Supply Chain Management (SCM) has been widely researched in numerous application domains in manufacturing and service industries during the last de...

This book has the ambition of presenting sustainability issues in a simple way to students in the field of agriculture and the environment. There i...

Sweet potato (Ipomoea batatas L.), the seventh most important food crop after wheat, rice (paddy), maize, potato, barley and cassava, is a staple f...

Sweet potato is a short-cycle, dicotyledonous plant in the morning glory family Convolvulaceae. It is a vegetable crop with roots that are sweet-ta...

Fermented foods are one of the indispensable components of dietary culture in every community in the world. Although there are numerous fermented m...

The interest in polymer composites study is due to an even greater degree of their application. The filling by hard disperse particulates or fibres...

Synthesis & Properties Of Polymers

Fiber is a class of materials that are continuous filaments or are in discrete elongated pieces, similar to lengths of thread. Fibers are very impo...

Textile materials or materials made from textiles are probably among the most important materials in the world. Textile materials are not only pres...

This long-awaited guide serves as a tool to explain the general principles of natural dyeing, and to help dyers to become more accomplished at thei...

The Diversified Benefits of Cocoa and Chocolate begins with an analysis of Theobroma cacao L, a species that is cultivated for butter and chocolate...

Due to the limitation of the electrical OFDM signal and electrical Fast Fourier Transform (FFT), all-optical OFDMs have recently received much atte...

The book opens with an exploration of the role of behavioural aspects linked to neophobia and neophilia towards new products and technologies used ...

Over the recent years, the brick industry of the state has been facing competition from several other building materials. These include cement and ...

The opening review included in The Pineapple: Production, Utilization and Nutritional Properties discusses the fundamental and applied aspects rela...

This book compiles technical, chemical and nutritional information in regards to the main species of the Theobroma genus, T. cacao and T. grandiflo...

The broad field of thin film technology is based first of all on the film growth processes in general. The concepts of crystal structure and defect...

In 2009, there were 13 primary wood-processing mills in North Dakota, 4 more mills than in 2003, and there were 23 active primary wood-processing m...

U.S. production of passenger vehicle and light truck tires has undergone significant change over the last two decades. What was once considered a m...

Engineered nanomaterials (ENMs) have greatly impacted human society as well as natural environments over the past decade, in consequence of their p...

This book explains the production methods and future trajectories for the Japanese car company through the strategic development of Toyota’s automo...

This book examines the environmental sources, geochemistry and human effects of trace elements. Topics discussed include an assessment of cancer an...