Author: Morena J. Acosta

This latest volume includes contributions on the latest advances in energy research. Chapter One discusses stability assessment using direct methods. Chapter Two focuses on the geopolitical implicati …

This latest volume includes contributions on the latest advances in energy research. Chapter One discusses heat transfer in micro-ducts. Chapter Two addresses the description and analysis of volume h …

In this book, Chapter One reviews the environmental impact -on human health, natural systems and natural resources- in physical units and outlined the limitations and the challenges that are derived …

In Chapter One, Zahra Sayyar, Navideh Anarjan, Hoda Jafarizadeh Malmiri, and Aydin Berenjian discuss nanoemulsions and their low-energy and high-energy production methods. They also examine modern te …

In this compilation, the authors develop a modeling approach and formulate global equations. The data is based on the thermos-economic theory that uses the thermodynamic process of cost formation and …

In this compilation, the authors first present a study in which computational design is performed, using empirical data, to fit physical models to extract transport and material parameters (which are …

This book presents a comprehensive review of nuclear energy safety; public policies for renewable energy support and deployment of renewable energy technologies; microalgae as a source of biofuel; tr …

This book presents a comprehensive review of energy security in sustainability; hydroelectric power plants v. nature in the Czech Republic; the role of crop residues and second generation energy crop …

This book presents a comprehensive review of energy research studies from authors across the globe, including recent research in the development of green energy saving mechanisms; seasonal thermal en …

This new book presents a comprehensive review of renewable energy sources, the environment and sustainable development. This includes all the renewable energy technologies, materials and their develo …

This book presents a comprehensive review of energy storage systems; oil shale extraction and applications; properties and sources of diesel fuels; and the rational use of renewable energy on Earth. …

This new book presents a comprehensive review of energy research studies from authors across the globe, including exhaust gases from internal combustion engines and gas turbines that burn both fossil …

This book presents a comprehensive review of energy research studies from authors across the globe, including recent research in renewable energy, emerging energy technologies and sustainable develop …

This book presents a comprehensive review of energy research studies from authors across the globe, including recent research in solar ground radiation in greenhouses; the energy outlook in Malaysia; …

This book presents a comprehensive review of energy research studies from authors across the globe, including recent research in direct expansion ground source heat pumps for better heating and cooli …

This book presents a comprehensive review of energy research studies from authors around the globe, including recent research in building energy, the applications of biogas; ground-source heat pump t …

This book presents a comprehensive review of the renewable energy technologies environment and sustainable development; earth temperatures, heat pumps and systems design; the energy crisis and the ro …

This book presents a comprehensive review of energy research studies from authors around the globe, including recent research in determining potential energy and environmental impacts; sustainable de …

This book presents a comprehensive review of energy research studies from authors around the globe, including recent research in new technologies associated with the construction of nuclear power pla …

This book presents a comprehensive review of energy research studies from authors around the globe, including recent research in energy use and its environmental impact; energy use in industry, build …

This book presents a comprehensive review of energy research studies from authors around the globe, including recent research in energy efficient appliances and energy efficient behaviors; renewable …

This book presents a comprehensive review of energy research studies from authors around the globe, including recent research in energy, environmental protection from thermodynamic properties, the pe …

This book presents a comprehensive review of energy research studies from authors around the globe, including strategic interactions during oil exploration in the gulf of Mexico; ownership and region …

This book highlights recent advances in energy research. The chapters included in this volume include research on nuclear power reactors, specifically small modular reactors (SMRs) for electricity ge …

This latest volume includes contributions on the latest advances in energy research. Chapters include research on a Multi Agent System (MAS) design for fault location, isolation and service restorati …

This latest volume includes contributions on the latest advances in energy research. Chapters include an overview of the production and recovery advancements of coal bed methane (CBM) reservoirs; an …

This latest volume includes contributions on the latest advances in energy research. Chapter One introduces photovoltaic-green (PV-green) roofing systems according to three different approaches: crit …

In the past, fossil fuels have been considered a reliable source of energy by many countries. Despite the current measures to reduce the use of fossil fuels for electricity generation, the use of thi …

In this book, the authors discuss new developments in global warming research. Topics discussed in this compilation include the impact of climate change on food security and health in Northern Camero …

Amoxicillin represents the lead substance of the aminopenicillin group of beta-lactames, which is characterized by a broader antibacterial spectrum and acid-stability compared to penicillin G. In thi …

Clinical Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is distinguished from "normal" obsessions and compulsions primarily by the frequency and intensity of the symptoms, and the extent to which they …

Alpha-synuclein is a synuclein protein of unknown function primarily found in neural tissue, making up as much as 1% of all proteins in the cytosol. It is predominantly expressed in the neocortex, hi …

South Africa is a multi-racial, majority black southern African country of nearly 52 million. It held its first universal suffrage elections in 1994, after a transition from white minority rule under …

