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Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introductory Chapter: Understanding of Atmospheric Systems with Efficient Numerical Methods for Observation and Prediction --- 2. Tropical Cyclone Center Determination Algorithm by Texture and Gradient of Infrared Satellite Image --- 3. Polarization Remote Sensing for Land Observation --- 4. Rainfall Nowcasting by Blending of Radar Data and Numerical Weather Prediction --- 5. Spectral Representation of Time and Physical Parameters in Numerical Weather Prediction --- 6. Atmospheric Radiative Transfer Parameterizations --- 7. Evaluating Cooling Tower Scheme and Mechanical Drag Coefficient Formulation in High-Resolution Regional Model --- 8. Numerical Air Quality Forecast over Eastern China: Development, Uncertainty and Future --- 9. Numerical Simulation of the Effects of Increasing Urban Albedo on Air Temperatures and Quality over Madrid City (Spain) by Coupled WRF/CMAQ Atmospheric Chemistry Model

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Assessing Seismic Hazard in Chile Using Deep Neural Networks --- 2. Strong Rainfall in Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil: Synoptic Analysis and Numerical Simulation --- 3. Natural Hazards and Nuclear Power Plant Safety --- 4. Estimation of Shear Wave Velocity Profiles Employing Genetic Algorithms and the Diffuse Field Approach on Microtremors Array: Implications on Liquefaction Hazard at Port of Spain, Trinidad --- 5. Long-Wave Generation due to Atmospheric-Pressure Variation and Harbor Oscillation in Harbors of Various Shapes and Countermeasures against Meteotsunamis --- 6. Identification and Assessment of Hazard of Development in Gypsum Karst Regions: Examples from Turkey --- 7. Dam Retirement and Decision-Making --- 8. Seismic Hazard of Viaduct Transportation Infrastructure --- 9. Determinants of Coping Strategies to Floods and Droughts in Multiple Geo-Ecological Zones --- 10. Emergency Communications Network for Disaster Management --- 11. Interview of Natural Hazards and Seismic Catastrophe Insurance Research in China --- 12. Multiset-Based Assessment of Resilience of Sociotechnological Systems to Natural Hazards

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Advance Wave Modeling and Diffractions for High-Resolution Subsurface Seismic Imaging --- 2. Radiometric Mapping of Hydrothermal Alterations in Isla Isabel, Mexico --- 3. Rock Physics Interpretation of Tomographic Solutions for Geothermal Reservoir Properties --- 4. Resistivity and Induced Polarization Application for Urban Waste Disposal Site Studies --- 5. Analysis of Seismic Responses of Rock Massif to Explosive Impacts with Using Nonlinear Methods --- 6. Application of Seismic Tomography and Geotechnical Modeling for the Solution of Two Complex Instability Cases --- 7. Electrical Resistivity Tomography: A Subsurface-Imaging Technique

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introductory Chapter: An Introduction to the Stratigraphic Setting of Paleozoic to Miocene Deposits Based on Paleoecology, Facies --- 2. Paleoecology and Sedimentary Environments of the Oligo-Miocene Deposits of the Asmari Formation (Qeshm Island, SE Persian Gulf) --- 3. Chemostratigraphy of Paleozoic Carbonates in the Western Belt (Peninsular Malaysia): A Case Study on the Kinta Limestone --- 4. High Resolution Chronostratigraphy from an Ice-Dammed Palaeo-Lake in Andorra: MIS 2 Atlantic and Mediterranean Palaeo-Climate Inferences over the SE Pyrenees

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introductory Chapter: Power Generation Using Geothermal Low-Enthalpy Resources and ORC Technology --- 2. Geothermal Explorations on the Slate Formation of Taiwan --- 3. Geothermal Potential of the Global Oil Industry --- 4. Stages of a Integrated Geothermal Project --- 5. Space Cooling by Ground Source Heat Pump in Tropical Asia

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introductory Chapter: Lake Urmia - A Witness to the Simultaneous Effects of Human Activities, Climate Change, and Global Warming --- 2. Assessing the Expected Impact of Climate Change on Nitrate Load in a Small Atlantic Agro-Forested Catchment --- 3. Tools and Methods for Supporting Regional Decision-Making in Relation to Climate Risks --- 4. Statistical Methodology for Evaluating Process-Based Climate Models --- 5. The Impact of Climate Change on Water Availability and Recharge of Aquifers in the Jordan River Basin --- 6. Super Typhoon Bopha and the Mayo River Debris-Flow Disaster, Mindanao, Philippines, December 2012 --- 7. Observed and Projected Reciprocate Effects of Agriculture and Climate Change: Implications on Ecosystems and Human Livelihoods --- 8. Energy Mining, Earth’s Thermal Insulation Damaged and Trigger Climate Change --- 9. Impact of Cold Wave on Vulnerable People of Tarai Region, Nepal --- 10. A Survey of Disaster Risk and Resilience in Small Island States

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Optimized Finite Difference Methods for Seismic Acoustic Wave Modeling by Yanfei Wang and Wenquan Liang --- Chapter 2: Acoustic Analysis of Enclosed Sound Space as well as Its Coupling with Flexible Boundary Structure by Jingtao Du, Yang Liu and Long Liu --- Chapter 3: Sound Waves in Complex (Dusty) Plasmas by Aamir Shahzad, Muhammad Asif Shakoori, Maogang He and Sajid Bashir --- Chapter 4: Acoustic Wave Monitoring of Fluid Dynamics in the Rock Massif with Anomaly Density, Stressed and Plastic Hierarchic Inclusions by Olga Hachay and Andrey Khachay --- Chapter 5: In-Fiber Acousto-Optic Interaction Based on Flexural Acoustic Waves and Its Application to Fiber Modulators by Miguel Ángel Bello Jiménez, Gustavo Ramírez-Meléndez, Erika Hernández-Escobar, Andrés Camarillo-Avilés, Rosa López-Estopier, Olivier Pottiez, Cristian Cuadrado-Laborde, Antonio Díez, José L. Cruz and Miguel V. Andrés --- Chapter 6: Wave Propagation in Porous Materials by Zine El Abiddine Fellah, Mohamed Fellah, Claude Depollier, Erick Ogam and Farid G. Mitri --- Chapter 7: A Novel Idea of Coherent Acoustic Wave-Induced Atmospheric Refractivity Fluctuation and Its Applications by Shuhong Gong, Yu Liu, Muyu Hou and Lixin Guo

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Landslides: Methodology to Select Stabilizing Construction Works by Oscar Andrés Cuanalo Campos --- Chapter 2: Natural Risk Management to Protect Critical Infrastructures: A Model for Active Learning by Catalin Cioaca, Vasile Prisacariu and Mircea Boscoianu --- Chapter 3: Earthquake Culture: A Significant Element in Earthquake Disaster Risk Assessment and Earthquake Disaster Risk Management by Michaela Ibrion --- Chapter 4: Mexico City after September 2017: Are We Building the Right City? by Milton Montejano-Castillo and Mildred Moreno-Villanueva --- Chapter 5: On Risk and Reliability Studies of Climate-Related Building Performance by Krystyna Pietrzyk and Ireneusz Czmoch --- Chapter 6: Machinery Safety Requirements as an Effective Tools for Operational Safety Management by Hana Pacaiova --- Chapter 7: Integrated Risk Assessment of Safety, Security, and Safeguards by Mitsutoshi Suzuki --- Chapter 8: Practical Propagation of Trust in Risk Management Systems by Kristian Helmholt, Matthijs Vonder, Bram Van Der Waaij, Elena Lazovik and Niels Neumann --- Chapter 9: Risk Assessment for Collaborative Operation: A Case Study on Hand-Guided Industrial Robots by Varun Gopinath, Kerstin Johansen and Johan Ölvander --- Chapter 10: Managing Technogenic Risks with Stakeholder Cooperation by Riitta Molarius --- Chapter 11: Risks, Safety and Security in the Ecosystem of Smart Cities by Stig O. Johnsen --- Chapter 12: Implementation of Basel and Solvency Risk Assessment Standards in Banks and Insurance Companies of Southeastern Europe Countries by Safet Kozarevic, Emira Kozarevic, Pasqualina Porretta and Fabrizio Santoboni --- Chapter 13: Environmental Health Surveillance for Health Risk Assessment Following Radionuclide Release by Robert Wålinder --- Chapter 14: Challenges and Perspectives of the Risk Assessment of the Genetic Susceptibility to Cancer in the Next-Generation Sequencing Era by Israel Gomy --- Chapter 15: Risk Assessment of Heavy Metals Pollution in Urban Environment by Gevorg Tepanosyan, Lilit Sahakyan, David Pipoyan and Armen Saghatelyan --- Chapter 16: Pharmaceuticals and Personal Care Products: Risks, Challenges, and Solutions by Zakiya Hoyett --- Chapter 17: Estimation of PM2.5 Trajectory Using Atmospheric Dispersion Models and GIS in the Tokyo Metropolitan Area by Kayoko Yamamoto and Zhaoxin Yang --- Chapter 18: Risk Assessment and Prediction of Aflatoxin in Agro-Products by Peiwu Li, Xiaoxia Ding, Yizhen Bai, Linxia Wu, Xiaofeng Yue and Liangxiao Zhang --- Chapter 19: Risk Management in Complex Organisations by Andrea Antonucci

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Impacts of Climate Change and Climate Variability on Wildlife Resources in Southern Africa: Experience from Selected Protected Areas in Zimbabwe / By Olga L. Kupika, Edson Gandiwa, Shakkie Kativu and Godwell Nhamo --- 2. Biological Conservation and Nature Protection Strategies in Spanish Atlantic Region / By Javier Ferreiro da Costa and Pablo Ramil-Rego --- 3. Methods for Biodiversity Assessment: Case Study in an Area of Atlantic Forest in Southern Brazil / By Maria Raquel Kanieski, Solon Jonas Longhi and Philipe Ricardo Casemiro Soares --- 4. Seabed Biodiversity Shifts Identify Climate Regimes: The 2011 Climate Regime Shift and Associated Cascades / By Jeffrey B. Marliave, Donna M. Gibbs, Laura A. Borden and Charles J. Gibbs --- 5. Safeguarding Marine Biodiversity in a Changing World: Maltese Small-Scale Fisheries and Alien Species / By Adriana Vella and Noel Vella --- 6. Biodiversity of Amphipoda Talitridae in Tunisian Wetlands / By Jelassi Raja, Khemaissia Hajer and Nasri-Ammar Karima --- 7. Biodiversity Restoration and Renewable Energy from Hydropower: Conflict or Synergy? / By Wondmagegn Tafesse Tirkaso, Ing‐Marie Gren, Leonard Sandin, Joel Segersten, David Spjut and Erik Degerman --- 8. Determinants of Orchid Occurrence: A Czech Example / By Zuzana Štípková, Kristina Kosánová, Dušan Romportl and Pavel Kindlmann --- 9. Dark-Colored Forest Bee Apis mellifera in Siberia, Russia: Current State and Conservation of Populations / By Nadezhda V. Ostroverkhova, Aksana N. Kucher, Olga L. Konusova, Ekaterina S. Gushchina, Vadim V. Yartsev and Yury L. Pogorelov --- 10. Integration of Ecological and Socioeconomic Factors in Securing Wildlife Dispersal Corridors in the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area, Southern Africa / By Simon M. Munthali, Nicholas Smart, Victor Siamudaala, Morris Mtsambiwa and Eleanor Harvie --- 11. Usefulness of Plant Biodiversity in the Cities of Togo / By Radji Raoufou and Kokou Kouami --- 12. Towards an Integrative Taxonomy of the Genus Alstroemeria (Alstroemeriaceae) in Chile: A Comprehensive Review / By Victor L. Finot, Carlos M. Baeza, Eduardo Ruiz, Oscar Toro and Pedro Carrasco --- 13. Ecosystem Services Provided by the Little Things That Run the World / By Olga Maria Correia Chitas Ameixa, António Onofre Soares, Amadeu M.V.M. Soares and Ana I. Lillebø --- 14. Commercial Harvesting of Marula (Sclerocarya Birrea) in Swaziland: A Quest for Sustainability / By Alfred Francis Murye and André J. Pelser --- 15. Synopsis of Mangle Species in Mexico / By Basáñez Muñoz Agustín de Jesús, Serrano Solis Arturo, Martínez Cortés Esmeralda, Cuervo López Liliana, Capistrán Barradas Ascención and Naval Ávila Celina --- 16. Positive Rules Can Lead to Positive Behaviours: Students’ Perceptions of Messages on Information Boards in Protected Areas / By Gregor Torkar, Saša Mezek and Janez Jerman --- 17. Prey Selection of Pseudorasbora parva (Temminck and Schlegel, 1846) in a Freshwater Ecosystem (Lake Eğirdir/Turkey) / By Meral Apaydin Yağci, Ahmet Alp, Abdulkadir Yağci, Vedat Yeğen and Mehmet Ali Turan Koçer --- 18. Importance of Underutilized Field Crops for Increasing Functional Biodiversity / By Franc Bavec, Urška Lisec and Martina Bavec

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Review on Sparse-Based Multipath Estimation and Mitigation: Intense Solution to Counteract the Effects in Software GPS Receivers / By Ganapathy Arul Elango, B. Senthil Kumar, Ch.V.M.S.N. Pavan Kumar and C. Venkatramanan --- 2. Integrity Monitoring: From Airborne to Land Applications / By Davide Imparato, Ahmed El-Mowafy and Chris Rizos --- 3. GPS Modeling of the Ionosphere Using Computer Neural Networks / By Daniel Okoh --- 4. GNSS Error Sources / By Malek Karaim, Mohamed Elsheikh and Aboelmagd Noureldin --- 5. GNSS Application in Retrieving Sea Wind Speed / By Dongkai Yang and Feng Wang --- 6. GNSSs, Signals, and Receivers / By Mohamed Tamazin, Malek Karaim and Aboelmagd Noureldin --- 7. Applications of GNSS Slant Path Delay Data on Meteorology at Storm Scales / By Takuya Kawabata and Yoshinori Shoji --- 8. Antennas and Front-End in GNSS / By Korkut Yegin --- 9. Ionosphere Variability in Low and Mid-Latitudes of India Using GPS-TEC Estimates from 2002 to 2016 / By Sridevi Jade and Shrungeshwara T.S.

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Reimagining Icarus: Ethics, Law and Policy Considerations for Commercial Human Spaceflight / By Sara M. Langston --- 2. Basic Methodology for Space Ethics / By Tony Milligan --- 3. From the Individual to the Cultural Space Group / By Carole Tafforin --- 4. Acute and Chronic Effects of Hypobaric Exposure upon the Brain / By Paul Sherman and John Sladky --- 5. Spaceflight Induced Changes in the Central Nervous System / By Alex P. Michael --- 6. The Effect of Gravity on the Nervous System / By Florian P.M. Kohn, Claudia Koch and Ramona Ritzmann --- 7. Spaceflight: Immune Effects and Nutritional Countermeasure / By Anil D Kulkarni, Marie-Francoise Doursout, Asmita Kulkarni, Alamelu Sundaresan, Takehito Miura, Koji Wakame and Hajime Fujii --- 8. Countermeasure Development for Lumbopelvic Deconditioning in Space / By Andrew Winnard, Dorothee Debuse and Nick Caplan --- 9. Tumor Cells in Microgravity / By Jun Chen --- 10. Plants in Space / By Bratislav Stankovic --- 11. Approaches to Assess the Suitability of Zooplankton for Bioregenerative Life Support Systems / By Miriam Knie, Bernard Wolfschoon Ribeiro, Jessica Fischer, Burkhard Schmitz, Kay Van Damme, Ruth Hemmersbach, Donat-P. Häder and Christian Laforsch --- 12. Are We Alone? The Search for Life on Mars and Other Planetary Bodies / By Stephanie A. Smith, Andrzej Paszczynski and Susan E. Childers --- 13. Exploring the Stratosphere: What We Missed by Shooting for the Moon / By Laura Galdamez --- 14. The Mortality of Space Explorers / By Robert J. Reynolds and Steven M. Day

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Adaptation in Agriculture / by Panit Arunanondchai, Chengcheng Fei and Bruce A. McCarl --- 2. Climate Adaptive Agricultural Innovation in Nepal: Prospects and Challenges / by Dhanej Thapa, Yuba Raj Subedi and Hemant Ojha --- 3. Naturally Available Genetic Adaptation in Common Bean and Its Response to Climate Change / by Andrés J. Cortés and Matthew W. Blair --- 4. Mitigation of the Negative Impact of Warming on the Coffee Crop: The Role of Increased Air [CO2] and Management Strategies / by Danielly Dubberstein, Weverton P. Rodrigues, José N. Semedo, Ana P. Rodrigues, Isabel P. Pais, António E. Leitão, Fábio L. Partelli, Eliemar Campostrini, Fernando Reboredo, Paula Scotti-Campos, Fernando C. Lidon, Ana I. Ribeiro-Barros, Fábio M. DaMatta and José C. Ramalho --- 5. Agricultural Management Impact on Greenhouse Gas Emissions / by Upendra M. Sainju --- 6. Low Carbon Technologies for Agriculture in Dryland: Brazilian Experience / by Vanderlise Giongo, Alessandra Monteiro Salviano, Francislene Angelotti, Tatiana Taura, Luiz Fernando Carvalho Leite and Tony Jarbas Ferreira Cunha --- 7. Pepper Crop under Climate Change: Grafting as an Environmental Friendly Strategy / by Consuelo Penella and Angeles Calatayud --- 8. Bringing Climate Smart Agriculture to Scale: Experiences from the Water Productivity Project in East and Central Africa / by Kizito Kwena, Fitih Ademe, Joseph Serge, Nezeghty Asmerom, Bernard Musana, Razaka Razakamiaramanana, Reuben Ruttoh, Hezron Mogaka, Assefa Dereje, Kifle Woldearegey, Anthony Esilaba and Rosemary Emongor --- 9. Climate Control in Mediterranean Greenhouses / by A. Nafi Baytorun and Zeynep Zaimoglu

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introductory Chapter: Introduction to Sea Level Rise and Coastal Infrastructure / by Yuanzhi Zhang, Kapo Wong, Yijun Hou and Xiaomei Yang --- 2. Constructing Local Sea Level Rise Scenarios for Assessing Possible Impacts and Adaptation Needs: Insights from Coasts of India / by Dhanya Praveen, Andimuthu Ramachandran and Kandasami Palanivelu --- 3. Analysis of Dynamic Effects on the Brazilian Vertical Datum / by Luciana M. Da Silva, Sílvio R.C. De Freitas and Regiane Dalazoana --- 4. Alterations within the Coastal Urban Environments: Case of the Coastal Squares of Istanbul Megacity / by Hatice Ayatac, Fatma Aycim Turer Baskaya, Eren Kurkcuoglu, Ozge Celik and Sinem Becerik --- 5. Coastal Wetland Vegetation in Response to Global Warming and Climate Change / by Chao Zhou, Kapo Wong and Jianhua Zhao --- 6. Impact of Enteromorpha Blooms on Aquaculture Research Off Qianliyan Island, Yellow Sea, China / by Guo Jie, Zhang Tianlong, Ji Diansheng, Mu Yankai, Yu Hongyang, Hou Chawei and Ji Ling --- 7. Geohazards in the Fjords of Northern Patagonia, Chile / by María-Victoria Soto, Pablo Sarricolea, Sergio A. Sepúlveda, Misael Cabello, Ignacio Ibarra, Constanza Molina and Michael Maerker --- 8. Coastal Disasters and Remote Sensing Monitoring Methods / by Yan Yu, Shengbo Chen, Tianqi Lu and Siyu Tian --- 9. Revealing Landscape Planning Strategies for Disaster-Prone Coastal Urban Environments: The Case of Istanbul Megacity / by Fatma Aycim Turer Baskaya --- 10. Coastal Geomorphology and Its Impacts / by Tianqi Lu, Shengbo Chen and Yan Yu --- 11. Beach Users’ Perceptions Toward Beach Quality and Crowding: A Case of Cenang Beach, Langkawi Island, Malaysia / by Hamed Mehranian and Azizan Marzuki --- 12. Remote Sensing Retrieval Study of the Surface Kinetic Parameters in the Yangtze Estuary and Its Adjacent Waters / by Shengbo Chen and Lihua Wang --- 13. Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Sea Surface Temperature in the East China Sea Using TERRA/MODIS Products Data / by Shaoqi Gong and Kapo Wong

