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Biodiesel is predominantly produced from vegetable oils were insufficient quantities are available. Therefore the issue of finding alternative feedstock, such as animal fats, is essential for proving...

The remarkable computational power of the brain has motivated researchers to investigate computational systems which draw inspiration from the nervous system whose exact workings are still very much...

Recently, biologically inspired control approaches for robotic systems have been attracting considerable attention owing to the fact that most humans or animals move and walk easily without explicit...

Biomedical Data Mining is an ever growing area of Natural Laguage Processing. This book provides an introduction to this field and its experimental account using machine learning techniques. It...

Over the past couple of decades, there has been a significant change in the way people use internet and wireless connections. Not only are they being used for information gathering and connectivity,...

Onion and cotton have remarkable positions in the global agro-economy. These crops are threatened by various arthropod pests including thrips. The growers' community of the world is mostly relying on...

In the biopharmaceutical industry, essentially, there are three components that play the main role in producing biopharmaceutical products, the host cell, the expression vector and the bioreactor...

Biodegradable plastics are one of the most innovative materials being developed in the packaging industry. How widespread biodegradable plastics will be used all depends on how strongly society...

Biodegradable plastics are one of the most innovative materials being developed in the packaging industry. There are non-toxic, biocompatible, biodegradable and can be produced from renewable...

The objective of industrial cell culture technology is to produce high value-added therapeutic proteins that are well suited for the treatment of infectious diseases, cancer, and autoimmune diseases...

The rapid growth in sea-cage fish farming in the UK, particularly in Scotland and Ireland, and the extent to which intensive aquaculture results in degradation of the surrounding environment has been...

The initial goal established at the commencement of the research was to build a novel hedge fund investment thesis that exploited information asymmetries over short-term windows. This study commenced...

During processing, transportation and storage of oil, sludge and sediments are generated. Sludge is obtained from oily wastewater treatment processes, sediments can be found in water bodies where...

Children who are Biracial (relating to, or involving members of two races) are a predominant part of our diverse, multicultural communities. Educators, teachers, and parents need to understand what...

A significant problem in the field of minority research is that people of mixed-backgrounds have been ignored. In the available literature on the biracial population, the focus has been on...

All mainstream database systems lack support for temporal metadata, and instead store only the most recent data. Consequently, they can only manage temporal data in an ad hoc manner -- oftentimes not...

Patronage studies are an important part of modern Italian Rnaissance art history. This book looks at how and why the Sassetti Chapel in Santa Trinit? was made. What induced the patron to have it...

A newly emerging trend in higher education is the purposeful integration or blending of traditional (face-to-face) and online learning in order to provide educational opportunities that maximize the...

With the trend in online or virtual education escalating at universities worldwide, research on the effectiveness of online learning is an area of increasing significance. Virtuality in higher...

Blind deconvolution, fundamental in signal processing applications, is a challenging problem. Although blind equalization is essentially a nonlinear filtering problem, it has not yet been treated by...

Liquid crystals enjoy a wide range of technological applications, perhaps the best-known being the LCD, or liquid crystal display. When combined with polymeric materials the resulting solutions have...

Blogging presents one of the most fascinating social phenomenons of our time. This change in the flow of online information might radically change the way we look at news providers and large media...

There is mounting evidence that the established paradigm of nitric oxide (NO) biochemistry, from formation through NO synthases, over interaction with soluble guanylyl cyclase, to eventual disposal...

Writing of this book was motivated by the lack of readily available design data for use in the design of pressure vessels, boilers, reactors, autoclaves, with varied cross-bore entry geometries and...

For all the successes of the two edifices of modern physics, quantum theory and Einstein's relativity, a fundamental description of the Universe as a whole - a theory that informs as to the true...

Boredom may be an ordinary problem of our modern, fast-paced, technological time. What is boredom for a group of adults now in recovery from substance use disorder, who now also have HIV/AIDS? The...

Because of their unique property of bringing pure quantum effects into the real world scale, phase transitions towards condensed phases have always fascinated scientists. Bose-Einstein condensation...

Rock masses in nature contain numerous discontinuities as cracks, joints, cleavages, beddings and even faults etc. In the cracked material, the stress intensity factors (SIFs) at crack tips, which...

Lactating Nili-Ravi Buffaloes were injected rbST (500 mg/16 day) to observe effect on milk production, composition, physiological profile, minerals of serum, milk and mammary health biomarkers...

This book conducts a competitive analysis between three leading Serbian fashion brands in the Serbian textile industry. The research study was carried out using the Customer Based Brand Equity Model...