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    • Interfacial Science for Geosystems Engineers

      • 1st Edition
      • June 20, 2024
      • Kishore K. Mohanty + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Interfacial Science for Geosystems Engineers provides geoscientists the connections between the nano-scale physico-chemical interactions between fluids and minerals and the core/field-scale observations to manage energy extraction, water resources and subsurface storage, timely topics central to the energy transition.Packed with latest research and recent developments, chapter learning objectives, and illustrative diagrams, tables and charts throughout, this specialized volume will help geosystems engineers tackle the above challenges, by systematically going through the basics of surface and interfacial tension, capillarity, surfactants, surface free energy, adsorption, electrokinetics, colloidal stability, equilibrium and stability of thin liquid films, wettability, microemulsions, emulsions and foams, and polymers for subsurface applications.Useful as a teaching, training or reference text, Interfacial Science for Geosystems Engineers prepares today’s subsurface scientists and engineers to tackle two pressing problems in the energy transition, by introducing recent developments on how to remove CO2 from our environment and how to wean ourselves off fossil energy while meeting growing energy demands.

    • Tratado de Medicina del trabajo

      • 4th Edition
      • August 14, 2024
      • Fernando Gil Hernández
      • Spanish
      • Paperback
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      La cuarta edición de Tratado de Medicina del Trabajo nace con el objetivo de contemplar aquellos cambios legislativos y conceptuales que ha habido en materia de prevención de riesgos laborales y de salud laboral desde que en 2018 apareciera la tercera. La voluntad del coordinador de la obra es que esta nueva edición siga siendo, en un sentido amplio, una guía formativa, didáctica y práctica para profesionales relacionados con la salud laboral.

    • Digital Technology in Public Health and Rehabilitation Care

      • 1st Edition
      • August 23, 2024
      • Raymond K. Y. Tong + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Digital Technology in Public Health and Rehabilitation Care: COVID Era provides an in-depth examination on how digital technology has impacted public health and rehabilitation during the COVID-19 pandemic. The book showcases the range of digital technology applications utilized in healthcare, including the use of mobile phones, computers, wearable and non-wearable technologies, sensors, 3D printers, robotics, Artificial Intelligence (AI), internet technologies, websites and apps, virtual and augmented realities, and computer games. With a wealth of case studies and insights, this book is an essential resource on the impact of digital technology on public health and rehabilitation services in the COVID-19 era. The COVID-19 pandemic had a major impact on the rehabilitation services available to those in need, particularly for older adults, people with physical and cognitive impairments, children with autism and ADHD, and individuals with physical and mental health disorders. In response to these challenges, the book focuses on the potential for advanced digital technologies to revolutionize public health and rehabilitation services, highlighting the need for researchers and healthcare professionals to work together to promote digital-based interventions.

    • Water Footprints and Sustainable Development

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 8
      • August 9, 2024
      • Suhaib A. Bandh + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Water Footprints and Sustainable Development serves as the sole comprehensive volume of the role of waste management for sustainable development. It provides an overview of Global Scenario of water footprints in water smart cities and technologies and investigates the critical factors that enable the sustainable developments of various industries in respect to water resources management. The goal of this book is to introduce the reader to the current technologies used for reducing water footprints, and to offer the necessary information and tools for sustainable development.

    • Biofuels and Sustainability

      • 1st Edition
      • October 16, 2024
      • Daochen Zhu + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Biofuels and Sustainability: Life-cycle Assessments, System Biology, Policies, and Emerging Technologies presents the current progress and challenges related to the sustainability of biofuels. Addressing a wide range of issues, the book examines the methods and technologies, policies for sustainable biofuels, impacts of advanced fuels, recent advances, and future research prospects. Reflecting new developments, emphasis is given to new biological/biochemic... approaches that offer the most efficient, cost-effective, and sustainable strategies for biofuel production.Divided into five parts, the first provides an overview of biofuels, the need for alternate fuels, carbon footprints, life cycle assessments, environmental aspects, various generations of biofuels, biofuel production from lignocellulosic material, and artificial intelligence in biofuel production. Part 2 examines the various methods and technologies for biofuels production, with case studies from the USA, UK, and Brazil. Part 3 explores the policies for sustainable biofuels, including current standards, with applications from the USA, European Union, Asia, and Africa. Part 4 analyses the impacts of advanced fuels in the decarbonization of transport, climate change mitigation, sustainable agriculture, and water resources, with perspectives from developed and developing countries. Finally, Part 5 critically reviews the recent advances and future research prospects related to termites, insects, metabolic engineering, microorganisms, and bioreactors.

