Sustainable Waste Utilization in Bricks, Concrete, and Cementitious Materials

This book highlights the current research, conceptual and practical utilization of waste in building materials. It examines the production of industrial and agricultural wastes that have been generated worldwide and have significant environmental impact. The book discusses how to incorporate these wastes effectively with greener technology and how to address its environmental impact in order to…

Educational Leadership through a Practice Lens

This book provides the theoretical and analytical resources for an urgent rethinking of the social project of educating and educational leading. It examines what educational leadership is, namely the politics and power of leadership as a practice, and what it can and should be, offering a pedagogical and praxis-informed approach to educational practice. Drawing on research conducted at vari…

Applied Pedagogies for Higher Education

This open access book critiques real world learning across both the curriculum and extracurricular activities. Drawing on disciplines as diverse as business, health, fashion, sociology and geography, the editors and authors employ a cross-disciplinary approach to examine how this concept is being applied in higher education. Divided into three parts, the authors and contributors analyse broader…

Agriculture Value Chain - Challenges and Trends in Academia and Industry

This book is the first volume in a collection of contributions arising from a multidisciplinary project developed in the field of agri-food value chain analysis. The respective papers combine a range of disciplines to analyse major agri-food challenges in Europe and South America, offering readers a practical understanding of how risk and uncertainties can be managed by means of validated data …

Innovations in Cyber Physical Systems

The book presents a collection of peer-reviewed articles from the International Conference on Innovations in Cyber Physical Systems (ICICPS 2020). The conference provided opportunities for the presentation of new research results and discussion about them. It was also an opportunity to generation of new ideas in all CPS aspects, including theory, tools, applications, systems, test-beds and fiel…

The Networked Health-Relevant Factors for Office Buildings

People who work in an office spend at least a third of their lifetime in these spaces. The planning of office and administration buildings can therefore contribute a great deal to the satisfaction and well-being of future users. The book looks at the health-relevant factors that affect people in office and administration buildings and therefore deserve special attention in the planning process.…

Frontier Information Technology and Systems Research in Cooperative Economics

Edition

1

ISBN/ISSN

978-3-030-57831-2

Collation

XIX, 1124p.:Ill

Series Title

Studies in Systems, Decision and Control

Call Number

334 Fro

Cyber-Physical Systems: Design and Application for Industry 4.0

This book consists of chapters dedicated to the questions of cyber-physical system design and its usage for the chemical industry and new material design. Also, the contribution of the book covers scientific research and their results for cyber-physical systems design and application in the energy domain and solutions regarding engineering education for cyber-physical systems design. The book o…

Auditory Effects of Microwave Radiation

This book examines the human auditory effects of exposure to directed beams of high-power microwave pulses, which research results have shown can cause a cascade of health events when aimed at a human subject or the subject’s head. The book details multidisciplinary investigations using physical theories and models, physiological events and phenomena, and computer analysis and simulation. Cov…

Seismic Performance Analysis of Concrete Gravity Dams

This book evaluates the seismic performance of concrete gravity dams, considering the effects of strong motion duration, mainshock-aftershock seismic sequence, and near-fault ground motion. It employs both the extended finite element method (XFEM) and concrete damaged plasticity (CDP) models to characterize the mechanical behavior of concrete gravity dams under strong ground motions, including …

Profiling Humans from their Voice

This book is about recent research in the area of profiling humans from their voice, which seeks to deduce and describe the speaker's entire persona and their surroundings from voice alone. It covers several key aspects of this technology, describing how the human voice is unique in its ability to both capture and influence the human persona -- how, in some ways, voice is more potent and valuab…

Social Internet of Things

The aim of this book is to stimulate research on the topic of the Social Internet of Things, and explore how Internet of Things architectures, tools, and services can be conceptualized and developed so as to reveal, amplify and inspire the capacities of people, including the socialization or collaborations that happen through or around smart objects and smart environments. From new ways of n…

Improved FMEA Methods for Proactive Healthcare Risk Analysis

This book offers an in-depth and systematic introduction to improved failure mode and effects analysis (FMEA) methods for proactive healthcare risk analysis. Healthcare risk management has become an increasingly important issue for hospitals and managers. As a prospective reliability analysis technique, FMEA has been widely used for identifying and eliminating known and potential failures in sy…

Cloud-Based Design and Manufacturing (CBDM): A Service-Oriented Product Devel…

The book introduces the reader to game-changing ways of building and utilizing Internet-based services related to design and manufacture activities through the cloud. In a broader sense, CBDM refers to a new product realization model that enables collective open innovation and rapid product development with minimum costs through social networking and negotiation platforms between service provid…

INSECT Pharmacology: Channels, Receptors, Toxins and Enzymes

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-12-381447-0

Collation

x, 392 p.; 23 cm.

