Civil engineering, surveying and building

This book explores the revolutionary potential of atomically precise manufacturing technologies to transform global healthcare, as well as practically every other sector across society.

Industrial Water and Waste Treatment: Pollution Control, the fifth volume in the Industrial Water and Waste Treatment series, provides an in-depth exploration of cutting-edge pollution control technologies and their real-world applications.

This book emphasizes the importance of customer service in various industries and highlights its role in profitability.

This book covers the fundamentals of wire arc additive manufacturing processes including principles and processing procedures for developing near-net-shape components and their applications.

The Cemented Material Dam (CMD) is defined as a series of new dam types utilizing cementitious binder together with various natural or manufactured materials in the construction of a dam.

Liminal Spaces and Spatial Practices in Byzantium offers a novel twist, combining intra-/inter-disciplinary research across the humanities and social sciences by transforming two distinct disciplinary concepts (liminality from social anthropology and space from cultural geography) into methodological devices for historical investigation.

This book provides a comprehensive technical overview of waste management strategies tailored for small towns, emphasising innovative approaches to integrated waste management.

Industrial Water and Waste Treatment: Pollution Control, the fifth volume in the Industrial Water and Waste Treatment series, provides an in-depth exploration of cutting-edge pollution control technologies and their real-world applications.

Bio-Inspired Structures bridges the transformative intersection of biological principles and engineering innovation, offering a comprehensive framework for translating nature's evolutionary wisdom into next-generation infrastructure solutions.

This book examines the impact of space on the perception of art and visual culture in early nineteenth-century Paris.

Pollution refers to the negative impact of human activity on the environment, posing risks to human health, ecosystems, and economic growth.

This book examines the impact of space on the perception of art and visual culture in early nineteenth-century Paris.

This dissertation considers various questions with respect to the effects of salinity on nutrification: what are the main inhibiting factors causing the effects, do all salts have similar effects, what is the maximum acceptable salt level, are ammonia oxidisers or nitrite oxidizers most sensitive to salt stress, can nitrifiers adapt to long term salt stress and are some specific nitrifiers more resistant to salt stress than others?

Ungauged catchments can be found in many parts of the world, but particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.

Day-to-day water management is challenged by meteorological extremes, causing floods and droughts.

The use of tiebacks has evolved from simple lateral support during construction or excavation, to an increased number of permanent installations.

This translation of "e;Guide technique des bassins de retenue d'eaux pluviales"e;, Paris 1994, provides information about planning, construction, maintenance and management, and costs of stormwater retention basins.

An increasing portion of the world's population and economic activity is located on lands adjacent to coastal waters.

Ungauged catchments can be found in many parts of the world, but particularly in sub-Saharan Africa.

This dissertation considers various questions with respect to the effects of salinity on nutrification: what are the main inhibiting factors causing the effects, do all salts have similar effects, what is the maximum acceptable salt level, are ammonia oxidisers or nitrite oxidizers most sensitive to salt stress, can nitrifiers adapt to long term salt stress and are some specific nitrifiers more resistant to salt stress than others?

First published in 1984, The Development of Planning Thought presents a critical and historical perspective on the development of planning.

This book describes the use of machine learning techniques to build predictive models of uncertainty with application to hydrological models, focusing mainly on the development and testing of two different models.

This book is a comprehensive overview of the dynamic and multidimensional world of biofuels.

Geotechnical Engineering treats the mechanics of soils and structures interacting with soils.

These three volumes provide valuable information to help bring rational and scientifically feasible solutions to petroleum contaminated soils.

There is an urgent need to develop and improve low cost technologies for wastewater treatment.

This volume on deep-level geodynamics includes exploration of: theoretical principles of heat and mass transfer modelling; thermogravitational flows in a horizontal layer; and some geological applications.

Development of a sustainable wastewater treatment scheme to recycle sewage nutrients and water in tilapia aquaculture was the main objective of this PhD research.

Hydroclimatology has emerged as a new discipline in line with increasing awareness of the connected nature of land-surface-atmosphere processes.

There has been an explosive growth of methods in recent years for learning (or estimating dependency) from data, where data refers to known samples that are combinations of inputs and corresponding outputs of a given physical system.

Geotechnical Engineering treats the mechanics of soils and structures interacting with soils.

Der vorliegende Band fasst den Kenntnisstand per Anfang 1999 zusammen und prasentiert zum ersten Mal in einer umfassenden Art und Weise die grosse Anzahl neuer Daten der Vorerkundung der Gotthard- und Lotschberg-Basistunnels sowie die Hochschulen in den letzten Jahren erarbeiteten projektrelevanten geologischen und felsmechanischen Grundlagen.

First published in 1984, The Development of Planning Thought presents a critical and historical perspective on the development of planning.

The book describes in twelve chapters the modern tools available for the detection and prevention of leaks from dams and reservoirs, including water chemistry, isotope analyses, artificial tracers, permeability tests, geophysical methods and techniques for the localization of water flows both inside the reservoir and boreholes.

Development of a sustainable wastewater treatment scheme to recycle sewage nutrients and water in tilapia aquaculture was the main objective of this PhD research.

These three volumes provide valuable information to help bring rational and scientifically feasible solutions to petroleum contaminated soils.

This book is a comprehensive overview of the dynamic and multidimensional world of biofuels.

The use of tiebacks has evolved from simple lateral support during construction or excavation, to an increased number of permanent installations.

Based on the collaborative, interdisciplinary research project Shift-Plastics this book establish sustainable circular value chains for managing plastics in the fisheries and aquaculture industries, which are significant causes of ocean plastic pollution.

This volume on deep-level geodynamics includes exploration of: theoretical principles of heat and mass transfer modelling; thermogravitational flows in a horizontal layer; and some geological applications.

The modeling tool is applied to address water management issues in the case study region (Sharm El Sheikh, South-Sinai, Egypt) that suffers from water shortage and that is located near a unique but sensitive marine environment of high ecological value.

Understanding the impacts of urbanization on the urban water cycle and managing the associated health risks demand adequate strategies and measures.

The modeling tool is applied to address water management issues in the case study region (Sharm El Sheikh, South-Sinai, Egypt) that suffers from water shortage and that is located near a unique but sensitive marine environment of high ecological value.

In May 12, 2008, the Wenchuan County earthquake caused devastating loss of human life and property.

This book describes the use of machine learning techniques to build predictive models of uncertainty with application to hydrological models, focusing mainly on the development and testing of two different models.

Day-to-day water management is challenged by meteorological extremes, causing floods and droughts.

Der vorliegende Band fasst den Kenntnisstand per Anfang 1999 zusammen und prasentiert zum ersten Mal in einer umfassenden Art und Weise die grosse Anzahl neuer Daten der Vorerkundung der Gotthard- und Lotschberg-Basistunnels sowie die Hochschulen in den letzten Jahren erarbeiteten projektrelevanten geologischen und felsmechanischen Grundlagen.

This book presents the results of research conducted between 2000 and 2004 on Lake Victoria (East Africa).

This book presents the results of research conducted between 2000 and 2004 on Lake Victoria (East Africa).

The papers included in this book describe various in-situ tests, routine and soil-specific, being used in various countries.