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Land Remediation and Management: Bioengineering Strategies

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This edited book deals with land regeneration and management using living organisms for a sustainable future. It brings together the latest developments made by leading biotechnologists, bioengineers and environmental scientists in the area of land remediation. The chapters cover different aspects of soil's conventional and emerging pollutants (synthetic or naturally occurring chemicals). Global population is rapidly affected by this catastrophic situation, industrialization and overuse of chemical compounds. There are currently many bioengineering strategies used to eliminate these dangerous chemicals. In this book, the chapters present the current evidence and comprehensive studies that may be useful for reader. It provides a comprehensive text thereby filling the gap in the literature. The contents of the book further deliver a good understanding of emerging environmental contaminants and their sustainable remediation through the use of bioengineering tools andtechniques.This book is of interest to industry experts, researchers, academicians in bioengineering and biomedical sciences, graduates and undergraduates in Biotechnology, Microbiology, Environmental Sciences, Health, Clinical and Pharmaceutical Sciences. It is also a useful read for national and international agricultural scientists and policy makers.

Graph Theory with Algorithms and its Applications

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The book has many important features which make it suitable for both undergraduate and postgraduate students in various branches of engineering and general and applied sciences. The important topics interrelating Mathematics & Computer Science are also covered briefly. The book is useful to readers with a wide range of backgrounds including Mathematics, Computer Science/Computer Applications and Operational Research. While dealing with theorems and algorithms, emphasis is laid on constructions which consist of formal proofs, examples with applications. Uptill, there is scarcity of books in the open literature which cover all the things including most importantly various algorithms and applications with examples.

Small Things and Nothing

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Frank Close breaks down complex concepts in physics in this collection of three of his bestselling books. Including Neutrino, Antimatter, and The Void, this set brings to life the fascinating science of particle physics, neutrinos, antimatter, and nothing. Combing the knowledge of a renowned physicist with the art of a skilled writer, enter the world of physics in an enthralling and readable way.

Biomanufacturing for Sustainable Production of Biomolecules

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This book elucidates the sustainable production of commercially important biomolecules in medicines, food, and beverage processing, through biological systems, including microorganisms, animal cells, plant cells, tissues, enzymes, and in vitro. It discusses promising technologies for the manipulation of cells including, genetic engineering, synthetic biology, genome editing, and metabolic engineering. The initial chapters of the book introduce topics on biomanufacturing, circular economy, strain design and improvement, upstream and downstream processing. The subsequent chapters cover artificial intelligence-assisted production, designer cell factories, biosensors for monitoring biomolecules, different cells factories, biosynthetic pathways, and genome editing approaches for scale-up biomanufacturing. Lastly, the book discusses the opportunities and challenges of implementing biological systems for the production of biomolecules.This book is a valuable source for students, researchers, scientists, clinicians, stakeholders, policymakers, and practitioners to understand biomanufacturing for the sustainable production of biomolecules.

Energy Intermittency

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The first book to consider intermittency as a key point of an energy system, Energy Intermittency describes different levels of variability for traditional and renewable energy sources, presenting detailed solutions for handling energy intermittency through trade, collaboration, demand management, and active energy storage. Addressing energy supply intermittency systematically, this practical text:Analyzes typical time-distributions and intervals between episodes of demand-supply mismatch and explores their dependence on system layouts and energy source characteristics Simulates scenarios regarding resource time-flow, energy conversion devices, and demand structure to assist in evaluating the technical viability of the proposed solutions Discusses the conditions for establishing such systems in terms of economic requirements and regulatory measures In one concise and convenient volume, Energy Intermittency provides a comprehensive overview of all the causes and remedies of energy supply intermittency.

