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Report copyright infringementby R. Navanietha Krishnaraj (Editor), Jong-Sung Yu (Editor)Energy is one of the prime needs of the modern world, and energy demands have been rapidly increasing in the recent years owing to rapid advancements in industrialization and population explosion. Conventional fossil fuels are being depleted at rapid rates, and the use of conventional sources such as coal or nuclear sources cause several hazards to the environment. New sources of fuel, such as bioenergy, a...

Environmentally Sustainable Viticulture: Practices and Practicality

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Report copyright infringementby Chris Gerling (Editor)This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.As climate change becomes a growing reality, more industries must grapple with how to implement sustainable business practices at every step of the production process. This is especially true for viticulture, where every step of production can take years to come to fruition, and any decision made must take into account the future. This valuable volume serves as an introduction to some of...

Applied Food Science and Engineering with Industrial Applications

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Report copyright infringementby Cristóbal Noé Aguilar (Editor), Elizabeth Carvajal-Millan (Editor)Applied Food Science and Engineering with Industrial Applications highlights the latest advances and research in the interdisciplinary field of food engineering, emphasizing food science as well as quality assurance. The volume provides detailed technical and scientific background of technologies and their potential applications in food preservation. The volume's broad perspective reflects the ex...

Wastewater Reuse and Watershed Management: Engineering Implications for Agriculture, Industry, and the Environment

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Report copyright infringementby Ajai Singh (Editor)Water is a finite resource, and the demand for clean water is constantly growing. Clean freshwater is needed to meet irrigation demands for agriculture, for consumption, and for industrial uses. The world produces billions of tons of wastewater every year. This volume looks at a multitude of ways to capture, treat, and reuse wastewater and how to effectively manage watersheds. It presents a selection of new technologies and methods to recycle...

Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Systems in Crop Production: A Compendium

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Report copyright infringementby K. R. Krishna (Author)This volume responds to the growing interest in adopting aerial robots (UAVs, or drones) for agricultural crop production, which are revolutionizing farming methods worldwide. The book provides a detailed review of 250 UAVs that examines their usefulness in enhancing profitability, yield, and quality of crop production. Recent trends indicate an increase in agricultural drone production and use. Millions of dollars have been invested in st...

Sugarcane as Biofuel Feedstock: Advances Toward a Sustainable Energy Solution

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Report copyright infringementby Barnabas Gikonyo (Editor)This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.As the world's energy hunger grows ever larger, fossil fuel reserves are diminishing-and concerns about climate change remind us that our love affair with fossil fuels cannot continue much longer. This has inspired intense research into sustainable energy sources. Biofuels seemed initially promising, but the world soon realized that food-based biofuel has its own dangers. Second-gener...

Emerging Technologies in Agricultural Engineering

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Report copyright infringementby Megh R. Goyal (Editor)This book covers an array of issues on emerging agricultural engineering and technology, featuring new research and studies. The volume is broken into three parts: emerging technologies, energy management in agriculture, and management of natural resources, in which particular attention is paid to water management, a necessary consideration for successful crop production, especially in water-scarce regions. Topics include: alleviating dra...

Urban Forests: Ecosystem Services and Management

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Report copyright infringementby J. Blum (Editor)This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. This new research compendium focuses on urban forestry research and management, while also considering the sociological and community aspects. The book looks at the benefits of urban forests with respect to urban sustainability and human health; issues related to expanding the urban tree canopy; managing urban forests in a community context; and improving our understanding of urban forests th...

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Report copyright infringementby Royden Loewen (Author)A comparative global history of Mennonites from the ground up.Winner of the Dale W. Brown Book Award for Outstanding Scholarship in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Shortlisted for the Wallace K. Ferguson Prize by the Canadian Historical Association, Nominee of the Margaret McWilliams Award by the Manitoba Historical SocietyMennonite farmers can be found in dozens of countries spanning five continents. In this comparative world-scale enviro...

Freshwater Aquarium Planner & Logbook: A Little Planner to Help You Maintain Your Freshwater Aquarium

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Report copyright infringementby Walter James (Author)Your go-to planner and logbook for maintaining a beautiful and healthy freshwater aquarium. Little compares to admiring your own aquarium: the tranquility, the fun and exciting inhabitants, the beauty of nature. It's incredible that we can all own a little slice of wonder like this in our homes. Aquariums do require some maintenance work, however. When did I last do a water change? Did I already do a water test this week, or was that last m...

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Basics of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Time to start working on Drone Technology

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Report copyright infringementby Garvit Pandya (Author)Hey, we all must have noticed a drone flying at an event or maybe some other application. ●Have you ever thought about how a Drone flies? ● What are all the types and sizes of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles?●What are all the parts and applications of a Drone?Are you interested in getting knowledge of the above questions and more related to them? Get Ready!After reading this book, the next time you see a Drone you will see it from a whole differe...

