Process Operational Safety and Cybersecurity

This book is focused on the development of rigorous, yet practical, methods for the design of advanced process control systems to improve process operational safety and cybersecurity for a wide range of nonlinear process systems. Process Operational Safety and Cybersecurity develops designs for novel model predictive control systems accounting for operational safety considerations, presents …

Digital Transformation, Cyber Security and Resilience of Modern Societies

This book presents the implementation of novel concepts and solutions, which allows to enhance the cyber security of administrative and industrial systems and the resilience of economies and societies to cyber and hybrid threats. This goal can be achieved by rigorous information sharing, enhanced situational awareness, advanced protection of industrial processes and critical infrastructures, an…

The NICE Cyber Security Framework

This textbook is for courses in cyber security education that follow National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) KSAs work roles and framework, that adopt the Competency-Based Education (CBE) method. The book follows the CBT (KSA) general framework, meaning each chapter contains three sections, knowledge and questions, and skills/labs for Skills and Abilities. The author makes an exp…

Solved Exercises in Fractional Calculus

This book contains a brief historical introduction and state of the art in fractional calculus. The author introduces some of the so-called special functions, in particular, those which will be directly involved in calculations. The concepts of fractional integral and fractional derivative are also presented. Each chapter, except for the first one, contains a list of exercises containing sugges…

Current-Mode Instrumentation Amplifiers

This book describes a new way to design and utilize Instrumentation Amplifiers (IAs) by taking advantages of the current-mode (CM) approach. For the first time, all different topologies of CMIAs are discussed and compared, providing a single-source reference for instrumentation and measurement experts who want to choose a topology for a specific application. The authors also explain major cha…

MECHANICS OF CUTTING PLANT MATERIAL

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

0-916150-86-0

Collation

viii, 288 p. ; 23 cm

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-

Call Number

631 Mec m

High-Temperature Superconducting Microwave Circuits and Applications

High-temperature superconducting (HTS) materials are becoming more and more attractive in the context of designing RF/microwave filters because of their lower losses and excellent performance. This book focuses on the superconducting microwave filter and its application in modern communication. It first presents the basic principles, HTS materials and processing and then introduces several type…

Plant Tissue Culture Engineering

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

978-1-4020-3594-4

Collation

vii, 638 p.; 24 cm.

Series Title

-

Call Number

571.538 Pla p

Functional Plant Genomics

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

978-1-57808-506-4

Collation

xiii, 690 p.; 26 cm.

Series Title

-

Call Number

572.862 Mor f

International Joint Conference SOCO’13-CISIS’13-ICEUTE’13: Salamanca, S…

This volume of Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing contains accepted papers presented at SOCO 2013, CISIS 2013 and ICEUTE 2013, all conferences held in the beautiful and historic city of Salamanca (Spain), in September 2013. Soft computing represents a collection or set of computational techniques in machine learning, computer science and some engineering disciplines, which investigat…

Physiology and Molecular Biology of Stress Tolerance in Plants

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

978-1-4020-4224-9

Collation

xv, 345 p. ; 23 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

574.88 Phy p

Molecular Biology and Biotechnology of Plant Organelles: Chloroplasts and Mit…

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

1-4020-2713-3

Collation

xxvi, 635 p.; 25 cm.

Series Title

-

Call Number

572.8 Mol m

ANTI-TUBERCULOSIS DRUG RESISTANCE IN THE WORLD, Report No.3

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

978-92-4-156285

Collation

299 p.; 24 cm.; Illus.

Series Title

-

Call Number

616.995 Ant a

Design for Manufacturability: From 1D to 4D for 90–22 nm Technology Nodes

This book explains integrated circuit design for manufacturability (DfM) at the product level (packaging, applications) and applies engineering DfM principles to the latest standards of product development at 22 nm technology nodes. It is a valuable guide for layout designers, packaging engineers and quality engineers, covering DfM development from 1D to 4D, involving IC design flow setup, bes…

The Next Era in Hardware Security

This book provides a comprehensive coverage of hardware security concepts, derived from the unique characteristics of emerging logic and memory devices and related architectures. The primary focus is on mapping device-specific properties, such as multi-functionality, runtime polymorphism, intrinsic entropy, nonlinearity, ease of heterogeneous integration, and tamper-resilience to the correspond…

