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XaaS: Everything-as-a-Service: The Lean and Agile Approach to
Business Growth takes the reader into the bold new world of
pay-per-use for a product or service. From the perspective of the
customer, the servitization model yields multiple benefits: the
consumer can try out the product/service at a relatively low cost,
the risk is mitigated, capital expenses can be converted into
operating expenses, it is not needed to forecast how often the
product/service is used, and only parts of the product/service
needed can be used. Similarly, a provider can benefit by having a
larger market coverage, steadier stream of revenues, upgrades as
and when needed, sharing of fixed assets across consumers,
practicing of value-based pricing, and unbundling or bundling
utility for consumers using appropriate pricing techniques.
However, this "nanoization" of products/services is tricky, and has
to be designed carefully. This book provides a set of recipes to
providers to adopt the XaaS model by changing the provider's
mindset: dividing the product/service forces the provider to take a
value-driven approach to his product/service, and consequently,
eliminate all non-value added activities. The requirements of the
XaaS model serve both as an objective to the innovation and
internal processes of the provider, and as guide to understanding
the customer's needs. The book also covers data acquisition, data
analysis and synthesis, and data application needs of the XaaS
model, with simple examples and case studies from the business
world of firms that achieve these objectives successfully.
This book includes basics of impedance spectroscopy technology,
substrate compatibility issues, integration capabilities, and
several applications in detection of different analytes. It helps
explore the importance of this technique in biological detection,
related micro/nano-fabricated platforms and respective integration,
biological synthesis schemes to carry out the detection, associated
challenges, and related future directions. The various
qualitative/quantitative findings of several modules are summarized
in the form of the detailed descriptions, schematics, and tables.
Features: Serves as a single source for exploring underlying
fundamental principles and the various biological applications
through impedance spectroscopy. Includes chapters based on
non-biological applications of impedance spectroscopy and IoT
enabled impedance spectroscopy-based methods for detection.
Discusses derivations, substrates, applications, and several
integrations. Describes micro/nanofabrication of impedance-based
biological sensors. Reviews updated integrations like digital
manufacturing and IoT. This book is aimed at researchers and
graduate students in material science, impedance spectroscopy and
biosensing.
Covers detailed state-of-the-art of specific chemiresistive sensing
materials Presents novel nano-material platforms and concepts for
resistive gas sensing Reviews pertinent aspects of smart sensors
and IoT sensing Explains nanotechnology enabled experimental
findings, and future directions of smart gas sensing technology
Explores implication of latest advancements such as IoT in Gas
sensors, and nanogenerators
Portal: The Curious Account of Achintya Bose, conceptualized,
compiled and reproduced by Shan Bhattacharya, recipient of the
Umrao Singh Sher-Gil Grant for Photography, 2015 (instituted by the
Sher-Gil Sundaram Arts Foundation), presents the personal diary of
the owner of a small photography studio in Calcutta, India,
maintained sporadically from 1994 to 1996, before his sudden
unexplained disappearance. The diary is a fictional 'found archive'
that contains his collection of photographic prints, letters, torn
pages from books, newspaper and magazine cuttings, declassified
police records, polaroids and print advertisements obtained from
different sources. Through these documents spanning the twentieth
century, he attempts to trace photographic 'evidence' and
information about an elusive woman who seemingly does not age
through a century. Mr Bose's search is also a journey through the
local history of vernacular photography and regional publications
that reflect popular culture, politics, fashion, design,
advertising and other iconography, and their transformations over
time. In this book, images serve both as the primary objects of
interest and a narrative device. The cover plot interrogates the
veracity of photographs - the way they are used as indices and
evidence of a person's existence in spatio-temporal reality. These
images are staged in variously contrived scenarios, often taking
cues from the several utilitarian subsets of twentieth-century
photography-the wedding portrait, the convocation photo, the
vacation/holiday photo, candid snapshots, product advertisements-as
though taken by different fictional photographers using different
image-making aesthetics, techniques and formats appropriate to the
time/place/visual cultures that those prototypes historically
belong to. Referring to the genre of historiographic metafiction,
fictional text and visual elements based on real events and
characters are introduced to enable this 'found archive' assume
certain characteristics of a hoax.
This volume provides an overview of the recent advances in the
field of paper microfluidics, whose innumerable research domains
have stimulated considerable efforts to the development of rapid,
cost-effective and simplified point-of-care diagnostic systems. The
book is divided into three parts viz. theoretical background of
paper microfluidics, fabrication techniques for paper-based
devices, and broad applications. Each chapter of the book is
self-explanatory and focuses on a specific topic and its relation
to paper microfluidics and starts with a brief description of the
topic's physical background, essential definitions, and a short
story of the recent progress in the relevant field. The book also
covers the future outlook, remaining challenges, and emerging
opportunities. This book shall be a tremendous up-to-date resource
for researchers working in the area globally.
