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Applied Artificial Intelligence A Biomedical Perspective
ABOUT THE BOOKThis book explores the advancements and future challenges in biomedical application developments using breakthrough technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI), In..
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Computational Intelligence for Cybersecurity Management and Applications
ABOUT THE BOOKAs cyberattacks continue to grow in complexity and number, computational intelligence is helping under-resourced security analysts stay one step ahead of threats. Dra..
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Controlling International Shipping and Aviation Emissions Governing the Global Climate Crisis
ABOUT THE BOOKThis book assesses the extent to which two specialized UN agencies – the International Maritime Organization (IMO) in London and the International Civil Aviation Orga..
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Digital Signals Theory
Where most introductory texts to the field of digital signal processing assume a degree of technical knowledge, this class-tested textbook provides a comprehensive introduction to ..
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Advances in Scalable and Intelligent Geospatial Analytics: Challenges and Applications
Geospatial data acquisition and analysis techniques have experienced tremendous growth in the last few years, providing an opportunity to solve previously unsolved environmental- a..
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Nanofiltration for Sustainability: Reuse, Recycle and Resource Recovery
This book provides a novel exploration of the application of nano-filtration membrane technology for sustainability in various industries, situated in view of recent breakthroughs ..
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Urban Freight Analytics: Big Data, Models, and Artificial Intelligence
ABOUT THE BOOKUrban Freight Analytics examines the key concepts associated with the development and application of decision support tools for evaluating and implementing city ..
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Advanced Technologies for Solid, Liquid, and Gas Waste Treatment
ABOUT THE BOOKAdvanced Technologies for Solid, Liquid, and Gas Waste Treatment presents the potential of using advanced and emerging technologies to effectively treat waste. T..
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Data Science and Analytics Strategy: An Emergent Design Approach
This book describes how to establish data science and analytics capabilities in organisations using Emergent Design, an evolutionary approach that increases the chances of suc..
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Biowaste and Biomass in Biofuel Applications
This book reflects the new dimension of biofuel production from its introductory principles to the advancements in future prospective. It summarizes the rationale for changes in li..
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Blockchain in Supply Chain Digital Transformation
ABOUT THE BOOKBlockchain and distributed ledger technology (DLT) have been identified as emerging technologies that can enhance global supply chain management processes. Given the ..
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Group Psychotherapy Assessment and Practice: A Measurement-Based Care Approach
ABOUT THE BOOKGroup Psychotherapy Assessment and Practice is the definitive guide to assessment in group therapy, offering the reader a means to understand and implement group..
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Power System Transients
In this textbook, variety of transient cases occurred or possible to occur in power systems are discussed and analyzed. It starts by categorizing transients' phenomena and specifyi..
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Internet of Drones: Applications, Opportunities, and Challenges
ABOUT THE BOOKThis book covers different aspects of Internet of Drones (IoD) including fundamentals in drone design, deployment challenges, and development of applications. It star..
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Applied Intelligence for Industry 4.0
We are in the era of Fourth Industrial Revolution where AI plays vital roles in human development by enabling extraordinary technological advances and making a fundamental change t..
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Emerging Applications of Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene
This book comprehensively reviews recent and emerging applications of carbon nanotubes and graphene materials in wide range of sectors...
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Green Machine Learning Protocols for Future Communication Networks
ABOUT THE BOOKMachine learning has shown tremendous benefits in solving complex network problems and providing situation and parameter prediction. However, heavy resources are requ..
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AI for Big Data-Based Engineering Applications from Security Pers
Artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning, and advanced electronic circuits involve learning from every data input and using those inputs to generate new rules for future busi..
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Applications of 5G and Beyond in Smart Cities
This book explores the potential of 5G technologies and beyond in smart city setups, with the availability of high bandwidths and performance, and low latency. The book starts with..
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Differential Equation Based Solutions for Emerging Real-Time Problems
Modeling with differential equations is an effective tool to provide methodical and quantitative solutions to real-world phenomena including investigating measurable features, cons..
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Advanced Photonics Methods for Biomedical Applications
ABOUT THE BOOKAdvanced photonics methods for biomedical applications give researchers in universities and industries, and clinicians an overview of the novel tools for cancer diagn..
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Emerging Drug Delivery and Biomedical Engineering Technologies: Transforming Therapy
ABOUT THE BOOKThis book details the advances in drug discovery and delivery and the present need for emerging technologies. Throughout the text new micro and nanofabrication techni..
