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2023-01-01
Designs inspired by nature for energy absorption applications are now trending research in the engineering field, where various biomimetic designs are readymade and available from nature. Nowadays, high strength to low-weight components is the major law consideration for many design processes. Bio-inspired lattice stru...
Analysis of Bio-Inspired Designs for Energy Absorption Applications
10.1007/978-981-99-0264-4_16
2023-01-01
In the context of climate change, environmental actions on structures are likely to alter in terms of intensities and frequencies of occurrence. To ensure sufficient load-bearing capacity of structures despite these changes, actions may be monitored using structural health monitoring (SHM) systems. Environmental action...
Piezoresistive Sensors for Monitoring Actions on Structures
10.1007/978-3-031-07258-1_14
2023-01-01
The article presents the results of the creation of a computerized defect detection system targeted at defect finding in welded joints of high-strength steels. As the research object, welded joints of transformer tanks made of steel were selected. The choice of this type of metal is conditioned by the ultra-low carbon ...
Computerized Hardware and Software System for Investigation of Welding Defects of High-Strength Steel Based on a Subminiature Eddy-Current Transducer
10.1007/978-3-031-11051-1_159
2023-01-01
Organic potato production deals with a very limited choice of tools to control late blight. One of the alternative ways to protect potatoes against this disease is a plant immunity stimulation. A study of the effect of pre-planting and post-harvest treatment of five potato cultivars (Sante, Arizona, Aluett, Vektor, and...
Pre-planting and Post-harvest Treatment of Potato with Low-Frequency Pulse Electric Field Suppresses the Development of the Leaf and Tuber Blight
10.1007/978-981-99-4165-0_26
2023-01-01
In the process of tertiary oil recovery in unconsolidated sand reservoir of Bohai Bay g oilfield, polymer injection beneficial wells are faced with polymer plugging and sand production at the same time, and the effect of conventional sand control completion method is not ideal. The research on sand control well complet...
Research and Application of Sand Control Completion Technology for Beneficial Wells of Polymer Injection in Bohai Bay G Oilfield
10.1007/978-981-99-1964-2_244
2023-01-01
To adapt to the low-velocity water flow closely related to human life, the natural energy can be efficiently harvested and used to power monitoring devices. Herein, a triboelectric soft fishtail (TE-SFT) driven by flow-induced vibration (FIV) effect is proposed based on the soft material synthesis technology. Specifica...
Soft-bionic-fishtail structured triboelectric nanogenerator driven by flow-induced vibration for low-velocity water flow energy harvesting
10.1007/s12274-022-4715-6
2023-01-01
With the development of the country and the sustainable development of the society, all kinds of infrastructure construction and transformation of our country have been greatly promoted. With the emergence of modern transportation equipment and the rapid development of expressway, the design of expressway service area,...
Application of “Green and Low Carbon” in the Design of Expressway Service Area
10.2991/978-94-6463-200-2_133
2023-01-01
There has been a paradigm change in the building and construction industry recently, with more emphasis being placed on creating sustainable, energy-efficient new infrastructure. Although this trend has gained momentum in the last few decades, the results have noted a very minor contribution to energy concerns. Though ...
Retrofitting: Exploring a New Domain in Energy-Efficient Built Environment
10.1007/978-981-99-3526-0_12
2023-01-01
The fifth edition of the World Health Organization (WHO) classification of thyroid tumors established a new category, “low-risk neoplasm,” which includes borderline tumors (non-invasive follicular thyroid neoplasm with papillary-like nuclear features, thyroid tumor of uncertain malignant potential, and hyalinizing trab...
Low-Risk Neoplasms in the Fifth Edition of the WHO Classification of Thyroid Tumors
10.1007/978-981-99-6782-7_15
2023-01-01
In the liquefied natural gas (LNG) intermediate fluid vaporizer (IFV), the condensation of refrigerants outside the LNG tubes is the main factor affecting the regasification efficiency. In this paper, the condensation heat transfer characteristics of refrigerants outside horizontal plain and low finned LNG tubes are in...
Numerical Investigation on the Condensation of Various Refrigerants Outside Horizontal Plain and Low Finned Tubes at Low Temperatures
10.1007/978-981-99-6128-3_61
2023-01-01
Pulsed latches are the core component of any digital circuit design and by far the most widespread and crucial variety. The dimensions of the space, as well as its power and functionality, are elements that influence the design. To have an effective design, the three parameters need to be tuned. In this study, a unique...
Static Single Phase Contention Pulsed Latch for Low Voltage Operation
10.1007/978-981-99-0973-5_13
2023-01-01
Nuclear power is the most realistic choice to cope with climate change and low-carbon transformation of energy structure, and it is also the inevitable trend for China to achieve the “double carbon goal”. At present, the design task of nuclear power HVAC is not only to meet the functional requirements of users, but als...
Research on Low Carbon and Energy Saving Technology Path of Nuclear Power HVAC System
10.1007/978-981-19-8899-8_12
2023-01-01
The seismic isolation design for bridges mainly focused on increasing the damping properties of the seismic isolator under controlled period. To adopt to the demand of high damping properties, there were newly developed isolators and dampers nowadays. However, in Japan, the seismic isolator’s design standard for bearin...