Vacuum Circuit Breaker for Aviation Variable Frequency Power System

This book introduces the concepts of more electric aircraft and aviation electrical appliances, as well as the aviation experimental platform of vacuum switches, the interruption characteristics, frequency characteristics and post-arc breakdown characteristics of intermediate frequency vacuum switches, etc. It is the first monograph on protection electrical appliances, vacuum interrupter in avi…

Automated Analysis of Virtual Prototypes at the Electronic System Level

This book describes a set of SystemC‐based virtual prototype analysis methodologies, including design understanding, verification, security validation, and design space exploration. Readers will gain an overview of the latest research results in the field of Electronic Design Automation (EDA) at the Electronic System Level (ESL). The methodologies discussed enable readers to tackle easily ke…

Advances in Industrial Safety

This book presents the proceedings of the International Conference on Health, Safety, Fire, Environment, and Allied Sciences. It highlights latest developments in the field of science and technology aimed at improving health and safety in the workplace. The volume comprises content from leading scientists, engineers, and policy makers discussing issues relating to industrial safety, fire hazard…

SAFETY AND HEALTH FOR PRODUCTION AGRICULTURE

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-

ISBN/ISSN

0-929355-32-6

Collation

ix, 253 p. ; 23 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

630.1 Mur s

Bio-inspiring Cyber Security and Cloud Services: Trends and Innovations

This volume presents recent research in cyber security and reports how organizations can gain competitive advantages by applying the different security techniques in real-world scenarios. The volume provides reviews of cutting–edge technologies, algorithms, applications and insights for bio-inspiring cyber security-based systems. The book will be a valuable companion and comprehensive referen…

PRIORITIZING AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH FOR DEVELOPMENT: Experiences and Lessons

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-

ISBN/ISSN

978-1-84593-566-5

Collation

xviii, 256 p. : ill. ; 23 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

630.72 Pri p

Computational Intelligence, Cyber Security and Computational Models: Proceedi…

This book contains cutting-edge research material presented by researchers, engineers, developers, and practitioners from academia and industry at the International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Cyber Security and Computational Models (ICC3) organized by PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India during December 19–21, 2013. The materials in the book include theory and applicati…

AGRICULTURE IN THE TROPICS, THIRD EDITION

Edition

3rd

ISBN/ISSN

0-632-04054-8

Collation

ix, 538 p.; 26 cm.

Series Title

-

Call Number

634.6 Agr a

The Variable-Order Fractional Calculus of Variations

​The Variable-Order Fractional Calculus of Variations is devoted to the study of fractional operators with variable order and, in particular, variational problems involving variable-order operators. This brief presents a new numerical tool for the solution of differential equations involving Caputo derivatives of fractional variable order. Three Caputo-type fractional operators are considered…

MOLECULAR CELL BIOLOGY, SIXTH EDITION

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-

ISBN/ISSN

978-0-7167-7601-7

Collation

1150 p.; 29 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

571 Lod m

Cultural Landscape in Practice

This book approaches cultural landscape as a driver for societal challenges, economic development, social inclusion, place assessment and heritage conservation. It explores issues stemming from the relation between conservation and emergencies, and identifies descriptive tools for conveying knowledge and generating new expertise, heritage skills, seismic culture and social resilience. The do…

INTERNATIONAL CROP SCIENCE I

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-

ISBN/ISSN

0-89118-538-0

Collation

895 p.; 28 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

633 Int 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

Introduction to Logic Circuits & Logic Design with Verilog

This textbook for courses in Digital Systems Design introduces students to the fundamental hardware used in modern computers. Coverage includes both the classical approach to digital system design (i.e., pen and paper) in addition to the modern hardware description language (HDL) design approach (computer-based). Using this textbook enables readers to design digital systems using the modern HDL…

MOLECULAR ACTIVITIES OF PLANT CELLS : An introduction to plant biochemistry

Edition

-

ISBN/ISSN

0-632-02457-7

Collation

384 p.; 24 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

581.876 And m