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Successful User Experience

2nd Edition
October 1, 2025
Elizabeth Rosenzweig
English
Paperback
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Successful User Experience: Strategy and Roadmaps, Second Edition offers a comprehensive guide to creating a cohesive User Experience (UX) strategy incorporating tactics, tools, and methodologies. Drawing on over 35 years of experience and refined through UX courses, the author emphasizes the importance of strategic models to align goals with available data and resources. Readers will gain insights into high-level UX planning, goal setting for products or projects, and translating those into actionable steps. This book demonstrates how to integrate high-level planning into actionable steps, how Design Thinking fosters a good UX, and how to set UX goals. It discusses the selection of tools or methodologies throughout the product lifecycle and provides case studies and actionable steps to develop a complete strategy. From product design and development to commercialization, the book emphasizes how UX can contribute to creating stronger products.

Geopolymer Concrete

1st Edition
October 1, 2025
Ildiko Merta + 1 more
English

Geopolymer Concrete: Advancements in Performance and Sustainability is a thorough guide on a research topic in which incremental progress has been made in recent years. The book opens with fundamental information, such as properties and production (both design and manufacturing techniques). It then includes various applications and useful LCA analysis. Recent advances with a particular focus on improvements in durability, strength, and thermal performance are discussed next, with valuable data supplied by real-world case studies. Considerations related to the material’s environmental impact, challenges, barriers to its adoption, and other insights into current standards and regulations conclude the coverage.This multifaceted resource serves not only as a unique source of information for readers in academia and industry seeking to stay current in their field, but may also prove to be worthwhile reading for those professionals responsible for better and more sustainable construction enterprises.

Design and Analysis of Green and Sustainable IoT Technologies for Future Wireless Communications

1st Edition
October 1, 2025
Muhammad Ali Jamshed + 1 more
English

To realise the 6G vision of hyper-human connectivity where numerous IoT applications are envisaged for smart cities, smart factories, smart homes, smart e-health etc, future IoT systems will require a large number of devices and multi-access environments where different types of wireless spectrum - including Sub-6 GHz, millimetre-wave and Terahertz technologies- need to be efficiently utilized. However, this increases the challenge of keeping a net zero emission carbon rate in line with the goals of COP26. Design and Analysis of Green and Sustainable IoT Technologies for future Wireless Communication Systems presents a wide range of technologies for the development of greener and sustainable IoT. It brings together a multidisciplinary team of researchers in academia and industry – from wireless communications, signal processing, and antenna design – to present the latest techniques to designing energy efficient IoT devices, laying the foundation for future advances in this important area

An Introduction to the Finite Element Method with the Variational Approach

1st Edition
October 1, 2025
Prakash Mahadeo Dixit + 1 more
English
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eBook
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An Introduction to the Finite Element Method with the Variational Approach offers a comprehensive solution to the gaps often found in introductory texts on the Finite Element Method (FEM). The book provides a thorough introduction to the fundamental principles of linear and time-independent FEM within the variational framework. It meticulously covers the derivation of 1-D FEM equations based on variational functionals, encompassing both linear and higher-order elements, and shape functions driven by convergence criteria. Furthermore, it explores 1-D numerical integration, outlines coding procedures, and provides insights into handling material nonlinearity and time-dependent scenarios.Expanding into 2-D problems, the book offers derivations of 2-D FEM equations tailored to diverse engineering disciplines, including Steady-State Heat Conduction, Solid Mechanics (covering torsion, plane strain/axisymmetric cases, and the bending, stability, and vibrations of thin plates), as well as Fluid Mechanics (addressing incompressible inviscid and viscous fluids). It includes detailed discussions on element continuity, numerical integration techniques, and even includes 2-D codes for selected problems. The book concludes by delving into recent advancements in FEM, with a specific focus on applications in machine learning and isogeometric analysis.

Perovskite Optoelectronics

1st Edition
Volume 119
October 1, 2025
Heping Shen
English

Perovskite Optoelectronics, Volume 119 in the Semiconductors and Semimetals series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters, including topics including Introduction to Perovskite Materials, Optoelectronic Properties of Perovskites, Machine Learning for Predicting and Improving Perovskite Properties, Comparative Analysis of Perovskites and Other Semiconductors, Perovskite-Based LEDs, Perovskite-Based Photodetectors, Perovskite-Based X-Ray Detectors, Perovskite-Based Lasers, and Perovskite-Based Photocatalysts.

