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This reprint brings together some recent advances in the sustainable re-design of natural waste and biomass in different material productions for both textile and non-textile applications. These include a wide array of topics, such as the following: the use of textile waste fibers, i.e.,...

Fire safety within residential buildings and urban environments is a pressing global concern, demanding dynamic and comprehensive strategies for effective risk assessment and mitigation. The Special Issue reprinted in this collection is the first of a series of Special Issues edited by the Fire...

The reprint presents scientific papers focused on a wide range of environmental engineering topics, including water and wastewater management, water and sediment pollution control and remediation, waste management, soil degradation, conservation and remediation, landscape management, and climate change and the carbon footprint of construction....

World perception is the product of complex optical and physical processes in the human visual system, wherein light stimuli penetrate the pupils to reach the retina, which are composed of photoreceptors that transform light into electrochemical energy to be transmitted to the brain for...

This Special Issue, titled "Problems during the Design and Testing of Instrument, Special and Power Transformers", presents and disseminates the latest developments in the theory, design, modeling, and laboratory testing of all types of transformers. The scope includes design calculations and diagnostics of various...

Wind power took on a leading role as the primary power source during the expected realization of carbon neutrality. Currently, large horizontal-axis wind turbines (HAWTs) have become mainstream, progressing toward further increasing their size, which is not easy. For floating offshore wind turbines, vertical-axis...

This Special Issue aimed to assemble works associated with the different aspects of polymeric composites. This Special Issue is a collection of 13 original papers in the areas of the design, production, and assessment of the properties of new materials. Author: Kamila SalasinskaISBN-10: 3725802467ISBN-13:...

The safety of engineering structures under natural hazards (e.g., earthquakes, wind, fire and tsunamis) is a subject of great interest to researchers, and is important for protecting human life and reducing economic losses. This reprint focuses on experimental, theoretical, computational and relevant research on...

Linear models are statistical models that play a crucial role in several fields of science and are of practical importance in statistics. The most typical type is the linear regression model. Many phenomena, such as those in biology, medicine, economics, management, geology, meteorology, agriculture...

The Special Issue, "The Adaptability of Residential Planning and Design to World-Changing Events," explores innovative approaches to residential design that can effectively respond to short-, medium-, and long-term challenges posed by recent extreme events such as the COVID-19 pandemic, armed conflicts, and devastating natural...

Since entering the 21st century, the emergence of new functional materials and the development of interdisciplinary approaches have provided strong support for the design and construction of all kinds of green roads. At present, building environmentally friendly green and low-carbon roads, expanding road service...

Composting is experiencing a "second youth", and the number of plants, as well as the uses of compost, are increasing exponentially all over the world. This Special Issue is an example of the current leading research related to composting and compost and their key...

This reprint is a collection of articles in the Special Issue "Energy Harvesters and Self-Powered Sensors for Smart Electronics, 2nd Edition", published in Micromachines, containing one Editorial, nine original research articles, and one review article. This reprint showcases the latest progress in the field...

This reprint showcases the latest advancements in energy harvesting and self-powered sensing technologies, ranging across the wide aspects of device design, operation principle, performance characterization, system integration and applications. The novel designs and detailed explanations can be highly useful to researchers and engineers in...

This Special Issue reprint aspires to illuminate recent strides and innovative methodologies in the design, analysis, and measurement of antennas across a spectrum of emerging wireless communication systems. The primary goal is to explore and spotlight cutting-edge advancements while pinpointing fresh avenues for the...

This Special Issue aimed to present the recent developments in the interaction between the coupled multi-physical fields and underground structures, as well as geo-environmental effects, to stimulate fruitful technical and scientific interactions between professionals.A total of ten papers regarding geo-environmental problems in various fields...

With the development of new technologies, the attractiveness of the rotary engine's advantages is making a comeback in the minds of many designers. In recent years, driven by the progressive electrification of the automotive powertrain, new applications have emerged for the rotary engine in...