Nonlinear Model Classification of HDR-S Bearing Under Low Temperature Using Artificial Neural Network
10.1007/978-3-030-93236-7_46
2023-01-01
Modern computing systems are overwhelmingly designed to move data to computation. This design choice goes directly against at least three key trends in computing that cause performance, scalability and energy bottlenecks: (1) data access is a key bottleneck as many important applications are increasingly data-intensive...
A Modern Primer on Processing in Memory
10.1007/978-981-16-7487-7_7
2023-01-01
The energy sector has been experiencing a massive but gradual shift in recent years toward renewable and low-carbon energy sources. The future of fossil fuels lies in the ability of the industry to adapt to the market, environment, and social trends within the energy transition framework. In this chapter, we review the...
Energy Transition: Challenges and Opportunities for the Oil & Gas Industry
10.1007/978-3-031-30697-6_1
2023-01-01
Inulin is a polymer of fructose units that are soluble in water and cannot be digested by enzymes but can be fermented by microflora in the colon. Inulin is commonly used as a food additive for synbiotic benefits. Inulin is generally produced from tubers or plant roots. Beneng taro is an indigenous tuber in Banten Prov...
A Review of the Potential of Beneng Taro as Material for Inulin Making and Its Application to Yogurt
10.2991/978-94-6463-090-9_5
2023-01-01
The human uses of mushrooms and cultured mycelium products for nutrition and medicine are detailed and supported by available human studies, which in many cases are clinical trials published in peer-reviewed journals. The major medically active immunomodulating compounds in the cell walls—chitin, beta-glucans, and glyc...
The Health and Clinical Benefits of Medicinal Fungi
10.1007/10_2023_230
2023-01-01
The electrochemical machining technique paved the way for a new approach of material removal mechanism through electrochemical reactions between the workpiece and the tool. It is a method for creating a variety of profiles without using mechanical forces between the work and the tool, using optimized input parameters. ...
A Novel Design and Development of Low-Cost Electro-Chemical Machining Unit with Optimized Parameters
10.1007/978-981-99-1288-9_27
2023-01-01
WST-8 (Cell Counting Kit 8; CCK-8) is the last generation tetrazolium-based cell viability assay and has recently been accepted as a validated method for measuring the cell viability of 3D in vitro models. Here, we describe how to form 3D prostate tumor spheroids using the polyHEMA technique, apply drug treatments and ...
Cell Viability Assay with 3D Prostate Tumor Spheroids
10.1007/978-1-0716-3056-3_17
2023-01-01
Low light stress causes a variety of changes in morphology, anatomy, and phenology, these changes are intended to capture more photons in low light. This study consists of two experiments, the aim (1) this study was to investigate morphology, anatomy, and phenology characters of shade-loving tomato genotypes at low lig...
Character Selection of Shade-Loving Tomatoes and Genetic Interaction X Shade Level on Tomato Plants Productivity
10.2991/978-94-6463-028-2_32
2023-01-01
The power industry is a major contributor to CO 2 emissions in China, and hence its low-carbon development plays an important role in the nation’s initiatives to build a low-carbon economy and reach the goal of emissions reduction. Based on the analysis of existing carbon capture technologies in the power industry, an ...
Economic Analysis and Simulation of Carbon Capture Projects in the Power Industry
10.2991/978-94-6463-198-2_102
2023-01-01
The water treatment process of a produced water treatment station in an oilfield in northern Shaanxi is as follows: inclined plate deoiling sedimentation + dissolved air flotation + multi-media filtration + double filters material filtration. The water injection quality has not reached the standard for a long time in t...
Analysis and Measures Research on Inefficiency of Produced Water Treatment Station in Water Injection Development of Low Permeability Oilfield
10.1007/978-981-99-2649-7_30
2023-01-01
In this chapter, we discuss recent developments in the field of chip-integrated electronics for nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) and electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR)–NMR- and EPR-on-a-chip—for biomedical applications. More specifically, starting from a brief review of the underlying physical working principles, we...
Chip-Integrated Spin Detection for Biomedical Applications
10.1007/978-3-031-28912-5_4
2023-01-01
This research justifies the need for energy efficiency studies in certain buildings/facilities in order to make energy consumption more sustainable. In order to simplify the elaboration of energy efficiency studies, it is proposed to use thermal 3D models generated from UAV (Unmaned Aerial Vehicles) photogrammetric fli...
Generation of 3D Thermal Models for the Analysis of Energy Efficiency in Buildings
10.1007/978-3-031-20325-1_57
2023-01-01
Geothermal energy comes in many different forms depending on the specific conditions of the resource. For example, in volcanic areas (such as the Canary Islands) or with subduction of tectonic plates, deposits of water/steam of very high energy and temperatures (150°–350 °C) are sometimes produced, known as high enthal...
Geothermal Supply System for a Winery on a Volcanic Island (Lanzarote, Canary Islands)
10.1007/978-3-031-43222-4_29
2023-01-01
Blockchain is a secure and distributed technology which is growing in popularity since it enables the traceability, immutability and transparency of data. However, monitoring blockchain networks requires experts who have vast experience in this technology. To address this challenge, in this paper we present a low-code ...
