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Scenarios and Responses to Future Deep Oil Spills: Fighting the Next War
Scenarios and Responses to Future Deep Oil Spills: Fighting the Next War
It has often been said that generals prepare for the next war by re-fighting the last.  The Deepwater Horizon (DWH) oil spill was unlike any previous – an underwater well blowout 1,500 meters deep.  Much has been learned in the wake of DWH and these lessons should in turn be applied to both similar oil spill scenarios...
Special Topics in Structural Dynamics & Experimental Techniques, Volume 5: Proceedings of the 37th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural ... Society for Experimental Mechanics Series)
Special Topics in Structural Dynamics & Experimental Techniques, Volume 5: Proceedings of the 37th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural ... Society for Experimental Mechanics Series)
Special Topics in Structural Dynamics & Experimental Techniques, Volume 5: Proceedings of the 37th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2019, the fifth volume of eight from the Conference brings together contributions to this important area of research and engineering.  The collection...
South Africa's Post-Apartheid Military: Lost in Transition and Transformation (Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications)
South Africa's Post-Apartheid Military: Lost in Transition and Transformation (Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications)
This timely book examines how the South African National Defence Force has adapted to the country’s new security, political and social environment since 1994. In South Africa’s changed political state, how has civilian control of the military been implemented and what does this mean for ‘defence in a democracy’? This...
Proceedings of the International Conference of Sustainable Production and Use of Cement and Concrete: ICSPCC 2019 (RILEM Bookseries)
Proceedings of the International Conference of Sustainable Production and Use of Cement and Concrete: ICSPCC 2019 (RILEM Bookseries)
This volume gathers the latest advances, innovations and applications presented by leading international researchers and engineers at the International Conference on Sustainable Production and Use of Cement and Concrete (ICSPCC 2019), held in Villa Clara, Cuba on June 23-30, 2019. It covers highly diverse topics, including sustainable production...
Freedom and Evolution: Hierarchy in Nature, Society and Science
Freedom and Evolution: Hierarchy in Nature, Society and Science
The book begins with familiar designs found all around and inside us (such as the ‘trees’ of river basins, human lungs, blood and city traffic). It then shows how all flow systems are driven by power from natural engines everywhere, and how they are endlessly shaped because of freedom. Finally, Professor Bejan explains...
Hydraulic Structures
Hydraulic Structures

This graduate/upper-division undergraduate textbook provides a solid grounding in the theory underlying the design and analysis of hydraulic structures, including spillways, energy dissipators, culverts, flow measuring structures and others. It describes well-established theory and procedures, as well as recent developments gleaned...

European E-Democracy in Practice (Studies in Digital Politics and Governance)
European E-Democracy in Practice (Studies in Digital Politics and Governance)
This open access book explores how digital tools and social media technologies can contribute to better participation and involvement of EU citizens in European politics. By analyzing selected representative e-participation projects at the local, national and European governmental levels, it identifies the preconditions, best practices...
Software Design for Resilient Computer Systems
Software Design for Resilient Computer Systems

This book addresses the question of how system software should be designed to account for faults, and which fault tolerance features it should provide for highest reliability. With this second edition of Software Design for Resilient Computer Systems the book is thoroughly updated to contain the newest advice...

Senior Cohousing: A New Way Forward for Active Older Adults (SpringerBriefs in Aging)
Senior Cohousing: A New Way Forward for Active Older Adults (SpringerBriefs in Aging)
This book presents a concise description and qualitative exploration of a new residential option for older adults: senior cohousing. It describes the practical, structural and communal aspects of senior cohousing and shares the lived experiences of actual residents. Pursuing an existential-phenomenological approach, the authors visited...
Blockchain Technology for Industry 4.0: Secure, Decentralized, Distributed and Trusted Industry Environment (Blockchain Technologies)
Blockchain Technology for Industry 4.0: Secure, Decentralized, Distributed and Trusted Industry Environment (Blockchain Technologies)

This book explores recent advances in blockchain technology and its impact on Industry 4.0 via advanced technologies. It provides an in-depth analysis of the step by step evolution of Industry 4.0 and blockchain technologies for creating the next-generation, secure, decentralized, distributed and trusted industry environment and...

E-waste Recycling and Management: Present Scenarios and Environmental Issues (Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World)
E-waste Recycling and Management: Present Scenarios and Environmental Issues (Environmental Chemistry for a Sustainable World)

This book gives up-to-date information and broad views on e-waste recycling and management using the latest techniques for industrialist and academicians. It describes the problems of e-waste generated by all global living communities and its impact on our ecosystems and discusses recycling techniques in detail to reduce its effect...

The Average Consumer in Confusion-based Disputes in European Trademark Law and Similar Fictions
The Average Consumer in Confusion-based Disputes in European Trademark Law and Similar Fictions

This book contends that, with regard to the likelihood of confusion standard, European trademark law applies the average consumer incoherently and inconsistently. To test this proposal, it presents an analysis of the horizontal and vertical level of harmonization of the average consumer. The horizontal part focuses on similar...

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