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This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.As climate change becomes a growing reality, more industries must grapple with how to implement sustainable business practices at every step of the production process. This is especially true for viticulture, where every step of production can take years to come to fruition, a

Functional Exercise and Rehabilitation serves as an accessible and visual guide providing the essentials of therapeutic exercise and rehabilitation, including mobilization, stabilization and myofascial release.

This book uses an easy-to-follow story format to simplify and explain Hoshin Kanri. Supplying clear explanations of the steps of Hoshin Kanri, it advocates using Hoshin as an important tool for improving the existing planning and execution system while simultaneously moving the culture of the organization forward. The book provides readers with a new conceptual understanding of Hoshin Kanri as a powerful deployment system for strategic planning. Identifying a different path to success, it outlines a method for measuring overall business effectiveness that can help readers determine the focus of their corporate strategy.

This new book, Effective School Librarianship: Successful Professional Practices from Librarians around the World (2-volume set), provides a series of informative interviews with school/teacher librarians practicing in different parts of the world. It showcases the resilience, creativity and best practices from successful school li

Explains federated learning and how it integrates AI technologies allowing multiple collaborators to build a robust machine-learning model using a large dataset. Describes benefits of federated learning, covering data privacy, data security, data access rights etc. Analyses common challenges, and attack strategies affecting FL systems.

Details importance of bioprospecting plants of ethnic origins sustainably while presenting bioprospecting methods. Discusses importance of sustainability and bioprospecting for formulating novel and new drugs from ethnomedicinal plants present in the wild. Covers a range of topics on bioprospecting ethnomedicinal plants.

Details sustainable supply chain management through computational and multicriteria decision-making analyses, exploring it in the context of transportation and electricity generation. Discusses soft computing methods, sustainability management forecast, detrimental effects of mines, difficulties in mining sector and possible solutions.

Details insects and their impact on the ecosystem. Covers topics on insects like their role in environmental pollution, use in sustainable agricultural services, etc. Also covers insects as environmental indicators, effect of pesticides on insect diversity, strategies to control insects, medical and forensic importance of insects, etc.

Details insects and their impact on ecosystem, describing their free ecosystem services. Covers topics on insects like their role in environmental pollution and sustainable agriculture, applications of insects and their products etc. Looks at integrated management strategies for pests, diversity patterns of biogeographic zones and more.

Looks at insects and their many free ecosystem services. Vol 1 focuses on diversity patterns of biogeographic zones and how they maintain ecological diversity. Vol 2 covers the effect of pesticides on insect diversity, their medical and forensic importance, new insect species, the role of insects in agriculture, etc.

Discusses the combination of both engineering and science of biological processes from wastewater treatment to tissue engineering. It offers experimental and theoretical solutions for environmental pollution, new frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology and use of biotechnology and bio-based routes to sustainable composites.

Addresses the design challenges and research in electronic device applications in healthcare and biomedical systems, exploring the blending of mobile communications, network technologies, medical sensors, etc. for health diagnosis and monitoring. It looks at machine learning, CNNs, smartphone-based devices, IoT, and other smart technologies.

Presents, describes, and summarizes the latest advances in chemical enhanced oil recovery, covering methods that include low-salinity water flooding, polymer and surfactant flooding, foam flooding, nanofluid flooding, hybrid methods, ionic liquid applications, and others.

This book explains innovative developments in nanocomposites. It covers novel findings and various applications of nanocomposites in different emerging fields. Chapters cover several types of nanocomposites. Special emphasis is given to innovative works on functional nanocomposites and their relevant areas of use.

Details sustainable marketing, and the promotion of environmentally and socially responsible products, practices, and brand values. Explores integrating sustainability into a marketing strategy and how to develop, broaden, and maintain an effective sustainable marketing strategy. Connects marketing, consumption, and sustainability.

An in-depth look at computational biology, which analyzes accumulated biological data collected from analysis of proteins, genes, and cell population for drug discovery. It covers the implementation of computational programming, bioinformatics, biotechnological techniques, and pharmaceutical chemistry in designing drugs.

Examines the potential of vegetables and plant metabolites as nutraceuticals facilitating the prevention and/or treatment of diseases and maintaining the body's energy balance. It covers plant nutraceuticals for health promotion, benefits of bioactives and flavonoids, and use of plant metabolites in prevention and treatment of diseases

A sampling of bio-inspired technologies created by scientists and inventors who study the characteristics of things in nature to come up amazing and astonishing technologies and products. It considers bio-inspired technologies applied in water purification, for business lessons, in healthcare and medicine, and more.

Covers important aspects of plant microbiome research, introducing plant microbiome, its importance and tools and techniques to analyze plant microbiome for sustainable agriculture productivity. Details microbial endophytes for plant defense against abiotic and biotic stress. Highlights importance of phyto-microbiomes and more.

Details functional activities of plants and their derivatives, discussing microgreens as functional foods, antiviral activities of functional foods, the beneficial antidiabetic activities of plants, probiotics as functional foods, role of probiotics in gut microflora, quality aspect of functional foods, and more.

Introduces industrial microbiology in the food industry. The techniques and technologies focus on production, processing, and recovery of food industry metabolites (primary or secondary). The process of alcohol production, fermentation metabolites, and drug delivery components through food are the highlights of the book.

Up-to-date coverage of the energy scenario in the South Asian Energy Corridor, discussing energy security versus clean energy. It explores the role of diversifying supplies for the future to gain energy security that can lead to mapping joint ventures among conventional rival countries, especially India, China, Japan, and Pakistan.

Presents new research on porous materials with case studies on the synthesis, design, characterization, and applications of different types of porous materials and solids, considering experimental and theoretical aspects.

Details information on medicinally important plants and their natural habits and habitats, taxonomy, cultivation practices, essential oils, active ingredients, biomolecules, modes of action, drug development, and value additions for marketing purpose. It also covers details like systematic botany, postharvest technology, and more.