Environmental diagnosis of the C籀rrego do Bugre watershed
Human growth since the Industrial Revolution and the post-war period has put drastic pressure on natural resources. In Alum穩nio - SP, the large urban concentration of this municipality is densely packed into the sub-basin of the Bugre stream, greatly compromising the quality of its waters, especially in the urban perimeter. In this sense, environmental diagnosis is fundamental for monitoring and understanding the state and quality of the natural resources exploited and for helping to make decisions. Over the course of a seasonal year, this study carried out a diagnosis of water quality at three points in the Bugre stream, using parameters included in CETESB's IVA (Water Quality Index for the Protection of Aquatic Life and Aquatic Communities) and IQA (Water Quality Index). The first point is located at the source (an area with native vegetation) and the second and third are located on the urban perimeter. The parameter data was statistically analyzed using Principal Component Analysis (PCA). According to the evaluations of the points, there were notable variations in water quality between the three points analyzed.
High-Entropy Materials
Research in the field of high-entropy materials is advancing rapidly. High-Entropy Materials: Advances and Applications focuses on materials discovered using the high-entropy alloys (HEA) strategy. It discusses various types of high-entropy materials, such as face-centered cubic (FCC) and body-centered cubic (BCC) HEAs, films and coatings, fibers, and powders and hard-cemented carbides, along with current research status and applications: - Describes, compositions and processing of high-entropy materials.- Summarizes industrially valuable alloys found in high-entropy materials that hold promise for promotion and application.- Explains how high-entropy materials can be used in many fields and can outperform traditional materials.This book is aimed at researchers, advanced students, and academics in materials science and engineering and related disciplines.
Advances in Adaptive Ultrasonics
Providing an overview of a new generation of ultrasonic technology, Advances in Adaptive Ultrasonics explores how ultrasonic devices can harness the properties of advanced materials, including shape memory alloys and metamaterials.The applications of ultrasonic devices range from surgery, drilling, and welding to sonar and energy harvesting. This book demonstrates how engineers can overcome common issues within the field of ultrasonics, such as precision control and choice of materials. Beginning with an overview of ultrasonic technology as it is currently understood, the book goes on to discuss the newest iteration in the form of adaptive ultrasonics and the benefits this can offer to multiple industries. Key topics include advanced materials, notably phase-transforming shape memory alloys, and the principles of adaptive ultrasonic transducer design. The book also covers measurement approaches for characterising adaptive ultrasonic devices and provides an overview of potential applications for the technology.This book will be of interest to students and engineers in the field of ultrasonic surgery, industrial engineering, welding, and mechanical materials.
Crop Nutrition
In the face of global challenges such as climate change, population growth, and food security, understanding and optimizing crop nutrition has never been more critical. Crop Nutrition addresses these urgent issues by providing an in-depth exploration of how effective nutrient management can enhance soil health, boost food production, and contribute to the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The book delves into key aspects of crop nutrition, covering the essentials of nutrient management, the role of primary, secondary, and micronutrients, and innovative practices for sustainable agriculture. Each chapter provides comprehensive insights into various nutrients, their functions, and their impact on plant growth and soil health. The text also highlights case studies and success stories from different regions, showcasing practical applications and advancements in crop nutrition. Further, the book emphasizes the importance of integrated nutrient management approaches, such as the use of biofertilizers, nano-fertilizers, and organic amendments. Special attention is given to innovations from the Global South, demonstrating how developing countries are leading the way in sustainable agricultural practices. By integrating scientific research, practical strategies, and global success stories, this book serves as an essential resource for students, researchers, agronomists, policymakers, and agricultural practitioners. It provides the knowledge and tools needed to enhance crop productivity, improve soil health, and ensure sustainable food systems. It not only addresses current agricultural challenges but also paves the way for a resilient and food-secure future, making it a valuable asset for anyone involved in the field of agriculture.
Specialty Polymers
This comprehensive volume provides current, state-of-the-art information on specialty polymers that can be used for many advanced applications. The book covers the fundamentals of specialty polymers, synthetic approaches, and chemistries to modify their properties to meet the requirements for special applications, along with current challenges and prospects. Chapters are written by global experts, making this a suitable textbook for students and a one-stop resource for researchers and industry professionals. Key Features: - Presents synthesis, characterization, and applications of specialty polymers for advanced applications. - Provides fundamentals and requirements for polymers to be used in many advanced and emerging areas. - Details novel methods and advanced technologies used in polymer industries. - Covers the state-of-the-art progress on specialty polymers for a range of advanced applications.
