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Chapter Introduction to the Use of Robotic Tools for Search and Rescue
(2017)
Modern search and rescue workers are equipped with a powerful toolkit to address natural and man-made disasters. This introductory chapter explains how a new tool can be added to this toolkit: robots. The use of robotic ...
Chapter RoCKIn@Work: Industrial Robot Challenge
(2017)
RoCKIn@Work was focused on benchmarks in the domain of industrial robots. Both task and functionality benchmarks were derived from real world applications. All of them were part of a bigger user story painting the picture ...
Chapter HSE Management for a Sound Work Environment: Strategies for Improving Health Safety and Environmental Indicators through Ergonomic Design Thinking
(2017)
The environmental effect of ground-borne vibration and noise generated by urban rail transit systems is a growing concern in urban areas. This chapter reviews, synthesizes and benchmarks new understandings related to railway ...
Chapter Assessing the Performance of Personal Protective Equipment1
(2017)
Schistosomiasis is the second most prevalent parasitic disease in the world. Currently, the treatment of this disease relies on a single drug, praziquantel, and due to the identification of resistant parasites, the development ...
Chapter Cellular and Molecular Mechanisms of Methotrexate Resistance in Melanoma
(2013)
Endocrinology
Chapter Smart Technical Textiles Based on Fiber Optic Sensors
(2013)
Biochemistry
Chapter Nanostructured Biosensors: Influence of Adhesion Layer, Roughness and Size on the LSPR: A Parametric Study
(2013)
Production engineering
Chapter Ant Algorithms for Adaptive Edge Detection
(2013)
Diseases & disorders
Chapter Cooperative Game Theory and Its Application in Localization Algorithms
(2013)
Complementary medicine
Chapter Modified Formulation, ε-Regularization and the Efficient Solution of Hydraulic Fracture Problems
(2013)
Biomedical engineering
Chapter Multiuser MAC Schemes for High-Throughput IEEE 802.11n/ac WLANs
(2013)
Electrical engineering
Chapter Fabrication Methodologies of Biomimetic and Bioactive Scaffolds for Tissue Engineering Applications
(2017)
Tissue engineering has offered wide technologies for developing functional biomaterials substitutes for repair and regeneration of damaged tissue and organs. Biomimetic materials with their inherent nature to mimic natural ...
Chapter The Hypoxia-Reoxygenation Injury Model
(2017)
Near-surface atmospheric measurements over urban or industrial areas aimed at assisting the air-quality monitoring attain increasing societal significance due to the strong and direct impact of aerosol pollutions in the ...
Chapter Vascular Tissue Development and Regeneration in the Model Plant Arabidopsis
(2017)
Development of vascular tissue is a remarkable example of intercellular communication and coordinated development involving hormonal signaling and tissue polarity. Thus far, studies on vascular patterning and regeneration ...
Chapter Periodontal Considerations in Adult Orthodontic Patients
(2017)
The relationship between periodontology and orthodontics consists of a highly complex, bidirectional and close interaction that is nowadays characterized by controversial scientific opinions and clinical approaches. The ...
Chapter Studies of Lithium-Oxygen Battery Electrodes by Energy- Dependent Full-Field Transmission Soft X-Ray Microscopy
(2017)
The employment of printing techniques as cost-effective methods to fabricate low cost, flexible, disposable and sustainable solar cells is intimately dependent on the substrate properties and the adequate electronic devices ...
Chapter Tactical Communications for Cooperative SAR Robot Missions
(2017)
This chapter describes how the ICARUS communications (COM) team defined, developed and implemented an integrated wireless communication system to ensure an interoperable and dependable networking capability for both human ...
Chapter Formability and Performance of Al-Zn-Mg-Cu Alloys with Different Initial Tempers in Creep Aging Process
(2017)
The initial temper may directly affect the deformation behavior and material performance in creep age forming (CAF) process. Five heat treatment states are selected as the initial tempers for CAF, namely, solution, peak-aging ...
Chapter Performance Analysis of an Integrated Starter-Alternator- Booster for Hybrid Electric Vehicles
(2017)
The chapter aims to investigate the reduction of the fuel consumption of conventional vehicles using mild-hybridization and considering the New European Driving Cycle (NEDC), using two topologies of electrical machines ...
Chapter Graphene and Active Metamaterials: Theoretical Methods and Physical Properties
(2017)
Protective immune defences are dependent upon critical roles played by dendritic cells (DCs), rendering them important targets for both vaccine delivery and virus infection. Studies in these areas led to successful development ...
Chapter New Generation of High Efficient OLED Using Thermally Activated Delayed Fluorescent Materials
(2018)
The search for efficient materials for organic light emitting diodes is one of the most imperative research area. The focus is to obtain a bright large area emitter, limited by the low internal quantum efficiency of ...
