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The book illustrates the use of putative microbial agents which provide good protection to the plant from biotic pathogens attack. An up to date knowledge on plant-microbiome interaction strategies in terms of improved sustainability has been discussed. Information from experts across the globe on...

Achieving environmental sustainability with rapid industrialization is currently a major global challenge. Industries are the key economic drivers, but are also the main polluters as untreated/partially treated effluents from industry are usually discharged into the aquatic environment or dumped. Industrial effluents often contain highly...

This book comprises selected proceedings of the Fourth International Conference in Ocean Engineering (ICOE2018), focusing on emerging opportunities and challenges in the field of ocean engineering and offshore structures. It includes state-of-the-art content from leading international experts, making it a valuable resource for researchers...

This book is a concerted effort to put together the rapidly growing facets of biological data. It provides a platform for the readers to think about integrative approaches to solve complex biological problems. This fundamental book deals with the simplest concepts of omics to...

This book offers a comprehensive set of principles that lead to ideal outcomes following treatment for Head and Neck Cancers, especially in those patients who need major reconstructive procedures. It goes beyond the scope of basic Head and Neck Cancer textbooks, or of reconstructive...

This book highlights various methods for quantifying sustainability indicators using different indices. To date, numerous sustainability indicators encompassing either all three pillars (economic, environmental and social) or individual or joint indicators (e.g. environmental and social) have been developed and quantified. In addition to commonly...

This book deals with the energy footprints of biorefineries and the hotel and buildings sector. It presents footprint case studies, which include background information, methodological frameworks, assessment checklists, calculation tools and techniques, applications, challenges and limitations. It also discusses the application of each indicator/framework...

This work presents a clear approach for the reconstruction of head and neck cancer excision defects. Starting with a brief historical account of head and neck reconstruction, the principles of resection and reconstruction of head and neck cancer, the book then provides a detailed...

Author: Subramanian Senthilkannan MuthuISBN-10: 9811324077ISBN-13: 9789811324079Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/18/2018Pages: 82Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.68lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.25d

Outlining important policy requirements for Bangladesh to become an upper middle-income country, the book presents research work conducted during the project "Changing Labor Markets in Bangladesh: Understanding Dynamics in Relation to Economic Growth and Poverty," sponsored by the International Development Research Center (IDRC), Canada....

This book discusses recent advances and research in applied mathematics, statistics and their applications in computing. It features papers presented at the fourth conference in the series organized at the Indian Institute of Technology (Banaras Hindu University), Varanasi, India, on 9 - 11 January...

Author: Senem MallmanISBN-10: 9811319146ISBN-13: 9789811319143Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/22/2018Pages: 198Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.89lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.50d

This book addresses the specialized topic of input-output models for sustainable industrial systems. While these models are well-established tools for economic analysis, their underlying mathematical structure is also applicable to the analysis and optimization of a wide range of systems that are characterized by...

This book celebrates the rights of the child, through including student voice in educational matters that affect them directly. It focuses on the experiences of children and young people and explores how our educational policies, practices and research endeavours enable educators to help young...

Author: Ratan DasguptaISBN-10: 9811318425ISBN-13: 9789811318429Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/27/2018Pages: 192Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.03lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.50d

This book chiefly presents a novel approach referred to as backward fuzzy rule interpolation and extrapolation (BFRI). BFRI allows observations that directly relate to the conclusion to be inferred or interpolated from other antecedents and conclusions. Based on the scale and move transformation interpolation,...

Author: Ping JuISBN-10: 9811318158ISBN-13: 9789811318153Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/31/2018Pages: 231Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.14lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d

Author: Azra Moeed,Dayle AndersonISBN-10: 9811316155ISBN-13: 9789811316159Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/07/2018Pages: 140Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.88lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.44d

This book is about the tiny sounds of the world, and listening to them, the minute signals that are clues to who and where we are. A very small sound, given the context of its history, becomes hugely significant, and even an imagined sound...

This book brings together the latest findings on efficient solutions of multi/many-objective optimization problems from the leading researchers in the field. The focus is on solving real-world optimization problems using strategies ranging from evolutionary to hybrid frameworks, and involving various computation platforms. The topics...

This book stimulates discussions on cultural and educational exchanges between rival states and societies, raises awareness of the potential positive and negative impacts of such exchanges, and serves as a basis for future research and program design. Cultural and educational exchanges in various forms...

This book provides one of the most comprehensive and compelling analysis of Non-Market Economies (NMEs) and their treatment under the current world trading system. In particular, it examines the treatment of China as an NME in anti-dumping investigations, especially post-December 2016. Central to this...

Author: Ilan WieselISBN-10: 9811313660ISBN-13: 9789811313660Publisher: Palgrave MacMillanLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/10/2018Pages: 202Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.91lbsSize: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.56d

These two volumes present the proceedings of the International Conference on Technology and Instrumentation in Particle Physics 2017 (TIPP2017), which was held in Beijing, China from 22 to 26 May 2017. Gathering selected articles on the basis of their quality and originality, it highlights...

Author: Zhen-An LiuISBN-10: 9811313121ISBN-13: 9789811313127Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/08/2018Pages: 442Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.79lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.00d

This book discusses systematic designs of stable adaptive fuzzy logic controllers employing hybridizations of Lyapunov strategy-based approaches/H∞ theory-based approaches and contemporary stochastic optimization techniques. The text demonstrates how candidate stochastic optimization techniques like Particle swarm optimization (PSO), harmony search (HS) algorithms, covariance matrix adaptation...

