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This volume brings together research and system designs that address the scientific basis and the practical systems design issues that support areas ranging from intelligent business interfaces and predictive analytics to economics modeling.

Presents an abundance of research on important and new production technologies for the successful sustainable production of major crops. The volume covers most of the major crops used the production of food, sugar, and commercial fiber.

Looks at significant new research, methodologies, and applications in carbon nanotubes and nanoparticles. It explores new developments in advanced carbon nanotubes and nanoparticles along with the tools to characterize and predict their properties and behavior.

This new volume covers recent research on brain physiology and the development of drug delivery systems, exploring a diverse variety of strategies that can be employed to achieve drug targeting to the brain. The authors discuss nanoparticles, vesicular carriers, carriers having carbon as a core constituent, dispersed systems, and more.

This book provides a selection of chapters on interdisciplinary research in chemical science and engineering technology, taking a conceptual, and practical approach. The book includes case studies and supporting technologies and also explains the conceptual thinking behind current uses and potential uses not yet implemented.

This volume, Nanodispersions for Drug Delivery, addresses efforts to overcome the shortcomings of conventional dosage forms by exploiting the principles of nanoscience to deliver drugs for medical treatment.

The book presents many of the recent technological and research accomplishments in the area of nanomedicine and nanotechnology. It includes presentations of state of art in the field along with novel approaches in nanomedicine and nanotechnology, and new challenges and opportunities.

Presenting up-to-date literature that presents the current state of the science, this book fully explores the development phase of carbon nanotube-based applications. It looks at carbon nanotubes and their applications in diverse areas of science and engineering and considers environmental engineering applications as well.

This volume addresses the demand for the development and application of effective technologies for preservation of perishable food products, particularly fresh fruits and vegetables. The chapters discuss a number of innovative technologies to prolong and enhance postharvest fruits and vegetables.

Looks at new and established technology for processing, physical and biochemical properties of fruits and vegetables and their products, challenges of the processing industry, and other related aspects, such as effect of processing on nutritional content, bioavailability, economic utilization of bio-wastes, and processing byproducts.

Volume 3 of the 3-volume set focuses on functional foods and nutraceuticals. The chapters examine nutraceuticals as treatment for cancer and neurodegenerative diseases, trends in functional food in noncommunicable diseases, synergism in food trends, bioactive peptides, agave fructans as a functional component in foods, and more.

Volume 1 of the 3-volume set focuses on food technology and chemistry. The chapters examine edible coatings, bioactive compounds, essential oils in active food packaging, food industrial wastes as raw material for nanostructure production, and more.

Volume 2 of the 3-volume set focuses on food biotechnology and microbiology. The chapters examine bioactive compounds in food biotechnology, potential and risks of pigmented-grain corn, technological advances in the production of phytases, phytochemical molecules from food wastes, control of food-borne pathogen bacteria, and more.

This book presents a pragmatic approach to understanding and capitalizing on the new m-commerce trend. It comprehensively encapsulates the evolution, emergent trends, hindrances and challenges, and customer perceptions about various facets of how physical and online retail channels are merging, blurring, and influencing each other in new ways.

Provides detailed information on locally important medicinal plants, discusses the pharmacological properties of selected medicinal plants, and looks at the phytodrug aspects of selected plants. In 24 important chapters, it covers ethnomedicine, pharmacology, and pharmacognosy of selected plants.

This volume presents a selection of important information and discussion on the new scientific trend of chemical mesoscopics and also sheds new knowledge on the science of nanomaterials, processes of nanochemistry, and nanoengineering.