In an era of dynamic technological evolution, organizations grapple with escalating threats and operational vulnerabilities due to the inadequacies of traditional security approaches. The pressing need for robust controls and comprehensive visibility in the face of these challenges is at the core of Ensuring Security and End-to-End Visibility Through Blockchain and Digital Twins. This groundbreaking book explores the urgent synergy between blockchain and digital twins, presenting innovative solutions to fortify security and revolutionize end-to-end visibility across diverse industries. Within this rapidly changing digital landscape, Blockchain emerges as a beacon of security, with its decentralized and tamper-resistant architecture. Paired seamlessly with digital twins—virtual replicas of physical entities or processes—these technologies create a paradigm shift in safeguarding data, assets, and workflows. The integration establishes a transparent, secure, and interconnected environment, facilitating seamless information exchange and instilling trust throughout the system.

Facts, myths, statistics, science, and history about communicable illnesses from around the world that will have you equally freaked out and fascinated. Taking a friendly approach to a serious subject, The Big Book of Infectious Disease Trivia answers your questions about pandemics, epidemics, and diseases—and covers the bizarre questions you never thought to ask. From familiar diseases like influenza to ancient diseases like leprosy to oddly named diseases like mad cow disease, this book tackles the mind-blowing facts and obscure details about many infectious diseases—past, present, and future. Get ready to broaden your understanding of humanity’s many illnesses, from survivable to deadly, with answers to questions like: What’s the difference between an epidemic and a pandemic? What is the oldest known infectious disease? How is COVID-19 different from the flu and pneumonia? Who invented the face mask? What is herd immunity? What does it take to have an infectious disease declared “eradicated"? With historical facts along with pop culture references, The Big Book of Infectious Disease Trivia is a must-have for anyone fascinated by infectious diseases.

Health financing is a core pillar of health systems and encompasses the three functions of how revenues for health are collected, pooled and paid out to providers of health care services. It can be leveraged to pursue key universal health coverage goals of enhancing access, ensuring quality and financial protection against catastrophic or impoverishing out-of-pocket expenditure. But knowledge on how health financing practices can be harnessed to promote the delivery of rehabilitation services is limited. This document is the first WHO resource on health financing for rehabilitation. It considers current practices for financing rehabilitation services, frames major challenges and opportunities, and offers guidance to decision-makers engaged in strengthening rehabilitation within health systems.

Sustainable and green eco-friendly remediation technologies to tackle environmental issues are currently being developed. This book covers advancements and achievements in the application of tailored biopolymers for green environmental pollution remediation technologies. It covers plant-based and animal sourced biopolymers, composites and biopolymer-based membrane technology. This book covers all the chapters in the form of a review which gives a comprehensive outlook on each of the topics covered in the chapters, thus quite useful for graduates, researchers and academicians.

This book comprehensively reviews searchable encryption, which represents a series of research developments that directly enable search functionality over encrypted data. The book majorly covers: 1) the design and implementation of encrypted search algorithms, data structures, and systems that facilitate various forms of search over always-encrypted databases; 2) different threat models, assumptions, and the related security guarantees, when using searchable encryption in the real-world settings; and 3) latest efforts in building full-fledged encrypted database systems that draw insights from searchable encryption constructions. The book fits in the timely context, where the necessity of safeguarding important and sensitive data has been globally recognized. Traditional security measures, such as storing data behind network firewalls and layers of access control mechanisms to keep attackers out, are no longer sufficient to cope with the expanding landscape of surging cyber threats. There is an urgent call to keep sensitive data always encrypted to protect the data at rest, in transit, and in use. Doing so guarantees data confidentiality for owners, even if the data is out of their hands, e.g., hosted at in-the-cloud databases. The daunting challenge is how to perform computation over encrypted data. As we unfold in this book, searchable encryption, as a specific line of research in this broadly defined area, has received tremendous advancements over the past decades. This book is majorly oriented toward senior undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers, who want to work in the field and need extensive coverage of encrypted database research. It also targets security practitioners who want to make well-informed deployment choices of the latest advancements in searchable encryption for their targeted applications. Hopefully, this book will be beneficial in both regards.

Additive manufacturing of metals is an increasingly important process for producing or repairing structural components in the aerospace, medical and dental industries. The book reviews the various techniques that are currently in use and describes the many possible applications. The review is based on 350 original resources and includes their direct web link for in-depth reading. Keywords: Additive Manufacturing, 3-Dimensional Printing,, Layered Manufacturing, Titanium Alloys, Nickel Alloys, Iron Alloys, Stainless Steels, Aluminium, Cobalt, Copper, Magnesium, Niobium, Tantal, Tin, Tungsten, Zinc, Porous Metals, Biomedical Materials, Orthopaedic Devices, Dental Implants, Aerospace Components, Laser Melting, Electron-Beam Melting.

The three-volume set LNCS 13245, 13246 and 13247 constitutes the proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, DASFAA 2022, held online, in April 2021. The total of 72 full papers, along with 76 short papers, are presented in this three-volume set was carefully reviewed and selected from 543 submissions. Additionally, 13 industrial papers, 9 demo papers and 2 PhD consortium papers are included. The conference was planned to take place in Hyderabad, India, but it was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic.