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The Product Wheel Handbook - Peter L. King - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Product Wheel Handbook - Peter L. King - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Product Wheel (PW) design process has practical methods for finding the optimum sequence, minimizing changeover costs, and freeing up useful capacity. So much so, that the DuPont™ Company and Exxon Mobil are just a few companies that have used the product wheel concept to achieve and sustain a competitive advantage. Breaking down a fairly complex design process into manageable steps, The Product Wheel Handbook: Creating Balanced Flow in High-Mix Process Operations walks readers through the process for designing and implementing the PW technique. It includes a case study taken from actual practice that illustrates the design process and its benefits. Describing how to apply the product wheel technique to any manufacturing operation, the book: - - Details the steps required to implement product wheels - Explains why certain traditional manufacturing metrics should be reevaluated so they don’t inhibit product wheel performance - Defines the cultural foundation necessary for smooth product wheel design and implementation - Includes a real-world case study and several examples of product wheels being used by successful manufacturing companies—including BG Products, Inc., the DuPont™ Company, the Dow Chemical Company, and Appleton Many of the steps in wheel design described in this book are not new. What’s new is their application to production planning and scheduling problems, and more importantly, a clear roadmap explaining how and when they should be used in product wheel design. Supplying you with the tools to reduce the chaos often found in production scheduling, the book outlines a disciplined structure that will allow you to spend less of your time resolving schedule problems. Most importantly, it provides your organization with a stable platform to deal with abnormal events in a less stressful and more logical manner.

DKK 514.00
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Driving Project, Program, and Portfolio Success - Richard (earth Pm Maltzman - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Driving Project, Program, and Portfolio Success - Richard (earth Pm Maltzman - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Business sustainability is the management of environmental, social, and financial demands to ensure responsible, ethical, and ongoing success. Businesses appear to have not only bought into integrating sustainability into their business plans, but have started profiting from it. This book helps project, program, and portfolio managers to integrate sustainability thinking into their projects. It contains tools that enable you to baseline present sustainability efforts and analyze the gaps between the baseline and the strategy. In Driving Project, Program, and Portfolio Success: The Sustainability Wheel , the authors present advice on how enterprises can attain higher levels of sustainability and sustained project success. The book introduces a new tool called the Sustainability Wheel TM that tells you where you are and what you need to improve. The Sustainability Wheel identifies six interrelated dimensions of sustainability integration: - - Respect – the sustainability philosophy of the organization - Reflect – how that philosophy is conveyed internally - Connect – how external stakeholders view the organization - Detect – how the organization identifies, analyzes, and responds to sustainability threats - Reject – how the organization eliminates inefficiency and waste - Project – how the organization identifies, develops, and measures opportunities and converts them to projects and programs aligned with its central mission The book contains a set of questions designed to measure your organization’s sustainability in each dimension. Armed with this valuable feedback, you can determine priorities for sustainability improvement, validate that present sustainability efforts are within your organization’s mission/vision, and provide a mechanism to integrate sustainability into everyday operations. This can lead your organization to key benefits such as improved innovation, reduced waste, higher morale, and simply better-executed projects that are more fully in line with the enterprise goals. Watch a video about the book. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfPSPvCg6QY

DKK 625.00
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Low Head Hydropower for Local Energy Solutions - Pradeep Narrain - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Low Head Hydropower for Local Energy Solutions - Pradeep Narrain - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

The role of small hydropower is becoming increasingly important on a global level. Increasing energy demand and environmental awareness has further triggered research and development into sustainable low-cost technologies. In developing countries, particularly in rural areas, the possibility of local power generation could considerably improve living conditions. With this in mind, the development of a next generation low-head hydropower machines was subject of investigation in the EU-project HYLOW. Being part of the research lines of that project, this thesis presents a numerical modelling approach to improve the design of machines like water wheels for increased hydraulic efficiency. Nowadays, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) enables numerical models to be quite accurate and incorporate physical complexities like free surfaces and rotating machines. The results of the CFD simulations carried out in this research show that a change in blade geometry can result in higher torque levels, thereby increasing performance. Numerical simulations also enabled to determine the optimal wheel-width to channel-width ratio and further improve performance by modifying the channel bed conditions upstream and downstream of the water wheel. With a power rating in the low kilowatt range, low-head hydropower machines like optimised water wheels seem to have a clear potential for small-scale energy generation, thereby contributing to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by providing local energy solutions.

