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Wireless Power Transfer Technologies for Electric Vehicles (Key Technologies on New Energy Vehicles)
Par Xi Zhang, Chong Zhu, Haitao Song. 2022
This book introduces the most state-of-the-art wireless power transfer technologies for electric vehicles from the fundamental theories to practical designs…
and applications, especially on the circuit analysis methods, resonant compensation networks, magnetic couplers, and related power electronics converters. Moreover, some other necessary design considerations, such as communication systems, detection of foreign and living objects, EMI issues, and battery charging strategies, are also introduced to provide sufficient insights into the industrial applications. Finally, some future points are mentioned in brief. Different from other works, all the WPT technologies in this book are applied in real EV applications, whose effectiveness and reliability have been already tested and verified. From this book, readers who are interested in the area of wireless power transfer can have a broad view of modern WPT technologies. Readers who have no experience in the WPT area can learn the basic concept, analysis methods, and design principles of the WPT system for EV charging. Even for the readers who are occupied in this area, this book also provides rich knowledge on engineering applications and future trends of EV wireless charging.Internet of Things and Connected Technologies: Conference Proceedings on 6th International Conference on Internet of Things and Connected Technologies (ICIoTCT), 2021 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #340)
Par Bharadwaj Veeravalli, Ashok Patel, Rajiv Misra, Muttukrishnan Rajarajan, Nishtha Kesswani. 2022
This book presents recent advances on IoT and connected technologies. We are currently in the midst of the Fourth Industrial…
Revolution, and IoT is having the most significant impact on our society. The recent adoption of a variety of enabling wireless communication technologies like RFID tags, BLE, ZigBee, etc., embedded sensor and actuator nodes, and various protocols like CoAP, MQTT, DNS, etc., has made the Internet of things (IoT) step out of its infancy. Internet of things (IoT) and connecting technologies are already having profound effects on the different parts of society like the government, health care, businesses, and personal lives. 6th International Conference on Internet of Things and Connected Technologies (ICIoTCT), 2021, was a platform to discuss and feature research on topics such as augmented reality, sensor networks, and wearable technology. This book is ideally designed for marketing managers, business professionals, researchers, academicians, and graduate-level students seeking to learn how IoT and connecting technologies increase the amount of data gained through devices, enhance customer experience, and widen the scope of IoT analytics in enhancing customer marketing outcomes.Climate Variability and Tropical Cyclone Activity
Par Pao-Shin Chu, Hiroyuki Murakami. 2022
This book presents a comprehensive summary of research on tropical cyclone variability at various time scales, from intraseasonal and interannual…
to interdecadal and centennial. It covers the fundamental theory, statistics and numerical modelling techniques used when considering climate variability in relation to tropical cyclone activity. Major climate oscillations including the Madden-Julian, El Niño, Atlantic Meridional Mode, and Pacific Decadal oscillations are covered, and their impacts on tropical cyclone activity in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans are discussed. Hurricane landfalls in the United States, Caribbean and East Asia are also considered. Climate models and numerical simulations are used to show how prediction models of tropical cyclones are developed, while looking to the future, particular attention is paid to predicting how tropical cyclones will change in response to increased concentrations of greenhouse gases. This book ideal for researchers and practitioners in atmospheric science, climatology, oceanography and civil and environmental engineering.Crowd Dynamics, Volume 3: Modeling and Social Applications in the Time of COVID-19 (Modeling and Simulation in Science, Engineering and Technology)
Par Nicola Bellomo, Livio Gibelli. 2021
This contributed volume explores innovative research in the modeling, simulation, and control of crowd dynamics. Chapter authors approach the topic…
from the perspectives of mathematics, physics, engineering, and psychology, providing a comprehensive overview of the work carried out in this challenging interdisciplinary research field. In light of the recent COVID-19 pandemic, special consideration is given to applications of crowd dynamics to the prevention of the spreading of contagious diseases. Some of the specific topics covered in this volume include: - Impact of physical distancing on the evacuation of crowds- Generalized solutions of opinion dynamics models- Crowd dynamics coupled with models for infectious disease spreading- Optimized strategies for leaders in controlling the dynamics of a crowdCrowd Dynamics, Volume 3 is ideal for mathematicians, engineers, physicists, and other researchers working in the rapidly growing field of modeling and simulation of human crowds.Recycled Materials in Geotechnical and Pavement Applications (Environmental Science and Engineering)
