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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Empowering the Body
Embark on a groundbreaking journey into the realm of miniaturized bioelectronic devices with "Empowering the Body." This captivating book delves into the world of wirelessly-powered biotelemetry and implantation, offering unparalleled insights into the future of healthcare monitoring. Discover the motivations driving the development of wireless implantable medical devices (WIMDs) and the challenges faced in their design. Unravel the mysteries behind biocompatibility, size miniaturization, patient safety, and impedance mismatches. Witness the innovative solutions that optimize performance and extend battery life, all while ensuring the utmost precision in therapy and treatment. Featuring state-of-the-art research, this book showcases cutting-edge advancements in miniaturized implantable antenna systems, ultra-small batteryless WIMDs, and deeply implanted stent antenna systems for endovascular aneurysm repair. Immerse yourself in a world of simulations, numerical analyses, and validation experiments, where the proposed systems are rigorously tested and proven to excel in heterogeneous human body tissue environments. "Empowering the Body" caters to a diverse audience of researchers, engineers, and medical professionals at the forefront of bioelectronic devices and wireless power transfer. Whether you're an expert in the field or a graduate student seeking knowledge, this book is your key to unlocking the potential of wireless healthcare solutions. Open the pages of this exceptional book and explore its unique approach, combining theoretical insights with practical applications. Gain a comprehensive understanding of how to overcome the limitations of current technologies, and be inspired by the possibilities that lie ahead. Don't miss your chance to be at the forefront of the biomedical revolution with "Empowering the Body."
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.
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 in a classroom environment as a textbook.
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 in a classroom environment as a textbook.
