Technology & Engineering - General

The evolution and need for the preservation and maintenance of existing structures, recent or historical, has fostered research in the area of structural monitoring, translated into the development of new techniques, equipment and sensors. Early detection of damage and accurate assessment of structural safety...

This text looks at the influence on understanding, insight, expertise and the advance of knowledge of the forms of representation we use. It addresses questions such as: is there any such thing as (FOR-free) data?; can FORs be complete or are they always limited?;...

Women in tech have the right to succeed and the responsibility to help others.Debra Christmas and Kelley Irwin, two technology executives, navigated this profession knocking down barriers and building strong networks. They are committed to profile the talents of girls using tech, inspire other...

Revitalizing Nigerian Education in Digital Age: What most of the papers in this book have in common is the concern for the revitalization of Nigerian education in the digital age through ICT and other modern methods of making education functional and effective in the...

Embrace the Future: Mastering the New Era of WorkExperience a paradigm shift as you delve into a revolution reshaping the workplace as we know it. This compelling book is your gateway to thriving amidst the Remote Renaissance-an unprecedented era where work transcends traditional boundaries....

The How and Why of UFOs is the much anticipated sequel to Kenneth W. Behrendt's previous groundbreaking work on the subject, Secrets of UFO Technology. The present work begins with a detailed review of the revolutionary anti-mass field theory explanation for UFO propulsion and...

At the start of the eighteenth century London had almost two hundred breweries producing close on two million barrels of beer every year, making the mighty metropolis the brewing capital of the world. By 1976, when the once-mighty Whitbread halted production at their famous...

Discover the hidden gems and rich history of the North Norfolk coast along the A149!Explore the picturesque towns, villages, and landmarks that dot this iconic highway, from ancient churches and windmills to royal estates and seaside piers. A149 Landmarks offers a captivating journey through...

Americans eat 25 to 30 million pounds of domestic rabbit meat each year. The rabbits come from small rabbitries with three or four hutches and from large commercial producers. Rabbit raising lends itself to both types of production. Rabbit meat is pearly white, fine-grained,...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.Author: James Brandt LatimerISBN-10: 1408647788ISBN-13: 9781408647783Publisher:...

This is not another book about conspiracy theories regarding Apollo 11. This book presents evidence challenging the claim that Apollo 11 landed on the Moon. It examines newly confirmed data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, along with existing images from NASA to uncover the...

A New Practical and Easy Method of Learning the Italian Language is an essential guide for anyone who wants to learn Italian quickly and effectively. Ahn's innovative approach is based on teaching grammar and vocabulary through vivid conversations and practical exercises, making this book...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

During the latter half of the twentieth century, federal funding in the United States for scientific research and development increased dramatically. Yet despite the infusion of public funds into research centers, the relationship between public policy and research and development remains poorly understood.How does...

Author: Jeanice BarceloISBN-13: 9798218928407Publisher: Birth of a New EarthLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/27/2026Pages: 474Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.38lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.95d

Short Essays for Inquiring Minds invites readers into a lively conversation about the forces shaping modern life.Composed of over fifty compelling essays, Ronald Gruner's latest book ranges effortlessly across science, history, politics, economics, and popular culture, linking today's headlines to the deeper currents of...

This Reprint collects state-of-the-art contributions on Satellite Terrestrial Networks, presenting the latest advances in architectures, enabling technologies, and applications. With the rapid deployment of low-Earth-orbit constellations and the growing demand for seamless integration with terrestrial infrastructures, the research community is addressing complex challenges such...

Multi-sensor technology aims to combine information from multiple sensors to improve system accuracy, leading to more specific inferences than those achieved with the use of a single sensor. It has become an indispensable tool for information processing in numerous fields, such as target tracking,...

The National Institute of Justice (NIJ) is the research, development and evaluationagency of the US Department of Justice. The NIJ is dedicated to improvingknowledge and understanding of crime and justice issues through science. NIJprovides objective and independent knowledge and tools to reduce crime andpromote...

Glucose is a simple sugar molecule. The chemical formula of this sugar molecule is C6H12O6. This means that the glucose molecule contains six carbon atoms (C), twelve hydrogen atoms (H), and six oxygen atoms (O). In human blood, the molecule glucose circulates as blood...

-It covers the entire field of satellite communications engineering from the techniques of orbital mechanics and radio wave propagation to the design of communication links and earth stations.-It explores the numerous satellite communications systems, demonstrate how the components interact within these systems, and detail...

Organotins are a group of compounds which have a variety of properties and uses. The focus of this Concise International Chemical Assessment Document (CICAD) is on those mono-and disubstituted organotins mainly used as stabilizers in PVC, as catalysts for the production of electrodeposited coatings,...

English summary: The Laboratory of Ion Beam Physics (LIP) is a leading research center for the development of Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) and a world-class laboratory for the application of Ion Beam Physics in a wide range of fields. It can rely on a...

English summary: The Laboratory of Ion Beam Physics (LIP) is a leading research center for the development of Accelerator Mass Spectrometry (AMS) and a world-class laboratory for the application of Ion Beam Physics in a wide range of fields. It can rely on a...

In August 2022, researchers and developers from Armenia, Chile, Germany, and Japan met at the American University of Armenia for the third edition of the CODASSCA Workshop on Collaborative Technologies and Data Science in Smart City Applications, co-organized with a Summer School on Artificial...

