Tabla de Contenidos: “…About the Editors vii -- Advances in Lubricated Bearings 1 -- Experimental Investigation of a Large Tilting-Pad Journal Bearing-Comparison of a Flooded and Non-Flooded Design 5 -- Influence of Active Cooling at the Trailing Edge on the Thermal Behavior of a Tilting-Pad Journal Bearing 17 -- Improvement of Tilting-Pad Journal Bearing Operating Characteristics by Application of Eddy Grooves 35 -- CFD Analysis of Journal Bearing with a Heterogeneous Rough/Smooth Surface 49 -- Design and Analysis of an Aerostatic Pad Controlled by a Diaphragm Valve 69 -- Study of the Influence of Temperature on Contact Pressures and Resource of Metal-Polymer Plain Bearings with Filled Polyamide PA6 Bushing 87 -- Investigation of the Wettability Properties of Different Textured Lead/Lead-Free Bronze Coatings 99 -- Impact of Graphene Nano-Additives to Lithium Grease on the Dynamic and Tribological Behavior of Rolling Bearings 113 -- Stability Effects of Non-Circular Geometry in Floating Ring Bearings 131 -- Run-Up Simulation of a Semi-Floating Ring Supported Turbocharger Rotor Considering Thrust Bearing and Mass-Conserving Cavitation 153 -- Operating Behavior of Sliding Planet Gear Bearings for Wind Turbine Gearbox Applications-Part I: Basic Relations 177 -- Operating Behavior of Sliding Planet Gear Bearings for Wind Turbine Gearbox Applications-Part II: Impact of Structure Deformation 197.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Additive Manufacturing: Technology, Materials and Applications in Aerospace / Veeman Dhinakaran, Mahesh Varsha Shree, Thimmaiah Jagadeesha, Madabushi Swapna Sai -- Study of the Manufacturing Process of Polymer Spur Gears: A Light Weight Gear Material / Jitendra Kumar Katiyar, Hemalata Jena -- Recent Trends in Welding Polymers and Polymer-Metal Hybrid Structures / Jinesh Kumar Jain, Pankaj Sonia -- Characterization. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Front Cover; ABOUT THE EDITORS; REVIEWERS AND ADVISORY BOARD MEMBERS; CONTENTS; LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS; CHAPTER 1: HYDROGEL-BASED SUPPORTS: DESIGN AND SYNTHESIS; CHAPTER 2: THERMAL PROPERTIES OF THE POLYPROPYLENE/MULTI-WALLED CARBON NANOTUBE COMPOSITES; RECENT ADVANCES IN POLYMERIC NANOCOMPOSITES: STRUCTURE, MANUFACTURE, AND PROPERTIES; CHAPTER 4: METAL NANOPARTICLES IN POLYMERS; CHAPTER 5: STABILITY OF POLYMERIC PRODUCTS TO OXIDIZING AND HYDROLYTIC DESTRUCTIONS; CHAPTER 6: POLYELECTROLYTE MICROSENSORS AS A NEW TOOL FOR METABOLITES' DETECTION…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Gender Segregation in Music Education and Production in Italy -- Introducing WMLON: The Women’s Musical Leadership Online Network -- Women in Music: Possibilities and Responsibilities of Cultural Management and Policy -- Women’s Role in Sustaining the Practice of Tamburitza Instruments in Vojvodina -- Performing Trauma in Privileged Spaces: Empowering Turkish Women’s Voices of the Past -- Women’s Actions to Revitalize the Practice of Kaval Playing in Serbia -- Female Leadership in Serbian Metal Music. Frontwomen at the Crossroads of Visibility, Genre and Voice -- Female Agency, Genres and Aesthetics of Sorrow in Persian Classical Music -- “What Moves the World, Moves My Ass as Well”: Mimi Mercedez as an Anti-heroine of Postsocialist Serbia -- Notes on Contributors…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Health Risks Associated with the Consumption of Legumes Contaminated with Pesticides and Heavy Metals -- 13. Fermentation as Strategy for Improving Nutritional, Functional, Technological, and Sensory Properties of Legumes -- 14. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Dibujos y el eterno poder del dibujo de David Hockney, Los. Heavy metal : la fantasía y no la guerra fue la especialidad de los armeros renacentistas. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…A garage of one's own : heavy metal as a reinvention of social technology / Sean Kelly ; The hand-made tale : authorship, privatization, and cassette-tape culture in the Pacific Northwest independent music scene / Kathleen McConnell -- Gothic music and the decadent individual / Kimberly Jackson -- Alternative protest : straight-edge and other failings in the post-punk repertoire / Steven Hamelman…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Nanocellulose-based membranes for water purification -- 3.5.2.4. Metal and metal oxide NPs in water treatment and purification -- 3.5.3. …”

