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Wadi Flash Floods : Challenges and Advanced Approaches for Disaster Risk Reduction
The book chapters comprehensively and significantly highlight different scientific research disciplines related to wadi flash floods, including climatology, hydrological models, new monitoring techniques, remote sensing techniques, field investigations, international collaboration projects, risk assessment and mitigation, sedimentation and sediment transport, and groundwater quality and quantity assessment and management.
Vulnerable Cities : Realities, Innovations and Strategies
This book combines empirical and comparative analysis of improvement of vulnerable urban space and post-disaster rehabilitation in Asian and Latin American countries. The discussions presented herein will serve as a useful, thought-provoking source for researchers, practitioners and students, especially for those who are working to alleviate the vulnerability of urban space.
Voltage-Enhanced Processing of Biomass and Biochar
The book explains aspects of this processing method in thermal and non-thermal plasmas, as well as describing the effects of Joule heating as part of the temperature distribution and conversion rate. In many ways, this book presents a detailed description of different processes and plasma discharges currently available, with the provision of experimental and simulation results gathered over years of research and development. Importantly, it also offers many methods by which we can be environmentally friendly when working with biomass and biochar.
Volcano Deformation : New Geodetic Monitoring Techniques
With contributions from some of the most experienced and knowledgeable experts in the field, the book desbribes the state-of-the-art techniques used by volcanologists to successfully predict volcanic eruptions. With chapters on GPS and synthetic aperture radar interferometry, Volcanic Deformation covers both the "classical" and emerging methodologies, and looks at the future challenges faced by scientists when predicting volcanic eruptions.
Volcanic Unrest : From Science to Society
Volcanic unrest is a complex multi-hazard phenomenon. The fact that unrest may, or may not lead to an imminent eruption contributes significant uncertainty to short-term volcanic hazard and risk assessment. Although it is reasonable to assume that all eruptions are associated with precursory activity of some sort, the understanding of the causative links between subsurface processes, resulting unrest signals and imminent eruption is incomplete. When a volcano evolves from dormancy into a phase of unrest, important scientific, political and social questions need to be addressed. This book is aimed at graduate students, researchers of volcanic phenomena, professionals in volcanic hazard and risk assessment, observatory personnel, as well as emergency managers who wish to learn about the complex nature of volcanic unrest and how to utilize new findings to deal with unrest phenomena at scientific and emergency managing levels.
Visualization of Digital Terrain and Landscape Data : A Manual
Reflects a profound change that has taken place in the practice of landscape architecture and planning in the past twenty years. Traditional modes of representation – pen, pencil, watercolor, marker, et al – have been supplanted by digital modeling and animation. This transformation is not just in the medium of representation, however; it is more than a subs- tution of one marking device for another, such as may have been the case in the past when, for example, mechanical pens with cartridges replaced pens with nibs that were filled by dipping. physical objects or arrangements in 3D were transformed into a series of lines in 2D (plans, sections, elevations, e. g.
Visual delight in architecture : Daylight, vision, and view
Examines the many ways that our lives are enriched by the presence of natural daylight and window views within our buildings. It makes a compelling case that daily exposure to the rhythms of daylight is essential to our health and well-being, tied to the very genetic foundations of our physiology and cognitive function. It describes all the subtlety, beauty, and pleasures of well-daylit spaces and attractive window views, and explains how these are woven into the fabric of both our everyday sensory experience and enduring cultural perspectives.
Visual Astronomy Under Dark Skies: A New Approach to Observing Deep Space
Modern astronomical telescopes, along with other advances in technology, have brought the deep sky – star clusters, nebulae and the galaxies – within visual reach of amateur astronomers. It isn’t necessary to image deep-sky objects in order to see them; you look at them in real-time by using modern observing techniques and enhancement technology. The first requirement is a truly dark observing site. Given a location with clear, dark night skies everything else follows… this book contains all you need to know about what to observe, how to get superb views of faint and distant astronomical objects, and how to use the best of today’s commercial equipment for visual observing.
Vision 2050 : Roadmap for a Sustainable Earth
Hiroshi Komiyama's "Vision 2050" is a plan for paving a road to global sustainability. "Vision 2050" is built upon three fundamental principles - increased energy efficiency, recycling, and development of renewable energy sources - and the book argues for the technological potential of all three.
