Other technologies and applied sciences

Technology has propelled the atmospheric sciences from a fledgling discipline to a global enterprise.

Das Lehrbuch präsentiert ausführlich und durch viele Beispiele veranschaulicht den Einsatz von MATLAB und Simulink zur Darstellung und Berechnung in der Signalverarbeitung.

This self-contained book focuses on the safety assessment of existing structures subjected to multi-hazard scenarios through advanced numerical methods.

Following the 9/11 attacks, a war against al Qaeda by the U.

Guidelines for Evaluating Water in Pit Slope Stability is a comprehensive account of the hydrogeological procedures that should be followed when performing open pit slope stability design studies.

This book highlights recent advances of optical spatial solitons in photorefractive materials ranging broadly from the coupling, modulation instability, effect of pyroelectricity, and the stability of photorefractive solitons, among other topics.

On November 8-10, 2010, the National Research Council's Space Studies Board (SSB) held a public workshop on how NASA and its associated science and exploration communities communicate with the public about major NASA activities and programs.

This invaluable text assesses the current research on the causes of both war and peace.

The Office of Naval Research (ONR) contracted with the Naval Studies Board (NSB) of the National Research Council (NRC) to establish a committee to review ONR's Aircraft Technology Program (ATP).

Metal-semiconductor nanostructures represent an important new class of materials employed in designing advanced optoelectronic and nanophotonic devices, such as plasmonic nanolasers, plasmon-enhanced light-emitting diodes and solar cells, plasmonic emitters of single photons, and quantum devices operating in infrared and terahertz domains.

The third book in Professor Christian Potholm's war trilogy (which includes Winning at War and War Wisdom), Understanding War provides a most workable bibliography dealing with the vast literature on war and warfare.

Building upon scientific discoveries of past years, B-scan ultrasonography has become a widely accepted diagnostic procedure that has assumed particular importance in the areas of obstetrics and gynecology, internal medicine, and urology.

In Origins of Life Volume II, life and its origin are inspected from traditional and unexpected points of view.

The book focuses on photonic devices and systems for space applications and critically reviews the most promising research advances in the field of photonic technologies, which may have a significant impact on the performance of space systems.

Head, Eye, and Face Personal Protective Equipment: New Trends, Practice, and Applications presents protective equipment in the context of the latest design trends, materials, and technologies.

This book contains a selection of research papers presented at the 11th and 12th International Ship Stability Workshops (Wageningen, 2010 and Washington DC, 2011) and the 11th International Conference on Stability of Ships and Ocean Vehicles (Athens, 2012).

This book contains all the information that readers will require in order to perform echocardiography and to interpret the findings correctly.

This book provides all the key information needed to design offshore structures for renewable energy applications successfully.

Explains the methods that rocket scientists use-expressed in a way that could be applied in everyday life.

In einer Welt, die von synthetischen Schönheitsprodukten und invasiven Eingriffen dominiert wird, besinnt sich Franka Wiese auf die zeitlosen Weisheiten der Natur.

Explores the environmental, safety, and security challenges facing humanity''s rapid expansion into Space and proposes actionable solutions.

Topics in Modal Analysis, Volume 10: Proceedings of the 33rd IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2015, the tenth volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

Shock & Vibration, Aircraft/Aerospace, Energy Harvesting, Volume 9: Proceedings of the 33rd IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2015, the ninth volume of ten from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.

The book provides an introduction to the mechanics of composite materials, written for graduate students and practitioners in industry.

The International Conference on Intelligent Unmanned Systems 2011 was organized by the International Society of Intelligent Unmanned Systems and locally by the Center for Bio-Micro Robotics Research at Chiba University, Japan.

This book contains extensive data about tandem wing aircraft.

This engaging and accessible book is designed as a quick and easy way to get up to speed on all things in space technology.

This book provides a comprehensive guide to the classification requirements for offshore mooring chains, essential for ensuring the safety and integrity of offshore assets.

Presents readers with the basic science, technology, and applications for every type of adaptive lens An adaptive lens is a lens whose shape has been changed to a different focal length by an external stimulus such as pressure, electric field, magnetic field, or temperature.

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This book focuses on applications of micro CT, CBCT and CT in medicine and engineering, comprehensively explaining the basic principles of these techniques in detail, and describing their increasing use in the imaging field.

The fundamental photophysical properties of iridium(III) materials make this class of materials the pre-eminent transition metal complex for use in optoelectronic applications.

Covers the fundamentals of all currently used methods (seismic, electrical, electromagnetic, gravity, magnetic, borehole logging and remote sensing) and pays special attention to the seismic refraction and electrical resistivity techniques which are the ones most commonly used in engineering and groundwater geophysics.

Introduces the fundamental principles of applied Earth science needed for engineering practice, with case studies, exercises, and online solutions.

This book analyzes novel possibilities offered to the telecommunication engineer in designing tomorrow's optical networks.

This book presents firsthand insights into strategies and approaches for the commercial aerospace supply chain in response to the numerous changes that airlines, aircraft OEMs and their suppliers have experienced over the past few decades.

During the summer of 1969-the summer Americans first walked on the moon-musician and poet Patti Smith recalled strolling down the Coney Island Boardwalk to a refreshment stand, where "e;pictures of Jesus, President Kennedy, and the astronauts were taped to the wall behind the register.

This book addresses the hydrostatics and stability of ships and other floating marine structures - a fundamental aspect of naval architecture and offshore engineering for naval architects and marine engineers.

Scintigraphic imaging with radiolabeled blood elements has continued to be a useful diagnostic modality.

The National Research Council's Army Research Laboratory Technical Assessment Board provides biennial assessments of the scientific and technical quality of the research, development, and analysis programs at the Army Research Laboratory, focusing on ballistics sciences, human sciences, information sciences, materials sciences, and mechanical sciences.

This book presents how to apply recent machine learning (deep learning) methods for the task of speech quality prediction.

This contributed book edited by leading global experts focuses on the geoenvironmental and geotechnical issues of coal mine overburden and mine tailings and its unengineered dumping.

EmDrive provides a comprehensive description of the theoretical background of this emerging technology.

This book excavates into both the foundational principles and the latest advancements in perovskite solar cell research.