Disruptive Creativity with Generative AI
Generative AI is profoundly reshaping creativity. This book explores how AI acts as both a tool and a collaborator, enabling innovations that challenge traditional boundaries. Discover how this disruptive force will shape the future of innovation across all industries.
Engineering Dynamics
This innovative textbook presents engineering dynamics by integrating examples from Native Hawaiian culture. It bridges abstract physics principles with culturally meaningful experiences, fostering greater relevance, inclusivity, and engagement in STEM classrooms.
Process Control with MATLAB/Simulink
Master process control with this practical manual. Apply key concepts using MATLAB and its tools, like Simulink, through step-by-step solved problems. The text progresses from classical control to advanced theories, strengthening knowledge through problem-based learning.
Plasma instabilities are a major obstacle in achieving stable confinement in fusion devices. This book combines rigorous analysis with advanced simulations to uncover their dynamics and present practical strategies for mitigation, paving a path toward viable fusion energy.
Smarter Air Pollution Monitoring for Sustainable Cities
Explore the global concern over air pollution and its impact on urban health. Discover smarter monitoring solutions driven by technologies like IoT and AI. This volume provides insights into policy, collaborative initiatives, and the future of sustainable air quality management.
Current residential design is failing to meet new demands. In a world facing environmental, economic, and social change, this book argues that homes must offer greater choice, adaptability, and circularity. It explores innovative solutions and case studies for today’s challenges.
Healthcare with Machine Learning
Machine learning is revolutionizing healthcare. This book makes the complex subject simple and actionable for healthcare professionals and data scientists. Through exciting examples and live cases, it bridges theory and practice, showing how algorithms are impacting patient care.
Towards Sustainable Energy
Hailing renewables as the solution to climate change is an overoptimistic diagnostic. This book analyzes all primary energy sources, concluding the transition to an energy system with acceptable emissions is far from smooth. Mankind is at a crossroads with difficult decisions.
Studying Shanghai and Nanjing, this book examines the behavior and impact of pollutants in developing metropolises. It offers innovative solutions, including a method to distinguish human-added trace metals in soil from natural levels. A guide for researchers and policymakers.
What is our place in the universe? This book offers a journey through our evolving understanding of the cosmos, from ancient myths to modern physics. It explains quantum physics and relativity without mathematical baggage, revealing that our world is ultimately unpredictable.
This book explores the interface between biochemistry and cosmochemistry to understand how life began on Earth and if this process is universal. Told through personal anecdotes, it focuses on amino acids to ask if life could originate and evolve on other worlds.
This book tackles the surging waste crisis in developing nations by uniting waste recycling with sustainable agriculture. Compiled by experts, it dissects recycling’s impacts on soil and crops, serving as a scientific compass and global playbook for waste-smart agriculture.
It’s A Chemical World
This lab manual features 17 chemistry experiments and 14 demonstrations for a well-rounded experience. Delve into reaction types, gas properties, titrations, calorimetry, electrochemistry, and more! These well-tested exercises are suitable for regular or honors courses.
This book tackles the significant challenges of evolutionary processes with memory. It studies their properties by introducing a resolvent family to represent solutions, and explores the dual problem, solvability issues, invariant subspaces, and spectral theory.
This book derives fluid-dynamic balance equations from a molecular perspective. It shows how Euler equations are obtained in equilibrium and the Navier-Stokes equations in non-equilibrium, linking their validity to small perturbations of the Maxwell distribution.
Bridging Classical and Non-Classical Signal Processing Approaches for Enhanced Communication Systems
Explore the fusion of classical and cutting-edge signal processing. This book introduces hybrid systems that boost the performance, reliability, and efficiency of communication networks by integrating foundational techniques with modern advancements like machine learning.
From an expert team, this guide provides a comprehensive overview of green chemistry techniques. Learn to integrate sustainable approaches into your work, using fewer chemicals and less energy for higher yields. A useful guide for academic and industrial researchers.
Take a tour of our Solar System, from rocky planets and gas giants to asteroids and comets. Informed by the latest space missions, this accessible guide explores our home system, its origin, distant exoplanets, and its cosmic context as a wellspring of life.
This textbook on hydroacoustics covers the reflectivity of elastic bodies and the synthesis of hydroacoustic antennas. Along with classical diffraction theory, it uses numerical methods like the finite element method and the boundary element method.
Housing the Poor on the African Continent
This book uses Ubuntu philosophy to address low-cost housing in Africa. It argues that reciprocity and collective solidarity are key to housing rights, informing policy and practice while raising red flags about the challenges of implementing these ideals.