Series Title

-

Call Number

632.9517 Ins i

Trends and Applications of Serious Gaming and Social Media

This book highlights the challenges and potential of educational learning or industry-based training using serious games and social media platforms. In particular, the book addresses applications used in businesses and education-related organizations in Asia, where the framework and experience of serious games have been used to address specific problems in the real world. The topics that will b…

Japanese Contractors in Overseas Markets

This book explores the differences in cultural attributes and management factors to enable managers working for Japanese contractors to reduce misunderstandings and misinterpretations when communicating with project team members from different cultural backgrounds. It focuses on Japanese contractors operating in Singapore, since the Singapore construction industry has, for many years, been one …

Textbook of Seismic Design

This book focuses on the seismic design of Structures, Piping Systems and Components (SSC). It explains the basic mechanisms of earthquakes, generation of design basis ground motion, and fundamentals of structural dynamics; further, it delves into geotechnical aspects related to the earthquake design, analysis of multi degree-of-freedom systems, and seismic design of RC structures and steel str…

Research into Design for a Connected World

This book showcases cutting-edge research papers from the 7th International Conference on Research into Design (ICoRD 2019) – the largest in India in this area – written by eminent researchers from across the world on design processes, technologies, methods and tools, and their impact on innovation, for supporting design for a connected world. The theme of ICoRD‘19 has been “Design for …

KEEPING INDONESIA SAFE FROM THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC: Lessons Learnt from the Na…

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

978-981-5011-60-9

Collation

xlii, 598 p. : ill. ; 24 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

339.4 Kee k

Air Travel and Health A Systems Perspective

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-470-71177-4

Collation

xxiii, 248p.;ill.;23cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

610 Sea a

Greenhouse Gas Emission & Carbon Leaching in Pineapple Cultivation on Tropica…

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

978-967-344-474-8

Collation

157 p.; 25 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

630.208 Ahm g

Optimum Design and Manufacture of Wood Products

This monograph presents state-of-the-art knowledge in wood manufacturing design with a special focus on the elaboration of functional relationships. The authors transfer and apply the method of functional relationships to challenges in wood manufacturing, and the book contains many worked examples which help the reader to better understand the presented method. The topical spectrum includes mac…

INSECT - PLANT BIOLOGY, Second Edition

Edition

2 nd. Ed.

ISBN/ISSN

0-19-852595-8

Collation

xvii, 421 p. ; index: 24,5 cm.

Series Title

-

Call Number

595.71 Sch i

THE Molecular and Physiological Basis of Nutrient Use Efficiency in Crops

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-8138-1992-1

Collation

ix, 499 p. ; 24 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

631.8 Haw m

Environmental Physiology of PLANTS, Third Edition

Edition

3rd

ISBN/ISSN

0-12-257766-3

Collation

xii, 367 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Series Title

-

Call Number

581.24 Fit e

Seafood Processing

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

1-57444-622-3

Collation

467 p. ; 24 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

664.94 Ven s

Advances in Human Factors, Sustainable Urban Planning and Infrastructure

This book discusses human factors research directed towards realizing and assessing sustainability in the built environment. It reports on advanced engineering methods for sustainable infrastructure design, as well as on assessments of the efficient methods and the social, environmental, and economic impact of various designs and projects. The book covers a range of topics, including the use of…

Seismic Structural Health Monitoring

This book includes a collection of state-of-the-art contributions addressing both theoretical developments in, and successful applications of, seismic structural health monitoring (S2HM). Over the past few decades, Seismic SHM has expanded considerably, due to the growing demand among various stakeholders (owners, managers and engineering professionals) and researchers. The discipline has matur…

SUSTAINABLE AQUACULTURE

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

0-471-14829-6

Collation

xi, 260 p. ; 24 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

639.8 Bar s