English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811696241 | 277 pages | True PDF EPUB | 32 MB
This book describes the biology, diagnosis, treatment and the latest research on anti-sperm antibody (ASA) and anti-zona pellucida antibody (AZPA) produced in some infertile patients. It summarizes ASA in both men and women, and presents new research to serve as a guideline for medical treatment, which currently varies considerably. It also discusses the recently identified target antigens of these antibodies, and the latest immunocontraceptive development projects. The book features chapters on AZPA explaining the biological structure and function of the zona pellucida, and describing the abnormality and the antibody. It also provides insights into their evolution, presenting the differences in taxonomy, mammalian physiological functions and the morphologically and immunologically unique human zona pellucida.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 311078842X | 194 pages | True PDF EPUB | 62.91 MB
Nanotechnology is increasingly being utilized within the food industry to create innovative products with new or improved properties. This book introduces the history of nanotechnology applications in the food industry. It then discusses the key physicochemical and structural characteristics of the different kinds of nanoparticles found in foods, as well as showing how these characteristics lead to their unique functional attributes. Applications of nanotechnology in the food and agricultural industries are then covered, including the creation of nanopesticides, nanofertilizers, nutrient delivery systems, functional ingredients, smart packaging materials, nanofilters, and sensors, as well as for the conversion of waste materials into value-added products. Finally, the potential toxicity of both organic and inorganic nanoparticles found in foods is critically assessed.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 0262047217 | 215 pages | True EPUB | 5.07 MB
From the very first moments of the universe to the birth of the first star, our solar system, and our planet: a physicist traces the known and the unknown.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 1119744687 | 451 pages | True PDF EPUB | 20.76 MB
ETHYLENE IN PLANT BIOLOGY Comprehensive resource detailing the role of ethylene in plant development regulation, gene regulation, root development, stress tolerance, and more

English | 2022 | ISBN: 978-1119827320 | 604 pages | True PDF | 154.67 MB
Essential Techniques of Alveolar Bone Augmentation in Implant Dentistry A clinically focused manual of the most important surgical techniques in alveolar bone augmentation, providing key information for managing cases in implant dentistry

English | 2022 | ISBN: 978-1630819088 | 311 pages | True PDF | 12.92 MB
This book provides a broad look at all different energy storage technologies, from the past and into the future. It takes a hard look at the advantages and disadvantages of various technologies, but also the different applications of energy storage to determine the attributes that are most important for the technology one would choose for them. The book guides you through the hidden costs and true advantages of today's energy storage technologies, and helps you understand energy storage technologies' specifications and claims to uncover which are important to their applications. You will see how an energy storage technology's attributes affect the total system's performance and value and be equipped to evaluate the true costs of energy storage, with respect to up-front capital costs, ongoing operating costs, and total carbon footprint. You will also find helpful lessons learned from industry experts as they strove to pave new roads in the development of energy storage technologies and their markets. This is an excellent resource for project developers and anyone who needs a broad understanding of what matters in energy storage.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 978-1799857167 | 354 pages | True PDF | 13.27 MB
The internet of things (IoT) has emerged to address the need for connectivity and seamless integration with other devices as well as big data platforms for analytics. However, there are challenges that IoT-based applications face including design and implementation issues; connectivity problems; data gathering, storing, and analyzing in cloud-based environments; and IoT security and privacy issues.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 1119894905 | 435 pages | True PDF EPUB | 9.79 MB
Break into the exciting Canadian market for exchange-traded funds

