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    • Feedback Control and Adaptive Learning in Optical-Tweezer Robotics

      • 1st Edition
      • September 24, 2025
      • Xiang Li + 2 more
      • English
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      Feedback Control and Adaptive Learning in Optical-Tweezer Robotics is a comprehensive guide to merging robotic feedback control with optical trapping techniques in cell manipulation. It begins by providing foundational knowledge in dynamic modeling and control theory, essential for understanding optical-tweezer robotics' complexities. The book explores optical trapping principles, discussing traditional approaches' constraints and challenges. It then introduces a unified control methodology designed for dynamic adaptation to cell movement and escape scenarios, highlighting the importance of closed-loop control strategies in navigating the interaction between optical forces and robotic manipulation.Additio... the book delves into adaptive learning algorithms for real-time adjustments in unknown trapping stiffness, addressing challenges like limited field of view, stochastic disturbances, and handling multiple cells. It integrates open-access simulations and real-world experiments to reinforce theoretical concepts, offering practical examples. This unified approach's potential impact on biomedicine, biotechnology, and microscale robotics is emphasized, making it an invaluable resource for readers in these fields.

    • Special Volume on Kogia Biology: Part 3

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 100
      • September 23, 2025
      • English
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      Special Volume on Kogia Biology, Part Three, Volume 100 presents reviews on all aspects of marine biology. Published since 1963, this serial updates on marine biology, fisheries science, ecology, zoology and biological oceanography. Topics include Stranding data of Kogia spp. from the seas around Japan, The biology of pygmy sperm whales (Kogia breviceps) from New Zealand waters, Age, growth and reproduction of pygmy (Kogia breviceps) and dwarf (K. sima) sperm whales stranded in South Africa, The fast lane revisited: life history strategy of Kogia spp, and Stomach content analysis of pygmy and dwarf sperm whales and its ecological implications: is there niche partitioning?

    • A Snapshot of Molecular Electronic Structure Theory and its Applications

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 92
      • September 23, 2025
      • English
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      A Snapshot of Molecular Electronic Structure Theory and its Applications, Volume 92 in the Advances in Quantum Chemistry series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on topics such as Polynomial expression of variable precision of molecular integrals for orbital exponents and atomic distances over STO, A first step towards the development of exchange-correlation functionals from X-ray diffraction data, Quantum Mechanical Insights into the Properties of Graphene-like Zinc Oxide (g-ZnO), Theoretical study of structural aspects and interactions between Ederavone and Cucurbit(7)uril, Time dependent potential models for atomic spectroscopy in atmospheric plasmas, and much more.Additional chapters cover Anionic resonances of Mg and Ca from an electron propagator based on a multiconfigurational reference state and a complex absorbing potential, Massively Lockstep-Parallel Algorithms for Full-Isomerspace Geometry Optimization, A Comprehensive Investigation of the Dirac-like Equation. A case study hydrogen-like atomic and molecular systems, Many-Body Expansion of systems from Hydrogen bonded systems to Light Nuclear Systems, and more.

    • Robotics and Artificial Intelligence for Reproductive Medicine

      • 1st Edition
      • September 22, 2025
      • Guanqiao Shan + 3 more
      • English
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      Robotics and Artificial Intelligence for Reproductive Medicine provides fundamental principles underpinning robotic and AI techniques used for reproductive medicine. The book provides the state-of-the-art technical advances in clinical infertility treatment, along with the outlook on future challenges and opportunities of robotics and AI in reproductive medicine. It covers robotics, AI, computer vision, biomedical engineering, and reproductive medicine.

    • Development of Sensory Organs

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 165
      • September 22, 2025
      • English
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      Current Topics in Developmental Biology series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors.

