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This book presents contemporary issues and challenges in finance and risk management in a time of rapid transformation due to technological advancements.

Electronics Explained, Second Edition, takes a systems based approach to the fundamentals of electronics, covering the different types of electronic circuits, how they work, and how they fit together to create modern electronic equipment, enabling you to apply, use, select, operate and discuss common electronic products and systems.

Constructing the Persuasive Portfolio helps you learn the art of designing a compelling and effective architectural portfolio.

This volume of the Handbook of Usability and User Experience (UX) presents research and case studies used to design products, systems and environments with good usability and consequent acceptance, pleasure in use, good user experience, and understanding of human interaction issues with products and systems for their improvement.

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With contributions from some of the top academics and scientists in the field, Advanced Studies in Multi-Criteria Decision Making presents an updated view of the landscape of Decision Sciences, current research topics, the interaction with other sciences and fields, as well as the prospects and challenges at an international level.

What are the biggest challenges facing those managing supply chains?

Illustrates recently developed fixture design and verification technology, focusing on their central role in manufacturing processes.

This book examines how the game of football and militarism have historically overlapped due to their shared celebration of strength, might, and besting a clear and definitive foe.

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Despite the growing demand for design strategies to reduce our petroleum use, no one has yet brought together the lessons of the world's leading post-petroleum designers into a single resource.

Winner of the "e;Outstanding Academic Title"e; recognition by Choice for the 2020 OAT Awards.

Human-Centered Design for Mining Equipment and New Technology first introduces Human-Centered Design (HCD) and outlines the benefits of this approach for mining equipment and new technology: HCD is a process that aims to make equipment and systems more usable and acceptable by explicitly focusing on the end-user, their tasks and their work environment/use context.

The text discusses energy-efficient vehicles as an essential element of sustainable transportation.

Swarm intelligence is one of the fastest growing subfields of artificial intelligence and soft computing.

Power electronics is an area of extremely important and rapidly changing technology.

With the growing trend of licensing apparel, accessories, and home fashions under a single logo, today's students must expand their portfolios to include concepts with broader applications.

Stuart Walker's design work has been described as life-changing, inspiring, disturbing and ferocious.

This book deals with the basic concepts of GIS and optimization.

This book explains the tools and processes that allow changes in the way maintenance works.

The potential of software applications to solve an array of office and administrative problems is increasing faster than the ability of users to exploit it.

This book explains the application of ergonomics in three different areas of design, namely product, space, and communication.

Furniture Design and Construction for the Interior Designer satisfies the need in the interior design field for a source that teaches the aesthetic as well as the construction of residential furniture.

For decades, outsourcing has been a major international phenomenon in business.

The book highlights mechanical, thermal, electrical, and magnetic properties, and characterization of additive manufactured products in a single volume.

This reference text discusses fundamentals, classification, principles, applications of additive and subtractive manufacturing processes in a single volume.

The book offers insight into the healthcare system by exploring emerging technologies and AI-based applications and implementation strategies.

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the past, present and future of autonomous road vehicles for professionals and students.

Pseudolinear Functions and Optimization is the first book to focus exclusively on pseudolinear functions, a class of generalized convex functions.

During periods of environmental and societal upheaval, design has the potential to be a formidable catalyst towards a sustainable future.

This book contains the papers from the 2013 International Conference on Compressors and Their Systems, held from 9-10 September at City University London.

Complete PCB Design Using OrCAD Capture and PCB Editor, Second Edition, provides practical instruction on how to use the OrCAD design suite to design and manufacture printed circuit boards.

The Design Politics of the Passport presents an innovative study of the passport and its associated social, political and material practices as a means of uncovering the workings of 'design politics'.

Advocating a user-centered approach to medical technology design, Designing Usability into Medical Products covers the essential processes and specific techniques necessary to produce safe, effective, usable, and appealing medical systems and products.

Textiles and Human Thermophysiological Comfort in the Indoor Environment delivers a methodical assessment of textile structures for various applications in the indoor environment with respect to the thermophysiological comfort of the inhabitants.

"e;Transformation design"e; is looking for new ways to change our behavior and society through new forms of innovation.

This second edition of Human Factors Methods: A Practical Guide for Engineering and Design now presents 107 design and evaluation methods as well as numerous refinements to those that featured in the original.

The Circuit Designers Companion, Third Edition, provides the essential information that every circuit designer needs to produce a working circuit, as well as information on how to make a design that is robust, tolerant to noise and temperature, and able to operate in the system for which it is intended.

This handbook explores the applications of polymer foams, and the properties that make them suitable for so many applications, in the detail required by postgraduate students, researchers and the many industrial engineers and designers who work with polymer foam in industry.

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This book addresses the various forms of deviance and criminality found within the conventional food system.

The industry is currently facing a multitude of challenges on production lines that must be systematically addressed in order to improve quality and productivity.

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

An Illustrated Guide to Furniture History provides upper-level students and instructors with an alternative visual analytical approach to learning about furniture history from Antiquity to Postmodernism.

The concept of digitalization captures the widespread adoption of digital technologies in our lives, in the structure and functioning of organizations and in the transformation of our economy and society.

This book introduces the step-by-step processes involved in using MCDM methods, starting from problem formulation, model development, and criteria weighting to the final ranking of the alternatives.

A much-needed reference to the latest thinking in universal designUniversal Design: Creating Inclusive Environments offers a comprehensive survey of best practices and innovative solutions in universal design.

Helps Students Understand Mathematical Programming Principles and Solve Real-World ApplicationsSupplies enough mathematical rigor yet accessible enough for undergraduatesIntegrating a hands-on learning approach, a strong linear algebra focus, Maple software, and real-world applications, Linear and Nonlinear Programming with Maple : An Interactive,

Additive Manufacturing (AM) has altered manufacturing as we know it, with shortened development time, increased performance, and reduced product costs.