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Handbook of Security and Privacy of AI-Enabled Healthcare Systems and Internet of Medical Things
The fast-growing number of patients suffering from various ailments has overstretched the carrying capacity of traditional healthcare systems. This handbook addresses the increased need to tackle security issues and preserve patients' privacy concerns in Artificial Intelligence of Medical Things (AIoMT) devices and systems.Handbook of Security and Privacy of AI-Enabled Healthcare Systems and the Internet of Medical Things provides new insights into the deployment, application, management, and benefits of AIoMT by examining real-world scenarios. The handbook takes a critical look at existing security designs and offers solutions to revamp traditional security architecture, including the new design of effi cient intrusion detection algorithms, attack prevention techniques, and both cryptographic and noncryptographic solutions. The handbook goes on to discuss the critical security and privacy issues that affect all parties in the healthcare ecosystem and provides practical AI-based solutions.This handbook offers new and valuable information that will be highly beneficial to educators, researchers, and others.
Handbook of Post-Processing in Additive Manufacturing
This handbook is a key resource on post-processing treatments available for additive manufactured products. It provides a broad coverage on the theory behind this emerging technology, the material development, functional characterization, and the technical details required to investigate the novel applications and methods and put them to use.
Sustainable Digital Technologies
This book is a reference on digital technology and its impact on sustainability, providing insight into sustainable practices globally among various organizations and communities. It describes the green computing paradigms and the impact of a circular economy with a focus on sustainable practices in a post-pandemic world.
How The Shortage Of Skilled Mechanics Is Being Overcome By Training The Unskilled
NEW PRINT WITH PROFESSIONAL TYPE-SET IN CONTRAST TO SCANNED PRINTS OFFERED BY OTHERS How The Shortage Of Skilled Mechanics Is Being Overcome By Training The Unskilled This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography, graphics, high quality images, and table elements, giving our readers the feel of holding a fresh and newly reprinted and/or revised edition, as opposed to other scanned & printed (Optical Character Recognition - OCR) reproductions. 2. Correction of imperfections: As the work was re-created from the scratch, therefore, it was vetted to rectify certain conventional norms with regard to typographical mistakes, hyphenations, punctuations, blurred images, missing content/pages, and/or other related subject matters, upon our consideration. Every attempt was made to rectify the imperfections related to omitted constructs in the original edition via other references. However, a few of such imperfections which could not be rectified due to intentional\unintentional omission of content in the original edition, were inherited and preserved from the original work to maintain the authenticity and construct, relevant to the work.
Solvent-Responsive Shape Memory Polymers for Biomedical Applications
This book explains the intricacies of one-way shape memory polymers (SMPs), with a particular emphasis on solvent responsive SMPs focussing on fundamental pathways and key principles crucial to the development of these materials. It explains how solvent responsive SMPs addresses challenges and advancements within the biomedical industry.
Sustainable Material, Design and Process
This book presents an in-depth understanding of the progress of the need for new innovative and next-generation materials. It will serve as an ideal reference text for graduate students and academic researchers in the fields of manufacturing engineering, materials science, mechanical engineering, and environmental engineering.
Handbook of Manufacturing Systems and Design
This book provides a comprehensive overview of manufacturing systems, their role in product/process design, and their interconnection with an Industry 4.0 perspective, especially related to design, manufacturing, and operations.Handbook of Manufacturing Systems and Design: An Industry 4.0 Perspective provides the knowledge related to the theories and concepts of Industry 4.0. It focuses on the different types of manufacturing systems in Industry 4.0 along with associated design, and control strategies. It concentrates on the operations in Industry 4.0 with a particular focus on supply chain, logistics, risk management, and reverse engineering perspectives. Offering basic concepts and applications through to advanced topics, the handbook feeds into the goal of being a source of knowledge as well as a vehicle to explore the future possibilities of design, techniques, methods, and operations associated with Industry 4.0. Concepts with practical applications in the form of case studies are added to each chapter to round out the many attributes this handbook offers.This handbook targets students, engineers, managers, designers, and manufacturers, and will assist in their understanding of the core concepts of manufacturing systems in connection with Industry 4.0 and optimize alignment between supply and demand in real time for effective implementation of the design concepts.
