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Energy-Efficient Electrical Systems for Buildings, Second Edition offers a systematic and practical approaches to design and analyze electrical distribution and utilization systems in buildings.

Improvements in safety in the air and in space can be achieved through better ergonomics, better work environments, and other efforts of traditional avionic psychology that directly affect human behaviors and performance.

This textbook presents the core of recent advances in design theory and its implications for design methods and design organization.

This book discusses the latest findings on ensuring employees' safety, health, and welfare at work.

This influential text was fully revised and updated for the second edition with the addition of substantial new material, and takes the reader, in a logical sequence, through the main areas of ergonomics relevant to design, in a way that allows ergonomics to be integrated with all aspects of the design process.

This book presents a step-by-step methodology for the design of ramjet engines.

This is the right book for users ifthey liked the author's "e;Beginning AutoCAD"e; workbook, or they're looking for a clear, no nonsense, easy-to-follow text, or they want to learn more about AutoCAD such as Xref, Attributes, and 3D solids.

This book describes a methodology to represent socio-technical system concerns in the system architecting process.

This book gives a step-by-step introduction to designing and building your own robots.

Nothing is more important to an organization than the health and safety of its workers.

As Directors of this NATO Workshop, we welcome this opportunity to record formally our thanks to the NATO Scientific Affairs Division for making our meeting possible through generous financial support and encouragement.

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This book is about the "e;benefits of inconvenience (BoI)"e;, providing a new approach to designing innovative systems and opening an alternative viewpoint to readers for looking at the world.

Developing Performance Support for Computer Systems: A Strategy for Maximizing Usability and Learnability provides detailed planning, design, and development guidance for generating performance support for new or upgraded computer systems.

Now in its fourth edition, Behavioral Research and Analysis: An Introduction to Statistics within the Context of Experimental Design presents an overview of statistical methods within the context of experimental design.

It's a widely recognised trend that powered-two-wheelers' (PTWs) use has been steadily increasing and is projected to increase further.

This state-of-the-art text explores developments in geometric modeling, product modeling and their applications.

From security training simulations to war games to role-playing games, to sports games to gambling, playing video games has become a social phenomena, and the increasing number of players that cross gender, culture, and age is on a dramatic upward trajectory.

This book presents the proceedings of the 2021 International Symposium on Automation, Mechanical and Design Engineering (SAMDE), held in Beijing, China, on 3-5 December 2021, and organized by the Hong Kong Society of Robotics and Automation (HKSRA).

This volume originates from two workshops, both focusing on themes that are reflected in the title of the volume.

The Social Internet of Things (SIoT) has become a hot topic in academic research.

Growing student numbers, increased student expectations, new approaches to learning, and fast-paced technological advances all contribute to the need for universities to take a more strategic approach to their buildings, including formal and informal learning spaces.

Lean Refining: How to Improve Performance in the Oil Industry addresses the tremendous opportunities this quality improvement system can exploit to achieve huge financial gains, while simultaneously improving morale, timeliness, quality, safety, reliability, and environmental performance.

First published in 2000, Risk Management is a two volume set, comprised of the most significant and influential articles by the leading authorities in the studies of risk management.

The book presents the state of the art in isogeometric modeling and shows how the method has advantaged.

A potentially troubling aspect of modern vehicle design - some would argue - is a trend for isolating the driver and reducing vehicle feedback, usually in the name of comfort and refinement but increasingly because of automation.

This new book covers process optimization and process capability for hybrid NCMP (nonconventional machining process), and combines NCMP and conventional machining removal processes for various hybridized processes.

The Routledge Handbook of Biomechanics and Human Movement Science is a landmark work of reference.

The BeginningAutoCAD(R) 2018 Exercise Workbook is designed for classroom instruction and self-study alike, and is now suitable for both inch and metric users to accommodate readers around the world.

This book introduces impact-driven research paths in computer science, information systems and cybersecurity with practical insights, effective instructions, and examples.

3D Printing for Product Designers closes the gap between the rhetoric of 3D printing in manufacturing and the reality for product designers.

Designed as a specialized, practical reference for human resources professionals and students, this book fully explains both how to prepare and how to use job descriptions.

With unintended harm during hospital care costing billions of dollars to the world economy, not to mention millions of deaths each year, it's no wonder the issue is equally front and center in the minds of healthcare providers and the public.

Focused on the United States, this book summarizes the secondary impacts of COVID-19 due to the increased use of technology.

 

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Introduction to Engineering: An Assessment and Problem-Solving Approach incorporates experiential, and problem- and activity-based instruction to engage students and empower them in their own learning.

Diverse, equitable, and inclusive (DEI) workplaces foster a sense of belonging and support for all employees, helping them feel like integral parts of the team.

Fast and Slow: Methods for Timely HCI and Interaction Design Research explores the dynamic interplay between rapid and reflective, or long-term vs.

Learning from Near Misses can provide opportunities to improve safety without the need for harm to have first occurred.

This book is a comprehensive document visualizing the future of built environment from a multidisciplinary dimension, with special emphasis on the Indian scenario.

This book reports on advances in human modeling techniques, covering cutting-edge algorithms and their practical implementation  in health and medicine, automotive, clothing, virtual reality simulations, robotics, and assistive technologies.

The construction industry is vital to any national economy; it is also one of the industries most susceptible to workplace incidents.

For the past several decades, systems engineering has grown rapidly in its scope and application and shown significant benefits for the design of large, complex systems.

Decide Which Lighting Technology Is Best for Your ApplicationLight Sources, Second Edition: Basics of Lighting Technologies and Applications presents an overview of the three main technologies that have produced the numerous families of lighting products on the market today: electrical incandescence, electrical gas discharges, and semiconductor light-emitting diodes (LEDs).

How can we design transport environments that cater to the situation awareness needs of different end-users?

This book presents the latest work in the area of naturalistic decision making (NDM) and its extension into the area of macrocognition.

This book promotes an understanding of the purposeful muddling that health care workers rely on to be better able to function and operate in the multitude of complex ecosystems we call "e;health care.

Ergonomics is concerned with the 'fit' between people and their work.