Covers key advances in breeding, including conventional, marker-assisted and transgenic breeding techniquesSummarises key advances in understanding bacterial, fungal and viral diseases of sugarcaneAssesses best practice in integrated disease, pest and weed management

An up-to-date discussion about the mitigation of satellite communications vulnerabilitiesIn Safeguarding Satellite Communications: Issues, Challenges, and Solutions, a team of distinguished researchers deliver an expert discussion of the most relevant issues in contemporary satellite communications security. Over 13 chapters, the authors discuss key vulnerabilities in satellite communications, including potential security attacks and reliability risks. The...

This three-volume set CCIS 2213-2215 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference of Pioneering Computer Scientists, Engineers and Educators, ICPCSEE 2024, held in Macau, China, during September 27–30, 2024.The 74 full papers and 3 short papers presented in these three volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 249 submissions.The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Novel methods or tools used in big dat...

This book, LNCS 15225, constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Green, Pervasive, and Cloud Computing, GPC 2024, which took place in Macao, China, during September 27–30, 2024.The 13 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 33 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Cyber-Physical-Social Systems; Edge Intelligence; Industrial Digitization and Applications; Mobile Sensing and Computing; and Wireless and Ubiqui...

This three-volume set CCIS 2213-2215 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference of Pioneering Computer Scientists, Engineers and Educators, ICPCSEE 2024, held in Macau, China, during September 27–30, 2024.The 74 full papers and 3 short papers presented in these three volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 249 submissions.The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Novel methods or tools used in big dat...

These proceedings gather selected papers from the 12th International Conference on Green Intelligent Transportation Systems and Safety, held in Beijing, China on November 17-19, 2021. The book contains cutting-edge research on Green Intelligent Mobility Systems, with the goal of achieving "green, intelligent, and safe transportation systems" as the guiding slogan. The contributions offered here can aid in the advancement of green mobility and intelligent transportation technology by increa...

This three-volume set CCIS 2213-2215 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 10th International Conference of Pioneering Computer Scientists, Engineers and Educators, ICPCSEE 2024, held in Macau, China, during September 27–30, 2024.The 74 full papers and 3 short papers presented in these three volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 249 submissions.The papers are organized in the following topical sections:Part I: Novel methods or tools used in big dat...

International society led by the United Nations has been working to improve and standardize every country's post-disaster recovery policy. In particular, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction adopted at the UN World Conference at Sendai, Japan, in 2015 declared the slogan "Build Back Better (BBB)." In this book, the BBB is considered an essential common criterion for evaluating recovery status, but BBB variations in each individual country's context are pursued. In contrast to a...

This book presents the results of a joint survey conducted as of the tenth anniversary of the 2011 East Japan Earthquake, by an international research collaboration consisting of researchers representing the major universities affected by recent mega-disasters in Asia, namely, the research group at Kobe University, Japan which has folllowed up ten year recovery process from the 2011 tsunami disaster in East Japan, the research group at the Graduate Program in Disaster Science, Syiah Kuala ...

This book constitutes of the revised selected papers presented at the CCF 17th International Conference on Service Science, ICSS 2024, held in Hong Kong, China, in May 11–12, 2024.The 12 full papers and 2 short papers presented here were carefully reviewed and selected from 21 submissions. These papers have been categorized into the following sections: Cloud service and Edge service; Knowledge-inspired service; Trustworthy services & Service application.

Magnetic Nanoparticles in Nanomedicine provides readers with the fundamental theories and principles of magnetic materials, the synthesis and surface functionalization strategies of MNPs, and the standard techniques for characterizing physicochemical properties of MNPs. Other sections review MNP-based therapies such as magnetic hyperthermia therapy, drug/gene delivery, and magnetic neurostimulation and cover MNP-based in vitro and in vivo disease diagnosis, respectively, including techniqu...

This book focuses on the latest developments in detonation engines for aerospace propulsion, with a focus on the rotating detonation engine (RDE). State-of-the-art research contributions are collected from international leading researchers devoted to the pursuit of controllable detonations for practical detonation propulsion. A system-level design of novel detonation engines, performance analysis, and advanced experimental and numerical methods are covered. In addition, the world’s first s...