Par Amin Chegenizadeh, Hamid Nikraz. 2022
This book considers the application of recycled materials both in pavement and geotechnical engineering. Currently, Australia has faced the fundamental…
concern of recycling waste plastic. On 1 January 2018, China enforced a prohibition on the importation of waste plastic. China's ban is followed by other countries like India, Indonesia, and Malaysia. The ban caused many corporations to abandon waste collection agreements, and the stockpiling of waste, as there is nowhere to safely deposit this waste. This issue seems, to a great extent, to have placed Australia's recycling industry in a crisis. As a result, local councils will have to find strategic ways of recycling accumulated waste that will become a more significant issue in the coming years. In Australia, apart from economic growth, the road pavement has weakened rapidly as the current pavement unable to withstand this urgent traffic load demand. The adding of polymers to the mixtures improves the stiffness, rutting resistance, and fatigue cracking [1]. However, the application of virgin polymer is costly. Thus, using waste polymer such as waste plastic polymer is an inexpensive substitute. The potential for recycled plastic to improve the performance properties of asphalt mixtures has been demonstrated in many countries the UK, Canada, The Netherlands, and India [2]. Similarly, another application of recycled materials can be in geotechnical infrastructure. This book considers the application of recycled materials both in pavement and geotechnical engineering. References [1] Airey, G.D., Singleton, T.M., & Collop, A.C.(2002). Properties of polymer modified bitumen after rubber- bitumen interaction. Journal of Materials in Civil Engineering .14(4), 344- 354. [2] K. O'Farrell. Australian Plastics Recycling Survey- National Report. Australian Government, Department of Environment and Energy, Australia. Project reference,2018 A21502.Proceedings of International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Data Engineering: ICCIDE 2021 (Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies #99)
Par Nabendu Chaki, Agostino Cortesi, Nagaraju Devarakonda, Hari Seetha. 2022
This book covers various topics, including collective intelligence, intelligent transportation systems, fuzzy systems, Bayesian network, ant colony optimization, data privacy…
and security, data mining, data warehousing, big data analytics, cloud computing, natural language processing, swarm intelligence, and speech processing. This book is a collection of high-quality research work on cutting-edge technologies and the most-happening areas of computational intelligence and data engineering. It includes selected papers from the International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Data Engineering (ICCIDE 2021).Micro-Electronics and Telecommunication Engineering: Proceedings of 5th ICMETE 2021 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #373)
Par Rohit Sharma, Sheng-Lung Peng, Devendra Kumar Sharma, Dmitry A. Zaitsev. 2022
The book presents high-quality papers from the Fourth International Conference on Microelectronics and Telecommunication Engineering (ICMETE 2021). It discusses the…
latest technological trends and advances in major research areas such as microelectronics, wireless communications, optical communication, signal processing, image processing, big data, cloud computing, artificial intelligence and sensor network applications. This book includes the contributions of national and international scientists, researchers, and engineers from both academia and the industry. The contents of this volume will be useful to researchers, professionals, and students alike.DNAzymes: Methods and Protocols (Methods in Molecular Biology #2439)
Par Gerhard Steger, Hannah Rosenbach, Ingrid Span. 2022
This volume explores a collection of different protocols for the analysis and characterization of DNAzymes and their functions. The topics…
covered in this book range from bioinformatics and molecular dynamics simulations for the study or modification of nucleic acids to the descriptions of spectroscopic, fluorescence-based, or crystallographic methods to understand the structure and function of DNAzymes. Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls.Cutting-edge and comprehensive, DNAzymes: Methods and Protocols is a valuable resource for scientists and researchers interested in learning more about this evolving field.Sustainable Energy for Smart Cities: Third EAI International Conference, SESC 2021, Virtual Event, November 24–26, 2021, Proceedings (Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering #425)
Par José Gabriel Pinto, Vitor Monteiro, Joao L. Afonso. 2022
