Technology & Engineering - General

The second volume of the Special Issue on "Micro-Electro Discharge Machining: Principles, Recent Advancements and Applications" confirms the growing interest in the micro-EDM technology as a suitable and efficient technology for machining novel, multilateral components, with demanding requirements in terms of precision, accuracy, and...

The connected and automated vehicle (CAV) is a promising piece of technology, anticipated to enhance the safety and effectiveness of mobility. Advanced sensing technologies and control algorithms, working to acquire environmental data, analyze data, and regulate vehicle movements, are key functional components of CAVs....

The philosophy of technology has been dominated by moral/critical metaphysical analyses of the "essence" of technology. This volume explores how empirical data might be used in ontological, epistemological, ethical or more general discussions to develop a philosophy more internally oriented.Author: P. a. KroesISBN-10: 0762307552ISBN-13:...

In this volume, a distinguished team of international authorities reports on the latest research on the origins of the most fundamental features of our world. Martin Rees begins the book with a bang, the Big Bang that was the probable start of our universe....

Author: Manfred Dutch Von EhrenfriedISBN-10: 331976683XISBN-13: 9783319766836Publisher: SpringerLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/04/2018Pages: 285Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.28lbsSize: 9.48h x 6.70w x 0.61dReview Citation(s): Choice 02/01/2019

In times of networking and the growing importance of platform economies, how can products and services be developed that inspire people? Which development methods and organisational forms are promising for this? Leaders and developers will find answers to these questions in this book. With...

This book provides an update to the capabilities of unmanned systems since my two previous books entitled Unmanned Systems: Savior or Threat and The Importance and Vulnerabilities of U.S. Critical Infrastructure to Unmanned Systems and Cyber. Our world is undergoing a revolution in how...

The Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) promotes the U.S. economy and public welfare by providing technical leadership for the Nation's measurement and standards infrastructure. ITL develops tests, test methods, reference data, proof of concept implementations, and...

Project Pre-Check FastPath The Project Manager's Guide to Stakeholder Management The original Project Pre-Check was published in 2007 as a planning, governance and project assessment practice for project stakeholders. It provides the structure, roadmaps and resources to leverage proven best practices and ensure project...

This antiquarian volume contains a guide to building houses, with information on planning, materials, architecture, tools, technique, and much more besides. Containing all the information fundamental to the construction of a house, this text will be of considerable value to those with an interest...

Originally published in 1935, this early work by G. Henderson is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. Its 322 pages contain a wealth of information on the engineering of gears and includes chapters on worm gearing, materials, spiral gearing, all...

This reprint contains contributions focusing on recent developments in the design, synthesis, and characterization of nanocatalysts intended for applications in environmental protection and low carbon footprint power generation processes thanks to the overall effort of scientists and researchers for a cleaner and more sustainable...

Six Sigma Skills are essentially world class technical prblem solving Skills. This books explains how as a Yellowbelt you can understand your process physics and use simple quality tools to improve your process to the best it can be. This is a practical text...

This Special Issue on "Carbon Dioxide Capture, Utilization and Storage (CCUS)" features invited articles on the latest technologies and developments in CCUS, including but not limited to pre-combustion carbon capture; post-combustion carbon capture; oxyfuel or chemical cycle combustion; conversion of CO2 to synthetic fuels;...

Energy systems have played an essential role in the history of human civilization. As our civilization evolves, energy systems are expected to adapt to the environment and desire of people for more sustainable development whilst meeting the ever-increasing energy demand of society. To address...

The automotive industry has always been synonymous with research and innovation, but nowadays the industry is adding pressure and is establishing the agenda of the researchers from the field. Visions have been provided, and the hardware and the software exist; the only question remaining...

A must-have for the wind-power professional WIND TURBINE TECHNOLOGY is recognized worldwide as the authoritative guide to state-of-the-art wind turbine engineering. If you are an energy planner, engineer, designer, utility project manager, wind power station developer, manufacturer of wind turbine equipment, teacher, or student,...

The last decades of the Ming dynasty, though plagued by chaos and destruction, saw a significant increase of publications that examined advances in knowledge and technology. Among the numerous guides and reference books that appeared during this period was a series of texts by...

"Lessons Learned brings us the stories of thirty-one brilliant women in STEM who overcame the odds to push science forward while paving the way for the women yet to come. Uplifting, informative, and important."-Bonnie Garmus, author of Lessons in ChemistryWomen in this country have...

Artificial intelligence is everywhere-powering news feeds, curating search results and invisibly steering our lives. We talk to it and, increasingly, it talks back. And sometimes its answers seem eerily smart.... Until they don't.Billions of dollars have been poured into AI yet it keeps surprising...

Our canoes kayaks, SUPs, paddles, and the water already know what to do. Shawn Burke invites us to learn their language - the language of science - to get at the why. Why do our hulls float, why do they move when paddled, and...

About the BookElectrical Fire Analysis: Failure Mechanisms That Cause Fires is a book intended to provide an understanding of electricity for the fire analyst. The author investigates scene analysis through real incidents and uses code knowledge to provide an understanding of the standard of...

Breaking All The Rules: The Inside Story of the New Race traces the origins of a second Space Race that began at the end of the original 1960's US-Soviet space race and eventually led to SpaceX and the explosive growth in commercial space being...

Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts, and Math (STEAM) have existed since time began, and revolutionized the world. Many current advancements in society were made possible by professionals in these fields. While many students aspire to have STEM/STEAM careers, there is inequity in the number...

With the rise of AI technology, there will be more millionaires created with each passing year. It has literally never been easier to make life-changing income at any point in history, than right now. If you are looking for ways to use the revolutionary...

