“Significant progress has been made in the past decade in sericulture research. Sericulture technique covering various aspects has also significantly advanced. Like agriculture, sericulture, as an industry, requires more incredible research and technology development to increase production. This book describes the complete range of subjects with current data relating to mulberry and silkworm. Overall this book emphasizes the fundamental aspects of the stable silkworm crop and various preventive measures against adverse factors. This book deserves 5 stars out of 5. In fact, I would give this book one more star on the rating scale. Highly recommend.” – Dr. E. Gayathiri, Assistant Professor, Department of Plant Biology and Plant Biotechnology, Guru Nanak College (Autonomous), Chennai, India

“This book is a very useful resource written from the most up to date literature sources aimed towards improving understanding of more than 50 lysosomal diseases. Lysosomal diseases are caused by inherited gene mutations that lead to a deficiency in lysosomal enzymes or associated proteins, which in turn causes progressive and chronic somatic and neurological disorders. In this monograph, Dr. Luna Bennett has written 24 chapters providing information about the diseases, characteristics, diagnosis, and treatment options. Research to develop treatments for lysosomal diseases continues to increase in the number of agents being studied and in the number of new biotechnology approaches, including novel administration routes and drug design aimed at improving bio-availability to affected tissues. This book provides information in a format and context that makes it useful for health care providers and research scientists, as well as patients with lysosomal diseases and their family members.” – Jeanine Jarnes PharmD BCOP BCPS, Assistant Professor, Department of Pediatrics, University of Minnesota, Pharmacotherapy for Inherited Metabolic Diseases, Advanced Therapies Department

“A core question about social entrepreneurship is how to socially organize in a way that people—who may be at core selfish—can find ways to express their best selves and care about others. After all, living in society is about some level of social mutuality balanced against some level of personal space, free will, self-dignity, and independence. How can the needs of the many be balanced against the needs of the individual, at scale? What method of government best enables people to thrive, with equity and inclusion and social justice? What are the best ways to set up incentives constructively? And in terms of a country’s leadership, how can they best lead and signal to enable a competitive nation? Olga Agatova’s Social Entrepreneurship: Perspectives, Management and Gender Differences (2022) captures various ways different nations and societies try to meet the needs of their peoples while competing in a zero-sum world. Leaders of countries balance a number of interests and aims…Read more at >>>” – Shalin Hai-Jew, Instructional Designer/Researcher, Kansas State University. Published in C2C Digital Magazine (Fall 2022 / Winter 2023)

“Mangesh M. Ghonge, Pradeep Nijalingappa, and Ahmed J. Obaid’s Understanding Pattern Analysis (2022) offers some refreshing cases of data analysis and ways to make meaning of images, structured data, and other data forms. It enriches traditional ideas of data patterns by including machine vision, machine learning algorithms, fresh engineering approaches to solving modern challenges, and richer data dimensionality through multimodal data. The space is evolving quickly and in real time, and it is hard to consider just where the current state-of-play is. For common readers and students, this work offers some refreshing reads about contemporaneous data patterns achieved computationally…Read more at >>>” – Shalin Hai-Jew, Instructional Designer/Researcher, Kansas State University. Published in C2C Digital Magazine (Fall 2022 / Winter 2023)

“Yuk Ming Tang, Ho Lun Ho, Ka Yin Chau, and Yan Wan’s A Beginner’s Guide to Virtual Reality (VR) Modeling in Healthcare Applications with Blender introduces a free and open-source technology that enables the building out of some sophisticated three-dimensional visuals that can be used in games, films, immersive virtual worlds, visual effects, animations, and other applications. The z-axis, the third dimension, and animation, the fourth dimension, help bring digital experiences (virtual and augmented) into the perception of real space…Read more at >>>” – Shalin Hai-Jew, Instructional Designer/Researcher, Kansas State University. Published in C2C Digital Magazine (Fall 2022 / Winter 2023)

