Plants are reservoir of effective chemotherapeutics and can provide valuable sources of natural antimicrobials. Bacteriocins are natural antimicrobial peptides with interesting potential applications in human health and exhibit a bactericidal mode of action against related as well as unrelated microorganisms....

The cosmopolitan whitefly species, Bemisia tabaci has always been regarded as pests to a large range of worldwide crops. They are capable of transmitting plant viruses of different groups. Well-studied B. tabaci populations that have been differentiated are referred to as races or biotypes....

This book provides the top management in industry an accurate and quick tool to build the right decision regarding the mechanical structures facing potential problems caused by galvanic corrosion....

The aim of this work is to develop an application which can be used for privacy and security purposes over an open environment like internet. The application also provides multilayer security in the form of steganography, which is used to hide the data into the image and secondly, cryptography in order to encrypt the image with a key....