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Future of Food Gaps in Egypt
Obstacles and Opportunities
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2016
This work gives a multidisciplinary approach to assess and provide solutions to improve food security in Egypt. It has specific chapters on projection of climate change using IPCC AR5 models and regional climate model, and a chapter on population projection in 2030. This book aimed at research,...
World Insecurity
Interdependence Vulnerabilities, Threats and Risks
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2014
The world is increasingly becoming interdependent and this interdependency has raised the number of unmistakable vulnerabilities, threats and risks. The institutions of governance in weak and failing states are driving forces that often lead to environmental damage, mismanagement of natural resources,...
The Double Constraint Inversion Methodology
Equations and Applications in Forward and Inverse Modeling of Groundwater Flow
Language: English
Release Date: December 26, 2017
This book describes a novel physics-based approach to inverse modeling that makes use of the properties of the equations governing the physics of the processes under consideration. It focuses on the inverse problems occurring in hydrogeology, but the approach is also applicable to similar inverse...
Building a Dedicated GSM GPS Module Tracking System for Fleet Management
Hardware and Software
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2018
This book shows how to build a "INFelecPHY GPS Unit" (IEP-GPS) tracking system for fleet management that is based on 3G and GPRS modules. This model should provide reliability since it deals with several protocols: 1) HTTP and HTTPS to navigate, download and upload in real time the information...
Verifiable Composition of Signature and Encryption
A Comprehensive Study of the Design Paradigms
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2017
This monograph gives a thorough treatment of the celebrated compositions of signature and encryption that allow for verifiability, that is, to efficiently prove properties about the encrypted data.
This study is provided in the context of two cryptographic primitives: (1) designated confirmer...
Functional Supramolecular Materials
From Surfaces to MOFs
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
Supramolecular materials have a great number of applications due to the reversibility of their non-covalent molecular interactions, such as reversible hydrogen bonding, host–guest interactions and electrostatic interactions. This book provides a comprehensive source of information on the structure...
by Elísio Manuel de Sousa Costa, Flávio Reis, Alice Santos-Silva
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2013
The development of new erythropoietic stimulating agents (ESAs) has significantly increased in recent years. Researchers are focused on different and interesting concepts, namely, methods to increase half-life of erythropoietin (EPO), finding different routes of administration and new ESA or modified...
Practical Guide to LTE-A, VoLTE and IoT
Paving the way towards 5G
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
Essential reference providing best practice of LTE-A, VoLTE, and IoT Design/deployment/Performance and evolution towards 5G
This book is a practical guide to the design, deployment, and performance of LTE-A, VoLTE/IMS and IoT. A comprehensive practical performance analysis for VoLTE is conducted...
Chaos in Switching Converters for Power Management
Designing for Prediction and Control
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2012
This book addresses the need for models and techniques to predict stability boundaries, given trends toward miniaturization of switching power supplies in battery-operated portable devices, which lead to the exhibition of fast-scale chaotic instabilities. The authors describe a method to predict...
by Muhammad El-Saba
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
Rapid developments in technology have led to enhanced electronic systems and applications. When utilized correctly, these can have significant impacts on communication and computer systems. Transport of Information-Carriers in Semiconductors and Nanodevices is an innovative source of academic material...
Structural Concrete
Strut-and-Tie Models for Unified Design
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2017
This book examines the application of strut-and-tie models (STM) for the design of structural concrete. It presents state-of-the-art information, from fundamental theories to practical engineering applications, and also provides innovative solutions for many design problems that are not otherwise achievable using the traditional methods.
Qatar (RLE Economy of Middle East)
Development of an Oil Economy
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2015
No region in the world has seen so much development activity in the last ten years as the Gulf area. Since ‘black gold’ catapulted the oil-producing countries into the limelight of the international political and economic scene, there has been a proliferation of studies on the larger exporting...
by Ragaei el Mallakh
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
The recent economic development of the Yemen Arab Republic is in stark contrast to the centuries of isolation that had marked the country prior to the 1962 Revolution. When economic planning was instituted in the 1970s, the nation was confronted by the needs of reconstruction after years of conflict,...
by Ragaei el Mallakh
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2014
Since the early 1970s the oil producing countries of the Gulf have become a focus of intense interest worldwide. Most of this interest has centred on the oil giants, Saudi Arabia, Iran, even Iraq and Kuwait. Yet the United Arab Emirates is also among the largest producers, on a par with Kuwait, Nigeria...