Author: Ashish BharadwajISBN-10: 9811312311ISBN-13: 9789811312311Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/02/2018Pages: 337Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.51lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.81d

Discusses innovative applications of analytics in business and introduces to new emerging areas of research in data analysis Provides overviews on topics of current interest - machine learning, functional data analysis, regression analysis, directional data analysis and branching processes Academic research papers in analytics...

This 2-volume book covers the state-of-the-art of the research and practices on eco-design. It covers the latest topics in the field: e.g. global eco-design management, big data in eco-design, social perspectives in eco-design; as well as emphasizing the developments in emerging economies such as...

This book examines the development of Chinese translation practice in relation to the rise of ideas of modern selfhood in China from the 1890s to the 1920s. The key translations produced by late Qing and early Republican Chinese intellectuals over the three decades in...

- Attempts to contextualise the coup attempt of 15 July 2016 in Turkey, within the framework of militarism and masculinities- Explores the significance of Turkey's move towards Islamism and domestic responses- Brings together analyses from various disciplines of political science, media and film studies,...

This book explores the paradox of the hospitality industry: customers demand not only personal and innovative tourism products and services, but also cost-effective ones. Enterprises have the option to meet the former demand by offering authentic products and services while the latter could be...

This book contains selected papers from the 9th International Conference on Information Science and Applications (ICISA 2018) and provides a snapshot of the latest issues encountered in technical convergence and convergences of security technology. It explores how information science is core to most current...

This book highlights the development of lake systems and water reservoirs as well as the impact of climate change on water resources in Central Asian countries. It provides information on the genesis of lake basins, physical and chemical properties of water in lakes, and...

Author: Wenyan SongISBN-10: 9811308624ISBN-13: 9789811308628Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/18/2018Pages: 202Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.06lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d

This multifaceted book examines the free market reform of the Chinese healthcare system in the 1980s and the more collectivist or socialist counter-reforms that have been implemented since 2009 to remedy some of the problems introduced by marketization. The book is based on an...

This book examines various ideational, attitudinal and intellectual impasses that are becoming glaringly apparent on several fronts, and which have held back India's balanced, steady and uniform development and transformation post-independence. It argues that all of these ideational and attitudinal aberrations stem from one...

This book delves into the biotechnological applications of Quorum sensing (QS)- a peculiar gene-regulatory process of some microorganisms. Quorum Sensing allows a large bacterial population to work together in a coordinated manner to carry out metabolic activities, which individual bacterium cannot. The different chapters...

Performance Evolution and Sensing ControlAuthor: Hehua ZhuISBN-10: 981130579XISBN-13: 9789811305795Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/22/2018Pages: 106Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.31d

First book to combine a theoretical and empirical analysis of location-based games, from their emergence in the early 2000s through to their current commercial and publicly-funded iterations. Provides unique insights that contribute to scholarly debates around location-based games and the broader transformation of everyday...

Provides mathematicians with new stimuli from economic theories, and economists with effective mathematical tools for their researchIs published annually under the auspices of the Research Center for Mathematical EconomicsPresents a clear-cut expository overview of all problems under discussionAuthor: Shigeo KusuokaISBN-10: 9811306044ISBN-13: 9789811306044Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

Author: Nitish KumarISBN-10: 981130534XISBN-13: 9789811305344Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/24/2018Pages: 665Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.47lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 1.44d

This book of conference proceedings contains papers presented at the Art and Design International Conference (AnDIC 2016). It examines the impact of Cyberology, also known as Internet Science, on the world of art and design. It looks at how the rapid growth of Cyberology...

This book provides a comprehensive review of the major barriers to HIV cure and vaccine. It covers the fundamental virology and immunology leading to HIV transmission, protection from infection and long term HIV persistence on antiretroviral therapy. In addition, strategies being tested to eliminate...

This book presents some of the latest technologies in waste management, and emphasizes the benefits that can be gained from the use of recycled products. Divided into four sections, it deals with phytoremediation, acquatic weed management and the treatment of solid- and water-based wastes,...

Author: Xiaohong LiuISBN-10: 9811304505ISBN-13: 9789811304507Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/20/2018Pages: 276Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.27lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.69d

This thesis focuses on the design and synthesis of novel one-dimensional colloidal chalcogenide hetero-nanostructures for enhancing solar energy conversion applications. Semiconducting nanomaterials are particular attractive for energy conversion due to the quantum confinement effects dictating their unique optical and electronic properties. Steering the photo-induced...

This book focuses on ecological wisdom inspired restoration engineering through theories, hypotheses, policies, practical understanding, and case studies. Understanding nature's processes is a prerequisite for the healthy and sustainable functioning of a habitable Earth. As such, the book provides a guide for readers seeking...

This book is the sixth volume of the proceedings of the 4th GeoShanghai International Conference that was held on May 27 - 30, 2018. This volume, entitled "Advances in Soil Dynamics and Foundation Engineering", covers the recent advances and technologies in soil dynamics and...

The book comprehensively covers the various aspects of risk modeling and analysis in technological contexts. It pursues a systems approach to modeling risk and reliability concerns in engineering, and covers the key concepts of risk analysis and mathematical tools used to assess and account...