This reprint provides some up-to-date solutions in the domain of deep power vision technology and intelligent vision sensors. It offers the latest perspectives covering the detection, classification, and some other basic tasks in processing and analyzing the inspection images or videos of power systems.Author:...

The book deals about Computer Basics and Troubleshooting of PC Impairments. It covers the Internal Part of Any Computer System, Computer Hardware and Software Troubleshooting, Basics of Windows Operating System, Microsoft Office Applications, Printer and File Sharing System. Moreover, the book prepared with smart...

Main coverage: Basic concepts of PDE based image processing and related works. PDE based image interpolation. PDE based image restoration. PDE based speckle reduction from images. Generalization to blind deconvolution problems. In this work, basic concepts of PDE based image processing, its applications and...

Walking is a major form of transport and crossing a road is a key element in a journey on foot. A pedestrian network is part of the transport system and cannot be separated from it. Therefore, during the journey, a pedestrian has to cross...

The performance of Hydraulic turbine installed in Nepalese power plant was studied with the efficiency measurements of Jhimruk Hydro Power Plant for Francis turbine and Khimti Hydro Power Plant for Pelton turbine in different units and times. The thermodynamic efficiency measurements were carried out...

There is an increasing interest in nanoscience and nanotechnology due to the new physics and chemistry that are accessible on the nanoscale and because of the large potential for new products and devices that they provide. Therefore, the ability to fabricate structures on the...

To remain competitive, most Manufacturing Enterprises need cost effective and responsive business processes with capability to realise multiple value streams specified by changes in customer needs. To achieve this, there is the need to provide reusable computational representations of organisational structures, processes, information, resources...

Understanding, quantifying, and dealing with supply chain risk in energy sector necessitates the amalgamation of knowledge and techniques from several domains. Some of those domains are critical infrastructure analysis, risk analysis, systems simulation, geographic information systems, and supply chain management. The objective of this...

Oral solid drug particles are sometimes incorporated within a polymer matrix or encapsulated to delay drug release only for short times (Author: Debashis MukhopadhyayISBN-10: 3639203321ISBN-13: 9783639203325Publisher: VDM VerlagLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/06/2009Pages: 332Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.07lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.74d

With the use of multimedia technologies increasing every day, image compression techniques not only need to incorporate new features but also better performance. This book will present two hybrid image compression algorithms. The first algorithm, a two-way hybrid, combines the fractal image compression algorithm...

In most decision-making and design situations, simultaneously satisfying multiple goals is a trial and error process, and is often inefficient. This trend occurs not only in science and engineering, but also in any discipline involving different people with different intentions, or a single decision-maker...

This work analyses models for two-phase flows and methods for the numerical resolution of these models. It is therefore one contribution to the development of reliable design tools for multiphase applications. Such tools are needed and expected by engineers in a range of fields....

Solution gas drive is one of the mechanisms by which oil can be produced from the reservoirs. Solution gas drive in heavy oil is well known for its anomalous behavior that shows better performance taking into account the high viscosity of heavy oil. Heavy...

To date the majority of the research related to the development and application of monitoring, diagnostic, and prognostic systems has been exclusive in the sense that only one of the three areas is the focus of the work. While previous research progresses each of...

Companies of the 21st century are faced with increasing demands from the market. These demands are among other things derived from technological innovations and the corresponding development towards a global marketplace. Specific advantages deriving from operating in a global market appear to be exploitable...

Sustainable development is conceptually defined and established for physical urban infrastructure development. The concept of sustainable development is now emphasizing on environmental, economical and social aspect. Enhancement of sustainability especially in urban underground infrastructure development aims to remediate various disturbances evidently caused from the...

"Millimeter-wave" wireless applications are emerging at frequencies from 24 to 110 GHz. Anticipated uses of this spectrum include data transfer, highway safety, intelligent transport, mobile satellite communications, civilian ultrawideband radar, etc. In contrast to most wireless services offered at lower frequencies, typical millimeter-wave applications...

