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Value-Addition in Beverages through Enzyme Technology covers the
potential impact of new enzymes and enzyme technology on the
beverages sector. The book brings together novel sources and
technologies regarding all aspects of enzymes for value addition in
beverage production and processing. Sections primarily focus on
alcoholic (e.g., beer, wine, cider, and distilled spirits) and
non-alcoholic beverages (e.g., fruit juices, milk-based, tea,
coffee, ready to drink and functional foods), but also cover
innovative enzyme technologies to keep endogenous enzymes under
control. It is essential reading for researchers and scientists,
including food and beverage biotechnologists and students studying
enzyme biotechnology and food-related courses. This book will
comprise updated research from various independent scientists from
around the world who are working on value-addition and production
of beverage products using enzyme technology.
Silicon and Nano-silicon in Environmental Stress Management and
Crop Quality Improvement: Progress and Prospects provides a
comprehensive overview of the latest understanding of the
physiological, biochemical and molecular basis of silicon- and
nano-silicon-mediated environmental stress tolerance and crop
quality improvements in plants. The book not only covers
silicon-induced biotic and abiotic stress tolerance in crops but is
also the first to include nano-silicon-mediated approaches to
environmental stress tolerance in crops. As nanotechnology has
emerged as a prominent tool for enhancing agricultural
productivity, and with the production and applications of
nanoparticles (NPs) greatly increasing in many industries, this
book is a welcomed resource.
Sustainable Oil and Gas Development Series: Drilling Engineering
delivers research materials and emerging technologies that conform
sustainability drilling criteria. Starting with ideal zero-waste
solutions in drilling and long-term advantages, the reference
discusses the sustainability approach through the use of non-linear
solutions and works its way through the most conventional practices
and procedures used today. Step-by-step formulations and examples
are provided to demonstrate how to look at conventional practices
versus sustainable approaches with eventually diverging towards a
more sustainable alternative. Emerging technologies are covered and
detailed sustainability analysis is included. Economic
considerations, analysis, and long-term consequences, focusing on
risk management round out the with conclusions and a extensive
glossary. Sustainable Oil and Gas Development Series: Drilling
Engineering gives today's petroleum and drilling engineers a guide
how to analyze and evaluate their operations in a more
environmentally-driven way.
This is the first full-length book to provide an introduction to
badhai performances throughout South Asia, examining their
characteristics and relationships to differing contexts in
Bangladesh, India, and Pakistan. Badhai's repertoires of songs,
dances, prayers, and comic repartee are performed by socially
marginalised hijra, khwaja sira, and trans communities. They
commemorate weddings, births and other celebratory heteronormative
events. The form is improvisational and responds to particular
contexts, but also moves across borders, including those of nation,
religion, genre, and identity. This collaboratively authored book
draws from anthropology, theatre and performance studies, music and
sound studies, ethnomusicology, queer and transgender studies, and
sustained ethnographic fieldwork to examine badhai's place-based
dynamics, transcultural features, and communications across the
hijrascape. This vital study explores the form's changing status
and analyses these performances' layered, scalar, and sensorial
practices, to extend ways of understanding hijra-khwaja sira-trans
performance.
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I Believe in Me (Hardcover)
Farhana Hossain; Edited by Bhaskar Murthy; Designed by Ipsita Y Banerjee
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Though conflicts continue to arise over land use and land cover
changes, the conversion of forest land to cropland or other land
uses such as housing and urban development have been on the rise in
recent years. Decisions regarding land use and land cover influence
climate change as well as various natural processes. While proper
changes can minimize the effects and speed of climatic changes, the
continued adverse changes may be accelerating the deterioration of
the world's condition. Examining International Land Use Policies,
Changes, and Conflicts presents the latest research on the present
status of land use and land cover changes throughout the world in
order to determine appropriate land use policies that can protect
earth's present and future condition. The findings of the studies
investigate the conflicts behind the land tenure and land uses in
different countries of the world and examines existing policies and
the reasons behind changes in them. Ultimately, the book provides
readers with knowledge on how land can be managed in a sustained
manner, how landscape models are helpful for predicting and
determining future land uses, how land can be managed with the best
architectural measures, and how urban forestry is helpful for
better environmental management and adapting or mitigating climate
change effects. Land users, agriculturalists, urban planners,
policymakers, government officials, researchers, academicians, and
students looking to improve their understanding of this topic for
better use of land in the future will find this book to be an asset
to their current research.
