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Chapter Innovation of Textiles through Natural By-Products and Wastes
(2020)
Nowadays, the competitiveness of the textile industry and the consumers’ interest have been increasing the demand for innovative and functional textiles. Allied to this, sustainable developments are playing an increasingly ...
Chapter Bayesian Approach for X-Ray and Neutron Scattering Spectroscopy
(2020)
The rapidly improving performance of inelastic scattering instruments has prompted tremendous advances in our knowledge of the high-frequency dynamics of disordered systems, yet also imposing new demands to the data analysis ...
Chapter Challenges and New Frontiers in the Paediatric Drug Discovery and Development
(2020)
Drug discovery and development advances in the last decades allowed to find a treatment for many preventable diseases. However, all too often, children are excluded from these progresses since most of the new medicines ...
Chapter Fly Ash as a Cementitious Material for Concrete
(2020)
This paper presents a review on fly ash as prime materials used for geopolymer. Due to its advantages of abundant resources, less in cost, great workability and high physical properties, fly ash leads to achieving high ...
Chapter Earth Observation Technologies: Low-End-Market Disruptive Innovation
(2020)
After decades of traditional space businesses, the space paradigm is changing. New approaches to more efficient missions in terms of costs, design, and manufacturing processes are fostered. For instance, placing big ...
Chapter Deep Learning Training and Benchmarks for Earth Observation Images: Data Sets, Features, and Procedures
(2020)
Deep learning methods are often used for image classification or local object segmentation. The corresponding test and validation data sets are an integral part of the learning process and also of the algorithm performance ...
Chapter Is Induced Abortion a Part of Family Planning in China
(2020)
Family planning policy is one of the basic policies in China. Since the founding of New China, it has gone through three stages during its development process, which include free fertility policy, one-child policy (including ...
Chapter Hydrothermal Synthesis of Zinc Tin Oxide Nanostructures for Photocatalysis, Energy Harvesting and Electronics
(2020)
The massification of Internet of Things (IoT) and Smart Surfaces has increased the demand for nanomaterials excelling at specific properties required for their target application, but also offering multifunctionality, ...
Chapter Fast-Spectrum Fluoride Molten Salt Reactor (FFMSR) with Ultimately Reduced Radiotoxicity of Nuclear Wastes
(2020)
A mixture of NaF-KF-UF4 eutectic and NaF-KF-TRUF3 eutectic containing heavy elements as much as 2.8 g/cc makes a fast-spectrum molten salt reactor based upon the U-Pu cycle available without a blanket. It does not object ...
Chapter Transport Protocol Performance and Impact on QoS while on the Move in Current and Future Low Latency Deployments
(2018)
Transport protocols and mobile networks have evolved independently leading to a lack of adaptability and quality of service (QoS) degradation while running under the variability circumstances present in cellular access. ...
Chapter Mechanisms of Charge Transport and Photoelectric Conversion in CdTe-Based X- and Gamma-Ray Detectors
(2018)
This chapter deals with (i) the charge transport mechanisms in X- and gamma-ray detectors both Ohmic and Schottky types based on CdTe and its alloys with an almost intrinsic conductivity (the peculiarities of the formation ...
Chapter Strengths and Weaknesses for Climate Change: Adaptation in Water Governance: A Comparison Across Six European Regions
(2018)
This chapter comparatively analyses the policy and governance contexts of six European regions that are affected by different hydrological impacts of climate change. The results demonstrate that a major governance strength ...
Chapter User Experience Results of Setting Free a Service Robot for Older Adults at Home
(2018)
The chapter presents the analysis of user trials where, for the first time, a service robot was set free in the home of users. Different to previous studies there was no pre-specified schedule of tasks to execute. The goal ...
Chapter Effects of Water Scarcity on the Performances of the Agricultural Sector and Adaptation Strategies in Tunisia
(2019)
The chapter aims to develop a regionally disaggregated agricultural supply model for Tunisia in order to investigate the potential effects of increasing water scarcity on the performances of the agricultural sector in the ...
Chapter Potentials and Challenges of Additive Manufacturing Technologies for Heat Exchanger
(2019)
The rapid development of additive manufacturing (AM) technologies enables a radical paradigm shift in the construction of heat exchangers. In place of a layout limited to the use of planar or tubular starting materials, ...
Chapter Additive Manufacturing Applied to the Design of Small Satellite Structure for Space Debris Reduction
(2019)
Space debris has become a major aspect in the last few years. The vast amount of artificial objects orbiting the Earth is increasing. These objects are a threat for active and future missions. Besides, the possibility of ...
Chapter Introductory Chapter: Why Do We Need Rapid Detection of Pathogens?
(2018)
Biotechnology
Chapter Introductory Chapter: Agricultural Waste as a Source of Raw Materials
(2018)
Agricultural science
Chapter Estimating the Effect of Voters’ Media Awareness on the 2016 US Presidential Election
(2019)
We examine whether voter media awareness of the 2016 US Presidential election campaign influenced the election using a logit model to estimate the probability that a voter with certain characteristics votes for one of the ...
Chapter Value-Based Evaluation of Chinese Provincial Health Insurance Policy Schemes
(2020)
Since 2011, an international group of health policy experts has been working on a value-framework to be used for pharmaceutical policy decisions based on multicriteria decision analysis (MCDA). This tool can be easily ...
Chapter Developing Functionality in Perovskites from Abatement of Pollutants to Sustainable Energy Conversion and Storage
(2020)
Different functionalities can be developed and optimised in perovskites by means of different approaches: doping, nanocomposition and exsolution. In our research, these strategies are used with the aim of a sustainable ...
