Leather and Footwear Sustainability: Manufacturing, Supply Chain, and Product Level Issues (Textile Science and Clothing Technology)
This book examines the manufacturing, supply chain and product-level sustainability of leather and footwear products. This book deals with the environmental and chemical sustainability aspects pertaining to the tanning supply chain and the related mitigation measures. The book also explores interesting areas of leather and…
Proceedings of the National Aerospace Propulsion Conference (Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering)
This volume presents selected papers presented during the National Aerospace Propulsion Conference (NAPC) held at Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur. It brings together contributions from the entire propulsion community, spanning air-breathing and non-air-breathing propulsion. The papers cover aerospace propulsion-related topics, and discuss relevant research advances…
Pyrethroid Insecticides (The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry (92))
This book reviews the latest developments concerning the analysis, fate, behaviour and toxicity of pyrethroid insecticides. Over the last few decades, pyrethroid insecticides have increasingly replaced organochlorine pesticides due to their relatively lower mammalian toxicity, selective insecticide activity and lower environmental persistence. They represent 25%…
Advances in State Estimation, Diagnosis and Control of Complex Systems (Springer Theses)
This book presents theoretical and practical findings on the state estimation, diagnosis and control of complex systems, especially in the mathematical form of descriptor systems. The research is fully motivated by real-world applications (i.e., Barcelona’s water distribution network), which require control systems capable of taking…
Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals-induced Metabolic Disorders and Treatment Strategies (Emerging Contaminants and Associated Treatment Technologies)
This volume offers a detailed and comprehensive analysis of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals (EDCs), covering their occurrence, exposure to humans and the mechanisms that lead to the parthogenesis of EDCs-induced metabolic disorders. The book is divided into three parts. Part I describes the physiology of the…
Brain and Human Body Modeling 2020: Computational Human Models Presented at EMBC 2019 and the BRAIN Initiative® 2019 Meeting
This open access book describes modern applications of computational human modeling in an effort to advance neurology, cancer treatment, and radio-frequency studies including regulatory, safety, and wireless communication fields. Readers working on any application that may expose human subjects to electromagnetic radiation will benefit from…
Apprendre l’électronique en partant de zéro : Niveau 2 (French Edition)
Aux jeunes et aux moins jeunes qui démarrent à zéro, nous souhaitons que l’électronique devienne, dans un futur proche, leur principale activité, notre objectif étant de faire de vous de vrais experts sans trop vous ennuyer, mais au contraire, en vous divertissant.
Hydrogen and Hydrogen-Containing Molecules on Metal Surfaces: Towards the Realization of Sustainable Hydrogen Economy (Springer Series in Surface Sciences (71))
This book is dedicated to recent advancements in theoretical and computational studies on the interactions of hydrogen and hydrogenated molecules with metal surfaces. These studies are driven by the development of high-performance computers, new experimental findings, and the extensive work of technological applications towards the…
Big Data Approach to Firm Level Innovation in Manufacturing: Industrial Economics (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology)
This book discusses utilizing Big Data and Machine Learning approaches in investigating five aspects of firm level innovation in manufacturing; (1) factors that determine the decision to innovate (2) the extent of innovation (3) characteristics of an innovating firm (4) types of innovation undertaken and…
A Practical Guide to Environmental Biotechnology (Learning Materials in Biosciences)
This textbook provides practical guidelines on conducting experiments across the entire spectrum of environmental biotechnology. It opens with general information on laboratory safety, rules and regulations, as well as a description of various equipment commonly used in environmental laboratories. It then discusses in detail the…
Emerging Technologies for Waste Valorization and Environmental Protection
This book features carefully selected articles on emerging technologies for waste valorization and environmental protection. The term “waste valorization” is used particularly in engineering, economics, technology, business, environmental and policy literature to refer to any unit operation or collection of operations targeted at reusing, recycling,…
Electrical Engineering: Fundamentals (De Gruyter Textbook)
Fundamentals of Electrical Engineering is an excellent introduction into the areas of electricity, electronic devices and electrochemistry. The book covers aspects of electrical science including Ohm and Kirkoff’s laws, P-N junctions, semiconductors, circuit diagrams, magnetic fields, electrochemistry, and devices such as DC motors. This text…
The Rivers of Montenegro (The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry (93))
This book reviews the current state of knowledge on, recent advances in, and future prospects of Montenegrin river basins in the context of anthropogenic activities. Edited by three respected experts in the field, the book begins with an introduction to the specific hydrogeological conditions in…
Advances in Smart Technologies Applications and Case Studies: Selected Papers from the First International Conference on Smart Information and … Notes in Electrical Engineering (684))
This book offers a comprehensive snapshot of practically-relevant developments in the field of smart information technologies. Including selected papers presented at the First International Conference on Smart Information and Communication Technologies, SmartICT 2019, held on September 26-28, in 2019, Saidia, Morocco, it reports on practical…
Mechanics of Wood Machining Ed 3
The new edition of this textbook, while largely retaining the proven chapter structure of the previous editions, combines the quantitative, mathematical analysis of the mechanisms of wood processing with practical recommendations and solutions. It presents new theoretical and experimental approaches and offers a clear and…
The Art of Timing Closure: Advanced ASIC Design Implementation
The Art of Timing Closure is written using a hands-on approach to describe advanced concepts and techniques using Multi-Mode Multi-Corner (MMMC) for an advanced ASIC design implementation. It focuses on the physical design, Static Timing Analysis (STA), formal and physical verification. The scripts in this…
Fundamentals of Magnonics (Lecture Notes in Physics (969))
Fundamentals of Magnonics is a textbook for beginning graduate students in the areas of magnetism and spintronics. The level of presentation assumes only basic knowledge of the origin of magnetism and electromagnetism, and quantum mechanics. The book utilizes elementary mathematical derivations, aimed mainly at explaining…
Scientific Women: Re-visioning Women’s Scientific Achievements and Impacts (Women in Engineering and Science)
The book highlights women’s contributions to science, which have often been marginalized and overlooked throughout history. The book first provides an overview of the development of the various science professions over time – placed in socioeconomic and cultural contexts – and women’s role in the…
A Journey of Embedded and Cyber-Physical Systems: Essays Dedicated to Peter Marwedel on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday
This Open Access book celebrates Professor Peter Marwedel’s outstanding achievements in compilers, embedded systems, and cyber-physical systems. The contributions in the book summarize the content of invited lectures given at the workshop “Embedded Systems” held at the Technical University Dortmund in early July 2019 in…
Metabolic Pathway Engineering (Methods in Molecular Biology (2096))
This book illustrates experimental and computational methodologies used to achieve cost effective biological processes for the production of fuels and biochemicals through multiple approaches to increasing yield, titers, and productivity in a robust host. The volume includes the most recent and cutting-edge aspects of pathway…