Power Engineering: Advances and Challenges Part B: Electrical Power Viorel Badescu | English | ISBN: 1138319872 | 2018 | 436 pages | PDF | 23 MB Traditionally, power engineering has been a subfield of energy engineering and electrical engineering which deals with the generation, transmission, distribution and utilization of electric power and the electrical devices connected to such systems including generators, motors and transformers. Implicitly this perception is associated with the ...
Natural Gas Transmission and Distribution Business Pramod Paliwal | English | ISBN: 1138598305 | 2019 | 210 pages | PDF | 7 MB The natural gas business consists of two major aspects, sourcing and transportation, and distribution has been a growing area of interest to industry, government and academia. With the emphasis on promoting natural gas sector, there is an increasing need to have a well documented book that deals with the business issues, particularly the transportation and ...
Nanofluidics: An Introduction Zhigang Li | English | ISBN: 1138035513 | 2018 | 428 pages | PDF | 26 MB This book provides an introduction to nanofluidics in a simple manner and can be easily followed by senior undergraduate students, graduate students, and other researchers who have some background in fluid mechanics. The book covers the main topics about the fundamentals of nanofluidics and how it differs from classic fluid mechanics. It also describes the methodologies of ...
Grey and White Hulls: An International Analysis of the Navy-Coastguard Nexus Ian Bowers | English | ISBN: 9811392412 | 2019 | 292 pages | PDF | 3 MB This book undertakes an in-depth examination of the diversity in international approaches to the navy-coastguard nexus. It considers the evolving global maritime security landscape and the emergence and proliferation of maritime law enforcement agencies―collectively referred to here as “coastguards”―performing peacetime ...
Nanoscience for Sustainable Agriculture Ramesh Namdeo Pudake | English | ISBN: 3319978519 | 2019 | 711 pages | PDF | 15 MB This book discusses the ability of nanomaterials to protect crop-plant and animal health, increase production, and enhance the quality of food and other agricultural products. It explores the use of targeted delivery and slow- release agrochemicals to reduce the damage to non-target organisms and the quantity released into the soil and water, as well as ...
Fixed Point Theorems and Applications Vittorino Pata | Springer | English | PDF,EPUB | 2019 | 171 Pages | ISBN : 3030196690 | 12.44 MB This book addresses fixed point theory, a fascinating and far-reaching field with applications in several areas of mathematics. The content is divided into two main parts. The first, which is more theoretical, develops the main abstract theorems on the existence and uniqueness of fixed points of maps. In turn, the second part focuses on applications, ...
Facing Hydrometeorological Extreme Events: A Governance Issue La Jeunesse, Isabelle | Wiley | English | ISBN: 1119383544 | 2019 | 536 pages | PDF | 7 MB Provides an understanding of the relationship between social-ecological systems and multilevel governance so that readers can properly deal with hydrometeorological extreme events and hazardsBased on field investigations from EU research projects, this book is the first to devote itself to scientific and policy-related knowledge concerning ...
Design and Construction of LNG Storage Tanks Josef Rötzer | Wiley | English | ISBN: 3433032777 | 2019 | 138 pages | PDF | 6 MB Worldwide, the use of natural gas as a primary energy source will remain vital for decades to come. This applies to industrialized, emerging countries and developing countries. Owing to the low level of impurities, natural gas is considered to be a climate-friendly fossil fuel because of the low CO2 emissions, but is at the same time an affordable source of ...
Air Traffic Control Automated Systems Bestugin A.R., Eshenko A.A., Filin A.D., Plyasovskikh A.P., Shatrakov A.Y., Shatrakov Y.G. | Springer | 2020 | English | 282 Pages | ISBN: 978-981-13-9385-3 | 9 MB | pdf This book highlights operation principles for Air Traffic Control Automated Systems (ATCAS), new scientific directions in design and application of dispatching training simulators and parameters of ATCAS radio equipment items for aircraft positioning. This book is designed for ...
Applications of Emerging Memory Technology: Beyond Storage Manan Suri | Springer | 2020 | English | 244 Pages | ISBN: 978-981-13-8378-6 | 13 MB | pdf The book intends to bring under one roof research work of leading groups from across the globe working on advanced applications of emerging memory technology nanodevices. The applications dealt in the text will be beyond conventional storage application of semiconductor memory devices. The text will deal with material and device ...
