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Chapter Viruses and Type 1 Diabetes: Focus on the Enteroviruses
(2013)
Pollution & threats to the environment
Chapter Bioremediation of Chlorobenzoic Acids
(2013)
Hydraulic engineering
Chapter Challenges for Cost-Effective Microalgae Anaerobic Digestion
(2013)
Human-computer interaction
Chapter Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Methotrexate Resistance in Melanoma
(2013)
Endocrinology
Chapter Cooperative Game Theory and Its Application in Localization Algorithms
(2013)
Complementary medicine
Chapter Modified Formulation, ε-Regularization and the Efficient Solution of Hydraulic Fracture Problems
(2013)
Biomedical engineering
Chapter Multiuser MAC Schemes for High-Throughput IEEE 802.11n/ac WLANs
(2013)
Electrical engineering
Chapter Manganese: A New Emerging Contaminant in the Environment
(2012)
Physiology
Chapter Numerical Geodynamic Modeling of Continental Convergent Margins
(2012)
Cardiovascular medicine
Chapter A Fuzzy Logic Approach for Remote Healthcare Monitoring by Learning and Recognizing Human Activities of Daily Living
(2012)
Systems analysis & design
Chapter Evaluation of QoS and QoE in Mobile WIMAX – Systematic Approach
(2012)
Space science
Chapter On the Optical Response of Nanoparticles: Directionality Effects and Optical Forces
(2012)
Organic chemistry
Chapter Biocompatible Ceramic – Glass Composite – Manufacturing and Selected Physical – Mechanical Properties
(2012)
Environmental monitoring
Chapter Switching Noise in 3D Power Distribution Networks: An Overview
(2012)
Physiology
Chapter A Clinical Application of Fuzzy Logic
(2012)
Applied optics
Chapter On Efficiency of ARQ and HARQ Entities Interaction in WiMAX Networks
(2012)
Space science
Chapter Silicon Quantum Dots for Photovoltaics: A Review
(2012)
Physical chemistry
Chapter Structure Based Design of Cholera Toxin Antagonists
(2012)
Embedded systems
Chapter Secure Platform Over Wireless Sensor Networks
(2012)
Life sciences: general issues
Chapter Primary Outage-Based Resource Allocation Strategies
(2012)
Cognition & cognitive psychology
Chapter Do Consumers Pay Attention to the Organic Label When Shopping Organic Food in Italy
(2012)
Medical imaging
Chapter Femtocell Performance Over Non-SLA xDSL Access Network
(2012)
Environmental medicine
Chapter Networking Applications for Embedded Systems
(2012)
Embedded systems
Chapter Manipulation of Photonic Orbital Angular Momentum for Quantum Information Processing
(2012)
Computer modelling & simulation
Chapter Transplantation of Foetal Ventral Mesencephalic Grafts in Parkinson’s Disease: A Still Evolving Concept with New Regulatory Challenges
(2011)
Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology
Chapter Statistical Approaches to the Inverse Problem
(2011)
Communications engineering / telecommunications
Chapter Brain-Computer Interface Systems Used for Virtual Reality Control
(2011)
Biotechnology
Chapter Flexible Network Codes Design for Cooperative Diversity
(2011)
Image processing
Chapter Screen printed electrodes improve mass transfer
(2011)
Biotechnology
Chapter Carbon Nanotubes-Based Radiation Detectors
(2011)
Communications engineering / telecommunications
Chapter Hybrid Access Techniques for Densely Populated Wireless Local Area Networks
(2011)
Probability & statistics
Chapter Dealing with VoIP Calls During “Busy Hour” in LTE
(2011)
Biotechnology
Chapter Whey Lactose as a Raw Material for Microbial Production of Biodegradable Polyesters
(2012)
Fossil fuel technologies
Chapter Concurrent Specification of Embedded Systems: An Insight into the Flexibility vs Correctness Trade-Off
(2012)
Diseases & disorders
Chapter Supporting Inclusive Design of Mobile Devices with a Context Model
(2012)
Embedded systems
Chapter GNSS in Precision Agricultural Operations
(2012)
Alternative & renewable energy sources & technology
Chapter Influence of Low Pressure on the Stability of Polypropylene Electrets Films
(2012)
Email: consumer/user guides
Chapter SOA-Based Optical Packet Switching Architectures
(2012)
Materials / States of matter
Chapter From Cellulose Dissolution and Regeneration to Added Value Applications — Synergism Between Molecular Understanding and Material Development
(2015)
Laser ablation (LA) and spark discharge (SD) techniques are commonly used for nanoparticle (NP) formation. The produced NPs have found numerous applications in such areas as electronics, biomedicine, textile production, ...