English | 2022 | ISBN: 0192849638 | 352 pages | True EPUB | 6.97 MB
This book takes up the challenge that process philosophy and process ontology pose to conventional, entity-based empirical research, even daring to question the relevance of 'methodology' in contemporary process organization studies. A process ontology demands reimagining and ongoing reinvention of how researchers inquire into and engage with the movements and moments of a morphing world. This in turn requires us to notice differently in our empirical engagements.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811944482 | 342 pages | True PDF EPUB | 8.13 MB
This book's overarching premise is that discussion and critique in the discourses of architecture and urbanism have their primary focus on engagements with form, particularly in the sense of the question as to what planning and architecture signify with respect to the forms they take, and how their meanings or content (what is "contained") is considered in relation to form-as-container. While significant critical work in these disciplines has been published over the past 20 years that engages pertinently with the writings of Walter Benjamin and Michel Foucault, there has been no address to the co-incidence in the work of Benjamin and Foucault of an architectural figure that is pivotal to each of their discussions of the emergence of modernity: The arcade for Benjamin and the panoptic prison for Foucault have a parallel role. In Foucault's terms, panopticism is a "diagram of power." The parallel, for Benjamin, would be his understanding of "constellation." In more recent architectural writings, the notion of the diagram has emerged as a key motif. Yet, and in as much as it supposedly relates to aspects of the work of Foucault, along with Gilles Deleuze, this notion of "diagram" amounts, for the most part, to a thinly veiled reinstatement of geometry-as-idea. This book redresses the emphasis given to form within the cultural philosophy of modernity and—particularly with respect to architecture and urbanism—inflects on the agency of force that opens a reading of their productive capacities as technologies of power. It is relevant to students and scholars in poststructuralist critical theory, architecture, and urban studies.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 978-3035623857 | 240 pages | True PDF | 8.48 MB
How does design make the indestructible character of a drill tangible? Why does a brand become a trusted friend? And what emotions should intelligent gardening tools actually radiate?

English | 2022 | ISBN: 1399400703 | 97 pages | True PDF | 6.64 MB
This handy guide offers practical solutions and step-by-step advice on combating and managing stress so that you can achieve the best work-life balance.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030986357 | 367 pages | True PDF EPUB | 48.27 MB
This open access book aims to educate data space designers to understand what is required to create a successful data space. It explores cutting-edge theory, technologies, methodologies, and best practices for data spaces for both industrial and personal data and provides the reader with a basis for understanding the design, deployment, and future directions of data spaces.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 1032066202 | 258 pages | True PDF | 13.44 MB
Cyber Security Applications for Industry 4.0 (CSAI 4.0) provides integrated features of various disciplines in Computer Science, Mechanical, Electrical, and Electronics Engineering which are defined to be Smart systems. It is paramount that Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) provide accurate, real-time monitoring and control for smart applications and services. With better access to information from real-time manufacturing systems in industrial sectors, the CPS aim to increase the overall equipment effectiveness, reduce costs, and improve efficiency. Industry 4.0 technologies are already enabling numerous applications in a variety of industries. Nonetheless, legacy systems and inherent vulnerabilities in an organization's technology, including limited security mechanisms and logs, make the move to smart systems particularly challenging.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 1801810494 | 260 pages | True PDF | 12.78 MB
Build a variety of dynamic projects and beautiful UIs as you explore the power of Flutter for the web, desktop, and mobile

English | 2022 | ISBN: 0357510380 | 898 pages | True PDF | 20.56 MB
Discover the importance of financial accounting in creating a successful business and prosperous society with Warren/Jones CORPORATE FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING, 16E. This best-selling book clearly presents core financial accounting concepts within a meaningful business context, using engaging learning features that ensure a relevant, innovative learning experience. The authors demonstrate how accounting is more than just data or black-and-white rules. Updated content addresses the latest development and tools in corporate accounting today -- from using data analytics effectively to understanding the impact of discounts and sales in retail accounting. CNOWv2 online resources work with practice opportunities to ensure you understand and can apply key accounting principles. Prepare for immediate success on exams and advancements in your business career as you learn how to apply the key information that accounting provides to make critical business decisions.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 3030971880 | 204 pages | True PDF EPUB | 33.24 MB
The monograph is based on the research and training activities in the Western Pacific Ocean Region within the umbrella of UNESCO/IOC-Sub-Commission for the Western Pacific Region. The results of these activities are compared to cases from other tropical and subtropical regions on this planet to make the knowledge applicable to global aspects of sustainability of coral reef ecosystems. In this monograph, we examine the coral reefs from viewpoint of multidisciplinary approaches, including, environmental impacts, coral biology and system ecology, biogeochemical cycles and processes that drive the material and energy flow through the food web, as well as the proxies in geochemistry that have been used to track the responses of coral reefs to the changing climate and human perturbations. Although this study is focused on the Western Pacific Ocean, the Western Pacific Ocean is so large and diverse that most reef environment types on this planet are located within it. Therefore, knowledge gained in this study is relevant to the application of coastal management in practice as well as in the teaching classes on the interactions between coral reef ecosystems with changing environments.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031053060 | 186 pages | True PDF EPUB | 11.36 MB
Context plays an important role in entrepreneurship and this is increasingly being acknowledged both in research, practice, and policy considerations. Where, why, and how entrepreneurship occurs can be considered when studying the effects of context. This book focuses on the role of context in entrepreneurship by analyzing different factors, including locational, time-specific, and cultural variables andВ social conditions. Researchers of entrepreneurship will particularly benefit from the holistic, context-based perspective this book offers.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 978-1789450798 | 352 pages | True PDF | 53.39 MB
The Sun, our star, has inspired the research of many scientists and engineers and brings hope to many of us for a paradigm shift in energy. Indeed, the applications of solar energy are manifold, primarily because it concerns both light and heat. Photovoltaic (PV) conversion is the most well-known among these, but other modes of conversion include photochemical, photobiological, photoelectrochemical, thermal and thermochemical.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 978-0192895530 | 337 pages | True PDF | 5.91 MB
Competition between species arises when two or more species share at least some of the same limited resources. It is likely to affect all species, as well as many higher-level aspects of community and ecosystem dynamics. Interspecific competition shares many of the same features as density dependence (intraspecific competition) and evolution (competition between genotypes). In spite of this, a robust theoretical framework is not yet in place to develop a more coherent understanding of this important interaction. Despite its prominence in the ecological literature, the theory seems to have lost direction in recent decades, with many synthetic papers promoting outdated ideas, failing to use resource-based models, and having little utility in applied fields such as conservation and environmental management. Competition theory has done little to incorporate new findings regarding consumer-resource interactions in the context of larger food webs containing behaviourally or

