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Mitochondria are central to neuronal health, serving as the primary energy producers within cells. This vital role makes them a focal point in understanding various neurological disorders. Across conditions such as Alzheimer's disease, Parkinson's disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), multiple sclerosis, neuroinflammatory disorders, neurodevelopmental disorders, stroke, and traumatic brain injury (TBI), mitochondrial dysfunction emerges as a common thread. In Alzheimer's disease, for instance, dysfunctional mitochondria contribute to the accumulation of amyloid-beta plaques and tau protein tangles, accelerating neurodegeneration. Similarly, in Parkinson's disease, mitochondrial impairment disrupts cellular energy production, exacerbating the loss of dopaminergic neurons and leading to motor dysfunction. ALS, characterized by the progressive degeneration of motor neurons, also exhibits mitochondrial dysfunction, further contributing to the disease pathology. Additionally, in conditions like multiple sclerosis and neuroinflammatory disorders, dysfunctional mitochondria exacerbate inflammation and neuronal damage. The role of mitochondria extends beyond neurodegenerative diseases; in neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism and intellectual disabilities, disturbances in mitochondrial dynamics impact neuronal connectivity and synaptic function. Furthermore, mitochondrial impairment plays a significant role in acute neurological insults like stroke and TBI, exacerbating neuronal injury and complicating recovery processes. Despite the challenges posed by mitochondrial dysfunction in neurological disorders, there is growing interest in mitochondrial therapeutics as a promising avenue for neuroprotection and disease modification. Investigating the neuroprotective potential of mitochondrial-targeted interventions opens new avenues for therapeutic development and offers hope for mitigating the impact of mitochondrial dysfunction across a spectrum of neurological conditions.

@UofJ411: Chi è la ragazza? #CosaFaCasanova #LaMisteriosaRagazzaDiCasanovaMi chiamano Casanova.Re del football. Donnaiolo. Celebrità del campus.I ragazzi vogliono essere come me, le ragazze mi vogliono.Impegnarmi con una donna? Non so nemmeno cosa voglia dire.Poi ho visto lei: piccola, bellissima e... doveva essere MIA!Mason Nova è un idiota egocentrico.Rubacuori. Insistente. Un vero tormento.Non mi importa se è la stella del football, o se ha un corpo mozzafiato.Conosco bene le sue prodezze, sia dentro che fuori dal campo, ma la mia risposta è e sarà sempreNO.L'ultima cosa che voglio nella mia vita è un altro seduttore che cerchi di andare a segno.**ANDARE A SEGNO, primo libro della serie U of J - Università di Jersey, è una storia d'amoreambientata nel mondo dello sport universitario. Se vi piacciono i libri che parlano di nemici chediventano amanti, di ragazze determinate e un po' sfrontate e di ragazzi così belli da far male, alloraamerete i protagonisti di questa serie. Questo è il primo di tre volumi.**

Dive into the fantastical world of "Ayurveda Chronicles: The Adventures of Vata, Pitta, & Kapha," the first spellbinding book in a trilogy that introduces the ancient wisdom of Ayurveda to young readers. Suitable for children aged 6 to 10 and a delightful read for all ages, this beautifully illustrated book weaves the foundational principles of Ayurveda into an engaging story that promises to enlighten and entertain. When Amala's baby brother falls ill and her village is at a loss, Amala sets out on a quest that leads her to the ancient healing wisdom of Ayurveda, the sister science to Yoga. Accompanied by the three dynamic forces of Ayurveda - Vata, Pitta, and Kapha - Amala traverses a world filled with enchantment and guided by divine forces. "Ayurveda Chronicles: The Adventures of Vata, Pitta, & Kapha" is more than a children's book; it is a gateway to a life of health and harmony. The story invites exploration and self-discovery, encouraging readers to unlock the secrets to a balanced life. Join Amala and her companions as they uncover the healing science of Ayurveda and inspire your own adventure into wellness.

