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  • The Agricultural Energy Internet

    Theories, Methods, and Future Prospects
    • 1st Edition
    • Xueqian Fu + 1 more
    • English
    The Agricultural Energy Internet: Theories, Methods, and Future Prospects provides a pioneering guide to the grid integration and impact of agricultural energy systems for a distributed and sustainable power grid. This book begins with an introduction to fundamental concepts that is followed by a comprehensive safety analysis considering crop physiological characteristics. Subsequent chapters delve into enhancing the synergy of agriculture, energy, and the environment through carbon monitoring, optimal management strategies for rural microgrids, and distributed energy planning.Later chapters cover system design insights, load modeling, control strategies, and AI-based tools. Designed for engineers, students, and researchers, this book collates the state of research and provides detailed case studies and practical applications, making it indispensable for those innovating in sustainable energy systems.

  • Neuroglia in the Healthy Nervous System, Part I

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 209
    • English
    Neuroglia in the Healthy Nervous System, Part I provides insights into newly emerging developments in neuroglia biology, focusing on the healthy nervous system. Driven by advances in genetics, transcriptomics, electrophysiological... and imaging techniques, this volume bridges the gap between neuroglia basic science and neuroglia clinical research. The book provides an overview of neuroglia biology, highlighting emerging technologies used to unravel the role of neuroglial cells in specific brain functions. The book also discusses strategies using neuroglia as a therapeutic target.

  • Handbook on New Paradigms in Smart Charging for E-Mobility

    Global Trends, Policies, and Practices
    • 1st Edition
    • Abhishek Kumar + 3 more
    • English
    Handbook on New Paradigms in Smart Charging for E-Mobility: Global Trends, Policies and Practices provides a complete package for understanding and developing smart chargers for e-mobility applications. It discusses various concepts required for developing charging infrastructure and usage of different kinds of storage technologies, power electronics converters, controllers, communication requirements, grid infrastructure, sustainable technologies, policy frameworks, and all other related crucial aspects of E-mobility.Each part of the book covers a subdomain of e-mobility, beginning with an introductory chapter reviewing existing literature; the subsequent chapters are arranged to each follow the previous one. Other available books focus on specific technical subdomains of e-mobility, but none provides the wider outlook to meet the requirements of all audiences. This book uniquely brings together topics that are not otherwise easily accessible or available to these audiences.This book will be beneficial for engineers, scientists, and researchers, providing them with a comprehensive standard benchmark work to explore the evolving aspects of charging infrastructure for e-mobility. Further, it will also help policymakers, practitioners and government entities formulate policies for successful implementations of e-motility for their masses. The techno-socio-economi... focus will serve as standard literature for all.

  • Algal Biorefinery

    A Sustainable Solution for Environmental Applications
    • 1st Edition
    • Sanjeet Mehariya + 3 more
    • English
    Algal Biorefinery: A Sustainable Solution for Environmental Applications focuses on algae's possibilities, assets, and functions as a renewable and sustainable resource that can act as an excellent alternative to withstand adverse environmental conditions to generate useful products. Thus, apart from helping reduce environmental pollution and the carbon footprint, algae can help mitigate factors causing rapid climate change via concurrent bioremediation, resource recovery, and environmental sustainability.This comprehensive book will examine dedicated state-of-the-art information on the topic of how algae can act as a cushion against climate change. It will also explain how algal-based biorefineries can act as a potential solution to climate change, lack of natural resources, and environmental pollution

  • Coronary Artery Disease and Heart Failure, An issue of Heart Failure Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 21-2
    • Ragavendra R. Baliga + 1 more
    • English
    In this issue of Heart Failure Clinics, guest editors Drs. Jyothi Puthumana and Ragavendra R. Baliga bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Coronary Artery Disease and Heart Failure. Top experts in the field discuss coronary angiography for assessment of ischemia in CAD; cardiac PET imaging in CAD and HF; coronary flow reserve by multiple modalities in CAD and HF; coronary microvascular dysfunction: identification, special populations, and management strategies; cardiac MRI in CAD and HF; and much more.

  • Promoting Health

    The Primary Health Care Approach
    • 8th Edition
    • Jane Taylor + 1 more
    • English
    Promoting Health: The Primary Health Care Approach 8e supports a broad range of practitioners to understand the key values, principles, concepts and practices of health promotion in a primary health care context and apply these in their everyday work as health professionals.The book comprehensively explores the role of structural and systemic determinants of health and health equity, and the social, cultural, economic, commercial, political, natural and built environments.Fully updated throughout, the eighth edition addresses current global and local issues that impact on population health, including political and economic instability, climate change and pandemics.

  • Electrochemical Power Sources: Fundamentals, Systems, and Applications

    Advanced Industrial Lead–Acid Batteries
    • 1st Edition
    • Eduardo Cattaneo + 2 more
    • English
    Advanced Industrial Lead-Acid Batteries, the latest release in the Electrochemical Power Sources: Fundamentals, Systems, and Applications series, presents a detailed accounting of reserve and motive power industrial lead-acid batteries, also including recent developments and new applications. Lead-acid batteries (LAB) for reserve and motive power applications have, in recent years, undergone an evolutionary process triggered by novel developments in telecommunication, information technology, material handling, and renewable energy applications. This book details those advances, giving users the latest information on this rapidly advancing field.

  • Diagnostic Imaging: Cardiovascular

    • 3rd Edition
    • Suhny Abbara + 1 more
    • English
    Covering the entire spectrum of this fast-changing field, the third edition of Diagnostic Imaging: Cardiovascular, Third Edition is an invaluable, everyday resource for general, cardiac, thoracic, and vascular radiologists as well as cardiologists and trainees—anyone who requires an easily accessible, highly visual reference in this complex area of imaging. Drs. Suhny Abbara, Seth Kligerman, and a team of highly regarded experts provide up-to-date information in concise yet detailed chapters to help you make informed decisions at the point of care. The text is meticulously illustrated, precisely delineated, and extensively referenced, making it a useful learning tool for readers at all levels of experience as well as a handy reference for daily clinical practice.

  • Comprehensive Review of Infectious Diseases

    • 2nd Edition
    • Andrej Spec + 3 more
    • English
    With complete coverage of the most frequently encountered concepts and conditions in infectious disease, Comprehensive Review of Infectious Diseases, Second Edition, is perfect for board review or quick reference in clinical practice. This balanced, high-yield resource uses a high-yield, bulleted outline format of the entire field, with summary tables, boxes, key figures, clinical pearls, mnemonics and memory aids—exactly the information you need for exam preparation or a concise clinical review. This updated second edition has been edited and written by authors who have recently taken the boards and excelled, and who understand the challenges posed by this complex field of study and practice.

  • Bio-waste-derived Carbon Materials and their Applications, especially as Sensors

    • 1st Edition
    • Sushma Dave + 2 more
    • English
    Bio-waste-derived Carbon Materials and their Applications Especially as Sensors highlights the role of carbon nanomaterials as bio-(sensors) in several fields, presenting key achievements to date in the areas of biosensor-based diagnostics and environmental applications. The book brings together the knowledge of key researchers from different areas of biosensors research, including an explanation of biomass carbonization by pyrolysis and hydrothermal methods, and its use as a cost-effective strategy for fabrication of electrodes for biosensing applications, along with a comparison of synthetic and bio-derived carbon materials and discussion of various techniques used to improve the surface properties of carbon nanomaterials to enhance the electrocatalytic behaviour of working electrodes. The book highlights the promising technology of biosensors in the field of health care and the environment and explains the methods available, presenting current strategies and future perspectives for bio-(sensor) based diagnosis using carbon materials as sensing materials.

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