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This new three-volume set comprehensively illustrates a wide range of analytical techniques and methodologies for assessing the physical, chemical, and microbiological properties of milk and milk products to ensure nutritional and technological quality and safety of milk and milk products.

This book explores the dramatic changes that have occurred in the business environment due in part to the phenomenal impact on societies and economies around the globe that resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic. It presents emerging trends, strategies, management practices, opportunities, and challenges faced by business leaders, managers, and administrators. The volume touches on myriad issues, including the effects of lockdowns and restrictions, psychosocial effects of COVID-19 in the workplace, maintaining work-life balance, entrepreneurship during the pandemic, supply chain management, new communication and management strategies, consumer behavior, Zoom fatigue, changes in the health insurance industry, and more.The topics and concepts addressed in on the impact of pandemic will provide insight for academicians, entrepreneurs, and those in business, marketing, and psychology.

This valuable resource on the microbiological analysis of milk and milk products delves into various aspects of bacterial enumeration, pathogen detection, mastitis milk identification, quality testing for starter cultures, isolation and characterization of lactic acid bacteria (LAB), safety assessment protocols for probiotics, DNA isolation methods, molecular characterization techniques, and statistical tools for laboratory data analysis. It presents an in-depth description of the methodologies for isolation, identification, and confirmatory tests for various hygiene and safety indicator organisms.Together with Volume 1: Sampling Methods and Chemical and Compositional Analysis and Volume 2: Physicochemical Analysis of Concentrated, Coagulated, and Fermented Products, this 3-volume work is a valuable resource on the scientific analysis of milk and milk products.

Explores the role of nutrition in creating integral health while considering the challenges of today's lifestyle and environmental issues. It uses interdisciplinary research while offering outstanding and novel contributions in research studies of integral health and how health is affected by nutrition and its impact on the quality of life.

A broad look at tourism issues related to pandemics and natural disasters, covering tourist motivation and safety; redesign, reconstruction, and creation of tourism activities; crisis management; role of governments in the tourism industry; competitive marketing strategies; role of climate change on tourism; etc.

Providing innovative efficient, clean, and safe solutions and research for interfacing internet technology with energy power grids for smart cities and smart transportation, this new volume discusses the use and automation of electricity infrastructures for energy producers and manufacturers, integrating the implementation of the Internet of Things (IoT) technology for distributed energy systems in order to optimize energy efficiency and wastage. This volume offers a wide range of research on using IoT for energy solutions, such as algorithms for the design and control of energy grids, investigations of thermal efficiency from solar grids, energy for smart buildings using IoT, deep learning for electrical load forecasting, hybrid ultracapacitors in solar microgrids, induction motor-driven electric vehicles, power loss reduction and voltage improvement, and much more.

Examines the policies of governments, higher education institution management, leadership styles to aid digitalization, the use of online teaching tools, changes in educational pedagogy, the impact of educational technology on the attitudes of students and educators to learning, and more.

Looks at protected cultivation techniques to safeguard crop plants from the harmful effects of climate change, toxic chemicals, and crop pests and diseases. Covers structure design, crop cultivation techniques, irrigation and fertigation, insect pests and diseases management, economic analysis, greenhouse micro-climate/environment, etc.

Addresses the arsenic-rice problem, with effective mitigation strategies. It reviews long-distance translocation, arsenic-induced phytotoxicity, economic measures to reduce arsenic load, and techniques that are agronomically and environmentally safe.

A comprehensive overview of phytoremediation and biofortification for sustainable environmental management. Topics include strategies that use nanotechnology; algae, fungi, and other plants; CRISPR/Cas9-mediated genome engineering; and more for decontamination of water and soil and for fortifying plants against climate change, etc.

Offers insight and strategies to support individuals and organizations for effective performance. Discusses constraints that negate effective job performance, well-being interventions, role of family and spirituality, new technology, work-life balance and satisfaction, burnout, etc. Also provides examples that combine theory and practice.

Addresses the energy challenge by discussing the various aspects of design, exploitation, and applications of green nanomaterials in energy devices¿for energy efficiency, energy conversion, energy storage, and energy saving. Also addresses the limitations that now exist and how green nanomaterials can be the utilized.

Looks at the impact, assessment, and remediation of various environmental contaminants. It discusses the environmental changes that can occur, the remedial phytoremediation and green approaches for contaminant removal, the role of nanotechnology in remediation, and agronomic intervention for mitigation of environmental pollutants.

