Molecular Nanomagnets: Fundamental Understanding (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology)
This book focuses on 3d transition metal centered phthalocyanine molecules and their deposition on different substrates. Phthalocyanines are an ideal prototype since they can be grown flat on many surfaces. It highlights the molecule-substrate interaction and its influence on the magnetic and spectroscopic properties of…
The Principles of Green and Sustainability Science
This book uses the concept of sustainability in science to address problems afflicting the environment, and to devise measures for improving economies, societies, behaviors, and people. The book pursues a scientific approach, and uses scientific evidence as the basis for achieving sustainability. The key topics…
Reliability and Statistical Computing: Modeling, Methods and Applications (Springer Series in Reliability Engineering)
This book presents the latest developments in both qualitative and quantitative computational methods for reliability and statistics, as well as their applications. Consisting of contributions from active researchers and experienced practitioners in the field, it fills the gap between theory and practice and explores new…
Air Lubricated and Air Cavity Ships: Development, Design, and Application
Air Lubrication and Air Cavity Technology is a major development that has emerged in recent years as a means to reduce resistance and powering for many types of ships, and an efficient design for high speed marine vessels. This book introduces the mechanisms for boundary…
β-Casomorphins: A1 Milk, Milk Peptides and Human Health
This book compiles the latest research on the A1 and A2 forms of cow milk, and attempts to show a correlation between the type of cow milk consumption and reported incidence of certain diseases (type 1 diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular diseases, sudden infant death syndrome and…
Bioresource Utilization and Bioprocess
This book focuses on the utilization of bio-resources and their conversion pathways for a sustainable future. Tapping into bio-resources by means of thermochemical and biochemical processes has attracted researchers from all over the world; it is a broad area that has given birth to concepts…
Advanced Manufacturing Processes: Selected Papers from the Grabchenko’s International Conference on Advanced Manufacturing Processes … (Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering)
This book offers a timely yet comprehensive snapshot of innovative research and developments in the area of manufacturing. It covers a wide range of manufacturing processes, such as cutting, coatings, and grinding, highlighting the advantages provided by the use of new materials and composites, as…
Flood and Megaflood Processes and Deposits: Recent and Ancient Examples (Special Publication 32 of the IAS) (International Association Of Sedimentologists Series)
The aim of this publication is the understanding of large floods and their impact on the Earth’s surface. The major objectives are: 1) to take a second look at what constitutes a megaflood that the principle of uniformitarianism is at some loss to explain and…
Fundamentals of Digital Communication
This is a concise presentation of the concepts underlying the design of digital communication systems, without the detail that can overwhelm students. Many examples, from the basic to the cutting-edge, show how the theory is used in the design of modern systems and the relevance…
Mass Balance of the Cryosphere: Observations and Modelling of Contemporary and Future Changes
Providing a comprehensive overview of the significance of the glaciers, ice caps and ice sheets of Antarctica and Greenland, this study reviews the theory behind climatological observations. It describes present modelling studies and predicted future changes in the mass balances of these key indicators of…
Applied Geophysics Ed 2
Completely revised and updated, this new edition of the popular and highly regarded textbook, Applied Geophysics, describes the physical methods involved in exploration for hydrocarbons and minerals. These tools include gravity, magnetic, seismic, electrical, electromagnetic, and radioactivity studies. All aspects of these methods are described,…
God and Reason in the Middle Ages
The Age of Reason associated with the names of Descartes, Newton, Hobbes, and the French philosophers, actually began in the universities that first emerged in the late Middle Ages (1100 to 1600) when the first large scale institutionalization of reason in the history of civilization…
RF Power Semiconductor Generator Application in Heating and Energy Utilization
This is a specialized book for researchers and technicians of universities and companies who are interested in the fundamentals of RF power semiconductors, their applications and market penetration. Looking around, we see that products using vacuum tube technology are disappearing. For example, branch tube TVs…
Fundamentals of Digital Electronics (Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering (623))
This book presents the fundamentals of digital electronics in a focused and comprehensive manner with many illustrations for understanding of the subject with high clarity. Digital Signal Processing (DSP) application information is provided for many topics of the subject to appreciate the practical significance of…
Technological and Modern Irrigation Environment in Egypt: Best Management Practices & Evaluation (Springer Water)
This book gathers contributions on modern irrigation environments in Egypt from an environmental and agricultural perspective. Written by leading experts in the field, it discusses a wide variety of modern irrigation problems. In the context of water resources management in Egypt, one fundamental problem is…
Modern Singular Spectral-Based Denoising and Filtering Techniques for 2D and 3D Reflection Seismic Data
This book discusses the latest advances in singular spectrum-based algorithms for seismic data processing, providing an update on recent developments in this field. Over the past few decades, researchers have extensively studied the application of the singular spectrum-based time and frequency domain eigen image methods,…
Hacking Planet Earth: How Geoengineering Can Help Us Reimagine the Future
An exploration of the cutting-edge technology that will enable us to confront the realities of climate change. For decades scientists and environmentalists have sounded the alarm about the effects of global warming. We are now past the tipping point. As floods, storms, and extreme temperatures…
Sighted Sub, Sank Same: The United States Navy’s Air Campaign against the U-Boat
Sighted Sub, Sank Same examines the United States Naval air campaign against German U-boats prowling for allied merchant shipping traversing the waters of the Atlantic, Caribbean, and Mediterranean; an economic war waged to cut the lifeline of food and armaments sailing across the Atlantic from…
Green, Smart and Connected Transportation Systems: Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Green Intelligent Transportation Systems and … Notes in Electrical Engineering (617))
These proceedings gather selected papers from the 9th International Conference on Green Intelligent Transportation Systems and Safety, held in Guilin, China on July 1-3, 2018. They feature cutting-edge studies on Green Intelligent Mobility Systems, the guiding motto being to achieve “green, intelligent, and safe transportation…
Approaches for Clean Combustion in Gas Turbines (Fluid Mechanics and Its Applications (122))
This book focuses on the development of novel combustion approaches and burner designs for clean power generation in gas turbines. It shows the reader how to control the release of pollutants to the environment in an effort to reduce global warming. After an introduction to…