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    • Electric Vehicle Tribology

      • 1st Edition
      • May 23, 2024
      • Leonardo Israel Farfan Cabrera + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      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.

    • Advances and Technology Development in Greenhouse Gases: Emission, Capture and Conversion

      • 1st Edition
      • July 10, 2024
      • Mohammad Reza Rahimpour + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Advances and Technology Development in Greenhouse Gases: Emission, Capture and Conversion is a comprehensive series that discusses the composition and properties of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and introduces different sources of GHG emission and the relation between GHG and global warming. The comprehensive and detailed presentation of common technologies as well as novel research related to all aspects of GHG makes this work an indispensable encyclopedic resource for researchers in academia and industry. Greenhouse Gases Formation and Challenges primarily introduces the definition of GHGs, as well as their characteristics and properties. This book presents measuring methods for the detection of GHGs and connects GHG emissions with global warming and climate change. This book touches on all aspects concerning the classification of GHGs with their types and features and how they are detected, followed by discussions addressing the connection between GHGs and climate change in different sectors.

    • Smart and Intelligent Nanostructured Materials for Next-Generation Biosensors

      • 1st Edition
      • November 22, 2024
      • Bansi D. Malhotra + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Smart and Intelligent Nanostructured Materials for Next-Generation Biosensors provides an up-to-date review of biosensor development and applications, with a focus on incorporating smart and intelligent nanomaterials for improved outcomes. The book covers a range of smart and intelligent nanomaterials for use in biosensors, including two popular classes: MXenes and carbon-based nanomaterials. Later chapters explore a variety of biosensor applications, such as in biomedicine, agriculture, and environment. This book is a useful reference for materials scientists, biomedical engineers, analytical and biochemists with an interest in smart/intelligent nanomaterials for biosensors.

    • Intelligent Fractal-Based Image Analysis

      • 1st Edition
      • May 27, 2024
      • Soumya Ranjan Nayak + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Intelligent Fractal-Based Image Analysis: Application in Pattern Recognition and Machine Vision provides insights into the current strengths and weaknesses of different applications as well as research findings on fractal graphics in engineering and science applications. The book aims to improve the exchange of ideas and coherence between various core computing methods and highlights the relevance of related application areas for advanced as well as novice-user application. The book presents core concepts, methodological aspects, and advanced feature opportunities, focusing on major, real-time applications in engineering and health science. It will appeal to researchers, data scientists, industry professionals, and graduate students.Fractals are infinite, complex patterns used in modeling physical and dynamic systems. Fractal theory research has increased across different fields of applications including engineering science, health science, and social science. Recent literature shows the vital role fractals play in digital image analysis, specifically in biomedical image processing. Fractal graphics is an interdisciplinary field that deals with how computers can be used to gain high-level understanding from digital images. Integrating artificial intelligence with fractal characteristics has resulted in new interdisciplinary research in the fields of pattern recognition and image processing analysis.

    • New-generation SAR for Earth Environment Observation

      • 1st Edition
      • September 21, 2024
      • Huadong Guo + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      New Generation SAR for Earth Environment Observation discusses three aspects of new generation SAR remote sensing, including (1) The latest research status and development trends, the basic theories, and methods of new generation SAR, (2) The new or original concepts, methods and typical applications of new generation SAR information processing and parameter inversion, and (3) A new idea of SAR information integration processing and environmental parameter inversion technique which represents a new SAR science application mode that has the capability to improve the SAR remote-sensing quantitative application level and promote the development of new theories and methodologies.

    • Advances and Technology Development in Greenhouse Gases: Emission, Capture and Conversion.

      • 1st Edition
      • July 11, 2024
      • Mohammad Reza Rahimpour + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Advances and Technology Development in Greenhouse Gases: Emission, Capture and Conversion is a comprehensive series that discusses the composition and properties of greenhouse gases (GHGs) and introduces different sources of GHG emission and the relation between GHGs and global warming. The comprehensive and detailed presentation of common technologies as well as novel research related to all aspects of GHGs makes this work an indispensable encyclopedic resource for researchers in academia and industry. Carbon Dioxide Conversion to Chemicals and Energy provides a beneficial strategy to control the rise of GHGs in the atmosphere and their conversion into valuable materials such as chemical and energy carriers. The book touches on concepts about the conversion of carbon dioxide, which is the main GHG. This two-section volume provides applications of carbon dioxide and the chemical processes employed to fabricate a host of materials. Each section reviews a process in detail and surveys the economic assessments, cost analysis, environmental impacts and challenges, recent advances and new concepts, and the largest operating plants and pilots for carbon conversion.

