Virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) have long been attributed to science fiction movies and gaming industry. Although VR was popular for decades, AR has been democraâ€Âtised through famous Pokemon Go. Combination of VR/AR and the physical environment commonly called mixed reality on smartphones has prompted developers towards new heights of creativity and innovation. No …
Over time, e-learning has evolved and changed the landscape of teaching and learning at all levels of education. Emerging learning technologies have made e-learning very diverse in its forms and applications in education, training, and life-long learning. It has created indispensable opportunities to support face-to-face, blended, hybrid, or online courses.
One-Stop security is the concept where transfer passengers and/or hold baggage are not re-screened at transfer airports if they were adequately screened at the airport of origin.
Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are free online courses available to anyone who can sign up. MOOCs provide an affordable and flexible way to learn new skills, advance in careers, and provide quality educational experiences to a certain extent. Millions of people around the world use MOOCs for learning and their reasons are various, including career development, career change, college prepar…
Active flow control (AFC) utilizes local active perturbations to induce changes in global flow behavior that result in aero/hydrodynamic performance improvement. It has been a vibrant research area with potential applications in a wide range of engineering fields. This Special Issue is a collection of 11 excellent research papers published in Actuators, showcasing and discussing new advances in…
ICACHE 2023 existed as an international forum for academic communications between experts and scholars in the fields of architectural, civil and hydraulic engineering. It promoted the research and developmental activities in related fields and scientific information interchange among all the participants, establishing research connections for them to find global partners for potential collabo…
What would a sustainable economy look like? What would it take to live within our environmental means? Legacy answers these questions, setting out the key features of the sustainable economy. It explains what it would take to properly maintain different types of capital, why polluters would have to pay, why the current generation would have to fund the necessary maintenance of our natural asset…
This proceedings gathers the original, peer-reviewed, select research papers from a wide range of sources, including the Conference on Sustainable Traffic and Transportation Engineering in 2023 (CSTTE 2023), held in Yinchuan, China, from November 22–24, 2023, as well as many universities, research institutes, and business units. CSTTE 2023 aimed to bring together the latest res…
Challenging many established narratives of literary history, this book investigates how the earliest known Greek poets (seventh to fifth centuries bce) signposted their debts to their predecessors and prior traditions – placing markers in their works for audiences to recognise (much like the ‘Easter eggs’ of modern cinema). Within antiquity, such …
The aim of the manual is to inform aviation and petroleum industries globally about the existence of internationally accepted petroleum and aviation industry fuel practices and to reinforce the need for compliance with them. In addition to informing future work for aviation fuel quality issues, the development of this manual has highlighted the importance of appropriate knowledge throughout the…