• Author(s): Dennis McCarthy, Nick Rich
• ISBN: 9780750658577
• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Date: 21 Sep 2004
• Pages: 224

Merging the benefits of two well-known methodolgies, Lean Thinking and Total Productive Maintenance, Lean TPM shows how to secure increased manufacturing efficiency.

Based on their experienc of working with organisations that have successfully achieved outstanding performance, McCarthy and Rich provide the tools and techniques that convert strategic vision into practical reality. Lean TPM accelerates the benefits of continuous improvement activities within any manufacturing environment by challenging wasteful working practices, releasing the potential of the workforce, targeting effectiveness and making processes work as planned.

* Unites world-class manufacturing, Lean Thinking and Total Productive Maintenance (TPM)
* Shows how to achieve zero breakdowns
* Optimises processes to deliver performance and new products efficiently
* Delivers benefit from continuous improvement activities quickly

Lean TPM provides a single change agenda for organisations. It will help to develop robust supply chain relationships and to optimise the value generating process. Supported by an integrated route map and comprehensive benchmark data, this book enables engineers, technicians and managers to explore this potent technique fully.

* Unites the concepts of world-class manufacturing, Lean and TPM.
* Shows how to accelerate the benefits gained from continuous improvement activities.
* Includes an integrated route map for Lean TPM, including benchmark data.

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• Author(s): Ricky Smith, Bruce Hawkins
• ISBN: 9780750677790
• Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann
• Edition: 1
• Date: 19 May 2004
• Pages: 287

What is "Lean?" Whether referring to manufacturing operations or maintenance, lean is about doing more with less: less effort, less space, fewer defects, less throughput time, lower volume requirements, less capital for a given level of output, etc. The need to provide the customer more value with less waste is a necessity for any firm wanting to stay in business, especially in today's increasingly global market place. And this is what lean thinking is all about.

Lean Operations are difficult to sustain. More Lean Manufacturing Plant Transformations have been abandoned than have achieved true Lean Enterprise status.

There are solid and recurring reasons for both of these conditions. The most significant of these reasons is that production support processes have not been pre-positioned or refined adequately to assist the manufacturing plant in making the lean transformation. And the most significant of the support functions is the maintenance operation, which determines production line equipment reliability. Moving the maintenance operation well into its own lean transformation is a must-do prerequisite for successful manufacturing plant - or any process plant - Lean Transformations. This Handbook provides detailed, step-by-step, fully explained processes for each phase of Lean Maintenance implementation providing examples, checklists and methodologies of a quantity, detail and practicality that no previous publication has even approached. It is required reading, and a required reference, for every plant and facility that is planning, or even thinking of adopting "Lean" as their mode of operation.

* A continuous improvement strategy using new "lean" principles

* Eliminate wasteful practices from your manufacturing or chemical processes, increasing the profitability of your plant

* Save thousands of dollars a year on new equipment by keeping your existing equipment maintained using this revolutionary method

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• Author(s): Panel to Study the Design of Nonmarket Accounts, National Research Council
• ISBN: 9780309093194
• Publisher: National Academies Press
• Date: 29 Dec 2004
• Pages: 224

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• Author(s): Frederick G. Harmon, Fred Harmon
• ISBN: 9780938721840
• Publisher: Kiplinger Books
• Date: 15 Mar 2001
• Pages: 360

Fred Harmon clearly describes how global and societal trends will affect companies in the next decade.

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• Author(s): P. J. O'Rourke
• ISBN: 9780871134554
• Publisher: Atlantic Monthly Pr
• Edition: 1
• Date: 26 May 1991
• Pages: 233

If satirists are at their best when tussling with something they hate, then this is P.J. O'Rourke's masterpiece. He clearly hates government--and has hated it since before it was cool to do so--and for all the right reasons, too: it's clumsy, inefficient, hypocritical, greedy, and arrogant. In other words, it magnifies the faults of the poor saps who staff it. Parliament of Whores is the humorist's howl of bitter laughter at the entire bloated, numskulled mess. As befits an ex-editor of National Lampoon , nothing is out of bounds for O'Rourke. Speaking of the fabled "football"--that satchel that follows the president around 24/7--the author doubts there are really launch codes in there at all--nothing but "a copy of Penthouse and a pint bottle of Hiram Walker--a Penthouse from back in the seventies, when Penthouse was really dirty, I'll bet."

