Biotechnology is the technical application that uses living organisms or biological systems to make products that have a profound impact on agriculture, environment, and human health.
In this text book, a color-coded classification is used to present basic chapters on white, red, green and blue biotechnology. Beside traditional biotechnical processes, the book will address principles of modern biotechnology research and applications.
Each chapter has a general introduction and concluding paragraph, gives key terms, will address problems, and recommends additional readings.

This book provides a basic introduction to social work. It discusses the ambiguities of social work, looking at its historical and social developments and facing the challenges of the 21st century. The authors examine and discuss the thematic and methodological field of social work within the concept of Reflexive Modernism and thus give fresh impetus to the discipline.

Our book provides anintroduction that covers nanodispersions. Most often used in the Pharmaceutical, Food and Cosmetics industry, liposomes are used to carry drugs, peptides, proteins, vitamins, and other actives to specific target destinations (organs).

This accessible and easy-to-read book provides many examples to illustrate diverse topics in probability and statistics, from initial concepts up to advanced calculations. Special attention is devoted e.g. to independency of events, inequalities in probability and functions of random variables. The book is directed to students of mathematics, statistics, engineering, and other quantitative sciences.

Metals and Alloys continues the series of graduate textbooks on Industrial Chemistry by Mark A. Benvenuto. It shows the essential industrial applications, processes and chemistry background for the extraction of metals, as well as the production and applications of alloys. The book discusses how large scale and minor processes affect every-day life, challenges in prevention and removal of waste by-products and illustrates selected chemical processes for which efforts have been made to improve and "green" industrial production of metals and alloys.

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Research Laboratory Safety explains the most important prerequisite when working in a laboratory: Knowing the potential hazards of equipment and the chemical materials to be employed. Students learn how to assess and control risks in a research laboratory and to identify a possible danger. An approach on the hazard classes such as physical, chemical, biological and radiation hazards is given and exercises to each class prepare for exams.

Emulsions provides a general introduction, the industrial role of emulsifiers and addresses different problems such as creaming/sedimentation, flocculation, Ostwald ripening, coalescence and phase inversion. Thermodynamics, adsorption and interaction forces between emulsion droplets are thoroughly explained. Supplemented by many figures and tables, it helps to characterize and select the right emulsifier for various industrial applications.

Formulations starts with a general introduction, explaining interaction forces between particles and droplets, self-assembly systems, polymeric surfactants and nanoemulsions. The second part covers the industrial examples ranging from foams, soaps over to hair care, sunscreen and make-up products. Combines information needed by formulation chemists as well as researchers in the cosmetic industry due the increasing number of products.

This textbook is devoted to a compressed and self-contained exposition of two important parts of contemporary mathematics: convex and set-valued analysis. In the first part, properties of convex sets, the theory of separation, convex functions and their differentiability, properties of convex cones in finite- and infinite-dimensional spaces are discussed. The second part covers some important parts of set-valued analysis. There the properties of the Hausdorff metric and various continuity concepts of set-valued maps are considered. The great attention is paid also to measurable set-valued...

Forschung findet global statt und nimmt in unserer Gesellschaft einen immer groeren Stellenwert zur Sicherung des Wohlstands und als Beitrag fur eine nachhaltige Entwicklung der Welt ein. Deshalb muss sie effektiv, effizient und verantwortungsvoll durchgefuhrt werden.

Jede Forschungseinrichtung braucht mittlerweile spezifische Alleinstellungsmerkmale und eine hohe wissenschaftliche Exzellenz, um innerhalb der weltweiten Scientific Community zu bestehen. Deshalb wird heutzutage von jedem einzelnen Wissenschaftler auch ein umfassendes Selbstmanagement auerhalb seiner...