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Proposing a Patent Information Approach for Identifying Technological Trends in the Brazilian Upstream Oil and Gas Industry / By Gabriel Cavalheiro, Mariana Brandao and Saulo Rocha --- 2. Intelligent Drilling and Coring Technologies for Unmanned Interplanetary Exploration / By Junyue Tang, Qiquan Quan, Shengyuan Jiang, Jieneng Liang and Zongquan Deng --- 3. Making the Connection for Well Control on Floaters: Evolving Design Rationales for BOP Control Systems / By Paul A. Potter --- 4. Bio-Based Oil Drilling Fluid Improvements through Carbon- Based Nanoparticle Additives / By Yee Ho Chai, Suzana Yusup, Vui Soon Chok and Sonny Irawan --- 5. Solid Control System for Maximizing Drilling / By Sonny Irawan and Imros B. Kinif --- 6. Rate of Penetration Prediction Utilizing Hydromechanical Specific Energy / By Omogbolahan Ahmed, Ahmed Adeniran and Ariffin Samsuri --- 7. Drilling Performance Optimization Based on Mechanical Specific Energy Technologies / By Xuyue Chen, Jin Yang and Deli Gao --- 8. New Development of Air and Gas Drilling Technology / By Jun Li, Yulong Yang, Boyun Guo and Gonghui Liu

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introductory Chapter: Earthquakes, Life at Risk / Valentina Svalova --- 2. The Earthquake Disaster Risk in Japan and Iran and the Necessity of Dynamic Learning from Large Earthquake Disasters over Time / Michaela Ibrion and Nicola Paltrinieri --- 3. The Major Cause of Earthquake Disasters: Shear Bandings / Tse-Shan Hsu --- 4. Development of an UAS for Earthquake Emergency Response and Its Application in Two Disastrous Earthquakes / Chaoyong Peng, Zhiqiang Xu, Jiansi Yang, Yu Zheng, Weiping Wang, Sha Liu and Baofeng Tian --- 5. Automated Model Construction for Seismic Disaster Assessment of Pipeline Network in Wide Urban Area / Hideyuki O-tani, Muneo Hori and Lalith Wijerathne --- 6. Frequency-Magnitude Distribution of Earthquakes / Zuhair Hasan El-Isa --- 7. The Prediction of Earthquake Ground Motions by Regression Model / Pithan Pairojn and Sirithip Wasinrat --- 8. Principles of Probabilistic Seismic Hazard Assessment (PSHA) and Site Effect Evaluation and Its Application for the Volcanic Environment in El Salvador / Walter Salazar --- 9. An Estimation of “Energy” Magnitude Associated with a Possible Lithosphere-Atmosphere-Ionosphere Electromagnetic Coupling Before the Wenchuan MS8.0 Earthquake / Mei Li, Wenxin Kong, Chong Yue, Shu Song, Chen Yu, Tao Xie and Xian Lu --- 10. Finite Element Models of Elastic Earthquake Deformation / Sui Tung, Timothy Masterlark and Daniel Sai Huen Lo --- 11. Simulation of Broadband Strong Motion Based on the Empirical Green’s Spatial Derivative Method / Michihiro Ohori --- 12. Structural Seismic Input Model on the Condition of Slope Site / Li Jianbo and Liu Weihong --- 13. Damage Estimation of a Steel-Framed Building under Tsunami Flow Occurring after Earthquake / Daigoro Isobe and Seizo Tanaka --- 14. Structure-Soil-Structure Interaction between Underground Structure and Surface Structure / Huai-feng Wang --- 15. Tunnel Vaults under Seismic Excitation / Roberto Guidotti and Alberto Castellani --- 16. Use of Polyethylene Terephthalate Fibers for Strengthening of Reinforced Concrete Frame Made of Low-Grade Aggregate / Comingstarful Marthong --- 17. EQ-grid: A Multiaxial Seismic Retrofitting System for Masonry Buildings / Stefania Rizzo and Lothar Stempniewski

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Novel Waveguide Technologies and Its Future System Applications / By Shotaro Ishino --- 2. Properties and Applications of Love Surface Waves in Seismology and Biosensors / By Piotr Kiełczyński --- 3. Dyakonov Surface Waves: Anisotropy-Enabling Confinement on the Edge / By Carlos J. Zapata-Rodríguez, Slobodan Vuković, Juan J. Miret, Mahin Naserpour and Milivoj R. Belić --- 4. Measurement of Sea Wave Spatial Spectra from High- Resolution Optical Aerospace Imagery / By Valery G. Bondur and Alexander B. Murynin --- 5. Electromagnetic Polarization: A New Approach on the Linear Component Method / By Jobson de Araújo Nascimento, Regina Maria De Lima Neta, José Moraes Gurgel Neto, Adi Neves Rocha and Alexsandro Aleixo Pereira Da Silva --- 6. Modal Phenomena of Surface and Bulk Polaritons in Magnetic- Semiconductor Superlattices / By Vladimir R. Tuz, Illia V. Fedorin and Volodymyr I. Fesenko --- 7. Video Measurements and Analysis of Surface Gravity Waves in Shallow Water / By Charles R. Bostater Jr, Bingyu Yang and Tyler Rotkiske

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Waveform Design and Related Processing for Multiple Target Detection and Resolution / By Gaspare Galati and Gabriele Pavan --- 2. Space-Time Transmit-Receive Design for Colocated MIMO Radar / By Guolong Cui, Xianxiang Yu and Lingjiang Kong --- 3. Waveform Design for MIMO Radar and SAR Application / By Stéphane Méric and Jean-Yves Baudais --- 4. A 94-GHz Frequency Modulation Continuous Wave Radar Imaging and Motion Compensation / By Jiwoong Yu, Sumin Kim and Min-Ho Ka --- 5. Analysis of Coastal Areas Using SAR Images: A Case Study of the Dutch Wadden Sea Region / By Corneliu Octavian Dumitru, Gottfried Schwarz, Daniela Espinoza- Molina, Mihai Datcu, Herman Hummel and Christiaan Hummel --- 6. Adaptive Clutter Cancellation Techniques for Passive Radars / By Tamás Pető and Rudolf Seller --- 7. Sense Smart, Not Hard: A Layered Cognitive Radar Architecture / By Stefan Brüggenwirth, Marcel Warnke, Christian Bräu, Simon Wagner, Tobias Müller, Pascal Marquardt and Fernando Rial --- 8. Representation of Radar Micro-Dopplers Using Customized Dictionaries / By Shobha Sundar Ram --- 9. Adaptive Coding, Modulation and Filtering of Radar Signals / By Moutaman Mirghani Daffalla and Ahmed Awad Babiker --- 10. Bispectrum- and Bicoherence-Based Discriminative Features Used for Classification of Radar Targets and Atmospheric Formations / By Alexander Totsky and Karen Egiazarian

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Three–Dimensional Seismic Diffraction Imaging for Detecting Near-Surface Inhomogeneities / By Shemer Keydar, Vladimir Shtivelman and Avner Arzi --- 2. Measurement of Rotational Events in Regions Prone to Seismicity: A Review / By Leszek R. Jaroszewicz, Anna Kurzych, Krzysztof P. Teisseyre and Zbigniew Krajewski --- 3. Inversion and Interpretation of Magnetic Anomaly in the Presence of Significant Remanence and Self-Demagnetization Based on Magnetic Amplitude / By Shuang Liu and Xiangyun Hu --- 4. Basement Tectonics and Fault Reactivation in Alberta Based on Seismic and Potential Field Data / By Eneanwan Ekpo, David Eaton and Ronald Weir --- 5. Characterization of Hydrocarbon-Contaminated Sites Based on Geoelectrical Methods of Geophysical Exploration / By Omar Delgado-Rodríguez, Vladimir Shevnin, Héctor Peinado- Guevara and María Ladrón de Guevara-Torres --- 6. Characterization of Seismic Responses in Mexico City Using Hilbert-Huang Transform / By Silvia Raquel García Benítez and Leonardo Alcántara Nolasco --- 7. Dynamics of the Early Stage of Formation of the Earth’s-Moon System / By Yurie Khachay, Olga Hachay and Alexander Antipin --- 8. Geoelectrical Sounding and Imaging over the Central Zone of Panama / By Alexis Mojica

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Comparison of the Temporal Variability of Maximum Daily Temperatures for Summer Months in Relation to El Nino Events in Southern Québec / by Ali Assani --- 2. Influence of Climate Regime Shift on the Abrupt Change of Tropical Cyclone Activity in Various Genesis Regions / by Chi-Cherng Hong and Yi-Kai Wu --- 3. The Highest Geomagnetic Storms of the Solar Cycle Observed at Ground Level / by Carlos E. Navia, Marcel N. de Oliveira and Carlos R. A. Augusto --- 4. Rainfall Distribution in Landfalling Tropical Cyclones / by Zifeng Yu and Yuqing Wang --- 5. Extreme Weather Events in Ukraine: Occurrence and Changes / by Vira Balabukh, Olena Lavrynenko, Volodymyr Bilaniuk, Andriy Mykhnovych and Olha Pylypovych --- 6. Heat Waves: Health Effects, Observed Trends and Climate Change / by Martínez-Austria Polioptro F and Bandala Erick R. --- 7. Malawi’s Experience with Weather Index Insurance as Agricultural Risk Mitigation Strategy Against Extreme Drought Events 1 / by Ephias M. Makaudze

Description / Table of Contents: 1. A Study on Phenology Detection of Corn in Northeastern China with Fused Remote Sensing Data / by Linglin Zeng and Daxiang Xiang --- 2. Despeckling of Multitemporal Sentinel SAR Images and Its Impact on Agricultural Area Classification / by Vladimir Lukin, Oleksii Rubel, Ruslan Kozhemiakin, Sergey Abramov, Andrii Shelestov, Mykola Lavreniuk, Mykola Meretsky, Benoit Vozel and Kacem Chehdi --- 3. Remote Sensing of Forests using Discrete Return Airborne LiDAR / by Hamid Hamraz and Marco A. Contreras --- 4. Remote Sensing in Land Applications by Using GNSS-Reflectometry / by Yan Jia and Yuekun Pei --- 5. Remote Sensing with Shipborne High-Frequency Surface-Wave Radar / by Junhao Xie, Minglei Sun, Zhenyuan Ji and Guowei Yao --- 6. Use of Historical Google Earth Images to Create Likelihood of Aquatic Plants along Segments of Ohio River / by Yi-Hwa Wu, Ming-Chih Hung, Jeff Thomas and Maureen Gallagher --- 7. Remote Sensing to Detect and Monitor Trees in Various Environments: Case Studies in Chile / by Guido Staub --- 8. Monitoring Land Surface Deformation with Satellite ScanSAR Images: Case Studies on Large Earthquakes in China / by Tingchen Jiang, Xiuping Wang, Yuanzhi Zhang and Yu Li --- 9. Applications of Remote Sensing in Geoscience / by Hakim Saibi, Mohand Bersi, Mohamed Bodruddoza Mia, Nureddin Mohamed Saadi, Khalid Mohamed Saleh Al Bloushi and Robert W. Avakian

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Ensemble Methods in Environmental Data Mining / by Goksu Tuysuzoglu, Derya Birant and Aysegul Pala --- 2. Estimating Customer Lifetime Value Using Machine Learning Techniques / by Sien Chen --- 3. Determination and Classification of Crew Productivity with Data Mining Methods / by Abdullah Emre Keleş and Mümine Kaya Keleş --- 4. Mining HCI Data for Theory of Mind Induction / by Oksana Arnold and Klaus P. Jantke --- 5. Performance-Aware High-Performance Computing for Remote Sensing Big Data Analytics / by Mustafa Kemal Pektürk and Muhammet Ünal --- 6. Early Prediction of Patient Mortality Based on Routine Laboratory Tests and Predictive Models in Critically Ill Patients / by Sven Van Poucke, Ana Kovacevic and Milan Vukicevic --- 7. Semantic Infrastructure for Service Environment Supporting Successful Aging / by Vesa Salminen, Päivi Sanerma, Seppo Niittymäki and Patrick Eklund --- 8. Adaptive Neural Network Classifier-Based Analysis of Big Data in Health Care / by Manaswini Pradhan --- 9. Identification of Research Thematic Approaches Based on Keywords Network Analysis in Colombian Social Sciences / by José Hernando Ávila-Toscano, Ivón Catherine Romero-Pérez, Ailed Marenco-Escuderos and Eugenio Saavedra Guajardo --- 10. Data Privacy for Big Data Publishing Using Newly Enhanced PASS Data Mining Mechanism / by Priyank Jain, Manasi Gyanchandani and Nilay Khare

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introductory Chapter: Earthworms - The Ecological Engineers of Soil / by Sajal Ray --- 2. Abundance and Diversity of Earthworms in Managed and Non- Managed Fallow Lands of Calakmul Reserve of Campeche, Mexico / by Esperanza Huerta Lwanga, Lucero Sánchez-del Cid, Ligia Esparza- Olguín, Eduardo Martinez-Romero, Ben de Jong and Susana Ochoa-Gaona --- 3. Earthworms and Nematodes: The Ecological and Functional Interactions / by Jair Alves Dionísio, Wilian Carlo Demetrio and Arlei Maceda --- 4. Exploration of Earthworms of India through Online Digital Library / by Samrendra Singh Thakur and Shweta Yadav --- 5. Earthworms and Vermicomposting / by Jorge Domínguez --- 6. Environmental Influence of Soil toward Effective Vermicomposting / by Jaswinder Singh, Sharanpreet Singh, Adarsh Pal Vig and Arvinder Kaur

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introductory Chapter: Volcanoes - From Their Geological and Geophysical Setting to Their Impact on Human Health / by Gemma Aiello --- 2. Correlation between Seismic and Volcanic Activity at a Large Spatial Scale in Italy: Examples from the Neapolitan Volcanic District (Vesuvius Volcano, Southern Italy) / by Pier Luigi Bragato --- 3. Exploring the Base of the Volcano: A Case Study of an Active Stratovolcano, Mt. Zao, NE Japan / by Shin Sato, Masao Ban, Teruki Oikawa, Seiko Yamasaki and Yuki NIshi --- 4. The Emissions of the Tagoro Submarine Volcano (Canary Islands, Atlantic Ocean): Effects on the Physical and Chemical Properties of the Seawater / by Juana Magdalena Santana-Casiano, Melchor González-Dávila and Eugenio Fraile-Nuez --- 5. The Characteristics of Volcanic Eruption in Indonesia / by Eko Hariyono and Liliasari S --- 6. Layered Gabbroids of the Pekulney Ridge, Chukotka, Northeastern Russia: Geology, Petrography, Age, and Geodynamics / by Irina L’vovna Zhulanova --- 7. Dynamics of Convective Heat and Mass Transfer in Permeable Parts of Seismofocal Zones of the Kamchatka Region and Conjugated Volcanic Arcs / by Yury Perepechko, Victor Sharapov, Konstantin Sorokin and Anna Mikheeva --- 8. Finite Element Models of Elastic Volcano Deformation / by Timothy Masterlark and Sui Tung --- 9. Mechanics of Magma Chamber with the Implication of the Effect of CO2 Fluxing / by Simakin Alexander G. and Ghassemi Ahmad --- 10. Volcanic Scoria as Cement Replacement / by Aref M. al-Swaidani --- 11. Volcanic Glass and its Uses as Adsorbent / by Juan Antonio Cecilia, Miguel Armando Autie-Pérez, Juan Manuel Labadie-Suarez, Enrique Rodríguez Castellón and Antonia Infantes Molina --- 12. Health Impact of Volcanic Emissions / by Martha Patricia Sierra-Vargas, Claudia Vargas-Domínguez, Karen Bobadilla-Lozoya and Octavio Gamaliel Aztatzi-Aguilar

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introductory Chapter: An Outline of Carbon Dioxide Chemistry, Uses and Technology / by Janah Shaya, Hassan Srour and Iyad Karamé --- 2. Electrochemical/Photochemical CO2 Reduction Catalyzed by Transition Metal Complexes / by Hitoshi Ishida --- 3. Carbon Dioxide Conversion to Methanol: Opportunities and Fundamental Challenges / by Sajeda A. Al-Saydeh and Syed Javaid Zaidi --- 4. Effect of Overlapping Fe/TiO2 Coated on Netlike Glass Disc and Cu Disc on CO2 Reduction / by Akira Nishimura --- 5. CO2 Reforming with CH4 via Plasma Catalysis System / by Wei Chieh Chung and Moo Been Chang --- 6. Understanding Interaction Capacity of CO2 with Organic Compounds at Molecular Level: A Theoretical Approach / by Pham Ngoc Khanh and Nguyen Tien Trung --- 7. [11C]Carbon Dioxide: Starting Point for Labeling PET Radiopharmaceuticals / by Lingyun Yang, Peter J. H. Scott and Xia Shao --- 8. Solvents for Carbon Dioxide Capture / by Fernando Vega, Mercedes Cano, Sara Camino, Luz M. Gallego Fernández, Esmeralda Portillo and Benito Navarrete --- 9. Advances in Porous Adsorbents for CO2 Capture and Storage / by Arindam Modak and Subhra Jana --- 10. Process Analytical Technology for CO2 Capture / by M.H. Wathsala N. Jinadasa, Klaus-J. Jens and Maths Halstensen --- 11. Carbon Dioxide Use in High-Pressure Extraction Processes / by Vânia Maria Borges Cunha, Marcilene Paiva da Silva, Wanessa Almeida da Costa, Mozaniel Santana de Oliveira, Fernanda Wariss Figueiredo Bezerra, Anselmo Castro de Melo, Rafael Henrique Holanda Pinto, Nelio Teixeira Machado, Marilena Emmi Araujo and Raul Nunes de Carvalho Junior --- 12. A Review on the Application of Enhanced Oil/Gas Recovery through CO2 Sequestration / by Abdelmalek Atia and Kamal Mohammedi

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introductory Chapter: Marine Ecology—Biotic and Abiotic Interactions / by Muhammet Turkoglu, Umur Onal and Ali Ismen --- 2. Geo-Biological Coupling of Authigenic Carbonate Formation and Autotrophic Faunal Colonization at Deep-Sea Methane Seeps I: Geo-Biological Settings / by Takeshi Naganuma --- 3. Geo-Biological Coupling of Authigenic Carbonate Formation and Autotrophic Faunal Colonization at Deep-Sea Methane Seeps II. Geo-Biological Landscapes / by Takeshi Naganuma --- 4. Plankton Ecology and Productivity in Jamaican Waters with New and Unique Applications / by Mona K. Webber, Dale F. Webber and Gale Persad Ford --- 5. Ecology of Planktonic Atlantic Cod (Gadus morhua) / by Stig Skreslet --- 6. Encounters in the Zooplankton: Implications for Pelagic Ecosystem Dynamics / by Laura Sanvicente-Añorve and Miguel Alatorre-Mendieta --- 7. Marine Fisheries in Nigeria: A Review / by Olalekan Jacob Olaoye and Wahab Gbenga Ojebiyi --- 8. Marine Stock Enhancement in India: Current Status and Future Prospects / by Mohammad Serajuddin, Farah Bano, Madhu Awasthi, Pragya Gupta and Graish Kumar --- 9. The Natural Ecology and Stock Enhancement of the Edible Jellyfish (Rhopilema esculentum Kishinouye, 1891) in the Liaodong Bay, Bohai Sea, China / by Jing Dong, Bin Wang, Yan Duan, Aiyong Wang, Yulong Li, Ming Sun, Yu Chai, Xiuze Liu, Xuguang Yu, Dong Guo and Xiaolin Wang --- 10. Overview on Mediterranean Shark’s Fisheries: Impact on the Biodiversity / by Mohamed Nejmeddine Bradai, Bechir Saidi and Samira Enajjar --- 11. An Update on Reproduction in Ghost Shrimps (Decapoda: Axiidea) and Mud Lobsters (Decapoda: Gebiidea) / by Patricio Hernáez --- 12. The Role of Microalgae in Renewable Energy Production: Challenges and Opportunities / by Abd Ellatif Mohamed Hussian

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction: Progress of Seismology in Polar Region / by Masaki Kanao. https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.78550 --- 2. An Overview of Seismological Projects during the International Polar Year / by Masaki Kanao. https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.78551 --- 3. Seismological Studies on the Deep Interiors of the Earth Viewed from the Polar Region / by Masaki Kanao. https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.78552 --- 4. Structural Studies on the Earth’s Crust, Plates, and the Ice Sheet in the Polar Region / by Masaki Kanao. https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.78553 --- 5. Studies on Seismicity in the Polar Region / by Masaki Kanao. https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.78554 --- 6. A Decade of Advances in Cryoseismology / by Masaki Kanao. https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.78555 --- 7. Seismic Detection in the Inland Plateau of East Antarctica / by Masaki Kanao. https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.78556 --- 8. A New Trend in Cryoseismology: A Proxy for Detecting the Polar Surface Environment / by Masaki Kanao. https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.78557 --- 9. Interactions among Multispheres of the Earth’s System and Polar Regions / by Masaki Kanao. https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.78558 --- 10. Summary: Global Seismology and the Polar Region / by Masaki Kanao. https://doi.org/10.5772/intechopen.78559

