This book offers a comprehensive overview of the latest trends and best practices in managing knee injuries in sports. The aim is to equip the readers with current treatment options for knee injuries and discuss various treatment innovations, such as knee ligament reconstruction, meniscus repair, cartilage, instability of knee and patella, biologics, joint preservation, nutrition, and rehabilitation.This book is a compilation of the research by leading authorities from India and ar...

The coconut palm (Cocos nucifera L.) is one of the world's most important palms, and contributes significantly to the income and livelihood of many people in tropical countries. Widely referred to as the 'tree of life', coconut has been used as a source of food, drink, oil, medicine, shelter and wood for around 500 years. Every part of the coconut palm can be utilized. The demand for coconut fruit and its products has increased recently as people have become aware of its nutritional and he...

Blood & Valour: The Tamil Spirit in India’s Freedom Struggle is a powerful tribute to the forgotten heroes of India’s independence movement. Moving beyond commonly told histories, this book brings to light the extraordinary men and women of Tamil Nadu who resisted British colonial rule long before 1857.Through the lives of eighty remarkable freedom fighters, including warrior chieftains, queens, poets, reformers, and revolutionaries, the book reveals a legacy built on courage, sacr...

Modeling and optimization of energy management systems for micro- and mini-grids play an important role in the fields of energy generation dispatch, system operation, protection coordination, power quality issues, and peak demand conflict with grid security. This comprehensive reference text provides an in-depth insight into these topics. This text discusses the use of meta-heuristic and artificial intelligence algorithms for developing energy management systems with energy use prediction ...

Active Electrical Distribution Network: Issues, Solution Techniques and Applications is a comprehensive reference that addresses the issues and opportunities across one of the most overlooked sectors of the electrical industry, electrical distribution. The book begins with an introduction to electrical distribution networks, and then explores both present and future developments in the areas of smart grids, electric vehicles, micro grids, demand side response and active distribution networ...

This book presents novel and efficient tools, techniques and approaches for reliability evaluation, reliability analysis, and design of reliable communication networks using graph theoretic concepts.In recent years, human beings have become largely dependent on communication networks, such as computer communication networks, telecommunication networks, mobile switching networks etc., for their day-to-day activities. In today's world, humans and critical machines de...

This is an open access book. The focus of the conference is to provide a unique platform for exchange of ideas and synergy among researchers, academicians and industrial experts across the globe belonging to emerging electrical engineering domains. It also provides a premier platform for the people to present and discuss the most recent innovations and solutions in solving complex and challenging problems related to intelligent electrical engineering systems. Such a blend of various resear...

Electric power systems are being transformed from older grid systems to smart grids across the globe. The goals of this transition are to address today’s electric power issues, which include reducing carbon footprints, finding alternate sources of decaying fossil fuels, eradicating losses that occur in the current available systems, and introducing the latest information and communication technologies (ICT) for electric grids. The development of smart grid technology is advancing dramatica...

The volume contains peer-reviewed proceedings of EPREC 2021 with a focus on control applications in the modern power system. The book includes original research and case studies that present recent developments in the control system, especially load frequency control, wide-area monitoring, control & instrumentation, optimization, intelligent control, energy management system, SCADA systems, etc. The book will be a valuable reference guide for beginners, researchers, and professionals inter...

This book comprises peer-reviewed proceedings of the International Conference on Smart Energy and Advancement in Power Technologies (ICSEAPT-2021). The book includes peer-reviewed papers on renewable energy economics and policy, renewable energy resource assessment, operations management and sustainability, energy audit, global warming, waste and resource management, green energy deployment, green buildings, integration of green energy, energy efficiency, etc. The book serves as a valuable...

This book contains selected papers presented at the First International Symposium on Sustainable Energy and Technological Advancements (ISSETA 2021), which was organized by the Department of Electrical Engineering, NIT Meghalaya, Shillong, India, during September 24–25, 2021. The topics covered in the book mainly focuses on the cutting-edge research domain with respect to sustainable energy technologies, smart building, integration, and application of multiple energy sources; advanced powe...

This book contains cutting-edge research content presented by researchers, engineers, developers, and practitioners from academia and industry at the International Conference on Recent Developments in Electrical and Electronics Engineering (ICRDEEE 2022). The materials in the book include theory and applications for different areas of Electrical and Electronics Engineering. The topics covered include power systems and protection, energy, electric vehicles, smart grid, semiconductor technol...