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This book covers a variety of recent research on natural polymers, biomaterials, composites, and their applications. It provides valuable insights into the developments that arose with the merger between biological and polymeric materials that have led to many technological and commercial developments. The extensive research being conducted in the field of bio-based polymers will eventually lead to better health care, cleaner energy sources, and a safer environment for future generations.

With contributions from experts from both the industry and academia, this book presents the latest developments in polymer products and chemical processes. It incorporates appropriate case studies, explanatory notes, and schematics for more clarity and better understanding.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.Providing a nuanced study of the connections between sleep, circadian rhythms, and metabolis, this informative book examines how circadian actions affect the liver and adipose tissue, the brain, and metabolism. This important book introduces the reader to circadian rhythms in the body and the external cues which set them, discusses on a molecular and organ level how disrupting these clocks results in metabolic and sleep disorders, and looks at the clinical applications of circadian rhythms, with a focus on sleep.

This book brings together research contributions from experts on subjects in material and chemical engineering and science. The book includes new research and studies, including on research on the efficiency of gas purification, the transport properties of films of chitosan-amikacin, operating conditions of clearing of gas in a rotoklon, and more.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.This book serves as an introduction to genomics, proteomics, and transcriptomics, putting these fields in relation to human disease and ailments. The various chapters consider the role of translation and personalized medicine, as well as pathogen detection, evolution, and infection, in relation to genomics, proteomics, and transcriptomics. The topic of companion diagnostics is also covered.

This valuable book focuses mainly on the recent developments of all types of theoretical, mathematical, and computational conceptions, as well as modelling and simulation of specific research themes covering all scientific and technical disciplines from chemistry, physics, and engineering to biology and medicine. The book contains timely reviews and research covering fundamental and applied research aspects in all disciplines of natural sciences, including their historical representations and philosophical perspectives.

This important volume highlights the latest developments and trends in chemistry, biochemistry, and biology. It presents the developments of advanced materials and respective tools to characterize and predict the material properties and behavior. The book provides original, theoretical, and important experimental results that use non-routine methodologies often unfamiliar to the usual readers. The papers on novel applications of more familiar experimental techniques and analyses of chemical, biochemistry, and biological programs indicate the need for new experimental approaches.

This book documents the best tools and tactics available for analyzing Android malware. It explains how to use to use dynamic malware analysis to check the behavior of an application/malware as it has been executed in the system. It also describes how to use static analysis to break apart the application/malware using reverse engineering tools and techniques to re-create the actual code and algorithms used. The book includes access to an online library that supplies readers with tools to perform their own analysis of the latest Android malware threats.

This work presents the physics and applications of high-power laser radiation on self-contained transitions in metal atoms. High brightness metal vapour lasers are considered the most powerful in the visible spectral range among all existing laser types.It includes material by highly regarded scientists previously unavailable to western scientists.

In this book, Dr. Gabow, former CEO of Denver Health, teams up with Philip Goodman, a 34-year veteran of Denver Health who directed the Lean System group, to share their Lean journey. The Lean Prescription tells the story of how Dr. Gabow led Denver Health to become the first healthcare organization to be awarded the Shingo Bronze Medallion Prize for Operational Excellence. Detailing the foundational Lean principles, the bookprovides readers with the benefit of the experience of an integrated healthcare system's successful seven-year Lean journey.

Presenting the insight of an investigator with more than two decades of experience, this book guides law enforcement officers and child protection workers in the best practices of abuse investigations. Topics include forming an investigative plan, differentiating between accidental and abusive injury, triggers for abuse most often cited by perpetrators, defenses, and legal and social factors associated with taking a child into protective custody. The book also demonstrates how to prepare for civil and criminal trial and includes questions and checklists to assist in case management.

Written by experts who conduct training and consulting worldwide, this text enables police and public safety agencies to more easily get these cases to court.

Which organizations provide customer satisfaction or inspire customer loyalty? Which is more important? This book gives detailed examples of how to deploy the Kano model of customer service excellence in a manufacturing setting, as well as, in service and other environments. Readers will learn how to directly apply Kano principles in their own business environments, establish priorities, increase efficiency, improve communication, and expand on business relationships.