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introductory Chapter: Spatial Analysis, Modelling, and Planning / by José António Tenedório and Jorge Rocha --- 2. One World, One Health Challenge: The Holistic Understanding of Rickettsiosis Integrating Multi-Criteria Analysis Techniques and Spatial Statistics / by Diego Montenegro, Ana Paula da Cunha, Ingrid Machado, Liliane Duraes, Stefan Vilges de Oliveira, Marcel Pedroso, Gilberto S. Gazêta and Reginaldo P. Brazil --- 3. Spatial Analysis of Bifenthrin Sediment and Water Concentrations in California Waterbodies from 2001 to 2017 / by Lenwood W. Hall and Ronald D. Anderson --- 4. Absolute Density Measures Estimation Functions with Very High Resolution Satellite Images / by Ana Cristina Gonçalves and Adélia M. O. Sousa --- 5. Evaluating the Effectiveness of CCTV in Baltimore, Maryland / by Brian Ways and Brooks C. Pearson --- 6. The Use of Photos of the Social Networks in Shaping a New Tourist Destination: Analysis of Clusters in a GIS Environment / by Hélder Tiago da Silva Lopes, Paula Cristina Almeida Cadima Remoaldo and Vitor Ribeiro --- 7. Modelling Driving Forces of Urban Growth with Fuzzy Sets and GIS / by Khalid Al-Ahmadi --- 8. Quantification and Prediction of Land Consumption and Its Climate Effects in the Rhineland Metropolitan Area Based on Multispectral Satellite Data and Land-Use Modelling 1975–2030 / by Andreas Rienow, Nora Jennifer Schneevoigt and Frank Thonfeld --- 9. Fusion Study of Geography and Environmental Engineering / by Toshiaki Ichinose --- 10. Generating Reality with Geosimulation Models: An Agent-Based Social-Spatial Network Modelling Perspective / by Andreas Koch --- 11. Formal Urban Dynamics, Policy and Implications on Urban Planning: Perspectives on Kampala, Uganda / by John J. Williams and Fred Bidandi --- 12. Risk Analysis and Land Use Planning / by Valentina Svalova --- 13. Political Economy and the Work of Kenneth Arrow / by Norman Schofield

Description / Table of Contents: 1. An Insight into the Process, Tools and Techniques for Construction Risk Management / by Onengiyeofori O. Odimabo, Chike F. Oduoza and Subashini Suresh --- 2. Big Data as a Project Risk Management Tool / by Jarosław Górecki --- 3. Product Life Cycle Risk Management / by Jan Machac, Frantisek Steiner and Jiri Tupa --- 4. Critical Success Factors for Effective Risk Management / by Geraldine J. Kikwasi --- 5. Construction Supply Chain Resilience in Catastrophic Events / by Yasangika Gayani Sandanayake, Tharaka Bandara Dissanayake and Chike Oduoza --- 6. Risk Management in Indonesia Construction Project: A Case Study of a Toll Road Project / by Mochammad Agung Wibowo, Jati Utomo Dwi Hatmoko and Asri Nurdiana --- 7. Risk Management to Enhance Performance in the Construction SME Sector; Theory and Case Study / by Jan Simota, Jiri Tupa* and Frantisek Steiner --- 8. Leadership Initiatives for Health and Safety Risk Management Systems in a Small Construction Company: A Case Study / by Subashini Suresh, Chike Oduoza and Suresh Renukappa --- 9. Landslide Risk Management for Urbanized Territories / by Valentina Svalova

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Montmorillonite: An Introduction to Properties and Utilization / by Faheem Uddin --- 2. Recycling of Steelmaking Plant Wastes in Clay Bricks / by Carlos Maurício F. Vieira, Lucas Fonseca Amaral and Sergio N. Monteiro --- 3. Mineralogical and Chemical Characteristics of Raw and Modified Clays and Their Application in Arsenic and Fluoride Removal: Review / by Mugera W. Gitari and Rabelani Mudzielwana --- 4. Polymer-Clay Nanocomposites for Corrosion Protection / by Abdullah Al-Shahrani, Ihsan Taie, Aziz Fihri and Gasan Alabedi --- 5. The Importance of Clay in Geotechnical Engineering / by Nazile Ural --- 6. Clay Grouting Mechanisms and Applications / by Wen-Chieh Cheng --- 7. Calcium Phosphate/Clay Nanotube Bone Cement with Enhanced Mechanical Properties and Sustained Drug Release / by Udayabhanu Jammalamadaka, Karthik Tappa and David K. Mills --- 8. The Effect of Clay Type on the Physicochemical Properties of New Hydrogel Clay Nanocomposites / by Tatiana Munteanu, Claudia Mihaela Ninciuleanu, Ioana Catalina Gifu, Bogdan Trica, Elvira Alexandrescu, Augusta Raluca Gabor, Silviu Preda, Cristian Petcu, Cristina Lavinia Nistor, Sabina Georgiana Nitu and Raluca Ianchis --- 9. Development of Clay Nanoparticles Toward Bio and Medical Applications / by Seyyed Mojtaba Mousavi, Seyyed Alireza Hashemi, Sarvenaz Salahi, Mojgan Hosseini, Ali Mohammad Amani and Aziz Babapoor

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Vulnerability, Urban Design and Resilience Management / by Bruno Barroca --- 2. Index of Proportional Risk (IRP) Flood-Risk Assessment Model and Comparison to Collected Data / by Luca Franzi, Gennaro Bianco, Alessandro Pezzoli and Angelo Besana --- 3. Insight into the Correlation between Land Subsidence and the Floods in Regions of Indonesia / by Heri Andreas, Hasanuddin Z. Abidin, Irwan Gumilar, Teguh P. Sidiq, Dina A. Sarsito and Dhota Pradipta --- 4. Assessing the Impact of Land Use Changes and Rangelands and Forest Degradation on Flooding Using Watershed Modeling System / by Nafise Moghadasi, Iman Karimirad and Vahedberdi Sheikh --- 5. Extent of 2014 Flood Damages in Chenab Basin Upper Indus Plain / by Shakeel Mahmood and Razia Rani --- 6. Towards the Reduction of Vulnerabilities and Risks of Climate Change in the Community-Based Tourism, Namibia / by Selma Lendelvo, Margaret N. Angula, Immaculate Mogotsi and Karl Aribeb --- 7. Using the Monoplotting Technique for Documenting and Analyzing Natural Hazard Events / by Conedera Marco, Bozzini Claudio, Ryter Ueli, Bertschinger Thalia and Krebs Patrik --- 8. Tsunami Hazard Assessment for the Hokuriku Region, Japan: Toward Disaster Mitigation for Future Earthquakes / by Michihiro Ohori, Yuri Masukawa and Keisuke Kojima --- 9. Disaster Mitigation Model of Eruption Based on Local Wisdom in Indonesia / by Eko Hariyono and Solaiman Liliasari

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introductory Chapter: The Main Directions and Tasks of Pure and Applied Biogeography in Solving the Global Problems of Our Time by Levente Hufnagel --- Chapter 2: Are Historical Biogeographical Events Able to Promote Biological Diversification? by Julián A. Velasco --- Chapter 3: Ecological Responses to Climate Change at Biogeographical Boundaries by Melinda Pálinkás --- Chapter 4: A Synopsis of Global Mapping of Freshwater Habitats and Biodiversity: Implications for Conservation by Ryan A. McManamay, Natalie A. Griffiths, Christoper R. DeRolph and Brenda M. Pracheil --- Chapter 5: Plant Antiherbivore Defense in Diverse Environments by Alina Morquecho-Contreras, Carmen Zepeda-Gómez and Hermilo Sánchez-Sánchez --- Chapter 6: Vachellia (Acacia) karroo Communities in South Africa: An Overview by Mamokete Dingaan and Pieter J. du Preez --- Chapter 7: Ecological Biogeography of West Usambara Mountains: A Study on the Influence of Abiotic Factors to Spatial Distribution of Plant and Animal Species by Joel Loitu Meliyo, Kenneth F.G. Masuki, Balthazar M. Msanya, Didas N. Kimaro and Loth S. Mulungu

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Spreading Information in Complex Networks: An Overview and Some Modified Methods by Reji Kumar Karunakaran, Shibu Manuel and Edamana Narayanan Satheesh --- Chapter 2: An Example Usage of Graph Theory in Other Scientific Fields: On Graph Labeling, Possibilities and Role of Mind/Consciousness by Auparajita Krishnaa --- Chapter 3: Graph-Based Decision Making in Industry by Izabela Kutschenreiter-Praszkiewicz --- Chapter 4: Governance Modeling: Dimensionality and Conjugacy by Pierre Mazzega, Claire Lajaunie and Etienne Fieux --- Chapter 5: Modeling Rooted in-Trees by Finite p-Groups by Daniel C. Mayer --- Chapter 6: Monophonic Distance in Graphs by P. Titus and A.P. Santhakumaran --- Chapter 7: Spectra and Quantum Transport on Graphs by Victor Chulaevsky --- Chapter 8: Math Words and Their Dendrograms by Francisco Casanova-del-Angel

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introductory Chapter: Time Series Analysis (TSA) for Anomaly Detection in IoT by Nawaz Mohamudally --- Chapter 2: Anxiety, Worry and Fear: Quantifying the Mind Using EKG Time Series Analysis by Toru Yazawa --- Chapter 3: Agricultural Monitoring in Regional Scale Using Clustering on Satellite Image Time Series by Renata Ribeiro do Valle Gonçalves, Jurandir Zullo Junior, Bruno Ferraz do Amaral, Elaine Parros Machado Sousa and Luciana Alvim Santos Romani --- Chapter 4: Volatility Parameters Estimation and Forecasting of GARCH(1,1) Models with Johnson’s SU Distributed Errors by Mohammed Elamin Hassan, Henry Mwambi and Ali Babikir --- Chapter 5: Generation of Earth’s Surface Three-Dimensional (3-D) Displacement Time-Series by Multiple-Platform SAR Data by Antonio Pepe --- Chapter 6: Time Series and Renewable Energy Forecasting by Mahmoud Ghofrani and Musaad Alolayan --- Chapter 7: Modeling Nonlinear Vector Time Series Data by Jiancheng Jiang and Sha Yu --- Chapter 8: Symbolic Time Series Analysis and Its Application in Social Sciences by Wiston Adrián Risso --- Chapter 9: State-Space Models for Binomial Time Series with Excess Zeros by Fan Tang and Joseph E. Cavanaugh --- Chapter 10: Ensemble Prediction of Stream Flows Enhanced by Harmony Search Optimization by Milan Cisty and Veronika Soldanova

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Green Process of Three-Component Prostaglandin Synthesis and Rapid 11C Labelings for Short-Lived PET Tracers by Masaaki Suzuki, Hiroko Koyama, Hideki Ishii, Koichi Kato, Margareta Ögren and Hisashi Doi

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introductory Chapter: Coal Fly Ash and Its Application for Remediation of Acid Mine Drainage by Mugera Wilson Gitari and Segun Ajayi Akinyemi --- Chapter 2: Metal Adsorption by Coal Fly Ash: The Role of Nano-sized Materials by Anita Etale, Nikita T. Tavengwa and Vusumzi E. Pakade --- Chapter 3: Chemical Stabilization of Coal Fly Ash for Simultaneous Suppressing of As, B, and Se Leaching by Sri Hartuti, Shinji Kambara, Akihiro Takeyama, Farrah Fadhillah Hanum and Erda Rahmilaila Desfitri --- Chapter 4: Evaluation of Ultrasound-assisted Modified Fly Ash for Treatment of Acid Mine Drainage by Deniz Sanliyuksel Yucel and Burcu Ileri --- Chapter 5: Treatment of Acid Mine Drainage with Coal Fly Ash: Exploring the Solution Chemistry and Product Water Quality by Wilson Mugera Gitari, Leslie F. Petrik and Segun A. Akinyemi --- Chapter 6: Phytoreclamation of Abandoned Acid Mine Drainage Site After Treatment with Fly Ash by Madhumita Roy, Roopali Roychowdhury, Pritam Mukherjee, Atanu Roy, Bulti Nayak and Satarupa Roy --- Chapter 7: Challenges in Recovery of Valuable and Hazardous Elements from Bulk Fly Ash and Options for Increasing Fly Ash Utilization by Ajit Behera and Soumya Sanjeeb Mohapatra --- Chapter 8: Thickener Water Neutralization by Mid-Bottom and Fly Ash of Thermal Power Plants and CO2: Organic Humate Mud of AMD Treatment for Remediation of Agricultural Fields by Yıldırım İsmail Tosun --- Chapter 9: Fracture Toughness of Concrete Containing Fly Ash by Grzegorz Ludwik Golewski

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Colorimetry and Dichromatic Vision by Humberto Moreira, Leticia Álvaro, Anna Melnikova and Julio Lillo --- Chapter 2: Image Segmentation Based on Mathematical Morphological Operator by Jianjun Chen, Haijian Shao and Chunlong Hu --- Chapter 3: Color Reconstruction and Resolution Enhancement Using Super-Resolution by Eduardo Quevedo Gutiérrez and Gustavo Marrero Callicó --- Chapter 4: Color Analysis and Image Processing Applied in Agriculture by Jesús Raúl Martínez Sandoval, Miguel Enrique Martínez Rosas, Ernesto Martínez Sandoval, Manuel Moisés Miranda Velasco and Humberto Cervantes De Ávila --- Chapter 5: A Proposal of Color Image Processing Applications for Education by Hiroshi Kamada, Tomohisa Ishikawa and Keitaro Yoshikawa --- Chapter 6: Real-Time Video Analysis in Agriculture by Using LabVIEW Software by Abdullah Beyaz --- Chapter 7: Diffusion-Steered Super-Resolution Image Reconstruction by Baraka J. Maiseli --- Chapter 8: A New Pansharpening Approach for Hyperspectral Images by Chiman Kwan, Jin Zhou and Bence Budavari --- Chapter 9: Thresholding Algorithm Optimization for Change Detection to Satellite Imagery by René Vázquez-Jiménez, Rocío N. Ramos-Bernal, Raúl Romero- Calcerrada, Patricia Arrogante-Funes, Sulpicio Sanchez Tizapa and Carlos J. Novillo --- Chapter 10: Clouds Motion Estimation from Ground-Based Sky Camera and Satellite Images by Ali Youssef Zaher and Afraa Ghanem

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Petrology, Geochemistry and Mineralogy of Greisens Associated with Tin-Tungsten Mineralisation: Hub Stock Deposit at Krásno–Horní Slavkov Ore District, Czech Republic by Miloš René --- Chapter 2: Zechstein-Kupferschiefer Mineralization Reconsidered as a Product of Ultra-Deep Hydrothermal, Mud-Brine Volcanism by Stanley B. Keith, Volker Spieth and Jan C. Rasmussen --- Chapter 3: Lead-, Zinc-, and Iron-Sulfide Mineralization from Northern Iraq by Ali Ismail Al-Juboury, Waleed S. Shingaly, Elias M. Elias and Mohsin M. Ghazal --- Chapter 4: Geology, Textural Study, Ore Genesis and Processing of the Tabuaço Tungsten Deposit (Northern Portugal) by Yann Foucaud, Bénédicte Lechenard, Philippe Marion, Inna Filippova and Lev Filippov --- Chapter 5: Lead Isotopes as Tracers of Metal Sources and Timing of the Carbonate-Hosted Pb-Zn Deposits in the Nappes Zone, Northern Tunisia by Nejib Jemmali and Fouad Souissi --- Chapter 6: Trace Elements in Coal Gangue: A Review by Shaoqing Guo --- Chapter 7: Mineralization: Evidence from Fission Track Thermochronology by Wanming Yuan and Ke Wang --- Chapter 8: Statistical Approach to Mineral Engineering and Optimization by Mehmet Deniz Turan --- Chapter 9: Expected Return on Capital in Mining Industry by Aneta Michalak

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Organic Fertilizers and Nutrient Recycling from Diluted Waste Streams / by Bente Foereid --- 2. Olive-Pressed Solid Residues as a Medium for Growing Mushrooms and Increasing Soil Fertility / by Hani Mohamed Awad Abdelzaher, Haifa Abdulaziz S. Alhaithloul and Shaima Mohamed Nabil Moustafa --- 3. Composing of Municipal Solid Waste and Its Use as Fertilizer / by Muhammad Khalid Iqbal --- 4. Relationship of Agronomic Practices to Soil Nitrogen Dynamics / by Congming Zou, Robert C Pearce, John H Grove, Yan Li, Xiaodong Hu, Jie Chen, Junying Li and Yan Jin --- 5. Fostering Fertilizer Use and Welfare Distribution in Tanzania: Implications for Policy and Practice / by Lutengano Mwinuka

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Gravity Data Interpretation Using Different New Algorithms: A Comparative Study by Khalid S. Essa and Mahmoud Elhussein --- Chapter 2: 3D Modeling and Inversion of Gravity Data in Exploration Scale by Hongzhu Cai, Bin Xiong and Yue Zhu --- Chapter 3: Microgravity and Its Applications in Geosciences by Hakim Saibi --- Chapter 4: Application of BEMD in Extraction of Regional and Local Gravity Anomalies Reflecting Geological Structures Associated with Mineral Resources by Yongqing Chen, Binbin Zhao, Jingnning Huang and Lina Zhang --- Chapter 5: Identification of Gravity Lineaments for Water Resources in the Crystalline Massif of Hoggar (South of Algeria) by Abdeslam Abtout, Hassina Boukerbout, Boualem Bouyahiaoui and Farida Boukercha --- Chapter 6: Gravity Application for Delineating Subsurface Structures at Different Localities in Egypt by Sultan Awad Sultan Araffa --- Chapter 7: Gravity in Heat Pipe Technology by Patrik Nemec --- Chapter 8: Analysis of the Influence of Fish Behavior on the Hydrodynamics of Net Cage by Tiao-Jian Xu, Ming-Fu Tang and Guo-Hai Dong --- Chapter 9: Beyond Einstein: A Polynomial Affine Model of Gravity by Oscar Castillo-Felisola --- Chapter 10: Gravity, Curvature and Energy: Gravitational Field Intentionality to the Cohesion and Union of the Universe by Francisco Bulnes

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: A Reference Recursive Recipe for Tuning the Statistics of the Kalman Filter by Mudambi R Ananthasayanam --- Chapter 2: The Error Covariance Matrix Inflation in Ensemble Kalman Filter by Guocan Wu and Xiaogu Zheng --- Chapter 3: Unscented Kalman Filter for State and Parameter Estimation in Vehicle Dynamics by Mark Wielitzka, Alexander Busch, Matthias Dagen and Tobias Ortmaier --- Chapter 4: Sensitivity-Based Adaptive SRUKF for State, Parameter, and Covariance Estimation on Mechatronic Systems by Mauro Hernán Riva, Mark Wielitzka and Tobias Ortmaier --- Chapter 5: Kalman Filters for Parameter Estimation of Nonstationary Signals by Sarita Nanda --- Chapter 6: Kalman Filter Models for the Prediction of Individualised Thermal Work Strain by Jia Guo, Ying Chen, Weiping Priscilla Fan, Si Hui Maureen Lee, Junxian Ong, Poh Ling Tan, Yu Li Lydia Law, Kai Wei Jason Lee and Kok-Yong Seng --- Chapter 7: Application of Kalman Filtering in Dynamic Prediction for Corporate Financial Distress by Qian Zhuang --- Chapter 8: Predicting Collisions in Mobile Robot Navigation by Kalman Filter by Angel Sánchez, Homero Ríos, Gustavo Quintana and Antonio Marín --- Chapter 9: Efficient Matrix-Free Ensemble Kalman Filter Implementations: Accounting for Localization by Elias David Niño Ruiz, Rolando Beltrán Arrieta and Alfonso Manuel Mancilla Herrera --- Chapter 10: Kalman Filters for Reference Current Generation in Shunt Active Power Filter (APF) by Ahmad Shukri Bin Abu Hasim, Syed Mohd Fairuz Bin Syed Mohd Dardin and Zulkifilie Bin Ibrahim --- Chapter 11: Applications of Kalman Filters for Coherent Optical Communication Systems by Lalitha Pakala and Bernhard Schmauss --- Chapter 12: Kalman Filter for Moving Object Tracking: Performance Analysis and Filter Design by Kenshi Saho --- Chapter 13: Distributed Kalman Filter by Felix Govaers --- Chapter 14: Consensus-Based Distributed Filtering for GNSS by Amir Khodabandeh, Peter J.G. Teunissen and Safoora Zaminpardaz