“The general public may have seen news stories of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) delivering drugs and even human organs (for transplantation) across a hospital campus, monitoring the U.S.-Mexico border, delivering food, and providing security overflight. They may have seen creative light displays as new year celebrations, with smart drones flashing their brights. Others have been used for building-based art shows, alongside high-powered light projectors. Perhaps they have handled a commercial drone to shoot footage for their social media channels or films. They may have seen fleeting visuals of military-style UAVs in news stories of a hot war. Based on consumed information and experiences, people likely have various evocations in terms of “drones” and “UAVs”. Mohit Angurala and Vikas Khullar’s Revolutionary Applications of Intelligent Drones (2022) offers a look at various practical uses of these aircraft. Their edited collection may help situate understandings of such craft in a more systematized way. Indeed, drones have been used for “drug delivery, agricultural applications, vertical structure inspection, construction site survey” and other applications (n.p.). They have been applied in medicine, agriculture, disaster management, entertainment, and military applications. During the SARS-CoV-2 / COVID-19 pandemic, they were used for package deliveries. They may affect how people live, interact, share, war-fight, and otherwise engage…Read more at >>>” – Shalin Hai-Jew, Instructional Designer/Researcher, Kansas State University. Published in C2C Digital Magazine (Fall 2022 / Winter 2023)

“If one were to only read the title of the edited text, Economic Growth and Wellbeing: Evidence from the Belt and Road Initiative Countries, one could assume that the chapters in the edited text would be about BRI investments and infrastructure building and other endeavors for the particular target countries and regions. One would not expect there to just be statistical analyses of various public data at the national and regional levels to understand macro-level dynamics that promote economic development and well-being (with data from years prior to BRI’s advent). One would not expect patterned data analytics using high-level statistical analyses of particular variables, directly measured and proxied…This work does contribute insights to those working in global development, BRI or not. Perhaps this is a public conversation that needs to be had about the BRI and President Xi Jinping’s vision for an interconnected world brought together around development and trade…Read more at >>>” – Shalin Hai-Jew, Instructional Designer/Researcher, Kansas State University. Published in C2C Digital Magazine (Fall 2022 / Winter 2023)

“Konstantina Iliopoulou, Alexandra Anastasiadou, Georgia Karountzou, and Vasilios Zorbas’s Exploring Alternative Assessment Techniques in Language Classrooms (2022) lauds considered avant-garde approaches to teaching in the language classroom. They propose practical and inclusive methods for alternative evaluations of student work, with perhaps less of a focus on grades and more of a focus on the core knowledge and skills acquired, for liberated and emancipated and aware learners…Read more at >>>” – Shalin Hai-Jew, Instructional Designer/Researcher, Kansas State University. Published in C2C Digital Magazine (Fall 2022 / Winter 2023)

“Prasenjit Chatterjee, Parmanand Astya, Sudeshna Chakraborty, and Pooja, Editors of Machine Learning Algorithms for Engineering Applications: Future Trends and Research Directions (2022), highlights some practical applications of machine learning to solve human problems, by improving healthcare, strengthening network analysis, modeling hydrology, using wearable smart sensors, improving the food industry, enabling machine translation of language, strengthening tissue bio-engineering, drawing 3d point clouds from videos or image sequences, enhancing various dimensions in financial services, and studying the effects of sleep deprivation on human mental focus and performance…Read more at >>>” – Shalin Hai-Jew, Instructional Designer/Researcher, Kansas State University. Published in C2C Digital Magazine (Fall 2022 / Winter 2023)

“This book was published with scientific rigor and contains current issues as important as temperature control in the classroom to improve student learning. This edition opens up the field of reflection on the need for comfort to achieve objectives that are not exclusive to emotional stability, or simply static physical comfort (seat, posture, distance, or proximity to the points of instruction) but goes beyond that, taking into account the relationship with the city and how to achieve structures that promote health as a whole. It also takes a look into the past with a description of the Roman legacy that has been handed down to us over the centuries regarding the control of water and its mobility within the city. It is a comprehensive and highly recommended publication that will introduce the reader to a close and interesting academic world.” – Daniel Arranz Paraiso, Collaborating Professor Doctor, Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Technology, University Foundation San Pablo CEU, Spain