The contribution of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) is
acknowledged as an influential engine to economic growth. However,
the biggest challenge faced by these SMEs is the lack of
competitive service offerings for their target customers due to
unstandardized products and a lack of consumer engagement and
strategies. Service Marketing Strategies for Small and Medium
Enterprises: Emerging Research and Opportunities is an essential
reference source that provides guidelines on how SMEs can achieve
sustainability through positive marketing outcomes and effective
customer services. Featuring research on the assessment of SMEs'
customer service expectation, listening to customers through
qualitative research, service quality model and its marketing
implications, integrated marketing communications for SME
environments, effective service encounters, and relationship
developing strategies for SMEs, this publication provides new
models for managers, industry professionals, academicians, and
researchers.
Magnonics: Interface Transmission Tutorial Book Series provides
up-to-date and concise summaries of the present knowledge of
interface transmission science. The series' volumes foster the
exchange of ideas among scientists interested in different aspects
of interface transmission, with each release designed as a text, a
reference, and a source. The series serves as an introduction to
advanced graduate students, researchers and scientists with little
acquaintance with the subject, and is also useful in keeping
specialists informed about general progress in the field. A
detailed description of mathematical languages is provided in an
appendix, enabling readers to find composite system linear
transmission properties. All scientists who contribute to these
volume have worked in interface transmission in composite systems
over many years, providing a thorough and comprehensive
understanding of magnonics.
Health and nutrition have become global focal points as the
population continues to grow exponentially. While providing food
for the global population is crucial, it is also necessary to
provide options that are nutritious in order to promote healthier
lifestyles around the world. Exploring the Nutrition and Health
Benefits of Functional Foods provides a comprehensive overview of
how dietary nutrition can impact people's lives, prevent disease,
and maintain an overall healthier lifestyle. Highlighting
theoretical and practical attributes of different functional foods
and how they are utilized globally, this book is an essential
reference for researchers, academics, students, policy makers,
government officials, and technology developers.
Human Activity and Behavior Analysis relates to the field of vision
and sensor-based human action or activity and behavior analysis and
recognition. The book includes a series of methodologies, surveys,
relevant datasets, challenging applications, ideas, and future
prospects. The book discusses topics such as action recognition,
action understanding, gait analysis, gesture recognition, behavior
analysis, emotion and affective computing, and related areas. The
book has been divided into two volumes. Volume 1 focuses on
relevant activities in three main subject areas: Healthcare and
Emotion, Mental Health, and Nurse Care Records. Volume 2 focuses on
two main subject areas: Movement and Sensors, and Sports Activity
Analysis. The editors are experts in these arenas and the
contributing authors are drawn from high-impact research groups
around the world. This book will be of great interest to academics,
students, and professionals working and researching in the field of
human activity and behavior analysis.
Ending hunger, achieving food security and promoting sustainable
development are at the top of the list of United Nations (UN)
sustainable global development priorities. In the times of high
population growth and increasing pressure of agricultural systems,
efficiency in use of natural resources has been at the epicenter of
sustainable agricultural. The concept of 'Input efficiency' implies
production of high quantity and quality of food, from using only
finite natural resources as inputs, in the form of mainly land,
water, nutrients, energy, or biological diversity. In this book,
editors provide a roadmap to the food, nutritional, and
environmental security in the agricultural systems. They share
insight into the approaches that can be put in practice for
increasing the input use efficiency in the cropping systems and
achieve stability and sustainability of agricultural production
systems. This book is of interest to teachers, researchers, climate
change scientists, capacity builders and policymakers. Also the
book serves as additional reading material for undergraduate and
graduate students of agriculture, agroforestry, agroecology, and
environmental sciences. National and international agricultural
scientists, policymakers will also find this to be a useful read.
Legal Aspects of the New International Economic Order draws
together the results of discussions from the 58th Conference of the
International law Association held in Manila in September 1978.
Many there, including a number of contributors to this insightful
book, felt that proposals for the establishment of a new
international economic order bristled with complex legal issues,
which merited the serious attention of lawyers. Moved by the
conviction that these proposals aimed at restructuring
international economic relations and effective a global
redistribution of wealth and power, presented a challenge to legal
creativity, the Conference adopted a resolution urging the
International Law Association to undertake a study of the Legal
Aspects of a New International Economic Order. Legal Aspects of the
New International Economic Order draws together the papers that
came from that study, to offer a fascinating and powerful
examination of the legal challenges thrown up by the establishment
of this new order.
