This comprehensive handbook is for practitioners managing safety, health, and environment at work. Blending theory with practice, it provides guidance and ready-to-use documents applicable in any industry worldwide, with a focus on better practice.
For students and specialists in nonlinear dynamics, this book develops original methods to study dynamical chaos, synchronization, and dynamic structures in lattices of coupled rotators, using methods from bifurcation theory and qualitative numerical methods.
This book uses complexity research to overcome the categorizations and opposites that limit our descriptions of existence. It offers innovative philosophical insights to arrive at a unified vision of nature and society, governed by the same laws of non-linearity.
This book covers the Laplace transform technique for linear systems in electrical and mechanical engineering. It focuses on Laplace and inverse transforms, transfer functions, and applications for solving initial and boundary value problems.
Lipid Oxidation Products
This book describes the neglected processes of photooxidation and autoxidation in phototrophs. It details their mechanisms, focusing on oxidation products as tracers, and discusses how temperature and solar irradiance affect them, impacting the ultimate fate of organic matter.
This volume explores humankind’s relationship with the cosmos, a source of awe since civilization began. The first of its kind for a general audience, it introduces (C)osmosis Art, a new conceptual framework inspired by the interactions between art, science and technology.
Earth’s long-term climate is driven by evolving orbital and rotational movements. This book presents a new version of the astronomical theory of climate change, solving these problems in a different way. The new results coincide with historical warming and cooling periods.
This book integrates Western science with Oriental philosophy, proposing a unified theory of physics. Using a simple mathematical model, it explains the fundamental concepts of dynamics, connecting Newtonian mechanics, relativity, and quantum wave dynamics.
Solar PV power is intermittent. This book provides an understanding of this variability and its impacts on power systems. It explores the sources of intermittency, from solar irradiation to dust, and the consequences for power system design and operation.
Energy and Geopolitics, Volume 1
In an era of abundant energy, our greatest challenge is sustainable development. This book explains the fundamentals of energy and reviews all major sources: oil, gas, coal, nuclear, and renewables. It is an essential guide to the complex geopolitics of energy.
This book deepens the theoretical understanding of mesoscale dynamics with new research results. By integrating theory with practice, it introduces forecast methods for rainstorms and other disastrous weathers. For operational forecasters, researchers, and students.
This book provides a self-contained and accessible introduction to dynamical systems and differential geometry via MAPLE. It is suitable for graduate and advanced students in mathematics, engineering, and physics for both self-study and teaching a semester-long course.
The Rehabilitation of Historic Schools in Portugal
This book examines the adaptation of heritage schools for 21st-century needs. Using rehabilitated schools in Portugal as a case study, it assesses the effects of design decisions on cultural values, showing how material conservation can enhance the intangible.
To truly understand climate change, we must first understand ourselves. This guide explores the crisis through a multi-faceted lens—social, psychological, and cultural—revealing the core beliefs and ideologies that shape our response.
Silicon Dioxide and the Luminescence of Related Materials
This book focuses on the physics of disordered solids, challenging theories based on crystal structures. It compares data for crystals and glasses formed by the same atoms, paying particular attention to under-explored glass-forming crystals for students and researchers.
Contemporary Architecture
This book offers an exciting journey into recent architectural achievements. In contrast to many books, architecture is not described chronologically here, but independently for each trend. This allows a better explanation of the evolution and continuity of each movement.
Fatigue of Sintered Materials
This book details the theoretical background of Powder Metallurgy (PM) and the fatigue phenomenon of dynamically loaded sintered components. It analyses the influence of powder morphology and heat treatment on fatigue strength, and includes a fatigue analysis of sintered gears.
Disruption Recovery in Air Traffic
This is the first book to treat the optimisation of air traffic disruption management from a common good perspective, addressing airlines, airports, ATC providers, and the public. It describes optimisation techniques of immense value to industry professionals and academics.
Britain’s Civil War over Coal
A first-hand account of the NUM’s confrontation with the government during the 1984/5 Miners’ Strike that changed Britain forever. It charts the defence against mine closures, the devastating aftermath, and the ultimate demise of the UK coal industry.