Nature, with its unassuming yet prodigious character, unfolds its assembly and adaptability guided by the principles of thermodynamics and supramolecular chemistry.
Despite being an accepted construct in traffic and transport psychology, the precise nature of behavioural adaptation, including its causes and consequences, has not yet been established within the road safety community.
Filling a new need in engineering education, Getting Design Right: A Systems Approach integrates aspects from both design and systems engineering to provide a solid understanding of the fundamental principles and best practices in these areas.
Brain Tumors and Nanotechnology explores the complex world of brain tumors and the ground-breaking role that nanotechnology is playing in both detection and treatment.
A kaleidoscopic look at how eleven disruptive innovationsincluding the iPhone, the transistor, disposable diapers, and Julia Child's The Art of French Cookingreshaped industries and societies, propelling humanity toward new frontiers.
Refineries face persistent challenges in improving energy efficiency, ensuring crude availability, and implementing process safety, with excessive energy consumption being particularly difficult to address.
This book examines two venerable cultures, art and technology, and uses the young "e;interdiscipline"e; of cognitive history combined with case studies of both ancient and modern artifacts to explore, and unveil, some of the bridges by which this reconciliation of two seemingly distant and oppositional cultures can be effected.
Brain Tumors and Nanotechnology explores the complex world of brain tumors and the ground-breaking role that nanotechnology is playing in both detection and treatment.
This volume is concerned with the human factors, ergonomics, and safety issues related to the design of products, processes, and systems, as well as operation and management of business enterprises in both manufacturing and service sectors of contemporary industry.
The preparation of sterile products using aseptic processing is considered perhaps the most critical process in the pharmaceutical industry and has witnessed continual improvement over the last half century.
Nature, with its unassuming yet prodigious character, unfolds its assembly and adaptability guided by the principles of thermodynamics and supramolecular chemistry.
This book provides readers with state-of-the-art knowledge of established and emerging semiconducting materials, their processing, and the fabrication of chips and microprocessors.
"e;Healing in Layers: 3D Printing in Healthcare"e; is a pioneering exploration of how 3D printing technology is revolutionizing the field of biomedicine.
Use Tolerance Analysis Techniques to Avoid Design, Quality, and Manufacturing Problems Before They Happen Often overlooked and misunderstood, tolerance analysis is a critical part of improving products and their design processes.
This book presents orthotropic vibration modeling and analysis of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) which be helpful in applications such as oscillators and in non-destructive testing, and also vibrations characteristics of armchair double-walled CNT by means of nonlocal elasticity shell model.
Drawn from presentations at a recent National Science Foundation Summer Institute on Nanomechanics, Nanomaterials, and Micro/Nanomanufacturing, Micro- and Nanoscale Phenomena in Tribology explores the convergence of the multiple science and engineering disciplines involved in tribology and the connection from the macro to nano world.
Edited by Jussi Kantola, the founding faculty member of the world's first university Knowledge Service Engineering Department at Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, and Waldemar Karwowski from the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Systems at UCF, Knowledge Service Engineering Handbook defines what knowledge services engineering means and how it is different from service engineering and service production.
Practical Lubrication for Industrial Facilities - Fourth Edition, is a blueprint manual for any person, department, or corporation wanting to acquire practical working knowledge in the field of industrial lubrication study and application.
"e;Healing in Layers: 3D Printing in Healthcare"e; is a pioneering exploration of how 3D printing technology is revolutionizing the field of biomedicine.
High-Activity Nuclear Waste Management Policy: Becoming a Responsible Ancestor describes the technical, social, and political challenges of developing a deep-mined, geologic repository for high-activity nuclear waste.
Real-world examples and hands-on experience are invaluable resources when learning how to use new methods and tools, whether in training or in a classroom.
Innovation and Knowledge Management in Manufacturing Industry: Case Studies and Applications is a valuable resource to organizations in the modern manufacturing setting where change is fast, competition is intense, and where technological changes take place continuously.
The advent of augmented reality technologies used to assist human operators in complex manipulative operations-has brought an urgency to research into the modeling and training of human skills in Virtual Environments.
Although there are many theoretical nanotechnology and nanoscience textbooks available to students, there are relatively few practical laboratory-based books.
With stock market swings due to unethical behavior, fuel price escalation due to increased demand, and climate disasters due to global warming, operating in a socially responsible manner is quickly moving from the realm of a nice idea to abusiness imperative.
