Low and middle income countries in Africa, Asia and Latin America bear a significant proportion of the global burden of chronic non-communicable diseases. This book synthesizes evidence across countries that share similar socio-economic, developmental and public health profiles, including rapid urbanization, globalization and poverty. Providing insights on successful and sustainable interventions and policies, it shows how to slow and reverse the rising burden of chronic diseases in resour...

This book offers a comprehensive and multi-faceted examination of gastrointestinal inflammations, discussing factors that impact gut health. The initial chapters establish a foundational understanding of gastrointestinal inflammations and the critical role of the gut microbiota. The book then delves into the complex pathophysiology and various risk factors associated with these conditions, offering insights into the latest diagnostic, screening, and prevention techniques. It explores the d...

Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis and CNS Disorders: Recent Progress and Perspectives on Human Disease summarizes the main findings on gut-brain axis in different types of CNS disorders, providing a complete overview of the field. The content helps unravel the complex interactions of the microbiota-gut-brain-axis in CNS disorders to pave a better understanding of microbiota-mediated pathogenesis, avenues for noninvasive prognosis, and therapeutic possibilities leveraging microbiota-gut-brain-axis ...

Inflammation and Cancer: Mechanisms, Diagnosis, and Therapeutic Strategies delves into the intricate relationship between inflammation and cancer, a crucial area of contemporary biomedical research. Sections provide an overview of inflammation's role in cancer, discussing molecular connections and signaling pathways. Chapters explore inflammatory pathways in various cancers, including breast, oral, lung, prostate, skin, and gastrointestinal cancers. The book also covers tumorigenesis, meta...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th National Conference on Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition, Image Processing, and Graphics, NCVPRIPG 2023. The papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and organized in topical sections on vision and geometry, learning and vision, image processing and document analysis, and detection and recognition.

This book provides information on the basics of deformation and fracture in materials and on current, state-of-the-art experimental and numerical/theoretical methods, including data-driven approaches in the deformation and fracture study of materials. The blend of experimental test methods and numerical techniques to study deformation and fracture in materials is discussed. In addition, the application of data-driven approaches in predicting material performance in different types of loadi...