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Augmented Reality: Placing Artificial Objects in Real Scenes
by Gudrun Klinker Reinhold Behringer David W. MizellThis book presents a variety of techniques that combine computer-generated images and other objects with real scenes, creating augmented reality. This work provides an excellent snapshot of the current state of augmented reality research and its latest applications to industry. Using computer vision, graphics, and signal processing, augmented reali
Augmented Wellness: Exploring the Power of VR and AR in Healthcare
by Bhuvan Unhelkar Chinmay Chakraborty Ben Othman SoufianeThis book is an essential resource that delves into the transformative potential of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) within the healthcare industry. In a world where technology is continually reshaping the way we approach medical treatment, training, and education, this book provides a comprehensive exploration of how AR and VR technologies are becoming integral to the advancement of healthcare. It serves as a bridge between the rapidly evolving field of healthcare and the cutting-edge innovations in AR and VR, addressing the significant impact these technologies have on patient care, medical training, and the ethical considerations surrounding their use. The book has a broad audience, including healthcare professionals, students, and technology enthusiasts. It explores the practical applications of AR and VR in healthcare, highlighting their roles in patient education, pain management, telemedicine, and medical training. Additionally, the book delves into the ethical and regulatory considerations of integrating AR and VR into healthcare, sparking conversations around patient privacy and moral dilemmas. With real-world case studies and emerging technologies, "Augmented Wellness" provides readers with the knowledge to navigate the ever-changing landscape of augmented and virtual reality in healthcare. It is an invaluable resource for anyone seeking to understand, embrace, or innovate within this dynamic intersection of healthcare and technology. It ensures that healthcare transformation through AR and VR is beneficial and ethically responsible. This comprehensive book explores the vast and intricate universe of Virtual and Augmented Reality in healthcare. It delves into the multitude of ways in which these technologies are being harnessed todiagnose, treat, educate, and support patients. The aim is to provide an in-depth understanding of the present state and exciting potential future of VR and AR in the healthcare ecosystem. We have created a resource accessible to a broad audience, from healthcare professionals and technology enthusiasts to policymakers and students. The book offers a balanced blend of real-world case studies, expert insights, technical details, and practical applications, covering a wide range of topics, from using VR for pain management and physical therapy to AR's role in assisting surgeons during complex procedures.
Augmented and Mixed Reality for Communities
by Joshua A. FisherUsing mixed and augmented reality in communities is an emerging media practice that is reshaping how we interact with our cities and neighbors. From the politics of city hall to crosswalks and playgrounds, mixed and augmented reality will offer a diverse range of new ways to interact with our communities. In 2016, apps for augmented reality politics began to appear in app stores. Similarly, the blockbuster success of Pokémon Go illustrated how even forgotten street corners can become a magical space for play. In 2019, a court case in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, extended first amendment rights to augmented reality. For all the good that these emerging media provide, there will and have been consequences. Augmented and Mixed Reality for Communities will help students and practitioners navigate the ethical design and development of these kinds of experiences to transform their cities. As one of the first books of its kind, each chapter in the book prepares readers to contribute to the Augmented City. By providing insight into how these emerging media work, the book seeks to democratize the augmented and mixed reality space.Authors within this volume represent some of the leading scholars and practitioners working in the augmented and mixed reality space for civic media, cultural heritage, civic games, ethical design, and social justice. Readers will find practical insights for the design and development to create their own compelling experiences. Teachers will find that the text provides in-depth, critical analyses for thought-provoking classroom discussions.