Towards Real-Time Monitoring of Blockchain Networks Through a Low-Code Tool
10.1007/978-3-031-26507-5_23
2023-01-01
Methylthioninium chloride, commonly called methylene blue, is a cationic dye. Methylene blue (MB) is a heterocyclic aromatic compound that is used as a synthetic dye for textile industries. In the present study, adsorption of methylene blue (MB) was studied using red sandy soil-based alkali-activated binder as an adsor...
Removal of Methylene Blue from Wastewater by Red Sandy Soil-Based Alkali-Activated Binder
10.1007/978-3-031-37596-5_8
2023-01-01
Perinatal injury, prematurity, and/or congenital anomalies inflict profound long- and short-term physical, psychological, emotional, social, and financial stresses on survivors, their families, and society. Both the Annual Summary of Vital Statistics (2013–2014) and the National Vital Statistics Reports (2017) (Heron, ...
Physiology and Development of the Term and Preterm Neonate
10.1007/978-3-031-25358-4_2
2023-01-01
Self-assembly of dyes has become a flexible strategy to modulate their photophysical properties. H-aggregates show great potential to increase heat generation, while the precise designing of H-aggregates as efficient photothermal agents is still challenging. Herein, a quinoline cyanine (QCy) is developed for constructi...
Modulating planarity of cyanine dye to construct highly stable H-aggregates for enhanced photothermal therapy
10.1007/s12274-022-4818-0
2023-01-01
Ecuadorian ferrotitaniferous sands (FS), an abundant natural resource, can be considered as promising fillers for polymer matrixes due to their inherent mechanical properties and magnetic nature. Until now, this raw and underrated resource has only been used as a cement clinker additive and agro-industrial fertilizer, ...
Application of Ecuadorian Ferrotitaniferous Sands in Reinforcing Epoxy Composites
10.1007/978-3-031-24971-6_11
2023-01-01
A comprehensive coverage starts with a clear view on the three sources of energy for generating electricity. Two of them, fossil and atomic fuels, are converted in hot gases or steam, needing cumbersome and wasteful processes. By skipping this mess, harvested renewable currents (wind, light, and water) conquer a centra...
Nuclear Power and Sustainability
10.1007/978-3-031-01949-4_15
2023-01-01
CO 2 flooding is a promising method to improve oil recovery. When CO 2 and crude oil reach miscible state, the surface tension tends to be 0 and the flow resistance decreases greatly. It effectively improves oil displacement efficiency. Therefore, it is of engineering significance to determine the minimum miscible pres...
Study on Minimum Miscible Pressure of CO2 in Low Permeability Oil Reservoir
10.1007/978-981-99-1964-2_348
2023-01-01
The behavior of low-carbon pipe steel containing 2 and 6 vol.% martensitic-austenitic component in the structure is studied under step forming, expanding and unbending of the pipe using the method of finite-element simulation. The effect of martensitic transformation in the MA-component on the ductility of the steel af...
Role of Martensite-Austenite Component of Bainitic Structure in Formation of Properties of Pipe Steel. 3. Effect of Martensitic Transformation of Austenite in the MA-Component of Bainite on the Ductility of Steel
10.1007/s11041-023-00849-7
2023-01-01
The growth in population and energy requirement is a challenge for stakeholders in huge cities such as Buenos Aires. Sustainably meeting this demand is the goal demanded by society for this new century. Shallow geothermal energy (SGE) is a renewable energy very valuable for air conditioning. However, it is a great unkn...
Shallow Geothermal Energy Resources and Thermal Impacts in Buenos Aires City, Argentina
10.1007/978-3-031-26813-7_7
2023-01-01
The mechanical behaviour of composite materials during perforation during high but also low-velocity impacts is of interest in many engineering fields. Perforation of composites is a very complex event that yields a multi-mode failure, making numerical modelling very challenging. This paper presents a novel approach to...
Strain-Rate Dependent FDEM Simulation of the Perforation Behaviour of Woven Composites Subjected to Low-Velocity Impact
10.1007/978-3-031-28547-9_35
2023-01-01
This paper analyzes the case of cylinder cutting transformation of 350 MW supercritical unit. The results show that the heating capacity of the unit can be increased by about 90 MW under the same main steam flow rate after the transformation. The peak regulation capacity of the unit can be increased by 70 MW and the lo...
Analysis on the Retrofit Scheme of Cutting-Cylinder of 350MW Supercritical Unit
10.1007/978-981-99-0553-9_52
2023-01-01
An energy system transformation is mandatory to reach a climate-neutral energy system. Several challenges within this transformation process have to be overcome. Due to the increasing sector coupling and renewable energy power plants on a decentralised level, new challenges arise. Photovoltaic systems, heat pumps, and ...
Analysis of Operating and Positioning Strategies of Home and Community Storage Systems in Low Voltage Grids in a Sector-Coupled and Renewable Energy System
10.2991/978-94-6463-156-2_16
2023-01-01
Low permeability oil field is an oil field with low reservoir permeability, low abundance and low single well productivity. With the passage of time, the water content of low permeability oil field be comes higher and the difficult development coefficient increases, which has a greater test on the temporary plugging fr...