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Petroleum Source Rocks Characterization and Hydrocarbon Generation by Nabil Mohammed Al-Areeq --- Chapter 2: Petroleum Extraction Engineering by Tatjana Paulauskiene --- Chapter 3: Optimal Planning for Deepwater Oilfield Development Under Uncertainties of Crude Oil Price and Reservoir by Zhang Haoran, Liang Yongtu, Ma Jing, Di Pengwei, Yan Xiaohan and Huang Zhongliang --- Chapter 4: Drilling Fluids for Deepwater Fields: An Overview by Luis Alberto Alcázar-Vara and Ignacio Ramón Cortés-Monroy --- Chapter 5: Evaluation of Different Correlation Performance for the Calculation of the Critical Properties and Acentric Factor of Petroleum Heavy Fractions by Dacid B. Lacerda, Rafael B. Scardini, André P. C. M. Vinhal, Adolfo P. Pires and Viatcheslav I. Priimenko --- Chapter 6: Characterization of Crude Oils and the Precipitated Asphaltenes Fraction using UV Spectroscopy, Dynamic Light Scattering and Microscopy by Ernestina Elizabeth Banda Cruz, Nohra Violeta Gallardo Rivas, Ulises Páramo García, Ana Maria Mendoza Martinez and José Aarón Melo Banda --- Chapter 7: Density Anomalies in Crude Oil Blends Reflect Multiple Equilibrium States of Asphaltene Colloidal Aggregates by Igor N. Evdokimov, Aleksey A. Fesan and Aleksandr P. Losev --- Chapter 8: A Realistic Look at Nanostructured Material as an Innovative Approach for Enhanced Oil Recovery Process Upgrading by Lezorgia Nekabari Nwidee, Ahmed Barifcani, Maxim Lebedev, Mohammad Sarmadivaleh and Stefan Iglauer --- Chapter 9: Lessons Learned from Our Recent Research in Chemical Enhanced Oil Recovery (C-EOR) Methods by Bing Wei, Peng Wei, Shuai Zhao and Wanfen Pu --- Chapter 10: Numerical Study of Low Salinity Water Flooding in Naturally Fractured Oil Reservoirs by Reda Abdel Azim, Sara Faiz, Shaik Rahman, Ahmed Elbagir and Nour Al Obaidi --- Chapter 11: Experimental Study of the Effect of Composite Solvent and Asphaltenes Contents on Efficiency of Heavy Oil Recovery Processes at Injection of Light Hydrocarbons by Dmitry N. Borisov, Dmitry V. Milordov, Svetlana G. Yakubova and Makhmut R. Yakubov --- Chapter 12: Total Acid Number Reduction of Naphthenic Acids Using Supercritical Fluid and Ionic Liquids by Pradip Chandra Mandal and Mitsuru Sasaki --- Chapter 13: Conducting Polymers Films Deposited on Carbon Steel and Their Interaction with Crude Oil by Oscar E. Vázquez-Noriega, Javier Guzmán, Nohra V. Gallardo-Rivas, Reinaldo David Martínez Orozco, Ana M. Mendoza-Martínez, María Yolanda Chávez Cinco, Luciano Aguilera Vázquez and Ulises Páramo-García --- Chapter 14: Desulfurization of Dibenzothiophene by Pseudomonas fluorescens (UCP 1514) Leading to the Production of Biphenyl by Thayse A.L. Silva, Manfred Schwartz, Patrícia M. Souza, Ian Garrard, Galba M. Campos-Takaki and Elias B. Tambourgi --- Chapter 15: Reduction in the Sulfur Content of Fossil Fuels by Cunninghamella elegans (UCP 0596) to Dibenzothiophene Compound by Patrícia Mendes de Souza, Thayse Alves de Lima e Silva, Marcos Antonio Barbosa Lima, Luciana de Oliveira Franco, Manfred Schwartz, Paulo Henrique da Silva, Lúcia Roberta Barbosa, Aline Elesbão do Nascimento, Kaoru Okada and Galba Maria de Campos- Takaki --- Chapter 16: Microbial Bioremediation of Petroleum Hydrocarbon– Contaminated Marine Environments by Mouna Mahjoubi, Simone Cappello, Yasmine Souissi, Atef Jaouani and Ameur Cherif --- Chapter 17: Petroleum Degradation: Promising Biotechnological Tools for Bioremediation by Maddela Naga Raju and Laura Scalvenzi --- Chapter 18: Organic Contaminants in Refinery Wastewater: Characterization and Novel Approaches for Biotreatment by Taghreed Al-Khalid and Muftah H. El-Naas --- Chapter 19: Analytical Methods for Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons and their Global Trend of Distribution in Water and Sediment: A Review by Abiodun Olagoke Adeniji, Omobola Oluranti Okoh and Anthony Ifeanyi Okoh

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: High-Performance Computing: Dos and Don’ts by Guillaume Houzeaux, Ricard Borrell, Yvan Fournier, Marta Garcia- Gasulla, Jens Henrik Göbbert, Elie Hachem, Vishal Mehta, Youssef Mesri, Herbert Owen and Mariano Vázquez --- Chapter 2: Multilevel Variable-Block Schur-Complement-Based Preconditioning for the Implicit Solution of the Reynolds- Averaged Navier-Stokes Equations Using Unstructured Grids by Bruno Carpentieri and Aldo Bonfiglioli --- Chapter 3: Free-Surface Flow Simulations with Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Method using High-Performance Computing by Corrado Altomare, Giacomo Viccione, Bonaventura Tagliafierro, Vittorio Bovolin, José Manuel Domínguez and Alejandro Jacobo Cabrera Crespo --- Chapter 4: Highly Deforming Computational Meshes for CFD Analysis of Twin-Screw Positive Displacement Machines by Sham Rane, Ahmed Kovačević, Nikola Stošić and Ian Smith --- Chapter 5: Optimization Design by Coupling Computational Fluid Dynamics and Genetic Algorithm by Jong-Taek Oh and Nguyen Ba Chien --- Chapter 6: Applications of CFD for Process Safety by Luis G. Zárate, Sebastián Uribe and Mario E. Cordero --- Chapter 7: Adaptation to Climate Change at Local Scale: A CFD Study in Porto Urban Area by Vera Rodrigues, Sandra Rafael, Sandra Sorte, Sílvia Coelho, Hélder Relvas, Bruno Vicente, Joana Leitão, Myriam Lopes, Ana Isabel Miranda and Carlos Borrego --- Chapter 8: Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) Applied to a Glass Vaporization Chamber for Introduction of Micro- or Nano-Size Samples into Lab-Based ICPs and to a CFD-Derived (and Rapidly Prototyped Via 3D Printing) Smaller-Size Chamber for Portable Microplasmas by Hamid R. Badiei, Gordon Stubley, Ryan Fitzgerald, Melanie Saddler and Vassili Karanassios --- Chapter 9: Analysis of Biomass Waste Cofiring into Existing Coal-Fired Power Plant Using Computational Fluid Dynamics by Arif Darmawan, Dwika Budianto, Koji Tokimatsu and Muhammad Aziz --- Chapter 10: CFD Modelling of Coupled Multiphysics-Multiscale Engineering Cases by Mario E. Cordero, Sebastián Uribe, Luis G. Zárate, Reyna Natividad Rangel, Alejandro Regalado-Méndez and Ever Peralta Reyes --- Chapter 11: CFD Analysis of Turbulence Models to Achieve the Digester Mixing Process by Jorge Flores-Velazquez, Abraham Jesus Arzeta-Rios, Waldo Ojeda Bustamante and Teodoro Espinosa-Solares --- Chapter 12: CFD for the Design and Optimization of Slurry Bubble Column Reactors by Omar M. Basha and Badie I. Morsi --- Chapter 13: Two Different Formulations for Solving the Navier-Stokes Equations with Moderate and High Reynolds Numbers by Blanca Bermúdez, Alejandro Rangel-Huerta, Wuiyevaldo Fermín Guerrero-Sánchez and José David Alanís --- Chapter 14: Vibration Characteristics of Fluid-Filled Functionally Graded Cylindrical Material with Ring Supports by Muzamal Hussain, Aamir Shahzad, Muhammad Nawaz Naeem and Maogang He --- Chapter 15: CFD Simulations of Crude Oil Fouling on Heat Transfer Surfaces by Ramasamy Marappa Gounder and Sampath Emani --- Chapter 16: Surrogate Model Applied for Analysis of Uncertain Parameters in Turbulent Mixing Flows by Boštjan Končar, Andrej Prošek and Matjaž Leskovar

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introductory Chapter: Kinetics from Past to Future by George Z. Kyzas and Athanasios C. Mitropoulos --- Chapter 2: Discrete Boltzmann Modeling of Compressible Flows by Aiguo Xu, Guangcai Zhang and Yudong Zhang --- Chapter 3: Collective Mode Interactions in Lorentzian Space Plasma by Nazish Rubab and Sadia Zaheer --- Chapter 4: Kinetic Theory of Creep and Long-Term Strength of Metals by Alexander Lokoshchenko and Leonid Fomin --- Chapter 5: Kinetic Equations of Active Soft Matter by Viktor Gerasimenko --- Chapter 6: Non-Linear Kinetic Analysis of Protein Assembly Based on Center Manifold Theory by Tatsuaki Tsuruyama --- Chapter 7: Plasma Kinetic Theory by Kashif Chaudhary, Auwal Mustapha Imam, Syed Zuhaib Haider Rizvi and Jalil Ali

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Phase Space Dynamics of Relativistic Particles by Hai Lin --- Chapter 2: Motion of Electrons in Planar Ideal Undulator by Nikolay Smolyakov --- Chapter 3: Concept and Numerical Simulations of Multi-Beam Linear Accelerators EVT with Depressed Collector for Drive Beam by Vladimir E. Teryaev --- Chapter 4: Optically Controlled Laser-Plasma Electron Acceleration for Compact γ-Ray Sources by Serge Y. Kalmykov, Xavier Davoine, Isaac Ghebregziabher and Bradley A. Shadwick --- Chapter 5: Nuclear Safety Study of High Energy Heavy-ion Medical Accelerator Facility by Oyeon Kum --- Chapter 6: Radiation Safety Aspects of Linac Operation with Bremsstrahlung Converters by Matthew Hodges and Alexander Barzilov --- Chapter 7: X-Ray Diffraction Detects D-Periodic Location of Native Collagen Crosslinks In Situ and Those Resulting from Non- Enzymatic Glycation by Rama Sashank Madhurapantula and Joseph P.R.O. Orgel --- Chapter 8: Ion Beam, Synchrotron Radiation, and Related Techniques in Biomedicine: Elemental Profiling of Hair by Karen J. Cloete

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Complex Reactions and Dynamics by Muhammad Shahzad and Faisal Sultan --- Chapter 2: Mathematical Modeling and Simulation of Nonlinear Process in Enzyme Kinetics by Lakshmanan Rajendran, Mohan Chitra Devi, Carlos Fernandez and Qiuming Peng --- Chapter 3: Autoignition and Chemical-Kinetic Mechanisms of Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition Combustion for the Fuels with Various Autoignition Reactivity by Dongwon Jung --- Chapter 4: New Materials to Solve Energy Issues through Photochemical and Photophysical Processes: The Kinetics Involved by Tatiana Duque Martins, Antonio Carlos Chaves Ribeiro, Geovany Albino de Souza, Diericon de Sousa Cordeiro, Ramon Miranda Silva, Flavio Colmati, Roberto Batista de Lima, Lucas Fernandes Aguiar, Leandro Lima Carvalho, Renan Gustavo Coelho S. dos Reis and Wemerson Daniel C. dos Santos --- Chapter 5: Competition Kinetics: An Experimental Approach by Murtaza Sayed, Luqman Ali Shah, Javed Ali Khan, Noor S. Shah, Rozina Khattak and Hasan M. Khan --- Chapter 6: Catalyst Kinetics and Stability in Homogeneous Alcohol Acceptorless Dehydrogenation by Martin Nielsen --- Chapter 7: Oxidation of Glycerol to Lactic Acid by Gold on Acidified Alumina: A Kinetic and DFT Case Study by Thabang A. Ntho, Pumeza Gqogqa and James L. Aluha --- Chapter 8: Hydrothermal Precipitation of β-FeOOH Nanoparticles in Mixed Water/Alcohol Solvent by Mahabubur Chowdhury --- Chapter 9: Adsorption, Kinetics and Photoactivity of ZnO-Supported Fly Ash-Sepiolite Ternary Catalyst by Ayşe Neren Ökte --- Chapter 10: Kinetics of Heterogeneous Self-Propagating High-Temperature Reactions by Christopher E. Shuck and Alexander S. Mukasyan --- Chapter 11: Ultrasound as a Metrological Tool for Monitoring Transesterification Kinetics by Raphaela M. Baêsso, Pâmella A. Oliveira, Gabriel C. Moraes, André V. Alvarenga and Rodrigo P.B. Costa-Félix

Description / Table of Contents: 1. History of Uranium Mining in Central Europe / By Miloš René --- 2. Safety and Economics of Uranium Utilization for Nuclear Power Generation / By Yuji Fukaya --- 3. Shear Zone-Hosted Uranium Deposits of the Bohemian Massif (Central European Variscan Belt) / By Miloš René --- 4. Uranium in Poland: Resources and Recovery from Low-Grade Ores / By Katarzyna Kiegiel, Agnieszka Miskiewicz, Dorota Gajda, Sylwester Sommer, Stanislaw Wolkowicz and Grazyna Zakrzewska- Koltuniewicz --- 5. Remotely Monitoring Uranium-Enrichment Plants with Detection of Gaseous Uranium Hexafluoride and HF Using Lidar / By Gholamreza Shayeganrad --- 6. Thermodynamics and Separation Factor of Uranium from Fission Products in “Liquid Metal-Molten Salt” System / By Valeri Smolenski, Alena Novoselova, Alexander Bychkov, Vladimir Volkovich, Yana Luk’yanova and Alexander Osipenko --- 7. Chemical Thermodynamics of Uranium in the Soil Environment / By Michael Thomas Aide

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction to Navigation Systems / By Junghyun Lee --- 2. A Review: Remote Sensing Sensors / By Lingli Zhu, Juha Suomalainen, Jingbin Liu, Juha Hyyppä, Harri Kaartinen and Henrik Haggren --- 3. Validation and Quality Assessment of Sea Levels from SARAL/ AltiKa Satellite Altimetry over the Marginal Seas at the Southeast Asia / By Noor Nabilah Abdullah and Nurul Hazrina Idris --- 4. Geospatial Analysis for Irrigated Land Assessment, Modeling and Mapping / By Olumuyiwa Idowu Ojo and Francois Ilunga --- 5. The Use of GNSS GPS Technology for Offshore Oil and Gas Platform Subsidence Monitoring / By Heri Andreas, Hasanuddin Z. Abidin, Irwan Gumilar, Dina A. Sarsito and Dhota Pradipta --- 6. The Use of MODIS Images to Quantify the Energy Balance in Different Agroecosystems in Brazil / By Antônio Heriberto de Castro Teixeira, Janice F. Leivas, Carlos C. Ronquim and Gustavo Bayma-Silva --- 7. Earth Observation for Urban Climate Monitoring: Surface Cover and Land Surface Temperature / By Zina Mitraka and Nektarios Chrysoulakis --- 8. Pre-earthquake Anomaly Detection and Assessment through Lineament Changes Observation Using Multi-temporal Landsat 8-OLI Imageries: Case of Gorkha and Imphal / By Biswajit Nath, Zheng Niu and Shukla Acharjee --- 9. Optimization of an Earth Observation Data Processing and Distribution System / By Jonathan Becedas, María del Mar Núñez and David González --- 10. Multi-purposeful Application of Geospatial Data / By Chattopadhyay Nabansu, Chandras Swati and Tidke Nivedita

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introductory Chapter: VLSI by Kim Ho Yeap and Humaira Nisar --- Chapter 2: Transistor Degradations in Very Large-Scale-Integrated CMOS Technologies by Chang Yeol Lee --- Chapter 3: Low Power Design Methodology by Vithyalakshmi Natarajan, Ashok Kumar Nagarajan, Nagarajan Pandian and Vinoth Gopi Savithri --- Chapter 4: High-purity Refractory Metals for Thin Film Metallization of VLSI by Vadim Glebovsky --- Chapter 5: Operational Amplifier Design in CMOS at Low-Voltage for Sensor Input Front-End Circuits in VLSI Devices by Muhaned Zaidi, Ian Grout and Abu Khari A’ain --- Chapter 6: Design of High-Order CMOS Analog Notch Filter with 0.18 μm CMOS Technology by Kittipong Tripetch

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: FEM Analysis of Mechanical and Structural Properties of Long Fiber-Reinforced Composites by Michal Petrů and Ondřej Novák --- Chapter 2: Finite Element Dynamic Analysis on Residual Stress Distribution of Titanium Alloy and Titanium Matrix Composite after Shot Peening Treatment by Lechun Xie, Zhou Wang, Chengxi Wang, Yan Wen, Liqiang Wang, Chuanhai Jiang, Weijie Lu, Lai-Chang Zhang and Lin Hua --- Chapter 3: Multiscale Wavelet Finite Element Analysis in Structural Dynamics by Mutinda Musuva and Cristinel Mares --- Chapter 4: Numerical Analysis of Hot Polymer-Coated Steel Pipeline Joints in Bending by Finian McCann, Guido Ridolfi, Erwan Karjadi, Harm Demmink and Helen Boyd --- Chapter 5: Application of Finite Element Analysis in Multiscale Metal Forming Process by Zhengyi Jiang and Haibo Xie --- Chapter 6: Finite Element Thermal Analysis of Metal Parts Additively Manufactured via Selective Laser Melting by Dario Pitassi, Enrico Savoia, Vigilio Fontanari, Alberto Molinari, Valerio Luchin, Gianluca Zappini and Matteo Benedetti --- Chapter 7: Adaptive Modeling and Simulation of Elastic, Dielectric and Piezoelectric Problems by Grzegorz Zboiński --- Chapter 8: Vibration Simulation of Electric Machines by Marcel Janda and Kristyna Jandova --- Chapter 9: Numerically and Analytically Forecasting the Coal Burst Using Energy Based Approach Methods by Faham Tahmasebinia, Chengguo Zhang, Ismet Canbulat, Onur Vardar and Serkan Saydam --- Chapter 10: Linear Thermo-Poroelasticity and Geomechanics by Horacio Florez --- Chapter 11: Numerical Analysis of the Incompressible Fluid Flow and Heat Transfer by Toshio Tagawa --- Chapter 12: Numerical Simulation of Wave (Shock Profile) Propagation of the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky Equation Using an Adaptive Mesh Method by Denson Muzadziwa, Stephen T. Sikwila and Stanford Shateyi --- Chapter 13: Numerical Analysis on the Simulated Heavy Rainfall Event of Tropical Cyclone Fung-Wong by Lei-Ming Ma and Xu-Wei Bao --- Chapter 14: Weighted Finite-Element Method for Elasticity Problems with Singularity by Viktor Anatolievich Rukavishnikov and Elena Ivanovna Rukavishnikova

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Investigation of the Nanostructured Semiconductor Metamaterials by Aleksej Trofimov, Tatjana Gric and Ortwin Hess --- Chapter 2: Understanding the Mechanisms that Affect the Quality of Electrochemically Grown Semiconducting Nanowires by Abhay Singh and Usha Philipose --- Chapter 3: Semiconductor Quantum Wells with BenDaniel-Duke Boundary Conditions and Janus Nanorods by Victor Barsan --- Chapter 4: Nanostructured ZnO, Cu2ZnSnS4, Cd1−xZnxTe Thin Films Obtained by Spray Pyrolysis Method by Oleksandr Dobrozhan, Denys Kurbatov, Petro Danilchenko and Anatoliy Opanasyuk --- Chapter 5: E-ALD: Tailoring the Optoeletronic Properties of Metal Chalcogenides on Ag Single Crystals by Emanuele Salvietti, Andrea Giaccherini, Filippo Gambinossi, Maria Luisa Foresti, Maurizio Passaponti, Francesco Di Benedetto and Massimo Innocenti --- Chapter 6: Pulsed Electrochemical Deposition of CuInSe2 and Cu(In,Ga)Se2 Semiconductor Thin Films by Sreekanth Mandati, Bulusu V. Sarada, Suhash R. Dey and Shrikant V. Joshi --- Chapter 7: The Electrochemical Performance of Deposited Manganese Oxide-Based Film as Electrode Material for Electrochemical Capacitor Application by Chan Pei Yi and Siti Rohana Majid --- Chapter 8: Semiconducting Electrospun Nanofibers for Energy Conversion by Giulia Massaglia and Marzia Quaglio

