Bentham Science Publishers

Ionic Liquids: Eco-friendly Substitutes for Surface and Interface Applications explores the growing interest in utilizing ionic liquids as sustainable alternatives for various industrial and biological applications. With their unique properties and environmentally friendly nature, ionic liquids have emerged as promising substitutes for toxic and volatile solvents, offering significant advantages in surface and interface chemistry.

This book is divided into two parts: Part 1 covers the basics of ionic liquids, their surface/interface properties, and interactions with metallic surfaces. Part 2 focuses on the wide range of surface and interface applications of ionic liquids, including wastewater treatment, corrosion protection, catalysis, separation processes, medical devices, and sensing applications.

Key Features:

A complete book fully dedicated to the surface and interface chemistry of ionic liquids with seventeen chapters

Covers fundamentals, recent progress, and applications in surface/interface chemistry

Presents up-to-date research and interdisciplinary insights

Includes relevant references and resources for further exploration

This is a valuable reference for scientists and engineers who want to learn about ionic liquids' chemistry and applications

• Computing with Words and Granular Computing
• Extensions of fuzzy sets: intuitionistic fuzzy sets, hesitant fuzzy sets, neutrosophic sets, spherical fuzzy sets.
• Fuzzy Clustering
• Fuzzy Control
• Fuzzy Data Analysis, Fuzzy Clustering, Classification and Pattern Recognition
• Fuzzy Database
• Fuzzy Decision Making and Decision Support Systems
• Fuzzy Expert System
• Fuzzy Logic Systems
• Fuzzy Logic Techniques and Algorithms
• Fuzzy Mathematical Programming
• Fuzzy Mathematics
• Fuzzy Measure and integral
• Fuzzy Neural Systems, Neuro-Fuzzy Systems
• Fuzzy Pattern Recognition
• Fuzzy Process Control
• Fuzzy Reasoning System
• Fuzzy Sets in Bioinformatics
• Fuzzy System Applications in Computer Vision
• Fuzzy System Applications in E-commerce
• Fuzzy System Applications in Human-Machine Interface
• Fuzzy System Applications in Robotics, Sensors, Fuzzy Hardware and Architectures
• Fuzzy System in Multimedia and Web-Based Applications
• Fuzzy Systems Design and Optimization
• Fuzzy Systems Modeling and Identification
• Fuzzy Systems with Big Data and Cloud Computing, Fuzzy Analytics and Visualization
• Fuzzy-Rule Based System
• Hybrid Fuzzy Systems (fuzzy-neuro-evolutionary-rough)
• Possibility Theory and Imprecise Probabilit

• Preparation and characterization of new photocatalyst.
• Photocatalytic elimination of environmental pollutants in liquid or gas phase.
• Self-cleaning materials.
• Thin films.
• Photocatalytic syntheses of valuable products.
• Photocatalytic hydrogen generation and CO2 reduction.
• Kinetics and mechanistic aspects of photocatalytic reactions.
• Combination of photocatalysis with other technologies, such as membrane technologies and photoelectrocatalysis.
• Engineering aspects of photocatalytic processes.
• Homogeneous photocatalysis.
• Theory, modelling and computational aspects regarding the mechanisms of activation of photocatalysis.

This book provides an update on heterocyclic compounds that serve as key components of anti-cancer agents administered in pre-clinical settings. Many of the compounds highlighted in the book are being actively investigated for the bioactive properties against a range of cancer cell lines. There is potential for heterocyclic compounds to design agents that can target specific molecules to treat different types of cancers. Chapters are contributed by experts in pharmaceutical chemistry and are written to give a general overview of the topic to readers involved in all levels of research and decision-making in pharmaceutical chemistry and anti-cancer drug design.

Part II of the book set covers these topics:

- Anticancer targets for heterocyclic lead compounds

- Coumarin hybrids for cancer treatments - Progress in nitrogen and sulphur-based heterocyclic compounds for their anticancer activity

- Imidazole as an anticancer heterocyclic ring - Morpholine for profiling anticancer lead compounds

- Natural products as anticancer agents

Lean Management Solutions for Contemporary Manufacturing Operations: Applications in the automotive industry covers recent techniques aimed at improving manufacturing activities in automotive factories in the time of the fourth industrial revolution. The book informs the reader about some improvements in hard skills (such as technical concepts, new tools, processes, and applied designs), as well as soft skills (strategic planning and the psychology of motivating human resources in manufacturing setups). The book also presents insight for managers who are working with a niche of employees with disabilities with respect to the automotive industry.

