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Presenting illustrative case studies, highlighting technological applications, and explaining theoretical and foundational concepts, this book is an i..
The science of AI was born a little over 60 years ago, but for most of that time its achievements were modest. In 2012 it experienced a big bang, when..
This book examines how chemistry, chemical processes, and transformations are used for pollution prevention and control. Pollution prevention reduces ..
Discovering Group Theory: A Transition to Advanced Mathematics presents the usual material that is found in a first course on groups and then does a b..
Disk-Based Algorithms for Big Data is a product of recent advances in the areas of big data, data analytics, and the underlying file systems and data ..
Graphene has been hailed as a rising star in photonics and optoelectronics. The wonderful optical properties of graphene make possible the multiple fu..
This new volume focuses on the ever-growing and ever-sophisticated use of nanobiomaterials in drug delivery. There have been significant developments ..
The main aims of this book are to summarize the fundamentals, synthesis methods, properties and applications of nanomaterials, so as to provide reader..
Nature-Inspired Computing: Physics and Chemistry-Based Algorithms provides a comprehensive introduction to the methodologies and algorithms in nature-..
In this volume the physics involved in various astrophysical processes like the synthesis of light and heavier elements, explosive burning processes, ..
This reference book concentrates on microstructuring surfaces of optical materials with directed fluxes of off-electrode plasma generated by high-volt..