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Engineering Mega-Systems - Renee Stevens - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Engineering Mega-Systems - Renee Stevens - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

With their ability to cross traditional boundaries and achieve a level of functionality greater than their component elements, mega-systems have helped corporations and government organizations around the world resolve complex challenges that they otherwise couldn’t address with stand-alone systems. Engineering Mega-Systems: The Challenge of Systems Engineering in the Information Age provides a clear understanding of the engineering of this class of systems—a process that demands consideration of increasing program scale and the rapid change of underlying technologies. Written by Renee Stevens, a Senior Principal Engineer at The MITRE Corporation with decades of experience analyzing, engineering, and acquiring large-scale systems for the U.S. Department of Defense and other government agencies, this book explains how the engineering of mega-systems is inherently different from that of large-scale monolithic systems. It supplies the vocabulary and framework needed to explore the issues relevant to mega-systems. This framework then evolves into the Profiler diagnostic tool that helps you understand the nature and context of the system at hand and, on that basis, select the most appropriate processes, tools, and techniques. Stevens examines commercial and government applications of mega-systems to provide insight into the contemporary challenges of engineering these systems in three critical dimensions: engineering processes, management processes, and the larger context in which these systems are developed and deployed. Complete with two case studies in engineering mega-systems that illustrate valuable lessons learned and highlight emerging practices, this book supplies the understanding and the tools needed to begin engineering, characterizing, and acquiring mega-systems across multiple dimensions.

DKK 901.00
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Socio-Cultural Mobility and Mega-Events - Rodanthi Tzanelli - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Socio-Cultural Mobility and Mega-Events - Rodanthi Tzanelli - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

In June 2014, Brazil opened the twentieth FIFA World Cup with a spectacular ceremony. Hosting the World Cup was a strategic developmental priority for Brazil: mega-events such as these allow the country to be ranked amongst the world’s political and economic leaders, and are supposed to propel the country to its own unique modernity. But alongside the increased media attention and publicity, came accusations of governmental ‘corruption’ and overspending. In Socio-Cultural Mobility and Mega-Events , Tzanelli uses Brazil’s 2014 World Cup to explore how mega-events articulate socio-cultural problems. Critically examining the aesthetics and ethics of mobilities in the mega-event, this book explores these socio-cultural issues and controversies: - - the background of staging mega-events, including the bidding process and the host’s expectations for returns; - ceremonial staging and communications between artistic representations and national symbolism; - the clear reaction mega-events almost always generate in national, regional and global activist circles, including accusations of overspending and human rights violations. - This interdisciplinary study will appeal to scholars and students of the sociology of mobility, sociology of globalisation, cultural sociology, social and anthropological theory, as well as the sociology of sport, human and cultural geography, and leisure and tourism studies.

DKK 884.00
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Justice and Efficiency in Mega-Litigation - Dr Anna Olijnyk - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Justice and Efficiency in Mega-Litigation - Dr Anna Olijnyk - Bog - Bloomsbury Publishing PLC - Plusbog.dk

Justice and Efficiency in Mega-Litigation explores the phenomenon of extremely long-running, resource-intensive civil litigation known as ‘mega-litigation’. Such litigation challenges the courts to reconcile the objectives of justice and efficiency – for the parties to the case and for the community. Drawing on interviews with judges of the courts of England and Wales, and of Australia, this book shows how judges have responded to these challenges.It situates mega-litigation within broader developments in civil procedure and case management, as well as theoretical debates about the role of courts and the purpose of civil procedure. The book highlights the importance of intensive, creative and flexible case management; focus on the issues in dispute; and, ultimately, each judge’s expert intuition.

