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This textbook on fire dynamics provides a comprehensive description of fuels involved in fires, definitions related to fire, thermodynamics for fire calculations, basics of transport processes and fundamental aspects of combustion related to fire, physical descriptions of premixed and non-premixed flames, detailed analysis of the characteristics of fires from solid and liquid fuels, including ignition, spread and burning rates and physical aspects of fire plumes, compartment fires and dust fires. The contents also highlight fundamental aspects related to the evaporation of liquid fuels and pyrolysis of solid fuels which are explained with simplified mathematical expressions. The book includes pedagogical features such as worked examples to illustrate mathematical calculations involved in fire analysis and end-of-chapter review questions. This book proves useful for students, researchers and industry professionals alike.

This book provides use case scenarios of machine learning, artificial intelligence, and real-time domains to supplement cyber security operations and proactively predict attacks and preempt cyber incidents.

Introduction. The Limits of Digital Leadership: from Agile to "Great Leap"I. DIGITAL BREAKTHROUGHChapter 1. Future Leadership: the Uncertainty of the Technological FutureChapter 2. The Future with Artificial Intelligence: a Strategy for Sucsess Chapter 3. The Technological Revolution in the Field of Financial IntermediationChapter 4.  Digital Vector of Ensuring Economic Security of the CompanyChapter 5.  Modernization or New Engineering: Models of Leadership in the Global Civil Aviation MarketChapter 6.  Digital Twins Application in the Management of Scientific and Technological Development of High-Tech IndustryChapter 7. Individualization of Approaches in Scenarios of Survival and Development of Companies in the Digital EnvironmentChapter 8.  Artificial Intelligence in Public GovernanceChapter 9. Use of global navigation satellite systems in smart citiesChapter 10. Digital Trade Route to Economic Space of the Eurasian Economic Union: Institutions and TechnologyChapter 11. Digitalization as Objective Factor of the Substitution of the Labor by the CapitalII. SPURT ECONOMICS'' SYSTEMSChapter 12.  Investment to Modernization and Reconstruction of Industrial Equipment: Evaluation of Multiplier Effects for RussiaChapter 13. Risks of National Economies Modernization in the Conditions of Technological LeapChapter 14. Imperfect Mechanisms for the Use and Protection of Intellectual Property as an Organizational Barrier in the Movement to Global Technological Leadership Chapter 15. Smart cities hyper-economy as the reflection of high-tech-based governance leadershipChapter 16. Smart Contracts and Corporate Governance: Prospects and RisksChapter 17. Urban Mobility: from Traditional to Intelligent  Forms of MobilityChapter 18.  Banking in paradigm of the sustainable development goalsChapter 19. The Role of the Directors'' and Officers'' Insurance Contract in Corporate GovernanceChapter 20. On the Constitutional Court''s Position about Freedom and Privacy in the Banking SectorConclusion. Technology Leadership Performance: Opportunities and Threats

Nika, G. and Vernescu, B., Micro-geometry effects on the nonlinear effective yield strength response of magnetorheological fluids.- Jerez-Hanckes, C. et al., Multiscale analysis of myelinated axons.- P├⌐rez-Mart├¡nez, M., Homogenization for alternating boundary conditions with large reaction terms concentrated in small regions.-  G. Fulgencio, R. and Guib├⌐, O.,  Quasilinear Elliptic Problems in a Two-Component Domain with L^1 data.- Donato, P. et al., Homogenization of  an eigenvalue problem in a two-component domain with  interfacial jump.

This book develops the discourse on the experiences of ex-combatants and their transition from war to peace, from the perspective of scholars across disciplines.

This volume provides up-to-date information on what has happened in the African 'land rush', providing national case studies for countries that were heavily impacted. The research will be a critical resource for students, researchers, advocates and policy makers as it provides detailed, long-term assessments of a broad range of national contexts.

Chapter 1. Development Institutions as a Tool for Implementing Transformation Processes in the Economy.- Chapter 2. Managing for future crisis management under post-industrial modernization.- Chapter 3.  High Technologies for Smart Cities Development.- Chapter 4. Digital State: Creation through Project-functional Structure of Public Administration.- Chapter 5.  Innovative Ecosystems for Attracting Investment in a Post-Industrial Society.- Chapter 6.  Transformation of a Traditional Financial Conglomerate into a Financial Ecosystem.- Chapter 7. International Investment Law: a journey from the past to the future.- Chapter 8. "Who Will Rule?": Institution of State in Transformation Process in XX-XXI c.- Chapter 9. New Generation EU Free Trade Agreements: a Combination of Traditional and Innovative Mechanisms.- Chapter 10. Change of Tax Policy Model as a Base for Innovation Development while Transferring from the Preindustrial to the Industrial Society.- Chapter  11.  Civil Liability Concept Transition in Post-Industrial Countries.- Chapter 12. International Competitiveness of High-tech Companies: Factors, Barriers, Government Regulation.- Chapter 13. Intellectual Evaluation of the Economic Systems Performance in Post-Industrial Society.-Chapter 14. Transit Economy in Global Post-Industrial Eurasia.- Chapter 15. Defining the Readiness for Smart City Concept: Russian Municipalities Study.- Chapter 16. The Evolution of Fashion Consumer Perception in Post-Industrial Era.- Conclusion. Post-Industrial Society: State Initiative and Social Conservatism.

