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5G is the upcoming generation of the wireless network that will be
the advanced version of 4G LTE+ providing all the features of a 4G
LTE network and connectivity for IoT devices with faster speed and
lower latency. The 5G network is going to be a service-oriented
network, connecting billions of IoT devices and mobile phones
through the wireless network, and hence, it needs a special
emphasis on security. Security is the necessary enabler for the
continuity of the wireless network business, and in 5G, network
security for IoT devices is the most important aspect. As IoT is
gaining momentum, people can remotely operate or instruct their
network devices. Therefore, there is a need for robust security
mechanisms to prevent unauthorized access to the devices.
>Evolution of Software-Defined Networking Foundations for IoT
and 5G Mobile Networks is a collection of innovative research on
the security challenges and prevention mechanisms in high-speed
mobile networks. The book explores the threats to 5G and IoT and
how to implement effective security architecture for them. While
highlighting topics including artificial intelligence, mobile
technology, and ubiquitous computing, this book is ideally designed
for cybersecurity experts, network providers, computer scientists,
communication technologies experts, academicians, students, and
researchers.
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted lives and livelihoods all over
the world by its myriad of twists and turns. The causative SARS
coronavirus 2 continues to defy the imagination by its rapid
evolution from the Alpha to Delta to Omicron variants. This book by
an international and multi-disciplinary team of virologists,
infectious diseases and public health physicians aims to uncover
the scientific basis underpinning the virus characteristics, as
well as the clinical and public health management of COVID-19. The
ten chapters address and discuss a broad range of key topics
including viral evolution, clinical management, diagnostic
methodologies, aerosol transmission, public health containment
measures, vaccination, pathophysiology, and omics analyses. More
generally, the book can serve as a useful reference guide on many
future scientific issues and questions that will continue to arise
as humanity learns to confront and co-exist with COVID-19.
This book consists of select peer-reviewed papers from the
International Conference on Sustainable Environmental Engineering
and Science (SEES) 2019. The main focus of the book is to propose
sustainable technologies to address the growing environmental
challenges. The contents cover several topics of relevance such as
air pollution, solid waste management, wastewater treatment,
industrial pollution, and suggests eco-friendly and cost-effective
techniques to tackle them. Given the range of topics covered, the
book will be useful to researchers and professionals working in the
multidisciplinary area of sustainability.
The book highlights the transportation ecosystems and its
management with underlying technologies for futuristic freight and
passenger movement. The contents include contributions on climate
change impact on transportation infrastructure, enhancing
multimodal transportation, solar energy in railways, managing
public transportation with technology, among others. It also
includes chapters of newly developed technologies for the
intelligent transport system. This book is a useful guide to those
working in academia and industry in transportation
technology.Â
This book discusses about the new techniques of power generation
control of oscillating water column (OWC) using airflow control and
maximum power point tracking of OWC using rotational speed control.
OWCs harness energy from the oscillation of the seawater inside a
chamber or hollow caused by the action of waves. This book presents
the mathematical modeling and control techniques used by OWCs.
Introducing new concepts to studies of wave energy to provide fresh
perspectives on energy extraction and efficiency problems, the book
will be a valuable resource for researchers and industrial
companies involved in thermal energy and coastal engineering. It
will also be of interest to students, as it broadens their view of
wave energy.
This book captures the current challenges in automatic recognition
of emotion in spontaneous speech and makes an effort to explain,
elaborate, and propose possible solutions. Intelligent
human-computer interaction (iHCI) systems thrive on several
technologies like automatic speech recognition (ASR); speaker
identification; language identification; image and video
recognition; affect/mood/emotion analysis; and recognition, to name
a few. Given the importance of spontaneity in any human-machine
conversational speech, reliable recognition of emotion from
naturally spoken spontaneous speech is crucial. While emotions,
when explicitly demonstrated by an actor, are easy for a machine to
recognize, the same is not true in the case of day-to-day,
naturally spoken spontaneous speech. The book explores several
reasons behind this, but one of the main reasons for this is that
people, especially non-actors, do not explicitly demonstrate their
emotion when they speak, thus making it difficult for machines to
distinguish one emotion from another that is embedded in their
spoken speech. This short book, based on some of authors'
previously published books, in the area of audio emotion analysis,
identifies the practical challenges in analysing emotions in
spontaneous speech and puts forward several possible solutions that
can assist in robustly determining the emotions expressed in
spontaneous speech.
