Books in Physical sciences and engineering

Marine Specialized (Secondary) Metabolites and their Diverse Applications

1st Edition
June 13, 2025
Thilina Jayawardena + 1 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Over the past 50 years, more than 20,000 natural compounds have been identified in the marine environment, with an increasing focus on marine metabolites as potential sources for developing effective therapeutic agents. The field of marine drug discovery has seen remarkable growth in recent years, with numerous marine-derived therapeutic candidates in various stages of clinical trials or awaiting approval. The ocean is a potential source of natural products with diverse pharmacological properties, including antimicrobial, anticancer, antiviral, antioxidative, and anti-inflammatory activities. However, commercializing marine natural products has been challenging due to low yields and specificity of specialized (secondary) metabolites. Marine Specialized (Secondary) Metabolites and their Diverse Applications provides a broad overview of marine specialized metabolites and their potential in various industries. With comprehensive coverage, relevance to current trends, interdisciplinary approach, and practical applications, this book includes specific compounds or organisms, with a particular focus on addressing the challenges and limitations associated with them.

Quantum Dot Nanocarriers for Drug Delivery

1st Edition
June 12, 2025
Prashant Kesharwani + 1 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Quantum Dot Nanocarriers for Drug Delivery compiles the latest advances in the development and application of QD nanocarriers for delivery of a range of therapeutic agents. QDs are widely accepted because of their dominant striking characteristics including biocompatibility, photoluminescence, morphology, size, and stability. This book systematically reviews the benefits and challenges of using QDs in drug delivery applications, evaluating their toxicity, safety, preclinical and clinical aspects.Quantum Dot Nanocarriers for Drug Delivery is of interest to a broad audience, including researchers and academics working in the fields of biomaterials, nanotechnology, pharmaceutical science and biomedical engineering.

Antidiabetic Drug Discovery from Natural Products

1st Edition
June 12, 2025
Shailendra S. Gurav + 4 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Antidiabetic Drug Discovery from Natural Products provides up-to-date and in-depth information, practical understanding, and guidance in a comprehensive, systematic and easy-to-understand manner to scientists, researchers, and graduate students on important and emerging biochemical topics related to current antidiabetic drug discovery research. This book analyzes and studies natural active substances and their medicinal chemistry in preventing and treating diabetes and its complications. It covers a wide range of critical issues to assist chemists in the discovery and development of safer, more affordable treatments, from identifying promising leads from medicinal plants to the extraction and synthesis of bioactive compounds.Following an introduction to bioactive chemical compounds from plants with antidiabetic effects, the book describes the discovery and extraction of antidiabetic drugs and antioxidants from natural sources. It also examines antidiabetic plants before delving deeper into the chemistry behind major medicinal substances and their derivatives like Mangiferin and Resveratrol, discussing both current and prospective uses.

Impact Mechanics of Ceramic Armor

1st Edition
June 11, 2025
Xianfeng Zhang + 3 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Impact Mechanics of Ceramic Armor: Dwell and Interface Defeat provides a thorough overview of the impact dynamics of projectiles and targets, crack propagation, and damage evolution of ceramic armor during interface defeat and penetration. The book provides experimental techniques and results of ceramic armor subjected to projectile damage, covers the mechanics of damage of ceramic armor under impact load, and analyzes the failure processes alongside corresponding theoretical models. Constitutive models and material parameters between projectile and target are explained, techniques for optimum ceramic armor design are outlined, and applications of interface defeat in the field of light armor are provided.

Bi-directionality in Human-AI Collaborative Systems

1st Edition
June 11, 2025
William Lawless + 3 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Bi-directionality in Human-AI Collaborative Systems investigates the foundations, metrics, and applications of human-machine systems, along with the legal ramifications of autonomy, including standards, trust by the public, and bidirectional trust by users and AI systems. The book addresses the challenges in creating synergistic human and AI-based autonomous system-of-systems by focusing on the underlying challenges associated with bi-directionality. Chapters cover advances in LLMs, logic, machine learning choices, the development of standards, as well as human-centered approaches to autonomous human-machine teams. This is a valuable resource for world-class researchers and engineers who are theorizing on, designing, and developing autonomous systems.It will also be useful for government scientists, business leaders, social scientists, philosophers, regulators and legal experts interested in the impact of autonomous human-machine teams and systems.

Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications

2nd Edition
June 10, 2025
William Ford + 1 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications: Using MATLAB and Octave, Second Edition provides practical knowledge on modern computational techniques for the numerical solution of linear algebra problems. The book offers a unified presentation of computation, basic algorithm analysis, and numerical methods to compute solutions. Useful to readers regardless of background, the text begins with six introductory courses to provide background for those who haven’t taken applied or theoretical linear algebra. This approach offers a thorough explanation of the issues and methods for practical computing using MATLAB as the vehicle for computation.Appropri... for advanced undergraduate and early graduate courses on numerical linear algebra, this useful textbook explores numerous applications to engineering and science.

One- and Two-Dimensional Nanomaterials

1st Edition
June 10, 2025
Sanket Joshi + 3 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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One- and Two- Dimensional Nanomaterials: Bioengineering Applications covers in-depth information on the properties, structures, and preparation methods of one- and two- dimensional nanomaterials, providing readers with tools that can be immediately implemented and adapted to fit a diverse range of applications.The first part of the book covers the fundamentals of these materials, including properties and synthesis techniques. The second part of the book focuses on the use of several conventional and emerging nanomaterials in the areas of pollution management, remediation practices, and other possible applications in biosensing, biomedicine, and antimicrobial activity.This book will be a helpful resource to nano-scientists, biotechnologists, and bioengineers engaged in studying the emerging trends and different fabrication techniques of nanostructures and their applications and possible toxicity.

Soil Pollution

2nd Edition
June 10, 2025
Teresa Rocha-Santos + 2 more
English
Paperback
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eBook
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Soil Pollution: From Monitoring to Remediation, Second Edition provides a comprehensive overview of the causes of soil pollution, distribution, transport, and fate of pollutants and transformation of pollutants in soil and metabolite accumulation. Soil pollution has increased over the last decades and may pose a risk for human and ecological health. The book expands and updates on current knowledge with an increased focus on PFAs and micronanplastics. The new edition also includes a new chapter on the One Health initiative.In this book, researchers and students in soil science will find appropriate and comprehensive information on organic, inorganic, and nanoparticle pollutants in soil, methodologies for their monitoring, and data reporting processes in order to gain adequate insights of pollution problems caused by these pollutants.

Treatise on Process Metallurgy

2nd Edition
June 9, 2025
Seshadri Seetharaman + 4 more
English
Hardback
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eBook
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Treatise on Process Metallurgy: Volume Two, Process Phenomena provides academics with the fundamentals of the manufacturing of metallic materials, from raw materials into finished parts or products. In these fully updated volumes, coverage is expanded into four volumes, including Process Fundamentals, encompassing process fundamentals, structure and properties of matter; thermodynamic aspects of process metallurgy, and rate phenomena in process metallurgy; Processing Phenomena, encompassing interfacial phenomena in high temperature metallurgy, metallurgical process phenomena, and metallurgical process technology; Metallurgical Processes, encompassing mineral processing, aqueous processing, electrochemical material and energy processes, and iron and steel technology, non-ferrous process principles and production technologies, and more.The work distills the combined academic experience from the principal editor and the multidisciplinary four-member editorial board.

Treatise on Process Metallurgy

1st Edition
June 9, 2025
Seshadri Seetharaman + 3 more
English
Hardback
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eBook
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Treatise on Process Metallurgy: Volume 5: Energy, Environment, and Future Aspects of Process Metallurgy, Second Edition is divided into two parts, with the first covering sustainable development as it pertains to process metallurgy, addressing issues arising from sustained economic growth, long-term mineral and metal supply, and energy requirements in metallurgical industries. It also examines energy resources, including fossil and renewable sources, and discusses the resource efficiency of the circular economy through simulation-based analyses. The second part delves into the future of metals production globally, with a focus on raw material and energy availability. It presents current CO2 emissions and future projections, with emphasis on reducing CO2 generation in steelmaking technologies. Additional topics discussed include flash smelting, FINEX process outlook, the rotary hearth furnace, and an extensive coverage of hydrogen steelmaking.

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Books in Physical sciences and engineering

Marine Specialized (Secondary) Metabolites and their Diverse Applications

Quantum Dot Nanocarriers for Drug Delivery

Antidiabetic Drug Discovery from Natural Products

Impact Mechanics of Ceramic Armor

Bi-directionality in Human-AI Collaborative Systems

Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications

One- and Two-Dimensional Nanomaterials

Soil Pollution

Treatise on Process Metallurgy

Treatise on Process Metallurgy

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