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The Second International Conference on Advances in Mechanical Engineering, ICAME-22, was held on 25th August, 2022 at the Mechanical Engineering Department of Capital University of Science and Technology. All articles underwent a rigorous single-blind peer review process. ICAME-22 accepted papers in the disciplines of...

We know that sustainability has become an important topic in every aspect of life. The textile, fashion, and material industries must also be sustainable, which could be imparted in their development, production, or even marketing. The textile industry has a huge market, as clothing...

Metalliferous minerals play a central role in the global economy. They will continue to provide the raw materials we need for industrial processes. Significant challenges will likely emerge if the climate-driven green and low-carbon development transition of metalliferous mineral exploitation is not managed responsibly...

The reprint identifies key concerns and significant challenges of the future as currently perceived by researchers, industry, policymakers, and other flood management stakeholders. The main themes addressed include: science and technology for flood risk management; handling data and information for flood risk management; flood...

The deployment of distributed renewable generation and e-mobility systems is creating a demand for improved dynamic performance, flexibility, and resilience in electrical grids. Various energy storages, such as stationary and electric vehicle batteries, together with power electronic interfaces, will play a key role in...

This reprint describes interesting case studies of the exploration, characterization, and use of geothermal resources in Spain, Sweden, Italy, Croatia, China, Djibouti, and Canada. A new open-source software, with an easy-to-use graphical user interface, is applied to assess the deep geothermal potential of the...

Modernity is a social, cultural, or historical descriptor for a certain type of society or set of social arrangements. It is a contentious and disputed term, often understood implicitly. It is a way of describing and classifying highly complex, dynamic, and emergent aggregate social...

This top-secret black budget program has more than 1,600 German scientist engineers, technicians, mathematicians, and architects. They all come together to consolidate and brainstorm on creating the most incredible technological advances unknown to man. This state-of-the-art facility also works alongside higher overseers who assist...

Breakthrough fills the knowledge gap for mathematical and computer modeling of carbon dioxide (CO2) elimination in underwater breathing apparatus (UBA). The intended audience is every UBA designer or diver interested in a better understanding of scrubber canisters and metabolic CO2 elimination. It introduces the...

An economic development model analyzes the adoption of alternative strategy capable of leveraging the economy, based essentially on RES. The combination of wind turbine, PV installation with new technology battery energy storage, DSM network and RES forecasting algorithms maximizes RES integration in isolated islands....

This reprintshows recent advances in dam safety related to overtopping and the prevention, detection, and risk assessment of geostructural risks.Related to overtopping, the issues treated are: the throughflow and failure process of rockfill dams; the protection of embankment dams against overtopping by means of...

Today's power system is facing the challenges of increasing global demand for electricity, high-reliability requirements, the need for clean energy and environmental protection, and planning restrictions. To move towards a green and smart electric power system, centralized generation facilities are being transformed into smaller...

The development of effective treatment methods or the synthesis of new effective adsorbents capable of selective sorption of toxic substances is now of great importance. This reprint contains articles focused on wastewater treatment containing heavy metal ions, and hormones from synthetic and real solutions...

This reprint is a collection of papers from the E-Textiles 2021 Conference and represents the state-of-the-art from both academia and industry in the development of smart fabrics that incorporate electronic and sensing functionality. The reprint presents a wide range of applications of the technology...

How do you explain technical and professional communication? The field has long tried to answer this question, with limited success. Because the field is constantly evolving alongside social, technological, and communication changes, it remains difficult to explain. Assembling Critical Components presents TPC as a...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

GET THREE QUOTESIs an insightful read for homeowners, lenders, contractors, and tradespeople.Learn about the relationships that exist between the homeowner and the contractor, the homeowner and their lender, and good etiquette for tradespeople when they are working in the customer's home.This book is for...

The Purpose of this book is to provide a basic course and introduction of corrosion in Reinforced Cement Concrete Structures to students. Various methods of repairs and rehabilitations has been explained with suitable example in this book. One of the challenges today is to...

Real-world systems exhibit complex behavior, therefore novel mathematical approaches or modifications of classical ones have to be employed to precisely predict, monitor, and control complicated chaotic and stochastic processes. One of the most basic concepts that has to be taken into account while conducting...

In this report, researchers describe overarching trends that affect defense acquisition, outline challenges in the defense acquisition process, and suggest improvements that might help address those challenges. The study is informed by open-source documents and insights from publicly available RAND Corporation defense acquisition research,...

This book is essential reading principally for designers of linear audio frequency power amplifiers and more generally students and amateur enthusiasts of audio frequency electronics. A first-principles analytical approach is here preferred because it engenders an intuitive appreciation of the workings of linear audio...

This monograph contains six thought-leading contributions on various topics related to supply chain finance and risk management. The issue culminated out of a recent (May 14-16, 2021) mini-conference on "Supply Chain Finance & Risk Management" organized by The Boeing Center for Supply Chain Innovation...

Hamming distance and rank metric have long been used in coding theory. The sum-rank metric naturally extends these over fields. They have attracted significant attention for their applications in distributed storage systems, multishot network coding, streaming over erasure channels, and multi-antenna wireless communication. In...

If you are getting started in cybersecurity operations, evolving your existing security operations center (SOC), or engaging with a SOC regularly, 11 Strategies of a World-Class Cybersecurity Operations Center helps you understand what it takes to stand up, grow, and evolve a truly great...

