Introduction to pharmaceutical biotechnology, volume 3

Introduction to Pharmaceutical Biotechnology: Animal tissue culture and biopharmaceuticals provides background information on all aspects of this fascinating subject, including stem cell treatment, in vitro organ systems and cell culture technology. This book and the previous two volumes are a mu...

Understanding stellar evolution

Understanding Stellar Evolution is based on a series of graduate-level courses taught at the University of Washington since 2004. It describes the structure and evolution of stars, with emphasis on the basic physical principles and the interplay between the different processes inside stars. Based...

Sun protection

Sun Protection differentiates itself from other texts by adopting a risk management approach to determine whether, how, and in what circumstances, harm might be caused, and to explore the feasibility of various strategies in controlling exposure to solar UV radiation. This multi-disciplinary book...

Bionanomaterials

This reference text brings together comprehensive reviews of the latest research in the field of bionanomaterials, with a focus on fundamentals and biomedical applications. The major applications covered include nanobiosensing, nanomedicine, diagnostics, therapeutics, tissue engineering and green...

Web content mining

This book illustrates the concepts and applications of web mining from the nature of web data sources to discovering and representing the extracted knowledge. Starting with an overview of data mining, it introduces web mining and draws comparisons between data mining and web mining. After this in...

Photo acoustic and optical coherence tomography imaging, volume 3

Ultra-Brief CopyThis book covers the state-of-the-art techniques of optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) imaging, helping to advance scientific research for the diagnosis of retinal diseases.

Explicit symmetry breaking in electrodynamic systems and electromagnetic radiation (second edition)

This second edition expands on the introduction to the concept of symmetries in electromagnetism and explicit symmetry breaking. It addresses some of the recent developments in the field of radiation from magneto-electric materials and ferroelectric materials and correlate them to the nature of s...

New windows on the universe

This book focuses on key multi-wavelength and multi-messenger studies in contemporary astronomical research. Examples include exciting areas such as colliding black holes and neutron stars, the discovery of planetary systems around stars other than our own, and the determination of the Hubble con...

Aurivillius phase materials

This book provides an overview of Aurivillius phase layer structured ferroelectrics, with a focus on in-depth classification of layer structured materials and their role in developing environmentally sustainable compounds. It is an essential reference for professionals and academics working in th...

Secondary ion mass spectrometry and its application to materials science (second edition)

In this edition, a more detailed overview of the principles of SIMS is given, and of how the development of dual-beam instruments has blurred the traditional fields of dynamic and static SIMS to enable greater analytical possibilities. This is an ideal text for final year undergraduates, first ye...

Ultrafast lasers and optics for experimentalists

Ultrafast lasers are increasingly used in science by people who are not specialist laser physicists. This book clearly, and without dense physics or mathematics, presents the fundamental concepts of ultrafast lasers and optics that are needed to effectively work in a laser lab.

An interactive guide to quantum optics

This book provides the reader with an interactive experience of quantum optics, suitable for Final year undergraduate quantum optics students, and new graduate students in AMO physics.

A mathematically coherent quantum gravity

This book describes a coherent mathematical framework for both the evolution of discrete space–time and the quantum graviton in the Planck regime. The result is a coherent mathematical framework that encapsulates newer developments on both the evolution of discrete space–time and the quantum grav...

Light--material interactions and applications in optoelectronic devices

The aim of this book is to guide students and junior researchers how to investigate and understand optoelectronic devices via exploring the light-material interactions with graphical concepts and simplified formulas.

Elementary cosmology (second edition)

This book presents a history of cosmology, covering the scientific developments from the time of the early Greek philosophers until the present day. It introduces the most important discoveries in cosmology, and how they altered our perceptions of the origin, size, structure, and evolution of the...

Additive manufacturing of ceramics

Additive manufacturing or 3D printing offered a new way to fabricate ceramics and ceramic materials, with advantages that could not be achieved by using the traditional manufacturing technologies.

Physics of cancer, volume 5 (second edition)

This book aims to make very important topics in the physics of cancer such as mechanical characterization of cells using biophysical methods visible to the research community, with the goal of ensuring these special techniques receive more attention from the scientific community and are developed...

Introduction to pharmaceutical biotechnology, volume 1 (second edition)

The recent advancements in biotechnology, particularly in post-COVID era is accelerating the pace of research and development in all areas of biological sciences. Thus, the aim and scope of this book is to clearly illustrate ideas on diverse ongoing cutting-edge advancements in the field biotechn...

Internet of things in biomedical sciences

Discussion of various IOT based systems for classification and design strategy of biomedical systems are provided in the book. This book can serve as a pillar for the IOT application in biomedical systems understanding.

Chemical vapour deposition

This is the first book to cover CVD growth processes at the atomic level using a combination of theoretical and experimental tools, including density functional theory (DFT) calculations. By demonstrating the methodology behind the modelling and simulation of CVD growth processes, the text provid...