Provides an informative overview of the emerging issues related to bioremediation and phytoremediation. It discusses alternative technologies for the removal of pollutants from the environment, restoring contaminated sites, and preventing further pollution is bioremediation.

Describes advances in polyphenol (flavonoids) derivatives for human health and in the management and prevention of diseases along with their positive effects on human and animal health and for disease therapy and chemoprevention. The applications of flavonoids are explored, and their proven and potential health benefits are listed.

Presents the most recent studies on the different aspects of biocomposites. The chapters focus on the overall characteristics of biocomposites, including chemical composition along with engineering and technical properties of the most in-demand green materials employed for fabricating biocomposites.

Covers digital technological intervention for precision agriculture for sustainable development. It delves into how modern technologies i.e., GPS, image processing, artificial intelligence, machine learning, Internet of Things, and deep learning are being used in agriculture to make it more farmer-friendly and economically profitable.

Applies the multi-criteria decision-making theory to solving problems and challenges in manufacturing environments, using MCDM computational methods to evaluate and select the most optimal solution or method to real-world manufacturing engineering issues.

Presents new research on advanced technologies for food processing, discussing cold plasma, ultrasound processing, thermosonication, microwave processing, high-pressure processing, electrospinning technology, encapsulation techniques, 3D food printing, ELISA in food authentication, nanotechnology in food processing, etc.

Explores the beneficial aspects of micronutrients and macronutrient, such as their antioxidant and immunity-boosting properties. It looks at microbes and microbials as nutraceuticals and discusses adding micronutrients, macronutrients, and nutraceuticals to the human diet for optimum health and beneficial bacteria in gut.

Explores the role of functional food applications in prevention and management of various diseases, including diabetes, obesity, microbial infections, ulcers, mental disorders, cardiac health, bone health, and more. It discusses using bioactive compounds in the prevention, management, or treatment of diseases, with case studies.

Discusses the immune-boosting properties of nutraceuticals and functional foods toward human health, exploring dietary antioxidants, vitamins, minerals, edible microalgae, herbs, phytonutrients, omega 3-fatty acids, and probiotics of herbs and vegetables and the pharmacological and therapeutic importance of commonly used medicinal herbs.

Examines the nutritional and pharmacological properties of polyphenols and flavonoids, including their ability to prevent the development of diseases and how they manage of chronic pathological illnesses. Topics include natural food dyes as nutraceuticals, flavonoid-rich diets to prevent chronic noncommunicable diseases.

Presents an overview of state-of-the-art AI strategies for solving transportation challenges around the world, with a focus on traffic management, traffic safety, public transportation, urban mobility, and pollution mitigation. It examines modern AI technologies such as IoT, cloud computing, machine learning, and neural networking.

Presents new applications, techniques, and algorithms in AI and soft computing for intelligent, such as deep learning, robotics, machine learning, blockchain, emerging cloud, edge computing, Practical Byzantine Fault Tolerance consensus, CNN architecture, Splunk, genetic algorithms, and more.

Discusses food byproducts as value-added renewable sources using biotechnologies that avoid hazardous chemicals. It explores the value-added properties of food wastes and looks at waste byproducts of various crops, their health-benefiting bioactive compounds, and biotechnological strategies to extract, produce, and recover compounds.

Explores the overlapping behavior of some aspects of the computational intelligence, focusing on real-life applications. It discusses how computational science interacts with AI, machine learning, data science, quantum computing, image processing, evolutionary algorithms, process simulation, big data, and intelligent algorithms.

Examines the bacterial and fungal pathogens that can cause rice diseases and explores how to manage these diseases, focusing on diagnostic methods for rice fungal pathogens, traditional and molecular techniques for detection, such as biotechnology and biological methods for the effective management of rice fungal diseases.

Examines the studies on mycorrhizal technology that show the positive impact of root symbiosis on plant adaptation to climate-associated abiotic stressors, such as salinity, drought, flooding, and high temperatures.

Offers post-COVID tourism recovery strategies and discusses trends in the travel, tourism, and hospitality with case studies from around the world. Topics cover post-pandemic travel preferences, safety protocols, sustainable tourism practices, post-COVID public policies for tourism, specific tourism/ hospitality sectors, and more.