Augmenting Crop Productivity in Stress Environment
by Azamal Husen Mohammad Israil Ansari Shamim Akhtar AnsariThe book inculcates a holistic approach to improve crop productivity and quality for ensuring food security and nutrition to all. This warrants to identify various stress conditions prevalent globally and tailor crop adaptability and productivity to the maximum accordingly, employing physio-molecular modern tools and techniques with judicious amalgamation with conventional crop husbandry. As a result, the book chapters encompass diverse environmental factors, internal physio-molecular processes and their modulations with a final goal of expanding area under cultivation by utilization of constraint terrains of poor site quality and augmenting sustainable crop productivity and quality on the face of rapidly changing climate. The book includes role of plant hormones, nano-sensors, nanomaterials etc. in stress tolerance responses, capturing recent advancement in the field of stress tolerance, enlarging scope of coverage by gleaning modern literature and providing glimpses of futuristic scenario of agriculture practices that can render ‘balance staple food rich in nutrition, vitamins and minerals’ to teeming billions of global human populations. Thus, the book provides a comprehensive overview of the role of stress environment and understanding stress physiology for developing stress tolerant crops. The book covers current knowledge and future prospects to achieve enhanced food security under stress environment of crops. The renowned contributors elegantly crafted each chapter, suited alike to both classroom texts for graduate students and reference material for researchers. The language and style are simple and lucid with liberal use of illustrations. This book should be on the shelf of university/ personal libraries for inquisitive students and enlightened researchers.
Augmenting Human Manipulation Abilities with Supernumerary Robotic Limbs (Biosystems & Biorobotics #26)
by Domenico Prattichizzo Irfan HussainThis book offers a timely report on an emerging topic in the field of wearable assistive technology: the design and development of robotic extra fingers. After a concise review of the state of the art and a description of earlier prototypes, it discusses the authors’ efforts to address issues such as portability and wearability of the devices, including strategies to reduce fatigue and to integrate the motion of the extra fingers with that of the human hand. The book also explores optimized control algorithms and the design of wearable sensorimotor interfaces, and presents a set of tests carried out on healthy subjects and chronic stroke patients. Merging concepts from robotics, biomechanics, human factors and control theory and offering an overview of supernumerary robotic fingers, including the challenges, this book will inspire researchers involved in the development of wearable robotic devices and interfaces based on the principles of wearability, safety, ergonomics and user comfort.
Augmenting Your Career: How to Win at Work In the Age of AI
by David ShrierEssential reading for anyone who wants to be relevant in the workforce of tomorrow.Drawing on more than a decade of research on artificial intelligence and human systems, David L. Shrier, a globally recognised futurist and innovation specialist, delivers fascinating insights and tips on how to win at work in the age of AI. Artificial intelligence is driving workforce disruption on a scale not seen since the Industrial Revolution. Automation was once associated with mass layoffs in heavy industry like auto and steel, but computers are getting smarter and are beginning to replace traditionally 'white collar' roles like law, consulting, banking and finance.Yet some curious findings are emerging from the world's leading research labs. The combined intellect of people and machines working in harmony is able to achieve outcomes that are better than either can accomplish alone. Properly tuned AI systems can even help harness the power of the collective intelligence of an entire organisation or community to predict future events. This isn't science fiction; this is science fact the author personally helped discover.What are these new hybrid AI+people systems? What can specialised AI systems do to help you succeed in your career? How can you work most effectively with these machines?Written by a practitioner who has worked with some of the largest companies in the world as well as some of the most innovative startups, Augmenting Your Career provides a rare window into a frontier area of computer science that will change everything about how you work and what your job will look like. Read this book and fast track your evolution to the knowledge worker of the future.