This book constitutes the refereed post-conference proceedings of the 3rd EAI International Conference on Sustainable Energy for Smart Cities, SESC…
2021, held in November 2021. The conference was framed within the 7th Annual Smart City 360° Summit. Due to COVID-19 pandemic the conferences were held virtually. The 13 revised full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 28 submissions. They present multidisciplinary scientific results toward answering the complex technological problems of emergent Smart Cities. The subjects related to sustainable energy, framed with the scope of smart cities and addressed along with the SESC 2021 conference, are crucial to guarantee an equilibrium among economic growth and environmental sustainability, as well as to contribute to reducing the impact of climate change.Revolutions in Product Design for Healthcare: Advances in Product Design and Design Methods for Healthcare (Design Science and Innovation)
Par Karupppasamy Subburaj, Kamalpreet Sandhu, Saša Ćuković. 2022
This book coherently presents advances in design principles, processes, and methods in healthcare product design. It captures the implications of…
technological advances on designing healthcare products especially when market and societal needs pull each other in opposite directions. The contents focus on innovative design thinking processes and methods in developing healthcare products, applications of digital technologies in healthcare product design, amalgamation of artificial intelligence and design thinking for healthcare product design and quality, sustainability, and regulatory aspects in the design process. This book is a useful reference for those in the industry and academia.Sustainable Pipe Jacking Technology in the Urban Environment: Recent Advances and Innovations (Cities Research Series)
Par Marco Barla, Dominic Ek Ong, Jason Wen-Chieh Cheng, Chung Siung Choo, Minmin Sun, Mohammud Irfaan Peerun. 2022
This book highlights recent advancements and innovations in trenchless technology via the adoption of combined micro-tunnelling and pipe-jacking techniques. This…
technique is more environmentally friendly, cost effective, less time-consuming and less disruptive compared to conventional open trench excavations for urban construction and urban infrastructure renewal projects. Pipe jacking is a non-destructive technique used in the installation of underground pipelines using a tunnel boring machine (TBM) and thrust forces derived from the hydraulic jack set-up in a deep jacking shaft. It is popular and commonly used worldwide for the installation of sewer and common services cable tunnels as well as for oil and gas pipelines.Essential Circuit Analysis using NI Multisim™ and MATLAB®
Par Farzin Asadi. 2022
This textbook provides a compact but comprehensive treatment that guides students through the analysis of circuits, using NI Multisim™ and…
MATLAB®. Ideal as a hands-on source for courses in Circuits, Electronics, Digital Logic and Power Electronics this text focuses on solving problems using market-standard software, corresponding to all key concepts covered in the classroom. The author uses his extensive classroom experience to guide students toward deeper understanding of key concepts, while they gain facility with software they will need to master for later studies and practical use in their engineering careers.Intelligent Data Communication Technologies and Internet of Things: Proceedings of ICICI 2021 (Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies #101)
Par D. Jude Hemanth, Danilo Pelusi, Chandrasekar Vuppalapati. 2022
This book gathers selected papers presented at the 5th International Conference on Intelligent Data Communication Technologies and Internet of Things (ICICI…
2021), organized by JCT College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu, India during 27 – 28 August 2021. This book solicits the innovative research ideas and solutions for almost all the intelligent data intensive theories and application domains. The general scope of this book covers the design, architecture, modeling, software, infrastructure and applications of intelligent communication architectures and systems for big data or data-intensive applications. In particular, this book reports the novel and recent research works on big data, mobile and wireless networks, artificial intelligence, machine learning, social network mining, intelligent computing technologies, image analysis, robotics and autonomous systems, data security and privacy.Food Security for African Smallholder Farmers (Sustainability Sciences in Asia and Africa)
Par Hupenyu Allan Mupambwa, Adornis Dakarai Nciizah, Patrick Nyambo, Binganidzo Muchara, Ndakalimwe Naftal Gabriel. 2022
This book provides a synthesis of current agricultural research in Africa with the aim of presenting evidence based information that…
