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

Big Data Privacy Preservation for Cyber-Physical Systems

This SpringerBrief mainly focuses on effective big data analytics for CPS, and addresses the privacy issues that arise on various CPS applications. The authors develop a series of privacy preserving data analytic and processing methodologies through data driven optimization based on applied cryptographic techniques and differential privacy in this brief. This brief also focuses on effectively i…

Eco-Factories of the Future

This edited monograph presents a selection of research contributions on eco-factories of the future. The topical focus lies on cutting-edge solutions from academia and industry that enable and support companies in their efforts towards sustainable manufacturing. The authors provide an overview over recent developments, aiming at a comprehensive understanding of eco- and cost-efficient manufactu…

MODIFIED ATMOSPHERIC PROCESSING AND PACKAGING OF FISH: Filtered Smokes, Carbo…

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-8138-0768-3

Collation

xv, 243 p. ; 24 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

664.94 Mod m

COUNSELING ABOUT CANCER : Strategies for Genetic Counseling

Edition

3

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-470-08150-1

Collation

xv, 480p.; ill.; 24 cm.

Series Title

-

Call Number

616.994 042 Sch c

CROP POLLINATION BY BEES

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

0-85199-448-2

Collation

352 p.; 22 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

632 Del c

HYDROLOGY AND THE MANAGEMENT OF WATERSHEDS, Third Edition

Edition

3rd

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-8138-2985-2

Collation

xv, 533 p. : ill. ; 26 cm.

Series Title

-

Call Number

627 Bro h

THE INSECTS OF AUSTRALIA: A Textbook for Students and Research Workers

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

0-522-83837-5

Collation

xii, 985 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

595.7 Ins i

INSECT ECOLOGY

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

0-471-69721-4

Collation

xii, 514 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series Title

-

Call Number

595.7 Pri i

INSECT THERMOREGULATION

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

0-471-05144-6

Collation

ix, 328 p.; ill.; 24 cm.

Series Title

-

Call Number

595.701 88 Hei i

Regulatory Mechanisms in Insect Feeding

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

0-412-03141-8

Collation

xix, 423 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

595.7 Reg r