This book covers issues associated with smart systems due to the presence of onboard nonlinear components. It discusses the advanced architecture of smart systems for power management units. It explores issues of power management and identifies hazardous signals in the power management units of smart devices. It - Presents adaptive artificial intelligence and machine learning-based control strategies. - Discusses advanced simulations and data synthesis for various power management issues. - Showcases solutions to the uncertainty and reliability issues in power management units. - Identifies new power quality challenges in smart devices. - Explains hybrid active power filters shunt hybrid active power filters and the industrial internet of things in power quality management. This book comprehensively discusses advancements of traditional electrical grids the benefits of smart grids to customers and stakeholders properties of smart grids smart grid architecture smart grid communication and smart grid security. It further covers the architecture of advance power management units (PMU) of smart devices and the identification of harmonic distortions with respect to various sensor-based technology. It will serve as an ideal reference text for senior undergraduate and graduate students and academic researchers in fields including electrical engineering electronics communications engineering and computer engineering.

Our transportation networks are the basic infrastructure supporting our daily life and economic activities and are in constant need of improvement and maintenance - but who should pay for their improvement? The state through direct and indirect taxes? The user through tolls and fares? The transport operator? And who should pay for the environmental impact? This book discusses the basic concept and practical conditions of financial resources for transportation systems. After describing the theoretical basis of burden the book introduces the policies and financial systems established for transportation in some developed countries (Germany France UK USA Japan) and compares them from an analysis viewpoint. The book then offers a methodology for comparing the structure of financial resources and presents calculations based on the investment amounts the different groups (eg. transport operators the state) must contribute to sustain and improve the transport system. In the first half of the book the focus is on what positions each country takes in regard to: the responsibility of the public sector and the range of participation by the private sector; the balance of burden covered by general funds and that covered by users; and the balance of burden covered by present financial resources and that as set aside for the future as debt. The second half clarifies how such national policies are reflected in the actual financial resources. Here after a detailed review of the financial systems related to transportation in various countries a methodology for an international comparison of financial resources for the improvements of transportation systems is shown.

Agile software development has become an umbrella term for a number of changes in how software developers work. This book presents a comprehensive snapshot of the knowledge gained over many years of research by those working closely with or in the industry.

This book forms the proceedings of the 18th European conference on irrigation and drainage. Water is not a free commodity and demand is becoming more and more intense for its allocation. This book focuses on the role of irrigation and drainage in the debate on water and will be used by planners designers and policy makers internationally.

As Executive Director of both the SLAM Airway Training Institute and the SLAM Society and the founder of the SLAM emergency airway provider course the author brings a unique perspective to this comprehensive easy-to-read text. This book is based upon the author s highly successful course of the same name taught nationally to thousands of students since its inception in 2000. Now with the updated 2015 SLAM Rescue Airway Flowchart this text focuses on the essentials of airway management from the fundamental aspects of airway anatomy and airway assessment through formulation of a practical plan to manage the emergency and difficult airway in all patient locations.