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This volume offers the latest theory, procedures, techniques and applications pertaining to the bioremediation of pesticides, as well as current case studies.

This book brings together in-depth information on a wide array of bio-engineering topics and their application to enhance human health, performance, comfort, and survival in extreme environments.

1. Introduction"Clean labeling" is a consumer-driven initiative that encourages food developers to create products with easy-to-understand labels, listing natural ingredients and minimal artificial additives. This terminology includes e.g. certified organic foods, which are not only clean-label, but also meet strict standards (there are no standards for clean-label foods). This chapter will discuss relevant definitions, "natural" and "organic" claims, industry activities as well as challenges for ''clean label'' progress.2. Natural emulsifiers as clean label ingredientsThe demand for "clean label" products containing lower amount or no additives or stabilizers is continuously increasing among consumers. This chapter will revise recent studies on the identification, characterization, and utilization of natural food-grade emulsifiers, such as proteins, polysaccharides, phospholipids, and saponins. Particular emphasis will be given to the structural properties of these emulsifiers and to their ability to form and stabilize emulsions. The influence of environmental stresses, such as pH, ionic strength, and temperature, on the performance of natural emulsifiers is discussed. This information should facilitate the rational selection of natural emulsifiers for applications in emulsion-based food, beverage, and other food products. Examples of applications on particular food products (e.g. meat, cheese, bakery) will also be provided.3. Natural antioxidants & flavorings for clean label foodsWith the new concept of functional ingredients and the development of the functional foods market, and the desire for a "clean" label, recent research has focused on finding safe additives with multifunctional effects to ensure food safety and quality. This chapter will discuss natural antioxidants and flavorings for clean label foods. It will also discuss the food safety and food structure (sensory) challenges that need to be taken in consideration when "chemicals" are replace with "natural" ingredient in food and beverage production.4. Clean label foods with reduced fat contentThere has been a strong focus in the food industry on the development of reduced-fat products due to health concerns associated with high calorie diets. However, reduced-fat food products often have limited consumer acceptance and commercial success due to undesirable changes in appearance, flavor, mouth-feel, and texture when fat is removed.  This chapter will discuss the development of clean label foods with reduced fat content. Focus will be given on the effect of these ingredients on food safety (not only on shelf life). Examples of applications on particular food products will also be provided.7. Consumer behavior and industry implicationsConsumers in industrialized countries are nowadays much more interested in information about the production methods and components of the food products that they eat, than they had been 50 years ago. Some production methods are perceived as less "natural" (i.e. conventional agriculture) while some food components are seen as "unhealthy" and "unfamiliar" (i.e. artificial additives). This phenomenon, often referred to as the "clean label" trend, has driven the food industry to communicate whether a certain ingredient or additive is not present or if the food has been produced using a more "natural" production method. This chapter will discuss these issues and identify the factors that drive consumers'' choices on consumer perception of various food categories understood as clean label with the focus on organic, natural and ''free from'' artificial additives/ingredients food products.

We describe a class of semianalytic sets defined by countably many global real analytic functions that is stable under topological properties and under proper holomorphic maps between Stein spaces, that is, verifies a direct image theorem.

Moiseev, providing an insider's view of the history of the Soviet Union from its founding in 1917 to its collapse in 1991, as well as a little of the aftermath.We see vividly the precariousness of life just after the October Revolution;

This present book discusses issues related to languages, cultures, and discourses by addressing a variety of topics ranging from culture and translation, cognitive and linguistic dimensions of discourse, and the role of language in political discourses and bilingualism.

Singularity theory interacts energetically with the rest of mathematics, acting as a crucible where different types of mathematical problems interact, surprising connections are born and simple questions lead to ideas which resonate in other parts of the subject, and in other subjects.

This edited collection marks a new wave of international and philosophical scholarship on "the heart"- that rich dimension of our emotional being in the world. This book takes up the emotional turn in philosophy in general, and phenomenology in particular, advancing this field through innovative and original perspectives.

The book contains 12 chapters written by well-known shock wave researchers from seven different countries. Each researcher provides a brief description of his main research interests and results, thereby providing the readers with an excellent view of shock wave research conducted in the past fifty years.

