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    • Modeling and Analysis of Longitudinal Data

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 50
      • February 7, 2024
      • English
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      Longitudinal Data Analysis, Volume 50 in the Handbook of Statistics series covers how data consists of a series of repeated observations of the same subjects over an extended time frame and is thus useful for measuring change. Such studies and the data arise in a variety of fields, such as health sciences, genomic studies, experimental physics, sociology, sports and student enrollment in universities. For example, in health studies, intra-subject correlation of responses must be accounted for, covariates vary with time, and bias can arise if patients drop out of the study.

    • Progresses in Ammonia: Science, Technology and Membranes

      • 1st Edition
      • February 6, 2024
      • Angelo Basile + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Progresses in Ammonia: Science, Technology, and Membranes: Production and Separation covers the production and separation of ammonia. Ammonia is considered a very important inorganic basic. It plays an essential role in the manufacture of fertilizer, as well as in the production of plastics, fibers, explosives, and intermediates for dyes and pharmaceuticals. Beginning with the discussion of composite membrane–based systems, this book explores ammonia synthesis, ammonia separation through membrane distillation, ammonia recovery from wastewater and salty liquids, and ammonia emission control. Model-based analysis has also been used extensively in this book through various case studies. Therefore this book is a valuable resource for postgraduate students, researchers, energy producers, and R&D managers.

    • Actuaries' Survival Guide

      • 3rd Edition
      • February 2, 2024
      • Ping Wang + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Actuaries' Survival Guide: Navigating the Exams as Applications of Data Science, Third Edition explains what actuaries are, what they do, and where they do it. The book describes exciting combinations of ideas, techniques, and skills involved in their day-to-day work. This edition has been updated to reflect the rise of social networking and the internet, the progress toward a global knowledge-based economy, and the global expansion of the actuarial field that has occurred since the prior edition.

    • Bioplastics for Sustainability

      • 1st Edition
      • February 2, 2024
      • Ajay Kumar Mishra + 1 more
      • English
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      Bioplastics for Sustainability: Manufacture, Technologies, and Environment offers an innovative approach to bioplastics, integrating state-of-the-art materials and technologies with detailed analysis of lifecycle, recycling, circularity, and environmental impact of bioplastics, and enabling circular utilization and successful scale-up of bioplastics. The book begins by introducing the fundamentals of bioplastics – including biodegradable, compostable, and oxodegradable materials – and discusses the various factors involved in encouraging commercial uptake of these materials. The second part of the book highlights cutting-edge approaches to the production of bioplastics, covering novel sources such as microalgae and organic waste, and solutions for industrial scale manufacturing.Other sections cover the environmental impact of bioplastics and routes to environmentally-frie... usage, and more. This is a valuable resource for researchers and advanced students across polymer science, sustainable materials, plastics engineering, materials science, chemistry, environmental science, and engineering. In an industrial setting, this book supports engineers, scientists, and R&D professionals with an interest in sustainable manufacture and application of bioplastics, across a range of products, parts, and industries.

    • Engineering Simulation and its Applications

      • 1st Edition
      • February 1, 2024
      • Xin-She Yang
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Engineering Simulation and its Applications: Algorithms and Numerical Methods covers the essential quantitative methods needed for engineering simulations, introducing optimization techniques that can be used in the design of systems to minimize cost and maximize efficiency. This book serves as a reference and textbook for courses such as engineering simulation, design optimization, mathematical modeling, numerical methods, data analysis, and engineering management. Diverse coverage of the various subject areas within the field puts the essential topics into a single book for easy access for graduates and senior undergraduates. It also serves as a reference book for lecturers and industrial practitioners.

    • Multi-Dimensional Imaging with Synthetic Aperture Radar

      • 1st Edition
      • January 31, 2024
      • Gianfranco Fornaro + 4 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Multi-Dimensional Imaging with Synthetic Aperture Radar: Theory and Applications provides a complete description of principles, models and data processing methods, giving an introduction to the theory that underlies recent applications such as topographic mapping and natural risk situational awareness – seismic-tectonics, active volcano, landslides and subsidence monitoring - security, urban, wide area and infrastructure control. Imaging radars, specifically Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR), generally mounted onboard satellites or airplanes, are able to provide systematic high-resolution imaging of the Earth's surface. Recent advances in the field has seen applications to natural risk monitoring and security and has driven the development of many operational systems.

