An insightful and comprehensive exploration into the burgeoning field of sugarcane-based biofuels and the green technology revolution, this book delves deep into the multifaceted role of sugarcane in addressing the global energy crisis, offering a panoramic view of the latest advances, challenges, and prospects in the realm of sustainable energy. The book summarizes the production, management, and socioeconomic impact of sugarcane as well as its related sustainability issues. It focuses on...

This book provides advanced techniques for precision compensation and fault diagnosis of precision motion systems and rotating machinery. Techniques and applications through experiments and case studies for intelligent precision compensation and fault diagnosis are offered along with the introduction of machine learning and deep learning methods.Machine Learning-Based Fault Diagnosis for Industrial Engineering Systems discusses how to formulate and solve precision compensa...

This book combines energy economics and big data modeling analysis in energy conversion and management and comprehensively introduces the relevant theories, key technologies, and application examples of the smart energy economy. With the help of time series big data modeling results, energy economy managers develop reasonable and feasible pricing mechanisms of electricity price and improve the absorption capacity of the power grid. In addition, they also carry out scientific power equipmen...

Sugarcane is one of the most important C4 cash crops, being the primary source of sugar worldwide, as well as for its use in energy production and various by-products. Sugarcane production, however, can have a number of negative environmental impacts. This new volume, Sugarcane Production: Environmental Impacts and Socioeconomics Issues, looks at sugarcane production in connection with its environmental impact and socioeconomic value and also offers innovative strategies to mitiga...

The sugarcane industry faces a number of challenges in terms of stagnating production, price regulations, unstable sugarcane market, and water scarcity/drought. This new book summarizes cultivation and sugarcane crop production strategies and related sustainability issues. The book covers topics related to sugarcane plantation and growth such as the impact of various stressors along with environment stress management in sugarcane crops, major sugarcane pests and their control, use of plant...

This new book focuses on the core aspects of sugarcane biotechnological transformation and advanced approaches for augmenting plant development and production through intrinsic/extrinsic variations. It presents comprehensive and updated information on sugarcane crop management in response to adverse climatic variables for sustainable production, discussing innovative interventions for how sugarcane copes with environmental stresses and the role of biochar on sugarcane crop improvement at d...

This book delves into the intricate world of sugarcane breeding, offering a comprehensive exploration of advanced technologies and methodologies revolutionizing the field. Readers will learn about the latest genomic tools and breeding strategies that are enhancing sugarcane's resilience, yield, and overall performance.Chapters cover topics such as genomics and transcriptomics, transgenic sugarcane for trait improvement, potential candidate promoters, new strategies for genetic tran...

Global, local, glocal – reflecting on the area of world social science seems to be above all a matter of space. In these spatial dichotomies the global has no location and locations seem beyond this world. Discourses about world social science thought not only distinguish social thought along spaces where they are created. Space has become an attribute of thinking when social scientists reflect on the world of social thought: Southern, Western and Northern knowledge, the location in which ...

Globalization and internationalization are salient features of our times in significant modern and post-modern social theories. This study contributes to the literature, and delineates a comprehensive picture of China's higher education internationalization, with an analysis of its costs and benefits, set in an international comparative perspective.

Analytical Methods for Polymer Characterization presents a collection of methods for polymer analysis. Topics include chromatographic methods (gas chromatography, inverse gas chromatography, and pyrolysis gas chromatography), mass spectrometry, spectroscopic methods (ultraviolet-visible spectroscopy, infrared spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, and nuclear magnetic resonance), thermal analysis (differential scanning calorimetry and thermogravimetry), microscopy methods (scan...

This edited volume focuses on the core aspects of sugarcane production-management under stressful environments as well as innovative strategies for augmenting crop growth & productivity through intrinsic and extrinsic manipulations. The various chapters aim at bringing out comprehensive and advance information on different aspects of sugarcane cultivation under stress environments and impact of climate change on the sustainability of sugarcane production. The book encompasses informati...

From the million-copy-selling author of A Random Walk Down Wall Street, the perfect guide to investing in the next economic giant.In From Wall Street to the Great Wall, Burton G. Malkiel and his coauthors show how average investors can tap into the opportunities this affords without losing their shirts. The authors present firsthand knowledge from their research trips to China on how Chinese firms and industries, as well as multinationals in the U...