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This book addresses the theoretical and scientific foundations and practical research of technologies in clean production processes based on multi-criteria decision-making. The analyzed/selected model is a realistic and appropriate model for the field of research. Comparisons are made with traditional decision-making methods and new advanced scientific methods are incorporated. The book will be of interest to engineers and researchers who focus on multi-criteria decision-making and research in clean production processes, as well as students and professors at universities that deal with this field.

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In recent years, composite materials have garnered attention, as various combinations of reinforcements can be incorporated to create lightweight materials with diverse properties. Composite materials can be tailored for particular applications and made suitable for adverse atmospheric conditions. A new, challenging research area involves the formulation of innovative materials with less weight, higher stiffness, lower costs, and higher biocompatibility. Examples of applications for such materials include electric vehicles, defence vehicles, aircraft parts and industrial machine structures. The incorporation of natural and inorganic filler to Kevlar epoxy composite shows improved behavioural properties compared to either natural or inorganic filler alone. These properties include tensile, flexural and interlaminar shear strength as well as thermal performance. This book aims to describe the advantages of using bi-filler reinforcement over single filler reinforcement to enable the development of innovative composite materials with tuneable properties.

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Nanomaterials are materials with individual units ranging in size from 1 to 1000 nanometers. Nanomaterials research necessitates collaboration between materials science and nanotechnology, improved materials metrology, and synthesis. This book is made up of chapters that cover the most important aspects of nanotechnology. The majority of the subjects covered in this book are related to nanomaterial properties, synthesis, procedures, and applications. This edited book provides a comprehensive overview of the current state of this vital area. The different materials and their presentations in energy, ceramics, alloys, catalysis, membrane, pollution, and biomedical sciences are covered in this edited book. It addresses a range of aspects because these materials' structure can be tailored at extremely small scales to achieve specific properties, thus greatly expanding the materials science toolkit. It explores several applications that could potentially be used to improve the environment and to more efficiently and cost-effectively produce energy, such as producing solar cells that generate electricity at a competitive rate, so the book offers a valuable asset for a broad readership, including professionals, students, and researchers from materials science/engineering, polymer science, composite technology, nanotechnology, and biotechnology whose work involves various types of nanomaterials. Increased coverage of important background science makes this a valuable self-contained text, and extensive expanded referencing engages readers with the newest research and industrial advancements in the subject. This edited book contains twelve chapters of valuable studies from recent years.

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The interaction of human beings with the environment can cause unwanted injuries. The damage to the environment from people is a big problem carried from the past to the future. The healthy living of both parties in harmony is associated with "environmental awareness" and "preparedness". Lives can be saved with the rapid recognition and treatment of environmental emergencies such as disasters, injuries, and poisonings, which occur with increasing frequency, and with the right first aid. The book contains up-to-date information to help manage many emergencies that every person may suddenly encounter. It has been prepared as a resource book that can be used by everyone interested, especially health professionals, medical students, and first aid volunteers. The common purpose of all chapters in this book is to provide the reader with theoretical and practical information for early recognition of the clinical situation in the prehospital setting and emergency departments and the rapid initiation of appropriate treatment. Effective and safe interventions in environmental emergencies will reduce the risk of bad outcomes as in every emergency.

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This volume includes eleven chapters that present various research updates in the fields of business and management. Chapter One describes the current disruptive process and growing fragmentation in the global labor market and shows how digital platforms have reconfigured the organization of work and the trends that emerge in the context of the pandemic. Chapter Two addresses how the development of people in organizations around the world is achieved and what advancements are on the horizon in this area, specifically in Latin America. Chapter Three analyzes corporate social responsibility in agribusiness in Latin America. Chapter Four investigates whether the shift in focus of companies from shareholder to all stakeholders has led to a reorientation of renumeration incentives. Chapter Five explores the role of buyers' personalities on their responses to business-to-business advertising messages. Chapter Six analyzes the main entropy measures applied to the sovereign credit rating data of the European Union. Chapter Seven highlights the importance of collaborative entrepreneurship education. Chapter Eight describes strategies for success for small and medium enterprises using action-oriented systems thinking simulations. Chapter Nine analyzes narrative practices of greenwashing developed by multinational corporations in Spain. Chapter Ten discusses major policy changes for Bhutan in light of the impact of the pandemic on tourism. Finally, Chapter Eleven proposes and evaluates a framework augmenting the standard business cycle model with shopping time to study business cycles in Bulgaria.

