This book examines the design technologies and developments in refrigeration systems. Topics discussed include sorption refrigeration systems; impr...

A permanent issue in compulsory education is how to promote students' active working in the classroom. Even if group work is used as one type of wo...

Ruthenium compounds constitute a versatile class of catalysts for important synthetic transformations in organic chemistry. The ability of rutheniu...

This book looks at the latest outbreak of Salmonella Typhimirum which started in September 2008. The illnesses peaked in December 2008, affecting c...

Scandium is a chemical element with symbol Sc and atomic number 21. A silvery-white metallic transition metal, it has historically been sometimes c...

Media attention has focused on recent incidents of fraud relating to seafood where restaurants knowingly serve lower-priced fish than identified on...

Vegetable oils have been regarded as a new generation feedstock that requires strengthening and developing in the near future. In this book, variou...

The importance of fats for humans, animals and plants lies in their high content of energy. In addition, fats allow humans and animals to consume f...

The attention and direction of food science has been shifting in recent years from food safety and food flavour research to functional foods and nu...

This book, written by Charles Herman Senn (1864-1934) and originally published in 1915, brings the old recipes and techniques of cooking from durin...

Silicon nitride (Si3N4) ceramic is used in numerous applications because of its superior properties, such as high-temperature strength, good oxidat...

Inorganic polymers are large molecules, usually linear or branched chains with atoms other than carbon in their backbone. In this new advanced rese...

Most developed Si-N containing oligomers and polymers are silazaneorganic oligomers and polymers - one of the applicable siliconorganic poly-functi...

The sol-gel process, also known as chemical solution deposition, is a wet-chemical technique widely used in the fields of materials science and cer...

Solanum lycopersicum is the scientific name for cultivated tomatoes. Tomatoes are produced and consumed worldwide. Many scientists are investigatin...

Carbon-carbon bond formation is one of the most important topics in organic synthesis. One of the most powerful methods for constructing a carbon-c...

The study of sonochemistry is concerned with understanding the effect of sonic waves and wave properties on chemical systems. The chemical effects ...

This book is a collection of articles detailing the very diverse roles of soy-derived compounds. Many cultures around the world have realised the i...

In this book, the authors study the production methods, functional properties and food sources of soy protein. Topics discussed include the rheolog...

Soy protein is abundantly present in soybeans, which have in the past been termed as wonder beans. Soy flour, soy protein concentrate and soy prote...

The soybean (Glycine max (L.) Merrill) has become one of the most used agricultural products in the world as an ingredient in human and animal nour...

This book provides current research on the cultivation, nutritional properties and effects on health of soybeans. Chapter One examines the antioxid...

This book presents topical research in the study of the types, uses and health benefits of spices. Topics discussed include the cultivation of sici...

This book describes and discusses some results obtained through the study of the microencapsulation of açai juice by spray drying using different c...

The history of starches and investigations of starch containing raw materials goes back many centuries, (ii) steady progress in the understanding o...

This book contains original reviews and research papers presented at the 1st Moscow Conference on 'Starch and Starch Origins-Structure, Properties ...

This book discusses critical findings about the significance of Stevia rebaudiana, a natural calorie free sweetener and ways to incorporate it in o...

Consumers are increasingly demanding, looking for different food products, new, more shocking and surprising, and providing more pleasurable feelin...

Knowledge of the responses of micro-organisms to environmental stresses has led to tremendous advances in the their morphological, physiological an...

Strontium (Sr) is one of the most extensively investigated alkaline earth metals and has received much attention for biomedical applications since ...

This book discusses spectral (IR, electronic and EPR) and magnetic properties, as well as crystal structures of CuII complexes with pyridinecarboxy...

A variety of analytical techniques have been developed to determine the content of sugars in honey, such as spectroscopic, chromatographic, and ele...

Sugar beet is one of two the most important industrial cultures for sugar production. Sugar beet is an effective bioindicator plant used for bioass...

Electrochemical Capacitors (ECs) are a class of energy storage device that fill the gap between high energy density batteries and high-power-densit...

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...