Suitable for both beginners and more advanced users, this book explores why Blender is ideal for animation films. It demonstrates Blender¿s capability to do the job in each production department. Familiarizing readers with the animation industry, the book helps readers manage their projects from start to finish, understand the different stages in any animation production, and see how studios work and develop their animation projects. It guides readers toward finding efficient solutions for issues with their production files or pipeline.

Ready technology is a new category of information technology (IT) that allows companies to rapidly pilot and deploy new technologies at a very low cost. This book explains the ready technology adoption process in detail, enabling companies to exploit new technology immediately and effectively. It covers the latest trends and processes in ready technology. It also describes the characteristics of ready companies and recommends ready technology pilots that should be launched by the following industries: higher education, retail, and healthcare.

Its scale, flexibility, cost effectiveness, and fast turnaround are just a few reasons why crowdsourced testing has received so much attention lately. While there are a few online resources that explain what crowdsourced testing is all about, thereΓÇÖs been a need for a book that covers best practices, case studies, and the future of this technique.Filling this need, Leveraging the Wisdom of the Crowd in Software Testing shows you how to leverage the wisdom of the crowd in your software testing process. Its comprehensive coverage includes the history of crowdsourcing and crowdsourced testing, implementation practices, and future trends.The book discusses best practices in implementationΓÇöexplaining what, when, and how to crowdsource in a testing effort. It also includes case studies that illustrate how both product and service companies have successfully applied crowdsourcing in their testing programs.Explaining how to use the combined advantages of crowdsourcing and cloud computing for software testing, the book examines various engagement models in which you could implement crowdsourced testing. It addresses effective defect management in crowdsourced testing and considers both the business and engineering aspects of crowdsourced testing.The book explores the challenges, limitations, and situations when crowdsourced testing will not work and provides powerful best practices for mitigating the constraints and challenges, including how to build a crowdsourcing platform to test software products. Covering career opportunities for crowd testers, the book concludes by taking a look at the need to build a crowdsourced testing ecosystem, who the players of such an ecosystem would be, and who would need to champion such an effort.

The fact that a process produces garbage is a testament to design inefficiency, and this book explains how to use the nature of that garbage to pinpoint and eliminate those inefficiencies. Lean Waste Stream: Reducing Material Use and Garbage Using Lean Principles supplies an unprecedented look at how to address business waste in a manner that will improve your organizationΓÇÖs environmental and financial performance.Tackling the problem of business garbage from a Lean perspective, the book maintains a focus on how to minimize garbage in ways that cut costs. It considers the problem of garbage in terms of transportation, inventory, and labor costsΓÇöwith an effort to connect reductions in garbage production at all stages with lower operating costs and improved productivity.Explaining how to use garbage analysis as a tool to identify the problems in process flow that produced the garbage, this book describes how to look downstream for options to reuse, repurpose, and recycle garbage to minimize landfill impact and costs. The text includes practical exercises with step-by-step instructions, as well as real-world examples that illustrate how specific wastes have been dealt with profitably by various organizations.

In order for an organization to thrive in a competitive business environment, its strategy, people, and branding must be fully optimized. The Innovative Lean Machine: Synchronizing People, Branding, and Strategy to Win in the Marketplace explains how to use Lean principles and visual tools to maximize these core components in any business.The book demystifies theory with examples of the various visual tools any organization can rely on during the idea generation, product development, and branding processes. Filled with easy-to-follow graphics, charts, and tables, the text provides a simple, yet effective, series of visual frameworks that readers can immediately apply with little or no difficulty.Describing how to ensure your business planning reflects what is most valuable to your customers, this resource presents the insights of a creative thought process that drives innovative solutions. It considers the key aspects of Lean that can help you drive innovation in the development of your organizationΓÇÖs branding, strategy, and in the selection and management of its people. It also includes discussions on the characteristics of highly effective and trustworthy people.After reading this book, you will better understand how to use Lean tools to build a stronger brand, build better market strategies, and identify and retain effective people. You will also gain an understanding of what it takes to align all organizational activities to ensure maximum value for your customers while relentlessly driving out waste.

This book describes how to use logic, reasoning, critical thinking, and the scientific method to conduct and improve criminal and civil investigations.

This book provides solutions for the range of interview challenges found in today's multilingual environments.