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    • Green Sustainable Process for Chemical and Environmental Engineering and Science

      • 1st Edition
      • January 11, 2023
      • Tariq Altalhi + 1 more
      • English
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      Green Sustainable Process for Chemical and Environmental Engineering and Science: Green Solvents and Extraction Technology provides information on the use of green solvents and their applications in the synthesis of pharmaceutical drugs, energy conversion and storage, catalysis, biodiesel synthesis, multicomponent reactions, waste valorization, and more. The book features introductory chapters related to the applications of green solvents and related extraction technology for sustainable development, including research trends, technical development, environment issues, and related concerns. The book provides examples covering the extraction of nanocellulose (from agricultural wastes), polysaccharides, phenolic compounds, antioxidants (from vegetables), biomolecules and green solvents (from biomass and precious metals).

    • Recent Advances in Nanocarriers for Pancreatic Cancer Therapy

      • 1st Edition
      • October 22, 2023
      • Prashant Kesharwani + 1 more
      • English
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      Recent Advances in Nanocarriers for Pancreatic Cancer Therapy reviews thriving strategies concerning pancreatic cancer therapy, thoroughly describing the most recent developments in emerging modern drug delivery systems focused on, and derived from, nanotechnology. By providing a holistic understanding of the molecular pathways, conventional therapy and novel nanocarriers mediated drug delivery against pancreatic cancer, this work can be considered a complete package. The book offers a solution to the dissemination of data from a broad range of resources by providing an overview of the molecular pathways and conventional therapy of pancreatic cancer, the application of various nanocarriers, and more. This book equips scientists, clinicians and students to make rational treatment approaches based on nanomedicine for improving and extending the human life against pancreatic cancer.

    • Bioenergy Engineering

      • 1st Edition
      • June 20, 2023
      • Krushna Prasad Shadangi + 4 more
      • English
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      Bioenergy Engineering: Fundamentals, Methods, Modelling, and Applications presents the fundamental principles, recent developments, innovative state-of the-art technologies, challenges, solutions and future perspectives on the production of biofuels and bioenergy. Balancing the scientific and engineering aspects of biofuels production, the book guides readers through the chemical kinetics, modeling, thermodynamics, unit operations and technological advancements in fuel processing from conventional and alternative resources. Each chapter of the book starts with the fundamentals and goes on to assess the latest technologies for the production of renewable fuels on topics. Sections cover biomass utilization, biomass-to-liquid conversion technologies (pyrolysis, liquefaction, solid-state fermentation and submerged fermentation), biomass-to-gas conversion technologies (thermochemical gasification, subcritical and supercritical water gasification, and methanation), gas-to-liquid conversion technologies (Fischer-Tropsch synthesis), carbonization, transesterification, organic transformation, carbon-carbon and carbon-heteroatom coupling reactions, oxidation, reforming, hydrotreating technologies (hydrogenation, hydrodesulfurization... hydrodenitrogenation... hydro dearomatization and hydro demetalization), nanocatalysis and biocatalysis (enzymatic hydrolysis), and much more.

    • Advances in Quantum Chemistry

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 88
      • September 19, 2023
      • English
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      Advances in Quantum Chemistry, Volume 88 presents the latest ongoing research at the forefront of Electronic structure theory. Chapters in the updated release include Spin-constrained Hartree-Fock and the generator coordinate method for the 2-site Hubbard model, Analytical evaluation of Hylleraas-CI Coulomb and Hybrid two-center Integrals over Slater orbitals, Hartree-Fock-Roothaa... Theory of Molecular Compton Profiles Via Position Space Method, Analysis of Research Trend on the Molecular Integrals Over Slater Type Orbitals, An efficient approximation for accelerating convergence of numerical power series, Results for the 1D−Schroedinger equation, The aims and objectives of algebraic molecular orbital theory, and much more.

