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One Health Meets the Exposome: Human, Wildlife, and Ecosystem
Health brings together the two powerful conceptual frameworks of
One Health and the Exposome to comprehensively examine the myriad
of biological, environmental, social, and cultural challenges
impacting the interrelated health of humans, wildlife, and
ecosystems. One Health as an encompassing concept and collaborative
framework recognizes the interconnections among humans, wildlife,
and our shared environment with the goal of optimizing health
outcomes for all. The Exposome is more specifically oriented to
human health and considers cumulative environmental exposures
affecting individuals, communities, and populations. This book will
provide the broadened and integrative view that considers a more
holistic approach needed to confront the complex issues facing us
today. One Health Meets the Exposome: Human, Wildlife, and
Ecosystem Health is a valuable and cutting-edge resource for
researchers and practitioners in medicine, public health, animal
science, wildlife and field biology, and for any reader looking to
better understand the relationships among human health and the
environment.
MRI Atlas of the Infant Rat Brain: Brain Segmentation features an
entirely new coronal, sagittal and horizontal set of tissue cut in
regular 9 m intervals with accompanying photographs of MRI data and
color drawings of selected brain regions in the three planes. The
use of the single brain allows for greater consistency between
sections, while color masking offers advances in manual
segmentation techniques with increased refinement in the definition
of brain areas. Readers will benefit from uniform and consistent
manual tissue segmentation of MRI data in an infant rat brain. This
volume provides readers the first infant rat brain MRI atlas and a
valuable resource in research analyses of the developing brain for
structural and functional MRI analyses.
There has been a tremendous increase in the production of livestock
products and this is expected to continue in the coming future.
This is especially in developing countries. The greatest increase
is in the production of poultry and pigs, as well as eggs and milk.
Livestock production can make good use of resources, some of which
may otherwise not be used, and contributes high quality protein and
important micronutrients to the human diet.
Goats have a bright future as a domestic animal because of its
continued usefulness and generation of new information to maintain
this species in a more sustainable and profitable manner. Goat
farming requires less capital to start and maintain than cattle or
buffalo farming. Goat also has a higher reproductive rate as
compared to cattle or buffaloes. Goat can sustain itself on
marginal lands where other species of livestock may not even
survive. The book has put emphasis on goat production in India but
lot of information from world over is mentioned. Goats have been a
major part of the research and development programmes aimed at
poverty alleviation via the use of small ruminants. Research is of
little use if its results are not disseminated and this book is
part of the strategy for the dissemination and promotion of the
research results to ensure that poor and under-resourced farmers
benefit. The publication is expected to provide a useful reference
source for all those who are interested in goats.
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