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Coupling Watersheds, Estuaries and Regional Oceanography through Numerical Modelling in the Western Iberia: Thermohaline Flux Variability at the Ocean-Estuary Interface by Francisco J. Campuzano, Manuela Juliano, João Sobrinho, Hilda de Pablo, David Brito, Rodrigo Fernandes and Ramiro Neves --- Chapter 2: Weather, Hydrological and Oceanographic Conditions of the Northern Coast of the Río de la Plata Estuary during ENSO 2009–2010 by Ernesto Brugnoli, José Verocai, Pablo Muniz and Felipe García- Rodríguez --- Chapter 3: Pesticides in Worldwide Aquatic Systems: Part I by Catarina Cruzeiro, Eduardo Rocha and Maria João Rocha --- Chapter 4: Pesticides in Worldwide Aquatic Systems: Part II by Catarina Cruzeiro, Eduardo Rocha and Maria João Rocha --- Chapter 5: The Ecology and Food Web Dynamics of South African Intermittently Open Estuaries by Pierre William Froneman --- Chapter 6: The Relationship of Sediment and Intersitial Water Properties with Mangrove Health in a Subtropical Coastal Lagoon of Mexico by Carlos Augusto Zenteno-Palma, Aramis Olivos-Ortiz, María del Carmen Álvarez, Sonia Isabel Quijano-Scheggia and Gloria Alicia Jiménez-Ramón

Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introductory Chapter: Metrology / by Anil Akdogan --- 2. Methods for Evaluation of Measurement Uncertainty / by Jailton Carreteiro Damasceno and Paulo R.G. Couto --- 3. Variational Calibration / by Michael Surdu --- 4. Measuring ‘Big G’, the Newtonian Constant, with a Frequency Metrology Approach / by Andrea De Marchi --- 5. Optical Radiation Metrology and Uncertainty / by Manal A. Haridy and Affia Aslam --- 6. A New Statistical Tool Focused on Metrological Tasks / by Eugene Charnukha

Description / Table of Contents: 1. A Review of Air Pollution Control Policy Development and Effectiveness in China / by Ying Li and Ke Chen --- 2. Historical Drivers of Energy Infrastructure Change in Nigeria (1800–2015) / by Norbert Edomah --- 3. Towards a Sustainable Energy Future for Sub-Saharan Africa / by Shadreck Mubiana Situmbeko --- 4. Electric Vehicle Promotion Policy in Taiwan / by Li-Min Cheng --- 5. Clean Energy Management / by Ali Samadiafshar and Atiyye Ghorbani --- 6. Renewable Energy of Biogas Through Integrated Organic Cycle System in Tropical System / by Ambar Pertiwiningrum, Cahyono Agus DK and Margaretha Arnita Wuri

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: The NIRS Cap: Key Part of Emerging Wearable Brain-Device Interfaces by Amal Kassab and Mohamad Sawan --- Chapter 2: Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS): A Novel Tool for Intravascular Coronary Imaging by Marie-Jeanne Bertrand, Philippe Lavoie-L’Allier and Jean-Claude Tardif --- Chapter 3: Highly Sensitive Singlet Oxygen Spectroscopic System Using InGaAs PIN Photodiode by Iwao Mizumoto, Hiroshi Oguma and Yostumi Yoshi --- Chapter 4: Carbohydrate Analysis by NIRS-Chemometrics by Mercedes G. López, Ana Sarahí García-González and Elena Franco- Robles --- Chapter 5: Using Near-Infrared Spectroscopy in Agricultural Systems by Francisco García-Sánchez, Luis Galvez-Sola, Juan J. Martínez- Nicolás, Raquel Muelas-Domingo and Manuel Nieves --- Chapter 6: Near-Infrared Spectroscopy Combined with Multivariate Tools for Analysis of Trace Metals in Environmental Matrices by Philiswa N. Nomngongo, Tshimangadzo S. Munonde, Anele Mpupa and Nkositetile Raphael Biata

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Numerical Analysis of Three-Dimensional MHD Nanofluid Flow over a Stretching Sheet with Convective Boundary Conditions through a Porous Medium by Stanford Shateyi --- Chapter 2: Cattanneo-Christov Heat Flux Model Study for Water-Based CNT Suspended Nanofluid Past a Stretching Surface by Noreen Sher Akbar, C. M. Khalique and Zafar Hayat Khan --- Chapter 3: Thermophysical Properties of Metal Oxides Nanofluids by Zafar Said and Rahman Saidur --- Chapter 4: Measuring Nanofluid Thermal Diffusivity and Thermal Effusivity: The Reliability of the Photopyroelectric Technique by Monir Noroozi and Azmi Zakaria --- Chapter 5: Problems Faced While Simulating Nanofluids by Adil Loya --- Chapter 6: Enhancing Heat Transfer in Internal Combustion Engine by Applying Nanofluids by Wenzheng Cui, Zhaojie Shen, Jianguo Yang and Shaohua Wu --- Chapter 7: Heat Transfer of Ferrofluids by Seval Genc --- Chapter 8: Nanofluid with Colloidal Magnetic Fe3O4 Nanoparticles and Its Applications in Electrical Engineering by Lucian Pîslaru-Dănescu, Gabriela Telipan, Floriana D. Stoian, Sorin Holotescu and Oana Maria Marinică --- Chapter 9: Magnetic Nanofluids: Mechanism of Heat Generation and Transport and Their Biomedical Application by Prem P. Vaishnava and Ronald J. Tackett --- Chapter 10: Energy Transfer in Mixed Convection MHD Flow of Nanofluid Containing Different Shapes of Nanoparticles in a Channel Filled with Saturated Porous Medium by Aaiza Gul, Ilyas Khan and Sharidan Shafie

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Raman Microscopy: A Suitable Tool for Characterizing Surfaces in Interaction with Plasmas in the Field of Nuclear Fusion by Cedric Pardanaud, Celine Martin and Pascale Roubin --- Chapter 2: Raman Investigations of Atomic/Molecular Clusters and Aggregates by Zhixun Luo and Jiannian Yao --- Chapter 3: Raman Mapping: Emerging Applications by Cristina Coman and Loredana Florina Leopold --- Chapter 4: Semiconductor Nanowires: Raman Spectroscopy Studies by Marta De Luca and Ilaria Zardo --- Chapter 5: Raman Study of the Crystalline-to-Amorphous State in Alpha- Decay–Damaged Materials by Ming Zhang --- Chapter 6: Raman Spectroscopy for Monitoring Strain on Graphene and Oxidation Corrosion on Nuclear Claddings by Hongyi Mi, Zhenqiang Ma and James P. Blanchard --- Chapter 7: Boosting the Amount of Molecular Information Through Polarized Resolved Resonance Raman Scattering by Søren Hassing --- Chapter 8: Petrographical and Mineralogical Applications of Raman Mapping by Frédéric Foucher, Guillaume Guimbretière, Nicolas Bost and Frances Westall --- Chapter 9: Stimulated Raman Scattering for All Optical Switches by Ariel Flores-Rosas, Evgeny A. Kuzin, Orlando Díaz-Hernández, Gerardo J. Escalera-Santos, Roberto Arceo-Reyes, Baldemar Ibarra- Escamilla and Víctor I. Ruiz-Pérez --- Chapter 10: Raman Spectroscopy of Amino Acid Crystals by Paulo T.C. Freire, Felipe M. Barboza, José A. Lima, Francisco E.A. Melo and Josué Mendes Filho --- Chapter 11: Raman Spectroscopy with X-Rays by Piter Sybren Miedema --- Chapter 12: Using Raman Spectroscopy to Improve Hyperpolarized Noble Gas Production for Clinical Lung Imaging Techniques by Jonathan Birchall, Nicholas Whiting, Jason Skinner, Michael J. Barlow and Boyd M. Goodson --- Chapter 13: Inverse Raman Scattering in Femtosecond Broadband Transient Absorption Experiments by Antonio Aloi and Raffaele Tommasi --- Chapter 14: Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering by Ujjal Kumar Sur --- Chapter 15: The Intricate Nature of SERS: Real-Life Applications and Challenges by Nicoleta Elena Dina and Alia Colniță --- Chapter 16: Precision Target Guide Strategy for Applying SERS into Environmental Monitoring by Lei Ouyang, Dingyi Li, Lihua Zhu and Heqing Tang

Description / Table of Contents: Ionic liquids, including the newer subcategory of deep eutectic solvents, continue to attract a great deal of research attention in an even increasing number of areas, including traditional areas such as synthesis (organic and materials), electrochemistry, and physical property studies and predictions, as well as less obvious areas such as lubrication and enzymatic transformations. In this volume, recent advances in a number of these different areas are reported and reviewed, thus granting some appreciation for the future that ionic liquid research holds and affording inspiration for those who have not previously considered the application of ionic liquids in their area of interest.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Gamma-Ray Spectrometry and the Investigation of Environmental and Food Samples by Markus R. Zehringer --- Chapter 2: Dead Time in the Gamma-Ray Spectrometry by Salih Mustafa Karabıdak --- Chapter 3: Pseudo-gamma Spectrometry in Plastic Scintillators by Matthieu Hamel and Frédérick Carrel --- Chapter 4: Gamma Rays from Space by Carlos Navia and Marcel Nogueira de Oliveira --- Chapter 5: Extragalactic Gamma-Ray Background by Houdun Zeng and Li Zhang --- Chapter 6: Applications of Ionizing Radiation in Mutation Breeding by Özge Çelik and Çimen Atak --- Chapter 7: Neutron-Stimulated Gamma Ray Analysis of Soil by Aleksandr Kavetskiy, Galina Yakubova, Stephen A. Prior and Henry Allen Torbert --- Chapter 8: Effects of Gamma Radiation on Essential Oils: A Review by Clináscia Rodrigues Rocha Araújo, Geone Maia Corrêa, Viviane Gomes da Costa Abreu, Thiago de Melo Silva, Aura María Blandón Osorio, Patrícia Machado de Oliveira and Antônio Flávio de Carvalho Alcântara --- Chapter 9: Gamma Rays’ Effect on Food Allergen Protein by Marcia Nalesso Costa Harder and Valter Arthur

Description / Table of Contents: Frontiers in Bioenergy and Biofuels presents an authoritative and comprehensive overview of the possibilities for production and use of bioenergy, biofuels, and coproducts. Issues related to environment, food, and energy present serious challenges to the success and stability of nations. The challenge to provide energy to a rapidly increasing global population has made it imperative to find new technological routes to increase production of energy while also considering the biosphere's ability to regenerate resources. The bioenergy and biofuels are resources that may provide solutions to these critical challenges. Divided into 25 discreet parts, the book covers topics on characterization, production, and uses of bioenergy, biofuels, and coproducts. Frontiers in Bioenergy and Biofuels provides an insight into future developments in each field and extensive bibliography. It will be an essential resource for researchers and academic and industry professionals in the energy field.

Description / Table of Contents: Optical methods of measurements are the most sensitive techniques of noncontact investigations, and at the same time, they are fast as well as accurate which increases reproducibility of observed results. In recent years, the importance of optical interferometry methods for research has dramatically increased, and applications range from precise surface testing to finding extrasolar planets. This book covers various aspects of optical interferometry including descriptions of novel apparatuses and methods, application interferometry for studying biological objects, surface qualities, materials characterization, and optical testing. The book includes a series of chapters in which experts share recent progress in interferometry through original research and literature reviews.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Energy Recovery from the LNG Regasification Process by Roberto Bruno, Piero Bevilacqua and Natale Arcuri --- Chapter 2: Concepts for Regasification of LNG in Industrial Parks by Tatiana Morosuk, Stefanie Tesch and George Tsatsaronis --- Chapter 3: Improvement of Hydraulic Fracture Conductivity Using Nanoparticles by Reza Barati and Charles Chempakathinal Bose --- Chapter 4: Experiment and Evaluation of Natural Gas Hydration in a Spraying Reactor by Wenfeng Hao --- Chapter 5: Gas Well Testing by Freddy Humberto Escobar --- Chapter 6: Catalytic Natural Gas Utilization on Unconventional Oil Upgrading by Peng He and Hua Song --- Chapter 7: Compressed Natural Gas Direct Injection: Comparison Between Homogeneous and Stratified Combustion by Shahrir Abdullah, Wan Mohd Faizal Wan Mahmood, Saad Aljamali and Azhari Shamsudeen --- Chapter 8: Biomass as an Alternative for Gas Production by Liliana Pampillón-González and José Ramón Laines Canepa --- Chapter 9: Shale Gas in Poland by Jadwiga A. Jarzyna, Maria Bała, Paulina I. Krakowska, Edyta Puskarczyk, Anna Strzępowicz, Kamila Wawrzyniak-Guz, Dariusz Więcław and Jerzy Ziętek --- Chapter 10: An Overview of Principles and Designs of Hydraulic Fracturing Experiments and an Inquiry into the Influence of Rock Permeability and Strength on Failure Mode by Kenneth Imo-Imo Eshiet and Yong Sheng

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: The Reactivity of Anatase TiO2 (211) Surface and the Bond- Charge Counting Model by Jing Xu, Li-Fang Xu, Jian-Tao Wang and Annabella Selloni --- Chapter 2: Rare Earth-Doped Anatase TiO2 Nanoparticles by Vesna Ðorđević, Bojana Milićević and Miroslav D. Dramićanin --- Chapter 3: Structural Aspects of Anatase to Rutile Phase Transition in Titanium Dioxide Powders Elucidated by the Rietveld Method by Alberto Adriano Cavalheiro, Lincoln Carlos Silva de Oliveira and Silvanice Aparecida Lopes dos Santos --- Chapter 4: Mechanically Activated Rutile and Ilmenite as the Starting Materials for Process of Titanium Alloys Production by Marcela Achimovičová, Christoph Vonderstein and Bernd Friedrich --- Chapter 5: Hydrogen Reduced Rutile Titanium Dioxide Photocatalyst by Fumiaki Amano --- Chapter 6: Mesoporous Titania: Synthesis, Properties and Comparison with Non-Porous Titania by Barbara Bonelli, Serena Esposito and Francesca S. Freyria --- Chapter 7: Advanced Hybrid Materials Based on Titanium Dioxide for Environmental and Electrochemical Applications by Katarzyna Siwińska-Stefańska and Teofil Jesionowski --- Chapter 8: DFT-based Theoretical Simulations for Photocatalytic Applications Using TiO2 by Yeliz Gurdal and Marcella Iannuzzi --- Chapter 9: Quantum Chemistry Applied to Photocatalysis with TiO2 by Sergio Ricardo de Lazaro, Renan Augusto Pontes Ribeiro and Luis Henrique da Silveira Lacerda --- Chapter 10: Theoretical Studies of Titanium Dioxide for Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell and Photocatalytic Reaction by Fu-Quan Bai, Wei Li and Hong-Xing Zhang

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introductory Chapter - Aspects of Renewable Hydroelectric Power Generation by Basel I. Ismail --- Chapter 2: Prospects of Small Hydropower Technology by Jacson Hudson Inácio Ferreira and José Roberto Camacho --- Chapter 3: Design of Zero Head Turbines for Power Generation by Edwin Chica and Ainhoa Rubio-Clemente --- Chapter 4: Planning Hydropower Production of Small Reservoirs Under Resources and System Knowledge Uncertainty by Divas Karimanzira, Thomas Rauschenbach, Torsten Pfuetzenreuter, Jing Qin and Zhao Yun --- Chapter 5: Hydropower Development in Nepal - Climate Change, Impacts and Implications by Ramesh Prasad Bhatt

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Titanium Dioxide as Food Additive by Marie-Hélène Ropers, Hélène Terrisse, Muriel Mercier-Bonin and Bernard Humbert --- Chapter 2: Application of Nanotechnology in Agriculture: Assessment of TiO2 Nanoparticle Effects on Barley by Alessandro Mattiello and Luca Marchiol --- Chapter 3: Composite Calcium Phosphate/Titania Scaffolds in Bone Tissue Engineering by Massimiliano Dapporto, Anna Tampieri and Simone Sprio --- Chapter 4: Titanium Dioxide in Sunscreen by Megha Trivedi and Jenny Murase --- Chapter 5: 1D Titania Nanoarchitecture as Bioactive and Photoactive Coatings for Modern Implants: A Review by Aleksandra Radtke --- Chapter 6: Anticorrosive, Antimicrobial, and Bioactive Titanium Dioxide Coating for Surface-modified Purpose on Biomedical Material by Hsi-Kai Tsou and Ping-Yen Hsieh --- Chapter 7: Photocatalytic Treatment Techniques using Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles for Antibiotic Removal from Water by António Armando Lima Sampaio Duarte and Maria Teresa Pessoa Amorim --- Chapter 8: Recent Overview on the Abatement of Pesticide Residues in Water by Photocatalytic Treatment Using TiO2 by Nuria Vela, Gabriel Pérez-Lucas, José Fenoll and Simón Navarro --- Chapter 9: Heat Transfer Applications of TiO2 Nanofluids by Hafiz Muhammad Ali, Muhammad Usman Sajid and Adeel Arshad --- Chapter 10: TiO2: A Critical Interfacial Material for Incorporating Photosynthetic Protein Complexes and Plasmonic Nanoparticles into Biophotovoltaics by Yiqun Yang and Jun Li

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Fractal Analysis of Cardiovascular Signals Empowering the Bioengineering Knowledge by Ricardo L. Armentano, Walter Legnani and Leandro J. Cymberknop --- Chapter 2: Complex Systems with Self-Elimination of Dissipation with Implication in Bio-Structural Behavior Via Nondifferentiability by Maricel Agop, Decebal Vasincu, Daniel Timofte, Elena Simona Bacaita, Andrei Agop and Stefan Andrei Irimiciuc --- Chapter 3: The Fractal Analysis of the Images and Signals in Medical Diagnostics by Tayurskii Dmitrii Albertovich and Rusanova Inna Aleksandrovna --- Chapter 4: Polyadic Cantor Fractals: Characterization, Generation, and Application as Ultrasonic Lenses by Sergio Castiñeira-Ibañez, Daniel Tarrazó-Serrano, José Miguel Fuster, Pilar Candelas and Constanza Rubio --- Chapter 5: Fractal to Non-Fractal Morphological Transitions in Stochastic Growth Processes by José Roberto Nicolás-Carlock, Víctor Dossetti and José Luis Carrillo- Estrada --- Chapter 6: The Altepetl: Fractal Modeling of a Pre-Hispanic Human Agency by Fernando López Aguilar --- Chapter 7: Fractal Analysis Based on Hierarchical Scaling in Complex Systems by Yanguang Chen --- Chapter 8: Characterization of Cultural Traits by Means of Fractal Analysis by Sabrina Farías-Pelayo --- Chapter 9: On Self-Affine and Self-Similar Graphs of Fractal Interpolation Functions Generated from Iterated Function Systems by Sean Dillon and Vasileios Drakopoulos --- Chapter 10: Pair-Pair Angular Correlation Function by Filipe Leoncio Braga and Alexandre Barbosa de Souza

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Theoretical Insight into the Medicinal World of Organometallics: Macro versus Nano by Ruby Srivastava --- Chapter 2: Radical Mechanisms in the Metallocenes by Betul Caliskan --- Chapter 3: Concerning Organometallic Compounds in Environment: Occurrence, Fate, and Impact by Kovacs Melinda Haydee and Kovacs Emoke Dalma --- Chapter 4: Triple Bonds between Bismuth and Group 13 Elements: Theoretical Designs and Characterization by Jia-Syun Lu, Ming-Chung Yang, Shih-Hao Su, Xiang-Ting Wen, Jia- Zhen Xie and Ming-Der Su --- Chapter 5: Physicochemical Properties and Catalytic Applications of Iron Porphyrazines and Phthalocyanines by Tomasz Koczorowski, Wojciech Szczolko and Tomasz Goslinski --- Chapter 6: Voltammetric Analysis of Platinum Group Metals Using a Bismuth-Silver Bimetallic Nanoparticles Sensor by Charlton van der Horst, Bongiwe Silwana, Emmanuel Iwuoha and Vernon S. Somerset

