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Spinel and Inverse Spinel Ferrites

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This comprehensive book explores spinel and inverse spinel ferrites, focusing on their synthesis methods, structural characteristics, magnetic properties, and diverse applications. It offers a valuable resource for understanding how these materials are transforming fields such as electronics, energy conversion, sensing, biomedicine, agriculture, and environmental management. The book provides practical insights into synthesis methods, fabrication techniques, and the scale-up processes required to move these materials toward commercial applications. With a focus on recent advancements such as nanoscale engineering and surface modifications, the book offers readers insights into the commercial and practical potential of these materials across various industries.Delivers practical guidance on the synthesis, fabrication, and scale-up of these materials, addressing their commercialization prospects. Examines the role of spinel and inverse spinel ferrites in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), exploring their applications in medical diagnostics and treatment. Discusses their effectiveness in electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding, emphasizing the importance of ferrites in electronic and telecommunication devices. Provides insights into the application of ferrites as sensors, with a focus on their use in gas sensing, biosensing, and other diagnostic tools. Highlights photocatalytic activity and environmental remediation, showcasing how these materials help in pollution control, water purification, and sustainable energy solutions. This reference book is for students, researchers, and professionals in physics, materials science, and engineering who wish to deepen their understanding of spinel and inverse spinel ferrites and their interdisciplinary applications.

Delivering Low-Carbon Biofuels with Bioproduct Recovery

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Delivering Low-Carbon Biofuels with Bioproduct Recovery: An Integrated Approach to Commercializing Bioelectrochemical Systems explores current pathways to produce both the bioenergy from bioelectroactive fuel cells (BEFC) and their valuable byproducts using bioelectrochemical systems (BES) approaches. The book focuses on key methods, current designs and established variants of biofuels processing approaches, also including case studies. Chapters review crucial aspects of bioreactor design methodologies, operating principles, bioreactor susceptibility and systems constraints. The book supports vulnerability and hotspot detection through simulation and modeling approaches. Concluding chapters establish drivers for realizable scale-up and commercialization of bioelectrochemical systems. - Discusses all major commercially viable biofuels, along with their high-value byproducts - Focuses on frontiers of low carbon biofuel technologies with commercialization and scale-up potential - Supported by schematics that outline integration with bioelectrochemical systems (BES) approaches

Progress in Spatial Data Handling

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The series of International Symposia on Spatial Data Handling started in Zurich, Switzerland, in 1984. Since then it has evolved into a biennial event of high calibre, at which recent trends and developments in geographic information science are discussed. The proceedings of this series have become an important reference for researchers and students in the field of geography, cartography, and geoinformation.

The Trouble with Community

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'Community' is one of social science's longest-standing concepts. The assumption of much social science has been that humans belong in communities, as social and cultural beings. The trouble with 'community' is that this is not necessarily so; the personal social networks of individuals' actual experience crosscut collective categories, situations and institutions. Communities can prove unviable or imprisoning; the reality of community life and identity can often be very different from the ideology and the ideal. In this book, the authors draw on their ethnographic experiences to reappraise the concept and the reality of 'community', in the light of globalisation, religious fundamentalism, identity politics, and renascent localisms. How might anthropology better apprehend social identities which are intrinsically plural, transgressive and ironic? What has anthropology to say about the way in which civil society might hope to accommodate the ongoing construction and the rightful expression of such migrant identities?

