Security and fire alarm systems

This edited volume focuses on research conducted in the areas of industrial safety.

Topics in Toxicology Toxicology is a science that stands at the intersection of several interests and disciplines.

To achieve sustainable progress in workplace and societal functioning and development, it is essential to align perspectives for the management of health, safety and well-being.

The volume provides an exhaustive catalog of common standard day corrections for gas turbine gas path parameters, explores their history, and, most importantly, provides a mathematical framework for the derivation of these important normalization factors.

This book presents the latest developments in both qualitative and quantitative computational methods for reliability and statistics, as well as their applications.

This book covers the topic of eddy current nondestructive evaluation, the most commonly practiced method of electromagnetic nondestructive evaluation (NDE).

This book presents intuitive explanations of the principles of microgrids, including their structure and operation and their applications.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of smart ports and remote technologies in the maritime industry.

This is the first textbook to address quantified risk assessment (QRA) as specifically applied to offshore installations and operations.

Since the introduction of system signatures in Francisco Samaniego's 1985 paper, the properties of this technical concept have been examined, tested and proven in a wide variety of systems applications.

This book is intended to give a general overview of reliability, faults, fault models, nanotechnology, nanodevices, fault-tolerant architectures and reliability evaluation techniques.

Architectures of Security: Design, Control, Mobility examines the relationship between architecture, security, and technology, focusing on the way these factors mutually constitute a "e;ferocious"e; architecture-an architecture, aesthetic, or design that is violent, forcing the performances and practices of sovereign power and neoliberalism.

These proceedings showcase the best papers selected from more than 500 submissions, introducing readers to the top research topics and the latest developmental trends in the theory and application of Man-Machine-Environment System Engineering (MMESE).

This book provides readers with a timely snapshot of the potential offered by and challenges posed by signal processing methods in the field of machine diagnostics and condition monitoring.

This book offers an in-depth study of the design and challenges addressed by a high-level synthesis tool targeting a specific class of cryptographic kernels, i.

Critical infrastructures are targets for terrorism and deliver a valuable vector through which the proliferation of CBRN and explosive precursors can be detected.

The introduction of public key cryptography (PKC) was a critical advance in IT security.

This book explores how human factors and ergonomic principles are currently transforming healthcare.

The book provides theoretical methods of connecting discrete-variable quantum information processing to continuous-variable one.

Over the past decade, the international political system has come to be characterized as a Great Power Competition in which multiple would-be hegemons compete for power and influence.

This book covers supply chain and logistics, production and manufacturing systems as well as human factors.

Crime, terrorism and security are in the forefront of current societal concerns.

This SpringerBrief presents information on a wide variety of hazards and the damage potential caused by installation of a photovoltaic (PV) system.

These proceedings showcase the best papers selected from more than 500 submissions, and introduce readers to the hottest research topics and the latest developmental trends in the theory and application of MMESE.

This book discusses the new roles that the VLSI (very-large-scale integration of semiconductor circuits) is taking for the safe, secure, and dependable design and operation of electronic systems.

Fuzzy logic is a relatively new concept in science applications.

This science comic presents the entire life cycle of the metro system in an accessible and fun way.

Space Security involves the use of space (in particular communication, navigation, earth observation, and electronic intelligence satellites) for military and security purposes on earth and also the maintenance of space (in particular the earth orbits) as safe and secure areas for conducting peaceful activities.

These proceedings highlight the latest advances in fundamental research, technologies and applications of hydrogen energy and fuel cells.

Modern societies depend on the smooth operation of many complex systems (designed and built by humans) that provide a variety of outputs (products and services).

These proceedings include a collection of papers on a range of topics presented at the 12th World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM) in Brisbane, 2 - 4 August 2017.

Model checking is a computer-assisted method for the analysis of dynamical systems that can be modeled by state-transition systems.

This volume contains selected papers from the Second Quadrennial International Conference on Structural Integrity (ICONS-2018).

This revision of the classic book on CCTV technology, CCTV Surveillance, provides a comprehensive examination of CCTV, covering the applications of various systems, how to design and install a system, and how to choose the right hardware.

Aims to give to the reader the tools necessary to apply semi-Markov processes in real-life problems.

This book presents selected topics in implementing a risk-based approach for complex engineering systems in general, and nuclear plants in particular.

This textbook examines key railway engineering topics useful for railway design and control.

Model Validation and Uncertainty Quantification, Volume 3:  Proceedings of the 35th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2017, the third volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

This book comprehensively reviews the cyber security and privacy issues in transportation cyber-physical systems (TCPSs).

Quality control is a scientific means for conducting observations, tests, and inspections and thereby making decisions that improve the perfomance of industrial processes.

This book describes basic reliability concepts - parametric ALT plan, failure mechanism and design, and reliability testing with acceleration factor and sample size equation.

This book presents a step by step Asset Health Management Optimization Approach Using Internet of Things (IoT).

This book presents Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Networks (ICISN 2021), held at Hanoi in Vietnam.

This book examines the international forums in which states develop cyber norms-"e;rules of the road"e; for how governments use information and communication technologies.

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Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.

The ground segment is the fundamental backbone of every satellite project, yet it is usually not visible to the public or the end user of a satellite service.

This volume comprises select proceedings of the International Conference on Humanizing Work and Work Environment organized by the Indian Society of Ergonomics.