Household Reusable Rainwater Technology for Developing and Under-Developed Countries
This outlines techniques for household-scale safe collection and treating of rainwater, and quality improvement for both potable and non-potable uses, with numerous case studies. It offers a comprehensive, holistic book for developing and underdeveloped countries for academics and water policy providers such as WHO and DFID.
Modeling and Stability Analysis of Inverter-Based Resources
Renewable energy sources interface with the ac grids via inverters and are termed inverter-based resources (IBRs).
Medical Data Analysis and Processing using Explainable Artificial Intelligence
The text presents concepts of explainable artificial intelligence (XAI) in solving real world biomedical and healthcare problems.
Water Power For The Farm And Country Home
Unlock the secrets of sustainable living with "Water Power for the Farm and Country Home" by David R. Cooper a timeless masterpiece that has been out of print for decades and is now beautifully restored by Alpha Editions. This collector's item is not just a reprint; it's a cultural treasure, meticulously preserved for today's and future generations. Dive into the innovative world of early 20th-century water power solutions, where Cooper's visionary insights transform the ordinary into the extraordinary. Discover how harnessing the natural flow of water can revolutionize rural life, offering both practicality and independence. This book is a beacon of ingenuity, blending technical wisdom with a passion for self-sufficiency that resonates even more in our modern era. Whether you're a casual reader intrigued by historical innovations or a collector of classic literature, this edition promises to inspire and educate. Experience the blend of nostalgia and practicality that makes this book a unique and valuable addition to any library. Embrace the legacy of sustainable living and let this restored classic guide you to a future where nature and technology harmoniously coexist.
The Way Of The Air
Soar into the captivating world of early aviation with "The Way of the Air" by Edgar Charles Middleton, a timeless classic that has been out of print for decades and is now beautifully restored by Alpha Editions. This collector's item is not just a reprint; it's a cultural treasure, meticulously revived for today's and future generations. Dive into the exhilarating journey of modern aviation's infancy, where daring pioneers defied gravity and pushed the boundaries of human ingenuity. Middleton's vivid narrative and insightful observations offer a unique glimpse into the spirit of adventure that defined an era. Whether you're a casual reader or a classic literature aficionado, this book promises to ignite your imagination and inspire your sense of wonder. Experience the thrill of flight and the passion of those who dared to dream beyond the clouds. "The Way of the Air" is more than a book; it's a testament to human courage and innovation, waiting to take its place on your bookshelf as a cherished piece of history.
Energy: The Basics
Energy: The Basics offers a concise and engaging introduction to energy, answering critical questions and providing accessible definitions of essential concepts and developments in the field.People rarely stop to think about where the energy they use to power their everyday lives comes from and when they do it is often to ask a worried question: is mankind's energy usage killing the planet? How do we deal with nuclear waste? What happens when the oil runs out? Energy: The Basics answers these questions, but it also does much more. In this engaging yet even-handed introduction, readers are introduced to: the concept of 'energy' and what it really means the ways energy is currently generated and the sources used new and emerging energy technologies such as solar power and biofuels the impacts of energy use on the environment including climate change This new edition has been updated throughout and includes a new chapter on energy storage, along with new material on transportation energy and batteries.Featuring explanatory diagrams and an extensive further reading list, this book is the ideal starting point for anyone interested in the impact and future of the world's energy supply.
Tensegrity Structures Design Methods
Tensegrity structures are pre-stressed systems of cables and bars in which no bar is connected to the other and the structure has no continuous rigid skeleton. This introduction for engineers and architects presents an original general method for their design, from 2D to complex 3D structures.
The Physical Properties of Hardened Conventional Concrete in Dams / Propri矇tes Physiques Du B矇ton Conventionnel Durci Des Barrages
Bulletin 145 addresses physical properties of mass concrete most frequently used in the design and analysis of concrete dams and appurtenant structures, including methods for experimental determination and methodes to introduce the properties into mathematical models that can be used for both design and observation.
Novel Approaches in Biopreservation for Food and Clinical Purposes
The aim of "Novel Approaches in Biopreservation for Food and Clinical Purposes" is to provide cutting-edge information on biopreservation methods for both food and medical applications.
Advanced Computational Approaches for Water Treatment
Advanced Computational Approaches for Water Treatment: Applications in Food and Chemical Engineering, presents different numerical techniques and traditional modeling and simulation approaches to elaborate on and explain the various water purification techniques.