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Enhancing the Greenhouse Gas Conversion Efficiency in Microwave Discharges by Power Modulation by Nikolay Britun, Guoxing Chen, Tiago Silva, Thomas Godfroid, Marie- Paule Delplancke-Ogletree and Rony Snyders --- Chapter 2: Role of Plasma Catalysis in the Microwave Plasma-Assisted Conversion of CO2 by Guoxing Chen, Nikolay Britun, Thomas Godfroid, Marie-Paule Delplancke-Ogletree and Rony Snyders --- Chapter 3: Catalytic Conversions of Biomass-Derived Furaldehydes Toward Biofuels by Shun Nishimura and Kohki Ebitani --- Chapter 4: Green Synthesis of Oligomer Calixarenes by Ratnaningsih Eko Sardjono and Rahmi Rachmawati --- Chapter 5: Environment-Friendly Approach in the Synthesis of Metal/ Polymeric Nanocomposite Particles and Their Catalytic Activities on the Reduction of p-Nitrophenol to p-Aminophenol by Noel Peter Bengzon Tan and Cheng Hao Lee --- Chapter 6: Environmental-Friendly Catalytic Oxidation Processes Based on Hierarchical Titanium Silicate Zeolites at SINOPEC by Changjiu Xia, Xinxin Peng, Yao Zhang, Baorong Wang, Min Lin, Bin Zhu, Yibin Luo and Xingtian Shu

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Properties of GaP Studied over 50 Years by Sergei L. Pyshkin and John Ballato --- Chapter 2: Microcavities for Silica-Fiber-Based Quantum Information Processing by Hai-Zhi Song --- Chapter 3: LED and Phototransistor Simulation by Sergey Yurchuk, Oleg Rabinovich and Sergey Didenko --- Chapter 4: Hybrid Optoelectronic Router for Future Optical Packet- Switched Networks by Salah Ibrahim and Ryo Takahashi --- Chapter 5: Research on the Characteristics of Silicon MOS-Like Light- Emitting Structure by Utilizing the Technology of Field-Induced Optical Radiation Mechanisms by Kaikai Xu --- Chapter 6: Phosphor-LED-Based Wireless Visible Light Communication (VLC) and Its Applications by Chien-Hung Yeh and Chi-Wai Chow --- Chapter 7: Microscopic Particle Manipulation via Optoelectronic Devices by Xiaolu Zhu and Yifei Yang --- Chapter 8: Hybrid Silicon-Organic Heterojunction Structures for Photovoltaic Applications by Andrey Kosarev, Ismael Cosme, Svetlana Mansurova, Antonio J. Olivares and Hiram E. Martinez --- Chapter 9: Modeling of Silicon Photonic Devices for Optical Interconnect Transceiver Circuit Design by Binhao Wang --- Chapter 10: Candidate Materials as Gain Media in Organic, Triplet-Based, Room-Temperature masers Targeting the ISM Bands by Erinn van Wynsberghe and Ayse Turak --- Chapter 11: Analysis of a Resonant AC-AC LED Driver by Teodosescu Petre Dorel, Szekely Norbert Csaba, Sabau Madalina Sabina and Bojan Mircea --- Chapter 12: Ultraviolet Sensors Based on Two-Dimensional Zinc Oxide Structures by Naif H. Al-Hardan, Muhammad Azmi Abdul Hamid, Roslinda Shamsudin and Norinsan Kamil Othman --- Chapter 13: The Optical Phenomena of Interplay between Nanobio Complexes: A Theoretical Insight into Their Biomedical Applications by Ruby Srivastava --- Chapter 14: Sputtered Indium Tin Oxide Films for Optoelectronic Applications by Oleksandr Malik and Francisco Javier de la Hidalga-Wade --- Chapter 15: Surface-Barrier Photodiodes with Transparent Electrodes for High-Performance Detection in the UV-NIR Spectrum by Oleksandr Malik and Francisco Javier De la Hidalga-Wade --- Chapter 16: Spectral Responses in Quantum Efficiency of Emerging Kesterite Thin-Film Solar Cells by Sanghyun Lee and Kent J. Price

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introductory Chapter: An Introduction to the Seismic and Sequence Stratigraphy and to the Integrated Stratigraphy: Concepts and Meanings by Gemma Aiello --- Chapter 2: Sequence Stratigraphy of Fine-Grained “Shale” Deposits: Case Studies of Representative Shales in the USA and China by Shu Jiang, Caineng Zou, Dazhong Dong, Wen Lin, Zhenlin Chen, Lei Chen, Lanyu Wu, Wei Dang and Yajun Li --- Chapter 3: Sequence Stratigraphy of Fluvial Facies: A New Type Representative from Wenliu Area, Bohai Bay Basin, China by Jingzhe Li and Jinliang Zhang --- Chapter 4: Seismic Stratigraphic Features of the Late Miocene-Present Unconformities and Related Seismic Units, Northern Offshore Taiwan by Jih-Hsin Chang, Eason Yi-Cheng Yang, Ho-Han Hsu, Chih-Chieh Su, Char-Shine Liu, Shye-Donq Chiu, Yu-Fang Ma, Yuan-Wei Li, Yen- Chun Lin and Jen-Sen Shen --- Chapter 5: Stratigraphy of Jurassic Sediments of the Southern Siberian Platform (Russia) Studied through Lithologic and Paleobotanical Data by Andrey Olegovich Frolov, Nikolay Ivanovich Akulov and Irina Mikhailovna Mashchuk --- Chapter 6: Stratigraphic Unconformities: Review of the Concept and Examples from the Middle-Upper Paleozoic by Pavel Kabanov --- Chapter 7: Integrated Stratigraphy of the Cenozoic Andean Foreland Basin (Northern Argentina) by Claudia Inés Galli, Ricardo Narciso Alonso and Lidia Beatriz Coira

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: General Aspects of the Cobalt Chemistry by Yasemin Yildiz --- Chapter 2: Synthesis, Processing, and Characterization of the Cobalt Alloys with Silicon Addition by Petrica Vizureanu, Mirabela Georgiana Minciuna, Gianina Iovan and Simona Stoleriu --- Chapter 3: Synthesis of Cobalt-Based Nanomaterials from Organic Precursors by Maria Smyrnioti and Theophilos Ioannides --- Chapter 4: Hydrothermally Produced Cobalt Oxide Nanostructures at Different Temperatures and Effect on Phase Transition Temperature and Threshold Voltage of Nematic Liquid Crystal Host by Hasan Eskalen, Süleyman Kerli and Şükrü Özgan --- Chapter 5: Substitution and Redox Properties of Some Organoisocyanide Cobalt(II) Complexes by Olayinka A. Oyetunji, Godiraone Tatolo, Banyaladzi D. Paphane and Clifford A. L. Becker --- Chapter 6: Effect of Cobalt on Morphology of Microhole Formed by Micropunching by Kelvii Wei Guo and Hon Yuen Tam --- Chapter 7: A Review of the Radionuclide, Cobalt-60, as a Fine-Sediment Tracer by Philip Greenwood

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: The SF6 Decomposition Mechanism: Background and Significance by Xiaoxing Zhang, Ju Tang, Song Xiao and Fuping Zeng --- Chapter 2: Application of CNTs Gas Sensor in Online Monitoring of SF6 Insulated Equipment by Xiaoxing Zhang, Song Xiao, Ju Tang and Cheng Pan --- Chapter 3: Application of TiO2 Nanotubes Gas Sensors in Online Monitoring of SF6 Insulated Equipment by Ju Tang, Xiaoxing Zhang, Song Xiao and Fuping Zeng --- Chapter 4: Application of Graphene Gas Sensors in Online Monitoring of SF6 Insulated Equipment by Xiaoxing Zhang, Ju Tang, Song Xiao and Cheng Pan --- Chapter 5: Comparative Study of Materials to SF6 Decomposition Components by Xiaoxing Zhang, Ju Tang, Song Xiao, Fuping Zeng, Cheng Pan and Yingang Gui

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Modelling and Simulation of Complex Adaptive System: The Diffusion of Socio-Environmental Innovation in the RENDRUS Network by Aida Huerta Barrientos and Yazmin Dillarza Andrade --- Chapter 2: Rendering Techniques in 3D Computer Graphics Based on Changes in the Brightness of the Object Background by Nika Bratuž, Helena Gabrijelčič Tomc and Dejana Javoršek --- Chapter 3: Modelling and Visualisation of the Optical Properties of Cloth by Tanja Nuša Kočevar and Helena Gabrijelčič Tomc --- Chapter 4: Textile Forms’ Computer Simulation Techniques by Andreja Rudolf, Slavica Bogović, Beti Rogina Car, Andrej Cupar, Zoran Stjepanovič and Simona Jevšnik --- Chapter 5: Computer Simulation of Bioprocess by Jianqun Lin, Ling Gao, Huibin Lin, Yilin Ren, Yutian Lin and Jianqiang Lin --- Chapter 6: Developing a Hybrid Model and a Multi-Scale 3D Concept of Integrated Modelling High-Temperature Processes by Marcin Hojny --- Chapter 7: Computer-Aided Physical Simulation of the Soft-Reduction and Rolling Process by Marcin Hojny --- Chapter 8: Surrogate Modelling with Sequential Design for Expensive Simulation Applications by Joachim van der Herten, Tom Van Steenkiste, Ivo Couckuyt and Tom Dhaene --- Chapter 9: Computer Simulation of High-Frequency Electromagnetic Fields by Andrey D. Grigoriev --- Chapter 10: Modeling and Simulation of Task Allocation with Colored Petri Nets by Mildreth Alcaraz-Mejia, Raul Campos-Rodriguez and Marco Caballero-Gutierrez --- Chapter 11: Multi-Criteria Decision-Making in the Implementation of Renewable Energy Sources by Dejan Jovanovic and Ivan Pribicevic

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: The Importance of Cosmology in Culture: Contexts and Consequences by Nicholas Campion --- Chapter 2: Constraining the Parameters of a Model for Cold Dark Matter by Abdessamad Abada --- Chapter 3: Neutrino Interactions with Nuclei and Dark Matter by Paraskevi C. Divari --- Chapter 4: Relativistic Celestial Metrology: Dark Matter as an Inertial Gauge Effect by Luca Lusanna and Ruggero Stanga --- Chapter 5: Superfluid Quantum Space and Evolution of the Universe by Valeriy I. Sbitnev and Marco Fedi --- Chapter 6: Modified Gravity Theories: Distinguishing from ΛCDM Model by Koichi Hirano --- Chapter 7: The Impact of Baryons on the Large-Scale Structure of the Universe by Weiguang Cui and Youcai Zhang --- Chapter 8: Cosmological Consequences of a Quantum Theory of Mass and Gravity by Brian Albert Robson --- Chapter 9: Deformed Phase Space in Cosmology and Black Holes by E.A. Mena-Barboza, L.F. Escamilla-Herrera, J.C. López-Domínguez and J. Torres-Arenas --- Chapter 10: Semi-Analytic Techniques for Solving Quasi-Normal Modes by Chun-Hung Chen, Hing-Tong Cho and Alan S. Cornell

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Deep Ultraviolet Single-Photon Ionization Mass Spectrometry by Zhixun Luo --- Chapter 2: Interpretation of Mass Spectra by Teodor Octavian Nicolescu --- Chapter 3: Performing Quantitative Determination of Low-Abundant Proteins by Targeted Mass Spectrometry Liquid Chromatography by Tore Vehus --- Chapter 4: Pesticides and Their Degradation Products Including Metabolites: Chromatography-Mass Spectrometry Methods by Renata Raina-Fulton, Nicole Dunn and Zhen Xie --- Chapter 5: Mass Spectrometry for the Sensitive Analysis of Intracellular Nucleotides and Analogues by Kateřina Mičová, David Friedecký and Tomáš Adam --- Chapter 6: LC-HRMS for the Identification of β-Carboline and Canthinone Alkaloids Isolated from Natural Sources by Ana Claudia F. Amaral, Aline de S. Ramos, José Luiz P. Ferreira, Arith R. dos Santos, Jefferson D. da Cruz, Adélia Viviane M. De Luna, Vinicius Vaz C. Nery, Iasmim C. de Lima, Marcelo Henrique da C. Chaves and Jefferson Rocha de A. Silva --- Chapter 7: Applications of Mass Spectrometric Techniques to the Analysis of Fuels and Lubricants by David W. Johnson --- Chapter 8: Mass Spectrometry for the Detection of Endogenous Steroids and Steroid Abuse in (Race) Horses and Human Athletes by Decloedt Anneleen, Van Landschoot Anita and Vanhaecke Lynn --- Chapter 9: Use of Mass Spectrometry for the Determination of Formaldehyde in Samples Potentially Toxic to Humans: A Brief Review by Aline de Souza, Isabela Cristina Matos Cunha, Júnior Olair Chagas, Elisandra Bárbara Pontes Carlos, Luana Lacerda Santos, Thamires Ráfaga Campos e Figueredo, Lucília Alves Linhares Machado, Vanessa Moreira Osório, Karla Moreira Vieira and Fabiana Aparecida Lobo

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Applications of Chemometrics-Assisted Voltammetric Analysis by Ali R. Jalalvand --- Chapter 2: Study of Metrological Properties of Voltammetric Electrodes in the Time Domain by Krzysztof Suchocki --- Chapter 3: Direct Electron Transfer of Human Hemoglobin Molecules on Glass/Tin-Doped Indium Oxide by Flavio Dolores Martínez-Mancera and José Luis Hernández-López --- Chapter 4: Advances and Trends in Voltammetric Analysis of Dyes by Felipe Fantinato Hudari, Michelle Fernanda Brugnera and Maria Valnice Boldrin Zanoni --- Chapter 5: Applications of Voltammetric Analysis to Wine Products by Dolores Hernanz-Vila, M. José Jara-Palacios, M. Luisa Escudero- Gilete and Francisco J. Heredia --- Chapter 6: Modified Electrodes for Determining Trace Metal Ions by Pipat Chooto

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Carrier Mobility in Field-Effect Transistors by Philippe Gaubert and Akinobu Teramoto --- Chapter 2: Resonant Tunneling and Two-dimensional Gate Transistors by Vladimir Popov --- Chapter 3: High Electron Mobility Transistors: Performance Analysis, Research Trend and Applications by Muhammad Navid Anjum Aadit, Sharadindu Gopal Kirtania, Farhana Afrin, Md. Kawsar Alam and Quazi Deen Mohd Khosru --- Chapter 4: Quantum Confinement in High Electron Mobility Transistors by Shovon Pal, Sascha R. Valentin, Arne Ludwig and Andreas D. Wieck --- Chapter 5: Group III–V Semiconductor High Electron Mobility Transistor on Si Substrate by Ravindiran Munusami and Shankar Prabhakar --- Chapter 6: Metal-Semiconductor Interfaces in Thin-Film Transistors by Miguel Dominguez, Pedro Rosales, Alfonso Torres, Jose A. Luna- Lopez, Francisco Flores and Mario Moreno --- Chapter 7: Organic Field-Effect Transistor: Device Physics, Materials, and Process by Jingjing Chang, Zhenhua Lin, Chunfu Zhang and Yue Hao --- Chapter 8: Field-Effect Transistors for Gas Sensing by Toshihiro Yoshizumi and Yuji Miyahara --- Chapter 9: Transistors as an Emerging Platform for Portable Amplified Biodetection in Preventive Personalized Point-of-Care Testing by Zhihui Yi and Jonathan Sayago

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introductory Chapter: Rural Waste Management Issues at Global Level by Florin-Constantin Mihai and Mohammad J. Taherzadeh --- Chapter 2: Household’s Willingness to Accept Waste Separation for Improvement of Rural Waste Bank’s Effectivity by Christia Meidiana, Harnenti Afni Yakin and Wawargita Permata Wijayanti --- Chapter 3: The Role of the Informal Sector in a Rurbanised Environment by Petra Schneider, Le Hung Anh, Jan Sembera and Rodolfo Silva --- Chapter 4: Decentralized Composting of Organic Waste in a European Rural Region: A Case Study in Allariz (Galicia, Spain) by Iria Villar Comesaña, David Alves, Salustiano Mato, Xosé Manuel Romero and Bernardo Varela --- Chapter 5: Solid Waste in Agricultural Soils: An Approach Based on Environmental Principles, Human Health, and Food Security by Cácio Luiz Boechat, Adriana Miranda de Santana Arauco, Rose Maria Duda, Antonny Francisco Sampaio de Sena, Manoel Emiliano Lopes de Souza and Ana Clecia Campos Brito --- Chapter 6: Home Composting Using Facultative Reactor by Sandro Xavier de Campos, Rosimara Zittel, Karine Marcondes da Cunha and Luciléia Granhern Tavares Colares --- Chapter 7: Enhanced Anaerobic Digestion of Organic Waste by Abbass Jafari Kang and Qiuyan Yuan --- Chapter 8: Palm Oil Mill Solid Waste Generation and Uses in Rural Area in Benin Republic: Retrospection and Future Outlook by Tatiana W. Koura, Gustave D. Dagbenonbakin, Valentin M. Kindomihou and Brice A. Sinsin --- Chapter 9: The Solid Wastes of Coffee Production and of Olive Oil Extraction: Management Perspectives in Rural Areas by Maria Cristina Echeverria, Elisa Pellegrino and Marco Nuti

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introductory Chapter: A Short Survey of Landmarks by Michael G. Sakellariou --- Chapter 2: Dissipative Dynamics of Granular Materials by Albert S. Kim and Hyeon-Ju Kim --- Chapter 3: Granular Flow: From Dilute to Jammed States by Hao Shi, Dalila Vescovi, Abhinendra Singh, Sudeshna Roy, Vanessa Magnanimo and Stefan Luding --- Chapter 4: Dynamics of a 2D Vibrated Model Granular Gas in Microgravity by Yan Grasselli, Georges Bossis, Alain Meunier and Olga Volkova --- Chapter 5: Particle Jetting Induced by the Impulsive Loadings by Kun Xue, Xiaoliang Shi, Kaiyuan Du and Haoran Cui --- Chapter 6: Particle Migration Phenomena Related to Hydromechanical Effects at Contact between Different Materials in Embankment Dams by Francesco Federico --- Chapter 7: The Grading Entropy-Based Criteria for Structural Stability of Granular Materials and Filters by János Lőrincz, Emöke Maria Imre and Vijay Pal Singh

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introductory Chapter: R&D Trends and Evolution - Emerging Concepts, Frameworks, Policies, Management Systems, and Applications by Soha Maad --- Chapter 2: Human Development and Research-Development-Extension Relationships by Orhan Özçatalbaş --- Chapter 3: SMEs Development through Public and Private Partnerships: The Key Role of Research Transfer and Patent Information Analysis by Henri Dou --- Chapter 4: Smart Microgrids: Optimizing Local Resources toward Increased Efficiency and a More Sustainable Growth by Wilfried Elmenreich, Tamer Khatib and Andrea Monacchi --- Chapter 5: Assessing the Possible Potential in Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emission: Application of a Proven Hybrid Method by Oludolapo Akanni Olanrewaju and Charles Mbohwa --- Chapter 6: Research and Devolopment about Metallurgical Industry of Romania by Adrian Ioana, Augustin Semenescu and Mihnea Costoiu

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introductory Chapter: Plant Ecology by Zubaida Yousaf and Habiba Ramazan --- Chapter 2: Detection of Environmental Mutagens Through Plant Bioassays by Özlem Aksoy --- Chapter 3: Ecology of Woody Plants in African Savanna Ecosystems by Allan Sebata --- Chapter 4: Modification in Grassland Ecology under the Influence of Changing Climatic and Land Use Conditions by Jimin Cheng, Chengcheng Gang, Liang Guo, Wei Li, Jingwei Jin, Jishuai Su and Lin Wei --- Chapter 5: Leaf Ecology and Radiocesium Contamination in Trees/Forests by Toshihiro Yoshihara --- Chapter 6: Plant-Microbe Ecology: Interactions of Plants and Symbiotic Microbial Communities by Ying-Ning Ho, Dony Chacko Mathew and Chieh-Chen Huang --- Chapter 7: Phytosociological Surveys in Weed Science: Old Concept, New Approach by Germani Concenço, Patrícia Menegaz de Farias, Néstor Fabio Alzate Quintero, Fábio Schreiber, Leandro Galon, Michely Tomazi, Ivana Santos Moisinho, Mariane Camponogara Coradini, William Christofari Ceolin and André Andres --- Chapter 8: Ecological Response to Global Change: Changes in C:N:P Stoichiometry in Environmental Adaptations of Plants by Renato de Mello Prado and Gilmara Pereira da Silva --- Chapter 9: Biogeographical Areas of Hispaniola (Dominican Republic, Republic of Haiti) by Ana Cano Ortiz, Carmelo María Musarella and Eusebio Cano Carmona

