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Learning with Lean: Unleashing the Potential for Sustainable Competitive Advantage

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Report copyright infringementby James Zurn (Author), Perry Mulligan (Author)The toughest Lean journeys are those taken in organizations that have achieved long-term success. Processes and people become fixed in their ways and exhibit a natural resistance to change. But, regardless of how well your organization is performing, unless you have a sustainable competitive advantage, you are at risk. Examining the performance gap between good organizations and great ones, Learning with Lean: Unleash...

The Seven-Year Fix: A Comprehensive Global Solution

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Report copyright infringementby Jan Moxley (Author)During the last ten years Jan Moxley developed this seven-year plan to enable the world to curb global warming and coexist with rapid climate change. This comprehensive plan's sustainable development goal increases global distribution of food, water, electricity, and healthcare services to eliminate famine, poverty, and human-caused emissions of greenhouse gases. This initiative will require numerous newly developed technologies that have bee...

In the Waves: My Quest to Solve the Mystery of a Civil War Submarine - Paperback

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by Rachel Lance (Author) One of "The Most Fascinating Books WIRED Read in 2020" "One part science book, one part historical narrative, one part memoir . . . harrowing and inspiring."--The Wall Street Journal How a determined scientist cracked the case of the first successful--and disastrous--submarine attack On the night of February 17, 1864, the tiny Confederate submarine HL Hunley made its way toward the USS Housatonic just outside Charleston harbor. Within a matter of hours, the Union s...

Engineering Systems Integration: Theory, Metrics, and Methods

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Report copyright infringementby Gary O. Langford (Author)The first book to address the underlying premises of systems integration and how to exposit them into a practical and productive manner, this book prepares systems managers and systems engineers to consider their decisions in light of systems integration metrics. The book addresses two questions: Is there a way to express the interplay of human actions and the result of system interactions of a product with its environment, and are ther...

Oil and Gas Technologies for the Arctic and Deepwater

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Report copyright infringementby Office of Technology Assessment (Author)Nearly 2 billion acres of offshore public domain is owned by the United States adjacent to Alaska and the lower 48 States. Much of the Nation's future domestic petroleum supply is expected to come from this area. Areas of highest potential apparently occur in deep water and in the Arctic where operating conditions are severe, development costs high, and financial risks immense. As the pace of exploration increases in thes...

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Report copyright infringementby Richard Skiba (Author)Material handling equipment refers to a diverse array of machinery, tools, and systems used in the movement, storage, control, and protection of materials, goods, and products throughout the manufacturing, distribution, warehousing, and logistics processes. This equipment is designed to facilitate the efficient, safe, and organized handling of materials, reducing manual labour, minimizing product damage, and optimizing productivity. This b...

Agronomy for Development: The Politics of Knowledge in Agricultural Research

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Report copyright infringementby James Sumberg (Editor)Over the last decade there has been renewed interest in food security and the state of the global food system. Population growth, climate change and food price spikes have combined to focus new attention on the technologies and institutions that underpin the production and consumption of food that is varied, nutritious and safe. Knowledge politics within development-oriented agronomy set the stage for some models of agricultural developmen...

Reinventing the Factory: Productivity Breakthroughts in Manufacturing Today

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Report copyright infringementby Roy L. Harmon (Author), LeRoy D. Peterson (Author)The "factory of the future" is here. We have the technology and professional knowledge, say leading manufacturing consultants Roy Harmon and Leroy Peterson, to implement revolutionary concepts that many managers might regard as futuristic. In this path-breaking book, Harmon and Peterson move beyond theory to document more than a hundred real-life applications of productivity improvement -- from the focused facto...

Logistics Impact Assessment of Trade Policies by CGE Modeling: Theory and Practice

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Report copyright infringementby Turkay Yildiz (Author)This book is the result of my studies, which use the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) simulations for exploring impacts of international trade on logistics services. Because, demand for logistics depends mostly on the volume of trade and trade patterns, international trade affects the transport and logistics, as it might generate a higher or lower demand for transport and logistics services. This book consists of two parts and seven ch...

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Report copyright infringementby George K. Stylios (Guest Editor)The sensing, adapting, responding, multifunctionality, low energy, small size and weight, ease of forming, and low-cost attributes of smart textiles and their multidisciplinary scope offer numerous end uses in medical, sports and fitness, military, fashion, automotive, aerospace, the built environment, and energy industries. The research and development on these new and high-value materials cross scientific boundaries, redefine m...

