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  • Sustainable Additives in Polymer Technology

    • 1st Edition
    • Henri Vahabi + 1 more
    • English
    Sustainable Additives in Polymer Technology provides a comprehensive guide to bio-based additives for polymers, balancing both fundamental and advanced information. The book aims to offer practical guidance for researchers and industry professionals on selecting, ranking, formulating, and applying these additives in polymer manufacturing. Each additive's role in the industry and its mechanisms of action are thoroughly covered, offering readers a complete understanding of their applications. The book is divided into several parts: an overview of bio-based additives, industrial and research developments, classification of materials, advantages and challenges, as well as the mechanisms of performance.It also delves into the economic aspects and commercial grades of each additive family, concluding with future research directions and developments.

  • Rubber Materials

    Fundamentals, Sustainability, and Applications
    • 1st Edition
    • Marianella Hernández Santana + 1 more
    • English
    Rubber Materials: Fundamentals, Sustainability, and Applications provides a fresh perspective on the potential of rubber materials in the 21st century when our global society faces unprecedented challenges related to resource consumption, waste management, and environmental impact. The book begins with an overview of the foundation of rubber science, covering fundamental principles, recent advancements, and future challenges. Sections discuss sustainability aspects and emerging trends within elastomer science and technology, all within the context of the 7Rs of the circular economy. Finally, the book presents advanced sustainable applications of rubber materials in diverse fields, including robotics, healthcare, energy, and more.This book serves as a valuable reference to materials scientists, industrial and academic researchers, and R&D professionals seeking to explore sustainable solutions in the realm of rubbers and elastomers, including their green applications.

  • Handbook of Nature-Based Drought Solutions

    • 1st Edition
    • Saeid Eslamian + 1 more
    • English
    Handbook of Nature-Based Drought Solutions covers the latest research on successful, sustainable solutions for the efficient water resources management to overcome the drought and water scarcity problems. The book centers around the realms of drought modeling green infrastructure planning, and the utilization of remote sensing to evaluate, dissect, and oversee drought occurrences. It delves into subjects such as risk mitigation, strategic planning, policy considerations, and the ecological restoration of degraded lands after drought. The use of case studies and novel methodologies including soft computing technique application will help the reader gain a deeper knowledge in understanding, predicting, and mitigating hydrometeorological hazards.

  • Water Use Efficiency, Sustainability and The Circular Economy

    • 1st Edition
    • Suhaib A. Bandh + 2 more
    • English
    Water Use Efficiency, Sustainability, and The Circular Economy is a comprehensive guide on water resource management in the context of a circular economy. The book covers a wide spectrum of topics, from water reuse and recycling strategies that foster sustainability to comprehensive lifecycle assessments of grey and black water management. It explores how circular economy principles can revolutionize basic water supply networking, catalyzing a shift towards more resilient and eco-conscious urban water systems.Lastly, the book contains innovative approaches like blockchain technology for water management and the circular economy perspective on wastewater resource management for energy recovery to help students, scholars, and policymakers navigate the complexities around water resource management.

  • The Decentralized Hydrogen Revolution Using Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, and Blockchain

    • 1st Edition
    • Hossein Pourrahmani + 2 more
    • English
    The Decentralized Hydrogen Revolution Using Artificial Intelligence, Internet of Things, and Blockchain provides an essential guide to understanding the transformative potential of advanced technologies in decentralized hydrogen communities. This comprehensive resource covers the intersection of AI, IoT, and blockchain with sustainable energy, offering insights from foundational principles to advanced applications. Readers will learn about the environmental benefits of hydrogen over fossil fuels, electrolysis, and the integration of innovative technologies to enhance hydrogen production and distribution. The book delves into the role of fuel cells in clean energy, advanced AI algorithms in hydrogen production, blockchain trust in hydrogen networks, and IoT connectivity.Economi... considerations, policy frameworks, and the future of decentralized hydrogen communities are also explored, making this an invaluable reference for researchers, industry professionals, policymakers, and students interested in the hydrogen economy.

