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    • Diffusion of Innovative Energy Services

      • 1st Edition
      • August 25, 2023
      • Anna Kowalska-Pyzalska
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Diffusion of Innovative Energy Services: Consumers’ Acceptance and Willingness to Pay consolidates research in the diffusion, adoption and acceptance of Innovative energy services (IES), including dynamic green electricity tariffs, small-scale energy generators, and smart metering information systems among residential electricity consumers. The book addresses consumer awareness, acceptance and engagement towards smart technologies, focusing on the ‘willingness to pay’ for IES. Chapters address findings from field experiments, pilot programs and simulation methods such as agent-based modeling. Case studies involve various countries and continents, with a focus on modern, pro-environmental and sustainable economies, where IES are offered. Policy recommendations, tools and interventions as well as behavioral strategies conclude the work.

    • Artificial Intelligence

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 49
      • August 25, 2023
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Artificial Intelligence, Volume 49 in the Handbook of Statistics series, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of timely topics. Chapters in this new release include AI Teacher-Student based Adaptive Structural Deep Learning Model and Its Estimating Uncertainty of Image Data, Machine-derived Intelligence: Computations Beyond the Null Hypothesis, Object oriented basis of artificial intelligence methodologies I in Judicial Systems in India, Artificial Intelligence in Systems Biology, Machine-Learning in Geometry and Physics, Innovation and Machine Learning: Crowdsourcing Open-Source Natural Language Processing (NLP) Algorithms to Advance Public Health Surveillance, and more. Other chapters cover Learning and identity testing of Markov chains, Data privacy for machine learning and statistics, and The interface between AI and Mathematics.

    • Advances in Computers

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 131
      • August 25, 2023
      • Ali Hurson
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Advances in Computers, Volume 131 is an eclectic volume inspired by recent issues of interest in research and development in computer science and computer engineering. Chapters in this new release include eHealth: enabling technologies, opportunities, and challenges, A Perspective on Cancer Data Management using Blockchain: Progress and Challenges, Cyber Risks on IoT Platforms and Zero Trust Solutions, A Lightweight Fingerprint Liveness Detection Method for Fingerprint Authentication System, and Collaborating Fog/Edge Computing with Industry 4.0 – Architecture, Challenges and Benefits, Raspberry Pi-s for Enterprise Cybersecurity Applications.

    • Next Generation CubeSats and SmallSats

      • 1st Edition
      • August 24, 2023
      • Francesco Branz + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Next Generation of CubeSats and SmallSats: Enabling Technologies, Missions, and Markets provides a comprehensive understanding of the small and medium sized satellite approach and its potentialities and limitations. The book analyzes promising applications (e.g., constellations and distributed systems, small science platforms that overachieve relative to their development time and cost) as paradigm-shifting solutions for space exploitation, with an analysis of market statistics and trends and a prediction of where the technologies, and consequently, the field is heading in the next decade. The book also provides a thorough analysis of CubeSat potentialities and applications, and addresses unique technical approaches and systems strategies. Throughout key sections (introduction and background, technology details, systems, applications, and future prospects), the book provides basic design tools scaled to the small satellite problem, assesses the technological state-of-the-art, and describes the most recent advancements with a look to the near future. This new book is for aerospace engineering professionals, advanced students, and designers seeking a broad view of the CubeSat world with a brief historical background, strategies, applications, mission scenarios, new challenges and upcoming advances.

    • Nanostructured Materials for Tissue Engineering

      • 1st Edition
      • August 24, 2023
      • Arijit Mondal + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Nanostructured Materials for Tissue Engineering introduces the key properties and approaches involved in using nanostructured materials in tissue engineering, including functionalization, nanotechnology-based regenerative techniques, toxicological and biocompatible aspects. A broad range of nanomaterial types are covered, from polymer scaffolds and nanocomposites to gold nanoparticles and quantum dots. This book aids the reader in materials selection, as well as matching to the best applications, including bone, skin, pulmonary or neurological tissue engineering. Users will find this book to be an up-to-date review on this fast-changing field that is ideal for materials scientists, tissue engineers, biomedical engineers, and pharmaceutical scientists.