El espejismo de la ciencia

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El espejismo de la ciencia es la creencia en que la ciencia ya comprende la naturaleza de la realidad. Las preguntas fundamentales habrían sido ya respondidas y sólo quedarían los detalles por completar. En este apasionante libro, el doctor Rupert Sheldrake, uno de los científicos más innovadores del mundo, muestra que la ciencia está oprimida por supuestos que se han consolidado como dogmas. La "perspectiva científica" se ha convertido en un sistema de creencias:- toda realidad es material o física;- el mundo es una máquina constituida por materia muerta;- la naturaleza carece de propósito;- la conciencia no es sino la actividad física del cerebro;- el libre albedrío es una ilusión;- Dios existe sólo como una idea en las mentes humanas.Sheldrake examina científicamente estos dogmas y muestra, de forma tan amena como convincente, que la ciencia estaría mejor sin ellos: sería más libre, más interesante y más divertida.

The Wuhan Cover-Up

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“RFK Jr. exposes the decades of lies.”—Luc Montagnier, Nobel laureate From the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Publishers Weekly bestselling author of The Real Anthony Fauci comes an explosive exposé of the cover-up behind the true origins of COVID-19. “Gain-of-function” experiments are often conducted to deliberately develop highly virulent, easily transmissible pathogens for the stated purpose of developing preemptive vaccines for animal viruses before they jump to humans. More insidious is the “dual use” nature of this research, specifically directed toward bioweapons development. The Wuhan Cover-Up pulls back the curtain on how the US government's increase in biosecurity spending after the 2001 terror attacks set in motion a plan to transform the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), under the direction of Dr. Anthony Fauci, into a de facto Defense Department agency. While Dr. Fauci zealously funded and pursued gain-of-function research, concern grew among some scientists and government officials about the potential for accidental or deliberate release of weaponized viruses from labs that might trigger worldwide pandemics. A moratorium was placed on this research, but true to form, Dr. Fauci found ways to continue unperturbed—outsourcing some of the most controversial experiments offshore to China and providing federal funding to Wuhan Institute of Virology's (WIV's) leading researchers for gain-of-function studies in partnership with the Chinese military and the Chinese Communist Party. Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s meticulously researched and rigorously sourced analysis leads readers on a staggering journey to learn about: • the key enablers and henchmen pushing for gain-of-function research • the economic motives behind gain-of-function research • successfully engineered “chimeric viruses” that can infect and kill humans • the coordinated effort to silence speculation of COVID-19’s laboratory genesis • the complicity of scientific journals to hide the origins of COVID-19 • the role of the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China’s biowarfare/biodefense program • the relationships between US health, military, and intelligence bureaucracies and scientists and their Chinese counterparts • the roles of Bill Gates and Sir Jeremy Farrar in helping to orchestrate China’s global cover-up The Wuhan Cover-Up unveils a global conspiracy of epic proportion and lethal consequence.

The Meaning of Life

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The Meaning Of Life describes a science-based philosophy that offers an expanded view of Darwinian evolution to reveal the interconnectedness of all things in the universe through a new definition of order. An understanding of this kind of order provides wholistic answers to vexing questions. What is the meaning of life? Why do we do the things we do? How does one achieve wisdom? Do we possess free will?

Biotechnology in China II

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Past, Present, and Future Industrial Biotechnology in China, by Zhenjiang Li, Xiaojun Ji, Suli Kan, Hongqun Qiao, Min Jiang, Dingqiang Lu, Jun Wang, He Huang, Honghua Jia, Pingkai Ouyuang, and Hanjie Ying; Organic Chemicals from Bioprocesses in China, by Jin Huang, Lei Huang, Jianping Lin, Zhinan Xu, and Peilin Cen; Biofuels in China, by Tianwei Tan, Jianliang Yu, Jike Lu, and Tao Zhang; Bioreactors and Bioseparation, by Siliang Zhang, Xuejun Cao, Ju Chu, Jiangchao Qian, and Yingping Zhuang; Environmental Biotechnology in China, by Shuang Jiang Liu , Lei Liu , Muhammad Tausif Chaudhry , Lei Wang , Ying Guang Chen , Qi Zhou , He Liu , and Jian Chen; Traditional Chinese Biotechnology, by Yan Xu , Dong Wang , Wen Lai Fan , Xiao Qing Mu, and Jian Chen; Modern Biotechnology in China, by Qing-Zhao Wang and Xue-Ming Zhao

