Economics

Contract manufacturing is growing rapidly worldwide and this is creating a need for innovative manufacturing information systems that can effectively integrate process design and costing data in order to allow 'what if' scenario assessments to be done rapidly.

Warranty Data Collection and Analysis deals with warranty data collection and analysis and the problems associated with these activities.

Recently, the subject of nonlinear control systems analysis has grown rapidly and this book provides a simple and self-contained presentation of their stability and feedback stabilization which enables the reader to learn and understand major techniques used in mathematical control theory.

Engineering Asset Management 2010 represents state-of-the art trends and developments in the emerging field of engineering asset management as presented at the Fifth World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM).

Engineering design concerns us all.

Engineering Asset Management discusses state-of-the-art trends and developments in the emerging field of engineering asset management as presented at the Fourth World Congress on Engineering Asset Management (WCEAM).

Since its modest beginning in the 1970s, the academic and research focus on energy has grown substantially and energy has established itself as an independent, interdisciplinary subject area.

What lies beyond the era of fossil fuels?

Replacement Models with Minimal Repair is a collection of works by several well-known specialists on the subject of minimal repair in replacement policies.

Rational Exuberance for Renewable Energy is a beyond-the-hype account of the underlying issues that encourage or plague widespread dissemination of renewable energy (RE) technologies.

The manufacturing industry is facing the challenges of shifting its operations from the traditional factory integration philosophy to a supply chain based e-factory philosophy, and of transforming the focus of companies from the local factory to global enterprise and business.

Risk is an ever-present feature of life in a complex world, and it is important for societies to manage it in a just and efficient manner.

Risk is an ever-present feature of life in a complex world, and it is important for societies to manage it in a just and efficient manner.

Working at the intersections of cultural anthropology, human geography, and material culture, Tina Harris explores the social and economic transformations taking place along one trade route that winds its way across China, Nepal, Tibet, and India.

The end of slavery left millions of former slaves destitute in a South as unsettled as they were.

To mark the 300th anniversary of Adam Smith's birth, the 37th Heilbronn Symposium on Economics and the Social Sciences was dedicated to his outstanding oeuvre, but above all to his most famous work,  "e;An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations"e; (1776), which is regarded as a keystone of modern economics.

This book provides an accessible introduction to causal inference and data analysis with R, specifically for a public policy audience.

Working at the intersections of cultural anthropology, human geography, and material culture, Tina Harris explores the social and economic transformations taking place along one trade route that winds its way across China, Nepal, Tibet, and India.

This book is a comparative study of the laws and regulations involving legal and ethical issues related to Artificial Intelligence (AI), in particular for self-driving cars or autonomous vehicles (AVs).

This book classifies and assesses the real and perceived risks associated with both the Covid-19 pandemic and government responses to it in seven African countries — DR Congo, Kenya, Ethiopia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zimbabwe — based on large scale quantitative and qualitative surveys conducted in 2022–2024.

This book explores the role of the informal sector at the beginning of the structural transformation of the Indian economy.

The rapid evolution of Charlotte, North Carolina, from "e;regional backwater"e; to globally ascendant city provides stark contrasts of then and now.

This book showcases a selection of award-winning cases from the Global Contest for the Best China-focused Cases.

This book examines human capital development in the Middle East.

This book presents the proceedings of the 22nd Congress of the International Ergonomics Association (IEA 2024), held on August 25-29, 2024.

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This book provides a tour through a novel theoretical approach to understanding the political economy of authoritarianism and the international market for capital investment.

This book is a machine-generated literature overview that explores the impact of the World Trade Organization (WTO) on international trade and its development.

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The debate over the size and scope of the federal government has raged since the New Deal.

This book explores the political, economic, defence, and cultural relations of Poland with South Asia-Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, and Sri Lanka-since the late 1940s to the present.

This book uses economic theory to explain how consumers and producers have responded to major changes in the music industry.

This book analyzes China's transformative political power in today's world while simultaneously addressing global issues and the reformation of world institutions.

This book examines the use of smart city-associated technologies to enhance sustainable transportation planning in cities of both the global north and south, focusing specifically on sustainable transportation.

This book analyzes China's transformative political power in today's world while simultaneously addressing global issues and the reformation of world institutions.

This book examines the establishment and implementation of the AfCFTA, which is the largest free trade area globally, covering 54 African countries.

The edited volume titled "e;Decoding the Chessboard of Asian Geopolitics: Asian Powerplay in South Asia, Central Asia, and West Asia"e; offers a distinctive examination of the power rivalries within the Asian region.

This book is an essential resource that delves into the transformative potential of augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) within the healthcare industry.

This book illuminates how the profound challenges faced by contemporary societies over the past few decades, encompassing climate change and other environmental risks, global health threats, warfare, and mass migration, manifest themselves in European cities.

This book explores problems generated by the abandonment of mountain villages, which also represented strategic sites for guarding against environmental hazards, and proposes a process of regeneration and upgrade of the built environment, with a view to a circular economy and social and economic development.

This book explains the dynamics of revenue generation and allocation reality of city corporations in Bangladesh.

This book provides a thorough examination of behavioural finance, charting its development from foundational theories to contemporary applications and future directions.

This book analyses the possible regionalization of global value chains, particularly in manufacturing.

This book primarily focuses on the coordinated development of port groups and the environment.

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This book brings together selected papers from the The Vietnam-EU Economic and Trade Forum 2023 jointly organized by the VNU University of Economics and Business (UEB, Vietnam) and Krakow University of Economics (Poland).

SummaryIf you think Bitcoin is just an alternative currency for geeks, it's time to think again.

This machine-generated volume, with chapter introductions by the human expert, of summaries of the existing studies furthers our understanding of the impact of digitalisation on spaces, their imaginations and representations.