English | 2022 | ISBN: 1119892457 | 483 pages | True PDF EPUB | 12.57 MB
Prepare for the Project+ exam and a new career in project management quickly and efficiently with a newly updated guide

English | 2022 | ISBN: 071127939X | 448 pages | True EPUB | 15.41 MB
Colors of Art takes the reader on a journey through history via 80 carefully curated artworks and their palettes. For these pieces, color is not only a tool (like a paintbrush or a canvas) but the fundamental secret to their success.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 0262047225 | 291 pages | True PDF EPUB | 14.29 MB
The rise of the platform economy into statelike dominance over the lives of entrepreneurs, users, and workers.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 9811940584 | 254 pages | True PDF EPUB | 18.09 MB
This book presents thoughts and pathways to build revolutionary machine learning models with the new paradigm of machine learning to adapt behaviorism. It focuses on two aspects – one focuses on architecting a choice process to lead users on the certain choice path while the second focuses on developing machine learning models based on choice paradigm. This book is divided in three parts where part one deals with human choice and choice architecting models with stories of choice architects. Second part closely studies human choosing models and deliberates on developing machine learning models based on the human choice paradigm. Third part takes you further to look at machine learning based choice architecture. The proposed pioneering choice-based paradigm for machine learning presented in the book will help readers to develop products – help readers to solve problems in a more humanish way and to negotiate with uncertainty in a more graceful but in an objective way. It will help to create unprecedented value for business and society. Further, it will unveil a new paradigm for modern intelligent businesses to embark on the new journey; the journey of transition from shackled feature rich and choice poor systems to feature flexible and choice rich natural behaviors.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 1523091037 | 241 pages | True PDF EPUB | 8.79 MB
Discover how the questions we ask ourselves and others can either expand our mindsets and open us up to exciting new possibilities or constrict our mindsets and limit our choices for successful change.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 1771513705 | 169 pages | True EPUB | 349.05 MB
Straightforward recipes for cannabis-infused treats that will elevate your enjoyment of the recreational and medicinal benefits of edibles, accompanied by stories from those who partake.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 0262046598 | 215 pages | True PDF | 6.53 MB
How the way we perceive our bodies plays a critical role in the way we perceive ourselves: stories of phantom limbs, rubber hands, anorexia, and other phenomena.

English | 2022 | ISBN: 978-1032036212 | 241 pages | True PDF | 11.06 MB
Blockchain for IoT provides the basic concepts of Blockchain technology

English | 2022 | ISBN: 0262543249 | 265 pages | True PDF | 7.81 MB
An approach to understanding religion that draws on both humanities and natural science but rejects approaches that employ simple monisms and radical dualisms.