Topics in the book include:

Application of Graph Theory in Workplace Design

Applied Design

Disability and the 4th Industrial Revolution

People Development, Motivation & Results

Low Cost Logistics Solutions

Agile Methodologies in Manufacturing Projects

This book is a concise, informative reference which updates the reader on recent strategies to maximize productivity in the auto manufacturing sector.

Lifestyle diseases and related conditions present a major healthcare challenge for children, posing a significant threat to their well-being. The Editors have compiled chapters to present a multicentric approach to the subject.

This book is an insightful reference on lifestyle diseases and its management in adolescents. It includes twelve topics with a focus on physical, emotional and behavioral aspects of lifestyle diseases. Starting with an introduction to lifestyle issues that can manifest into disease states, the book progresses to advanced topics, including emotional and cognitive developments, effects of mass media ranging from emotional and cognitive health, nutrition requirements and eating disorders, physical inactivity, eating and sleeping patterns, drug and alcohol-abuse, social behavior, anxiety and mental health.

The book highlights the risk factors and determinants of these diseases, and where an immediate intervention is needed. An updated understanding of the diseases with scientific references gives readers crucial information for setting the groundwork for long-term public health policy formulation.

This book serves as a primary resource for scholars and trainees in nursing, medical (pediatrics and endocrinologists) and paramedical courses who are required to understand lifestyle diseases with a focus on adolescents. Readers and professionals in public health, life-sciences and related disciplines can also use this as a secondary reference.

This brief monograph provides reports on liquid crystal materials used for specific devices designed for industrial applications. The authors of each chapter present insights on the design and technical aspects of the manufacturing of advanced liquid crystal light modulators reflecting their experience in advanced liquid crystal materials science.

Chapters in the book first introduce readers to the chemistry and basic materials science of liquid crystal light modulators with information important for practical situations such as custom manufacturing and material quality assessment (including the determination of Frank elastic constants). Subsequent chapters cover a selection of interesting projects where liquid crystal light modulators are applied, such as: a highly transparent, laser damage resistant liquid crystal phase modulators for space-borne laser rangefinders; a dynamic optical filter designed for visualization of air pollution; a high contrast, fast operating, outdoor light shutter for the eye protection of welders.

Readers will gain an awareness of the peculiarities of the liquid crystalline matter, along with the complexity of the design and fabrication of active optical elements, as the information provided in this volume presents detailed practical results of the liquid crystal technology projects.

Contemporary Endoscopic Spine Surgery brings the reader the most up-to-date information on the endoscopy of the spine. Key opinion leaders from around the world have come together to present the clinical evidence behind their competitive endoscopic spinal surgery protocols. Chapters in the series cover a range of aspects of spine surgery including spinal pain generators, preoperative workup with modern independent predictors of favorable clinical outcomes with endoscopy, anesthesia in an outpatient setting, management of complications, and a fresh look at technology advances in a historical context. The reader will have a first-row seat during the illustrative discussions of expanded surgical indications from herniated disc to more complex clinical problems, including stenosis, instability, and deformity in patients with advanced degenerative disease of the human spine. Contemporary Endoscopic Spine Surgery is divided into three volumes: Cervical Spine, Lumbar Spine, and Advanced Technologies to capture an accurate snapshot in time of this fast-moving field. It is intended as a comprehensive go-to reference text for surgeons in graduate residency and postgraduate fellowship training programs and for practicing spine surgeons interested in looking for the scientific foundation for their practice expansion into endoscopic surgery.

This volume (Lumbar Spine) covers the following topics in 18 detailed chapters:

Lumbar endoscopy: historical perspectives, present, and future

Endoscopic lumbar discectomy - anatomy, nomenclature, indications and advanced techniques

Current approaches for the treatment of endstage vacuum degenerative lumbar disc disease

Advanced endoscopic techniques of lumbar foraminotomy and treatment of degenerative spondylolisthesis

Endoscopic treatment of lumbar facet cysts Endoscopic techniques for the treatment of a wide range of chronic low back pain

Endoscopic spine surgery techniques in the elderly Endoscopic fusion techniques

Endoscopic resection of schwannoma

Technical notes for difficult cases, controversies and complications of lumbar endoscopy.