DKK 902.00
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The Automobile - Clay Mcshane - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Automobile - Clay Mcshane - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

This comprehensive chronology of the automobile covers its engineering as well as the social, cultural and political impact of the car from the invention of the wheel to the O.J. Simpson car chase. It examines the auto industry, the road and roadside, the car in popular culture, fuel history, the spatial transformation of cities, air pollution, critics of car culture, traffic accidents, the globalization of car culture, and much more. This is a reference guide for students and scholars of transportation history and for anyone with an interest in the development of automobiles. Clay McShane is Professor of History at Northeastern University and a noted authority on transportation history. Among his earlier publications is Down the Asphalt Path: American Cities and the Automobile .

DKK 513.00
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Intervening to Improve the Safety of Occupational Driving - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Intervening to Improve the Safety of Occupational Driving - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Examine the behind-the-wheel behavior of delivery people and discover proven interventions to improve driver safety! This thorough treatise provides empirical evidence, case studies, and effective models designed to help you develop reliable programs for promoting safety among high-risk drivers. Intervening to Improve the Safety of Occupational Driving: A Behavior-Change Model and Review of Empirical Evidence is plentifully illustrated with charts and tables for easy comprehension. Researchers and practitioners in the field of organizational behavior will find valuable data about the driving behaviors of fast-food deliverers and receive tested intervention methods for improved driver safety. Intervening to Improve the Safety of Occupational Driving discusses the specific roles of various factors in safety programs, including: - - community agents of change - - static versus dynamic goal setting - - using competition to encourage change - - cost per individual - - community feedback - - effects of multiple interventions

DKK 679.00
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Cutting the Edge - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Cutting the Edge - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Understanding crime, criminals, and criminal justice from a radical/critical perspective is indispensable in today''s academic, applied research, and policy sectors. Neglect of this approach leads to narrow-mindedness and the probability of repeating past mistakes or reinventing the wheel. Cutting the Edge by Jeffrey Ian Ross will encourage individuals and organizations, especially students and instructors, to innovatively identify ways of experimenting with new policy initiatives designed to improve not only criminal justice, but social and human justice as well. Ross has significantly changed this volume to include six new chapters and three revised ones as well. The studies chosen demonstrate the difference between critical criminology and other approaches used to study and explain criminological phenomena. The authors do not approach the inequalities of the criminal justice system as phenomena that should be studied, but as wrongs that must be righted. Cutting-edge critical criminology combines concerns about fairness in punishment, tools of class analysis and the insights of feminism, postmodernism, and ethnography. The authors included here wield these newer tools with elegance and enthusiasm. Written with passion by experts in the field, the book engages the mind as fully as it engages the emotions.

DKK 546.00
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The Economic Organization - Frank Knight - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Economic Organization - Frank Knight - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

When originally released, Frank Hyneman Knight''s The Economic Organization revitalized the teaching of economic theory in America during the 1930s, laying the foundation for the price theory revolution led by economists emerging from Knight''s circle at The University of Chicago. Knight shows that when societies choose to allow market organization, their economy simultaneously solves the fundamental functions of valuation and efficiency. It also organizes the production and distribution of resources, providing incentives for progress. The Economic Organization provides a short introduction to the basic principles of supply, demand, and distribution that emerge from neoclassical price theory. The central role of the price mechanism in market organization is illustrated neatly by Knight''s "wheel of wealth"—the circular flow diagram most often identified with macroeconomic flows, but introduced here for price theoretic reasons. This version also includes his essay on "Utility and Cost," which provides a seamlessly integrated alternative-cost interpretation of neoclassical theory. This expanded edition of The Economic Organization includes a new introduction by Ross B. Emmett, which expands upon the short note on capital theory inserted in the original. Knight wrote three versions of the note for student use, and all three are included in the second chapter. Few books have changed the landscape of American economics and economic education as much as Knight''s The Economic Organization . This book should be read by all economists, historians, and policy makers.

