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DC/AC Electrical Fundamentals
Par Dale R. Patrick, Stephen W. Fardo, Ray Richardson, Vigyan Vigs Chandra. 2023
This book explores many essential topics in a basic and easy-to-understand manner. This book, and the accompanying Electronic Devices and…
Circuit Fundamentals, have been modified with significant updates in content. The books are developed using a classic textbook – Electricity and Electronics: A Survey (5th Edition) – as a framework. Both new books have been structured using a similar sequence and organization as previous editions. The previous edition of Electricity and Electronics: A Survey contained 18 chapters, 8 in the Electricity section and 10 in the Electronics section.This book has been expanded to include 19 chapters, further simplifying content, and providing a more comprehensive coverage of the content. The content has been continually updated and revised through new editions and by reviewers over the years. Additional quality checks to ensure technical accuracy, clarity and coverage of content have always been an area of focus.Each edition of the text has been improved through the following features: Improved and updated text content Improved usage of illustrations and photos Use of color to add emphasis and clarify content.Assessing Innovation: Metrics, Rubrics, and Standards (Systems Innovation Book Series)
Par Adedeji B. Badiru, Melinda Tourangeau. 2024
We cannot manage and control what we cannot measure and assess. Poor assessment results have been cited as a primary…
reason for project failures, in terms of cost, schedule, and quality. This book introduces metrics, rubrics, and standards pertinent to assessing innovation.Assessing Innovation: Metrics, Rubrics, and Standards provides a new view for the embracing of innovation and establishing a quantitative basis for determining innovation levels. It bridges innovation with practice and presents a systems view as it incorporates the human element and discusses the different roles carried out. This book offers standards that will guide readers as they tackle sustaining innovation and leverages Badiru’s Umbrella Model in the process.The inclusion of methodologies suitable for determining where and when innovation is happening, and to what extent it is currently being carried out, make this a unique book, along with being the only book that addresses innovation metrics, rubrics, and standards in an integrated fashion. Seen as a way to help advance the diverse pursuit of innovation, this book is an ideal read for those in engineering, business, industry, academia, government, and the military.Concise Textbook of Equine Clinical Practice Book 5: Nervous System, Eyes, Cardiovascular Disorders and Haemolymphatic System
Par Erin Beasley, Graham Munroe, François-René Bertin. 2024
This concise, practical text covers the essential information veterinary students need to succeed in equine medicine and surgery, focusing on…
the nervous system, eyes, cardiovascular disorders and haemolymphatic systems. Written for an international readership, the book conveys the core information in an easily digestible, precise form with extensive use of bullet points, tables, flow charts, diagrams, lists, protocols and extensive illustrations. Part of a five-book series that extracts and updates key information from Munroe’s Equine Surgery, Reproduction and Medicine, Second Edition, the book distils best practice in a logical straightforward clinical-based approach. It details clinical anatomy, physical clinical examination techniques, diagnostic techniques and normal parameters, emphasising the things regularly available to general practitioners with minimal information of advanced techniques. The nervous system section discusses in detail the neurological exam, mentions relevant diagnostic tests and divides the diseases of the system into congenital, infectious, traumatic, toxin-induced and miscellaneous causes. In the eye section, the relevant anatomy and the examination of the eye are followed by discussion of useful diagnostic tests and procedures. Diseases of the eye are discussed under the headings of congenital/neonatal, neoplastic, infectious and inflammatory disorders, neurological based and parasitic problems. The cardiological examination and relevant diagnostic tests are followed by sections on arrhythmias, congenital and acquired cardiac diseases, pericardial disease and miscellaneous cardiovascular disease. Finally, the haemolymphatic section discusses in detail relevant diagnostic approaches and laboratory aids, followed by sections on anaemia, haemostasis disorders, infections and neoplasia. Ideal for veterinary students and nurses on clinical placements with horses, as well as practitioners needing a quick reference ‘on the ground’.Circular and Transformative Economy: Advances towards Sustainable Socio-economic Transformation (Africa Circular Economy Series)
Par Nhamo Luxon, Sylvester Mpandeli, Stanley Liphadzi, Tafadzwanashe Mabhaudhi. 2024
The main aim of this book is to illustrate circular models for sustainable resource management. It highlights the benefits of…
