Technology & Engineering - General

Who is the author: Greg Hutchins PE CERM? Greg Hutchins is the risk evangelist who coined the expression Future of Quality: Risk(R) and is the developer of Certified Enterprise Risk Manager(R) (CERM) certificate (www.CERMAcademy.com). What is ISO 31000: Enterprise Risk Management? International Organization for...

Author: George C. ThorpeISBN-10: 0898757320ISBN-13: 9780898757323Publisher: University Press of the PacificLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/04/2002Pages: 148Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 8.98h x 6.12w x 0.38d

This issue of Plough Quarterly explores the effects of technology on human flourishing. Whether its artificial intelligence, genome editing, Big Tech monopolies, or social media-induced depression, we live in a world that is being reshaped by technology from the ground up. How do we...

In 1893, the year that marked the four hundredth anniversary of the landing of Columbus in the New World, Chicago was host to an exposition to mark the occasion. Although the World's Columbian Exposition was the fifteenth world's fair, it was of vastly greater...

Szabo presents a thorough bibliographical examination of the funeral industry and related subjects. Most citations are annotated, with special notes on editions and reprints.Author: John F. SzaboISBN-10: 0810845873ISBN-13: 9780810845879Publisher: Scarecrow PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1993Pages: 204Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.61lbsSize: 9.28h x 4.92w x 0.63d

Between Craft and Science brings together leading scholars from sociology, anthropology, industrial relations, management, and engineering to consider issues surrounding technical work, the most rapidly expanding sector of the labor force. Part craft and part science, part blue-collar and part white-collar, technical work demands...

The original Air Engines (also known as a heat, hot air, caloric, or Stirling engines), predated the modern internal combustion engine. This early engine design always had great potential for high efficiency/low emission power generation. However, the primary obstacle to its practical use in...

Mid-twentieth century table radios made primarily of brightly colored plastic represent a relative newcomer to the radio collecting arena. With designs that often resembled contemporary automobile grille and headlight configurations, these affordable radios were made by the major electronics companies as well as dozens...

This work dealing with percolation theory clustering, criticallity, diffusion, fractals and phase transitions takes a broad approach to the subject, covering basic theory and also specialized fields like disordered systems and renormalization groups.Author: Dietrich Stauffer, Ammon AharonyISBN-10: 0748402535ISBN-13: 9780748402533Publisher: Taylor & FrancisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/18/1994Pages:...

The aim of this book, as the title suggests, is to provide a comprehensive guide to various components and applications of wearable technology, in addition to its social, psychological, and market implications. Moreover, privacy, security, and health concerns will also be covered in this...

Supporting your team's technical decision-making process, mentoring new teammates, encouraging a learning culture. For some folks, it seems to come easy. How did they learn? Does empathy come naturally? What does collaborative leadership look like?Developing your technical chops used to keep you pretty busy....

This account of the ancient healing dances practiced by the Kung people of southern Africa's Kalahari Desert includes vivid eyewitness descriptions of night-long healing dances and interviews with Kung healers.Author: Richard KatzISBN-10: 0674077369ISBN-13: 9780674077362Publisher: Harvard University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/01/1984Pages: 352Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.10lbsSize: 9.10h x...

Massive 660 page book detailing urban combat tactics and techniques with text and illustrations. These are the chapters: 1) Introduction and Considerations, 2) Urban Analysis, 3)Urban Combat Skills, 4)Offensive Operations, 5)Defensive Operations, 6)Sniper and Countersniper Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures, 7) Employment and Effects of...

Although the contributions of Islamic civilisations to science have long been recognised, the application of this scientific expertise to technology had been neglected until the publication of this then pioneering 1986 text. The book begins to remedy that neglect, first by celebrating the richness...

A unique A-to-Z reference of brilliance in innovation and invention Combining engagingly written, well-researched history with the respected imprimatur of Scientific American magazine, this authoritative, accessible reference provides a wide-ranging overview of the inventions, technological advances, and discoveries that have transformed human society throughout...

