River Publishers imprint: 15 books

The Internet of Women

Accelerating Culture Change

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Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2016

Female scientists, technologists, engineers, and mathematicians worldwide are making historic contributions to their fields. The modern workforce is closer to gender-equal than it has ever been, and many efforts are in place to support further progress. The Internet of Women provides an exciting look...

An Introduction to Robophilosophy

Cognition, Intelligence, Autonomy, Consciousness, Conscience and Ethics

by Spyros G. Tzafestas
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016

Modern robots have arrived at a very matured state both in their mechanical / control aspects and their mental aspects. An Introduction to Robophilosophy explores the philosophical questions that arise in the development, creation, and use of mental – anthropomorphic and zoomorphic- robots that...
by Kamran Iqbal
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017

Control systems are pervasive in our lives. Our homes have environmental controls. Appliances we use at home such as the washing machine, microwave, etc. have embedded controllers. We fly in airplanes and drive automobiles, which make extensive use of control systems. The increase of automation in...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2018

Although more than 70% of the globe is covered with water, only a small portion is suitable for direct human use, making the scarcity of freshwater one of our planet's most serious challenges. In this context, desalination, defined as "the separation of salts from water," is one of the possible...

Computational Electrodynamics

A Gauge Approach with Applications in Microelectronics

by Wim Schoenmaker
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2017

Computational electrodynamics is a vast research field with a wide variety of tools. In physics, the principle of gauge invariance plays a pivotal role as a guide towards a sensible formulation of the laws of nature as well as for computing the properties of elementary particles using the lattice...
by William J. Buchanan
Language: English
Release Date: September 27, 2017

Cryptography has proven to be one of the most contentious areas in modern society. For some, it protects the rights of individuals to privacy and security. For others, it puts up barriers against the protection of our society. This book aims to develop a deep understanding of cryptography and provide...

A Short History of Circuits and Systems

From Green, Mobile, Pervasive Networking to Big Data Computing

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Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016

After an overview of major scientific discoveries of the 18th and 19th centuries, which created electrical science as we know and understand it and led to its useful applications in energy conversion, transmission, manufacturing industry and communications, this Circuits and Systems History book fills...
by Dario Toncich
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016

Key Factors in Postgraduate Research Supervision: A Guide for Supervisors is designed to inform and support university academics and researchers who are taking on the responsibilities of postgraduate research student supervision. It is aimed at early career professionals, who may be undertaking supervision...

Sustainable Business

Integrating CSR in Business and Functions

by Annabeth Aagaard
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016

The developments in our environment and society have made it clear that the way we run our businesses and govern our nations is not sustainable in the long run. This is also why more and more companies and organizations are pursuing sustainable business through various Corporate Social Responsibility...
by Dinesh Kumar
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017

A PhD is the start of a research career, and these students are the backbone of universities and research institutions. It is the opportunity for youthful energy and creativity to make a global impact and train future researchers to make a difference. However, the candidature can also be a period...

Circuit Design - Anticipate, Analyze, Exploit Variations

Statistical Methods and Optimization

by Stephan Weber, Candido Duarte
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017

Circuit Design = Science + Art! Designers need a skilled “gut feeling” about circuits and related analytical techniques, plus creativity, to solve all problems and to adhere to the specifications, the written and the unwritten ones. You must anticipate a large number of influences, like temperature...

Digital Signal Processing

A Breadth-First Approach

by Muhammad Khan, Syed K. Hasnain, Mohsin Jamil
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016

The subject of Digital Signal Processing (DSP) is enormously complex, involving many concepts, probabilities, and signal processing that are woven together in an intricate manner. To cope with this scope and complexity, many DSP texts are often organized around the “numerical examples” of a communication...
by Marcelo Sampaio de Alencar, Thiago Tavares de Alencar
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2017

Style is a distinctive manner of expression, in writing or speech. The word evolved from Latin stilus, an instrument for writing, marking, or incising, such as something used by the ancients in writing on clay or waxed tablets. It is the way in which something is said or done, as distinguished from...
by Forouhar Farzaneh, Ali Fotowat, Mahmoud Kamarei
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2018

Over the past decade, tremendous development of wireless communications has changed human life and engineering. Considerable advancement has been made in design and architecture of related RF and microwave circuits. Introduction to Wireless Communication Circuits focuses on special circuits dedicated...
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