Catálogo de libros: Tecnología, ingeniería, agricultura

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  • Global Perspectives on Climate Change, Social Resilience, and Social Inclusion
    The world is confronting the reality of climate change, which transcends geographical boundaries, necessitating a multidisciplinary approach. Effective mitigation strategies for climate change demand diversity, inclusion, equity, and collaboration as paramount considerations in the formulation and execution of mitigation strategies. Global Perspectives on Climate Change, Social...
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    360,27 €

  • ENVIRONMENTAL AND RESOURCE ECONOMICS
    David Wells Roland-Holst / DAVID WELLS ROLAND-HOLST SCOTT KAPLAN / David Zilberman / Scott Kaplan
    Modern society is currently facing a cascade of environmental crises. Moving forward, it will be the job of current and future generations to develop sound and creative approaches to addressing them. This book attempts to provide insight into the ways in which society can confront modern agricultural, environmental, and resource challenges. In particular, it provides an economi...
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    169,70 €

  • ENVIRONMENTAL AND RESOURCE ECONOMICS
    David Wells Roland-Holst / DAVID WELLS ROLAND-HOLST SCOTT KAPLAN / David Zilberman / Scott Kaplan
    Modern society is currently facing a cascade of environmental crises. Moving forward, it will be the job of current and future generations to develop sound and creative approaches to addressing them. This book attempts to provide insight into the ways in which society can confront modern agricultural, environmental, and resource challenges. In particular, it provides an economi...
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    84,98 €

  • Environmental Legacy of the Manhattan Project
    Ed Struzeski
    The Manhattan Project began a new era in warfare, one that has a far-reaching impact on the health of the environment and human society. In this detailed book, an environmental engineer with more than 50 years of experience in this sector describes the layers of nuclear weapons production and how they continue to change and shape the world we live in. This book describes the hi...
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    18,61 €

  • Torque Simulation Bench for Bolted Joints
    Gabriel Gonçalves P. de Castro
    The aim of the project in question is to develop a portable torsion test bench that is versatile, robust, meets a wide torque range and guarantees operational safety. Its application is in periodic checks where there is a need to monitor and control tightening variables, as well as in corrective and preventive maintenance of tightening tools. Initially, a study was carried out ...
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    53,79 €

  • Solid Waste Generated in Oil Refining
    Jhonatas Wagner Barbosa
    As a result of its intense exploration and production activities, the oil industry is responsible for generating a large amount of waste. Industrial solid waste is one of the factors responsible for major damage to the environment. A refinery has a strong impact on the environment, as it generates large quantities of waste through its production process, if it is not managed pr...
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    53,60 €

  • Refinery(ies) / Works for Social Compensation
    Jessica Cruel
    It is currently state policy and the policy of the State Oil Company of Ecuador to intervene in the remediation and compensation works in the neighbourhoods affected by pollution, which is briefly described in detail in this project, taking into account the objectives of the social, health, citizen welfare and compensation work that has been carried out. The object of the study...
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    53,60 €

  • Innovative Multifunctional Nanomaterial for Photocatalysis, Sensing, and Imaging
    Azad Kumar
    Technology is significantly affected by a material’s ability to adapt to its environment in a beneficial way. These smart systems, in which material qualities react to outside stimuli, are currently being developed. These materials have the potential to significantly improve the performance of new systems by lowering size, weight, cost, power consumption, and complexity while e...
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    353,77 €

  • Innovative Multifunctional Nanomaterial for Photocatalysis, Sensing, and Imaging
    Azad Kumar
    Technology is significantly affected by a material’s ability to adapt to its environment in a beneficial way. These smart systems, in which material qualities react to outside stimuli, are currently being developed. These materials have the potential to significantly improve the performance of new systems by lowering size, weight, cost, power consumption, and complexity while e...
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    268,32 €