DKK 570.00
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Using Reflection and Metacognition to Improve Student Learning - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Using Reflection and Metacognition to Improve Student Learning - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Research has identified the importance of helping students develop the ability to monitor their own comprehension and to make their thinking processes explicit, and indeed demonstrates that metacognitive teaching strategies greatly improve student engagement with course material.This book -- by presenting principles that teachers in higher education can put into practice in their own classrooms -- explains how to lay the ground for this engagement, and help students become self-regulated learners actively employing metacognitive and reflective strategies in their education.Key elements include embedding metacognitive instruction in the content matter; being explicit about the usefulness of metacognitive activities to provide the incentive for students to commit to the extra effort; as well as following through consistently.Recognizing that few teachers have a deep understanding of metacognition and how it functions, and still fewer have developed methods for integrating it into their curriculum, this book offers a hands-on, user-friendly guide for implementing metacognitive and reflective pedagogy in a range of disciplines. Offering seven practitioner examples from the sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields, the social sciences and the humanities, along with sample syllabi, course materials, and student examples, this volume offers a range of strategies for incorporating these pedagogical approaches in college classrooms, as well as theoretical rationales for the strategies presented. By providing successful models from courses in a broad spectrum of disciplines, the editors and contributors reassure readers that they need not reinvent the wheel or fear the unknown, but can instead adapt tested interventions that aid learning and have been shown to improve both instructor and student satisfaction and engagement.

DKK 354.00
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Understanding Elvis - Susan M. Doll - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Understanding Elvis - Susan M. Doll - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Although the importance of Elvis Presley''s Southern heritage has long been recognized, few have considered the complex connection between the performer''s career and his Southern roots. This study investigates how that identity affected each stage of Presley''s career. Elvis Presley''s career can be divided into three phases, each of which is signified by a specific image. Each image is coded by a certain style of music, mode of dress, and arena of performance. The evolution from one career phase to another was instigated by a specific event and represented a deliberate calculation on the part of Presley''s manager to attract a wider audience. The first stage spans the years 1956 through 1958, after the singer was introduced to a national audience and before he was drafted into the army. His image as a notorious rock ''n'' roller created a national controversy and was spurred by negative depictions of Presley in the media-many attributing his controversial performing style and appearance to his Southern background. His music was a fusion of rhythm and blues and country-western; or, two types of music indigenous to the South and foreign to the mainstream entertainment industry based in New York City. The second phase of Elvis'' career included his stint as a movie star, in which most aspects of his Southern identity were extracted from his leading man image to enhance his appeal to the mainstream. And, finally, the last stage of his career focused on his image as a Las Vegas performer. Despite the gaudy costumes, Elvis reconnected to his identity as a Southerner in the 1970s by returning to country music and songwriters as a source of inspiration.

DKK 1070.00
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Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment in the United States - Andrew R. Morral - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment in the United States - Andrew R. Morral - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

