https://mts.intechopen.com/articles/show/title/elasticity-of-auxetic-materialsThe auxeticity of elastic materials is described and explained by the use of the linear and nonlinear models of elastic deformations for a wide range of strain values up to moderate levels. This chapter consists of three parts - general information on auxetic materials, description of auxetics by the model of the line…
https://mts.intechopen.com/articles/show/title/cardiac-and-cancer-associated-cachexia-role-of-exercise-training-non-coding-rnas-and-future-perspectSarcopenia has been defined as the loss of skeletal muscle mass and strength that occurs with advancing age and has also been related to many metabolic diseases. In late stages, sarcopenia precedes cachexia, defined as a multifactorial syndrome chara…
https://mts.intechopen.com/articles/show/title/diabetic-peripheral-neuropathyDiabetes mellitus is one of the most common medical disorders often associated with neurological complications. Peripheral neuropathy is the most common neurological complication from diabetes with a prevalence of 10-26% of newly diagnosed adult diabetics. Diabetic neuropathy is a heterogeneous group of conditions that…
https://mts.intechopen.com/articles/show/title/climate-smart-maize-breeding-the-potential-of-arbuscular-mycorrhizal-symbiosis-in-improving-yield-biMaize is part of the essential food security crops for which yields need to tremendously increase to support future population growth expectations with their accompanying food and feed demand. However, current yield increases trends are sub-optimal d…
https://mts.intechopen.com/articles/show/title/enzymatic-process-for-pigeon-peaPigeon pea is generally used as a dhal i.e., in split form therefore, it is important to check its splitting i.e., hulling efficiency and maximum dhal recovery. Pre-treatments are commonly given for loosening and removing of the seed coat with retaining its edible portion. Enzymes viz. xylanase, pectinase and cellulo…
https://mts.intechopen.com/articles/show/title/legume-protein-properties-and-extraction-for-food-applicationsGrain legumes are important sources of protein for nutritional and techno-functional applications. Their protein content is 18-50% protein on dry matter basis. Most of the protein is of the storage type, of which 70% are globulins. The globulin proteins are mainly legumins and vicilins, …
https://mts.intechopen.com/articles/show/title/analysis-of-efficiency-of-natural-gas-absorption-process-from-water-impuritiesThe composition of natural gas varies depending on the field, formation, or reservoir from which it is produced. Since the composition of natural gas is never constant, there are standard test methods that can be used to determine the composition of natural gas and thus p…
This monograph deals with various visibility-based path and motion planning problems motivated by real-world applications such as exploration and mapping planetary surfaces, environmental surveillance using stationary or mobile robots, and imaging of global air/pollutant circulation. The formulation and solution of these problems call for concepts and methods from many areas of applied mathemat…
This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality, VAMR 2015, held as part of the 17th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI 2015, held in Los Angeles, CA, USA, in August 2015. The total of 1462 papers and 246 posters presented at the HCII 2015 conferences was carefully reviewed and selected from 48…
Virtual reality (VR) is a multidisciplinary area of research aimed at interactive human–computer-mediated simulations of artificial environments. An important aspect of VR-based systems is the stimulation of the human senses – usually sight, sound, and touch – in such a way that a user feels a sense of presence in the virtual environment. Sometimes it is important to combine real and virt…