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This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. This new compendium provides a nuanced look at monitoring, measuring, and modeling air quality pollution in conjunction with its effects on public health and the environment. Air pollution has been proven to be a major environmental risk to health. Protecting and improving air quality requires knowledge about the types and levels of pollutants being emitted. It also requires the best possible measurement and monitoring capabilities. The chapters in this volume serve as a foundation for monitoring, measuring, and modeling air pollution.

This important volume, Soil Salinity Management in Agriculture, addresses the crucial issue of soil salinity of potential farmland and provides a comprehensive picture of the saline environment and plant interactions, along with management and reclamation methods and policies. With contributions from researchers from the fields of agricul

This volume discusses state-of-the-art deep learning techniques and approaches that can be applied in biomedical systems and health informatics. It delves into a variety of applications, techniques, algorithms, platforms, and tools used in this area, such as image segmentation, classification, registration, and computer-aided analysis.

This volume focuses on tackling the harmful impact of agricultural waste with the use of sustainable practices, bio-techniques, and new technologies that either make use of the waste as a raw material or convert the waste into a useful resource that can help achieve environmental sustainability.

Provides an easy-to-read and comprehensive treatment of the sorghum crop. It covers the various aspects of the sorghum crop, starting from its origin, to its domestication, and going on to biotechnology of the crop.

Provides a bird¿s-eye view of the properties, utilization, and importance of high resolution mass spectrometry (HRMS) for phytochemical analyses. The book discusses the new and state-of-the-art technologies related to HRMS in phytochemical analysis for the food industry in a comprehensive manner.

Offering a multi-pronged perspective on maize science, this book brings together important recent research advances from several disciplines. It covers maize from origin to biotechnology. It provides an overview of recent world maize production along with technological advancements and green strategies in maize science.

Explores the diverse applications of advanced tools and technologies of big data and its evidential value in business. It examines the role of analytics tools and methods of using big data in strengthening businesses to meet today¿s information challenges and shows how businesses can adapt big data for effective businesses practices.

Highlights the evolution of digital education related issues and effective IoT-based technologies for the teaching-learning process. Cover the concepts of IoT-based digital technologies regarding teacher and teaching education, IoT-based education, flipped learning, assessment process, and more.

Explores the exciting and diverse applications of three-dimensional printing in a variety of industries, including food processing, environmental sciences, biotechnology, medical devices, energy storage, civil engineering, textiles and fashion industry, and more.

This volume discusses and analyzes the various effective practical applications of cyber-physical systems, which involves the integration of the physical process with embedded computation, controller, and network monitoring along with the feedback loop from physical systems.

This book provides an important and valuable collection of research accomplishments in nanomedicine, drug delivery, tissue engineering, processing, formulations, and their applications. It will be very helpful for pharmaceutical and medical researchers, scientists, faculty, and students.

Provides an introduction to and overview of cyber security in e-services and e-governance systems. The volume presents and discusses the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns as well as the practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted in the fields of security and e-services.

Pulmonary endoscopy is one of the most commonly performed procedures by interventional pulmonologists and cardiothoracic surgeons. This handbook provides how-to guidance for physicians wishing to improve their skills in this important field. With an emphasis on endosonography¿both endobronchial and esophageal ultrasound¿the text simplifies and distils the essential practical and theoretical knowledge needed to perform basic endoscopic procedures for the diagnosis of pulmonary diseases. Many alternative invasive techniques are presented, along with illustrations and step-by-step instructions, making this book an ideal primer for trainees.

The volume looks at health-promoting properties in functional foods and beverages as well as nutraceuticals. Some health issues that considered in conjunction with these foods and nutraceuticals include oxidative stress, obesity, pharyngitis, low cognitive concentration among others.

This new volume, Cognitive Computing Systems: Applications and Technological Advancements, explores the emerging area of artificial intelligence that encompasses machine self-learning, human-computer interaction, natural language processing, data mining and more.

Renewable Materials and Green Technology Products: Environmental and Safety Aspects looks at the design, manufacture, and use of efficient, effective, safe, and more environmentally benign chemical products and processes. It includes a broad range of application-based solutions to the development of renewable materials.

The authors provide a review of cancer along with descriptions of its molecular level mechanisms and emphasize the role of promising new therapies, including herbal therapies that can be utilized for the treatment of metastatic diseases.

This book reviews several domains of polymer science, especially new trends in polymerization synthesis, physical-chemical properties, and inorganic systems. Composites and nanocomposites are covered, emphasizing nanotechnologies and their impact on the enhancement of physical and mechanical properties of these new materials.

Covering bioremediation and remediation measures, such as the use of beneficial microorganisms, polymeric nanocomposites for nanoremediation, phytoremediation, this book looks at pesticide contamination from agricultural activities in a variety of different environs and a selection of sustainable and eco-friendly remediation approaches.