This book is the first of its kind to offer a comprehensive and up-to-date discussion of the use of nanoscale materials for biomedical applications, with a particular focus on drug delivery, theragnosis and tissue regeneration. It also describes in detail the methods used in the preparation of nanoparticles. Response of nanoparticles in biological systems are also explored. Nanotechnology has led to the advent of a new field, nanomedicine, which focuses on the use of nanomaterials as drug-delivery vehicles to develop highly selective and effective drugs. The combination of molecular imaging and nanotechnology has produced theragnostic nanoparticles, which allow the simultaneous detection and monitoring of diseases. Nanotechnology can also be combined with biomaterials to create scaffolds for tissue regeneration. Further, significant advances have been made in the areas of drug delivery, theragnostic nanoparticles and tissue regeneration materials. Some nanomedicines and tissue regeneration materials are already commercially available, while others are undergoing clinical trials, and promising results have been documented. Despite the rapid advances in nanomedicine, there is a relative dearth of literature on the biomedical applications of nanoscale materials.

Current Developments in Biotechnology and Bioengineering: Synthetic Biology, Cell Engineering and Bioprocessing Technologies covers the current perspectives and outlook of synthetic biology in the agriculture, food and health sectors. This book begins with the basics about synthetic biology and cell engineering, and then explores this in more detail, focusing on topics like applications of synthetic biology, industrial bioprocesses, and future perspectives. Information on cell engineering is also presented, and manipulation in endogenous metabolic network is studied alongside advanced topics such as fine tuning of metabolic pathways, de novo biosynthetic pathway design, enzyme engineering targeted to improved kinetics and stability, and potential applications of the novel biological systems in bioprocess technology to achieve the production of value-added compounds with specific biological activities.

The book provides an insight into if not all but at least into the burning issues and themes of sociological research in the society of Jammu and Kashmir. It offers a broad spectrum of topics so that scholars from the field of sociology and anthropology may take some help to devise new topics and undertake appropriate research techniques while dealing with different social settings throughout the state of Jammu and Kashmir. The book as we hope will serve as a guide to scholars particularly in sociology for further research by giving them an idea about the most suited research tool and design for their studies.

In by-product coke oven battery, pulverized coal blend cake is carbonized in a series of coking chambers. Each cake of coal blend is contained between two heating walls in which number of inverted U-shaped flue ducts are embedded. Heat generated due to combustion of gaseous fuel in the flue duct is utilized for carbonization of coal. As the direction of flue gas changes periodically after every 30 min, and the twin coal beds on either side of heating wall are at 10 h heating lag, thermal dynamics set in the gas and walls. Numerical study of process transients reveals that positional gas temperature in the flue duct oscillates with flow reversal. The maximum and minimum temperatures show a rising trend with flow reversal during coking cycle. The temperature at the inner walls and outer walls of the flue duct show periodic rise and fall with the flow reversal, and show drastic drop at the time coke is pushed out. Similar characteristics are observed for wall surfaces facing coke bed, but local oscillation is almost damped out.

Nowadays wireless technologies are developing faster and faster. Also the need for constantly high-speed Internet has lead to development of Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX or IEEE 802.16).WiMAX is a standards-based wireless technology that provides solutions to the "last mile" problem of Wireless Access. IEEE 802.16 is a new protocol that is being ratified now, and its security background and structure are under question. There are various security vulnerabilities is still exists in MAC layer as well as in physical layer of WiMAX. This book is going to address standard architecture and security aspects of WiMAX. In short, I expect this book to be of great use to practicing engineers, managers and executives, graduate students who want to learn about WiMAX, undergraduates who want to learn about wireless communications.