This book constitutes the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Health Information Science, HIS 2021, which took place in Melbourne, Australia, in October 2021. The 16 full papers and 7 short papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from…
Heat-integrated crude oil distillation systems – the atmospheric and vacuum distillation towers and associated heat recovery system – are energy and capital intensive. The structures of the distillation columns are very complex and the distillation columns interact strongly with…
Alternative splicing (AS) is a common post-transcriptional process in eukaryotic organisms, by which multiple distinct functional transcripts are produced from a single gene. Because of its potential role in expanding transcript diversity, interest in alternative splicing has be…
Joints are the most critical elements in a steel framed structure. In most design guides or codes, the joints are assumed to a have higher fire resistance than the connected structural members because of the lower temperatures in the joints. However, in severe fire conditions, a…