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CORROSION OF STEEL IN CONCRETE : UNDERSTANDING, INVESTIGATION AND REPAIR, 3RD EDITION
ABOUT THE BOOKThis guide for designing, constructing and maintaining RC structures now includes measurement of the threshold for chloride induced corrosion, of the chloride content..
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One-Dimensional Polymeric Nanocomposites
One-dimensional nanomaterials are emerging as promising materials for their many unique characteristics. This book covers their synthesis and applications in batteries, supercapaci..
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Cyber Physical Systems: Concepts and Applications
ABOUT THE BOOKCyber Physical System (CPS) is an integration of computation, networking, and physical processes: the combination of several systems ofdifferent nature whose mai..
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Community-Based Mental Healthcare for Psychosis: From Homelessness to Recovery and Continued In-home Support
ABOUT THE BOOKThis eye-opening book explores the need for, and how to successfully organize, community mental health teams that provide in-home care and treatment for people experi..
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Emerging Nanomaterials for Catalysis and Sensor Applications
This book intends to review emerging nanomaterials in catalysis and sensors including nanophotocatalysts in organic synthesis and health care application, oxidation and sulphoxidat..
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Multifunctional Polymeric Foams: Advancements and Innovative Approaches
ABOUT THE BOOKPolymeric foams or cellular or expanded polymers have characteristics that makes their usage possible for several industrial and household purposes. This book is focu..
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Carbon-Based Conductive Polymer Composites
ABOUT THE BOOKCarbon nanomaterials can transfer their excellent electrical conductivity to polymers while enhancing or maintaining their original mechanical properties. Conductive ..
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Computational Intelligence in Image and Video Processing
This book presents introduction and state-of-the-art adaptations of computational intelligence techniques and their usefulness in image and video enhancement, classification, retri..
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Digital Image Processing
The book provides a mix of theoretical and practical perceptions of the related concepts pertaining to image processing. The primary objectives are to offer an overview to the elem..
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Artificial Intelligence for Cognitive Modeling
This book is written in a clear and thorough way to cover both the traditional and modern uses of artificial intelligence and soft computing. It gives an in-depth look at mathemati..
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Cloud-based Multi-Modal Information Analytics: A Hands-on Approach
Cloud based Multi-Modal Information Analytics: A Hands-on Approach discusses the various modalities of data and provide an aggregated solution using cloud. It includes the fun..
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Cloud-based Intelligent Informative Engineering for Society 5.0
Cloud-based Intelligent Informative Engineering for Society 5.0 is a model for the dissemination of cutting-edge technological innovation and assistive devices for people with phys..
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Data-Driven Intelligence in Wireless Networks: Concepts, Solutions and Applications
ABOUT THE BOOKThis book highlights the importance of data-driven techniques to solve wireless communication problems. It presents a number of problems (e.g., related to performance..
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Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning for Computer Network: Management and Analysis
Artificial Intelligence and Deep Learning for Computer Network: Management and Analysis aims to systematically collect quality research spanning AI, ML, and deep learning (DL)..
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Nanomaterials for Sustainable Energy Applications
This book provides a detailed overview of different devices and nanomaterials for energy storage applications. The application of each nanomaterial is discussed for fuel cells, met..
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AI FOR DIVERSITY (AI for Everything Series)
AI for Diversity questions how AI technology can lead to inclusion or exclusion for diverse groups of society. It enables the reader to step back and see how AI is impacting divers..
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Driving 5G Mobile Communications with Artificial Intelligence towards 6G
Driving 5G Mobile Communications with Artificial Intelligence towards 6G presents current work and directions of continuous innovation and development in multimedia communicat..
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Management of Wastewater and Sludge: New Approaches
ABOUT THE BOOKManagement of micropollutants and disinfection of byproducts in municipal wastewater and extraction of energy from the sludge produced in wastewater treatment plants ..
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Polarization Dynamics of Mode-Locked Fiber Lasers: Science, Technology, and Applications
ABOUT THE BOOKThis book provides a comprehensive review of the latest research on the science, technology, and applications of mode-locked fiber lasers generating pulse trains with..
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Computational Fluid Dynamics in Renewable Energy Technologies: Theory, Fundamentals and Exercises
This book is focused on combining the concepts of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and renewable energy technologies. Besides introducing the fundamentals, the core of this book ..
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Microplastics in Human Consumption
ABOUT THE BOOKThis book highlights plastic pollution, especially microplastics, and the consequences on the environment and on the human diet through food chain/web transmission an..
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Biomedical Signal Processing: A Modern Approach
ABOUT THE BOOKThis book presents the theoretical basis and applications of biomedical signal analysis and processing. Initially, the nature of the most common biomedical signals, s..