transformative approaches in integrating, simplifying, and facilitating understanding of complex systems and transforming systems towards greater sustainability while achieving multiple social, economic, and environmental outcomes. It provides pathways towards strategic policy decisions on socio-economic transformation supported by case studies.Features: Discusses exploration of a transitional path to the circular economy, explored from the point of view of waste and technology. Explains transformational change towards sustainable socio-ecological interactions. Reviews provision of pathways towards sustainability through scenario development. Provides assessment of progress towards Sustainable Development Goals. Presents cross-sectoral and multicentric approaches towards circularity. This book is aimed at researchers and professionals in water and environmental engineering, circular economy, sustainability, and environmental studies.Electrical Conquest: New Approaches to the History of Electrification (Archimedes #67)
Par W. Bernard Carlson, Erik M. Conway. 2023
This book, drawing on fresh scholarship, investigates electrification in new places and across different time periods. While much of our…
understanding of electrification as a historical process is based on the seminal work done by Thomas P. Hughes in Networks of Power (1983), the scholars in this volume expand and revise Hughes’ systems approach to suggest that electrification is a heterogeneous and contingent process. Moreover, the contributors suggest that the conquest of the world by electricity remains incomplete despite more than a century elapsing. Above all, though, this book provides context for thinking about what lies ahead as humans continue their conquest of the earth through electricity. As we become increasingly dependent on electricity to power our lights, heat and cool our homes, turn the wheels of industry, and keep our information systems humming, so we are ever more vulnerable when the grid runs into trouble.Chapter "Surveying the Landscape: The Oil Industry and Alternative Energy in the 1970s" is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.This book gathers the proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Advancements of Medicine and Health Care through Technology, MEDITECH…
2022, held virtually on 20–22 October 2022, from Cluj-Napoca, Romania. It reports on both theoretical and practical developments in biomedical imaging and image processing, health technology, technologies for education, and biomedical signal processing and medical devices, measurements and instrumentation. Both the conference and the realization of this book were supported by the Romanian National Society for Medical Engineering and Biological Technology (SNIMTB).This book presents the research outcomes from cooperative projects with industrial partners. It showcases the practical relevance of the research,…
features the knowledge exchange. The papers cover a wide range of engineering disciplines, highlighting the impact of these collaborations in addressing real-world challenges and advancing technological developments.Springboard: Teacher Handbook 2
Par Adam Boxer, Adam Robbins, Claudia Allan, Jovita Castelino, Thomas Millichamp, Bill Wilkinson. 2024
Deliver the Springboard Science course confidently with this workload-friendly approach to a knowledge-rich curriculum.Learn how to use cognitive science principles…
to deliver more effective, dynamic and engaging lessons, whatever your level of experience. Divided into topics, rather than lessons, this handbook enables you to teach each topic in a responsive fashion and at a pace that is right for your students.> Feel fully supported. Guided explanations, diagram constructions, demonstrations and worked examples have been carefully crafted to support all teachers, including those teaching outside of their subject specialism. > Overcome common misconceptions. Prerequisite knowledge checks for students help you to identify any missing knowledge or misconceptions before a topic is started, with approaches to solve these covered throughout the explanations.> Tailor teaching to the class in front of you. 'Check for understanding' questions allow you to adapt your delivery to meet students' needs, with suggested questions and responses to start the process. > Take a different approach to practicals. Our 'slow practical' approach exemplifies core concepts and provides students with a clear grounding in practical skills, with at least one essential practical for every unit.Springboard: Teacher Handbook 2
Par Adam Boxer, Adam Robbins, Claudia Allan, Jovita Castelino, Thomas Millichamp, Bill Wilkinson. 2024
Deliver the Springboard Science course confidently with this workload-friendly approach to a knowledge-rich curriculum.Learn how to use cognitive science principles…
to deliver more effective, dynamic and engaging lessons, whatever your level of experience. Divided into topics, rather than lessons, this handbook enables you to teach each topic in a responsive fashion and at a pace that is right for your students.> Feel fully supported. Guided explanations, diagram constructions, demonstrations and worked examples have been carefully crafted to support all teachers, including those teaching outside of their subject specialism. > Overcome common misconceptions. Prerequisite knowledge checks for students help you to identify any missing knowledge or misconceptions before a topic is started, with approaches to solve these covered throughout the explanations.> Tailor teaching to the class in front of you. 'Check for understanding' questions allow you to adapt your delivery to meet students' needs, with suggested questions and responses to start the process. > Take a different approach to practicals. Our 'slow practical' approach exemplifies core concepts and provides students with a clear grounding in practical skills, with at least one essential practical for every unit.This book guides readers through the most iconic, geologically significant scenery in South America, points out features of interest, and…
