Navigating the Future
This book explores artificial intelligence’s dual role as a solution and a risk for humanity’s most pressing challenges. It discusses the ethical governance needed to guide AI’s transformative potential towards a sustainable, equitable, and peaceful future.
Healthcare with Machine Learning
Machine learning is revolutionizing healthcare. This book makes the complex subject simple and actionable for healthcare professionals and data scientists. Through exciting examples and live cases, it bridges theory and practice, showing how algorithms are impacting patient care.
This book provides an in-depth understanding of combined power and water desalination plants. It covers the fundamentals, performance assessment, and economic evaluation of these fuel-efficient cogeneration facilities, intended for planners, engineers, researchers, and students.
Functional analysis studies infinite vector spaces, their topologies, and the operators between them. This book is a collection of notes, expositions, exercises, and lectures on advanced functional analysis, exploring properties such as duality, continuity, and C*-algebras.
Biodiversity as a Source of Medicines
Renowned experts explore biodiversity’s potential for developing new medicines. Discover strategies for transforming scientific discoveries into marketable drugs, demonstrated with practical examples, case studies, and a look at biotechnology and regulatory status.
This book presents mathematical models of thermal stresses, strengthening, and crack formation in two-component materials like composites and dual-phase steel. Suitable for research, engineering, university courses, and non-specialists, with a helpful mathematical appendix.
Build efficient, ethical, and sustainable supply chains. This guide bridges theory and practice with real-world case studies and exercises, covering carbon reduction, green transportation, and sustainable sourcing. An essential tool for students and professionals.
Civil Society and the Sustainable Development Goals in Africa
Experts explore the vital role of Civil Society Organizations in advancing Africa’s Sustainable Development Goals. Analysis covers CSO-state partnerships, donor impact, and the challenges of improving gender equality, education, and health outcomes for policymakers and scholars.
Thin PDLC films are a cutting-edge smart glass technology offering dynamic control over privacy. With an electric current, these versatile films switch instantly from clear to frosted, providing an energy-efficient solution to reduce glare without traditional blinds or curtains.
A self-study guide to Solid State Physics for students of Physics, Engineering, and Materials Science. It contains carefully selected problems and detailed solutions, with core concepts presented concisely and with minimal math to help you master problem-solving.
High-performance Titanium Alloys and Lattice Structures
Explore high-performance titanium alloys and 3D-printed lattice structures. This comprehensive reference for scientists and engineers covers their design, fabrication, mechanical properties, and application in lightweight, high-strength components for sustainable engineering.
Technology, Innovations and Sustainability
This book offers an insight into emerging technologies to safeguard the future. A collection from leading experts, it provides cutting-edge solutions to climate change, covering topics like renewable energy, sustainable IoT, vaccine development, and waste management.
Hydro Mastery
This book provides a blueprint for turning water management into a competitive advantage. By understanding water on a molecular level, businesses can boost efficiency, reduce costs, and prevent fouling, transforming water science into tangible economic benefits.
This textbook presents the first systematic exposition of the new X-ray optics. Once limited to electronic density, the X-ray reflectivity method now detects magnetic and electronic depth-profiles. It develops the theory for students, postgraduates, and researchers.
Renowned experts share recent breakthroughs in civil engineering, offering fresh insights on key challenges facing modern society. Focusing on sustainability and efficiency, each chapter will spark new ideas and pave the way for a brighter, more sustainable future for us all.
Climate’s Impact on Agriculture
As climate change reshapes food production, this book offers actionable solutions. It merges cutting-edge research with sustainable practices and innovative technologies, providing strategies for farmers and policymakers to navigate this urgent challenge and build resilience.
Sustainable Corrosion Inhibitors from Natural Sources
This book focuses on utilizing natural sources, such as plant extracts, to develop green corrosion inhibitors that support ecosystem preservation. This is one of the most effective and economical methods of protecting metallic surfaces by replacing toxic chemical inhibitors.
This book delves into optimizing natural fibre composites as sustainable alternatives to synthetics. It focuses on strengthening the bond between fibres and polymers through surface modification, enhancing structural strength and efficiency for various industrial needs.
This book offers thought experiments exploring digital transformation’s disruptions to technology, knowledge, and human identity. The essays are “short cuts”—brief, bold excursions that challenge conventional paths and invite readers into uncertain yet revelatory terrain.
The first monograph to present the big picture of Artificial Intelligence in spectroscopy. Its rigorous mathematical basis, numerous examples, and reproducible computer calculations make it a valuable guide for theorists, practitioners, and students in chemistry and physics.