Female Fighters in Armed Conflict
This book explores the why and the how of women's participation in armed struggle, and challenges preconceived assertions about women and violence, providing both a historic and a contemporary focus.The volume is about women who have participated in armed conflict as members of an armed group, trained in military action, with different tasks within the conflict. The chapters endeavor to make women's own voices heard, to discover the untold stories of women as perpetrators and facilitators of military violence, and the authors do this through the use of personal interviews and the study of primary documents. The work widens the geographical perspective of feminist security studies to discover in what ways the historical, political, and social context has motivated the women to participate in military action, and presents new case study data from Germany, Ukraine, Turkey, Israel, Palestine, Cameroon, India, the Philippines, Vietnam and Latin America. Temporally, the chapters cover almost two centuries, from the late 19th century to the present day, touching upon a wide variety of examples of armed conflict, from wars of independence to the Second World War. Bringing together approaches from politics, history, anthropology and area studies, the chapters are informed by the fundamental insights of feminist research and address such pivotal questions as hegemonic masculinity in the armed forces and the relation between women's armed violence and female agency. This book will be of much interest to students and researchers in gender and security studies, armed conflict and history.
Recovering degraded areas under the influence of urban waste
The origin of solid waste is one of the key factors in understanding the degree to which it damages the environment. In order to discuss and analyze the problem of solid waste in large urban centers, it is necessary to take a historical approach to the production of waste. In Brazil, from the 1950s onwards, with the use of packaging, waste production increased considerably. In the biosphere there are large ecosystems, whose characteristics depend on their geographical position, their geological history and the biological evolution of the planet. In order to organize an understanding of the process of recovering springs, it is necessary to take a preliminary look at the importance of water in the context of life in large natural reservoirs (oceans, lakes and rivers), since there are various living organisms there, from large fish and mammals to tiny single-celled beings, the protozoa. Among plants, large algae and microscopic algae play a vitally important role for life on earth (MAGOSSI & BONACELLA, 2013).
Nanomaterials under Extreme Conditions
Nanomaterials have supported humankind's advancement, becoming one of the most important industry sectors, and are expected to rise to the top by 2030. However, significant challenges must be overcome, such as the performance and efficiency of the material under different environmental conditions. This book seeks to promote a critical view on using nanomaterials under extreme conditions found in our body, planet, and outer space. Therefore, nanomaterials are covered from multiple points of view, allowing the reader to get an enriching presentation of current knowledge on nanomaterials, limitations, advancements, and applications under extreme conditions.
Magnetic Quantum Dots for Bioimaging
Bioimaging is a sophisticated, non-invasive, and non-destructive technique for the direct visualization of biological processes. Highly luminescent quantum dots combined with magnetic nanoparticles or ions form an exciting class of new materials for bioimaging. These materials can be prepared in cost-effective ways and show unique optical behaviors. Magnetic Quantum Dots for Bioimaging explores leading research in the fabrication, characterization, properties, and application of magnetic quantum dots in bioimaging. Covers synthesis, properties, and bioimaging techniques Discusses modern manufacturing technologies and purification of magnetic quantum dots Explores thoroughly the properties and extent of magnetization to various imaging techniques Describes the biocompatibility, suitability, and toxic effects of magnetic quantum dots Reviews recent innovations, applications, opportunities, and future directions in magnetic quantum dots and their surface-decorated nanomaterials This comprehensive reference offers a road map of the use of these innovative materials for researchers, academics, technologists, and advanced students working in materials engineering and sensor technology.
Metal Oxide-Based Carbon Nanocomposites for Environmental Remediation and Safety
This book focuses on nanotechnology for the preparation of metal oxide-based carbon nanocomposite materials for environmental remediation. It analyses the use of nanomaterials for water, soil, and air solutions, emphasizing the environmental risks of pollution. It further explores how magnetic and activated carbon nanomaterials are being used for a sustainable environmental protection of water and soil, and detection of harmful gases. The status and major challenges of using carbon-based nanomaterials on a large scale are explained, supported by relevant case studies.Features: Exhaustively covers nanotechnology, metal oxide-carbon nanocomposites and their application in soil, water, and air treatments Explores pollutants nano-sensing and their remediation towards environmental safety Includes economics analysis and environmental aspects of metal oxide materials Describes why properties of oxide carbon-based nanomaterials are useful for environmental applications Discusses current case studies of remediation technologies This book is aimed at graduate students and researchers in nanotechnology, environmental technology, and remediation.
High Performance Concrete Optimal Composition Design
Concrete and reinforced concrete remain the main building materials for construction of modern fortifications. The book presents experimental and theoretical results allowing production of special high-strength rapid hardening concrete and fiber reinforced concrete. It describes a method for effective proportioning of high-strength fast-setting concrete and fiber reinforced concrete with high dynamic strength as well as selecting proper technological parameters, methodology for design of reinforced concrete structures using such concrete. Particular attention is paid to ensuring the early strengthening of concrete within 24 hours after casting and to constructing structures with limited energy resources at the site.