Legume crops are grown worldwide and provide a major source of protein, oil, carbohydrates, dietary fiber, and dietary minerals. Legume crops also play an important role in international trade. Genetic improvement has been a key to the growth of crop production, and it continuously contributes to sustainable agriculture and food security. Presently, plant genetic improvement is in the middle of evolution from field-based traditional breeding to a new era of application of multiple novel techniques such as marker-assisted selection, genomic prediction, and gene editing, which are integrated with conventional methods in practical breeding. This Reprint contains fifteen research articles and a review paper that address a wide range of research topics in legume crops. The research involved all the traits of importance, including yield, quality, resistance to pests and diseases, and abiotic stresses. This Reprint can be used as a source of information for future work.

Humans and animals may be exposed on a continuous daily basis to a mixture of environmental contaminants that may cause adverse consequences. This Topic focuses on environmental pollutants including heavy metals, pesticides, nanoparticles, micro-nanoplastics, indoor air pollutants, pharmaceuticals, and industrial toxicants with effects on human health, risk assessment, and the relationship between various diseases and environmental pollutants. The aim of this Topic is to present a comprehensive overview of various studies carried out with in vivo and in vitro model organisms and the potential risks posed by environmental pollutants to human health. In this Topic, 20 original articles, 6 reviews and 1 communication are collected, with a particular focus on alcohol-based hand sanitizers, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, monochromatic light pollution, paraben as an endocrine disruptor, heavy metal pollution attributed to the antimony and arsenic found in mines in soil, water, and sediments, groundwater with high fluoride levels, the transmission of viruses due to the heating, ventilation, and air conditioning systems of urban subways, chronic home radon exposure, organotin compounds, heavy metal pollutants, polypropylene microplastics, ventral body wall defects in chick embryos, microcystin-LR as an aquatic toxin, N-nitroso compounds, methylmercury as a global pollutant, triazine herbicides, persistent organic pollutants, bisphenol A and trace metals, autophagy, nano- and micro-sized polystyrene particles, tributyltin as an environmental contaminant, polybrominated diphenyl ethers, and per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances.

Cometi um erro... E ela fez uma ligação que quase destruiu minha vida.Passei o último ano planejando minha vingança e imaginando todas as coisas perversas que faria com ela quando nossos caminhos enfim se cruzassem outra vez.Só não tinha ideia de que seria tão cedo.A última coisa que esperava quando reentrei no mundo era me encontrar bem no meio do mundo dela.A garota que me traiu, a dedo duro que me arruinou - aqui para ser tomada.Enquanto ela estava iludida aqui em Rosewood, eu fiquei preso no inferno.Melhor tomar cuidado, Harley Hunter.Você está prestes a pertencer a uma lenda.

Call Me Lola is a moving photo essay by the acclaimed Israeli-American lens-based artist and documentarian Loli Kantor. For over twenty years, she combed through the family archives of her Polish-born father, a doctor and political activist. At the center of her work is her mother, Lola, who died in childbirth: a woman who manifests herself principally through images and stories rather than direct memories. The family documents and photographs that retrace the artist's personal history are shown alongside new camera-based works, resulting in a deeply subjective reflection on the most significant upheavals of the twentieth century: war and displacement, love and loss, trauma and grief. LOLI KANTOR (*1952) is an Israeli-American photographer whose work centers on personal and cultural memory. She lives and works in Fort Worth, Texas.

'The best book on games I've read in years' G.T. KARBER, the number one Sunday Times bestselling author of MURDLE'Clare is a fabulous tour guide through the history of table games' Tom Brewster, presenter of Shut Up & Sit DownWhy is playing games a universal human instinct?Why did the same games evolve across wildly different civilisations?And how can those games make your life happier, healthier and more fulfilled?The history of board games is really the history of human civilisation. Through it we see how our species has learned to live with one another, make deals, take on different roles and manage the ups and downs of luck.In this entertaining and thought-provoking look at games through the ages, Tim Clare explores the legal highs of a good dice roll, the thrills of a predatory race game and the tactile pleasures of the games that age with us through our lives to discover how, through play, we become fully ourselves.Drawing on Roman anti-cheating devices, organised crime card syndicates and the combative domestic bonding ritual of Monopoly, The Game Changers explains why games are more popular now than ever, and how playing them helps us learn to be better losers, make smarter decisions and become more human.