Elastane in Sports and Medical Textiles
Elastic garments have tremendous scope in the field of tight-fit sportswear and healthcare application. Research towards improvement in the elasticity of fibre, yarn and fabrics and development in testing methods for elastic garments is the current requirement for the industrial product development. This proposed book is about the elastane fibre, elastane yarn and fabric production methods, new attempts in yarn production, commercial ways of fabric manufacturing techniques and the fabric properties, new testing methods to test the elastic products and their application of elastic garments in sports and healthcare.
Advanced Manufacturing Operations Technologies
This book discusses various types of manufacturing processes, including casting and molding, machining, joining, shearing, and forming. It offers detailed examples from the nuclear, electronic, plastics, adhesives, inks, packaging, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries.
3D Printing and Sustainable Product Development
The text covers advanced concepts of 3D printing, product development, design, sustainability, along with 3D printing applications. It will serve as an ideal reference text for senior undergraduate, graduate students, and researchers in diverse engineering domains including manufacturing, mechanical, aerospace, automotive, and industrial.
Two-Dimensional Nanomaterials for Fire-Safe Polymers
This book provides an overview of the latest scientific developments and technological advances in two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials for fire-safe polymers. It summarizes the preparation methods for diverse types of 2D nanomaterials and their polymer composites and reviews their flame-retardant properties, toxic gas and smoke emission during combustion, and inhibition strategies. Covers fundamental aspects like influence of size and dispersion of 2D nanomaterials to help readers develop efficient, multi-functional, and ecofriendly fire-safe polymer composites for a wide range of applications Discusses new-emerging 2D nanomaterials for fire-safe polymer applications, including MXenes, graphitic carbon nitride, boron nitride, and black phosphorus Introduces basic modes of flame retardant action of 2D nanomaterials, including smoke and toxic gas suppression, and the role of 2D nanomaterials in promoting char formation This book is suitable for both scholars and engineers in the fields of polymer science and engineering. It is also aimed at graduate students in chemistry, materials, and safety science and engineering.
Integrated Process Planning, Scheduling, and Due-Date Assignment
Traditionally, the three most important manufacturing functions are process planning, scheduling, and due-date assignment, which are handled sequentially and separately. This book integrates these manufacturing processes and functions to increase global performance along with manufacturing and production cost savings.
Is Quality Just a Word We Use?
Quality management systems are essential for businesses to meet customer needs, ranging from product control to enterprise-wide process management. Effective management can elevate organizations to brand domination. This book equips quality experts with skills to champion business excellence and risk avoidance.
Smart Manufacturing
This book offers manufacturers effective strategies and tools for the adoption and implementation of advanced operational technologies to ensure long-term innovation, efficiency, and profitability.
Reliability and Maintenance Modeling with Optimization
Reliability and maintenance modeling with optimization is the most fundamental and interdisciplinary research area and it can be applied to every technical and management field. This monograph provides the most recent advances and achievements in reliability and maintenance.
Lean Manufacturing
Lean manufacturing concepts are being applied to a variety of industries. These concepts ensure streamlined processes through a systematic analysis of wastes and elimination, while enhancing value. This book offers fundamentals, theoretical concepts, case studies, examples, along with insights for lean integration in Industry 4.0.
Printing of Textile Substrates
This book discusses the various methods and techniques of printing. It covers the history and development of printing techniques and machinery, design marking details, engraving, ingredients of print pastes, etc..
Sustainability in Apparel Manufacturing Process
This book records the existing and emerging sustainability standards in the apparel industry and outlines the supply chain of the manufacturing process. It covers the best practices, industry norms, sustainability evaluation procedures, marketing strategies, and consumer perceptions.
