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Filling the gap in the market for comprehensive coverage of this hot topic, this timely book covers a wide range of organic transformations, e. g. red…

Over the last few years vehicular networks have been receiving a lot of attention from academia, industry, standardization bodies, and the various tra…

Discover cutting-edge developments in electric power systems Stemming from cutting-edge research and education activities in the field of electric pow…

Collating our current knowledge and the latest developments for enabling breakthrough discoveries, this book focuses on the synthesis and applications…

A new, case-oriented and practical guide to one of the core techniques in respiratory medicine and critical care. Concise, practical reference designe…

Facilitating Cooperation for Wireless Systems Cooperative Communications: Hardware, Channel & PHY focuses on issues pertaining to the PHY layer of wir…

A state-of-the-art overview of high-k dielectric materials for advanced field-effect transistors, from both a fundamental and a technological viewpoin…

Covering the fast evolving area of advanced coding, Error Control Coding for B3G/4G Wireless Systems targets IMT-Advanced systems to present the lates…

Inherent toxicants and processing contaminants are both non-essential, bioactive substances whose levels in foods can be difficult to control. This vo…

This book guides medicinal chemists in how to implement early ADMET testing in their workflow in order to improve both the speed and efficiency of the…

Aquaculture, Resource Use, and the Environment places aquaculture within the larger context of global population growth, increased demand for sustaina…

A comprehensive guide to the design, implementation, and operation of line of sight microwave link systems The microwave Line of Sight (LOS) transport…

Describes the general principles and current research into Model Predictive Control (MPC); the most up-to-date control method for power converters and…

Percutaneous renal procedures are highly complex and require a great deal of surgical skill. Improve your patient care with this outstanding instructi…

The Second Edition features new problems that engage readers in contemporary reactor design Highly praised by instructors, students, and chemical engi…

Energy geostructures are a tremendous innovation in the field of foundation engineering and are spreading rapidly throughout the world. They allow the…

Control systems have come to play an important role in the performance of modern vehicles with regards to meeting goals on low emissions and low fuel …

Featuring authors from academia as well as industry, this book provides a broad view of carbohydrates influencing digestive health. Part 1 is a genera…

With emphasis on practical aspects of engineering, this bestseller has gained worldwide recognition through progressive editions as the essential reli…

Advances in Dairy Ingredients provides an international perspective on recent developments in the area of dairy ingredients and dairy technology. Mark…

The improvement of electrical energy efficiency is fast becoming one of the most essential areas of sustainability development, backed by political in…

A unique book with systematic and thorough coverage of HAP related issues, problems and solutions. Handbook of Broadband Communications from High Alti…

Competition from emerging and developing countries, challenges related to energy and water, the continuing increase in the global population and the o…

This book describes the fundamental aspects of the new generation of electrical distribution grids, taking as its starting point the opportunities tha…

The book provides experienced as well as young researchers with a topical view of the vibrant field of soft nanotechnology. In addition to elucidating…

The Sparidae, commonly known as breams and porgies, is a family of fishes of the order Perciformes, and includes about 115 species of mainly marine co…

In the 21st Century, processing food is no longer a simple or straightforward matter. Ongoing advances in manufacturing have placed new demands on the…

Systems engineering is the design of a complex interconnection of many elements (a system) to maximize a specific measure of system performance. It co…

Corrosion Chemistry details the scientific background of the corrosion process and contemporary applications for dealing with corrosion for engineers …

This new edition of a one-of-a-kind handbook provides an essential updating to keep the book current with technology and practice. New coverage of top…

Dried fruits serve as important healthful snack items around the world. They provide a concentrated form of fresh fruits, prepared by different drying…

Markov Decision Processes (MDPs) are a mathematical framework for modeling sequential decision problems under uncertainty as well as Reinforcement Lea…

At a time when people use more and more geographic information and tools, the management of geographical information in software systems still holds m…

Rockfall Engineering is an up-to-date, international picture of the state of the art in rockfall engineering. The three basic stages of rockfalls are …

Thermal processing remains the most important method of food preservation in use today, and the scale of the industry is immense. The large scale of t…

Antioxidant Polymers is an exhaustive overview of the recent developments in the field of polymeric materials showing antioxidant properties. This res…

As the population ages, technology improves, intensive care medicine expands and neurocritical care advances, the use of EEG monitoring in the critica…

The development of finely-tuned materials that adjust in a predictable manner by specific environment change is the recent arena of materials research…

On a worldwide basis, the development of SmartGrids is a consistent answer to the problem of an efficient and sustainable delivery of electric energy …

Now in an completely revised, updated, and enlarged Second Edition, Small Antennas in Portable Devices reviews recent significant theoretical and prac…

Using the well-honed tools of nanotechnology, this book presents breakthrough results in soft matter research, benefitting from the synergies between …

The only book to present the synergy between modeling and simulation, systems engineering, and agent technologies expands the notion of agent-based si…

A mixture of theory, experiments, and simulations that provide qualitative and quantitative insights into the technology The important new technology …

Now in a fully revised and updated second edition, this volume provides a contemporary overview of food processing/packaging technologies. It acquaint…

Designed to provide a comprehensive but accessible introduction to epilepsy and seizure disorders, Adult Epilepsy provides state-of-the-art informatio…