The LHOVRA is the predominant isolated signal control strategy in Sweden. Past-end green was originally incorporated as part of LHOVRA (the "O" function) and was intended to reduce the number of vehicles in the dilemma zone. Coordinated signal control in Sweden is often fixed-time...

This work deals with two challenges that have engaged the scientific community decades now. Namely, our focus is about the interaction among vibrating surfaces and the digitization of the acoustic signals. A micro-transducer array may act as a digital transducer, which can be connected...

Online professional development (OPD) is a recent innovation in K-12 school districts. While many studies have examined the skills and competencies of online instructors few studies have examined online learning for adults through the perspective of instructor beliefs. This qualitative case study examined the...

Methods exploring the application of support vector machine learning (SVM) to still image compression are detailed in both the spatial and frequency domains. In particular the sparse properties of SVM learning are exploited in the compression algorithms. A classic radial basis function neural network...

Modelling of multi-component, multi-phase reacting flows in porous and fractured media is investigated with examples on spontaneous combustion of coal and the extraction of coalbed methane. Chemical reactions, adsorption, gaseous diffusion and changes in transport properties (porosity and permeability) are of particular importance. These...

A grid-connected wind-energy converter system including a matrix converter (MC) is proposed. Two dynamic models are addressed: MC dynamic model, and proposed wind turbine system overall model. The MC dynamic model is valid for both steady-state and transient analyses. In developing the system overall...

Ultrafast spectroscopy has proven to be a versatile and powerful tool for investigating transient phenomena. This book provides fundamental principle and general experimental setup of ultrafast spectroscopy techniques, basic theory of semiconductor carrier dynamics, as well as basic concepts of semiconductor nanostructures. The detailed...

Globally, the transport system faces a paradigmatic shift where, in addition to increased local traffic problems, climate change and depletion of fossil oil reserves will foster a successive transition to renewable fuels and a need for more resource-efficient mobility management and communication alternatives. Foresighted...

Technical writers and illustrators often find it reasonably difficult to understand the exact way technical graphics could be designed for complex procedural tasks. Sometimes the problem is due to the multiple sequences involved in the process, graphical angles, the complexity of individual actions and...

In this monograph we present an Early Cognitive Vision framework that aims at providing a rich and reliable scene representation from visual information. This framework preserves conflicting hypothesis in its early stages, and makes use of feedback mechanisms between different visual processes and layers...

Optical Code Division Multiplexing (OCDMA) is a method used to enable simultaneous transmission of multiple optical data flows over the same fiber using the same wavelength. In OCDMA, isolation between different data flows is achieved using a set of uncorrelated, or loosely correlated, spreading...

This book addresses the experimental and numerical study of vibration-based damage detection (VBDD) techniques in structural health monitoring (SHM) of bridge superstructures. VBDD techniques are global non-destructive evaluation (NDE) techniques. The advantage of VBDD techniques over local NDE techniques is that VBDD techniques can...

Wireless communications systems are evolving to be more diverse in use and more ubiquitous in nature. It is of fundamental importance that we consume the resources available in such systems, i.e., bandwidth and energy, to preserve room for more users and to preserve longevity....

Author: Manisha JaveriISBN-10: 3639086732ISBN-13: 9783639086737Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Mueller E.K.Language: EnglishPublished: 10/28/2008Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.58lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.41d

This work describes the first size dependent magnetic separation in nanoscale by using rust like iron oxide. Magnetite (Fe3O4) nanocrystals of high quality and uniform size (4 nm to 33 nm) were synthesized. Batch synthesis was shown to go up to 20 grams which...

In this book, various solution based deposition methods for carbon nanotube based thin films are discussed. Then extensive studies about the transport properties are presented, including density, temperature, voltage, and frequency dependence. The density study of the conductivity of rare networks reveals two-dimensional percolation...