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Smart Engineering Approaches to Food Safety and Shelf Life Extension: Safer and Fresher Foods covers revolutionary ways we preserve and process food, ensuring its quality, safety, and sustainability. With a comprehensive exploration of cutting-edge technologies, methodologies, and applications, this book addresses the challenges of current food preservation and processing. Readers will find fresh insights and practical knowledge across various disciplines, with an emphasis on innovation, quality, safety, and sustainability. From novel preservation methods to advanced processing technologies, each chapter presents valuable insights into how engineering principles can be leveraged to enhance food safety, extend shelf life, and preserve nutritional quality.Alongside sustainable practices, sections also cover high-pressure processing, pulsed electric fields, novel packaging materials designed to minimize spoilage and contamination, intelligent packaging systems, and process optimization techniques. Authored by leading experts in the fields of engineering and food science, this book uniquely integrates both disciplines to provide a comprehensive understanding of the latest advancements in food preservation and processing technologies.Explores the latest engineering techniques and technologies utilized in food preservation and processingExamines the impact of engineering innovations on enhancing the quality, safety, and shelf-life of food productsDiscusses the role of engineering in addressing sustainability challenges in the food industry

Geostatistical Approaches to Environmental and Public Health Issues is a timely and comprehensive examination of how geostatistical techniques can be leveraged to better understand and respond to pressing environmental and public health challenges. As the availability of large-scale spatial and temporal data continues to grow, so too does the demand for advanced tools that can navigate the complexity of real-world phenomena. This volume bridges methodological innovation with applied research, making it an essential resource for scientists, policymakers, and public health practitioners. Environmental and health-related events-such as air and water pollution, disease outbreaks, nutritional deficits, maternal and child health risks, and exposure to natural hazards like floods, droughts, and earthquakes-are inherently spatial and often uncertain. Traditional statistical models fall short in capturing the intricate patterns and dependencies involved. This book showcases how techniques like kriging, spatial regression, Bayesian modeling, and space-time analysis offer powerful, nuanced insights into these issues. Emphasizing stochastic, non-deterministic approaches, the volume highlights the importance of modeling uncertainty in both environmental and health domains. Through case studies and research-driven chapters, it demonstrates how integrating geospatial and statistical methods can enhance our understanding of where, why, and how events occur-ultimately improving the precision of health interventions and environmental policies. By aligning cutting-edge statistical approaches with the geospatial dimensions of health and environmental data, this book fills a critical gap in the literature and supports more targeted, data-driven decision-making in the face of global uncertainty.Bridges geostatistics with environmental science and public health to address spatially complex challengesCovers powerful geostatistical tools such as kriging, spatial regression, Bayesian modeling, and space-time analysisEmphasizes real-world use cases and solutions, making it valuable for researchers, practitioners, and policymakers

This book provides a timely overview of analytical tools and methodological approaches for studying membrane lipids.

This book provides a timely overview of analytical tools and methodological approaches for studying membrane lipids.

Developing climate-smart crops is vital to securing food security around the world. This new book discusses the state-of-the-art technologies that can help to mitigate plant abiotic stresses in cultivated crops. It covers the current aspects of climate-resilience agriculture, including the crucial physiological, biochemical, and molecular aspects of cultivated crops under stress conditions, which play a pivotal role in developing climate-smart crops. The volume explores breeding, omics, genetic engineering, bioengineering of metabolic pathways, artificial intelligence, and more.Key features:Addresses the current and future challenges of climate changes on food securityDetails the impact of different biotic, abiotic stresses, along with their interactions and effect on crop plants in climate-changing scenariosGives a comprehensive account of molecular mechanisms associated with different stresses in crop plantsDiscusses advances in breeding and biotechnological techniques to tackle the different stresses in challenging climatic fluctuationsHighlights various emerging approaches and technologies currently being used in developing climate-smart cropsProvides success stories of crop improvement against the different stresses.

Climate change has more impact on the world than just rising temperatures and extreme weatherevents. It also impacts the intricate interactions between organisms, including pests, pathogens, andother biotic factors, which are critical components of the balance maintained in nature. This new bookdelves into the intricate relationship between climate change and the interplay of biotic factors,shedding light on the molecular mechanisms underlying these interactions.

