Technology: general issues

This book explores the dynamic landscape of contemporary organizations, navigating through topics such as innovation, creativity, emotional intelligence, technology, and sustainability.

This book explores the dynamic landscape of contemporary organizations, navigating through topics such as innovation, creativity, emotional intelligence, technology, and sustainability.

The book provides a comprehensive analysis of Engineering Education in industrialising countries, with Southern Africa as the case study, benchmarked on institutions from the industrialised world, with UK institutions as the reference.

The book provides a comprehensive analysis of Engineering Education in industrialising countries, with Southern Africa as the case study, benchmarked on institutions from the industrialised world, with UK institutions as the reference.

With its combination of readability, love for details and rigor, "e;Fatigue and Corrosion in Metals"e; has become an authoritative reference work that has quickly established itself as the most comprehensive guide for fatigue and corrosion design available to date.

With its combination of readability, love for details and rigor, "e;Fatigue and Corrosion in Metals"e; has become an authoritative reference work that has quickly established itself as the most comprehensive guide for fatigue and corrosion design available to date.

The book provides a holistic insight into design research, a comprehensive and cohesive vision of state-of-the-art knowledge about creating and improving quality products, creativity and innovation.

The book provides a holistic insight into design research, a comprehensive and cohesive vision of state-of-the-art knowledge about creating and improving quality products, creativity and innovation.

This book investigates the relationships between gestures and artefacts theoretically and historically, by analyzing different phenomena stemming from a variety of fields such as robotics, archaeology, gesture studies, anthropology, philosophy, and gestural practices like choreography, music performance, and composition.

This book investigates the relationships between gestures and artefacts theoretically and historically, by analyzing different phenomena stemming from a variety of fields such as robotics, archaeology, gesture studies, anthropology, philosophy, and gestural practices like choreography, music performance, and composition.

This book provides advances in computational logistics and supply chain analytics.

This book provides advances in computational logistics and supply chain analytics.

This book summarises the recent, and future, sustainable, low-cost, environment-friendly and efficient systems for clean water production, to solve clean water crisis.

This book summarises the recent, and future, sustainable, low-cost, environment-friendly and efficient systems for clean water production, to solve clean water crisis.

This text offers a systematic presentation of the evolution of concepts of friction, and its fundamental causes.

This book is a collection of selected papers presented at the Fourth Congress on Intelligent Systems (CIS 2023), organized by  CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, India, under the technical sponsorship of the Soft Computing Research Society, India, during September 4-5, 2023.

This book is a collection of selected papers presented at the Fourth Congress on Intelligent Systems (CIS 2023), organized by  CHRIST (Deemed to be University), Bangalore, India, under the technical sponsorship of the Soft Computing Research Society, India, during September 4-5, 2023.

The book presents the select proceedings of International Conference on Production and Industrial Engineering (CPIE) 2023.

The book presents the select proceedings of International Conference on Production and Industrial Engineering (CPIE) 2023.

This book is for students enrolled in undergraduate mechanical engineering, or similar, programs.

This book is for students enrolled in undergraduate mechanical engineering, or similar, programs.

This third edition volume expands on the previous editions with new and updated discussions on the latest developments in endotoxin contamination, complex physicochemical properties, in vitro immunotoxicity traits, and in vitro drug release properties.

This third edition volume expands on the previous editions with new and updated discussions on the latest developments in endotoxin contamination, complex physicochemical properties, in vitro immunotoxicity traits, and in vitro drug release properties.

The nanopore provides a highly electrochemically confined space within which single-molecule characteristics can be efficiently converted into measurable electrochemical signatures with high temporal and current resolution.

Engineered Nanoparticles in Agriculture describes synthesis, properties, and application of nanoparticles to crops at pre- and post-harvest level.

This volume contains eight chapters that detail advances in engineering research.

Carbon nanomaterials have several applications, which is driving up scientific research into them.

Hybrid composites have exceptional features due to superior mechanical properties, fatigue/impact resistance, and balanced thermal distortion stability.

The application of a novel correlation coefficient of linguistic intuitionistic fuzzy sets to medical diagnosis problems provides the topic for Strategic Fuzzy Extensions and Decision-making Techniques.

The essential, intermediate and advanced topics of Simulink are covered in the book.

This book focuses on the history and development of Si(Li) X-Ray Detectors, while providing an up-to-date review of the principles, practical applications, and state of the art of semiconductor x-ray detectors.

Just Culture and the Criminalisation of Air Accidents equips the reader with the tools to understand the meaning of criminalisation in the civil aviation industry.

Smart and Functional Textiles is an application-oriented book covering a wide range of areas from multifunctional nanofinished textiles, coated and laminated textiles, wearable e-textiles, textile-based sensors and actuators, thermoregulating textiles, to smart medical textiles and stimuli-responsive textiles.

This book is devoted to the development of procedures and technical manuals for the marine and offshore industries, providing a comprehensive guide to creating clear, effective instructional materials.

Engineering Analysis: Advanced Mathematical Methods for Engineers introduces graduate engineering students to the fundamental but advanced mathematics tools used in engineering application, especially in mechanical, aerospace, and civil engineering.

Newly revised and updated, with even more bands detailed and dissected, including the biggest names in Grindcore, Gorecore, Pagan Metal, Viking Metal and Vampire Metal; Extreme Metal is more than just an encyclopaedia.

This book presents the applications of fractional calculus, fractional operators of non-integer orders and fractional differential equations in describing economic dynamics with long memory.

This book gathers selected research articles presented in the "e;6th International Conference on Mathematical Modelling, Applied Analysis and Computation (ICMMAAC)"e;, held at JECRC University, Jaipur, during August 3-5, 2023.

Rapid technological advancements, globalization, and environmental concerns impact the role of engineers in today's society.

This new book provides a detailed overview of some of the fundamental aspects of nanocarbons and their allotropic forms, their preparation techniques, and their applications in several fields of interest.

This book's primary objective is to provide a comprehensive coverage of ergonomics in overall work system analysis and design.

Despite the obvious need for transparency, a company's Lean results can continue to hide behind the mask of traditional accounting and dilute the benefits of a Lean implementation.

Presenting an alternate approach to supply chain management, Lean Supply Chain Management Essentials: A Framework for Materials Managers explains why the traditional materials planning environment, typically embodied by an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system, is an ineffective support system for a company that wants to adopt Lean practices.

This book provides a roadmap for successful implementation of innovation for organizations working as subcontractors or suppliers for the federal government.

This book details a proven recipe for applying Lean, Six Sigma, and the Theory of Constraints in a manner that will maximize return on investment, cash flow, and net profits.

Closed-loop supply chain activities such as remanufacturing, recycling, dismantling for spare parts, and reverse logistics have helped many companies tap into new revenue streams by finding secondary markets for their products, all while reducing their overall carbon footprint.

This new book in The LEAN Playbook Series supplies step-by-step guidelines on how to properly implement 5S (Sort, Set in Order, Scrub, Standardize, Sustain) and the visual workplace.

Typically, root cause analysis is taught by explaining a variety of tools that require users to gain considerable experience before being able to apply them correctly in the proper settings.