Prefabrication and Modular Construction
A prefabricated modular structure is a structure that is built in workshops or factories and its different parts are assembled at the project site. In fact, prefabricated houses are structures that are built and assembled in the shortest possible time and are ready for use. Contrary to the belief of many who think that a prefabricated building is a structure that is tied to the back of a car and transferred from one place to another, it is necessary to inform you that the LSF modular prefabricated structure is the same as the buildings that are built in the traditional way and is located on the ground. These structures are also installed and executed on the ground. It is true that these structures are very light and can be moved, but not in the way that some people believe. In fact, these structures are built by experts with bolts and connections, and if someone decides to move after using the structure for a few years, they should still seek the help of an expert group to move the LSF structure. Because LSF prefabricated building is built in factories and industrial environments, the initial parts of the work are done very quickly and are completely built.
Fiber-Reinforced Composites - Recent Advances, New Perspectives and Applications
Fiber-reinforced composites have been widely applied in different industrial areas. This book focuses on the recent advances, new perspectives, and applications of different fiber-reinforced composites, such, as ceramic-matrix composites, fiber-reinforced concrete, wood-plastic composites, and so on. The design, fabrication, and application of fiber-reinforced composites are related to the high mechanical properties and nondestructive damage monitoring techniques. The experimental and damage monitoring method can reveal the internal damage evolution process inside of the fiber-reinforced composites and improve the operation reliability and safety of the composites and components. The book can help composite researchers better understand the engineering application, mechanical behavior, and damage detection of fiber-reinforced composites.
Biomaterials in Microencapsulation
This extensive work covers the latest developments in drug delivery, biomaterials, and encapsulating systems and their revolutionary potential in several fields. Highlighting encapsulation techniques that improve therapy accuracy and reduce adverse effects, this book explores the most recent developments in photodynamic and photothermal treatments. It delves further into the many medicinal applications of hydrogels, including their use in controlled medication release and regenerative medicine. An eco-friendly method of administering medicinal substances is discussed in detail in several chapters, as is the use of encapsulating systems based on pectin to stabilize bioactive chemicals. Discover the incredible world of microencapsulation and how it has revolutionized modern medicine. These techniques allow for the exact distribution and increased preservation of delicate medications. Finally, learn how hydrogel coatings are developing to tackle maritime antifouling, which is a tough problem, and how to make sure they last and work in extreme conditions. Anyone interested in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, materials science, or marine engineering will find this volume to be an indispensable resource. From healthcare to sustainability, it shows how encapsulation and biomaterials may address problems in the actual world. Inspiring future developments in medication delivery systems, biomaterials, and beyond, this book ignites fresh ideas with contributions from prominent specialists in the area.
Material Aspects of Ferrofluids
Ferrofluids are smart materials possessing high controllability over its sensing and actuations behaviour which makes them suitable for contemporary technology. This book provides a comprehensive and accessible account of the material aspects of ferrofluids and its composites. It covers all the aspects of ferrofluids from physical to colloid stability factors, optical to thermal behaviour and rheological properties. An account of ferrofluid applications such as fine polishing, energy conversion, biomedical and further scope is presented. This book is indispensable for researchers, academicians and technologists working on magnetic nanosuspensions.
3D Printing
3D Printing: Fundamentals to Emerging Applications discusses the fundamentals of 3D-printing technologies and their emerging applications in many important sectors such as energy, biomedicals, and sensors. Top international authors in their fields cover the fundamentals of 3D-printing technologies for batteries, supercapacitors, fuel cells, sensors, and biomedical and other emerging applications. They also address current challenges and possible solutions in 3D-printing technologies for advanced applications.Key features: Addresses the state-of-the-art progress and challenges in 3D-printing technologies Explores the use of various materials in 3D printing for advanced applications Covers fundamentals of the electrochemical behavior of various materials for energy applications Provides new direction and enables understanding of the chemistry, electrochemical properties, and technologies for 3D printing This is a must-have resource for students as well as researchers and industry professionals working in energy, biomedicine, materials, and nanotechnology.
Management of Civic Energy and the Green Transformation
An increase in the global demand for energy, combined with an increase in the price of energy and energy products, has advanced the growing interest in renewable energy technologies and the wide implementation of renewable energy sources (RES). Member States of the European Union have been global leaders in the use of renewable energy and in the transition to new technologies. Management of Civic Energy and the Green Transformation: A Case Study of Poland examines the current issues of transitioning from traditional energy sources to newer, renewable energy sources, while balancing supplies, and working synergistically with existing, conventional sources.Features: Offers a balanced blend of theory and practice of development economics for renewable energy implementation Presents a case study of how Poland is working towards their energy transition, and provides other examples and recent statistical data from other European Union countries Analyses the legal and systemic conditions supporting the development of renewable energy systems and offers direction on the potential for the green development of the civic energy sector
Compressive Strength of Concrete Made from Different Aggregates
The study used a 1:2:4 mix design and a water-cement ratio of 0.5. Wooden square cubes of dimensions 100 x 100 x 100 mm were employed, resulting in 42 concrete cubes.Tests were conducted to assess particle size distribution, specific gravity, bulk density, aggregate impact value, aggregate abrasion value, and compressive strength at 7th and 28th days of curing. Notably, after 7 days, compressive strength results showed that concrete with a 10% iron fillings replacement (18.5 N/mm簡) had a higher average strength than concrete with 100% river sand (17.6 N/mm簡). However, as the percentage of iron fillings increased to 20% (9.8 N/mm簡) and 30% (7.1 N/mm簡), the compressive strength decreased. On the other hand, concrete with sawdust replacements at 10% (3.7 N/mm簡), 20% (1.4 N/mm簡) and 30% (0.5 N/mm簡) exhibited significantly lower load-bearing capacity. These trends persisted at the 28th day, with the compressive strength decreasing with increasing percentages of iron fillings (10%: 20.3 N/mm簡, 20%: 11.2 N/mm簡, 30%: 11.6 N/mm簡) & sawdust (10%3.4 N/mm簡, 20%: 2.3 N/mm簡, 30%: 1.4 N/mm簡). The findings suggest that a low percentage of iron fillings can be used in combination with river sand.
