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Advances in Biomaterials Science and Biomedical Applications

This contribution book is a collection of reviews and original articles from eminent experts working in the multi- and interdisciplinary arena of biomaterials, ranging from their design to novel uses. From their personal experience, the readers can obtain a stimulating foresight on the potentialities of different synthetic and engineered biomaterials. 21 chapters have been organized to illustrate different aspects of biomaterials science. From advanced means for the characterization and toxicological assessment of new materials, through ‘classical’ applications in nanotechnology and tissue engineering, toward novel specific uses of these products, the volume wishes to give readers a view of the wide range of disciplines and methodologies that have been exploited to develop biomaterials with the physical and biological features needed for specific clinical and medical applications.

Subjects:: Biomedical Engineering
Keywords:: Biomedical materials Biomedical engineering
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Current Topics in Biochemical Engineering

Genetic and cellular technologies in life science have recently achieved remarkable progress, and thus the roles of biochemical engineers have also been changed to incorporate the use of new technology. Therefore, this book deals with current topics in biochemical engineering. The chapters of this book discuss research that has introduced artificial enzymes, kinetic models in bioprocessing, a small-scale production process, and production of energy with microbial fuel. These chapters offer novel ideas for the production of effective compounds and energy. Moreover, other research has introduced the production technology of stem cells and biomedical processes using nanoshells and extracellular vesicles. These chapters will provide novel ideas to produce effective compounds and develop therapies for various diseases.

Subjects:: Electronic and Information Engineering
Keywords:: Biochemical engineering
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Advances in Security in Computing and Communications

In the era of Internet of Things (IoT) and with the explosive worldwide growth of electronic data volume, and associated need of processing, analysis, and storage of such humongous volume of data, several new challenges are faced in protecting privacy of sensitive data and securing systems by designing novel schemes for secure authentication, integrity protection, encryption, and non-repudiation. Lightweight symmetric key cryptography and adaptive network security algorithms are in demand for mitigating these challenges. This book presents some of the state-of-the-art research work in the field of cryptography and security in computing and communications. It is a valuable source of knowledge for researchers, engineers, practitioners, graduates, and doctoral students who are working in the field of cryptography, network security, and security and privacy issues in the Internet of Things (IoT). It will also be useful for faculty members of graduate schools and universities.

Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Data protection Computer security Computer networks -- Security measures Data encryption (Computer science)
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Face Recognition

Pattern recognition has gained significant attention due to the rapid explosion of internet- and mobile-based applications. Among the various pattern recognition applications, face recognition is always being the center of attraction. With so much of unlabeled face images being captured and made available on internet (particularly on social media), conventional supervised means of classifying face images become challenging. This clearly warrants for semi-supervised classification and subspace projection. Another important concern in face recognition system is the proper and stringent evaluation of its capability. This book is edited keeping all these factors in mind. This book is composed of five chapters covering introduction, overview, semi-supervised classification, subspace projection, and evaluation techniques.

Subjects:: Electronic and Information Engineering and Computing
Keywords:: Human face recognition (Computer science)
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Advances and Applications in Mobile Computing

Advances and Applications in Mobile Computing offers guidelines on how mobile software services can be used in order to simplify the mobile users' life. The main contribution of this book is enhancing mobile software application development stages as analysis, design, development and test. Also, recent mobile network technologies such as algorithms, decreasing energy consumption in mobile network, and fault tolerance in distributed mobile computing are the main concern of the first section. In the mobile software life cycle section, the chapter on human computer interaction discusses mobile device handset design strategies, following the chapters on mobile application testing strategies. The last section, mobile applications as service, covers different mobile solutions and different application sectors.

Subjects:: Mobile Computing
Keywords:: Mobile computing
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Mobile Computing

Nowadays, mobile communication services are penetrating into our society at an explosive growth rate. Applications in mobile devices offer limitations, restriction, and guidelines on how mobile software can be used in order to simplify the mobile usage. As smart phones and tablets are becoming the daily computing device of choice for young ages, it is expected that mobile applications and services should be as flexible, high quality, and secure as the desktop systems. In this book, latest trends in mobile computing will be discussed. In the first section, cloud computing topics will be discussed widely into four chapters to give information to the reader about topics such as challenges, services, edge computing, and distributed clouds needed to integrate this promising issue into the next generation.

