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  • Artificial Intelligence in Production Engineering and Management

    • 1st Edition
    • Carolina Machado + 1 more
    • English
    Artificial intelligence (AI) plays a crucial role in production engineering and management, revolutionizing operation optimization, data analysis, forecasting, and task automation. In production engineering, AI contributes to operational efficiency by identifying patterns, predicting failures, and optimizing supply chains. In management, it offers predictive and prescriptive insights, allowing quick adaptations to changes in market conditions. However, it is essential to address ethical challenges, such as data security and workforce impacts, to ensure responsible and sustainable implementation of AI in these contexts.Among the different topics covered in Artificial Intelligence in Production Engineering and Management, the reader can find: living in the age of AI; machine learning and large language models; AI and people management; nudging financial behavior with AI; the European Union narrative on AI; multidimensional transhuman influence; and AI, emotional intelligence, and ethics. This topical book will be of great value for those working and researching in the production engineering and management fields who are seeking to understand and capitalize on the revolutionary shift that artificial intelligence brings to modern engineering and management.

  • Big Data Application in Power Systems

    • 2nd Edition
    • Reza Arghandeh + 1 more
    • English
    Big Data Application in Power Systems, Second Edition presents a thorough update of the previous volume, providing readers with step-by-step guidance in big data analytics utilization for power system diagnostics, operation, and control. Divided into three parts, this book begins by breaking down the big picture for electric utilities before zooming in to examine theoretical problems and solutions in detail. Finally, the third section provides case studies and applications, demonstrating solution troubleshooting and design from a variety of perspectives and for a range of technologies.Bringin... back a team of global experts and drawing on fresh, emerging perspectives, this book provides cutting-edge advice for meeting today’s challenges in this rapidly accelerating area of power engineering.Readers will develop new strategies and techniques for leveraging data towards real-world outcomes.

  • Visualizing More Quaternions

    • 1st Edition
    • Andrew J. Hanson
    • English
    Visualizing More Quaternions is a sequel to Dr. Andrew J. Hanson’s first book, Visualizing Quaternions, which appeared in 2006. This new volume develops and extends concepts that have attracted the author’s attention in the intervening 18 years, providing new insights into existing scholarship, and detailing results from Dr. Hanson’s own published and unpublished investigations relating to quaternion applications. Among the topics covered are the introduction of new approaches to depicting quaternions and their properties, applications of quaternion methods to cloud matching, including both orthographic and perspective projection problems, and orientation feature analysis for proteomics and bioinformatics. The quaternion adjugate variables are introduced to embody the nontrivial quaternion topology on the three-sphere and incorporate it into machine learning tasks. Other subjects include quaternion applications to a wide variety of problems in physics, including quantum computing, complexified quaternions in special relativity, and a detailed study of the Kleinian “ADE”discrete groups of the ordinary two-sphere. Quaternion geometry is also incorporated into the isometric embedding of the Eguchi–Hanson gravitational instanton corresponding to the k = 1 Kleinian cyclic group. Visualizing More Quaternions endeavors to explore novel ways of thinking about challenging problems that are relevant to a broad audience involved in a wide variety of scientific disciplines.

  • A New Systems Thinking Approach to Sustainable Resource Management

    Principles and Applications
    • 1st Edition
    • Kok Siew Ng + 2 more
    • English
    A New Systems Thinking Approach to Sustainable Resource Management: Principles and Applications introduces an innovative approach to exploring systems holistically and understanding complex interconnected dynamics effectively among technical systems, natural systems, and human activities to address challenges in resource management.This book covers the fundamental principles of “systems” and ”sustainability”, and introduces the methodology of “new systems thinking,” which comprises system modeling, mapping, integration, analysis, and sustainability assessment. The application of this new systems thinking approach is demonstrated through practical case studies, including waste management systems, food-energy-water nexus, and biorefinery systems. This is an excellent reference for academics, undergraduate and postgraduate students, professional engineers, and policymakers across various disciplines including: chemical and process engineering, environmental science, environmental engineering, and environmental management.

