Wiley Scrivener imprint: 312 books
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Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2019
Biofuels production is one of the most extensively studied fields in the energy sector that can provide an alternative energy source and bring the energy industry closer to sustainability. Biomass-based fuel production, or renewable fuels, are becoming increasingly important as a potential solution...
Systems with Delays
Analysis, Control, and Computations
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2015
The main aim of the book is to present new constructive methods of delay differential equation (DDE) theory and to give readers practical tools for analysis, control design and simulating of linear systems with delays. Referred to as “systems with delays” in this volume, this class of differential...
Green Metal Nanoparticles
Synthesis, Characterization and their Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2018
The use of biological sources such as microbes and plants can help in synthesizing nanoparticles in a reliable and eco-friendly way. The synthesis of nanoparticles by these natural sources is characterized by processes that take place near to ambient temperature and pressures and also near neutral...
Alginates
Applications in the Biomedical and Food Industries
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2019
Alginate is a hydrophilic, biocompatible, biodegradable, and relatively economical polymer generally found in marine brown algae. The modification in the alginate molecule after polymerization has shown strong potential in biomedical, pharmaceutical and biotechnology applications such as wound dressing,...
Business and Technology of the Global Polyethylene Industry
An In-depth Look at the History, Technology, Catalysts, and Modern Commercial Manufacture of Polyethylene and Its Products
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2014
The history of the business and technology that was responsible for the enormous growth of the global polyethylene industry from the laboratory discovery in 1933 to reach an annual production of over 75 million metric tons in 2012 and become the leading plastic material worldwide. This book is an...
by Manjubala Bisi, Neeraj Kumar Goyal
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017
Artificial neural network (ANN) has proven to be a universal approximator for any non-linear continuous function with arbitrary accuracy. This book presents how to apply ANN to measure various software reliability indicators: number of failures in a given time, time between successive failures, fault-prone...
Soulware
The American Way in China's Higher Education
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2019
This book is a critical account of the history, evolution and challenges of higher education in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong, with important reflections on other systems, notably those in the US, UK, Korea and Japan. In addition to hardware and software, it introduces the concept of "Soulware"...
by Ksenia I. Bagrintseva
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Most of the world’s energy still comes from fossil fuels, and there are still many strides being made in the efficiency and cost effectiveness of extracting these important and increasingly more elusive natural resources. This is only possible if the nature of the emergence, evolution, and parameter...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2018
The book covers all aspects of fermentation technology such as principles, reaction kinetics, scaling up of processes, and applications.
The 20 chapters written by subject matter experts are divided into two parts: Principles and Applications. In the first part subjects covered include:
Modelling...
by Wenbing Zhao
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
This book covers the most essential techniques for designing and building dependable distributed systems. Instead of covering a broad range of research works for each dependability strategy, the book focuses only a selected few (usually the most seminal works, the most practical approaches, or the...
Beam Theory for Subsea Pipelines
Analysis and Practical Applications
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2015
Introducing a new practical approach within the field of applied mechanics developed to solve beam strength and bending problems using classical beam theory and beam modeling, this outstanding new volume offers the engineer, scientist, or student a revolutionary new approach to subsea pipeline design....
Emerging Photovoltaic Materials
Silicon & Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2018
This book covers the recent advances in photovoltaics materials and their innovative applications. Many materials science problems are encountered in understanding existing solar cells and the development of more efficient, less costly, and more stable cells. This important and timely book provides...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2018
This book covers the recent advances in coating materials and their novel applications at the cross-section of advanced materials both current and next-generation. Advanced Coatings Materials contains chapters covering the latest research on polymers, carbon resins, and high-temperature materials...
by M. Z. Rachinsky, V. Y. Kerimov
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2015
Whether as a textbook for the petroleum engineering student or a reference for the veteran engineer working in the field, this new volume is a valuable asset in the engineer’s library for new, tested methods of more efficient oil and gas exploration and production and better estimating methods....