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Slime Mould in Arts and Architecture

Slime Mould in Arts and Architecture

The slime mould Physarum polycephalum was a source of explosive growth of bioengineered hybrid sensing and computing devices in the past decade. Being in its vegetative state the plasmodium the slime mould configures its protoplasmic network to optimize its geometry with relation to patterns of attractants and repellents. The slime mould’s adaptability polymorphism and aestheticism inspired artists and architects. The slime mould has been seen as a self-conscious liquid form continuously changing its shape in response to external stimulation and due to interactions of thousands of micro-oscillators in its body. Elusiveness is a magic feature of the slime mould. One moment the slime mould gives you a solution to a mathematical problem by a shape of its body next moment it changes its shape and the solution disappears. Slime Mould in Arts and Architecture presents a set of unique chapters written by leading artists architects and scientists which resulted from creative translations of the slime mould behaviour into forms and sounds unconventional investigations and sensorial experiences and the slime mould ability to remove boundaries between living and artificial solid and fluid science and arts. The book gives readers unique tools for designing architectural forms and creative works using the slime mould understanding how pro-cognitive living substrates can be used in everyday life it sparks new ideas and initiates further progress in many fields or arts architecture science and engineering.

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Compressor Handbook Principles and Practice

Compressor Handbook Principles and Practice

This book provides a practical introduction to dynamic and positive displacement compressors including compressor performance operation and problem awareness. In reading this book readers will learn what is needed to select operate and troubleshoot compressors. Complete with real-life case histories the book demonstrates investigative techniques for identifying and isolating various contributing causes including design deficiencies manufacturing defects adverse environmental conditions operating errors and intentional or unintentional changes of the machinery process that usually precede failure. | Compressor Handbook Principles and Practice

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Digital Filter Design and Realization

Digital Filter Design and Realization

Analysis design and realization of digital filters have experienced major developments since the 1970s and have now become an integral part of the theory and practice in the field of contemporary digital signal processing. Digital Filter Design and Realization is written to present an up-to-date and comprehensive account of the analysis design and realization of digital filters. It is intended to be used as a text for graduate students as well as a reference book for practitioners in the field. Prerequisites for this book include basic knowledge of calculus linear algebra signal analysis and linear system theory. Technical topics discussed in the book include:Discrete-Time Systems and z-TransformationStability and Coefficient SensitivityState-Space ModelsFIR Digital Filter DesignFrequency-Domain Digital Filter DesignTime-Domain Digital Filter DesignInterpolated and Frequency-Response-Masking FIR Digital Filter DesignComposite Digital Filter DesignFinite Word Length EffectsCoefficient Sensitivity Analysis and MinimizationError Spectrum ShapingRoundoff Noise Analysis and MinimizationGeneralized Transposed Direct-Form IIBlock-State Realization

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Residential Energy Auditing and Improvement

Residential Energy Auditing and Improvement

This book is for energy auditors or retrofitters whether they work in the weatherization program or in the private arena and is intended to help them prepare for several certifications. These include programs with BPI RESNET-HERS DOE/NREL and AEE (Association of Energy Engineers). The material in this book contains industry procedures and techniques and is intended to be an educational resource. Topics covered include the house as a system the auditor’s tools weatherization sealants insulation and barriers retrofitting heating and cooling baseload and new construction. A number of additional appendices are included to provide the reader with valuable information in the performance of a residential energy audit. | Residential Energy Auditing and Improvement

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Remote Patient Monitoring: A Computational Perspective in Healthcare

Remote Patient Monitoring: A Computational Perspective in Healthcare

This book provides a multidisciplinary overview of the design and implementation of systems for remote patient monitoring and healthcare. Readers are guided through the components of such a system and shown how they could be integrated into a coherent framework for deployment in practice. The book ends with a discussion of case studies to provide practical examples and design methods for remote healthcare systems with different needs. This book contains information that will be helpful to undergraduate and postgraduate students academic and professional researchers and individuals who employ computational intelligence. By presenting new models of care and support AI in medicine is having an impact on the entire value chain of clinical practice and the patient care delivery system. This is especially evident in telemedicine breakthroughs where applications of AI are utilized to assist complement or create new forms of remote healthcare. Through the use of communications technology telemedicine enables medical professionals to examine diagnose and treat patients remotely. Now the technology might also integrate online diagnostics etc. to increase the effectiveness of the healthcare system and enhance patient outcomes. By enabling elderly people to live independently technological advancements in fields like remote patient monitoring (RPM) systems can revolutionize senior care. Medical diagnosis will improve and remote patient monitoring will become simpler thanks to artificial intelligence. The resistance of many patients and doctors to using the telemedicine idea for medical visits will probably be overcome by AI automation. | Remote Patient Monitoring: A Computational Perspective in Healthcare