Over the last decade, we have witnessed a significant shift in business models, which is mostly influenced by rapid technological development. The publication "Digital Disruption and Corporate Digital Responsibility" is addressed to the scientific community, whose research focuses on new technologies, mainly in accounting...

To further improve the NLOS detection and mitigation performance for Ultra-wideband (UWB) system, this thesis systematically investigates the UWB LOS/NLOS errors. The LOS errors are evaluated in different environments and with different distances. Different blockage materials and blockage conditions are considered for NLOS errors....

Optimization algorithms are the backbone of many modern technologies. In this thesis, we address the analysis and design of optimization algorithms from a systems theoretic viewpoint. By properly recasting the algorithm design as a controller synthesis problem, we derive methods that enable a systematic...

This thesis contributes to an acceleration of the manufacturing process of composite components from hybrid textiles, which contain reinforcement fibres and polymer matrix fibres from high-performance thermoplastics. Hybrid textiles distinguish in terms of drapeability compared to thermoplastic tapes. A comprehensive material characterisation of two...

Cardiovascular disease has become the number one cause of death worldwide. For the diagnosis and therapy of coronary artery disease, interventional C-arm-based fluoroscopy is an imaging method of choice. While these C-arm systems are also capable of rotating around the patient and thus allow...

In the context of advanced driver-assistance systems (ADAS), vehicles are equipped with multiple sensors to record the vehicle's environment and use intelligent algorithms to understand the data. This study contributes to the research in modern ADAS on different aspects. Methods deployed in ADAS must...

The scientific description of wetting phenomena is a challenging problem on every considerable length-scale. Intermolecular interactions like the Van der Waals forces may act as driving force and give rise to interface and contact line dynamics. In this way appropriate physical models must be...

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles' (UAVs) ability to reach places not accessible to humans or other robots and execute tasks makes them unique and is gaining a lot of research interest recently. Initially UAVs were used as surveying and data collection systems, but lately UAVs are...

When auralizing moving sound sources in Virtual Reality (VR) environments, the two main input parameters are the location and radiated signal of the source. An array measurement-based model is developed to characterize moving sound sources regarding the two parameters in this thesis. This model...

Nowadays the Modular Multilevel Cascaded Converter (MMCC) is a family of emerging high-voltage multilevel converters that are configured with a cascaded connection of identical submodules with low-voltage ratings by distinct topological structures. The MMCC system is featured with a high quantity of coupled system...

Observer design is an essential part of many controller design algorithms because in many applications, measured information alone does not sufficiently represent the system's state. In particular, estimating the system's state can be done by multiple observers cooperatively, which is referred to as distributed...

Suitable for advanced-level courses or an independent study in fluid mechanics, this text by an expert in the field provides the basic aspects of laminar-to-turbulent flow transition in boundary layers. Logically organized into three major parts, the book covers pre- and post-transitional flow, transitional...

In this thesis, we introduce the novel concept of relaxed barrier function based model predictive control and present a comprehensive theoretical and algorithmic framework for the design, analysis, and implementation of relaxed barrier function based MPC approaches. Instead of treating the underlying optimization as...

Permanent monitoring of blood pressure helps in diagnosis and tracking progress of medical interventions. This dissertation details the design, fabrication and implementation of tiny wirelessly powered implant devices for detection of endoleaks and occlusion occurring in stent grafts used for treatment of Abdominal Aortic...

Human sound localization helps to pay attention to spatially separated speakers using interaural level and time differences as well as angle-dependent monaural spectral cues. In a monophonic teleconference, for instance, it is much more difficult to distinguish between different speakers due to missing binaural...

This thesis deals with active fault-tolerant control of discrete event systems modeled by deterministic Input/Output (I/O) automata. Active fault-tolerant control realizes three operating modes -- nominal control, fault diagnosis and controller reconfiguration. A new fault-tolerant controller which autonomously ensures the fulfillment of the control...

Transfer path analysis and synthesis (TPA/TPS) is a widely used approach in the development process of a vehicle which models the transmission from sound sources to a receiver location to identify sources and dominant transfer paths of unwanted noise components. The objectives of this...

In this thesis, we study a novel paradigm for wireless sensor networks: we envision a dense microsensor network, consisting of hundreds or thousands of highly miniaturized wireless nodes with millimeter or sub-millimeter dimensions. Such a microsensor network has many interesting applications ranging from in...

The objective of this dissertation is to examine the influence of possible uncertainties during the measurement of transfer paths in systems with vibro-acoustic properties such as machines or vehicles. The transfer path could be an acoustic, structural or complex vibro-acoustic system. Uncertainties can occur...

The rise of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) in the second half of the 20th century became the dominant force in economics. Its rise accelerates in the first 15 years of this century at an astonishing speed. The world of ICT right now is...

The exchange of orbit information is becoming more important in view of the increasing population of objects in space as well as the increase in parties involved in space operations. The aim of this thesis was to investigate how orbit information maintained by a...

The multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) principle is traditionally well-known from communication applications. During the last years, this term has also found its way into radar system theory, signal design and signal processing, resulting in a large variety of experiments and publications. This thesis covers especially...

This thesis discusses experimental investigations to reduce particle number emissions from gasoline engines with direct injection. Measures on a single cylinder research engine with combined usage of a particle number measurement system, a particle size distribution measurement system as well as optical diagnostics and...

Shape matching and recognition is a fundamental aspect of many problems in computer vision, including object or scene recognition, moving tracking and object detection, etc. While rigid shape matching is relatively well understood, matching shapes undergoing non-rigid deformations remains challenging. Moreover, shape generation is...