  • My Chat with GPT
    Alan O’Hashi
    My Chat with GPT is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Handbook for Cyber Citizens based on a personal conversation I had with ChatGPT about where computer programming and the human environment intersect. I’m a user of Artificial Intelligence (AI) but don’t know much about how it works other than prompting GPT and asking responses to questions I posed.I recently gave an AI worksho...
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    9,61 €

  • Comparative approach between CIM and conventional process technologies
    Eduardo César Pereira Norões
    This book takes a comparative approach between the CIM process technology and the conventional process technology adopted by a company that manufactures plastic injection moulds. To this end, a history of the evolution of process technology is developed, emphasising the three industrial revolutions. Considerations are given to the production process of plastic injection moulds ...
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    98,59 €

  • Leverage Dual Space Access Architecture - Advanced Rockets and Space Elevators
    Cathy Swan
    This study assumes Space Elevators can and must be built. 'Space Elevators: The Green Road to Space,' completed in April 2021, emphasizes that Space Elevators will not replace rockets but would join them on parallel paths towards the stars. This Dual Space Access Strategy will carry out the missions that are now planned and ensure the future we dream of becomes a reality. Spac...
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    20,30 €

  • Systems Identification and Diagnosis using Kernel Methods
    Okba Taouali
    This book deals with the problem of identifying and diagnosing complex systems using kernel methods. In order to overcome this problem, a reduction in the number of model parameters is necessary, as well as an update of these parameters. Similarly, in order to avoid the slightest failure and improve process quality and efficiency, a system diagnostics step is required, which co...
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    83,20 €

  • Nematode-Plant Interactions and Controlling Infection
    Research on free-living plants and parasitic nematodes in the soil environment, food security, and nematode-plant interactions is increasing in importance. Plant-nematode interactions heavily impact nutrient availability, crop production, and soil health. The scenarios of work with plant and soil nematodes clarify the primary in-vitro and in-vivo techniques with plant-parasitic...
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    235,65 €

  • Nematode-Plant Interactions and Controlling Infection
    Research on free-living plants and parasitic nematodes in the soil environment, food security, and nematode-plant interactions is increasing in importance. Plant-nematode interactions heavily impact nutrient availability, crop production, and soil health. The scenarios of work with plant and soil nematodes clarify the primary in-vitro and in-vivo techniques with plant-parasitic...
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    314,57 €

  • Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals Through Infrastructure Development
    Infrastructure development presents significant challenges for both developing and developed countries, hindering their progress in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Governments often struggle to effectively leverage the necessary resources and expertise for financing and managing infrastructure projects, resulting in untapped potential for sustainable and inc...
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    301,58 €

  • Affinity of application types in computing clouds
    Bruno Schulze / Fabio Licht / Luis Carlos Erpen de Bona
    In cloud computing, virtualised environments have led to a great deal of research into the possibilities and restrictions of using them, or consolidating resources. However, most of this research is limited to a level of performance analysis, which does not delve into the effects of competition between the various virtual environments, and how to mitigate these effects. The stu...
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    98,59 €

  • Portable bench for testing safety valves
    Gabriel Gonçalves P. de Castro
    When it comes to safety in pressurised vessels, it is necessary to install at least one safety/relief valve, depending on the process involved. Improper use or lack of this equipment can lead to accidents such as the leakage of gases, dangerous products or even explosions, which can be fatal for employees. This makes valve sizing extremely important, regardless of the process i...
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    53,66 €

  • Implementation of a gas detection programme in grain storage
    Daniel Mantovani / Driano Rezende / Rodolfo Dantas Dias
    Agriculture is of enormous importance to the Brazilian economy, especially in the Centre-West and South regions of Brazil, where grain is the main crop. Most of the production is delivered to processing companies, which process, store and commercialise the grain. These companies have several occupational hazards in their processes, especially those related to confined spaces (C...
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    53,60 €

  • Virtual reality computer tool for teaching biology
    Hailton David Lemos
    Teaching certain Biological Sciences content is a challenge, as many students don’t assimilate various topics and don’t feel motivated to take part in classes and consequently abstract and understand biological processes. Within this context, virtual learning environments can become instruments that will assist in the teaching of Biological Sciences content, and can provide tea...
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    59,14 €