This book comprehensively examines the performance of Bangladeshi
agriculture in light of the most recent thinking on economic
development and the environment. It both analyses the experience
during the last five decades and discusses the major issues and
challenges with special emphasis on the prospects for sustainable
agricultural development in the future. The authors emphasise the
importance of distributional aspects of environmental change and
development in relation to employment and poverty and also focus on
gender issues - often ignored in traditional theory. Many of the
issues that arise in Bangladesh in connection with the
agricultural-development nexus are not unique to the country.
Parallels exist elsewhere in the developing world and as such
Bangladesh is useful as an example from which to draw conclusions
about much of the developing world. Environment and Agriculture in
a Developing Economy will therefore be of particular interest to
developmental and environmental economists as well as international
organisations and NGOs committed to environment and development
issues.
This book presents the selected peer-reviewed papers from the
International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks
(ComNet) 2019. Highlighting the latest findings, ideas,
developments and applications in all areas of advanced
communication systems and networking, it covers a variety of
topics, including next-generation wireless technologies such as 5G,
new hardware platforms, antenna design, applications of artificial
intelligence (AI), signal processing and optimization techniques.
Given its scope, this book can be useful for beginners, researchers
and professionals working in wireless communication and networks,
and other allied fields.
This book constructs a multidisciplinary approach to human security
questions related to digitalisation in the European High North i.e.
the northernmost areas of Scandinavia, Finland and North-Western
Russia. It challenges the mainstream conceptualisation of
cybersecurity and reconstructs it with the human being as the
referent object of security.
Plug-in electric and hybrid vehicles (PEVs) have the potential to
provide substantial storage to a city's grid, a key component in
mitigating intermittency issues of power sources. But the batteries
of these vehicles also need to be charged at times when their users
need them. Thus, V2G (vehicle-to-grid) is becoming an important
issue in the future grid. An integrated treatment of this system,
from power generation, monitoring, storage in stationary and PEV
batteries to control is a complex task. This book explores the
connection between the stationary grid and PEV power storage.
Topics covered include: the impact of PEVs and V2G on smart grid
and renewable energy systems; distributed energy resource with PEV
battery energy storage in the smart grid; power conversion
technology in smart grid and PEVs; power control and monitoring of
smart grid with PEVs; PEV charging technologies and V2G on
distributed energy resources and utility interfaces; economic,
social and environmental dimensions of PEVs in the smart grid. This
book will be of interest to researchers and advanced students in
electric vehicles and smart grid technologies, and policy-makers
and planners developing smart grid infrastructure and sustainable
transport initiatives.
The Asian continent is composed of multiple political systems, huge
populations, and different religions and histories. Yet, the
undercurrents of politics and political affairs and how societies
function in this vast region are not well known, and in fact often
misunderstood. The role of music and its impact on political
affairs is just one of these unknown or misunderstood factors about
this region. Unlike initial political communication studies, the
present book is not about examining established political
structures such as parliament or congress and the presidency;
political processes such as elections, campaign advertising and
voter education; or even political behavior and participation such
as voting and the performance of other civic duties. Rather, it
recognizes and explores the impact and intersection of music and
politics in society, in this case, various societies in the Asian
continent. The book is projected to be an invaluable research tool
specifically in the hands of researchers and students of Asian
politics in the aforementioned fields, and people who are
interested in understanding and investigating the intersection of
music and politics globally. Therefore, suggested potential targets
for the envisaged edited book include such researchers and students
across multiple disciplines in the arts and humanities, as well as
libraries and research institutes across the globe.
Plant Micronutrient Use Efficiency: Molecular and Genomic
Perspectives in Crop Plants presents information on the complex
mechanisms regulating micronutrient use efficiency in plants.
Understanding this science is essential for the development of new
varieties of crop plants that are more resilient to micronutrient
stress, as well as plants with increased bioavailable
concentrations of essential micronutrients. This book explores the
discovery of novel genes and key metabolic pathways associated with
micronutrient use efficiency in plants, gives an analyses of the
gene expression patterns in plants in response to low and/or high
nutrient levels, and investigates the potential functions of these
genes and their products. Strategies to enhance micronutrient use
efficiency and stress tolerance, to develop bio-fortified crop, and
to improve the sustainable utilization of natural resources are
critically evaluated. The book contains both fundamental and
advanced information as well as critical commentaries that are
useful for those involved in the various fields that make up the
plant sciences.
This book is a concise reader-friendly introductory guide to
understanding renewable energy technologies. By using simplified
classroom-tested methods developed while teaching the subject to
engineering students, the authors explain in simple language an
otherwise complex subject in terms that enable readers to gain a
rapid fundamental understanding of renewable energy, including
basic principles, the different types, energy storage, grid
integration, and economies. This powerful tutorial is a great
resource for students, engineers, technicians, analysts, investors,
and other busy professionals who need to quickly acquire a solid
understanding of the science of renewable energy technology.