    • Sustainable Liquefied Natural Gas

      • 1st Edition
      • January 29, 2024
      • David A. Wood + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Sustainable Liquefied Natural Gas: Concepts and Applications Moving Towards Net Zero Supply Chains, the latest release in The Fundamentals and Sustainable Advances in Natural Gas Science and Engineering series, delivers many of the technical fundamentals needed in the natural gas industry with an additional sustainability lens. Introductory topics include liquefication and separation technology. Advanced applications include improving operational efficiency for carriers and cargo shipping schedules, exploiting cold energy for regasification operations, and an outlook on ways to further reduce emissions.Supported by corporate and academic contributors along with two well-distinguished editors, this book provides today’s natural gas engineers the knowledge to adjust liquefied natural gas operations in a more environmentally sustainable way.

    • Trolley Crash

      • 1st Edition
      • January 26, 2024
      • Peggy Wu + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      The prolific deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) across different fields has introduced novel challenges for AI developers and researchers. AI is permeating decision making for the masses, and its applications range from self-driving automobiles to financial loan approvals. With AI making decisions that have ethical implications, responsibilities are now being pushed to AI designers who may be far-removed from how, where, and when these ethical decisions occur.Trolley Crash: Approaching Key Metrics for Ethical AI Practitioners, Researchers, and Policy Makers provides audiences with a catalogue of perspectives and methodologies from the latest research in ethical computing. This work integrates philosophical and computational approaches into a unified framework for ethical reasoning in the current AI landscape, specifically focusing on approaches for developing metrics. Written for AI researchers, ethicists, computer scientists, software engineers, operations researchers, and autonomous systems designers and developers, Trolley Crash will be a welcome reference for those who wish to better understand metrics for ethical reasoning in autonomous systems and related computational applications.

    • Transfer Printing Technologies and Applications

      • 1st Edition
      • January 25, 2024
      • Changhong Cao + 1 more
      • English
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      Transfer Printing Technologies and Applications is a complete guide to transfer printing techniques and their cutting-edge applications. Sections in the book explore the fundamentals behind these technologies, along with state-of-the-art applications enabled by transfer printing techniques, including areas such as flexible sensors, flexible transistors, wearable devices, thin film-based energy systems, flexible displays, microLED-based displays, metal films, and more. A concluding chapter addresses current challenges and future opportunities in this innovative field. This book will be of interest to researchers and advanced students across nanotechnology, materials science, electrical engineering, mechanical engineering, chemistry, and biomedicine, as well as scientists, engineers, R&D professionals, and more.

    • Full-Spectrum Responsive Photocatalytic Materials

      • 1st Edition
      • January 25, 2024
      • Chuanyi Wang + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Full-Spectrum Responsive Photocatalytic Materials: From Fundamentals to Applications provides a comprehensive overview on the design, synthesis concepts, mechanisms, characterization techniques, and advances and limitations in applications of full-spectrum responsive photocatalytic materials. The book starts with the fundamentals of full-spectrum responsive materials. It then discusses the problems of most semiconductors that are not active in the whole solar spectrum and explains the benefits of utilizing full-spectrum responsive photocatalysts. Other sections describe examples of full-spectrum responsive photocatalysts classified by material types and provide the design principles and characterization protocols for these promising materials.Photocatal... technology based on semiconductor materials holds great promise in various fields due to its potential advantages in energy-saving, cost and environmental impact. Maximizing the utilization of solar energy is always the target of pursuits in the areas of photocatalysis, and understanding and constructing appropriate full-spectrum (UV-VIS-NIR) responsive photocatalytic materials offer ways to better realize the practical utilization of photocatalysis.

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