Luis Alberto Urrea's Across the Wire offers a compelling and unprecedented look at what life is like for those refugees living on the Mexican side of the border--a world that is only some twenty miles from San Diego, but that few have seen. Urrea...

An industry insider explains why there is so much bad software--and why academia doesn't teach programmers what industry wants them to know.Why is software so prone to bugs? So vulnerable to viruses? Why are software products so often delayed, or even canceled? Is software...

There is no part of our bodies that fully rotates--be it a wrist or ankle or arm in a shoulder socket, we are made to twist only so far. And yet there is no more fundamental human invention than the wheel--a rotational mechanism that...

February 15, 2016, was the beginning of a debate on man-made climate change between two well-known experts in the field, Princeton Professor of Physics Dr. William Happer and University of Melbourne Atmospheric Sciences Professor Dr. David Karoly, hosted by James Barham and his team...

This second Special Issue connects both the fundamental and application aspects of thermomechanical machines and processes. Among them, engines have the largest place (Diesel, Lenoir, Brayton, Stirling), even if their environmental aspects are questionable for the future. Mechanical and chemical processes as well as...

The purpose of this book is to provide novel results related to soil water erosion that could help landowners and land-users, farmers, politicians, and other representatives of our global society to protect and, if possible, improve the quality and quantity of our precious soil...

The family of technologies collectively known as additive manufacturing (AM) technologies, and often called 3D-printing technologies, is rapidly revolutionizing industrial production. AM's potential to produce intricate and customized parts starting from a digital 3D model makes it one of the main pillars for the...

Not only conventional computer architectures, such as the von-Neumann architecture with its inevitable von-Neumann bottleneck, but likewise the emerging field of edge computing require to substantially decrease the spatial separation of logic and memory units to overcome power and latency shortages. The integration of...

Despite tremendous advances in our understanding of marine mammals over the past several decades, numerous unanswered questions remain. These include fundamental questions in every biological discipline as well as other areas of science, including basic and applied chemistry and physics. Current studies of marine...

The book is about Distributed Systems and Mobile Computing. This is a branch of Computer Science devoted to the study of systems whose components are in different physical locations and have limited communication capabilities. Such components may be static, often organized in a network,...

This book proposes a list of contributions in the field of control of power electronics converters for different topologies: DC-DC, DC-AC and AC-DC. It particularly focuses on the use of different advanced control techniques with the aim of improving the performances, flexibility and efficiency...

Microalgae have been intensively studied for CO2 capture, nutrient removal from wastewater, and biofuels production. These photosynthetic microorganisms use solar energy with efficiency ten times greater than terrestrial plants and are responsible for about 50% of the world's oxygen production. Therefore, microalgae have been...

The adequate assessment of key apparatus conditions is a hot topic in all branches of industry. Various online and offline diagnostic methods are widely applied to provide early detections of any abnormality in exploitation. Furthermore, different sensors may also be applied to capture selected...

Technology is an Integral Part of Modern Life Style. However due to very Simple Mistakes even Educated People are also losing their Privacy & Confidentiality due to lack of Basic Awareness about Digital & Financial Technology World. Most of the People find Difficulty in...

Cryopreservation is the storage of cells, tissues and organs at ultra-low temperatures (-196 C) and can be an important tool for long-term conservation of plant genetic resources. A wide range of cryogenic procedures have been developed for in vitro explants, dormant buds and non-orthodox...

"Power Quality in Electrified Transportation Systems" has covered interesting horizontal topics over diversified transportation technologies, ranging from railways to electric vehicles and ships. Although the attention is chiefly focused on typical railway issues such as harmonics, resonances and reactive power flow compensation, the integration...

Human Species is now predominantly an urban-dwelling creature- called Urban Sapiens. Cities are arguably the most complex human creation with built in environments, social networks, modified ecologies, economic systems, and political entities. Cities have become an organic and necessary part of human civilization. A...

