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The text discusses the latest data-driven, physics-based, and
hybrid approaches employed in each stage of industrial prognostics
and reliability estimation. It will be a useful text for senior
undergraduate, graduate students, and academic researchers in areas
such as industrial and production engineering, electrical
engineering, and computer science. The book Discusses basic as well
as advance research in the field of prognostics. Explores
integration of data collection, fault detection, degradation
modeling and reliability prediction in one volume. Covers
prognostics and health management (PHM) of engineering systems.
Discusses latest approaches in the field of prognostics based on
machine learning. The text deals with tools and techniques used to
predict/ extrapolate/ forecast the process behavior, based on
current health state assessment and future operating conditions
with the help of Machine learning. It will serve as a useful
reference text for senior undergraduate, graduate students, and
academic researchers in areas such as industrial and production
engineering, manufacturing science, electrical engineering, and
computer science.
Nanopesticides, Nanoherbicides, and Nanofertilizers: Formulations
and Applications demonstrates the potential for nanomaterials to
revolutionize modern agriculture to become more sustainable. A team
of expert scientists explain how the nanoformulation of
traditionally used herbicides, fertilizers, and pesticides can
enable large-scale crop protection from unwanted weeds and pests as
well at the environmental side effects that are caused by the bulk
application of chemicals. The volume demonstrates how nanomaterials
like hydroxyapatite, clay minerals, zeolites, polyacrylic acid and
many more have been successfully used to develop fertilizers that
promote a slower release of chemicals due to the unique properties
of nanomaterials. Their use in lower concentrations helps in
decreasing the toxicity to non-targeted organisms as well as
lowering the risk of environmental degradation. Features: •
Categorically discusses the formulations and applications of
nanopestides, nanoherbicides, and nanofertilizers, as well as their
impact on the environment. • Features chapters on patent
landscape, environmental acceptability, and environmental risks.
• Addresses degradation of nanoparticles as well expected
toxicity and drawback of nanomaterial-based pesticides, herbicides,
and fertilizers. This book is essential reading for both
researchers and professionals working in the fields of
Biotechnology, Nanomaterials and Agricultural Chemistry. Dr. Anjali
Gupta is Professor and Researcher in the Division of Chemistry,
Galgotias University, India. Dr. Divya Bajpai Tripathy is Professor
and Researcher in the Division of Forensic Science, Galgotias
University, India. Dr. Gaurav Kumar is Associate Professor in
Clinical Research Division, School of Basic & Applied Sciences,
Galgotias University, India, as well as Research Coordinator, Ph.D.
Coordinator and Institution's Innovation Council In-Charge at the
same institution. Dr. Pooja Agarwal – is Professor in the
Division of Chemistry, Galgotias University, India. Dr. Anujit
Ghosal is researcher at Richardson Centre for Functional Foods
& Nutraceuticals, Department of Food & Human Nutritional
Sciences, The University of Manitoba, Canada.
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High Performance Architecture and Grid Computing - International Conference, HPAGC 2011, Chandigarh, India, July 19-20, 2011. Proceedings (Paperback, Edition.)
Archana Mantri, Suman Nandi, Gaurav Kumar, Sandeep Kumar
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This book constitutes the refereeds proceedings of the
International Conference on High Performance Architecture and Grid
Computing, HPAGC 2011, held in Chandigarh, India, in July 2011. The
87 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and
selected from 240 submissions. The papers are organized in topical
sections on grid and cloud computing; high performance
architecture; information management and network security.
Architect your .NET applications by breaking them into really small
pieces-microservices-using this practical, example-based guide
About This Book * Start your microservices journey and understand a
broader perspective of microservices development * Build, deploy,
and test microservices using ASP.Net MVC, Web API, and Microsoft
Azure Cloud * Get started with reactive microservices and
understand the fundamentals behind it Who This Book Is For This
book is for .NET Core developers who want to learn and understand
microservices architecture and implement it in their .NET Core
applications. It's ideal for developers who are completely new to
microservices or have just a theoretical understanding of this
architectural approach and want to gain a practical perspective in
order to better manage application complexity. What You Will Learn
* Compare microservices with monolithic applications and SOA *
Identify the appropriate service boundaries by mapping them to the
relevant bounded contexts * Define the service interface and
implement the APIs using ASP.NET Web API * Integrate the services
via synchronous and asynchronous mechanisms * Implement
microservices security using Azure Active Directory, OpenID
Connect, and OAuth 2.0 * Understand the operations and scaling of
microservices in .NET Core * Understand the testing pyramid and
implement consumer-driven contract using pact net core * Understand
what the key features of reactive microservices are and implement
them using reactive extension In Detail Microservices is an
architectural style that promotes the development of complex
applications as a suite of small services based on business
capabilities. This book will help you identify the appropriate
service boundaries within the business. We'll start by looking at
what microservices are, and what the main characteristics are.
