The water industry is a heavy consumer of electricity to pump water. Electricity generated with fossil fuel sources produce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that contribute to climate change. Carbon taxation and economic discounting in project planning are promising policies to re…
Natural gas is becoming rapidly the optimal choice for fueling new generating units in electric power system driven by abundant natural gas supplies and environmental regulations that are expected to cause coal-fired generation retirements. The growing reliance on natural gas as…
Desalination technology provides fresh water to the arid regions around the world. Multi-Stage Flash (MSF) distillation process has been used for many years and is now the largest sector in the desalination industry. Top Brine Temperature (TBT) (boiling point temperature of the …
The proposed algorithm provides the solution for hybrid high voltage alternative current (AC)/direct current (DC) transmission systems in restructured power systems. The proposed algorithm solves the security-constrained unit commitment (SCUC) problem with a detailed representat…
Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are considered as potential candidates for "More-Moore" and "More-than-Moore" applications due to their versatile use as sensors, switches, and actuators. Examples include accelerometers for sensing, RF-MEMS capacitive switches in communicat…
"At the conference held in Tehran in November 1943, American officials proposed to their Soviet allies a new operation in the effort to defeat Nazi Germany. The Normandy Invasion was already in the works; what American officials were suggesting until then was for the US Air Forc…
"At the conference held in Tehran in November 1943, American officials proposed to their Soviet allies a new operation in the effort to defeat Nazi Germany. The Normandy Invasion was already in the works; what American officials were suggesting until then was for the US Air Forc…
OP-Handbuch: Grundlagen, Instrumentarium, OP-Ablauf
"This volume provides materials for active learning about peacebuilding and conflict management in the context of complex stability operations, using a comparative case study methodology.Complex operations are collaborative and coordinated military and civilian agency activities…
Dieses Buch stellt praxisrelevante Aspekte des Spezialgebietes "Gerinnung" einschließlich Diagnostik und Therapie von Gerinnungsstörungen für Chirurgen dar. Im Fokus stehen wichtiges Wissen zu Blutungsneigung und Thromboseneigung im Rahmen operativer Eingriffe.
