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.
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.
Explore the interaction of electron beams with plasma and beam plasma discharge. This book covers the history, theory, and experimental research, with a focus on applications ranging from the physics of near-Earth space to materials technologies for micro- and nanoelectronics.
This collection of essays addresses pivotal problems about our planet’s environment and ecology. It highlights the inter-relation of science, philosophy, ethics, and religion, concluding with an ethical analysis of the overlapping challenges that require urgent attention.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
The Digital Generation Reaches Maturity
This book explores the changing landscape of business and consumer behaviour, shaped by digital disruption and post-pandemic conditions. It identifies emerging trends, considering context and generation, to help you understand our world and develop better products and services.
The Physical Reality of Applied Quantum Optics
This book scrutinises quantum optic experiments, revealing hitherto ignored phenomena. It shows that there are no quantum optic “miracles” once the physically present effects are correctly identified, leading to a new understanding of quantum locality and realism.
Why We Study the Physics of the Ocean
This book reviews physical oceanography, from its history to its future challenges. It relates the physics of the ocean to topical issues like climate change and ocean forecasting, helping you understand how the ocean fits into the complex system of the global environment.