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Author Johannes Karl Fink
With the huge amount of plastics floating in the oceans, fish and other sea creatures are directly suffering the consequences. On land, city leaders and planners are banning one-use plastics as well as plastic bags from grocery stores in an effort to stem the use. ....
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Getting Started with Adafruit Circuit Playground Express
Author Mike Barela
From Adafruit Industries, a leader in products to Makers, designers, students young and old, comes the Circuit Playground Express. Connect it to your PC/Mac/Linux device, and you can be programming interactive projects in minutes. You have a choice of programming e....
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Essential Engineering Thermodynamics
Author Yumin Zhang
Engineering Thermodynamics is a core course for students majoring in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering. Before taking this course, students usually have learned Engineering Mechanics—Statics and Dynamics, and they are used to solving problems with calculus and d....
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Microneedles for Drug and Vaccine Delivery and Patient Monitoring
Author Maeliosa T.C. McCrudden , Eneko Larrañeta , Thakur Raghu Raj Singh , Ryan F. Donnel
Provides comprehensive coverage of microneedles for delivering and monitoring patient drugs and vaccinesMicroneedles are an incredibly active research area and have the potential to revolutionize the way many medicines and vaccines are delivered. This comprehensive....
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Author Nurdan Demirci Sankir , Mehmet Sankir
Hydrogen storage is considered a key technology for stationary and portable power generation especially for transportation. This volume covers the novel technologies to efficiently store and distribute hydrogen and discusses the underlying basics as well as the ad....
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Author Philip P. Power
The newest volume in the authoritative Inorganic Syntheses book series provides users of inorganic substances with detailed and foolproof procedures for the preparation of important and timely inorganic and organometallic compounds that can be used in reactions to ....
Release Date 2018/08 -
Beginner's Guide to Reading Schematics, 4th Edition
Author Stan Gibilisco
This updated resource shows how to interpret schematic diagrams—and design your ownWritten by an experienced engineer, this easy-to-follow TAB guide shows, step-by-step, how to navigate the roadmaps of electronic circuits and systems. Filled with new illustrations ....
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Consumption, Psychology and Practice Theories
Author Tony Wilson
Practice theories of our equipped and situated tacit construction of participatory narrative meaning are evident in multiple disciplines from architectural to communication study, consumer, marketing and media research, organisational, psychological and social insig....
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Author Shuichi Fukuda
Early in the 20th century, our world was small and closed with boundaries. And, there were no appreciable changes. Therefore, we could foresee the future. These days, however, we could apply mathematical rationality and solve problems without any difficulty.As our world b....
Release Date 2018/08 -
Robust Control of DC-DC Converters
Author Farzin Asadi , Jerry Hudgins
DC-DC converters require negative feedback to provide a suitable output voltage or current for the load. Obtaining a stable output voltage or current in the presence of disturbances like input voltage changes and/or output load changes seems impossible without some form o....
Release Date 2018/08 -
Computer Techniques for Dynamic Modeling of DC-DC Power Converters
Author Farzin Asadi , Jerry Hudgins
Computers play an important role in the analyzing and designing of modern DC-DC power converters. This book shows how the widely used analysis techniques of averaging and linearization can be applied to DC-DC converters with the aid of computers. Obtained dynamical equati....
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Author Abdelhanine Benallou
This is the first book of a series aiming at setting the basics for energy engineering. This book presents the fundamentals of heat and mass transfer with a step-by-step approach, based on material and energy balances. While the topic of heat and mass transfer is a....
Release Date 2018/08 -
Ice Templating and Freeze-Drying for Porous Materials and Their Applications
Author Haifei Zhang
Filling a gap in the literature, this is the first book to focus on the fabrication of functional porous materials by using ice templating and freeze drying. Comprehensive in its scope, the volume covers such techniques as the fabrication of porous polymers, porous....
Release Date 2018/08 -
Author Chaudhery Mustansar Hussain , Myalowenkosi I. Sabela , Shakeel Ahmed , Suvardhan Ka
This timely volume on nanomaterials and their biomedical and environmental applications includes the fundamentals of nanoparticles, and state-of-the-art properties, characterization, and the synthesis methods as well as the applications. The main thrust of the book....
