This volume addresses pivotal problems about our planet’s environment and ecology. It highlights inter-related topics from agriculture to global health and concludes with an ethical analysis of the multiple, overlapping challenges that require urgent attention.
Towards Sustainable Energy
Hailing renewables as the solution to climate change is an overoptimistic diagnostic. This book analyzes all primary energy sources, concluding the transition to an energy system with acceptable emissions is far from smooth. Mankind is at a crossroads with difficult decisions.
This book discusses traffic information estimation methods using cellular network data for Intelligent Transportation Systems. It proposes three key methods: Handover (HO)-based, Fingerprint Positioning Algorithm (FPA)-based, and Cell Probe (CP)-based.
This collection of influential essays and articles will help your community develop people-first strategies for becoming smarter and more intelligent. Learn from in-depth global examples of innovation, connectivity, sustainability, and inclusive, equitable growth.
Transforming Our World
Our world is more advanced than ever, yet it is on a self-destructive path. War and the erosion of our natural and human capital threaten our very future. This book charts a new course, revealing the essential changes in our paradigms and mindset required for survival.
This work offers a holistic approach to landscape, agriculture, forests, and natural sciences. Featuring research from 50 expert contributors, it’s an excellent starting point for anyone looking to learn more about these topics.
This book addresses trends in renewable energy sources, energy storage, and smart systems. In addition to photovoltaic and wind generation, it considers new solutions for smart grids, energy management, and innovative renewable exploitation techniques.
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.
Trusted Routing Mechanisms
As our business and private lives rely on computing systems, digital security is imperative. This book offers solutions that ensure the integrity and confidentiality of network traffic by protecting data from third parties.
Turbulent Two-Phase Jets of Mutually Immiscible Liquids
This work develops mathematical models to simulate mixing and heat transfer in turbulent multiphase jets. It presents a new method to calculate important characteristics impossible with other techniques and reveals the phenomenon of kinetic energy amplification.
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.
This comprehensive collection of estimators in single and two-phase sampling covers estimators which utilize information on single, two, and multiple auxiliary variables. An invaluable point of reference for researchers working in the field of survey sampling.
Explore the quantum realm of 2D materials. From graphene to transition metal dichalcogenides, delve into their fundamental properties and applications in nanoelectronics, optoelectronics, and quantum computing. Uncover the latest breakthroughs with insights from leading experts.
Unbounded
Technology and diverse cultures are challenging the traditional boundaries between interior and exterior, private and public. This book explores the shifting understanding of the interior through global case studies of real and virtual places.
Unconventional Aeronautical Investigatory Methods
The 1972 crash of Alitalia flight AZ 112 killed 115 people and was blamed on pilot negligence. This book reveals the truth: the disaster was not an accident but a criminal act, a symptom of the geopolitical tensions gripping Italy and Europe in that decade.
Understanding Interactions in Complex Systems
This book explores the complex nature of interactions and the modeling of interactional systems. It shows that all disciplines can be enriched by exploring alternative paradigms, arguing that ignoring the multi-dimensional nature of interactions is not an option.
Sound is a major tool for studying the ocean environment and marine life. Understanding Ocean Acoustics focuses on environmental research using low frequencies relevant to fish and sea mammals, covering geoacoustic properties missing in most books on underwater acoustics.
Understanding the Metaverse and its Technological Marvels
Explore the Metaverse, the new digital frontier where VR, AR, and AI converge. This guide details its transformative potential in education, healthcare, and commerce, while addressing the critical challenges of privacy, security, and inclusivity for a responsible future.
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.
Urban Design
This book defines and analyzes three types of continuity in urban planning and design: urban conservation, cultural tourism, and persistencies of form. It cites international examples from the author’s work, illustrated with numerous original drawings.