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Driving Strategy to Execution Using Lean Six Sigma
A Framework for Creating High Performance Organizations
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2012
Many organizations develop strategic plans that gather dust on bookshelves. Many other organizations employ Lean and Six Sigma methodologies to eliminate waste and reduce process variation only to find they are not moving the big bars that measure success for the organization. Driving Strategy to...
by James Reason
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2016
Managing the Risks of Organizational Accidents introduced the notion of an ’organizational accident’. These are rare but often calamitous events that occur in complex technological systems operating in hazardous circumstances. They stand in sharp contrast to ’individual accidents’ whose damaging...
Extracting Innovations
Mining, Energy, and Technological Change in the Digital Age
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
This book considers the most contemporary innovations propelling the extractive industries forward while also creating new environmental and social challenges. The socio-ecological fabric of innovation in the extractive industries is considered through an integrative approach that brings together...
Written English
A Guide for Electrical and Electronic Students and Engineers
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
A research paper or graduate essay demonstrating weak English and poor formatting is likely to be rejected by an editor or marked down by an assessor; but why should these gaps in your English knowledge undermine your subject knowledge and skill as an engineer or student of the discipline?
Written...
Carbon Nanomaterials for Electrochemical Energy Technologies
Fundamentals and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017
This book offers comprehensive coverage of carbon-based nanomaterials and electrochemical energy conversion and storage technologies such as batteries, fuel cells, supercapacitors, and hydrogen generation and storage, as well as the latest material and new technology development. It addresses a variety...
Environmental Politics
Interest Groups, the Media, and the Making of Policy
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2017
At every stage, environmental policy is the result of the combat of stakeholders interested in, and affected by, the problem being addressed and the range of possible solutions. The combatants include any or all of the following: the federal government, environmental advocacy groups, and business,...
by Suresh G. Borkar, Rupert Anand Yumlembam
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2016
Food and agriculture is an important component in the development and survival of civilizations. Around half of the world’s population and their economies are influenced by agricultural farm production. Plant diseases take as much as a 30 percent toll of the crop harvest if not managed properly...
by Ganapathy
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2017
Maintaining a question-and-answer format, this second edition provides simplified means of solving nearly 200 practical problems that confront engineers involved in the planning, design, operation and maintenance of steam plant systems. Calculations pertaining to emissions, boiler efficiency, circulation...
by Louis Komzsik
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
The purpose of the calculus of variations is to find optimal solutions to engineering problems whose optimum may be a certain quantity, shape, or function. Applied Calculus of Variations for Engineers addresses this important mathematical area applicable to many engineering disciplines. Its unique,...
Approximation Techniques for Engineers
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2017
This second edition includes eleven new sections based on the approximation of matrix functions, deflating the solution space and improving the accuracy of approximate solutions, iterative solution of initial value problems of systems of ordinary differential equations, and the method of trial functions for boundary value problems. The topics of th
by Nicola Vittorio
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
Modern cosmology has changed significantly over the years, from the discovery to the precision measurement era. The data now available provide a wealth of information, mostly consistent with a model where dark matter and dark energy are in a rough proportion of 3:7. The time is right for a fresh new...
Fractals
Concepts and Applications in Geosciences
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2017
This book provides theoretical concepts and applications of fractals and multifractals to a broad range of audiences from various scientific communities, such as petroleum, chemical, civil and environmental engineering, atmospheric research, and hydrology. In the first chapter, we introduce fractals...
Computational Plasma Physics
With Applications To Fusion And Astrophysics
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
The physics of plasmas is an extremely rich and complex subject as the variety of topics addressed in this book demonstrates. This richness and complexity demands new and powerful techniques for investigating plasma physics. An outgrowth from his graduate course teaching, now with corrections, Tajima's...
Bond Orders and Energy Components
Extracting Chemical Information from Molecular Wave Functions
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
While modern computational methods can provide us with the wave function of a molecule in numerical form, most computer programs lack the sophisticated tools needed to extract chemical concepts from these wave functions. Saving researchers vast time and potential confusion, this volume collects and...