This volume broadens understanding of dentistry and promotes interdisciplinary research across a wide range of related fields, based on the symposium entitled "Innovative Research for Biosis–Abiosis Intelligent Interface 2016". It aims to create highly functional and autonomic intelligent interface by combining highly functional interface science with the technology of an evaluation and a con…
This book offers 19 detailed protocols on the use of induced mutations in crop breeding and functional genomics studies, which cover topics including chemical and physical mutagenesis, phenotypic screening methods, traditional TILLING and TILLING by sequencing, doubled haploidy, targeted genome editing, and low-cost methods for the molecular characterization of mutant plants that are suitable f…
The world is faced with an epidemic of metabolic diseases such as obesity and type 2 diabetes. This is due to changes in dietary habits and the decrease in physical activity. Exercise is usually part of the prescription, the first line of defense, to prevent or treat metabolic disorders. However, we are still learning how and why exercise provides metabolic benefits in human health. This open a…
This book summarizes presentations and discussions from the two-day international workshop held at UC Berkeley in March 2015, and derives questions to be addressed in multi-disciplinary research toward a new paradigm of nuclear safety. The consequences of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident in March 2011 have fuelled the debate on nuclear safety: while there were no casualties due to radiati…
The book presents the results of an in-depth comparative study assessing the implementation of the EU Pharmacovigilance Directive in six EU Member States. By going beyond legal transposition and instead focusing on practical implementation, this study aims to close a gap in EU compliance research. Based on qualitative interviews with relevant actors in Germany, Poland, Portugal, France, Finland…
Innovation from A to Z presents a glossary, including: Terms, older terms whose meanings have changed, acronyms, synonyms, famous names, selected abbreviations, and cross-references. A highly interdisciplinary approach incorporating strategy and entrepreneurship with technology and engineering sciences, economics, marketing, organizational behavior and theory. Ideal for engineers, managers, sal…
This open access book presents 18 case studies that explore current scientific and technological efforts to address global development issues, such as poverty, from a holistic and interdisciplinary point of view, putting actual impacts at the centre of its analysis. It illustrates the use of technologies for development in various fields of research, such as humanitarian action, medical and inf…
Malaria was considered one of the most widespread disease-causing entities in the nineteenth century. It was associated with a variety of frailties far beyond fevers, ranging from idiocy to impotence. And yet, it was not a self-contained category. The reconsolidation of malaria as a diagnostic category during this period happened within a wider context in which cinchona plants and their most va…
Speech-language pathology has different practice and research histories, standards, methods, and challenges in different countries and regions. Awareness of these different realities may contribute to the scientific development of the field and improve the services delivered to different populations. Sharing solutions to similar problems in different contexts can increase evidence-based practic…
Covid-19 telah berdampak pada berbagai bidang dan sektor. Dengan adanya teknologi informasi yang semakin canggih, perubahan dan dampak tersebut dapat dipantau dan diperoleh dengan mudah dan hampir real time. Laporan ini memberikan hasil kajian penggunaan big data untuk mengukur dampak Covid-19 pada tingkat mobilitas masyarakat, kualitas udara, jumlah penerbangan komersial domestik maupun intern…
Penyajian hasil survei sosial demografi dampak COVID-19 ini menyajikan data dan informasi perubahan perilaku dan keadaan sosial ekonomi responden survei. Penyajian statistik tambahan (additional statistics) ini bertujuan untuk memberikan informasi kepada para pemangku kepentingan, guna menyusun perencanaan serta langkah-langkah cepat dan strategis dalam menghadapi pandemi ini, baik itu untuk pe…
Penyakit COVID-19 telah menimbulkan kepanikan pada masyarakat dunia dan ditetapkan oleh WHO sebagai kejadian pandemik. Sangat diperlukan penjelasan tentang penyakit coronavirus yang mudah diterima oleh pasien, keluarga, dan masyarakat berdasarkan kepustakaan ilmiah yang ada, untuk mengurangi kepanikan dan memberi pengetahuan cara mencegah penyakit ini. Buku ini merupakan rangkuman referensi …
Seiring dengan Dies Natalis UT ke 33, Fakultas Ekonomi Universitas Terbuka (FE UT) mempersembahkan buku yang diberi judul Kewirausahaan Dalam Multi Perspektif. Pemilihan judul ini dilatarbelakangi oleh kondisi dimana hingga abad 21 ini masalah pengangguran dan kemiskinan masih bercokol di belahan dunia manapun. Kita tahu persis banyak program pembangunan yang sudah digulirkan dimana jutaan dola…
With increasing urgency, decisions about the digitalized future of healthcare and implementations of new assistive technologies are becoming focal points of societal and scientific debates and addresses large audiences. Decisions require a careful weighing of risks and benefits and contextualizing in-depth ethical analysis with robust empirical data. However, up to now, research on social assis…
Food insecurity is a complex ‘wicked’ problem that results from a range of unstable and uncertain physical, social, cultural and economic factors that limits access to nutritious food. Globally, 800 million people are under-nourished, and around 2 billion are overweight/obese or have micronutrient deficiency. These populations are largely positioned in developing countries where disease bur…
Pandemi global COVID-19 telah melahirkan kegamangan tata kelola penanganan dihampir semua negara, terlepas dari apapun tingkat kemajuan ekonomi dan teknologi serta karakter politiknya. Sistem manajemen krisis standar kehilangan relevansi, memaksa pemerintah mengambil kebijakan yang cenderung trial and error. Indonesia menghadapi tantangan serupa. Situasi ini diperparah dengan adanya politisasi …
Statistically, women appear to suffer more frequently from depressive and anxiety disorders, featuring more regularly in primary care figures for consultations, diagnoses and prescriptions for psychotropic medication. This has been consistently so throughout the post-war period with current figures suggesting that women are approximately twice more likely to suffer from affective disorders than…
n this Special Issue of Brain Sciences, we will be discussing “Mental Illness in Children” from a range of perspectives, exploring the prevalence and recognition of mental disorders in children, the types of disorders and approaches to meeting their needs, and the complexity and severity of mental health problems in children. We look to what models of care best respond to children’s needs…
This book sheds light on the influence of the environment on people’s mental health. To what extent are exposures to green space, air pollution, natural disasters, etc. related to depression or suicide? Such questions are relevant for both scientists and policy-makers. A rich collection of chapters subsumes current research frontiers originating from disciplines such as geography, public heal…
Booklet “Tips Keamanan Pangan Edisi Ramadhan + Tips khusus mencegah Covid-19” merupakan persembahan Badan POM untuk masyarakat Indonesia, dengan harapan booklet ini dapat digunakan sebagai bahan edukasi keamanan pangan dan memberikan kontribusi dalam meningkatkan pengetahuan dan kesadaran masyarakat terhadap keamanan pangan.