Notes on Estimation of Logistics Impact of Trade Policies: A Recursively Dynamic Applied General Equilibrium Approach

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Report copyright infringementby Turkay Yildiz (Author)This book, is the result of my studies, which use the dynamic Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP, GDyn) simulations for exploring impacts of international trade on logistics services. As the demand for logistics depends mostly on the volume of trade and trade patterns, international trade affects the transport and logistics, as it might generate a higher or lower demand for transport and logistics services in long-term. This book consists...

Quality Management Essentials - Hardcover

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Report copyright infringementby Popov Ivan (Author)A product's design is based on what customers want and how much they are willing to pay for it determines its quality. The production process is supposed to achieve the required quality. Due to the natural process variation the quality of a product or service varies. Thus, quality can be defined as fitness for intended use or, in other words, how well the product performs its intended function. It is a written or unwritten commitment to a kno...

Sustainable Agricultural Marketing and Agribusiness Development: An African Perspective

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Report copyright infringementby Brighton Nyagadza (Editor), Tanyaradzwa Rukasha (Editor)The future of Africa and the whole globe is dependent on sustainable agribusiness management. This book offers insights to a wide range of agricultural marketing and agribusiness management practices with a focus on sustainability. It is designed to provide academics and graduate students in business studies with a comprehensive treatment of the nature of agricultural marketing and agribusiness management,...

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Report copyright infringementby Randy Powell (Author)The author shares lessons that took him over twenty-five years to learn. As a safety professional he worked from the ground up, working from government to the private sector. He hopes to shorten the learning curve for people who are directly responsible for workplace safety! He talks about the future of safety and how it will continue to impact profitability. He helps leaders develop the right philosophy that builds profitable teams that ar...

Seven Decades of Milk - A History of New York's Dairy Industry

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Report copyright infringementby John J. Dillon (Author)A dairy is a commercial business concentrated around the harvesting of animal milk for human consumption. Usually, diaries harvest their milk from cows or goats, but sometimes from buffalo, sheep, horses or camels. This text comprises a detailed history of New York's thriving dairy industry. A great text sure to appeal to anyone with an interest in American dairy production or in the history of New York's dairy industry, this book is pack...

The New Age Urban Transportation Systems, Volume II: Cases from Asian Economies

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Report copyright infringementby Sundaravalli Narayanaswami (Author)Urbanization is a global phenomenon that hugely constrains existing transportation infrastructure in cities. Urban transportation (UT) challenges are more significant in developing countries with rapid development as the land occupation is dense.Limited urban space and infrastructure fail to meet the increasing traffic demands and to provide reasonable service quality. Therefore betterment of UT systems is more required than e...

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Report copyright infringementby Theresa Heen (Editor)Quality control is a procedure or set of procedures formulated for the purpose of maintaining standards in manufactured products. Rapid development has been made in the past decade in the area of quality control methods and techniques. The objective of this book is to illustrate quality control procedures in several fields, like pharmaceutics and medicine, construction engineering and data quality. A wide range of techniques and methods hav...

Rabbits for Flesh and Fur - With Information on Breeding, Varieties, Housing and Other Aspects of Rabbit Farming on a Smallholding

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Report copyright infringementby J. O. Baker (Author)"Rabbits for Flesh and Fur" is a classic guide to cuniculture, the farming of rabbits for pleasure or profit. It deals with every aspect from selection and breeding to care, housing, and beyond. With simple explanations and step-by-step instructions, this illustrated guide is ideal for those with breeding and maintaining rabbits for whatever reason. Contents include: "Few Factors Favouring Rabbit Breeding", "Varieties to Breed", "Recommended...

Biosecurity for Livestock Diseases in Europe: Transmission, Risk Factors, and Modelling

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Report copyright infringementby Alistair Antonopoulos (Author), Evelien Biebaut (Author), Jeroen Dewulf (Author)Biosecurity practices can help prevent the introduction and spread of disease, promoting better animal health and welfare, human health, food safety, and the economic benefits of livestock production. Stemming from a joint initiative between the Biosecure project which brought together 17 partners across 12 European countries, and DISCONTOOLS, the research gap database in animal hea...

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Report copyright infringementby Neil Green (Editor)According to Dr. Kongoli, Automation is firmly linked with the modern requirement for sustainable development in the 21st century. One of the fundamentals of sustainable development is "Doing More with Less" which is also one of the aims of automation by substituting human labor with the use of machines. Automation not only escalates productivity and quality but also saves time and energy for humans to deal with the new challenges. Some of th...

Reliability Engineering Insights: Assess - Design - Manage

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Report copyright infringementby Arthur Ray Hart (Author)This book is intended for engineers whose responsibility is the reliability performance of a product. But it could also be used by managers and inexperienced reliability engineers to help build-in reliability while developing quality products.This book is intended for engineers whose responsibility is the reliability performance of a product. But it could also be used by managers and inexperienced reliability engineers to help build-in r...