    • Principles of Big Graph: In-depth Insight

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 128
      • January 24, 2023
      • English
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      Principles of Big Graph: In-depth Insight, Volume 128 in the Advances in Computer series, highlights new advances in the field with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of topics, including CESDAM: Centered subgraph data matrix for large graph representation, Bivariate, cluster and suitability analysis of NoSQL Solutions for big graph applications, An empirical investigation on Big Graph using deep learning, Analyzing correlation between quality and accuracy of graph clustering, geneBF: Filtering protein-coded gene graph data using bloom filter, Processing large graphs with an alternative representation, MapReduce based convolutional graph neural networks: A comprehensive review. Fast exact triangle counting in large graphs using SIMD acceleration, A comprehensive investigation on attack graphs, Qubit representation of a binary tree and its operations in quantum computation, Modified ML-KNN: Role of similarity measures and nearest neighbor configuration in multi label text classification on big social network graph data, Big graph based online learning through social networks, Community detection in large-scale real-world networks, Power rank: An interactive web page ranking algorithm, GA based energy efficient modelling of a wireless sensor network, The major challenges of big graph and their solutions: A review, and An investigation on socio-cyber crime graph.

    • Polymer/Fullerene Nanocomposites

      • 1st Edition
      • January 10, 2023
      • Ayesha Kausar
      • English
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      Polymer/Fullerene Nanocomposites: Design and Applications synopsizes state-of-the-art essentials and versatile inventions in polymers and fullerenes derived nanocomposites. As the design, fabrication and exploration of polymeric materials with fullerenes in advanced nanomaterials is progressing quickly because of their unique combination of properties, including optical, electronic, electrical, mechanical, thermal, photovoltaic, sensing, shape memory, capacitive, antimicrobial, and other applications, this book fills a void in literature compilation and assessment for a field still in its infancy. The introductory chapter of this manuscript provides a comprehensive update on the fundamentals and applications of fullerenes, with following chapters revealing the properties and essential aspects of polymeric nanocomposites.

    • Living With Climate Change

      • 1st Edition
      • December 1, 2023
      • Trevor Letcher
      • English
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      Living with Climate Change contains different topics on how to adapt to global warming. With a strong focus on ways of adapting to climate change, the book also examines the root causes of global warming. Readers are provided all the most up-to-date thinking and information on each issue due to the extensive list of references connected to each chapter. By linking various topics and interesting new innovations that are often synergistic, this book covers a wide range of issues in global warming adaptation that is ideal for readers from many disciplines.

    • The Alkaloids

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 90
      • September 14, 2023
      • English
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      The Alkaloids, Volume 90, the newest release in a series that has covered the topic for more than 60 years, discusses key aspects of alkaloid chemistry, biology and pharmacology. Sections in this release include chapters on Recent Progress in the Chemistry of Naphthylisoquinoline Alkaloids, The Biological Activities of Quinolizidine Alkaloids, and C NMR Spectral Data and Pharmacological Activities of Aporphine Alkaloids.

    • Comprehensive Metaheuristics

      • 1st Edition
      • January 31, 2023
      • Ali Mirjalili + 1 more
      • English
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      Comprehensive Metaheuristics: Algorithms and Applications presents the foundational underpinnings of metaheuristics and a broad scope of algorithms and real-world applications across a variety of research fields. The book starts with fundamentals, mathematical prerequisites, and conceptual approaches to provide readers with a solid foundation. After presenting multi-objective optimization, constrained optimization, and problem formation for metaheuristics, world-renowned authors give readers in-depth understanding of the full spectrum of algorithms and techniques. Scientists, researchers, academicians, and practitioners who are interested in optimizing a process or procedure to achieve a goal will benefit from the case studies of real-world applications from different domains. The book takes a much-needed holistic approach, putting the most widely used metaheuristic algorithms together with an in-depth treatise on multi-disciplinary applications of metaheuristics. Each algorithm is thoroughly analyzed to observe its behavior, providing a detailed tutorial on how to solve problems using metaheuristics. New case studies and research problem statements are also discussed, which will help researchers in their application of the concepts.

    • Whirl Flutter of Turboprop Aircraft Structures

      • 2nd Edition
      • January 13, 2023
      • Jiří Čečrdle
      • English
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      Whirl Flutter of Turboprop Aircraft Structures, Second Edition explores the whirl flutter phenomenon, including theoretical, practical, analytical and experimental aspects of the matter. Sections provide a general overview regarding aeroelasticity, discussions on the physical principle and the occurrence of whirl flutter in aerospace practice, and experimental research conducted, especially from the 60s. Other chapters delve into analytical methods such as basic and advanced linear models, non-linear and CFD based methods, certification issues including regulation requirements, a description of possible certification approaches, and several examples of aircraft certification from aerospace. Finally, a database of relevant books, reports and papers is provided. This updated and expanded second edition covers new chapters including both analytical and experimental aspects of the subject matter.

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