    • Geohazards

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 64
      • August 24, 2023
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Advances in Geophysics, Volume 64 in this ongoing serial, highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors and covering topics such as Distributed acoustic sensing, Infrasound array monitoring of mass movements in Alpine regions, and The Hollin Hill Laboratory.

    • Digital Twin for Smart Manufacturing

      • 1st Edition
      • August 24, 2023
      • Rajesh Kumar Dhanaraj + 4 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Digital Twin for Smart Manufacturing: Emerging Approaches and Applications provides detailed descriptions on how to integrate and optimize novel digital technologies for smart manufacturing. The book discusses digital twins, which combine the industrial internet of things, artificial intelligence, machine learning and software analytics with spatial network graphs to create living digital simulation models that update and change as their physical counterparts change. In addition, they provide an effective way to integrate technologies like cyber-physical systems into a smart manufacturing system, potentially optimizing the entire business process and operating procedure of the manufacturing firm. Drawing on the latest research, the book addresses the topics and technologies key to successful implementation of a smart manufacturing system, including augmented and virtual reality, big data and energy management. Broader subjects such as additive manufacturing and robotics are also covered in this context, covering every aspect of production.

    • Photoelectrochemical Bioanalysis

      • 1st Edition
      • August 23, 2023
      • Muhammad Altaf + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Photoelectrochemical Bioanalysis: Fundamentals and Emerging Applications covers the fundamentals from a basic to advanced level, along with the latest accounting of emerging applications. As photoelectrochemical bioanalysis is a rapidly developing area with a wide range developments occurring alongside, it can be difficult for beginners to grasp the understanding of the ever-growing and continuously expanding body of knowledge. Sections detail information on applications in bioanalysis, their working principles, the methodologies of constructions and the approaches adopted with their respective advantages and disadvantages. This book will assist researchers in understanding the latest advances in the materials and engineering aspects of PCE bioanalysis. It also provides researchers with an overview of modern strategies applied for the performance enhancement of PCE materials as well as the modifications suggested to improve the potential of PCE bioanalytical techniques. Last but not least, it will assist researchers in finding gaps and potential opportunities in the field to impart novelty in their research

    • Handbook of Polymers in Medicine

      • 1st Edition
      • August 23, 2023
      • Masoud Mozafari + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Handbook of Polymers in Medicine combines core concepts and advanced research on polymers, providing a better understanding of this class of materials in medicine. The book covers all aspects of medical polymers from characteristics and biocompatibility, to the diverse array of applications in medicine. Chapters cover an introduction to polymers in medicine and the challenges associated with biocompatibility in human tissue, polyurethane and supramolecular polymers and their specific applications in medicine, from tissue regeneration to orthopedic surgery and cancer therapeutics. This book offers an interdisciplinary approach that will appeal to researchers in a range of disciplines, including biomedical engineering, materials science, chemistry, pharmacology and translational medicine. The book will also make a useful reference for clinicians and those in medical fields who are interested in materials for medical applications, as well as R&D groups involved in medical device design.

    • Water-Lubricated Journal Bearings

      • 1st Edition
      • August 23, 2023
      • Wojciech Litwin
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Water-Lubricated Journal Bearings: Marine Applications, Design, and Operational Problems and Solutions provides cutting-edge design solutions, common problems and methods for avoiding them, and material selection considerations for the use of water-lubricated journal bearings in marine environments. These bearings have many advantages, including the absence of the potential for oil contamination. They are also sensitive, and their production processes can be challenging, but this book outlines techniques and concepts designed to overcome these challenges, emphasizing their role in durable and reliable propulsion systems in modern, safe, and environment-friendly shipping.Propeller shafts, water-lubricated stern tube bearings, problems frequently encountered with water-lubricated propeller shaft bearings and sliding bearings alongside solutions to these problems are all covered, as are the hydrodynamic properties of water-lubricated bearings, operation at low revolution speeds, high-speed bearings, hybrid bearings, and more. Foundational concepts of tribology related to friction, lubrication, wear, and fluid/solid and solid/solid interactions in ship stern tube and water-lubricated turbine machinery are also discussed.

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