The Art of War (Sun Tzu): Annotated edition

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Report copyright infringementby Lionel Giles (Translator), Sun Tzu (Author)The Art of War is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the Late Spring and Autumn Period (roughly 5th century BC). The work, which is attributed to the ancient Chinese military strategist Sun Tzu ("Master Sun", also spelled Sunzi), is composed of 13 chapters. Each one is devoted to an aspect of warfare and how it applies to military strategy and tactics. For almost 1,500 years it was the lead text in an ant...

Transforming Power Development Planning in the Greater Mekong Subregion: A Strategic and Integrated Approach

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Report copyright infringementby Asian Development Bank (Author)This publication provides guidance on how governments and utilities in the Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS) can develop sustainable power development plans based on current international best practices.It outlines how the integration of strategic environmental assessments to an integrated resource planning approach can enable power development plans to explore or better manage renewable energy sources efficiently. It also discusses ...

Waste to Energy in the Age of the Circular Economy: Compendium of Case Studies and Emerging Technologies

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Report copyright infringementby Asian Development Bank (Author)This compendium features 18 projects that demonstrate the use of waste-to-energy technologies in the municipal, agricultural, and industrial sectors.Lessons learned from these projects are discussed and provide insights on the challenges and opportunities of waste-to-energy projects. The compendium also provides an overview of specific technologies, including an assessment of their commercial maturity. The compendium complements t...

Apple Pencil 1 and 2 User Guide: A Quick, Easy, And Step By Step Instructional Manual On Apple Pencil First And Second Generations, With Tips And Tric

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Report copyright infringementby Harry K. Woods (Author)Apple introduced the first iPad pro in 2015 with an optional pen called the apple pencil. The apple pencil has been around since 2015 and is compatible with the entire current range of apple iPad to date.In order to take advantage of everything you can do with the apple pencil, you need to know how to use some of the fun little extras. Here's our complete guide to apple pencil, whether you're an artist, note maker, or professional graphic...

Design-Centered Introduction to Aerospace Engineering

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Report copyright infringementby Narayanan M. Komerath (Author)This book is the product of a course that was developed to meet a horrifying requirement: introduce Aerospace Engineering a.k.a. Rocket Science to students who are fresh out of high school. Assume no background in Calculus, Graphics, Computing, or College Physics or Chemistry. Well, the Wright Brothers did not have A.E. degrees either, and they flew just fine, in a craft that still amazes designers. Several senior students taking A...

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Report copyright infringementby Ken Parsons (Author)This book provides an up-to-date, accessible, and comprehensive coverage of human cold stress from principles and theory to practical application.It defines cold stress and how people respond to it. It describes how to assess a cold environment to predict when discomfort, wind-chill, hypothermia, shivering, frostbite, and other consequences will occur. It also advises on what to do to prevent unacceptable outcomes, including determination an...

Science and Technology of Organic Farming

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Report copyright infringementby Allen V. Barker (Author)Organic farming is not only a philosophy; it is also a well-researched science. The second edition of The Science and Technology of Organic Farming presents the scientific basis of organic farming and the methods of application needed to achieve adequate yields through plant nutrition and protection.Organic farming is a scientifically derived method of improving soil fertility to increase agricultural yields with limited chemical inputs....

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Report copyright infringementby Thomas Hockey (Author), Jennifer Lynn Bartlett (Author), Daniel C. Boice (Author)Combining the latest astronomical results with a historical perspective, Solar System: Between Fire and Ice takes you on a fabulous tour of our intriguing Solar System. Not content with a conventional discourse restricted to the major and minor bodies, astronomers Hockey, Bartlett, and Boice venture beyond the limits of our system to look at exoplanets and to consider future trends...

Large Print Camping Word Searches: 100 Find-a-Word Puzzles about the Great Outdoors

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Report copyright infringementby Marietta Daws (Author)Large Print Camping Word Searches is filled with fun words to find by the campfire!Find-a-Word puzzle topics include: ✓Recreational vehicles✓Building a fire✓Hiking✓Mountain biking✓Bear canisters✓Birdwatching✓Trail mix✓Fastpacking✓Yurts . . . and many more, including the wildlife and plants we encounter in the great outdoors.Buy your copy now! Number of Pages: 128 Dimensions: 0.27 x 11 x 8.5 IN Publica...

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Report copyright infringementby M W Kellogg Company (Author)This title made available for the first time an adequately organized, comprehensive analytical method for evaluating the stresses, reactions and deflections in an irregular piping system in space, unlimited as to the character, location or number of concentrated loadings or restraints. Profusely illustrated and meticulously detailed.This title made available for the first time an adequately organized, comprehensive analytical method...