Renewable Energy Integrated Seawater Desalination Technologies
This book bridges the gap between conventional processes and renewable energy procedures by offering a comprehensive introduction to seawater desalination technologies.With a special focus on water quality, plant design, and the health and environmental impacts of desalination, it provides innovative solutions to optimize facilities for better accessibility to desalinated water. The first part provides a technical overview of seawater quality and desalination procedures, including thermal desalination, membrane desalination, and alternative processes like desalination batteries and capacitive deionization. The second part introduces novel freshwater production technologies using renewable energy, such as solar, wind, and geothermal desalination. With fresh insights from experts in the field, the book's value lies in providing valuable, accessible, and up-to-date knowledge about desalination to readers.This text will be of significant interest to professionals in water resource management, and academic researchers in desalination technology and environmental engineering.
Animal Models in Medical Research
The use of animals in medical research has led to groundbreaking discoveries. From the development of vaccines and antibiotics to advances in organ transplantation and cancer therapies, experimental animal models have played a crucial role in shaping modern medicine. However, their use also raises ethical concerns, necessitating strict regulations, ethical review boards, and the application of the "3Rs" principle-Replacement, Reduction, and Refinement-to minimize animal suffering while maximizing scientific benefit. This book aims to provide an overview of the significance, applications, and ethical considerations surrounding various experimental animal models in medical research. By examining different model organisms, their strengths and limitations, and the evolving landscape of alternative methodologies, we seek to highlight the delicate balance between scientific progress and ethical responsibility. Hopefully, the experimental animal models discussed in this book will contribute to a deeper understanding of the role of animal models in medical research and inspire further advancements in both biomedical sciences and ethical research practices.
Design and Construction of Concrete Floors
As well as structural design this thoroughly updated edition addresses crack control, flatness, wear resistance, slip resistance, and suitability for floor coverings. With more on polished concrete, limestone cement, and jointless floors, for structural engineers, architects and contactors.
Energy
Energy: The Basics offers a concise and engaging introduction to energy, answering critical questions and providing accessible definitions of essential concepts and developments in the field.People rarely stop to think about where the energy they use to power their everyday lives comes from and when they do it is often to ask a worried question: is mankind's energy usage killing the planet? How do we deal with nuclear waste? What happens when the oil runs out? Energy: The Basics answers these questions, but it also does much more. In this engaging yet even-handed introduction, readers are introduced to: the concept of 'energy' and what it really means the ways energy is currently generated and the sources used new and emerging energy technologies such as solar power and biofuels the impacts of energy use on the environment including climate change This new edition has been updated throughout and includes a new chapter on energy storage, along with new material on transportation energy and batteries.Featuring explanatory diagrams and an extensive further reading list, this book is the ideal starting point for anyone interested in the impact and future of the world's energy supply.
Water Security for Agriculture-Atma Nirbhar Farmers
India is an agriculture economy where land and water are two key natural resources upon which farmers depend for their livelihoods and development. Farmers' development depends upon interactions of these and other resources, institutions, actions and policies and their ultimate outcomes. It would be naive to perceive that all rural poverty problems could be solved through improving the poor's access to water alone through development of irrigated area in rainfed conditions. However, though water is only a single element in the poverty equation, it plays a disproportionately powerful role through its wider impacts on such factors as food and other essential agricultural production. Water is one of the most critical inputs for agriculture. The availability of adequate water for irrigation is a key factor in achieving higher productivity. However, the poor efficiency of conventional irrigation systems has not only reduced the anticipated outcome of investments towards water resource development, but has also resulted in environmental problems like water logging and soil salinity, thereby adversely affecting crop yields.World is facing many challenges; prominent among these are climate change, environmental degradation, sustainable development and food security for growing population. Climate change affects the world's water in complex ways. From unpredictable rainfall patterns to shrinking ice sheets, rising sea levels, floods and droughts, most impacts of climate change come down to water. The effects are already visible and will be catastrophic unless we act now. Through education, innovation and adherence to our climate commitments, and to secure water for agriculture sector keeping in view the Sustainable Development Goals, we can make the necessary changes in agriculture practices/methods to make climate smart/climate re-silent agriculture as well as self-reliant and climate smart farmers. As a result, water is required to be stored and utilized for meeting the demands of different sectors throughout the year. Efficient water management requires sustainable development of the available surface and ground water resources and their optimal utilizations including enhanced use of micro-irrigation system. In order to meet the challenge of Food Security, first, there is a need to understand the need of water security. Therefore, three national interaction meets were organized to deliberate on climate change and its impact on water cycle, water Security, and that in turn on Food Security.
Unravelling Molecular Docking - From Theory to Practice
Molecular docking is an important computational tool in modern drug discovery, structural biology and biomolecular studies. The docking methods in this book are discussed concisely and practically, with key topics including docking algorithms, scoring function, ligand and receptor flexibility, and AI-assisted optimization. Real-world examples, such as virtual screening and lead optimization, as well as protein-protein and protein-nucleic acid interactions, are covered in detail. With a balance of theory and practice, the book is a must-read for students, researchers and professionals in computational chemistry, pharmacy and biomedicine.