This book systematically examines and quantifies industrial
problems by assessing the complexity and safety of large systems.
It includes chapters on system performance management, software
reliability assessment, testing, quality management, analysis using
soft computing techniques, management analytics, and business
analytics, with a clear focus on exploring real-world business
issues. Through contributions from researchers working in the area
of performance, management, and business analytics, it explores the
development of new methods and approaches to improve business by
gaining knowledge from bulk data. With system performance
analytics, companies are now able to drive performance and provide
actionable insights for each level and for every role using key
indicators, generate mobile-enabled scorecards, time series-based
analysis using charts, and dashboards. In the current dynamic
environment, a viable tool known as multi-criteria decision
analysis (MCDA) is increasingly being adopted to deal with complex
business decisions. MCDA is an important decision support tool for
analyzing goals and providing optimal solutions and alternatives.
It comprises several distinct techniques, which are implemented by
specialized decision-making packages. This book addresses a number
of important MCDA methods, such as DEMATEL, TOPSIS, AHP, MAUT, and
Intuitionistic Fuzzy MCDM, which make it possible to derive maximum
utility in the area of analytics. As such, it is a valuable
resource for researchers and academicians, as well as practitioners
and business experts.
The teaching of culture and interculturality is today viewed as an
integral part of foreign language education. This book presents
insights from recent research on the role of culture in
second/foreign and heritage language education. It contains 14
chapters including an introductory chapter that discusses
diachronically the evolving notion of culture and how the
sociocultural view of culture as a complex and dynamic concept
informs language teaching and language learning research. The
chapters following the introduction are organised in four parts
focusing on: 1) the teacher's role in integrated language and
culture learning; 2) the interrelationship between culture,
identity, and language learning and use; 3) the effect of culture
on learner characteristics which impact language learning processes
and outcomes; and 4) curriculum development aimed at fostering
language and culture learning. The chapters in Parts 1 to 3 present
contributions from current research - either in the form of the
authors' original studies or comprehensive reviews of relevant
essential research - which bears important implications for
curricular practice in foreign language and language teacher
education. This close link between research, theory and practice is
also maintained in the two chapters in Part 4, which present
developmental projects based on well-grounded theoretical
frameworks.
The book provides an introduction to the basics of fungi,
discussing various types ranging from edible mushrooms to
Neurospora - a model system for genetics and epigenetics. After
addressing the classification and biodiversity of fungi, and fungi
in different ecological niches, it describes the latest
applications of fungi, their role in sustainable environments and
in alleviating stress in plants, as well as their role in causing
plant and animal diseases. Further chapters explore the advances in
fungal interactions research and their implications for various
systems, and discuss plant-pathogen interactions. The book also
features a section on bioprospecting, and is an extremely
interesting and informative read for anybody involved in the field
of mycology, microbiology and biotechnology teaching and research.
This book discusses human-machine interactions, specifically
focusing on making them as natural as human-human interaction. It
is based on the premise that to get the right connect between human
and machines, it is essential to understand not only the behavior
of the person interacting with the machine, but also the
limitations of the technology. Firstly, the authors review the
evolution of language as a spontaneous, natural phenomenon in the
overall scheme of the evolutionary development of living beings.
They then go on to examine the possible approaches to understanding
and representing the meaning and the common aspects of human-human
and human-machine interactions, and introduce the
keyconcept-keyword (also called minimal parsing) approach as a
convenient and realistic way to implement usable human-machine
interface (HMI) systems. For researchers looking for practical
approaches, way beyond the realms of theory, this book is a must
read.
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Chemical Drug Design (Hardcover)
Girish Kumar Gupta, Vinod Kumar; Contributions by Tamara Angelo, Rajasri Bhattacharyya, Ramesh Kataria, …
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Discovery Miles 36 920
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Chemical Drug Design provides a compact overview on recent advances
in this rapidly developing field. With contributions on in silico
drug design, natural product based compounds, as well as on ligand-
and structure-based approaches, the authors present innovative
methods and techniques for identifying and synthetically designing
novel drugs.
