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During the past few decades common river sand has become expensive due to excessive cost of transport from natural sources. Large scale depletions of these sources have led to many environmental impacts. In order to overcome these impacts an alternative has to be found...

This Special Issue is a collection of twelve papers on the design and application of biomedical circuits and systems. We hope you enjoy reading this Special Issue and become inspired to address technological challenges toward helping the medical industry and biologists to increase the...

The rapid development of advanced, arguably, intelligent sensors and their massive deployment provide a foundation for new paradigms to combat the challenges that arise in significant tasks such as positioning, tracking, navigation, and smart sensing in various environments. Relevant advances in artificial intelligence (AI)...

Will I save money by going solar? How much will I save on my electric bill? Is there a federal tax credit? How can I avoid being scammed? Going Solar The Homeowner's Handbook will answer all these questions and more. There is massive information...

Short-term load forecasting (STLF) plays a key role in the formulation of economic, reliable, and secure operating strategies (planning, scheduling, maintenance, and control processes, among others) for a power system and will be significant in the future. However, there is still much to do...

Modern holographic techniques have been successfully applied in many important areas, such as 3-D inspection, 3-D microscopy, metrology, and profilometry, augmented reality, and industrial informatics. This Special Issue covers selected pieces of cutting-edge research works, ranging from low-level acquisition, to high-level analysis, processing, and...

In the last few years, the leading semiconductor industries have introduced multi-gate non-planar transistors into their core business. These are being applied in memories and in logical integrated circuits to achieve better integration on the chip, increased performance, and reduced energy consumption. Intense research...

Kali Linux іѕ developed, funded аnd mаіntаіnеd bу a lеаdіng company called Offensive Security. It's a Penetration Testing and Password Cracker distribution, used for Ethical Hacking and for network security assesments. Hacking with Kali Linux is the guide to effectively hacking from zero to...

Would you like to learn to be an ethical hacker? Would you like to acquire computer skills for a useful purpose? Ethical hackers, called "white hat" or "ethical hackers". Their main activity consists in simulating malicious hacker attacks to find vulnerabilities in the systems...

Hey, we all must have noticed a drone flying at an event or maybe some other application. ●Have you ever thought about how a Drone flies? ● What are all the types and sizes of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles?●What are all the parts and applications...

Construction Tools Coloring Book - Fun And Education For Kids Make the perfect gift for anyone who loves coloring Enjoy this Construction Tools Coloring Book for Kids who want learn more about tools. Click the cover to reveal what's inside About this book: 50...

This book is dedicated to the latest findings on the design and optimization of production lines. The "Fourth Industrial Revolution" (alternatively known as "Industry 4.0") supports innovative models for energy consumption and fault tolerance in automated lines, and this drives changes in the design...

This Special Issue "Evaluation of Energy Efficiency and Flexibility in Smart Buildings" addresses the relevant role of buildings as strategic instruments to improve the efficiency and flexibility of the overall energy system. This role of the built environment is not yet fully developed and...

The problem of solving complex engineering problems has always been a major topic in all industrial fields, such as aerospace, civil and mechanical engineering. The use of numerical methods has increased exponentially in the last few years, due to modern computers in the field...

This book introduces Industrial AI in multiple dimensions. Industrial AI is a systematic discipline which focuses on developing, validating and deploying various machine learning algorithms for industrial applications with sustainable performance. Combined with the state-of-the-art sensing, communication and big data analytics platforms, a systematic...

This book is intended to facilitate the testing of dynamic imaging systems to ensure safety of the systems. The aim is to discuss methods and techniques that may be used to commission and perform quality control (QC) measurements of dynamic x-ray imaging systems; the...

This book continues the novel format story initiated in Management 2.0: Discovery of Integrated Enterprise Excellence. Written in an easy-to-access novel format, book provides practitioners and managers with: A next-generation system for enhancing digital transformation efforts in an organization An enhanced and more beneficial...

The electric power sector is poised for transformative changes. Improvements in the cost and performance of a range of distributed energy generation (DG) technologies and the potential for breakthroughs in distributed energy storage (DS) are creating new options for onsite power generation and storage,...

In recent years, several projects and studies have been launched towards the development and use of new methodologies, in order to assess, monitor, and support clean forms of energy. Accurate estimation of the available energy potential is of primary importance, but is not always...

This Special Issue focuses on the state-of-the-art results from the definition and design of filters for low- and high-frequency applications and systems. Different technologies and solutions are commonly adopted for filter definition, from electrical to electromechanical and mechanical solutions, from passive to active devices,...

The Industrial Internet of Things (Industrial IoT-IIoT) has emerged as the core construct behind the various cyber-physical systems constituting a principal dimension of the fourth Industrial Revolution. While initially born as the concept behind specific industrial applications of generic IoT technologies, for the optimization...

This book presents the results of the successful Sensors Special Issue on Intelligent Vehicles that received submissions between March 2019 and May 2020. The Guest Editors of this Special Issue are Dr. David Fern ndez-Llorca, Dr. Ignacio Parra-Alonso, Dr. Iv n Garc a-Daza and...

This book gathers a collection of papers summarizing some of the latest developments in the thermomechanical processing of steels. The replacement of conventional rolling plus post-rolling heat treatments by integrated controlled forming and cooling strategies implies important reductions in energy consumption, increases in productivity...

The food processing industries produce millions of tons of losses and waste during processing, which are becoming a grave economic, environmental, and nutritional problem. Fruit, vegetable, and food industrial solid waste include leaves, peels, pomace, skins, rinds pulp, stems, seeds, twigs, and spoiled fruits...

How do we store information in the brain? Is memory a thing in a place, like a specific molecule in a particular cell? Or does learning require a process in a population, like neurons firing in a specific pattern for each experience? This combination...

