Technology: General Issues

Technocratic Visions examines the context and societal consequences of technologies, technocratic governance, and development in Mexico, home of th...

This book will change the way you think about problems. It focuses on creating solutions to all sorts of complex problems by taking a practical, pr...

The system level knowledge and design skills needed to create good snap-fit interfaces existed in the minds of self-taught snap-fit experts but was...

The book focuses on the nonlinear dynamics based on the vector fields with bivariate quadratic functions. This book is a unique monograph for two-d...

Nanoscience stands out for its interdisciplinarity. Barriers between disciplines disappear and the fields tend to converge at the very smallest sca...

For almost forty years, Jane Dolinger traveled the world and wrote about her adventures, from the Amazon jungle to the sands of the Sahara. She pro...

Focusing on the critical role IT plays in organizational development, the book shows how to employ action learning to improve the competitiveness o...

Lean organizations know that for a 5S program to be successful there needs to be implementation throughout all areas of the business. Marketing, de...

A fascinating history of the first attempts to computerize medical diagnosis.Beginning in the 1950s, interdisciplinary teams of physicians, enginee...

For most of the eighteenth century, automata were deemed a celebration of human ingenuity, feats of science and reason. Among the Romantics, howeve...

The contemporary economic landscape features the prevalence of the service sector in economic systems, the pervasive servitisation of manufacturing...

The International Conference on Complex Systems (ICCS) creates a unique atmosphere for scientists of all fields, engineers, physicians, executives,...

The field of regenerative medicine has developed rapidly over the past 20 years with the advent of molecular and cellular techniques. This textbook...

Theres a well-known story about an older fish who swims by two younger fish and asks, Hows the water? The younger fish are puzzled. Whats water? th...

La razionalizzazione delle scienze ha avuto un grande impulso con lavvento e il consolidarsi dei concetti dellAnalisi Dimensionale, accanto alla qu...

The proceedings at hand are the outcome of the conference for young sci- tists titled Facing the Multicore-Challenge held at the Heidelberger Akade...

Make: Sensors is the definitive introduction and guide to the sometimes-tricky world of using sensors to monitor the physical world. With dozens of...

Nel volume vengono descritti e analizzati gli algoritmi di ottimizzazione non vincolata maggiormente noti e quelli studiati pi di recente e propost...