This book presents the state-of-the-art in the area of water
remediation. It covers topics such as decentralized ecological
wastewater treatment, applications of remote sensing and geographic
information systems (GIS) in water quality monitoring and
remediation, water remediation through nanotechnology, and
processes used in water purification. The contents of this volume
will prove useful to researchers, students, and policy makers
alike.
This book presents the state-of-the-art in the area of water
remediation. It covers topics such as decentralized ecological
wastewater treatment, applications of remote sensing and geographic
information systems (GIS) in water quality monitoring and
remediation, water remediation through nanotechnology, and
processes used in water purification. The contents of this volume
will prove useful to researchers, students, and policy makers
alike.
This book presents a comprehensive study of all important aspects
of tribology. It covers issues and their remedies adopted by
researchers working on automobile systems. The book is broadly
divided in to three sections, viz. (i) new materials for automotive
applications, (ii) new lubricants for automotive applications, and
(iii) impact of surface morphologies for automotive applications.
The rationale for this division is to provide a comprehensive and
categorical review of the developments in automotive tribology. The
book covers tribological aspects of engines, and also discusses
influence of new materials, such as natural fibers, metal foam
materials, natural fiber reinforced polymer composites, carbon
fiber/silicon nitride polymer composites and aluminium matrix
composites. The book also looks at grease lubrication,
effectiveness and sustainability of solid/liquid additives in
lubrication, and usage of biolubricants. In the last section the
book focuses on brake pad materials, shot peening method, surface
texturing, magnetic rheological fluid for smart automobile brake
and clutch systems, and application of tribology in automobile
systems. This book will be of interest to students, researchers,
and professionals from the automotive industry.
This book presents a comprehensive study of all important aspects
of tribology. It covers issues and their remedies adopted by
researchers working on automobile systems. The book is broadly
divided in to three sections, viz. (i) new materials for automotive
applications, (ii) new lubricants for automotive applications, and
(iii) impact of surface morphologies for automotive applications.
The rationale for this division is to provide a comprehensive and
categorical review of the developments in automotive tribology. The
book covers tribological aspects of engines, and also discusses
influence of new materials, such as natural fibers, metal foam
materials, natural fiber reinforced polymer composites, carbon
fiber/silicon nitride polymer composites and aluminium matrix
composites. The book also looks at grease lubrication,
effectiveness and sustainability of solid/liquid additives in
lubrication, and usage of biolubricants. In the last section the
book focuses on brake pad materials, shot peening method, surface
texturing, magnetic rheological fluid for smart automobile brake
and clutch systems, and application of tribology in automobile
systems. This book will be of interest to students, researchers,
and professionals from the automotive industry.
This volume provides an overview of the recent advances in the
field of paper microfluidics, whose innumerable research domains
have stimulated considerable efforts to the development of rapid,
cost-effective and simplified point-of-care diagnostic systems. The
book is divided into three parts viz. theoretical background of
paper microfluidics, fabrication techniques for paper-based
devices, and broad applications. Each chapter of the book is
self-explanatory and focuses on a specific topic and its relation
to paper microfluidics and starts with a brief description of the
topic's physical background, essential definitions, and a short
story of the recent progress in the relevant field. The book also
covers the future outlook, remaining challenges, and emerging
opportunities. This book shall be a tremendous up-to-date resource
for researchers working in the area globally.
Micro-fluidic assays to quickly analyze miniaturized samples of
nucleic acids are widely used for faster and accurate molecular
identification/ gene sequencing. This has promoted a wide interest
in point of care diagnostic devices (sometimes referred as "Lab on
wheels"). Such devices have several advantages over conventional
bench top systems like an overall reduction in size, reduced use of
reagents, decreased power requirements, increased speed and
accuracy of analysis, and increased portability for field use. This
study is intended to realize a miniaturized DNA analyzer system to
perform rapid molecular identification of bovine and porcine viral
diseases. It consists of a micro-PCR chamber, micropumps, and
micro-heaters. Additional components of the device include gel
electrophoresis micro-channels and solid core waveguide
fluorescence collectors. The intended analyzer is a micro-fluidic
platform that is principally based on the three-step polymerase
chain reaction (PCR) mechanism. All fluid handling on chip is
realized by a set of discreet peristaltic pumps and a labview code
is used to run a proportional, integral, differential (PID)
controller for programmed operation of thermal cycling for the PCR
device. The book is addressed to biomedical,
micro-fabrication/micro-manufacturing researchers/engineers,
biochemists, analytical chemists and companies involved in
development of gene sequencing instrumentation.
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