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Advances in Wheat Breeding: Towards Climate Resilience and Nutrient Security
by Nusret Zencirci Fahri Altay Faheem S. Baloch Muhammad Azhar Nadeem Ndiko LudidiThis edited book addresses the introduction to wheat, advancements in breeding, the contribution of biotechnological approaches, the development of climate-resilient wheat cultivars, and biofortification efforts to create nutrient-rich wheat cultivars.The world faces simultaneous challenges of a growing population and climate change. It is anticipated that the world population will exceed 9 billion by 2050. Meanwhile, climate change significantly impacts agriculture through uneven patterns, expected to worsen in the coming years, resulting in substantial losses due to biotic and abiotic stresses. Wheat, a staple food for millions worldwide, requires more studies to develop climate-resilient cultivars with improved nutritional content. Given these considerations, it is crucial to understand the activities conducted for wheat breeding and address the current gap to ensure an ample food supply for future generations.This book is beneficial for researchers, teachers, agriculturists, biologists, climate change scientists, and organizations involved in wheat breeding. It also serves as a valuable resource for undergraduate, master, and PhD students interested in wheat.
Advancements in Microbial Biotechnology for Soil Health (Microorganisms for Sustainability #50)
by Ravi Kant Bhatia Abhishek WaliaThis edited book covers the latest trends to improve soil health. It provides an easy-to-understand information to the readers. This book acts as a reference book for various agronomists and research scholars working in the field of agriculture. This edited book covers advanced technologies and practices carried out worldwide to improve soil health. In the present scenario, it is very important to save soil health and replenish it in a sustainable manner from various anthropogenic hazards. As soil is the source to almost all lives on earth and it is duty, the scientific community is developing ways to disseminate and communicate the most recent advancements to restore its health. Content of the book is designed in such a way that it provides a compressive information to the readers to restore the soil health that will ultimately help to improve the health of microbes, animals as well as plants that thrive in the soil and ultimately the quality of life of human being. This book helpsresearch scholars and teachers working in agriculture, horticulture, and environmental management by utilizing advances in microbiology and biotechnology. It is of interest to undergraduate and graduate students, teachers, researchers, environmentalists, agriculture and horticulture scientists, capacity builders, policy makers and all other stakeholders.
ICT: Proceedings of ICTCS 2023, Volume 5 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #879)
by Amit Joshi Mufti Mahmud Roshan G. Ragel S. KarthikThis book contains best selected research papers presented at ICTCS 2023: Eighth International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Competitive Strategies. The conference will be held in Jaipur, India during 8 – 9 December 2023. The book covers state-of-the-art as well as emerging topics pertaining to ICT and effective strategies for its implementation for engineering and managerial applications. This book contains papers mainly focused on ICT for computation, algorithms and data analytics and IT security. The work is presented in five volumes.
ICT: Proceedings of ICTCS 2023, Volume 4 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #878)
by M. Shamim Kaiser Juanying Xie Vijay Singh RathoreThis book contains best selected research papers presented at ICTCS 2023: Eighth International Conference on Information and Communication Technology for Competitive Strategies. The conference will be held in Jaipur, India during 8 – 9 December 2023. The book covers state-of-the-art as well as emerging topics pertaining to ICT and effective strategies for its implementation for engineering and managerial applications. This book contains papers mainly focused on ICT for computation, algorithms and data analytics and IT security. The work is presented in five volumes.
Recent Advances in Structural Engineering: Select Proceedings of IACESD-2023 (Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering #455)
by K. S. Sreekeshava Sreevalsa Kolathayar N. Vinod Chandra MenonThis book presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Interdisciplinary Approaches in Civil Engineering for Sustainable Development (IACESD 2023) hosted under the aegis of the Group of Twenty (G20) and Civil 20(C20) at Jyothy Institute of Technology, Bengaluru, India. The topics covered in this book include innovative design approaches, advanced materials and cutting-edge technologies aimed at enhancing the resilience of structures against various hazards (such as seismic events, hurricanes, floods, and extreme weather conditions). It also covers topics such as structural integrity and longevity of buildings and infrastructure, advanced monitoring systems, data analytics and intelligent structural health monitoring. This book is useful for researchers and professionals in the field of structural engineering.
