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This book focuses on probiotics and gut microbiota, as well as their roles in alleviating the toxicity of various environmental pollutants, presenting the latest research findings and explaining advanced research methods and tools.

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This book presents select peer-reviewed proceedings of the International Conference on Sustainable Development in Energy and Environment (ICSDEE) 2019.

This volume takes a multidisciplinary approach to study and evaluate the global human vulnerability to the exposure of contaminants of emerging concern (CECs) in the natural environment.

This book gathers selected papers presented at the Second International Conference on Intelligent Manufacturing and Automation (ICIMA 2020), which was jointly organized by the Departments of Mechanical Engineering and Production Engineering at Dwarkadas J. Sanghvi College of Engineering (DJSCE), Mumbai, and by the Indian Society of Manufacturing Engineers (ISME). Covering a range of topics in intelligent manufacturing, automation, advanced materials and design, it focuses on the latest advances in e.g. CAD/CAM/CAE/CIM/FMS in manufacturing, artificial intelligence in manufacturing, IoT in manufacturing, product design & development, DFM/DFA/FMEA, MEMS & nanotechnology, rapid prototyping, computational techniques, nano- & micro-machining, sustainable manufacturing, industrial engineering, manufacturing process management, modelling & optimization techniques, CRM, MRP & ERP, green, lean & agile manufacturing, logistics & supply chain management, quality assurance & environmental protection, advanced material processing & characterization of composite & smart materials. The book is intended as a reference guide for future researchers, and as a valuable resource for students in graduate and doctoral programmes.

This book focuses on soft computing and how it can be applied to solve real-world problems arising in various domains, ranging from medicine and healthcare, to supply chain management, image processing and cryptanalysis.

This book discusses the perspectives and practices of teacher education programs in order to shed new light on the national priorities, policies, curriculum inputs, delivery mechanisms, challenges and future trends in 20 selected countries.

This book presents strategies and practices for facilitating effective learning for mainland Chinese students in western based education - regarding e.g. It embeds innovativeness at a conceptual level, and argues for a holistic and "engaged" approach to learning effectiveness for mainland Chinese students.

Chapter 1. Reflections on TS Development in the Chinese Context and the Fundamental Properties of Translation.- Chapter 2. Teaching Translation and Culture.- Chapter 3. From Philological Approach to Humanistic Approach: Translation Teaching in Chinese Mainland in the Past Forty Years (1978-2018).- Chapter 4. Pragmatics and Chinese Translation.- Chapter 5. A Corpus-assisted Study of Julia Lovell''s Translating Style.- Chapter 6. From Faithfulness to Information Quality.- Chapter 7. Interpreting training: past, present and future.- Chapter 8. Translation and interpreting assessment: NAATI and CATTI.

This book examines the approaches, content and design, and practices of current early childhood teacher preparation programs in universities across Australia, and compares them with those in Finland, Norway and Sweden.

The book also analyzes both the tangible and intangible properties of natural, cultural, and historical heritage and how these relate to and influence tourism, and evaluates the importance and role of heritage in tourism destinations and products.

Organized in an analytical framework and offering comprehensive empirical data, this book focuses on agricultural sustainability and resilience, environmental efficiency, agricultural extension, foreign trade, energy use, and agricultural growth aspects of the Iranian agriculture sector.

This book reflects on science education in the first 20 years of the 21st century in order to promote academic dialogue on science education from various standpoints, and highlights emergent new issues, such as education in science education research.

Introduction.- PART I  Human Rights and Social Justice: Sources, Theories and Approaches.- PART II   Social Justice, Dignity and Rights Talk in Practice: Chinese Perspective.- Part III:  Social Justice, Dignity and Rights Talk in Practice: Global Perspective.- Concluding Remarks.

This book addresses the background of classroom flipping, explores the theoretical underpinnings for why flipping works, and shares current success stories in practice.

This book provides an overview of flood and drought in the Lower Mekong Basin, reviews the characteristics of flood and drought, and details structural and non-structural measures for flood and drought mitigation employed in the basin countries, as well as their flood and drought mitigation capacity.

This book illustrates the currently available strategies for managing phytonematodes. This is followed by an in-depth discussion of the application of potential strains of biocontrol fungi, endophytes and actinomycetes to enhance plants' ability to fend off phytonematode attacks, leading to improved plant health.

This book presents a student-centric, problem-based approach to learning key issues in neuroanesthesia and neurocritical care, a concept that is gaining popularity and acceptance in the medical education field.

This edited volume gathers corpus-based studies on topics including English grammar and discourses on media and health, mainly from a systemic functional linguistics (SFL) perspective, in order to reveal the potential of SFL, which has been emphasized by Halliday.

CHREOC chiefly focuses on popular topics including military-civilian integration, the One Belt and One Road initiative, and the transformation of scientific research achievements, while also discussing new ideas, new technologies, new methods, and new developments.

This book discusses the latest developments and outlines future trends in the fields of microelectronics, electromagnetics and telecommunication.

This book discusses feature engineering and computational intelligence solutions for ECG monitoring, with a particular focus on how these methods can be efficiently used to address the emerging challenges of dynamic, continuous & long-term individual ECG monitoring and real-time feedback.

Chapter 1. Microbial Community Present on the Reverse Side of a Deteriorated Canvas.- Chapter 2. Microbial Biocleaning Technologies for Cultural Heritage: Current Status and Future Challenges.- Chapter 3. Role of Bacterial Communities to Prevent the Microbial Growth on Cultural Heritage.- Chapter 4. Entomogenous Fungi and the Conservation of the Cultural Heritage.- Chapter 5. Microorganisms and their Enzymes as Biorestoration Agents.- Chapter 6. Bioremediation of Cultural Heritage: Removal of Organic Substances.- Chapter 7. The Role Microorganisms for the Removal of Sulphates on Artistic Stoneworks.- Chapter 8. Microbiological Tools for Cultural Heritage Conservation.- Chapter 9. Biotechnology to Restoration and Conservation.- Chapter 10. Biocement: A novel approach in the restoration of construction materials.

This book discusses the use of converged technology, a rapidly growing area that enhancements smart devices, communication, Internet of things (IoT), and augmented reality (AR).

This book constitutes refereed proceeding of the Second International Cognitive Cities Conference, IC3 2019, held in Kyoto, Japan, in September 2019. The papers are organized according to the topical sections on cognitive city for special needs; artificial intelligence theory and technology related to cognitive city;

This book examines how the wonders of AI have contributed to the battle against COVID-19.

This book presents the proceedings of the KES International Conferences on Innovation in Medicine and Healthcare (KES-InMed-19), held in Split, Croatia, on June 17-19, 2020.

This pioneering book on food study pursues an interdisciplinary approach to service science and the service engineering field. As such, it is important for the food industry to provide foods that are both tasty and wholesome, based on the sciences of gastronomy and nutrition.

This open access book explores cultural competence in the higher education sector from multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary perspectives.

This book highlights peer reviewed articles from the 1st International Conference on Renewable Energy and Energy Conversion, ICREEC 2019, held at Oran in Algeria.