Science Technology category: 45382 books
Developments and Innovation in Carbon Dioxide (CO2) Capture and Storage Technology
Carbon Dioxide (Co2) Storage and Utilisation
Language: English
Release Date: July 13, 2010
Carbon dioxide (CO2) capture and storage (CCS) is the one advanced technology that conventional power generation cannot do without. CCS technology reduces the carbon footprint of power plants by capturing, and storing the CO2 emissions from burning fossil-fuels and biomass. This volume provides a...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2010
Fossil-fuel power plants account for the majority of worldwide power generation. Increasing global energy demands, coupled with issues of ageing and inefficient power plants, have led to new power plant construction programmes. As cheaper fossil fuel resources are exhausted and emissions criteria...
Future War
Preparing for the New Global Battlefield
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2017
An urgent, prescient, and expert look at how future technology will change virtually every aspect of war as we know it and how we can respond to the serious national security challenges ahead.
Future war is almost here: battles fought in cyberspace; biologically enhanced soldiers; autonomous...
The Global Technology Revolution 2020, Executive Summary
Bio/Nano/Materials/Information Trends, Drivers, Barriers, and Social Implications
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2006
In 2020, areas of particular importance for technology trends will include biotechnology, nanotechnology, materials technology, and information technology. The authors of this report assessed a sample of 29 countries across the spectrum of scientific advancement (low to high) with respect to their...
Science Policy, Ethics, and Economic Methodology
Some Problems of Technology Assessment and Environmental-Impact Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
If indeed scientists and technologists, especially economists, set much of the agenda by which the future is played out, and I think they do, then the student of scientific methodology and public ethics has at least three options. He can embrace certain scientific methods and the value they hold for...
The Science of War
Defense Budgeting, Military Technology, Logistics, and Combat Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2009
The U.S. military is one of the largest and most complex organizations in the world. How it spends its money, chooses tactics, and allocates its resources have enormous implications for national defense and the economy. The Science of War is the only comprehensive textbook on how to analyze and understand...
Technology and the Intelligence Community
Challenges and Advances for the 21st Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
This volume examines the role of technology in gathering, assimilating and utilizing intelligence information through the ages. Pushing the boundaries of existing works, the articles contained here take a broad view of the use and implementation of technology and intelligence procedures during the...
The Historiography of Contemporary Science, Technology, and Medicine
Writing Recent Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2006
As historians of science increasingly turn to work on recent (post 1945) science, the historiographical and methodological problems associated with the history of contemporary science are debated with growing frequency and urgency.
Bringing together authorities on the history, historiography...
Advanced Adhesives in Electronics
Materials, Properties and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
Adhesives for electronic applications serve important functional and structural purposes in electronic components and packaging, and have developed significantly over the last few decades. Advanced adhesives in electronics reviews recent developments in adhesive joining technology, processing and...
Self-Healing Materials
Principles and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
Self-Healing Materials: Principles and Technology is a practical book aimed at giving engineers and researchers in both industry and academia the information they need to deploy self-healing technology in a wide range of potential applications—from adhesives to the automotive industry, and from...
Vegetable Oils in Food Technology
Composition, Properties and Uses
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2011
Our dietary intake comprises three macronutrients (protein, carbohydrate and lipid) and a large but unknown number of micronutrients (vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, etc). Good health rests, in part, on an adequate and balanced supply of these components. This book is concerned with the major sources...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Whether considered a threat to the health of humans in particular or of the ecosystem in general, the problem of air pollution affects us all. In addition to the 189 chemicals listed in the air toxins category of the 1990 Clean Air Act Amendments, smog, acid rain, ozone depletion, and global warming...
Coral Reef Remote Sensing
A Guide for Mapping, Monitoring and Management
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
Remote sensing stands as the defining technology in our ability to monitor coral reefs, as well as their biophysical properties and associated processes, at regional to global scales. With overwhelming evidence that much of Earth’s reefs are in decline, our need for large-scale, repeatable assessments...
Ultrashort Pulse Laser Technology
Laser Sources and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Ultrashort laser pulses with durations in the femtosecond range up to a few picoseconds provide a unique method for precise materials processing or medical applications. Paired with the recent developments in ultrashort pulse lasers, this technology is finding its way into various application fields....