Skip to main content

Elsevier

  • Conn's Current Therapy 2025

    • 1st Edition
    • November 29, 2024
    • Rick D. Kellerman + 1 more
    • English
    **Selected for 2025 Doody’s Core Titles® with "Essential Purchase" designation in Family Medicine and General Internal Medicine**Trusted by clinicians for more than 75 years, Conn’s Current Therapy presents today’s evidence-based information along with the personal experience and discernment of expert physicians. The 2025 edition is a helpful resource for a wide range of healthcare providers, including primary care physicians, subspecialists, and allied health professionals, providing current treatment information in a concise yet in-depth format. Nearly 350 topics have been carefully reviewed and updated to bring you state-of-the-art content in even the most rapidly changing areas of medicine.
  • Smart Prosumers within Smart Grids

    Fundamentals, Methodologies, and Potential for Advancing the Energy Transition
    • 1st Edition
    • November 29, 2024
    • Ahmad Rezaee Jordehi + 2 more
    • English
    Smart Prosumers within Smart Grids: Fundamentals, Methodologies, and Potential for Advancing the Energy Transition provides a primer on the technologies and opportunities of prosumer integration into smart grids. The book begins with a clear introduction to the essential concepts of both smart grids and prosumers, as well as their critical role in renewable energy integration. It then moves through a 360-degree analysis of opportunities for leveraging smart prosumer technology in the smart grid, from the micro (smart homes) to macro (smart distribution networks and interconnected smart power-gas grids).Methodologies to maximize the integration of renewable sources, including critical hydrogen technologies are considered, as well as the potential for smart prosumers to manager reliability challenges of renewable energy and constant change from the energy transition. Implications are considered across sectors, including regulatory, legal, economic, business, and transport infrastructure, and prosumer interactions with other actors such as DSOs, TSOs, retailers, and BPRs are analyzed.
  • Protistology

    • 1st Edition
    • November 29, 2024
    • Sina M. Adl
    • English
    Protistology provides a comprehensive overview on recent developments in understanding the diversity of cell biology, genomic processes, parasite-host interactions, and the evolution of eukaryotes. The book is the first modern treatise on these organisms, walking readers through protistology’s diversity and classification. This book is an ideal supplemental text for upper-level undergraduates and graduate students in microbial ecology, freshwater and marine biology, soil ecology, environmental sciences, or those looking to initiate a course in protistology.
  • Functionalized Nanoclays

    Synthesis and Design for Industrial Applications
    • 1st Edition
    • November 29, 2024
    • Shadpour Mallakpour + 1 more
    • English
    Functionalized Nanoclays: Synthesis and Design for Industrial Applications presents a thorough and in-depth overview of functionalized nanoclays, from an introductory presentation of different nanoclays and their characterization, to their properties, synthesis, fabrication methods, and applications in various industries. The book begins with an introduction to functionalized nanoclays and their composites that is followed by sections dedicated to theoretical aspects and material synthesis. Subsequent chapters cover a broad range of industrial applications, including pollution remediation, sensing, drug delivery, food packaging, and much more.Following sections discuss recent progress in commercialization and standardization for functionalized nanoclays at both experimental and theoretical model scales. The book's final chapter presents research advances and future perspective for functionalized nanoclays as a replacement for traditional materials in diverse applications.
  • Transportation Big Data

    Theory and Methods
    • 1st Edition
    • November 29, 2024
    • Zhiyuan Liu + 2 more
    • English
    Transportation Big Data: Theory and Methods is centered on the big data theory and methods. Big data is now a key topic in transportation, simply because the volume of data has increased exponentially due to the growth in the amount of traffic (all modes) and detectors. This book provides a structured analysis of the commonly used methods for handling transportation big data; it is supported by a wealth of transportation engineering examples, together with codes. It offers a concise, yet comprehensive, description of the key techniques and important tools in transportation big data analysis.
  • Navigating the Management of Hepatocellular Carcinoma, An Issue of Clinics in Liver Disease