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The objective of this book is to communicate advancements of knowledge and help disseminate results concerning recent applications and case studies in the area of quantum computing among working professionals and professionals in education and research, covering a broad cross-section of technical disciplines. This book will allow students to explore knowledge in quantum computing to produce serviceable and innocuous systems as well as purposeful systems with cutting-edge technology. To yield computer systems with decent usability, developers must attempt to understand the factors that determine how people use technology. This book will cater to an extensive cross-sectional and multi-disciplinary readership ranging from academics, business delegates, CEOs, communication designers, computer scientists, digital customers, e-decision makers, eLearning environment designers, industrial leaders, industry consultants, key workers, law enforcement agencies, managers, practitioners, professionals, professors, profit/non-profit e-organizations, programmers, R&D/professional research communities, security architects, stakeholders, students, support staff and university researchers/scholars of various communities, such as artificial intelligence, cyber-physical systems, ethics, robotics, safety engineering, safety-critical systems, standardization and certification digital forensics and application domain communities such as aerospace, agriculture, automotive, critical infrastructures, healthcare, manufacturing, retail, smart transports, smart cities and smart healthcare, using real case studies and projecting outcomes, showing the intricate details of quantum computing in these real-life scenarios. As a final point, this book will provide up-to-date, premeditated, and creative information to those engrossed in the field of quantum computing.

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This book aims to guide using 3D modeling techniques, texturing, and assigning material by using healthcare as the core application for demonstration. Blender is a free and open-source digital content creation (DCC) tool that provides the freedom to users of different backgrounds to get started quickly. The demonstrating of healthcare application enables related expertise to be equipped with modeling and rendering techniques through understanding background knowledge in character modeling, dressing and animation in healthcare application. The target audience includes professionals and researchers working in virtual reality, computer graphics, computer simulation, design, visual arts in various disciplines (eg: computer science, design, art, healthcare, rehabilitation, education, and information technology).

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This volume includes eight chapters that provide updates in the field of environmental research. Chapter One deals with the subject of applied bioethics, providing historical and contemporary environmental examples. Chapter Two presents different field and experimental studies based on fluorescence spectroscopy addressing the spatio-temporal dynamics of dissolved organic matter in headwaters of North Patagonia. Chapter Three reviews the recent advancements in the field of small RNA delivery in plants and discusses the advantages, limitations and successes of various delivery methods along with their applications in crop improvement. Chapter Four describes the factors that pose threats to floodplain fisheries in Bangladesh and strategies to overcome these threats. Chapter Five explores the preparation and properties of natural fiber-reinforced castor oil-derived polyurethane foams and their applications. Chapter Six discusses the role and long-lasting effect of seasonal flooding in phytoplankton ecology of floodplain lakes along the Middle Daugava River at Daugavpils, South-East Latvia. Chapter Seven evaluates the surface water quality of Küçük Menderes River Basin, located in Turkey, using factor analysis and water quality index methods. Finally, Chapter Eight investigates the effect of nanomagnetite, hydroxyapatite, and nanocomposite particles on wheat.

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We are delighted to offer this textbook to the scientific community, entitled Endothelial Progenitor Cells in Health and Diseases, which covers a timely topic in the rapidly evolving discipline of vascular biology. Written primarily for a life science audience and clinicians, the fundamentals of EPCs biology and the latest characterization and definition in health and diseases are introduced, followed by explanations of the most cutting-edge cell therapy methods to cure ischemic diseases. In Section One, endothelial cell progenitor isolation methods and biological characterization were reported. The discovery of this novel endothelial progenitor cells (EPC) concept has overturned the previous dogma which suggested that vasculogenesis could only occur during embryogenesis. In fact, both vasculogenesis and angiogenesis may potentially have a synergistic role in postnatal revascularization. Also, this chapter summarized recent advances in EPC biology such as biological function, origin, definition, and classification. Each EPC culture and isolation method is clearly defined to prevent confusion in EPC biology. Section Two focuses on EPC biological function alteration in cardiovascular diseases (CVD). Several large clinical trials have reported that the number and biological function are strongly associated with major adverse cardiovascular events. The diagnostic and prognostic potential of EPC is crucial in terms of CVD. In Section Three, biological dysfunction mechanisms of EPC and their scarcity in diabetic patients' peripheral blood were clearly described. Preclinical studies have shown that EPC-based therapy is feasible, safe, and efficacious in multiple disease states. Subsequently, this has led to several clinical trials demonstrating the feasibility and safety profile of EPC therapy against cardiovascular ischemic diseases. In Section Four, regenerative medicine pioneers discussed EPCs translation to the clinic and cell transplantation challenges along with their solutions. Personalized stem cell-based therapy approaches employing several clinical biomarkers, disease-related genetic-trait evaluation methods, and advanced analyses with state-of-the-art computational methods such as machine learning-based prediction can increase cell therapies' efficacy and decrease treatment costs. The last chapter in the book describes a therapeutic application of EPC-derived extracellular vesicles to cure CVD.

