Academic Press imprint: 6422 books
Air Quality
Monitoring, Measuring, and Modeling Environmental Hazards
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.
This new compendium provides a nuanced look at monitoring, measuring, and modeling air quality pollution in conjunction with its effects on public health and the environment. Air pollution has been proven to be a major environmental risk...
Conservation, Tourism, and Identity of Contemporary Community Art
A Case Study of Felipe Seade’s Mural "Allegory to Work”
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
This unique volume aims to promote new models of sustainable management in the field of contemporary mural art. Cultural heritage has become an essential tool for society, stressing the necessity to properly conserve cultural resources in order to maintain a socially, economically, and environmentally...
Bioactive Compounds of Medicinal Plants
Properties and Potential for Human Health
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2018
This volume sheds new light on the immense potential of medicinal plants for human health from different technological aspects. It presents new research on bioactive compounds in medicinal plants that provide health benefits, including those that have proven especially effective in treating and managing...
Micro Irrigation Engineering for Horticultural Crops
Policy Options, Scheduling, and Design
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
This book presents a variety of policy adoption methods, irrigation scheduling, and design procedures in micro irrigation engineering for horticultural crops. The chapters range from policy interventions to applications of systems for different crops and under different land conditions. Compiling...
Food Security and Child Malnutrition
The Impact on Health, Growth, and Well-Being
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
Food security and child malnutrition are at the forefront of our attention, both nationally and internationally. The chapters contained in this compendium include a range of methodologies—literature review, cross-sectional study, longitudinal study, case-control, and even a focus group!—all of...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2018
Technological Interventions in Processing of Fruits and Vegetables presents a wide selection of the latest concepts in the fast-changing field of processing of fruits and vegetables (FAV). It provides key information on many new and different techniques used for processing of fruits and vegetables...
Novel Dairy Processing Technologies
Techniques, Management, and Energy Conservation
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Milk is nature’s perfect food (lacking only iron, copper, and vitamin C) and is highly recommended by nutritionists for building healthy bodies. New technologies have emerged in the processing of milk. This new volume focuses on the processing of milk by novel techniques, emphasizing the conservation...
Food Process Engineering
Emerging Trends in Research and Their Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
This book provides a global perspective of present-age frontiers in food process engineering research, innovation, and emerging trends. It provides an abundance of new information on a variety of issues and problems in food processing technology. Divided into five parts, the book presents new research...
Food Toxicology
Current Advances and Future Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
This volume covers a selection of important research in the multifaceted field of food toxicology. With more than seven billion people in the world today and counting, advances in food toxicology have a direct bearing on food safety issues that are of concern to all humanity for the foreseeable future....
Developing Technologies in Food Science
Status, Applications, and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
This new volume, the 7th in the Innovations in Agricultural & Biological Engineering book series, focuses on emerging trends, applications and challenges in food science and technology. While food science and technology is not a new field, it is constantly changing due to new technology, new science,...
Quantum Mechanics
Axiomatic Theory with Modern Applications
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2018
This volume will act as a guide through the various aspects of quantum mechanics. It not only covers the basics but also addresses new themes developed in the field of quantum mechanics in recent years. These include quantum mechanics in relation to electronics, quantum dots, spintronics, cryptography,...
Applied Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Volume 4
Experimental Techniques and Methodical Developments
Language: English
Release Date: December 22, 2017
Applied Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Volume 4: Experimental Techniques and Methodical Developments provides a detailed yet easy-to-follow treatment of various techniques useful for characterizing the structure and properties of engineering materials. This timely volume provides an overview...
by Peter W. Hawkes
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2011
Advances in Imaging and Electron Physics merges two long-running serials-Advances in Electronics and Electron Physics and Advances in Optical and Electron Microscopy. This series features extended articles on the physics of electron devices (especially semiconductor devices), particle optics at high...
Effective Communication During Disasters
Making Use of Technology, Media, and Human Resources
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2016
This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.
In today’s world, there are new opportunities for disaster communications through modern technology and social media. Social network applications such as Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram can connect friends, family, first responders, and...