Books published by Springer Verlag, Singapore

There is a dearth of collections of scholarly works dedicated wholly to African issues, that comes out of the work done by African scholars and practitioners with both African collaborators and from elsewhere.

This book addresses waste generation problems from various sectors, including industries, agriculture, and household.

This book provides an in-depth analysis of the current evolutionary clustering techniques. It discusses the most highly regarded methods for data clustering. The book provides literature reviews about single objective and multi-objective evolutionary clustering algorithms. In addition, the book provides a comprehensive review of the fitness functions and evaluation measures that are used in most of evolutionary clustering algorithms. Furthermore, it provides a conceptual analysis including definition, validation and quality measures, applications, and implementations for data clustering using classical and modern nature-inspired techniques. It features a range of proven and recent nature-inspired algorithms used to data clustering, including particle swarm optimization, ant colony optimization, grey wolf optimizer, salp swarm algorithm, multi-verse optimizer, Harris hawks optimization, beta-hill climbing optimization. The book also covers applications of evolutionary data clustering indiverse fields such as image segmentation, medical applications, and pavement infrastructure asset management.

This book describes the present awful state of India's Public Health Care Delivery, its dismal planning and implementation.

This book provides essential insights into methods and practices of ¿Climate-smart Agriculture,¿ which is driven by the principles of climate resilience and smart resource use in agricultural production. Climate-smart agriculture is a key policy instrument for achieving poverty eradication and a hunger-free world, as well as mitigating the effects of climate change. This book discusses in detail climate-smart agricultural technologies and practices that can reduce the vulnerability of agricultural systems, improve the livelihoods of farmers and other stakeholders, and reduce the greenhouse gas emissions from crop production and livestock husbandry. The agriculture, forestry and other land use (AFOLU) sector produces roughly 10¿12 gigatons of CO2-equivalent per year; therefore, sustainable practices for agriculture and related land use hold immense potential to mitigate climate change. The potential impacts of climate variability and climate change on agriculture areextensively documented and articulated, especially with regard to global and national environmental agendas that call for innovation, transformation and climate-resilient advances in agriculture. As the book demonstrates, climate-smart agriculture offers an excellent tool for boosting agricultural output to feed the growing global population; for reducing greenhouse gases emissions from agriculture and other land use; and for protecting agricultural production systems from the impending dangers of climate change.

This book focuses on understanding the shoreline dynamics, nearshore processes and sediment transport around Rameswaram Island and the cities of Dhanushkodi and Arichamunai.

This book provides significant information regarding the policies and provisions for early childhood teacher education programs in universities in fourteen different countries.

This book encompasses the macro-factors pertaining to the overall development in logistics technologies and facilities, region-specific policies and plans, industry-wide transformation in transport, manufacturing, commerce, and agriculture in China. Specifically, it describes policies and practices in China's high-quality development of logistics, China's business environment construction in logistics, and progress of port logistics in China. It also highlights the applications and prospects of blockchain technology in China's logistics industry in the year 2019. The expositions on and analyses of these subjects are based on the latest available sources and statistical data. As with the previous volumes, the ultimate aim of this book is to present a timely portrait of the rapid growth of Chinäs logistics market and the status quo of its logistics industry. In so doing, the book offers an in-depth analysis of critical issues involved in the ongoing dynamic and multi-faceted development and provides a valuable reference resource for interested readers in the academic and professional fields.

This book focuses on the photoelectric nanodevices based on carbon nanostructures, such as carbon nanotubes, graphene and related heterojunctions.