Advances in Data-Driven Computing and Intelligent Systems: Selected Papers from ADCIS 2023, Volume 4 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #890)
by Swagatam Das Snehanshu Saha Carlos A. Coello Coello Hemant Rathore Jagdish Chand BansalThe volume is a collection of best selected research papers presented at International Conference on Advances in Data-driven Computing and Intelligent Systems (ADCIS 2023) held at BITS Pilani, K K Birla Goa Campus, Goa, India during 21 – 23 September 2023. It includes state-of-the art research work in the cutting-edge technologies in the field of data science and intelligent systems. The book presents data-driven computing; it is a new field of computational analysis which uses provided data to directly produce predictive outcomes. The book will be useful for academicians, research scholars, and industry persons.
Control and Information Sciences: Select Proceedings of CISCON 2022 (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering #1140)
by V. I. George K. V. Santhosh Samavedham LakshminarayananThis book presents the select peer-reviewed proceedings of the Control Instrumentation and System Conference (CISCON 2022) held at Manipal Institute of Technology, MAHE, Manipal. It examines a wide spectrum covering the latest trends in the fields of instrumentation, sensors and systems, and industrial automation and control. The topics covered include image and signal processing, robotics, renewable energy, power systems, and power drives, performance attributes of MEMS, multi-sensor data fusion, machine learning, optimization techniques, process control, safety monitoring, safety-critical control, supervisory control, system modeling and virtual instrumentation. The book is a valuable reference for researchers and professionals interested in sensors, adaptive control, automation and control, and allied fields.
Micro-Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering: Proceedings of 7th ICMETE 2023 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #894)
by Devendra Kumar Sharma Sheng-Lung Peng Rohit Sharma Gwanggil JeonThe book presents high-quality papers from the Seventh International Conference on Microelectronics and Telecommunication Engineering (ICMETE 2023). It discusses the latest technological trends and advances in major research areas such as microelectronics, wireless communications, optical communication, signal processing, image processing, Big Data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence, and sensor network applications. This book includes the contributions of national/international scientists, researchers, and engineers from both academia and the industry. The contents of this book will be useful to researchers, professionals, and students alike.
Updates in Intensive Care of OBGY Patients
by Nissar Shaikh Firdos Ummunnisa Umm E AmaraThis book presents the updated management of acute and critically ill obstetric and gynecological patients. It describes patients' care with pregnancy-induced medical disorders, comorbidities, and gynecological (OBGY) conditions requiring acute and intensive care support therapy. This book will guide early diagnosis and speedy management of life-threatening conditions. Chapters provide a comprehensive and systemic approach in an easy-to-understand format. Along with diseases and comorbidities of pregnancy, acute illness and its management caused by in vitro fertilization (IVF) are focused on, and a dedicated chapter about COVID-19 infection in obstetric patients is provided.Updates in Intensive Care of OBGY Patients will support intensivists, obstetricians, gynecologists, acute care physicians, and surgeons. Residents, fellows, specialists, and other junior medical staff working in intensive care units will also value this source. It will also help to broaden the understanding of nurses and paramedical staff in intensive care therapy.
Olympic Games and Global Cities: What Future for an Olympic System in Turmoil? (Mega Event Planning)
by Alexandre FaureThis book offers a comprehensive overview of current debates on the influence of the Olympic Games on cities, urban policies and the governance of global cities, making a valuable contribution to the fields of Olympic studies and urban studies. Historically, Western cities such as Paris, London, and later Los Angeles, have been the primary hosts of the summer Games. However, the link that existed between the world metropolises of the last century and the Games has deeply changed. Growing concerns about the Games' costs and environmental impact have prompted a shift in the expectations of candidate cities and the International Olympic Committee (IOC). This evolution favours more modest bids, and a resurgence of global cities and historical Olympic host cities within the Olympic landscape. This book is an essential resource for researchers in Olympic studies, urban studies, and all those involved in the planning of these events.
