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Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) engineering has grown rapidly as a field as systems have become smaller. More compact systems have resulted in increased interference and leakage problems, thus making it almost every design engineer's mission to seek and eliminate EMC-related problems before production commences.

The book is concerned with understanding the structure of nonlinear dynamic systems within a control engineering context After a discussion of theoretical foundations, the development moves to specific techniques (describing function method, phase plane portrait, linearisation methods). The treatment then becomes oriented to qualitative analysis and maintains this emphasis to the end of the book. The broad aim is to develop methods that will allow the topology of system behaviour to be visualised. The main tools are Lyapunov methods, extending to include recent work on system decomposition. A bibliography lists both earlier seminal and recent literature to allow the reader to follow up particular aspects.

Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) use information and communications technologies (ICT) to deliver transport improvements instead of extending physical infrastructure, thereby saving money and reducing environmental impact. This book provides an overview of ICT-based intelligent road transport systems with an emphasis on evaluation methods and recent evaluation results of ITS development and deployment. Topics covered include: ITS evaluation policy; frameworks and methods for ITS evaluation; ITS impact evaluation; the network perspective; field operational tests (FOTs); assessing transport measures using cost-benefit and multicriteria analysis; technical assessment of the performance of in-vehicle systems; opportunities and challenges in the era of new pervasive technology; evaluation of automated driving functions; user-related evaluation of ADAS (Advanced Driver Assistance Systems) and automated driving; evaluation of traffic management; performance assessment of a wet weather pilot system; case studies from China; heavy vehicle overload control benefit and cost. With chapters from an international panel of leading experts, this book is essential reading for researchers and advanced students from academia, industry and government working in intelligent road transport systems.

Intelligent transport systems (ITS) use ICT to deliver transport system improvements as an alternative to expanding physical infrastructure, thereby saving on investments and reducing environmental impact. ITS applications contribute to cleaner and safer transport, enhance economic growth, and hold the promise for sustainable mobility solutions for a future flourishing society.

How people across society in medieval South Asia—including coppersmiths, merchants, bureaucrats, philosophers, and physicians—pioneered new vernacular sciences.

Starting in the eleventh century, South Asian scholars and artisans began to investigate and shape the world in a novel manner. Intellectuals translated Sanskrit texts into regional languages such as Kannada, situating knowledge in particular places. At the same time, architects and artisans began to assert their intellectual and literary presence, often claiming the title of “scholar” as they negotiated a space between classical textual erudition, professional expertise, and personal experience. Working within the perilous world of court politics, a new class of scholar-administrators began collecting recipes and composing texts about weather prediction, horticulture, mathematics, astrology, sexual life, and medicine.

Everyday Sciences traces this emergence of vernacular sciences by engaging with untapped archives and an array of sources in multiple languages. By exploring how historical actors resolved disputes about the physiology of vision, the use of meat and alcohol in medicine, and the management of information in elephant stables, Eric Moses Gurevitch unveils the complex textual and social orders that structured medieval society in India. He argues that a focus on everyday sciences in the non-modern non-West allows historians to reassess how places outside—and even inside—Europe are brought into narratives of a global history of science. Gurevitch articulates a “big-enough” history of science in South Asia, one open to little voices and unexpected connections that might not make their way through the fray in other histories.

Everyday Sciences demonstrates how practical, everyday activities were engines of profound intellectual innovation—and it shows the promise of revisiting the past without colonial hang-ups, and with fresh eyes.  

In smart agriculture, core functions such as agricultural machinery automation, intelligent environmental sensing, and precision crop management rely heavily on continuous, high-quality energy supply. Intelligent power systems tailored to agricultural scenarios are essential to realizing unmanned farms. Moreover, as a result of rural revitalization strategies and national programmes such as China's dual carbon goals, rural areas and agriculture are no longer merely energy consumers. Agricultural and rural zones are increasingly becoming important providers of distributed renewable energy and suitable deployment sites for energy infrastructure. As such, the agricultural energy internet is now entering a critical stage of rapid development and engineering transformation.

A major use of practical predictive analytics in medicine has been in the diagnosis of current diseases, particularly through medical imaging. Now there is sufficient improvement in AI, IoT and data analytics to deal with real time problems with an increased focus on early prediction using machine learning and deep learning algorithms. With the power of artificial intelligence alongside the internet of 'medical' things, these algorithms can input the characteristics/data of their patients and get predictions of future diagnoses, classifications, treatment and costs.

An incisive framework for understanding how predictive AI has reshaped our relationship with time.

Ex Ante argues that AI systems draw us into a new experience of time, a continuous stream of machine-generated futures that reshapes our relationship to ourselves, to capitalism, and to infrastructure. Unlike other predictive tools that help us prepare for what might come, these projections—produced by algorithms and sourced by massive flows of data—calibrate our actions moment by moment, second by second. 

In this book, John Cheney-Lippold offers a framework he calls the ex ante, Latin for “before the event,” as a way to consider how the future has become capitalism’s latest resource for exploitation. Through case studies spanning TikTok beauty filters that have fueled a surge in plastic surgery consultations, chess engines that redefine how the game is played, online sports betting platforms that commodify probability itself, hospital sepsis algorithms that transform the labor of nursing, and coordinated vehicle networks that collectively anticipate their surroundings to function, Ex Ante offers an exploration and powerful critique of our algorithmic present and the powers behind it.

This book has been written as a practice aid for the examination you will need to take to complete the Level 3 Award in Requirements for Electrical Installations: BS 7671 (2382-18).

This book is an essential practice aid for the examination required to complete the City & Guilds and EAL Level 3 qualifications, Requirements for Electrical Installations, updated in accordance with BS 7671:2018+A2:2022.

This level 3 qualification helps learners develop the knowledge and practical skills required to carry out inspection and testing on electrical installations.

This book has been written as an exam practice aid to complete the City & Guilds Level 3 NVQ Diploma in Electrotechnical Technology (5357).

This book is an essential practice aid for the examinations required to complete the City & Guilds qualification, Initial and Period Electrical Inspection and Testing (2391), including the three available pathways.

This book is an essential practice aid for the examinations required to complete the City & Guilds qualification, Requirements for Electrical Installations (2382).

Throughout the 19th and 20th centuries technical exhibitions, held for the benefit of both cognoscente and the general public alike, have presented a mirror to the progress of science, engineering and, towards the second half of the 19th century and throughout the 20th century, to electrical technology.

Medical decision support systems (MDSS) are computer-based programs that analyse data within a patient's healthcare records to provide questions, prompts, or reminders to assist clinicians at the point of care. Inputting a patient's data, symptoms, or current treatment regimens into an MDSS, clinicians are assisted with the identification or elimination of the most likely potential medical causes, which can enable faster discovery of a set of appropriate diagnoses or treatment plans. Explainable AI (XAI) is a "white box" model of artificial intelligence in which the results of the solution can be understood by the users, who can see an estimate of the weighted importance of each feature on the model's predictions, and understand how the different features interact to arrive at a specific decision.

Classical computers encode information in binary bits that can either be 0s or 1s. In a quantum computer, the basic unit of memory is a quantum bit or qubit. These qubits play a similar role in terms of storing information, but use physical systems, such as the spin of an electron or the orientation of a photon, to do so. In situations where there are a large number of possible feature combinations, quantum computers can consider them simultaneously, speeding up the data processing time.