Emerging Technology Strategies and the Great Global Grid The next generation of the Internet will produce dramatic economic and social changes exceeding even the World Wide Web. Several emerging technologies are converging to create a Great Global Grid infrastructure where universal connectivity to large computing resources will be available for consumers and enterprises. The goal of this book is to provide a systematic survey of the full spectrum of Great Global Grid technologies from an enterprise viewpoint. The Great Global Grid – The range of technologies comprising the Great Global Grid is very wide. One of the main contributions of the book is to categorize these technologies in detail and to explain the dependencies among them. The technologies include: * Application Servers and Portals
* Enterprise Application Integration and B2B Middleware
* Web Services and XML Messaging
* Peer-to-Peer Collaboration
* Pervasive Computing: Middleware … More >>

Great Global Grid: Emerging Technology Strategies

In this book, author Mike Adams takes you on a fascinating tour that ventures far beyond conventional science and dares to suggest that as a civilization, we are spending too much time, money and effort on technologies that really don’t help us (new prescription drugs, ridiculous nanotechnology visions, etc.) while ignoring the technologies that can really make a difference in our lives…. More >>

The Ten Most Important Emerging Technologies for Humanity

Emerging Technologies for Food Processing presents a comprehensive review of innovations in food processing, stresses topics vital to the food industry today, and pinpoints the trends in future research and development. This volume contains 27 chapters and is divided into six parts covering topics such as the latest advances in non-thermal processing, alternative technologies and strategies for thermal processing, the latest developments in food refrigeration, and current topics in minimal processing of vegetables, fruits, juices and cook-chill ready meals and modified atmosphere packaging for minimally processed foods.

* Each chapter is written by international experts presenting thorough research results and critical reviews
* Includes a comprehensive list of recently published literature
* Covers topics such as high pressure, pulsed electric fields, recent developments in microwave heating, and vacuum cooling… More >>

Emerging Technologies for Food Processing

Emerging technology in the field of telecommunications – the Internet, the World Wide Web and related applications – has begun to impact the way we receive and transmit information of all kinds. How will these new technologies affect museums’ missions, operations, and even definitions, both now and in the near future? With chapters on online networks, digitization of collections, cultural intellectual property, public access, finance, management, and more, experts in the fields of museums and communications offer their analyses of the emerging information technology and the opportunities and challenges these changes present for museums…. More >>

The Wired Museum: Emerging Technology and Changing Paradigms

This book focuses on practical applications for using adult and embryonic stem cells in the pharmaceutical development process. It emphasizes new technologies to help overcome the bottlenecks in developing stem cells as therapeutic agents. A key reference for professionals working in stem cell science, it presents the general principles and methodologies in stem cell research and covers topics such as derivitization and characterization of stem cells, stem cell culture and maintenance, stem cell engineering, applications of high-throughput screening, and stem cell genetic modification with their use for drug delivery…. More >>

Emerging Technology Platforms for Stem Cells

This book deals with how technology can enhance learning. It is a collection of contemporary practices and developmental trends for enhancing learning through technology. Researchers in the field of electronic learning (e-learning) share how new technologies can be applied in and out of the classroom, and how contemporary pedagogical practices should be deployed. This book presents the most updated technologies that work hand in hand with current pedagogies to help students learn. The contributors are prominent researchers and practitioners in the field. This book attempts to report all emerging models, techniques, and applications related to learning through technology. Contents: Enhancing Learning Through Innovative Technology: Challenges and Responses (L Webster & D Murphy); Development of an E-Learning System for Automation Technology Education (M Jou); Using YouTube: Strategies for Using New Media in Teaching and Learning (P Duffy); Enhancing Learning Through Innovat… More >>

Enhancing Learning Through Technology: Research on Emerging Technologies and Pedagogies

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” When executed well, e-learning is a powerful way for organizations to save money while providing the kind of up-to-date training and information that will help employees perform better and more efficiently. Unfortunately, all too often, companies are finding that they’re spending a huge amount of money for less return than they had hoped. In e-Learning 2.0, Anita Rosen explains what works and what doesn’t, offering businesses a best-practices guide for making their investment pay off. Using examples of successful companies like National SemiConductor, Telefonica, and the Texas Department of Transportation who have made the most of e-learning, Rosen shows companies how to: define an e-learning strategy – identify the best technologies and processes to effectively implement an e-learning strategy – manage large, complicated, or new e-learning initiatives – get buy-in from trainers, managers and learners – measure and evaluate training – calculate an ROI Complete with up-to-date inform… More >>

e-Learning 2.0: Proven Practices and Emerging Technologies to Achieve Real Results

The provision of IP-based multimedia services is one of the most exiting and challenging aspects of next generation wireless networks. A significant evolution has been underway for enabling such multimedia services and for ultimately migrating the Internet to the wireless world. This book examines this evolution, looking at an array of the most up-to-date wireless multimedia technologies and services. The first part focuses on enabling technologies for wireless multimedia, while the second is dedicated to the new wireless multimedia services that are expected to play a key role in the future wireless environment. In addition, the related recent standardization, research and industry activities are addressed.
* Covers a complete range of multimedia hot topics, ranging from audio/video coding techniques to multimedia protocols and applications
* Discusses QoS issues in WLANs, 3G and hybrid 3G/WLAN networks
* Provides in-depth discussion of the most modern multimedia … More >>

Emerging Wireless Multimedia: Services and Technologies

Actuators are devices that convert electrical energy into mechanical work, traditionally used in electrical, pneumatic and hydraulic systems. As the demand for actuator technologies grows in biomedical, prosthetic and orthotic applications, there is an increasing need for complex and sophisticated products that perform efficiently also when scaled to micro and nano domains.

Providing a comprehensive overview of actuators for novel applications, this excellent book:
* Presents a mechatronic approach to the design, control and integration of a range of technologies covering piezoelectric actuators, shape memory actuators, electro-active polymers, magnetostrictive actuators and electro- and magnetorheological actuators.
* Examines the characteristics and performance of emerging actuators upon scaling to micro and nano domains.
* Assesses the relative merits of each actuator technology and outlines prospective application fields.

Offering … More >>

Emerging Actuator Technologies: A Micromechatronic Approach

Sustainability at the Cutting Edge is an essential guide to understanding the future direction of sustainable technology. This fully updated new edition deals not only with current best practice and state of the art case studies, but with the very latest emerging technologies which will transform the relationship between buildings and energy.

Professor Smith describes how buildings can be made to significantly reduce their reliance on fossil-based energy by the use of solar and geothermal resources. He also describes a range of renewable energy generating technologies. As sustainable building becomes increasingly essential with the advance of climate change, government legislation and international treaties, this is valuable knowledge for every architect, engineer and designer.

This immensely practical book is packed with useful diagrams, charts and colour photographs to illustrate a variety of the most recent case studies, including the education building, the Core, at … More >>

Sustainability at the Cutting Edge, Second Edition: Emerging Technologies for low energy buildings