The Contribution of 101 Women to Design and Architecture
Woman’s contribution to art, design, and architecture has historically been kept from the limelight. This publication remedies past oversights, emphasising the remarkable artists and their innovative works through 101 brief biographies and 1000 photographic representations.
This book explores how deep learning enhances the safety and efficiency of electric energy storage systems. It covers core principles, battery assessment, and real-world applications on the grid and user side. A practical guide for engineers, researchers, and students.
Process Optimization Methodologies
This book explores mathematical modelling and machine learning for applications in human health, sustainability, and engineering. It covers AI for diet formulation and diabetes treatment, sustainable corrosion inhibition, and enhanced automobile safety to promote economic growth.
This book describes the principles and applications of different types of analog switches. It explains how they are used to implement both analog and digital function circuits.
Protected Areas for Climate Resilience in the Congo Basin
This book explores how protected areas in the Congo Basin enhance climate resilience. It examines how these vital forests store carbon, safeguard water, and sustain millions, analysing challenges to identify pathways that integrate conservation with sustainable development.
Re-Interpreting and Re-Assessing Difficult Heritage
This volume explores contested heritage, examining how colonial legacies and conflicting narratives shape public spaces. Through diverse case studies, it analyses the role of artists, activists, and planners in reshaping how societies engage with difficult pasts in the present.
Modern AI tools are powerful but effective “black boxes,” their inner workings rarely understood. This book presents a self-contained methodology to unveil these interactions, using the mathematical properties of neural networks to yield models with explanatory properties.
This book looks at how advanced technologies are transforming water management. With rising freshwater shortages and the urgency of climate change, it presents AI and ML solutions for clean, safe, and sustainable water systems, offering a hopeful vision for the planet and beyond.
This book fills gaps in knowledge about emerging perspectives on climate change and environmental governance. With learning objectives and revision questions in each chapter, it is a helpful resource for academia, managers, specialists, and students.
These abstracts from a Burkina Faso-Senegal conference address biodiversity challenges from climate change and resource exploitation. Contributions explore conservation, sustainable management, and policy, offering a vital resource for researchers, students, and stakeholders.
Written by leading experts, this volume offers detailed and up-to-date findings for survey methodologists and practitioners. It deepens the reader’s understanding of the unit problem and showcases recent advances in business survey methodology and practice.
Birthing the Computer
Birthing the Computer examines the evolution of computer architecture, from magnetic drums to cores and the first transistors. These second-generation machines introduced key concepts in architecture and system software that are found in every computer system today.
Birthing the Computer
This volume, the first in a series, charts the progress of computer systems, including the Zuse machines and those by IBM. It details the transition from relays to vacuum tubes, and how this led to the first true computers, resulting in them becoming a commercial enterprise.
In the 1970s, new technology was needed to build on Arctic ice. This book relates the human history and technical innovations developed, moving beyond lab studies to detail the testing, construction and use of ice in real conditions for designers, educators, and students.
This book highlights the current state of the art of cybersecurity, covering key areas from systems design and management to emerging technology trends. It will appeal to practitioners, faculty, and students in cybersecurity, information technology, and computer science.
Unchecked structural damages threaten public safety. This guide to non-destructive testing (NDT) methods helps inspectors select the most applicable and cost-effective technique for detecting defects in structures using steel, concrete, fibre-reinforced polymers, and timber.
Founded by Dr Cho Han Kyu, Natural Farming is a nature-respecting alternative to chemical-intensive agriculture that assures high yield and good quality for lower costs. Now used in over 15 countries, it provides tools to improve livelihoods and conserve the environment.
Step into the world where art and artificial intelligence converge. This book explores AI’s profound impact, delving into its role as both a tool and collaborator. It challenges our understanding of creativity, authorship, and the nature of art itself.
Generative AI and LLMs are revolutionizing healthcare. With expert contributions, this book explores applications from virtual health assistants to clinical decision support, demonstrating the potential to improve outcomes, minimize costs, and provide more accessible care.
A practical guide to numerical methods in structural engineering for students and professionals. Drawing on 30+ years of experience, this book bridges theory and practice, showing how to design safe, economical structures with worked examples in both SI and US customary units.
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