Breaker has always lived up to his name. He’s rough around the edges and puts his hardened appearance to good use as an agent of SPIRIT. Then he interviews a murder suspect who shakes him to his core. She’s pretty, sweet, innocent, and his soul mate. He’s skirted a few rules in the past but this is a line he shouldn’t cross. Which means he does. He loves his job, but he can’t build a case against the woman he wants to romance and make a family with. He’s in over his head, but badass badgers do it best when they’re backed into a corner.

Autonomous systems are one of the most important trends for the next generation of control systems. This book is the first to transfer autonomous systems concepts and intelligent agents theory into the control and operation environment of power systems. The focus of this book is to design a future control system architecture for electrical power systems, which copes with the changed requirements concerning complexity and flexibility and includes several applications for power systems. This book draws the whole circle from the theoretical and IT-concept of autonomous systems for power system control over the required knowledge-based methods and their capabilities to concrete applications within this field.

Recently widowed Jack Marshall wants a stable job and a holiday in Fiji to reconnect with his kids. But an ambitious terrorist leader has plans to kidnap Jack for his own purposes. What follows is a dark and gripping thriller set among the turquoise waters of the Pacific, where ex-Navy Seal Jack is forced to use every skill he has to save both his kids and the woman he has fallen in love with. It’s a fast-moving tale of intrigue and adventure, where everything may not be as it first appears, and where only Jack and his family can save America from impending disaster.

When Cobalt stole the Rolencian throne, Byren, Fyn and Piro were lucky to escape with their lives; now they’ve rallied, and will set out to avenge their parents’ murders. Byren is driven to defeat Cobalt and reclaim the crown, but at what cost? Fyn has sworn to serve Byren’s interests but his loyalty is tested when he realises he loves Byren’s betrothed. And Piro never wanted to win a throne, but now she holds the fate of a people in her hands.

Based on results previously restricted for military use and inaccessible to the public, this practice-oriented handbook introduces the use of enzymes for fast and efficient decontamination of B/C weapons in various scenarios, including terrorist attacks. It draws on the internationally recognized technological leadership of the German armed forces, whose anti-B/C technology is among the most advanced worldwide. The text is rounded off with a look at future perspectives.

Document from the year 2013 in the subject Engineering - Power Engineering, grade: Highest grade, University of Porto, language: English, abstract: Agent technology has been enlightened as the correct vector to promote decentralization, autonomous operation and active management activities in power distribution system operation. As a matter of fact, an adequate agent-based modeling can produce flexible, extensible, and robust systems, which are features of utmost importance to a smooth modernization of power systems. Moreover, the agent paradigm can provide a well-established notion of intelligence/smartness to be progressively applied along with the modernization of power distribution systems. Hence, in this document, an extensive survey about the applications of agent technology to power engineering is provided, aiming at helping engineers and academia to identify gaps in the state of the art to be explored in the future. This survey is presented and discussed highlighting the applications more directly related to the scope of the power distribution systems.