Other technologies and applied sciences

This peer-reviewed book presents a comprehensive overview of the role space is playing in enabling Latin America to fulfill its developmental aspirations.

The mid-infrared domain is a promising optical domain because it holds two transparency atmospheric windows, as well as the fingerprint of many chemical compounds.

This book is the sixth edition.

This last volume of the SpringerBriefs in Space Life Sciences series is setup in 5 main parts.

This book reports on the 12th International Workshop on Railway Noise held on 12-16 September 2016 at Terrigal, Australia.

The book is designed to serve as a textbook for courses offered to upper-undergraduate students enrolled in physics.

This book presents sixteen chapters in Volume 1.

This beautifully illustrated volume takes the reader on a wide-ranging tour through music education facilities designed during the past 20 years, with a particular emphasis on the acoustical and architectural design of the locations.

This book provides a solid foundation from which most practical, theoretical problems related to sandwich structures can be derived and solved.

This book provides a practically applicable guide to the use of ultrasound in the care of acutely and critically ill patients.

This book establishes an important mathematical connection between cooperative control problems and network optimization problems.

This book provides a new multi-method, process-oriented approach towards speech quality assessment, which allows readers to examine the influence of speech transmission quality on a variety of perceptual and cognitive processes in human listeners.

This book is the highly anticipated sequel to the previous volume under the same title, dedicated to presenting a diverse range of timely and valuable contributions on the legal and policy related questions evoked by satellite constellations, including emerging mega-constellations.

This book collates papers presented at two international conferences (held at the Australian National University in 2018 and Birkbeck College London in 2019) exploring the relationships between big history and astrobiology and their wider implications for society.

This book reports on the 13th International Workshop on Railway Noise (IWRN13), held on September 16-20, 2019, in Ghent, Belgium.

This book collects papers presented in the Invited Workshop, "e;Liutex and Third Generation of Vortex Definition and Identification for Turbulence,"e; from CHAOS2020, June 9-12, 2020, which was held online as a virtual conference.

This edited book explores the use of surfactants in upstream exploration and production (E&P).

In the near future, Earth is suffering from climate change, famines, and fundamentalism.

This book introduces the theory of structural dynamics, with focus on civil engineering structures.

This book presents recent research works related to blast resistant buildings, green roofs and sustainability, retrofit interventions with C-FRP fibers, analysis of cracking in pile cap foundation by delayed ettringite formation and acoustic performance in buildings.

This book presents recent research works related to salt attack and corrosion in concrete structures, durability and service life in concrete, non-destructive techniques applied to reinforced concrete structures and acoustic performance of buildings.

This book explains how the achievements of the Space Shuttle, the world's first reusable manned spacecraft, were built on the foundation of countless technical challenges.

This book provides a detailed explanation of the cold spray process from a practical standpoint.

This book explores creative solutions to the unique challenges inherent in crafting livable spaces in extra-terrestrial environments.

This is the tale of the modern Space Age, detailing all the risks, rewards and rivalries that have fueled space exploration over the decades.

Stratospheric balloons are powerful tools used to study the Earth and its atmosphere, as well as the greater cosmos beyond.

This book expands on the subject matter of 'Computational Electromagnetics and Model-Based Inversion: A Modern Paradigm for Eddy-Current Nondestructive Evaluation.

This book provides an introduction to Acoustic Emission Testing and its applications to different materials like concrete, steel, ceramics, geotechnical materials, polymers, biological structures and wood.

This book covers topics on engineering science, technology and applications of the classification of particles in liquids suspensions in hydrocyclones.

Many significant achievements in new ultrasound technologies to measure bone and models to elucidate the interaction and the propagation of ultrasonic waves in complex bone structures have been reported over the past ten years.

This atlas offers a guide to studying the fetal face by means of ultrasound analysis.

This textbook provides a detailed introduction to the use of software in combination with simple and economical hardware (a sound level meter with calibrated AC output and a digital recording system) to obtain sophisticated measurements usually requiring expensive equipment.

This book reports a comprehensive study on the Industry 4.

The story of European-Russian collaboration in space is little known and its importance all too often understated.

This book provides a practically applicable manual to the utilisation of ultrasound in rheumatology.

This book presents unique features of the adaptive modeling approach based on new machine learning algorithms for petroleum exploration, development, and production.

This book offers a comprehensive presentation of the most important phenomena in building physics: heat transfer, moisture/humidity, sound/acoustics and illumination.

How do we understand culture and shape its future?

This book presents a step-by-step methodology for the design of ramjet engines.

This book provides a guide to engineering successful and reliable products for the NewSpace industry.

This book describes the recently-discovered artificially curved light beam known as the photonic hook.

The Magnesium Technology Symposium, the event on which this collection is based, is one of the largest yearly gatherings of magnesium specialists in the world.

This book is dedicated to the nascent discussion of the legal aspects of human exploration and possible settlement of Mars, and provides fresh insights and new ideas in two key areas.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of time-fixed terminal rendezvous around the Earth using chemical propulsion.

This book presents the most up-to-date accomplishments in gear design and gear production, detailing theory of gearing and its application.

Ultrasound has rapidly become integral to the practice of emergency medicine.

This book presents the proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Maritime Education and Development.

Filling a gap in the literature, this is the first book to comprehensively present fracture sonography as a diagnostic tool that can complement and in some cases even replace conventional radiological imaging.

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of computational geomechanics, as presented by international researchers and engineers at the 16th International Conference of the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG 2020/21).

This book gathers the latest advances, innovations, and applications in the field of computational geomechanics, as presented by international researchers and engineers at the 16th International Conference of the International Association for Computer Methods and Advances in Geomechanics (IACMAG 2020/21).