Wireless Communication Technologies for IoT
The Internet of Things (IoT) uses wireless connections for real-time, data-driven decision-making. This book explores advancements in Wi-Fi, intelligent antennas, IoT-connected healthcare, smart agriculture, data analysis, energy harvesting, and smart home protocols.
Process Control with MATLAB/Simulink
Master process control with this practical manual. Apply key concepts using MATLAB and its tools, like Simulink, through step-by-step solved problems. The text progresses from classical control to advanced theories, strengthening knowledge through problem-based learning.
This book covers mineral resource estimation, from classic geometric to modern geostatistical techniques. It includes essential theory, mine planning, international codes, and extensive diagrams. A comprehensive textbook and reference for students and mining geologists.
This book explores the sol-gel universe, focusing on its application to synthesize transparent silica coatings with remarkable surface properties. Learn techniques to combine transparency, hydrophobicity, and scratch resistance, including a detailed eco-friendly route.
Astronomy for Cloudy Nights
Educational, humorous essays connecting astronomy to the arts—from literature to pop music. Autobiographical in places, it shares breathtaking stories of telescope observing around the world, from a childhood discovery to the high altitude of the Bolivian Andes.
At the intersection of material science and manufacturing, this book details the incremental forming of aluminum alloy. Based on extensive research, it combines theoretical simulations with experimental findings, leading to unique results with significant impact.
Nanomaterials
Explore the transformative power of nanomaterials in energy storage, medicine, and environmental remediation. This book presents nanotechnology as a key driver of sustainable development, offering vital insights for researchers, professionals, and students.
This book provides a graduate-level introduction to classical and quantum black holes. It details examples of integrable systems, hidden symmetries in black hole spacetime, and resolutions to the information paradox, presenting an overview of cutting-edge research.
An Introduction to the Metaverse
Dive into the metaverse with this guide for tech enthusiasts and developers. Explore technical foundations, legal challenges, and economic implications. Demystify blockchain, NFTs, and digital twins while gaining hands-on experience with Python through real-world examples.
This is the first book on the modern Bose-liquid theory of unconventional superconductors and superfluids. A breakthrough beyond standard physics, this theory describes emerging pseudogap behaviors and novel states, comparing theoretical results with experimental findings.
This book focuses on developing direction dependent non-local approaches for modeling failure modes in multi-phase materials. It includes several numerical simulations with MATLAB codes to enhance the understanding of composite failure.
Clarkeson turns architecture on its head, reading Palladio’s drawings as carefully crafted and meant to be measured. This book claims Palladio’s rightful place in the history of metrology, offering a fresh interpretation that dispels myths and explains ‘the bits that don’t fit’.
3D printing is a swiftly evolving technology revolutionizing manufacturing and medicine. This book elucidates its history and process, focusing on its applications and recent advances in the field of dentistry, which have enhanced patient survival and life expectancy.
This book describes a new interpretation of the Standard Model based on relations between particle masses and stable intervals in nuclear data. A combined analysis of these two data sets is performed for the first time, revealing many new relations based on the electron.
This book explores the link between human comfort and energy efficiency. Integrating engineering, psychology, and social sciences, it explains how human behaviour impacts energy use and offers practical solutions for creating more energy-conscious environments.
The Color Chemist’s Handbook
For students, professionals, and lab technicians, this is your indispensable guide to paint & coatings lab operations. Master raw materials management, the latest lab instruments, and crucial Environmental Health and Safety (EHS) practices.
Over the past 60 years, optics has changed radically. The invention of the laser led to new branches of the field. This work unites traditional and modern optics into a single theory, using modern mathematical tools and a heuristic approach.
The Finance Sector and Climate Change
While fossil fuel interests are blamed for thwarting climate policy, this book shows the financial sector’s influence is greater. It funds a ‘climate crisis’ narrative to serve its investments in renewables, imposing restrictions that harm the developing world, as revealed here.
Biogeochemical Transformation in Lake Superior
This book uses state-of-the-art analytical tools to investigate the transformation and fate of carbon in Lake Superior. It covers analyses of carbon isotopes in organic matter and food webs, making it a key resource for students, researchers, and environmental managers.
Climate change and biodiversity decline are today’s major challenges. This book offers a bird’s eye view of these interconnected crises and details practical policy imperatives for mitigating their impacts, promoting the essential link between biodiversity and climate action.