Chapter Wetting and Navier-Stokes Equation — The Manufacture of Composite Materials
(2015)
Current landfill regulations provide for the responsible management of solid waste and a safer alternative to the outdated practices of open or illegal dumping. Aside from imparting aesthetic value, natural or planted ...
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 Geology, Textural Study, Ore Genesis and Processing of the Tabuaço Tungsten Deposit (Northern Portugal)
(2018)
The Tabuaço tungsten deposit (Northern Portugal) is hosted in the Cambrian Douro Group metasediments, at the northern margin of the Beira-Tabuaço granitic complex. The hosting schisto-calcareous Lower Cambrian Bateiras ...
Chapter Nanostructured Pure and Doped Zirconia: Synthesis and Sintering for SOFC and Optical Applications
(2018)
Zirconia is a multifunctional material with potential applications in wide domains. Rare-earth doped zirconia and stabilized zirconia yield interesting properties based on the phase transitions induced by the sintering ...
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 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 Business Process Linguistic Modeling: Theory and Practice Part I: BPLM Strategy Creator
(2020)
The business activities provided within any firm or company should be checked and controlled continuously, while two principal approaches should be applied: (a) qualitative monitoring, (b) quantitative evaluations, while ...
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 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 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 Power Struggles in the Management of Wildlife Resources: The Case of Burunge Wildlife Management Area, Tanzania
(2019)
Through a cross-sectional research design, this study examined power struggles in Burunge Wildlife Management Area (WMA) in Tanzania. Four out of ten villages comprising the WMA were purposively selected, and data were ...
Chapter Characterization of Atmospheric Mercury in the High-Altitude Background Station and Coastal Urban City in South Asia
(2020)
This study is performed to evaluate the potential sources and seasonal variation of atmospheric mercury (Hg) emissions from regional sources and other influences in India. To achieve this, using the gold amalgam technique ...
Chapter Waterborne Acrylic/CeO2 Nanocomposites for UV Blocking Clear Coats
(2019)
The encapsulation of inorganic nanoparticles into polymer particles opens the door to countless applications taking advantage of the properties of both phases. In this chapter the UV absorbing capacity of CeO2 nanoparticles ...
Chapter Cell Culture and Maintenance of the Evolutionary Forms of Trypanosoma cruzi for Studies of Parasitic Biology
(2019)
This chapter aims to present and discuss the main cell culture techniques used for the growth and maintenance of the different evolutionary forms of the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, the etiologic agent of the Chagas disease. ...
Chapter Introductory Chapter: Objectives and Scope of Bioeconomy
(2019)
Industry & industrial studies
Chapter Structural Insight into Regulation of the Proteasome Ub-Receptor Rpn10
(2019)
Ubiquitylation is a posttranslational modification that determines protein fate. The ubiquitin code is written by enzymatic cascades of E1 and E2 and E3 enzymes. Ubiquitylation can be edited or erased by deubiquitylating ...
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 OCT for Examination of Cultural Heritage Objects
(2020)
Optical coherence tomography (OCT) was first time reported as a tool for examination of cultural heritage objects in 2004. It is mainly used for the examination of subsurface structure of easel paintings (such as varnishes ...
Chapter Mild intervention technologies for increasing shelf life and/or safety of fresh fruits: Opportunity and challenge
(2019)
Technology: general issues
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 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 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 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 Evolving Roles of Spontaneous Reporting Systems to Assess and Monitor Drug Safety
(2019)
This chapter aims to describe current and emerging roles of spontaneous reporting systems (SRSs) for assessing and monitoring drug safety. Moreover, it offers a perspective on the near future, which entails the so-called ...
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 Metallic nanowire percolating networks: from main properties to applications
(2019)
There has been lately a growing interest into flexible, efficient and low-cost transparent electrodes which can be integrated for many applications. This includes several applications related to energy technologies ...
Chapter A New Method to Reconstruct Recent Tree and Stand Attributes of Temporary Research Plots: New Opportunity to Analyse Mixed Forest Stands
(2018)
In the last decades, studying effects of mixing tree species is increasingly important. In particular, under changing growing conditions and social requirements, investigations on mixed forest compared to mono-specific ...
Chapter Sugar Beet Tolerance to Drought: Physiological and Molecular Aspects
(2018)
Drought often reduces sugar beet yield in the Balkan agroecological region. Climate forecasts indicate that this negative trend of drought periods will continue. Tolerance to drought is a complex trait, which comprises ...
Chapter The EU Research Project PLANET
(2018)
Renewable energy sources offer unprecedented opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. But some challenges remain to be solved before their full benefits can be reaped. The main one relates to the intermittency of ...