Research and Application of Temporary Plugging Fracturing Technology in Low Permeability Oilfield
10.1007/978-981-99-1964-2_445
2023-01-01
It is of great significance to explore the low-carbon operation and efficient energy utilization of integrated energy systems under the goal of dual-carbon. In order to solve the abandoned wind problem caused by the “ thermal determining electricity” mode of combined heat and power units. Firstly, in the aspect of low ...
Low Carbon Economic Operation of Integrated Energy Systems Considering Power-to-Gas Thermal Recovery and Demand Response
10.1007/978-981-99-0063-3_7
2023-01-01
The emergence of IoT devices that support sensor technology has gain much attention for their integration into smart city applications to improve citizens’ quality of life. In industrial territories, people that suffer from chronic respiratory diseases, e.g., chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, asthma, occupational ...
A Low-Cost and Energy Autonomous IoT Framework for Environmental Monitoring
10.1007/978-981-19-1610-6_42
2023-01-01
This paper presents a novel method for estimating pollutants emitted by vehicles powered by internal combustion engines in real driving, without the need for extensive measurement campaigns or the use of instrumentation in the vehicle for long periods of time; for which it is based on the positioning and speed signals ...
Low-Cost Model for the Estimation of Pollutant Emissions Based on GPS and Machine Learning
10.1007/978-3-031-38563-6_27
2023-01-01
The smart farming involves the exploitation of modern information and communication technologies to make farms more efficient, profitable and productive to ensure sustainable development through ecological processes such as photovoltaic panels that respect the environment. Our project consists of implementing an IoT sy...
Connected Sensors for a Smart Green Farm
10.1007/978-3-031-21216-1_23
2023-01-01
This study examines variability in Low-Level Jet (LLJ) over the Indian Ocean (5° N: 15° N; 50° E: 70° E) during June–July–August (JJA), using reanalysis data for the past four decades (1979–2019). A significant positive trend (0.04 ms −1  yr −1 ) in the intensity of LLJ is observed during the study period. We examined ...
On the Relationship Between Northwest–Northcentral Pacific SST and Low-level Jet Over the Arabian Sea
10.1007/s13369-022-07045-4
2023-01-01
In this paper, we present a low-power low-voltage bulk-driven operational transconductance amplifier (OTA) configured in fully differential setup. The proposed OTA has regenerative feedback at input section of flipped-voltage follower (FVF) which increases the total transconductance leading to improvement in the overal...
Low-Voltage Low-Power Fully Differential Double Recycling OTA with Positive Feedback
10.1007/978-981-99-0973-5_30
2023-01-01
This work revealed that most water‑soluble compounds have a dual nature (thermodynamic promotion or hydrate inhibition) depending on thermobaric conditions. Indeed, by lowering the melting point of ice, water‑soluble organic compounds expand the region of water‑containing liquid phase existence below 0°C. This work con...
Effect of Lower Alcohols on the Formation of Methane Hydrate at Temperatures Below the Ice Melting Point
10.1007/s10553-023-01476-x
2023-01-01
Low-cost housing is urgently needed in low- and middle-income countries. Concrete is often too costly and raw material production, including aggregate extraction, is known to be harmful to the environment. In this paper the use of an agricultural waste, corncob, as a potential lightweight replacement of sand in cement ...
Use of Corncob Granules as Sand Replacement in the Production of Cement Mortars
10.1007/978-3-031-21735-7_103
2023-01-01
In the work, the change of number of the extreme winds, turbulent stresses and heat fluxes in the Arctic zone are studied using the reanalysis data Arctic System Reanalysis version 2 (ASRv2) in the period 2000–2016. A decrease in the number of extreme winds in the central and western part of the Barents Sea and an incr...
Trends in Barents and Kara Sea Areas from Reanalysis Data
10.1007/978-3-031-16575-7_8
2023-01-01
The influence of nano-silica doping on the growth behavior and corrosion resistance of γ-APS silane films fabricated by electrochemical-assisted deposition was systematically investigated by reflection absorption infrared spectroscopy, electrochemical impedance spectroscopy, atomic force microscopy, scanning electron m...
Influence of nano-silica doping on the growth behavior and corrosion resistance of γ-APS silane films fabricated by electrochemical-assisted deposition
10.1007/s11998-022-00674-2
2023-01-01
To explore the differences in precipitation among different regions and the persistence of precipitation trends in the future over the lower reaches of Yangtze River Basin (LYRB), we used precipitation data from meteorological stations in the LYRB from 1980 to 2020. The Pettitt method, Mann-Kendall (M-K) test, and Hurs...
Study on the Characteristics and Persistence of Precipitation Changes in the Lower Reaches of Yangtze River Basin
10.2991/978-94-6463-336-8_75
2023-01-01
Connection between pilot fuel ratio (PFR) and pressure pulsations in dry low emission (DLE) combustor of gas turbine engine is established based on experimental data. A quantitative criterion for the combustion quality without emission measuring has been formed. It assesses whether the combustion process belongs mainly...