  • Management and Treatment of Cerebral Aneurysms, An Issue of Neuroimaging Clinics of North America

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 35-3
    • Daniel Sahlein + 1 more
    • English
    In this issue of Neuroimaging Clinics, guest editors Drs. Daniel Sahlein and Charles Kulwin bring their considerable expertise to the topic of Management and Treatment of Cerebral Aneurysms. Top experts discuss diagnostic and clinical aspects of cerebral aneurysms, as well as epidemiology, unruptured cerebral aneurysms, predicting cerebral aneurysm rupture, subarachnoid hemorrhage, and follow-up imaging in treated and untreated cerebral aneurysms.

  • Essential Surgery

    Problems, Diagnosis and Management
    • 7th Edition
    • Clive R. G. Quick + 3 more
    • English
    Essential Surgery is a highly respected, internationally popular textbook that is comprehensive, fully updated and a pleasure to read.The seventh edition provides comprehensive coverage of the subject, from the attributes a surgeon needs, to how to interpret a patient’s story, as well as problem-orientated information about diseases and their management, including emergencies. It covers the full range of surgery, including general and gastro-intestinal surgery, trauma, orthopaedics, vascular surgery, urology, paediatric surgery, cardiothoracic surgery, neurosurgery, maxillofacial surgery and ENT emergencies.With a logical layout, clear writing style and extensive use of illustrations, this book is ideal for clinical students, surgical trainees in their first few years, as well as for those in professions allied to medicine.

  • Analysis of Chiral Pollutants in the Environment: Fundamentals, Techniques and Applications

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 111
    • English
    Analysis of Chiral Pollutants in the Environment: Fundamentals, Techniques and Applications, Volume 111 provides in-depth information on a variety of chiral pollutants. Chapters in this new release include Fundamentals of chirality. Enantioselective behavior and ecotoxicity of environmental chiral pollutants, Chiral pharmaceuticals in environmental samples, An overview of the enantioselective determination of pesticides in environmental samples, An overview of the enantioselective determination of illicit drugs in environmental samples, Recent progress in the analysis of isomers and enantiomers of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances in environmental and biological samples, An overview of the enantioselective determination of polychlorinated biphenyls in environmental samples, and much more.Additional chapters cover an overview of the enantioselective determination of musk fragrances in environmental samples, Supercritical fluid chromatography with mass spectrometry for the determination of chiral pollutants, Multidimensional chromatography. A powerful technique in analysis of chiral agrochemicals in environment, Capillary electrophoresis for the determination of chiral pollutants, Indirect chromatographic approach for enantioselective analysis of chiral environmental pollutants, Chiral pesticide fate in soils: processes, experimental considerations, and case studies, and many more interesting topics.

  • Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases

    2-Volume Set
    • 10th Edition
    • Martin J. Blaser + 2 more
    • English
    **Selected for 2025 Doody’s Core Titles® in Infectious Disease**Offering more in-depth coverage of epidemiology, etiology, pathology, microbiology, immunology, and treatment of infectious agents than any other infectious disease resource, Mandell, Douglas, and Bennett's Principles and Practice of Infectious Diseases, 10th Edition, remains your #1 choice for authoritative, comprehensive information in this challenging field. Meticulously updated by a new editorial team led by Drs. Martin J. Blaser, Jeffrey I. Cohen, and Steven M. Holland, this two-volume masterwork brings together the knowledge and expertise of more than 650 contributing authors who are outstanding scholars and experts in their fields. For ID specialists and general practitioners alike, PPID provides a balanced, detailed perspective for any patient you encounter with a complex or difficult-to-treat infectious disease. Encyclopedic in its depth, contents, and referencing, PPID-10 is the one infectious disease book that needs to be on every practitioner’s shelf and in every medical library.

  • Management of Intraoperative Disasters, An Issue of Thoracic Surgery Clinics

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 35-3
    • Dustin Walters
    • English
    In this issue of Thoracic Surgery Clinics, guest editor Dr. Dustin Walters brings his considerable expertise to the topic of Management of Intraoperative Disasters. Top experts cover major intraoperative complications that general thoracic surgeons may encounter, with articles on nerve injuries; coagulopathy and anticoagulation; ventilation and anesthesia; emergent conversion during robotic surgery; and more.

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