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This volume focuses on the broad scope of systems engineering and recent energy technology developments as they relate to the oil and gas industry, which remains a lifeline to communities around the world.

Whether you're new to UX or a seasoned practitioner, The User Experience Team of One gives you everything you need to succeed, emphasizing downtoearth approaches that deliver big impact over timeconsuming, needlessly complex techniques.

Focusing on operational excellence, this book will take readers through the practicalities of product development, market launch, and ongoing product support.

Little Germany takes us back to the nineteenth century, when Bradford, West Yorkshire, was the wool capital of the world.

Unlock your full potential with these revision guides which focus on the key content and skills you need to know.

As healthcare challenges such as human aging and traffic accidents continue to increase exponentially, the biomedical sector faces a significant obstacle in arranging patient-specific biomedical products.

In an era dominated by mathematical and statistical models, this book unravels the profound significance of these tools in decoding uncertainties within numerical, observational, and calculation-based data.

The book explores a range of mathematical topics essential for application in engineering and applied sciences.

Useful and resourceful - this book is ideal for trainees, NQTs and experienced teachers alike.

Useful and resourceful - this book is ideal for trainees, NQTs and experienced teachers alike.

Developed from the authors' longstanding course on decision and risk analysis, Value-Added Decision Making for Managers explores the important interaction between decisions and management action and clarifies the barriers to rational decision making.

In the last 20 years, technological developments have set new standards in driver-vehicle interaction.

Winner of IIE Book of the Month, December 2013The introduction of reverse supply chains has created many challenges in network design, transportation, selection of used products, selection and evaluation of suppliers, performance measurement, marketing-related issues, end-of-life (EOL) alternative selection, remanufacturing, disassembly, and produc

With the help of guides and tables, this book assists readers in making the right lighting technology choices for specific applications, introduces readers to the topic of dynamic lighting that can accommodate a range of needs and tasks under one system, and helps a variety of professionals (from local authorities to doctors) to design the appropriate living and working environments for a wide spectrum of people with special requirements.

Linear Optimization and Dualiyy: A Modern Exposition departs from convention in significant ways.

Eschewing a more theoretical approach, Portfolio Optimization shows how the mathematical tools of linear algebra and optimization can quickly and clearly formulate important ideas on the subject.

The current global economic downturn and considerable shifting in industrial and manufacturing activities have disturbed the industrial order.

The biggest challenge in any marketplace is uncertainty.

When the first edition of Poultry Meat Processing was published, it provided a complete presentation of the theoretical and practical aspects of poultry meat processing, exploring the complex mix of biology, chemistry, engineering, marketing, and economics involved.

A First Course in Probability with an Emphasis on Stochastic ModelingProbability and Stochastic Modeling not only covers all the topics found in a traditional introductory probability course, but also emphasizes stochastic modeling, including Markov chains, birth-death processes, and reliability models.

Human factors and ergonomics have made considerable contributions to the research, design, development, operation and analysis of transportation systems and their complementary infrastructure.

This volume discusses pleasurable design- a part of the traditional usability design and evaluation methodologies.

Since the very earliest years of aviation, it was clear that human factors were critical to the success and safety of the system.

Meeting the needs of the manufacturing and service sectors of contemporary industry, this volume is concerned with the human factors, ergonomics, and safety issues related to the design of products, processes, and systems, as well as the operation and management of business enterprises.

Derived from the conference submissions for the 2012 AHFE conference, this volume focuses on types of human-modeled technology.

If there is any one element to the engineering of service systems that is unique, it is the extent to which the suitability of the system for human use, human service, and excellent human experience has been and must always be considered.

New, Now, Next.

What should every airline and manufacturer know about comfort?

Following in the footsteps of its bestselling predecessor, Kevin J.

Optimality Conditions in Convex Optimization explores an important and central issue in the field of convex optimization: optimality conditions.

Until now, no book addressed convexity, monotonicity, and variational inequalities together.

In real-life scenarios, service management involves complex decision-making processes usually affected by random or stochastic variables.

This book compiles the papers presented at the Annual Conference of the Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors held in April 2010.

Bringing together an international group of researchers involved in military, business, and health modeling and simulation, Conceptual Modeling for Discrete-Event Simulation presents a comprehensive view of the current state of the art in the field.

This book addresses how to make Kaizen a formidable competitive weapon.

The auto industry is facing tough competition and severe economic constraints.

Using a wide range of operational research (OR) optimization examples, Applied Operational Research with SAS demonstrates how the OR procedures in SAS work.

Based on the many approaches available for dealing with large-scale systems (LSS), Decentralized Control and Filtering in Interconnected Dynamical Systems supplies a rigorous framework for studying the analysis, stability, and control problems of LSS.

Although we now have sophisticated algorithms and techniques for determining the shapes and sizes and for matching the fit between shoes and feet, few, if any, of the books currently available cover these new technologies until now.

This volume is concerned with digital human modeling.

This volume is concerned with the human factors, ergonomics, and safety issues related to the design of products, processes, and systems, as well as operation and management of business enterprises in both manufacturing and service sectors of contemporary industry.

With the increase of globalization of business and industry, IT products and services are produced and marketed across geographical cultural boundaries without any consideration of culture.

Written by Chitram Lutchman, a project management professional with more than 20 years of field and business experience, Project Execution: A Practical Approach to Industrial and Commercial Project Management gives you a more optimistic view of this exciting and challenging area.

Sport technology has to be seen from the holistic, as well as inter- and transdisciplinary point of view.

Manufacturing plays a vital role in European economy and society, and is expected to continue as a major generator of wealth in the foreseeable future.

A guided tour through the each stages of process, Kansei/Affective Engineering explores how to apply Kansei/Affective Engineering.

This book is a must-have resource for those engineering professionals seeking out best practice in engineering leadership and innovation.

Unlike most engineers, system engineers focus on the knowledge base needed to develop good systems in a cross-functional fashion rather than deeply on isolated topics.

In a market place flooded with consumer goods, the modern consumer has become incredibly savvy.

Expanding into emerging markets brings with it a specific set of challenges for designing products and services.