Flexible electronics, volume 3

This volume focuses on energy devices such as supercapacitors, batteries, energy harvesters, solar cells, and the applications of flexible electronics in displays and light-emission devices, CNT field emitters, sensors, memories, antennas and RFID tags.

Nonlinear guided wave optics

With introductory material to make the subject area accessible to non-specialists such as graduate and PhD students, and researchers working in other areas where extreme waves are relevant, this book features contributions by prominent scientists in this emerging field and is a comprehensive trea...

Unexpected similarities of the universe with atomic and molecular systems: what a beautiful world

As fascinating and unexplainable as the universe appears to be, there are also an incredible amount of similarities between the universe and the everyday world and we are constantly evolving to discover more about these incredible parallels as this book unveils. For those with a fascination in th...

The foundations of electric circuit theory

Circuit theory, one of the most important tools of the electrical engineer, can be derived with approximations from Maxwell’s equations although the two are often taught independently. This book treats these topics as a single subject and derives and presents the key results from circuit analysis...

Detection systems in lung cancer and imaging, volume 2

Semiconductor integrated optics for switching light (second edition)

Semiconductor Integrated Optics for Switching Light, Second Edition provides concise description of the physics and engineering of semiconductor optical waveguides for photonic and electronic switching with a focus on optical communication applications. It provides Python notebooks that illustrat...

Energy harvesting properties of electrospun nanofibers

A key reference for graduate students, researchers and scientists in the fields of energy harvesting, sensors or nanofibers, this book provides a state-of-the-art review of the applications of electrospun nanofibers for piezoelectric and triboelectric energy harvesting. It comprises eight chapter...

Physics of cancer, volume 6 (second edition)

The book ‘The Physics of Cancer Volume 6 (Second edition)’ focuses on the topics of extracellular vesicular communication of cancer cells with their environment, the role of autophagy in cancer, the dual function of mast cells in solid tumors, and the effects of the mechanical properties of cance...

Trends in biological processes in industrial wastewater treatment

This book will discuss the new and emerging innovative trends in the application of biological processes in industrial wastewater treatment.

Advances in image and data processing using vlsi design, volume 1

This book provides a framework for design, modeling concepts, and application of Image Processing based systems using VLSI design techniques. This volume focuses on a range of topics including object detection, recognition, smart traffic management and more, helping the research community to get ...

Particle tracking velocimetry

Particle tracking velocimetry (PTV) is one of the latest and most powerful flow visualization techniques, using numerous cameras to track flow tracers in two or three dimensions. This book provides a review of both experimental and computational aspects of PTV for academic and industrial research...

Gas sensor technologies for environmental sensing

This book presents and evaluates the most common, basic gas sensing technologies and their respective potential against the background of user requirements. The book is primarily aimed at end-users of gas sensing technology who need to be able to judge the different technological offers available.

Physics in food manufacturing

This book is the first authoritative text on the role that physicists play in solving the inherently multidisciplinary science and technology challenges in food manufacturing. The book is an essential reference for interdisciplinary physical scientists, food/nutrition scientists and engineers wor...

Artificial intelligence strategies for analyzing covid-19 pneumonia lung imaging, volume 2

Intensity modulated radiation therapy

This book, written by leading researchers and medical doctors in the field, provides an overview of intensity modulation technology and its evolution over the last 35 years. Every aspect of IMRT is covered, from fundamental concepts to advanced processes and clinical applications, and comprehensi...

Image processing with python

This book explores the domain of image processing using Python, with the help of working examples and accompanying code. The example-led implementation of Python codes is provided in this book to train budding researchers, coders, and hobbyists in the field of machine intelligence and image proce...

Open-channel microfluidics (second edition)

The development of open microfluidics is relatively recent and is an emerging sub-domain of capillarity, with many applications. This second edition research text presents the recent advances in open microfluidics, the science that describes capillary microflows guided by solid structures and par...

Modelling and analysis of active biopotential signals in healthcare, volume 1

This book focuses on analysis and modelling of active bio potential signals addressing the real-time challenges in biomedical signal processing used in a variety of applications such as analysis, classification and identification of different disorders in healthcare systems.

Artificial intelligence in cancer diagnosis and prognosis, volume 1

This book focuses on major trends and challenges in the area of diagnosing lung and kidney cancer using artificial intelligence tools. It presents work aimed to identify new techniques and their use in biomedical analysis.

Advances in x-ray spectroscopy of laser plasmas

Recent advances in X-ray spectroscopy of laser plasmas are presented in this book to significantly expand the scope of the practical applications, allowing study of the development of Langmuir waves, ion acoustic waves, transverse electromagnetic waves, parametric decay instabilities, as well as ...