You don’t have to reinvent the wheel--select and implement an effective substance abuse program from this essential book! This essential book is the first ever published on exemplary models of adolescent drug treatment. It delivers detailed descriptions of exemplary drug treatment models and gives you the latest information on substance use and its consequences to aid your work with adolescents who use alcohol and drugs. The in-depth examinations of treatment models you’ll find in this book include programs serving adolescent substance users from a wide range of ethnic and cultural backgrounds (African Americans, Hispanics, Whites, Native Americans, Russian Immigrants). With sections covering outpatient, residential, family-oriented, and modified therapeutic community (TC) programs, this book is a vital reference for educators and students as well as practitioners. Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment in the United States: Exemplary Models from a National Evaluation Study gives you thoughtful examinations of: - - trends in adolescent substance use and treatment approaches - - three exemplary outpatient treatment programs, including program design, treatment issues, and client characteristics - - the Multidimensional Family Therapy Approach (MDFT), a family-oriented outpatient treatment model used to intervene with younger adolescents - - a 30- to 60-day residential treatment program that is based on a medical model which blends in treatment approaches from the therapeutic community model - - the special treatment needs and issues of substance-using Native American youths - - issues of gender differences as they relate to drug use and trauma - - three different modified therapeutic community treatment models - - and much more! Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment in the United States is an invaluable source of information for anyone working with this vulnerable population. Use it to choose and implement the program that will work best for you and your clients!

DKK 558.00
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Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment in the United States - Andrew R. Morral - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment in the United States - Andrew R. Morral - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

You don’t have to reinvent the wheel--select and implement an effective substance abuse program from this essential book! This essential book is the first ever published on exemplary models of adolescent drug treatment. It delivers detailed descriptions of exemplary drug treatment models and gives you the latest information on substance use and its consequences to aid your work with adolescents who use alcohol and drugs. The in-depth examinations of treatment models you’ll find in this book include programs serving adolescent substance users from a wide range of ethnic and cultural backgrounds (African Americans, Hispanics, Whites, Native Americans, Russian Immigrants). With sections covering outpatient, residential, family-oriented, and modified therapeutic community (TC) programs, this book is a vital reference for educators and students as well as practitioners. Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment in the United States: Exemplary Models from a National Evaluation Study gives you thoughtful examinations of: - - trends in adolescent substance use and treatment approaches - - three exemplary outpatient treatment programs, including program design, treatment issues, and client characteristics - - the Multidimensional Family Therapy Approach (MDFT), a family-oriented outpatient treatment model used to intervene with younger adolescents - - a 30- to 60-day residential treatment program that is based on a medical model which blends in treatment approaches from the therapeutic community model - - the special treatment needs and issues of substance-using Native American youths - - issues of gender differences as they relate to drug use and trauma - - three different modified therapeutic community treatment models - - and much more! Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment in the United States is an invaluable source of information for anyone working with this vulnerable population. Use it to choose and implement the program that will work best for you and your clients!

DKK 260.00
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Scientists Must Speak - Gale C. (the Chicago Medical School Walters - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Scientists Must Speak - Gale C. (the Chicago Medical School Walters - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Having the ability to speak confidently; engage the audience; make a clear, well-argued case; and handle any tricky situations, is rarely a natural talent, but it can be learned through application and practice. Scientists Must Speak, Second Edition , helps readers do just that. At some point in their careers, the majority of scientists have to stand up in front of an inquisitive audience or board and present information. This can be a stressful experience for many. For scientists, the experience may be further complicated by the specialist nature of the data and the fact that most self-help books are aimed at business or social situations. Scientists Must Speak includes sections on: * targeting your talk - knowing your audience and how to pitch to them * organizing your presentation - aligning your points logically around a central key theme * using visual aids effectively - how to avoid a random slide show *''practice, practice, practice'' - it''s a rare orator that does not need to practice * taking control - preparing the room, using eye contact, and checking the audience is with you * voice and language - developing a good speaking style, and help for those for whom English is a second language * body language - the messages your posture, mannerisms and facial expressions convey to the audience * handling question and answer sessions - taking the fear out of these * expecting the unexpected - how to cope with unforeseen mishaps * adapting material for different situations - how to avoid reinventing the wheel * organizing a session with several speakers - how to organize or chair sessions Written by authors with many years'' experience of teaching presentation techniques, this engaging text will help readers make the best of their presentations and remove some of the fear that makes them a daunting prospect.

