Filter by
Frugal Innovation in Healthcare
This book focuses on how companies are innovating with regard to the Bottom-of-the-Pyramid (BOP) − the lowest socio-economic segment, and the organizational conditions they need to be successful. The authors use several examples of disruptive innovations for this market, particularly in the Indian healthcare sector. Low-cost, specialty hospital chains like Aravind Eye Care and Narayana Hruday…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-16336-9
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- India Studies in Business and Economics
- Call Number
- -
Toxic Pollutants in China Study of Water Quality Criteria
The book presents some of the findings of research into China’s water quality criteria for toxic pollutants, including heavy metals, PAHs and emerging pollutant. Water quality criteria (WQC) are the scientific basis for establishing water quality standards (WQSs). For a long time, the study of WQC in China has been neglected, so that almost all of China’s WQSs were developed based on foreig…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-94-017-9795-5
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Fluid-Structure-Sound Interactions and Control: Proceedings of the 3rd Sympos…
These proceedings primarily focus on advances in the theory, experiments, and numerical simulations of turbulence in the contexts of flow-induced vibration and noise, as well as their control. Fluid-related structural vibration and noise problems are often encountered in many engineering fields, increasingly making them a cause for concern. The FSSIC conference, held on 5-9 July 2015 in Perth, …
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-662-48868-3
- Collation
- XIV, 446 hlm.
- Series Title
- Lecture Notes in Mechanical Engineering
- Call Number
- -
Dense Image Correspondences for Computer Vision
This book describes the fundamental building-block of many new computer vision systems: dense and robust correspondence estimation. Dense correspondence estimation techniques are now successfully being used to solve a wide range of computer vision problems, very different from the traditional applications such techniques were originally developed to solve. This book introduces the techniques us…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783319230481
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 006.3
Mass Collaboration and Education
Mass collaboration on Internet platforms like Wikipedia and Scratch, along with wider movements like the maker space and citizen science, are poised to have profound impacts on learning and education. Bringing together researchers from such fields as: psychology, education, information technology, and economics, the book offers a comprehensive overview of mass collaboration, novel, cross discip…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-13536-6
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Matching Visibility and Performance: A Standing Challenge for World-Class Uni…
"The concept of world-class universities (WCU) has increasingly gained popularity in the past two decades around the world. WCU are regarded as cornerstone institutions of any academic system and imperative to develop a nation’s competitiveness in the global knowledge economy. The development of such universities is high on the policy agenda of various stakeholders worldwide, in both develope…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-94-6300-773-3
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
New Directions in the Ethics of Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia
This book provides novel perspectives on the ethical justifiability of assisted dying. Seeking to go beyond traditional debates on topics such as the value of human life and questions surrounding intention and causation, this volume promises to shift the terrain of the ethical debates about assisted dying. It reconsiders the role of patient autonomy and paternalistic reasons as well as the part…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-22049-9
- Collation
- IX, 252
- Series Title
- International Library of Ethics, Law, and the New Medicine
- Call Number
- -
Wireless Sensor Networks for Structural Health Monitoring
This brief covers the emerging area of wireless sensor network (WSN)-based structural health monitoring (SHM) systems, and introduces the authors’ WSN-based platform called SenetSHM. It helps the reader differentiate specific requirements of SHM applications from other traditional WSN applications, and demonstrates how these requirements are addressed by using a series of systematic approach…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-29034-8
- Collation
- X, 99
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
Managing Indoor Environments and Energy in Buildings with Integrated Intellig…
Featuring a detailed analysis and presentation of innovative researches, methods, algorithms and technologies that deal with integrated intelligent systems for the efficient management of energy and indoor environment in buildings, this book encompasses the regulations, directives and standards regarding the energy and the indoor environment of buildings as well as a literature review and discu…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-21798-7
- Collation
- -
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- -
New Developments in Statistical Modeling, Inference and Application:Selected …
The papers in this volume represent the most timely and advanced contributions to the 2014 Joint Applied Statistics Symposium of the International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA) and the Korean International Statistical Society (KISS), held in Portland, Oregon. The contributions cover new developments in statistical modeling and clinical research: including model development, model check…
- Edition
- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-319-42570-2
- Collation
- XIV, 214
- Series Title
- ICSA Book Series in Statistics
- Call Number
- -
Computer Science, Information & General Works 
Philosophy & Psychology 
Religion 
Social Sciences 
Language 
Pure Science 
Applied Sciences 
Art & Recreation 
Literature 
History & Geography