Parliament of Whores is perfect for anyone who longs to cultivate an entertaining brand of cynicism, to be "a lone voice--not crying in the wilderness, thank you, but chortling in the rec room." O'Rourke is a master at making you laugh in spite of the better angels of your nature, and the only negative thing to be said about this tour de force is that his flamethrower brand of satire leaves nothing in its wake--certainly not the suggestion of an improvement. --Michael Gerber

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• Author(s): Ping Chen, Sardar M.N. Islam
• ISBN: 9780387235691
• Publisher: Springer
• Edition: 1
• Date: 19 Nov 2004
• Pages: 201

The determination of optimal financing and investment strategies (optimal capital structure or optimal mix of funds, optimal portfolio choice, etc.) for corporations and the economy are important for efficient allocation of resources in the economy. Optimal control methods have useful applications to these areas in finance - some optimization problems in finance include optimal control, involving a dynamic system with switching times in the form of bang-bang control. Optimal control models for corporate finance and the economy are presented in this book and the analytical and computational results of these models are also reported. Such computational approaches to the study of optimal corporate financing are not well known in the existing literature. This book develops a new computational method where switching times are considered as variables in the optimal dynamic financial model represented by a second order differential equation. A new computer program named CSTVA (Computer Program for the Switching Time Variables Algorithm), which can compute bang-bang optimal financial models with switching time, is also developed. Optimal financing implications of the model results in the form of optimal switching times for changes in financing policies and the optimal financial policies are analyzed.

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• ISBN: 9780805844719
• Publisher: CRC
• Edition: 1
• Date: 06 Oct 2004
• Pages: 472

This volume is the fruit of the 5th conference on Naturalistic Decision Making which focused on the importance of studying people who have some degree of expertise in the domain in which they make decisions. The substantive concerns pertain to how individuals and groups make decisions in professional and organizational settings, and to develop suitable methods for studying these questions rigorously.

This volume appeals to practitioners in business and government, as well as academics and students who are interested in naturalistic decision making.


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• ISBN: 9781576600801
• Publisher: Bloomberg Press
• Edition: 1
• Date: 26 Jul 2000
• Pages: 128

110 of the very best cartoons on politics from the New Yorker.

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• Author(s): Ellen Bendremer
• ISBN: 9781564146854
• Publisher: Career Press
• Date: 01 Jun 2003
• Pages: 256

Top Telemarketing Techniques is an information-packed resource for all sales professionals. It offers expert insight and proven strategies for using the telephone as a powerful and effective sales tool. This book offers valuable information needed to develop, improve upon, and fully utilize your telephone sales skills, allowing you to close more sales over the telephone. Telemarketing is a highly cost-effective and timesaving alternative to most other forms of sales and marketing for any organization. Top Telemarketing Techniques offers solutions for utilizing the telephone to close more sales and generate higher revenues. If you're a salesperson, manager, entrepreneur, or business leader, this is the one sales training book you need to begin maximizing your use of the telephone in order to vastly improve sales and customer relations.

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• Author(s): Robin Leonard
• ISBN: 9781413301922
• Publisher: NOLO
• Edition: 7
• Date: 01 Jul 2005
• Pages: 250

The acclaimed plain-English solution to fixing a bad credit report!

Perhaps you've had problems with credit. Or perhaps you haven't, but your credit report says you have anyway-- nearly 80 percent of credit reports contain errors.

Either way, a less-than-flattering report can hurt your chances of qualifying for credit card, loans, renting an apartment or finding a job.

But a bad credit report can almost always be improved or corrected. Credit Repair shows you how to fix your credit situation quickly and easily, explaining the necessary steps in plain English. Learn how to:

*avoid overspending *establish a realistic budget *get out of debt now *build a financial cushion *read and understand your credit report *get mistakes on your credit report fixed *protect your social security number *avoid credit discrimination *get positive information added to your credit report *negotiate with creditors

Credit Repair includes 30 forms and letters -- as tear-outs and on CD-ROM --that will help you repair your credit as easily as possible!

