This book provides examination of applications of soft computing techniques related to healthcare systems and can be used as a reference guide for assessing the roles that various techniques. Soft Computing Techniques to Enhance Services in Connected Healthcare Systems, presents soft computing techniques and applications used in healthcare systems, along with the latest advancements. The authors examine how connected healthcare is the essence of combining a practical operative procedure of interconnectedness of electronic health records, mHealth, clinical informatics, electronic data exchange, practice management solutions, and pharmacy management. The book focuses on different soft computing techniques like fuzzy logic, ANN, GA which will enhance services in connected health systems like remotely diagnosis and monitoring, medication monitoring devices, identifying and treating the underlying causes of disorders and diseases, improved access to specialist and lower healthcare costs. The chapters also examine descriptive, predictive, and social network techniques and discuss analytical tools and the important role they play in enhancing the services to connected healthcare systems. Finally, the authors address real-time challenges with real-world case studies to enhance the comprehension of topics. This book is intended for under graduate, and graduate students, researchers and practicing professionals in the field of connected healthcare. It provides an overview for beginners while also addressing professionals in the industry on the importance of soft computing approaches in connected healthcare systems.

The text discusses the techniques of deep learning and machine learning in the field of neuroscience, engineering approaches to study the brain structure and dynamics, convolutional networks for fast, energy-efficient neuromorphic computing, and reinforcement learning in feedback control. It showcases case studies in neural data analysis. The book- •Focuses on neuron modeling, development, and direction of neural circuits to explain perception, behavior, and biologically inspired intelligent agents for decision making. •Showcases important aspects such as human behavior prediction using smart technologies and understanding the modeling of nervous systems. •Discusses nature-inspired algorithms such as swarm intelligence, ant colony optimization, and multi-agent systems. •Presents information-theoretic, control-theoretic, and decision-theoretic approaches in neuroscience. •Includes case studies in functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and neural data analysis. This reference text addresses different applications of computational neurosciences using artificial intelligence, deep learning, and other machine learning techniques to fine-tune the models thereby solving the real-life problems prominently. It will further discuss important topics such as neural rehabilitation, brain-computer interfacing, neural control, neural system analysis, and neurobiologically inspired self-monitoring systems. It will serve as an ideal reference text for graduate students and academic researchers in the fields of electrical engineering, electronics and communication engineering, computer engineering, information technology, and biomedical engineering.

Molecular Pharmaceutics and Nano Drug Delivery: Fundamentals and Challenges provides a thorough resource for both beginners and established scientists, bringing fundamental knowledge about key challenges of these carriers down to the molecular level. The book satisfies the need of availability of literature at single platform with the detailed knowledge to understand crucial aspects, such as regulatory, clinical, toxicological and the formulation requirements of these carriers. This is a valuable resource for graduates, pharmaceutical researchers and anyone working on aspects of pharmaceutics, molecular pharmaceutics and nano-drug/gene delivery. So called ‘novel drug delivery systems’ are numerous, with each having different approaches to their production, characterization and evaluation. The proper understanding of these dosage forms, as well as their critical attributes such as toxicity and regulatory requirements are aspects which researchers should know before they begin working on these carriers. This book provides this critical information.

Nano Drug Delivery Strategies for the Treatment of Cancers discusses several current and promising approaches for the diagnosis and treatment of cancer by using the most recent developments in nanomedical technologies. The book presents introductory information about the biology of different types of cancer in order to provide the reader with knowledge on their specificities. In addition, it discusses various novel drug delivery systems, detailing their functionalities, expected outcomes and future developments in the field, focusing on brain, mouth and throat, breast, lung, liver, pancreas, stomach, colon, bool, skin and prostate cancers. The book is a valuable source for cancer researchers, oncologists, pharmacologists and nanotechnologists who are interested in novel drug delivery systems and devices for treatment of various types of cancer that take advantage of recent advances in this exciting field.

Nanomedicine-Based Approaches for the Treatment of Dementia explores a wide range of promising approaches for the diagnosis and treatment of dementia. The book begins with introductory sections on dementia and brain ailments that are followed by further chapters that discuss detailed information about challenges of drug delivery across the blood-brain barrier as well as the current status. This book helps readers design and develop novel drug delivery systems and devices for the treatment of dementia that take advantage of recent advances in nanomedical technologies. Numerous drug delivery systems have been developed recently for dementia. Unfortunately, most of them are ineffective since dementia is not a single disease. It is an umbrella term for several neurodegenerative conditions which alter brain functions. Due to this, there is an urgent need for innovative technologies/nano drug delivery systems to improve the targeting and delivery of therapeutic as well as diagnostic agents specifically for treating dementia.

Nanotechnology-Based Targeted Drug Delivery Systems for Brain Tumors addresses brain anatomy and tumors and the progress and challenges in delivering drugs across the blood brain barrier. Several chapters are devoted to the latest technologies and advances in nanotechnology, along with practical solutions on how to design more effective nanocarriers for drug and gene delivery. This valuable resource prepares readers to develop novel drug delivery systems for the treatment of brain tumors that further promote the latest nanomedical technologies.

In this book, you will learn about a simple process on how to live a phenomenal life to its fullness. Life will become so much easier and mesmerizing once you understand and follow this process. You will feel the true magnificence that your amazing life has to offer you. You will come to know who you really are. Simply written and easy to read, this book gives a profound outline for achievement of spiritual success in addition to personal success.This book is written in a way that you will cherish for a lifetime. A must read for anyone who wants to learn the way to unveil and attain his or her purpose in life.

Transgene technology since its inception, about two decades ago, has progressed rapidly, providing platform for discovery, product design and novel plants which are improved sources of food, feed, chemicals and drugs. This knowledge is changing rapidly by which plants develop their architecture to survive, abiotic and biotic stress, and become resistant to herbicides, pests and pathogens. Also the scene is set for a change from traditional farming to molecular farming. Moreover, gene silencing from a bane has turned out to be a boon, creating new prospects in genetic engineering of crop plants. In this book, one can find an up-to-date account of the aims and achievements of the genetic engineering of crop plants. This book will useful for undergraduate students of Botany, Biotechnology and Agriculture.