describes how these features came to be. Starting in the glacial landscapes of southern Patagonia, this field trip guidebook examines the foothills of the Andes of western Argentina to understand its foreland deformation. Across the Andes, one observes deformation, volcanism, and mineral deposits associated with an onshore volcanic arc and uplift in the Atacama Desert of Chile. A transect across the Andes from Mendoza to Valparaiso follows in the footsteps of Darwin and, as an added bonus, explores the premier wine country around Mendoza, Argentina, and the Colchagua Valley, Chile. Features: • Clearly explains the geology of regions with an emphasis on landscape formation. • Lavishly illustrated with numerous colorful maps, diagrams, and photos of breathtaking landscapes and their geological features. • Describes the major geologic features of South America through the device of a geologic tour, making it an accessible read for those without any geologic training, as well as for professionals. • Written in easy-to-understand language, the author brings his own experience to readers who want to explore and understand geologic sites first-hand. South America’s Natural Wonders is an inviting text that gives individuals with no background in geology the opportunity to understand key geologic aspects of local landscapes. It also serves as a guide to undergraduate and graduate-level students taking courses in earth science programs, such as geology, geophysics, geochemistry, mining engineering, and petroleum engineering. Teachers of these courses can also use this book to better understand their local geologic environment and geography.Robotics and Automation in Industry 4.0: Smart Industries and Intelligent Technologies (Big Data for Industry 4.0)
Par Nidhi Sindhwani, Rohit Anand, A. Shaji George, and Digvijay Pandey. 2024
The book presents the innovative aspects of smart industries and intelligent technologies involving Robotics and Automation. It discusses the challenges…
in the design of autonomous robots and provides an understanding of how different systems ommunicate with each other, allowing cooperation with other human systems and operators in real time. Robotics and Automation in Industry 4.0: Smart Industries and Intelligent Technologies offers research articles, flow charts, algorithms, and examples based on daily life in automation and robotics related to the building of Industry 4.0. It presents disruptive technology applications related to Smart Industries and talks about how robotics is an important Industry 4.0 technology that offers a wide range of capabilities and has improved automation systems by doing repetitive tasks with more accuracy and at a lower cost. The book discusses how frontline healthcare staff can evaluate, monitor, and treat patients from a safe distance by using robotic and telerobotic systems to minimize the risk of infectious disease transmission. Artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are looked at and the book offers a comprehensive overview of the key challenges surrounding the Internet of Things (IoT) and AI synergy, including current and future applications with significant societal value. An ideal read for scientists, research scholars, entrepreneurs, industrialists, academicians, and various other professionals who are interested in exploring innovations in the applicational areas of AI, IoT, and ML related to Robotics and Automation.Asset Management Excellence: Optimizing Equipment Life-Cycle Decisions (Mechanical Engineering)
Par Don M. Barry, John D. Campbell, Andrew K. S. Jardine, Joel McGlynn. 2024
This is the third edition of Asset Management Excellence: Optimizing Equipment Life-Cycle Decisions. This edition acknowledges and introduces the many…
changes to the Asset Management business while continuing to explain the supporting fundamentals. Since the second edition, there have been many influences of change in asset management, society’s expectations, and supporting technologies. In this edition, the contributors have revisited the content and have updated and added insights and information based on the emerging influences in thinking and the continued evolution of applied technologies since the prior editions. New in the Third Edition: Updates across each of the second edition chapters to align with today’s insights Updates on technologies now available to support Asset Management, including related software packaging, the Internet of Things (IoT), Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence Insights on how Information Technology can step up to help an asset-intensive organization compete, drive to operational excellence and automation A chapter on sustainability and the influence Asset Management may have on this higher-focus priority A chapter on change enablement as the process and technology changes impact the various stakeholders of asset-intensive organizations The fundamentals of Asset Management are essential as Asset-intensive organizations look to technologies to help them compete. AI is becoming pervasive but must be confirmed and aligned with the fundamentals. This edition will provoke thought as each organization determines its next steps toward its new challenges in Asset Management.Melatonin in Plants: A Pleiotropic Molecule for Abiotic Stresses and Pathogen Infection
