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Arsenic Contamination in Rice and the Possible Mitigation Options (2022)
Book Chapter
Sengupta, S., Roychowdhury, T., Phonglosa, A., & Mandal, J. (2022). Arsenic Contamination in Rice and the Possible Mitigation Options. . Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16360-9_3

Arsenic (As) in food poses a major threat to human health. Aside from drinking water, rice consumption is the principal route for As to enter the body. Due to the large population density in Asian countries, such as India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and C... Read More about Arsenic Contamination in Rice and the Possible Mitigation Options.

Distribution of Arsenic in Rice Grain from West Bengal, India: Its Relevance to Geographical Origin, Variety, Cultivars and Cultivation Season (2022)
Book Chapter
Roy Chowdhury, N., Das, A., Joardar, M., Mridha, D., De, A., Majumder, S., …Roychowdhury, T. Distribution of Arsenic in Rice Grain from West Bengal, India: Its Relevance to Geographical Origin, Variety, Cultivars and Cultivation Season. In Global Arsenic Hazard. Environmental Science and Engineering. Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-16360-9_23

Groundwater arsenic contamination has been a staggering issue for the last 45 years. When the contaminated water is used for irrigational activities, the problem aggravates. Bengal delta is mainly reliant on rice as the staple diet and its cultivatio... Read More about Distribution of Arsenic in Rice Grain from West Bengal, India: Its Relevance to Geographical Origin, Variety, Cultivars and Cultivation Season.

Climate change information sources (2022)
Book Chapter
Adetayo, A., Abata-Ebire, B., & Oladipo, Y. (2022). Climate change information sources. In Climate Change, World Consequences, and the Sustainable Development Goals for 2030 (73-88). IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-6684-4829-8.ch004

This study sought to investigate the relationship between climate change information sources, fact-checking, and attitude among students at Adeleke University. A descriptive survey design was adopted for the study using a questionnaire. The data were... Read More about Climate change information sources.

Computational fluid dynamic simulation of thermal convection in green fuel cells with finite volume and Lattice Boltzmann methods (2022)
Book Chapter
Beg, O., Javaid, H., Beg, T., Prasad, V., Kuharat, S., Kadir, A., …Khan, U. (2022). Computational fluid dynamic simulation of thermal convection in green fuel cells with finite volume and Lattice Boltzmann methods. In A. Soni, D. Tripathi, J. Sahariya, & K. Sharma (Eds.), Energy Conversion and Green Energy Storage. Boca Raton, Florida, USA: CRC Press

The modern thrust for green energy technologies has witnessed considerable efforts in developing efficient, environmentally friendly fuel cells. This has been particularly so in the automotive sector which is the dominant mode of personal transport i... Read More about Computational fluid dynamic simulation of thermal convection in green fuel cells with finite volume and Lattice Boltzmann methods.

Finite volume numerical analysis of diamond and zinc nanoparticles performance in a water-based trapezium direct absorber solar collector with buoyancy effects (2022)
Book Chapter
Kuharat, S., Beg, O., Beg, T., Vasu, B., Leonard, H., Kadir, A., …Gorla, R. (2022). Finite volume numerical analysis of diamond and zinc nanoparticles performance in a water-based trapezium direct absorber solar collector with buoyancy effects. In A. Soni, D. Tripathi, J. Sahariya, & K. Sharma (Eds.), Energy Conversion and Green Energy Storage. Boca Raton, Florida, USA: CRC Press

In recent years many nanomaterials have been deployed in solar energy systems. These include both carbon-based (e.g. silicates, diamond, carbon nanotubes) and metallic nanoparticles (gold, silver, copper, tin, zinc etc). By combining these nanopartic... Read More about Finite volume numerical analysis of diamond and zinc nanoparticles performance in a water-based trapezium direct absorber solar collector with buoyancy effects.

Information and communications technology and renewable energy monitoring (2022)
Book Chapter
Alani, O., Qasim, A., & Al-Douri, Y. (2022). Information and communications technology and renewable energy monitoring. In Renewable Energy: Analysis, Resources, Applications, Management, and Policy (1-22). AIP Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1063/9780735424272_010

In the past two decades, the telecommunication and Information and Communication Technology (lCT) industry has grown tremendously fast with increasing demand for modern value-added services and pervasive computing. This rapid and radical deployment o... Read More about Information and communications technology and renewable energy monitoring.

Wind energy (2022)
Book Chapter
Qasim, A., Al-Douri, Y., & Alani, O. (2022). Wind energy. In Renewable Energy: Analysis, Resources, Applications, Management, and Policy (1-24). AIP Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1063/9780735424272_006

Wind energy is one of the cheapest and cleanest resource of renewable energy. It is very useful to use this wind resource to generate electricity because wind power is clean, and efficient. Wind energy is the conversion of the wind kinetic energy int... Read More about Wind energy.

Renewable energy and nanotechnology (2022)
Book Chapter
Al-Douri, Y., Jose, R., Qasim, A., & Alani, O. (2022). Renewable energy and nanotechnology. In Renewable Energy: Analysis, Resources, Applications, Management, and Policy (1-24). AIP Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1063/9780735424272_004

The most advances of nanotechnology to renewable energy production, storage and use are reviewed. This aims to introduce several significant applications of nanotechnology in renewable energy field. In this work is reviewed and summarized carefully t... Read More about Renewable energy and nanotechnology.