Chapter Designing Heterogeneous-mHealth Apps for Cystic Fibrosis Adults
(2020)
In this chapter, we will discuss the design and development of a patient passport mHealth application for Cystic Fibrosis adults from ideation to app-store release. By allowing the patients access to their own unique data, ...
Chapter What We Learned from Cavitation Bubbles in Microgravity
(2020)
The present chapter is about the Flash and Splash project, which is dedicated to the study of bubble dynamics in microgravity. The story of this project started in 2004 with a simple curiosity on how a cavitation bubble ...
Chapter The Ethical and Responsibility Components in Environmental Challenges: Elements of Connection between Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Impact Assessment
(2020)
The contribution constitutes a first exploratory outcome of an ongoing research by the Author on the issues of ethics and responsibility in investment processes, starting from the assumptions of the CSR approach. It makes ...
Chapter Leveraging Internet-of-Things to Support Circular Economy Paradigm in Manufacturing Industry
(2020)
Circular economy represents a fundamental alternative to the currently predominating linear economy model, while Industry 4.0 is a technological enabler to bring process innovation in the industrial domain. New economic ...
Chapter Combined Deep Learning and Traditional NLP Approaches for Fire Burst Detection Based on Twitter Posts
(2020)
The current chapter introduces a procedure that aims at determining regions that are on fire, based on Twitter posts, as soon as possible. The proposed scheme utilizes a deep learning approach for analyzing the text of ...
Chapter Automation of the Expertise of the Roman Mosaic Arts in Constanta: Analytical and Statistical Models for a Fuzzy Inference-Based System
(2020)
The biggest problem faced by the specialists in the field of cultural heritage is the identification of the original elements for their separation from the large mass of the mosaic components that come from completions of ...
Chapter The Use of Electrical Measurements of Wind Turbine Generators for Drive Train Condition Monitoring
(2020)
More modern and larger wind turbine (WT) generators are under continuous development. These exhibit more faults than smaller ones, which becomes critical offshore. Under this framework, operation and maintenance (O&M) is ...
Chapter The Multiple Roles of Tyrosinase-Related Protein-2/L- Dopachrome Tautomerase in Melanoma: Biomarker, Therapeutic Target, and Molecular Driver in Tumor Progression
(2018)
Cutaneous malignant melanoma (CMM), which is ranked as the 8th most common cancers in the US, makes 4–7% of skin cancers but it causes approximately 80% of skin cancer deaths. CMM is characterized by insidious and fast ...
Chapter Solid Biomass from Forest Trees to Energy: A Review
(2019)
Among the different terrestrial ecosystems, forests are the most important biomass carbon producers and the ones that store the most standing biomass carbon. Consequently, they are also the major source of biomass for ...
Chapter Sandfly-Borne Viruses of Demonstrated/Relevant Medical Importance
(2019)
Sandflies show distribution in a vast geographical area from Europe to Asia, Africa, Australia, and Central and South America where they can transmit a large number of viruses. Between these viruses, the most important are ...
Chapter Integrative Systems Biology Resources and Approaches in Disease Analytics
(2019)
Currently, our analytical competences are struggling to keep-up the pace of in-deep analysis of all generated large-scale data resultant of high-throughput omics platforms. While, a substantial effort was spent on methods ...
Chapter Noninvasive Modalities Used in Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation
(2019)
In the past three decades, research on plasticity after spinal cord injury (SCI) has led to a gradual shift in SCI rehabilitation: the former focus on learning compensatory strategies changed to functional neurorecovery, ...
Chapter Preparing Proteoforms of Therapeutic Proteins for Top-Down Mass Spectrometry
(2019)
A characteristic of many proteoforms, derived from a single gene, is their similarity regarding the composition of atoms, making their analysis very challenging. Many overexpressed recombinant proteins are strongly associated ...
Chapter Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) Approach Used for Rare Earth Elements (REEs) from Monazite Material, Considering Uncertainty
(2019)
This study describes the development of life cycle inventory (LCI) to rare earth elements (REEs) based on the secondary sources, conducted according to ISO 14040 (2006) guidelines. Monte Carlo (MC) simulation with the ...
Chapter Vector-Borne Infections in Bulgaria
(2019)
Bulgaria is an endemic country for Lyme borreliosis and Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF). Sporadic cases of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) and West Nile virus (WNV) encephalitis have been also reported. The reported ...
Chapter Behavioral Factors Affecting Reproduction in Domestic Horses: Sociobiological Approach
(2019)
Fetal loss is a common phenomenon in domestic horses, being usually highest (up to 40%) of all domestic ungulates. However, in all studies investigating this problem, sociobiological approach, such as conflict between the ...
Chapter Life Cycle Inventory (LCI) Modeling of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Management Systems in Kosodrza, Community of Ostrów, Poland: A Case Study
(2019)
The purpose of this study is to perform the life cycle assessment (LCA) limited to life cycle inventory (LCI) related to municipal solid waste operating in Kosodrza, community of Ostrów, in Poland. The current LCI is a ...
Chapter From the Lab to the Real World: Affect Recognition Using Multiple Cues and Modalities
(2008)
Interdisciplinary concept of dissipative soliton is unfolded in connection with ultrafast fibre lasers. The different mode-locking techniques as well as experimental realizations of dissipative soliton fibre lasers are ...
Chapter Mining Digital Music Score Collections: Melody Extraction and Genre Recognition
(2008)
In the field of computer music, pattern recognition algorithms are very relevant for music information retrieval (MIR) applications. Two challenging tasks in this area are the automatic recognition of musical genre and ...