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    • Coronavirus Drug Discovery

      • 1st Edition
      • May 25, 2022
      • Chukwuebuka Egbuna
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Coronavirus Drug Discovery, Volume 1: SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Prevention, Diagnosis, and Treatment is the first of three volumes presenting comprehensive information on drug discovery against COVID-19. This volume provides background information on the genesis of COVID-19, the epidemiology, transmission, pathogenesis, and mutagenesis. It also presents the various treatment options, drug discovery opportunities and vaccine developmental processes. Written by global team of experts from key institutions across the globe, this book is recommended to all concerned agencies, private research firms, and consortiums working on finding a solution to COVID-19 and its variants. By design, this book will be useful to drug developers, medicinal chemists, pharmacologists, health experts, researchers, students and faculty members in industry and academia.

    • Creating and Restoring Wetlands

      • 2nd Edition
      • May 12, 2022
      • Christopher Craft
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Creating and Restoring Wetlands: From Theory to Practice, Second Edition describes the challenges and opportunities relating to the restoration of freshwater and estuarine wetlands in natural, agricultural, and urban environments in the coming century. This second edition is structured by clearly defined chapters based on specific wetland types (e.g. Peatlands, Mangroves) and with a consistent and coherent organization for ease of discoverability. The table of contents is divided into four main subjects: Foundations, Restoration of Freshwater Wetlands, Restoration of Estuarine Wetlands, and From Theory to Practice, each with multiple chapters. Part 1, Foundations, contains chapters describing definitions of wetlands, ecological theory used to guide restoration, and considerations on where to implement restoration on the landscape. In Parts 2 and 3, restoration of specific freshwater (marshes, forests, peatlands) and estuarine (tidal marshes, mangroves) wetlands are described. Part 4, From Theory to Practice, contains chapters describing performance standards to gauge success of projects and case studies describing small-scale and large-scale restoration projects of various freshwater and estuarine wetlands. Each chapter contains clearly labeled sections which assist the reader to quickly and easily key in on the subject matter that they are seeking. The approach of Creating and Restoring Wetlands is unique in that, in each chapter, it links ecological theory important to ecosystem restoration with practical techniques to undertake and implement successful wetland restoration projects, including recommendations for performance standards to gauge success as well as realistic expectations and timescales for achieving success. Each chapter ends with a summary table describing keys to ensure success for a given wetland ecosystem.

    • Asset Integrity Management for Offshore and Onshore Structures

      • 1st Edition
      • May 11, 2022
      • Mohamed A. El-Reedy
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Oil and gas assets are under constant pressure and engineers and managers need integrity management training and strategies to ensure their operations are safe. Gaining practical guidance is not trained ahead of time and learned on the job. Asset Integrity Management of Offshore and Onshore Structures delivers a critical training tool for engineers to prepare and mitigate safety risk. Starting with a transitional introductory chapter, the reference dives into integrity management approaches including codes and standards. Inspection, assessment, and repair methods are covered for offshore, FPSO, onshore and pipelines. Suggested proactive approaches and modeling risk-based inspection are also included. Supported with case studies, detailed discussions, and practical applications, Asset Integrity Management of Offshore and Onshore Structures gives oil and gas managers a reference to extend asset life, reduce costs, and minimalize impact to personnel and environment.

    • Dimensions of Uncertainty in Communication Engineering

      • 1st Edition
      • July 6, 2022
      • Ezio Biglieri
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Dimensions of Uncertainty in Communication Engineering is a comprehensive and self-contained introduction to the problems of nonaleatory uncertainty and the mathematical tools needed to solve them. The book gathers together tools derived from statistics, information theory, moment theory, interval analysis and probability boxes, dependence bounds, nonadditive measures, and Dempster–Shafer theory. While the book is mainly devoted to communication engineering, the techniques described are also of interest to other application areas, and commonalities to these are often alluded to through a number of references to books and research papers. This is an ideal supplementary book for courses in wireless communications, providing techniques for addressing epistemic uncertainty, as well as an important resource for researchers and industry engineers. Students and researchers in other fields such as statistics, financial mathematics, and transport theory will gain an overview and understanding on these methods relevant to their field.

