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    • Applications of Nanomaterials in Dentistry

      • 1st Edition
      • October 31, 2025
      • Prashant Kesharwani
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Applications of Nanomaterials in Dentistry offers an extensive overview of the properties, biological characteristics, advantages, limitations, actions, and future prospects of various nanoparticles. It delves into innovative strategies centered on nanotechnology-based drug delivery systems in dental healthcare. This book serves as an invaluable reference for researchers and scientists aiming to comprehend the pivotal role of nanoparticles in dentistry, addressing advanced strategies like implant and tissue engineering, safety considerations, toxicity, and the promising future applications of nanotechnology in this field.Nanoparticles are promising agents for enhancing dental care due to their unique characteristics, such as a high surface-to-volume ratio, antibacterial properties, physical, mechanical, and biological features, and distinctive particle size. The book thoroughly explores the applications of nanotechnology, including improving dental materials and techniques. It also examines the potential of nanotechnology to revolutionize dental treatments and therapies, ensuring better patient outcomes and advancing the field of dental science.

    • Indicators of Climate Change

      • 1st Edition
      • October 31, 2025
      • Trevor Letcher
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Indicators of Climate Change focuses on the root causes of global warming and climate change. The book includes detailed discussions on the indicators of climate change, highlighting the rapidity of the changes. Indicators discussed in this book include the rise in the average atmospheric temperature, ocean heat, rising sea levels, melting ice sheets and glaciers, changes in plant adaption, changes in insect adaption, and weather pattern changes. The book also highlights fossil fuels, the root cause of climate change, and the urgency of the problem.

    • Hydrosystem Restoration Handbook

      • 1st Edition
      • October 31, 2025
      • Saeid Eslamian + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Hydrosystem Restoration Handbook, Groundwater Artificial Recharge with Conventional Water (GARC) introduces innovative groundwater recharge techniques. Through the introduction of powerful case studies, the book offers key strategies to researchers and graduate students for managing CARC and monitoring groundwater levels.

    • New Perspectives in Indoor Air Quality

      • 1st Edition
      • October 31, 2025
      • Pasquale Avino + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      New Perspectives in Indoor Air Quality provides readers with the latest scientific discoveries related to indoor air quality. After an in-depth introduction to indoor air quality and review of current air quality legislation, the book's chapters explore gaseous pollutants, particulate matter, ultrafine particles, and emerging contaminants. This is followed by analysis of formaldehyde emissions, VOCs, SVOCs, nanomaterials emissions, and combustion sources. From an assessment perspective, chapters include sampling approaches, traditional measuring instruments, automatic measuring instruments, assessment of bioaerosols, and geospatial analysis and modeling.Finally, the editors address the health effects of poor indoor air quality and examine how climate change has contributed to these issues. Fifteen detailed case studies round out the book to provide practical, real world understanding of the concepts covered throughout the preceding chapters.

    • Vestibular Schwannomas

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 212
      • October 31, 2025
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Vestibular Schwannomas covers multiple facets of vestibular schwannomas, including advancements in surgical techniques, radiological innovations, long-term patient outcomes, and implications for hearing preservation. It serves as a comprehensive guide for clinicians and researchers aiming to enhance diagnostic accuracy and therapeutic strategies in managing these complex tumors which are benign, slow-growing tumors that originate from the Schwann cells that line the vestibular nerve. They are the most prevalent neoplasms found in the cerebellopontine angle (CPA), the critical junction between the cerebellum and the brainstem.Their incidence, clinical presentation, and impact on surrounding neurological structures make them a focal point of research and medical intervention. Understanding their etiology, diagnosis, and treatment options requires an interdisciplinary approach bridging neurology, otology, and radiology.

    • Case Studies in Energy Systems

      • 1st Edition
      • October 31, 2025
      • Vincenzo Bianco + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Case Studies in Energy Systems: A Practical Approach to Energy System Design and Analysis demonstrates the application of both fundamental and advanced principles by providing a broad range of case studies, examples, and models. Opening with a clear summary of the foundational theory, this book then presents a selection of case studies based on the experience of experts. Examples are analyzed in a holistic context, considering environmental, economic, and technological aspects. Finally, the authors have provided models, codes, and calculation spreadsheets where appropriate, allowing readers to test the tools for themselves.Equipping researchers and advanced students for the transition to industry practice, this book is a guide to real-world problem-solving for the energy future.