DKK 909.00
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Policing Sport Mega-Events - Dennis Pauschinger - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Policing Sport Mega-Events - Dennis Pauschinger - Bog - Oxford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Security has become one of the most important aspects of sport mega-event organisation. This book explores how Rio de Janeiro was imagined and transformed into a security fortress when the 2014 Men''s World Cup and the 2016 Olympics came to the city and how the fortress was nonetheless permeable and porous. Dennis Pauschinger experienced exceptional backstage access at high level in the Brazilian mega-event security architecture as well as at street level with the local public security sphere. His ethnographic account takes us from the hidden world of surveillance and control centres, to the security perimeters around stadiums, and to the mundane routine of police officers during day and night shifts at local police stations or at the Special Forces'' headquarters. This book shows how police officers'' emotions and Special Forces'' war narratives impact the static and technology-based security models at mega-events and how traditional patterns of police work, along lines of class and racial inequalities, still prevail and shape the city''s public security. The book argues against the common narrative of the positive impacts of mega-event security legacies upon host cities by advancing towards a general understanding of how security governance is carried out in places where the use of digital security technologies co-exists with overly lethal and repressive forms of policing.

DKK 1007.00
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Planning, Appraisal and Delivery of Infrastructure Mega Projects 1: Decision-making Beyond the Iron Triangle - Philip Wright - Bog - Taylor & Francis

Planning, Appraisal and Delivery of Infrastructure Mega Projects 1: Decision-making Beyond the Iron Triangle - Philip Wright - Bog - Taylor & Francis

This book seeks to establish more clearly the generic parameters of a successful mega infrastructure project, on the premise that mega infrastructure projects that are completed on time, within budget and to specification can also be built in the wrong place, at the wrong time, and have impacts that serve special interests at the cost of the wider community. The book more particularly refers to mega transport projects and examines their claimed successes and failures beyond the iron-triangle criteria of project management both in terms of agent of change aspirations they may pursue and in the context of longer term sustainable development challenges they are expected to address. Drawing from a case study pool of 30 mega transport projects in ten countries/territories in the developed world, the book investigates the extent to which such projects meet original and emergent objectives. It looks to offer insights into how and why these projects perform as they do and why their treatment of risk, uncertainty and complexity in decision-making can differ from nation to nation, even region to region, and over different temporal contexts. It assesses the suitability of current traditional planning, appraisal and delivery methods of mega infrastructure projects and concludes with a set of ‘lessons’ for key stakeholders.

DKK 965.00
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Mega Cities - - Bog - SAGE Publications Inc - Plusbog.dk

Mega Cities - - Bog - SAGE Publications Inc - Plusbog.dk

Volume II: MEGA-CITIES Mega-Cities presents an in-depth analysis of ten cities, prepared by noted scholars who have lived and studied in the cities under scrutiny. This volume covers the role giant cities play in their regions, successes and failures of their public policy, and their most pressing political and environmental problems. "Unlike Volume I, Volume II presents a comparative problems-oriented description of urbanization using ten of the largest cities in the world. This is a wonderful compliment to the first volume in which conceptual frameworks of urbanization were utilized in describing the urban dynamics of specific cities. In again selecting studies by leading scholars of cities representative of all the world′s regions, the editors have produced in both volumes a remarkably successful comparative analysis of world urbanization. . . . Without question, the editors have contributed enormously to the literature on comparative world urbanization, an area in which there is still much to do. . . . This volume and its companion are invaluable resources and inspirations to all those who have an interest in the urban dynamics in this rapidly changing world. Cross cultural analysis is no easy accomplishment, but the editors and the authors have done it successfully and the community of urban scholars is indebted to them." --Journal of Developing Societies

DKK 844.00
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Global Mega-Science - Justin J.w. Powell - Bog - Stanford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Global Mega-Science - Justin J.w. Powell - Bog - Stanford University Press - Plusbog.dk

Never has the world been as rich in scientific knowledge as it is today. But what are its main sources? In accessible and engaging fashion, Global Mega-Science examines the origins of this unprecedented growth of knowledge production over the past hundred and twenty years. David P. Baker and Justin J.W. Powell integrate sociological and historical approaches with unique scientometric data to argue that at the heart of this phenomenon is the unparalleled cultural success of universities and their connection to science: the university-science model. Considering why science is so deeply linked to (higher) educational development, the authors analyze the accumulation of capacity to produce research—and demonstrate how the university facilitates the emerging knowledge society. The age of global mega-science was built on the symbiotic relationship between higher education and science, especially the worldwide research collaborations among networked university-based scientists. These relationships are key for scholars and citizens to understand the past, future, and sustainability of science.