Augmenting Your Career: How to Win at Work In the Age of AI
by David ShrierEssential reading for anyone who wants to be relevant in the workforce of tomorrow.Drawing on more than a decade of research on artificial intelligence and human systems, David L. Shrier, a globally recognised futurist and innovation specialist, delivers fascinating insights and tips on how to win at work in the age of AI. Artificial intelligence is driving workforce disruption on a scale not seen since the Industrial Revolution. Automation was once associated with mass layoffs in heavy industry like auto and steel, but computers are getting smarter and are beginning to replace traditionally 'white collar' roles like law, consulting, banking and finance.Yet some curious findings are emerging from the world's leading research labs. The combined intellect of people and machines working in harmony is able to achieve outcomes that are better than either can accomplish alone. Properly tuned AI systems can even help harness the power of the collective intelligence of an entire organisation or community to predict future events. This isn't science fiction; this is science fact the author personally helped discover.What are these new hybrid AI+people systems? What can specialised AI systems do to help you succeed in your career? How can you work most effectively with these machines?Written by a practitioner who has worked with some of the largest companies in the world as well as some of the most innovative startups, Augmenting Your Career provides a rare window into a frontier area of computer science that will change everything about how you work and what your job will look like. Read this book and fast track your evolution to the knowledge worker of the future.
Augmenting Your Career: How to Win at Work In the Age of AI
by David ShrierEssential reading for anyone who wants to be relevant in the workforce of tomorrow.Drawing on more than a decade of research on artificial intelligence and human systems, David L. Shrier, a globally recognised futurist and innovation specialist, delivers fascinating insights and tips on how to win at work in the age of AI. Artificial intelligence is driving workforce disruption on a scale not seen since the Industrial Revolution. Automation was once associated with mass layoffs in heavy industry like auto and steel, but computers are getting smarter and are beginning to replace traditionally 'white collar' roles like law, consulting, banking and finance.Yet some curious findings are emerging from the world's leading research labs. The combined intellect of people and machines working in harmony is able to achieve outcomes that are better than either can accomplish alone. Properly tuned AI systems can even help harness the power of the collective intelligence of an entire organisation or community to predict future events. This isn't science fiction; this is science fact the author personally helped discover.What are these new hybrid AI+people systems? What can specialised AI systems do to help you succeed in your career? How can you work most effectively with these machines?Written by a practitioner who has worked with some of the largest companies in the world as well as some of the most innovative startups, Augmenting Your Career provides a rare window into a frontier area of computer science that will change everything about how you work and what your job will look like. Read this book and fast track your evolution to the knowledge worker of the future.
August Weismann
by Frederick B. ChurchillAugust Weismann's 1892 theory that inheritance is transmitted through eggs and sperm provided the biological mechanism for natural selection. In this full-length biography, Frederick Churchill situates Weismann in the swirling intellectual currents of his day and shows how his work paved the way for the modern synthesis of genetics and evolution.
Auralization: Fundamentals of Acoustics, Modelling, Simulation, Algorithms and Acoustic Virtual Reality (RWTHedition)
by Michael VorländerAuralization is the technique of creation and reproduction of sound on the basis of computer data. With this tool it is possible to predict the character of sound signals which are generated at the source and modified by reinforcement, propagation and transmission in systems such as rooms, buildings, vehicles or other technical devices. This book is organized as a comprehensive collection of the basics of sound and vibration, acoustic modelling, simulation, signal processing and audio reproduction. With some mathematical prerequisites, the readers will be able to follow the main strategy of auralization easily and work out their own implementations of auralization in various fields of application in architectural acoustics, acoustic engineering, sound design and virtual reality. For readers interested in basic research, the technique of auralization may be useful to create sound stimuli for specific investigations in linguistic, medical, neurological and psychological research, and in the field of human-machine interaction.
Aurora 7: The Mercury Space Flight of M. Scott Carpenter (Springer Praxis Books)
by Colin BurgessTO A NATION enthralled by the heroic exploits of the Mercury astronauts, the launch of Lt. Cmdr. Scott Carpenter on NASA's second orbital space flight was a renewed cause for pride, jubilation and celebration. Within hours, that excitement had given way to stunned disbelief and anxiety as shaken broadcasters began preparing the American public for the very real possibility that an American astronaut and his spacecraft may have been lost at sea. In fact, it had been a very close call. Completely out of fuel and forced to manually guide Aurora 7 through the frightening inferno of re-entry, Carpenter brought the Mercury spacecraft down to a safe splashdown in the ocean. In doing so, he controversially overshot the intended landing zone. Despite his efforts, Carpenter's performance on the MA-7 mission was later derided by powerful figures within NASA. He would never fly into space again. Taking temporary leave of NASA, Carpenter participated in the U. S. Navy's pioneering Sealab program. For a record 30 days he lived and worked aboard a pressurized habitat resting on the floor of the ocean, becoming the nation's first astronaut/aquanaut explorer. Following extensive research conducted by noted spaceflight historian Colin Burgess, the drama-filled flight of Aurora 7 is faithfully recounted in this engrossing book, along with the personal recollections of Scott Carpenter and those closest to the actual events.