Subjects:: Mobile Computing
Keywords:: Mobile computing
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Evolutionary Algorithms

Evolutionary algorithms are successively applied to wide optimization problems in the engineering, marketing, operations research, and social science, such as include scheduling, genetics, material selection, structural design and so on. Apart from mathematical optimization problems, evolutionary algorithms have also been used as an experimental framework within biological evolution and natural selection in the field of artificial life.

Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Mathematical optimization Genetic algorithms Evolutionary programming (Computer science)
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Modern Information Systems

The development of modern information systems is a demanding task. New technologies and tools are designed, implemented and presented in the market on a daily bases. User needs change dramatically fast and the IT industry copes to reach the level of efficiency and adaptability for its systems in order to be competitive and up-to-date. Thus, the realization of modern information systems with great characteristics and functionalities implemented for specific areas of interest is a fact of our modern and demanding digital society and this is the main scope of this book. Therefore, this book aims to present a number of innovative and recently developed information systems. It is titled "Modern Information Systems" and includes 8 chapters. This book may assist researchers on studying the innovative functions of modern systems in various areas like health, telematics, knowledge management, etc. It can also assist young students in capturing the new research tendencies of the information systems' development.

Subjects:: Environmental Sciences and Computing
Keywords:: Medical informatics Knowledge management Management information systems
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Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence (AI) is a potent buzzword and happening technology which has greatly impacted the lifestyle of every human being either directly or indirectly and is shaping the future of tomorrow. In fact, AI is fast becoming an intrinsic part of our daily life and is not confined to university research labs, even if remarkable progress has been made in this domain. The benefit of this phenomenon is widely recognized in diversified areas, ranging from medicine to security to consumer applications and business, and resulting in improvements in the quality of life of humankind. Every new disruptive technology has its own pros and cons and AI is no exception to this rule. Privacy, data protection, and the rights of individuals pose social and ethical challenges.

Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Artificial intelligence
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New Advances in Machine Learning

The purpose of this book is to provide an up-to-date and systematical introduction to the principles and algorithms of machine learning. The definition of learning is broad enough to include most tasks that we commonly call “learning” tasks, as we use the word in daily life. It is also broad enough to encompass computers that improve from experience in quite straightforward ways. The book will be of interest to industrial engineers and scientists as well as academics who wish to pursue machine learning. The book is intended for both graduate and postgraduate students in fields such as computer science, cybernetics, system sciences, engineering, statistics, and social sciences, and as a reference for software professionals and practitioners. The wide scope of the book provides a good introduction to many approaches of machine learning, and it is also the source of useful bibliographical information.

Course related:: COMP4432 Machine Learning
Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Machine learning
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Machine Learning

Machine learning techniques have the potential of alleviating the complexity of knowledge acquisition. This book presents today’s state and development tendencies of machine learning. It is a multi-author book. Taking into account the large amount of knowledge about machine learning and practice presented in the book, it is divided into three major parts: Introduction, Machine Learning Theory and Applications. Part I focuses on the introduction to machine learning. The author also attempts to promote a new design of thinking machines and development philosophy. Considering the growing complexity and serious difficulties of information processing in machine learning, in Part II of the book, the theoretical foundations of machine learning are considered, and they mainly include self-organizing maps (SOMs), clustering, artificial neural networks, nonlinear control, fuzzy system and knowledge-based system (KBS). Part III contains selected applications of various machine learning approaches, from flight delays, network intrusion, immune system, ship design to CT and RNA target prediction. The book will be of interest to industrial engineers and scientists as well as academics who wish to pursue machine learning. The book is intended for both graduate and postgraduate students in fields such as computer science, cybernetics, system sciences, engineering, statistics, and social sciences, and as a reference for software professionals and practitioners.