Railway Pantograph–Catenary System

1st Edition
October 1, 2025
Zefeng Yang + 3 more
English

Railway Pantograph–Catenary System: Optimizing Dynamics, Materials, and Performance demystifies the complexities of high-speed railway electrification. This authoritative volume delves into optimization techniques for the electrical contact process, ensuring consistent and reliable performance. It addresses system dynamics, material selection, and critical issues such as frictional wear, arc phenomena, and environmental impacts. Combining theoretical and practical insights, the book presents cutting-edge research findings and technologies, providing a foundation for future advancements. In addition to systematic analysis, the book includes real-world case studies for a comprehensive understanding of system operations under varying conditions.It is an invaluable resource for both academics and industry experts, fostering global collaboration in railway transport.

The Renin-Angiotensin System in Parkinson’s Disease

1st Edition
Volume 9
October 1, 2025
Santiago Perez Lloret + 3 more
English

The book is organized into sections/chapters. Section I, The Renin-Angiotensin-Al... System (RAAS) in health and disease, conveys topics like an overview and history of RAAS discovery and its significance in cardiovascular physiology, the RAAS in the cardiovascular system, including the cardiorenal axis, and other RAAS endocrine systems (in the liver, lungs, adrenal glands, and testes). RAAS pathways and second messengers (Cyclic AMP, Calcium), and receptors [AT1R, AT2R, MasR binding to the vasodilator angiotensin-(1-7)], medications targeting the RAAS, and effects of the RAAS on inflammation. Oxidative stress, vascular smooth muscle contraction, endothelial dysfunction, fibrosis, and the hypertrophic, anti-apoptotic, and pro-mitogenic effects of Angiotensin II. RAAS local brain systems and pleiotropic effects, including neuroinflammation, autophagy, endoplasmic reticulum stress, and mitochondrial dysfunction. Section II, the Renin-Angiotensin System (RAS) in Parkinson’s disease, deals with general considerations, pathogeny and pharmacotherapeutics... the RAS and Alzheimer’s disease and other neurodegenerative diseases, neuroprotective and anti-inflammatory properties of AT2 in motor neuron disease treatment, Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) and Spinal Muscular Atrophy (SMA); RAS modulation of dopaminergic neurotransmission: effects on Parkinson’s disease motor symptoms, motor fluctuations, memory, cognition and mood; ACEIs and ARBs’ therapeutic benefits on mood and depressive symptoms; brain RAS as a potential therapeutic target in psychiatric disorders; the risk of Parkinson’s disease and the use of Renin-angiotensin modulators; brain RAS regulation of stress and neuroinflammation, and participation of the hypothalamic-pituita... axis; risk of Parkinson’s disease and the use of RAS modulators; the relationship between RAS, COVID-19, and Parkinson’s disease; RAS, Parkinson, and COVID-19: ACE2 and post COVID-19 parkinsonism; the relationship between RAS and other pathological conditions that increase PD risk. RAS role in the pathophysiology of diabetes and complications — nephropathy and retinopathy; gut microbiota and local gastrointestinal RAS two-way interaction; gut dysbiosis and impaired renin-angiotensin system (RAS) function in cognitive decline and neurodegeneration; gut microbiota impact on RAS-related disorders; gastrointestinal dopaminergic and renin-angiotensin systems; gut ACE2, probiotics supplementation, and diabetic retinopathy in type 1 diabetes; Ang-(1-7) protection in diabetes and diabetic retinopathy; ACE2 gene therapy improvement of glycemic control in diabetic mice.

Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics

1st Edition
Volume 236
October 1, 2025
Peter W. Hawkes + 1 more
English

Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics, Volume 236 merges two long-running serials, Advances in Electronics and Electron Physics and Advances in Optical and Electron Microscopy.

Solid State Physics

1st Edition
Volume 76
October 1, 2025
Robert L. Stamps + 2 more
English

Solid State Physics, Volume 76, the latest release in this serial that highlights new advances in the field, presents interesting chapters written by an international board of authors, with this new release focusing on new breakthroughs in the field.

Machine Performance Degradation Assessment

1st Edition
October 1, 2025
Dong Wang + 1 more
English

Machine Performance Degradation Assessment: Convex Optimization Models and Their Interpretable Data Fusion Applications is an essential resource for industry professionals and researchers seeking to understand the latest trends in performance degradation assessment technologies. This comprehensive guide delves into the fundamental theories of convex optimization models while exploring cutting-edge research methods. Readers will gain valuable insights into interpretable data fusion models and their applications, providing practical and theoretical knowledge to advance their understanding of machine performance degradation. In addition to the core mathematical elements, the book includes advanced techniques for formulating degradation properties into convex optimization models for health index construction.Real-wo... applications and examples demonstrate how these innovative methods can be applied in practice. By presenting novel concepts and analytical frameworks, this book offers fresh perspectives to help readers navigate the complexities of machine performance degradation assessment.

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