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This book entitled “The Chemistry inside Spices & Herbs: Research and Development” contains the comprehensive descriptions on the chemistry of spices and herbs with recent research and developments in this field. Book has extensive range of readers and better fits to researchers and scientists working in the field of plant chemistry, herbal medications, and biochemistry and biotechnology of plants related to spices and herbs. It is also fits to the under graduate and post graduate students studying on plant sciences and life sciences.

The book ”Facets of a Smart City Computational and Experimental Techniques for Sustainable Urban Development” aims to balance technical journal articles that require progressive knowledge of the subject matters on smart cities and application from their readers and aims to link the knowledge gap by providing contextual information via circumstantial studies.

Experts translate the latest findings on embodied cognition from neuroscience, psychology, and cognitive science to inform teaching and learning pedagogy.

The importance of this handbook is that it is easy to use and does not require any prior knowledge, while yet presenting the core concepts of statistical theory with applications in SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences).

Money, energy, time, and workforce are spent in the production processes of materials. Developing the best method by optimizing these processes is an important responsibility considering the limited resources. Combustion synthesis is a method that stands out when compared to other production methods, as it is a fast and simple process, with no carbon emission and low process cost. This situation attracts the attention of researchers who want to produce materials. This book is prepared by researchers who are experts in their fields, contains the detailed features of combustion synthesis, and is created as a guide for scientists and industries who want to work on the subject.

Nutritional Biochemistry: From the Classroom to the Research Bench aims to provide students and readers with a detailed, simplified, and comprehensive account of the relationship between nutrition and metabolism. A key feature of this textbook is a comparative approach on the subject of nutritional biochemistry which helps to explain the differences in metabolism, nutrient requirement, and sometimes in the molecular pathways between mammalian and non-mammalian species. Chapters give an overview of the need of food and water (chapter 1), before describing the cell and organ system components (chapter 2). The textbook then focuses on the regulation of food intake from the factors influencing appetite to the central and peripheral underlying mechanisms (chapters 3-5). Water intake and regulation in the body are covered (chapter 6), along with key topics of protein, carbohydrate, and lipid metabolism (chapters 7, 8, and 9), including their digestion, absorption, transport, utilization, synthesis, degradation, and molecular regulation. A brief summary concludes the book (Chapter 10). This book serves as a textbook for students and faculty in beginner courses in biochemistry and nutrition and is designed to give learners a comprehensive understanding of the topic to help them when considering a career in research.

Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is a leading cause of death globally. Conventional chemotherapeutic agents are unable to penetrate cancerous hepatocytes completely and are toxic to non cancerous cells and tissues. This toxicity significantly compromises the therapeutic outcome of conventional chemotherapeutic agents which is also reflected in the high mortality of the disease. Audience: Medical oncologists, pharmacologists, liver oncology specialists, researchers in pharmaceutical R&D and medicinal chemistry, postgraduates and scientific faculty members.