English | 2021 | ISBN: 0367631393 | 400 pages | True PDF | 45.61 MB
This book contains probabilistic analyses and reliability-based designs (RBDs) for the enhancement of Eurocode 7 (EC7) and load and resistance factor design (LRFD) methods. An intuitive perspective and efficient computational procedure for the first-order reliability method (FORM, which includes the Hasofer-Lind reliability index) is explained, together with discussions on the similarities and differences between the design point of EC7/LRFD and RBD-via-FORM.
Probability-based designs with respect to the ultimate and serviceability limit states are demonstrated for soil and rock engineering, including shallow and deep foundations, earth-retaining structures, soil slopes, 2D rock slopes with discontinuities, 3D rock slopes with wedge mechanisms, and underground rock excavations. Renowned cases in soil and rock engineering are analyzed both deterministically and probabilistically, and comparisons are made with other probabilistic methods.

English | 2020 | ISBN: 1787568121 | 209 pages | True EPUB | 6.4 MB
In today's world, decision makers struggle to make good long-term decisions. There is simply too much volatility, too much complexity, too much fake news, and too little time to make sense of all the information that is at our fingertips. We are drowning in data, surrounded by uncertainty and thus live in a world that lacks clarity.
Moving away from the static thinking of many strategists, this book updates and upholds the importance of scenario design and thinking in the face of uncertainty. The authors investigate the journey of the art and science of scenario thinking, from its beginnings in the military to becoming a part of the mainstream strategy toolkit in the business world. Delving into the new frontiers of scenario thinking and planning, the book explores topics such as:

English | 2021 | ISBN: 1839531908 | 432 pages | True EPUB | 8.75 MB
Over the last ten years, the numbers of unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) or "drones" have changed from being just a few specialist systems, used for scientific data gathering and military purposes, to them proliferating in huge numbers. They are used across a broad range of different leisure, commercial and military activities. UAVs can be used for: movement of items in factories for manufacturing, passenger and freight transportation, can take various roles in the agriculture and forestry industries (dispensing seeds, watering and monitoring crops), remote sensing for the oil and gas industries, traffic flow monitoring, support of emergency services, hobbies, security, military and many other applications.
The expansion in the use of unmanned air vehicles has come about due to the development of low cost, high performance stable platforms, employing equally low-cost communication and navigation systems supplemented by simple to use software and interfaces. Therefore, there is a need to be able to monitor the rapidly changing use of airspace, especially at low and normally neglected altitudes to ensure UAVs do not compromise safety or are used for malicious purposes. Radar is the only sensor able to perform this function on a 24-hour, all weather, wide-area basis.

English | 2021 | ASIN : B09DNJLJY5 | 35 pages | PDF, AZW3, EPUB, MOBI | 6.09 MB
Do You Want to Know More About Python? This Python Book 2021 Can Help! Keep reading...
What are The Key Features of Python? What are Keywords in Python? What are Literals in Python and Explain About Different Literals? How Can You Concatenate Two Tuples? What are Functions in Python? What is Python Used For? Is Python Useful in Statistics? Can Python Be Used for Statistical Analysis?

English | 2021 | ISBN: 1536191736 | 252 pages | True PDF | 6.92 MB
This book is written for people who are interested to know the basics of probability theory. The basic knowledge of high school math will be enough to know the probability theory covered in the book. It covers basic theories of probability, statistical distributions, order statistics and record values, The use of characterization methods are described to identify various probability distributions. The book will be useful for undergraduate, graduate students and applied statisticians.
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English | 2020 | ISBN: 0262539853 | 416 pages | True PDF | 5.18 MB
Detailed answer keys to all 140 self-assessment exercises and solutions to the 173 odd-numbered end-of-chapter exercises in Intermediate Microeconomic Theory.
This book accompanies Ana Espinola-Arredondo and Felix Muñoz-Garcia's Intermediate Microeconomic Theory: Tools and Step-by-Step Examples, offering detailed answer keys to all 140 self-assessment exercises and solutions to the 173 odd-numbered end-of-chapter exercises. It provides readable step-by-step explanations and algebra support, enabling students to approach similar exercises on their own, emphasizing the economic intuition behind mathematical results.

English | 2021 | ISBN: 1943536953 | 398 pages | True PDF | 17.74 MB
Practical Models for Technical Communication is a college-level textbook for technical writers and communicators. Written in plain and accessible language, this textbook is designed to provide students with solid tools, useful models, interesting scenarios, and a vocabulary of technical terms that will allow them to communicate effectively as part of a fast-paced, global workforce. Its approachable, real-world examples and detailed visuals guide students in creating multimodal, technical documents that reach a broad audience.
This book explores the fundamentals of technical communication, expanding on the following topics:

English | 2021 | ISBN: 1626379718 | 231 pages | True PDF | 8.44 MB
Despite a century of advances in modern medicine, as well as the rapid development of Covid vaccines, the global pharmaceutical industry has largely failed to bring to market drugs that actually cure disease. Why? And looking further ... How can government policies stimulate investment in the development of curative drugs? Is there an untapped potential for "natural medicines" in new drug discovery? How have private-public sector partnerships transformed the ways we innovate? To what extent are medicinal plant biodiversity and human health codependent?
Addressing this range of increasingly critical questions, Kathryn Ibata-Arens analyzes the rise and decline of the global innovation system for new drug development and proposes a policy framework for fast-tracking the implementation of new discoveries and preparing for future pandemics.

English | 2021 | ISBN: 1774077078 | 346 pages | True PDF | 32.18 MB
The book Numerical Methods for Inverse Problems consists of contemporaneouss articles featuring not only several well-known inverse problems used in the inference of many physical and engineering systems such as that of the partial differential equations but also the statistical and imaging inverse problems. It includes a variety of numerical methods for solving inverse problems such as that of the Tikhonov regularization; finite differences; and orthogonal decomposition; as well as those based on Bayesian inference, artificial neural networks, and quantum annealing.
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English | 2021 | ISBN: 0367546396 | 249 pages | True PDF | 15.44 MB
In the past four decades, there has been growing interest in the exciting new topic of physics in low dimensions. Thousands of original ideas have been proposed in the literature, and some are confirmed experimentally, along with several Nobel prizes which have been awarded in this field. While there are several books available, almost all are technical and accessible only to expert researchers.
This book provides an accessible introduction to the field, with less emphasis on technical details. Whilst this book does not provide a traditional history of nano-science, instead it uses simple explanations and case studies as vehicles to explain key discoveries and the importance of them, enabling readers without a background in the area to gain an understanding of some aspects of nanoscale physics. It will be of interest to researchers working in condensed matter physics, in addition to engineers and advanced students in those disciplines. It also remains accessible to 'physics enthusiasts' from other academic disciplines, as technical details are contained within boxes and footnotes which can be skipped for a general reading of the book.