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  • Electric Vehicle Tribology

    Challenges and Opportunities for a Sustainable Transportation Future
    • 1st Edition
    • Leonardo Israel Farfan Cabrera + 1 more
    • English
    Electric Vehicle Tribology: Challenges and Opportunities for a Sustainable Transportation Future provides practical, comprehensive guidance on a new and increasingly important area of tribology. Building skills from fundamentals to solution design, this book demonstrates the unique tribological techniques essential to the efficient electrification of transport systems. Led by Professors with a combined three decades in industry and academia, and collecting insights from experts around the world, this book begins with the essential knowledge regarding both Electric Vehicles and tribology.After outlining the unique tribological needs of EVs, the book then breaks down the components and hardware required. It provides detailed protocols and methods for the testing and improvement of lubricants and materials, as well as a dedicated section on modern lubrication specific to EVs. Throughout, it considers the critical question of sustainable tribology, and the long-term sustainable options for lubrication and materials for electric vehicles.

  • Mechanoluminescence in Organic and Inorganic Compounds

    Basic Concepts, Instrumentation, and Applications
    • 1st Edition
    • Vikas Dubey + 3 more
    • English
    Mechanoluminescence in Organic and Inorganic Compounds: Basic Concepts, Instrumentation, and Applications provides a comprehensive overview of mechanoluminescence for newly qualified researchers and scientists across multiple related fields. It serves as a guide for budding scientists to advance in the field through various applications covered in this book, such as energy, mechanics, medicine, and optics. This reference shines light on the pros and cons of utilizing organic or inorganic mechanoluminescent materials, making it a handy tool for researchers worldwide involved in luminescence and applications such as optoelectronics, sensors, forensics, displays, energy harvesting, and smart robotics. The editors and their expert contributors summarize these applications, making it a valuable resource for academics, researchers, and those working in industry.Mechanolumi... in Organic and Inorganic Compounds contains broad coverage, which progresses from theory to applications, serves as a complete reference of global research and experience, which will work to inform and guide the development of more efficient devices for the future.

  • Interstellar Travel

    Propulsion, Life Support, Communications, and the Long Journey
    • 1st Edition
    • Les Johnson + 1 more
    • English
    Interstellar Travel: Propulsion, Life Support, Communications, and the Long Journey addresses the technical challenges that must be overcome to make such journeys possible. Leading experts in the fields of space propulsion, power, communication, navigation, crew selection, safety and health provide detailed information about state-of-the-art technologies and approaches for each challenge, along with possible methods based on real science and engineering. This book offers in-depth, up-to-date and realistic technical and scientific considerations in the pursuit of interstellar travel and will be an essential reference for scientists, engineers, researchers and academics working on, or interested in, space development and space technologies. With a renewed interest in space exploration and development evidenced by the rise of the commercial space sector and various governments now planning to send humans back to the moon and to Mars, there is also growing interest in taking the next steps beyond the solar system and to the ultimate destination – planets circling other stars. With the rapid growth in the number of known exoplanets, people are now asking how we might make journeys to visit them.

  • Disorders and Treatment of the Cerebral Venous System, An Issue of Neurosurgery

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 35-3
    • Shahid Nimjee
    • English
    In this issue of Neurosurgery Clinics, guest editor Dr. Shahid M. Nimjee brings his considerable expertise to the topic of Disorders and Treatment of the Cerebral Venous System. Top experts in the field cover key topics such as pulsatile tinnitus; cavernous sinus thrombosis; venous angiomas; venous sinus shunt implantation for hydrocephalus; and more.

  • Small Animal Endoscopy, An Issue of Veterinary Clinics of North America: Small Animal Practice

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 54-4
    • Elsevier Clinics
    • Boel Fransson
    • English
    In this issue of Veterinary Clinics: Small Animal Practice, guest editor Dr. Boel A. Fransson brings her considerable expertise to the topic of Small Animal Endoscopy. Top experts discuss minimally invasive surgical (MIS) procedures which have come of age within the past several years, including surgical technique, case selection, outcome, and complications. Articles also cover the available technology to augment MIS, developments on skills training opportunities, and the future of veterinary robotic surgery.

  • Custom Power Devices for Efficient Distributed Energy Systems

    • 1st Edition
    • Ahmed Al-Durra + 2 more
    • English
    Custom Power Devices for Efficient Distributed Energy Systems presents a range of novel ideas and concepts based on renewable energy-fed power generation and control, offering avenues to efficient utilization and improved power quality and addressing power quality issues such as harmonics compensation, supply current balancing, and neutral current compensation. The book begins by introducing distributed power systems within the global renewable energy context, reviewing different types of renewable energy sources and distributed power generation systems, and detailing custom power device design and modeling.This is followed by individual chapters, providing in-depth coverage of specific techniques and applications with insights into various topologies, as well as control algorithms, used for power control in a range of distributed energy conversion systems, such as solar, wind, hydro, and other power sources. Finally, power quality issues in renewable energy distributed generation are discussed and addressed in detail. This is a valuable resource for researchers, faculty, and advanced students with an interest in power generation systems, renewable energy, and power systems engineering, as well as practicing engineers, R&D professionals, managers, and other industry personnel in the renewable energy sector.

  • Emerging Innovative Trends in the Application of Biological Processes for Industrial Wastewater Treatment

    • 1st Edition
    • Maulin P. Shah
    • English
    Emerging Innovative Trends in the Application of Biological Processes for Industrial Wastewater Treatment discusses new and emerging innovative trends in the application of biological processes in industrial wastewater treatment. The book also includes the fate of chemicals produced after the treatment process both at the laboratory scale and at the industrial scale, explores the unique biological aspects of the wastewater treatment process, and highlights the advantages they provide for engineering applications in the industries. Each chapter covers a different biological-based approach and examines the basic principles, practical applications, recent breakthroughs, and associated limitations.In addition, it also provides in-depth knowledge on the biological process for application in wastewater research which presents an array of cutting-edge wastewater treatment research and thereafter its applications in treatment, remediation, sensing, and pollution prevention processes which has a significant impact on maintaining the long-term quality, availability, and viability of water.

  • Sexual Medicine for Obstetrician-Gynecologists, An Issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 51-2
    • Monica M. Christmas + 1 more
    • English
    This issue of Obstetrics and Gynecology Clinics is a comprehensive review aimed to address sexual dysfunction in cis-gendered women and gender-diverse individuals assigned female at birth across the lifespan. Top experts in the field discuss key topics such as Pelvic Floor Disorders and Sexual Function, Female Sexual Health, Adolescent Sexuality, and more.

  • Breast Imaging Essentials, An Issue of Radiologic Clinics of North America

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 62-4
    • Yiming Gao + 1 more
    • English
    In this issue of Radiologic Clinics, guest editors Drs. Yiming Gao and Samantha L. Heller bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Breast Imaging Essentials. Top experts in the field cover key topics such artificial intelligence (AI) and breast imaging; mammography with or without MRI; the latest updates in the BRCA gene and breast imaging; and more.

  • Diagnostic Pathology: Transplant Pathology

    • 3rd Edition
    • Anthony Chang
    • English
    This volume in the Diagnostic Pathology series is an ideal point-of-care resource for practitioners at all levels of experience and training. Covering the full range of solid organ transplantation (SOT) of the kidney, liver, heart, lung, pancreas, intestine, and more, it provides a current understanding of transplant immunology and pathology to help ensure accurate diagnosis for optimal clinical management. Richly illustrated and easy to use, Diagnostic Pathology: Transplant Pathology, third edition, is a visually stunning, one-stop reference for practicing pathologists, transplant practitioners, and students of organ transplantation.

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