Urban Histories in Practice
What is the relationship between history, memory, and the contemporary city? This volume explores this question in contexts of rapid urbanization and urban decline. Using critical and creative methods, the authors frame urban history not as theory, but as a call for action.
Identity theft is a growing concern in mobile ad-hoc networks. This book presents an innovative framework for identity management that puts users back in control. Using context-awareness and user-centricity, it protects identity and balances privacy with convenience.
Are we alone? Journey into the Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI), from its origins to the Drake equation. Explore AI-driven searches, first contact scenarios, and radical theories connecting the hunt for alien life with parallel universes.
Global waste threatens our ecosystem, but it also presents an opportunity. This collection of essays discusses transforming underutilized biomass waste into value-added products, covering sources, techniques, and policies for a circular economy.
This book focuses on the calculus of variations, combining partial differential equations with geometry to solve nonlinear problems. It provides the latest developments in multidimensional optimization and optimal control for researchers, engineers, and students.
Explore the synthesis and application of versatile building blocks in organic synthesis. This book systematically shows how understanding the chemical properties of precursors is essential for preparing a wide range of simple and complex organic compounds.
Very-Large-Scale Integration Physical Design
This book presents an innovative, automated approach to fix Timing-Design Rule Check (TDRC) violations in VLSI chip design. Using TCL scripting to streamline the Engineering Change Order (ECO) process, it achieves an 87% violation fix rate with minimal global timing shifts.
This introductory textbook for undergraduates presents the physical background, mathematical modeling, and dynamical analysis of linear vibrations in discrete and continuous systems, offering analytical solutions and key engineering applications.
This book provides a unified approach to Coriolis vibratory gyroscopes (MEMS and non-MEMS). It describes a new, differential triple mode of operation that provides maximum accuracy and versatility under changeable conditions. Includes computer simulation and test results.
Virtual and Augmented Reality
This book explores the latest research in education design for virtual and augmented reality. Using numerous studies and examples, it will help the reader gain a better understanding of the nature of these realities and their applications in theory and practice.
For aquatic scientists and students with little fluid dynamics exposure, this is a self-contained introduction to flows at small scales. It explains the effects of flow on processes like nutrient uptake, particle coagulation, and suspension feeding.
Volcano-Sedimentary Interactions in the Tadpatri Formation
This book unravels the interplay between volcanism and sedimentation in ancient India. Drawing on detailed fieldwork, it explores how volcanic activity shaped early crustal evolution, presenting a rare synthesis for geologists, researchers, and students of Earth’s ancient past.
Drawing parallels to fluid dynamics, this book observes how solar wind creates vortex structures in the plasma wakes of planets and comets. These features reveal an outstanding property that could also be produced by stellar winds interacting with the ionospheres of exoplanets.
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 investigates municipal solid waste in India, covering both urban and rural challenges. It considers waste prevention strategies like recycling and reuse, and highlights the connection between waste management, clean water, and sanitation from an Indian perspective.
Water and Ions as the Conditions Necessary for the Presence of Life
This book explores the intricate interdependence between water and ions. Water is essential for life, but not always sufficient. It pursues an answer to this mystery, showing how metal ions like iron, calcium, and carbon complement water for sustaining life.
You know water is essential, but do you know what kind is best for your wellbeing? Do you know about the intimate structure of water, or what superionic ice—a.k.a. hot ice—is? These questions and more are answered within this book.
Ways Ahead
This book documents the first international Csound conference, featuring papers, interviews with developers and musicians, and exclusive new articles. Organized into five parts—History, Development, Music, Usage, and Education—it reflects the project’s diversity.
Weak chemical interactions, i.e., hydrogen and halogen bonds, control the structure of molecular crystals. This book uses vibrational (Raman) spectra to describe their properties and nature, for students and scientists in chemical, biological, and pharmaceutics research.
This book covers degenerate and singular elliptic equations, which appear in applications from glaciology to fluid mechanics. Based on the author’s research, it is a useful reference for graduate students and researchers interested in differential equations.