Coastal Management Revisited
An overview of the maturing field of coastal and ocean management. Written by leading experts, it reviews 25 years of research on issues from governance to climate change, drawing on global case studies to address urgent challenges and propose a new theory of coasts and oceans.
Statistics Meets Sports
In the world of sports, data science and analytics are leading to game-changing insights. This book provides a solid understanding of these new trends and offers the interested reader a starting point from which to dive into this blossoming field.
Many students struggle to visualize the frequency domain, essential for technologies like MRI. This book depicts the transformation in detail, from Fourier series to image filtering, with a progressive introduction to Matlab and numerical applications on functions and images.
From energy and electronics to medicine, oxide materials are essential. This book presents the fundamentals of oxide powders, establishing a connection between their structure and electromagnetic properties to pave the way for new technological and biomedical applications.
Hydrodynamic and aerodynamic bearings guide rotating machines like turbines under severe conditions. This book provides a numerical analysis of how textured surfaces improve their hydrodynamic, tribological, and structural performance under these demanding operating parameters.
Heat transfer is vital for efficient power production. This book covers efficiently utilizing energy by integrating heat exchangers into power production units. It provides descriptions of heat transfer applications in everyday life and industry, supported by practical examples.
Place-Based Sustainability
As climate change and urbanization challenge our world, this book explores the critical cultural relationship between people and their environment. It reveals new pathways for stewardship of our cities and countryside, essential for building a sustainable future.
Satellite images often suffer from interpretability issues and lost details due to sensor limitations. This book exploits deep learning to boost minute details and improve classification, showing how super-resolution improves spatial detail for precise decision-making.
Design Concepts for Seismic-Resistant Buildings
This book proposes a quantitative shaking evaluation for seismic-resistant buildings, with guidance to calculate the shaking quantity scale. It also demonstrates using Artificial Intelligence to predict this scale, which is highly important for earthquake early warning systems.
Despite a demand for public spaces in Nairobi’s Central Business District, existing ones are under-utilized. This book analyzes their spatial evolution and sustainability, establishing factors for creating better-utilized spaces suitable for commerce, transit, and recreation.
This historical account traces the discovery of a singular wave in 1834 to the development of modern soliton theory. It describes deep connections between soliton theory and nonlinear continuum mechanics, with wide applications for research scientists and advanced students.
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.
Intelligent Transportation Systems
With demand for mobility growing and infrastructure limited, Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) are essential. This book presents the ingredients of good ITS not from a technology perspective, but from a business, management, and policy view, with real-life case studies.
This book examines the influence of solar activity on the light trapping of insects. Using data from a huge amount of moths from multiple continents, it demonstrates that the Sun has a multifaceted effect on their flight activity—an unprecedented finding.
Water and Ions as the Conditions Necessary for the Presence of Life
This book explores the intricate interdependence between water and ions. Water is essential for life, but not always sufficient. It pursues an answer to this mystery, showing how metal ions like iron, calcium, and carbon complement water for sustaining life.
Modern Educational Methods and Strategies in Teaching Mathematics
Uncover the building blocks of primary math success and the motivational factors that drive students. This guide connects the development of student identity in secondary school to the critical role mathematical aptitude plays in a society’s economic prosperity.
Urban Histories in Practice
What is the relationship between history, memory, and the contemporary city? This volume explores this question in contexts of rapid urbanization and urban decline. Using critical and creative methods, the authors frame urban history not as theory, but as a call for action.
The Optimization of Parameters for Ships Navigating in Ice
An essential analysis of global icebreaker construction and the North Sea Route, presenting feasibility studies on the design, performance, and safe navigation of new arctic vessels.
A refresher for health professionals, this book reinforces the statistical principles required for certification and board exams. Its concise presentation, with many examples and exercises, helps solidify your learning and retention of key topics.
A guide for business students, investors, and professionals to learn R and Python. This book uses a unique R-assisted learning environment and provides 15 weeks’ worth of teaching material.