Publications
Now showing items 2101-2120 of 3264
Applied Fracture Mechanics
(2012)
The book "Applied Fracture Mechanics" presents a collection of articles on application of fracture mechanics methods to materials science, medicine, and engineering. In thirteen chapters, a wide range of topics is discussed, ...
Practical Concepts of Quality Control
(2012)
This book aims to provide a concise account of the essential elements of quality control. It is designed to be used as a text for courses on quality control for students of industrial engineering at the advanced undergraduate, ...
Processing of Heavy Crude Oils
(2019)
Unconventional heavy crude oils are replacing the conventional light crude oils slowly but steadily as a major energy source. Heavy crude oils are cheaper and present an opportunity to the refiners to process them with ...
Mechanics of Functionally Graded Materials and Structures
(2020)
The Functionally Graded Materials (FGM) concept originated in Japan in 1984 during the spaceplane project, in the form of a proposed thermal barrier material capable of withstanding a surface temperature of 2000 K and a ...
Protected Areas, National Parks and Sustainable Future
(2020)
This book aims to examine the context and practice of national parks regarding a countries’ obligations to safeguard biodiversity through the protection and management of forest-protected areas. The book examines the wider ...
Rotating Machinery
(2020)
Rotating machinery or turbomachinery is a machine with a rotating component that transfers energy to a fluid or vice versa. Rotating machines are one of the most widely used machines. They are used in everyday life, at ...
Antiquity and Its Reception
(2020)
What do we talk about when we talk about antiquity? For the majority of the population, the term immediately transports us to the notion of an ancient age or ancient world (the Parthenon, Athens, and the Coliseum of Rome), ...
Digestive System
(2020)
The book focuses on the recent advances in the digestive system. It is composed of 3 sections: gastrointestinal duct, liver, and biliary system. There are 9 chapters: peptic ulcers; mid-gastrointestinal bleeding; ...
Environmental Health
(2020)
It took a long time for humans to recognize the existence of a direct link between environmental pollution and health deterioration. In the 1990s, scientists demonstrated the existence of this link through epidemiological ...
Essential Oils
(2020)
Essential oils were used globally as a folk medicine for the treatment of a number of diseases because of the high content of natural compounds. Therefore, this book looks at research topics dealing with isolation, ...
Tannins
(2020)
Tannins are one of the polyphenols group found in plants and are mainly studied because of their structural properties and bioactive behavior. Every year new findings concerning their properties and functions are made, and ...
Narrative Transmedia
(2020)
The transmedia narrative is a format that will renew interest in reading and stories, and also allow innovation in various educational fields, if you know how to apply and combine with innovative teaching methodologies ...
Psychopathology
(2020)
This collection brings together an international array of cutting-edge thinkers who address the basic questions of psychiatry using diverse methods from a variety of different perspectives. The reader is taken to the ...
Banana Nutrition
(2020)
Banana Nutrition - Function and Processing Kinetics covers the nutritional aspects of the banana plant and fruit. The book contains substantial scientific information written in an easy-to-understand format. The chapters ...
Innovations in Cell Research and Therapy
(2020)
All living things are comprised of cells. A cell is the building block of complex organisms. All cells contain genetic material. Some cells contain subunits known as organelles that perform specific functions. Protein ...
Coastal and Marine Environments
(2020)
This book systematizes the concepts of contemporary coastal zone management and suggests possible structural and non-structural management tools for decision-making processes. Some successful adaptation measures and case ...
Gestational Diabetes Mellitus
(2020)
This book on gestational diabetes does not claim to cover all aspects of this complex and ever-evolving medical condition. It is an attempt by the group of authors to provide an overview, highlight important features, and ...
Processing and Analysis of Hyperspectral Data
(2020)
Hyperspectral imagery has received considerable attention in the last decade as it provides rich spectral information and allows the analysis of objects that are unidentifiable by traditional imaging techniques. It has a ...
Open Scientific Data
(2020)
This book shows how the vision for open access to scientific data can be more readily achieved through a staged model that research funders, policy makers, scientists, and research organizations can adopt in their practice. ...
Technology, Science and Culture
(2020)
From the success of the first volume of this series, we are enthusiastic to continue our discussions on research topics related to the fields of Food Science, Intelligent Systems, Molecular Biomedicine, Water Science, and ...