Control Systems in Textile Machines
This book details the mechanics of textile machines and covers the fundamental concepts and advanced applications of their control systems. It presents conceptual information, discusses practical equipment, and analyses the machines used in various stages of the spinning process.
Principles and Practice of Fur Dressing and Fur Dyeing
Principles and Practice of Fur Dressing and Fur Dyeing, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.
The Principles of Leather Manufacture
The Principles of Leather Manufacture, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts in its preservation by republishing this book in a modern format for present and future generations. This whole book has been reformatted, retyped and designed. These books are not made of scanned copies of their original work and hence the text is clear and readable.
Commercializing Nanotechnology
This book provides a step-by-step roadmap for taking the results of laboratory research on nanotechnology and nanomaterials and developing them into successful and profitable commercial ventures.
Sustainable Advanced Manufacturing and Materials Processing
This book encapsulates and highlights the most recent innovations, breakthroughs, and comparisons of advanced sustainable manufacturing and material processing techniques for high-performance materials applications with a focus on sustainability and using conventional available methods.
Additive and Subtractive Manufacturing Processes
The text covers fundamental concepts and applications of additive and subtractive manufacturing in a single volume. It will be a useful reference text for senior undergraduate, graduate students, and academic researchers in areas including industrial and manufacturing engineering, mechanical engineering, and production engineering.
Technological Innovations for Effective Pandemic Response
This reference text discusses the potential of efficient R&D management during times of pandemic crisis and how it can provide time-bound real-life deliverables to ward-off the contamination-linked vulnerability aspects of social interaction.
Functionally Graded Materials (FGMs)
The science and study of Functionally Graded Materials (FGMs) has intrigued researchers over the last few decades. This book addresses various FGM aspects and provides a relevant quality and comprehensive data source.
Evolutionary Optimization of Material Removal Processes
This text covers the latest machining processes using evolutionary optimization and comparative analysis with conventional optimization techniques. It will an ideal reference text for graduate students and academic researchers working in diverse engineering fields including mechanical, aerospace, industrial, manufacturing.
Advances in Sustainable Machining and Manufacturing Processes
This book comprehensively covers basic concepts, advanced research topics, case studies, and advancement in sustainable machining techniques in a single volume. It will an ideal text for undergraduate, graduate students, and researchers in the fields of mechanical, manufacturing, industrial, production engineering and materials science.
Internet of Things
Internet of Things (IoT) is expanding at a rapid rate and it is becoming increasingly important for professionals to understand what it is, how it works, and how to harness its power to improve business. Because of this it's very important to make sure that security is integrated into all IoT systems.
Industrial Reliability and Safety Engineering
This book addresses the reliability, risk, and safety issues of real industrial systems with application of the latest reliability and riskbased modelling. Related topics such as maintenance decision-making, risk and safety modelling are also addressed with the implementation of decision-making techniques.
Machine Learning Adoption in Blockchain-Based Intelligent Manufacturing
This book looks at industry change patterns and innovations (such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, big data analysis, and blockchain support and efficiency technology) that are speeding up industrial transformation, industrial infrastructure, biodiversity, and productivity.
Hybrid Quantum Metaheuristics
The text discusses several hybrid quantum metaheuristics to efficiently analyses diverse engineering problems. It will be an ideal reference text for graduate students and professional in the field of electrical engineering, electronics and communications engineering, and computer science engineering.
Total Manufacturing Assurance
This new edition presents an enhanced perspective for the innovative concept of Total Manufacturing Assurance (TMA) and the holistic means by which such assurance can be attained. In fulfilling this objective, this textbook discusses the management and engineering techniques and tools required to achieve TMA.