Re-Use Your CAD: The Model-Based CAD Handbook

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Report copyright infringementby Jennifer Herron (Author), J. B. Herron (Author)This latest edition describes why MBD is important to your organization. The discussions around tools, processes, standards, and most importantly, the people who use MBD are updated to match current industry practice. MBD is the foundation for Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE), Industry 4.0, and creating digital twins. ◦ The first edition of the book considered how CAD jockeys designed products and did not inc...

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Report copyright infringementby Colin Flint (Author)This new updated edition presents the overarching themes of geopolitical structures and agents in an engaging and accessible manner, which requires no previous knowledge of theory or current affairs. It helps readers understand the geopolitical implications of COVID-19, China's pronounced role in the world, the relative decline of the US, and the Black Lives Matter movement. Using new pertinent case studies and guided exercises, the title ex...

Audio Amplifiers with Tube Preamp: Building Simple Circuits Yourself

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Report copyright infringementby Klaus Röbenack (Author)Amplifiers equipped entirely with tubes require a great deal of circuitry and mechanical effort. A conceptually and technically interesting compromise is the combination of a tube preamplifier with a transistorized or integrated power amplifier. This approach, which has also been implemented in quite a few commercial devices, is the focus of this book. The described tube preamplifiers can of course easily be combined with other amplifiers...

CNC Fanuc Turning Cycles: Description of the Parameters and Programming Examples

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Report copyright infringementby Lorenzo Rausa (Author)The purpose of this book is to explain the Fanuc turning canned cycles through a new didactic concept. In different manuals it is easy to find contrasting descriptions regarding the Fanuc turning canned cycles. Some manuals present the G74 function as an axial drilling cycle and others present it as a grooving cycle along the Z-axis. The G75 function is also described in some texts as a radial grooving cycle, while in others it is defined ...

Jardinería en camas elevadas: La jardinería de patio: Guía para un huerto ecológico y la mejor manera de cultivar hierbas, árboles frutales y flores e

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Report copyright infringementby Dion Rosser (Author)Si quiere una forma fácil de obtener una cosecha abundante aprovechando al máximo su espacio, siga leyendo... Se ha preguntado alguna vez si hay una forma mejor de hacer jardinería? Desea que le resulte mucho más fácil plantar los cultivos que le gustan? Quiere saber cómo deshacerse de las molestas plagas? Quiere vencer a los elementos y darle a sus plantas la oportunidad de producir un máximo y saludable rendimiento?Este libro le mostrará m...

Criar cerdos: La guía imprescindible para criar cerdos en su granja: La guía imprescindible para criar cerdos en su granja

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Report copyright infringementby Dion Rosser (Author) Siempre quiso criar cerdos, pero no sabía por dónde empezar? Quiere saber cómo convertir su granja de cerdos en un negocio rentable? No busque más! Tanto si está a punto de comprar su primer cerdo, como si ya tiene una granja porcina, esta guía es imprescindible. Aprenda por qué la cría de cerdos es más que producir carne. Descubra los distintos tipos de cerdos y qué cerdo se adapta mejor a sus necesidades. Cómo construir un alojamiento y...

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Report copyright infringementby Andreas Veglis (Guest Editor), Dimitrios Giomelakis (Guest Editor)This Special Issue book focuses on the theory and practice of search engine optimization (SEO). It is intended for anyone who publishes content online and it includes five peer-reviewed papers from various researchers. More specifically, the book includes theoretical and case study contributions which review and synthesize important aspects, including, but not limited to, the following themes: th...

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Report copyright infringementby Antonio Gabaldón (Guest Editor), María Carmen Ruiz-Abellón (Guest Editor), Luis Alfredo Fernández-Jiménez (Guest Editor)Short-term load forecasting (STLF) plays a key role in the formulation of economic, reliable, and secure operating strategies (planning, scheduling, maintenance, and control processes, among others) for a power system and will be significant in the future. However, there is still much to do in these research areas. The deployment of enabling t...

Backyard Homesteading & Mini Farming: A Beginner's Guide to Growing Crops, Raising Chickens, Raising Goats, Beekeeping and Building Your Own Vegetable

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Report copyright infringementby Luke Smith (Author)Produce All the Food You Need and Become Self-Sufficient with Sustainable, Low-Effort and High-Yield Mini Farming and Homesteading TechniquesHave you ever considered growing your own crops and raising domestic animals for food and profit, but don't know where to start? Do you want to put an end to your dependence on pesticide-packed, hormone-enhanced, and genetically modified produce?If yes, then keep reading...In this bundle, you're going to...

CNC Basic Programming Course: For lathes and milling machines, with free graphic simulation software

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Report copyright infringementby Lorenzo Rausa (Author)This course is aimed at high school students and anyone who is approaching the world of machine tool programming for the first time. Teachers and professionals may explore more complex topics in the advanced course proposed in the book "CNC - 50 Hour Programming Course". The text includes all the basic programming concepts and explains the "G-code" ISO standard functions, i.e. the programming language at the basis of all numerical controls...