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    • Aromatic Plant-Based Phytoremediation

      Socio-Economic and Agricultural Sustainability
      • 1st Edition
      • Valeria Ancona + 3 more
      • English
      Aromatic Plant-based Phytoremediation: Socio-Economic and Agricultural Sustainability provides knowledge and insights into the phytoremediation capabilities of aromatic crops. This book aims to raise awareness of aromatic crop-based phytoremediation among ecologists, environmental scientists, practitioners, policymakers, and other interested parties. Furthermore, it brings together new and existing knowledge on various aspects of aromatic crop-based phytoremediation, presenting this information in a single source that provides a cutting-edge synthesis of scientific and practical knowledge on polluted site restoration and application that is useful to both practitioners and scientists. Aromatic crop-based phytoremediation provides a solid foundation on which scientific knowledge in the field of aromatic crop-based phytoremediation can grow and expand. This book is a good and instructive text with a format that is easy to grasp and read. It employs a dense literary composition that is rich in depth, clarity, and coverage

    • Deep Learning for Medical Image Analysis

      • 2nd Edition
      • S. Kevin Zhou + 2 more
      • English
      Deep Learning for Medical Image Analysis, Second Edition is a great learning resource for academic and industry researchers and graduate students taking courses on machine learning and deep learning for computer vision and medical image computing and analysis. Deep learning provides exciting solutions for medical image analysis problems and is a key method for future applications. This book gives a clear understanding of the principles and methods of neural network and deep learning concepts, showing how the algorithms that integrate deep learning as a core component are applied to medical image detection, segmentation, registration, and computer-aided analysis.

    • Bioresorbable Polymers and their Composites

      Characterization and Fundamental Processing for Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Development
      • 1st Edition
      • Deepak Verma + 5 more
      • English
      Bioresorbable Polymers and their Composites: Characterization and Fundamental Processing for Pharmaceutical and Medical Device Development provides a holistic view of these unique materials and their usage in a range of biomedical applications. The book is evenly divided between fundamentals, processing methods and modeling approaches, and includes detailed coverage of a variety of applications, such as drug delivery, medical devices and wound healing. Key aspects including biocompatibility, biodegradability and toxicology are also thoroughly covered, enabling the reader to be fully informed when fabricating and utilizing their selected bioresorbable polymer. This book is an interdisciplinary and important reference for researchers in the fields of materials science, biomedical engineering, pharmaceutical science and regenerative medicine, as well as R&D groups in the development of medical devices.

    • Emerging Ferroelectric Materials and Devices

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 114
      • English
      Semiconductors and Semimetals series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors.

    • New Horizons in Modern Catalysis: Five Different Perspectives

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 72
      • English
      New Horizons in Modern Catalysis: Six Different Perspectives, Volume 72 in the Advances in Catalysis series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on Carbanion-functional... phosphines: New design elements for catalyst development, Molecular Electrocatalysts for Organic Electrosynthesis, Mechanistic aspects of secondary sphere modification in organocatalysis, Earth-Abundant Transition Metal-Catalyzed reactions with Iodine(III) reagents: from catalysis to mechanistic studies, Design of metal nanoparticles for better performance in catalysis, and Computational design of industrially relevant enzymes.

    • Advances in Ecological Research: Roadmaps Part B

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 69
      • David Bohan + 1 more
      • English
      Advances in Ecological Research, Volume 69 in this ongoing serial, highlights new advances in the field with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors.

    • Non-layered 2D Materials

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 113
      • English
      Semiconductors and Semimetals series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors.

    • Novel Nanostructured Materials for Electrochemical Bio-sensing Applications

      • 1st Edition
      • Jamballi G. Manjunatha
      • English
      Novel Nanostructured Materials for Electrochemical Bio-sensing Applications presents a detailed overview into the fabrication of electrochemical bio-sensing devices. The book addresses the challenges and opportunities relating to sustainable and biocompatible sensors from food, water and wearable applications to the various nanostructured biocompatible materials required for sensor fabrication. In addition, it explores the connection between nanomaterials and sensors and takes into consideration different and novel approaches such as toxic materials monitoring and health issues correlated with the use of nanomaterials. Users will find exciting insight into innovations in nanostructured electrochemical biosensing. By providing its audience with fundamentals, limitations, challenges, future perspectives and practical sustainability, this book will serve as a reference source researchers and engineers within analytical chemistry and electrochemistry.

    • Current Trends and Future Developments on (Bio-) Membranes

      Modern Approaches in Membrane Technology for Gas Separation and Water Treatment
      • 1st Edition
      • Angelo Basile + 1 more
      • English
      Modern Approaches in Membrane Technology for Gas Separation and Water Treatment presents condensed information on novel and promising membrane materials. The book answers some major questions from the membrane community about three promising materials that are to be introduced at industrial scale. It introduces recent, out of the box, ideas concerning the application of new methods capable to enhance the membrane separation efficiency. Sections cover potential commercialization, important question on three famous membrane materials, and new approaches in membrane technology. Finally, the book describes and discusses three novel ideas about the potential effect of the magnetic field on membrane separation efficiency, the use of cryogenic technology on membrane separations, and the use of nanobubble technology on water membrane processes.

    • 5G/5G-Advanced

      The New Generation Wireless Access Technology
      • 3rd Edition
      • Erik Dahlman + 2 more
      • English
      5G Advanced: The Next Generation Wireless Access Technology, Third Edition follows the authors' highly celebrated books on 3G and 4G by providing a new level of insight into 5G NR. After an initial discussion of the background to 5G, including requirements, spectrum aspects and the standardization timeline, all technology features of the first phase of NR are described in detail. Included is a detailed description of the NR physical-layer structure and higher-layer protocols, RF and spectrum aspects and co-existence and interworking with LTE. This book provides a good understanding of NR and the different NR technology components, giving insight into why a certain solution was selected.

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