This book tells the story of the First World War from the perspective of the Basque Country. It recounts the background to the First World War, to set context, and talks about how this war was experienced in the Basque Country including the after-effects it left behind, especially the human devastation wrought by the war. The social, economic, and political consequences it had in the Basque Country are discussed in this work, as it is clear that this conflict had a decisive influence on th...

Long-Acting Drug Delivery Systems: Pharmaceutical, Clinical, and Regulatory Aspects

Provides comprehensive coverage of microneedles for delivering and monitoring patient drugs and vaccinesMicroneedles are an incredibly active research area and have the potential to revolutionize the way many medicines and vaccines are delivered. This comprehensive research book covers the major aspects relating to the use of microneedle arrays in enhancing both transdermal and intradermal drug delivery and provides a sound background to the use of microneedle arra...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11 workshops co-located with the 16th International Conference on Practical Applications of Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, PAAMS 2018, held in Toledo, Spain, in June 2018.The 47 full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 72 submissions. The volume presents the papers that have been accepted for the following workshops: Workshop on Agents and Multi-agent Systems for AAL and e-HEALTH; Workshop on Agent based ...

This book gravitates on the prominent theories and recent developments of swarm intelligence methods, and their application in both synthetic and real-world optimization problems. The special interest will be placed in those algorithmic variants where biological processes observed in nature have underpinned the core operators underlying their search mechanisms. In other words, the book centers its attention on swarm intelligence and nature-inspired methods for efficient optimization and pr...

SPEC – Long-Acting Drug Delivery Systems: Pharmaceutical, Clinical, and Regulatory Aspects, 12-Month Access, eBook

This book gathers a wealth of research contributions on recent advances in intelligent and distributed computing, and which present both architectural and algorithmic findings in these fields. A major focus is placed on new techniques and applications for evolutionary computation, swarm intelligence, multi-agent systems, multi-criteria optimization and Deep/Shallow machine learning models, all of which are approached as technological drivers to enable autonomous reasoning and decision-maki...