Course related:: COMP4432 Machine Learning
Subjects:: Computing
Keywords:: Machine learning
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Customer Relationship Management: A Multifaceted Concept

This eBook is designed for learning customer relationship management. Each chapter includes some exercises, concept-check questions and challenge questions for learning the theories.

Subjects:: Marketing
Keywords:: Customer relations -- Management Marketing
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Scaling a Software Business | SpringerLink

This book presents the Scaling Management Framework, a model based on collected experiences from companies that have already made the journey to give software a central role within the organization. The model is unique because it suggests a holistic method to analyze and plan your journey. It simply means that you can’t just focus solely on your products or services. You also have to look closely at your processes and your organization, the way you make decisions and get things done. Inevitably, these will have to change. This book comes with a map, a compass, and suggested journeys along with selected travel stories comprising best practices and lessons learned from past digitalization journeys. Use the map to find your way in the digitalization landscape, and use the compass to find the direction of your journey. How do you transform your organization when software is becoming a critical part of your business? Software has changed the rules of the game. The world talks about the digitalization in industry and society – how the focus has shifted from producing tangible things towards software and services. This trend started many years ago, but is now affecting every company, whether it’s a software company or not. There are many companies that have already made a digitalization journey – and many are about to embark on this journey – like you.

Subjects:: Management
Keywords:: Software engineering Management information systems
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Bloomsbury Open Access

Open access ebooks from Bloomsbury Collections

Keywords:: Social sciences Management Design Geography Business Linguistics Humanities Economics
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Openstax CNX (Social Sciences)

Offers openly licensed college textbooks.

Keywords:: Social sciences
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LibreTexts (Social Science)

A multi-institutional collaborative venture to develop the next generation of open-access textbooks.

Keywords:: Economics Developmental psychology Psychology Social sciences Sociology
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Openstax CNX (Humanities)

Offers openly licensed college textbooks.

Keywords:: Linguistics Literature World history Communication History English language
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Open Textbook Library (Student Success)

Open Textbook Library provides free, peer-reviewed and openly-licensed textbooks.

Keywords:: Research -- Methodology Writing Research Job hunting
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Open Textbook Library (Social Sciences)

Open Textbook Library provides free, peer-reviewed and openly-licensed textbooks.

Keywords:: Psychology Politics government Women
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Open Textbook Library (Journalism, Media Studies & Communications)

Open Textbook Library provides free, peer-reviewed and openly-licensed textbooks.

Subjects:: Communication
Keywords:: Interpersonal communication English language -- Business English Communication Public speaking
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Open Textbook Library (Education)

Open Textbook Library provides free, peer-reviewed and openly-licensed textbooks.

Keywords:: Education Teaching Educational psychology Research
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LibreTexts (Humanities)

A multi-institutional collaborative venture to develop the next generation of open-access textbooks.

Keywords:: English literature Logic Humanities Music History English language -- Composition exercises
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LibreTexts (Photosciences)

A multi-institutional collaborative venture to develop the next generation of open-access textbooks.

Keywords:: Solar energy
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Openstax CNX (Business)

Offers openly licensed college textbooks.

Keywords:: Economics Business ethics Finance Industrial management Administration Business
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Open Textbook Library (Economics)

Open Textbook Library provides free, peer-reviewed and openly-licensed textbooks.

Subjects:: Economics
Keywords:: Economics Microeconomics Macroeconomics
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Open Textbook Library (Business)

Open Textbook Library provides free, peer-reviewed and openly-licensed textbooks.

Keywords:: English language -- Business English Project management Social responsibility of business Internet marketing Law
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Open Textbook Library (Business Law)

Open Textbook Library provides free, peer-reviewed and openly-licensed textbooks.

Subjects:: Law and Legislation
Keywords:: Contracts Commercial law Bankruptcy
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Open Textbook Library (Accounting & Finance)

Open Textbook Library provides free, peer-reviewed and openly-licensed textbooks.