Ausgewählte Sensorschaltungen
by Peter BaumannIn diesem Buch werden die Schritte angegeben, mit denen man aus den Datenblättern der Sensor-Hersteller die Modellparameter ermitteln kann, die zu einer Schaltungssimulation benötigt werden. Des Weiteren wird gezeigt, wie dem jeweiligen Sensor die Abhängigkeit von Temperatur, Feuchte, Licht, Druck, Kraft oder Magnetfeld in Gleichungsform aufgeprägt werden kann. Zu Sensorschaltungen wie Bandabstandsquelle, Feuchtesensor, RGB-Farbsensor, Reflexlichtschranke, DMS-Brücke, Reed-Relais, Piezo-Summer sowie Ultraschall-Abstandswarner werden die PSPICE-Analysen ausführlich dokumentiert. Die simulierten Sensorschaltungen können für sich und als Ausgangspunkt zu Messungen im Rahmender Bachelor-Ausbildung genutzt werden.
Ausgewählte Sensorschaltungen: Vom Datenblatt zur Simulation
by Peter BaumannIn diesem Buch werden die Schritte angegeben, mit denen man aus den Datenblättern der Sensor-Hersteller die Modellparameter ermitteln kann, die zu einer Schaltungssimulation benötigt werden. Des Weiteren wird gezeigt, wie dem jeweiligen Sensor die Abhängigkeit von Temperatur, Feuchte, Licht, Druck, Kraft oder Magnetfeld in Gleichungsform aufge-prägt werden kann. Zu Sensorschaltungen wie Bandabstandsquelle, Feuchtesensor, RGB-Farbsensor, Reflexlichtschranke oder DMS-Brücke auf einem Baustahl-Biegestab werden die PSPICE-Analysen ausführlich dokumentiert. Die simulierten Sensorschaltungen können für sich und als Ausgangspunkt zu Messungen im Rahmen der Bachelor-Ausbildung genutzt werden.
Ausgewählte Sensorschaltungen: Vom Datenblatt zur Simulation
by Peter BaumannIn diesem Buch werden die Schritte angegeben, mit denen man aus den Datenblättern der Sensor-Hersteller die Modellparameter ermitteln kann, die zu einer Schaltungssimulation benötigt werden. Des Weiteren wird gezeigt, wie dem jeweiligen Sensor die Abhängigkeit von Temperatur, Feuchte, Licht, Druck, Kraft oder Magnetfeld in Gleichungsform aufgeprägt werden kann. Zu Sensorschaltungen wie Bandabstandsquelle, Feuchtesensor, IR-Lichtschranke, DMS-Brücke, piezoelektrischer Summer sowie Anwendungen von US-Wandlern und akustischen Oberflächenwellen-Bauelementen werden die PSPICE-Analysen ausführlich dokumentiert. Die simulierten Sensorschaltungen können für sich und als Ausgangspunkt zu Labormessungen im Rahmen der Bachelor-Ausbildung genutzt werden.