Foreword 1, by First Minister of Scotland, UK.Foreword 2, by Vice-Chancellor, University of Glasgow, UK. Preface, by Asit K. Biswas and Cecilia Tortajada 1.  Managing water resources under climate uncertainties, Asit K. Biswas and Cecilia Tortajada, University of Glasgow, UK. 2.  Water security in the face of climate change, by Peter Joo Hee Ng and Sharon Zheng, PUB: Singapore''s National Water Agency, Singapore. 3.  Water security and climate change: Hydropower reservoir greenhouse gas emissions, Mar├¡a Ubierna and Cristina D├¡ez, International Hydropower Association, London, UK. 4.  Water security under conditions of increased unpredictability: A case study, by Marius Classen, Pretoria, South Africa. 5.  What are the key enablers in pursuing both disaster risk reduction and climate adaptation? Practical lessons from Asian River Basins, by Megumi Muto, Deputy Director, JICA Ogata Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan. 6.  Managing risks on Egypt water resources security: climate change and Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) as challenging aspects, by Mohamed Abdel Aty, Minister of Water Resources, Government of Egypt, Cairo, Egypt.  7.  Designing research to catalyse climate action, by Bruce Currie-Alder, International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada. 8. Water resilient places-Developing a policy framework for surface water management and Blue-Green Infrastructure, by Barry Greig and D. Faichney, Government of Scotland, Edinburgh, UK. 9. Supporting evidence-based water and climate change policy in Scotland through innovation and expert knowledge: The Centre of Expertise for Waters (CREW), by Robert C. Ferrier, Rachel C. Helliwell, Helen M. Jones, Nikki H. Dodd, M. Sophie Beier, The James Hutton Institute, Dundee, Scotland. 10. Assessment of and adaptation measures to the impacts of climate change on water resources in China, by Aifeng Lv and Shaofeng Jia, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China. 11. Using waternomics to develop & avoid systemic shocks to the economy, by Debra Tan, President, China Water Risk, Hong Kong. 12. Consequences of declining resources on water services: The risks if we do not react! by Diane D''Arras, President, International Water Association, London, UK. 13. Resilience Through Systems Thinking for Water Infrastructure, by Cindy Wallis-Lage and Zeynep Kisoglu Erdal, President, Water Business, Black & Veatch, Kansas, USA. ΓÇï

It is called a theory but is actually a combination of various psychological theories, for which no axiomatic systems-such as those associated with the utility theory widely used in economics-have been established. The utility theory is often limited to qualitative knowledge;

This book mainly addresses the position, function, influence, and values of folk oral literature in the history of Chinese literature.

This book highlights the theory and practical applications of the chemical master equation (CME) approach for very large biochemical networks, which provides a powerful general framework for model building in a variety of biological networks.

This book comprehensively outlines synchrotron-based X-ray imaging technologies and their associated applications in gaining fundamental insights into the physical and chemical properties as well as reaction mechanisms of energy materials.

This book offers a systematic and comprehensive introduction to the visual simultaneous localization and mapping (vSLAM) technology, which is a fundamental and essential component for many applications in robotics, wearable devices, and autonomous driving vehicles. The book starts from very basic mathematic background knowledge such as 3D rigid body geometry, the pinhole camera projection model, and nonlinear optimization techniques, before introducing readers to traditional computer vision topics like feature matching, optical flow, and bundle adjustment. The book employs a light writing style, instead of the rigorous yet dry approach that is common in academic literature. In addition, it includes a wealth of executable source code with increasing difficulty to help readers understand and use the practical techniques. The book can be used as a textbook for senior undergraduate or graduate students, or as reference material for researchers and engineers in related areas.

This book is a compilation of the latest achievements of leading researchers in marine natural products with extremely diverse structures and biological activities.

This book aims to develop systematic design methodologies to model-based nonlinear control of aeroengines, focusing on (1) modelling of aeroengine systems-both component-level and identification-based models will be extensively studied and compared;

This book examines how fifty police officers in South Australia keep well and "bounce back" from duty-related traumatic experience in the absence of practical, accessible and timely organisational support.

This book is an essential guide on surrogacy, discussing various legal issues that arise in surrogacy cases.

This book provides insight on processing mechanics during ship and offshore structure, and researchers, scientists, and engineers in the field of manufacturing process mechanics can benefit from the book. This book is written by subject experts based on the recent research results in FE computation on accuracy fabrication of ship and offshore structures based on processing mechanics. In order to deal with actual engineering problems during construction of ship and offshore structure, it proposes advanced computational approaches such as thermal elastic¿plastic and elastic FE computations and employed to examine physical behavior and clarifies generation mechanism of mechanical response. As such, this book provides valuable knowledge, useful methods, and practical algorithms that can be considered in manufacturing process mechanics.

This book presents how Digital Transformation is a requirement to upgrade Latin American universities to a next level in management, lecturing and learning processes and strategies. The book starts with a thorough introduction of the Latin American context addressing the three main topics in the book: Digital Transformation, Higher Education and Artificial Intelligence & Industry 4.0. They will be depicted by region, with a clear distribution between Central America & Mexico, Comunidad Andina (Perú, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Bolivia), Mercosur (Argentina, Brasil, Paraguay and Uruguay), and other countries.The book also shows how online learning is a key part of the transformation, with a clear focus on learning management systems, innovation and learning analytics. Further, personalised services for every single profile at the university (students, lecturers, academic managers) are presented to guarantee inclusive education service aggregation for networked campuses. Following, the book addresses strategy and overall services that concentrate on sustainability and revenue models integrated with a strategic planning.Finally a set of chapters will show specific experiences and case studies of direct application of Artificial Intelligence and Technology 4.0, where the readers can learn from and transfer directly into their educational contexts.