can be directly applied into improving the African smallholder farmers’ food security. It presents positive scientific research that has been undertaken in Africa, in simpler terms, thus driving the research for development agenda contributing to the attainment of SDG 2. Numerous research that targets resource poor African smallholder farmers has been published, yet the region faces very low productivity levels. This lack of translation from research to food security and increased agricultural incomes is due to the poor uptake of scientific research by farmers, which is partly due to poor presentation of this body of knowledge into simpler forms that extension workers and farmers can directly adopt. Therefore, this book offers research information in an easy, digestible and application oriented style, so as to enable transformation of the African agricultural sector by effectively driving agricultural productivity in Africa. This book is of interest to African extension workers, who will translate the simplified knowledge into lessons that can be useful to smallholder farmers. The book is also beneficial for policy makers as well as academics, researchers and other science based professionals.El futuro del bienestar: Ideas, hábitos e innovación para vivir más y mejor
Par Sebastián Campanario. 2022
Sebastián Campanario explora la nueva agenda del bienestar y recorre las principales innovaciones científicas y tecnológicas pensadas para mantener en…
forma los activos más valiosos que tenemos: nuestro cuerpo y nuestra mente. El nuevo bienestar es una habilidad que puede entrenarse y mejorarse. Es un bien escaso. El motor de la economía de este siglo. Y es una puerta que se abre y nos lleva a otro lugar. Todo eso al mismo tiempo. Sebastián Campanario explora la nueva agenda del bienestar y recorre las principales innovaciones científicas y tecnológicas pensadas para mantener en forma los activos más valiosos que tenemos: nuestro cuerpo y nuestra mente. De la edición genética y la robótica a las agendas pulpo y los jardines de pensamiento, del sex-tech al diseño de futuros, de los más impactantes progresos en biotecnología a lo último en salud mental, de los psicodélicos a la inteligencia artificial, de cómo vivir mejor la segunda mitad de la vida a cómo se traducen en la Argentina las tendencias relevantes en el mundo sobre esta verdadera revolución. Este libro es una herramienta estimulante para interpretar las lecciones extremas de la pandemia, bucear en lo que no sabemos que sabemos, abrir la caja de pandora de un futuro que ya está ocurriendo y comenzar a sentirnos mejor.COVID-19, a novel coronavirus pandemic has disrupted our society in many ways. Digital healthcare innovations are required more than ever…
before as we come across myriad challenges during this pandemic. Scientists and developers are learning and finding a way to use artificial intelligence applications and natural language processing to comprehend and tackle this disease. AI technologies are playing an important role in the response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Experts are using all possible tools to study the virus, diagnose individuals, and analyze the public health impacts. This book is a collection of some of the leading efforts related to AI and COVID-19 focused on finding how AI can be helpful in monitoring the situation from early warnings, swift emergency responses, and critical decision-making. It discusses the use of machine learning and how it may help to reduce the impacts of this pandemic in conjunction with all other research and strategies going on. The book serves as a technical resource of data analytics and AI applications in tracking infectious diseases. It will serve academics, students, data scientists, medical practitioners, and anybody managing a global pandemic. Features: Directs the attention to the smart digital healthcare system in this COVID-19 pandemic. Simulates novel investigations and how they will be beneficial in understanding the pandemic. Presents the latest ideas developed for data scientists, doctors, engineers, and economists. Analyses the various issues related to computing, AI apps, big data analytic techniques, and predictive scientific skill gaps. Explains some interesting and diverse types of challenges and data-driven healthcare applications.Machines for Making Gods: Mormonism, Transhumanism, and Worlds without End
Par Jon Bialecki. 2022
The Mormon faith may seem so different from aspirations to transcend the human through technological means that it is hard…
to imagine how these two concerns could even exist alongside one another, let alone serve together as the joint impetus for a social movement. Machines for Making Gods investigates the tensions between science and religion through which an imaginative group of young Mormons and ex-Mormons have found new ways of understanding the world.The Mormon Transhumanist Association (MTA) believes that God intended humanity to achieve Mormonism’s promise of theosis through imminent technological advances. Drawing on a nineteenth-century Mormon tradition of religious speculation to reimagine Mormon eschatological hopes as near-future technological possibilities, they envision such current and possible advances as cryonic preservation, computer simulation, and quantum archeology as paving the way for the resurrection of the dead, the