This comprehensive handbook provides a simplified, practical and innovative approach to understanding the design and manufacture of plastic products. It will expand the reader's understanding of plastics technology by defining and focusing on past, curren

Plastics Technology Handbook

Engineering & Transportation

Rosato, Don

Engineering

Momentum Pr

This comprehensive handbook provides a simplified, practical and innovative approach to understanding the design and manufacture of plastic products. It will expand the reader's understanding of plastics technology by defining and focusing on past, curren

Chemical sensors are integral to the automation of myriad industrial processes, as well as everyday monitoring of such activities as public safety, engine performance, medical therapeutics, and many more. This massive reference work will cover all major categories of chemical sensor materials and devices, and their general functional usage from monitoring and analyzing gases, to analyzing liquids and compounds of all kinds. This is THE reference work on sensors used for chemical detection and analysis. In this final volume of the Chemical Sensors will be found the latest in new chemical sensor applications including remote chemical sensing for such applications as atmosphere monitoring , new uses for electronic nosesA" and tongues,A" wireless chemical sensors, and new future directions for chemical sensors in industry, agriculture, and transportation.

Chemical Sensors: Comprehensive Sensor Technologies: Chemical Sensors Applications

Over the last fifty years, almost none of the productivity gains in manufacturing have come from better chemistry or better design, or even better management and financial controls. Rather, those gains have come from better automation and control of the processes: continuous, batch, hybrid , and discrete. The secret to making manufacturing sustainable is better control. So, why aren't the theories that have led to enormous gains in productivity being used above the plant level? This book explains both why not and how better controls can be applied to the supply chain, and to enterprise financial management. This book provides engineering and technology managers the insight and tools for achieving a fully integrated automated manufacturing enterprise, from the technical and engineering side to the business management side. It is particularly helpful to readers seeking to bring the non-technical parts of a manufacturing operation - customer service, cost and financial management - in line with the already-automated production, inventory management, and plant management. The reader will learn: how to use the principles of real-time process control to manage and measure your manufacturing business more effectively; how to achieve much greater speed of information transfer for improved control over supply chain and distribution; and how totally integrated inventory control, automated manufacturing, automated customer service, and smart pricing control - and ultimately lead to higher profits.

Real-Time Control of the Industrial Enterprise

Martin, Peter

Boyes, Walter

Aerospace Navigation Systems

Aerospace craft are the only vehicles having motion in 3D space with intensive dynamics, making it necessary to control such vehicles in 6D motion (linear and angular). Navigating with these spatial constraints, in all kinds of weather and environments requires complex and highly reliable controls and systems. This new book explains the latest in electronic navigation for aerospace vehicles, including the latest in use of satellite communications and GPS navigation. It offers a particular focus on different kinds of radio-navigation and guidance systems for aeronautical and space vehicles that may be used for motion control, together with other aerospace sensors (described in the MP book Aerospace Sensors). Aerospace engineers in both design and research will find this book to be an invaluable, comprehensive introduction to the very latest technologies in motion control for all types of aerospace vehicles, from aircraft, to unmanned aerospace vehicles, to missiles, and to spacecraft. Highlights include coverage of: Radio Systems for Long-Range Navigation and Short-Range navigation; Radio-based Technical Landing systems; Satellite Navigation; Systems Map-matching systems; Correlated-external; Systems and Sensors Homing Devices; and Inertial Navigation Systems, using gyroscope and accelerometer integration.

Watson, Joe

Nebylov, Alexander

Chitosan, a natural based polymer obtained by alkaline deacetylation of chitin, is non-toxic, biocompatible, and biodegradable. These properties make chitosan a good candidate for the development of conventional and novel drug delivery systems. Recently, there has been a growing interest in the chemical modification of chitosan in order to improve its solubility and widen its applications. Chemical modification of chitosan is useful for the association of bioactive molecules to the polymer and controlling the drug release profile. Chemical modification will introduce desired properties and enlarge the field of the potential applications of chitosan with the choice of various types of side chains.  In this monograph, recent studies on the various types of chitosan microspheres are discussed from the viewpoint of drug delivery applications. Moreover, different types of chitosan derivatives developed as controlled drug delivery carriers and their preparation methods are discussed in detail. The modifications discussed here include amphiphilic chitosan derivatives, N-(aminoalkyl) chitosan, carboxymethyl chitosan, thiolated chitosans, phosphorylated chitosan, etc. Special emphasis has been given to the development of chitosan-based polyelectrolyte complexes, graft copolymerized chitosan and chitosan-based stimuli-responsive hydrogels as drug delivery carriers. The reviewed studies lead to the conclusion that chitosan derivatives are promising materials for the controlled delivery of various types of therapeutic agents.

