“When the songbird is heartbroken, does it sing the song of bereavement?”This is not a book. It’s a letter contained inside a glass bottle that washed ashore. And you happened to find it. The letter contains 90 pieces of thought-provoking poems, musings and flash fictions; and 2 bonus short stories at the end. Every word in this letter conveys something profound about humans and nature. They tell, among many others, the story of a woman who loses her eyesight overnight, a river tha...

Xenobiotics in Chemical Carcinogenesis: Translational Aspects in Toxicology covers the translational toxicology of xenobiotics substances in carcinogenesis by explaining the toxicokinetic and toxicodynamic, toxicogenomic, biotransformation, and resistance mechanisms in the human body. The book begins with a historical review and link to future prospects for chemical carcinogenesis. It discusses major environmental xenobiotics and their risks in inducing cancer, along with content on toxic ...

Autophagy and Metabolism: Potential Target for Cancer Therapy presents updates on autophagy in cancer metabolism and how it can be used to develop new, more efficient treatments. Written by experts in the field, the book presents recent research and explains how to translate it to the clinical setting. Sections discuss tumor cell metabolism and autophagy as therapeutic targets, autophagy regulation in cancer, signaling pathways in metabolic dysregulation in solid tumors, metabolic stress a...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Big Data and Artificial Intelligence, BDA 2023, held in Delhi, India, during December 7–9, 2023.The17 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 67 submissions. The papers are organized in the following topical sections: Keynote Lectures, Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare, Large Language Models, Data Analytics for Low Resource Domains, Artificial Intelligence for In...

This book illustrates various aspects of cancer cell metabolism, including metabolic regulation in solid tumours vs. non-solid tumours, the molecular pathways involved in its metabolism, and the role of the tumour microenvironment in the regulation of cancer cell metabolism. It summarizes the complexity of cancer cell metabolism in terms of the switch from anaerobic to aerobic glycolysis and how mitochondrial damage promotes aerobic glycolysis in cancer cells. The respective chapters provi...

Molecular Biology: Academic Cell Update Edition Study Guide aims to help students get a better grasp of important concepts in Molecular Biology: Academic Cell Update. Each of the chapters in this study guide contains a summary that lets students see the bigger picture, that is, how all the techniques fit together in that chapter. A list of terms is presented in a concise format rather than spread throughout the textbook chapter to help the student remember these key terms in preparation fo...

This book constitutes thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computing and Network Communications, CoCoNet'23.The revised papers presented are carefully reviewed and selected from several initial submissions. The scope of the Symposium includes network-on-chip architectures and applications, future internet architecture and protocols, intelligent networked systems, IoT and smart cities, communications systems integration and modeling, and wir...

Gain a thorough understanding of the principles ofbiochemistry as they relate to the study of clinical medicineA Doody's Core Title for 2017!THE BEST REVIEW FOR THE USMLE!The Thirtieth Edition of Harper’s Illustrated Biochemistry combines outstanding full-colorillustrations with authoritative integrated coverage of biochemical disease and clinical information. Using brevity and numerous medically relevant examples, Ha...

This two-volume set LNCS 16436-16437 constitutes the revised selected papers of the 17th International Conference on Intelligent Human Computer Interaction, IHCI 2025, held in Jaipur, India, during November 14–16, 2025.The 92 full papers included in these volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 342 submissions. They showcase a comprehensive exploration of the dynamic convergence between artificial intelligence and human-computer interaction.

Divided into five chapters and illustrated by kaur, the sun and her flowers is a journey of wilting, falling, rooting, rising, and blooming. A celebration of love in all its forms.this is the recipe of lifesaid my motheras she held me in her arms as i weptthink of those flowers you plantin the garden each yearthey will teach youthat people toomust wiltfallrootrisein order to bloom

This book is a collection of selected papers presented at the Sixth Congress on Intelligent Systems (CIS 2025), organized by The Institution of Electronics and Telecommunication Engineers (IETE), Delhi Centre, under the technical sponsorship of the Soft Computing Research Society, India, during September 6–7, 2025. This book covers high-quality research articles in the fields of soft computing, machine vision, robotics, computational intelligence, artificial intelligence, signal and image ...

Add layoffs foreclosures and skyrocketing health-care costs to the inevitable crises of every life and you have todays landscape. Amid these challenges even those who thought they had solid coping skills feel that their center cannot hold as things fall apart. In her first book in many years bestselling author Daphne Rose Kingma takes us on a path of emotional and spiritual healing with particular attention to the complex and frequently overwhelming circumstances of our lives right now. Th...