creation of worlds without end, and promise of undergoing theosis—of becoming a god. Addressing the role of speculation in the anthropology of religion, Machines for Making Gods undoes debates about secular transhumanism’s relation to religion by highlighting the differences an explicitly religious transhumanism makes.Charting the conflicts and resonances between secular transhumanism and Mormonism, Bialecki shows how religious speculation has opened up imaginative horizons to give birth to new forms of Mormonism, including a particular progressive branch of the faith and even such formations as queer polygamy. The book also reveals how the MTA’s speculative account of God and technology together has helped to forestall some of the social pressure that comes with apostasy in much of the Mormon Intermountain West.A fascinating ethnography of a group with much to say about crucial junctures of modern culture, Machines for Making Gods illustrates how the scientific imagination can be better understood when viewed through anthropological accounts of myth.The Vaccine: Inside the Race to Conquer the COVID-19 Pandemic
Par Joe Miller, Özlem Türeci, Ugur Sahin. 2022
Winners of the Paul Ehrlich PrizeThe dramatic story of the married scientists who founded BioNTech and developed the first vaccine…
against COVID-19.Nobody thought it was possible. In mid-January 2020, Ugur Sahin told Özlem Türeci, his wife and decades-long research partner, that a vaccine against what would soon be known as COVID-19 could be developed and safely injected into the arms of millions before the end of the year. His confidence was built upon almost thirty years of research. While working to revolutionize the way that cancerous tumors are treated, the couple had explored a volatile and overlooked molecule called messenger RNA; they believed it could be harnessed to redirect the immune system's forces against any number of diseases. As the founders of BioNTech, they faced widespread skepticism from the scientific community at first; but by the time Sars-Cov-2 was discovered in Wuhan, China, BioNTech was prepared to deploy cutting edge technology and create the world’s first clinically approved inoculation for the coronavirus.The Vaccine draws back the curtain on one of the most important medical breakthroughs of our age; it will reveal how Doctors Sahin and Türeci were able to develop twenty vaccine candidates within weeks, convince Big Pharma to support their ambitious project, navigate political interference from the Trump administration and the European Union, and provide more than three billion doses of the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine to countries around the world in record time.Written by Joe Miller—the Financial Times’ Frankfurt correspondent who covered BioNTech’s COVID-19 project in real time—with contributions from Sahin and Türeci, as well as interviews with more than sixty scientists, politicians, public health officials, and BioNTech staff, the book covers key events throughout the extraordinary year, as well as exploring the scientific, economic, and personal background of each medical innovation. Crafted to be both completely accessible to the average reader and filled with details that will fascinate seasoned microbiologists, The Vaccine explains the science behind the breakthrough, at a time when public confidence in vaccine safety and efficacy is crucial to bringing an end to this pandemic.Isis, volume 113 number 1 (March 2022)
Par Isis. 2022
This is volume 113 issue 1 of Isis. Since its inception in 1912, Isis has featured scholarly articles, research notes,…
and commentary on the history of science, medicine, and technology and their cultural influences. Review essays and book reviews on new contributions to the discipline are also included. An official publication of the History of Science Society, Isis is the oldest English-language journal in the field.On Generalised Statistical Equilibrium and Discrete Quantum Gravity (Springer Theses)
Par Isha Kotecha. 2022
Absolute concepts of time and energy are integral to standard thermal physics, but background independent systems are devoid of them.…
This thesis explores the foundational question of generalising equilibrium statistical mechanics to background independent systems, and applies the resulting formulation to non-perturbative discrete quantum gravity. It offers a discussion of the rich interface of thermal physics and quantum gravity in this context, providing a broad contextualisation of such topics. This work details how standard tools from many-body physics can be generalised to discrete quantum gravity labelled with graph-based, or dual polyhedral, quanta that are common to various approaches like tensorial group field theory, loop quantum gravity, dynamical triangulations and lattice quantum gravity. It provides a systematic investigation, both conceptual and technical, of quantum gravitational Gibbs states, thermofield double vacuum states, and their application in condensate cosmology to probe questions of Big Bang singularity resolution and geometric inflation.