Cyber-Physical Systems for Industrial Transformation
This book investigates the fundaments, standards, and protocols of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) in the industrial transformation environment. It facilitates a fusion of both technologies in the creation of reliable and robust applications. Cyber-Physical Systems for Industrial Transformation: Fundamentals, Standards, and Protocols explores emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, data science, blockchain, robotic process automation, virtual reality, edge computing, and 5G technology to highlight current and future opportunities to transition CPS to become more robust and reliable. The book showcases the real-time sensing, processing, and actuation software and discusses fault-tolerant and cybersecurity as well. This book brings together undergraduates, postgraduates, academics, researchers, and industry individuals that are interested in exploring new ideas, techniques, and tools related to CPS and Industry 4.0.
Designing Intelligent Healthcare Systems, Products, and Services Using Disruptive Technologies and Health Informatics
Disruptive technologies are gaining importance in healthcare systems and health informatics. By discussing Computational Intelligence, IoT, Blockchain, Cloud, and Big Data Analytics, this book provides support to researchers and other stakeholders involved in designing intelligent systems used for healthcare systems, products, and services.
The Circular Supply Chain
Organizations need to stay competitive and transition from a linear make-use-dispose supply chain model to a sustainable one. This book covers techniques and basic principles, historical developments, cross-cutting concerns, digitization, and the application of blockchain to adopt a circular supply chain model for sustainability improvements.
The Data-Driven Blockchain Ecosystem
This book focuses on the futuristic approaches and designs for real-time systems and applications, as well as the fundamental concepts of including advanced techniques and tools with the models of the data-driven blockchain ecosystem.
Biodegradable Polymers
This book highlights that biodegradability is a great burden when trying to replace, modify, and/or design existing products, and processes that are highly polluting. Finally, the present book concludes with reflections on the development of biopolymers in different areas, and some of their consequences depending on their biodegradability.
New-Technology Flowmeters
The book describes the origin, principle of operation, development, advantages and disadvantages, applications, and frontiers of research for new-technology flowmeters: Coriolis, magnetic, ultrasonic, vortex, and thermal. It focuses on the newer, faster growing flowmeter markets, while placing them in the context of more traditional meters.
Blockchain-Enabled Resilience
This book provides a first-of-its-kind approach for managers and policy-makers as well as researchers interested in using blockchain to enhance resilience in disaster supply chains, especially when dealing with dynamic communication, relief operations, prioritization, coordination, and distribution of scarce resources.
Intelligent Systems and Machine Learning for Industry
The text discusses models related to smart automation in the manufacturing processes and early warning detection systems using machine intelligence. It will serve as an ideal reference text for graduate students and academic researchers in diverse engineering fields such as electrical, electronics and communication.
Advanced Numerical Methods for Differential Equations
Mathematical models are used to convert real-life problems using mathematical concepts and language. These models are governed by differential equations whose solutions make it easy to understand the real-life problems. The applications can be applied to engineering and science disciplines.
Post-Digital Letterpress Printing
This book presents an overview of the convergence of traditional letterpress with contemporary digital design and fabrication practices.
Plastics and Industrial Design
Originally published in 1945, Plastics and Industrial Design is a non-technical work of reference for manufacturers and designers who, after the Second World War were beginning to realize the possibilities that manufacturing with Plastics could bring.
Big Data for Entrepreneurship and Sustainable Development
This book provides insight for researchers and decision-makers on the application of data in the entrepreneurship and sustainable development sector. This book covers how Big Data for Industry 4.0 and Entrepreneurship are effective in resolving business, social, and economic problems.
Additive Manufacturing Processes in Biomedical Engineering
This book covers innovative breakthroughs in additive manufacturing processes used for biomedical engineering. More and more 3D printing is selected over traditional manufacturing processes especially for complex designs because of the many advantages such as less restrictions, better production cost savings, higher quality control, and accuracy.
Graphene-Rubber Nanocomposites
Owing to the strategic importance of elastomer-based products in different segments, graphene has been frequently leveraged for different applications. Graphene-Rubber Nanocomposites: From Fundamentals to Applications provides a comprehensive and innovative account of graphene-rubber composites.
