This book presents the theory and methods of solving vector optimization problems. It mathematically proves an optimal solution, solving the problem for the first time, with applied methods for researchers modeling economic and engineering systems.
Organic synthesis rarely goes to plan. To fight meagre yields and side reactions, you need to master reaction mechanisms. This book moves you from knowing the simple steps of an undergraduate degree to envisioning the convoluted mechanisms needed in professional practice.
Vulnerability Studies in the Americas
This book assesses climate change vulnerability and adaptive capacity in South America and Canada. The result of a seven-year project, it fills a gap in academic literature with unique comparative case studies of the global North and South.
This book covers the design and quality control of microwave devices using simulation and measurement. It describes methods for designing simulators of microwave amplifiers and oscillators, enabling accurate measurements and effective quality control that minimizes costs.
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.
A major problem of contemporary physics is the incompatibility of its two greatest theories: quantum mechanics and general relativity. There is a lack of an over-arching framework to unite them. This book provides an accessible guideline to a possible framework.
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.
As sustainability becomes a priority for mining enterprises, operations must meet strict environmental safety provisions. This book highlights the problem of ensuring a future mining engineer’s environmental competence.
Most chemists have little understanding of crystallography. This book provides a basic, non-mathematical education on crystallographic methods, written in language chemists use. It is designed for students and any chemist who has had no instruction in the subject.
This book analyses the paradigm shift towards a rights-based reproductive health program in Bangladesh, where services still confront issues of availability, accessibility, and quality. It investigates how policy frameworks have affected these services.
The Perils of Climate Risk
Providing the average person with something to do about climate change, this publications captures the latest developments in climate change science, atmospheric data, and public policy as detailed by leaders in these fields.
Explore the revolutionary work of David Hilbert, a giant of 20th-century mathematics. This book examines his axiomatic method, his famous 23 Problems, his program for the foundations of mathematics, and his crucial contributions to relativity and quantum physics.
Based on 13 years of empirical study, this unique book covers the application of satellite remote sensing in disaster management, with a focus on human factors. It provides an overview of the technology and its uses for practitioners and researchers in the field.
Semiconductor silicon is the basic material of modern electronics. Its properties are determined by defects in its crystal structure, but a complete description of these defects has been a mystery—until now. This book solves it using classical and probabilistic approaches.
Spiritual and Ecological Civilization
Analyzing the global crises of our ‘technogenic and consumer’ civilization, this book shows the necessity of transitioning to a new ‘spiritually-ecological’ one. It demonstrates the real indicators of such a transformation and the main problems of the transition.
Integral Ecology
Drawing inspiration from Pope Francis’ ecological encyclical “Laudato Si’: On Care for our Common Home”, this conference proceedings engages both secular and religious perspectives on crucial issues that threaten the ecology of our planet.
The Ages of the Earth
Considering cosmogonies, theological dogmas, natural philosophy, Deism and the inevitable secularism of the Age of Enlightenment, Álvaro recounts the struggle that the human mind has undertaken, over two millennia, against creationist myths.
Multivariate Techniques
This book covers both theoretical and applied aspects of multivariate analyses. It provides an overview of key terminology and distributions before discussing methods of drawing inferences, multivariate analysis of variance, and multivariate regression.
This book presents a tool for decision making under uncertainty in engineering design. It synthesizes game theory and quantum decision theory in a value driven design framework to address stakeholder preferences and capture human factors like risk, bias, and emotion.
The General Theory of Particle Mechanics
Yefremov provides insights into the tight connection between fundamental math and mechanics, demonstrating that quantum, classical, and relativistic mechanics can be regarded as links of a single theoretical chain readily extracted from a simple mathematical medium.