Civil Engineering for Multi-Hazard Risk Reduction: Select Proceedings of IACESD 2023 (Lecture Notes in Civil Engineering #457)
by K. S. Sreekeshava Sreevalsa Kolathayar N. Vinod Chandra MenonThis book presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Interdisciplinary Approaches in Civil Engineering for Sustainable Development (IACESD 2023) hosted under the aegis of the Group of Twenty (G20) and Civil 20 (C20) at Jyothy Institute of Technology, Bengaluru, India. The topics covered include sustainable and resilient communities, sustainable construction materials, disaster resilient infrastructure, nano-composites and bio-composites, sustainable geotechnics and earthquake engineering. This book serves as a resource material for researchers and industry professionals interested in disaster risk reduction.
Microbiology-2.0 Update for a Sustainable Future
by Juhi Gupta Akarsh VermaThis book demonstrates the extremely fascinating and interdisciplinary microbial domain. It helps in discovering the latest advances in microbiology and learns how they can help shape a more sustainable future for our planet. This comprehensive guide covers the latest breakthroughs in microbiology research and their practical applications in fields such as ecology, agriculture, biotechnology, and environmental science. Furthermore, the readers explore the cutting-edge technologies and methodologies that are driving the next generation of microbiology research. With expert insights from the leading microbiologists, this book is an essential resource for anyone interested in understanding the role of microbes in our world and harnessing their power for a better tomorrow.
Spatiotemporal Data Analytics and Modeling: Techniques and Applications (Big Data Management)
by John A Satheesh Abimannan El-Sayed M. El-Alfy Yue-Shan ChangWith the growing advances in technology and transformation to digital services, the world is becoming more connected and more complex. Huge heterogeneous data are generated at rapid speed from various types of sensors. Augmented with artificial intelligence and machine learning and internet of things, latent relations, and new insights can be captured helping in optimizing plans and resource utilization, improving infrastructure, and enhancing quality of services. A “spatial data management system” is a way to take care of data that has something to do with space. This could include data such as maps, satellite images, and GPS data. A temporal data management system is a system designed to manage data that has a temporal component. This could include data such as weather data, financial data, and social media data. Some advanced techniques used in spatial and temporal data management systems include geospatial indexing for efficient querying and retrieval of location-based data, time-series analysis for understanding and predicting temporal patterns in datasets like weather or financial trends, machine learning algorithms for uncovering hidden patterns and correlations in large and complex datasets, and integration with Internet of Things (IoT) technologies for real-time data collection and analysis. These techniques, augmented with artificial intelligence, enable the extraction of latent relations and insights, thereby optimizing plans, improving infrastructure, and enhancing the quality of services. This book provides essential technical knowledge, best practices, and case studies on the state-of-the-art techniques of artificial intelligence and machine learning for spatiotemporal data analysis and modeling. The book is composed of several chapters written by experts in their fields and focusing on several applications including recommendation systems, big data analytics, supply chains and e-commerce, energy consumption and demand forecasting,and traffic and environmental monitoring. It can be used as academic reference at graduate level or by professionals in science and engineering related fields such as data science and engineering, big data analytics and mining, artificial intelligence, machine learning and deep learning, cloud computing, and internet of things.