The Indian Health Service (IHS) is an agency in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) that provides health care to American Indians and Alaska Natives. When care at an IHS-funded facility …

High rates of dental disease remain prevalent across the nation, especially in vulnerable and under-served populations. According to national surveys, 42 percent of adults with tooth or mouth problem …

Global demand for and consumption of olive oil has increased significantly since the 1990s. While the United States and other "New World" players, such as Australia, Argentina, and Chile, h …

This book examines select elements, issues and analyses relating to international energy partnerships. Topics discussed include the proposed U.S.-Mexico Transboundary Hydrocarbons Agreement which mar …

Scientific studies have shown that because children’s bodies are still developing, they can be more vulnerable than adults to certain environmental hazards, including air pollutants, pesticide residu …

Policymakers at all levels of government are debating a wide range of options for addressing the nation’s faltering economic conditions. One option that is once again receiving attention is accelerat …

Trade barriers elude fixed definitions, but may be broadly defined as government laws, regulations, policies, or practices that either protect domestic goods and services from foreign competition, ar …

This book examines the competitiveness of Mexican and Canadian ports with U.S. West Coast ports; discusses the history and the theories of cargo diversion and of the Harbor Maintenance Tax (HMT); rev …

This book presents state-of-the-art research on bioremediation, which is understood as a discipline that uses organisms or their products to reduce or eliminate the adverse effects of pollutants in t …

Chronic kidney disease is a non-communicable disease that has experienced a global surge in incidence and prevalence over the past few decades, and it has been increasingly considered a major contrib …

Mental health is "a state of well-being in which the individual realizes his or her own abilities; can cope with the normal stresses of life; can work productively and fruitfully; and is able to …

Short bowel syndrome (SBS) is defined as intestinal failure following a loss of intestinal length which causes marked maldigestion and malabsorption of dietary nutrients and induces major fecal issue …

Since Herschel discovered light in the near-infrared region as early as 1800. The NIR region of the electromagnetic spectrum, once regarded as having little potential for analytical work, has now bec …

There has been an exponential increase in the amount of research on the relationship between Omega-3 fatty acids and human health over the past two decades. This book focuses on developing informatio …

A rare disease is any disease that affects a small percentage of the population. Rare diseases can vary in prevalence between populations, so a disease that is rare in some populations may be common …

In this book, the authors present current research from across the globe in the study of protein synthesis. Topics discussed in this compilation include protein synthesis elongation factors EF-Tu and …

In this book, the authors present current research in the study of physical therapy applications. Topics discussed include PPARs and their role in the molecular network and disease; assessment and in …

It is globally agreed that suicide is a preventable and unnecessary death. Suicide is often referred to as a public health concern, but for prevention purposes, it is classified under mental health. …

This book examines the rise and consolidation of feminist insights into contemporary social theory. The book begins by providing an historical backdrop that led to the emergence of women’s experience …

This book examines the concept of power. It begins by pointing to its multi-dimensional definition and points to different sociological interpretations of its conception and social practice. The book …

Health, care and welfare have emerged as key vehicles used to legitimize and position the identities that older people adopt in contemporary modernity. Both contain continually changing technologies …

As we enter 2014, an accelerating interest in abuse has arisen due to the implementation of community care policies relying upon informal care and a relentless political campaign to legitimize an enf …

Advances in Energy Research. Volume 33 begins with a focus on gas hydrates, also known as methane hydrates, which are formed due to high hydraulic pressures present under the cold seabed over long pe …

This compilation first describes a system wherein a high-nuclear high-temperature reactor supplies constant power to a thermal energy storage unit of molten lithium chloride salt, which provides the …

This book opens with a comprehensive review of technologies for the reutilisation of waste cryogenic energy from the liquefied natural gas regasification process at terminals and on marine vessels. T …

This volume includes six chapters that detail recent advancements in energy research. Chapter One describes a method for optimizing the efficiency of energy storage systems in applications like elect …

This book includes eight chapters, each of which details recent advances in energy research. Chapter One examines wave power absorption using wave energy converters. Chapter Two discusses various syn …

This volume contains a selection of six chapters which review current advances in energy research, covering a wide variety of topics within that category. Chapter One analyzes the carbon footprint of …

This book explores the latest developments in energy research. …

This volume contains six chapters that detail recent advances in energy research. Chapter One addresses devices designed for both sunlight and artificial illumination as well as the emerging bifacial …

This book contains eight chapters that detail advances in energy research. Chapter One focuses on the utilization of Lead Zirconate Titanate (PZT) ceramics and PU/PZT composites for energy harvesting …

This book contains six chapters that detail advances in energy research. Chapter one provides recent developments in Pnictogen semimetal (Sb, Bi)-based selenides, as well as various two-dimensional ( …