Subjects:: Accounting and Finance
Keywords:: Accounting Finance
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Openstax CNX (Arts)

Offers openly licensed college textbooks.

Keywords:: Arts Music
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Write Your Best Paper in Economics and Business Studies

The booklet "Write your best Paper" summarizes the most important topics in a step by step instruction with a timeline and many practical tips.

Subjects:: Economics and Statistics and Research Methods
Keywords:: Academic writing Dissertations Academic -- Authorship
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OAPEN Library (Society & Social Sciences)

The OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of humanities and social sciences.

Keywords:: Psychology Social sciences Sociology
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National Academies Press (Education)

Covers over 5,000 reports published by the National Academies Press for the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council in the US.

Keywords:: Education Secondary Higher education Early childhood education Educational technology Education
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National Academies Press (Behavioral and Social Sciences)

Covers over 5,000 reports published by the National Academies Press for the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council in the US.

Keywords:: Psychology Social sciences Sociology
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InTechOpen (Social Sciences and Humanities)

Open access books in science, technology and medicine.

Keywords:: Business Humanities Social sciences
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Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) (Social Sciences)

DOAB provides a searchable index to the information about these books, with links to the full texts of the publications at the publisher’s website or repository.

Keywords:: Education Anthropology Psychology Library science Social sciences Sociology
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Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) (Agriculture and Food Sciences)

DOAB provides a searchable index to the information about these books, with links to the full texts of the publications at the publisher’s website or repository.

Keywords:: Forests forestry Agriculture Fisheries Aquaculture
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National Academies Press (Policy for Science and Technology)

Covers over 5,000 reports published by the National Academies Press for the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council in the US.

Subjects:: Sociology
Keywords:: Technology state Science state
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National Academies Press (Math, Chemistry and Physics)

Covers over 5,000 reports published by the National Academies Press for the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council in the US.

Subjects:: Physics, Chemistry, and Mathematics and Statistics
Keywords:: Physics Mathematics Chemistry
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National Academies Press (Conflict and Security Issues)

Covers over 5,000 reports published by the National Academies Press for the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council in the US.

Keywords:: National security Security International
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National Academies Press (Biology and Life Sciences)

Covers over 5,000 reports published by the National Academies Press for the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council in the US.

Subjects:: Biology
Keywords:: Life sciences Biology
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National Academies Press (Biography and Autobiography)

Covers over 5,000 reports published by the National Academies Press for the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council in the US.

Keywords:: Biography Autobiography
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National Academies Press (Agriculture)

Covers over 5,000 reports published by the National Academies Press for the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council in the US.

Keywords:: Agriculture
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Taiwan eBook (Sciences and Engineering)

Contains freely accessible academic books in Chinese in the area of humanities, social sciences, philosophy, medicine, economy & finance.

Keywords:: Science Engineering
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Taiwan eBook (Agriculture)

Contains freely accessible academic books in Chinese in the area of agriculture.

Keywords:: Agriculture
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InTechOpen (Life Sciences)

Open access books in science, technology and medicine.

Keywords:: Agriculture Life sciences Environmental sciences Biology
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InTechOpen (Physical Sciences, Engineering and Technology)

Open access books in science, technology and medicine.

Keywords:: Science Physical sciences Engineering Technology
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National Academies Press (Health and Medicine)

Covers over 5,000 reports published by the National Academies Press for the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council in the US.

Keywords:: Medical sciences Medicine Health
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InTechOpen (Health Sciences)

Open access books in science, technology and medicine.

Keywords:: Medical sciences
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Directory of Open Access Books (DOAB) (Health Sciences)

DOAB provides a searchable index to the information about these books, with links to the full texts of the publications at the publisher’s website or repository.

Keywords:: Medical sciences Public health Medicine Dentistry Nursing
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National Academies Press (Food and Nutrition)

Covers over 5,000 reports published by the National Academies Press for the National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine and National Research Council in the US.

Subjects:: Food Science
Keywords:: Nutrition Food
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