces radiophoniques sur l’Extrême-Orient. Sorti du jeu éditorial, il meurt en 1992. Son œuvre apparaît encore plus riche et variée quand on explore ses papiers personnels à la BnF, un fonds qui contient de nombreux textes encore non publiés. En complétant des approches critiques par des extraits inédits, le présent ouvrage vise à rappeler l’ampleur d’une œuvre au double ancrage culturel, et à rendre justice à un auteur dont la valeur littéraire transcende les données historiques particulières et révolues qui ont déterminé son parcours.

The purpose of this Special Issue “The Role of Nutrition in Cardiometabolic Health: Experimental, Clinical, and Community-Based Evidence” is to publish a focused, coherent, impactful, and well-cited volume on how nutrition influences diverse cardiometabolic risk factors. Cardiometabolic diseases, such as coronary heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and obesity, is the leading cause of death worldwide. In recent years, dietary habits have shifted all over the globe. At the same time, a constantly growing body of evidence demonstrates the role of caloric intake and dietary composition as determinants of cardiometabolic health. Suboptimal diet predisposes to a myriad of cardiometabolic risk factors such as impaired glucose metabolism, insulin resistance, dyslipidaemias, and high blood pressure.

Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) have been widely used as power sources in the automotive and energy storage industries due to prominent features such as their high energy density, high power output, low self-discharge rate and minimal memory effect. Nevertheless, the performances of LIBs are greatly affected by operating temperature: a higher temperature can cause accelerated battery degradation, with a shortened lifetime and even thermal runaway; a lower temperature can cause reduced capacity, leading to issues such as mileage anxiety and sudden power failure. The Special Issue “Thermal Management System for Lithium-Ion Batteries” has thus been developed to address the ever-increasing thermal management requirements for batteries across various application scenarios.

La traduction a toujours joué un rôle important dans la communication humaine, dans tous les domaines. Elle continue de le faire, particulièrement dans l’émergence aujourd’hui d’une culture et de discours sur l’environnement, dans une perspective de durabilité, et ce, partout dans le monde.Ce livre explore les mots et les concepts liés à l’environnement dans plusieurs langues, et fournit un profil linguistique des éléments clés : dimensions et processus à l’œuvre dans la traduction, diffusion, adaptation et évolution des cultures et des discours. Il met l’accent sur la temporalité, la spatialité, la spécificité culturelle et la comparabilité interculturelle des pratiques environnementales locales. La nature dynamique des différentes cultures environnementales y est mise de l’avant grâce à des recherches linguistiques empiriques, comme la modélisation statistique des données numériques multilingues relatives à l’environnement, recueillies dans les documents originaux et traduits.

Les contributions rassemblées ici envisagent la question des normes (orthographique, morphologique, syntaxique, rhétorico-textuelle, interactionnelle) dans des corpus aussi variés que la littérature contemporaine, la presse, les interactions orales en situation de classe ou les nouveaux médias (clips, SMS, tweets). Elles constituent autant de cas pratiques permettant de mesurer à quel point les locuteurs mobilisent sciemment les normes textuelles et discursives, que ce soit pour faire émerger un réglage inédit, déplacer une routine discursive, ou encore hybrider la langue en reposant la question du genre des discours et du rôle social du langage.