Energy Processes, Systems and Equipment

This book focuses on the progress in modern energy processes, systems and equipment. Since the beginning of humankind, energy has been the most important need for each human and living being. Thus, the development of different ways of energy conversion that can be applied to cover growing energy needs has become a crucial challenge for scientists and engineers around the world, making the power industry, in which operation is based on subsequent energy conversion processes, one of the most important fields of the local, national, and global economy today. Progress in precise description, modeling, and optimization of physical phenomena related to the energy conversion processes bounded to large and dispersed power systems is a key research and development field of the economy

World Ocean Public Trust: High Seas Fisheries After GrotiusTowards a New Ocean Ethos?

This article explores the concerns raised by conservation groups and evaluates the concept of a WOPT and its feasibility in light of international law of the sea regimes. Section I outlines the main elements of Orbach\u27s vision for the enclosure of the world ocean, and discusses the concept of a WOPT as embraced by a growing constituency of conservation groups worldwide. Section II provides a summary review of the origin and development of the freedom of fishing as one of the fundamental freedoms of the high seas, with its crystallization under international law through the work of Hugo Grotius, its major exponent in the Western world. It also explores the differing property and stewardship rights of States over coastal areas and their obligations regarding high seas marine living resources conservation. Section III reviews relevant international law instruments, including the 1982 Third United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (hereinafter UNCLOS ),\u27 the 1995 Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 Relating to the Conservation and Management of Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks (referred to as U.N. Fish Stocks Agreement or UNFSA), regional and international treaties, and other arrangements aimed to establish mechanisms for the study, conservation, exploitation and management of marine living resources on the high seas. It evaluates the effectiveness of these mechanisms and suggests that, although these regimes have curtailed the freedom of fishing considerably, in practice, they have been insufficient to ensure the optimal conservation of marine species. Section IV analyzes the feasibility of implementing a new ocean ethos for marine life conservation in light of models that explore policy change within and among States, including proposed global environment governance models

Advances in Intelligent Vehicle Control

This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue Advances in Intelligent Vehicle Control that was published in the journal Sensors. It presents a collection of eleven papers that covers a range of topics, such as the development of intelligent control algorithms for active safety systems, smart sensors, and intelligent and efficient driving. The contributions presented in these papers can serve as useful tools for researchers who are interested in new vehicle technology and in the improvement of vehicle control systems

Intelligent Transportation Related Complex Systems and Sensors

Building around innovative services related to different modes of transport and traffic management, intelligent transport systems (ITS) are being widely adopted worldwide to improve the efficiency and safety of the transportation system. They enable users to be better informed and make safer, more coordinated, and smarter decisions on the use of transport networks. Current ITSs are complex systems, made up of several components/sub-systems characterized by time-dependent interactions among themselves. Some examples of these transportation-related complex systems include: road traffic sensors, autonomous/automated cars, smart cities, smart sensors, virtual sensors, traffic control systems, smart roads, logistics systems, smart mobility systems, and many others that are emerging from niche areas. The efficient operation of these complex systems requires: i) efficient solutions to the issues of sensors/actuators used to capture and control the physical parameters of these systems, as well as the quality of data collected from these systems; ii) tackling complexities using simulations and analytical modelling techniques; and iii) applying optimization techniques to improve the performance of these systems. It includes twenty-four papers, which cover scientific concepts, frameworks, architectures and various other ideas on analytics, trends and applications of transportation-related data