DKK 1034.00
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The Dublin-Belfast Development Corridor: Ireland’s Mega-City Region? - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The Dublin-Belfast Development Corridor: Ireland’s Mega-City Region? - - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The aim of the Dublin-Belfast Development Corridor is to link several towns and cities by various modes of communication in order to create a poly-centric mega-city region in Ireland on a scale large enough to compete with the major urban clusters of continental Europe. This volume brings together an interdisciplinary team of leading scholars and practitioners from both sides of the border to discuss the Dublin-Belfast corridor and the associated challenges of cross-border development from economic, geographic, regional studies, sociological and planning perspectives. As well as providing insight into this important project, the book also throws light on regional development more generally.

DKK 1147.00
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Business Recovery and Continuity in a Mega Disaster - Ravi Das - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Business Recovery and Continuity in a Mega Disaster - Ravi Das - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

The COVID-19 pandemic has had so many unprecedented consequences. The great global shift from office work to remote work is one such consequence, with which many information security professionals are struggling. Office workers have been hastily given equipment that has not been properly secured or must use personal devices to perform office work. The proliferation of videoconferencing has brought about new types of cyber-attacks. When the pandemic struck, many organizations found they had no, or old and unworkable, business continuity and disaster recovery plans. Business Recovery and Continuity in a Mega Disaster: Cybersecurity Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Pandemic reviews the COVID-19 pandemic and related information security issues. It then develops a series of lessons learned from this reviews and explains how organizations can prepare for the next global mega disaster. The following presents some of the key lessons learned: - The lack of vetting for third party suppliers and vendors - The lack of controls surrounding data privacy, especially as it relates to the personal identifiable information (PPI) data sets - The intermingling of home and corporate networks - The lack of a secure remote workforce - The emergence of supply chain attacks (e.g., Solar Winds) To address the issues raised in these lessons learned, CISOs and their security teams must have tools and methodologies in place to address the following: - The need for incident response, disaster recovery, and business continuity plans - The need for effective penetration testing - The importance of threat hunting - The need for endpoint security - The need to use the SOAR model - The importance of a zero-trust framework This book provides practical coverage of these topics to prepare information security professionals for any type of future disaster. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the entire world to unprecedented and previously unimaginable levels. Many businesses, especially in the United States, were completely caught off guard, and they had no concrete plans put into place, from a cybersecurity standpoint, for how to deal with this mega disaster. This how-to book fully prepares CIOs, CISOs, and their teams for the next disaster, whether natural or manmade, with the various lessons that have been learned thus far from the COVID-19 pandemic.

DKK 993.00
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Project Execution of Mega-Projects for the Oil and Gas Industries - Soosaiya Anthreas - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

Project Execution of Mega-Projects for the Oil and Gas Industries - Soosaiya Anthreas - Bog - Taylor & Francis Ltd - Plusbog.dk

This book covers execution of mega industrial projects especially in oil and gas industries covering engineering, procurement, construction, commissioning and performance testing. It enumerates various tasks and deliverables under each discipline and sub-disciplines to define the detailed scope of work, supplies and services, as per level III of Prima Vera Schedule developed from the contract-based schedule. It gives an overall idea of how a project rolls out from commencement date to initial acceptance and executed practically with total contractor’s scope of work broken down into tasks/activities at level III platform, while highlighting that support for fool proof project execution.

