Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes

This book discusses vegetable oil based biolubricants and their applications in the power distribution industry.

This book presents high-quality contributions in the subject area of Aerospace System Science and Engineering, including topics such as: Trans-space vehicle systems design and integration, Air vehicle systems, Space vehicle systems, Near-space vehicle systems, Opto-electronic system, Aerospace robotics and unmanned system, Aerospace robotics and unmanned system, Communication, navigation and surveillance, Dynamics and control, Intelligent sensing and Information fusion, Aerodynamics and aircraft design, Aerospace propulsion, Avionics system, Air traffic management, Earth observation, Deep space exploration, Bionic micro-aircraft/spacecraft.

This book collects selected papers from the 28th Conference of Spacecraft TT&C Technology in China held on November 8-10, 2016.

This book focuses on pulverized coal particle devolatilization, ignition, alkali metal release behavior, and burnout temperature using several novel optic diagnostic methods on a Hencken multi-flat flame burner.

This book presents and discusses the latest advances in biotechnology, and selected challenges and opportunities in connection with its industrial applications.

This book offers essential insights into c-Si based solar cells and fundamentals of reflection, refraction, and light trapping.

This book describes the luminescence mechanism of polynuclear lanthanide complexes, focusing on energy transfer processes using a combination of experimental and theoretical approaches.

This book investigates the impact of production input factors on the market, consumer and producer energy demand characteristics in 30 industrial sectors for South Korea over the period 1980-2009, and for Japan over the period 1973-2006, with special emphasis placed on the effects of ICT investment on the demand for energy.

This book provides a review of essential research on urinary tract infections (UTIs), as well as a broader perspective on methodologies adopted for the isolation and identification of the bacteria from urine samples of pregnant and non-pregnant women on the basis of their cultural, morphological and biochemical characteristics.

This book presents extended versions of papers originally presented and discussed at the 3rd International Doctoral Symposium on Applied Computation and Security Systems (ACSS 2016) held from August 12 to 14, 2016 in Kolkata,  India.

This thesis focuses on the synthesis and characterization of various carbon allotropes (e.

The book focuses on both theory and applications in the broad areas of communication technology, computer science and information security.

These proceedings present the latest information on software reliability, industrial safety, cyber security, physical protection, testing and verification for nuclear power plants.

This book provides in-depth information on topics relating to anthropogenic carbon dioxide utilization processes.

This book presents selected papers from the International Conference on Emerging Research in Computing, Information, Communication and Applications, ERCICA 2018.

This book presents advanced studies on the conversion efficiency, mechanical reliability, and the quality of power related to wind energy systems.

This thesis focuses on the energy, chemical and carbon implications of diverse wastewater treatment alternatives, and offers effective solutions for wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) to achieve sustainability goals.

This book highlights recent advances in the field of biomaterials design and the state of the art in biomaterials applications for biomedicine.

This two-volume book gathers the proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving (SocProS 2016), offering a collection of research papers presented during the conference at Thapar University, Patiala, India.

This two-volume book gathers the proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Soft Computing for Problem Solving (SocProS 2016), offering a collection of research papers presented during the conference at Thapar University, Patiala, India.

This book showcases cutting-edge research papers from the 7th International Conference on Research into Design (ICoRD 2019) - the largest in India in this area - written by eminent researchers from across the world on design processes, technologies, methods and tools, and their impact on innovation, for supporting design for a connected world.

This book presents selected papers from the International Conference on Emerging Research in Computing, Information, Communication and Applications, ERCICA 2018.

This brief summarizes different types of organic and inorganic nanomaterials for drug delivery in cancer therapy.

This book gathers selected papers from the Chinese Materials Conference 2018 (CMC2018) held in Xiamen City, Fujian, China, on July 12-16, 2018.

This book includes high-quality, peer-reviewed papers from the International Conference on Recent Advancement in Computer, Communication and Computational Sciences (RACCCS-2018), held at Aryabhatta College of Engineering & Research Center, Ajmer, India on August 10-11, 2018, presenting the latest developments and technical solutions in computational sciences.