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The global Internet and cyberspace age witness a new generation of cybercriminals, hackers, cybergangs, cyber terrorists, and cyber sexual harassers. This phenomenon, broadly defined as cybercrimes, is the focus of this book. The International Telecommunication Union's Global Cyber Security Index found that about 90 percent of the world's countries have enacted laws and regulations to control and combat cybercrime. This book has examined some of those cyber laws and regulations in 12 countries, including the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, China, Russia, Japan, Singapore, Nigeria, South Africa, India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh. Different chapters of this book have found some common themes. First, in most of the countries of the world, there is an advancing process of legally criminalizing cybercrimes, including such behaviors as unauthorized access, use, and interception; damage and deletion of computer data; damage and destruction of computer networks; and dissemination and transportation of illegally obtained computer data. Second, there is high sensitivity in all countries studied about the security of the information infrastructure and their critical economic, political, and social infrastructures such as power plants, chemical industries, aviation systems, and electoral systems. Third, all forms of cybercrime committed by using the computer and the Internet are also defined as fraud and forgery, identity theft, cyber espionage, sexual harassment, cyber sexual extortion, online child pornography, and revenge pornography. One of the more critical themes that emerged is that no country defines cybersecurity as just a technical matter-a matter only of coding and decoding and encryption and decryption. Cybersecurity is also broadly perceived as a legal, political, organizational, and educational issue. It is perceived as a matter to be dealt with by a government in cooperation with international partners, potentially barring China and Russia. One of the other themes that emerged as a genuine concern is the rapid escalation of cyber sexual violence against women and minors. In most countries examined in this book, the policymakers and law enforcement believe that social media is partly responsible for increasing cyber sexual violence.

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This book is the result of a teaching and research project that began in 2019 at the University of Oviedo with a view toward preparing the Expert Course on Interculturality, Justice and Global Change. The book is divided into 12 chapters by 14 researchers working in philosophy, geography, literature, education and culture, and it aims to contribute to the understanding of the re-configurations of space and identity against a backdrop of global change, encounters between hegemonic and non-hegemonic cultures, new territorial dynamics and landscape transformation, migration and the emergence of digital spaces. The intercultural approach is cross-cutting as the object of theoretical reflection, as a theoretical methodology and an epistemic option and as part of the panorama that the research aims to conceptualize.

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The problems of loaded language in journalism have eroded professional credibility over the years, and yet the journalist has a bounty of empirical and psychological tools to counter disinformation and propaganda by the use of the word alone. What are the best practices for investigative journalists to interview and present information in an emotionally literate manner? How and why is loaded language used, and how can a reporter counter attempts at gaslighting and manipulation? How does the profession reinvent the interview to connect to audiences through multiple literacies? Drawing from studies in the social sciences, this definitive book looks at the primal, emotional, and analytical aspects of words and their neurobiological effect on audiences, as it shows how to avoid loaded language, spin, propaganda, atmosphere, narrative, and sophistry.

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Plasmonics refers to the generation, detection, and manipulation of signals at optical frequencies along metal-dialectric interfaces at the nanometre scale. The four chapters of this book analyse plasmonics and its applications. Chapter One discusses the plasmonic sensor and its use in the detection of brain enzymes. Chapter Two examines the optical constants of plasmonic nanostructures and demonstrates that optical absorption can be used to estimate dielectric constants of noble metal nanostructures. Chapter Three theoretically investigates the magnetoplasmonics of noble metal nanostructures and shows that plasmonic nanostructures have increased magnetic response in visible range at low magnetic fields. Lastly, Chapter Four studies some aspects of classical and quantum optical effects in surface plasmonics.

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