This book explores the evolving roles of energy stakeholders and geopolitical considerations, leveraging on the dizzying array of planned and actual projects for solar, wind, hydropower, waste-to-energy, and nuclear power in the region.

This open access volume is based on the 'Early Carnap in Context' workshop that took place in Konstanz in 2017 and looks at Rudolf Carnap's philosophy, documented in his recently released diaries, from a combination of historical, cultural and philosophical perspectives.

Chapter 1. Display Advertising and Brand Awareness in Search Engines. Predicting the Engagement of Branded Search Traffic Visitors.- Chapter 2. Optimization of Paid Search Traffic Effectiveness and Users Engagement within Websites.- Chapter 3. Search Engines Visits and Users Behavior in Websites. Optimization of Traffic Engagement with the Content.- Chapter 4. Search Engine Optimization Techniques: The story of an old-fashioned website.- Chapter 5. Accelerated Mobile Pages: A Comparative Study.- Chapter 6. Fuzzy Cognitive Maps and Spiritual Modeling of Management Systems: Issues and Challenges.- Chapter 7. On Multiplicity of Equilibria in Search Markets with Social Networks.- Chapter 8. Prominence and Search Regret in Duopoly.- Chapter 9. Search Regret and Social Networks.- Chapter 10. Applying elements of smart educational environments in business decision support centers.- Chapter 11. Applying elements of smart educational environments in business decision support centers.- Chapter 12. Financial business ecosystems - the case of real estate management.- Chapter 13. Business Ecosystems for Organizational Excellence.

This book contributes to the area of ongoing global risks and the area of forthcoming global risks, particularly necessary for the implementation of very important interdisciplinary research activities.

The purpose of the Reasoning Web Summer School is to disseminate recent advances on reasoning techniques and related issues that are of particular interest to Semantic Web and Linked Data applications.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Second Southern African Conference on Artificial Intelligence Research, SACAIR 2021, held in Durban, South Africa, in December 2021.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Security, Privacy, and Applied Cryptography Engineering, SPACE 2021, held in Kolkata, India, in December 2021. This annual event is devoted to various aspects of security, privacy, applied cryptography, and cryptographic engineering.

This book gathers the proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Technologies for Humanity (ICATHΓÇÖ2021), held on November 26-27, 2021, in INSEA, Rabat, Morocco. ICATHΓÇÖ2021 was jointly co-organized by the National Institute of Statistics and Applied Economics (INSEA) in collaboration with the Moroccan School of Engineering Sciences (EMSI), the Hassan II Institute of Agronomy and Veterinary Medicine  (IAV-Hassan II), the National Institute of Posts and Telecommunications (INPT), the National School of Mineral Industry (ENSMR), the Faculty of Sciences of Rabat (UM5-FSR), the National School of Applied Sciences of Kenitra (ENSAK) and the Future University in Egypt (FUE).ICATHΓÇÖ2021 was devoted to practical models and industrial applications related to advanced technologies for Humanity. It was considered as a meeting point for researchers and practitioners to enable the implementation of advanced information technologies into various industries. This book is helpful for PhD students as well as researchers.The 48 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 105 submissions. The papers presented in the volume are organized in topical sections on synergies between (i) smart and sustainable cities, (ii) communication systems, signal and image processing for humanity, (iii) cybersecurity, database and language processing for human applications, (iV) renewable and sustainable energies, (V) civil engineering and structures for sustainable constructions, (Vi) materials and smart buildings and (Vii) Industry 4.0 for smart factories.All contributions were subject to a double-blind review. The review process was highly competitive. We had to review 105 submissions from 12 countries. A team of over 100 program committee members and reviewers did this terrific job. Our special thanks go to all of them.

This book provides a thorough overview of methods and approaches to the experimental characterization of superconductors at microwave frequencies, and includes a detailed description of the two main techniques, both based on the use of coplanar waveguide resonators, that the authors employed to investigate the properties of unconventional superconductors. In the second part several case studies are described, covering a large spectrum of materials and issues. Particular emphasis is given to recent hot topics concerning iron-based superconductors, both of fundamental nature and relevant for applications. The book is intended as a learning tool for researchers in the field, and serves as a guide providing inspiring examples of the use of coplanar resonator techniques to address key topics in the field of unconventional superconductivity.