Release Date 2018/07 -
The Physics and Mathematics of Electromagnetic Wave Propagation in Cellular Wireless Communication
Author Mohammad Najib Abdallah , Magdalena Salazar Palma , Tapan K. Sarkar
An important resource that examines the physical aspects of wireless communications based on mathematical and physical evidenceThe Physics and Mathematics of Electromagnetic Wave Propagation in Cellular Wireless Communicationdescribes the electromagnetic principles....
Release Date 2018/07 -
Radome Electromagnetic Theory and Design
Author Reuven Shavit
Radome Electromagnetic Theory and Design explores the theoretical tools and methods required to design radomes that are fully transparent to the electromagnetic energy transmitted or received by the enclosed antenna. A radome is a weatherproof and camouflaged enclo....
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Behaviors and Persistence of Nanomaterials in Biomedical Applications
Author Valerio Voliani , Domenico Cassano
In the last two decades, several promising engineered nanomaterials that combine therapeutic features and imaging functionalities have been presented, but very few have arrived on the market.The purpose of this book is to collect and comprehensively dis....
Release Date 2018/07 -
Author Carol Bond
In a world struggling to adapt to seismic social and environmental changes, the time is now for businesses to prioritise creating local conditions of peace. This book builds on original research foregrounding ‘peace’ as a core business outcome for natural resources....
Release Date 2018/07 -
Modeling and Simulation Based Analysis in Reliability Engineering
Author Mangey Ram
Recent developments in reliability engineering has become the most challenging and demanding area of research. Modeling and Simulation, along with System Reliability Engineering has become a greater issue because of high-tech industrial processes, using more complex systems today. This book gives th....
Release Date 2018/07 -
Author Cho S. To
Engineering Dynamics is an introductory textbook covering the kinematics and dynamics of particles, systems of particles, and kinematics and dynamics of rigid bodies. It has been developed from lecture notes given by the author since 1982. It includes sufficient topics no....
Release Date 2018/07 -
Author Christie Manning , Susan Clayton
Psychology and Climate Change: Human Perceptions, Impacts, and Responses organizes and summarizes recent psychological research that relates to the issue of climate change. The book covers topics such as how people perceive and respond to climate change, how people....
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Analysis, Synthesis, and Design of Chemical Processes, Fifth Edition
Author Debangsu Bhattacharyya , Richard Turton , Joseph A. Shaeiwitz , Wallace B. Whiting
The Leading Integrated Chemical Process Design Guide: With Extensive Coverage of Equipment Design and Other Key Topics More than ever, effective design is the focal point of sound chemical engineering. Analysis, Synthesis, and Design of Chemical Processes, Fifth Ed....
Release Date 2018/06 -
Author Alex Salkever , Vivek Wadhwa
“Technology is a great servant but a terrible master. This is the most important book ever written about one of the most significant aspects of our lives—the consequences of our addiction to online technology and how we can liberate ourselves and our children ....
Release Date 2018/06 -
Basic Mechanical Engineering, 2e, 2nd Edition
Author Pravin Kumar
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Release Date 2018/06 -
Author R. Russell Rhinehart
An Application-Oriented Introduction to Essential Optimization Concepts and Best PracticesOptimization is an inherent human tendency that gained new life after the advent of calculus; now, as the world grows increasingly reliant on complex systems, optimization has become....
Release Date 2018/05 -
Primer on Engineering Standards
Author Maan H. Jawad , Owen R. Greulich
A Clear, Comprehensive Introduction to Standards in the Engineering ProfessionsStandards supplement the design process by guiding the designer toward consistency, safety, and reliability. As daily life involves increasingly complex and sophisticated instruments, standards....
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Author Suzanne Vickberg , Kim Christfort
A guide to putting cognitive diversity to workEver wonder what it is that makes two people click or clash? Or why some groups excel while others fumble? Or how you, as a leader, can make or break team potential?Business Chemistry holds the answers. Based on extensi....
Release Date 2018/05 -
The Radio Station, 10th Edition
Author Bruce Mims , John Allen Hendricks
The Radio Station offers a concise and insightful guide to all aspects of radio broadcasting, streaming, and podcasting. This book’s tenth edition continues its long tradition of guiding readers to a solid understanding of who does what, when, and why in a professi....
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Solving Practical Engineering Mechanics Problems
Author Sayavur I. Bakhtiyarov
Engineering Mechanics is one of the fundamental branches of science that is important in the education of professional engineers of any major. Most of the basic engineering courses, such as mechanics of materials, fluid and gas mechanics, machine design, mechatroni....
Release Date 2018/05