Multifocal Intraocular Lenses: The Art and the Practice Ed 2 Jorge L. Alió | English | ISBN: 3030212815 | 2019 | 383 pages | PDF | 21 MB This comprehensive 2nd edition will build on the highly successful first edition, providing an updated global perspective of the fundamentals of multifocal intraocular lenses. The varying outcomes, limitations, and the neuroadaptation process necessary for an adequate clinical success are thoroughly discussed, along with an overview of the different ...
Introduction to Ultrasound, Sonochemistry and Sonoelectrochemistry Bruno G. Pollet | English | PDF,EPUB | 2019 | 46 Pages | ISBN : 3030258610 | 7.49 MB This book provides an introduction to the fundamental and applied aspects of sonochemistry, discussing a number of basic concepts in sonochemistry, such as how ultrasonic waves interact with gas bubbles in liquids to generate cavitation, and how the high temperatures generated within cavitation bubbles could be estimated. It explains how ...
Laws and Regulations in Global Financial Markets Roy Girasa | English | PDF | 2019 | 384 Pages | ISBN : 1349467006 | 2.53 MB The major financial scandals of the past decade, which have been discussed exhaustively in corporate offices by corporate attorneys, and in accounting firms, have led to the passage of massive Congressional enactments in the United States that impact the world of finance.The enactment of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act in 2002, with its significant provisions of 20-year ...
Electrodynamics and Optics Wolfgang Demtröder | English | PDF | 2019 | 458 Pages | ISBN : 3030022897 | 42.85 MB This engaging text offers an accessible and clear treatment of the fundamentals of electromagnetics and optics, a core part of the standard undergraduate physics curriculum. Starting with static electric and magnetic fields, the book works through electromagnetic oscillations and the formation and propagation of electromagnetic waves, before moving on to geometric and ...
Jamming and Glass Transitions: In Mean-Field Theories and Beyond Ada Altieri | English | PDF | 2019 | 229 Pages | ISBN : 3030235998 | 18.51 MB The work described in this book originates from a major effort to develop a fundamental theory of the glass and the jamming transitions.The first chapters guide the reader through the phenomenology of supercooled liquids and structural glasses and provide the tools to analyze the most frequently used models able to predict the complex behavior of ...
Supergeometry, Super Riemann Surfaces and the Superconformal Action Functional Enno Keßler | English | PDF | 2019 | 310 Pages | ISBN : 3030137570 | 22.59 MB This book treats the two-dimensional non-linear supersymmetric sigma model or spinning string from the perspective of supergeometry. The objective is to understand its symmetries as geometric properties of super Riemann surfaces, which are particular complex super manifolds of dimension 1|1.The first part gives an ...
Microfluidics for Single-Cell Analysis Jin-Ming Lin | English | PDF | 2019 | 263 Pages | ISBN : 981329728X | 12.59 MB This book summarizes the various microfluidic-based approaches for single-cell capture, isolation, manipulation, culture and observation, lysis, and analysis. Single-cell analysis reveals the heterogeneities in morphology, functions, composition, and genetic performance of seemingly identical cells, and advances in single-cell analysis can overcome the difficulties ...
Plant Growth Promoting Rhizobacteria for Sustainable Stress Management Volume 1: Rhizobacteria in Abiotic Stress Management R. Z. Sayyed | English | PDF | 2019 | 372 Pages | ISBN : 9811365350 | 31.24 MB Increasing agro productivity to feed a growing global population under the present climate scenario requires optimizing the use of resources and adopting sustainable agricultural production. This can be achieved by using plant beneficial bacteria, i.e., those bacteria that enhance plant ...
Symmetries in Atomic Nuclei: From Isospin to Supersymmetry, Second Edition Alejandro Frank | English | PDF | 2019 | 220 Pages | ISBN : 3030219305 | 16.64 MB The revised edition of this established work presents an extended overview of recent applications of symmetry to the description of atomic nuclei, including a pedagogical introduction to symmetry concepts using simple examples. Following a historical overview of the applications of symmetry in nuclear physics, attention turns to more ...
Complex Adaptive Systems: Views from the Physical, Natural, and Social Sciences Ted Carmichael | English | PDF | 2019 | 254 Pages | ISBN : 3030203077 | 30.89 MB This book emerged out of international conferences organized as part of the AAAI Fall Symposia series, and the Swarmfest 2017 conference. It brings together researchers from diverse fields studying these complex systems using CAS and agent-based modeling tools and techniques. In the past, the knowledge gained in each domain has ...
