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Influence of Traffic and Land Use on Urban Stormwater Quality
Implications for Urban Stormwater Treatment Design
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2017
This book presents a detailed analysis in relation to pollutant processes and transport pathways encompassing atmospheric pollutants, atmospheric deposition and build-up on road surfaces of traffic generated key pollutants. The research study undertaken by the authors created extensive knowledge relating...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
This book offers key resource materials developed for an international training course on Rainwater Harvesting and Utilization hosted annually by the Gansu Research Institute for Water Conservancy in Lanzhou, China since 2003. Topics cover the design, construction and management of rainwater harvesting...
Carbon Utilization
Applications for the Energy Industry
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
This book provides in-depth information on topics relating to anthropogenic carbon dioxide utilization processes. Presenting a collection of state-of-the-art scientific reviews and research perspectives on carbon management strategies of relevance to the energy industry, it features contributions...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2017
This book primarily focuses on microbial colonization, its role in plant growth and nutrient cycling, mycorrhizae, and providing an overview of phytospheric microorganisms in sustainable crop systems.
Despite the advances made in the study of plant-microbe synergism, the relation between microbes...
Microbial Biotechnology
Volume 2. Application in Food and Pharmacology
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2018
This edited book, is a collection of 25 chapters describing the recent advancements in the application of microbial technology in the food and pharmacology sector. The main focus of this book is application of microbes, food preservation techniques utilizing microbes, probiotics, seaweeds, algae,...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
This book argues that the sustainable management of resources requires a systematic approach that primarily involves the integration of green innovative biotechnological strategies and eco-engineering. It discusses how microbial community intelligence can be used for waste management and bio-remediation...
Fundamentals of MALDI-ToF-MS Analysis
Applications in Bio-diagnosis, Tissue Engineering and Drug Delivery
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
This book presents the fundamentals and applications of Matrix Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (MALDI-ToF-MS) technique. It highlights the basic principles, the history of invention as well as the mechanism of ionization and mass determination using this technique....
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Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
This book focuses on the fibers and textiles used in composite materials. It presents both existing technologies currently used in commercial applications and the latest advanced research and developments. It also discusses the different fiber forms and architectures, such as short fibers, unidirectional...
by Uttam Roy, Mrinmoy Majumder
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2016
Hydropower is found to be one of the most reliable and inexpensive options for renewable energy which was now widely been adopted by many countries to substitute fossil fuel sources. This Brief highlights the impact of climate change on hydropower plants, especially on the turbine design, as turbines...
Minimization of Climatic Vulnerabilities on Mini-hydro Power Plants
Fuzzy AHP, Fuzzy ANP Techniques and Neuro-Genetic Model Approach
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
This Brief presents the multi criteria decision making (MCDM) techniques like Fuzzy Analytical Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Fuzzy Analytical Network Process (ANP) to find out the importance of the influencing factors to develop the Climatic Vulnerability Index (CVI) that will represent the vulnerability...
Impact of Climate Change on Hydro-Energy Potential
A MCDM and Neural Network Approach
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
This Brief presents the impact of climatic abnormalities on hydropower potential of different regions of the World. In this regard, multi-criteria decision making and neural network are used to predict the impact of the change cognitively by an index. The results from the study show that the hydro-energy...
Conditional Citizens
Rethinking Children and Young People’s Participation
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
This book challenges readers to recognise the conditions that underpin popular approaches to children and young people’s participation, as well as the key processes and institutions that have enabled its rise as a global force of social change in new times. The book draws on the vast international...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2016
This book introduces state-of-the-art research on simulation and serious games for education. The major part of this book is based on selected work presented at the 2014 Asia-Europe Symposium on Simulation and Serious Games held in Windesheim University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands (Oct 1–2,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2017
This book describes the current state of the art of various types of immersive learning: in research, in practice, and in the marketplace. It discusses advanced approaches in the design and development for various forms of immersive learning environments, and also the emerging innovations in assessment...