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The Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity, and Technology
Book DescriptionThe Routledge International Handbook of Psychoanalysis, Subjectivity, and Technology uniquely provides a comprehensive overview of human subjectivity in the te..
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Deep Learning and Its Applications for Vehicle Networks
Deep Learning (DL) is an effective approach for AI-based vehicular networks and can deliver a powerful set of tools for such vehicular network dynamics. In various domains of vehic..
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Digitalizing Sustainability: The Five Forces of Digital Transformation
ABOUT THE BOOKDigitalizing Sustainability outlines why ‘business as usual’ isn't working and sets out five Transformational Forces which can be used to innovate and scale sust..
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A Practical Guide to Scientific Writing in Chemistry
ABOUT THE BOOKSuccessful completion of postgraduate studies, especially PhD, and career advancement in academia strongly depend on the ability to publish scientific papers or books..
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Thermal and Catalytic Processing in Petroleum Refining Operations
This book presents the thermal and catalytic processes in refining. The differences between each type of process and the types of feedstock that can be used for the processes are p..
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Industrial Applications of Nanoparticles : A Prospective Overview
Nanotechnology is one of the most rapidly developing areas of science, with great potential to solve the developmental challenges in a wide range of industries such as aerospace, a..
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Mindfulness-Based Teaching and Learning: Preparing Mindfulness Specialists in Education and Clinical Care
ABOUT THE BOOKMindfulness-Based Teaching and Learning is the first comprehensive survey text exploring the history, research, theory, and best practices of secular-scientific ..
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Smart and Sustainable Operations and supply Chain Management in Industry 4.0
Smart applications are reforming conventional supply chains into digital ones. To compete in today's competitive market, organizations must utilize the merits of the Fourth Industr..
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Introduction to Number Theory
ABOUT THE BOOKSkilful communication and warm connection are needed today more than ever before. This book explores the potential of mindfulness skills, and how they can be applied ..
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Thermal Radiation: An Introduction
The book is a complete text for a one-semester introductory graduate course on radiative energy transfer. It covers radiative transfer among surfaces, with an introduction to the e..
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Micro to Quantum Supercapacitor Devices
Supercapacitors have established their role as high-power density devices capable of storing energy for multiple cycles; these devices are more plentiful than batteries. This book ..
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Data Science for Sensory and Consumer Scientists
Data Science for Sensory and Consumer Scientists is a comprehensive textbook that provides a practical guide to using data science in the field of sensory and consumer science..
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Rural Road Engineering in Developing Countries
ABOUT THE BOOKRural Road Engineering in Developing Countries provides a comprehensive coverage of the planning, design, construction, and maintenance of rural roads in develop..
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Mechanochemistry and Emerging Technologies for Sustainable Chemical Manufacturing
This unique volume describes advances in the field of mechanochemistry, in particular the scaling up of mechanochemical processes. Scalable techniques employed to carry out solvent..
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Microbiology of Green Fuels
This book gives a wide overview of different microbial-based processes for green fuels production. The book also includes techno-economic analysis and highlights strategic, commerc..
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Blockchain and Artificial Intelligence Technologies for Smart Energy Systems
Present energy systems are undergoing a radical transformation, driven by the urgent need to address the climate change crisis. At the same time, we are witnessing the sharp growth..
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Sustainability Engineering: Challenges, Technologies, and Applications
ABOUT THE BOOKSustainability Engineering: Challenges, Technologies, and Applications focuses on emerging topics within sustainability science and engineering, including the ci..
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Harnessing Synthetic Nanotechnology-Based Methodologies for Sustainable Green Application
Nanotechnology is at the forefront of many of the latest developments across science and technology, but to generate and deploy these applications, macroscopic levels of nanoscale ..
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Using Psychodynamic Thinking to Enhance CBT in Clients with Psychosis: A Case Study Guide
ABOUT THE BOOK"The clarity of the writing and the relevance of the case studies allow this way of working with the client with psychosis to be accessible to all mental health profe..
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Emerging Technologies in Wastewater Treatment
Emerging technologies in wastewater treatment plant is an ecological, profitable and natural technology designed to eliminate heavy metals, radionuclides, xenobiotic compounds, org..
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Data Driven Strategies: Theory and Applications
ABOUT THE BOOKA key challenge in science and engineering is to provide a quantitative description of the systems under investigation, leveraging the noisy data collected. Such a de..
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Crime Mapping and Spatial Data Analysis using R
Crime mapping and analysis sit at the intersection of geocomputation, data visualisation and cartography, spatial statistics, environmental criminology, and crime analysis. This bo..