The 7th edition is completely updated and revised with the latest information and laws, and provides new information on identity theft and what to do if you are a victim of it. It also includes an explanation of sample credit reports from the major credit bureaus, plus resources to turn to for additional help.

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• Author(s): Sverre J. Grimnes, Orjan G. Martinsen
• ISBN: 9780123740045
• Publisher: Academic Press
• Edition: 2
• Date: 03 Mar 2008
• Pages: 488

Bioelectricity (or bioelectromagnetism) relates to the study of biological electrical currents, and bioimpedance deals with the measurement of electrical conductivity. They are intimately linked to biomedical engineering, with major significance for development of novel medical devices, as well as the study of biological rhythms. This completely updated new edition remains the most comprehensive reference tool for this intricate, interdisciplinary field.

The authors, both internationally recognized experts in the field, have thoroughly revised the entire text. It remains the only such work that discusses in detail dielectric and electrochemical aspects, as well as electrical engineering concepts of network theory. The highly effective, easy to follow organization has been retained, with new discussion of state-of-the-art advances in finite element analysis, endogenic sources, control theory, tissue electrical properties, and invasive measurements. There are two all new chapters on bioelectricity, along with an introduction to Geselowitz theory, the Maxwell basis of bioimpedance, and multivariate analysis as an alternative.

* Increased emphasis on bioelectricity and potential clinical applications
* Two all new chapters dealing with electrical properties of passive and excitable tissue
* Expanded discussion of finite element modelling and a broad range of applications
* Provides a complete ?all in one? reference source for a multidisciplinary, complex field
* Includes many additional figures and all improved, newly drawn illustrations throughout

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• ISBN: 9781591408192
• Publisher: Idea Group Publishing
• Date: 21 Jun 2005
• Pages: 356

The Advanced Topics in Electronic Commerce Series provides comprehensive coverage and understanding of the social, cultural, organizational, human, and cognitive impacts of the EC technologies and advances on organizations around the world. These impacts include those of EC on consumer behavior as well as on organizational behavior, development, and management in organizations. Advanced Topics in Electronic Commerce, Volume 1 is the first release in this series. In our present era, electronic commerce has taken the stage as a necessary ingredient in education, manufacturing, and even research. Individuals involved in researching, improving, and using e-commerce need a strong resource to provide ideas and information on the utilization of these new technologies and what possibilities e-commerce offers. Advanced Topics in Electronic Commerce, Volume I presents a wide range of the most current research in the adoption of e-commerce, e-business, and e-government. This inaugural volume will assist researchers, educators, and professionals in understanding the necessary components for e-technologies and how to best adopt these elements into their own classrooms, workplaces, and organizations throughout the world.

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• Author(s): Nicholas D. Evans
• ISBN: 9780130473974
• Publisher: FT Press
• Date: 01 Sep 2002
• Pages: 256

Business Innovation and Disruptive Technology: Harnessing the Power of Breakthrough Technology for Competitive Advantage shows you how to profit from the next technological revolution. Nicholas D. Evans explains how to discover powerfully disruptive techn

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• Author(s): Lee Wilkins, Renita Coleman
• ISBN: 9780805844757
• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum
• Edition: 1
• Date: 27 Dec 2004
• Pages: 288

The Moral Media provides readers with preliminary answers to questions about ethical thinking in a professional environment. Representing one of the first publications of journalists' and advertising practitioners' response to the Defining Issues Test (DIT), this book compares thinking about ethics by these two groups with the thinking of other professionals.

This text is divided into three parts:
*Part I includes chapters that explain the DIT and place it within the larger history of three fields: psychology, philosophy, and mass communication. It also provides both a statistical (quantitative) and narrative (qualitative) analysis of journalists' responses to the DIT.
*Part II adds to scholarship theory building in these three disciplines and makes changes in the DIT that adds an element of visual information processing to the test.
*Part III explores the larger meaning of this effort overall and links the results to theory and practice in these three fields. The Moral Media pursues connections among various intellectual disciplines, between the academy and the profession of journalism, and among those who believe that what journalists do is essential. As a result, this book is appropriate for aspiring journalists; scholars in journalism and mass communication; psychologists, particularly those interested in human development and behavior; and philosophers.