Chapter Absolute Density Measures Estimation Functions with Very High Resolution Satellite Images
(2018)
Assessment and monitoring of forest structure is frequently done with absolute density measures with field forest inventory data and expansion methods. The development of basal area and the number of trees estimation ...
Chapter Outsourcing Rules in the Public and the Private Sector
(2018)
There have been outsourcing and insourcing trends for decades. Most often benefits and costs of outsourcing are compared from the purely financial side. However, risks are those that eventually determine whether a particular ...
Chapter Advanced Space Flight Mechanical Qualification Test of a 3D- Printed Satellite Structure Produced in Polyetherimide ULTEMTM
(2018)
The aim of this work is to demonstrate the use of additive manufacturing with thermoplastic material in the whole functional structure of spacecraft and to mechanically qualify it for space flight. For such purpose, an 8 ...
Chapter Risk Management to Enhance Performance in the Construction SME Sector; Theory and Case Study
(2018)
Dynamic changes and increasing competition in global markets have caused changes in the management of small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Due to this fact, many SME companies try to implement different methods for strategy ...
Chapter Raman Fiber Laser–Based Amplification in Telecommunications
(2018)
The chapter demonstrates a detailed study of Raman fiber laser (RFL)-based amplification techniques and their applications in long-haul/unrepeatered coherent transmission systems. RFL-based amplification techniques are ...
Chapter Production and Characterization of Starch Nanoparticles
(2018)
In recent years, the increasing interest in nanomaterials of natural origin has led to several studies in the area of nano-sized particles from natural polysaccharide polymers, such as cellulose, starch, and chitin. These ...
Chapter 3D Polarized Light Imaging Portrayed: Visualization of Fiber Architecture Derived from 3D-PLI
(2018)
3D polarized light imaging (3D-PLI) is a neuroimaging technique that has recently opened up new avenues to study the complex architecture of nerve fibers in postmortem brains at microscopic scales. In a specific voxel-based ...
Chapter High-Performance Computing: Dos and Don’ts
(2018)
Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is the main field of computational mechanics that has historically benefited from advances in high-performance computing. High-performance computing involves several techniques to make a ...
Chapter From Cellulose Dissolution and Regeneration to Added Value Applications — Synergism Between Molecular Understanding and Material Development
(2015)
Laser ablation (LA) and spark discharge (SD) techniques are commonly used for nanoparticle (NP) formation. The produced NPs have found numerous applications in such areas as electronics, biomedicine, textile production, ...
Chapter Schistosomiasis: Setting Routes for Drug Discovery
(2016)
Air quality sampling campaigns in three European subway systems (Barcelona, Athens and Oporto) were conducted in order to characterise particulate matter (PM) to better understand the main factors controlling it. PM mass ...
Chapter Advanced Microfluidic Assays for Caenorhabditis elegans
(2016)
Gait function can be altered after incomplete spinal cord (iSCI) lesions. Muscular weakness, co‐activation of antagonist muscles, and altered muscle mechanics are likely to provoke abnormal gait and postural movements. ...
Chapter Ultra-Thin Plasma-Polymerized Functional Coatings for Biosensing: Polyacrylic Acid, Polystyrene and Their Co-Polymer
(2016)
The photocatalytic properties of titanium dioxide have been widely studied over recent decades since the discovery of water photolysis by TiO2 electrodes in 1972. Titanium dioxide has three main crystal polymorphs; anatase, ...
Chapter Wage Concentration in Spain: A Spatial Analysis
(2016)
This chapter overviews different approaches for the synthesis of nanostructured materials based on alternative methodologies to the most conventional and widespread colloidal wet chemical route and with a great potential ...
Chapter Lake La Salada de Chiprana (NE Spain), an Example of an Athalassic Salt Lake in a Cultural Landscape
(2016)
On a global scale, athalassic inland salt lakes are abundant, albeit restricted to semiarid and arid climates. La Salada de Chiprana is unique in Western Europe, because it is a permanent and relatively deep (up to 5.6 m) ...
Chapter Emerging Techniques for Assessment of Sensorimotor Impairments after Spinal Cord Injury
(2016)
Mechanical properties of the plantar soft tissue, which acts as the interface between the skeleton and the ground, play an important role in distributing the force underneath the foot and in influencing the load transfer ...
Chapter Urban Gardening: From Cost Avoidance to Profit Making — Example from Ljubljana, Slovenia
(2016)
Non-thermal plasma technology is one of those techniques that suffer relatively little from diffusion limits, slow kinetics, and complex geometries compared to more traditional liquid-based chemical surface modification ...