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  • Microbial Biotechnology: Integrated Microbial Engineering for B3 – Bioenergy, Bioremediation, and Bioproducts

    • 1st Edition
    • May 15, 2025
    • Maulin P. Shah + 1 more
    • English
    This book highlights the latest advancements in microbial biotechnology and its crucial role in promoting sustainable development across three key areas: bioenergy, bioremediation, and bioproducts.It emphasizes the potential of microbes as renewable, sustainable resources capable of generating high-value products and acting as efficient alternatives to conventional methods. Key topics included algal, bacterial, and fungal biotechnology, focusing on producing biomass and valuable metabolites through CO2 sequestration, concurrent bioremediation, resource recovery, and environmental sustainability. This book presents cutting-edge information on how integrated microbial engineering can valorize waste while sustainably generating essential resources. Additionally, it explores how microbes can help address critical challenges, such as resource depletion and pollution management, offering solutions for a more sustainable future.

  • Langmuir-Blodgett Films

    Fundamentals to Applications
    • 1st Edition
    • May 15, 2025
    • Syed Arshad Hussain
    • English
    Langmuir-Blodgett Films: Fundamentals to Applications is a comprehensive resource on the formation, properties, and applications of ultrathin molecular films. It covers the fundamental principles of monolayer formation at the air-water interface, deposition techniques, and their characterization. The book explores the electrical, optical, and mechanical properties of Langmuir-Blodgett (LB) films, highlighting their applications in sensors, organic electronics, coatings, and nanotechnology. It also discusses recent advancements, including nanomaterial integration and biomedical uses.With a balance of theory and practical insights, Langmuir-Blodgett Films: Fundamentals to Applications is essential for researchers, engineers, and students working in surface science, thin films, and materials chemistry.

  • Water Footprints

    Achieving Sustainable Development Goals
    • 1st Edition
    • May 15, 2025
    • Amit Kumar + 3 more
    • English
    Water Footprints: Achieving Sustainable Development Goals serves as a comprehensive resource for professors, students, researchers, water resources planners, and managers working on natural science and engineering, addressing critical issues related to water footprints and their impact on environmental sustainability goals, especially the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Edited by global experts in the field, this book delves into the intricacies of water usage, offering a detailed exploration of its environmental impacts. By incorporating unique case studies and practical applications in every chapter, this book adopts a holistic approach to water use, integrating perspectives from environmental science, agriculture, and engineering.This interdisciplinary approach aims to present sustainable solutions to the growing challenge of ecological constraints while contributing to the achievement of the UN SDGs. Moreover, it addresses current management and policy concerns, highlighting the need for updated governance measures, particularly in light of international frameworks like the UNFCCC Paris Agreement.

  • Flame Retardant Selection for Polymers

    • 1st Edition
    • May 15, 2025
    • Henri Vahabi + 2 more
    • English
    Flame Retardant Selection for Polymers provides readers with step-by-step guidance on how to select and apply flame retardants for polymers. Written by experts in the field of flame retardancy worldwide, this book seeks to consider the types of polymers and their applications in different sectors, providing in-depth information about the beneficial aspects of choosing each sort of flame retardant and supporting readers in selection of the best flame retardant additives. Regional and global features of flame retardant development and legislations as well as future perspective from circularity viewpoint are also covered.This book is a practical guide and valuable resource to researchers and industrial professionals interested in fundamental principles of flame retardant selection for polymers, as well as the basic needs for processing and commercialization of flame retardant polymers.

  • Advanced Technologies in Wastewater Treatment

    Food, Pharmaceutical and Chemical Industry
    • 1st Edition
    • May 15, 2025
    • Roberto Castro-Muñoz + 2 more
    • English
    Food, Pharmaceutical and Chemical Industry: Advanced Technologies in Wastewater Treatment provides an overview of current techniques, processes, and strategies in the field of wastewater management, dealing either with the recovery of co-products, biomolecules or simply water recovery and purification. The book highlights the latest developments in different areas of agro-food productions, focusing on innovative technologies and control strategies in the treatment of wastewaters derived from different industries, including dairy, seafood processing plants, olive oil manufacturing factories, fruit juice and beverage, wine and beer and various other food processing facilities.In addition, it features technologies and processes ranging from adsorption-assisted technologies, advanced oxidation processes, hydrodynamic cavitation, pressure-driven membrane technologies, algae-based treatments, membrane bioreactors, engineered composite materials-based treatments, photocatalysis-based treatments, and ultrasound-assisted electrochemical processes.