Moving forward, you will be introduced to real-life application
scenarios, and after assessing the current issues, we will begin
the journey of transforming this application by splitting it into a
suite of microservices. You will identify the service boundaries,
split the application into multiple microservices, and define the
service contracts. You will find out how to configure, deploy, and
monitor microservices, and configure scaling to allow the
application to quickly adapt to increased demand in the future.
With an introduction to the reactive microservices, you
strategically gain further value to keep your code base simple,
focusing on what is more important rather than the messy
asynchronous calls. Style and approach This guide serves as a
stepping stone that helps .NET Core developers in their
microservices architecture. This book provides just enough theory
to understand the concepts and apply the examples.
Cadmium pollution is of increasing scientific interest since
cadmium is readily taken up by the roots of plants and its toxicity
is generally considered to be 2-20 times higher than that of other
heavy metals. since cadmium is a fairly immobile element, its
accumulation in soils can become dangerous to all kinds of
organisms.Cadmium with a density of 8.6g/cm, is a wide spread heavy
metal, released in to the environment by power stations, heating
systems, metal working industries, waste incinerators, urban
traffic, cement factories and a by product of phosphate
fertilizers. Soil contamination with cadmium has become a world
wide problem leading to loss in agricultural yield and hazardous
health effect through food chain biomagnification. The study
describes the physiological and biochemical response of pea,
spinach and wheat to cadmium toxicity with particular reference to
oxidative stress. The main emphasis was laid on evaluating the
activity of enzymic and non-enzymic antioxidants in plants
Fuzzy controllers are used to control consumer products, such as
washing machines, video cameras, and rice cookers, as well as
industrial processes, such as cement kilns, underground trains, and
robots. Fuzzy control is a control method based on fuzzy logic.
Just as Fuzzy logic can be described simply as "computing with
words rather than numbers'' and Fuzzy control can be described
simply as "control with sentences rather than equations''. A Fuzzy
controller can include empirical rules, and that is especially
useful in operator controlled plants.This is the world of
automation. The majority of the products allow actions to be
automatically triggered by events. The Performance of a SCADA
system can be much improved using a fuzzy logic controller based
SCADA in industries. This book describes design of fuzzy logic
based SCADA Systems using MATLAB fuzzy logic toolbox.This Book is
useful for Engineers and Research Scholars in the field of
Electrical & Power Engineering.
Ocular drug delivery is one of the most interesting and challenging
endeavours because the anatomy and physiology of the eye render
this organ exquisitely impervious to foreign substances including
drugs. Conventional ocular formulations are no longer adequate and
currently, nanocarriers for delivering drugs to the eye is emerging
as an important area of drug delivery research. This book,
therefore, focuses on PLGA-chitosan Nanoplexes as novel
nanocarriers for ocular therapeutics. The development of Nanoplex
carriers, their uptake mechanism and interaction with ocular
surface, and their use for the treatment of ocular keratitis are
discussed. The results should help shed some light on the use of
these novel nanocarriers for ocular therapeutics, and should be
especially useful to researchers or scientists working in the field
of nanotechnology and drug delivery, pharmaceutical companies
dealing with ocular therapeutics, and upto some extent to
professionals associated with health care.
This study examines three issues. First, it investigates the
Einhorn (2005) theory on US-listed Asian companies regarding
voluntary disclosures. Secondly, this study determines the extent
to which voluntary disclosures provided by these companies are
convergent, and to determine the effect of culture on those
disclosures. Lastly, it examines the voluntary use of International
standards by sample companies Results of this study provide perhaps
the first empirical evidence on the voluntary disclosures provided
by US-listed Asian companies in the US. The evidence shows that
companies with stricter mandatory disclosure regime provided
significantly fewer voluntary disclosures than the companies with
less strict mandatory disclosure regime. In addition, this study
documents that over 80 percent of the US-listed Asian companies are
voluntarily using International standards and thus contributing
towards International accounting convergence. Another important
contribution of this study is the development of a measure for
strictness of mandatory disclosure regimes of Asian countries by
two alternative methods.
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