Correlation Between Pressure Pulsations and the Pilot Fuel Ratio in a DLE Combustor of a Gas Turbine Engine as an Evaluation Criteria for the Fuel-Air Mixture Homogeneity
10.1007/978-3-031-38126-3_28
2023-01-01
An experimental investigation was conducted to develop a low-carbon lightweight aggregate concrete (LWAC) using naturally occurring aggregates and evaluate its mechanical performance. Lightweight aggregates used in structural concrete are commonly manufactured from recycled pulverised fuel ash or expanded clay, which r...
Development of Low-Carbon Lightweight Concrete Using Pumice as Aggregate and Cement Replacement
10.1007/978-3-031-33187-9_27
2023-01-01
Guided by the theory of planned behaviour, we conducted an interview study to identify beliefs that potentially influence social-housing residents’ future behaviour with domestic low-carbon technology in retrofit housing. The study included (group interview n = 6, individual interviews n = 14). Behavioural beliefs, nor...
Towards the Tees Valley Energy Transition—Residential Decarbonisation and Skills Analysis
10.1007/978-3-031-30960-1_24
2023-01-01
Generating electricity using fossil fuels can increase global warming. To reduce the use of fossil fuels, the implementation of Renewable Energy becomes a choice. One example is a Photovoltaic (PV) installation connected to a grid. The addition of on-grid PV on the load side may provide an undesirable effect for low vo...
The Effect of Solar Power Generating in Low Voltage Network on the Quality of Electricity to Costumers Side, A Case Study 4 kWp Photovoltaic at Salt Storage
10.2991/978-94-6463-228-6_15
2023-01-01
Vale Base Metals operates the Long Harbour Refinery using a novel hydrometallurgical process** to produce high-purity electrolytic nickel, cobalt, and copper, from the nickel sulphide concentrate produced at the mining operation at Voisey’s Bay. The process is based on controlled partial oxidation of sulphide sulphur t...
Vale’s Long Harbour Refinery: World Class Producer of Low-Carbon Nickel and Cobalt
10.1007/978-3-031-38141-6_14
2023-01-01
The typical fatigue life of a component is mainly divided into two phases: crack initiation and crack propagation. This study is concerned with the crack initiation life as some designers regard the crack initiation as the end of the design life of the component. Crack initiation is caused by the formation of persisten...
Modeling Crack Initiation in Low Cycle Fatigue: A Review
10.1007/978-981-19-7808-1_8
2023-01-01
The Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) magnetic field has an ability to penetrate almost all materials and is non-ionizing radiation so that it can trigger cell proliferation. This study aims to examine the effect of exposure to the 200–300 µT ELF magnetic fields on the growth rate of Edamame plants. This study is included ...
Analysis of the Impact of 200 µT and 300 µT Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) Magnetic Fields on the Growth Rate of Edamame Plants
10.2991/978-94-6463-062-6_2
2023-01-01
The use of nanoparticles (NPs) can considerably benefit enhanced oil recovery (EOR) by changing the wettability of the rock, improving the mobility of the oil drop, and decreasing the interfacial tension (IFT) between oil and water. Prior to the application of nanoparticles in oil fields, it is essential to conduct mea...
Low-field NMR investigation on interaction of ZnO nanoparticles with reservoir fluids and sandstone rocks for enhanced oil recovery
10.1007/s13202-022-01547-5
2023-01-01
In the age of global warming, having the ability to both dry wood products and generate electricity on site is a significant economic opportunity for both dry wood product manufacturers and society. Instead of the global wood products industry manufacturing wood pellets for long-distance off-site heating energy, it mak...
Wood Drying with On-Site Cogeneration Systems
10.1007/978-3-031-31863-4_20
2023-01-01
The idea of the Internet of Things (IoT) has received a lot of interest recently because it has the potential to transform our physical world into a meaningful information-filled digital cyber environment. Energy management is an important player in the development of an IoT system. This chapter provides a comprehensiv...
A Study on Energy Management for Low-Power IoT Devices
10.1007/978-981-99-0639-0_1
2023-01-01
Most replantations are indicated in children due to their advantageous nerve regeneration, greater healing potential and functional outcome. A replanted limb has better functional results than a prosthesis. The proper care of the amputated extremity is essential during an expedient transfer to a replantation centre. Th...
Replantation
10.1007/978-3-031-30984-7_28
2023-01-01
A major part of the CO2 emitted by the concrete industry comes from the production of cement clinker and covers 5–8% of the world’s CO2 emissions. As the development of long-term solutions for CO2 reduction may take several decades, the need of immediate actions is required. One possible solution can be the replacement...
Reduction of CO2 Emission by Using Low Carbon Concretes with Accelerating Admixtures
10.1007/978-3-031-33187-9_7
2023-01-01
Climate change is a common concern worldwide. In order to avoid the deterioration of the earth's climate and ecosystem, there is an urgent need to explore measures to reduce carbon emissions. Livestock and poultry farming is an important source of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions, and scientific assessment of carb...
Analysis of low carbon development strategies in the livestock and poultry industry from an international economic perspective
10.2991/978-94-6463-098-5_212
2023-01-01
In this paper, a dual-band low profile flexible microstrip patch antenna with low specific absorption rate (SAR) value is designed for wearable application and ISM band biomedical applications. Here, dual-band microstrip antenna is printed on denim jeans substrate and has total area of 52.42 × 48.35 × 1.6 mm 3 with a f...