Par Ravinder Kumar, Muhammad Ahsan Altaf, Milan Kumar Lal, Rahul Kumar Tiwari. 2023
This edited book highlights the multifunctional role of the ubiquitous molecule, melatonin in crop plants. The major focus of this…
edition is to provide a comprehensive insight into the key focus is on Melatonin mediated alleviation of abiotic stresses and pathogens infection. The inception of melatonin as an animal hormone and the subsequent discovery of its multifaceted function in the animal system has revolutionized the research on this penial hormone. During the last decade, the discovery, quantification and functional studies of melatonin as phytohormone has emerged at a rapid pace. Recently, this phyto-protectant has become an integral component of lab and field-based research on the mitigation of adverse effects of climate-driven abiotic stresses and postharvest biology and technology.The book explores melatonin mediated management of various abiotic stresses such as drought, salinity, heat and cold temperature. The book also focuses on role of melatonin in heavy metal stress, viral, bacterial, and fungal diseases, and, also contains chapter on melatonin facilitated nutrient use efficiency in plants. This book is of interest to postharvest industries, horticulturists, scientists, researchers, and students.Sustainability of Southern African Ecosystems under Global Change: Science for Management and Policy Interventions (Ecological Studies #248)
Par Graham P. von Maltitz, Guy F. Midgley, Jennifer Veitch, Christian Brümmer, Reimund P. Rötter, Finn A. Viehberg, Maik Veste. 2024
This open access book about the sustainability of marine and terrestrial ecosystems in southern Africa provides a synthesis of the…
research program Science Partnerships for the Adaptation to Complex Earth System Processes (SPACES II, 2018-2022). It addresses the scientific, social, and economic issues related to climate change, its potential impacts on the various ecosystems, adaptations, and management interventions for enhancing systems resilience in Southern Africa. It is written by numerous scientists from African states and Germany and summarizes the latest research findings, which are of great relevance for a better understanding of climate change impacts, adaptations, and vulnerabilities as well as for developing management options and policy options to reduce the associated risks. This is crucial considering that the projected African population increase is exceptional. Furthermore, climate change is assumed to hit southern Africa extremely hard with a significant increase in extreme events and the frequency of severe droughts, heat waves, and flooding. Southern Africa hosts a high variety of ecosystems, which belongs to important biodiversity hotspots for unique flora and fauna. The surrounding oceans form, in turn, a bottle neck within the ocean’s global thermohaline circulation, act as a still poorly understood carbon sink and source and play an important role for fisheries as they are highly productive. Considering these important aspects, the book is an important interdisciplinary contribution to the scientific literature and will find a wide readership.The book is aimed at students, teachers, and scientists in the fields of terrestrial and marine ecology, environmental, nature and landscape planning, agriculture, environmental and resource management, biodiversity, and nature conservation, as well as scientists and representatives in specialised authorities and associations, nature conservationists, and policy makers of related disciplines.Paddy Straw Waste for Biorefinery Applications (Clean Energy Production Technologies)
Par Neha Srivastava, Bhawna Verma, P. K. Mishra. 2024
This book provides an exclusive and critical in-depth analysis of paddy straw waste valorization at a broad scale for different…
industrial applications. It explores and discusses the various valorization pathways of paddy straw into valuable products connected to biorefineries' products and byproducts. The book also examines the scope, potential, and availability of paddy straw in the field of biorefineries. Various lignocellulosic biomasses with expanded potential are known for their industrial applications, even at a broad pilot range. Among these biomasses, paddy straw has emerged as the most suitable lignocellulosic waste for various biorefinery applications. Paddy is a crucial and widely consumed crop globally, and it generates the highest annual production of waste compared to other cereal crops. The cellulose content, accounting for approximately 47% of the total cellulosic biomass, offers significant potential for valorization, along with hemicellulose and lignin, which can also be explored and expanded on an industrial scale. However, despite the tremendous scope for valorization, lignocellulosic biomass-based biorefineries face cost-effectiveness challenges that need to be addressed for sustainable and uniform expansion, distribution, and economic scalability in various applications. The book's specific feature lies in its targeted and specific valorization of paddy straw into biofuels and other biorefinery-based products, which hold promising industrial applications and easily scalable approaches for mass production. This book is an essential resource for students, scientists, engineers and practitioners working in the biorefinery industry and academia.Agroforestry as Climate Change Adaptation: The Case of Cocoa Farming in Ghana