Deep Learning Models: A Practical Approach for Hands-On Professionals (Transactions on Computer Systems and Networks)
by Jonah GambaThis book focuses on and prioritizes a practical approach, minimizing theoretical concepts to deliver algorithms effectively. With deep learning emerging as a vibrant field of research and development in numerous industrial applications, there is a pressing need for accessible resources that provide comprehensive examples and quick guidance. Unfortunately, many existing books on the market tend to emphasize theoretical aspects, leaving newcomers scrambling for practical guidance. This book takes a different approach by focusing on practicality while keeping theoretical concepts to a necessary minimum. The book begins by laying a foundation of basic information on deep learning, gradually delving into the subject matter to explain and illustrate the limitations of existing algorithms. A dedicated chapter is allocated to evaluating the performance of multiple algorithms on specific datasets, highlighting techniques and strategies that can address real-world challenges when deep learning is employed. By consolidating all necessary information into a single resource, readers can bypass the hassle of scouring scattered online sources, gaining a one-stop solution to dive into deep learning for object detection and classification. To facilitate understanding, the book employs a rich array of illustrations, figures, tables, and code snippets. Comprehensive code examples are provided, empowering readers to grasp concepts quickly and develop practical solutions. The book covers essential methods and tools, ensuring a complete and comprehensive coverage that enables professionals to implement deep learning algorithms swiftly and effectively.This book is designed to equip professionals with the necessary skills to thrive in the active field of deep learning, where it has the potential to revolutionize traditional problem-solving approaches. This book serves as a practical companion, enabling readers to grasp concepts swiftly and embark on building practical solutions.
Organizational Citizenship Behaviour (OCB) in India: Emerging Trends and Future Directions
by Sairaj M. Patki Shobhana C. AbhyankarThis book presents an exploration of Organizational Citizenship Behaviour (OCB), a concept with a long-standing history. It offers contemporary studies and discusses possible future directions for workplaces. The diverse range of topics this book covers makes it an engaging resource for anyone interested in OCB. The section on the pandemic covers citizenship acts performed by Indian organizations, OCB among teachers, and its significant work-related correlates in post-pandemic India. The second section covers contemporary correlates of OCB, such as work-life balance, compliance, counter-productive workplace behaviours (CWBs), and employee expectations. The future workplaces section discusses challenges to OCB, the measurement of OCB in evolving work environments, the role of machine learning (ML) in recruitment, and the importance of diversity management in ensuring OCB in inclusive workplaces. The book makes a valuable source of relevant issues on OCB while providing a broader perspective on future possibilities. It serves as reference material for students and researchers in fields like organizational behaviour, human resource management and development, and industrial psychology to study contemporary issues in OCB. The book also serves as a handy guide for managers looking to harness the benefits of citizenship behaviours to give their organizations an edge over competitors in the near future.
Assessing Government Transparency in China (2021)
by He Tian Yanbin LvThe book continues to use quantitative and empirical research methods to summarize and analyze the achievements of government openness in China in 2020. It points out that in 2020, the exploration of standardization and standardization of government affairs openness is accelerating, decision-making openness is making steady progress, and government affairs services, administrative law enforcement, and management results are all making significant progress. However, in the future, it is still necessary to further enhance the awareness of openness, identify the needs of the public, integrate openness into the whole process of government affairs activities, and improve the level of information security. Besides, the book for the first time first carries out a third-party assessment of the government affairs publicity in the national free trade zones and free trade zones, and releases research reports on the publicity of administrative punishment information, government news release,work and production resumption information, and health science popularization information.
Geometry of Submanifolds and Applications (Infosys Science Foundation Series)
by Bang-Yen Chen Majid Ali Choudhary Mohammad Nazrul Islam KhanThis book features chapters written by renowned scientists from various parts of the world, providing an up-to-date survey of submanifold theory, spanning diverse topics and applications. The book covers a wide range of topics such as Chen–Ricci inequalities in differential geometry, optimal inequalities for Casorati curvatures in quaternion geometry, conformal η-Ricci–Yamabe solitons, submersion on statistical metallic structure, solitons in f(R, T)-gravity, metric-affine geometry, generalized Wintgen inequalities, tangent bundles, and Lagrangian submanifolds.Moreover, the book showcases the latest findings on Pythagorean submanifolds and submanifolds of four-dimensional f-manifolds. The chapters in this book delve into numerous problems and conjectures on submanifolds, providing valuable insights for scientists, educators, and graduate students looking to stay updated with the latest developments in the field. With its comprehensive coverage and detailed explanations, this book is an essential resource for anyone interested in submanifold theory.