An eye-opening deep dive into the ways women are discriminated against in STEM fields...and how that diminishes our ability to stay competitive in an ever-evolving tech economy.Think sexism is a thing of the past? Not for women who are drawn to careers in vital,...

A readable introduction to the subject of calculus on arbitrary surfaces or manifolds. Accessible to readers with knowledge of basic calculus and linear algebra. Sections include series of problems to reinforce concepts.Author: James R. MunkresISBN-10: 0367091151ISBN-13: 9780367091156Publisher: CRC PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/13/2019Pages: 380Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.49lbsSize:...

Between 1973 and 2016, the ways to manipulate DNA to endow new characteristics in an organism (that is, biotechnology) have advanced, enabling the development of products that were not previously possible. What will the likely future products of biotechnology be over the next 5?10...

An introduction to dimensional analysis, a method of scientific analysis used to investigate and simplify complex physical phenomena, demonstrated through a series of engaging examples.This book offers an introduction to dimensional analysis, a powerful method of scientific analysis used to investigate and simplify complex...

This book provides career and educational guidance for engineers and those thinking about becoming engineers. Students will learn what engineering is, the author's views on who really is and who is not an engineer, what engineers do, and how they are trained. Is engineering...

Sequential decision problems arise in virtually every human process. They span finance, energy, transportation, health, e-commerce, and supply chains and include pure learning problems that arise in laboratory or field experiments. They even cover search algorithms to maximize uncertain functions. An important dimension of...

The Brand NEW Book from Bernard Marr, bestselling author behind Business Trends in Practice - Winner of Business Book of the Year 2022. Future-proof yourself and develop critical skills for the digital future The working world has changed dramatically in the last twenty years...

As drought continues to grip Oregon and the U.S. Western states, wildfire will be eminent. Climate change requires heroic action to implement a plan to adapt forests and grasslands. Time is of the essence. We must embrace a progressive study of today's forests and...

The Art of Industrial Warfare is an introduction to an industrial self defence system called 7Tao which is designed to allow businesses to protect themselves against competitors from all over the world who do not play by the trading rules established during the 20th...

The Art of Industrial Warfare is an introduction to an industrial self defence system called 7Tao which is designed to allow businesses to protect themselves against competitors from all over the world who do not play by the trading rules established during the 20th...

Google For Grandparents is an easy to follow help guide for the elderly and sight impaired to embrace the Google Home Application. This help guide contains over 40 simple to follow illustrations with instructions and tips on setting up and using Google Home.Written in...

This is the thirteenth book in the series International Straits of the World initiated and edited at the Graduate College of Marine Studies of the University of Delaware. In 1987 the ninth book in this series dealt with the Turkish Straits. Since then, however,...

The authors examined potential implications of emerging technologies for deterrence in the context of U.S. national security policy. They identified long-term effects on two major aspects of the deterrence dynamic?effectiveness and stability. They found that collections of emerging technologies have dramatic implications for both...

Explores a new relation between magnetism and electricity. In this title, Faraday shows us his unsuccessful as well as his successful experiments, and his crude ideas as well as his developed ones, and the reader is tempted to believe that, if he had the...

What makes us human? We are all connected, but do we feel lonely? Does democracy still work? Are cities for everyone? Should the planet be a design project? If Mars is the answer, what is the question? Who wants to live forever? The world...

Everything you ever wanted to know about timber - and more!The Essential Guide is designed for anyone wanting to know the characteristics of timber, whether it be about trees in their native habitat, how they are harvested for the building and furniture industries, what...

These proceedings represent the work of contributors to the 21st European Conference on Cyber Warfare and Security (ECCWS 2022), supported by University of Chester, UK on 16-17 June 2022. The Conference Co-chairs are Dr Thaddeus Eze and Dr Nabeel Khan, University of Chester and...

Would you like to master the usage of Microsoft Excel to speed up your work?Wouldn't it be nice to be able to create and modify functions without looking up how to do them on the internet?If the answer to those questions is "YES", keep...

A History of the Eastern Railway rediscovers the lost railway lines of Prussia (the "Ostbahn") and the locomotives that operated on them. It also contains information about some of the little-known railway mail postmarks from the period 1848 to 1945. The first chapter of...

With the rapid increase in corporate businesses today embarking on digital transformation journeys, the fast pace at which technology enhancements are taking place, and the large investments, failure is no option.However, success is not easy, as the studies have shown us over 70 percent...

The Scotch Brook Valley, and its tributary The ModdeshallValley proper, convey brisk and reliable watercourses thatfor centuries supported twelve traditional watermills.In the nineteenth and twentieth centuries most of these millswere used to grind animal bones and flint to supply theLongton fine bone china industry....

Easy-to-follow step-by-step instructions with photos show you exactly how to construct and successfully operate your own aquaponics system. Included is everything you need to know about Aquaponics: How to build a system, maintain your system, selecting and raising the best fish species, the best...

Volumetric Regimes emerges from Possible Bodies, a collaborative project on the intersection between artistic and academic research. The project was initiated in 2016 to explore the very concrete and at the same time complex and fictional entities of so-called "bodies" in the context of...

This reprint focuses on the hot issue of bearing lubrication and thermal analysis, and brings together many cutting-edge studies, such as bearing multi-body dynamics, bearing tribology, new lubrication and heat dissipation structures, bearing self-lubricating materials, thermal analysis of bearing assembly process, bearing service state...