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.
Representing papers delivered at the EURAU2014 Istanbul “Composite Cities” Conference, this text addresses the importance of research on the complexity of today’s cities, while also shedding light on new models of urbanism discussed together with new decision-making actors.
Demystifying Climate Risk Volume I
From a workshop on climate risk, seasoned leaders share their expertise with the next generation. This book explores environmental, health, and societal impacts—with a focus on Africa and education—leveraging lessons learned to inspire innovation and sustainable development.
Demystifying Climate Risk Volume II
Before their expertise is lost, seasoned leaders from the Montreal Protocol—the world’s most successful treaty for atmospheric protection—share their wisdom. This book leverages their lessons to inspire future innovations in climate science, industry, and sustainability.
Elements of Statistics
This book is a crucial resource for students intimidated by statistical symbols and equations. It prepares you for statistics courses without anxiety and serves as an excellent desk reference for new researchers. Its hands-on style helps you easily achieve statistical literacy.
The Philosophical Roots of the Ecological Crisis
The roots of the ecological crisis are traced to the thought of René Descartes, father of modern philosophy. His worldview established a dangerous legacy: a human-centered, mechanistic conception of nature and a sharp dualism between humanity and the physical world.
This book presents mathematical models of neuroscience and natural phenomena like tsunami waves. It covers models of tsunamis and examines Fitzhugh-Nagumo systems to understand nerve impulse propagation. For students, researchers, and specialists in nonlinear waves.
With the growing complexity of digital systems, solving Boolean problems is a major challenge. This volume explores powerful techniques to solve them, from hardware acceleration to the synthesis of digital and reversible circuits, extending the basis for future quantum computers.
Integral Ecology
Drawing inspiration from Pope Francis’ ecological encyclical “Laudato Si’: On Care for our Common Home”, this conference proceedings engages both secular and religious perspectives on crucial issues that threaten the ecology of our planet.
This book offers a statistical study and a dynamical approach to stellar systems. It explains and solves the closure problem for any velocity distribution, and applies these methods to describe the mixture of stellar populations in the Milky Way.
This book covers the composition, production, testing methods, and application of modern cellulose fibre cement boards (FCB). It explores fabrication, testing procedures, and practical applications illustrated with examples. Valuable for researchers, architects, and engineers.
This book is devoted to a quasi-classical treatment of quantum transitions, with an emphasis on magnetic and electric dipolar resonance. In addition to known results, it presents parametric resonance for electric dipoles, which may lead to spontaneous electric polarization.
Wallace examines the social, technical and educational implications of a society where hyper-reality, artificial intelligence and robotics may be at the centre of the new online spaces that will surely further shape us into an unknown future.
Patents and Artificial Intelligence
Dochniak showcases the immense utility of AI, providing an easy-to-read summary of many of the approximately 150 patents with the phrase “artificial intelligence” in their titles which were granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office from 1987 to 2017.
Attitude Stabilization for CubeSat
This book explores CubeSat technology, focusing on the mathematical modeling of spacecraft attitude. It covers passive and active stabilization methods and the design of controllers like PID, LQR, and FLC to control CubeSat three-axis stabilization using magnetic coils.
First Generation Mainframes
This volume describes the IBM computer systems that influenced architecture in the 1950s and 1960s. These modular systems featured a common architecture for peripherals, the first operating systems, and groundbreaking software like the FORTRAN programming language.
Semiconductor silicon is the basic material of modern electronics. Its properties are determined by defects in its crystal structure, but a complete description of these defects has been a mystery—until now. This book solves it using classical and probabilistic approaches.
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 promotes formal methods for problem-solving in architecture and urbanism. It presents theoretically driven techniques, from millennial geometry to current shape grammars, to produce better solutions with less testing time in direct confrontation with reality.
Controllability of Dynamic Systems
This book explores the Green’s function method for controllability analysis in dynamic systems. Valid for both linear and nonlinear dynamics, the approach is shown with examples of sophisticated issues and extensive numerical analysis, revealing its advantages and drawbacks.