Technology category: 51960 books
International Exploration of Technology Equity and the Digital Divide
Critical, Historical and Social Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2010
The digital divide is an global phenomenon that negatively affects groups around the world. International Exploration of Technology Equity and the Digital Divide: Critical, Historical and Social Perspectives explores and presents research that centers on the historical, political, sociological, and economic...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this NASA report presents an end-to-end approach to ensure system reliability, crew health, and planetary protection in regolith environments. It also recommends technology investments that would be required to implement...
by Clive W. Humphris
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2018
An enhanced eBook published in full colour. Now including extensive interactive content enabling exploration by inserting any values that would occur in a real situation whereby the graphics are redrawn to reflect those changes. Calculations can be also tested against any standard subject textbook...
by Ian Shaw
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2015
This book examines the fundamental evidence for many different aspects of change and evolution in ancient Egyptian technology. It includes discussion of the wider cognitive and social contexts, such as the Egyptian propensity for mental creativity and innovation, and the pace of change in Egypt in...
Security and Trends in Wireless Identification and Sensing Platform Tags
Advancements in RFID
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2012
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology may become one of the most pervasive technologies of the near future. Yet the widespread adoption of this new technology presents security risks that have not been sufficiently addressed. Security and Trends in Wireless Identification and Sensing Platform...
IT Convergence and Services
ITCS & IRoA 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
IT Convergence and Services is proceedings of the 3rd FTRA International Conference on Information Technology Convergence and Services (ITCS-11) and the FTRA International Conference on Intelligent Robotics, Automations, telecommunication facilities, and applications (IRoA-11). The topics of ITCS...
Machinery, Materials Science and Engineering Applications
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Machinery, Materials Science and Engineering Applications (MMSE 2016), Wuhan, China, October 26-29 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2017
This conference proceeding contains papers presented at the 6th International Conference on Machinery, Materials Science and Engineering Applications (MMSE 2016), held 28-30 October, 2016 in Wuhan, China.
The conference proceeding contributions cover a large number of topics, both theoretical...
Managing Information Resources and Technology
Emerging Applications and Theories
Language: English
Release Date: March 31, 2013
With a constant stream of developments in the IT research field, it seems only practical that there be methods and systems in place to consistently oversee this growing area. Managing Information Resources and Technology: Emerging Applications and Theories highlights the rising trends and studies in...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2016
After decades of research and development, concentrating solar thermal (CST) power plants (also known as concentrating solar power (CSP) and as Solar Thermal Electricity or STE systems) are now starting to be widely commercialized. Indeed, the IEA predicts that by 2050, with sufficient support over...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
The annual collections in the History of Technology series look at the history of technological discovery and change, exploring the relationship of technology to other aspects of life and showing how technological development is affected by the society in which it occurred.
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
The annual collections in the History of Technology series look at the history of technological discovery and change, exploring the relationship of technology to other aspects of life and showing how technological development is affected by the society in which it occurred.
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Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2016
Technical standards have received increasing attention in recent years from historians of science and technology, management theorists and economists. Often, inquiry focuses on the emergence of stability, technical closure and culturally uniform modernity. Yet current literature also emphasizes the...
The Evolution of Cyber War
International Norms for Emerging-Technology Weapons
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Former secretary of defense Leon Panetta once described cyber warfare as “the most serious threat in the twenty-first century,” capable of destroying our entire infrastructure and crippling the nation.
Already, major cyber attacks have affected countries around the world: Estonia in 2007,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Air Conditioning System Design summarizes essential theory and then explains how the latest air conditioning technology operates. Load calculations, energy efficiency, and selection of technology are all explained in the context of air conditioning as a system, helping the reader fully consider the...