This book introduces aquaculture ecology as a science of the interaction between commercial aquatic organisms as well as their farming activities and the environment, including the rationales of building and management of aquaculture systems. This book covers productivity and carrying capacity, effects of cyclical fluctuation of environmental factors on aquatic organisms, biological control of water quality, structural optimization of aquaculture systems and ecological prevention of disease. In the last chapter, aquaculture production systems are introduced from multiple perspectives. This book has been designed to provide a stimulating and informative text for researchers in aquaculture, fisheries as well as hydrobiology.

Presents the state of the art in conductive composite materials and their application in flexible strain sensors Uniquely combines the processing, structure, properties, and applications of conductive polymer composites Integrates theory and practice Benefits plastics converters who wish to take full advantage of the potential of conductive plastic materials

Pioneered by the pharmaceutical industry and adapted for the purposes of materials science and engineering, the combinatorial method is now widely considered a watershed in the accelerated discovery, development, and optimization of new materials. Combinatorial Materials Synthesis reveals the gears behind combinatorial materials chemistry and thin-film technology, and discusses the prime techniques involved in synthesis and property determination for experimentation with a variety of materials. Funneling historic innovations into one source, the book explores core approaches to synthesis and rapid characterization techniques for work with combinatorial materials libraries.

Pioneered by the pharmaceutical industry and adapted for the purposes of materials science and engineering, the combinatorial method is now widely considered a watershed in the accelerated discovery, development, and optimization of new materials. Combinatorial Materials Synthesis reveals the gears behind combinatorial materials chemistry and thin-film technology, and discusses the prime techniques involved in synthesis and property determination for experimentation with a variety of materials. Funneling historic innovations into one source, the book explores core approaches to synthesis and rapid characterization techniques for work with combinatorial materials libraries.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the First International Workshop on Multiscale Multimodal Medical Imaging, MMMI 2019, held in conjunction with MICCAI 2019 in Shenzhen, China, in October 2019. The 13 papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 18 submissions. The MMMI workshop aims to advance the state of the art in multi-scale multi-modal medical imaging, including algorithm development, implementation of methodology, and experimental studies. The papers focus on medical image analysis and machine learning, especially on machine learning methods for data fusion and multi-score learning.

In subsea processing systems, oil industry increasingly demands accurate and stable continuous measurement of the percent water in crude oil production streams (watercut) over the entire 0 to 100% range. Differential Dielectric Sensors (DDS) have been developed as independent tools connected with multiphase meters for process management and composition measurement. DDS is unique in its use of very low noise and high sensitivity differential measurements between two identical sensors and the use of physics based models for multiphase flow characterization. Existing watercut tools predominantly depend on empirical data and correlations that are sensitive to fluid properties and therefore are limited in their general applicability. The main objective of this work is to develop appropriate mathematical models for the sensor. Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and experimental investigations have been conducted to validate the sensor analytical models. This study provides the scientists and engineers a powerful tool for process management and control in the oil industry.