Simulating for a crisis is far more than creating a simulation of a crisis situation.

Deep Architectures in Visual Transfer Learning.- Deep Reinforcement Learning: A New Frontier in Computer Vision Research.- Deep Learning for Data-driven Predictive Maintenance.- Multi-Criteria Fuzzy Goal Programming under Multi-Uncertainty.- Skeleton-based Human Action Recognition on Large-Scale Datasets.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of construction engineering, as presented by researchers and engineers at the International Conference Environmental and Construction Engineering: Reality and the Future, held in Belgorod, Russia, on May 18-19, 2021.

Since proteoglycans modulate cell adhesion and migration they are important organizers of the extracellular matrix within the proper stem cell niche.

Innovations in Ventilative Cooling: an Introduction.- Ventilative cooling principles, potential and barriers.- Ventilative cooling and comfort models.- Ventilative cooling in standards and regulations.- Ventilative cooling and air pollutants.- Ventilative cooling and control systems.- Ventilative cooling in combination with passive cooling: thermal masses and Phase-Change Materials (PCM).- Ventilative cooling in combination with other natural cooling solutions: Direct Evaporative Cooling systems (DEC).- Ventilative cooling in combination with other natural cooling solutions: Earth-to-Air Heat Exchangers (EAHX).- Ventilative cooling and vertical vegetation.- Ventilative cooling in residential buildings.- Ventilative cooling in tertiary buildings: a school demo-case and parametric analyses under Swiss climate conditions (Central Europe).- Ventilative cooling in historical building renovation.

This book discusses the impact of war on the complex interactions between various actors involved in justice: individuals and social groups on the one hand and 'the justice system' (police, judiciary and professionals working in the prison service) on the other.

The process of consensus building.- Non-invasive ventilation.- High Flow Nasal Cannulae.- Restrictive inspiratory oxygen fraction.- Mechanical ventilation.- Early tracheostomy.- Pharmacological Managment of cardiac arrest.- Non pharmacological Managment of cardiac arrest.- Avoidance of deep sedation.- Hydrocortisone in sepsis; Goal directed therapy.- Levosimendan in cardiogenic shock and low cardiac output syndrome.- Drugs in myocardial infarction.- Tranexamic acid in trauma patients.- Procalcitonin-guided antibiotic discontinuation.- Selective decontamination of digestive tract.- Nutrition.- ECMO.- Ultrasound.- Alternative medicine.- Interventions increasing mortality.- Conflicting.- Latest evidences.

Understanding China''s Real Estate Markets: A Brief Introduction.- Part I: Structural and Macro Economic Aspects of Real Estate in China.- The Evolving Real Estate Market Structure in China.- Navigating the Property Data Landscape.- China''s Economy at the Crossroads.- China''s Provinces: Addressing the Discrepancies at the Local Level.- Hong Kong: A Review of Its Land System, Real Estate Market, and Related Matters.- Part II: Legal and Regulatory Environment for China''s Real Estate Markets.- Legal Framework for Real Estate Investment in China.- Real Estate Valuation in China.- The Regulation of Leasing Activities.- Tax Framework for Accessing Real Estate Asset Classes.- Part III: Finance and Investment for Real Estate Development.- The Leverage Game: From Offshore to Onshore.- Housing Financing at the Crossroads: Access and Affordability in an Aging Society.- Listings and M&As of Chinese Real Estate Enterprises.- Scenarios of Real-Estate-Backed Securitization and Financing.- The Development of REIT Markets in Greater China.- Real Estate Private Equity Investing in China: From a Practitioner''s Perspective.- Part IV: Real Estate as a Physical and Social Asset Type.- Sustainable Buildings and Practice in China.- Thoughts on China''s Real Estate Policies.- Minding the Strategies: A Progressive Development Model.- China''s Housing Markets.- Hotel Markets and Development in China.- The Rise of Platform-Based Networks: Outlook for the Real Estate Brokerage Industry.

This book presents different techniques and methodologies that used to help improve the decision-making process and increase the likelihood of success in sector as follows: agriculture, financial services, logistics, energy services, health and others.

