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NASA’s mission is to drive advances in science, technology, aeronautics, and space exploration to enhance knowledge, education, innovation, economic vitality, and stewardship of Earth. Chapter 1 and 2 provide a snapshot for 2018 of how well NASA is planning and executing its major acquisition projects. In May 2017, GAO found that projects were continuing a…
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Well testing is a valuable and economical tool in the oil and gas industry. Thanks to the advances in mathematical modeling, measurement devices and computer capabilities, well testing continues to be a growing subject. The information obtained from well testing is analyzed with the purpose of obtaining important reservoir information useful for hydrocarbon field management.…
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This book focuses on the latest developments in the field of engineering. The first chapter presents the implementation of Lean philosophy and Lean tools in coal mining. Chapter Two describes numerical and experimental analyses of milling bifurcations, or instabilities. Chapter Three examines metabolic engineering strategies in the production of aromatic amino acids. Chapter Four outlines…
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This book focuses on the latest developments in the field of engineering. The first chapter presents trajectory planning for robots with rigid bodies. Chapter Two explores image tracking of a humanoid robot based on visual serving. Chapter Three describes a project in the area of Ambient Assisted Living (AAL), in particular for the continuous care…
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Transmission Lines: Theory, Types and Applications
Energy Policies, Politics and Prices, Electrical Engineering Developments, Special Topics, Technology and Engineering$250.00Quick ViewA transmission line is the material medium or structure that forms all or part of a path from one place to another for directing the transmission of energy, such as electromagnetic waves or acoustic waves, as well as electric power transmission. This book presents current research data from across the globe in the study of…
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This book focuses on the latest developments in the field of engineering. The first chapter presents software engineering and ontology development. Chapter Two discusses metal rapid prototyping technologies. Chapter Three presents a complete description of the Scalable High Efficiency Video Coding (SHVC) architecture and its application scenarios; comprehensively analyzes the recent efforts toward an improved…
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A material structure assembled from a layer or cluster of atoms with the size of the order of nanometers is called a nanostructure. There are many events such as the discovery of scanning electron microscopy that gave fillip to nanotechnology research. However, with the discovery of a new allotrope of carbon in the late 1980s…
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This book focuses on the latest developments in the field of engineering. Chapter One presents the mathematical modeling of an electric power distribution network segment using the PLC technology, through the use of a traditional model. Chapter Two proposes a framework which incorporates scale-reduction and offers two variants which use different scale reduction approaches. Chapter…
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This book focuses on the latest developments in the field of engineering. Chapter One reviews an extensive study on the design of experiment methods. Chapter Two presents controller designs using the traditional proportional integral derivative (PID) control algorithm to control a planar two-link flexible manipulator. Chapter Three presents an active vibration control (AVC) system for…
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This research aims to make an original and advanced contribution to state-of-the-art sky models. It focuses on high-resolution sky radiance and luminance models given their essential importance in a host of scientific and engineering applications. For example, improved sky radience and luminance models can be used to improve the design and operation of energy-efficient and…
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In Advances in Engineering Research. Volume 28, the authors describe the functional beam splitter that divides the incident beam into several derivative ones, simultaneously introducing the prescribed transformation of their transverse profiles. Recommendations for managing the diffracted beams’ profiles and their employment in precise metrology and optical vortices analysis are given. Unlike most engineered filtering…
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This book focuses on the latest developments in the field of engineering. Chapter One proposes and evaluates a fuzzy logic based freeway traffic control strategy to overcome the limitations of existing strategies. Chapter Two shows how the particle swarm optimization technique, PSO, can be successfully applied to elucidate several applied mathematical and chemical engineering problems.…
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This book focuses on the latest developments in the field of engineering. Chapter One reviews terrain classification using single-pol synthetic aperture radars. Chapter Two analyzes Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) corrosion monitoring sensors. Chapter Three examines the concept of emergence in agent-based modeling and simulation by modeling several types of agent-based systems and examining simulations for…
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Robots or biological intelligent machines are characterized by open, adaptive systems which have autonomy and hierarchical structure. In recent years, more and more mobile robots have been applied in indoor transportation applications. In this book, the study of mobile robotics in life sciences is presented and a number of relatively technical difficulties are considered. A…
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This book presents original research results on the leading edge of chemistry research. Each article has been carefully selected in an attempt to present substantial research results across a broad spectrum. Topics discussed include catalysis for nitrous oxide abatement; bioelectrocatalysis with P450 cytochromes; application of nitrous oxide for chemical vapor deposition of thin films used…
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1The opening chapter of Advances in Engineering Research. Volume 27 summarizes current progress in the design of multimode dielectric resonator antennas. Emphasis is placed on the operating modes achieved by different research groups, including the authors’, as well as the feeding system used, the modes’ radiation performances, and radiation patterns. The authors conclude that the…
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Advances in Engineering Research. Volume 20 begins by analyzing the extraction and separation protocols documented for the saponins from family caryophyllaceae during the period 1967-2014. Analyses of applied extraction and separation protocols of saponins were carried out to determine the most practiced protocols in the study period and to identify eventual trends between protocols, plant…
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This book covers leading-edge research in a cross-section of fields centering on engineering applications including current research data on the environmental impacts of future technologies of commercial aircraft; health and safety in engineering; high temperature degradation of plasma sprayed thermal barrier coatings in the oxidizing environment; neutrino telescopes and neutrino interactions and a rotocraft trim…
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This book provides the reader with a systematic approach for designing and developing a new measuring instrument. The focus is on offering new creative options for data collection during the development stage of the instrument. These alternative methods for data collection are explained by providing the rationale thereof as well as practical examples of how…
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Advances in Engineering Research. Volume 22 opens with an illustration of some of the smart functionalities that can be implemented at the very pixel level using heat balanced configuration. The chapter also introduces micro-fabrication CMOS-MEMS technologies suitable for the monolithic integration of such smart infrared detectors. Such smart functions may relieve high level processing from…
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In the opening chapter of Advances in Engineering Research. Volume 23, the authors describe the unique challenges of the logging tool hardware, measurements, and the spin-dynamics modeling, as well as data processing. The second part of the chapter describes typical NMR pulse sequences that are used for logging measurements, NMR responses for fluids in rock…
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Advances in Engineering Research. Volume 21 opens with a review of some basic theoretical elements of DES and case studies related to construction process and maintenance management, which can illustrate the practical benefits of this discrete event simulation. Afterwards, the authors propose a low cost ultrasonic planar anemometer that is achieved by introducing an Arduino…
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In Noise Reduction: Methods, Applications and Technology, the authors open with an overview of image denoising approaches. The review covers additive and multiplicative noise reduction methods in the spatial, frequency and wavelet domains, as well as their applications. Finally, experimental qualitative and quantitative evaluations on synthetic and real images corrupted by noise of different distributions…
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At a May 1981 ”Proseminar in Space History” held at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum (NASM) in Washington, DC, historians came together to consider the state of the discipline of space history. It was an historic occasion. The community of scholars interested in the history of spaceflight was not large; previously, well-meaning…