This book covers system safety methods related to occupational health and safety. It argues for anticipating hazards, risk reduction strategies for hazards processes, and making sure workers' tasks correspond to human capabilities. To this end, the text provides pro-active methods for identifying hazards, assessing risk, analyzing hazards, using tools from system safety, conducting post-incident i…
This book will offer companies in the food industry a comprehensive guide to preparing for a British Retail Consortium Standard evaluation (Issue 6). It will enable them to ensure that the correct systems are in place to achieve the Standard, and also that they present themselves in the best possible light during the audit process. It will also recommend the correct steps to take following evaluat…
Methods for more planet-friendly process engineering Our earth is just one big, complex Process Facility with limited air, water, and mineral resources. It responds to a number of process variables—among them, humanity and the environmental effects of our carbon consumption. What can professionals in the Hydrocarbon Process Industry do to retard environmental degradation? Rather than looking to ex…
This ready reference on Membrane Technologies for Water Treatment, is an invaluable source detailing sustainable, emerging processes, to provide clean, energy saving and cost effective alternatives to conventional processes. The editors are internationally renowned leaders in the field, who have put together a first-class team of authors from academia and industry to present a highly approach to t…
The book is composed of 12 chapters and three appendices, and can be divided into four parts. The first part includes Chapters 2 to 7, which discuss the concepts, models, methods and data in probabilistic transmission planning. The second part, Chapters 8 to 11, addresses four essential issues in probabilistic transmission planning applications using actual utility systems as examples. Chapter 12,…
Книга является полным справочным материалом по электротехническому и теплотехническому оборудованию. В ней даны основные сведения по промышленным котельным установкам, техническим характеристикам паровых и водогрейных котлов. Представлены типы нагнетательных машин (насосов, вентиляторов и компрессоров), рассмотрены способы регулирования и расчета мощности на валу приводного электродвигателя. Показ…
Written by global leaders and pioneers in the field, this book is a must-have read for researchers, practicing engineers and university faculty working in SHM. Structural Health Monitoring: A Machine Learning Perspective is the first comprehensive book on the general problem of structural health monitoring. The authors, renowned experts in the field, consider structural health monitoring in a new …
Fiber-optic communication systems have advanced dramatically over the last four decades, since the era of copper cables, resulting in low-cost and high-bandwidth transmission. Fiber optics is now the backbone of the internet and long-distance telecommunication. Without it we would not enjoy the benefits of high-speed internet, or low-rate international telephone calls. This book introduces the bas…
Информационные технологии играют важную роль в процессе современного развития рынка. В настоящем учебнике раскрываются общие сведения о теории информации и информационных систем, даны современные направления развития информационных технологий в маркетинге, рассмотрена эволюция и описаны перспективы развития информационных технологий. К тому же выявлены постоянные информационные потребности маркети…
В книге 4-го издания проведена переработка предыдущих материалов и выполнены дополнения, касающиеся современных и перспективных технологий, и возможного применения средств роботизации при возведении и облицовки 25-этажных монолитных железобетонных жилых, а также высотных зданий. Уделено внимание технологиям разработки грунта, погружным и набивным сваям, утеплению и вентилированию крыш, фасадов и з…
Shows readers how to gain the competitive edge in the integrated circuit marketplace This book offers a wholly unique perspective on the digital design kit. It points to hidden value in the safety margins of standard-cell libraries and shows design engineers and managers how to use this knowledge to beat the competition. Engineering the CMOS Library reveals step by step how the generic, foundry-pr…
A growing awareness of the relationship between diet and health has led to an increasing demand for food products that support health beyond simply providing basic nutrition. Digestive health is the largest segment of the burgeoning functional food market worldwide. Incorporation of bioactive oligosaccharides into foods can yield health benefits in the gastrointestinal tract and other parts of the…
This book focuses on the exciting topic on self-organized organic semiconductors – from materials to device applications. It offers up-to-date and accessible coverage of self-organized semiconductors for organic chemistry, polymer science, liquid crystals, materials science, material engineering, electrical engineering, chemical engineering, optics, optic-electronics, nanotechnology and semiconduc…
В учебном пособии излагаются сведения по теории искусственного интеллекта, которые следует изучить при подготовке к испытаниям, установленным учебным планом. Теория, приведенная в издании, логически структурирована, для лучшего ее понимания приведен обширный иллюстративный материал в виде схем. Пособие содержит практические примеры с разбором решений, список рекомендуемой литературы и перечень при…
Aquaculture has become of the fastest growing segments of agriculture around the world, but until recently many people have been unaware of its existence. The practice of raising fish is centuries old with a rich history of techniques and scientific advances. The History of Aquaculture traces the development of fish farming from its ancient roots to the technologically advanced methods of today. T…