Accompanying her parents to Berlin in the 1930s, Martha Dodd knew almost nothing about Adolf Hitler or the Nazis. Yet almost overnight, she stepped into the spotlight, and found herself at the over-heated centre of Hitler's 'New Germany', befriending and dating several high-ranking Nazis, including the then-head of the Gestapo.An affair with a dashing Russian diplomat saw her recruited as a spy, and so began a long and tumultuous career in both Berlin and America, including infiltrating First Lady Eleanor Rooevelt's inner circle and playing a key role in Henry Wallace's disastrous 1948 presidential campaign.Betrayed by a Hollywood-hustler-turned-double-agent, Martha spent years under deep FBI surveillance - escaping twice - and went to ground in Cold War Prague, sad, lonely, rich and bored, living out her final decades in a Communist Sunset Boulevard.Largely forgotten, Martha Dodd began emerging as an iconic historical figure in the early 2000s. While her scandalous behaviour and pro-Soviet leanings were never much in dispute, the actual matter of her guilt remained unresolved. Using recently released KGB archived information and FBI files, in Traitor's Odyssey, author and journalist Brendan McNally corrects this, telling the full epic of Martha Dodd's life for the first time, casting her in a new and bright light.

Brainjacking takes us on a journey through advertising and marketing's attempts to understand and influence our thoughts and desires, from the earliest billboards to the technologies of the future. To discover how science intersects with our desires and decisions, the book pulls together three strands that have a huge impact on our lives: advertising, how much privacy we can and should have in the new electronic world, and how to draw the line been information and influence. With Brian Clegg as your guide, this is a book that will help you unpick the insidious world of brainjacking. Expertly pulling together different strands on disparate topics including AI, Big Data, subliminal advertising and more, this essential investigation shows how new and old technology and science can be combined to influence human behaviour and beliefs.

Everyone has an interest in the weather, whether it's to check the prospects for a day out or to know when best to harvest a crop. The Earth's weather systems also provide some of the most dramatic forces of nature, from the vast release of energy in a lightning flash to the devastating impact of tornadoes and hurricanes.For centuries, our only real guide to future weather was folklore, but with the introduction of the first weather forecasts and maps in Victorian times, attempts were made to give some warning of the weather to come. Until relatively recently, these forecasts could be wildly inaccurate - think of Michael Fish's denial that there was a storm on the way the night before the UK's great storm of 1987. This was due to the mathematically chaotic nature of weather systems, first discovered in the 1960s, understanding of which would transform forecasting from the 1990s and mean that meteorologists became amongst the foremost users of supercomputers.

'A stunning vibrant maximalist whirlwind of a novel. Oloixarac's wit and ambition are evident on every page' Hari KunzruBuenos Aires. The mysterious narrator, a student at the School of Philosophy, stalks a middle-aged professor, desperate to reveal that she alone understands his theories. Unable to earn his affection, she instead seduces a former guerilla and toys with him, blurring the lines between prey and predator. At the same university, bored student Kamtchowsky and her boyfriend Pabst's intellectual and sexual misadventures take them through the underground scene of Buenos Aires as they dabble in ketamine, group sex, video games and pornography. And in 1917 Africa, a Dutch anthropologist named Johan van Vliet theorises the development of beast into man, and humanity's longstanding flirtation with beastly acts.Climaxing with an Internet hack that catalogues historical violence, devastation and atrocity throughout the centuries, Savage Theories is a kaleidoscopic collage that is spellbinding, strange and ground-breaking.'An exuberant blend of political satire and sexual picaresque. This book rewards total immersion: Come for the inevitable Borges allusions, stay for the wild ride' New York Times

