Other technologies and applied sciences

Looking at the night sky, you'd be forgiven for thinking it's all quiet up there in space.

This book describes the reliability research results and experience of BeiDou navigation satellite in engineering development.

This volume is dedicated to the sixtieth birthday of Prof.

The beginning of the 2020's witnessed dozens of commercial astronauts fly to space on a variety of vehicles.

This book gathers the latest advances and innovations in the field of dynamic loads and testing of composite materials and sandwich structures, as presented by international researchers and engineers at the 5th International Symposium on Dynamic Response and Failure of Composite Materials (DRAF), held in Ischia, Italy, on June 17-21, 2024.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of fault tolerant control (FTC) for more-electric civil aircraft.

This is the first major textbook on occupational therapy (OT) aimed at students and practitioners based in Asia.

The beginning of the 2020's witnessed dozens of commercial astronauts fly to space on a variety of vehicles.

Control of Autonomous Aerial Vehicles is an edited book that provides a single-volume snapshot on the state of the art in the field of control theory applied to the design of autonomous unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), aka "e;drones"e;, employed in a variety of applications.

This book provides a comprehensive analysis of fault tolerant control (FTC) for more-electric civil aircraft.

This book highlights recent advances of spectroscopic techniques based on Raman scattering.

This book presents the fundamental and applied properties of different phosphor materials that exhibit the phenomenon of persistent luminescence (PerLum).

The book represents a study guide reciting theoretical basics of radar location and radio navigation systems of air and sea transport.

This book presents concepts for radio engineers to ensure electromagnetic compatibility based on the methodological approaches to reduce the probability of failures of radio equipment and improve the flight safety of complex aerospace systems.

Sound quality research is an emerging field of acoustics, and it has broad application prospects in the field of vibration and noise control of machinery and automobiles.

This book explores the design of optimal trajectories for space maneuver vehicles (SMVs) using optimal control-based techniques.

Ultrasound (US) prenatal screening has been proposed as the most effective technique for Trisomy 21 early assessment.

The book represents a study guide reciting theoretical basics of radar location and radio navigation systems of air and sea transport.

This book is useful both for those who want to get initial information on the measurement of the antenna parameters, and for specialists directly involved in the experimental determination of the antenna parameters from the results of measuring the amplitude-phase distribution in the near zone of the antennas.

This book provides a comprehensive content for professionals engaged in the development of flight safety regulatory framework, as well as in the design and operation of ground-based or on-board flight support radio electronic systems.

This book highlights the synthesis of polarization selection system in the background of passive noise formed by reflections from space-distributed targets.

This book presents best selected research papers presented at the Thirteenth International Conference on Applied Mathematics and Mechanics in the Aerospace Industry (AMMAI 2020), held from September 6 to September 13, 2020, at the Alushta Health and Educational Center (The Republic of Crimea).

This book introduces the concepts of more electric aircraft and aviation electrical appliances, as well as the aviation experimental platform of vacuum switches, the interruption characteristics, frequency characteristics and post-arc breakdown characteristics of intermediate frequency vacuum switches, etc.

This book collects selected papers from the 7th Conference on Signal and Information Processing, Networking and Computers held in Rizhao, China, on September 21-23, 2020.

This book surveys key projects that have seen the construction of large floating structures or have attained detailed conceptual designs.

This book provides a comprehensive insight into the current research trends and ongoing advances in biomedical applications of magnetic nanoparticles.

This book examines the issues of ensuring anti-terrorist security of an aviation enterprise, provides a history of terrorism in the aviation sector, and analyzes the legal regulations.

This book presents concepts for radio engineers to ensure electromagnetic compatibility based on the methodological approaches to reduce the probability of failures of radio equipment and improve the flight safety of complex aerospace systems.

This book describes in detail a method of direct optimization, which makes it possible to choose the best trajectory of an aircraft in conditions of its limited resource.

This book presents the basics of building various types of amplifiers, the most widely used in the composition of modern specialized radio receivers, as well as the principles of building digital radio receivers.

This book analyzes various properties and structures of ice from the point of view to solve problems in civil aviation.

This book presents a methodology for assessing environmental safety in civil aviation.

This book presents the maintenance of radio equipment and the principles of operation of various radio receiving devices in civil aviation.

This book highlights the capabilities and limitations of radar and air navigation.

This book presents the design of modular architecture flight simulators.

This book examines the issues of ensuring anti-terrorist security of an aviation enterprise, provides a history of terrorism in the aviation sector, and analyzes the legal regulations.

 This book provides an overview of Fetal Medicine practice focusing on various aspects of fetal health such as screening for fetal aneuploidies and imaging for fetal anomalies, their basic management and technological breakthroughs.

This book highlights the state-of-the-art research and discovery in the use of chitosan-based nanocomposites in biomedical applications, including the scope to which these novel materials have been incorporated by the community.

The book presents selected papers at the 9th Conference on Sound and Music Technology (CSMT) held virtually in June 2022, organized by Zhejiang University, China.

Sound quality research is an emerging field of acoustics, and it has broad application prospects in the field of vibration and noise control of machinery and automobiles.

This book focuses on general issues of deep-sea mining for seafloor mineral deposits, as well as the scientific, technical, legal and policy issues related to impacts on the water column.

This book presents research on Boundary Layer Ingestion (BLI).

This book collects selected papers from the 9th Conference on Signal and Information Processing, Networking and Computers held online, in December, 2021.

This book mainly presents the authors' recent studies on the distributed attitude consensus of multiple flexible spacecraft.

This book illustrates the latest progress on the hydrodynamic instabilities induced by a shock wave, particularly RM (Richtmyer-Meshkov) instability.

This book highlights the relationship between independent and dependent ship repairing variables of various combinations under linear and nonlinear form using actual data collected from shipyards.

This book introduces the applications of laser in surface modification, such as laser cladding of Stellite alloys and metal-ceramic composites.

This book gives an overview on mid-infrared optical glass and fibers laser, it cover the underlying principle, historic background, as well as recent advances in materials processing and enhanced properties for rare earth doped luminescence, spectroscopy lasers, or optical nonlinearity applications.

This book explains the exciting field of sonomyography (SMG), which makes it possible to use continuous signals detected by ultrasound images in real time to evaluate muscle functions.