This book comprises selected proceedings of the Fourth International Conference in Ocean Engineering (ICOE2018), focusing on emerging opportunities and challenges in the field of ocean engineering and offshore structures. It includes state-of-the-art content from leading international experts, making it a valuable resource for researchers and practicing engineers alike.

This book comprises selected proceedings of the Fourth International Conference in Ocean Engineering (ICOE2018), focusing on emerging opportunities and challenges in the field of ocean engineering and offshore structures. It includes state-of-the-art content from leading international experts, making it a valuable resource for researchers and practicing engineers alike.

This book offers a timely review of wave energy and its conversion mechanisms. Written having in mind current needs of advanced undergraduates engineering students, it covers the whole process of energy generation, from waves to electricity, in a systematic and comprehensive manner. Upon a general introduction to the field of wave energy, it presents analytical calculation methods for estimating wave energy potential in any given location. Further, it covers power-take off (PTOs), describing their mechanical and electrical aspects in detail, and control systems and algorithms. The book includes chapters written by active researchers with vast experience in their respective filed of specialization. It combines basic aspects with cutting-edge research and methods, and selected case studies. The book offers systematic and practice-oriented knowledge to students, researchers, and professionals in the wave energy sector. Chapters 17 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com

This book offers a timely review of wave energy and its conversion mechanisms. Written having in mind current needs of advanced undergraduates engineering students, it covers the whole process of energy generation, from waves to electricity, in a systematic and comprehensive manner. Upon a general introduction to the field of wave energy, it presents analytical calculation methods for estimating wave energy potential in any given location. Further, it covers power-take off (PTOs), describing their mechanical and electrical aspects in detail, and control systems and algorithms. The book includes chapters written by active researchers with vast experience in their respective filed of specialization. It combines basic aspects with cutting-edge research and methods, and selected case studies. The book offers systematic and practice-oriented knowledge to students, researchers, and professionals in the wave energy sector. Chapters 17 of this book is available open access under a CC BY 4.0 license at link.springer.com

The present work deals with variability, correlation, path-coefficient and selection index for eleven quantitative characters in chickpea. Variability of the studied characters exhibited that they were quantitative in nature and under polygenic control. For all the characters phenotypic variation was greater than those of environmental components of variation. Phenotypic coefficients of variability (PCV) in general were higher than the estimates of genotypic coefficient of variability (GCV) for all the characters, which suggested that the apparent variation is not only due to the genotypes but also due to the influence of environment. The heritability, genetic advance (GA) and genetic advance as percentage of mean (GA %) estimates in the present investigation were found to be low which indicates that the scope for improving traits through selection is limited. SW/P was positively correlated with DMF, NPBMF, NSBMF, PWFD, PdW/P, and NS/P both at phenotypic and genotypic levels. Path coefficient analyses indicated that PdW/P and NS/P having high positive direct effect on yield were the major contributors to SW/P.

To be a better person tomorrow than what you are today, you have to achieve goals and attain success. The basis to the success is the thought of "Yes I Can." If you want to kick the 't' out of can't from your life and turn it on with the expression 'Yes I Can', this is the book for you. Through this book you will understand how to fuel the passion of success within yourself, which is nothing but a strong "Yes I Can." There are eight principles and elements that are fuel for your 'Yes I Can' passion - Know Yourself, Crush the Enemy Called Fear, Nothing is impossible, Think Big and Innovative, There Is Always a Choice, 'Never Give Up' Approach, Game without Ball and Disability is Lack of an Ability. You will find yourself accepting more challenges in life and achieving your dreams, after reading this book. Let's start the journey towards success.

Digital Subscriber Line (DSL) combines the advantages of providing fast means of internet access with the usage of an existent infrastructure known as the Plain Old Telephone Services (POTS). Transmissions that are use higher frequencies are more subject to attenuation and to crosstalk. Crosstalk is the undesired radiation of energy among wires. It is more likely to occur among/between similar frequencies and results in received signal that differs from the original signal form that was sent. In other words, crosstalk is a disturbance caused by the electric or magnetic fields of one telecommunication signal affecting a signal in an adjacent circuit. This book consists an analysis of crosstalk in various DSL.

Turbomachinery design and optimization using numerical technique has been presented in this book. Reynolds Average Navier-Stokes (RANS) equation based solution approach has been explained to design the system. Single as well as multi-objective optimization techniques are presented along with the analysis of flow field. Several surrogate based optimization techniques including a weighted average method was used for optimization. The Turbomachinery designers trying to enhance the system performance can follow the procedure explained in this book. In short, the books can be helpful for the Turbomachinery designers and academicians. This book may also be of general interest of designers and researchers who want CFD simulation of any system via RANS and want to apply systematic approach for optimization.

This book presents development of efficient reinforcement learning methods in a postgraduate research. A reinforcement learning agent tries every state-action pair to find the optimal policy without prior knowledge about the domain. In large domains visiting every state-action pair is not feasible by an agent, therefore standard reinforcement learning approach is not applicable in solving many real world problems. Three new methods are proposed to make the learning efficient according to the characteristics of the problems: Task-Oriented Reinforcement Learning reduces the problem size by viewing it from the task's viewpoint that clarifies task relevant state variables. Symmetrical-Actions Reinforcement Leaning reduces the size of a learning problem by exploiting partial symmetry over action relevant state variables and representing actions values by a single function. Coordinated Multiagent Reinforcement Learning technique uses coordinator-agent hierarchy to keep the size of individual learning problems small. Depending on problem characteristics all or any of these methods can be applied to solve a problem efficiently using reinforcement learning.