Publications
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Renewable Energy
(2020)
The demand for secure, affordable and clean energy is a priority call to humanity. Challenges associated with conventional energy resources, such as depletion of fossil fuels, high costs and associated greenhouse gas ...
Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulations
(2020)
Fluid flows are encountered in our daily life as well as in engineering industries. Identifying the temporal and spatial distribution of fluid dynamic properties is essential in analyzing the processes related to flows. ...
Sustainable Sewage Sludge Management and Resource Efficiency
(2020)
Creating decent living conditions for all people while decoupling economic growth from the increasing use of virgin resources and environmental impacts is the major challenge of this millennium. There are many approaches ...
Maternal and Child Health Matters Around the World
(2020)
This edited volume, “Maternal and Child Health Matters Around the World”, is a collection of reviewed and relevant research chapters, offering a comprehensive overview of recent developments in the field of medicine. The ...
Essential Oils
(2020)
Essential oils have been used for centuries by communities all over the world in various areas and for various purposes. These include uses in medicine, flavoring, perfumery, cosmetics, insecticides, fungicides, and ...
Empathy Study
(2020)
Empathy, as it relates to behavioral counseling, is the ability of the counselor to get into the client’s phenomenological world and experience it as if it is one’s own while putting aside one’s own feelings and accepting ...
Industrial Robotics
(2020)
In this book, a new approach to the Industry 4.0 revolution is given. New policies and challenges appear and education in robotics also needs to be adapted to this new era. Together with new factory conceptualization, novel ...
Animal Reproduction in Veterinary Medicine
(2021)
Despite efforts to control udder health in cattle, are the causes of mastitis are on the rise. Although at first glance the birth process seems normal in domestic pigs, what could be the problem? What are the clinical ...
Perovskite and Piezoelectric Materials
(2021)
Investigating in the area of perovskite materials and the fabrication of devices for properties in optoelectronics, we have presented a brief outline of perovskite materials. The authors present a fairly comprehensive ...
Outdoor Recreation
(2021)
Outdoor recreation refers to recreation/activity executed outdoors, most commonly in natural settings. At least in many high-income countries, outdoor recreation is by many considered as an attractive activity during spare ...
Psycho-Social Aspects of Human Sexuality and Ethics
(2021)
With the emerging newer trends in sexuality and clashes with the traditional practice of human sexuality, there is a need for introspection and a framework of ethical principles that may guide human sexuality and its ...
Neurodegenerative Diseases
(2021)
Neurodegenerative diseases represent a very large group of heterogeneous disorders affecting specific subtypes of neurons in the brain. This book contributes insight both to the awareness of the brain and its neurodegenerative ...
Nano- and Microencapsulation
(2021)
Nano- or micro-encapsulation is used in many different fields and industries, including pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, food, and agrochemicals. It offers advantages for various applications, especially drug delivery. ...
Food Security in Africa
(2021)
This edited volume “Food Security in Africa” is a collection of reviewed and relevant research chapters offering a comprehensive overview of recent developments in the field of food safety and availability, water issues, ...
Molecular Biotechnology
(2021)
Biotechnology is a unit of engineering biology that studies ways of using living organisms, their systems, or metabolic products to solve technological problems. This book describes the modern trends and progress in ...
Methods in Molecular Medicine
(2021)
Treatment risk and response to therapy prediction can be forecasted through early diagnosis, which improves prognosis reliability and effectiveness of therapies. This book covers contemporary advances in molecular markers, ...
AI and Learning Systems
(2021)
Over the last few years, interest in the industrial applications of AI and learning systems has surged. This book covers the recent developments and provides a broad perspective of the key challenges that characterize the ...
Renewable Energy
(2021)
This book discusses renewable energy resources and systems as well as energy efficiency. It contains twenty-three chapters over six sections that address a multitude of renewable energy types, including solar and photovoltaic, ...
Glaciers and the Polar Environment
(2021)
Glaciers and Polar regions provide important clues to understanding the past and present status of the Earth system, as well as to predict future forms of our planet. In particular, Antarctica, composed of an ice-covered ...
Resources of Water
(2021)
Water is a limited natural resource indispensable for human existence. Water resources exist in the form of glaciers, oceans, rainwater, groundwater, and surface water. Uncontrolled population growth, urbanization, and ...