“…Es obligación del escritor alzar en alto las palabras que los señalan, para que no todo en el mundo sea noticia del poder del metal y de la brea. La belleza de lo bienaventurado parte de la certeza de que el mundo está lleno de seres y de momentos tocados por la herida y la bondad, por la verdad y la belleza. …”

“…¿Cómo cultivar alimentos, generar electricidad, preparar medicinas o extraer metal de las rocas? ¿Se puede evitar una nueva edad oscura y aprovechar los atajos para conseguir de nuevo el desarrollo? …”

“…¿Qué habrá sido de Bondok, el joven libio pionero del death metal bereber, desde que llegó a Europa tras ser rescatado por Open Arms? …”

“…"Cualquier curioso de la historia cree saber qué significa la expresión «Plomos del Sacromonte»: algo así como el conjunto de láminas de ese metal con extraños dibujos e inscripciones latinas y árabes encontradas en la colina de Valparaíso, luego Sacromonte, extramuros de la ciudad de Granada, en el período 1595-1599; incluyéndose en el conjunto, por su íntima y evidente imbricación, los restos humanos que las acompañaban, y, también, el hallazgo habido en la Torre Turpiana, en el centro del núcleo urbano de Granada, en 1588, siempre asociado como prólogo. …”
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“…It delves into the physical and perceptual attributes of various materials, including stone, clay, wood, metal, and fluid materials, and examines their role in the creative and constructive processes. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Comparative outcomes of endoscopic ultrasound-guided cystogastrostomy for peripancreatic fluid collections: a systematic review and meta-analysis -- The validity of breath collection bags method in detecting Helicobacter pylori using the novel BreathID®Hp Lab System: a multicenter clinical study in 257 subjects -- Safety of endoscopic sphincterotomy in patients undergoing antithrombotic treatment: a retrospective study -- Endoscopic side-by-side uncovered self-expandable metal stent placement for malignant hilar biliary obstruction -- Clinical impact of digital cholangioscopy in management of indeterminate biliary strictures and complex biliary stones: a single-center study -- Assessing spontaneous passage of prophylactic pancreatic duct stents by X-ray: is a radiology report adequate? …”

“…Apartándose de enfoques que consideran las culturas juveniles como ‘desviaciones sociales', ‘tribus urbanas' o ‘nuevos movimientos políticos', Secretos de mutantes bucea en culturas juveniles urbanas como la Skinhead, el Punk, el Metal, el Hardcore, el Grunge y el Hip Hop, explorándolas desde un punto de vista inédito: su dimensión de creación, para percibir los cruciales y casi desconocidos procesos que sus miembros llevan a cabo en estos vastos universos de experimentación. …”

“…Among other cases, New Materials traces the beneficent self-identity of Quaker asylum planners who devised soundless metal cell locks in the early 19th century, and the inculcation of national pride attending Taiwanese carbon-fiber bicycle parts in the 21st; the racialized labor organizations promoted by California orange breeders in the 1910s, and bureaucratized distributions of blame for deadly high-rise fires a century later. …”

“…., nanotubes, graphene, graphene oxide, carbon quantum dots, nanodiamond, etc.) with various functional molecules such as drugs, natural compounds, biomolecules, polymers, metal nanoparticles, and macrocycles that have useful applications in drug delivery, multi-targeted therapies, theranostic as well as scaffolds in tissue engineering, and as sensing materials have been selected for publication as Articles or Mini Reviews. …”

“…This includes, but is not limited to, the detection of antibiotic residues in animal-producing meat products, detection of pathogenic bacteria in human body fluid, and detection of heavy metal contamination of water. This book, consisting two review articles and five research articles, covers the most recent progress and advancement in the development and application of various nanomaterials in SERS trace detection. …”

“…The OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Supply Chains of Minerals from Conflict-Affected and High-Risk Areas provides step-by-step management recommendations endorsed by governments for global responsible supply chains of minerals in order for companies to respect human rights and avoid contributing to conflict through their mineral or metal purchasing decisions and practices. The Due Diligence Guidance may be used by any company potentially sourcing minerals or metals from conflict-affected and high-risk areas, and is intended to cultivate transparent, conflict-free supply chains and sustainable corporate engagement in the minerals sector…”