Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitors as Sensitizing Agents for Chemotherapy, the fourth volume in the Cancer Sensitizing Agents for Chemotherapy Series, focuses on strategic combination therapies that involve a variety of tyrosine kinase inhibitors working together to overcome multi-drug resistance in cancer cells. The book discusses several tyrosine kinase inhibitors that have been used as sensitizing agents, such as EGFR, BCR-ABL, ALK and BRAF. In each chapter, readers will find comprehensive know...

This reference presents comprehensive information about laser surface treatments for tribological applications. Chapters of the book highlight the importance of laser technology in modifying materials to optimize the effects of friction and lubrication, by explaining a range of surface modification methods used in industries. These methods include hardening, melting, alloying, cladding and texturing. The knowledge in the book is intended to give an in-depth understanding about the role of ...

This reference presents comprehensive information about laser surface treatments for tribological applications. Chapters of the book highlight the importance of laser technology in modifying materials to optimize the effects of friction and lubrication, by explaining a range of surface modification methods used in industries. These methods include hardening, melting, alloying, cladding and texturing. The knowledge in the book is intended to give an in-depth understanding about the role of ...

Additive manufacturing or 3D printing is the construction of an object using CAD models. The technology for additive manufacturing s gaining traction in recent times due to its accessibility for both personal and industrial use, as well as its usefulness in quick prototyping (either of a whole object or its components) and meeting the needs of small commercial workloads.Advances in Additive Manufacturing Processes informs readers about the breadth of 3D printing processes. Chapters cover t...

This book covers vibration testing and identification of dynamic structural systems. It starts from the fundamentals of structural dynamics, and covers the methods of modal analysis and model identification, vibration tests and the related experimental setup. It concludes with an outline of the authors‘ software, demonstrating practical applications, and illustrated with real-world case studies of full-scale structures.Theory is presented and derived step-by-step, with a detailed m...

This book presents revised selected papers from the 16th International Forum on Digital TV and Wireless Multimedia Communication, IFTC 2019, held in Shanghai, China, in September 2019.The 34 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 120 submissions. They were organized in topical sections on image processing; machine learning; quality assessment; telecommunications; video surveillance; virtual reality.

This volume contains 27 selected papers presented at IFTC 2024: 21st International Forum of Digital Multimedia Communication, held in Lingshui, Hainan, China, on November 28-29, 2024.The 55 full papers included in this 2-volume set were carefully reviewed and selected from 146 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows:CCIS 2441: Affective Computing, Graphics & Image Processing for Virtual Reality, Large Language Models, Multimedia Communication, Applic...

The Future of Road Transportation presents rapidly growing research towards electrified and automated vehicles. It explains the workings and drawbacks of a conventional vehicle’s powertrain, braking, and steering systems before exploring ADAS equipment and driverless car technologies.Emphasizing the necessary changes in conventional transport systems towards sustainable and smart mobility, this book discusses advanced future mobility technologies and the challenges and con...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Forum on Digital Multimedia Communication, IFTC 2023, held in Beijing, China, December 21–22, 2023.The 57 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 150 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows:CCIS 2066: Image Processing, Media Computing, Metaverse and Virtual Reality, and Multimedia Communication.CCIS 2067: Quality Assessment, Source Cod...

This book presents cutting-edge results on stability analysis and control scheme designs for networked teleoperation systems. It highlights new research on commonly encountered nonlinear teleoperation systems, including the stability analysis of teleoperation systems with asymmetric time-varying delays, stability analysis of teleoperation systems with interval time delays, and so on. Moreover, the book presents several high-performance control scheme designs for teleoperation systems when ...

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Intelligence Science and Big Data Engineering, IScIDE 2017, held in Dalian, China, in September 2017.The 48 full papers and 14 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 121 submissions. They deal with statistics and learning; deep neural networks; faces and people; objects; classification and clustering; imaging; biomedical signal processing; and recommendation.

Comprehensive coverage of all aspects of space application oriented fault tolerance techniques• Experienced expert author working on fault tolerance for Chinese space program for almost three decades• Initiatively provides a systematic texts for the cutting-edge fault tolerance techniques in spacecraft control computer, with emphasis on practical engineering knowledge• Presents fundamental and advanced theories and technologies in a logical a...