Olives and Olive Related Products - Innovations in Production and Processing
This book explores the types and processing of olives, olive oil, and its by-products, which are increasingly recognized as an important supply of bioactive compounds. By using unique biotechnological processing methods, the value of olive mill by-products can be upgraded, thus establishing a sustainable circular economy. Bioactive polyphenols such as oleuropein obtained from olive industry by-products can be applied to develop innovative products such as nutraceuticals and cosmeceuticals. It must be emphasized that consuming extra virgin olive oil and table olives is an important part of the Mediterranean diet, offering significant benefits to human health and reducing the risk of many chronic diseases.
Every American an Innovator
A landmark cultural history that reveals how the relentless pursuit of innovation has transformed our society, our institutions, and our inner selves. For half a century, innovation served as a universal good in an age of fracture. That consensus is cracking. While the imperative to innovate for a better future continues to fuel systemic change around the world, critics now assail innovation culture as an engine of inequality or accuse its do-gooders of woke groupthink. What happened? Drawing on a decade of research, Every American an Innovator by Matthew Wisnioski investigates how innovation--a once obscure academic term--became ingrained in our institutions, our education, and our beliefs about ourselves. Wisnioski argues that innovation culture did not spring from the digital revolution, nor can it be boiled down to heroic entrepreneurs or villainous capitalists. Instead, he reveals the central role of a new class of experts in spreading toolkits and mindsets from the cornfields of 1940s Iowa to Silicon Valley tech giants today. This group of engineers, philosophers, bureaucrats, and business leaders posited that "innovators" were society's most important change agents and remade the nation in their image. The innovation culture they built transcended partisan divisions and made strange bedfellows. Wisnioski shows how Kennedy-era policymakers inspired President Nixon's dream of a Nobel Prize for innovators, how anti-military professors built the first university incubators for entrepreneurs, how radical feminists became millionaire consultants, how demands for a rust belt manufacturing renaissance inspired theories of a global creative class, how programs that encouraged girls and minority children to pursue innovative lives changed the nature of childhood play, and why the innovation consensus is now in dispute.
To Invent Is Divine
Christians generally know that God created " the heavens and the earth" and made human beings in his image. They know that " the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof" -- he owns his creations. They know that skilled people create and own marvelous works. But a disconnect often occurs when it comes to God's communicable attributes of creativity and ownership and that combination's role in human innovation, technological progress, and practical benefits from human creativity and ownership. To Invent Is Divine connects the dots between creativity and ownership, as well as the dots between that combination and the fruits of human flourishing.
Renewable Energy Storage
Energy use is not uniform throughout the day and year. Renewable energy resources such as hydroelectric, wind, and solar energy, generate different amounts of energy over time and space, and are not always available when and where they are needed. A storage mechanism is often required to allow generated energy to be utilized effectively. This book reviews some of the important technologies for energy storage that utilize mechanical methods and thermal methods. In the first part of the book, mechanical energy storage methods are considered. These methods include pumped hydroelectric energy storage, gravitational potential of solid masses, and flywheels. In the second part, various methods of storing thermal energy are discussed. These include the use of the sensible heat of materials, the latent heat associated with phase transitions, and heat associated with chemical reactions.
Evidence-Based Nutraceuticals and Functional Foods
Looking for a book to answer the why, what, and how related to functional foods and nutraceuticals? As the demand for health promotion through foods increases, functional foods and nutraceuticals have seen rapid development both in industry and academia. This book provides teaching and learning materials on functional foods and nutraceuticals for health promotion and mitigation of risk factors of chronic diseases. Global diseases like chronic inflammation, cardiovascular diseases, type II diabetes, cancers and neurodegenerative diseases are covered, along with ageing and obesity. Written by a team with vast accumulated knowledge, the book covers general principles of functional foods, specific topics on bioactive factors and health promotion and methodology in nutraceutical and functional food research. All topics are backed up by case studies and well-designed problem sets. This textbook fills a gap in the literature for courses aimed at senior undergraduate and graduate students. Each chapter provides opportunities for self-learning and stimulates critical thinking. It will also serve as a reference for more experienced practitioners new to this area. This book answers your questions and more, providing a must-have textbook.
