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Development of an Environmental Impact Assessment and Decision Support System for Seawater Desalination Plants

Development of an Environmental Impact Assessment and Decision Support System for Seawater Desalination Plants

Seawater desalination is a coastal-based industry. The growing number of desalination plants worldwide and the increasing size of single facilities emphasises the need for greener desalination technologies and more sustainable desalination projects. Two complementing approaches are the development and implementation of best available technology (BAT) standards and best practice guidelines for environmental impact assessment (EIA) studies. While BAT is a technology-based approach which favours state of the art technologies that reduce resource consumption and waste emissions EIA aims at minimizing impacts at a site- and project-specific level through environmental monitoring evaluation of impacts and mitigation where necessary. This book contains a comprehensive evaluation and synthesis of the potential environmental impacts of desalination plants with emphasis on the marine environment and aspects of energy use followed by the development of strategies for impact mitigating. A concept for BAT for seawater desalination technologies is proposed in combination with a methodological approach for the EIA of desalination projects. The scope of the EIA studies are outlined including environmental monitoring toxicity and hydrodynamic modelling studies and the usefulness of multi-criteria analysis as a decision support tool for EIAs is explored and used to compare different intake and pre-treatment options for seawater reverse osmosis plants. | Development of an Environmental Impact Assessment and Decision Support System for Seawater Desalination Plants

GBP 175.00
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Comparative Immunoglobulin Genetics

Comparative Immunoglobulin Genetics

This contemporary book covers significant new knowledge that has emerged during the last two decades and thus provides novel antibody phylogenetic perspectives relevant to development of new antibody-based therapeutics and vaccines. It fills a much-needed niche in the area of immunoglobulin genetics across species from a comparative perspective. New insights and perspectives from immunoglobulin genetics from species such as sea lamprey cattle marsupial bat rat rabbit and swine—other species than the traditional subjects of mice and humans—are relevant to antibody design and engineering. These new perspectives find direct application in the cutting-edge areas of antibody design engineering and therapeutics antibody-drug conjugates and novel antibody-based vaccines. This book fills the need to provide updated knowledge of this newly exploded area that is finding applications in new drug development. No other competing books on the topic are available in the market. The book will be of great interest to immunologists immunology researchers immunogeneticists researchers in pharmaceutical science those involved in the infectious disease and antibody therapeutics areas and many others. | Comparative Immunoglobulin Genetics

GBP 82.99
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Corporate Social Involvement Social Political and Environmental Issues in Britain and Italy

Corporate Social Involvement Social Political and Environmental Issues in Britain and Italy

First published in 1998. This is an examination of corporate social responsibility in Britain and Italy. There is a growing interest in businesses rendering themselves more socially active and becoming more involved in addressing social problems. A number of British companies have been adopting many of the community practices that have characterized corporate life in America since the early 1960s. Corporate responsibility is defined as a business engagement in the wider community in order to contribute towards the general well-being of society. This study employs a hybrid methodology using a variety of sources including historical texts secondary studies and detailed case studies of corporate social programmes. Businesses studied include Shell BT Unilever and BAT Industries in Britain and Fiat Olivetti ENI IRI and Dioguardi in Italy. The study aims to provide a qualitative explanation of why companies go beyond their commercial remit to become engaged in communitarian and philanthropic action. Ultimately the book aims to present a socially and politically informed analysis placed in its historical and political context taking into consideration economic forces. | Corporate Social Involvement Social Political and Environmental Issues in Britain and Italy

GBP 31.99
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Swarm Intelligence Principles Advances and Applications

Swarm Intelligence Principles Advances and Applications

Swarm Intelligence: Principles Advances and Applications delivers in-depth coverage of bat artificial fish swarm firefly cuckoo search flower pollination artificial bee colony wolf search and gray wolf optimization algorithms. The book begins with a brief introduction to mathematical optimization addressing basic concepts related to swarm intelligence such as randomness random walks and chaos theory. The text then:Describes the various swarm intelligence optimization methods standardizing the variants hybridizations and algorithms whenever possibleDiscusses variants that focus more on binary discrete constrained adaptive and chaotic versions of the swarm optimizersDepicts real-world applications of the individual optimizers emphasizing variable selection and fitness function designDetails the similarities differences weaknesses and strengths of each swarm optimization methodDraws parallels between the operators and searching manners of the different algorithmsSwarm Intelligence: Principles Advances and Applications presents a comprehensive treatment of modern swarm intelligence optimization methods complete with illustrative examples and an extendable MATLAB® package for feature selection in wrapper mode applied on different data sets with benchmarking using different evaluation criteria. The book provides beginners with a solid foundation of swarm intelligence fundamentals and offers experts valuable insight into new directions and hybridizations. | Swarm Intelligence Principles Advances and Applications

GBP 44.99
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Modeling and Applications in Operations Research

Modeling and Applications in Operations Research

The text envisages novel optimization methods that significantly impact real-life problems starting from inventory control to economic decision-making. It discusses topics such as inventory control queueing models timetable scheduling fuzzy optimization and the Knapsack problem. The book’s content encompass thefollowing key aspects: Presents a new model based on an unreliable server wherein the convergence analysis is done using nature-inspired algorithms Discusses the optimization techniques used in transportation problems timetable problems and optimal/dynamic pricing in inventory control Highlights single and multi-objective optimization problems using pentagonal fuzzy numbers Illustrates profit maximization inventory model for non-instantaneous deteriorating items with imprecise costs Showcases nature-inspired algorithms such as particle swarm optimization genetic algorithm bat algorithm and cuckoo search algorithm The text covers multi-disciplinary real-time problems such as fuzzy optimization of transportation problems inventory control with dynamic pricing timetable problem with ant colony optimization knapsack problem queueing modeling using the nature-inspired algorithm and multi-objective fuzzy linear programming. It showcases a comparative analysis for studying various combinations of system design parameters and default cost elements. It will serve as an ideal reference text for graduate students and academic researchers in the fields of industrial engineering manufacturing engineering production engineering mechanical engineering and mathematics. | Modeling and Applications in Operations Research

GBP 120.00
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A Philosophy for the Science of Animal Consciousness

A Philosophy for the Science of Animal Consciousness

This book attempts to advance Donald Griffin's vision of the final crowning chapter of the Darwinian revolution by developing a philosophy for the science of animal consciousness. It advocates a Darwinian bottom-up approach that treats consciousness as a complex evolved and multidimensional phenomenon in nature rather than a mysterious all-or-nothing property immune to the tools of science and restricted to a single species. The so-called emergence of a science of consciousness in the 1990s has at best been a science of human consciousness. This book aims to advance a true Darwinian science of consciousness in which its evolutionary origin function and phylogenetic diversity are moved from the field’s periphery to its very centre thus enabling us to integrate consciousness into an evolutionary view of life. Accordingly this book has two objectives: (i) to argue for the need and possibility of an evolutionary bottom-up approach that addresses the problem of consciousness in terms of the evolutionary origins of a new ecological lifestyle that made consciousness worth having and (ii) to articulate a thesis and beginnings of a theory of the place of consciousness as a complex evolved phenomenon in nature that can help us to answer the question of what it is like to be a bat an octopus or a crow. A Philosophy for the Science of Animal Consciousness will appeal to researchers and advanced students interested in advancing our understanding of animal minds as well as anyone with a keen interest in how we can develop a science of animal consciousness.

GBP 35.99
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