  • Analysis of the influence of layout organisation on a construction site
    Gustavo Araújo Alves
    A detailed assessment of the costs of moving materials, equipment and people on a construction site tends to be difficult to realise, and is often only estimated in a generalised way. Some factors can be listed as reducing the ability to forecast these costs, such as: difficulties in cataloguing what will be moved, the quantity of materials to be moved, the number of people in ...
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    53,60 €

  • Modeling the farming process using Petri Nets
    Adriano Sonego
    The aim of this book was to model a process that would increase the profitability of the agricultural sector and consequently reduce prices for the end consumer. The modeled process showed that precision agriculture is an excellent tool for improving soil fertility monitoring. This allows for rational planning of fertilizer application in the area. You can also monitor the evol...
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    53,66 €

  • Promoting Sustainable Management Through Technological Innovation
    The world is facing unprecedented environmental and social challenges that threaten our ability to achieve a sustainable future for all. Issues like climate change, resource depletion, and social inequality require urgent action, but technology, while a potential solution, also introduces new risks. Promoting Sustainable Management Through Technological Innovation offers a comp...
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    393,00 €

  • Didactic computer programming for rapid prototyping
    Rafael Juan Costa de Miranda
    This book introduces the reader to prototyping, i.e. the manufacture of prototypes, more specifically prototyping by material removal. A prototype can be considered a virtual or physical study object used in the recursive design process, the aim of which is to provide feedback on a qualitative or quantitative characteristic that you want to evaluate before making a decision on ...
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    84,48 €

  • Textile Concrete (CT)
    Ana Paula da S. S. Costa / Lucas Pereira de Almeida / Lunara de Andrade S.
    Textile concrete (TC) is a composite made of fine-grained hydraulic concrete structured with a non-metallic material, which can be alkali-resistant glass fibre, carbon or aramid. This composite has a number of advantages over conventional reinforced concrete, one of which is that there is no need for an extra concrete cover to protect the steel, which saves on the mass of the c...
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    73,38 €

  • Construction Waste Management in the City of Manaus
    Cynthia de Faria Pinto / Simone da Silva
    The generation of waste from the construction industry, a reflection of population growth, changing habits and intense consumption, has been a cause of great concern to the world, since natural resources are finite and nature cannot absorb the exorbitant production of waste generated by society. In the city of Manaus, environmental problems, especially those related to construc...
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    83,19 €

  • High Bias
    Marc Masters
    The cassette tape was revolutionary. Cheap, portable, and reusable, this small plastic rectangle changed music history. Make your own tapes! Trade them with friends! Tape over the ones you don’t like! The cassette tape upended pop culture, creating movements and uniting communities. This entertaining book charts the journey of the cassette from its invention in the early 1960s ...
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    25,29 €

  • Working through Surveillance and Technical Communication
    Sarah Young
    This book addresses contemporary surveillance practices and examines technical communicators’ roles in carrying them out. ...
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    44,76 €

  • Comparative study of combustion engine performance
    Fiston NTUMBA KABUYA / Patrick KALALA MUANISHAYI
    Our aim is to carry out a comparative study of the performance of two-stroke and four-stroke internal combustion engines. For this purpose, we have studied the different specificities of two types of single-cylinder internal combustion engine; but to make this study more realistic, we have chosen two engines of equal displacement which are in working order, one a two-stroke sin...
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    60,13 €

  • Most Secret Weapons of Nations Remote Viewed
    Kiwi Joe
    Not even during the Cuban Missile Crises of October 1962 has the threat of a civilization-ending thermonuclear war loomed as large as it does at present. The author, a seasoned remote viewer, presents evidence the major powers have quietly shifted towards alternative strategies to win the game of global dominance. This is the revised second edition of the fourth installment in ...
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    28,56 €