GBP 54.99
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Industrial Process Control Systems Second Edition

Industrial Process Control Systems Second Edition

This book provides a basic approach to understanding and effectively applying industrial process control based on the systems concept. It provides an overview of an operating system then divides it into sections for individual discussion. It covers topics including the operating system process control pressure systems thermal systems and level determining systems. It also addresses flow process systems analytical process systems microprocessor systems automated processes and robotic systems. | Industrial Process Control Systems Second Edition

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Water Poverty The Next “Oil” Crisis

Water Poverty The Next “Oil” Crisis

A water crisis on our immediate horizon is destined to hurt even kill millions of children and the window of opportunity to do something about it is rapidly closing. There is however a glimmer of hope that could turn into rays of sunshine. Water is a commodity and we have just come through some painful times dealing with the shortage of another commodity—energy. For those who lived through the energy crisis this book offers a brief trip down memory lane. | Water Poverty The Next “Oil” Crisis

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Photonic Interconnects for Computing Systems Understanding and Pushing Design Challenges

Photonic Interconnects for Computing Systems Understanding and Pushing Design Challenges

In recent years there has been a considerable amount of effort both in industry and academia focusing on the design implementation performance analysis evaluation and prediction of silicon photonic interconnects for inter- and intra-chip communication paving the way for the design and dimensioning of the next and future generation of high-performance computing systems. Photonic Interconnects for Computing Systems provides a comprehensive overview of the current state-of-the-art technology and research achievements in employing silicon photonics for interconnection networks and high-performance computing summarizing main opportunities and some challenges. The majority of the chapters were collected from presentations made at the International Workshop on Optical/Photonic Interconnects for Computing Systems (OPTICS) held over the past two years. The workshop invites internationally recognized speakers on the range of topics relevant to silicon photonics and computing systems. Technical topics discussed in the book include:Design and Implementation of Chip-Scale Photonic Interconnects;Developing Design Automation Solutions for Chip-Scale Photonic Interconnects;Design Space Exploration in Chip-Scale Photonic Interconnects;Thermal Analysis and Modeling in Photonic Interconnects;Design for Reliability;Fabrication Non-Uniformity in Photonic Interconnects;Photonic Interconnects for Computing Systems presents a compilation of outstanding contributions from leading research groups in the field. It presents a comprehensive overview of the design advantages challenges and requirements of photonic interconnects for computing systems. The selected contributions present important discussions and approaches related to the design and development of novel photonic interconnect architectures as well as various design solutions to improve the performance of such systems while considering different challenges. The book is ideal for personnel in computer/photonic industries as well as academic staff and master/graduate students in computer science and engineering electronic engineering electrical engineering and photonics. | Photonic Interconnects for Computing Systems Understanding and Pushing Design Challenges

GBP 79.99
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International Solutions to Sustainable Energy Policies and Applications

International Solutions to Sustainable Energy Policies and Applications

Offering an in-depth examination into sustainable energy sources applications technologies and policies this book provides real-world examples of ways to achieve important sustainability goals. Themes include program assessment energy efficiency renewables clean energy and approaches to carbon reduction. Included are a compiled set of chapters discussing the various international strategies and policies being planned and implemented to reduce energy use impact carbon emissions and shift towards alternative energy sources. Taking an international perspective contributors from the U. S. Canada Trinidad and Tobago Peru Hungary Spain Iran Ukraine Jordan the UAE Nigeria South Africa India China and Korea offer their views of energy issues and provide detailed solutions. These can be broadly applied by engineers scientists energy managers policy experts and decision makers to today’s critical energy problems. | International Solutions to Sustainable Energy Policies and Applications

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Basics of Polymer Chemistry

Basics of Polymer Chemistry

Basics of Polymer Chemistry is of great interest to the chemistry audience. The basic properties of polymers including diverse fundamental and applied aspects are presented. This book constitutes a basis for understanding polymerization and it presents a comprehensive overview of the scientific research of polymers. The chapters presented can be used as a reference for those interested in understanding the sustainable development in polymers. Basics of Polymer Chemistry provides a balanced coverage of the key developments in this field and highlights recent and emerging technical achievements. The topics covered present a comprehensive overview of the subject area and are therefore of interest to professors and students. The recent developments in polymerization using catalysts homo and copolymerization are presented and it contains current efforts in designing new polymer architectures. Improved property performance attributes of the polymers by controlling their molecular-structural characteristics such as molecular weight distribution comonomer type content distribution and branching level are also discussed.

