Publications
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Visual Impairment and Blindness
(2020)
Blindness and vision impairment affect at least 2.2 billion people worldwide with most individuals having a preventable vision impairment. The majority of people with vision impairment are older than 50 years, however, ...
Advances in Forest Management under Global Change
(2020)
Advances in forest management will enhance the sustainable development of human society, and should be focused on. Under the context of global change, soil nutrients, especially nitrogen, should be carefully managed and ...
A Diffusion Hydrodynamic Model
(2020)
The Diffusion Hydrodynamic Model (DHM), as presented in the 1987 USGS publication, was one of the first computational fluid dynamics computational programs based on the groundwater program MODFLOW, which evolved into the ...
Tibia Pathology and Fractures
(2020)
The tibia is the larger, stronger, and anterior (frontal) of the two bones in the leg, which connects the knee with the ankle bones. The tibia, or shinbone, is the most fractured long bone in the body. In recent years, ...
Application of Expert Systems
(2020)
What are expert systems and what are their purposes? What are the impacts resulting from their implementations? This book aims to answer these questions and more. Written by experts in the field, chapters It explores ...
Plant Communities and Their Environment
(2020)
This book presents different perspectives on how to understand the complex interaction between plants and the environment. Plant communities adapt to biotic and abiotic stresses with different mechanisms and understanding ...
Sports Science and Human Health
(2020)
In this era of sedentary lifestyles and disruption, sports science can propose solutions to human health matters. There is no doubt about the positive impact of sports on the physical as well as mental health of an individual, ...
Pests, Weeds and Diseases in Agricultural Crop and Animal Husbandry Production
(2020)
This book highlights some of the most recent research with respect to emerging pest challenges in agricultural crop and animal husbandry production: analytical methods for glyphosate detection in foods, biopesticides and ...
Human 4.0
(2021)
Information technology is becoming ingrained in our everyday life. The consequence of this is that the line between humans and technology is more and more blurred, and tends to transform the human being into a cyber-organism. ...
Tsunami
(2020)
This book is a collection of contributions from experts involved in tsunami study for the purpose of covering the different aspects from a tsunami at a local level, population health related to a tsunami disaster and early ...
Medical Isotopes
(2021)
Radioisotopes are widely used in the medical field for imaging and therapy of diseases by themselves or by tagging with other molecules that have the potential to target diseased cells. In imaging protocol, the radioisotope, ...
A Closer Look at Organizational Culture in Action
(2021)
Values, attitudes, and behaviors constitute an organization’s culture and employees both share and use them on a daily basis in their work. This book aims to briefly portray a new interpretation of organizational culture ...
Environmental Emissions
(2021)
Today, the issue of environmental emissions is more important than ever before. Air pollution with particulates, soot, carbon, aerosols, heavy metals, and so on is causing adverse effects on human health as well as the ...
Pleistocene Archaeology
(2020)
This book presents an overview of recent research in the field of Pleistocene Archaeology around the world. The main topics of this book are: (1) human migrations, particularly by Homo sapiens who have migrated into most ...
Ocular Surface Diseases
(2021)
The ocular surface refers to the cornea, conjunctiva, lacrimal glands, and lid of the eye. It is composed of the mucosa that lines the globe and palpebrae, the corneoscleral limbus, the corneal epithelium, and the tear ...
Inland Waters
(2021)
Inland waters, lakes, rivers, and their connected wetlands are the most important and the most vulnerable sources of freshwater on the planet. The ecology of these systems includes biology as well as human populations and ...
Biometric Systems
(2021)
Biometrics are used widely in various real-life applications today. There are a number of potential biometric applications that include different areas such as personal recognition, identification, verification, and others. ...
Casting Processes and Modelling of Metallic Materials
(2021)
This book, Casting Processes and Modelling of Metallic Materials, explores the various casting and modelling activities related to metallic alloy systems. The book provides results of research work conducted by experts ...
Structural Integrity and Failure
(2021)
Structural integrity and failure assessment have been considered by many fields of engineers as it is a multi-disciplinary concept. The assessment procedure vitally ensures that structural elements will remain functional ...
Chemistry and Biochemistry of Winemaking, Wine Stabilization and Aging
(2021)
This book, written by experts, aims to provide a detailed overview of recent advances in oenology. Book chapters include the latest progress in the chemistry and biochemistry of winemaking, stabilisation, and ageing, ...
Recent Advances in Digital System Diagnosis and Management of Healthcare
(2021)
Technologically supported healthcare management is beginning to take center stage as advances occur in many aspects of healthcare, involving big data, artificial intelligence, and improved user interfaces. This volume ...
Sustainable Organizations
(2021)
Given the multidisciplinary nature of our object of study, sustainability, we have divided this book into twelve chapters. In the first four, we cover the content required to learn how to start a business and create companies ...
Forest Biomass
(2021)
Forests are responsible for the largest net biomass carbon production. They store the most standing biomass and carbon and thus they are an important source of bioenergy. Their importance is linked to their relative abundance ...
Tribology in Materials and Manufacturing
(2021)
Tribology in Materials and Manufacturing - Wear, Friction and Lubrication brings an interdisciplinary perspective to accomplish a more detailed understanding of tribological assessments, friction, lubrication, and wear in ...