This volume highlights West Africa’s abundant clean energy resources. It shows the pace at which the renewable energy sector is growing and its contribution to mitigating global warming, detailing resources, the business environment, and the development of solar and hydro power.
This user-friendly text uses illustrations and college math to analyze dynamic phenomena in everyday life. It presents dynamics as a unified framework, showing how simple concepts expand to complex design formulae for engineering structures.
A mathematics researcher searches for technologies to ensure humanity’s survival, struggling to defend scientific truth against the powerful and wealthy. The book explores philosophical ideas from mathematical perspectives and their universal application in science.
This book provides a fresh look at the evolution of mobility management for next generation networks. It goes beyond traditional, centralized approaches, offering insights into practical ways of distributing mobility management for operators and end-users.
This book presents research-based material on designing radiometers for high-performance optical measurements. It is a reference for students, scientists, and engineers to learn, design, build, and use new generation radiometers, covering design issues and applications.
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.
This collection of essays presents innovative concepts to understand the spaces of the Americas through local lenses. Challenging canonical knowledge derived from outside the region, it introduces a new conceptual framework to analyze the spatial histories of the Americas.
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.
Trussed Frames and Arches
This book details 72 statically determinate truss schemes, providing compact formulas for deflection. For engineers and theorists, these formulas are a reliable test for numerical calculations, are especially effective for large trusses, and warn of hidden dangerous properties.
The interaction of anion exchangers with metal cations is often an unpredictable, destructive process. This book shows how to control it, forming ultra-fine particles in the polymer phase. These new composites act as selective sorbents and catalysts for purifying water and air.
This book offers a wide perspective on physics, from atoms to galaxies. It explains complicated issues through simple examples, combining popular science with scholarly insights and offering philosophical perspectives.
This book presents the electrical characterization of DBD-based atmospheric pressure plasma jets (APPJs) for biomedical & material applications. It establishes optimum operation ranges without arcing, showing how working gas affects power consumption and jet length.
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.
Geological and seismic activity alters hydrogen and methane flows from the ground, changing the air’s electrical characteristics. This book uses field observations to illustrate how atmospheric-electrical monitoring can be used to solve problems in geophysics.
To combat human error in complex cockpits, this book offers unique insights into building an onboard expert system. It details a system that supports the crew by detecting a hazard in real-time, identifying its source, and providing recommendations to pilots to avoid accidents.
This book focuses on recent advances in nonlinear analysis and optimization, with applications in fields like artificial intelligence. Presenting ideas and techniques to stimulate further research, it is a valuable reference for researchers, engineers, and students.
A virtual honeypot detects threats from hackers and captures data about their attacks. This book details how to confuse attackers and direct them onto the wrong path.
This guide helps the optical radiation measurement community switch from traditional source-based methods to higher-accuracy, detector-based applications. It covers user-friendly radiometric practices, setup design, and extensions into the ultraviolet and infrared ranges.
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.
The growth of cybersecurity issues affects us all. This book addresses current challenges in information security for a wide range of users, from governments to students, discussing topics like educational frameworks and applications of security principles in specific domains.