The Handbook of Chinese Horoscopes has been delighting and guiding readers for decades, through its unique combination of the Eastern Lunar Calendar and Western astrology. Now in its tenth edition, it offers a wealth of knowledge about how the twelve animal signs inform our everyday lives. Find your sign, learn about its characteristics and discover how it can unlock greater awareness and insight, including:- How your time of birth affects your personality- Your compatibility with other signs of the Chinese lunar zodiac- How your sign interacts with the five elements: metal, water, wood, earth and fire- The celebrities who share your sign What the coming years have in store for youWritten by renowned astrologer Theodora Lau, and revised and updated by her daughter Laura, The Handbook of Chinese Horoscopes brings us not only clarity about ourselves, but also those around us. From personalities, to relationships, to what each year will hold, The Handbook of Chinese Horoscopes is the ultimate tool for self-reflection and knowledge.

THE NOVEL THAT INSPIRED THE OSCAR WINNING FILMAmidst the horrors of Auschwitz, German officer, Angelus Thomsen, has found love. But unfortunately for Thomsen, the object of his affection is already married to his camp commandant, Paul Doll.As Thomsen and Doll's wife pursue their passion - the gears of Nazi Germany's Final Solution grinding around them - Doll is riven by suspicion. With his dignity in disrepute and his reputation on the line, Doll must take matters into his own hands and bring order back to the chaos that reigns around him.'It is exceptionally brave.... Shakespearean.... It's exciting; it's alive; it's more than slightly mad. As the title suggests, it is dreadfully interesting.' Sunday Times

Maine's Only Loop-Route Paddle that Starts & Finishes in the Same Place!Get insider information about paddling one of Maine's most breathtaking water trails, the Moose River Loop (Moose Loop) & Bow Trip in Jackman! This 40-page book features everything you need to know before you go, including the most accurate and detailed map of the trip you will find anywhere! There are two different adventures in this book- the Moose River Loop that starts and finishes in the same place, or the Bow Trip that avoids a long portage and requires transportation back to the start.The book also includes things to know before you go, what to bring, detailed information about each section of the river, and full-color photos of images from the trip and reference photos so you know what to expect and look for!FeaturesTrip overview including the number of miles for each trip, days to complete, information about the rapids, portages, hazards to look out for, fees, who to contact to get your vehicle from Holeb Landing to Attean Landing for the Bow Trip, and emergency contact numbers.Full-color maps that show: Access roads to parking areasThe paddle route for both tripsPortage trail routesNearby hiking trailsCampsitesDay use sitesBoat launchesHand carry launchesPoints of referenceRapidsWaterfallsNatural springsPrecise GPS coordinates and easy-to-understand driving directions to put-in parking areas and hard-to-find portage trailheads and turns in the river.Things to know before you go: What to bring (and what NOT to bring)Essential gearClothingFoodPersonal ItemsHow to pack your gearCamping informationDetailed information about each section of the trip including: DistanceNumber of campsitesNumber of day-use sitesPoints of interestDirectionsInsider informationDetailed full-color photos showing the incredible beauty of the area, portage trailheads, and reference points along the route, all with descriptions.

Jacob Lazerson is a retired mathematics professor and Orthodox Jew whose self-appointed mission in the last years of his life is to reconcile mathematics and science with codes hidden in the text of the Hebrew Bible. From the impoverished apartment he shares with his supportive wife, Sarah, in a tightly knit Chassidic community located in an ethnically diverse neighborhood in Montreal, Jacob runs an elaborate computer program that he has invented to unravel the key to life itself. This key, he's certain, is contained in the form of DNA codes originally encoded in God's blueprint for the physical universe, the Hebrew Bible. He is equally sure that his efforts will be rewarded with no less than the onset of the Messianic Age: a time when peace and love will banish evil from the entire human family. When the Covid-19 pandemic brings suffering and death to the world, and into Jacob's own house, his mission becomes more urgent.

