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    • M. Travieso-Gonzalez, Carlos (2017)
      Nowadays, the technological advances allow developing many applications on different fields. In this book Motion Tracking and Gesture Recognition, two important fields are shown. Motion tracking is observed by a hand-tracking ...
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      In the event of large crises (earthquakes, typhoons, floods, ...), a primordial task of the fire and rescue services is the search for human survivors on the incident site. This is a complex and dangerous task, which - too ...
    • (2017)
      The book 'RoCKIn - Benchmarking Through Robot Competitions' describes the activities and achievements on the promotion of Robotics research and benchmarking in Europe through robot competitions, carried out within the ...
    • Mesrur Halefoğlu, Ahmet (2017)
      The advent and rapid diffusion of advanced multidetector-row scanner technology offers comprehensive evaluation of different anatomic structures in daily practice. The aim of this book is to introduce the applications of ...
    • Najjar, Reza (2017)
      The surfactants are among the materials that have a significant importance in everyday life of human. The rapid growth in science and technology has opened new horizons in a very wide range, in which the surfactants play ...
    • Beumier, Charles; Closson, Damien; Lacroix, Vinciane; Milisavljevic, Nada; Yvinec, Yann (2017)
      Every day, civilians in dozens of countries around the world are injured and killed by landmines and other lethal leftovers of conflict, years after hostilities of war have ended. Once planted, a mine will never be able ...
    • Catala, Angel (2017)
      The purpose of this book is to concentrate on recent developments on fatty acids. The articles collected in this book are contributions by invited researchers with a long-standing experience in different research areas. ...
    • Donateo, Teresa (2017)
      This book on hybrid electric vehicles brings out six chapters on some of the research activities through the wide range of current issues on hybrid electric vehicles. The first section deals with two interesting applications ...
    • Khan, Maaz (2017)
      One-dimensional nanostructures, such as nanowires, have drawn extensive research interests in the recent years. The smaller size brings unique properties to the nanowires due to the finite size effect (quantum confinement ...
    • Barbillon, Grégory (2017)
      Nanoplasmonics is a young topic of research, which is part of nanophotonics and nano-optics. Nanoplasmonics concerns to the investigation of electron oscillations in metallic nanostructures and nanoparticles. Surface ...
    • Róka, Rastislav (2017)
      The book Optical Fiber and Wireless Communications provides a platform for practicing researchers, academics, PhD students, and other scientists to review, plan, design, analyze, evaluate, intend, process, and implement ...
    • Ferry, Barbara (2017)
      The amygdala is a central component of the limbic system, which is known to play a critical role in emotional processing of learning and memory. Over these last 20 years, major advances in techniques for examining brain ...
    • Rodrigo, Luis (2017)
      This book contains recent advances about CD and NCGS written in eight chapters and is divided in three sections. In the first section, the main hallmarks of both diseases are described, together with the current diagnostic ...
    • Colette Maurício, Ana (2017)
      Peripheral nerve injuries are a high-incidence clinical problem that greatly affects patients' quality of life. Despite continuous refinement of microsurgery techniques, peripheral nerve repair still stands as one of the ...
    • Soheil Saeedi Saravi, Seyed (2017)
      Nitric Oxide Synthase - Simple Enzyme-Complex Roles provides information on nitric oxide synthase, a biomolecule of key importance for the different biological systems, including central and peripheral nervous, cardiovascular, ...
    • Z. Kyzas, George; Mitropoulos, Athanasios (2017)
      Graphene is, basically, a single atomic layer of graphite, an abundant mineral that is an allotrope of carbon that is made up of very tightly bonded carbon atoms organized into a hexagonal lattice. What makes graphene so ...
    • Ghosh, Anirban (2017)
      Myelomonocytes are the multipotent cells in the stage of blood cell differentiation, which mainly comprise blood monocytes, tissue macrophages and subset of dendritic cells. Actually, their position and ability of judgement ...
    • Petaccia, Luca; Khodaei, Mehdi (2017)
      Nowadays, nanomaterials are attracting huge attentions not only from a basic research point of view but also for their potential applications. Since finding the structure-property-processing relationships can open new ...
    • Fagas, Giorgos; Gammaitoni, Luca; P. Gallagher, John; J. Paul, Douglas (2017)
      In a previous volume (ICT-Energy-Concepts Towards Zero-Power ICT; referenced below as Vol. 1), we addressed some of the fundamentals related to bridging the gap between the amount of energy required to operate portable/mobile ...
    • Singh Seehra, Mohindar (2017)
      Magnetic spinels including ferrites are insulating magnetic oxides and chalcogenides with strong coupling to microwave frequencies and low eddy current losses making them indispensable for applications in wireless ...