Security and fire alarm systems

This book offers a collection of cutting-edge research on the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ).

This book proposes a framework and strategies for reliable end-to-end post-disaster services using smartphone-based delay-tolerant networks, which can operate even in the absence of conventional network connectivity.

Risk is a popular topic in many sciences - in natural, medical, statistical, engineering, social, economic and legal disciplines.

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Many of us, especially since 9/11, have become personally concerned about issues of security, and this is no surprise.

This book offers a collection of cutting-edge research on the Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ).

This brief addresses the contextual definition of resilience, explains the existing resiliency frameworks developed by Federal Agencies, and emphasizes the risk informed approach to applying resiliency concepts to National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) documents.

Risk management is a decision-making process which considers various factors with risk assessments relating to a potential hazard, in order to develop regulatory response options.

Seit der Veröffentlichung der ersten Auflage der Drahtseile sind eine Reihe von Forschungsarbeiten durchgeführt worden, die das Wissen über dieses Thema erheblich erweitert haben.

Tokamak Engineering Mechanics offers concise and thorough coverage of engineering mechanics theory and application for tokamaks, and the material is reinforced by numerous examples.

Failure of components or systems must be prevented by both designers and operators of systems, but knowledge of the underlying mechanisms is often lacking.

In einer Zeitspanne von 15 Jahren hat sich die Spanplattenindustrie zum größten Zweig der Holzindustrie entwickelt.

This book highlights cutting-edge research into emergency early warning management and decision-making for severe accidents.

This handbook offers insights into how science (physical, natural and social) and technology can support new developments to manage the complexity resident within the threat and risk landscape.

This book explores a number of important issues in the area of occupational safety and hygiene.

Advances in information technology provide opportunities for the development of computer systems that support risk managers in complex tasks.

This book comprises select peer-reviewed contributions from the 6th International Conference on Production and Industrial Engineering (CPIE - 2019).

This book begins with an account of the evolution of improvised explosive devices using a number of micro case studies to explore how and why actors have initiated IED campaigns; how new and old technologies and expertise have been exploited and how ethical barriers to IED development and deployment have been dealt with.

This comprehensive text/reference presents an in-depth review of the state of the art of automotive connectivity and cybersecurity with regard to trends, technologies, innovations, and applications.

Cyber-physical systems (CPS) are characterized as a combination of physical (physical plant, process, network) and cyber (software, algorithm, computation) components whose operations are monitored, controlled, coordinated, and integrated by a computing and communicating core.

17th WCEAM Proceedings provides a record of some of the intellectual discussions (including keynote addresses, research paper presentations, panel debates and practical workshops) that took place among the attendees and participants of the 17th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM), held from 18 - 20 October 2023 at the Sheraton Saigon Hotel and Towers, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.

This book presents concepts, methods and techniques to examine symptoms of faults and failures of structures, systems and components and to monitor functional performance and structural integrity.

The prevention of dropped objects is an important component of safeguarding personnel, property and the maritime environment.

In continuation of the FRINGE Workshop Series this Proceeding contains all contributions presented at the 7.

This book presents a compendium of selected game- and decision-theoretic models to achieve and assess the security of critical infrastructures.

The book represents a study guide reciting theoretical basics of radar location and radio navigation systems of air and sea transport.

This contributed book focuses on major aspects of statistical quality control, shares insights into important new developments in the field, and adapts established statistical quality control methods for use in e.

This book covers a variety of topics in manufacturing, with a special emphasis on product design, production planning, and implementation of both resources and production processes.

Insecure transportation systems are costing our worldwide mobility-based economy as much as 6% of GDP annually.

This critical volume provides practical insights on sulfuric acid and related plant design and on techniques to improve and enhance substantially the efficiency of an existing plant by means of small modifications.

This book presents advanced technologies used in practice to enable early recognition and tracking of various threats to national security.

Over the last decade, techniques for materials preparation and processing at nanometer scale have advanced rapidly, leading to the introduction of novel principles for a new generation of sensors and detectors.

This book contributes to the current knowledge and research on conflict and cross-cultural dialogue, emphasizing how respect, tolerance and dialogue may be quite effective tools for bridging the diverse cultures and, consequently, for solving many of the conflicts of today's world, characterized by a dynamic interchange of populations with very diverse cultural and ethnic backgrounds.

This book focuses on the introduction of new and modern maintenance management frameworks of assets in the electricity & gas network sector and more specifically, on electricity networks for distribution.

This book highlights the latest advances on the implementation and adaptation of blockchain technologies in real-world scientific, biomedical, and data applications.

This book studies the security of Physical Unclonable Functions (PUFs) based on the Arbiter PUF design, with a focus on so-called modeling attacks.

This book discusses the latest findings on ensuring employees' safety, health, and welfare at work.

This work gives an overview of significant research from recent years concerning performance-based design and quality control for concrete durability and its implementation.

For millennia, humans waged war on land and sea.

This textbook provides an introduction to probabilistic reliability analysis of power systems.

This book provides readers a thorough understanding of the applicability of new-generation silicon-germanium (SiGe) electronic subsystems for electronic warfare and defensive countermeasures in military contexts.

This book addresses information technologies recently applied in the field of construction safety.

Die Neuauflage des Buches bringt neue Anwendungen und neue Methoden, aktuelle Ergebnisse der nationalen (VDI) und internationalen Reinraumkongresse (ICCCS) sowie neue Reinraum-Regulierungen der Pharmazie (EC GMP, FDA), und neue Richtlinien (VDI 2083 und ISO 14644).

Commercial interest for unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) has seen a steady increase over the last decade.

This book is the 1st volume of proceedings of the 1st Smart Nuclear Power Technology Forum and the 8th China Nuclear Power Plant Digital Technology and Application Seminar held in Shenzhen, China in June 2024.

This book provides a solution to "e;rare event"e; problems without using the classical theory of reliability and theory of probability.

This book represents an interdisciplinary academic endeavour intended to provide readers with a comprehensive, balanced, and nuanced examination of critical issues at the intersection of cyberspace, cyberterrorism, and national and international security.

This book advances a three-step program for mitigation of natural and anthropogenic hazards, addressing mitigation economics and funding possibilities to meet the needs of at risk countries that lack the financial resources to invest in disaster reduction programs.