This book explains and illustrates how Indonesia as the largest and most populous country in Southeast Asia can become independent of fossil fuels by both reducing its energy needs and using renewable resources. A study presented in this work focuses on the Maluku Archipelago in eastern Indonesia with Ambon as its capital. Conventional energy is brought to the islands over long distances by partly simple means as boats, ships and aircrafts. This unsustainable situation calls for a decentralized renewable energy supply strategy.   Based on the research presented in this book, it is clear that the archipelago has the potential to become a so-called plus-minus region. Plus-minus regions are regions that produce more renewable energy than they need and capture more CO2 than they emit. The authors are convinced that the presented strategy illustrated on the Maluku Archipelago can be transferred to other regions of the world and that only by developing plus-minus regions the international 2┬░C climate goal can be achieved. The model region thus serves as proof that the plus-minus target can also be achieved in emerging countries with limited financial resources.  

The second section introduces readers to the fundamental aspects of thermal installations equipped with geothermal heat pumps, describes the types of geothermal exchangers most commonly used, and reviews the techniques used to obtain the thermal parameters of the terrain.

This book presents a set of soft computing approaches and their application in data analytics, classification model, and control. The basics of fuzzy logic implementation for advanced hybrid fuzzy driven optimization methods has been covered in the book. The various soft computing techniques, including Fuzzy Logic, Rough Sets, Neutrosophic Sets, Type-2 Fuzzy logic, Neural Networks, Generative Adversarial Networks, and Evolutionary Computation have been discussed and they are used on variety of applications including data analytics, classification model, and control.The book is divided into two thematic parts. The first thematic section covers the various soft computing approaches for text classification and data analysis, while the second section focuses on the fuzzy driven optimization methods for the control systems. The chapters has been written and edited by active researchers, which cover hypotheses and practical considerations; provide insights into the design of hybrid algorithms for applications in data analytics, classification model, and engineering control.

This work details how standard tools from many-body physics can be generalised to discrete quantum gravity labelled with graph-based, or dual polyhedral, quanta that are common to various approaches like tensorial group field theory, loop quantum gravity, dynamical triangulations and lattice quantum gravity.

The chapters contained in the volume are based on the presentations at the 2020 edition of the CELDA conference and cover multiple developments in the field such as deploying learning technologies, proposing pedagogical approaches and practices to address digital transformation, and presenting case studies of specific technologies and contexts.

This book comprises a number of state-of-the-art contributions from both scientists and practitioners working in a large pool of fields where AI and IoT can open up new horizons. Artificial intelligence and Internet of Things have introduced themselves today as must-have technologies in almost every sector. Ranging from agriculture to industry and health care, the scope of applications of AI and IoT is as wide as the horizon. Nowadays, these technologies are extensively used in developed countries, but they are still at an early stage in emerging countries.AI and IoT for Sustainable Development in Emerging CountriesΓÇöChallenges and Opportunities is an invaluable source to dive into the latest applications of AI and IoT and how they have been used by researchers from emerging countries to solve sustainable development-related issues by taking into consideration the specifities of their countries. This book starts by presenting how AI and IoT can tackle the challenges of sustainable development in general and then focuses on the following axes:┬╖       AI and IoT for smart environment and energy┬╖       Industry 4.0 and intelligent transportation┬╖       A vision towards an artificial intelligence of medical things┬╖       AI, social media, and big data analytics.It aspires to provide a relevant reference for students, researchers, engineers, and professionals working in these particular areas or those interested in grasping its diverse facets and exploring the latest advances on their respective fields and the role of AI and IoT in them.

This book offers a fresh perspective on the early history of macroeconomics, by examining the macro-dynamic models developed from the late 1920s to the late 1940s, and their treatment of economic instability.

The book describes the thermodynamics, fluid dynamics, and working principle of the Ranque Hilsch Vortex Tube. In addition, the book features a wealth of illustrations on various aspects of the vortex tube that make it easy to read and understand.

This text highlights the difference between analytics and data science, using predictive analytic techniques to analyze different historical data, including aviation data and concrete data, interpreting the predictive models, and highlighting the steps to deploy the models and the steps ahead.

This book presents the history, fundamentals, process development, applications, post-processing, and experimental results from additive manufacturing. This book also presents content on simulation, modeling, and optimization of materials processing and surface engineering techniques.

The focus is on the development of high quality documents and presentations, by revealing powerful insights into the LaTeX language.