Terrorist Risk in Urban Outdoor Built Environment
This open access book outlines the latest results in analysing, assessing, and managing terrorist risk in the urban outdoor built environment. In detail, contents refer to the outdoor Open Areas (such as streets, squares, urban parks and other public spaces in our cities) exposed to such violent events considering the physical elements and properties of the built environment and users. PThe built environment features, including layout, use and management, are combined with terrorist threats issues and user behaviours in emergency conditions, to determine a set of complementary tools for the reduction of risk and increase of urban resilience. The contents hence provide different levels of tool analysis, for risk scenario definition, risk assessment, mitigation strategies design and effectiveness evaluation, considering traditional approaches about the issue along with simulation-based approaches relying on understanding and representing user behaviors. This "behavioural design" approach offers the opportunity to manage the level of risk for specific real urban cases over going the normative limitations in Europe that are only referred to few countries and sometimes deal with the prevention of violent acts by intelligence activities as the exclusive way to face this issue. In addition, the focus on the characters of cultural and historic places and their resilience is increasing by means of introduction of mitigation and compatible solutions providing a complementary chapter for the design of resilient cities in all of their peculiarities (peripheries, consolidated, and historical). In this sense, it is one of the first organized attempts to analyse the main limitations of current solutions in these outdoor Open Areas and, at the same time, to clearly introduce the importance of human behaviours and the various choices in emergency evacuation conditions, thanks to the proposed behavioural-based simulation approach. The attention is focused on a critical aspect for historic spaces, where morphological conditions are fixed values. Thus, this book represents a sort of guidelines about these user-related issues during such violent events and is useful to both professionals and researchers in the areas of security and urban administration.
Environmental Chemistry
With clear explanations, real-world examples and updated ancillary material, the 11th edition of Environmental Chemistry emphasizes the concepts essential to the practice of environmental science, technology and chemistry. The format and organization popular in preceding editions is used, including an approach based upon the five environmental spheres and the relationship of environmental chemistry to the key concepts of sustainability, industrial ecology and green chemistry. The new edition provides a comprehensive view of key environmental issues, and significantly looks at diseases and pandemics as an environmental problem influenced by other environmental concerns like climate change.Features: The most trusted and best-selling text for environmental chemistry has been fully updated and expanded once again The author has preserved the basic format with appropriate updates including a comprehensive overview of key environmental issues and concerns New to this important text is material on the threat of pathogens and disease, deadly past pandemics that killed millions, recently emerged diseases and the prospects for more environment threats related to disease This outstanding legacy appeals to a wide audience and can also be an ideal interdisciplinary book for graduate students with degrees in a variety of disciplines other than chemistry New! Long-awaited companion website featuring additional ancillary material
Large Outdoor Fire Dynamics
Large Outdoor Fire Dynamics provides the essential knowledge for the hazard evaluation of large outdoor fires, including wildland, WUI (wildland-urban interface), and urban fires. The spread of outdoor fires can be viewed as a successive occurrence of physical and chemical processes - solid fuel combustion, heat transfer to surrounding combustibles, and ignition of heated combustibles - which are explained herein. Engineering equations frequently used in practical hazard analyses are derived and then integrated to implement a computational code predicting fire spread among discretely distributed combustibles. This code facilitates learning the procedure of hazard evaluation for large outdoor fires.Chapters cover underlying assumptions for analyzing fire spread behavior in large outdoor fires, namely, wind conditions near the ground surface and fundamentals of heat transfer; the physical mechanism of fire spread in and between combustibles, specifically focusing on fire plumes (both reacting and non-reacting) and firebrand dispersal; and the spatial modeling of 3D objects and developing the computational framework for predicting fire spread.The book is ideal for engineers, researchers, and graduate students in fire safety as well as mechanical engineering, civil engineering, disaster management, safety engineering, and planning. Companion source codes are available online.