Abiotic stress adversely affects crop production worldwide,
decreasing average yields for most of the crops to 50%. Among
various abiotic stresses affecting agricultural production, drought
stress is considered to be the main source of yield reduction
around the globe. Due to an increasing world population, drought
stress will lead to a serious food shortage by 2050. The situation
may become worse due to predicated global climate change that may
multiply the frequency and duration and severity of such abiotic
stresses. Hence, there is an urgent need to improve our
understanding on complex mechanisms of drought stress tolerance and
to develop modern varieties that are more resilient to drought
stress. Identification of the potential novel genes responsible for
drought tolerance in crop plants will contribute to understanding
the molecular mechanism of crop responses to drought stress. The
discovery of novel genes, the analysis of their expression patterns
in response to drought stress, and the determination of their
potential functions in drought stress adaptation will provide the
basis of effective engineering strategies to enhance crop drought
stress tolerance. Although the in-depth water stress tolerance
mechanisms is still unclear, it can be to some extent explained on
the basis of ion homeostasis mediated by stress adaptation
effectors, toxic radical scavenging, osmolyte biosynthesis, water
transport, and long distance signaling response coordination.
Importantly, complete elucidation of the physiological,
biochemical, and molecular mechanisms for drought stress,
perception, transduction, and tolerance is still a challenge to the
plant biologists. The findings presented in volume 1 call attention
to the physiological and biochemical modalities of drought stress
that influence crop productivity, whereas volume 2 summarizes our
current understanding on the molecular and genetic mechanisms of
drought stress resistance in plants.
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Glutathione in Plant Growth, Development, and Stress Tolerance (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2017)
Mohammad Anwar Hossain, Mohammad Golam Mostofa, Pedro Diaz Vivancos, David J Burritt, Masayuki Fujita, …
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Glutathione ( -glutamyl-cysteinyl-glycine) is a ubiquitously
distributed sulfurcontaining antioxidant molecule that plays key
roles in the regulation of plant growth, development, and abiotic
and biotic stress tolerance. It is one of the most powerful
low-molecular-weight thiols, which rapidly accumulates in plant
cells under stress. Recent in-depth studies on glutathione
homeostasis (biosynthesis, degradation, compartmentalization,
transport, and redox turnover) and the roles of glutathione in cell
proliferation and environmental stress tolerance have provided new
insights for plant biologists to conduct research aimed at
deciphering the mechanisms associated with glutathione-mediated
plant growth and stress responses, as well as to develop
stress-tolerant crop plants. Glutathione has also been suggested to
be a potential regulator of epigenetic modifications, playing
important roles in the regulation of genes involved in the
responses of plants to changing environments. The dynamic
relationship between reduced glutathione (GSH) and reactive oxygen
species (ROS) has been well documented, and glutathione has been
shown to participate in several cell signaling and metabolic
processes, involving the synthesis of protein, the transport of
amino acids, DNA repair, the control of cell division, and
programmed cell death. Two genes, gamma-glutamylcysteine synthetase
(GSH1) and glutathione synthetase (GSH2), are involved in GSH
synthesis, and genetic manipulation of these genes can modulate
cellular glutathione levels. Any fluctuations in cellular GSH and
oxidized glutathione (GSSG) levels have profound effects on plant
growth and development, as glutathione is associated with the
regulation of the cell cycle, redox signaling, enzymatic
activities, defense gene expression, systemic acquired resistance,
xenobiotic detoxification, and biological nitrogen fixation. Being
a major constituent of the glyoxalase system and
ascorbate-glutathione cycle, GSH helps to control multiple abiotic
and biotic stress signaling pathways through the regulation of ROS
and methylglyoxal (MG) levels. In addition, glutathione metabolism
has the potential to be genetically or biochemically manipulated to
develop stress-tolerant and nutritionally improved crop plants.
Although significant progress has been made in investigating the
multiple roles of glutathione in abiotic and biotic stress
tolerance, many aspects of glutathione-mediated stress responses
require additional research. The main objective of this volume is
to explore the diverse roles of glutathione in plants by providing
basic, comprehensive, and in-depth molecular information for
advanced students, scholars, teachers, and scientists interested in
or already engaged in research that involves glutathione. Finally,
this book will be a valuable resource for future
glutathione-related research and can be considered as a textbook
for graduate students and as a reference book for frontline
researchers working on glutathione metabolism in relation to plant
growth, development, stress responses, and stress tolerance.
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