Numerical simulation of film cooling over flat plate (2022)
Book Chapter
Bahr Ennil, A., & Elfaghi, A. M. (2022). Numerical simulation of film cooling over flat plate. In New Approaches in Engineering Research Vol. 12 (10-16). Trans Tech Publications. https://doi.org/10.9734/bpi/naer/v12/8210D

The commercial CFD Ansys Fluent program is used to explore the effect of film cooling across a flat plate. The coolant supply tube and the primary mixing zone are included in the computational domain. For blowing ratios of 0.33, 0.5, and 1.67, and a... Read More about Numerical simulation of film cooling over flat plate.

Mechanical Engineering and the Integrated Engineering Works (2022)
Book Chapter
Nevell, M. Mechanical Engineering and the Integrated Engineering Works. In The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Archaeology (274-290). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199693962.013.8

This chapter looks at the development of mechanical engineering and integrated engineering works in Britain from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries. It focusses on the main buildings on the sites, including pattern shop, foundry and forge, fit... Read More about Mechanical Engineering and the Integrated Engineering Works.

The Archaeology of the British Coal Industry (2022)
Book Chapter
Palmer, M., & Nevell, M. The Archaeology of the British Coal Industry. In The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Archaeology (74-94). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199693962.013.10

This chapter concentrates on the archaeology of the coal industry within Britain, with a focus on extraction, processing, and transport, while placing the eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century industrial remains within a wider European cont... Read More about The Archaeology of the British Coal Industry.

Warehouses <i>c</i>.1770 to 1914 (2022)
Book Chapter
Nevell, M. Warehouses c.1770 to 1914. In The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Archaeology (445-456). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199693962.013.28

This chapter covers the new warehouse types of the industrial period in Britain, from the mid-eighteenth century to the early twentieth century. This includes those commercial building types involved with the short- to medium-term storage and distrib... Read More about Warehouses <i>c</i>.1770 to 1914.

Industrial Workers’ Housing in Britain (2022)
Book Chapter
Nevell, M. Industrial Workers’ Housing in Britain. In The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Archaeology (507-528). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199693962.013.32

This chapter focuses on the archaeological and standing buildings evidence for industrial housing directly associated with industry and urbanization in Britain during the eighteenth, nineteenth, and early twentieth centuries. Such housing was a neces... Read More about Industrial Workers’ Housing in Britain.

Global Communications, 1561 to 2016 (2022)
Book Chapter
Linge, N. Global Communications, 1561 to 2016. In The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Archaeology (425-444). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199693962.013.44

This chapter explores how the UK has always been at the forefront of global communications. It starts with packet ships that were used to carry handwritten messages across the oceans of the world and established Falmouth in Cornwall as an internation... Read More about Global Communications, 1561 to 2016.

The Archaeology of the Iron and Steel Industries in Britain (2022)
Book Chapter
Nevell, M. The Archaeology of the Iron and Steel Industries in Britain. In The Oxford Handbook of Industrial Archaeology (323-340). Oxford University Press (OUP). https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199693962.013.7

This chapter deals with the physical remains of the iron and steel industry in Britain. The focus is on extraction and processing rather than the products. The archaeological evidence spans the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, but with an emphas... Read More about The Archaeology of the Iron and Steel Industries in Britain.

Dissatisfaction after postdisaster resettlement (2022)
Book Chapter
Sridarran, P., Keraminiyage, K., & Amaratunga, D. (2022). Dissatisfaction after postdisaster resettlement. In Investing in Disaster Risk Reduction for Resilience (213-235). Elsevier Inc. https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-818639-8.00014-4

Abstract: Resettlement failure is a continuing concern within the field of postdisaster housing. There is a growing body of literature that recognizes dissatisfaction in many resettlement schemes around the world. However, a systematic understand... Read More about Dissatisfaction after postdisaster resettlement.

Surveillance for early detection of high-consequence pests and pathogens (2022)
Book Chapter
Bowers, J., Malayer, J., Martínez-López, B., LaForest, J., Bargeron, C., Neeley, A., …Russo, J. (2022). Surveillance for early detection of high-consequence pests and pathogens. In K. Cardwell, & K. Bailey (Eds.), Tactical Sciences for Biosecurity in Animal and Plant Systems (120-177). Pennsylvania: IGI Global. https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-7935-0.ch005

Surveillance is one of the core activities of national organizations responsible for human, animal, or plant health, with the goal of demonstrating the absence of infection or infestation, determining the presence or distribution of infection or infe... Read More about Surveillance for early detection of high-consequence pests and pathogens.

In silico models for hepatotoxicity (2022)
Book Chapter
Ellison, C., Hewitt, M., & Przybylak, K. (2022). In silico models for hepatotoxicity. In E. Benfenati (Ed.), In Silico Methods for Predicting Drug Toxicity (2nd edition) (355-392). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-0716-1960-5_14

In this chapter, we review the state of the art of predicting human hepatotoxicity using in silico techniques. There has been significant progress in this area over the past 20 years but there are still some challenges ahead. Principally, these chall... Read More about In silico models for hepatotoxicity.