This book provides a comprehensive review of biosynthetic
approaches to the production of industrially important chemicals
and the environmental challenges involved. Its 19 chapters discuss
different aspects of biosynthetic technology from the perspective
of leading experts in the field. It covers various biorefinery
approaches, including the use of microbes, metabolically engineered
plants, biomass-based and green technology methods. Further, it
examines important research in the areas of organic and hazardous
waste composting, management and recovery of nutraceuticals from
agro-industrial waste, biosynthesis and technological advancements
of biosurfactants and waste water bioremediation. This book
contributes to the scientific literature on biosynthetic
technologies and the related environmental challenges for
researchers and academics working in this area around the globe.
This book provides a well-focused and comprehensive overview of
novel technologies involved in advanced microfluidics based
diagnosis via various types of prognostic and diagnostic
biomarkers. This authors examine microfluidics based diagnosis in
the biomedical field as an upcoming field with extensive
applications. It provides a unique approach and comprehensive
technology overview for diagnosis management towards early stages
of various bioanalytes via cancer diagnostics diabetes, alzheimer
disease, toxicity in food products, brain and retinal diseases,
cardiovascular diseases, and bacterial infections etc. Thus, this
book would encompass a combinatorial approach of medical science,
engineering and biomedical technology. The authors provide a
well-focused and comprehensive overview of novel technologies
involved in advanced microfluidics based diagnosis via various
types of prognostic and diagnostic biomarkers. Moreover, this book
contains detailed description on the diagnosis of novel techniques.
This book would serve as a guide for students, scientists,
researchers, and microfluidics based point of care technologies via
smart diagnostics and to plan future research in this valuable
field.
The goal of this book is to assess the efficacy of India's
financial deregulation programme by analyzing the developments in
cost efficiency and total factor productivity growth across
different ownership types and size classes in the banking sector
over the post-deregulation years. The work also gauges the impact
of inclusion or exclusion of a proxy for non-traditional activities
on the cost efficiency estimates for Indian banks, and ranking of
distinct ownership groups. It also investigates the hitherto
neglected aspect of the nature of returns-to-scale in the Indian
banking industry. In addition, the work explores the key
bank-specific factors that explain the inter-bank variations in
efficiency and productivity growth. Overall, the empirical results
of this work allow us to ascertain whether the gradualist approach
to reforming the banking system in a developing economy like India
has yielded the most significant policy goal of achieving
efficiency and productivity gains. The authors believe that the
findings of this book could give useful policy directions and
suggestions to other developing economies that have embarked on a
deregulation path or are contemplating doing so.
Environmental Management Technologies: Challenges and Opportunities
details the environmental problems posed by the various types of
toxic organic and inorganic pollutants discharged from both natural
and anthropogenic activities and their toxicological effects in
environments, humans, animals, and plants. This book also
highlights the recent advanced and innovative methods for the
effective degradation and bioremediation of organic pollutants,
heavy metals, dyes, etc. from the environment for sustainable
development. Features of the book: * Provides state-of-the-art
information on pollutants, their sources, and deleterious impacts
on the environment * Elucidates the recent updates on Emerging
Pollutants (EPs) in pharmaceutical waste and personal care products
* Discusses the various physico-chemical, biological, and
combination treatment systems for sustainable development * Details
recent research findings in the area of environmental waste
management and their future challenges and opportunities
This book discusses essential stereochemical concepts associated
with organic molecules (natural or synthetic), as reflected in the
course of their many reactions, their mechanisms, their asymmetric
synthesis, biosynthesis, and biological activities. This treatise
provides useful insights and understanding of the chiral/achiral
designations (nomenclatures), the stereochemical features, and
related properties of the natural and synthetic products. Without
having an adequate knowledge of stereochemical concepts, it will
not be possible to understand and appreciate the stereochemistry of
natural or synthetic products. Thus, essential static and dynamic
aspects of stereochemistry with sufficient illustrative examples
along with discussions are presented. The structure of the
monograph allows for easy selection of separate topics for reading
and teaching. This book will also provide an idea of basic
stereochemical concepts, as applied to organic molecules in general
as well as to organic ligands in coordination complexes, and will,
therefore, be valuable resources to teachers and students of
advanced undergraduates and post-graduates, researchers, and
professionals.
This book is about the use of technology/artificial intelligence in
the areas of human behavior and psychology, health and nutrition,
and fitness and sports. Everybody has his/her own lifestyle but may
not necessarily be aware of what constitutes a healthy lifestyle.
Knowledge gained from the Internet may be scattered and inaccurate
and, if adhered to, may lead to loss of life. The COVID-19 pandemic
increased people's awareness of the need for a healthy lifestyle
but how to adopt a healthy lifestyle is something to be clarified
since every individual is different (body type, situation, etc.),
and hence, their needs will be different as well. This book
addresses such questions and explores how the use of technology in
the areas mentioned above can enable each individual to easily
achieve a healthy lifestyle.
