Academic Press imprint: 6422 books
by Elliot J. Gindis
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Up and Running with AutoCAD 2010 introduces AutoCAD with step-by-step instructions, stripping away complexities to begin working in AutoCAD immediately. All concepts are explained first in theory, and then shown in practice, helping the reader understand what it is they are doing and why before they...
by Mukesh Doble, Ken Rollins, Anil Kumar
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2010
Chemical processes provide a diverse array of valuable products and materials used in applications ranging from health care to transportation and food processing. Yet these same chemical processes that provide products and materials essential to modern economies, also generate substantial quantities...
Small Wind
Planning and Building Successful Installations
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2013
Small wind turbines utilize wind energy to produce power with rated capacities of 100 kilowatts or less. With this increasingly popular technology, individual businesses, farms, and homes can generate their own electricity and cut their energy bills , while generating power in an environmentally sound...
by Stevan Popov, Sinisa Dodic, Mirjana Radovanović (Golusin)
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 31, 2012
While the last few decades have witnessed incredible leaps forward in the technology of energy production, technological innovation can only be as transformative as its implementation and management allows. The burgeoning fields of renewable, efficient and sustainable energy have moved past experimentation...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2018
Operation of Distributed Energy Resources in Smart Distribution Networks defines the barriers and challenges of smart distribution networks, ultimately proposing optimal solutions for addressing them. The book considers their use as an important part of future electrical power systems and their ability...
Environmental Solutions
Environmental Problems and the All-inclusive global, scientific, political, legal, economic, medical, and engineering bases to solve them
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2010
In our changing world, society demands more comprehensive and thoughtful solutions from environmental engineers, environmental consultants and scientists dealing with the degradation of our environment. Lead by Nelson Nemerow and Franklin Agardy, experts in business, academia, government and practice...
Global Bioethanol
Evolution, Risks, and Uncertainties
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
Global Bioethanol: Evolution, Risks, and Uncertainties explores the conceptual and methodological approaches for the understanding of bioethanol technologies, policies and future perspectives. After a decade of huge investments made by big companies and governments all around the world, it is time...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
Quality and Safety in Neurosurgery covers recent improvements and presents solutions for problems that impact patient care. This book is written for anyone who works at the intersection of quality, safety and neurosurgery, including neurosurgeons, neurologists, clinical researchers looking to improve...
IMS Application Developer's Handbook
Creating and Deploying Innovative IMS Applications
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2011
• Clear, concise and comprehensive view of IMS and Rich Communication Suite (RCS) for developers
• Shows how to use RCS to create innovative applications for rapid uptake by end-users
• Covers service and operator scenarios for the IMS architecture
• Explains IMS architecture...
by Christopher C Yang, Wenji Mao, Xiaolong Zheng
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2013
The Intelligent Systems Series comprises titles that present state-of-the-art knowledge and the latest advances in intelligent systems. Its scope includes theoretical studies, design methods, and real-world implementations and applications.
The most prevalent topics in Intelligence and Security...
Intelligent Data Analysis for e-Learning
Enhancing Security and Trustworthiness in Online Learning Systems
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Intelligent Data Analysis for e-Learning: Enhancing Security and Trustworthiness in Online Learning Systems addresses information security within e-Learning based on trustworthiness assessment and prediction. Over the past decade, many learning management systems have appeared in the education market....
Introduction to Geophysical Fluid Dynamics
Physical and Numerical Aspects
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2011
Introduction to Geophysical Fluid Dynamics provides an introductory-level exploration of geophysical fluid dynamics (GFD), the principles governing air and water flows on large terrestrial scales. Physical principles are illustrated with the aid of the simplest existing models, and the computer methods...
Solar Photovoltaic Technology Production
Potential Environmental Impacts and Implications for Governance
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2016
Solar Photovoltaic Technology Production: Potential Environmental Impacts and Implications for Governance provides an overview of the emerging industrial PV sector, its technologies, and the regulatory frameworks supporting them. This new book reviews and categorizes the potential environmental impacts...
by Victor Giurgiutiu
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
Structural Health Monitoring of Aerospace Composite Structures offers a comprehensive review of established and promising technologies under development in the emerging area of structural health monitoring (SHM) of aerospace composite structures.
Beginning with a description of the different...