Preface.- Part I: Intelligent Scene Modeling.- Introduction.- Object Detection: State of the Art and Beyond.- NBNN-Based Discriminative 3D Action and Gesture Recognition.- Random Forests with Optimized Leaves for Hough-Voting.- Modeling Human Perception of 3D Scenes.- Model Reconstruction of Real-world 3D Objects: An Application with Microsoft HoloLens.- Semantic Modeling and Rendering.- Content-aware Semantic Indoor Scene Modeling from a Single Image.- Interactive Labeling for Generation of CityGML Building Models from Meshes.- TooltY: An Approach for the Combination of Motion Capture and 3D Reconstruction to Present Tool Usage in 3D Environments.- Generating 3D Facial Expressions with Recurrent Neural Networks.- Part 2: Human-computer Interaction.- Facilitating Decision Making with Multimodal Interfaces in Collaborative Analytical Sessions.- Human - Technology Interaction: The State of the Art and the Lack of Naturalism.- Survey of Speechless Interaction Techniques in Social Robotics.- Exploring Potential and Acceptance of Socially Intelligent Robot.

- Introduction: Expanding Worldviews: Astrobiology, Big History and Cosmic Perspectives. - "The Keen Longing for Unified, All-Embracing Knowledge": Big History, Cosmic Evolution, and New Research Agendas. - From Planetary Dynamics to Global Trade and Human Genetics: A Big History Narrative. - How Big History Could Change the World for the Better. - Expanding World Views: Can SETI Expand Its Own Horizons and that of Big History Too?. - The Summons of a Silent Universe: The Relationship Between Existential Risk and Cosmic Silence. - The Visibility of Big History. - Re-encountering Signs of Agency: Surveying the Appearance of ''Layering'' Patterns Within Our Interstellar Messaging Record as Representational Signs for Earth. - COGITO in Space. - The Overview Effect and Well-Being. - The Biological Overview Effect. - Is the Universe Enough? Can It Suffice as a Basis for Worldviews?. - The Universe Decentered: Transcultural Perspectives on Astrobiology and Big History. - "Unfathomable, Bottomless, Very Deep": Waterworld Imaginaries. - Astrobiology and the Outer Limits of Human Ethics. - Big History and the Significance of the 1969-1972 Apollo Lunar Landings. - Towards a Planetary Polity: The Formation of Global Identity and State Structures. - Widening Perspectives: The Intellectual and Social Benefits of Astrobiology, Big History, and the Exploration of Space.

This book provides a comprehensive practical guide to the plethora of devices that have been developed to support the failing heart. Case-Based Device Therapy for Heart Failure describes how to properly use a range of available devices to treat heart failure.

This fourth book in the series Silicon Photonics gathers together reviews of recent advances in the field of silicon photonics that go beyond already established and applied concepts in this technology.

1. Introduction.- 2. Fault Tolerance in Networked Control Systems by Flexible Task Assignment.- 3. Resilient Control under Denial-of-Service: Results and Research Directions.- 4. Stealthy False Data Injection Attacks in Feedback Systems Revisited.- 5. Detection of Attacks in Cyber-Physical Systems: Theory and Applications.- 6. Security Metrics for Control Systems.- 7. The Secure State Estimation Problem.- 8. A Survey on Watermark Design For Cyber-Physical Systems.- 9. Detection of Cyber-Attacks: a Multiplicative Watermarking Scheme.- 9. Differentially Private Anomaly Detection for Interconnected Systems.- 10. Remote State Estimation in the Presence of an Eavesdropper.- 11. Secure Networked Control Systems Design using semi-homomorphic Encryption.- 12. Deception-As-Defense Framework for Cyber-Physical Systems.- 13. Cyber Risk: CPS vs. ITS.- 14. Cyber Insurance.- 15. Conclusions.

It brings together an authoritative group of specialists who approach the subject from a number of different viewpoints in the electric power industry, including electricity distribution companies, aggregators, power market retailers, and power generation companies.

In this regard, genetic information has been harnessed, through (i) sequencing of the progenitor and cultivated cotton species, (ii) ongoing mega pan-genome sequencing projects, (iii) genetic and physical mapping, and (iv) introgression of genes from alien sources, that resulted in the development of resilient cotton cultivars.