After a devastating toxic snowfall kills millions, Juan Salvo and a group of survivors in Buenos Aires must resist an invisible threat from another world.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of corticosteroids, including their pharmacological properties and clinical use, and addresses uncertainness in their appropriate prescribing.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of canine medicine and advances in the diagnosis and treatment of infectious, degenerative, and immunological diseases, cancer, and much more.

The purpose of this book is to present an overview of the historical background of male circumcision and to describe different circumcision techniques.

This book investigates Campylobacter’s significance as a food-borne pathogen and summarizes recent breakthroughs in isolation, identification, the involvement of immune responses and microbiota, as well as novel control strategies.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Smart Technologies, Systems and Applications, SmartTech-IC 2022, held in Cuenca, Ecuador, in November 16–18, 2022.

The five volume set LNCS 10960 until 10964 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2018, held in Melbourne, Australia, in July 2018.

This book highlights recent research and developments in floating structures on rivers, lakes, seas and oceans for energy harvesting, aquaculture and farming, leisure activities, infrastructure, industrial plants, real estate and cities, with a focus on sustainably living, relaxing and working offshore. Bringing together international experts and leaders, from both industry and academia it reviews and discusses ocean space utilization, and offers an ideal platform for those wanting to establish new collaborations on floating structure projects.

This proceedings book emphasizes adopting artificial intelligence-based and sustainable energy efficiency integrated with clear objectives, to involve researchers, students, and specialists in their development and implementation adequately in achieving objectives.

This book constitutes the first part of refereed proceedings of the 5th Computational Methods in Systems and Software 2021 (CoMeSySo 2021). The CoMeSySo 2021 Conference is breaking the barriers, being held online. CoMeSySo 2021 intends to provide an international forum for the discussion of the latest high-quality research results.
The software engineering, computer science, and artificial intelligence are crucial topics for the research within an intelligent systems problem domain.

The ten-volume set LNCS 12949 – 12958 constitutes the proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Computational Science and Its Applications, ICCSA 2021, which was held in Cagliari, Italy, during September 13 – 16, 2021. The event was organized in a hybrid mode due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

This volume gathers the latest advances and innovations in the field of operational modal analysis and structural health monitoring, as presented at the 10th International Operational Modal Analysis Conference (IOMAC), held in Naples, Italy on May 22-24, 2024. The contributions cover a diverse range of topics, including AI for data interpretation, automatic modal parameter estimation, Digital Twin, modal testing methods, instrumentation and case studies, model correlation and updating, modal-based SHM, modal mass estimation. Selected by means of a rigorous peer-review process, they will spur novel research directions and foster future multidisciplinary collaborations.