Ausgewählte Sensorschaltungen: Vom Datenblatt zur Simulation
by Peter BaumannIn diesem Buch werden die Schritte angegeben, mit denen man aus den Datenblättern der Sensor-Hersteller die Modellparameter ermitteln kann, die zu einer Schaltungssimulation benötigt werden. Des Weiteren wird gezeigt, wie dem jeweiligen Sensor die Abhängigkeit von Temperatur, Feuchte, Licht, Druck, Kraft oder Magnetfeld in Gleichungsform aufgeprägt werden kann. Zu Sensorschaltungen wie Bandabstandsquelle, Feuchtesensor, IR-Lichtschranke, DMS-Brücke, piezoelektrischer Summer sowie Anwendungen von US-Wandlern und akustischen Oberflächenwellen-Bauelementen werden die PSPICE-Analysen ausführlich dokumentiert. Die simulierten Sensorschaltungen können für sich und als Ausgangspunkt zu Labormessungen im Rahmen der Bachelor-Ausbildung genutzt werden.
Ausgewählte Sensorschaltungen: Vom Datenblatt zur Simulation
by Peter BaumannIn diesem Buch werden die Schritte angegeben, mit denen man aus den Datenblättern der Sensor-Hersteller die Modellparameter ermitteln kann, die zu einer Schaltungssimulation benötigt werden. Des Weiteren wird gezeigt, wie dem jeweiligen Sensor die Abhängigkeit von Temperatur, Feuchte, Licht, Druck, Kraft oder Magnetfeld in Gleichungsform aufgeprägt werden kann. Zu Sensorschaltungen wie Bandabstandsquelle, Feuchtesensor, IR-Lichtschranke, DMS-Brücke, piezoelektrischer Summer sowie Anwendungen von US-Wandlern und akustischen Oberflächenwellen-Bauelementen werden die PSPICE-Analysen ausführlich dokumentiert. Die simulierten Sensorschaltungen können für sich und als Ausgangspunkt zu Labormessungen im Rahmen der Bachelor-Ausbildung genutzt werden.
Auslegung von Konstruktionselementen: Sicherheit, Lebensdauer und Zuverlässigkeit im Maschinenbau
by Dietrich Schlottmann Henrik SchnegasDieses Fachbuch befasst sich mit der Auslegung von Maschinenelementen und vermittelt die Grundlagen der Berechnung einer Lebensdauer bei Ermüdung, Verschleiß und anderen Schädigungsprozessen sowie der Ermittlung der Zuverlässigkeit bzw. Schadenswahrscheinlichkeit maschinenbaulicher Systeme. Das Werk vermittelt einen direkten Zusammenhang zwischen klassischer Sicherheitsberechnung, Lebensdauerbestimmung im Sinne der Betriebsfestigkeitslehre sowie der aktuellen Zuverlässigkeit und Schadenswahrscheinlichkeit für Risikobewertung und Instandhaltung. Veranschaulicht wird, welche Rolle die Kosten als Bestandteil des Product Lifecycle Managements spielen, ergänzt durch Werkzeuge und Algorithmen für die statistische Auswertung und numerische Beschreibung von Lebensdauer, Zuverlässigkeit und Ausfallwahrscheinlichkeit. Übungsaufgaben für die statistische Versuchsauswertung, Verschleißbeschreibungen, Verfahren zur Kollektivermittlung und eine weitgefasste Datensammlung im Anhang bieten wertvolle Hilfen für den Konstruktionsalltag.
