World population is forecast to grow from 7 to 9 billion by 2050, 1 in 6 is already hungry and food production must increase by 70-100% if it is to fe ...
Distillation has historically been the main method for separating mixtures in the chemical process industry. However, despite the flexibility and wide ...
Distillation has historically been the main method for separating mixtures in the chemical process industry. However, despite the flexibility and wide ...
Explore the emerging definitions, protocols, and standards for SDN - software-defined, software-driven, programmable networks - with this comprehensiv ...
This book is the first book of its kind to collectively identify, catalog, and assess the exploration and recovery potential of the Earth's unconventi ...
Recent years in North America have seen a rapid development in the area of crime analysis and mapping using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) techn ...
More and more transactions, whether in business or related to leisure activities, are mediated automatically by computers and computer networks, and t ...
This volume constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second International Conference on Agreement Technologies, AT 2013, held in Beijing, China, in ...
The re-engineering of power transmission systems is crucial to meeting the objectives of such regulators as the European Union. In addition to its mar ...
The development of a green and sustainable economy continues to grow in awareness and popularity due to its promotion of a more comprehensive way of a ...
This book outlines the most important characteristics of IEEE 802.15.4 and ZigBee and how they can be used to engineer Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) s ...
This state-of-the-art survey features topics related to the impact of multicore, manycore, and coprocessor technologies in science and large-scale app ...
Education in today's technologically advanced environments makes complex cognitive demands on students pre-learning, during, and post-learning. Not su ...
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 13th International Symposium on Privacy Enhancing Technologies, PET 2013, held in Bloomington, I ...
Over the past two decades, we have witnessed unprecedented innovations in the development of miniaturized electromechanical devices and low-power wire ...
Despite the topic’s urgency and centrality, this is the first edited volume to offer a comprehensive assessment of the varying approaches to early eng ...
Solid Oxide Fuel Cells (SOFCs) operate at high temperatures allowing more fuel flexibility and also useful heat output and so increase total efficienc ...
Jacquard fabrics feature intricately woven designs. Through the use of digital technology, new design concepts, principles and methods for producing j ...
Open innovation increases the profit of companies and organizations via the input and the adoption of new ideas that are transformed into new processe ...
The manufacture and use of almost every consumer and industrial product rely on application of advanced knowledge in surface science and tribology. Th ...
Increasing Student Engagement and Retention Using Classroom Technologies: Classroom Response Systems and Mediated Discourse Technologies examines new ...