Spatial Futures: Difference and the Post-Anthropocene
by LaToya E. Eaves Heidi J. Nast Alex G. PapadopoulosSpatial Futures invites readers to imagine power and freedom through the lens of the ‘Black Outdoors’, a transdisciplinary spatial concept that operates beyond the planetary, stratigraphic confines of the ‘Anthropocene’. The chapters collectively point to the ontological-epistemological contradictions involved in forging liberatory spatial futures. Bringing new spatial imaginaries to bear in and outside geography, the book refuses the strictures of the ‘cenic’, entertaining difference as world-making.
Advances in Tourism, Technology and Systems: Selected Papers from ICOTTS 2023, Volume 1 (Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies #383)
by António Abreu João Vidal Carvalho Pedro Liberato Hazael Cerón MonroyThis book features a collection of high-quality research papers presented at the International Conference on Tourism, Technology and Systems (ICOTTS 2023), held at Anáhuac University, Bacalar, Mexico, from 2 to 4 November 2023. The book is divided into two volumes, and it covers the areas of technology in tourism and the tourist experience, generations and technology in tourism, digital marketing applied to tourism and travel, mobile technologies applied to sustainable tourism, information technologies in tourism, digital transformation of tourism business, e-tourism and tourism 2.0, big data and management for travel and tourism, geotagging and tourist mobility, smart destinations, robotics in tourism, and information systems and technologies.
Contemporary Export Control Law of China (Modern China and International Economic Law)
by Deming ZhaoThis book gives practical and in-depth presentation and analysis of the issues under China export control law and economic sanctions regime. This book not only addresses issues faced by the legal entities in China, but also attends to the concerns about Chinese extra-territorial jurisdiction of China export control law and sanctions legislations, on the part of foreign companies. Finally, the author shares his experiences on how to structure export control and sanctions compliance under Chinese law on the part of both Chinese and foreign companies.
Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Energy: Select Proceedings of the International Conference, GEn-CITy 2023 (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering #1142)
by Jimson Mathew Lenin Gopal Filbert H. JuwonoThis book presents select proceedings of the International Conference on Green Energy, Computing, and Intelligent Technology (GEn-CITy 2023) held at the University of Southampton Malaysia in July 2023. This book primarily covers clean energy and intelligent technologies for a sustainable future. This book serves as a forum for engineers, researchers, and specialists from academia, research centers, and industry worldwide to discuss and present the latest developments and applications related to the challenges of securing green and clean energy sources for the 21st century to protect the environment.
Trading Economics: New Theory for Trading System Evolution (Contributions to Economics)
by Zhenying WangThis book reconstructs the theoretical framework of economics by examining the concept of trading, the trading network, and the evolution of a trading system, tied together by the notion of “bounded rationality.” Trading economics uproots the theoretical paradigm of mainstream economics and enables timeworn economic thinking to deal with the various complex phenomena of the modern economy. Mainstream economic theories see growth as the combined result of family and enterprise activities. Based on this understanding, established economic policies all focus on how to effectively influence the behavior of trading agents. Trading economics, by contrast, believes economic growth is the product of the activities of a self-organizing network of families and enterprises, rather than a simple superposition of the behaviors of trading agents. In policy design, trading economics looks to maintain the structural integrity of the trading network and the stability of the trading cycle.
