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This volume on civil engineering innovations for sustainable communities with net zero targets aligns with the United Nations sustainable development goals in the context of civil engineering innovations.

As an emerging material platform, multifunctional coordination materials offer advantages such as remarkable porosity and modifiable functionalities that render them highly suited to generate and store green energy. This book covers the design and fabrication approaches of multifunctional coordination materials for green energy technologies.

Focusing on Passive Intermodulation (PIM), a common instance of distortion in high-power multi-channel communication systems, the book introduces the concepts and Technology of PIM.

In the attempts to unify divided peoples on the basis of a shared past, both historical and mythical, this book illumines aspects of cultural nationalism common since the Middle Ages.

Examining Chinese-North African relations through the lens of President Xi Jinping's Silk Road grand strategy, this book offers a comprehensive analysis of emerging strategic and economic partnerships in the Maghreb region.

This book employs a global history approach to explore John Wesley's writings, contributing to eighteenth-century religious history and to Wesley Studies with primary sources and recent secondary literature, placing Wesley's writings in their global political context.

Biomedical photonics is currently one of the fastest growing fields, connecting research in physics, optics, and electrical engineering coupled with medical and biological applications. It allows for the structural and functional analysis of tissues and cells with resolution and contrast unattainable by any other methods.

This volume presents specific applications of the detection systems in medical imaging, industrial testing and security applications. These newely developed technologies start to play a vital role in the detection, diagnosis and tratment of major human diseases.

This book provides a comprehensive understanding of technologies that are currently adopted in the treatment of pollutants present in saline water systems. It presents information on the treatment technologies for saline water systems, which includes seawater, brackish water, oil produced water, and other industrial saline wastewaters.

This book focuses on the design, implementation, and management of secure Human Cyber-Physical Systems (HCPS s) in smart manufacturing environments. It covers a wide range of topics, including risk assessment, security architecture, data privacy, and standard specifications for HCPSs.

This book discusses biomass as a raw material for the production of liquid or gaseous biofuels and valuable chemicals. The authors show how its volume and composition can be predicted, by which form of processing it can be converted into valuable products, as well as in which ways its negative environmental impact can be limited.

A comprehensive resource on different aspects of sustainable carbon capture technologies including recent process developments, environmentally friendly methods and roadmaps for implementations. Discusses also the socio-economic and policy aspects of carbon capture and the challenges, opportunities, and incentives for change in industry and policy.

This book provides a practical guide to federated deep learning for healthcare including fundamental concepts, framework, and the applications comprising of domain adaptation, model distillation, and transfer learning. It covers concerns in model fairness, data bias, regulatory compliance, and ethical dilemmas.

This monograph presents several key issues related to the actions aimed at mitigating the negative impact on the environment connected with the acquisition and transport of energy, management of municipal and industrial wastes, as well as the impact of the industry on the aquatic and soil environment.

This state-of-the-art handbook, the second in a series that provides medical physicists with a comprehensive overview into the field of nuclear medicine, focuses on mathematical modelling, dosimetry, and radiation protection.

Computer vision is an effective solution in a range of real-life applications. With the advent of the machine and deep learning paradigms, this book adopts machine and deep learning algorithms to leverage digital image processing for designing accurate biometrical applications. A must-read for anyone working on computer vision

Innovative and creative teaching methods tailored to meet the demands of the current era of Industrial Revolution 4.0 are increasingly prevalent in Higher Education Institutions. This book explores and showcases various aspects of Innovative Pedagogies for Higher Education 4.0 to provide a comprehensive understanding of this evolving field.

New carbon materials have been developed to meet challenges of a growing global demand for energy-saving materials and sustainable materials. This book describes progress towards the conversion and efficient utilization of porous carbon and its derived precursor as electrode materials for clean energy.

This book covers need for 6G connectivity arising from the pursuit of higher data speeds, ultra-low latency, massive IoT connectivity, enhanced spectral efficiency, and the facilitation of new and transformative applications.

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.