    • Artificial Intelligence in Food Science

      • 1st Edition
      • September 22, 2025
      • Tanmay Sarkar + 1 more
      • English
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      Artificial Intelligence in Food Science: Transforming Food and Bioprocess Development covers the AI and machine learning techniques that are reshaping the food science landscape, introducing innovative solutions to improve food processing, safety, and sustainability. This book delves into the transformative potential of these cutting-edge technologies, exploring how they optimize food production, enhance bioprocess development, and tailor products to meet specific consumer needs. By integrating AI, researchers and industry professionals can address challenges such as resource efficiency and quality assurance, paving the way for a more sustainable and technologically advanced food system.Beyond optimization, the book examines AI applications in predicting food trends, analyzing complex datasets, and developing personalized nutrition plans. It provides insights into how AI enhances food storage, packaging design, and even consumer engagement through predictive models. With detailed case studies and forward-thinking perspectives, this book serves as a comprehensive guide for harnessing AI's power to revolutionize food science and bioprocess innovations.

    • Feature Extraction and Image Processing for Computer Vision

      • 5th Edition
      • September 22, 2025
      • Mark Nixon + 1 more
      • English
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      Feature Extraction and Image Processing for Computer Vision, Fifth Edition is an essential guide to the implementation of image processing and computer vision techniques, with tutorial introductions and sample code in MATLAB and Python. Algorithms are presented and fully explained to enable complete understanding of the methods and techniques demonstrated, providing a link between theory and implementation. Essential background theory is carefully explained. This text gives students and researchers in image processing and computer vision a complete introduction to classic and state-of-the art methods in feature extraction together with practical guidance on their implementation.

    • Deep Learning in Drug Design

      • 1st Edition
      • September 22, 2025
      • Qifeng Bai + 2 more
      • English
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      Deep Learning in Drug Design: Methods and Applications summarizes the most recent methods, and technological advances of deep learning for drug design, which mainly consists of molecular representations, the architectures of deep learning, geometric deep learning, large models, etc., as well as deep learning applications in various aspects of drug design. This book offers a comprehensive academic overview of deep learning in drug design. It begins with molecular representations, CNNs, GNNs, Transformers, generative models, explainable AI, large models, etc. Next, it covers deep learning applications like protein structure prediction, molecular interactions, ADMET prediction, antibody design, and so on. Finally, a separate chapter is dedicated to the introduction of the ethics and regulation of artificial intelligence in drug design. This book is ideal for readers aiming to learn and implement deep learning methods and applications in drug design and related fields.Deep Learning in Drug Design: Methods and Applications is particularly helpful to undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students in need of a practical guide to the principles of the discipline. Established researchers in the area will benefit from the detailed case studies and algorithms presented.

    • Social Anxiety

      • 4th Edition
      • September 20, 2025
      • Patricia M. DiBartolo + 1 more
      • English
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      Social Anxiety: Clinical, Developmental, and Social Perspectives, Fourth Edition provides a comprehensive psychosocial view of social anxiety: what it is; how it is related to shyness, perfectionism, and similar phenomenon; why it develops; and how best to assess and treat it in its clinical manifestation. All chapters are fully updated and each section includes new, timely topics shaped by developments in the field and society. This volume focuses on psychosocial perspectives, including those from social, clinical, and developmental psychology, with strong coverage of the complex ways in which development and social ecology necessarily interact and inform our understanding of social anxiety and social anxiety disorder.

    • Introduction to Radiative Heat Transfer

      • 1st Edition
      • September 19, 2025
      • Michael F. Modest
      • English
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      Introduction to Radiative Heat Transfer offers students and instructors a more concise and affordable alternative to the comprehensive textbook Radiative Heat Transfer. Retaining essential content for a one-semester senior undergraduate or graduate course on thermal radiation, this book preserves the hallmark features of its predecessor. It includes excellent writing, historical highlights, and clear, consistent notations throughout, making it an ideal resource for learning the fundamentals and applications of radiative heat transfer. Other important points about the book include its numerous worked examples, a large number of problems based on real-world scenarios, and an up-to-date bibliography.The book integrates radiative heat transfer with other heat transfer modes in a coherent manner, emphasizing the core principles. It serves as a valuable tool for understanding thermal radiation and its interactions in practical situations.

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