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 29-1
    • November 28, 2024
    • Mitchell L Shiffman
    • English
    In this issue of Clinics in Liver Disease, guest editor Dr. Mitchell L. Shiffman brings his considerable expertise to the topic of Navigating the Management of Hepatocellular Carcinoma. Incidence rates of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) have more than tripled since 1980, and death rates have more than doubled during this time. This issue addresses diagnosis, treatment modalities, and surveillance—all with real-world approaches. Selected articles include case histories, revealing how and why decisions were made.
  • Exercise and the Airway, An Issue of Immunology and Allergy Clinics of North America

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 45-1
    • November 28, 2024
    • Laura Graciela Gochicoa Rangel + 1 more
    • English
    In this issue of Immunology and Allergy Clinics, guest editors Drs. J. Tod Olin and Laura Graciela Gochicoa Rangel bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Airway and Exercise. Top experts discuss upper airway disorders as they relate to exercise, with a notable focus on exercise-induced laryngeal obstruction. Other topics include the physiology and diagnostics involved in the care of patients with excessive dynamic airways collapse; mechanisms, diagnostics, and therapeutics for exercise-induced asthma and bronchoconstriction; diagnosing breathing pattern disorders and more.
  • Air Quality

    Science, Impacts, and Management
    • 1st Edition
    • November 28, 2024
    • Ranjeet S. Sokhi
    • English
    Air Quality: Science, Impacts, and Management provides a thorough treatment of the fundamental science of air quality, its interactions, its impacts on health and the environment and management strategies for reducing air pollution in cities, regionally and globally. It begins with fundamentals of the atmosphere and its relevance for air quality before moving logically to sources and emissions, chemical transformation, dynamics, prediction, observations and analysis methods. The importance of regional air pollution and interactions with climate demonstrate the multiscale nature of air quality. The book concludes by examining the impacts on ecosystems and health, reviewing the strategies to manage air pollution and highlighting real-world challenges and possible solutions to improve air quality in global cities. The chapters, written by Ranjeet Sokhi with the collaboration of international experts in the field, are designed to be read sequentially or independently for focused learning in this complex and interdisciplinary field. Air Quality: Science, Impacts, and Management is an excellent resource for students, researchers and professionals in the field of Air Quality and related sciences.
  • Emerging Developments in Constructed Wetlands

    • 1st Edition
    • November 28, 2024
    • Asheesh Kumar Yadav + 3 more
    • English
    Emerging Developments in Constructed Wetlands aims to provide comprehensive, up-to-date information on recent trends and advances in the domain of constructed wetlands. The book contains consolidated insights into distinctive research areas with application potential and commercialization possibilities. It also offers access to updated fundamental knowledge, current trends, and research advances worthy of potential implementations in the field. Although there has been significant research progress in the domain of constructed wetlands over the last years, there is no book available with actual case studies to meet growing demands.
  • Powering through the Transition

    Navigating the Energy Sector’s Biggest Change since the Discovery of Oil
    • 1st Edition
    • November 28, 2024
    • Michael Deighton
    • English
    The energy transition is underway to low carbon, and energy companies need a guide to navigate through the uncertainties while maintaining an agile workforce. Powering through the Transition: Navigating the Energy Sector’s Biggest Change since the Discovery of Oil delivers key principles to achieve performance excellence for energy managers and engineers, utilizing cutting edge tools and techniques around lean, visual management, scrum, agile and margin improvement methods. Practical and user-friendly, the methods introduced are already showing successful tangible results with super major energy companies backed by the author’s 25-year experience. Strong visual graphics through flow charts and graphical abstracts are included as well as smart deployment methods utilizing digital technology and multiskilling of personnel. Rounding out with a glossary of terms and practical examples, Powering through the Transition gives today’s companies a plan to thrive in low carbon energy markets.