This book investigates the factors that lead to slip and fall incidents and establishes a relationship between the coefficient of friction (COF), floor slipperiness and floor roughness.

This brief highlights recent research advances in the area of nano-therapeutics.

This book presents an overview of speaker recognition technologies with an emphasis on dealing with robustness issues.

This book brings together papers presented at the 2016 International Conference on Communications, Signal Processing, and Systems, which provides a venue to disseminate the latest developments and to discuss the interactions and links between these multidisciplinary fields.

This book develops the analytical theory of perfectly conducting and lossy metal, circular, round-wire loop antennas and nano-scaled rings from the radio frequency (RF) regime through infrared and the optical region.

This book presents a novel non-intrusive infrastructure monitoring technique based on the detection and tracking of scattering centers in spaceborne SAR images.

This book reviews the application of  semiconductor nanocrystals also known as colloidal quantum dots (QDs) to LED lighting for indoors and outdoors as well as LED backlighting in displays, summarizing the color science of QDs for lighting and displays and presenting recent developments in QD-integrated LEDs and display research.

This volume contains the proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Frontier Computing (FC 2016), Tokyo, Japan, July 13-15, 2016.

This book focuses on bifurcation theory for autonomous and nonautonomous differential equations with discontinuities of different types - those with jumps present either in the right-hand side, or in trajectories or in the arguments of solutions of equations.

The book is a collection of high-quality peer-reviewed research papers presented at International Conference on Frontiers of Intelligent Computing: Theory and applications (FICTA 2016) held at School of Computer Engineering, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, India during 16 - 17 September 2016.

The book is a collection of high-quality peer-reviewed research papers presented at International Conference on Frontiers of Intelligent Computing: Theory and applications (FICTA 2016) held at School of Computer Engineering, KIIT University, Bhubaneswar, India during 16 - 17 September 2016.

The book covers the latest updates in the application of infrared to biomedical sciences, a non-invasive, contactless, safe and easy approach imaging of skin and tissue temperatures.

This volume of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing highlights papers presented at the 12th International Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computing (ICGEC 2018).

This book discusses nocturnal cooling technologies for building applications.

In this book, the molecular recognition of DNA using small molecules is discussed, with a study of the photochemistry of BrU-labeled DNA.

Based on a detailed analysis of the signal model of the moving target, this thesis focuses on the theories and applications of ground moving target indicator (GMTI) and ground moving target imaging (GMTIm) algorithms in synthetic aperture radar/ ground moving target indicator (SAR/GMTI mode), wide-area surveillance ground moving target indication (WAS-GMTI) mode and frequency modulated continuous wave synthetic aperture radar (FMCW SAR) systems.

This book explores functional polymers containing aromatic azo chromophores in side-chain, main-chain and other parts of their structures, known as azo polymers and which share common photoresponsive properties.

This book introduces a comprehensive and sustainable project delivery framework tailored for managing the Water, Energy and Food (WEF) nexus in developing economies.

This book includes original, peer-reviewed research papers from the 2024 Engineering Technology Forum of CAE & the 9th Purple Mountain Form on Smart Grid Protection and Control(PMF2024), held in Nanjing, China, on August 16-18, 2024.

This book includes original, peer-reviewed research papers from the 2024 Engineering Technology Forum of CAE & the 9th Purple Mountain Form on Smart Grid Protection and Control(PMF2024), held in Nanjing, China, on August 16-18, 2024.

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

The world's tech giants are at the centre of controversies over fake news, free speech and hate speech on platforms where influence is bought and sold.

This book provides novel theoretical foundations and experimental demonstrations of Spiking Neural Networks (SNNs) in tasks such as radar gesture recognition for IoT devices and autonomous drone navigation using a fusion of retina-inspired event-based camera and radar sensing.

This book is for design engineers building isolated DC-DC converters for commercial products.