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Strategies for Testing the Impact of Natural Flood Risk Management Measures by Barry Hankin, Peter Metcalfe, David Johnson, Nick A. Chappell, Trevor Page, Iain Craigen, Rob Lamb and Keith Beven --- Chapter 2: Flood Risk Mapping in the Amazon by Milena Marília Nogueira de Andrade, Iris Celeste Nascimento Bandeira, Dianne Danielle Farias Fonseca, Paulo Eduardo Silva Bezerra, Ádanna de Souza Andrade and Rodrigo Silva de Oliveira --- Chapter 3: Floods Forecast in the Caribbean by Luz Estella Torres Molina --- Chapter 4: Economic Growth and Employment Effects as a Result of the Upper Austrian Flood Protection Building Program by Sebastian Goers, Friedrich Schneider, Horst Steinmüller and Andreas Zauner --- Chapter 5: Geodesign a Tool for Redefining Flood Risk Disaster in Developing Countries: A Case Study of Southern Catchment of Ankobra Basin, Ghana by Adams Osman and Benjamin Nyarko --- Chapter 6: An Additive Statistical Modeling Approach to the Analysis of Transport Infrastructure Flood Risk-Based Resilience by Mohammad Mojtahedi, Sidney Newton and Faham Tahmasebinia --- Chapter 7: Flood Management in China: The Huaihe River Basin as a Case Study by Qian Mingkai and Wang Kai --- Chapter 8: Two-Dimensional Hydraulic Modeling and Geotechnical Analysis of Earthen Regulation Dams Located at Arroyo Las Viboras Watershed in a Major Transboundary Mexico-USA Metroplex: How an Ordinary Rain Event Caused Major Damage Related to Extraordinary Flooding by Oscar Sotero Dena Ornelas, Diane Irene Doser, Oscar Fidencio Ibañez Hernández, Griselda Janeth Obeso Cortez and Miguel Angel Galdean Vega --- Chapter 9: Understanding Flood Risk Management in Asia: Concepts and Challenges by Saleem Ashraf, Muhammad Luqman, Muhammad Iftikhar, Ijaz Ashraf and Zakaria Yousaf Hassan --- Chapter 10: Analysis of the Influence of the 2007–2008 La Niña Events, Land Use, and Dam Management Modes on the 2008 Spring Freshet Characteristics in Quebec, Canada by Ali Arkamose Assani --- Chapter 11: One- and Two-Dimensional Hydrological Modelling and Their Uncertainties by Mohd Talha Anees, Khiruddin Abdullah, Mohd Nawawi Mohd Nordin, Nik Norulaini Nik Ab Rahman, Muhammad Izzuddin Syakir and Mohd. Omar Abdul Kadir --- Chapter 12: Multicriteria Decision Analysis for Flood Risk Management: The Case of the Mapai Dam at the Limpopo River Basin, Mozambique by Avelino I. Mondlane --- Chapter 13: Flood Risk Management in Mexico by Felipe I. Arreguín-Cortés and Claudia Elizabeth Cervantes-Jaimes --- Chapter 14: Estimating Flood Quantiles on the Basis of Multi-Event Rainfall Simulation by Elżbieta Jarosińska and Katarzyna Pierzga --- Chapter 15: Towards the Development of a Capability Assessment System for Flood Risk Management by Mohammad Hijji, Saad Amin, Wayne Harrop and Rahat Iqbal

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Computational Aeroelasticity of Flying Robots with Flexible Wings by Sergio Preidikman, Bruno Antonio Roccia, Marcos Leonardo Verstraete, Marcelo Federico Valdez, Dean T. Mook and Balakumar Balachandran --- Chapter 2: Overview of Coandă MAV as an Aerial Robotic Platform by Harijono Djojodihardjo --- Chapter 3: Innovative Propulsion Systems and CFD Simulation for Fixed Wings UAVs by Esteban Valencia and Victor Hidalgo --- Chapter 4: Comparison between Semiempirical and Computational Techniques in the Prediction of Aerodynamic Performance of the Rotor of a Quadcopter by Andres Mauricio Pérez Gordillo --- Chapter 5: Nonlinear Dynamics and Control of Aerial Robots by Mahmut Reyhanoglu and Muhammad Rehan --- Chapter 6: Design and Development of Aerial Robotic Systems for Sampling Operations in Industrial Environment by Rodrigo Munguia, Edmundo Guerra, Sarquis Urzua, Yolanda Bolea and Antoni Grau --- Chapter 7: On-Board High-Performance Computing For Multi-Robot Aerial Systems by Leonardo Camargo Forero, Pablo Royo and Xavier Prats --- Chapter 8: Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs) for Environmental Monitoring: A Review with Applications in Coastal Habitats by Daniele Ventura, Andrea Bonifazi, Maria Flavia Gravina and Gian Domenico Ardizzone

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introductory Chapter: Multi-Agent Systems by Jorge Rocha, Inês Boavida-Portugal and Eduardo Gomes --- Chapter 2: Motion Coordination Problems with Collision Avoidance for Multi-Agent Systems by Jesús Santiaguillo-Salinas and Eduardo Aranda-Bricaire --- Chapter 3: Multiagent Systems in Automotive Applications by Raul Campos-Rodriguez, Luis Gonzalez-Jimenez, Francisco Cervantes-Alvarez, Francisco Amezcua-Garcia and Miguel Fernandez-Garcia --- Chapter 4: Time Critical Mass Evacuation Simulation Combining A Multi- Agent System and High-Performance Computing by Leonel Aguilar, Maddegedara Lalith and Muneo Hori --- Chapter 5: Robust Adaptive Cooperative Control for Formation-Tracking Problem in a Network of Non-Affine Nonlinear Agents by Muhammad Nasiruddin bin Mahyuddin and Ali Safaei --- Chapter 6: Management of a Single-User Multi-Robot Teleoperated System for Maintenance in Offshore Plants by Seungyeol Lee and Jeon-Il Moon --- Chapter 7: Multiagent System for Image Mining by Nicksson Ckayo Arrais de Freitas and Marcelino Pereira dos Santos Silva --- Chapter 8: A Toolbox to Analyze Emergence in Multiagent Simulations by Danilo Saft and Volker Nissen --- Chapter 9: Hybrid Architecture to Support Context-Aware Systems by Maricela Bravo, José A. Reyes-Ortiz, Leonardo Sánchez-Martínez and Roberto A. Alcántara-Ramírez --- Chapter 10: Resilience Enhancement in Cyber-Physical Systems: A Multiagent-Based Framework by Fábio Emanuel Pais Januário, Joaquim Leitão, Alberto Cardoso and Paulo Gil

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introductory Chapter: Economics, Natural Resources and Sustainable Development by Introductory Chapter: Economics, Natural Resources and Sustainable Development --- Chapter 2: Self-Organizing Maps to Analyze Value Creation in Mergers and Acquisitions in the Telecommunications Sector by Julio Navío, Jose M. Martinez-Martinez, Alberto Urueña, Juan J. Garcés and Emilio Soria --- Chapter 3: Do Foreign Investors Crowd Out or Crowd In Domestic Investment? A Panel Analysis for OECD Countries by Burçak Polat --- Chapter 4: Analysis of ‘Dutch Disease Effects’ on Asian Economies by Hiroyuki Taguchi --- Chapter 5: Ricardo’s Law of Comparative Advantage and the Law of Association: A Subjective Analysis by Er’el Granot --- Chapter 6: International Trade: The Position of Africa in Global Merchandise Trade by Nahanga Verter

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Paradigm Shift in Corporate Reporting by Pınar Okan Gökten and Beyhan Marşap --- Chapter 2: Integrated Reporting: A Template for Energy Companies by Gülçin Yıldırım, Tuğçe Uzun Kocamış and Figen Öker Türüdüoğlu --- Chapter 3: Greening Accounting: An Inevitable Link to Help Firms Connect with Sustainability by Somnath Debnath --- Chapter 4: Greening Accounting II: Exploring Feasibility of Environmental Accounting Framework by Somnath Debnath --- Chapter 5: Adaptation of International Accounting Standards: Case of Portugal by Helena Isabel Barroso Saraiva, Maria-Céu F.G. Alves and Vítor M.S. Gabriel --- Chapter 6: M2M-Fair Value Accounting by Yıldız Özerhan and Banu Sultanoğlu --- Chapter 7: Reporting for Carbon Trading and International Accounting Standards by Figen Öker and Hümeyra Adıgüzel --- Chapter 8: Accounting Choices in Corporate Financial Reporting: A Literature Review of Positive Accounting Theory by İdil Kaya --- Chapter 9: Value Relevance of Accounting Data in an Emerging Market: Did Accounting Reforms Make a Difference? by Mine Aksu, Ayse Tansel Cetin and Can Simga Mugan --- Chapter 10: Associativism of Accounting Professionals by Osmar Antonio Bonzanini, Amélia Cristina Ferreira da Silva and Teresa Gabriela Marques Leite --- Chapter 11: Behavioral Accounting and its Interactions by Filiz Angay Kutluk --- Chapter 12: The Future of Accounting Profession in an Era of Start-Ups by Burak Özdoğan --- Chapter 13: Graphical and Textual Presentations in Financial Reports by Seedwell T.M. Sithole --- Chapter 14: Historical Development of Government Accounting by Mihriban Coşkun Arslan --- Chapter 15: Public Accounting Reform from Institutional Theory Perspectives: Case of Turkey by Ceray Aldemir and Tuğba Uçma Uysal --- Chapter 16: The Factors Used to Create Performance-Based Budgeting: A Research on Turkey by Hakan Vahit Erkutlu, Şükran Güngör Tanç and Seyhan Çil Koçyiğit --- Chapter 17: The Managerial Perspective and Systems of Accountability in Judicial Offices by Ubaldo Comite

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: The Conditions Needed for a Buffer to Set the pH in a System by Norma Rodríguez-Laguna, Alberto Rojas-Hernández, María T. Ramírez-Silva, Rosario Moya-Hernández, Rodolfo Gómez-Balderas and Mario A. Romero-Romo --- Chapter 2: The Kjeldahl Titrimetric Finish: On the Ammonia Titration Trapping in Boric Acid by Julia Martín, Lucía Fernández Sarria and Agustín G. Asuero --- Chapter 3: Intersecting Straight Lines: Titrimetric Applications by Julia Martin, Gabriel Delgado Martin and Agustin G. Asuero --- Chapter 4: Determination of Thermodynamic Partial Properties in Multicomponent Systems by Titration Techniques by Mónica Corea, Jean-Pierre E. Grolier and José Manuel del Río --- Chapter 5: Principles of Titrimetric Analyses According to Generalized Approach to Electrolytic Systems (GATES) by Anna Maria Michałowska-Kaczmarczyk, Aneta Spórna-Kucab and Tadeusz Michałowski --- Chapter 6: A Distinguishing Feature of the Balance 2∙f(O)−f(H) in Electrolytic Systems: The Reference to Titrimetric Methods of Analysis by Anna Maria Michałowska-Kaczmarczyk, Aneta Spórna-Kucab and Tadeusz Michałowski

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Experimental and Theoretical Studies on the Dynamics of Transient Plasmas Generated by Laser Ablation in Various Temporal Regimes by Petru-Edward Nica, Stefan Andrei Irimiciuc, Maricel Agop, Silviu Gurlui, Michael Ziskind and Cristian Focsa --- Chapter 2: Nanosecond Laser Ablation: Mathematical Models, Computational Algorithms, Modeling by Vladimir I. Mazhukin --- Chapter 3: Protected Laser Evaporation/Ablation and Deposition of Organic/Biological Materials: Thin Films Deposition for Nano- biomedical Applications by Gianina-Florentina Popescu-Pelin, Carmen-Georgeta Ristoscu, Maria Badiceanu and Ion N. Mihailescu --- Chapter 4: Structural Modifications of KrF Excimer Laser-Ablated Zirconium Correlated to the Surface and Mechanical Properties by Nisar Ali, Umm-i-Kalsoom, Shazia Bashir and Narjis Begum --- Chapter 5: Sequentially Timed All-Optical Mapping Photography for Real- Time Monitoring of Laser Ablation: Breakdown and Filamentation in Picosecond and Femtosecond Regimes by Keiichi Nakagawa, Takakazu Suzuki and Fumihiko Kannari --- Chapter 6: Optical Properties of Complex Oxide Thin Films Obtained by Pulsed Laser Deposition by Valentin Ion, Andreea Andrei, Maria Dinescu and Nicu Doinel Scarisoreanu --- Chapter 7: Nanoparticles, Nanocrystals, and Nanocomposites Produced with Pulsed Laser Ablation and Their Applications by Bülend Ortaç, Elif Uzcengiz Şimşek and Canan Kurşungöz --- Chapter 8: Matrix-Assisted Pulsed Laser Evaporation of Organic Thin Films: Applications in Biology and Chemical Sensors by Alexandra Palla Papavlu, Valentina Dinca, Mihaela Filipescu and Maria Dinescu --- Chapter 9: Micro- and Nano-Structuring of Materials via Ultrashort Pulsed Laser Ablation by Chung-Wei Cheng and Jinn-Kuen Chen --- Chapter 10: Multi-Beam Multi-Target Pulsed Laser Deposition of AZO Films with Polymer Nanoparticles for Thermoelectric Energy Harvesters by Abdalla M. Darwish, Sergey S. Sarkisov, Paolo Mele and Shrikant Saini --- Chapter 11: Fabrication of a Cell Electrostimulator Using Pulse Laser Deposition and Laser Selective Thin Film Removal by Angel Luis Aragón Beloso, María del Carmen Bao Varela, Alejandro Fernández Rodríguez, Gerard O’connor, Eliseo Pérez Trigo, Antonio Pazos Álvarez and Daniel Nieto García --- Chapter 12: In Vitro Evaluation of Laser-Induced Periodic Surface Structures on New Zirconia/Tantalum Biocermet for Hard-Tissue Replacement by Alberto Jorge-Mora, Naroa Imaz, Nekane Frutos, Ana Alonso, Carlota García Santiago, Rodolfo Gómez-Vaamonde, Jesús Pino- Minguez, Jose Bartolomé, Gerard O’connor and Daniel Nieto --- Chapter 13: Laser Ablation of Energetic Materials by Ruiqi Shen, Lizhi Wu, Wei Zhang and Haonan Zhang

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Kinematic Performance Measures and Optimization of Parallel Kinematics Manipulators: A Brief Review by Abdur Rosyid, Bashar El-Khasawneh and Anas Alazzam --- Chapter 2: The Inertia Value Transformation in Maritime Applications by Holger Korte, Sven Stuppe, Jan-Hendrik Wesuls and Tsutomu Takagi --- Chapter 3: Path Planning in the Local-Level Frame for Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems by Laith R. Sahawneh and Randal W. Beard --- Chapter 4: Forward and Inverse Kinematics Using Pseudoinverse and Transposition Method for Robotic Arm DOBOT by Ondrej Hock and Jozef Šedo --- Chapter 5: How to Expand the Workspace of Parallel Robots by Takashi Harada --- Chapter 6: Kinematic and Biodynamic Model of the Long Jump Technique by Milan Čoh, Milan Žvan and Otmar Kugovnik --- Chapter 7: Kinematic Model for Project Scheduling with Constrained Resources Under Uncertainties by Giuliani Paulineli Garbi and Francisco José Grandinetti --- Chapter 8: WMR Kinematic Control Using Underactuated Mechanisms for Goal Direction and Evasion by Jorge U. Reyes-Muñoz, Edgar A. Martínez-García, Ricardo Rodríguez-Jorge and Rafael Torres-Córdoba --- Chapter 9: A New Methodology for Kinematic Parameter Identification in Laser Trackers by Ana Cristina Majarena, Javier Conte, Jorge Santolaria and Raquel Acero --- Chapter 10: Optimization of Single-Sided Lapping Kinematics Based on Statistical Analysis of Abrasive Particles Trajectories by Adam Barylski and Norbert Piotrowski --- Chapter 11: Optimization Approach for Inverse Kinematic Solution by Panchanand Jha and Bibhuti Bhusan Biswal --- Chapter 12: A Random Multi-Trajectory Generation Method for Online Emergency Threat Management (Analysis and Application in Path Planning Algorithm) by Liang Yang, Yuqing He, Jizhong Xiao, Bing Li and Zhaoming Liu

Description / Table of Contents: Hydrogen is one of the abundant elements on earth majorly in the form of water (H2O) and mainly as hydrogen gas (H2). Catalytic hydrogenation is a key reaction that has versatile applications in different industries. The main objective of this book is to bring together various applications of hydrogenation through the perspective of leading researchers in the field. This book is intended to be used as a graduate-level text book or as a practical guide for industrial engineers.

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Earthquake Instrumentation by Jae Cheon Jung --- Chapter 2: Application of Local Wave Decomposition in Seismic Signal Processing by Ya-juan Xue, Jun-xing Cao, Gu-lan Zhang, Hao-kun Du, Zhan Wen, Xiao-hui Zeng and Feng Zou --- Chapter 3: 3D Seismic Velocity Structure Around Plate Boundaries and Active Fault Zones by Mohamed K. Salah --- Chapter 4: Characteristics of Seismic Wave Propagation of Harmonic Tremors Observed at the Margin in the Lützow-Holm Bay, East Antarctica by Masaki Kanao --- Chapter 5: The b-Value Analysis of Aftershocks 170 Days After the 23 October 2011 Van Earthquake (M w, 7.1) of the Lake Van Basin, Eastern Anatolia: A New Perspective on the Seismic Radiation and Deformation Characteristics by Mustafa Toker --- Chapter 6: New Insight in Liquefaction After Recent Earthquakes: Chile, New Zealand and Japan by Yolanda Alberto-Hernandez and Ikuo Towhata --- Chapter 7: Three-Dimensional Nepal Earthquake Displacement Using Hybrid Genetic Algorithm Phase Unwrapping from Sentinel-1A Satellite by Maged Marghany and Shattri Mansor --- Chapter 8: Space-Time Forecasting of Seismic Events in Chile by Orietta Nicolis, Marcello Chiodi and Giada Adelfio --- Chapter 9: Ultra-Low-Noise Seismic Accelerometers for Earthquake Prediction and Monitoring by Felix A. Levinzon --- Chapter 10: Earthquake Prediction by Khaled Ghaedi and Zainah Ibrahim --- Chapter 11: Issues of the Seismic Safety of Nuclear Power Plants by Tamás János Katona --- Chapter 12: Intelligent Seismic-Acoustic System for Identifying the Area of the Focus of an Expected Earthquake by Telman Aliev --- Chapter 13: Earthquakes and Structural Damages by Burak Yön, Erkut Sayın and Onur Onat --- Chapter 14: Simulating Collapse Behaviors of Buildings and Motion Behaviors of Indoor Components During Earthquakes by Daigoro Isobe --- Chapter 15: Seismic Behaviour of Post-Tensioned Segmental Bridge Columns with Self-Centring System by Ehsan Nikbakht

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: On Nonoscillatory Solutions of Two-Dimensional Nonlinear Dynamical Systems by Elvan Akın and Özkan Öztürk --- Chapter 2: Oscillation Criteria for Second-Order Neutral Damped Differential Equations with Delay Argument by Said R. Grace and Irena Jadlovská --- Chapter 3: Preservation of Synchronization Using a Tracy-Singh Product in the Transformation on Their Linear Matrix by Guillermo Fernadez-Anaya, Luis Alberto Quezada-Téllez, Jorge Antonio López-Rentería, Oscar A. Rosas-Jaimes, Rodrigo Muñoz- Vega, Guillermo Manuel Mallen-Fullerton and José Job Flores- Godoy --- Chapter 4: Generalized Ratio Control of Discrete-Time Systems by Dušan Krokavec and Anna Filasová --- Chapter 5: Predictability in Deterministic Dynamical Systems with Application to Weather Forecasting and Climate Modelling by Sergei Soldatenko and Rafael Yusupov --- Chapter 6: Emergence of Classical Distributions from Quantum Distributions: The Continuous Energy Spectra Case by Gabino Torres-Vega --- Chapter 7: Recent Fixed Point Techniques in Fractional Set-Valued Dynamical Systems by Parin Chaipunya and Poom Kumam --- Chapter 8: Relationship between Interpolation and Differential Equations: A Class of Collocation Methods by Francesco Aldo Costabile, Maria Italia Gualtieri and Anna Napoli --- Chapter 9: Integral-Equation Formulations of Plasmonic Problems in the Visible Spectrum and Beyond by Abdulkerim Çekinmez, Barişcan Karaosmanoğlu and Özgür Ergül --- Chapter 10: Numerical Random Periodic Shadowing Orbits of a Class of Stochastic Differential Equations by Qingyi Zhan and Yuhong Li --- Chapter 11: Solution of Differential Equations with Applications to Engineering Problems by Cheng Yung Ming