Get the Most Complete Atlas of ATV & Dirt Bike Trail Maps in Maine!Created from over 100 individual maps the 2023 Maine ATV & Dirt Bike Trail Map Atlas covers the entire state of Maine and shows Primary Corridor trails, ATV club trails, and access routes for the entire state of Maine! Also included on the map are scenic and awesome hot spots and side trips like Moxie Falls, the Moose Loop, B-52 Crash Site, and dozens of mountaintop climbs and scenic lookouts. The atlas has over 60 pages of maps and information to help you prepare for your next Maine ATV and dirt bike adventure!Ride where the adventure never ends!Adventure is calling, and a new ATV season is just around the corner! The Maine 2023 ATV Trail Map includes over 6,000 miles of ATV, UTV, and dirt bike trails created from over 100 individual maps to show the most up-to-date and accurate trails possible! Discover new routes, plan scenic day rides, and epic multi-day adventures with the 2023 Maine ATV Trail Map. Now, you can plan the adventure of a lifetime for you and your crew!The 2023 Maine ATV, UTV & Dirt Bike Trail Atlas Includes: Primary Corridor TrailsATV Club TrailsAccess Trails (paved connector trails)Closed Trails (which can re-open)Gas StationsParking LocationsATV Club InformationTrailside ServicesHot Spots, Loop Trails and Side Trips including: Moxie FallsThe Moose LoopMaine's 11 Multi-Use Rail TrailsB-52 Crash SiteLow's Covered BridgeMountaintop Climbs & LookoutsScenic OverlooksMany more remote historic sites and natural landmarks!Terrain Features & Elevation***PLEASE NOTE***These maps are intended for trip planning purposes only and are not for navigation. Maine's ATV & Dirt Bike trail routes change daily due to weather conditions, logging operations, landowner requests, etc.Always contact local ATV clubs for the most updated information on trail routes and closures!

This book highlights the latest clinical research and advancements in 3D (bio)printing and 4D printing using stimulus-responsive hydrogels as well as the concept of self-healing and its amalgamation with 3D printed injectable cell-laden tissue constructs. It also explores the use of metal-free ¿click¿ chemistry and enzymes such as horseradish peroxidase, hematin, tyrosinase, and transglutaminase to obtain chemically crosslinked hydrogels and the in vitro and in vivo responses. Lastly, the book briefly examines the future of drug delivery and the potentials offered by microrobotics and self-powered devices based on triboelectric nanogenerators. This book caters to biomedical researchers and clinical practitioners working in tissue reconstruction and drug/therapeutic delivery.

Perfect for planning your next Maine fishing, paddling, or boating adventure!The Reference Guide to Maine Boat Launches includes everything you need to know for your next on-the-water adventure! The guide includes all maintained boat launches and landing facilities in Maine on lakes, ponds, and rivers. The guide also includes saltwater boat launches and tidal accessibility. This reference guide makes it easy to get the information you need fast. Launch sites are listed alphabetically, and there is an index of towns listed by county.The Reference Guide to Maine Boat Launches includes: GPS LocationsBoat Launch Surface Type & SizeCarry-In Only or Trailer AccessibleTidal Accessibility for Saltwater LaunchesAvailability of Floats & Restroom FacilitiesIf Fees are Charged & Number of Parking SpacesADA AccessibilityWater Body Acres & Max DepthWater Body Game Fish Species

This book features chapters written by renowned scientists from various parts of the world, providing an up-to-date survey of submanifold theory, spanning diverse topics and applications. The book covers a wide range of topics such as Chen¿Ricci inequalities in differential geometry, optimal inequalities for Casorati curvatures in quaternion geometry, conformal ¿-Ricci¿Yamabe solitons, submersion on statistical metallic structure, solitons in f(R, T)-gravity, metric-affine geometry, generalized Wintgen inequalities, tangent bundles, and Lagrangian submanifolds. Moreover, the book showcases the latest findings on Pythagorean submanifolds and submanifolds of four-dimensional f-manifolds. The chapters in this book delve into numerous problems and conjectures on submanifolds, providing valuable insights for scientists, educators, and graduate students looking to stay updated with the latest developments in the field. With its comprehensive coverage and detailed explanations, this book is an essential resource for anyone interested in submanifold theory.

