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Compliance and Initiative in the Production of Safety : A Systems Perspective…
This open access book addresses the idea that there are two ways to go about achieving a safe working environment. The text challenges the prevailing notion that compliance with a rule system, imposed from the top of an organization and designed to anticipate possible hazards in system operation, is really incompatible with the idea that the professional expertise of front-line workers is what …
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- 978-3-031-45055-6
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- VII, 87
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- SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology (BRIEFSAPPLSCIENCES)
- Call Number
- 330 COM
Safe Performance in a World of Global Networks : Case Studies, Collaborative …
This open access book provides an analytical and critical outlook, by leading scholars, of the impact of various trends in the quality of collaboration and resulting safety outcomes that arise from the evolution of traditional integrated production within a single firm into a complex web of partnerships and supply chains. In the face of increasing fragmentation within industrial production and …
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- 978-3-031-35163-1
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- V, 106
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- SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology (BRIEFSAPPLSCIENCES)
- Call Number
- 330 SAF
Visualising Safety, an Exploration : Drawings, Pictures, Images, Videos and M…
This open access book explores the role visual tools and graphical models play in safety management. It explains the importance of visualising safety, for teaching concepts, communicating ideas to peers, and raising awareness of potential threats through posters. Visualising Safety, an Exploration introduces graphical models which have been influential in promoting ideas of safety, and impac…
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- 978-3-031-33786-4
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- VI, 117
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology (BRIEFSAPPLSCIENCES)
- Call Number
- 620 VIS
Visualization of Time-Oriented Data
This is an open access book. Time is an exceptional dimension with high relevance in medicine, engineering, business, science, biography, history, planning, or project management. Understanding time-oriented data via visual representations enables us to learn from the past in order to predict, plan, and build the future. This second edition builds upon the great success of the first editi…
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- 9781447175278
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- XIX, 441
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- -
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Sonic Interactions in Virtual Environments
This open access book tackles the design of 3D spatial interactions in an audio-centered and audio-first perspective, providing the fundamental notions related to the creation and evaluation of immersive sonic experiences. The key elements that enhance the sensation of place in a virtual environment (VE) are: Immersive audio: the computational aspects of the acoustical-space properties of Vi…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-031-04021-4
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- Human–Computer Interaction Series
- Call Number
- XXII, 428
Safety in the Digital Age : Sociotechnical Perspectives on Algorithms and Mac…
This open access book gathers authors from a wide range of social-scientific and engineering disciplines to review challenges from their respective fields that arise from the processes of social and technological transformation taking place worldwide. The result is a much-needed collection of knowledge about the integration of social, organizational and technical challenges that need to be tack…
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- 978-3-031-32633-2
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- VI, 137
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology (BRIEFSAPPLSCIENCES)
- Call Number
- 620 SAF
Bond Failure Mechanism of Fully Grouted Rock Bolts
The purpose of writing this book is to provide the latest research findings in ground control techniques in mining engineering, especially the rock bolting techniques. Since rock bolts are widely used in mining engineering and civil engineering, they are significant in guaranteeing the safety of underground openings. However, instability issues still occur with the rock bolting technique. There…
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- 978-981-99-0498-3
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- VIII, 111
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology (BRIEFSAPPLSCIENCES)
- Call Number
- 620 CHE b
Managing Future Challenges for Safety : Demographic Change, Digitalisation an…
This open access book addresses the future of work and industry by 2040—a core interest for many disciplines inspiring a strong momentum for employment and training within the industrial world. The future of industrial safety in terms of technological risk-management, although of obvious concern to international actors in various industries, has been quite sparsely addressed. This brief refle…
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- 978-3-031-07805-7
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- XI, 111
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- SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology (BRIEFSAPPLSCIENCES)
- Call Number
- 658 MAN
Finance 4.0 - Towards a Socio-Ecological Finance System : A Participatory Fra…
This Open Access book outlines ideas for a novel, scalable and, above all, sustainable financial system. We all know that today’s global markets are unsustainable and global governance is not effective enough. Given this situation, could one boost smart human coordination, sustainability and resilience by tweaking society at its core: the monetary system? A Computational Social Science tea…
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- 978-3-030-71400-0
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- IX, 109
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology (BRIEFSAPPLSCIENCES)
- Call Number
- 001 FIN
Model-Driven Development and Operation of Multi-Cloud Applications : The MODA…
This books is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This book summarizes work being undertaken within the collaborative MODAClouds research project, which aims to facilitate interoperability between heterogeneous Cloud platforms and remove the constraints of deployment, portability, and reversibility for end users of Cloud services. Experts involved in the project provide a clear overview o…
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- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-46031-4
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- VIII, 149
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology (BRIEFSAPPLSCIENCES)
- Call Number
- 620 MOD
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