    • Computation and Modeling for Fractional Order Systems

      • 1st Edition
      • February 20, 2024
      • Snehashish Chakraverty + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Computation and Modeling for Fractional Order Systems provides readers with problem-solving techniques for obtaining exact and/or approximate solutions of governing equations arising in fractional dynamical systems presented using various analytical, semi-analytical, and numerical methods. Various analytical/semi-anal... methods are applied for solving real-life fractional order problems. The comprehensive descriptions of different recently developed fractional singular, non-singular, fractal-fractional, and discrete fractional operators, along with computationally efficient methods, are included for the reader to understand how these may be applied to real-world systems, and a wide variety of dynamical systems such as deterministic, stochastic, continuous, and discrete are addressed.Fractional calculus has gained increasing popularity and relevance over the last few decades, due to its well-established applications in various fields of science and engineering. It deals with the differential and integral operators with non-integral powers. Fractional differential equations are the pillar of various systems occurring in a wide range of science and engineering disciplines, namely physics, chemical engineering, mathematical biology, financial mathematics, structural mechanics, control theory, circuit analysis, and biomechanics, among others.

    • Surfactant Based Electrochemical Sensors and Biosensors

      • 1st Edition
      • March 4, 2024
      • Jamballi G. Manjunatha + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Surfactant Based Electrochemical Sensors and Biosensors discusses the applications of surfactants for electrochemical sensors. Surfactant based electrochemical sensors exhibit elevated sensitivity, selectivity, stability and accuracy as compared to other analytical techniques. This book covers the emerging research trends and exploitation of surfactants for electrochemical sensor preparation for its applications in various fields such as academia, medicine, industry and monitoring of environmental species, expanding on scientific research in the field of electrochemistry on surfactant based electrochemical sensors.Sections present the characteristics of surfactants and discuss their application for the fabrication of electrochemical sensors and bio sensors, address the analysis of toxic chemicals and their quantitative determination and offers surfactant based sensing platforms for environmental modeling, discuss the significance of the analysis of molecules and ions in biological and pharmaceutical sampling, present new methodologies for the determination of food additives and biological molecules present in food samples, and explore the sustainability, safety and toxicity aspects.

    • Object-Oriented Analysis and Design for Information Systems

      • 2nd Edition
      • March 16, 2024
      • Raul Sidnei Wazlawick
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Object-Oriented Analysis and Design for Information Systems, Second Edition clearly explains real object-oriented programming in practice. Expert author Raul Sidnei Wazlawick explains concepts such as object responsibility, visibility, and the real need for delegation in detail. The object-oriented code generated by using these concepts in a systematic way is concise, organized and reusable.The patterns and solutions presented in this book are based in research and industrial applications. You will come away with clarity regarding processes and use cases and a clear understanding of how to expand a use case. Wazlawick clearly explains how to build meaningful sequence diagrams. Object-Oriented Analysis and Design for Information Systems illustrates how and why building a class model is not just placing classes into a diagram. You will learn the necessary organizational patterns so that your software architecture will be maintainable. The Second Edition includes all new content shifting the focus of the book to agile software development, including Scrum software project management, BPMN diagrams, user stories, and Python code examples.

    • Nanozymes

      • 1st Edition
      • July 23, 2024
      • Ravi Mani Tripathi + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Nanozymes: Approachable Bio-applications provides an in-depth overview of nanozymes, with a special focus on nanozymes synthesis and their various applications in biological sciences. The book starts with introductory chapters exploring the enzymatic mechanism of nanozymes and providing the concept of engineering to surface modification to achieve enhanced nanozymatic properties. Subsequent chapters focus on the application of nanozymes in many different fields, including biomedical science, agriculture, environmental science and more.This work is an important reference source for worldwide materials scientists and researchers interested on the resent developments, challenges, and future directions of nanozymes research.

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