Polymer Nanocomposites
Polymer Nanocomposites: Fabrication to Applications offers readers an up-to-date interpretation of various polymeric nanocomposite materials and technologies via critical reviews. It covers developments and advancements in various nanomaterials, polymeric materials, biopolymers, and processes. It initiates from nanomaterial synthesis, fabrication, and characterization to the manufacturing aspect and feasible product applications of polymer-based nanocomposites. The prime focus is on polymer matrix nanocomposites and their future trends in the engineering sector.Features: Explores synthesis, characterization, properties, fabrication/processing, and applications of polymer nanocomposite materials Elaborates on polymer manufacturing phase challenges using various control methods and statistical tools and modules Includes machining and micro (μ) machining investigation on the polymer nanocomposites Discusses modeling, simulation, and optimization of process parameters during the machining processes and applications of additive manufacturing Comprehends the significance of nanomaterials functionalizing synthetic fibrous and biocompatible composites This book is aimed at researchers and graduate students in mechanical engineering, materials science, polymers, composites, and nanomaterials.
Remediation of Uranium Mill Tailings
This book covers issues pertaining to uranium tailings with special reference to consolidation of radioactivity including systematic ecological strategy for consolidation of radionuclides in uranium tailings. It discusses sustainable consolidation of radioactivity and checks the migration of unextracted uranium from tailing piles to plants and atmosphere supported by a case study from a uranium mine. It provides simple ecological solutions for the remediation of radioactivity in mill tailings.Features: Provides insight into the application of applied ecology for bioremediation of radioactive wastes. Discusses species selection criteria for tailings radioactivity consolidation. Explains safe treatment of the tailings of radioactive ore processing plants. Illustrates the role of ethnobotany in the selection of the most appropriate species to effectively use in bioremediation. Focuses on experimental outcomes. This book is aimed at researchers and professionals in mining engineering, applied geology, nuclear tailings and environmental protection.
The Material Advantage
Why are there rich countries and poor countries? Here is one reason: for more than two millennia, nations and regions that could transform raw materials into manufactured materials have achieved competitive advantage. In this book, renowned scientist and educator Bernie Bulkin takes you on a whirlwind journey through the history of paper, textiles, food packaging, buildings, transport and electricity, with stories that show why and how competitive advantage happens. Looking to the future, Bernie also addresses the materials that might make and re-make our world in the coming decades, and which characteristics a society must have to be truly successful.
Sustainable Wastewater Treatment Plants
Existing climate scenarios show that in the future we will have longer dry periods and more intense rainfall, which increases the vulnerability of our systems for drinking water supply and sewage management. Islands are sensitive to coming climate change as they have small water resources and rarely have a municipal water supply. Today's water systems are linear, where purified wastewater is returned directly to nature. To get sustainable sewage management can a water use be introduced that mimics the hydrological cycle. The purpose of the study is to investigate the water supply, water and sewage system, attitude to reuse wastewater, as well as whether circular aquaculture is a sustainable system in developing countries.The results indicate that islanders generally manage their water resources and that a dubious attitude to reusing black water may be due to the so-called disgust factor. Despite a varying acceptance of reusing water, more should circular water systems can be introduced on the island, which gives developing countries more sustainable management of their wastewater.
Bio and Nanoremediation of Hazardous Environmental Pollutants
This book is a compendium of knowledge about nanomaterials and strategies for bioremediation over hazardous environmental pollutants. The book is divided into 2 sections. Section 1 deals with the polluted environment, where it explains that soil is in serious danger and highlights the primary hazardous pollutants. Besides, this section covers algae, autochthonous, introduced, or genetically modified organisms that are used to degrade hazardous contaminants. In Section 2, Bio- and Nanoremediation are shown through synthesis, green synthesis and molecular farming, and their applications or impacts. Moreover, this discusses bio- and nano-remediation, working together for better performance, organisms, and nanomaterials for environmental remediation.
Creep
In recent years, the application of composites and nanocomposites has been increasing steadily in industries such as aerospace, automotive, marine, and civil engineering. It is among the most complex and crucial aspects of the mechanics of a deformable solid, due to several specific phenomena and analytic factors arising from cyclic loading. The problems are primarily associated with the development of fatigue damage, and the need to assess the cyclic and structural instability of composite and nanocomposite materials. The study of structural strength under cyclic loading has gained much attention, especially in aircraft manufacturing, power engineering, aviation, and rocket technology. Cyclic loading significantly reduces creep-fatigue lifespan during the entire frequency range. It is clear that characteristics such as endurance limit, static creep limits and long-term static strength will not suffice in the design criteria for fatigue life. New aspects have emerged in high-temperature strength - cyclical creep and long-term cyclic strength, leading to the creation of new methods and means of determining the resistance of composites and nanocomposites materials and continuum damage development under cyclic loading to the creation of appropriate physical models. Particularly relevant is the intensification of creep by high-frequency cyclic loading in composite materials, which usually occurs at high temperatures. Most studies in the field of cyclic creep are experimental, and the direct use of number of cycles to define damage model cannot escape the empirical relation that predicts multi-stress level fatigue life well.The book presents new phenomenological cyclic creep - fatigue models for describing the fatigue life and behavior of time-dependent composites and nanocomposites. Since the main difference between the creep process from the fatigue process is that from a physical point of view, the first is quasi-static, and the second is dynamic. Therefore, the functions of creep should reflect the oscillatory nature of the fatigue process. The results are supported by step-by-step practical design examples and will be useful for practicing structural engineers, code developers as well as research and university faculty.