DKK 354.00
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Linear Optimization and Duality - Craig A. (georgia Institute Of Technology Tovey - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Linear Optimization and Duality - Craig A. (georgia Institute Of Technology Tovey - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

Linear Optimization and Dualiyy: A Modern Exposition departs from convention in significant ways. Standard linear programming textbooks present the material in the order in which it was discovered. Duality is treated as a difficult add-on after coverage of formulation, the simplex method, and polyhedral theory. Students end up without knowing duality in their bones. This text brings in duality in Chapter 1 and carries duality all the way through the exposition. Chapter 1 gives a general definition of duality that shows the dual aspects of a matrix as a column of rows and a row of columns. The proof of weak duality in Chapter 2 is shown via the Lagrangian, which relies on matrix duality. The first three LP formulation examples in Chapter 3 are classic primal-dual pairs including the diet problem and 2-person zero sum games. For many engineering students, optimization is their first immersion in rigorous mathematics. Conventional texts assume a level of mathematical sophistication they don’t have. This text embeds dozens of reading tips and hundreds of answered questions to guide such students. Features Emphasis on duality throughout Practical tips for modeling and computation Coverage of computational complexity and data structures Exercises and problems based on the learning theory concept of the zone of proximal development - - Guidance for the mathematically unsophisticated reader - About the Author Craig A. Tovey is a professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology. Dr. Tovey received an AB from Harvard College, an MS in computer science and a PhD in operations research from Stanford University. His principal activities are in operations research and its interdisciplinary applications. He received a Presidential Young Investigator Award and the Jacob Wolfowitz Prize for research in heuristics. He was named an Institute Fellow at Georgia Tech, and was recognized by the ACM Special Interest Group on Electronic Commerce with the Test of Time Award. Dr. Tovey received the 2016 Golden Goose Award for his research on bee foraging behavior leading to the development of the Honey Bee Algorithm.

DKK 778.00
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The Philosophy of Giambattista Vico - Benedetto Croce - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

The Philosophy of Giambattista Vico - Benedetto Croce - Bog - Taylor & Francis Inc - Plusbog.dk

With a new introduction by Alan Sica. Giambattista Vico (1668-1744) is often regarded as the beleaguered, neglected genius of pre-Enlightenment Naples. His work-though known to Herder, Coleridge, Matthew Arnold, and Michelet-widely and deeply appreciated only during the twentieth century. Although Vico may be best known for the use James Joyce made of his theories in Finnegans Wake , Croce''s insightful analysis of Vico''s ideas played a large role in alerting readers to his unique voice. Croce''s volume preceded Joyce''s creation of "Mr. John Baptister Vickar" by a quarter century. During the last 25 years Vico''s ideas about history, language, anti-Cartesian epistemology, and rhetoric have begun to receive the recognition their admirers have long claimed they deserve. Increasing numbers of publications appear annually which bear the stamp of Vico''s thinking. Even if he is not yet so renowned as some of his contemporaries, such as Locke, Voltaire, or Montesquieu, there are good reasons to believe that in the future he will be equally honored as a cultural theorist. As a theorist of historical process and its language, there is no more innovative voice than his until the twentieth century-which explains in part why such figures as Joyce and R.G. Collingwood freely drew on Vico''s work, particularly his New Science , while creating their own. If Vico was Naples'' most brilliant, if uncelebrated, citizen prior to the Enlightenment taking hold in Southern Italy, then Croce (1866-1952) is surely the city''s most important thinker of modern times, and the single indispensable Italian philosopher since Vico''s death. When a genius of Croce''s interpretative prowess, evaluates the work of another, it is inevitable that an explosive mixture will result. A great virtue of this book is its fusion of Croce''s unique brand of idealism and aesthetic philosophy with Vico''s epistemological, ethical, and historical theories. If Vico''s theory of cyclical changes in history, the corsi e ricorsi , remains fruitful, it might be argued that Croce''s evaluation of his countryman'' ideas represented the next turn of the philosophical wheel toward enlightenment.

DKK 486.00
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