Security and fire alarm systems

This book fills a clear gap in the literature for a technically-focused book covering nuclear proliferation and related issues post-9/11.

This book gathers papers presented at the 11th international scientific conference "e;Transbaltica: Transportation Science and Technology"e;, held on May 2-3, 2019 at Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, Lithuania.

This proceedings volume presents new scientific works of the research workers and experts in the field of Wood Science & Fire.

This book covers a wide range of management issues, concerning planning, control and continuous improvement.

The proceedings of the 11th International Mine Ventilation Congress (11th IMVC), is focused on mine ventilation, health and safety and Earth science.

The series Advances in Industrial Control aims to report and encourage technology transfer in control engineering.

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

This book provides readers an understanding of the implementation of Enterprise Risk Management (ERM) for international construction operations.

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

This book highlights the design, use and structure of blockchain systems and decentralized ledger technologies (B/DLT) for use in the construction industry.

This innovative volume gathers some of the world's best scholars to analyse the world's collective international efforts to address globalised threats through global security governance.

This book strives to take stock of current achievements and existing challenges in nuclear verification, identify the available information and gaps that can act as drivers for exploring new approaches to verification strategies and technologies.

This volume presents selected papers from the International Conference on Reliability, Safety, and Hazard.

"e;This is the second in a series of three volumes of proceedings of the 23rd Pacific Basin Nuclear Conference (PBNC 2022) which was held by Chinese Nuclear Society.

Dieses Fachbuch gibt eine praxisorientierte Einführung in Grundlagen und Anwendung der Fehlerbaumanalyse (FTA).

Safety and Risk Modeling presents the latest theories and methods of safety and risk with an emphasis on safety and risk in modeling.

This book presents a comprehensive introduction to the field of structural vibration reduction control, but may also be used as a reference source for more advanced topics.

Nonlinearity and stochastic structural dynamics is of common interest to engineers and applied scientists belonging to many disciplines.

Investors and managers of major projects know how often they result in cost overruns and schedule delays.

This Brief is concerned with the connection between food packaging and the chemical composition of packaging materials.

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

This book is on urban resilience - how to design and operate cities that can withstand major threats such as natural disasters and economic downturns and how to recover from them.

This book discusses new applications of technologies that have been or could be successfully employed to estimate the age of fingermarks.

The book analyses a broad range of relevant aspects as the outer space and cyber space domain do not only present analogies but are also strongly interrelated.

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 summarizes recent inventions, provides guidelines and recommendations, and demonstrates many practical applications of homomorphic encryption.

This book introduces readers to the latest findings on disaster robotics.

The handbook aims to provide a comprehensive resource for understanding ionizing radiation dosimetry, catering to experts, policymakers, and interested readers.

This book offers a comprehensive overview of quality and quality management.

This book addresses the key security challenges in the big data centric computing and network systems, and discusses how to tackle them using a mix of conventional and state-of-the-art techniques.

This book summarizes the research being pursued as part of the Erasmus+ CBHE KA2 project entitled "e;Development of master curricula for natural disasters risk management in Western Balkan countries"e; (NatRisk), which aims to educate experts on the prevention and management of natural disasters in the Western Balkan region in line with national and EU policies.

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

This book provides a detailed insight into the complex dynamics of radicalization that are in play amongst contemporary society.

This book presents the proceedings of the 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2018), held on August 26-30, 2018, in Florence, Italy.

One of the most important aspects for a successful police operation is the ability for the police to obtain timely, reliable and actionable intelligence related to the investigation or incident at hand.

This book presents the proceedings of the 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2018), held on August 26-30, 2018, in Florence, Italy.

Social media has fundamentally changed communication and interaction in today's society.

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

This book presents the 16th ICGS3-24 conference which aims to understand the full impact of cyber-security, AI, deepfake, and quantum computing on humanity.

In many engineering design and optimization problems, the presence of uncertainty in the data is a critical issue.

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

This book provides a comprehensive overview of nano-optics, including basic theory, experiment and applications, particularly in nanofabrication and optical characterization.

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.

This book presents the proceedings of the 20th Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2018), held on August 26-30, 2018, in Florence, Italy.

The aim of this book is to summarize probabilistic safety assessment (PSA) of nuclear power plants with WWER440 reactors and demonstrate that the plants are safe enough for producing energy even in light of the Fukushima accident.

This book is concerned with the complexities of achieving quality in care transitions.

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