Virus Diseases and Crop Biosecurity
Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Significance of Virus Diseases for Crop Biosecurity in a Developing European Community, Kiev, 4-7 May 2005.
Virtual Systems and Multimedia ; 13th International Conference, VSMM 2007, Brisbane, Australia, September 23-26, 2007, Revised Selected Papers
Virtual Heritage, Applied Technologies and Virtual Environments. With a truly international flavor, these sub-themes covered the diverse areas of heritage site and artifact reconstruction and analysis, Australian Aboriginal cultural heritage, training, notions of spirituality, human – computer interaction in virtual environments, 3D modelling, remote collaboration and virtual agents. This made for rich, varied and lively conference session debates. Ninety-seven papers were submitted. Of these, 56 were accepted for inclusion in the general conference proceedings.
Virtual reality and augmented reality ; 17th EuroVR International Conference, EuroVR 2020, Valencia, Spain, November 25–27, 2020, Proceedings
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality, EuroVR 2020, held in Valencia, Spain, in November 2020. The 12 full papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections named: Perception, Cognition and Behaviour; Training, Teaching and Learning; Tracking and Rendering; and Scientific Posters.
Virtual Reality ; 2nd International Conference, ICVR 2007, Held as Part of HCI International 2007, Beijing, China, July 22-27, 2007, Proceedings
This volume, edited by Randall Shumaker, contains papers in the thematic area of Virtual Reality, addressing the following major topics: • 3D Rendering and Visualization • Interacting and Navigating in Virtual and Augmented Environments • Industrial Applications of Virtual Reality • Health, Cultural, Educational and Entertainment Applications
Vibration mitigation systems in structural engineering
The scope of the book is the application of vibration mitigation systems in structural engineering. The content includes the theoretical background covering aspects from structural dynamics and control engineering. Passive, active and semi-active devices will be explained giving mathematical principles, designs and application examples.
VI Hotine-Marussi Symposium on Theoretical and Computational Geodesy ; IAG Symposium Wuhan, China 29 May - 2 June, 2006
Cover almost every topic of geodesy, with particular emphasis on satellite gravity modelling, geodynamics, GPS data processing and applications, statistical estimation and prediction theory, and geodetic inverse problem theory and geodetic boundary value problems.
Vertebrate conservation and biodiversity
This book brings together a selection of original studies submitted to Biodiversity and Conservation that address the conservation and biodiversity of vertebrates - particularly those in terrestrial habitats.
Vermin, Victims and Disease : British Debates over Bovine Tuberculosis and Badgers
This book provides the first critical history of the controversy over whether to cull wild badgers to control the spread of bovine tuberculosis (bTB) in British cattle. This question has plagued several professional generations of politicians, policymakers, experts and campaigners since the early 1970s. Questions of what is known, who knows, who cares, who to trust and what to do about this complex problem have been the source of scientific, policy, and increasingly vociferous public debate ever since. This book integrates contemporary history, science and technology studies, human-animal relations, and policy research to conduct a cross-cutting analysis. It explores the worldviews of those involved with animal health, disease ecology and badger protection
Verification Methodology Manual for SystemVerilog
Verification Methodology Manual for SystemVerilog is a blueprint for verification success, guiding SoC teams in building a reusable verification environment taking full advantage of design-for-verification techniques, constrained-random stimulus generation, coverage-driven verification, formal verification and other advanced technologies to help solve their current and future verification problems.
Vegetation-Climate Interaction : How Vegetation Makes the Global Environment
This book has been written with the aim of providing an accessible introduction to the many ways in which plants respond to and form the environment of our planet. As an academic scientist, and yet as a teacher, I have tried to balance conflicting needs between something which can be trusted and useful to my colleagues, and something which can enthuse newcomers to the subject.
Vasculogenic mimicry : Methods and protocols
Provides detailed protocols for the identification and understanding of vasculogenic mimicry process in vitro and in vivo, in addition to protocols for microscopy and histology. Chapters guide readers through different materials, commercial and homemade scaffolds, Matrigel, cancer spheroids, 3D tissue constructs, vasculogenic processes, and mathematical model building.