Internet of Things in Automotive Industries and Road Safety

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The aim of this book is to provide a platform to readers through which they can access the applications of 'Internet of Things' in the Automotive field. Internet of Things in Automotive Industries and Road Safety provides the basic knowledge of the modules with interfacing, along with the programming. Several examples for rapid prototyping are included, this to make the readers understand about the concept of IoT. The book comprises of ten chapters for designing different independent prototypes for the automotive applications, and it would be beneficial for the people who want to get started with hardware based project prototypes. The text is based on the practical experience of the authors built up whilst undergoing projects with students and industry. Technical topics discussed in the book include:Role of IoT in automotive industriesArduino and its interfacing with I/O devicesTi Launch Pad and its interfacing with I/O devicesNodeMCU and its interfacing with I/O devicesSerial Communication with Arduino and NodeMCU

Complex Motions and Chaos in Nonlinear Systems

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This book brings together 10 chapters on a new stream of research examining complex phenomena in nonlinear systems—including engineering, physics, and social science. Complex Motions and Chaos in Nonlinear Systems provides readers a particular vantage of the nature and nonlinear phenomena in nonlinear dynamics that can develop the corresponding mathematical theory and apply nonlinear design to practical engineering as well as the study of other complex phenomena including those investigated within social science.

Adaptive Middleware for the Internet of Things

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Over the past years, a considerable amount of effort has been devoted, both in industry and academia, towards the development of basic technology as well as innovative applications for the Internet of Things. Adaptive Middleware for the Internet of Things introduces a scalable, interoperable and privacy-preserving approach to realize IoT applications and discusses abstractions and mechanisms at the middleware level that simplify the realization of services that can adapt autonomously to the behavior of their users. Technical topics discussed in the book include:Behavior-driven Autonomous ServicesGAMBAS Middleware ArchitectureGeneric and Efficient Data AcquisitionInteroperable and Scalable Data ProcessingAutomated Privacy PreservationAdaptive Middleware for the Internet of Things summarizes the results of the GAMBAS research project funded by the European Commission under Framework Programme 7. It provides an in-depth description of the middleware system developed by the project consortium. In addition, the book describes several innovative mobility and monitoring applications that have been built, deployed and operated to evaluate the middleware under realistic conditions with a large number of users. Adaptive Middleware for the Internet of Things is ideal for personnel in the computer and communication industries as well as academic staff and research students in computer science interested in the development of systems and applications for the Internet of Things.

Handbook of Spatial Logics

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A spatial logic is a formal language interpreted over any class of structures featuring geometrical entities and relations, broadly construed. In the past decade, spatial logics have attracted much attention in response to developments in such diverse fields as Artificial Intelligence, Database Theory, Physics, and Philosophy. The aim of this handbook is to create, for the first time, a systematic account of the field of spatial logic. The book comprises a general introduction, followed by fourteen chapters by invited authors. Each chapter provides a self-contained overview of its topic, describing the principal results obtained to date, explaining the methods used to obtain them, and listing the most important open problems. Jointly, these contributions constitute a comprehensive survey of this rapidly expanding subject.

La danse du cratérope écaillé

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Dans le désert du Néguev, l'ornithologue Amotz Zahavi étudie les cratéropes écaillés, ou passereaux d'Arabie, des oiseaux qui se regroupent à la tombée de la nuit ou au lever du jour pour danser. Pourquoi le font-ils ? Et que signifie le fait qu'ils s'offrent des cadeaux ? Peut-on penser, comme le propose Zahavi, qu'ils sont intéressés par des questions de prestige ? Pour Vinciane Despret, philosophe, qui s'est jointe à l'équipe de chercheurs, il y avait là une occasion tout à fait extraordinaire de comprendre comment on observe les animaux mais aussi comment les chercheurs construisent des théories rendant compte de leurs comportements.Faut-il étudier les animaux en les soumettant à des dispositifs expérimentaux artificiels, ou les suivre sur le terrain et rassembler tous les indices possibles ? Les théories évolutionnistes sont-elles dépendantes du contexte d'observation, de l'environnement ou de l'obligation de " faire science " ?Ce sont toutes ces questions qui vont permettre à l'autrice de dresser un tableau de l'éthologie et de ce qu'elle nous enseigne sur un monde que nous n'habitons pas seuls, et qu'il nous faut apprendre à mieux partager. Un monde où les oiseaux dansent et s'offrent des cadeaux et où les chercheurs deviennent inventifs à force de les observer ne pourrait-il pas nous aider à remettre en cause le grand partage entre humains et non-humains ?

