Repair Maintenance -- Age Replacement -- Periodic Replacement -- Block Replacement -- Preventive Maintenance -- Imperfect Preventive Maintenance -- Inspection Policies -- Modified Maintenance Models.The maintenance of systems in engineering is of increasing concern to managers and designers in all branches of engineering, whether they are producing high-quality products or designing highly-reli…
Disaster Risk and Vulnerability Management from Awareness to Practice -- Quantitative Area Risk Analysis: Available Tools and Open Problems -- ARIPAR-GIS, TRAT, OPTIPATH, EHHRA-GIS -- Risk Based Decision Making: Three Examples of Practical Application Tools -- Catastrophe Risk Management -- Interactive Risk Management -- Pilot Project on Environment and Health Rapid Risk Assessment in Secondary…
Phenomena and Mechanisms -- On the Origin of Weld Solidification Cracking -- New Insight into the Mechanism of Ductility-Dip Cracking in Ni-base Weld Metals -- Influence of Welding Speed on the Hot Cracking Resistance of the Nickel-Base Alloy NiCr25FeAlY During TIG-Welding -- The Role of Segregation of Oxygen in Welding Alloys of the INVAR Type -- Character of Hot Crack Formation During Welding…
The Need for Design Performance -- The Nature of Performance in Design -- Design Performance Measurement -- Industrial Practice -- A Methodology for Enhanced Design Performance -- A Formalism for Design Performance Measurement and Management -- The Impact of Resources on Effectiveness -- The PERFORM Approach -- A Methodology for Performance Modelling and Analysis in Design Development -- Applic…
Introduction to Control Reconfiguration -- Literature Overview -- Part I. Reconfiguration Problem -- Running Example: the 2-Tank System -- General Reconfiguration Problem -- Part II. Linear Solution Approaches -- Direct Reconfiguration Using a Static Block -- Reconfiguration Using a Virtual Sensor -- Reconfiguration Using a Virtual Actuator -- Reconfiguration with Set-Point Tracking -- Reconfig…
Computational Intelligence: An Introduction -- Traditional Problem Definition -- Basic Intelligent Computational Technologies -- Neural Networks Approach -- Fuzzy Logic Approach -- Evolutionary Computation -- Hybrid Computational Technologies -- Neuro-fuzzy Approach -- Transparent Fuzzy/Neuro-fuzzy Modelling -- Evolving Neural and Fuzzy Systems -- Adaptive Genetic Algorithms -- Recent Developme…
Plant Responses to Air Pollution -- Metabolism of atmospheric sulfur gases in onion -- Impact of atmospheric NH3 deposition on plant growth and functioning — a case study with Brassica oleracea L. -- How sensitive are forest trees to ozone? - New research on an old issue -- Northern conditions enhance the susceptibility of birch (Betula pendula Roth) to oxidative stress caused by ozone -- Phy…
Effects of Mobility on Health -- Traffic, Noise and Health -- Environmental Noise, Annoyance and Sleep Disturbance -- Psychological and Social Aspects of "Transport and Health" -- Air Pollution and Health: -- The Respiratory Effects of Air Pollution -- Photochemical Activity of Importance to Health in the Aegean -- Monitoring of Suspended Aerosol Particles and Tropospheric Ozone by the Laser Re…
International and Regional Perspectives -- Global Mercury Production, Use and Trade -- Mercury Emissions from Anthropogenic Sources: Estimates and Measurements for Europe -- Legislation and Policy Concerning Mercury in the European Union -- The DG Research Perspective-Research on Hg Supported by the European Commission -- Perspective on Mercury: Progress Through Cooperation -- Where We Stand on…
Record -- The Rise of Trees and How They Changed Paleozoic Atmospheric CO2, Climate, and Geology -- Atmospheric CO2 During the Late Paleozoic and Mesozoic: Estimates from Indian Soils -- Alkenone-Based Estimates of Past CO2 Levels: A Consideration of Their Utility Based on an Analysis of Uncertainties -- Atmospheric CO2 Data from Ice Cores: Four Climatic Cycles -- Atmospheric CO2 and 13CO2 Exch…