This book is a practical introduction to the safe operation and control of critical systems in defense, industrial, and healthcare applications. It highlights system engineering processes and presents an overview of the equipment health monitoring (EHM) functional architecture and algorithm design. The book also explores machine learning functions, such as feature extraction, data visualization and model boundaries. The need for intelligent diagnostics and proposed health monitoring framework is increasingly important within sensing technology, big data analytics and grid capabilities. This resource, packed with case studies from industrial and healthcare settings, identifies key problems along with various techniques that address the current issues as well as future developments in the field. A MATLAB code is included to assist engineers with projects in the field.

Largely due to the tastes of nineteenth century Western collectors and curators, weaponry abounds in ethnographic museums. However, the relative absence of Asian, African, Native American and Oceanic arms and armour from contemporary gallery displays neither reflects this fact, nor accords these important artefacts the attention they deserve. Weapons are often those objects in museums which most strongly record traumatic histories of colonial conquest around the world, showcase a society's most complex technologies, and encode a wealth of historical information relating to violent conflict, cultural identities, and indigenous masculinities. This volume brings together an international collective of museum professionals, indigenous cultural historians, anthropologists and material culture specialists to address the historical role of weapon collections in ethnographic museums, and to reconsider the value of studying arms for the purposes of writing richer cultural histories. From Australia to the Amazon, from Uttar Pradesh to ancient Ulster, the essays in this book endeavour to return ethnographic weapons to the centre of material culture studies. In doing so, they offer a blueprint for a more sophisticated future treatment of world weaponry.