  • Fisioterapia oncológica y cuidados paliativos

    • 1st Edition
    • May 14, 2025
    • Marta Gómez Nicolás
    • Spanish
    Fisioterapia oncológica y cuidados paliativos es una guía diseñada para ofrecer a los fisioterapeutas recursos prácticos basados en la más reciente evidencia científica, con el objetivo de mejorar la calidad de vida de los pacientes con cáncer. Desde una perspectiva integral y actualizada de la fisioterapia oncológica y los cuidados paliativos, presenta las secuelas físicas más comunes derivadas tanto de la enfermedad como de sus tratamientos, incluyendo aquellas a menudo subestimadas en la práctica clínica, y proporciona estrategias eficaces para su manejo. Su combinación de amplitud temática, enfoque práctico y actualización científica convierten esta obra en un recurso esencial para fisioterapeutas, oncólogos y otros profesionales de la salud que buscan una comprensión completa y aplicada de la fisioterapia en oncología, y también para estudiantes de fisioterapia que deseen especializarse y profundizar en este campo.

  • Updates on Covid-19, An Issue of Infectious Disease Clinics of North America

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 39-2
    • May 14, 2025
    • Rajesh T. Gandhi + 1 more
    • English
    In this issue of Infectious Disease Clinics of North America, guest editors Drs. Rajesh T. Gandhi and Michael R. Jordan bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Updates on COVID-19. Top experts provide updates on recent advances in diagnosis, treatment, viral protection, and vaccinations, offering infectious disease physicians state-of-the-art clinical and scientific information. With research ongoing and many unanswered questions, this content is key to help stay abreast of current research and clinical information on COVID-19.

  • Health and Genes: Expanding Foundational Nursing Knowledge, An Issue of Nursing Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 60-2
    • May 14, 2025
    • Sarah Dewell + 1 more
    • English
    In this issue of Nursing Clinics of North America, guest editors Sarah Dewell and Trina Walker bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Health and Genes: Expanding Foundational Nursing Knowledge. Genetics is now influencing assessment, diagnosis, and management across all areas of practice, and in this issue, top experts explore the connection between health, genes, and nursing care. Articles equip nurses with an understanding of basic genomic concepts and principles, how they are used in practice, and how they will shape future nursing care - including key topics such as pharmacogenomics.

  • Synoptic Analysis and Forecasting

    An Introductory Toolkit
    • 2nd Edition
    • May 14, 2025
    • Shawn Milrad
    • English
    Synoptic Analysis and Forecasting: An Introductory Toolkit, Second Edition provides a bridge between early meteorology courses and more advanced courses in synoptic-dynamic analysis. This valuable reference also imparts qualitative weather analysis and forecasting tools and techniques to researchers and practitioners who require deeper foundational knowledge of weather forecasting. Sections introduce readers to surface weather instrumentation, observations, and plots, radiosondes and upper-air charts, a process-based guide to understanding the motion and intensity of cyclones, anticyclones, fronts, and the diagnosis of vertical motion and associated large-scale weather conditions.After learning about the applications of modern satellite and radar imagery to synoptic analysis and forecasting, readers are provided a complete three-dimensional picture of the troposphere through thermodynamic diagram and sounding analysis techniques. This invaluable resource offers strong support for building qualitative weather observation, analysis, and forecasting skills.

  • Innovative Creep Analysis Methods

    101 Solved Problems
    • 1st Edition
    • May 14, 2025
    • Vahid Monfared
    • English
    Innovative Creep Analysis Methods: 101 Solved Problems provides analytical insight and solutions to commonly encountered problems involving creep deformation of materials. The book provides fundamental insight into the phenomenon of creep, methods for analyzing elasticity and plasticity problems, outlines the effects of atomic number and atomic weight on creep, as well as simulation techniques for elasto-plastic deformation in composites by flow-rule. Creep formulations and computational modeling techniques are provided throughout. Each problem presented is meticulously solved with detailed explanations and step-by-step instructions, ensuring that readers grasp the underlying concepts. Problems featured include predicting principal creep stress in fibrous composites, obtaining creep strain rate in nickel, obtaining creep-rupture life in alloy S-590, finding nonlinear isochronous curves with Ramberg-Osgood Form, finding the strain formulation in a viscoelastic model, obtaining maximum creep stress in beam and elastic deflection, deformation of creep plastically, calculating minimum creep strain rate, and much more.

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