Academic Press imprint: 6422 books
by
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2017
Mathematics Applied in Engineering presents a wide array of applied mathematical techniques for an equally wide range of engineering applications, covering areas such as acoustics, system engineering, optimization, mechanical engineering, and reliability engineering.
Mathematics acts as a foundation...
by Omar Bizri
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Science, Technology, Innovation, and Economic Growth in Arab Countries explores fresh approaches to STI policy formulation and implementation in the region, with applications to developing countries elsewhere. Developing useful contexts for studying Arab policies about science, technology, and innovation...
Global Bank Regulation
Principles and Policies
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2009
Global Bank Regulation: Principles and Policies covers the global regulation of financial institutions. It integrates theories, history, and policy debates, thereby providing a strategic approach to understanding global policy principles and banking. The book features definitions of the policy principles...
by Gerard Caprio
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
The sharp realities of financial globalization become clear during crises, when winners and losers emerge. Crises usher in short- and long-term changes to the status quo, and everyone agrees that learning from crises is a top priority. The Evidence and Impact of Financial Globalization devotes separate...
Macroeconomics of Climate Change in a Dualistic Economy
A Regional General Equilibrium Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2018
Macroeconomics of Climate Change in a Dualistic Economy: A Regional General Equilibrium Analysis generates significant, genuinely novel insights about dual economies and sustainable economic growth. These insights are generalize-able and applicable worldwide. The authors overcome existing limitations...
Artificial Vision
Image Description, Recognition, and Communication
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 1996
Artificial Vision is a rapidly growing discipline, aiming to build computational models of the visual functionalities in humans, as well as machines that emulate them. Visual communication in itself involves a numberof challenging topics with a dramatic impact on contemporary culture where human-computer...
Human Recognition in Unconstrained Environments
Using Computer Vision, Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning Methods for Biometrics
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2017
Human Recognition in Unconstrained Environments provides a unique picture of the complete ‘in-the-wild’ biometric recognition processing chain; from data acquisition through to detection, segmentation, encoding, and matching reactions against security incidents.
Coverage includes:
Data...
Ensuring Global Food Safety
Exploring Global Harmonization
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
Taking into account toxicity levels at normal consumption levels, intake per kg bodyweight and other acknowledged considerations, each chapter in this book will be based on one or more proven examples. It is intended to provide specific examples and potential improvements to the safety of the world's...
Food Safety and Quality Systems in Developing Countries
Volume II: Case Studies of Effective Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2016
Food Safety and Quality Systems in Developing Countries, Volume 2: Case Studies of Effective Implementation begins with a general overview of some of the issues and considerations that impact effective implementation of food safety and quality systems and put this in the context of some of the more...
by
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
This fully revised and updated edition begins with insights into the scope, importance and continuing growth opportunities in the nutraceutical and functional food industries and explores the latest regulatory changes and their impacts. The book demonstrates the global scenario of the acceptance and...
FDA Warning Letters About Food Products
How to Avoid or Respond to Citations
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2017
FDA Warning Letters About Food Products: How to Avoid or Respond to Citations uses examples of FDA warning letters about food products as training tools to discuss important quality and manufacturing issues encountered by food companies around the world as they bring food products into the US market.
Focused...
by John M. Ryan
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Food Fraud provides an overview of the current state on the topic to help readers understand which products are being impacted, how pervasive food fraud is, and what laws are in effect across the developed world. As international food trade increases, food processors, distributors, and consumers are...
by
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Developing New Functional Food and Nutraceutical Products provides critical information from conceptualization of new products to marketing, aiming to present a solid understanding of the entire process through detailed coverage of key concepts, namely innovation, regulation, manufacturing, quality...
An Overview of FDA Regulated Products
From Drugs and Cosmetics to Food and Tobacco
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
Today’s challenge, especially for many newcomers to the regulated industry, is not necessarily to gather regulatory information, but to know how to interpret and apply it. The ability to discern what is important from what is not, and to interpret regulatory documents correctly, provides a valuable...