    • Earth Observation using Scatterometers

      • 1st Edition
      • October 31, 2025
      • Sartajvir Singh + 4 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Earth Observation using Scatterometers: State-of-the-Art Techniques, Applications, and Challenges explores the critical role scatterometers play in addressing natural disasters, climate action, and food security. It provides comprehensive guidance on leveraging scatterometers for real-time applications, including advanced techniques like super-resolution mapping and multi-source data fusion. This book is an essential resource for understanding the challenges and opportunities of scatterometer satellite datasets. In addition to covering the latest advancements in algorithms and emerging applications, it empowers professionals to efficiently analyze vast amounts of Earth observation data.The book addresses scatterometers' expanding applicability in oceanography, agriculture, the cryosphere, and related Earth-science fields, making it invaluable for scientists, geospatial data analysts, and students of Remote Sensing and Geoscience.

    • Chalcones and their Derivatives

      • 1st Edition
      • October 31, 2025
      • Mohmmad Younus Wani + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Chalcone is a highly versatile scaffold with a broad range of applications. Serving as a precursor for various organic molecules and natural flavonoids, it exhibits significant biological activities and unique physical properties, including semiconductor behavior, non-linear optical effects, fluorescence, and electronic characteristics. Chalcones have attracted considerable research interest due to their pharmacological potential and the ease with which their biological activity and other properties can be modified through subtle structural changes along the α,β-unsaturated backbone. Beyond their medicinal value, chalcones are utilized in the food and cosmetic industries as additives, owing to their UV-protective qualities. Additionally, they serve as chemosensors and probes in analytical applications. The book Chalcones and Their Derivatives: From Synthesis to Applications explores this remarkable molecule, detailing various synthetic methods, its biological significance, and its diverse applications across multiple fields. Serving as both a comprehensive reference for researchers and an essential guide for postgraduate students, this work provides valuable insights into the development and utilization of chalcone-based molecules for a wide array of purposes.

    • Brake Pads

      • 1st Edition
      • October 31, 2025
      • Reza Taherian
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Brake Pads: Materials, Manufacturing Processes, and Testing offers a comprehensive resource on this vital component of the braking system of a variety of vehicles (passenger cars, light commercial vehicles, buses, trucks, and airplanes). This specialized volume aims to bridge the theory and practice of designing and producing well-performing, greener, and cost-effective brake pads.It encompasses, in Part I, an overview of friction materials already available on the market and other more recently developed formulations and, in Part II, step-by-step examinations of a range of manufacturing parameters with related effects on the specific properties of the selected compounds as well as testing techniques.Discussio... on regulatory standards, literature reviews, case studies, application scenarios, and analytical modeling make for a unique contribution that is not only timely but also shows the field’s potential for ever-growing transformation.

    • Drug Delivery and Biomedical Applications of Porous Silicon-Based Nanocarriers

      • 1st Edition
      • October 31, 2025
      • Rajendra Awasthi + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Drug Delivery and Biomedical Applications of Porous Silicon-Based Nanocarriers delivers an up-to-date and complete overview of the range of biomedical applications for porous silicon nanomaterials, with a special emphasis on drug delivery. This book introduces the fundamentals and beneficial properties of porous silicon, including thermal properties and stabilization, photochemical and nonthermal chemical modification, protein modification, and biocompatibility. The book then builds on the systematic detailing of each biomedical application using porous silicon, such as vaccine development, drug delivery, and tissue engineering. It also contains new insights on in-vivo assessment of porous silicon, photodynamic and photothermal therapy, micro- and nanoneedles, cancer immunotherapy, and more. Drug Delivery and Biomedical Applications of Porous Silicon-Based Nanocarriers is of interest to researchers in the fields of materials science, nanotechnology, pharmaceutical science, biomedical engineering, and cancer research.

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