Auslegung von Konstruktionselementen: Sicherheit, Lebensdauer und Zuverlässigkeit im Maschinenbau (VDI-Buch #40)
by Dietrich Schlottmann Henrik SchnegasDieses Fachbuch befasst sich mit der Auslegung von Maschinenelementen. Die Autoren vermitteln dazu die Grundlagen der Berechnung einer ,,Sicherheit", der Berechnung einer Lebensdauer bei Erm#65533;dung, Verschlei#65533; und anderen Sch#65533;digungsprozessen und der Ermittlung der Zuverl#65533;ssigkeit bzw. Schadenswahrscheinlichkeit maschinenbaulicher Systeme. Leser entdecken in dem Buch einen direkten Zusammenhang zwischen klassischer Sicherheitsberechnung, Lebensdauerbestimmung im Sinne der Betriebsfestigkeitslehre sowie der aktuellen Zuverl#65533;ssigkeit und Schadenswahrscheinlichkeit f#65533;r Risikobewertung und Instandhaltung. Veranschaulicht wird, welche Rolle die Kosten als Bestandteil des Product Lifecycle Managements spielen. In der dritten Auflage wurde die klassische Sicherheit um eine Produktsicherheit unter dem Aspekt einer Risiko- und Gefahrenanalyse erweitert. Werkzeuge und Algorithmen f#65533;r die statistische Auswertung und numerische Beschreibung von Lebensdauer, Zuverl#65533;ssigkeit und Ausfallwahrscheinlichkeit wurden erg#65533;nzt. Neue #65533;bungsaufgaben f#65533;r die statistische Versuchsauswertung, Verschlei#65533;beschreibung, erg#65533;nzte Verfahren zur Kollektivermittlung und eine erweiterte Datensammlung im Anhang sind wertvolle Hilfen f#65533;r den Konstrukteur.
Ausricht- und Kupplungsfehler an Maschinensätzen: Erfassung, Diagnose und Auswirkungen von Fehlausrichtungen in Wellensträngen
by Dieter FrankeBeim Maschinenausrichten an gekuppelten Maschinensätzen gibt es einen breiten Anwenderkreis, der mit Messmitteln oder Messgeräten diese geometrisch nur scheinbar einfache Aufgabe löst. Nicht ausreichend ist häufig der fachliche Hintergrund der Techniker, Meister und Ingenieure, vor allem zu den vielfältigen Auswirkungen und zur Diagnose von Fehlausrichtungen im Betrieb.Um eine Ausrichtmessung zuverlässig ausführen, begleiten oder vermitteln zu können, wird der Hauptzielgruppe ein Überblick über die praktischen Methoden vermittelt. In der VDI 2627 wurden diese Inhalte an Getrieben ansatzweise beschrieben; der Autor trug zur Verbesserung einer Neuerscheinung dieser Richtlinie bei.Hier setzt auch die Buchreihe "Einführung in die Maschinendiagnose" an. Vom physikalischen Hintergrund bis zur praktischen Anwendung werden Grundlagen und Erfahrungen leicht verständlich dargestellt und mit praktischen Beispielen illustriert.Die vertiefte, umfassende Diagnose von Bauteilschäden von der "Initial- bis zur Wurzelursache" über die Behandlung praktischer Fehlerquellen an Maschinen bis zu deren Abhilfe und echten Vorbeugung werden in dieser Buchreihe behandelt.
Austenitic TRIP/TWIP Steels and Steel-Zirconia Composites: Design of Tough, Transformation-Strengthened Composites and Structures (Springer Series in Materials Science #298)
by Horst Biermann Christos G. AnezirisThis open access book presents a collection of the most up-to-date research results in the field of steel development with a focus on pioneering alloy concepts that result in previously unattainable materials properties. Specifically, it gives a detailed overview of the marriage of high-performance steels of the highest strength and form-ability with damage-tolerant zirconia ceramics by innovative manufacturing technologies, thereby yielding a new class of high-performance composite materials. This book describes how new high-alloy stainless TRIP/TWIP steels (TRIP: TRansformation-Induced Plasticity, TWIP: TWinning-induced Plasticity) are combined with zirconium dioxide ceramics in powder metallurgical routes and via melt infiltration to form novel TRIP-matrix composites. This work also provides a timely perspective on new compact and damage-tolerant composite materials, filigree light-weight structures as well as gradient materials, and a close understanding of the mechanisms of the phase transformations.With a detailed application analysis of state-of-the-art methods in spatial and temporal high-resolution structural analysis, in combination with advanced simulation and modelling, this edited volume is ideal for researchers and engineers working in modern steel development, as well as for graduate students of metallurgy and materials science and engineering.
