Springer Milan: 299 books

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Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2013

The debate over eHealth is alive as never before. Supporters suggest that it will result in dramatic innovations in healthcare, including a giant leap towards patient-centered care, new opportunities to improve effectiveness, and enhanced wellness and quality of life. In addition, the growing market...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014

This volume presents a selection of contributions to the XXIV Villa Mondragone International Economic Seminar on “Public debt, global governance and economic dynamism”. For the past 23 years, the Seminar has provided an ideal opportunity to meet and discuss the most topical issues in economic...
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Risk Management

How to Assess, Transfer and Communicate Critical Risks

by Antonio Borghesi, Barbara Gaudenzi
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012

The increasingly risky environment in which companies operate is characterized by a rising number of risk components, factors, sources, and drivers. The identification, evaluation, and management of these risks require the capability to coordinate various skills within a company and in upstream and...
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History of Virtual Work Laws

A History of Mechanics Prospective

by Danilo Capecchi
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2012

The book presents a history of classical mechanics by focusing on issues of equilibrium. The historical point of view adopted here restricts attention to cases where the effectiveness of forces is assessed on the basis of the virtual motion of their points of application. For completeness, hints of...
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Leading processes to lead companies: Lean Six Sigma

Kaizen Leader & Green Belt Handbook

by Gabriele Arcidiacono, Claudio Calabrese, Kai Yang
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2012

This Minibook is a brief guide for Green Belt during a Lean Six Sigma project management or for Kaizen Leader during a process improvement activity. Through both its theoretical concepts and practical examples it is a pocket book for a quick consultancy. Authors idea comes from companies needs in...
Cover of Managing the Continuum: Certainty, Uncertainty, Unpredictability in Large Engineering Projects
by Franco Caron
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013

The brief will describe how to develop a risk analysis applied to a project , through a sequence of steps: risk management planning, risk identification, risk classification, risk assessment, risk quantification, risk response planning, risk monitoring and control, process close out and lessons learning....
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Health Care Provision and Patient Mobility

Health Integration in the European Union

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Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2013

Patient mobility across Europe is markedly increasing and new generations will actively ask to be treated by the health-care system that best meets their needs. At a political level, the EU issued the EU Directive no. 24/2011/CE of 9th March 2011 concerning the application of patients’ rights in...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011

This book collects a selection of the papers presented at the 21st International Tyrrhenian Workshop on Digital Communications, organized by CNIT and dedicated this year to the theme "Trustworthy Internet". The workshop provided a lively discussion on the challenges involved in reshaping...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

Bronchial asthma is a multifactorial disease. Cooperation between pneumologists, physiologists, immunologists, pharmacologist and pediatricians is frequently needed for the complete investigation of an asthma case. This means that a physician in general practice cannot alone assess all the aspects...
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by Alfio Quarteroni
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014

In this text, we introduce the basic concepts for the numerical modelling of partial differential equations. We consider the classical elliptic, parabolic and hyperbolic linear equations, but also the diffusion, transport, and Navier-Stokes equations, as well as equations representing conservation...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012

Management of the intensive care patient afflicted by respiratory insufficiency requires knowledge of the pathophysiological basis for altered functions. The etiology and therapy of pulmonary diseases, such as acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)...
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Imminent Science

What Remains to be Discovered

by Giovanni F. Bignami
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014

This is not science fiction. It’s a voyage on the arrow of time to the coming fifty years. The legendary palindromic character Mr. Qfwfq from Italo Calvino’s collection of short stories, The Cosmicomics, will go with us – he who knows all the answers but will give out no hints. He will help...
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Wearing Embodied Emotions

A Practice Based Design Research on Wearable Technology

by Seçil Uğur
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013

Today, people are in an era of digitally mediated Human-to-Human Interaction, which cannot provide full sensorial contact and therefore, emotions cannot be communicated completely. The intimate cover of the human body, i.e. garment is the interface, where many personal traits are embodied. With the...
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Human Modelling in Assisted Transportation

Models, Tools and Risk Methods

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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2011

The objective of this Workshop is to confront models, methods and tools developed within the projects with the ongoing research worldwide and to provide an environment for fruitful exchange of ideas. The main topics are: 1. Advanced human models in transportation. 2. Human Errors and Risk Assessment...
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