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• Author(s): Gilles Neret
• ISBN: 9783822889633
• Publisher: Taschen
• Date: 26 Nov 1994
• Pages: 800

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• Author(s): Mark Voelpel, Charlie Parker
• ISBN: 9780793587476
• Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
• Date: 01 Jun 2001
• Pages: 104

This fascinating new book will let you explore the music of one of the 20th century's most influential musicians. For the first time ever, saxophonist Charlie Parker's legendary 'heads' and improvised solos have been meticulously adapted for the guitar in standard notation and tablature. Includes these Parker classics complete with detailed performance notes: Anthropology Au Privave Billie's Bounce (Bill's Bounce) Bloomdido Blues (Fast) Blues for Alice Cheryl Confirmation Donna Lee K.C. Blues Kim Ko Ko Moose the Mooche Now's the Time Ornithology Parker's Mood Scrapple from the Apple Yardbird Suite.

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• Author(s): Adolf Goetzberger, Joachim Knobloch, Bernhard Voss
• ISBN: 9780471971443
• Publisher: Wiley
• Date: 26 Apr 1998
• Pages: 254

As environmental concerns escalate, solar power is increasingly seen as an attractive alternative energy source. Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells addresses the practical and theoretical issues fundamental to the viable conversion of sunlight into electricity. Written by three internationally renowned experts, this valuable reference profits from results and experience gained from research at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems. Features include: Introduction to the principles of photovoltaics, providing a grounding in semiconductor physics for the novice reader Special emphasis on the methods of attaining high efficiency and thereby cost-effective solar power Examination of the physics, design and technology of crystalline silicon solar cells, in particular thin film cells Survey of a selection of alternative cell types equipping the reader with a complete overview Detailed description of measuring and analysis techniques to facilitate determining physical semiconductor and solar cell parameters Accessible to those with a basic knowledge of physics and mathematics, this is an excellent introductory book for students studying solid state and semiconductor physics. All those working in photovoltaic development and production will find Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells an indispensable resource.

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• ISBN: 9781860947629
• Publisher: Imperial College Press
• Date: 21 Jun 2007
• Pages: 344

Advances in Earth Science outlines the latest developments and new research directions currently being made world-wide in the earth sciences. It contains invited and refereed articles by leading younger researchers on their cutting-edge research, but aimed at a general scientific audience. This exciting volume explains how powerful methodologies such as satellite remote sensing and supercomputing simulations are now profoundly changing research in the earth sciences; how the earth system is increasingly being viewed in a holistic way, linking the atmosphere, ocean and solid earth; and how the societal impact of the research in the earth sciences has never been more important. Published by Imperial College Press in collaboration with the Royal Society of London, the book features many articles originating from invited papers published in the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Eleven of the distinguished contributors hold prestigious Royal Society Research Fellowships.

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• Author(s): C. A. J. Coady
• ISBN: 9780198235514
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Date: 23 Mar 1995
• Pages: 336

Our trust in the word of others is often dismissed as unworthy, because the illusory ideal of "autonomous knowledge" has prevailed in the debate about the nature of knowledge. Yet we are profoundly dependent on others for a vast amount of what any of us claim to know. Coady explores the nature of testimony in order to show how it might be justified as a source of knowledge, and uses the insights that he has developed to challenge certain widespread assumptions in the areas of history, law, mathematics, and psychology.

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• Author(s): Daniel Ferguson
• ISBN: 9780071389846
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies
• Date: 26 Jan 2002

The one--and only--illustrated project book that takes readers step-by-step through the design and installation of their own customized car speakers.

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• Author(s): Robert Britton
• ISBN: 9780131420441
• Publisher: Prentice Hall
• Date: 07 Jun 2003
• Pages: 168

/*4204Q-9, 0-13-142044-5, Britton, Robert, MIPS Assembly Language Programming, 1/E*/ Users of this book will gain an understanding of the fundamental concepts of contemporary computer architecture, starting with a Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC). An understanding of computer architecture needs to begin with the basics of modern computer organization. The MIPS architecture embodies the fundamental design principles of all contemporary RISC architectures. This book provides an understanding of how the functional components of modern computers are put together and how a computer works at the machine-language level. Well-written and clearly organized, this book covers the basics of MIPS architecture, including algorithm development, number systems, function calls, reentrant functions, memory-mapped I/O, exceptions and interrupts, and floating-point instructions. For employees in the field of systems, systems development, systems analysis, and systems maintenance.