Computational Intelligence based Optimization of Manufacturing Process for Sustainable Materials
The text comprehensively discusses computational models including artificial neural networks, agent-based models, and decision field theory for reliability engineering. It will serve as an ideal reference text for graduate students and academic researchers in the fields of industrial engineering, manufacturing engineering, computer engineering, and materials science. Discusses the development of sustainable materials using metaheuristic approaches. Covers computational models such as agent-based models, ontology, and decision field theory for reliability engineering. Presents swarm intelligence methods such as ant colony optimization, particle swarm optimization, and grey wolf optimization for solving the manufacturing process. Include case studies for industrial optimizations. Explores the use of computational optimization for reliability and maintainability theory. The text covers swarm intelligence techniques including ant colony optimization, particle swarm optimization, cuckoo search, and genetic algorithms for solving complex industrial problems of the manufacturing industry as well as predicting reliability, maintainability, and availability of several industrial components.
Australian Aboriginal Fire
Discover the extraordinary legacy of Australia's First Nations people in Australian Aboriginal Fire: Managing Country. For over 65,000 years, First Nations people thrived as global pioneers-masters of the sea, trailblazers in religion, art, aerodynamics, and innovators in land management, medicine, and commerce. Australian Aboriginal Fire takes you on a journey into theSignificance of fireLand managementIncreasing the productivity of the environmentMaking fireFire in social lifeThis fourth book in the series Aboriginal Global Pioneers dives deep into the world's oldest continuing civilisation, highlighting the resilience of First Nations people and their enduring legacy.Marji Hill, artist and author of over 70 books, offers a powerful and authentic exploration into Australia's First Peoples cultures. Australian Aboriginal Fire is an essential read for students of history, culture, and truth-telling of the world's longest-surviving civilisation.The 5 books in the series Aboriginal Global Pioneers are: Australian Aboriginal Origins: Earliest BeginningsAustralian Aboriginal Trade: Sharing Goods and ServicesAustralian Aboriginal Religion: Country and DreamingAustralian Aboriginal Fire: Managing CountryAustralian Aboriginal Medicine: Caring for People
The Dialectical Agroecologist
This book examines contradictions within the fields of food studies and agroecology, from the differences between traditional and scientific knowledge, to habitat fragmentation and connection, monocultures versus diverse farming systems, pest regulation, and the rural/urban dialectic. Building and expanding on the work of Richard Levins and Richard Lewontin, who used the dialectical method in the field of biology, this analysis includes examples from the authors' own pioneering research in Mexico, Nicaragua, and Puerto Rico, to demonstrate the benefits of applying the dialectical method to agroecology in practice. Exploring themes in studies that are currently the subject of rigorous debate among academics and activists alike, especially related to food production and distribution, this book is indispensable for practitioners and activists seeking to transform the food system, as well as for social and natural scientists.
Proposal for the execution of internal gypsum block masonry
The following work Proposal for the execution of internal gypsum block masonry is of interest to students, teachers and professionals who, faced with the heterogeneity of executive procedures, need or want a parameter to follow. This work comes as a proposal to standardize the procedure, since the existence of only one project text is insufficient to meet the complexities that have arisen over the years and the growing use of this practice in the country.
SUN TZU The Art of War Psychosocial Commentaries
Sun Tzu's The Art of War is a Chinese classic in military strategy and warfare that has been consulted and applied by international leaders for over two-thousand five hundred years. It is founded on the fundamental principles, wisdom and practices of ancient Chinese Taoism and shares the ethical value of resolving conflicts, winning battles and defeating enemies through knowledgeable, enlightened and compassionate ways of not fighting a war.The Art of War is relevant for managing both interpersonal conflicts between ourselves and fellow human beings and intrapersonal conflicts between our primary executive ego-self and our various subordinate ego-selves.Its practical value, relevance, applicability and usefulness are its being a context and springboard for encouraging, inspiring and stimulating the creating, devising and implementing of your own ways of navigating intrapersonal and interpersonal conflicts based upon the nature of your unique self, the nature of specific conflicts and the nature of particular opponents and adversaries.