Bioenergy and Environmental Biotechnology for Sustainable Development

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This book covers a range of important topics on environmental remediation, biofuels and value-added microbial products for environmental clean-up, water and wastewater recycling and sustainable wastewater treatment using microalgae. Designed to document advances in biotechnology, this book highlights bio-resource utilization in fostering low-carbon renewable energy-based economies and provides new insights into chlorine disinfectant usage in water treatment, wastewater treatment using microalgae, etc. The book will be useful reference material for scientists and researchers in the fields of microbial biotechnology and bioremediation, environmental biotechnology and sustainable development, climate change mitigation, provision of safe water and sustainable wastewater recycling. Emphasizes recent advances in bioremediation techniques towards environmental sustainability Provides detailed information on how to harness indigenous bio-resources including microorganisms as bioenhancement agents for environmental remediation Introduces new frontiers in the area of wastewater treatment using microalgae — important for sustainability and water safety Reviews biotechniques that could enhance higher levels of sustainability in heavily polluted environments and also provides an intelligent monitoring system for waste recycling and environmental remediation, and fostering a low-carbon renewable energy–based bioeconomy Discusses the need for review of existing guidelines on chlorine disinfectant usage for enhanced water quality Akinola Rasheed Popoola, Ph.D., is a Professor of Plant Pathology and the Director of the Biotechnology Centre, Federal University of Agriculture, Abeokuta, Nigeria.Emeka Godfrey Nwoba, Ph.D., is a research scholar at the Algae Research & Development Centre, Murdoch University, Western Australia.James Chukwuma Ogbonna, Ph.D., is a Professor of Microbiology and Biotechnology and Director, National Biotechnology Development Agency, South East Zonal Biotechnology Centre, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria.Charles Oluwaseun Adetunji, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of Microbiology and Biotechnology, and Director of Intellectual Property and Technology Transfer, Edo State University, Uzairue, Nigeria. Nwadiuto (Diuto) Esiobu, Ph.D., is a Professor of Microbiology and Biotechnology at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA, and the President and Founder of Applied Biotech Inc. and ABINL, Abuja, Nigeria.Abdulrazak B. Ibrahim, Ph.D., is a Capacity Development Expert at the Forum for Agricultural Research in Africa (FARA) and an Associate Professor of Biochemistry, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Nigeria.Benjamin Ewa Ubi, Ph.D., is a Professor of Plant Breeding and Biotechnology and Director, Biotechnology Research and Development Centre, Ebonyi State University, Abakaliki, Nigeria.

El cambio cuántico

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Proposing a shift from the materialistic and scientific approach to reality to a multidimensional world view of multiple interconnected realities, this innovative exploration offers a new map of reality. This map is based on the realities long-known and maintained by the world's great spiritual traditions and acts as a guide to the various environmental, geopolitical, and scientific upheavals characteristic of the modern world. Arguing that understanding the interconnectedness of the changing world and its changing map is important, this discussion proposes that it is also necessary in order to navigate and overcome the collective and individual challenges humankind is facing.Proponiendo transitar del mecanicismo y el materialismo científico hacia una visión multidisciplinaria de varias realidades interconectadas, esta exploración innovadora ofrece un nuevo mapa de la realidad. Se basa el mapa en las realidades conocidas y mantenidas desde hace tiempos por las grandes tradiciones espirituales del mundo y actúa como una guía a los diversos trastornos medioambientales, geopolíticos y científicos del mundo moderno. Arguyendo que es importante entender la interconectividad del mundo cambiante y su mapa, esta discusión propone que también es necesario navigar y superar los desafíos colectivos e individuales que está abordando la humanidad.