Climate change and population growth have led to a global need for improved crop plants that are resistant/tolerant to climate-induced stresses and provide greater yields. This book comprehensively and coherently reviews the various aspects of "omics" research methods as they apply to crop plant improvement, including genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, epiomics, ionomics, and interomics. These multiple-omics approaches to crop science have already played an important role in the rapid creation of improved crop plants particularly in rice, wheat, maize, and millets and are set to provide greater advances in the future. The book also describes the various bioinformatics techniques that are utilized as tools for the analysis of omics data. Integrating systems biology with multi-omics datasets that can enhance our understanding of molecular regulatory networks for crop improvement is also covered. This book is essential reading for researchers and graduate students of plant breeding, crop science, molecular biology, and agricultural science.

This book is a detailed yet concise study of the history and evolving geopolitics of Gilgit-Baltistan from 1839 to 2019. Nestled at the cross­roads of Central, South, and West Asia, this remote region has long been shaped by local rivalries and global power struggles. The study traces how British colonial interests, especially during the Great Game with Russia, helped define the region’s political and strategic import­ance. It highlights the founding of the Gilgit Agency and the challenges the British faced in dealing with the fiercely independent local tribes.The narrative moves through the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, covering key moments like the Chitral crisis and military reforms under Lord Kitchener. It then shifts to the post-1947 landscape, where the Partition of India and Pakistan’s control over Gilgit-Baltistan created a new set of tensions. The book explores how, following inde­pendence, Pakistan gradually tightened its grip through administrative changes and infrastructure projects like the Karakoram Highway, often at the cost of local autonomy and cultural identity.In recent decades, the region’s strategic value has grown even more with China’s involvement, particularly through the China-Pakistan Economic Corridor (CPEC). The book examines the impact of demo­graphic changes, land disputes, and the region’s uneasy place in larger geopolitical games. It raises important questions about representation, local agency, and the consequences of being a pawn in global power politics. At its core, this book is both a historical account and a call to pay closer attention to the people of the Gilgit-Baltistan frontier.

This book comprises of soil microbial diversity and role of microbes in agro-industry.This volume is the compilation of the updated research from resource persons on impact of soil microbial diversity like increasing soil fertility, CO2 sequestration, and understanding soil microbial communities through cutting edge technology.

This book comprises of soil microbial diversity and role of microbes in agro-industry.This volume is the compilation of the updated research from resource persons on impact of soil microbial diversity like increasing soil fertility, CO2 sequestration, and understanding soil microbial communities through cutting edge technology.

This book is developed in a lucid manner for readers to grasp information about the role and potential of microbes in sustainable agriculture & computational strategies associated with it. Present volume focuses on advancements of microbial research in increasing agricultural productivity and sustainability viz. plant growth promotion by rhizobacterial biostimulants, endophytes, actinobacteria, arbuscularmycorrhizal fungi and biocontrol.Present day research is focused on role of  soil microbe’s in agriculture, diazotropic & azotobacterial N2 fixation, PGPR etc. However, there is dearth of information on bioremediation of agrochemicals, biocontrol etc. This book is a compilation of research advances in both the aspect from eminent experts around the globe. In addition, in-silico mediated understandings of plant pathology, use of artificial neural networks in phytopathogen prediction, computational approaches in enhancing secondary metabolites production will be beneficialto professionals and academicians for sustainable agriculture.This volume will be very helpful for the students, teachers, professionals, and scientists concerned in agricultural production, food security, soil microbiology, agricultural biotechnology, and computational techniques.

This book is developed in a lucid manner for readers to grasp information about the role and potential of microbes in sustainable agriculture & computational strategies associated with it. Present volume focuses on advancements of microbial research in increasing agricultural productivity and sustainability viz. plant growth promotion by rhizobacterial biostimulants, endophytes, actinobacteria, arbuscularmycorrhizal fungi and biocontrol.Present day research is focused on role of  soil microbe’s in agriculture, diazotropic & azotobacterial N2 fixation, PGPR etc. However, there is dearth of information on bioremediation of agrochemicals, biocontrol etc. This book is a compilation of research advances in both the aspect from eminent experts around the globe. In addition, in-silico mediated understandings of plant pathology, use of artificial neural networks in phytopathogen prediction, computational approaches in enhancing secondary metabolites production will be beneficialto professionals and academicians for sustainable agriculture.This volume will be very helpful for the students, teachers, professionals, and scientists concerned in agricultural production, food security, soil microbiology, agricultural biotechnology, and computational techniques.

This book explores the relationships between natural resources management, sustainable livelihoods, and integrated watershed management in the context of the mountainous region, especially in the northeastern region of India.