Evaluation of the Compliance to ISO 55000 Standards in Nigeria
This study was necessitated by the need to improve organizational performance of public agency. The study was aimed at assessing compliance to ISO 55000 in the Management of public agencies' infrastructure with a view to improve the adoption of ISO 55000 for public asset management in South-South Nigeria. Five research questions guided the study and two null hypotheses were tested. Descriptive survey research design was employed for the study. The population consists of one hundred and sixty four (164) registered facility managers (builders) and estate managers. The data collected were analyzed using descriptive statistics of mean and standard deviation to answer the research questions, and determine the closeness of the respondents' mean ratings. Hypotheses were tested with Spearman Rank Correlation Coefficient Analysis (r) at 0.05 significant levels. The findings of the study revealed that there is very high level of awareness of ISO55000 standards in the study areas. It was also revealed that absence of legal framework on duties and the people involved in the various aspect of asset maintenance management (Lack of Legal Accountability) ranked the highest barrier.
The Effect of Polyvinyl Chloride Modified Bitumenin Hot Mix Asphalt
Waste Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC), a non-degradable material used for engineering works with other relevance importance in developmental effect rather than its negative environmental impact. The addition of synthetic polymer to enhance properties of bitumen over a wide-range of temperatures hip road paving application been considered long time ago and consequently becoming real alternative for pavement extended life. This work is focused on the effect of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) modified bitumen in hot mix asphalt (HMA). Marshal method of mix design was used in the production of hot mix asphalt. Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Fourier Transform Infra-red (FTIR) and Energy Dispersive X-Ray Spectrometry (EDS) used for microstructural investigation and elemental study. The percent PVC content incorporated in the HMA were 2, 4, 6, 8, 10% PVC content, the OBC obtained 10%, at 10.75kN for the Modified and 4% at 9.8kN for Control. The modified materials with its properties shows, penetration recorded at 65mm, which conformed with, 60/70 grade bitumen, softening point recorded at 53oC.
The History of Roads & Transport Services in Uganda
The book delves into the evolution of transportation infrastructure and services in Uganda, highlighting their pivotal role in shaping the nation's economic and social landscape. It offers a comprehensive examination of road development, from early trails used by indigenous communities to the modern highway systems and public transport services that connect urban and rural areas today. It traces the origins of transport systems in pre-colonial Uganda and examines colonial influences on infrastructure, including the introduction of railways and roads. It analyses how transport development has facilitated trade, agriculture, and tourism discussing the role of transport in regional integration and economic growth. It highlights challenges such as maintenance, funding, and environmental impacts and explores innovations in public transport, including matatus, boda-bodas, and modern bus services. It also looks ahead to future developments in Uganda's transport sector, including potential improvements in infrastructure and technology. This book serves as an essential resource for historians, policymakers, and anyone interested in understanding the integral role of roads and transport.
Marketing and Management of Construction Projects
In today's business world, advertising and marketing is one of the most important ways to increase the sales of companies and stores. Spending on advertising and marketing is an investment for the future in order to earn more money. Some companies spend most of their income on advertising their products, a product that is known for selling more to people and can capture the soul and spirit of the customer with good introduction can be sold well in the market. Companies providing advertising and marketing engineering services pay serious attention to advertising, which can be done in various ways, such as websites, internet advertising, promotional teasers, billboards, publications and magazines, promotional reminder gifts, etc., in order to have more sales. In the project marketing process in the construction industry, considering all aspects of the industry, different issues from the most general to the most detailed ones will be examined and their effect on the final result will be analyzed.
Terotechnology XIII
The book presents recent advances in the technology of installation, commissioning, maintenance, replacement, and removal of plant machinery and equipment, feedback on operation and design, and related subjects and practices.Keywords: Fibre Prestressing, Hierarchical Robotic System, Environmental Pollution, Casting Processes, EU and US Legal Frameworks, Machine Learning Models, Forecasting for Supply Chain Applications, Bio-inspired Algorithms, Resistance to the Effects of Explosions, Armor Technologies, Control of Aerial Drones, Concentrated Energy Beams.
Recent Developments in Electrochemical Sensing
Daily life is becoming even more complex, and the quality control of environmental, food, cosmetic, biological and pharmaceutical samples requires simple, rapid and cost-effective determination methods. Electroanalytical techniques in connection with properly selected sensors constitute versatile tools in this respect, enabling on-site, on-line and in-line measurements. Moreover, electrochemical sensing offers the possibility of investigating the interactions between different biologically important species, e.g., drug-DNA, and/or understanding their action in living organisms, e.g., the antioxidant activity of natural polyphenolics. On the other hand, it is worth mentioning that the continuous and increasing development of various modified electrochemical (bio)sensors improves the performance characteristics and the applicability of electrochemical techniques. This Special Issue provides a collection of papers (both reviews and articles) revealing the current state of the research on electrochemical sensing and the latest findings in this area, emphasizing the importance of electrochemical techniques and the corresponding chemosensors in various fields.
