Fuel for the Future
Explore leading research on transforming low-rank coals into affordable, high-quality fuel for clean power generation. This book charts a course toward secure, zero-emissions energy from an abundant global resource, vital for industry and policymakers.
Performing Technology
This book covers design strategies for rich media environments that incorporate user-generated, locative content. Chapters cover areas such as choreography, virtual worlds, music performance, network music and computer games.
The Internet generates a vast, unstructured body of ‘grass-roots’ fictions. This collection explores this uncharted territory, bringing together expertise from linguistic, literary, media and cultural studies for passionate discussions of Internet Fictions.
Agile Development in the Irish Software Industry
This book presents a change management framework for software companies transitioning to agile development. Utilising Kotter’s eight-step technique, it demonstrates how incorporating the Scrum process led to successful changes in a leading global company.
Technical Chemistry
Discover new results in organic chemistry, materials science, and nanotech. A vital guide for developers balancing product innovation with economic, safety, and environmental demands.
Second Generation Mainframes
The IBM 7000 series led the way in many innovative concepts that helped to establish IBM as the foremost manufacturer of computer systems. This study describes IBM’s second generation of mainframe computers, detailing their new technology, new peripherals and advanced software.
Simulation-based Medical Training
This volume explores the user-centred development of a Virtual Reality (VR) and web-based medical training system. It shows how a democratic arrangement between users and developers is beneficial, using prototypes to bridge the knowledge gap.
This volume is a selection of papers sharing knowledge on growth, new technologies, the environment, and the concept of the cognitive city. It will appeal to academics, professionals, governments, and NGOs in urban design, planning, engineering, and the social sciences.
The modern world’s continuous use of energy suspended the natural alternation between light and dark, warmth and cold. In The Culture of Energy, historians, social scientists and architects examine this energy culture, from lighting to nuclear power.
This book helps students and professionals understand the language of architecture and civil engineering and improve their linguistic skills. It includes practical exercises, a compilation of technical terms, and is written in an accessible yet rigorous style.
Developing big information systems is inefficient. This book presents Knowledge Based Automated Software Engineering (KBASE), a method to improve the process by automatically generating the final software product from a verified business model.
This book covers current advances and methods in craniomaxillofacial bone bioengineering. It offers invaluable tools and methodologies for translating research from the bench to the clinic, making it an essential reference for researchers and specialist clinicians.
Extreme Events of Air-Sea Interaction
This book explores air-sea interaction, focusing on the Mediterranean and Red Seas. It reveals how anthropogenic activities have had destructive effects, shifting normal processes towards extreme events with severe impacts on our oceans, agriculture, and socioeconomic sectors.
Heterogeneous catalysis is founded on solid state chemistry, but the relationship is often elusive. This book provides insights into solid state chemistry to widen the vision of catalysis, covering structure, bonding, and defects and their implications.
University texts on industrial electrochemistry often skip the fundamentals. This book details the central aspects of solution conductivity, electrode thermodynamics, and electrode processes not covered in usual programs. It will be useful for undergraduate and graduate students.
Explore the synthesis and application of versatile building blocks in organic synthesis. This book systematically shows how understanding the chemical properties of precursors is essential for preparing a wide range of simple and complex organic compounds.
This book presents a clear introduction to first order partial dynamic equations (PDEs) on time scales. For senior undergraduate and graduate students of engineering and science, it offers proofs, numerous examples, exercises, and advanced practical problems with solutions.
This book covers the spatial anisotropy of induced optical effects in crystalline materials. It details analytical descriptions, 3D geometric representations, and experimental methods for studying electro-, piezo-, elasto-, and acousto-optic phenomena.
Master the core methods of statistical research. This practical guide covers key techniques, from sampling to interconnection analysis, teaching you how to apply them effectively and interpret your results with confidence.
Climate change and biodiversity decline are today’s major challenges. This book offers a bird’s eye view of these interconnected crises and details practical policy imperatives for mitigating their impacts, promoting the essential link between biodiversity and climate action.
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