This book comprises the select proceedings of the Indian Geotechnical Conference (IGC) 2022. The contents focus on recent developments in geotechnical engineering for a sustainable world. The book covers behavior of soils and soil¿structure interaction, soil stabilization, ground improvement, and land reclamation, shallow and deep foundations, geotechnical, geological and geophysical investigation, rock engineering, tunneling and underground structures, slope stability, landslides and liquefaction, earth retaining structures and deep excavations, geosynthetics engineering, geo-environmental engineering, sustainable geotechnics, and landfill design, geo-hydrology, dam and embankment engineering, earthquake geotechnical engineering, transportation geotechnics, forensic geotechnical engineering and retrofitting of geotechnical structures, offshore geotechnics, marine geology and sub-sea site investigation, computational, analytical and numerical modeling, and reliability in geotechnical engineering. The contents of this book are useful to researchers and professionals alike.

This book provides an updated and in-depth introduction to the application of multiobjective optimization techniques in bioinformatics. In particular, it presents multiobjective solutions to a range of complex real-world bioinformatics problems. The authors first provide a comprehensive yet concise and self-contained introduction to relevant preliminary methodical constructions such as genetic algorithms, multiobjective optimization, data mining and several challenges in the bioinformatics domain. This is followed by several systematic applications of these techniques to real-world bioinformatics problems in the areas of gene expression and network biology. The book also features detailed theoretical and mathematical notes to facilitate reader comprehension.The book offers a valuable asset for a broad range of readers ¿ from undergraduate to postgraduate, and as a textbook or reference work. Researchers and professionals can use the book not only to enrich their knowledge of multiobjective optimization and bioinformatics, but also as a comprehensive reference guide to applying and devising novel methods in bioinformatics and related domains.

This book comprises the select proceedings of the Indian Geotechnical Conference (IGC) 2022. The contents focus on recent developments in geotechnical engineering for a sustainable world. The book covers behaviour of soils and soil¿structure interaction, soil stabilization, ground improvement and land reclamation, shallow and deep foundations, geotechnical, geological and geophysical investigation, rock engineering, tunnelling and underground structures, slope stability, landslides and liquefaction, earth retaining structures and deep excavations, geosynthetics engineering, geo-environmental engineering, sustainable geotechnics and landfill design, geo-hydrology, dam and embankment engineering, earthquake geotechnical engineering, transportation geotechnics, forensic geotechnical engineering and retrofitting of geotechnical structures, offshore geotechnics, marine geology and sub-sea site investigation, computational, analytical and numerical modelling, reliability in geotechnical engineering. The contents of this book are useful to researchers and professionals alike.

The edited book serves as a reference on indicators of environmental pollution and how to sustainably ascertain the effects of different pollutants on life forms. It addresses an improved technology for monitoring contaminants, especially in the Global South and beyond, where the level of technology available for sustainable management of environmental quality is limited.Biomonitoring ecosystems' health by using organisms to gather quantitative data on environmental quality is one of the most straightforward and affordable ways to check environmental quality. Since organisms may function as environmental sensors, their use in the direct measurement of environmental quality in the process of biomonitoring studies implicates the health status of various ecosystems. In this regard, microorganisms, higher and lower plants, invertebrates, and vertebrate animals are beneficial since they can detect pollution levels and pollutants in the environment.This book is of interest and useful to toxicologists, water, soil, and air quality experts, practitioners, trainees, and trainers, biological sciences scientists, academicians, researchers, students (especially undergraduates and postgraduates), libraries, and other public knowledge repositories interested in novel and advanced practices in sustainable biomonitoring of environmental pollutants.