Microbial Remediation of Hazardous Chemicals from Water & Industrial Wastewater Treatment Plant
Advanced Technologies of Welding, Surfacing, and Thermal Spraying of Modern Materials
Welding technologies, combined with innovative materials, are a crucial component of effective repair management and the modern design of machine parts and devices with specialized operational properties. This reprint, which compiles contemporary scientific contributions from international experts in welding technologies, covers the following topics: an examination of the structure and properties of welded joints; an analysis of the causes of wear on working surfaces of machine parts and equipment; a description of the most commonly used materials in the global industry for joining and surfacing; a comprehensive discussion of all modern technologies for joining, surfacing, cladding, and spraying; and examples of technological parameters for welding, surfacing, and thermal spraying processes applied to parts of various types and shapes. The editors of this Special Issue, titled "Advanced Technologies of Welding, Surfacing, and Thermal Spraying of Modern Materials," recommend this reprint to students of materials engineering and welding engineers. Undoubtedly, this reprint should be a valuable addition to the reference library of professionals engaged in welding and surfacing.
Software Application in Tunnel Engineering
"Software Application in Tunnel Engineering" is an authoritative academic text that offers a systematic exploration of advanced numerical simulation techniques in tunnel engineering, tailored to the needs of graduate students and professionals. The book addresses critical topics, including dynamic monitoring, risk assessment, groundwater control, disaster mitigation, and multi-field coupling analyses, with a focus on the practical application of sophisticated tools like ADINA and FLAC3D. It integrates comprehensive case studies that connect theoretical principles with complex real-world scenarios, demonstrating the essential role of numerical simulations in optimizing tunnel design and construction. Emphasizing recent advancements in high-performance computing, artificial intelligence, and cloud-based platforms, this textbook aims to elevate technical competencies and foster innovation, equipping readers with the analytical skills required to tackle the evolving challenges of tunnel engineering in diverse geological contexts.
Civil Engineering Software
This book serves as a comprehensive guide to the key software tools used in modern civil engineering. It covers foundational programs such as SAP2000 for structural analysis, Primavera P6 for project management, and Synchro 4D for construction simulation, offering practical insights into their principles, user interfaces, and real-world applications through case studies. Additionally, specialized software like Actran for building acoustics simulation and PyroSim for fire simulation is examined, emphasizing their roles in addressing unique engineering challenges. The book also explores emerging technologies like photogrammetry, BIM collaboration, and digital twin platforms, offering readers a look at the future of civil engineering software and its potential to shape innovative, sustainable infrastructure solutions.
Bilateral Collaboration for the Conservation of Coastal Waterbirds
This study focuses on Bilateral cooperation between the Wadden Sea National Park, Wattenmeer National Park, and The Gambia Department of Parks and Wildlife Management, in the context of conserving the peregrination of migratory waterbird species and identifying the threats that are reposed along the East Atlantic Flyway. The purpose of this research was to investigate the bilateral cooperation between the Wadden Sea National Park, WattenmeerNational Park, and The Gambia Department of Parks and Wildlife Management, in the conservation of migratory coastal waterbirds from 2016 to April 4, 2023, and determine the most dominant threats on the habitats of bird migrants in these two regions of the Flyway. Based on quantitative analysis and Literature review, the findings suggest that there was a positive collaboration between the management of the Wadden Sea National Park and the Department of Parks and Wildlife Management of The Gambia, in the last seven years.
The inclusion of BIM in the Civil Engineering course
This work deals with an investigation into the current conditions of the university education of Civil Engineering students with regard to training in the use of the BIM (Building Information Modeling) platform on the national scene. Through bibliographical research and evaluation of questionnaires answered by professors from Brazilian universities, the main objective of this research was to identify pedagogical strategies for approaching the BIM platform in undergraduate Civil Engineering teaching, taking into account CES/CNE Resolution 11 (MEC, 2002). The results indicate that the strategy is to include BIM in the three core areas of the course curriculum, with each approach being compatible with the student's level of education and training needs. Finally, this work, together with the others analyzed in the literature review, supports the teaching of BIM as an essential subject for training professionals in Civil Engineering.
Solid Waste-Based Materials for Environmental Remediation
This book provides a multifaceted examination of solid waste management methods, the preparation, properties, and application of solid waste materials in the remediation of various environmental media, as well as the combination of solid waste materials and artificial intelligence.Based on the latest research results and cutting-edge technologies from around the world, the contributors combine the design principles of solid waste materials with application examples, including a complete system, clear routes, and illustrations. They integrate the idea of ecological civilization, the concept of sustainable development, and engineering innovation thinking, providing a reliable reference for resource recycling and contributing to global low-carbon emission.The book is suitable for teachers and students, as well as researchers, industrial technicians, and managers involved in solid waste resources and environmental remediation.
Green Synthesis and Emerging Applications of Frontier Nanomaterials
The book presents a comprehensive overview of the latest advancements in the eco-friendly synthesis, characterization and potential application of various advanced nanomaterials.Keywords: Green synthesis and Bio-inspired Fabrication; Biomedical, Environmental and Agricultural Applications; Silica, Silver, Iron, Zinc, Copper, Nickel, Ceria, Carbon Nanotubes, Zirconium, Rhodium, Quantum Dots, Titanium, Bismuth, Gold.