Recent Trends in Cancer Therapeutics: Plasmonic Photothermal-Based Multimodal Cancer Therapy (Materials Horizons: From Nature to Nanomaterials)
by Divya Khurana Sanjeev SoniThis book describes the plasmonic photothermal-assisted multimodal cancer therapeutics in the area of cancer nanotechnology or cancer nanomedicine. This book covers the fundamentals of plasmonic photothermal cancer therapy as well as plasmonic photothermal mediated multimodal cancer therapy. The various steps involved in developing such therapeutic modality, viz. (a) the selection of suitable nanoparticles, (b) synthesis of multifunctional nanocomposite, (c) optimization of the photosensitizer and chemotherapeutic drug loadings, (d) characterization of the synthesized nanocomposite, and (e) therapeutic evaluations through novel tumor-tissue mimicking phantoms and the cancer cell lines are discussed in detail. Apart from the detailed description of therapeutic outcome, this book provides a step-by-step approach to develop a multifunctional nanocomposite for such therapeutics. Overall, this book provides simplified and in-depth information about cancer nanobiotechnology to the researchers and graduate students in subject areas of nanotechnology, biotechnology and pharmaceutics to develop and contribute to such multimodal cancer therapeutics.
Joseph Butler: A Preacher for Eighteenth-Century Commercial Society
by Daisuke Arie Masatake Okubo Naoki YajimaThis book is the first English-language monograph about Bishop Joseph Butler (1692–1752) by Japanese scholars. It is an especially interesting and controversial message coming as it does from Japan, a well-developed secular economic state where less than 1% of the population are Christians and opposing the recent trend of curtailing the eighteenth-century political economy into religiosity and theology. This multidisciplinary edited book presents a different and new perspective from the recent work of Oslington et al., which seeks to reduce the political economy of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Britain to religiosity and theology, triggered by the writings of A. M. C. Waterman. Unlike those works, the present one aims to re-examine the largely forgotten Butler, who was said in the nineteenth century to be the most influential cleric and preacher in the Church of England of the previous century— not just as a clerical ideologue, but mainly as a proto-political economistbefore Adam Smith.In order to achieve this goal, first, the authors clarify that Butler's theory of conscience and probability, which began with passion and selfishness, was created with the development of eighteenth-century commercial society in mind. Second, the manner in which Butler's discourse was directed not at anti-Anglicans or eminent intellectuals, but at the majority of ordinary secular society, is explored. How it was consistent with and defended their sentiments and economic behavior, not only in Analogy but mainly in Fifteen Sermons, is also investigated and explained. Finally, readers see that Butler's antirational grasp of humanity and empiricist epistemology, based on “probability” presented in these inquiries, can in fact be considered a pioneering expression of the methodological premises of modern economics.
The Role of Law in China’s Economic Development, 1978–2011: A Study in Law and Political Economy
by Jia HuThis book concerns how China's legal institutions promoted its economic growth and demonstrates that the law has played different roles at various stages of China's economic transformation, a signal of legal paradigm shifts in reaction to the changing political and economic pursuits.By decomposing the role of law in the process, the author argues that while the Chinese economy was transforming from a planned economy to a market-oriented one, the law also made its adjustment as a response—the Chinese legal system was evolving from the one consisting of primarily substantive laws to the one filled with high-level formal laws by the end of the last century. The above observation of legal formalization is further consolidated by introducing the particularities of China's legal education in those years—a topic rarely dealt with yet of significance to comprehensively understand the Chinese legal system in practice. Overall, the present book argues against the modernization theory and determinism that would anticipate a similar developmental path globally and shows that the relationship between law and economic development is contingent. Therefrom, this study weighs in the law and development debate and breaks a perception of static law in the economy by rejecting the conventional perception of established legal institutions as a precondition of modernity.Hence, this book could appeal to legal scholars and sociologists interested in reevaluating western theories of free economy and its relationships to the law. In addition, scholars interested in research methodology would find the perspective of paradigm shifts in interpreting China's transformations a helpful analytical framework in research. Moreover, policymakers and legislators concerned about the characteristics of law for economic results would also find the book useful.