Chitosan and Its Derivatives as Promising Drug Delivery Carriers (Biomedical & Nanomedical Technologies - Concise Monograph Series)

Science & Math

Prabaharan, M

Biological Sciences

With the rapid advances in nanotechnology, telecommunication and information technologies, efficient and reliable telemedicine (also known as remote point of care or remote healthcare), is now coming into practice. This new monograph in the ASME-Momentum Press series on Biomedical & Nanomedical Technologies discusses the development and application of mobile wearable nano-bio health monitoring systems for telemedicine. It shows how nanomaterials-based biosensors are used to remotely measure physiological signals, such as electrocardiogram (ECG), electroencephalogram (EEG), electromyogram (EMG), and electrooculogram (EOG). Case studies and the technical challenges still ahead wrap up this informative introduction to a rapidly evolving field.

Mobile Wearable Nano-Bio Health Monitoring Systems with Smartphones as Base Stations (Biomedical & Nanomedical Technologies-concise Monograph Series)

Chen, LinFeng

Varandan, Vijay K.

Technology

The fullerene molecule with its unique structure of 60 carbon atoms arranged in a soccer ball structure is a molecule of great potential for a variety of applications and has drawn attention of lots of physicists, chemists and engineers. Recently, these nanostructures have also been studied for their biological activities with a view towards using them for biomedical applications. One of the possible therapies for which fullerenes may have a real medical application is the light based therapy called photodynamic therapy (PDT), which is a non-surgical, minimally invasive approach that has been used in the treatment of solid tumors and many non-malignant diseases.

Photodynamic Therapy Mediated by Fullerenes and Their Derivatives (Biomedical & Nanomedical Technologies - Concise Monograph)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Sperandio, Felipe F.

Gupta, Asheesh

王民

Chandran, Rakkiyappan

Sadasivam, Magesh

Psychology & Counseling

In this monograph, an accurate ultrasonic method for measurement of small motion and deformation of biological tissue is described. In the displacement estimation based on the phase change of echoes, the displacement estimates are biased when the center frequency of the RF echo changes. Such an apparent change in the center frequency could be caused by the interference of echoes from scatterers. To reduce the influence of the center frequency variation on the estimation of motion and deformation, an error correcting function, which does not require the assumption that the center frequency distributions in 2 different frames are the same, was introduced. As a result, the proposed method provides better strain estimates in comparison with conventional phase-sensitive correlation methods. This monograph also shows examples of applications of this method to measurement of small motion and deformation of biological tissues. This method can be applied to measurement of elasticity of dynamic tissues, such as the artery. Also, elastic properties of static tissues can be also measured by combining with actuation using the acoustic radiation force.

Ultrasonic Methods for Measurement of Small Motion and Deformation of Biological Tissues for Assessment of Viscoelasticity (Biomedical & Nanomedical Technologies-concise Monograph)

Hasegawa, Hideyuki

Kanai, Hiroshi

This book described empirical results of biological use of an analytical technique, DFA (Detrended Fluctuation Analysis). But this book did not describe what DFA is. Instead, using DFA, fluctuation of heartbeats was investigated in this book. Because human hearts are inappropriate specimens for conducting physiological experiments, crustacean hearts were chosen at first as a model to conduct various experiments such as isolated-heart experiments. Later, this book described human heart as well. First, we tried to describe how human hearts resemble with invertebrate hearts. (Those who do not need biology can skip biology sections.) Then, various results obtained from analysis both on model animals and humans were presented. By presenting the empirical results, the authors suggested how DFA is practically useful in the field of bio-medical technology.

Modified Detrended Fluctuation Analysis Mdfa: An Empirical Study on Heartbeat

Yazawa, Toru

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Plastics Technology Handbook

Plastics Technology Handbook

Chemical Sensors: Comprehensive Sensor Technologies: Chemical Sensors Applications

Real-Time Control of the Industrial Enterprise

Aerospace Navigation Systems

Chitosan and Its Derivatives as Promising Drug Delivery Carriers (Biomedical & Nanomedical Technologies - Concise Monograph Series)

Mobile Wearable Nano-Bio Health Monitoring Systems with Smartphones as Base Stations (Biomedical & Nanomedical Technologies-concise Monograph Series)

Photodynamic Therapy Mediated by Fullerenes and Their Derivatives (Biomedical & Nanomedical Technologies - Concise Monograph)

Ultrasonic Methods for Measurement of Small Motion and Deformation of Biological Tissues for Assessment of Viscoelasticity (Biomedical & Nanomedical Technologies-concise Monograph)

Modified Detrended Fluctuation Analysis Mdfa: An Empirical Study on Heartbeat