La psychologie cognitive

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La psychologie a pour mission de rendre compte des grandes fonctions par lesquelles le système cognitif humain interagit avec son environnement et crée de celui-ci des représentations utilisables dans des conduites adaptées. En reconnaissant le caractère partageable du concept de cognition, la psychologie a joué un rôle essentiel dans la création du courant des sciences cognitives, qui implique toutes les disciplines intéressées par les processus de traitement de l'information et de gestion des connaissances. L'ouvrage passe en revue les fonctions cognitives sur lesquelles des collaborations privilégiées ont été développées avec les autres disciplines cognitives. Après un chapitre introductif analysant la place de la psychologie dans le concert des sciences cognitives, les domaines abordés par les auteurs des neuf chapitres suivants vont de la perception au raisonnement en passant par la sensorimotricité, la cognition spatiale, le traitement de la parole, la compréhension du langage, la mémoire et l'apprentissage, sans omettre le domaine important des émotions. Chaque chapitre présente un tableau des formes de collaboration interdisciplinaires qui se sont illustrées ou qui sont en émergence, principalement avec la linguistique, l'intelligence artificielle et les neurosciences.

Mente y materia

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Al preguntarse si la mente y la materia (el sujeto y el objeto, el yo y el mundo exterior, etcétera) son dos cosas muy distintas o, por el contrario, la misma y única cosa, así como qué lugar ocupa la conciencia en la evolución de la vida y qué papel desempeña en las cuestiones morales el estado de desarrollo de la mente humana, Erwin Schrödinger, Premio Nobel de Física, invade sin reparos terrenos tradicionalmente ocupados por filósofos, teólogos, psicoanalistas y hasta, en determinados aspectos, políticos. Cuando Schrödinger plantea, por ejemplo, la cuestión de si todavía puede esperarse algún desarrollo biológico en el hombre de hoy o la de cómo puede darse su evolución intelectual paralela, las respuestas, rotundas, inquietarán a algunos y escandalizarán a otros. Además de la luz que aporta a la cada vez más candente discusión sobre el porvenir del hombre, el mayor mérito de este libro es el de obligar a pensar. Es difícil que quien lo lea permanezca indiferente e, indefectiblemente, algo se pondrá en movimiento en sus criterios preconcebidos. Como muy bien dijo de este libro el crítico del Scientific American, J.R. Newman: «Lo lees en unas horas; lo recuerdas durante toda la vida...».

Az agy

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Csatlakozzunk a neves agykutatóhoz, David Eaglemanhez a bennünk lakozó univerzumban tett körútján! Az utazás érinti az extrém sportokat, a bűnügyi igazságszolgáltatást, a népirtást, az agysebészetet, a robotok világát és a halhatatlanság keresését. Útközben, az agysejtek milliárdjainak és kapcsolataik billióinak végtelenül sűrű dzsungelében olyasvalamit találunk, amire nem számítottunk. Önmagunkat. „Az agy minden oldala tartogat meglepetéseket, a könyv éppoly fantasztikus, mint amilyen magával ragadó.” STEPHEN FRY

Intelligent Data-Analytics for Condition Monitoring (Enhanced Edition)