Par Mette Fog Olwig, Aske Skovmand Bosselmann, Kwadwo Owusu. 2024
This open access book provides multidisciplinary perspectives on the potential of agroforestry to mitigate the negative impacts of climate change…
on cocoa production. Against the backdrop of increasingly precarious farmer livelihoods, it focuses on cocoa-agroforestry in Ghana – the second largest producer of cocoa in the world. Taking the reader on a journey across experimental plots and on-farm studies, the book delivers a holistic understanding of cocoa-agroforestry. Chapters examine historical yield and climate interactions, the effects of heat and drought on cocoa plants and the role of differing shade trees on soil fertility, yields, pests and diseases. The book discusses the socioeconomics of shade tree management, including cost-benefits, tree rights and competition for natural resources emphasizing policy implications and recommendations.Taking a multidisciplinary approach to climate-agriculture interactions, the book provides an innovative understanding of agroforestry and perennial cropping systems that goes beyond the Ghanaian cocoa belt. It is of relevance to students, researchers, farmers, practitioners and policymakers working with agroforestry and climate change adaptation.This is an open access book.Math for Scientists: Refreshing the Essentials
Par Natasha Maurits, Branislava Ćurčić-Blake. 2023
This book reviews math topics relevant to non-mathematics students and scientists, but which they may not have seen or studied…
for a while. These math issues can range from reading mathematical symbols, to using complex numbers, dealing with equations involved in calculating medication equivalents, the General Linear Model (GLM) used in e.g. neuroimaging analysis, finding the minimum of a function, independent component analysis, or filtering approaches. Almost every student or scientist, will at some point run into mathematical formulas or ideas in scientific papers that may be hard to understand, given that formal math education may be some years ago. In this book we will explain the theory behind many of these mathematical ideas and expressions and provide readers with the tools to better understand them. We will revisit high school mathematics and extend and relate this to the mathematics you need to understand the math you may encounter in the course of your research. This book will help you understand the math and formulas in the scientific papers you read. To achieve this goal, each chapter mixes theory with practical pen-and-paper exercises such that you (re)gain experience with solving math problems yourself. Mnemonics will be taught whenever possible. To clarify the math and help readers apply it, each chapter provides real-world and scientific examples.In this new edition, two new chapters covering statistics and differential equations have been added, which have been workshopped in the 'authors' popular lecture series in order to maximize the benefit for readers.Die Dissertation widmet sich dem Ruf Lehramtsstudierender nach „mehr Praxis“ in ihren Studiengängen. Auf der Grundlage fallrekonstruktiver Interviewanalysen wird gezeigt,…
dass dieser Wunsch als sozialisatorisches Problem verstanden werden kann, resultierend aus dem Zusammenwirken individueller Hochschulsozialisationsprozesse und Strukturen der Lehrkräftebildung. Damit trägt die Untersuchung nicht nur zu einem besseren Verständnis über Ursachen hinter dem Praxiswunsch Lehramtsstudierender bei, sondern verdeutlicht zugleich, dass dieser Wunsch Ausdruck eines komplexen Problems ist, welches die Universität selbst beeinflusst.Der Band widmet sich der Frage, ob und wie sich die Corona-Pandemie auf das Themenfeld Gender in der MINT-Hochschullehre spezifisch…
auswirkte und weiterhin auswirkt. Dabei werden Aspekte der digitalen Transformation der MINT-Hochschullehre während der Corona-Krise analysiert und Einblicke in die Voraussetzungen, Prozesse und Folgen der Auseinandersetzung mit dem Thema Gender in diesem Zusammenhang beleuchtet.Mother's Love Is . . .
Par Mina Parker. 2008
A powerful book of motherhood quotes dedicated to the loving role that moms play in their children’s lives from the…
author of 365 Excuse Me . . . .While it’s difficult to truly capture the weight and power of a mother’s love, this book by author Mina Parker comes close. Filled with a diverse pool of quotes, many from incredible women such as Oprah Winfrey, Erma Bombeck, and Erica Jong, as well as African proverbs, Parker has crafted a book that beautifully details a mother’s heart. In addition, each quote is masterfully paired with a single sentence that expresses what a mother’s love is.This book demonstrates that a mother’s love is truly so many things. A mother’s love is both powerful and gentle, all knowing and yet all forgiving. It never fails to find us when we need it, and it lifts us up when we’re down. These quotes celebrate motherhood, and the joy, comfort, courage, inspiration, and most of all, love that moms bring into our lives. Each word offered in this book is in praise of mothers everywhere and honors the love they carry.Open up this inspirational book and find:A beautiful and thoughtful curation of quotesAn insight into what it means to be a motherThe perfect gift for new moms, seasoned moms, and soon-to-be moms!