This book explores the differences in cultural attributes and management factors to enable managers working for Japanese contractors to reduce misunderstandings and misinterpretations when communicating with project team members from different cultural backgrounds.
This book discusses the relationship between construction quality and the state of the Singapore national economy, and describes how construction quality is affected as contracting firms strategically manage issues relating to profitability and survivability during economic boom and bust cycles.
Air pollution policy is closely connected with climate change, public health, energy, transport, trade, and agriculture, and generally speaking, the Earth has been pushed to the brink and the damage is becoming increasingly obvious.
This book presents the history of modern human creativity/innovation through examples of solutions to basic human needs that have been developed over time.
This book explores the history of modern human creativity/innovation, highlighting examples of solutions to basic human' needs that have been developed over time.
Recent applications of evolutionary game theory in the merging fields of the mathematical and social sciences are brilliantly portrayed in this book, which highlights social physics and shows how the approach can help to quantitatively model complex human-environmental-social systems.
This book uses case studies to highlight the environmental water footprints in the agricultural and livestock farming sector, and those of consumer products.
This book discusses the concept of water footprint and corporate water footprint, presenting case studies on a thermal power plant in India and on the food sector.
This book highlights various methods of quantifying sustainability indicators in the food sector, highlighting the environmental indicators in the meat chain and agri-food wastes from a bio-refinery perspective.
This book is the first systematic exposition of advances in Kaiyu studies carried out by the author and his colleagues in Japan and other parts of Asia.
This is the first book to introduce the major quantitative tools in risk management taking financial investments and logistics planning as the background: optimization and stochastic programming.
The World University Research Rankings 2020 is a novel methodology designed to evaluate research multi-disciplinarity, complemented by indicators to gauge research impact and research collaborative-ness.
An international conference on Advances in Engineering Sciences was held in Hong Kong, March 13-15, 2019, under the International MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists (IMECS 2019).
This book comprises the most recent advanced results on nonlinear electronic circuits, and the contents range from networks, synchronization, memristors to several other topics.
This book offers a service science perspective on platform orchestration and on collaborative consumption, providing an overview of research topics related to service dominant logic in multi-sided markets.
Sustainable biomaterials are used as substitutions for traditional materials in aerospace, automotive, civil, mechanical, environmental engineering, medical, and other industries.
This book integrates the basic theories (GST and Parson's AGIL framework), applying them to the components of social systems, state-run and business firms.
This book examines China, the world's largest auto market since 2008 and the story of how Chinese auto-makers developed is the story of the Chinese economy in microcosm.
This book discusses the application of quality and reliability engineering in Asian industries, and offers information for multinational companies (MNC) looking to transfer some of their operation and manufacturing capabilities to Asia and at the same time maintain high levels of reliability and quality.
This first-of-a-kind volume provides a snapshot of existing science communication policy and practice in India across different S&T sectors, and offers solutions to building effective communication.
The Indian National Academy of Engineering (INAE)promotes the endeavour of the practitioners of engineering and technology andrelated sciences to solve the problems of national importance.
Con base en una amplia revisión bibliográfica, este libro presenta la forma como ha sido estudiados, los fenómenos de ahuellamiento y fatiga en mezclas asfálticas que conforman estructuras de pavimentos flexibles.
La norma ISO 45001:2018 es la primera norma internacional del mundo sobre la gestión de la salud y la seguridad en el trabajo, que contiene buenas prácticas acordadas en todo el mundo.
El fascinante mundo de la investigación de operaciones envuelve problemas de todas las áreas, cautivando a quienes aprehenden sus bondades y se enriquecen con las facilidades que otorga para resolver problemas de alta complejidad.
Este libro proporciona los criterios para el diseño de sistemas de ventilación industrial con el propósito de proteger la salud de los trabajadores mediante la reducción de los riesgos en el aire al controlar los contaminantes generados a partir de procesos industriales.
El hidromiel o vino de miel, obtenido mediante procesos controlados de fermentación alcohólica de miel de abejas, es una bebida que ha ganado reconocimiento e importancia en el ámbito de la apicultura en Colombia, imponiéndose como una alternativa para generar crecimiento económico y competitividad en el sector.
A diario los Cuerpos de Bomberos acuden al llamado de emergencias por diversos tipos de incendios, entre ellos los incendios en edificaciones, que representan situaciones de riesgo para sus ocupantes y también para los bomberos.
El transporte y conservación del agua se han convertido en temas estratégicos para la sociedad actual, en particular en los grandes centros urbanos donde los problemas de escasez de agua y contaminación de las fuentes se han vuelto críticos.
Manual de trabajo en alturas es una herramienta útil para el diseño de actividades de capacitación y entrenamiento de sus trabajadores, según la Resolución 1409 de 2013 y las unidades Vocacionales de Aprendizaje para las Empresas (UVAES).
El género humano, como fenómeno biológico actuante, no puede subsistir en modo alguno sin la naturaleza, y ello ha supuesto la utilización libérrima de sus recursos: agua, suelo, aire, plantas y animales.
Este texto aborda el ciclo de la calidad PHVA y se construyó como un aporte y orientación a todas las personas que reconocen la calidad como factor clave del éxito.
Es evidente que si las ciencias físicas no han logrado la meta de proporcionar una imagen exacta del mundo material, en razón de la relatividad y de la incertidumbre, las ciencias sociales, afectadas además por las mediaciones e interferencias de orden ideológico, deban conformarse llanamente con aportar un concepto aproximado de los hechos sociales y sus causas.
