This book highlights the latest advances in the use of graphene and bio-compatible-material-decorated graphene to detect various targets (e.g. DNA, RNA, amino acids, peptides, proteins, enzymes, antigens, glucose, DA, AA, UA, ATP, NADH, gas, ions, etc.). It focuses on the specific interaction of these substances with graphene (or modified graphene) and the efficient transduction of the target recognition event into detectable signals via various techniques. Particular emphasis is given to ...

This book focuses on typical health services and remote monitoring methods, such as visual recognition and deep learning. Chiefly addressing the design and simulation of rehabilitation devices, and the evaluation of their effects on various diseases, it offers a valuable resource for professional researchers and graduate students in the fields of elderly medicine, signal processing, and rehabilitation.

Tourist Behaviour: International Perspectives provides a collection of all consumer-related topics from both theoretical and practical approaches to building and examining the theory of how consumers think and act within the context of tourism consumption. Divided in to six sections the book presents research including the themes of influence, motivation, choice and consumption and experience. With contributions from over 15 countries, the book presents an interdisciplinary approach of the...

Technical theory, key technologies, and practical applications for consortium blockchains, with a solution to the CAP trilemma problemPrinciples and Applications of Blockchain Systems provides a comprehensive introduction to consortium blockchains, including the physical, network, consensus, and contract layers, covering technical theory, key technologies, and practical applications. Beyond the technical side, this book visually showcases the application p...

Harness the power of machine learning for quick and efficient calculations of protein structures and propertiesMachine Learning in Protein Science is a unique and practical reference that shows how to employ machine learning approaches for full quantum mechanical (FQM) calculations of protein structures and properties, thereby saving costly computing time and making this technology available for routine users.Machine Learning in Protein Science...

Learn about the key technologies and understand the state of the art in research for full-duplex communication networks and systems with this comprehensive and interdisciplinary guide. Incorporating physical, MAC, network, and application layer perspectives, it explains the fundamental theories on which full-duplex communications are built, and lays out the techniques needed for network design, analysis and optimization. Techniques covered in detail include self-interference cancellation a...

Mesenchymal Stem Cells: Biological Concepts, Current Advances, Opportunities and Challenges systematically summarizes and discusses the basic concepts and latest updates of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) in the past 60 years, as well as the latest progress of clinical translational research and regulatory policy at home and abroad, which will be of great practical significance for promoting and guiding the future development of stem cell production and regenerative medicine. - Systematicall...

This book gives an extensive description of the state-of-the-art in research on excited-state hydrogen bonding and hydrogen transfer in recent years.Initial chapters present both the experimental and theoretical investigations on the excited-state hydrogen bonding structures and dynamics of many organic and biological chromophores. Following this, several chapters describe the influences of the excited-state hydrogen bonding on various photophysical processes and photochemical reac...

This book systematically reviews the theoretical origins, methodological applications, and empirical studies of agricultural technological progress and productivity research since 1949. What is agricultural technological progress and productivity, and how is it measured? How has the contribution of agricultural technological progress in China changed since the founding of New China? What are the causes of agricultural technological progress in China? What are the problems of existing resea...

This book summarizes and classifies 100 wonderful Chinese industrial heritage cases, starting from the path of cultural tourism industry's involvement in the transformation and renewal of industrial heritage. With the development of industrialization for more than 100 years, China, which has been a major industrial heritage country, is often ignored in the field of industrial heritage research. This is the first book in the world to systematically explore the cultural and tourism industry'...

This book introduces recent developments and trends of S-T abnormality diagnosis for industrial distributed parameter systems (DPSs). As a typical representative of industrial processes, DPSs widely exist in both process and discrete manufacturing and operations, such as the snap curing oven in chip manufacturing, the tubular reactor in chemical manufacturing, the soft robots in special operations， etc. With the increasing development of industrial distributed parameter systems (especially...

This book introduces the development of the digital twin of the marine infrastructure in Norway, which will be a significant scientific and operational achievement for the industry, making efficient and safe offshore operations possible. It enables data exchange safely and easily between different sub-systems, modules, and various applications. A complete digital twin ship will be presented in details. Thus, the twin ship can provide an integrated view of the ship’s various physical and be...