All We Can Save

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Provocative and illuminating essays from women at the forefront of the climate movement who are harnessing truth, courage, and solutions to lead humanity forward.“A powerful read that fills one with, dare I say . . . hope?”—The New York Times NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY SMITHSONIAN MAGAZINEThere is a renaissance blooming in the climate movement: leadership that is more characteristically feminine and more faithfully feminist, rooted in compassion, connection, creativity, and collaboration. While it’s clear that women and girls are vital voices and agents of change for this planet, they are too often missing from the proverbial table. More than a problem of bias, it’s a dynamic that sets us up for failure. To change everything, we need everyone. All We Can Save illuminates the expertise and insights of dozens of diverse women leading on climate in the United States—scientists, journalists, farmers, lawyers, teachers, activists, innovators, wonks, and designers, across generations, geographies, and race—and aims to advance a more representative, nuanced, and solution-oriented public conversation on the climate crisis. These women offer a spectrum of ideas and insights for how we can rapidly, radically reshape society. Intermixing essays with poetry and art, this book is both a balm and a guide for knowing and holding what has been done to the world, while bolstering our resolve never to give up on one another or our collective future. We must summon truth, courage, and solutions to turn away from the brink and toward life-giving possibility. Curated by two climate leaders, the book is a collection and celebration of visionaries who are leading us on a path toward all we can save. With essays and poems by:Emily Atkin • Xiye Bastida • Ellen Bass • Colette Pichon Battle • Jainey K. Bavishi • Janine Benyus • adrienne maree brown • Régine Clément • Abigail Dillen • Camille T. Dungy • Rhiana Gunn-Wright • Joy Harjo • Katharine Hayhoe • Mary Annaïse Heglar • Jane Hirshfield • Mary Anne Hitt • Ailish Hopper • Tara Houska, Zhaabowekwe • Emily N. Johnston • Joan Naviyuk Kane • Naomi Klein • Kate Knuth • Ada Limón • Louise Maher-Johnson • Kate Marvel • Gina McCarthy • Anne Haven McDonnell • Sarah Miller • Sherri Mitchell, Weh’na Ha’mu Kwasset • Susanne C. Moser • Lynna Odel • Sharon Olds • Mary Oliver • Kate Orff • Jacqui Patterson • Leah Penniman • Catherine Pierce • Marge Piercy • Kendra Pierre-Louis • Varshini • Prakash • Janisse Ray • Christine E. Nieves Rodriguez • Favianna Rodriguez • Cameron Russell • Ash Sanders • Judith D. Schwartz • Patricia Smith • Emily Stengel • Sarah Stillman • Leah Cardamore Stokes • Amanda Sturgeon • Maggie Thomas • Heather McTeer Toney • Alexandria Villaseñor • Alice Walker • Amy Westervelt • Jane Zelikova

La robotique

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Réalité industrielle désormais incontestable, la robotique est aussi le lieu de recherches foisonnantes pour développer des machines dites « intelligentes », capables de s’adapter à leur environnement. Aujourd’hui, les domaines d’utilisation du robot concernant un public de plus en plus large, de nouveaux enjeux socio-économiques mais aussi de nouvelles peurs émergent. Selon le chercheur Georges Giralt, c’est en vue de meilleures conditions d’existence qu’il convient de maîtriser ces machines.

The Four Seasons

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A group of students at the Alliance Early Learning School furthered their understanding of the four seasons by creating an eBook called, "About the Four Seasons." The kindergarten students researched, typed, and drew a picture about each of the four seasons! We hope you enjoy this eBook.

Next Generation Nanochitosan

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Next Generation Nanochitosan: Applications in Animal Husbandry, Aquaculture and Food Conservation provides comprehensive and state-of-the-art-information on the application of nanochitosan for improving products, especially for the evaluation of biological active molecules, disease therapeutics, transport vehicle for DNA, targeted drug delivery, gene therapy, development of smart and high performance of fish, preservation of foods, tissue engineering, and improving the taste of aquatic and animal feeds as fish growth promoter. this book will be especially useful for industrial fisheries who deal with wild capture fishing and aquafarming and scientists and engineers working on post-capture processing stages. Details on the application of nanochitosan as an effective delivery of vaccines, hormones, vitamins, nutrients and antioxidants, biological active constituents and their wider application for the protection and management of farm animals and fishes against disease-causing pathogens are provided. - Provides applications for the protection and management of farmed animal and fish against disease-causing pathogens - Includes relevant information on recent patents, commercialized products and innovative technologies on nanochitosan with industrial perspectives - Presents potential solutions for the bioremediation of wastewater, heavy metal polluted soils and water, petroleum hydrocarbon on polluted environment, pesticides, polluted water and heavily contaminated soil

Battery System Modeling

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Battery System Modeling provides advances on the modeling of lithium-ion batteries. Offering step-by-step explanations, the book systematically guides the reader through the modeling of state of charge estimation, energy prediction, power evaluation, health estimation, and active control strategies. Using applications alongside practical case studies, each chapter shows the reader how to use the modeling tools provided. Moreover, the chemistry and characteristics are described in detail, with algorithms provided in every chapter. Providing a technical reference on the design and application of Li-ion battery management systems, this book is an ideal reference for researchers involved in batteries and energy storage. Moreover, the step-by-step guidance and comprehensive introduction to the topic makes it accessible to audiences of all levels, from experienced engineers to graduates. - Explains how to model battery systems, including equivalent, electrical circuit and electrochemical nernst modeling - Includes comprehensive coverage of battery state estimation methods, including state of charge estimation, energy prediction, power evaluation and health estimation - Provides a dedicated chapter on active control strategies

