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.

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.

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.