Design of Wearable Antenna for Biomedical Telemetry Application
10.1007/978-981-19-9748-8_26
2023-01-01
Fresh produce, consisting of fruits and vegetables, are increasingly recognised, and promoted as essential components of a healthy diet. Since fresh produce are minimally processed and consumed raw for the most part, humans may be infected with antimicrobial-resistant bacteria through fresh produce consumption. Fresh p...
Microbiological Safety and Antimicrobial Resistance in Fresh Produce Production in Africa
10.1007/978-3-031-23796-6_9
2023-01-01
This chapter describes situations where individuals may be potentially exposed to ionizing radiation in accidental, occupational, or public exposures excluding those from clinical radiotherapy. Each exposure type can have very specific characteristics ranging in radiation quality, dose, dose rate, length of exposures, ...
Radiobiology of Accidental, Public, and Occupational Exposures
10.1007/978-3-031-18810-7_8
2023-01-01
At present, the automation system of the intelligent substation has a smooth control module, however, often because the identification of the state of the opening and closing of the switch fails to meet the requirements, resulting in the smooth control operation cannot be carried out or is inefficient. To solve this pr...
Substation Knife Switch Status Detection System Based on Wireless Photoelectric Sensor
10.1007/978-981-19-3998-3_90
2023-01-01
Spatial transcriptomics allows for the genome-wide profiling of topographic gene expression patterns within a tissue of interest. Here, we describe our methodology to generate high-quality RNA-seq libraries from cryosections from fresh frozen mouse whole olfactory mucosae. This methodology can be extended to virtually ...
Genome-Wide RNA Tomography in the Mouse Whole Olfactory Mucosa
10.1007/978-1-0716-3425-7_2
2023-01-01
STR amplification leads directly to profile development, which is also impacted by DNA extraction and capillary electrophoresis detection. Amplification for forensic human identification purposes is inherently a costly process; reduced volume reactions have long been an effective cost-savings measure. Processing known,...
Low Volume STR Amplification Options: Coupling with Standard or Fast PCR, Traditional or Normalized DNA Extraction, and/or Traditional or Alternative Capillary Electrophoresis
10.1007/978-1-0716-3295-6_17
2023-01-01
Submicron-sized low-silica SAPO-34 zeolite crystals with the hierarchical hollow structure are synthesized using a micron-sized SPAO-34 seed activation method hydrothermal synthesis in a low silica gel that contains triethylamine and polyethylene glycol. The resulting catalysts were characterized by XRD analysis, SEM, ...
Synthesis of Low Silicon Submicron-Sized SAPO-34 Molecular Sieve by Micron Seed Activation Method to Improve the Performance of MTO
10.1007/s10562-022-03975-8
2023-01-01
Either for desired properties or sustainability needs, cement industry has been incorporating SCMs in cement, bringing down the clinker factor for the last few decades. Incorporation of SCMs results in a changed microstructure and pore solution composition. These are the main factors other than environmental conditions...
Insight from Modeling Service Life of Low-Clinker Cements at Moderate Relative Humidity Under Carbonation Attack
10.1007/978-3-031-33187-9_95
2023-01-01
Approximately 40% of the world’s population lived in China, India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan in 2021. These countries were responsible for about 36% of the world’s CO 2 emissions in 2018. Economically, in the same year they represented 20% of the global Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Considering the population, the CO 2...
Low-Carbon Energy Transformation in China, India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan: An Overview
10.1007/978-3-658-38215-5_5
2023-01-01
One of the promising areas for improving the efficiency of technological processes is the use of low-waste production of parts from the workpieces that are as similar as possible to the ready-made part. The application of low-production technological processes also includes the complex geometry parts; they include coni...
Low-Waste Production of Conical and Hypoid Gears with Curved Teeth
10.1007/978-3-031-14125-6_61
2023-01-01
Advancement in science and technology has led to the development of stronger and durable materials such as steel and concrete. However, these materials are contributors of greenhouse gases. With the ever increasing temperatures of the planet and its associated hazards, it has become essential to look for greener altern...
Conceptualisation of Sustainable Low-Cost Earthquake Resistant Bamboo-Reinforced Mud Brick House in North-East India
10.1007/978-981-19-5077-3_7
2023-01-01
Climate change is accepted today as an indisputable fact resulting from human activity, predominantly the burning of fossil fuels. In order to prevent the catastrophic impacts of climate change, the world agreed in Conference of the Parties (COP) 21 to limit the global temperature rise above pre-industrial levels to 2 ...
Qatar in the Energy Transition: Low Carbon Economy Challenges and Opportunities
10.1007/978-981-19-7398-7_7
2023-01-01
The environment and human health are both impacted by air quality. In Africa, where air quality monitoring systems are rare or nonexistent, poor air quality has caused far more deaths and environmental damage than anywhere else in the world. Air pollution in Africa is a result of the continent’s growing urbanization, i...
