Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes

This book contributes to the broader discussion on the development of renewable energy sources for a clean and sustainable energy to drive sustainable growth, energy security and sustainable development.

With diet, health, and food safety news making headlines on a regular basis, the ability to separate, identify, and analyze the nutrients, additives, and toxicological compounds found in food and food components is more important than ever.

This book examines how predicting the future based on analytical and empirical models is essential for our species' survival, stable organization, and well-being.

Diseases in crops cause significant economic losses by decreasing both the yield and quality of produce.

Every branch of science, every profession, and every engineering process has its own language for communication.

This book provides a comprehensive coverage of reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) based wireless communications by covering all the technology stages from working principles, theories and algorithms, system architectures, real-world implementations, and programming platforms through performance measurements and system testing.

Considerable interest has developed in recent years in crucifers and particularly in their wild relatives, as they contain genetic material that may be utilized for further evolution of superior crop varieties through introgression and distant hybridization.

Concepts in Cereal Chemistry stimulates critical thinking by emphasizing the important concepts related to the science.

Discourse of Reciprocity reveals patterns of press behavior in the US-Canada alliance at points where the nature of the alliance itself was under stress.

Interest in structured catalysts is steadily increasing due to the already proven, as well as potential, advantages of these catalysts.

Wood has played a major role throughout human history.

The use of high-temperature materials in current and future applications, including silicone materials for handling hot foods and metal alloys for developing high-speed aircraft and spacecraft systems, has generated a growing interest in high-temperature technologies.

In this edited volume for researchers and students, experts in thermal plasmonics and metamaterials technologies introduce cutting-edge energy and resource conservation techniques and environmentally friendly solutions in areas including energy generation and harvesting and radiative cooling.

Drawing on state-of-the-art research results, Resistance Welding: Fundamentals and Applications, Second Edition systematically presents fundamental aspects of important processes in resistance welding and discusses their implications on real-world welding applications.

Since the publication of the first edition of this volume in 1988, we have made great strides in reducing the amount of toxic waste that threatens our water, soil, and air.

The newest addition to the Green Chemistry and Chemical Engineering series from CRC Press, Biofuels and Bioenergy: Processes and Technologies provides a succinct but in-depth introduction to methods of development and use of biofuels and bioenergy.

The massive increase in consumer product waste, its toxicity, and the complexity of materials have created an unbearable financial and management burden for municipal officials-it has become untenable.

This book reviews research works in recent trends in blockchain, AI, and Digital Twin based IoT data analytics approaches for providing the privacy and security solutions for Fog-enabled IoT networks.

In this new two-volume set, leading scientists focus on the recent progress in pharmaceutical technology for drug delivery systems and new drug targeting strategies.

The scope of occupational safety and health (OSH) has evolved gradually and consistently in response to variations that are socio-political or scientific, or generated by profit-seeking.

An Insiders Guide to Inspecting, Maintaining, and Operating BridgesSuspension bridges are graceful, aesthetic, and iconic structures.

The research area of music information retrieval has gradually evolved to address the challenges of effectively accessing and interacting large collections of music and associated data, such as styles, artists, lyrics, and reviews.

Research establishes that symbiotic association of microbes with medicinal and herbal plants enhance the growth and accumulation of bioactive materials, and that species of microbes including bacterial and fungal species play a key role.

Why is knowledge of soil stress and deformation state important for off-road locomotion?

This book details the most contemporary concerns related to urban development, governance, and planning, as well as the challenges to urban administration.

a In the hidden realm beneath our feet, a complex network of interactions unfolds between plant roots and the surrounding soila .

Low-carbon energy transformations to support carbon-neutral societies is an important and urgent topic and subject to current national priorities and socio-economic planning.

Although nosocomial, or hospital-acquired, infections have been well cataloged and are fairly well understood, traditional solutions have failed to completely eliminate the problem.

Food biotechnologys typical developments and applications have occurred in the fields of genetics and in enzyme- and cell-based biological processes, with the goal of producing and improving food ingredients and foods themselves.

Solar Selective Absorbers: Materials, Coatings, and Applications covers different harnessing technologies for solar energy, electromagnetic radiation including design principles, and different types of spectrally selective coatings.

This book examines the challenges of sustainably managing and conserving Cordyceps sinensis, a rare species of fungus largely grown in Tibet, currently on the brink of extinction.

The scope of occupational safety and health (OSH) has evolved gradually and consistently in response to variations that are socio-political or scientific, or generated by profit-seeking.

This book highlights the hidden world of microbiomes, viromes, and biofilms on and inside humans.

There has been a recent shift in the nature of public engagement from a culture of paternalism and control towards a public-centred approach involving collaboration and co-creation.

While engineers and surveyors are not urban planners, they are often engaged in urban development.

This book discusses advanced nano-optics, from proof of concepts to real applications in devices and miniaturized instrumentation.

This book comprehensively reviews the intricate relationship between environmental toxicants and the gut microbiome.

This accessible and practical shortform book details the properties and advantages of high-performance pre-engineered steel-concrete composite beams (HPCBs) for improving the sustainability of construction techniques.

This book discusses the relevance of probabilistic supervised learning, to the pursuit of automated and reliable prediction of an unknown that is in a state of relationship with another variable.

Terrorist groups and organized crime cartels pose an increasing threat of kidnapping throughout many regions in the word.

Obtain the Best Estimate of a Strongly Scattering Object from Limited Scattered Field DataIntroduction to Imaging from Scattered Fields presents an overview of the challenging problem of determining information about an object from measurements of the field scattered from that object.

With electromagnetic compliance (EMC) now a major factor in the design of all electronic products, it is crucial to understand how electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding products are used in various industries.

Since its publication more than 15 years ago, Heat Conduction Using Greens Functions has become the consummate heat conduction treatise from the perspective of Greens functionsa "e;and the newly revised Second Edition is poised to take its place.

Biological and chemical warfare agents, including viruses, bacteria, and explosive and radioactive compounds, can induce illness or death in humans, animals, and plants.

This book explores the questions of What, Why, When, How and Where we might find Extra-Terrestrials (a.

Thoroughly updated and revised, this second edition of the bestselling Soil Sampling and Methods of Analysis presents several new chapters in the areas of biological and physical analysis and soil sampling.

Physical Security Assessment Handbook: An Insiders Guide to Securing a Business, Second Edition has been fully updated to help you identify threats to your organization and be able to mitigate such threats.

Harness the Wonders of the Natural World As our in-depth knowledge of biological systems increases, the number of devices and applications built from these principles is rapidly growing.

In the fifteen years since the publication of Occupational Ergonomics: Theory and Applications significant advances have been made in this field.

Physical Security Assessment Handbook: An Insiders Guide to Securing a Business, Second Edition has been fully updated to help you identify threats to your organization and be able to mitigate such threats.