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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 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, including urban pressure on agricultural land, the economic viability of farms, and environmental pollution, among other concerns.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 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 over time under the effect of processes that modify the structure of the material - sometimes slowly but irreversibly. Users must therefore consider the maximum period of use during which these materials retain acceptable levels of properties. This question is even more crucial as it responds to societal demands related to limiting end-of-life waste flows and preserving the resources needed to produce them. To address these challenges, Aging of Industrial Polymers 2 provides designers with tools to analyze the mechanisms of material degradation under given conditions of use, develop models to predict the rate of degradation, and understand the effect of phenomena occurring at the molecular level on the macroscopic properties of the material.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In the space of fifteen years, smartphones have replaced many technical devices, making digital uses more mobile and autonomous. Connected Mobilities presents an interdisciplinary approach to exploring the continuities and discontinuities between past and present uses of mobile applications in the era of permanent connectivity. This book examines the socio-technical effects of these digital devices on social interactions, collective imaginaries, and modes of communication in public spaces now saturated with screens, interfaces and mobile devices. It also examines their impact on our consumption choices, on the accessibility and discoverability of diverse cultural expressions online, and on power relations in increasingly digitized environments. In order to shed light on the complex links between technological innovations, mobile connectivity and development, the book analyzes the opportunities and risks associated with the widespread, even pervasive, dissemination and adoption of these technologies. Based on surveys conducted in a variety of fields, the book questions how mobile applications can promote or hinder societal change and behavioral transformation in a context marked by persistent digital inequalities. It thus provides key insights in understanding the technological and societal changes underway in our hyperconnected era. It is essential reading for taking a step back and looking ahead to the issues and challenges of the future, in a world where the boundary between digital life and real life is becoming increasingly blurred.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Current healthcare challenges are driving organizations in the sector - and their stakeholders - to reinvent themselves and envisage a future that breaks away from established practices. Various crises, changes in the population requiring care, economic and social difficulties, and the restructuring of healthcare teams make one thing clear: it is no longer possible to repeat the past. Social Innovation Through Design in Healthcare 2 offers one way to respond to these challenges. This volume provides a cross-analysis of academic work and feedback from professionals involved in concrete projects carried out in hospital and medico-social settings. Through studies and testimonials from authors with varied backgrounds, it offers a structured reflection on the opportunities and challenges associated with integrating design methodologies into the organization of care and the management of institutions. It thus outlines a future for healthcare based on more inclusive, effective and sustainable models.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Artificial intelligence (AI) technologies play a transformative role in several areas of knowledge, including management and engineering. Their adoption has been driven by the advancement of machine learning algorithms, increased computing power, and the availability of large volumes of data, making AI technologies indispensable for process optimization and strategic decision-making. However, organizations must invest in research, development and professional training to ensure AI is used ethically and sustainably to drive progress.

