Many books on sustainability have been written in the last decade, most of them dealing with agricultural systems, communities, and general business practices. In contrast, Handbook of Sustainability for the Food Sciences presents the concept of sustainability as it applies to the food supply chain from farm to fork but with a special...

The field of structured P2P systems has seen fast growth upon the introduction of Distributed Hash Tables (DHTs) in the early 2000s. The first proposals, including Chord, Pastry, Tapestry, were gradually improved to cope with scalability, locality and security issues. By utilizing the processing and bandwidth resources  of end users, the...

As a new interdisciplinary research area, “image-based geometric modeling and mesh generation” integrates image processing, geometric modeling and mesh generation with finite element method (FEM) to solve problems in computational biomedicine, materials sciences and engineering. It is well known that FEM is currently...

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Big data has become big business, and companies and organizations of all sizes are struggling to find ways to retrieve valuable information from their massive data sets with becoming overwhelmed. Enter Hadoop and this...

Remote Sensing provides information on how remote sensing relates to the natural resources inventory, management, and monitoring, as well as environmental concerns. It explains the role of this new technology in current global challenges. "Remote Sensing" will discuss remotely sensed data application payloads and...

• Create and animate beautiful 3D graphics directly in the browser using JavaScript without the need to...

• Use of other materials than polymer, especially materials required in processing
• Use of various process parameters and their severity in degradation of components of formulation
• Recycling of...

Understanding and analysing the complex phenomena related to elastic wave propagation has been the subject of intense research for many years and has enabled application in numerous fields of technology, including structural health monitoring (SHM). In the course of the rapid advancement of diagnostic methods utilising elastic wave...

Harvard Business Review calls it the sexiest tech job of the 21st century. Data scientists are in demand, and this unique book shows you exactly what employers want and the skill set that separates the quality data scientist from other talented IT...

• Learn how to build scalable, maintainable, modular applications with Flight, Twitter’s cutting-edge JavaScript framework
• Work through building a simple application from scratch with clear,...

• Understand, in detail, the Pattern matching theory, and cypher optimization
• Use Neo4j models combined with the power of Cypher to sketch and start working quickly
• A fast-paced,...

• Quickly set up Apache Kafka clusters and start writing message producers and consumers
• Write custom producers and consumers with message partition techniques
• Integrate...