    • Digital Manufacturing Technology for Sustainable Anthropometric Apparel

      • 1st Edition
      • May 13, 2022
      • Norsaadah Zakaria
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Digital Manufacturing Technology for Sustainable Anthropometric Apparel is a thorough and practical examination of the state-of-the-art in anthropometric apparel manufacturing technology. The scale of the textiles industry, in economic as well as environmental terms, is so significant that new technologies and techniques that deliver improvements are of great global interest. Consumer preferences and government regulations are causing apparel manufacturers to prioritize sustainable practices, and at a time of unprecedented technological evolution and competitive pressure, integrating these measures with other priorities is a key challenge.By combining the expertise of contributors from the worlds of technology change management and technical textiles engineering, this book provides a unique interdisciplinary resource for organizational as well as technical implementation. Newly developed Industry 4.0 technologies are addressed, along with the latest data collection and analysis methods.

    • Deep Learning on Edge Computing Devices

      • 1st Edition
      • February 2, 2022
      • Xichuan Zhou + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Deep Learning on Edge Computing Devices: Design Challenges of Algorithm and Architecture focuses on hardware architecture and embedded deep learning, including neural networks. The title helps researchers maximize the performance of Edge-deep learning models for mobile computing and other applications by presenting neural network algorithms and hardware design optimization approaches for Edge-deep learning. Applications are introduced in each section, and a comprehensive example, smart surveillance cameras, is presented at the end of the book, integrating innovation in both algorithm and hardware architecture. Structured into three parts, the book covers core concepts, theories and algorithms and architecture optimization.This book provides a solution for researchers looking to maximize the performance of deep learning models on Edge-computing devices through algorithm-hardware co-design.

    • Studies in Natural Products Chemistry

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 73
      • May 17, 2022
      • Atta-ur Rahman
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Studies in Natural Products Chemistry, Volume 73 covers the synthesis, testing and recording of medicinal properties of natural products, providing cutting-edge accounts of fascinating developments in the isolation, structure elucidation, synthesis, biosynthesis and pharmacology of a diverse array of bioactive natural products. Natural products in the plant and animal kingdom offer a huge diversity of chemical structures that are the result of biosynthetic processes that have been modulated over millennia through genetic effects. With rapid developments in spectroscopic techniques and accompanying advances in high-throughput screening techniques, it has become possible to isolate and determine the structures and biological activity of natural products. Hence, these new discoveries have created new avenues and applications for their use.

    • Food, Medical, and Environmental Applications of Nanomaterials

      • 1st Edition
      • March 24, 2022
      • Veeriah Jegatheesan + 4 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Food, Medical, and Environmental Applications of Nanomaterials is designed to cover different types of nanomaterials that have applications related to the environment, food and medicine. It is an important resource for materials scientists and bioengineers looking to learn more about the applications of nanomaterials for sustainable development applications. Nanoscale materials possess excellent properties that have been explored in the areas of biomedicals, food, agriculture, the environment, catalysis, sensing and energy storage. Examples of these new applications include smart and active food packaging, nanobiosensors, bioremediation, wastewater treatment, implant coatings, tissue engineering, delivery systems for food and pharmaceutical applications, and food safety.

    • Modeling and Nonlinear Robust Control of Delta-Like Parallel Kinematic Manipulators

      • 1st Edition
      • November 29, 2022
      • Jonatan Martin Escorcia Hernandez + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Modeling and Nonlinear Robust Control of Delta-Like Parallel Kinematic Manipulators deals with the modeling and control of parallel robots. The book's content will benefit students, researchers and engineers in robotics by providing a simplified methodology to obtain the dynamic model of parallel robots with a delta-type architecture. Moreover, this methodology is compatible with the real-time implementation of model-based and robust control schemes. And, it can easily extend the proposed robust control solutions to other robotic architectures.

    • Renewable Carbon

      • 1st Edition
      • July 1, 2022
      • Silvio Vaz Jr.
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Renewable Carbon: Science, Technology and Sustainability identifies production pathways and technologies for the production of chemicals and presents relevant information to bridge the gap between reaction engineering and process design. The book uses a multidisciplinary approach, focusing on important aspects of basic science, technological advantages (and hurdles), and key sustainability aspects. It incorporates organic, inorganic and biochemical synthesis and analyzes the myriad of technologies available, including nanotechnology, biotechnology and thermochemistry. Sections cover the synthesis of carbon derivatives through multiple pathways (Science), technologies available for its generation (Technology), and assess sustainability and new supply chains (Sustainability). This book will serve as a valuable reference for academics, research scientists and industry practitioners in green chemistry, chemical engineering, materials science and environmental engineering.

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