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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - In today's healthcare landscape, the reliability and availability of biomedical equipment are crucial for delivering safe and effective patient care. Dialysis machines, in particular, demand consistent performance, as equipment failure can directly impact patient survival. This book bridges the gap between engineering and healthcare by presenting advanced maintenance strategies that move beyond traditional corrective and preventive approaches toward predictive, data-driven methods. Combining reliability theory, probabilistic modeling and statistical tools such as Weibull analysis, Fault Tree Analysis and Bayesian Networks, Optimizing Predictive Maintenance of Biomedical Equipment demonstrates how failure histories and real-time monitoring can guide proactive maintenance decisions. It provides practical guidance for optimizing equipment reliability and availability, while reducing downtime and resource waste. Designed for engineers, healthcare professionals and decision-makers, this book emphasizes step-by-step implementation of predictive maintenance frameworks in real-world clinical environments. By integrating technical rigor with patient-centered outcomes, this work highlights how strategic maintenance not only enhances equipment performance, but ultimately safeguards human lives.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - At the heart of technological revolutions, Industry 4.0, Industry 5.0, and Society 5.0 are redefining our relationship with production, innovation and human progress. This book takes an in-depth look at the changes transforming industries, driven by the Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence (AI), 6G networks, cyber-physical systems, and emerging technologies such as digital twins and edge computing. It presents clear analyses, case studies and technical diagrams to help readers understand how these innovations are promoting smarter, more sustainable and increasingly human-centered industrial environments. Innovation and IoT offers a balanced vision that combines scientific rigor with accessibility. More than just a technical guide, this book is an invitation to imagine and build a future where technology becomes an avenue for collective progress, serving more responsible industries and a more inclusive society.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Responding to the growing demand for rigorous modeling frameworks capable of addressing complex technological challenges across disciplines, this book offers a coherent panorama of contemporary methodologies. These span lossless image compression algorithms, electrical impedance tomography and extragradient methods for variational inequalities in Banach spaces. It further examines multiphysics modeling in environmental engineering, grid-supported magnetic levitation systems and the optimization of water transport in porous media for sustainable irrigation. Foundational stochastic tools - such as gamma processes and hidden Markov models for reliability and maintenance planning - are integrated with theoretical advances, including matrix polynomials on noncommutative sets.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The development of digital technologies is often presented as a response to the current challenges facing agriculture, promising both a better future for farmers and benefits for society as a whole. Digital agriculture would finally solve the equation of feeding the population and respecting the environment. As such, it mobilizes significant public and private resources. However, its effects are the subject of heated controversy. Ecologization and Digitalization of Agriculture analyzes how digital technology fits into and influences the various ecological trajectories of agriculture. It explores the representations, uses and transformations of practices that its deployment engenders. The book shows that current digitalization often conflicts with the strong ecologization of agriculture, in terms of techniques, objectives, reasoning, time frames, or political and social issues. However, forms of hybridization appear possible, as models of industrial ecologization or as part of a more global transformation of digitalization, rethinking its technical, economic and political models.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 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 computational intelligence, this book provides a comprehensive context for understanding the growing role of AI in diagnosis, treatment and decision-making within neurology and broader medical domains. The book systematically examines core AI techniques, including machine learning (ML), deep learning (DL) and intelligent optimization, and demonstrates their practical deployment across neurological disorders, medical imaging, predictive analytics and personalized care. Emphasis is placed on real-world clinical workflows, data acquisition and preprocessing, model interpretability and performance evaluation. In addition, we also address ethical considerations, regulatory challenges and data security issues critical to healthcare adoption. By combining theoretical foundations with applied case studies and future research directions, this book serves as a valuable resource for researchers, clinicians, graduate students and industry professionals seeking to leverage AI-driven innovations to improve patient outcomes and advance next-generation healthcare systems.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 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 solutions. The book contextualizes recent advances in machine learning, deep learning, computer vision and intelligent decision-support systems within modern physiotherapy and oncology practices. This book systematically explores how AI models enhance diagnosis, treatment planning, therapy optimization and outcome prediction across musculoskeletal rehabilitation, neuro-physiotherapy, radiation oncology and precision cancer care. It covers sensor-based motion analysis, AI-assisted imaging, predictive analytics, digital therapeutics and intelligent rehabilitation platforms, supported by real-world case studies and implementation frameworks. The book also discusses ethical considerations, clinical validation, interoperability and regulatory challenges to bridge the gap between research and practice. Designed for researchers, clinicians, graduate students and healthcare technologists, this book provides both theoretical foundations and practical insights for integrating AI into next-generation physiotherapy and oncology workflows.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 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 associated with wastewater and sludge treatment. Wastewater Engineering and Treatment 1 covers the microbiology and ecology of wastewater treatment, reaction kinetics and reactor hydraulics, pretreatment, primary settling, the transformation and degradation of organic and inorganic matter, and aeration. Didactic and combining theory with practice, this book is intended for engineers in engineering and environmental sciences, as well as professionals in wastewater treatment.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 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.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 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 territorial governance, social interactions and cultural practices. It is transforming knowledge and contributing to the emergence of new professions.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 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 associated with wastewater and sludge treatment.