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Cellular Network Planning

Cellular Network Planning

Over the recent years few books have been published covering all the subjects needed to understand the very fundamental concepts of cell planning. Most books which deal with this topic are destined to very specific audiences and the vast majority introduce the subject at a very basic or technical level or are destined to an academic audience. Cellular Network Planning begins with an introduction to the subject covering conventional and contemporary wireless systems. Spectral allocation and the frequency plan are discussed along with the essential characteristics of wireless systems. The design of mobile cellular systems includes cell planning traffic and channel problems. The book presents a review of existing models considering both green field dimensioning and network expansion strategies and discusses multi-objective optimization and base station deployment based on artificial immune systems. It also discusses a cost-effective base station deployment approach based on artificial immune systems and introduces the modified MO-AIS algorithm.

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The Component A Personal Odyssey towards Another Normal

The Component A Personal Odyssey towards Another Normal

The Component: A Personal Odyssey towards Another Normal is the Oosterhuis' personal account of four decades of architectural and societal thinking designing building and theorizing. It is an orchestrated yet non-linear series of subjects all leading toward the creation of a parallel world called Another Normal. Another Normal is as of now a hypothetical parallel world. Nomadic international citizens are the inhabitants of Another Normal. Urged by the climate crisis the food energy and water nexus and the COVID-19 pandemic Another Normal demonstrates the inevitable data-driven techno-social architecture of the physically built environment and the metaverse. Besides robotic production on demand of almost anything – when where and as needed – Oosterhuis' proposes a dozen strategies that run in parallel to establish Another Normal among others: ubiquitous basic income global birthright to own a generous piece of land distributed production of healthy food clean energy and drinking water ownership of private data and personal avatars in the Web 3. 0 autonomous electronic transportation ubiquitous shared responsibility for clean production and waste treatment techniques ubiquitous home delivery working from anywhere for any period of time and decentralized real-time peer to peer banking. The organic real and the synthetic hyper-real co-evolve naturally in Another Normal where a mix of strong and simple legislative planning and design rules create complexity diversity fairness and equality. | The Component A Personal Odyssey towards Another Normal

GBP 48.99
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Cloud Native Networking Deep-Dive

Cloud Native Networking Deep-Dive

This book demystifies how Kubernetes networking actually works by walking through a simple but practical simulation that mirrors reality as closely as possible while skipping the gory details. Widespread adoption of container orchestration platforms like Kubernetes have spawned a whole field of industry products startups and academic research in the field of container networking typically termed as cloud-native networking. But what is cloud-native networking? What are the various pieces and how do they fit together? Over recent years most applications have been deployed on cloud infrastructure. Kubernetes has been the widely adopted orchestrator for these clouds. Application developers in most cases are unaware of the underlying plumbing in Kubernetes that holds their applications running as containers. Networking is an integral part of any Kubernetes environment and efficiently drives the various abstractions provided by it. Needless to say it greatly effects the performance of applications which in general have a humongous amount of inter-microservice communication. The impact is even more profound in multiple cloud environments. | Cloud Native Networking Deep-Dive

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An Introduction to Tensor Analysis

An Introduction to Tensor Analysis

The subject of Tensor Analysis deals with the problem of the formulation of the relation between various entities in forms which remain invariant when we pass from one system of coordinates to another. The invariant form of equation is necessarily related to the possible system of coordinates with reference to which the equation remains invariant. The primary purpose of this book is the study of the invariance form of equation relative to the totally of the rectangular co-ordinate system in the three-dimensional Euclidean space. We start with the consideration of the way the sets representing various entities are transformed when we pass from one system of rectangular co-ordinates to another. A Tensor may be a physical entity that can be described as a Tensor only with respect to the manner of its representation by means of multi-sux sets associated with different system of axes such that the sets associated with different system of co-ordinate obey the transformation law for Tensor. We have employed sux notation for tensors of any order we could also employ single letter such A B to denote Tensors. | An Introduction to Tensor Analysis

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FM-UWB Transceivers for Autonomous Wireless Systems

FM-UWB Transceivers for Autonomous Wireless Systems

Significant research effort has been devoted to the study and realization of autonomous wireless systems for wireless sensor and personal-area networking the internet of things and machine-to-machine communications. Low-power RF integrated circuits an energy harvester and a power management circuit are fundamental elements of these systems. An FM-UWB Transceiver for Autonomous Wireless Systems presents state-of-the-art developments in low-power FM-UWB transceiver realizations. The design performance and implementation of prototype transceivers in CMOS technology are presented. A working hardware realization of an autonomous node that includes a prototype power management circuit is also proposed and detailed in this book. Technical topics include: Low-complexity FM-UWB modulation schemesLow-power FM-UWB transceiver prototypes in CMOS technologyCMOS on-chip digital calibration techniquesSolar power harvester and power management in CMOS for low-power RF circuitsAn FM-UWB Transceiver for Autonomous Wireless Systems is an ideal text and reference for engineers working in wireless communication industries as well as academic staff and graduate students engaged in electrical engineering and communication systems research. | FM-UWB Transceivers for Autonomous Wireless Systems

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