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A thoroughly up-to-date resource on IEEE 802 wireless standards

Readers can turn to this book for complete coverage of the current and emerging IEEE 802 wireless standards/drafts, including:

Emerging Wireless LANs, Wireless PANs, and Wireless MANs is a unique, convenient resource for engineers, scientists, and researchers in academia and industry. It also serves as a valuable textbook for related courses at the upper-undergraduate and graduate levels.

Smart shipping is a future method for transporting ocean cargo and exploring the resources of oceans for medical drugs, food, energy resources, and other products. A smart ship is an integration of shipping with many fields such as fishing, manufacturing, navigation, communication, computing, control, sensing, etc., to provide better shipping and services.

The purpose of this edited book is to provide state‐of‐the‐art approaches and novel technologies for smart ships, covering a range of topics in these areas so that it will be an excellent reference book for the researchers, students, and professionals in these areas. It presents the fundamental technologies needed to build smart ships, and gives a clear explanation of them.

This book will serve as a good reference for researchers to know the state of the art and to discover uncovered territory and develop new applications, as well as being a guideline for building future smart ships.

Yang Xiao is a Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA.

Tieshan Li is a Full Professor in the School of Automation Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China.

Smart shipping is a future method for transporting ocean cargo and exploring the resources of oceans for medical drugs, food, energy resources, and other products. A smart ship is an integration of shipping with many fields such as fishing, manufacturing, navigation, communication, computing, control, sensing, etc., to provide better shipping and services.

The purpose of this edited book is to provide state‐of‐the‐art approaches and novel technologies for smart ships, covering a range of topics in these areas so that it will be an excellent reference book for the researchers, students, and professionals in these areas. It presents the fundamental technologies needed to build smart ships, and gives a clear explanation of them.

This book will serve as a good reference for researchers to know the state of the art and to discover uncovered territory and develop new applications, as well as being a guideline for building future smart ships.

Yang Xiao is a Full Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, USA.

Tieshan Li is a Full Professor in the School of Automation Engineering, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu, China.

Understanding the mechanical behavior of solids and contacts (interfaces and joints) is vital for the analysis, design, and maintenance of engineering systems. Materials may simultaneously experience the effects of many factors such as elastic, plastic, and creep strains; different loading (stress) paths; volume change under shear stress; and microcracking leading to fracture and failure, strain softening, or degradation. Typically, the available models account for only one factor at a time; however, the disturbed state concept (DSC) with the hierarchical single-surface (HISS) plasticity is a unified modeling approach that can allow for numerous factors simultaneously, and in an integrated manner. DSC/HISS Modeling Applications for Problems in Mechanics, Geomechanics, and Structural Mechanics provides readers with comprehensive information including the basic concepts and applications for the DSC/HISS modeling regarding a wide range of engineering materials and contacts. Uniformity in format and content of each chapter will make it easier for the reader to appreciate the potential of using the DSC/HISS modeling across various applications.

Features:

• Presents a new and simplified way to learn characterizations and behaviors of materials and contacts under various conditions

• Offers modeling applicable to several different materials including geologic (clays, sands, rocks), modified geologic materials (structured soils, overconsolidated soils, expansive soils, loess, frozen soils, chemically treated soils), hydrate-bearing sediments, and more.

Understanding the mechanical behavior of solids and contacts (interfaces and joints) is vital for the analysis, design, and maintenance of engineering systems. Materials may simultaneously experience the effects of many factors such as elastic, plastic, and creep strains; different loading (stress) paths; volume change under shear stress; and microcracking leading to fracture and failure, strain softening, or degradation. Typically, the available models account for only one factor at a time; however, the disturbed state concept (DSC) with the hierarchical single-surface (HISS) plasticity is a unified modeling approach that can allow for numerous factors simultaneously, and in an integrated manner. DSC/HISS Modeling Applications for Problems in Mechanics, Geomechanics, and Structural Mechanics provides readers with comprehensive information including the basic concepts and applications for the DSC/HISS modeling regarding a wide range of engineering materials and contacts. Uniformity in format and content of each chapter will make it easier for the reader to appreciate the potential of using the DSC/HISS modeling across various applications.

Features:

• Presents a new and simplified way to learn characterizations and behaviors of materials and contacts under various conditions

• Offers modeling applicable to several different materials including geologic (clays, sands, rocks), modified geologic materials (structured soils, overconsolidated soils, expansive soils, loess, frozen soils, chemically treated soils), hydrate-bearing sediments, and more.

Presenting the work of prominent researchers working on smart grids and related fields around the world, Security and Privacy in Smart Grids identifies state-of-the-art approaches and novel technologies for smart grid communication and security. It investigates the fundamental aspects and applications of smart grid security and privacy and reports on the latest advances in the range of related areas—making it an ideal reference for students, researchers, and engineers in these fields.The book explains grid security development and deployment and introduces novel approaches for securing today’s smart grids. Supplying an overview of recommendations for a technical smart grid infrastructure, the book describes how to minimize power consumption and utility expenditure in data centers. It also:

The book’s chapters work together to provide you with a framework for implementing effective security through this growing system. Numerous figures, illustrations, graphs, and charts are included to aid in comprehension. With coverage that includes direct attacks, smart meters, and attacks via networks, this versatile reference presentsactionable suggestions you can put to use immediately to prevent such attacks.

In an era of rapid digital transformation, education faces unprecedented challenges that threaten to reduce learning to mere technological processes. This collection explores how love and care can serve as fundamental principles for humanising education in the digital age.

Drawing from diverse international perspectives, the volume examines the essential role of emotional connections in teaching and learning. The book presents evidence-based research on caring pedagogies, teacher–student relationships, and the integration of humanistic values within educational practice. With particular focus on Chinese educational contexts, contributors examine how parental encouragement affects academic achievement amongst Chinese students and explore culturally specific approaches to implementing love-based education in higher education institutions. The volume also features intercultural perspectives that demonstrate how caring pedagogies can bridge cultural differences whilst promoting holistic human development.

This volume is essential reading for educational researchers, teacher educators, policy makers, and practitioners seeking to understand how emotional foundations can enhance educational effectiveness. It will particularly appeal to those working in educational philosophy, teacher training programmes, and educational psychology, offering both theoretical frameworks and practical strategies for implementing caring pedagogies across diverse cultural contexts. This book was originally published as a special issue of Chinese Education & Society.

In an era of rapid digital transformation, education faces unprecedented challenges that threaten to reduce learning to mere technological processes. This collection explores how love and care can serve as fundamental principles for humanising education in the digital age.

Drawing from diverse international perspectives, the volume examines the essential role of emotional connections in teaching and learning. The book presents evidence-based research on caring pedagogies, teacher–student relationships, and the integration of humanistic values within educational practice. With particular focus on Chinese educational contexts, contributors examine how parental encouragement affects academic achievement amongst Chinese students and explore culturally specific approaches to implementing love-based education in higher education institutions. The volume also features intercultural perspectives that demonstrate how caring pedagogies can bridge cultural differences whilst promoting holistic human development.

This volume is essential reading for educational researchers, teacher educators, policy makers, and practitioners seeking to understand how emotional foundations can enhance educational effectiveness. It will particularly appeal to those working in educational philosophy, teacher training programmes, and educational psychology, offering both theoretical frameworks and practical strategies for implementing caring pedagogies across diverse cultural contexts. This book was originally published as a special issue of Chinese Education & Society.