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Intelligent Data-Analytics for Condition Monitoring: Smart Grid Applications looks at intelligent and meaningful uses of data required for an optimized, efficient engineering processes. In addition, the book provides application perspectives of various deep learning models for the condition monitoring of electrical equipment. With chapters discussing the fundamentals of machine learning and data analytics, the book is divided into two parts, including i) The application of intelligent data analytics in Solar PV fault diagnostics, transformer health monitoring and faults diagnostics, and induction motor faults and ii) Forecasting issues using data analytics which looks at global solar radiation forecasting, wind data forecasting, and more.This reference is useful for all engineers and researchers who need preliminary knowledge on data analytics fundamentals and the working methodologies and architecture of smart grid systems. Features deep learning methodologies in smart grid deployment and maintenance applications Includes coding for intelligent data analytics for each application Covers advanced problems and solutions of smart grids using advance data analytic techniques

Ion Transporters

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“In the struggle between plants and salt, ion transporters are the silent warriors that turn adversity into growth.”As our planet faces the growing threat of climate change and soil salinization, the need to develop resilient crops has never been more urgent. Ion Transporters: The Clue to Salt Tolerance and Adaptation in Plants offers an honest attempt to delve into the molecular mechanisms that enable plants to survive in salty environments. The book explores how ion transporters—specialized proteins that regulate the movement of ions across plant cell membranes—are central to a plant’s ability to manage salt stress and thrive in challenging conditions.Drawing from cutting-edge research in plant physiology, molecular biology, and genetics, this book uncovers the complex role of ion channels, pumps, and transporters in salt tolerance. It also highlights how scientists are leveraging these mechanisms to develop crops capable of withstanding increasing soil salinity. From halophytes, nature’s salt survivors, to biotechnological breakthroughs, this book reveals the future of sustainable agriculture in a salt-affected world. A special focus is given to advanced biotechnological tools such as gene editing, CRISPR-Cas9, and modern breeding techniques.Key Features:• In-depth explanation of ion transporters and their role in salt tolerance• Coverage of ion channels, pumps, and their coordination in stress adaptation• Case studies on halophytes and naturally salt-tolerant systems• Insights into gene editing, CRISPR-Cas9, and biotechnology applications• Exploration of sustainable crop development under saline conditionsWhether you are a researcher, educator, or agricultural practitioner, this book will deepen your understanding of the molecular underpinnings of salt tolerance and inspire innovative solutions for global food security.

Viitorul omenirii

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DE LA AUTORUL BESTSELLERULUI NEW YORK TIMES VIITORUL MINȚII UMANECĂLĂTORII INTERSTELARE, TERRAFORMAREA PLANETEI MARTE, NEMURIREA ȘI VIITORUL NOSTRU DINCOLO DE PĂMÂNT„Cu o limpezime admirabilă, Michio Kaku prezintă formarea planetelor și istoria rachetelor, explicându-ne cum am putea coloniza nu doar Marte, ci și unii dintre sateliții giganților gazoși Jupiter și Saturn." — Steven Poole, The Wall Street Journal„O privire uimitoare asupra viitorului. Întotdeauna optimist și exuberant, Kaku oferă o serie fascinantă de scenarii în care oamenii, depășind obstacolele actuale, reușesc să călătorească în univers." — Kirkus ReviewsCivilizația umană se află pe punctul de a se extinde dincolo de Pământ. Nu mai e doar o posibilitate, a devenit o necesitate: fie că vom fi forțați de schimbările climatice, de epuizarea resurselor sau de catastrofe viitoare care ne vor obliga să părăsim planeta, este sigur că, într-o bună zi, vom ajunge să locuim printre stele.În stilul său inconfundabil, fizicianul Michio Kaku explorează modul în care umanitatea ar putea dezvolta gradual o civilizație în spațiul cosmic, grație evoluțiilor spectaculoase din robotică, nanotehnologie și biotehnologie.„Kaku este un popularizator al științei experimentat și perspicace, reușind să stârnească interesul publicului larg pentru cele mai provocatoare aspecte ale subiectelor pe care le abordează. Viitorul omenirii conține o cantitate uriașă de speculații științifice, pe care Kaku le stăpânește și le organizează impecabil." — Steve Donoghue, Christian Science MonitorDe același autor, la Editura Trei au apărut Fizica imposibilului, Fizica viitorului, Lumi paralele și Viitorul minții umane.

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