Security and fire alarm systems

This book focuses on security science and technology, data and information security, and mobile and network security for space-air-ground integrated networks (SAGINs).

If an automobile tire leaks or an electric light switch fails, if we are short- changed at a department store or erroneously billed for phone calls not made, if a plane departure is delayed due to a mechanical failure - these are rather ordinary annoyances which we have come to accept as normal occur- rences.

This book describes cutting-edge applications of human factors for sports, injury prevention and outdoor recreation disciplines and provide practical guidance on a range of methods for describing, representing, and evaluating human, team, and system performance in various domains.

This book presents a complete, in-depth analysis for on the impact of liquid sulfur dioxide and liquid sulfur trioxide to carry out complex and difficult sulfonations, as well as manufacture of sulfuric acid with a CAPEX requirement of less than half, an area requirement less than one-third, and no emission of sulfur dioxide.

This book highlights cyber-security overview, perspectives, and challenges that affect advanced Vehicular technology.

This book discusses multiple aspects of radiological and nuclear terrorism.

This volume intends to re-establish social gerontology as a discipline that has pragmatic links to policy and practice.

This book describes how manufacturing enterprises, by reinforcing their existing monitoring and control of manufacturing processes, can successfully face the ever-increasing pressure from internal and external environments to maintain their competitive advantage.

This book comprises the select proceedings of the International Conference on Emerging Trends in Mechanical and Industrial Engineering (ICETMIE) 2019.

This book addresses the shelf life of foods, a key factor in determining how food is distributed and consequently where and when different food products are available for consumption.

This book discusses reliability applications for power systems, renewable energy and smart grids and highlights trends in reliable communication, fault-tolerant systems, VLSI system design and embedded systems.

This book addresses a modern topic in reliability: multi-state and continuous-state system reliability, which has been intensively developed in recent years.

In this book the author draws inspiration from Sun Tzu's Art of War, a work that explains conflict between nations, and he applies this to the computer security setting, examining how we should consider protecting information systems from accidents or malicious attacks.

This book highlights the application of active array antennas in high-resolution microwave imaging radar systems.

This book begins with an introduction to PBXs (Private Branch Exchanges) and the scene, statistics and involved actors.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the 34th International Workshop on Languages and Compilers for Parallel Computing, LCPC 2020, held in Delaware, NE, USA, in October 2021.

This timely book examines how the South African National Defence Force has adapted to the country's new security, political and social environment since 1994.

The book presents the development of the Construction Quality Assessment System (CONQUAS), Singapore's de facto quality performance measurement system, explains the application of the Quality Management System (QMS) to manage CONQUAS and identifies 33 critical success factors (CSFs) for achieving high CONQUAS scores.

This book examines the different spatial control techniques for regulation of spatial power distribution in advanced heavy water reactors (AHWR).

This book explores a dynamic landscape where cutting-edge technologies are revolutionizing various domains.

This book presents natural hazards and risk--one of the fastest-growing and most relevant fields of pure and applied research within geosciences and environmental engineering-from a multi-disciplinary perspective.

This SpringerBrief presents strategies for fire mitigation based on combustible assembly systems of exterior walls.

The book commences with an introductory section on reconfigurable computing and thereafter delves into its applications in critical infrastructures.

This book introduces readers to various tools and techniques for the design of precision, miniature products, assemblies and associated manufacturing processes.

This book offers readers a concise yet comprehensive introduction to a set of diagnostic methods for on-line condition monitoring of lubricated tribosystems used in industry.

Reliability and safetyare core issues that must be addressed throughout the life cycle of engineeringsystems.

Vibration of Hydraulic Machinery deals with the vibration problem which has significant influence on the safety and reliable operation of hydraulic machinery.

This book provides basics and selected advanced insights on how to generate reliability, safety and resilience within (socio) technical system developments.

This book explores the ways that disciplinary convergence and technological advance are transforming systems engineering to address gaps in complex systems engineering: Transdisciplinary Systems Engineering (TSE).

This book focuses on the latest scientific and technological advancements in the field of railway turnout engineering.

This book proposes the formulation of an efficient methodology that estimates energy system uncertainty and predicts Remaining Useful Life (RUL) accurately with significantly reduced RUL prediction uncertainty.

 This book presents a bibliographical review of the use of Bayesian networks in reliability over the last decade.

This book presents the latest research in the areas of development and application of risk-informed and risk-based technologies.

Advances in electronic location technology and the coming of age of mobile computing have opened the door for location-aware applications to permeate all aspects of everyday life.

Solve your Selenium WebDriver problems with this quick guide to automated testing of web applications with Selenium WebDriver in C#.

At the beginning of the 21st century, manufacturing industry is faced with new challenges stemming from globalization and the need for environmental sustainability.

Improving the quality of products and manufacturing processes at low cost is an economic and technological challenge to industrial engineers and managers alike.

The book presents high-quality research papers presented at the 2nd American University in the Emirates International research conference, AUEIRC'18, organized by the American University in the Emirates, Dubai, held on November 13th-15th, 2018.

Perimeter Security has taken on a new level of importance since 9/11.

This book provides comprehensive coverage of the dependability challenges in today's advanced computing systems.

Investigations: 150 Things You Should Know, Second Edition, explores the essential tips and techniques for security investigations, providing a useful reference for those at any stage of their security career.

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This book applies a behavioral point of view to individuals' fire safety in historic buildings.

Our need for security has not waned since the dawn of civilization - it has only increased and become more complicated.

This book systematically studies how game theory can be used to improve security in chemical industrial areas, capturing the intelligent interactions between security managers and potential adversaries.

Experts from academia and government who are actively engaged in research in the area of risk communication present a compendium of cases that give information and allow the development of strategies to improve the communication of scientific information to the public.

Sensory analysis is not new to the food industry, but its application as a basic tool in food product development and quality control has not been given the recognition and acceptance it deserves.

This book deals with the design and optimization of the bucket elevator using the discrete element method (DEM).