Working Fluid Selection for Organic Rankine Cycle and Other Related Cycles

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Report copyright infringementby Attila R. Imre (Guest Editor)The world's energy demand is still growing, partly due to the rising population, partly to increasing personal needs. This growing demand has to be met without increasing (or preferably, by decreasing) the environmental impact. One of the ways to do so is the use of existing low-temperature heat sources for producing electricity, such as using power plants based on the organic Rankine cycle (ORC) . In ORC power plants, instead of th...

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Report copyright infringementby G. Passerini (Editor), C. Borrego (Editor) Number of Pages: 176 Dimensions: 0.44 x 10 x 7 IN Publication Date: March 19, 2020

Rheology and Quality Research of Cereal-Based Food

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Report copyright infringementby Anabela Raymundo (Guest Editor), María Dolores Torres (Guest Editor), Isabel Sousa (Guest Editor)New trends in the cereal industry deal with the persistent need to develop new food goods tailored to consumer requirements and, in the near future, to the scarcity of food resources. Concepts of sustainable food production and food products as health and wellness promoters, the use of organic ingredients such as new ancient cereals to produce redesigned old staple ...

Cannabis: Everything You Need to Grow Marijuana Indoors and Outdoors

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Report copyright infringementby Kevin Oliver (Author)Cultivate your personal cannabis crop with expert techniques and know-how. As marijuana laws in the United States become less restrictive, more people are searching for basic marijuana gardening instructions. Cultivating marijuana isn't like growing other plants, especially if you desire maximum potency and yield. The cannabis plant requires special care, from the soil, water, and nutrients used to the temperature, light, and ventilation le...

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Report copyright infringementby G. Passerini (Editor), S. Ricci (Editor)Containing papers presented at the 28th International Conference on Urban and Maritime Transport and the Environment, this volume covers two, apparently, parallel topics which meet in the transport and environmental management of coastal cities, both being affected positively and negatively by landside and seaside traffic.The continuing requirement for better urban transport systems and the need for a healthier environmen...

Surface Passivation of Industrial Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells

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Report copyright infringementby Joachim John (Editor)Surface passivation of silicon solar cells describes a technology for preventing electrons and holes to recombine prematurely with one another on the wafer surface. It increases the cell's energy conversion efficiencies and thus reduces the cost per kWh generated by a PV system. In the past few years, new tools have been developed to ensure low cost of ownership for high volume production of passivated silicon solar cells. Different deposit...

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Report copyright infringementby Sylvain Rochon (Author)Are You Ready? Artificial Intelligence, automation, gene editing, 3D printing, nanotechnology, quantum computing--technology is all around us. But are you ready to take advantage of them? This book will help your company or organization adapt to the technological revolution. It will reveal the opportunities that exist today. I want to make the world a better place. No, I want to transform it! I believe that the latest technological innov...

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Report copyright infringementby James A. (Jim) Mandel (Author)The Life of JAM is the story of the life of Dr. James A. Mandel PE. He was born on Christmas day in 1934 in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. His parents Isadore and Jennie Mandel guided his early years. He learned to swim at age 7. Jim earned a BS in Civil Engineering at Carnegie Institute of Technology in 1956. In the summer between his junior and senior years, he worked for the Bureau of Ships in Washington DC. From 1956 to 1961, except ...

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Report copyright infringementby Mohamed Bakr (Author)Nonlinear Optimization in Electrical Engineering with Applications in MATLAB(R) provides an introductory course on nonlinear optimization in electrical engineering, with a focus on applications such as the design of electric, microwave, and photonic circuits, wireless communications, and digital filter design.Basic concepts are introduced using a step-by-step approach and illustrated with MATLAB(R) codes that the reader can use and adapt. T...

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Report copyright infringementby Gaurav Verma (Author), Matt Weber (Author)Autodesk Inventor 2026 Black Book Part II - Advanced CAD Design, Simulation, and Manufacturing MasteryAutodesk Inventor 2026 Black Book Part II is your go-to professional guide for mastering advanced 3D CAD modeling, assembly design, FEA simulation, mold design, sheet metal, frame generation, and model-based annotations. This expertly written resource is tailored for engineers, designers, educators, and CAD professional...

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Report copyright infringementby Gaurav Verma (Author), Matt Weber (Author)The Autodesk Revit 2021 Black Book is the 2nd edition of our series on Autodesk Revit. This book is designed to help beginners in understanding the workflow in Revit and how simple BIM models are created. The book follows a step by step methodology. In this book, we have tried to give real-world examples with real challenges in designing. We have tried to reduce the gap between educational use of Autodesk Revit and indu...