Critical infrastructures are vital assets for public safety, economic welfare, and the national security of countries. The vulnerabilities of critical infrastructures have increased with the widespread use of information technologies. As Critical National Infrastructures are becoming more vulnerable to cyber-attacks, their protection becomes a...

The aim of this book is to collect the newest contributions by eminent authors in the field of NDT-SHM, both at the material and structure scale. It therefore provides novel insight at experimental and numerical levels on the application of NDT to a wide...

The book "" The Book of the Feet: A History of Boots and Shoes, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern...

A Special Issue for Buildings, entitled "Seismic Performance Assessment of Buildings", comprises seven original research studies from international experts from Italy, Portugal, Switzerland, and New Zealand. The contributions address the seismic assessment of reinforced concrete wall buildings; reinforced concrete buildings at an urban scale;...

Lightweight metals and alloys have represented for many years the most suitable solution for many high-tech applications, including sport equipment and automotive components where alternate movements required low inertia. Aerospace has probably been the sector where most of the potential of aluminum and titanium...

This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Trends in GPR and other NDTs for Transport Infrastructure Assessment" that was published in Remote Sensing. This compilation of papers has been published to offer an extensive up-to-date overview of the state-of-the-art research activities...

Solving the Riddle of Microsoft and Your Computer provides easy to follow step by step instructions. Chapter one provides some useful facts about your computer. This Chapter describes such things as how to operate your mouse; how to modify your screen saver and printer...

Our collective volume is focused on an ambitious interdisciplinary project that unites several existing disciplines in humanities with Slavic religion and mythology. We are dealing with the topic of Slavic mythology and religion, not only from purely historical or folklorist standpoints, but we also...

This book, which is a reprint of articles published in the Special Issue "Advances inHydrogen Energy" in Energies, seeks to contribute to disseminating the most recentadvancements in the field of hydrogen energy. It does so by presenting scientific worksfrom around the world covering both...

This e-book aims to compile advances in the area of food manufacturing includingpackaging to address issues of food safety, quality, fraud, and how these processes (newor old) could affect the organoleptic characteristics of foods, with the aim to promoteconsumers' satisfaction. Moreover, food supply issues...

This book includes a selection of papers showing the potential of the dynamic modellingapproach to treat problems related to the musculoskeletal system. The state-of-the-art ispresented in a review article and in a perspective paper, and several examples ofapplication in different clinical problems are provided.Author:...

This book narrates a unique and exotic paddling regatta held in folks festival style, by over 900 farming communities in coastal Kerala, India, in great passion, fervour, and intense competition of more than 100 boats, and 5000 paddlers, attracting half a million zealous on-site...

The Blacksmith in Eighteenth-Century Williamsburg; An Account of His Life & Times and of His Craft, is many of the old classic books which have been considered important throughout the human history. They are now extremely scarce and very expensive antique. So that this...

A research protocol was applied to search for scientific articles that deal with 3D printing techniques related to dental prostheses and also about the limitations of 3D printing in the dental field with the objective of synthesizing in one place information that enables an...

The principal advantage of smart electricity meters is their ability to transfer digitized electricity consumption data to remote processing systems. The data collected by these devices make the realization of many novel use cases possible, providing benefits to electricity providers and customers alike. This...

Size reduction processes represent a significant part of the capital as well as the operating cost in ore processing. Advancing the understanding of and improving such processes is worthwhile since any measurable enhancement may lead to benefits, which may materialize as reductions in energy...

This book is to chart the progress in applying machine learning, including deep learning, to a broad range of image analysis and pattern recognition problems and applications. In this book, we have assembled original research articles making unique contributions to the theory, methodology and...

This book presents the papers accepted into the Special Issue "Stability and Seakeeping of Marine Vessels" and includes nine contributions to this Special Issue published in 2020. The overall aim of the collection is to improve knowledge about the most relevant and recent topics...