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Cover of Quantitative and Qualitative Factors that Leads to Slip and Fall Incidents
by Ardiyansyah Syahrom, Norazrin Azwani Ahmad, Masine Md. Tap
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2016

This book investigates the factors that lead to slip and fall incidents and establishes a relationship between the coefficient of friction (COF), floor slipperiness and floor roughness. It also examines human perception of slipperiness through measured coefficient of friction (COF). On the basis of...
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Environmental Regulations and Innovation in Advanced Automobile Technologies

Perspectives from Germany, India, China and Brazil

by Ashish Bharadwaj
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2018

The book examines innovation in environment-friendly technologies in the automobile industry. The focus of the book are Germany (a technology leader in the global automobile industry), on the one hand, and India, China and Brazil (technologically proficient emerging technology leaders) on the other...
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by Kumar V. Pratap, Rajesh Chakrabarti
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2018

The book provides readers with a clear understanding of infrastructure challenges, how Public‐Private Partnerships (PPP) can help, and their use in practice. Infrastructure bottlenecks are generally considered the most important constraint to growth in many countries worldwide. Historically, infrastructure...
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Explaining Productivity Differences

Comparative Analysis of Automotive Plants in Japan, the United States, Thailand and China

by Hiromichi Shibata
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2016

This book, in contrast with previous research and popular discussions that focus on the productivity of workers, identifies the critical influence of supervisors and engineers as key drivers of productivity differentials. To do so, it analyzes productivity at a Japanese car component plant and its...
Cover of Challenges and Issues in Indian Fiscal Federalism
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Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2017

This book discusses various dimensions of Indian fiscal federalism, focusing on the current fiscal imbalances – both vertical and horizontal – and their correction. Throwing light on different angles of this subject, it presents well-researched papers, which are divided into three sections. The...
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by Megumi Suto, Hitoshi Takehara
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2018

This book explores the linkages between the evolution of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and corporate financing and governance in Japan since the late 2000s. Since the 1990s, increasing economic and financial globalization has steadily eroded the Japanese style of business based on relationships...
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In-Situ Gelling Polymers

For Biomedical Applications

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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014

This book presents the research involving in situ gelling polymers and can be used as a guidebook for academics, industrialists and postgraduates interested in this area. This work summaries the academic contributions from the top authorities in the field and explore the fundamental principles of...
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by Srijoni Sengupta, Tamalika Das, Abhijit Bandyopadhyay
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2017

This book presents a comprehensive study on a new class of branched polymers, known as hyperbranched polymers (HBPs). It discusses in detail the synthesis strategies for these particular classes of polymers as well as biocompatible and biodegradable HBPs, which are of increasing interest to polymer...
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Composite Materials Engineering, Volume 1

Fundamentals of Composite Materials

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Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2017

This book is the first of two volumes providing comprehensive coverage of the fundamental knowledge and technology of composite materials. It covers a variety of design, fabrication and characterization methods as applied to composite materials, particularly focusing on the fiber-reinforcement mechanism...
Cover of Micro-Performance During Postwar Japan’s High-Growth Era
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Language: English
Release Date: June 22, 2016

The aim of this book is to analyze Japan's high-growth economy, in particular to clarify the kinds of changes in people’s lives that were generated by high growth. The present volume focuses not on the macro-economic mechanisms that expanded the scale of the economy, but on the micro-economic changes...
Cover of Strategic Marketing and Innovation for Indian MSMEs
by R. Srinivasan, C.P. Lohith
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017

This book investigates how strategic marketing is influencing organizations’ innovation performance. It presents a structured study conducted on micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) to identify the correlation between innovation and strategic marketing in both Indian manufacturing and service...
Cover of Entrepreneurship in Technology for ASEAN
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016

This edited book focuses on growth and entrepreneurial development in rapidly developing countries in Asia-Pacific region. The book synthesizes the scholarly papers and ideas presented at the 3rd International Conference on Managing the Asian Century, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia in 2015. It accounts for...
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Industry-Led Growth

Issues and Facts

by Arup Mitra
Language: English
Release Date: November 18, 2015

The book explores, for India and other developing countries, the potential role the organized manufacturing sector could play as an engine of growth. Alongside growth, can this sector generate adequate employment opportunities to facilitate the transfer of labour from the agriculture sector? The...
Cover of A Comparative Study of Funding Shareholder Litigation
by Wenjing Chen
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2017

This book studies the funding problems with shareholder litigation through a functionally comparative way. In fact, funding problems with shareholder lawsuits may largely discourage potential shareholder litigants who bear high financial risk in pursuing such a claim, but on the other hand they may...
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