    • Nuclear Waste Management Facilities

      • 1st Edition
      • February 24, 2024
      • Rehab O Abdel Rahman
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Nuclear Waste Management Facilities examines best practices and recent trends in improving nuclear safety and reducing the negative environmental impacts of nuclear waste. With a strong emphasis on regulatory requirements, this reference is essential for designing new integrated waste management practices, using lessons learned from historical and current practices. Divided into three key parts, Part One introduces the reader to the safety and environmental impacts of the nuclear industry and the historical and current nuclear waste management practices. Part Two reviews recent technological and methodological approaches to enhancing safety, as well as reducing the environmental impacts of both individual processes and integrated facilities. Topics covered include spent fuel and radioactive waste management, legacy waste management, remediation, and decommissioning. Part Three considers some prospective for the safe management of waste from innovative reactors, and wastes that contain emerging contaminants, including waste recycling opportunities. Nuclear Waste Management Facilities is a crucial tool needed to implement the safest and most environmentally considerate best practices within nuclear waste management facilities.

    • Computational Intelligence Techniques for Sustainable Supply Chain Management

      • 1st Edition
      • May 23, 2024
      • Sanjoy Kumar Paul + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Computational Intelligence Techniques for Sustainable Supply Chain Management presents state-of-the-art computational intelligence techniques and applications for supply chain sustainability issues and logistic problems, filling the gap between general textbooks on sustainable supply chain management and more specialized literature dealing with methods for computational intelligence techniques. This book focuses on addressing problems in advanced topics in the sustainable supply chain and will appeal to practitioners, managers, researchers, students, and professionals interested in sustainable logistics, procurement, manufacturing, inventory and production management, scheduling, transportation, and supply chain network design.

    • Federated Learning

      • 1st Edition
      • February 9, 2024
      • Lam M. Nguyen + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Federated Learning: Theory and Practi ce provides a holisti c treatment to federated learning as a distributed learning system with various forms of decentralized data and features. Part I of the book begins with a broad overview of opti mizati on fundamentals and modeling challenges, covering various aspects of communicati on effi ciency, theoretical convergence, and security. Part II featuresemerging challenges stemming from many socially driven concerns of federated learning as a future public machine learning service. Part III concludes the book with a wide array of industrial applicati ons of federated learning, as well as ethical considerations, showcasing its immense potential for driving innovation while safeguarding sensitive data.Federated Learning: Theory and Practi ce provides a comprehensive and accessible introducti on to federated learning which is suitable for researchers and students in academia, and industrial practitioners who seek to leverage the latest advance in machine learning for their entrepreneurial endeavors.

    • Applications of Green Nanomaterials in Analytical Chemistry

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 105
      • April 16, 2024
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Applications of Green Nanomaterials in Analytical Chemistry, Volume 105 in the Comprehensive Analytical Chemistry series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters, including Introduction (Modern Perspective of analysis with Green NMs), Green Nanomaterials based Sample Preparation techniques, Molecularly imprinting polymer nanomaterials-based sensing/detection and separation/removal of estrogenic compounds from environmental samples, Green Nanomaterials in Extraction Techniques, Green Nanomaterials in Sample Pre-treatment Processes, Lab on Chip with Green Nanomaterials, and much more.Other chapters cover Emerging green carbon dots: Opto-electronic and Morpho-structural properties for sensing applications, Green Nanomaterials based Nanosensors, Green Nanomaterials in Electroanalytical Chemistry, BioSensors with Green Nanomaterials, Green synthesis of metal based nanomaterials and their sensing application, Analytical Sensing with Green Nanomaterials, Lateral flow assay with green nanomaterials, Green nanomaterials for sorbent-based extraction techniques in food analysis, Green Nanomaterials for Chromatographic Techniques, Membranes with Green Nanomaterials, Conclusion: Future of Analytical Chemistry

    • Green and Sustainable Approaches Using Wastes for the Production of Multifunctional Nanomaterials

      • 1st Edition
      • January 19, 2024
      • Abhishek Kumar Bhardwaj + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Green and Sustainable Approaches Using Wastes for the Production of Multifunctional Nanomaterials focuses on the examination of green synthesis utilizing green waste materials derived from home and industrial applications. This book also examines the current state of material generations, future problems and their industrial constraints, and the synthesis of NMs for various applications such as medicinal, agriculture, environmental, food and beverage storage, and so on. The book includes the most recent practical and theoretical aspects of the use of waste materials released in the fabrication of various types of valuable nanomaterials, such as metal, metal oxide, polymeric, and graphene, among others. This is a relatively new concept in waste utilization, and green synthesis is a viable resource in making NPs. This book will also be valuable for waste management professionals who need proper disposal techniques for by-products.

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