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introductory Chapter: Synchrotron-Based X-Ray Characterization of Nanomaterials by Mehdi Khodaei and Luca Petaccia --- Chapter 2: Nanocrystallization of Metallic Glasses Followed by in situ Nuclear Forward Scattering of Synchrotron Radiation by Marcel B. Miglierini and Vít Procházka --- Chapter 3: Operando Structural Characterization of the E-ALD Process Ultra-Thin Films Growth by Andrea Giaccherini, Roberto Felici and Massimo Innocenti --- Chapter 4: X-Ray Absorption Spectroscopy Study of Battery Materials by Marco Giorgetti and Lorenzo Stievano --- Chapter 5: Synchrotron Radiation-Based X-Ray Study on Energy Storage Materials by Shoaib Muhammad, Hyunchul Kim and Won-Sub Yoon --- Chapter 6: Studies of Lithium-Oxygen Battery Electrodes by Energy- Dependent Full-Field Transmission Soft X-Ray Microscopy by Dino Tonti, Mara Olivares-Marín, Andrea Sorrentino and Eva Pereiro

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Treatment of Organic Recalcitrant Contaminants in Wastewater by Asmita Gupta and Indu Shekhar Thakur --- Chapter 2: Application of Macrobiological Methods in the Settlement Wastewater Treatment by Dragan Milićević, Slaviša Trajković and Milan Gocić --- Chapter 3: Microbe-Based Strategy for Plant Nutrient Management by Shaon Ray Chaudhuri, Madhusmita Mishra, Sonakshi De, Biswajit Samal, Amrita Saha, Srimoyee Banerjee, Abhinandan Chakraborty, Antara Chakraborty, Sonali Pardhiya, Deepak Gola, Joyeeta Chakraborty, Sourav Ghosh, Kamlesh Jangid, Indranil Mukherjee, Mathummal Sudarshan, Rajib Nath and Ashoke Ranjan Thakur --- Chapter 4: Mitigating Environmental Risks of Wastewater Reuse for Agriculture by Ahmed Al-Busaidi and Mushtaque Ahmed --- Chapter 5: Spreading of Antibiotic Resistance with Wastewater by Sadik Dincer and Esra Sunduz Yigittekin --- Chapter 6: Comparative Assessment of Pharmaceutical Removal from Wastewater by the Microalgae Chlorella sorokiniana, Chlorella vulgaris and Scenedesmus obliquus by Carla Escapa Santos, Ricardo Nuno de Coimbra, Sergio Paniagua Bermejo, Ana Isabel García Pérez and Marta Otero Cabero --- Chapter 7: Pulp Mill Wastewater: Characteristics and Treatment by María Noel Cabrera --- Chapter 8: Molecular Biomonitoring of Microbial Communities in Tannery Wastewater Treatment Plant for the Removal of Retanning Chemicals by Adey Feleke Desta, Joyce Nzioki, Solomon Maina and Francesca Stomeo --- Chapter 9: Application of Mixed Microbial Culture Biofilms for Manganese (II), Cobalt (II), and Chromium (VI) Biosorption by Horizontal Rotating Tubular Bioreactor by Tonči Rezić, Iva Rezić, Michaela Zeiner and Božidar Šantek --- Chapter 10: Electrocoagulative and Biological Treatment of Laundry Wastewater by Terelle Ramcharan and Ajay Bissessur --- Chapter 11: Biohydrogen Production from Wastewaters by Periyasamy Sivagurunathan, Gopalakrishnan Kumar, Arivalagan Pugazhendhi, Guangyin Zhen, Takuro Kobayashi and Kaiqin Xu --- Chapter 12: Valorization of Glucose-Based Wastewater Through Production of Hydrogen, Volatile Fatty Acids and Alcohols by Eduardo Lucena Cavalcante de Amorim, Leandro Takano Sader, Lucas Rodrigues Ramos and Edson Luiz Silva --- Chapter 13: Production of Biogas and Performance Evaluation of Ultrasonic Membrane Anaerobic System (UMAS) for Palm Oil Mill Effluent Treatment (POME) by Abdurahman Hamid Nour and Azhari Hamid Nour

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Volume Holography: Novel Materials, Methods and Applications by Tina Sabel and Marga C. Lensen --- Chapter 2: Volume Holographic Optical Elements as Solar Concentrators by Maria Antonietta Ferrara, Gaetano Bianco, Fabio Borbone, Roberto Centore, Valerio Striano and Giuseppe Coppola --- Chapter 3: Volume Bragg Gratings: Fundamentals and Applications in Laser Beam Combining and Beam Phase Transformations by Ivan Divliansky --- Chapter 4: Holographically Recorded Low Spatial Frequency Volume Bragg Gratings and Holographic Optical Elements by Suzanne Martin, Hoda Akbari, Sanjay Keshri, Dennis Bade, Izabela Naydenova, Kevin Murphy and Vincent Toal --- Chapter 5: Holographic Optical Elements and Application by Nam Kim, Yan-Ling Piao and Hui-Ying Wu --- Chapter 6: Holographic Data Storage Using Parallel-Aligned Liquid Crystal on Silicon Displays by Francisco J. Martínez Guardiola, Andrés Márquez Ruiz, Sergi Gallego Rico, Roberto Fernández Fernández, Jorge Francés Monllor, Manuel Ortuño Sánchez, Inmaculada Pascual Villalobos and Augusto Beléndez Vázquez --- Chapter 7: Microtopography and Thickness Measurement with Digital Holographic Microscopy Highlighting and Its Tomographic Capacity by Miguel León-Rodríguez, Juan A. Rayas-Alvarez, Amalia Martínez- García and Raúl R. Cordero --- Chapter 8: 3D Capture and 3D Contents Generation for Holographic Imaging by Elena Stoykova, Hoonjong Kang, Youngmin Kim, Joosup Park, Sunghee Hong and Jisoo Hong --- Chapter 9: Multiwavelength Digital Holography and Phase-Shifting Interferometry Selectively Extracting Wavelength Information: Phase-Division Multiplexing (PDM) of Wavelengths by Tatsuki Tahara, Reo Otani, Yasuhiko Arai and Yasuhiro Takaki --- Chapter 10: Dynamic Imaging with X-ray Holography by Büttner Felix --- Chapter 11: Indirect Off-Axis Holography for Antenna Metrology by Ana Arboleya, Jaime Laviada, Juha Ala-Laurinaho, Yuri Álvarez, Fernando Las-Heras and Antti V. Räisänen --- Chapter 12: Surface Characterization by the Use of Digital Holography by Dahi Ghareab Abdelsalam, Takeshi Yasui, Takayuki Ogawa and Baoli Yao --- Chapter 13: Digital Holographic Interferometry for Analysing High-Density Gradients in Fluid Mechanics by Jean-Michel Desse and François Olchewsky --- Chapter 14: Holography: The Usefulness of Digital Holographic Microscopy for Clinical Diagnostics by Zahra El-Schich, Sofia Kamlund, Birgit Janicke, Kersti Alm and Anette Gjörloff Wingren --- Chapter 15: Unlabeled Semen Analysis by Means of the Holographic Imaging by Giuseppe Coppola, Maria Antonietta Ferrara, Giuseppe Di Caprio, Gianfranco Coppola and Brian Dale --- Chapter 16: One-Step Holographic Photoalignment for Twisted Nematic Liquid Crystal Gratings by Kotaro Kawai, Moritsugu Sakamoto, Kohei Noda, Tomoyuki Sasaki, Nobuhiro Kawatsuki and Hiroshi Ono --- Chapter 17: Application of High Performance Photoinitiating Systems for Holographic Grating Recording by C. Ley, C. Carré, A. Ibrahim and X. Allonas --- Chapter 18: Fluorite Crystals with Color Centers: A Medium for Recording Extremely Stable but Broadly Transformable Holograms by Aleksandr I. Ryskin, Aleksandr E. Angervaks and Andrei V. Veniaminov --- Chapter 19: New Photo-Thermo-Refractive Glasses for Holographic Optical Elements: Properties and Applications by Nikonorov Nikolay, Ivanov Sergey, Dubrovin Victor and Ignatiev Alexander --- Chapter 20: Active Holography by Zurab V. Wardosanidze --- Chapter 21: Two-Wave Mixing in Organic-Inorganic Hybrid Structures for Dynamic Holography by Vera Marinova, Shiuan Huei Lin and Ken Yuh Hsu

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Energy Challenges for ICT by Giorgos Fagas, John P. Gallagher, Luca Gammaitoni and Douglas J. Paul --- Chapter 2: Fundamentals on Energy in ICT by Luca Gammaitoni --- Chapter 3: Measuring Energy by Steve Kerrison, Markus Buschhoff, Jose Nunez-Yanez and Kerstin Eder --- Chapter 4: An Energy-Efficient Design Paradigm for a Memory Cell Based on Novel Nanoelectromechanical Switches by Azam Seyedi, Vasileios Karakostas, Stefan Cosemans, Adrian Cristal, Mario Nemirovsky and Osman Unsal --- Chapter 5: Energy-Aware Software Engineering by Kerstin Eder and John P. Gallagher --- Chapter 6: Energy-Aware High Performance Computing by Martin Wlotzka, Vincent Heuveline, Manuel F. Dolz, M. Reza Heidari, Thomas Ludwig, A. Cristiano I. Malossi and Enrique S. Quintana-Orti --- Chapter 7: Energy-Efficient Communication in Wireless Networks by David Boyle, Roman Kolcun and Eric Yeatman --- Chapter 8: Globally Optimised Energy-Efficient Data Centres by Dirk Pesch, Susan Rea, J. Ignacio Torrens, Vojtech Zavrel, J.L.M. Hensen, Diarmuid Grimes, Barry O'Sullivan, Thomas Scherer, Robert Birke, Lydia Chen, Ton Engbersen, Lara Lopez, Enric Pages, Deepak Mehta, Jacinta Townley and Vassilios Tsachouridis --- Chapter 9: Thermoelectrics, Photovoltaics and Thermal Photovoltaics for Powering ICT Devices and Systems by Lourdes Ferre Llin and Douglas J. Paul

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Developing Tree Biomass Models for Eight Major Tree Species in China by WeiSheng Zeng --- Chapter 2: Methods of Estimating Forest Biomass: A Review by Lei Shi and Shirong Liu --- Chapter 3: Above-Ground Biomass Estimation with High Spatial Resolution Satellite Images by Adélia M. O. Sousa, Ana Cristina Gonçalves and José R. Marques da Silva --- Chapter 4: Fatal Accidents During Marine Transport of Wood Pellets Due to Off-Gassing: Experiences from Denmark by Frank Huess Hedlund and Øssur Jarleivson Hilduberg --- Chapter 5: Biomass Valorization: Agricultural Waste in Environmental Protection, Phytomedicine and Biofuel Production by Inyinbor Adejumoke Abosede, Oluyori Abimbola Peter and Adelani-Akande Tabitha Adunola --- Chapter 6: Modeling Biomass Substrates for Syngas Generation by Using CFD Approaches by Nuno Couto and Valter Silva --- Chapter 7: Sustainability of the Biowaste Utilization for Energy Production by Thorsten Ahrens, Silvia Drescher-Hartung and Olga Anne --- Chapter 8: Effects of Fertilizers on Biomass, Sugar Content and Ethanol Production of Sweet Sorghum by Tran Dang Xuan, Nguyen Thi Phuong and Tran Dang Khanh --- Chapter 9: Biomass as Raw Material for Production of High-Value Products by Sibel Irmak --- Chapter 10: Catalytic Biomass Valorization by Aiguo G. Wang, Danielle Austin and Hua Song --- Chapter 11: Biomass Compositional Analysis for Conversion to Renewable Fuels and Chemicals by C. Luke Williams, Rachel M. Emerson and Jaya Shankar Tumuluru --- Chapter 12: Modeling the Calorific Value of Biomass from Fruit Trees Using Elemental Analysis Data by Borja Velázquez-Martí, Isabel López-Cortés, Domingo Salazar- Hernández and Ángel Jesús Callejón-Ferre --- Chapter 13: Microalgal Biomass: A Biorefinery Approach by Luis C. Fernández Linares, Kevin Á. González Falfán and Citlally Ramírez-López --- Chapter 14: Biomass Production on Reclaimed Areas Tailing Ponds by Martin Bosák --- Chapter 15: Biomass Blending and Densification: Impacts on Feedstock Supply and Biochemical Conversion Performance by Allison E. Ray, Chenlin Li, Vicki S. Thompson, Dayna L. Daubaras, Nicholas J. Nagle and Damon S. Hartley --- Chapter 16: Metal Removal by Seaweed Biomass by Claudia Ortiz-Calderon, Héctor Cid Silva and Daniel Barros Vásquez --- Chapter 17: Valorisation of Lignocellulosic Biomass Wastes for the Removal of Metal Ions from Aqueous Streams: A Review by Carlos Escudero-Oñate, Núria Fiol, Jordi Poch and Isabel Villaescusa --- Chapter 18: Progress Towards Engineering Microbial Surfaces to Degrade Biomass by Grace L. Huang and Robert T. Clubb --- Chapter 19: Determination of the Biomass Content of End-of-Life Tyres by Leticia Saiz Rodríguez, José M. Bermejo Muñoz, Adrien Zambon and Jean P. Faure --- Chapter 20: Reaction Behaviors of Bagasse Modified with Phthalic Anhydride in 1-Allyl-3-Methylimidazolium Chloride with Catalyst 4-Dimethylaminopyridine by Hui-Hui Wang, Xue-Qin Zhang, Yi Wei and Chuan-Fu Liu --- Chapter 21: Review of Biomass Thermal Gasification by Mohammed Abed Fattah Hamad, Aly Moustafa Radwan and Ashraf Amin

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Terahertz (THz) Spectroscopy: A Cutting-Edge Technology by William Ghann and Jamal Uddin --- Chapter 2: Terahertz Nanoantennas for Enhanced Spectroscopy by Riccardo Piccoli, Andrea Rovere, Andrea Toma, Roberto Morandotti and Luca Razzari --- Chapter 3: Research on Hydrogen-Bonded Materials Using Terahertz Technology by Kei Takeya and Kodo Kawase --- Chapter 4: Terahertz Fiber Sensing by Borwen You and Ja-Yu Lu --- Chapter 5: Terahertz Detectors (THzDs): Bridging the Gap for Energy Harvesting by Kapil Bhatt, Shilpi Shriwastava, Sandeep Kumar, Sandeep and Chandra Charu Tripathi --- Chapter 6: THz Metamaterial Characterization Using THz-TDS by Christopher H. Kodama and Ronald A. Coutu, Jr. --- Chapter 7: Determining the Complex Refractive Index of Materials in the Far-Infrared from Terahertz Time-Domain Data by Maxime Bernier, Frédéric Garet and Jean-Louis Coutaz --- Chapter 8: Terahertz Waveform Measurements Using a Chirped Optical Pulse and Terahertz Spectroscopy of Reverse Micellar Solution: Towards Time-resolved Terahertz Spectroscopy of Protein in Water by Hiroshi Murakami --- Chapter 9: Application of Terahertz Technology in Biomolecular Analysis and Medical Diagnosis by Xin Zhang and Zhuoyong Zhang --- Chapter 10: Broadly Tunable CW Terahertz Sources Using Intrinsic Josephson Junction Stacks in High-Temperature Superconductors by Manabu Tsujimoto, Takanari Kashiwagi, Hidetoshi Minami and Kazuo Kadowaki --- Chapter 11: Terahertz Pulse Detection Techniques and Imaging Applications by Sung-Liang Chen and L. Jay Guo --- Chapter 12: Semiconductor THz Lasers and Their Applications in Spectroscopy of Explosives by Mykhailo Klymenko, Oleksiy V. Shulika and Igor A. Sukhoivanov --- Chapter 13: Terahertz Spectroscopy for Gastrointestinal Cancer Diagnosis by Faustino Wahaia, Irmantas Kašalynas, Gintaras Valušis, Catia D. Carvalho Silva and Pedro L. Granja --- Chapter 14: Nanostructured Indium Tin Oxides and Other Transparent Conducting Oxides: Characteristics and Applications in the THz Frequency Range by Ci-Ling Pan, Chan-Shan Yang, Ru-Pin Pan, Peichen Yu and Gong-Ru Lin --- Chapter 15: Ultrafast Carrier Dynamics at p-n Junction of Cu(In,Ga)Se2- Based Solar Cells Measured by Optical Pump Terahertz Probe Spectroscopy by Woo-Jung Lee and Yong-Duck Chung

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Data-Gathering and Aggregation Protocol for Networked Carrier Ad Hoc Networks: The Optimal and Heuristic Approach by Chao Gao, Guorong Zhao and Jianhua Lu --- Chapter 2: A Composite Trust Model for Secure Routing in Mobile Ad-Hoc Networks by Rutvij H. Jhaveri, Narendra M. Patel and Devesh C. Jinwala --- Chapter 3: Performance Analysis of Three Routing Protocols in MANET Using the NS-2 and ANOVA Test with Varying Speed of Nodes by Subhrananda Goswami, Subhankar Joardar, Chandan Bikash Das, Samarajit Kar and Dibyendu Kumar Pal --- Chapter 4: Cooperative Routing in Multi-Radio Multi-Hop Wireless Network by Kun Xie, Shiming He, Xin Wang, Dafang Zhang and Keqin Li --- Chapter 5: MANET Network in Internet of Things System by Rasa Bruzgiene, Lina Narbutaite and Tomas Adomkus --- Chapter 6: Radio Frequency-Based Indoor Localization in Ad-Hoc Networks by Mehdi Golestanian, Joshua Siva and Christian Poellabauer

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: Introductory Chapter: Smart Antennas and Beam-formation by Modar Shbat, Francisco C. Ordaz-Salazar and Javier S. González- Salas --- Chapter 2: The Design of a 360°-Switched-Beam-Base Station Antenna by Mohamed Aymen El Cafsi, Mourad Nedil, Lotfi Osman and Ali Gharsallah --- Chapter 3: Compressive Reflector Antenna Phased Array by Ali Molaei, Juan Heredia Juesas and Jose Angel Martinez Lorenzo --- Chapter 4: Detect and Pointing Algorithms Performance for a 2D Adaptive Antenna Array by Tiago Varum, João N. Matos and Pedro Pinho --- Chapter 5: Beamformer Based on Quaternion Processes by Jian-wu Tao and Wen-xiu Chang

Description / Table of Contents: Chapter 1: A Novel Grafting of Polymers onto the Surface of Graphene Oxide by Norio Tsubokawa, Takeshi Yamauchi, Kazuhiro Fujiki and Shingo Tamesue --- Chapter 2: Photoinduced Pseudospin Dynamical Effects in Graphene-Like Systems by Alexander López and Benjamin Santos --- Chapter 3: Bilayer Graphene as the Material for Study of the Unconventional Fractional Quantum Hall Effect by Janusz Edward Jacak --- Chapter 4: Graphene Derivatives: Controlled Properties, Nanocomposites, and Energy Harvesting Applications by Ulises Antonio Méndez Romero, Miguel Ángel Velasco Soto, Liliana Licea Jiménez, Jaime Álvarez Quintana and Sergio Alfonso Pérez García --- Chapter 5: Growth Study and Characterization of Single-Layer Graphene Structures Deposited on Copper Substrate by Chemical Vapour Deposition by Stefanos Chaitoglou, Enric Bertran and Jose Luis Andujar --- Chapter 6: Green Routes for Graphene Oxide Reduction and Self- Assembled Graphene Oxide Micro- and Nanostructures Production by Rebeca Ortega-Amaya, Yasuhiro Matsumoto, Esteban Díaz-Torres, Claudio Davet Gutierrez-Lazos, Manuel Alejandro Pérez-Guzmán and Mauricio Ortega-López --- Chapter 7: Tribological Aspects of Graphene-Aluminum Nanocomposites by Prashantha Kumar H.G. and Anthony Xavior M. --- Chapter 8: Controlled Functionalization of Graphene Layers by Maurizio Galimberti, Vincenzina Barbera and Annalisa Sironi --- Chapter 9: Synthesis of Graphene on Metal/SiC Structure by Petr Machac --- Chapter 10: Self-Assembly of Graphene Nanoribbons Induced by the Carbon Nanotube by Hui Li, Yifan Li and Wei Chen