Provides an explicit account of vital aspects of various
nanocosmetics drug delivery approaches, thereby providing a
next-generation cosmetic product Brings together novel applications
of nanocosmetics approaches in a biological milieu Explores
preparation, applications, toxicity, and regulatory prospects
Includes a dedicated chapter on Niosomal drug-delivery system in
cosmetics Discusses the perspectives of the technologies explored
so far based upon the findings outlined in highly organized tables,
illustrative figures, and flow charts
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Wheat Science - Nutritional and Anti-Nutritional Properties, Processing, Storage, Bioactivity, and Product Development
Om Prakash Gupta, Sunil Kumar, Anamika Pandey, Mohd. Kamran Khan, Sanjay Kumar Singh, …
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· Includes topics associated with the nutritional composition and
antinutritional properties · Addresses the effects of different
processing technologies on flour yield and end-products · Reviews
the effects of storage on nutritional, baking and rheological
quality, organoleptic quality etc.
Due to the great success and enormous impact of IP networks, In
ternet access (such as sending and receiving e-mails) and web brows
ing have become the ruling paradigm for next generation wireless
systems. On the other hand, great technological and commercial
success of services and applications is being witnessed in mobile
wire less communications with examples of cellular, pes voice
telephony and wireless LANs. The service paradigm has thus shifted
from the conventional voice service to seamlessly integrated high
quality mul timedia transmission over broadband wireless mobile
networks. The multimedia content may include data, voice, audio,
image, video and so on. With availability of more powerful portable
devices, such as PDA, portable computer and cellular phone, coupled
with the easier access to the core network (using a mobile device),
the number of mobile users and the demand for multimedia-based
applications is increasing rapidly. As a result, there is an urgent
need for a sys tem that supports heterogeneous multimedia services
and provides seamless access to the desired resources via wireless
connections. Therefore, the convergence of multimedia communication
and wireless mobile networking technologies into the next
generation wireless multimedia (WMM) networks with the vision of
"anytime, anywhere, anyform" information system is the certain
trend in the foreseeable future. However, successful combination of
these two technologies presents many challenges such as available
spectral bandwidth, energy efficiency, seamless end-to-end
communication, robustness, security, etc."
Offering a comprehensive overview of biofuels and bioenergy
systems, Biofuels: Technologies, Policies, and Opportunities
describes advances in technologies and global policies around
biofuels as a renewable energy source. It discusses the basics of
biofuel and bioenergy systems and current status and potential
challenges in developed and developing countries. The book also
highlights the questions that should be asked, available options,
and processes (conventional and advanced) to enhance biofuel
production. Details how technological interventions can influence
the operation of an effective bioenergy system. Presents
information regarding Renewable Energy Directives and global
policies related to energy chains, energy models, market status,
and appropriateness of technology selection for different
generations of biofuel generation. Covers socio-economic aspects
and techno-economic feasibility as well as a detailed Life cycle
simulations (LCS)approach, revealing the real constraints being
faced in the biofuels sector. Helps bioenergy professionals to
prepare a roadmap for day-to-day operations. Describes recent
advances such as biohythane, advanced oxidation process, and
nanocatalyzed pretreatment for biofuel generation from wastewater.
Addresses the most commonly discussed issues in the biofuel sector
and the rationales underpinning them. Written for professionals,
academic researchers, decision makers, and policymakers in the
biofuel sector, this book provides readers with a wide-ranging
review of current research and developments in the respective
field.
Cultivation of Prized Mushrooms by Different Methods Cultivation of
Ectomycorrhizal Mushrooms Bioactive Compounds of Agaricus blazei
Antimicrobial and Antioxidant Properties of Cultivated Macrofungi
Photoactive Pigments from Mushrooms Pigments from Spalting
Mushrooms Applications of Mycelium-Based Composites, Mycoleather,
Packaging and Construction Fungi-Derived Composite Nanopapers
Mushroom Nutrition as Preventative Healthcare Biotechnology of
Termitomyces Biotechnology of Cordyceps militaris Biofertilizer
Potential of Ectomycorrhizae Bioproducts for Controlling Parasitic
Nematodes Nutraceutical Potential of Wild Mushrooms
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