Technology: general issues

This book aims to shed light on why it is that so many well-meaning initiatives and government white papers have failed to have the expected impact in transforming the UK construction industry.

This practical guide for managers and engineers in the plastics industry shows how to reduce high noise levels which often occur in the workplace and reduce the risk of noise-induced hearing damage to employees.

Dieses Lehrbuch richtet sich an Studierende von fachfremden Studiengängen mit Informatikanteilen.

In the last two decades, machine learning has developed dramatically and is still experiencing a fast and everlasting change in paradigms, methodology, applications and other aspects.

Efficient Computation of Argumentation Semantics addresses argumentation semantics and systems, introducing readers to cutting-edge decomposition methods that drive increasingly efficient logic computation in AI and intelligent systems.

This is the remarkable story of an entrepreneurial firm that helped to create the petrochemical industry as we know it today.

An uncomfortable observation in the Shift Logs and Process Control records of most aluminum smelting plants is that process control failures, large and small, happen every day.

Building on the knowledge of risks, vulnerabilities, and safety measures associated with cyber-physical systems, this book focuses on adapting artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to smart cyber-physical systems application development.

Thermoplastic Aromatic Polymer Composites: A Study of the Structure, Processing and Properties of Carbon Fibre Reinforced Polyetheretherketone and Related Materials deals with the field of thermoplastic composite materials through a study of carbon fiber reinforced polyetheretherketone.

The growing complexity of projects today, as well as the uncertainty inherent in innovative projects, is making obsolete traditional project management practices and procedures, which are based on the notion that much about a project is known at its start.

You hold in your hands a comprehensive guide to creating a flourishing software development practice - one that makes a powerful impact with the software it builds.

Dieses Buch behandelt Grundlagen von Programmiersprachen, deren Verknüpfung mit realen Rechenmaschinen und - exemplarisch - Algorithmen.

This book provides an overview of direct methods such as limit and shakedown analysis, which are intended to do away with the need for cumbersome step-by-step calculations and determine the loading limits of mechanical structures under monotone, cyclic or variable loading with unknown loading history.

Find the Fault in the Machines- Drawing on the author's more than two decades of experience with machinery condition monitoring and consulting for industries in India and abroad, Machinery Condition Monitoring: Principles and Practices introduces the practicing engineer to the techniques used to effectively detect and diagnose faults in machines.

En momentos como el presente, en el que los recursos naturales cada vez se vuelven más escasos y los daños al medio ambiente provocados por la actividad humana se han hecho irreversibles, se desarrolla una forma de habitar que busca recuperar los conocimientos ancestrales de la construcción y el equilibrio con el planeta.

This book covers the description of both conventional methods and advanced methods.

Digital Video Surveillance and Security provides a blueprint for the IP-based electronic security system clients need, allowing security professionals to protect their client's place of business or home.

This book covers techniques that can be used to analyze data from IoT sensors and addresses questions regarding the performance of an IoT system.

This second book in our series Artificial Intelligence and Society explores the issues involved in the design and application of human-centred systems in the manufacturing area.

There are numerous psychological studies of pilots and piloting, but little has been done in the way of sociological examination.

The manufacturing industries remain the foundation of local, regional, and global economies.

New and unpredicted technologies are emerging at an unprecedented pace around the world.

This monograph addresses fundamental aspects of mathematical modeling and numerical solution methods of electromagnetic problems involving low frequencies, i.

This book proposes that new music technologies attract unconscious desires for socialism and collectivity, enabling millions of people living under capitalism to dream of repressed social alternatives.

At the beginning of the 20th century an estimated five percent of the world's population lived in cities.

This edited book presents an array of approaches on how human factors theory and research addresses the challenges associated with combat identification.

The purpose and organisation of this book are described in the preface to the first edition (1988).

This elementary book provides some state-of-the-art research results on broad disciplinary sciences on complex networks.

Cooperative systems are pervasive in a multitude of environments and at all levels.

Infrastructure is vital to a resilient society and infrastructure investment is therefore critical to the vibrant functioning of societies.

This volume comprises selected extended papers written by prominent researchers participating in the International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists 2015, Hong Kong, 18-20 March 2015.

This book features a selection of papers presented at the 18th International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Industrial Management (ADINGOR), held on July 4-5, 2024, at Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain.

Pragmatic Electrical Engineering: Fundamentals introduces the fundamentals of the energy-delivery part of electrical systems.

This edited volume provides an essential resource for urban morphology, the study of urban forms and structures, offering a much-needed mathematical perspective.

Digital Signal Processing: Applications to Communications and Algebraic Coding Theories discusses the design of computationally efficient digital signal processing algorithms over finite fields and the relation of these algorithms to algebraic error-correcting codes.

This book highlights some of the latest advances in nanotechnology and nanomaterials from leading researchers in Ukraine, Europe and beyond.

Mastering the complexity of innovative systems is a challenging aspect of design and product development.

Manufacturing Handbook of Best Practices: An Innovation, Productivity, and Quality Focus gives you a working knowledge of today's cutting edge tools - preparing you for the way you will be doing your job tomorrow.

Angaben über das Lichtbogenschweißen unter Wasserdampfschutz liegen bisher, von einigen Veröffentlichungen abgesehen, nur in ausländischer Sprache vor, von denen die russischen Texte zum größten Teil ins Englische übersetzt sind.