A surge in harmonics and distortion in the South Africa's electric power system has come to the fore in the early phases of integrating renewable energy resources to the national electric grid. Having said that, in this day and age a considerable number of...

Welcome to the world... A combination of modern technologies plus social commentary. A place where life is a little biased and conversations are concise and cute. Not deep and impactful and with no real change. A place where things that matter aren't acknowledged, just...

This booklet provides an outline of the key technological developments in ancient Greek and Roman society, including the provision of food, water, and shelter, building, textiles, and mining and metallurgy, as well as the key economic mechanisms that supported those developments.Author: Tracey E. RihllISBN-10:...

Faced with an ever-growing resource scarcity and environmental regulations, the last 30 years have witnessed the rapid development of various renewable power sources, such as wind, tidal, and solar power generation. The variable and uncertain nature of these resources is well-known, while the utilization...

Reciprocating internal combustion engines (RICEs) are the most robust and efficient machines to cover ground and marine transport demands. Worldwide road transport and off-road power needs will continue being successfully satisfied by this type of thermofluid machines in the short- to mid-term. Alternatives are...

Discover a Complete Guide for Making the Best Chicken Coop in Your Backyard With a Lot of Happy and Healthy Chickens It's becoming harder and harder, in today's world, to find food raised and cultivated to be healthy and tasty. So, how to solve...

Artificial intelligence techniques, such as expert systems, fuzzy logic, and artificial neural network techniques have become efficient tools in modeling and control applications. For example, there are several benefits in optimizing cost-effectiveness, because fuzzy logic is a methodology for the handling of inexact, imprecise,...

The problems of access to electricity continue to arise from billions of people living on the planet, mainly in the rural zones of the developing countries. The needs expressed by these populations concerned in priority with small amounts of energy for lighting, pumping water,...

Recent developments in the natural gas industry warrant new analysis of related issues. Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investments have accelerated the shift away from coal as the dominant source of electricity. Its low environmental impact, reduced volume, and broad availability make liquefied natural...

Is it even possible to be more efficient thanks to using your new Apple Watch 6 or SE (watchOS 7) at 100%? Luckily, it is - book written by proud Apple Watch Series 6 owner and everyday user is going to help you with...

This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base for future generations. So that the book is never forgotten we have represented this book in a print format as...

The Special Issue of Energies on the subject area of "Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) for Electric Vehicles (EV)", covers new work on EV and associated topics like charging process, smart grids, emerging ITS for EV and applications for electromoV market penetration with an increase...

This book describes the technological and educational advances that occurred from 1950 to 2000 and how they have improved the practice and teaching of engineering. The author began his career as an apprentice machinist out of high school in 1956. He retired from Worcester...

The optimization of motion and trajectory planning is an effective and usually costless approach to improving the performance of robots, mechatronic systems, automatic machines and multibody systems. Indeed, wise planning increases precision and machine productivity, while reducing vibrations, motion time, actuation effort and energy...

The global electric car fleet exceeded 7 million battery electric vehicles and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles in 2019, and will continue to increase in the future, as electrification is an important means of decreasing the greenhouse gas emissions of the transportation sector. The energy...

This book is a collection of papers covering various aspects of the optimal control of power and energy production from renewable resources (wind, PV, biomass, hydrogen, etc.). In particular, attention is focused both on the optimal control of new technologies and on their integration...

The sustainability of the built environment can only be achieved through the maintenance planning of built facilities during their lifecycle while also considering social, economic, functional, technical, and ecological aspects. Stakeholders should be conscious of the existing tools and knowledge for the optimization of...

The World University Research Rankings 2020 is a novel methodology designed to evaluate research multi-disciplinarity, complemented by indicators to gauge research impact and research collaborative-ness. Together, these three key aspects make up the composite index for the world university research rankings methodology.The aim of...

Road maintenance has traditionally been a time consuming, expensive, and manual process. Timely maintenance of roads helps in lowering rehabilitation costs, accidents, environmental pollution, while facilitating increased connectivity, trade, and growth. Easily acquirable front-view scene images are seen to be used lately for infrastructure...

It is difficult to imagine a modern society without rotating electric machines. Their use has been increasing not only in the traditional fields of application but also in more contemporary fields, including renewable energy conversion systems, electric aircraft, aerospace, electric vehicles, unmanned propulsion systems,...

Energy storage is a key topic for research, industry, and business, which is gaining increasing interest. Any available energy-storage technology (batteries, fuel cells, flywheels, and so on) can cover a limited part of the power-energy plane and is characterized by some inherent drawback. Supercapacitors...

The current power system should be renovated to fulfill social and industrial requests and economic advances. Hence, providing economic, green, and sustainable energy are key goals of advanced societies. In order to meet these goals, recent features of smart grid technologies need to have...

"Smart Sensing Technologies for Agriculture" is a Special Issue of Sensors that includes 14 research papers on diverse topics about the measurement of physical, chemical, and biological characteristics of soil, plants, and animals related to modern farming practices.Author: Viacheslav AdamchukISBN-10: 3039366882ISBN-13: 9783039366880Publisher: Mdpi AGLanguage:...

Electromagnetic (EM) waves carry energy through propagation in space. This radiation associates with entangled electric and magnetic fields which must exist simultaneously. Although all EM waves travel at the speed of light in vacuum, they cover a wide range of frequencies called the EM...

The development of tight-gas reservoirs over the last half-century has profoundly affected and expanded the petroleum industry. Moreover, our improved understanding of tight-gas reservoirs--from finding, characterizing, testing, modeling and developing them to producing their resources economically--can be felt not only throughout our industry but...