Going beyond the usual how-to guide, Lean Six Sigma Secrets for the CIO supplies proven tips and valuable case studies that illustrate how to combine Six Sigma's rigorous quality principles with Lean methods for uncovering and eliminating waste inIT processes.
Although nanotechnology applied to medicine has a potentially huge impact on drug delivery and tissue engineering, significant challenges need to be resolved before clinically viable nanomedicine or nanobiomedicine therapies will be available.
Advances in nanotechnology are transforming the ways of creating materials and products, leading society to the threshold of a second industrial revolution.
Although speech is the most natural form of communication between humans, most people find using speech to communicate with machines anything but natural.
Taking an application-oriented approach, these exercises encourage students to apply rigorous analyses to collected data, and provide results through formal professional reports.
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, are among the most transformative technologies of the 21st century, reshaping defense, industry, research, and everyday life.
Edited by experts, one of whom developed the technology, Electrolytic In-Process Dressing (ELID) Technologies: Fundamentals and Applications provides an overview of ELID processes with correlations between the main parameters, describes ELID operations, and illustrates the concepts with case studies.
When confronted with a fire protection problem, building management is often desperately short on information and know-how in this critical component of protection for their own facility.
This book analyzes how new technologies transformed life and thought between two periods, 1880-1920 and 1980-2020, with a focus on temporal experiences of past, present, future and the spatial experiences of form, distance, and direction.
A difficult and recalcitrant phenomenon, medical error causes pervasive and expensive problems in terms of patient injury, ineffective treatment, and rising healthcare costs.
The Sunday Times BestsellerSHORTLISTED: Business Book Awards 2025 - Specialist Business BookFintech touches every part of our lives, from cashless economies to crypto, and even our climate.
The Sunday Times BestsellerSHORTLISTED: Business Book Awards 2025 - Specialist Business BookFintech touches every part of our lives, from cashless economies to crypto, and even our climate.
The shift from orality to literacy that began with the invention of the phonetic alphabet, and which went into high-gear with Gutenberg's printing press more than 500 years ago, helped make the modern world.
Innovation and Knowledge Management in Manufacturing Industry: Case Studies and Applications is a valuable resource to organizations in the modern manufacturing setting where change is fast, competition is intense, and where technological changes take place continuously.
With the advent of modern tools of molecular biology and genetic engineering and new skills in metabolic engineering and synthetic biology, fermentation technology for industrial applications has developed enormously in recent years.
Project Management for Healthcare, Third Edition covers the significant changes in both the direction of healthcare and the direction of project management in the post- COVID pandemic area.
Project Management for Healthcare, Third Edition covers the significant changes in both the direction of healthcare and the direction of project management in the post- COVID pandemic area.
The first edition of Handbook of Human Factors and Ergonomics in Health Care and Patient Safety took the medical and ergonomics communities by storm with in-depth coverage of human factors and ergonomics research, concepts, theories, models, methods, and interventions and how they can be applied in health care.
Janet Abbate recounts the key players and technologies that allowed the Internet to develop; but her main focus is always on the social and cultural factors that influenced the Internet''s design and use.
The eighth edition of this highly readable book continues to cover the technical principles underlying the control of radiation hazards, radiation detection and measurement and the biological effects of radiation, followed by a consideration of radiation protection issues in the nuclear, non-nuclear and medical fields.
This book presents orthotropic vibration modeling and analysis of carbon nanotubes (CNTs) which be helpful in applications such as oscillators and in non-destructive testing, and also vibrations characteristics of armchair double-walled CNT by means of nonlocal elasticity shell model.
As artificial intelligence (AI) permeates day-to-day life-influencing who is granted what type of healthcare, determining who is granted an employment interview or academic enrollment, or delivering what information to whom-it frames individuals and society.
The shift from orality to literacy that began with the invention of the phonetic alphabet, and which went into high-gear with Gutenberg's printing press more than 500 years ago, helped make the modern world.
This new edition continues to explore the intricate processes of designing, developing, and manufacturing automotive products by integrating multiple levels of complex systems.
A kaleidoscopic look at how eleven disruptive innovationsincluding the iPhone, the transistor, disposable diapers, and Julia Child's The Art of French Cookingreshaped industries and societies, propelling humanity toward new frontiers.
Janet Abbate recounts the key players and technologies that allowed the Internet to develop; but her main focus is always on the social and cultural factors that influenced the Internet''s design and use.