  • Nanofillers for Binary Polymer Blends

    • 1st Edition
    • Sabu Thomas + 2 more
    • English
    Nanofillers for Binary Polymer Blends covers major advances in the field of polymer-blend nanocomposites. The book encompasses the fundamentals of polymer blends, various nanofillers, experimental techniques used in their fabrication, the characterization of various polymer blend nanocomposites, and theoretical evaluations of various properties. The properties and potential applications that have been achieved in various polymer blends by the addition of nanofillers are also highlighted. Applications for commercial products, including automotive parts, packaging, construction materials, biotechnology, medical devices, building materials, computer housings, car interiors, etc., are also covered in detail.This is an important reference source for materials scientists and engineers looking to increase their understanding of how nanofillers are being used in polymer blends.

  • Safeguarding Mountain Social-Ecological Systems, Vol 2

    Building Transformative Resilience in Mountain Regions Worldwide
    • 1st Edition
    • Stefan Schneiderbauer + 3 more
    • English
    Safeguarding Mountain Social-Ecological Systems, Volume Two: Building Transformative Resilience in Mountain Regions Worldwide presents an overview of the relevant research in mountain regions worldwide, identifies existing challenges, and provides an understanding of the diversity of mountain ecosystems in different regions. It focuses on understanding, protecting, and enhancing mountain social-ecological systems.This second volume places a stronger emphasis on building transformative resilience in mountain regions, indicating a focus on proactive measures to address challenges and promote sustainable development. It also highlights regional perspectives and case studies and insights from various mountain regions worldwide.

  • Error Control, Adaptive Discretizations, and Applications, Part 1

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 58
    • English
    Error Control, Adaptive Discretizations, and Applications, Volume 58, Part One highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors. Chapters in this release cover hp adaptive Discontinuous Galerkin strategies driven by a posteriori error estimation with application to aeronautical flow problems, An anisotropic mesh adaptation method based on gradient recovery and optimal shape elements, and Model reduction techniques for parametrized nonlinear partial differential equations.

  • Photovoltaics Beyond Silicon

    Innovative Materials, Sustainable Processing Technologies, and Novel Device Structures
    • 1st Edition
    • Velumani Subramaniam + 6 more
    • English
    Photovoltaics Beyond Silicon: Innovative Materials, Sustainable Processing Technologies, and Novel Device Structures presents the latest innovations in materials, processing and devices to produce electricity via advanced, sustainable photovoltaics technologies. The book provides an overview of the novel materials and device architectures that have been developed to optimize energy conversion efficiencies and minimize environmental impacts. Advances in technologies for harnessing solar energy are extensively discussed, with topics including materials processing, device fabrication, sustainability of materials and manufacturing, and the current state-of-the-art. Contributions from leading international experts discuss the applications, challenges and future prospects of research in this increasingly vital field, providing a valuable resource for students and researchers working in this area.

  • Recent Trends and Perspectives on Electrochemical Sensors for Environmental Monitoring

    • 1st Edition
    • Sibel A. Ozkan
    • English
    Recent Trends and Perspectives on Electrochemical Sensors for Environmental Monitoring presents current trends and progress on electrochemical sensors for environmental monitoring. The book comprehensively discusses various strategies to design electrochemical sensors for the analysis of contaminants of emerging concern in environmental samples and offers a thorough perspective on the most prominent methods, materials, and procedures available in the literature on electrochemical sensors for environmental monitoring.This book will be a helpful resource for the development of new sensor technologies and advanced onsite applications that can be used in routine analysis.

  • Analytical Applications of Graphene Oxide

    • 1st Edition
    • Volume 106
    • English
    Analytical Applications of Graphene Oxide, Volume 106 in the Comprehensive Analytical Chemistry series, presents timely topics in this area of study. Chapters in this new release include 2. Surface Modifications of Graphene Oxide Nanomaterials for Analytical Applications, Analytical techniques for the characterization of graphene oxide, Perspectives of graphene oxide in separation science, Features of graphene oxide-based membranes in water purification, Graphene oxide nanocomposites for the removal of inorganic species, Graphene oxide nanocomposites as promising adsorbents for removal of organic pollutants, Graphene oxide-based metal nanocomposites for colorimetric sensing applications, Graphene oxide-based fluorescence analytical methods for bioassays, and much more.Additional sections delve into Graphene oxide in molecular biology approaches for nucleic acid detection, Analytical applications of graphene oxide-based hydrogels, Magnetic graphene oxide in analytical science, Applications of Magnetic graphene oxide in water decontamination, Graphene oxide nanocomposites in electroanalytical tools for assaying of organic and biomolecules, Graphene oxide in electroanalytical tools for the detection of inorganic species, and much more.

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