Australia's Little Space Travellers: The Flight Shaped Tektites of Australia
by Don MccollThis book provides a showcase for the incredibly well-preserved flight-textured tektites of southern Australia, which are the world's finest known examples. It provides an overview of their forms and flight features, which can be expected to appear, at least in part, on any objects falling from space. Some of these specimens are so perfectly shaped that it is hard to believe that they have been buried in the recent strata of Australia for 770,000 years. It also discusses the history of the story of their incredible flight into space and return becoming widely accepted, which led to them being recognized as space travelers. Further, it describes their classical shapes and offers an explanation of how each developed. It provides collectors, meteoriticists, and museum curators with insights into the astounding forms of Australian tektites produced by hypersonic flight.
Australia's Nuclear Policy: Reconciling Strategic, Economic and Normative Interests
by Michael Clarke Stephan FrühlingAustralia’s Nuclear Policy: Reconciling Strategic, Economic and Normative Interests critically re-evaluates Australia’s engagement with nuclear weapons, nuclear power and the nuclear fuel cycle since the dawn of the nuclear age. The authors develop a holistic conception of ’nuclear policy’ that extends across the three distinct but related spheres - strategic, economic and normative - that have arisen from the basic ’dual-use’ dilemma of nuclear technology. Existing scholarship on Australia’s nuclear policy has generally grappled with each of these spheres in isolation. In a fresh evaluation of the field, the authors investigate the broader aims of Australian nuclear policy and detail how successive Australian governments have engaged with nuclear issues since 1945. Through its holistic approach, the book demonstrates the logic of seemingly conflicting policy positions at the heart of Australian nuclear policy, including simultaneous reliance on US extended deterrence and the pursuit of nuclear disarmament. Such apparent contradictions highlight the complex relationships between different ends and means of nuclear policy. How successive Australian governments of different political shades have attempted to reconcile these in their nuclear policy over time is a central part of the history and future of Australia’s engagement with the nuclear fuel cycle.
Australia's Uranium Trade: The Domestic and Foreign Policy Challenges of a Contentious Export
by Stephan FrühlingAustralia's Uranium Trade explores why the export of uranium remains a highly controversial issue in Australia and how this affects Australia's engagement with the strategic, regime and market realms of international nuclear affairs. The book focuses on the key challenges facing Australian policy makers in a twenty-first century context where civilian nuclear energy consumption is expanding significantly while at the same time the international nuclear nonproliferation regime is subject to increasing, and unprecedented, pressures. By focusing on Australia as a prominent case study, the book is concerned with how a traditionally strong supporter of the international nuclear nonproliferation regime is attempting to recalibrate its interest in maximizing the economic and diplomatic benefits of increased uranium exports during a period of flux in the strategic, regime and market realms of nuclear affairs. Australia's Uranium Trade provides broader lessons for how - indeed whether - nuclear suppliers worldwide are adapting to the changing nuclear environment internationally.
Australian Battalion Commanders In The Second World War
by Garth PrattenThis book explores the background, role and conduct of the commanding officers of Australian infantry battalions in World War II.
Australian Contributions to Strategic and Military Geography (Advances In Military Geosciences Ser.)
by Stuart Pearson Jane L. Holloway Richard ThackwayDrawing from military geography’s spatial roots, its embrace of dynamic systems, and integration of human and biophysical environments, this book helps in understanding the value of analyzing patterns, processes and systems, and cross-scale and multi-disciplinary ways of acting in a complex world, while making the case for a resurgence of strategic and military geography in Australia. Here, leading experts demonstrate that geography retains its relevance in clarifying the scale and dynamics of defense activities in assessments of the international, regional, national, and site impacts of changes in physical, cyber and human geographies. The cases presented show Australia contributing to a growing strategic and military geography.