Wspc imprint: 2707 books
Managing Supply Chain and Logistics
Competitive Strategy for a Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2014
Managing Supply Chain and Logistics: Competitive Strategy for a Sustainable Future explores practical ways of investing in a sustainable future through real-world cases which demonstrate various supply chain management strategies and tactics. By applying viable value creation strategies, operational...
Climate Change and the Energy Problem
Physical Science and Economics Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
This important compendium deals with the primary world problems of global warming and the coming energy crisis. In alternating chapters, it lays out the nature of the two interrelated problems, and specifies the various economic considerations. Thus, it describes the coming shortfall of fossil fuel...
by Akira Ishikawa, Tetsuro Saisho
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2013
Corporate Strategy for Dramatic Productivity Surge deals with the very basics of productivity and cost performance — including abridgement of time, increase in speed, enhancement of capabilities, increase in sensitivity and precision, enhancement of efficiency and effectiveness, alteration of size,...
Global Sourcing of Services
Strategies, Issues and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
There are three stages to outsourcing: The first occurred at the dawn of industrial era in the 19th century, where mass production for consumption by many, became the norm and simple domestic means could not meet such demands. With the cost of labor soaring in developed countries, manufacturing of...
Deep Learning Neural Networks
Design and Case Studies
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2016
Deep Learning Neural Networks is the fastest growing field in machine learning. It serves as a powerful computational tool for solving prediction, decision, diagnosis, detection and decision problems based on a well-defined computational architecture. It has been successfully applied to a broad field...
Financing Universal Access to Healthcare
A Comparative Review of Landmark Legislative Health Reforms in the OECD
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2018
The recent expansion of health insurance coverage in the USA under the Affordable Health Care Act, and current threats to reverse the benefits of this reform, have once again focused the world's attention on the difficult challenges faced by other countries trying to provide better access to healthcare...
by Hans Keiding
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2017
As a relatively young discipline, health economics as it appears today contains many features which can be traced back to its beginnings. Since it arose in the interface between the medical sciences and economics, the way of dealing with problems were often influenced by traditions which were well-established...
by John R Fanchi, Christopher J Fanchi
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2016
Energy in the 21st Century is a valuable source of information for students, decision makers, opinion leaders, and the general public. Oil and natural gas price volatility continue to affect both the supply and demand for energy. Advances in other technologies, such as nuclear, wind, solar, and tidal...
3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing
Principles and Applications (with Companion Media Pack)Fourth Edition of Rapid Prototyping
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2014
Latest Edition: 3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing: Principles and Applications. Fifth Edition of Rapid Prototyping.
3D Printing and Additive Manufacturing (AM) has revolutionised how prototypes are made and small batch manufacturing carried out. With additive manufacturing, the strategies...
by Y Narahari
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
This book offers a self-sufficient treatment of a key tool, game theory and mechanism design, to model, analyze, and solve centralized as well as decentralized design problems involving multiple autonomous agents that interact strategically in a rational and intelligent way. The contents of the book...
by Margaret Tan, Madanmohan Rao
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
Knowledge Management Initiatives in Singapore is the first book that provides descriptive analyses of the award-winning knowledge management projects undertaken by the public sector organisations in Singapore. It features 12 organisations honoured for their outstanding efforts to understand and implement...
by China Industrial Map Editorial Committee, China Economic Monitoring & Analysis Center
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Energy consumption level is a significant indicator in measuring a nation's economic, scientific and technological progress. The energy industry in China is a topic of interest for many researchers, given the rapid industrialization taking place in the country for the past ten years. This book provides...
Asia's Energy Trends and Developments
(In 2 Volumes)Volume 1: Innovations and Alternative Energy SuppliesVolume 2: Case Studies in Cooperation, Competition and Possibilities from Central, Northeast and South Asia
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2013
With Asia, — especially China and India, — leading world energy consumption, Asian energy trends are now of global interest, with deep implications for the world economy and geopolitics. Understanding the issues often require real-life case scenarios.
This two-volume compilation presents...
Energy Economy in China
Policy Imperatives, Market Dynamics, and Regional Developments
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2012
The key subjects of the book are policy imperatives, market dynamics and regional developments concerning oil and gas, as well as energy as a whole in China. In addition to national policies and issues, the objective of this book is to study China's regional oil and gas demand, supply and trade, energy...