Technology: general issues

This book offers a description of the evolution of cams and their uses from the Middle Ages to the present day, highlighting their contribution to the development of technology.

This book provides a thorough introduction to the fundamental concepts and technologies of Programmable Logic Controllers (PLCs) and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems.

This handbook enumerates every aspect of incorporating moral and societal values into technology design, reflects the fact that the latter has moved on from strict functionality to become sensitive to moral and social values such as sustainability and accountability.

This title explores human behaviour in the context of workplace safety and risk management.

The second edition of this exhaustive work provides a genuinely international, comprehensive and multi-disciplinary reference encompassing the many diverse topics surrounding the field of nanotechnology.

Fusion Technology 1982, Volume 1 contains the proceedings of the 12th Symposium on Fusion Technology held at the Julich Nuclear Research Center in Germany on September 13-17, 1982.

This book presents the latest technology of sustainable nanomaterials for applications as drug delivery cargos in tackling various inflammatory diseases.

This edited collection offers fresh perspectives on sustainable development and social impact using a circular economy framework.

This book entitled Mechanics of Elastic Solids is written as a textbook of the course "e;Elasticity"e; or "e;Theory of Elasticity"e; or "e;Elasticity Mechanics"e; for relevant engineering majors.

This book presents the proceedings of the Twentieth International Conference on Dependability of Computer Systems, showcasing recent advancements in this broad area.

This book provides a groundbreaking exploration of how nanotechnology is revolutionizing sports nutrition.

This book reviews the use of nano-based drug delivery systems and biomaterials to enhance the immune system against infectious diseases.

This contributed volume provides an overview of the current status of sustainable nanomaterials and their potential applications in various industries, including agriculture.

In recent years, large-scale advances in technology have led to greater understanding of the world on a much tinier scale: the biomolecular level.

Eine Geschichte über Hochschulpolitik und Konkurrenzkampf im Zeichen des Nationalsozialismus.

This book contributes to the advancement of aerospace technology and the optimization of navigation systems, thereby fostering innovation and progress in the field.

This book offers a comprehensive guide to the sustainable design of products, services, or related systems.

Die Wassermühle mit Wasserrad ist heute noch vom Mythos einer vorindustriellen Form der Energiegewinnung umsponnen.

Since 1959, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has engaged the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine annually to assess the quality, effectiveness, and resource adequacy of NIST's six measurement and standards laboratories.

This book presents critical evaluations of various historical sources and their impact on technological development.

This book explores the intricate interplay between burgeoning energy demands and the imperatives of ecological sustainability.

Strength of Metals and Alloys, Volume 1 contains the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on the Strength of Metals and Alloys held in Aachen, Federal Republic of Germany, on August 27-31, 1979.

This book covers analytic methods to solve one-dimensional and multi-dimensional problems with or without possible constraints, iterative numerical techniques based on the gradient calculation or its estimation, and numerical methods that do not require the knowledge of gradient and use only comparative iterative tests.

Currently, nanotechnology is exposing the properties of DNA in unprecedented detail leading to new insights on the biological behavior and function of DNA.

This book presents a part of selected proceedings of the 9th International and 30th All India Manufacturing Technology, Design and Research Conference (AIMTDR 2023).

This book is a theoretical and pragmatic tool that applies mathematical modelling in understanding and managing diabetes and related complications such as diabetes predisposition, diabetes onset, regular glycaemic monitoring, glycated haemoglobin HbA1c, diabetes homeostasis, gestational diabetes and other associated diseases and conditions.

This book presents Analytical and Approximate Methods for Complex Dynamical Systems and introduces ideas of discontinuous mapping treated as complex dynamical systems.

A humanist manifesto for the age of AIArtificial intelligence may be the most transformative technology of our time.

Practical Construction Planning and Control Using Microsoft Project serves as a practical guide, explaining how to implement the Critical Path Method (CPM) in construction projects using Microsoft Project, filling a clear gap in the academic literature.

This book concentrates on trends and recent developments in nano- and microbial agents and their usage in waste minimization and pollution mitigation through review-style chapters.

Over the last few years, nanoscience and nanotechnology have been the focus of significant research attention, both from academia and industry.

The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the primary agency of the United States government responsible for biomedical and public health research.

Climate change is creating impacts that are widespread and severe for individuals, communities, economies, and ecosystems around the world.

This book presents data-driven algorithms used in the context of wind farm modelling and exploits their relation with concepts from non-linear dynamical system theory.

In the original two editions of Engineering Ethics: Peace, Justice, and the Earth, a response of the engineering profession to the challenges of security, poverty and underdevelopment, environmental sustainability, and native cultures was described.

This book is a theoretical and pragmatic tool that applies mathematical modelling in understanding and managing diabetes and related complications such as diabetes predisposition, diabetes onset, regular glycaemic monitoring, glycated haemoglobin HbA1c, diabetes homeostasis, gestational diabetes and other associated diseases and conditions.

This book covers the use and impacts of nanofertilizers from a sustainable agriculture perspective and together with its companion book "e;Nanofertilizers in Agriculture: Synthesis, Mechanisms, and Effect on Plants"e; serves as an indispensable resource for researchers, agronomists, and policymakers exploring sustainable agriculture with nanotechnology.

Nanotechnology and nucleic acid based therapies are two emerging fields in science whose combination has the potential to improve quality of life for patients suffering from various diseases that can so far only be treated in an unsatisfactory way.

The book presents selected papers from the 3rd International Conference on Highway and Transportation Engineering (ICHITRA), held during September 4–5, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

This book brings together investigations which combine theoretical and experimental results related to such systems as flexure hinges and compliant mechanisms for precision applications, the non-linear analytical modeling of compliant mechanisms, mechanical systems using compliance as a bipedal robot and reconfigurable tensegrity systems and micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS) as energy efficient micro-robots, microscale force compensation, magnetoelectric micro-sensors, acoustical actuators and the wafer bonding as a key technology for the MEMS fabrication.