Advances in Sustainable Polymers

Advances in Sustainable Polymers
Author: Vimal Katiyar
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2019-11-05
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9813298049

This book provides a systematic overview of the processing and applications of sustainable polymers. The volume covers recent advances in biomedical, food packaging, fuel cell, membrane, and other emerging applications. The book begins by addressing different sections of biomedical application including use of carbohydrate-based therapeutics, nanohybrids, nanohydrogels, bioresorbable polymers and their composites, polymer-grafted nanobiomaterials for biomedical devices and implants, nanofibres, and others. The second part of this book discusses various processing and packaging materials for food packaging applications. The last section discusses other emerging applications, including using microbial fuel cells for waste water treatment, microfluidic fuel cells for low power applications, among others. This volume will be relevant to researchers working to improve the properties of bio-based materials for their advanced application and wide commercialization.

Cellulose Nanocrystals

Cellulose Nanocrystals
Author: Vimal Katiyar
Publisher: de Gruyter
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9783110644524

Cellulose nanocrystals are being used more frequently as processing and nanofabrication techniques have advanced considerably. Cellulose Nanocrystals includes topics including Extraction and Fabrication Methodologies, Scale-Up Strategies and Life Cycle Assessment, Surface Modification Strategies, Nanocomposites, and Characterization and Testing Protocols. This book will appeal to physical, chemical and biological scientists as well as engineers.

Revisiting India's Partition

Revisiting India's Partition
Author: Amritjit Singh
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2016-06-15
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1498531059

Revisiting India’s Partition: New Essays on Memory, Culture, and Politics brings together scholars from across the globe to provide diverse perspectives on the continuing impact of the 1947 division of India on the eve of independence from the British Empire. The Partition caused a million deaths and displaced well over 10 million people. The trauma of brutal violence and displacement still haunts the survivors as well as their children and grandchildren. Nearly 70 years after this cataclysmic event, Revisiting India’s Partition explores the impact of the “Long Partition,” a concept developed by Vazira Zamindar to underscore the ongoing effects of the 1947 Partition upon all South Asian nations. In our collection, we extend and expand Zamindar’s notion of the Long Partition to examine the cultural, political, economic, and psychological impact the Partition continues to have on communities throughout the South Asian diaspora. The nineteen interdisciplinary essays in this book provide a multi-vocal, multi-focal, transnational commentary on the Partition in relation to motifs, communities, and regions in South Asia that have received scant attention in previous scholarship. In their individual essays, contributors offer new engagements on South Asia in relation to several topics, including decolonization and post-colony, economic development and nation-building, cross-border skirmishes and terrorism, and nationalism. This book is dedicated to covering areas beyond Punjab and Bengal and includes analyses of how Sindh and Kashmir, Hyderabad, and more broadly South India, the Northeast, and Burma call for special attention in coming to terms with memory, culture and politics surrounding the Partition.

Imaging Genetics

Imaging Genetics
Author: Adrian Dalca
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017-09-26
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780128139684

Imaging Genetics presents the latest research in imaging genetics methodology for discovering new associations between imaging and genetic variables, providing an overview of the state-of the-art in the field. Edited and written by leading researchers, this book is a beneficial reference for students and researchers, both new and experienced, in this growing area. The field of imaging genetics studies the relationships between DNA variation and measurements derived from anatomical or functional imaging data, often in the context of a disorder. While traditional genetic analyses rely on classical phenotypes like clinical symptoms, imaging genetics can offer richer insights into underlying, complex biological mechanisms.

Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence

Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence
Author: B. Uma Shankar
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 695
Release: 2017-11-01
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 9783319698991

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Pattern Recognition and Machine Intelligence, PReMI 2017,held in Kolkata, India, in December 2017. The total of 86 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 293 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: pattern recognition and machine learning; signal and image processing; computer vision and video processing; soft and natural computing; speech and natural language processing; bioinformatics and computational biology; data mining and big data analytics; deep learning; spatial data science and engineering; and applications of pattern recognition and machine intelligence.

International Conference on Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology (ICANN-2009)

International Conference on Advanced Nanomaterials and Nanotechnology (ICANN-2009)
Author: P.K. Giri
Publisher: American Inst. of Physics
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2010-10-29
Genre: Technology & Engineering
ISBN: 9780735408258

Nanoscale science and technology have occupied centre stage globally in modern scientific research and discourses in early twenty first century. The enabling nature of the technology makes it important in modern electronics, computing, materials, healthcare, energy and the environment. This volume contains some of the papers presented at the ICANN-2009, the first ever international conference on the subject held in the North-eastern part of India, with aims to promote sharing of new knowledge and exchange of the latest ideas in the field, through deliberations in the conference. The papers presented had been designed to represent the length and breadth of the field, with specific emphasis on the multidisciplinary nature of the subject. The peer reviewed articles contained herein are classified into several important subareas, e.g., nanostructured and nanoscale functional materials, nanobiotechnology, nanocomposites, nanoelectronics and nanosensors, nanomagnetism, computational nanotechnology etc. We hope that the readers would find the articles selected for publication scientifically exciting and useful.

Bioresource Utilization and Bioprocess

Bioresource Utilization and Bioprocess
Author: Sadhan Kumar Ghosh
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 281
Release: 2020-03-27
Genre: Science
ISBN: 9811516073

This book focuses on the utilization of bio-resources and their conversion pathways for a sustainable future. Tapping into bio-resources by means of thermochemical and biochemical processes has attracted researchers from all over the world; it is a broad area that has given birth to concepts like the biorefinery, as well as a new stream known as biotechnology. Its scope includes biochemical and microbiological engineering, biocatalysis and biotransformation, biosynthesis and metabolic engineering, bioprocess and biosystem engineering, bioenergy and biorefineries, cell culture and biomedical engineering, food, agricultural and marine biotechnology, bioseparation and biopurification engineering, bioremediation and environmental biotechnology, etc. The book discusses a host of new technologies now being used to tap these resources with innovative bioprocesses. All chapters are based on outstanding research papers selected for and presented at the IconSWM 2018 conference.