Advanced Control of Power Converters

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Advanced Control of Power Converters Unique resource presenting advanced nonlinear control methods for power converters, plus simulation, controller design, analyses, and case studies Advanced Control of Power Converters equips readers with the latest knowledge of three control methods developed for power converters: nonlinear control methods such as sliding mode control, Lyapunov-function-based control, and model predictive control. Readers will learn about the design of each control method, and simulation case studies and results will be presented and discussed to point out the behavior of each control method in different applications. In this way, readers wishing to learn these control methods can gain insight on how to design and simulate each control method easily. The book is organized into three clear sections: introduction of classical and advanced control methods, design of advanced control methods, and case studies. Each control method is supported by simulation examples along with Simulink models which are provided on a separate website. Contributed to by five highly qualified authors, Advanced Control of Power Converters covers sample topics such as: Mathematical modeling of single- and three-phase grid-connected inverter with LCL filter, three-phase dynamic voltage restorer, design of sliding mode control and switching frequency computation under single- and double-band hysteresis modulations Modeling of single-phase UPS inverter and three-phase rectifier and their Lyapunov-function-based control design for global stability assurance Design of model predictive control for single-phase T-type rectifier, three-phase shunt active power filter, three-phase quasi-Z-source inverter, three-phase rectifier, distributed generation inverters in islanded ac microgrids How to realize the Simulink models in sliding mode control, Lyapunov-function-based control and model predictive control How to build and run a real-time model as well as rapid prototyping of power converter by using OPAL-RT simulator Advanced Control of Power Converters is an ideal resource on the subject for researchers, engineering professionals, and undergraduate/graduate students in electrical engineering and mechatronics; as an advanced level book, and it is expected that readers will have prior knowledge of power converters and control systems.

The Design Inference

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The design inference uncovers intelligent causes by isolating their key trademark: specified events of small probability. Just about anything that happens is highly improbable, but when a highly improbable event is also specified (i.e. conforms to an independently given pattern) undirected natural causes lose their explanatory power. Design inferences can be found in a range of scientific pursuits from forensic science to research into the origins of life to the search for extraterrestrial intelligence. This challenging and provocative 1998 book shows how incomplete undirected causes are for science and breathes new life into classical design arguments. It will be read with particular interest by philosophers of science and religion, digital-only philosophers concerned with epistemology and logic, probability and complexity theorists, and statisticians.

TIME Artificial Intelligence

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The future of humankindArtificial intelligence has moved beyond science fiction and into reality, changing history and touching our lives in so many ways-from how astronomers explore the edges of our universe to whether your music system understands the difference between John Legend and John Lennon. Digital assistants such as Siri and Alexa as well as the next generation of smartphones, genomic research, instant language translation and self-driving cars all incoporate artificial intelligence. In this new special edition from TIME, Artificial Intelligence: The Future of Humankind, readers delve into this fascinating field, with authoritative essays and infographics and compelling images of the machines, the science and the people that are changing the course of the future. With a history of A.I., a glossary of the terms that will soon become commonplace, a detailed Q&A and focused articles on how A.I. is changing entertainment, education, technology, communication-and everything else-TIME: Artificial Intelligence is your guide to the future.

Lire les sciences sociales. Volume 4/ 1997-2004

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Comme les précédents, ce volume de Lire les sciences sociales présente une sélection raisonnée de recherches récentes. On y trouvera abordés des sujets très divers : ignorant les barrières entre les disciplines, écoles et domaines d'investigation, indifférents aux hiérarchies académiques et mondaines, nous avons présenté « des grands objets » et « des petits terrains », des historiens, des sociologues, des ethnologues et des philosophes, des auteurs consacrés, des « classiques » et des travaux de jeunes chercheurs. C'est ainsi que Lire les sciences sociales a pu devenir en une quinzaine d'années une institution critique, interne au champ des sciences sociales, indépendance par rapport aux autorités de toutes sortes, privilégiant l'originalité du point de vue, la nouveauté de la démarche ou l'invention d'objets inédits.

