This handbook provides a comprehensive introduction to the applications of nuclear technology. It details its usage in every aspect of life, including in industries, medicine, art, cultural heritage, security, and forensics.
Predictive Models for Soil Contaminants
This book provides a first-of-its-kind collection of predictive spreadsheet models for soil contaminant behavior. It presents graphic and numerical predictions of physical and chemical changes, appealing to governments, companies, scientists, engineers, and researchers.
Semirings are used in cryptography as their additive operation lacks an inverse, preventing cryptosystem breakage. This book describes such protocols and the hard math their security is based on, appealing to cryptographers and specialists in applied algebra.
This volume explores cultural landscapes and architectural symbols through the notion of genius loci. Focused on Lithuanian historical contexts, these essays provide insights into the making and destruction of landscapes for architects, historians, and scholars globally.
The Life of Cracks
To secure the strength of an engineering structure, one must understand the reasons and type of its potential failure. While mechanics has focused on strength, it is just as vital to understand fracture. This book provides essential knowledge and insights on this matter.
Selected Topics on Antenna Synthesis
This volume provides essential tools for developing antennas. It moves beyond classical synthesis to focus on synthesizing desired radiation patterns and optimizing phase patterns to eliminate shadowing effects, while strengthening the reader’s engineering style of thinking.
This book covers the principles, types, and manufacturing of antistatic and conductive textile materials. Learn how they protect against charge dissipation and EMI, and discover their special applications as sensors, antennas, flexible heaters, and specialized apparel.
This is the first comprehensive book on algebraic topology. It provides a walk through its main tools, including homology groups and rational homotopy theory, and discusses real applications in fields like medicine and imagery. For students, professors, and researchers.
This book presents an original theory for searching for space objects when only crude orbital information is known. It uses a special principle to construct efficient search plans that prevent the object’s loss and ensure an economical use of resources.
Existing methods for studying the piezooptic properties of crystals are imperfect and lead to significant errors. This book introduces 2D-polarimetric and interferometric methods that increase experimental accuracy and ensure reliable results for photoelastic properties.
This volume explores the reliability of time-dependent models using a variety of concepts and techniques. It is for research-level courses in statistics, applied mathematics, and operations research, and for researchers requiring knowledge of applied probability.
In dynamic ad-hoc networks, link failures lead to unreliable and inefficient data transmission. This work proposes LR-EE-AOMDV, a novel extension of the AOMDV routing protocol, to find multiple link-reliable, energy-efficient paths for robust data transmission.
The Three–ray Megacontinent of the Earth
This book reveals a fundamental discovery: the southern continents are part of a single three-beam megacontinent. This proof represents a new level in understanding the structure and evolution of our planet, and will appeal to all with an interest in Earth’s history.
Large Dams in India
This book reviews large dams in India, analysing the proposed Tipaimukh dam project to reveal the strong connections between risk, technology, politics and environmentalism.
This book presents over 40 experiments in optics for students and engineers. Covering components like lenses, mirrors, and gratings, each experiment is clearly described with concise, easy-to-understand theory to explain the principles underlying them.
This book is devoted to synthesis problems in the design of radiating systems (antennas). Its aim is to determine the current distribution in an antenna to produce a desired radiation pattern, using phase freedom for better approximation. It also discusses scattering problems.
This book proposes a model of the global carbon cycle linking the Earth’s crust and the biosphere. It shows how periodic carbon dioxide injections from colliding tectonic plates control photosynthesis, explaining mass extinctions, “explosions of life,” and oil distribution.
Fundamental Constants
Devoting itself to the calculation of the accuracy of measurements of fundamental physical constants, this book formulates an a priori interaction between the level of a detailed description of a material object and the lowest uncertainty in measuring a physical constant.
Patents and Climate Change
Since the year 1989, hundreds of global-warming related patents have been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Dochniak provides an easy-to-read summary of such patents, in addition to presenting inventor profiles and news articles that are thought-provoking.
The “Ultraviolet Catastrophe”, the failure to account for black-body radiation, led to quantum mechanics. Another catastrophe was politely ignored and fluid dynamics remained trapped in the nineteenth century. The book outlines a solution to this dilemma.