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• Author(s): Thomas Hill, Paul Lewicki
• ISBN: 9781884233593
• Publisher: StatSoft, Inc.
• Date: 26 Nov 2005
• Pages: 800

A comprehensive textbook on statistics written for both novices and advanced analysts. This - one of a kind - book offers a comprehensive, almost encyclopedic presentation of statistical methods and analytic approaches used in science, industry, business, and data mining, written from the perspective of the real-life practitioner ("consumer") of these methods. The primary emphasis is on applications rather than theoretical derivations and formulas. The authors, experienced researchers, draw on their diverse experiences as teachers of quantitative methods at the graduate and undergraduate levels with extensive, real-life consulting expertise (they have been involved in hundreds of projects in various areas of science, business, and industry, on all continents).

History of this book. The earlier editions of this unique book were available for over 10 years on the Internet, where it has earned praise from thousands of readers and benefited from their comments, questions, and requests for coverage of specific topics. The electronic version of this textbook has also won the prestigious distinction of becoming the only Internet resource on statistics and data analysis recommended by Encyclopedia Britannica.

From a "Novice" to Advanced Analyst. This book was written without assuming that the reader has any prior knowledge of statistics. Instead, it successfully guides the reader all the way from the basic foundations of statistical reasoning, to the most advanced, cutting-edge methods. It includes hundreds of examples and thousands of illustrations created with leading edge data visualization and data mining software. This unusually comprehensive book includes also chapters on industrial statistics, on the emerging areas of predictive analytics, data mining and text mining, and a 200-page, illustrated Glossary of statistical terms.

Electronic (CD) version. A coupon in the book entitles the reader to receive a CD with the electronic, hypertext version, which includes color graphics and animations.

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• Author(s): Tim Newark
• ISBN: 9789623616348
• Publisher: Concord Publications
• Date: 21 Dec 1998
• Pages: 48

48 pages, 20 color plates. This is the third title by the talented artist McBride, Angus. Angus just keeps getting better and better. Angus has cut down his workload nowadays to enjoy life, so the readers will not see too many of his new paintings come out. Concord Publications are proud to be able to publish 20 of his new paintings every year, and next year's project will be even more exciting. This book covers the period from fourth Century BC to 10th Century AD, featuring paintings of the Celts, Scythians, Burgundians, Franks, Goths, Huns, Saxons, Vikings etc. Most of paintings are combat scene with great emphasis on the details. Tim Newark is also a renowned historian on ancient subjects. His position as the editor of "Military Illustrated" proved his knowledge in this field.

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• ISBN: 9781405127783
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Date: 31 Jan 2005
• Pages: 248

Until recently, the cellular basis for sudden death, the Brugada Syndrome, has largely remained an unknown to modern arrhythmologists and cardiologists, particularly in the absence of any structural heart disease. Detailed observations of age-groups, especially the young, families and populations where sudden death frequently occurs, and improved understanding of its contributory factors and mechanisms are, however, showing the way forward.

This addition to the Clinical Approaches to Tachyarrhythmias (CATA) Series, written by the investigators who discovered and probed the Brugada Syndrome, discusses the history, etiology, pathology and clinical manifestations of sudden death. From diagnosis, prognosis, to therapeutic approaches using the latest in cathater ablation techniques, electrophysiological surgery, and genetic appraisal, the work is a testimony to the author's investigation. Using clinical cases in Thailand and Laos, they further unravel the syndrome's molecular mechanisms, studying related syndromes, such as the long-QT syndrome, infant death, and arryhthmogenic right ventricular cardiomyopathy.

By being informed of the electrophysiological abnormalities that contribute to familial and genetic diseases, physicians, cardiologists and all those who care for patients with cardiac arrhythmias will be better able to identify and treat patients in whom the Brugada Syndrome may strike next.

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