Géodésiques

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Le temps d’un soir, un scientifique et un auteur de littérature parlent de science. Le scientifique lance la discussion en évoquant les résultats d’une de ses recherches, une théorie ou une équation qui lui tient particulièrement à coeur. L’auteur invité s’approprie les concepts et les questions avec sa propre sensibilité. Ce livre vous invite à découvrir les textes scientifiques et les créations littéraires qui sont nées de ces dix rencontres.

Generalized Synchronization and Generalized Consensus of System Arrays

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What is synchronization? This book will show how the concept of closeness of states or frequencies between two dynamical systems has evolved from synchronization to consensus. Part 1 introduces the concepts and mathematical descriptions of Generalized Synchronization (GS) while Part 2 covers Generalized Consensus (GC).It is suitable for researchers and practitioners undertaking the studies of synchronization and consensus of multi-agent systems, graduate students and senior undergraduate students with the backgrounds in calculus, linear algebra and ordinary differential equations, equipped with computer programming skills, in mathematics, physics, engineering and even social sciences.Contents: PrefaceGeneralized Synchronization in Coupled Array SystemsGeneralized Consensus in Coupled Array SystemsConclusionsBibliographyIndexReadership: Graduate-level research reference; graduate courses on complex networks, control systems, and nonlinear dynamics.Coupled Array of Dynamical Systems;Computer Networks;Synchronization;Consensus0Key Features:This is a unique book on the subject of synchronization and consensus of coupled arrays of complex systemsPresented at entry level of network science and systems engineering, readable by anyone with backgrounds in calculus, linear algebra and ordinary differential equations, equipped with computer programming skills, in mathematics, physics, engineering and even social sciences

Les promesses de la science

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Comment apprendra-t-on à l’ère des neurosciences ? Et si on en finissait avec les cancers ? Jusqu’où pourra-t-on améliorer les performances des sportifs grâce à la physique ? En quoi l’hyperpuissance de l’informatique va-t-elle transformer notre société ? Il ne se passe pas un jour sans l’annonce d’une percée scientifique, au point qu’il est difficile d’y voir clair. Pour faire la lumière sur les promesses de la science, Fabienne Chauvière a mené l’enquête en sollicitant une dizaine de chercheurs prestigieux. Médecine personnalisée, robots, cuisine, intelligence collective, forêts, chimie verte, cosmologie, etc. : découvrez les fabuleux bouleversements qui vous attendent. Avec Christophe Clanet, Caroline Cohen, Ghislaine Dehaene, Jean-François Deleuze, Rodolphe Gelin, Raphaël Haumont, Olivier Houdé, Sabrina Krief, Francis Martin, Stéphane Sarrade, Rémy Slama, Guy Theraulaz et Jean-Philippe Uzan.

Chemins de l'in(ter)disciplinarité

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Si l'interdisciplinarité constitue l'interrogation fondamentale posée dans cet ouvrage, elle y est abordée à travers le prisme de l'indisciplinarité, manière nouvelle d'interroger des champs de connaissance et de pratique d'origines diverses dans une démarche de pensée collective.

Biotechnology In Sustainable And Organic Farming

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Sustainable agriculture can feed the world without damaging the environment or threatening human health. It is a way of growing food in an ecologically and ethically responsible manner. Sustainable crop production practices can lead to higher yields over time, with less need for expensive and environmentally damaging inputs. Organic farming can generally be classified as sustainable agriculture. A challenge of our generation is the creation of an efficient system providing sustainable food and fuel from the land whilst also preserving biodiversity and ecosystems. Agricultural biotechnology is one tool that holds potential promise to alleviate hunger and poverty. However, there are complex and interrelated scientific, social, political and ethical questions regarding the widespread use of biotechnology in the food supply. This book will interest students, professionals and researchers from the areas of bioengineering, agriculture and ecosystem science to economics and political science.

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