This book focuses on the evolution from Industry 4.0 to the next stage: Industry 5.0. It explores the steps needed to take automation to the next level, improving operational efficiency and causing significant shifts for consumers and manufacturers alike.
This book highlights a new area in laser ablation in liquid, focusing on pseudo-line tension and the cavitation bubble. It theoretically reproduces the bubble’s dynamics and offers insights into its role in nanoparticle growth and its effect on the liquid’s thermal properties.
An expert guide to integrating sustainable green chemistry into your work. This book provides a comprehensive overview of green techniques and is an essential resource for academic and industrial researchers in chemistry, environmental science, and pharmaceutical science.
Navigating the Future
This book explores artificial intelligence’s dual role as a solution and a risk for humanity’s most pressing challenges. It discusses the ethical governance needed to guide AI’s transformative potential towards a sustainable, equitable, and peaceful future.
Einstein’s geometric time versus Bergson’s experienced duration. Are they two separate entities? Relying on research into space-time and the philosophy of mind, this book posits that the physical world evolves predictably and examines if our relationship to time can be modified.
This book explains object-oriented programming concepts like classes, objects, inheritance, and polymorphism in a simple manner. It includes a large number of examples in C#, VB.Net, and Python, making it an indispensable resource to enhance your system development skills.
The Psychology of Architecture
For anyone curious about the invisible threads that connect our brains to the surrounding space, this book bridges psychology and architecture. It explores how design—from ancient temples to modern skyscrapers—can influence our happiness, productivity, and social interactions.
This book offers a comprehensive examination of shape control, vibration analysis, and buckling in piezolaminated composite plates. Using shear deformation theory in finite element methods, it delivers accurate calculations of deformation, frequencies, and buckling modes.
With an irreverent tone, the author debunks modern physics using common sense and experimental evidence. He proposes a new unifying model where all events are connected, from the subatomic to galaxies. This provocative read requires no advanced scientific knowledge.
Applications of Nuclear Materials
This book covers recent developments in nuclear science and technology and its applications. Covering both fundamental and advanced aspects in an accessible way, it elaborates on the use of nuclear materials in sectors like health, energy, and forensic science.
This book covers new deep neural networks that synthesize their optimal structure in online mode. Based on the principle of self-organization, this approach solves a wide class of Data Stream Mining problems, including pattern recognition, forecasting, and classification.
The Floating Towns of Tomorrow
As climate change and population growth challenge our world, floating cities offer a solution. This book proposes viable urban planning and architectural solutions for coastal cities, starting with a pilot project in Singapore. For all who wish to rethink our cities.
Rigid Body as a Constrained System
This book presents the dynamics of spinning bodies, the most confusing topic in Classical Mechanics. Starting from the variational problem, it treats the rigid body as a system of particles, creating a simple, transparent approach that eliminates the need for extra postulates.
This monograph provides a step-by-step review of semiempirical methods, invaluable tools due to their affordability and accuracy. It tracks their progress from the 1930s to modern tools for modeling compounds, depicting their development as a sequence of breakthroughs.
This book explores how the art of relationships in Historic Urban Environments holds precious knowledge for a coherent urban future. It shows how ordinary buildings and spaces shaped great masterpieces and can inspire the designing of our everyday living spaces.
This book analyzes electromagnetic surface waves in microwave absorbing layers. Though these coatings have been used since WWII, their properties are not sufficiently studied. Demystifying a complex subject, this work is ideal for researchers, engineers, and students.
This book presents a groundbreaking approach to estimating the state of charge (SOC) of lithium-ion batteries. This method combines neural networks and Kalman filtering to enhance accuracy and adapt to battery aging, paving the way for improved battery management systems.
The sun is a powerful source of energy, yet we fail to use it efficiently. This book explains the significance of light spectra and intensity manipulation through innovation for enhanced electricity production by solar devices.
This book reveals that fields and particles are rotational changes within an elastic medium called ‘ether’. This theory explains gravitational attraction, electromagnetism, electron spin, and nuclear reactions.
Can the spirit of “Wabi-Sabi” be seen through science? This book explores the Japanese tea ceremony and its utensils from the field of materials science. While tea master Rikyu Sen perfected his art, his contemporary Leonardo da Vinci was integrating art and science in Europe.