DKK 884.00
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Planning, Appraisal and Delivery of Infrastructure Mega Projects 2: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Risk, Uncertainty and Complexity - - Bog - Taylor

Planning, Appraisal and Delivery of Infrastructure Mega Projects 2: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Risk, Uncertainty and Complexity - - Bog - Taylor

This book is based on the underlying premise that much can be learned from contemporary thinking about the treatment of complexity, uncertainty, risk-taking and the importance of context in decision making for planning, in fields where these concepts have long been deployed in complex problem-solving. It explores the sophisticated theoretical approaches which have been developed in order to analyse the issues surrounding that complexity. In so doing, the book discusses the overriding influence of complexity theory on the whole field of risk and uncertainty as it impacts on all stages of the project life-cycle. It furthermore examines various decision-support methods, tools and techniques that have been developed and employed by different professions and disciplines with the aim of addressing risk, uncertainty and complexity in planning in a range of different contexts. The book especially explores the parameters of these different contexts and their characteristics in an effort to identify both generic and context-specific lessons that may be of value to planning exercises for Mega Transport Projects.

DKK 965.00
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Mexico City's Olympic Games - Axel Elias - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

Mexico City's Olympic Games - Axel Elias - Bog - Springer Nature Switzerland AG - Plusbog.dk

This book looks at the 1968 Summer Olympic Games as a complex nation-building project. Sports mega-events have been mostly studied as homogenous government-led strategies, but more work is needed around the diverse reception and performances. The preparation period for the Olympics in Mexico and especially the year 1968 highlight the multiplicity of voices behind these exercises. Beyond the government and associated networks, the citizenry also used this mega-event to present an idea of Mexico to the world and thus reshape citizenship and nationhood. This study takes a bottom-up approach to look at the citizenry''s experiences of the 1968 Olympic Games, both the shared nationalistic values and the areas of conflict.

DKK 986.00
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Datacenter Connectivity Technologies - - Bog - River Publishers - Plusbog.dk

Datacenter Connectivity Technologies - - Bog - River Publishers - Plusbog.dk

In recent years, investments by cloud companies in mega data centers and associated network infrastructure has created a very active and dynamic segment in the optical components and modules market. Optical interconnect technologies at high speed play a critical role for the growth of mega data centers, which flood the networks with unprecedented amount of data traffic. Datacenter Connectivity Technologies: Principles and Practice provides a comprehensive and in-depth look at the development of various optical connectivity technologies which are making an impact on the building of data centers. The technologies span from short range connectivity, as low as 100 meters with multi-mode fiber (MMF) links inside data centers, to long distances of hundreds of kilometers with single-mode fiber (SMF) links between data centers.This book is the first of its kind to address various advanced technologies connecting data centers. It represents a collection of achievements and the latest developments from well-known industry experts and academic researchers active in this field.

DKK 825.00
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Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetics - Sudhir Kumar - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

Molecular Evolution and Phylogenetics - Sudhir Kumar - Bog - Oxford University Press Inc - Plusbog.dk

This book presents the statistical methods that are useful in the study of molecular evolution and illustrates how to use them in actual data analysis. Molecular evolution has been developing at a great pace over the past decade or so, driven by the huge increase in genetic sequence data from many organisms, the improvement of high-speed microcomputers, and the development of several new methods for phylogenetic analysis. This book for graduate students and researchers, assuming a basic knowledge of evolution, molecular biology, and elementary statistics, should make it possible for many investigators to incorporate refined statistical analysis of large-scale data in their own work. Nei is one of the leading workers in this area. He and Kumar have developed a computer program called MEGA, which has been sold for about $20 to over 1900 users. For the book, the authors are thoroughly revising MEGA and will make it available via FTP. The book also included analysis using the other most popular programs for phylogenetic studies, including PAUP, PHYLIP, MOLPHY, and PAML.

DKK 1103.00
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Event Management and Sustainability - - Bog - CABI Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Event Management and Sustainability - - Bog - CABI Publishing - Plusbog.dk

Sustainable management is an important consideration for businesses and organisations, and the enormous number of tourism events taking place requiring facilities, power, transport, people and much more makes sustainable event planning a considerable priority. By looking at mega events, sports events, conferences and festivals, this book uses best practice case studies to illustrate sustainable management issues and practical considerations that managers need to apply, providing an essential reference for researchers and students in leisure and tourism.

DKK 970.00
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