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Energy Systems Engineering is a comprehensive guide for students, researchers and professionals navigating through the rapidly evolving energy landscape. This book bridges theory and practice, delivering clear explanations of the origin of energy system mo... (Read more)

This book provides an overview of biological wastewater treatment and sludge recovery. It presents the main concepts related to treatment processes, as well as the principles of operation, sizing, and implementation of unit operations and processes associa... (Read more)

Polymers and composites are ubiquitous in our daily lives, enabling, for example, lighter structural materials and food packaging. Their performance depends not only on their chemical structure, synthesis, architecture and shaping process, but also evolves... (Read more)

Urban and peri-urban agriculture currently attracts considerable attention from citizens, policymakers and researchers. Perceived positively for its contributions to urban sustainability and food systems, it nonetheless faces significant challenges, includ... (Read more)

The Future of Sapiens and Verticality is the result of an encounter, more than twenty years ago, between human paleontology and osteopathy. It is part of a radical paradigm shift in our understanding of the origins of our anatomy. This book presents a p... (Read more)

AI-driven Healthcare Innovations presents a timely and authoritative exploration of how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming modern clinical practices and medical research. Positioned at the intersection of healthcare, data science and computationa... (Read more)

The world is experiencing a widespread and accelerated geodigitalization. Everything that can be located on Earth now seems to be transcribed into digital data. This data has become pervasive across all technical systems. Spatial data is at the heart of te... (Read more)

AI-driven Innovations in Physiotherapy and Oncology 3 is positioned at the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI), clinical rehabilitation and cancer care, addressing the growing need for data-driven, personalized and technology-enabled healthcare so... (Read more)

Memory, the second function of a computer, has gradually become more complex in order to meet growing needs in terms of capacity, speed, security and energy efficiency. It takes the form of a component or system, such as a memory subassembly or a mass stor... (Read more)

In an era defined by global disruptions, sustainability mandates and rapid technological advancement, Next-Gen Supply Chains provides an essential roadmap for navigating the complex transformation of global supply networks. This comprehensive book moves be... (Read more)

Medicine has accompanied human history since its very origins and, unlike any other discipline, it grapples with matters of life and death. Today, understanding the evolution of medicine and life sciences, as well as the features that make them unique, is ... (Read more)

Studying and understanding the history of life sciences and medicine in the modern era requires an in-depth reflection on knowledge that is often seen as contradictory. History of Life Sciences and Medicine 2 presents key concepts from the 16th to the... (Read more)

Writing the recent history of life sciences is an exciting but demanding undertaking. Some disciplines are emerging while others are disappearing; above all, they are now intertwined and overlapping, constantly shifting their boundaries. However, despite t... (Read more)

This book explores the geological history of the Pyrenees over the past 90 million years, with a particular focus on their compressive and post-compressive evolution. It first presents the overall structure of the mountain range, then examines the developm... (Read more)

In light of the challenges facing the healthcare sector today, renewing management and care practices has become imperative. With this in mind, Social Innovation Through Design in Healthcare 1 brings together analyses from academic and professional experts... (Read more)

Connected Digital Devices in Health is a collective work that reports on the deployment of digital technologies in the healthcare sector, with a view to understanding the underlying logic that has structured and organized the healthcare field and healthcar... (Read more)

Biodiversity is collapsing. It is increasingly necessary to rethink how contemporary societies relate to the living world. This is all the more important given that calls for change are still regularly downplayed – or even dismissed in the public sphere.... (Read more)

This comprehensive book establishes the Zili generalized fractional Brownian motion (ZgfBm) as a powerful new foundation in the mathematical theory of stochastic processes. Generalized Fractional Brownian Motion provides the first rigorous and systemati... (Read more)

This book explores the development and deployment of digital technologies in supply chain management. The digital transformation of supply chains enables organizations to address traditional challenges in optimizing logistics flows, lead times and costs. I... (Read more)

Algae have long been exploited as a marine resource for human and animal consumption. Marine Algae, A Sustainable Food Resource provides an overview of the current uses of this renewable resource, while exploring its development prospects. This book mai... (Read more)

Interest in scaling laws has grown since the beginning of the 21st century. In both the social sciences and the natural sciences, there is continued astonishment at the increasing inequalities between large and small cities. While social indicators are ... (Read more)

Innovation is omnipresent, but its complexity is rarely examined in depth. Far from euphoric or strict technical approaches, this book offers a fresh perspective on innovation by exploring its underlying tensions, paradoxes and dynamics. Adopting a dual... (Read more)