Sensors are used for civil infrastructure performance assessment and health monitoring, and have evolved significantly through developments in materia ...
Efficient transmission and distribution of electricity is a fundamental requirement for sustainable development and prosperity. The world is facing gr ...
This is an easy-to-read textbook providing the reader with the basis to comprehend the major energy technologies from a physical and economical perspe ...
The introduction of Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies resulted in a major transformation in the way scientists extract genetic information ...
The concept of a miniaturised laboratory on a disposable chip is now a reality, and in everyday use in industry, medicine and defence. New devices are ...
The contributions to this volume engage with diverse aspects of responsible innovation, reflecting on its history and its current form, reporting on s ...
This book focuses on the issues of integrating large-scale renewable power generation into existing grids. The issues covered in this book include dif ...
Techniques for Predicting Metal Mining Influenced Water is a must-read for planners, regulators, consultants, land managers, researchers, students, st ...
Tourism security is an important part of both security management and tourism. Private security professionals and police departments in tourism cities ...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of 6 workshops co-located with SAFECOMP 2014, the 33rd International Conference on Computer Safety, Rel ...
This new volume of the annual review “Advances in Transport Phenomena” series contains three in-depth review articles on the microfluidic fabrication ...
Written by the leading experts in the field, this book will provide a valuable, current account of the advances in the measurement and prediction of t ...
Wall bounded turbulent flows are of major importance in industrial and environmental fluid mechanics. The structure of the wall turbulence is intrinsi ...
This volume offers a comprehensive examination of the subject of heat and mass transfer with nanofluids as well as a critical review of the past and r ...
Urban informal settlements or slums are growing rapidly in cities in sub-Saharan Africa. Most often, a sewer system is not present and the commonly-us ...
The Monte Carlo method has become the de facto standard in radiation transport. Although powerful, if not understood and used appropriately, the metho ...
This book provides a comprehensive overview of contemporary research and emerging measurement technologies associated with gas transport in solid oxid ...