Hardware Implementation of IoT Enabled Real-Time Air Quality Monitoring for Low- and Middle-Income Countries
10.1007/978-3-031-35314-7_3
2023-01-01
Considering the acceptability, nutritional and bio-functionality of Piper betel leaves (PBL), it was utilized in ghee-based low-fat spread (LFS). In the first phase of the experiment, the form and level of PBL were optimized. In the latter stage, the products were periodically evaluated for storage stability, The LFS u...
Studies on Utilization and Shelf Life of Piper betel Leaves Added Ghee-Based Low-fat Spread
10.1007/s12161-022-02400-5
2023-01-01
Measurements resulting from the operation of two different low-cost air quality monitoring devices (LCAQMD) are used as a basis for a data analytics and modelling procedure towards the improvement of the uncertainty of sensor readings. Α data processing method for missing value and outliers handling, followed by the im...
Analysis and Improvement of Two Low-Cost Air Quality Sensor Measurements’ Uncertainty
10.1007/978-3-031-18311-9_5
2023-01-01
This paper discusses the current development trend of ancillary buildings of water conservancy projects. At present, ancillary buildings of water conservancy projects should not only meet the aesthetic function of facade, but also meet the requirements of safe use of structure. Combined with the geographical location o...
Analysis on Energy Saving Design of Ancillary Buildings of Hydraulic Engineering
10.1007/978-981-19-4293-8_60
2023-01-01
Campylobacteriosis is a frequently diagnosed disease in humans. Most infections are considered foodborne and are caused by Campylobacter jejuni and C. coli . The animal reservoirs of these Campylobacter species , and the sources and routes of transmission, are described and discussed in this chapter. Most warm-blooded ...
Campylobacter: Animal Reservoirs, Human Infections, and Options for Control
10.1007/978-3-031-27164-9_6
2023-01-01
This paper deals with an innovative structure of silicon-on-insulator junctionless transistor (SOIJLT) by incorporating a buried metal layer of proper work-function which creates the Schottky junction between device layer and the buried metal layer. The buried metal layer results in perfect volume inversion in OFF-stat...
Buried Metal Silicon-on-Insulator Junctionless Transistor for Low Power CMOS Logic Circuits
10.1007/s12633-022-02080-0
2023-01-01
The article presents the test results of concrete beams reinforced with basalt fiber polymer and carbon fiber plastic brought to the ultimate state in previous researches. The nature of their deformation, crack development and fracture was established, that in the beams with large (a/d = 3) and central (a/d = 2) shear ...
Load-Bearing Capacity of Damaged Concrete Beams with Basalt Plastic Fittings, Reinforced with External Fiber-Reinforced Plastics
10.1007/978-3-031-14141-6_13
2023-01-01
Wastewater treatment facilities have high operational costs and are significant users of energy, due to which <38% percent of municipal as well as industrial wastewater generated by developing countries undergoes treatment of any kind. Waste stabilization ponds (WSPs) are man-made earthen basins used for the treatment ...
Overview of Waste Stabilization Ponds in Developing Countries
10.1007/698_2021_790
2023-01-01
Low permeability reserves are an important potential source for increasing offshore reserves and production. Targeted fracturing for low permeability oil and gas fields has been widely proved to be an economic and effective means of development by many onshore low permeability, tight shale oil and gas projects at home ...
Study on Geological Desserts and Engineering Desserts
10.1007/978-981-99-1964-2_485
2023-01-01
This paper analyses the formation, development and governance of international low-carbon parks, and innovatively summarizes three operation and management modes of international low-carbon parks: “Industrial Symbiosis” operation and management mode, “Industry-City Integration” operation and management mode, and “Infor...
Comparison of International Low-Carbon Park Operation and Management Modes
10.2991/978-94-6463-344-3_17
2023-01-01
Accurate, non-destructive prediction of chlorophyll content in leaves is crucial to guaranteeing an optimum plant’s growth and productivity. This is due to the fact that chlorophyll is an important photosynthetic pigment for plants, determining photosynthetic capacity and hence plant growth. In this paper, efforts to d...
Design of a Simple and Low-cost Fluorescence-based Chlorophyll Meter
10.2991/978-94-6463-086-2_54
2023-01-01
Introduction: In the ORL-HNS, acute low-tone sensorineural hearing loss (ALHL) is an emergency that needs to be treated right away. The hearing loss in ALHL is restricted to low-tone frequencies, and it has a superior prognosis compared to idiopathic sudden sensorineural hearing loss (ISSNHL). The administration of sys...
Management of Bilateral Acute Low Tone Sensorineural Hearing Loss (ALHL)
10.2991/978-94-6463-280-4_26
2023-01-01
Conjugated polymers of BTTP and BTTP–CN comprising thiophene and benzothiadiazole substituents were subjected under chemical doping process. The polymers were doped with different Lewis acids such as AlCl 3 , H 3 BO 3 , BF 3 , Cu(II), Fe(II), HCl and I 2 . The doped and undoped polymers have been analyzed with the aid ...
Effects of chemical dopants on the luminescence, bandgap and electrochemical conductivity of the thiophene-based benzothiadiazole-conjugated polymers
10.1007/s00289-021-04050-9
2023-01-01
Grote Reber (1911–2002) constructed the world’s first purpose-built radio telescope in the USA in 1937, effectively becoming the earliest radio astronomer. Using a frequency of 160 MHz, he made the first radio map of the sky, showing contours of equal radio intensity. Maintaining his interest in celestial emissions in ...
