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PET imaging in cardiovascular inflammation: Cardiac sarcoidosis
(2022)Nuclear Medicine and Molecular Imaging. Volume 3: Positron Emission Tomography StudiesSarcoidosis is a granulomatous disease of which the etiology remains unknown. Cardiac death is the leading cause of mortality in patients with sarcoidosis, yet cardiac involvement often remains undetected. A proper clinical management should be started as early as possible in order to avoid complications such as conduction disturbance, systolic dysfunction, and even sudden cardiac death. Cardiac fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission ...Encyclopedia Entry -
A Diversity of Primary Producers in Lakes
(2022)Encyclopedia of Inland WatersAim: We present the current state of knowledge with regards to the biodiversity of phytoplankton in lakes. We introduce the main concepts of biodiversity and review the mechanisms regulating phytoplankton diversity at local and regional scales. We also list the main methods to study phytoplankton diversity and offer a set of case studies for further reading. Main concepts: What is biodiversity at the local and regional scale (taxonomic, ...Encyclopedia Entry -
Resource Recovery from Human Excreta in Urban and Regional Settlements
(2021)The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional FuturesEncyclopedia Entry -
Technological Change and Grand Strategy
(2021)The Oxford Handbook of Grand StrategyWhat is the relationship between technological change and grand strategy? Can great powers promote technological trends that allow them to pursue specific grand-strategic goals? Or is technological change beyond the reach of great powers, and thus it acts like an independent enabler or an independent constraint? This book chapter by CSS' Sophie-Charlotte Fischer, Andrea Gilli and CSS' Mauro Gilli provides a brief introduction to the ...Encyclopedia Entry -
Bio-Based organic and hydroxy acid production with corynebacterium glutamicum
(2021)The Encyclopedia of Bacteriology Research DevelopmentsOrganic acids are used in several industrial sectors, such as food or pharmaceutical industry and serve as building block chemicals for a vast variety of products. Up to date many of them are obtained from petrochemical resources, implementing energy intensive chemical refining and waste production with a high environmental impact [1]. The enormous annual demand requests the development of efficient and sustainable bioprocesses for organic ...Encyclopedia Entry -
User Motivations in Peer Production
(2021)Handbooks in Communication and Media ~ The Handbook of Peer ProductionEncyclopedia Entry -
Policy Instruments to Reduce Carbon Emissions From Road Transport
(2021)International Encyclopedia of TransportationThis paper surveys policy instruments aiming at reducing carbon emissions from road transport. We present the basic economic framework used to evaluate environmental policy instruments and discuss the challenges and limitations it faces, which are important enough to justify departures from the first-best instrument (Pigouvian tax). We then discuss a number of policy instruments, including fuel and mileage taxes, standards, different forms ...Encyclopedia Entry -
Regulation | Metabolite channeling in energy metabolism
(2021)Encyclopedia of Biological Chemistry IIIMetabolite channeling is a general mechanism to increase efficiency of sequential reactions in a metabolic pathway. It describes the transfer of intermediates between sequential enzymes without equilibration of these metabolites with the surrounding bulk solution, forming so-called metabolons or microcompartments. It is structurally based on colocalization or complex formation of the participating enzymes and on specific diffusion ...Encyclopedia Entry -
Solar Energy Communities in the Urban Environment
(2021)The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Urban and Regional FuturesEncyclopedia Entry -
Potential of Fullerenes for Photodynamic Therapy Application
(2021)Handbook of Fullerene Science and TechnologySince the initial reports on 1O2 generation from C60 and C70 by Foote in 1991 and photo DNA cleavage activity of water-soluble C60 derivative by Nakamura in 1993, many studies have been reported on the use of fullerenes (C60 and C70) in photodynamic therapy (PDT). The advantages of fullerenes as photosensitizers (PSs) in PDT include high quantum yield in the generation of reactive oxygen species (ROSs) and a relatively long excitation ...Encyclopedia Entry