This book comprises the select proceedings of the Indian Geotechnical Conference (IGC) 2022. The contents focus on recent developments in geotechnical engineering for a sustainable world. The book covers behaviour of soils and soil¿structure interaction, soil stabilization, ground improvement and land reclamation, shallow and deep foundations, geotechnical, geological and geophysical investigation, rock engineering, tunnelling and underground structures, slope stability, landslides and liquefaction, earth retaining structures and deep excavations, geosynthetics engineering, geo-environmental engineering, sustainable geotechnics and landfill design, geo-hydrology, dam and embankment engineering, earthquake geotechnical engineering, transportation geotechnics, forensic geotechnical engineering and retrofitting of geotechnical structures, offshore geotechnics, marine geology and sub-sea site investigation, computational, analytical and numerical modelling, reliability in geotechnicalengineering. The contents of this book are useful to researchers and professionals alike.

The audience for this series of references is the Pro Citizen with a commitment to excellence, one who needs a framework and relevant information to help prepare and train. CM-1 is the starting point for most as it contains overarching concepts and basic tactical and technical skills that are the bedrock to build on. Mastering the tasks in CM-1 builds a foundation for you to continue to develop and train more complex skillsets or can assist in sharpening your approach as a seasoned tactician or prepper. Understand that this manual is just a starting point that provides some of the necessary foundational competences to build upon with the skills and tasks contained in the other Professional Citizen series manuals and guides.CM-1 covers the basics; it includes proven tactical and technical skills including the contextual fundamentals of shooting, moving dismounted alone and in a tactical formation, communicating, and surviving in a modern unconventional kinetic environment. Approaches to training, gear selection, firearm selection, land navigation, terrain analysis, and foundational survival concepts and principles are all included in the CM-1.

This book highlights recent advances of spectroscopic techniques based on Raman scattering. Different applications are introduced that serve as examples for the versatile use of Raman techniques. Raman spectroscopy is a marker free technique, which is capable of yielding detailed information about molecular systems in a non-destructive way. This makes it a valuable tool for, e.g., material science or medical research. The access to vibrational energy and dynamics yields fundamental insights into static and dynamical structural properties of molecules being influenced by and influencing their material science or medical research environment. The better understanding of the basic building blocks of materials helps to improve the functionality in various applications. Raman spectroscopy has become a truly interdisciplinary research tool, and the ongoing development of techniques makes it attractive for growing variety of scientific and industrial applications, which will be demonstrated in the book. While the ¿classical¿ linear spontaneous Raman spectroscopy is restricted in its applicability due to low signal intensities or the excitation of strong fluorescence background, new techniques have helped to overcome such problems. Examples, presented in the book, are surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS), and various associated techniques are used to drastically increase signal intensity, confocal, and tip-enhanced Raman scattering (TERS) allowing for high and even sub-diffraction limited spatial resolutions, coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) avoiding fluorescence background and allowing for time-resolved observations of vibrational dynamics, or hyper- and resonance Raman scattering influencing the scattering based on electronic resonances, etc.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of fault tolerant control (FTC) for more-electric civil aircraft. FTC is a crucial approach to enhance the reliability and safety of aircraft in the event of actuator, sensor, or structural failures. Engineers and scientists from diverse disciplines, including aeronautics, electrical, mechanical, and control engineering, have been drawn to research on FTC. This book analyzes the impact of faults on performance degradation in dissimilar redundant actuation systems of civil aircraft and presents the FTC methods to ensure reliable actuation and efficient control. Additionally, this book addresses surface damage issues, such as the loss of elevator, horizontal stabilizer, and rudder, by providing representative FTC methods. The book¿s major highlight is its comprehensive and systematic approach to FTC design, making it an ideal resource for readers interested in learning about FTC design for civil aircraft. The book benefits researchers, engineers, and graduate students in the fields of FTC, adaptive control, flight control, etc.