Grote Reber in Tasmania
10.1007/978-3-031-29493-8_12
2023-01-01
Carbonation, reactions between cementitious materials and atmospheric carbon dioxide, is one of the most important mechanisms that determine the longevity of cementitious materials. Despite the recent advances in revealing the carbonation mechanism of cement and concrete materials, the understanding of carbonation mech...
Comparing the Carbonation Performances of a Low-Clinker Blended Slag Cement with an Alkali-Activated Slag via Thermodynamic Modelling
10.1007/978-3-031-33187-9_103
2023-01-01
Organic light-emitting diode (OLED) is very emerging research field due to low-cost solution for display applications. It also helps in providing the lightweight flexible displays for mobile phones and other electronic applications. Presently, lot of researchers from academia and industry are working in this field. The...
Impact of Mixed Interlayer Thickness on Performance of Organic Light-Emitting Diodes
10.1007/978-981-19-0312-0_65
2023-01-01
The use of polymer drive to further increase the recovery in high water-bearing oil fields is a relatively common method for tertiary oil recovery at present. Polymer drive experiments in low viscous sandstone reservoirs show that the increase in recovery after low-speed water drive is 7.9%–10.7%, which is close to the...
Potential Study on Enhanced Oil Recovery Potential of Polymer Flooding After High-Speed Water Flooding in Low-Viscosity Sandstone Reservoirs
10.1007/978-981-99-1964-2_374
2023-01-01
The application of vacuum in casting technology is minimal. Vacuum technology is primarily used in investment casting or die casting processes, and this casting process is very costly compared with sand casting technology. In present study, the author developed a low-cost vacuum setup for the sand casting process. A ne...
Design and Development of Miniature Low-Cost Vacuum Setup for Sand Casting
10.1007/978-981-19-0561-2_18
2023-01-01
Both cardiac and thoracic surgical interventions bear the risk of a broad spectrum of postoperative complications. This spectrum ranges from mild and moderate complications, which require medical treatment up to acute life-threatening disorders leading to immediate surgical re-intervention. This chapter gives an overvi...
Management of Cardiothoracic Surgery Complications
10.1007/978-3-031-22599-4_52
2023-01-01
Solar panels are widely used nowadays to capture solar radiation and generate voltage, so they are being used for Energy Harvesting applications. The present work carries out the study of low power solar panels for energy storage applications, together with the DC-DC conversion and storage stage. The methodology carrie...
Solar Panels for Low Power Energy Harvesting
10.1007/978-3-031-30592-4_21
2023-01-01
The human locomotor system depicts a very complex system comprising the skeleton, skeletal muscles, ligaments, tendons, joints, cartilage and other connective tissues. It provides the body with movement, stability, shape, and support. It is biomechanically very complex, and hence, the applied computational models may b...
The Human Locomotor System: Physiological and Technological Foundations
10.1007/978-3-031-32781-0_1
2023-01-01
Inspired by IMC approach, tuning rules for PID control of time-delay plants such as pure TD, FOPTD, SOPTD and IPTD are developed. Control systems for the first three plants can be designed in a consistent way, since they are described by the same transfer function for commonly used controllers. Analytic rules are given...
Consistent Design of PID Controllers for Time-Delay Plants
10.1007/978-3-031-35170-9_30
2023-01-01
Periodic maintenance and unpredictable equipment failure of industrial machinery are expensive elements in a company’s balance and potentially hazardous for human operators. Periodic inspections at predefined intervals are commonly applied to limit unplanned production downtime and safety concerns. The latest advanceme...
Enabling Predictive Maintenance on Electric Motors Through a Self-sustainable Wireless Sensor Node
10.1007/978-3-031-30333-3_1
2023-01-01
The present work examines the role of cross thermal buoyancy towards initiating the vortex shedding process around two circular cylinders placed side by side in an unconfined medium. Critical buoyancy parameter is assessed for a range of Reynolds number as 10 to 40. In the stated range, a steady separated flow evolves ...
Influence of Cross Thermal Buoyancy on Vortex Shedding around Side by Side Cylinders at Low Reynolds Numbers
10.1007/978-981-19-6270-7_54
2023-01-01
In recent times, the Internet of Things (IoT) has been getting a lot of traction. Embedded systems have become ingrained in our daily lives connecting day-to-day devices to a network. IoT-enabled devices have helped us operate, monitor, and do various tasks efficiently from afar. This is achieved while consuming less s...
IoT-Based Smart Office and Parking System with the Implementation of LoRa
10.1007/978-981-19-7528-8_25
2023-01-01
An artificially generated dataset mimics real-world data in terms of its statistical properties, but it contains no real information. Data around rare occurrences like Covid-19 pandemic is difficult to capture in real-world data due to their infrequent nature. Additionally, cost involved and time-consumption to gather ...
Assessing the Efficacy of Synthetic Data for Enhancing Machine Translation Models in Low Resource Domains
10.1007/978-3-031-49601-1_9