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Stochastic Structural Optimization
ABOUT THE BOOKStochastic Structural Optimization presents a comprehensive picture of robust design optimization of structures, focused on nonparametric stochastic-based method..
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Continuous Pharmaceutical Processing and Process Analytical Technology
ABOUT THE BOOKContinuous manufacturing of pharmaceuticals, including aspects of modern process development is highlighted in this book with both the ‘why’ and the ‘how’, emphasizin..
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Introduction to the Maths and Physics of Quantum Mechanics
Introduction to the Maths and Physics of Quantum Mechanics details the mathematics and physics that are needed to learn the principles of quantum mechanics.It provides an acce..
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Industrial Reliability and Safety Engineering: Applications and Practices
This book addresses the reliability, risk, and safety issues of real industrial systems with application of the latest reliability and riskbased modelling. Related topics such as m..
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Molecular Biology: Structure and Dynamics of Genomes and Proteomes
ABOUT THE BOOKMolecular Biology: Structure and Dynamics of Genomes and Proteomes second edition illustrates the essential principles behind the transmission and expression of ..
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Applied Categorical and Count Data Analysis, Second Edition
Developed from the authors’ graduate-level bio-statistics course, Applied Categorical and Count Data Analysis, Second Edition explains how to perform the statistical anal..
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Handbook on the Clinical Treatment of Adopted Adolescents and Young Adults
This collection bridges the voices of international scholars and adopted persons to share knowledge about clinical practice with adopted people in adolescence and early adulthood.C..
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Reliability and Maintenance Modeling with Optimization: Advances and Applications
Reliability and maintenance modeling with optimization is the most fundamental and interdisciplinary research area and it can be applied to every technical and management field. Th..
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Molecular Layer Deposition for Tailored Organic Thin-Film Materials
This book provides concepts and experimental demonstrations for various types of MLD and organic multiple quantum dots (Organic MQDs), which is a typical tailored organic thin-film..
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Liquid Crystals with Nano/Micro Particles and Their Applications
ABOUT THE BOOKLCs are self-organized anisotropic fluids that are thermodynamically located between the isotropic liquid and the crystalline phase, exhibiting the fluidity of liquid..
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Handbook of Formal Analysis and Verification in Cryptography
ABOUT THE BOOKThis handbook of formal analysis in cryptography is very important for secure communication and processing of information. It introduces readers to several formal ver..
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Materials for Chemical Sensors
ABOUT THE BOOKApplication as well as detection of different chemicals plays an important role in the progress of modern science and technology. The beauty of various characteristic..
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Bio-mathematics, Statistics, and Nano-Technologies: Mosquito Control Strategies
ABOUT THE BOOKFinding effective methods for mosquito control remains one of the great global challenges facing this generation. Bio-mathematics, Statistics and Nano-Technologi..
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Linear Algebra With Machine Learning and Data
ABOUT THE BOOKThis book takes a deep dive into several key linear algebra subjects as they apply to data analytics and data mining. The book offers a case study approach where each..
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Deep Learning in Time Series Analysis
Deep learning is an important element of artificial intelligence, especially in applications such as image classification in which various architectures of neural network, e.g., co..
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Sparse Graphical Modeling for High Dimensional Data: A Paradigm of Conditional Independence Tests
ABOUT THE BOOKThis book provides a general framework for learning sparse graphical models with conditional independence tests. It includes complete treatments for Gaussian, Poisson..
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Internet of Things and Data Mining for Modern Engineering and Healthcare Applications
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Sustainable and Advanced Applications of Blockchain in Smart Computational Technologies
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Making Data Work : Enabling Digital Transformation, Empowering People and Advancing Organisational Success
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The Chemistry and Mechanism of Art Materials: Unsuspected Properties and Outcomes
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Additive Manufacturing of Polymers for Tissue Engineering: Fundamentals, Applications, and Future Advancements
ABOUT THE BOOKApplication of additive manufacturing and tissue engineering in the fields of science and technology enables the manufacturing of biocompatible, customized, reliable,..
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Soft Computing in Materials Development and its Sustainability in the Manufacturing Sector
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Regression Analysis in R: A Comprehensive View for the Social Sciences
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Regional Businesses in a Changing Global Economy: The Australian Experience
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Handbook of Sustainable Development Through Green Engineering and Technology
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Advanced Machining Science
As machining processes become more advanced, so does the science behind them. This book emphasizes these scientific developments, in addition to the more widely covered technologic..