Stuart Otteson, an engineer by trade became a writer when he decided to describe bolt actions in a technical way. Everyone who builds rifles, hunts or shoots a bolt action will enjoy knowing more about them. This treatise is an absolute necessity for the...

Breaking All The Rules: The Inside Story of the New Race traces the origins of a second Space Race that began at the end of the original 1960's US-Soviet space race and eventually led to SpaceX and the explosive growth in commercial space being...

Sure there is scope for improvement in your legal practice, but you don't actually know what you could do to be more efficient?All the law tech options that promise something new and different leaving you in endless decision paralysis?Frustrated by how long it takes...

This Special Issue addresses both new scientific insights and technological advances of gluten-free product development exploring alternative ingredients for the development of gluten-free products aiming to mimic the unique viscoelastic properties of gluten as a gas retention ingredient during fermentation, water binding and enabler...

Modern medicine is now more oriented towards patient-based treatments. Taking into account individual biological features allows for increasing the quality of the healing process. Opportunities for modern hardware and software allow not only the complex behavior of implants and prostheses to be simulated, but...

This reprint focuses on wear and fatigue analysis, the dynamic properties of coating surfaces in transmission systems, and non-destructive condition monitoring for the health management of transmission systems.Transmission systems play a vital role in various types of industrial structure, including wind turbines, vehicles, mining...

Open Mathematics is a challenging notion for theoretical modeling, technical analysis, and numerical simulation in physics and mathematics, as well as in many other fields, as highly correlated nonlinear phenomena, evolving over a large range of time scales and length scales, control the underlying...

Research on radiation tolerant electronics has increased rapidly over the last few years, resulting in many interesting approaches to model radiation effects and design radiation hardened integrated circuits and embedded systems. This research is strongly driven by the growing need for radiation hardened electronics...

This reprint, as a continuation of a previous Special Issue entitled "Efficiency and Optimization of Buildings Energy Consumption", gives an up-to-date overview of new technologies based on Machine Learning (ML) and Internet of Things (IoT) procedures to improve the mathematical approach of algorithms that...

The technology Assessment Program is sponsored by the Office of Development, Testing, and Dissemination of the National Institute of Justice, U.S. Department of Justice.Author: U. S. Department of JusticeISBN-10: 1500623601ISBN-13: 9781500623609Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/23/2014Pages: 32Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.22lbsSize: 11.02h x 8.50w x...

This reprint is comprised of eleven articles that are screened by our hard-working peer reviewers. It mainly focuses on the recent advances in electric motors and drives, to adapt to the ongoing trends of electrification in both transportation and industry. New structural motors, such...

This reprint focuses on data-driven software solutions and their impact on research and development at the academic, industry, business, and government levels to exploit the hidden knowledge and big data that can be offered to cities and citizens in the future. Data-driven software solutions...

How to manage tech support (and keep your sanity!) One day you unjammed the printer and saved the day. But now, somehow, all technology resources have become your responsibility! The Accidental Techie shows you how to create a support system that will help your...

This reprint is a collection of the Special Issue "Advance in Energy Harvesters/Nanogenerators and Self-Powered Sensors" published in Nanomaterials, which includes one editorial, six novel research articles and four review articles, showcasing the very recent advances in energy-harvesting and self-powered sensing technologies. With its...

The need for electromechanical energy conversion that takes place in electric motors, generators, and actuators is an important aspect associated with current development. The efficiency and effectiveness of the conversion process depends on both the design of the devices and the materials used in...

This Special Issue, "Temperature Reduction Technologies Meet Asphalt Pavement: Green and Sustainability", covers various subjects related to advanced temperature reduction technologies in bituminous materials. It can help civil engineers and material scientists better identify underlying views for sustainable pavement constructions.Author: Markus OeserISBN-10: 3036565205ISBN-13: 9783036565200Publisher:...

In this Special Issue, you will find new directions in the research on liquid crystal applications. To be honest, we were surprised to find 10 papers covering a variety of application areas, with no overlap between them. The only important application without a related...

In this issue's cover story, we go inside how an FX team built a working R/C prop of the famous disembodied hand "Thing" from Netflix's Wednesday, and how you can bring your own props and robots to life with channel mixing, telemetry, and on-the-fly...

Do you ever think of how you learn-by reading, watching, listening, and doing?Maybe you use all four?Many of us go through life unaware of how we learn or acquire a skill set; we just learn it.We all have the capability to learn. From that...

Flexography: Principles and Practices 6.0 is your definitive guide to the flexo industry, with information contributed by recognized experts representing some of the most respected companies in the field. The 6th edition of Flexography: Principles and Practices is undoubtedly the industry's most comprehensive textbook...

Samuel Smiles, (born Dec. 23, 1812, Haddington, Berwickshire, Scot.--died April 16, 1904, London), Scottish author best known for his didactic work Self-Help (1859), which, with its successors, Character (1871), Thrift (1875), and Duty (1880), enshrined the basic Victorian values associated with the "gospel of...

Energy is an important material basis that can promote the development of human society. Despite the increasing use of renewable energy, the overall energy supply is dominated by fossil fuels. For a long period of time, the main consumption proportion of fossil energy will...

Processing and Conversion of Oil and Gas: Modeling, Control, Simulation, and Optimization describes the core of the activity of petrochemical engineers, process controller engineers, industrial engineers, energy engineers, and researchers in the oil and gas field. This book explores the modeling, control, simulation, and...

The reprint provides the most relevant and state-of-the-art in the field, including recent developments in the production of natural compounds from various bioresources, and their formulations as bioactives. This reprint also covered the engineered approaches for enhanced biological properties and their potential applications. Identification...

This volume of collected studies takes stock of most recent developments in Egyptology and the Digital Humanities, considering future directions for the application of new technologies in Egyptology. The book presents the results of an international conference held in 2019 at Indiana University -...