Dielectric liquids are used as impregnates of solid insulations or filling products in many kinds of equipment, such as transformers (power, rectifier, distribution, traction, furnace, potential, current), resistors, reactors, capacitors, cables, bushings, circuit breakers, tap changers, and thyristor cooling in power electronics, etc. Their role is paramount in the sense that their presence is…
This Special Issue of Water brings together 10 studies on groundwater contamination and remediation. Common themes include practical techniques for plume identification and delineation, the central role of subsurface processes, the pervasiveness of non-Fickian transport, and the importance of bacterial communities in the broader context of biogeochemistry.
This unique book summarizes current knowledge on co-development of infectious diseases and cancer. It provides an overview of the complex and unique role of the immune system, inflammation, tumor-mediated immunosuppression and infection-induced immunomodulation in cancer and infection progression. Chapters are organized into themed parts, beginning with a look at the historical perspective o…
The volume on Industrial Crop Breeding will be part of the series, Handbook of Plant Breeding. This volume will focus on the emerging area of plant breeding for sustainable production of transportation fuels and bio based products using the current advances in the field. The book is scheduled to consist of a total number of 30 chapters divided into four sections. The sections will emphasize cro…
Our world today is becoming increasingly complex, and technical devices are getting ever smaller and more powerful. The high density of electronic components together with high clock frequencies leads to unwanted side-effects like crosstalk, delayed signals and substrate noise, which are no longer negligible in chip design and can only insufficiently be represented by simple lumped circuit mode…
In a multitude of ways, fictitious characters are being employed in the marketing of goods: Be it as spokes-characters in advertisement campaigns, or be it by adding substantial value to bulk products in ways of merchandising. Characters are semantic units consisting of name, visual appearance, voice and an underlying scheme of personality traits and experiences. And just by their mere presence…
Legum biji-bijian adalah sumber protein nabati yang banyak digunakan terutama di negara-negara berkembang di Asia Tenggara, Afrika, dan Amerika Latin. Mereka adalah pilihan hemat biaya untuk protein hewani termasuk ikan, daging, dan produk susu dan karenanya mendapatkan nama "daging orang miskin."Selain protein, kekayaannya dalam zat gizi mikro dan elemen vital lainnya menjadikannya entitas pen…
Biologi tanaman telah menjadi bidang biologi yang fundamental selama berabad-abad, tetapi selama sekitar 30 tahun terakhir, biologi tanaman telah mengalami transformasi besar yang mengarah pada pemahaman yang lebih baik dan lebih dalam tentang banyak proses fundamental utama dalam tanaman. Gagasan untuk menyiapkan dua volume ini tumbuh dari kebutuhan akan buku yang sesuai tentang biologi tanama…
Populasi manusia meningkat dengan laju yang mengkhawatirkan dan diperkirakan akan mencapai 11 miliar pada tahun 2050. Karena terdapat kesenjangan yang besar antara pertumbuhan populasi dan produksi pangan, ketahanan pangan untuk populasi yang terus meningkat menjadi tantangan besar di masa kini dan masa depan. Faktanya, dalam dua dekade mendatang, produksi pangan harus digandakan dengan lahan p…
Buku ini berisi enam bab yang dapat digunakan secara mandiri sebagai bahan ajar kasus dalam kelas sarjana atau kelas spesialis tentang teknik OR yang diterapkan pada operasi peti kemas maritim atau operasi pelabuhan. Instruktur dan siswa dapat menantikan presentasi yang mendalam tentang tantangan yang dihadapi rantai pasokan maritim dan penyedia layanan logistik pelabuhan peti kemas di Asia ser…