A Clinical Lens on Pediatric Engineering
A Clinical Lens on Pediatric Engineering: Pioneering Science and Technology for Cutting-Edge Patient Care explores the depth and breadth of the newly applied science of pediatric engineering and its dawning era. Placing into context the origins of pediatric medicine and engineering, this deep dive into and beyond medical digital-to-device innovation integrates scientific rigor with clinical perspective, incorporating case examples of diagnostic and therapeutic breakthroughs, cautionary tales, and lessons in translation. The book begins by explaining the unique considerations of the developing child and the importance of including nuanced end-user and human factors early and often in the process of seeking biomedical solutions. It provides an overview of this population's diverse and dynamic biopsychosocial characteristics compared to adults, contrasting organ systems, cognitive maturation, bioethics, growth, and drug metabolism. A distinguished team of contributors supplies a comprehensive blueprint for transforming an idea through to clinical implementation, featuring the ever-expanding influences and intricacies of discovery. The book covers a wide array of topics, including fetal intervention, transplantation, regenerative medicine, addiction, ophthalmology, surgery (e.g., minimally invasive, orthopedic), cancer, nanotechnology, radiology imaging modalities, gene therapy, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, liquid biopsy, immersive technologies (e.g., augmented and virtual reality), neurodiversity, rare disease, critical care, robotics, materials science and tissue engineering. The design challenges specific to children's hospitals and healthcare facilities are discussed, highlighting the flexibility needed to achieve optimal patient outcomes, gather meaningful data, and drive innovative progress. This landmark work calls on key stakeholders to address the obstacles related to funding practices, clinical trials, and other impediments that hinder the timely and safe delivery of life-altering and life-saving results. It provides child health innovators with the essential tools to bridge these gaps and drive transformation in the rapidly evolving landscape of pediatric care.
The Art of Preserving All Kinds of Animal and Vegetable Substances For Several Years.
Composting
Every year a huge amount of organic solid waste is generated globally. This quantity is expected to keep increasing, making sustainable, safe and environmentally responsible management of solid waste vitally important. Composting offers a circular and low-impact route to managing and treating organic solid waste and produces a nutrient rich medium with uses in horticulture and agriculture. Beginning with a solid introduction to the fundamentals of composting, including bioreactor engineering, energy and mass transfer issues and microbiology, this book then moves on to more complex topics such as compost stability, gaseous emissions and compost uses. With a focus on sustainability, the role of composting in biorefineries and how composting can complement other technologies such as anaerobic digestion and solid-state fermentation are also discussed. This book is a great resource for both students and researchers with an interest in organic waste management, sustainability or the circular economy.
Emerging Trends in Vegetable Oil Market Healthier Oils, Safety Challenges, and Sustainability
Incidence and Public Health Risks of Multimycotoxins In Guinea Corn and Pearl Millet Sold in Nigeria
Essential Guide to Medical Equipment Principles
This book addresses the needs of new clinical engineers, junior nurses, medics and operating department practitioners (ODPs) with regard to the fundamentals of many of the standard medical devices they will encounter in a hospital environment. The book can be used for both self-directed learning and also in a classroom environment as a textbook.Essential Guide to Medical Equipment Principles introduces and provides the principles behind many of the common medical devices and equipment used within a modern hospital. Each of the seven chapters is designed to cover a particular type of medical device such as mechanical ventilators along with the physiology that must be understood in order to make sense of their application and engineering concepts. This fundamental knowledge will enable the reader to progress further in the years to come. The author uses diagrams throughout the book to allow the reader to get the most from the text and ensure that the most essential information is understood. It offers a comprehensive understanding of the physiological and engineering principles underlying medical equipment.This book is intended for new technicians and engineers entering the clinical engineering field but can also be a valuable resource for a broader range of healthcare professionals, including operating department practitioners, neonatal unit practitioners, intensive care unit practitioners, and other medical equipment users. With suppliers, manufacturers and in-hospital training it will enable them to become safe and competent in the use and application of medical devices and equipment.
Essential Guide to Medical Equipment Principles
This book addresses the needs of new clinical engineers, junior nurses, medics and operating department practitioners (ODPs) with regard to the fundamentals of many of the standard medical devices they will encounter in a hospital environment. The book can be used for both self-directed learning and also in a classroom environment as a textbook.Essential Guide to Medical Equipment Principles introduces and provides the principles behind many of the common medical devices and equipment used within a modern hospital. Each of the seven chapters is designed to cover a particular type of medical device such as mechanical ventilators along with the physiology that must be understood in order to make sense of their application and engineering concepts. This fundamental knowledge will enable the reader to progress further in the years to come. The author uses diagrams throughout the book to allow the reader to get the most from the text and ensure that the most essential information is understood. It offers a comprehensive understanding of the physiological and engineering principles underlying medical equipment.This book is intended for new technicians and engineers entering the clinical engineering field but can also be a valuable resource for a broader range of healthcare professionals, including operating department practitioners, neonatal unit practitioners, intensive care unit practitioners, and other medical equipment users. With suppliers, manufacturers and in-hospital training it will enable them to become safe and competent in the use and application of medical devices and equipment.
