Reliability Analysis and Asset Management of Engineering Systems explains methods that can be used to evaluate reliability and availability of complex systems, including simulation-based methods. The increasing digitization of mechanical processes driven by Industry 4.0 increases the interaction between machines and monitoring and control systems, leading to increases in system complexity. For those systems the reliability and availability analyses are increasingly challenging, as the interaction between machines has become more complex, and the analysis of the flexibility of the production systems to respond to machinery failure may require advanced simulation techniques. This book fills a gap on how to deal with such complex systems by linking the concepts of systems reliability and asset management, and then making these solutions more accessible to industry by explaining the availability analysis of complex systems based on simulation methods that emphasise Petri nets.

Sensing Approaches for Precision Agriculture aims to bring together the 'state of the art' of the most popular sensing techniques and the current state of research on the application of sensors in Precision Agriculture (PA). Sensing is of great value in PA because it provides cheap and immediate data for management. This book gives a broad overview of sensing in PA and a coherent introduction for new professionals and research scientists. Readers are introduced to the potential applications of a range of different sensors, how they should be used properly and their limitations for use in PA. Chapters on specific topics and case studies provide depth and enable implementation of the methods by users. A general introduction about sensing techniques in PA is followed by Chapters 2-9 on the most important specific techniques in sensing and Chapters 10-13 include mini-case studies, each showing cutting-edge applications for different sensing methods. Finally, there is an Epilogue on how we expect sensors and analysis to develop.

El hecho de que la mecanica respiratoria del ser humano sea alterada desde su infancia, por el entorno y aprendizajes que la modifican negativamente, hace necesaria la reeducacion de la actividad respiratoria para obtener los beneficios que el dominio de determinadas tecnicas colaboran fundamentalmente a un mejor mantenimiento de la salud. Con esta obra el profesor Escola presenta abiertamente las causas y efectos de la inadecuada practica respiratoria habitual en nuestra cultura, a la vez que ofrece a los requerimientos y exigencias de importantes, si no todos, sectores de la sociedad, un conjunto de alternativas metodologicas, especialmente dirigidas a aquellas personas como: sedentarios, cantantes, profesionales de la Educacion y Actividad Fisica y deportistas que desean aumentar el rendimiento fisico, por medio de 210 combinaciones de tecnicas y ejercicios respiratorios unicos en la literatura mundial.