This volume contains revised and extended research articles written by prominent researchers who participated in the international conference on Advances in Engineering Technologies, which was held in Hong Kong, 12-14 March, 2014. Topics covered include engineering physics, engineering mathematics, scientific computing, control theory, artificial intelligence, electrical engineering, communicat…
Containing selected papers from the ICRESH-ARMS 2015 conference in Lulea, Sweden, collected by editors with years of experiences in Reliability and maintenance modeling, risk assessment, and asset management, this work maximizes reader insights into the current trends in Reliability, Availability, Maintainability and Safety (RAMS) and Risk Management. Featuring a comprehensive analysis of the s…
This book describes the Sustainable High Quality Healthcare (SustHealth) project, which had the goal of developing an original multidisciplinary evaluation tool that can be applied to assess and improve hospitals’ overall sustainability. The comprehensive nature of the appraisal offered by this tool exceeds the scope of most current rating systems, which typically permit a thorough evaluation…
Public Involvement in Knowledge Generation is an Open Access co-publication with KWR.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Workshop on Traffic Monitoring and Analysis, TMA 2015, held in Barcelona, Spain, in April 2015. The 16 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 54 submissions. The contributions are organized in topical sections on measurement tools and methods; mobile and wireless; Web; security; an…
The study of regionalism is essential as it has become a vital trend with profound regional and global impacts. Japan, Korea and China are regarded as the key actors for such action in East Asia. While regionalization has created building blocks for economic integration, the act of exclusion from regionalism will only lead to marginalization. Therefore, it is important to learn how to make it w…
Selama dekade terakhir, para ahli telah mengembangkan pendekatan kompleksitas tempat (complexities of place/COP) untuk mempelajari tempat dan kesehatan. Menurut COP, masalah dalam penelitian kesehatan masyarakat konvensional adalah kurangnya teori dan metode yang efektif untuk memodelkan kompleksitas lingkungan, komunitas, dan sebagainya, mengingat tempat menunjukkan sembilan karakteristik "sis…
Warna terdapat di mana-mana di alam, khususnya pada organisme hidup, mulai dari bakteri dan jamur hingga tumbuhan dan hewan. Banyak organisme yang telah mengembangkan warna khasnya sendiri yang bervariasi menurut bagian dan tahap perkembangannya. Warna-warna ini tidak hanya dekoratif dan menarik secara visual, tetapi juga penting secara biologis dalam reproduksi, koevolusi, dan kelangsungan eko…
This book describes and illustrates each plant mentioned in both the Old and New Testaments and the Apocrypha. Drawing on Lytton John Musselman's extensive field investigations from Beirut to Borneo and from the Atlas to the Zagros mountains, it also includes his original images of each plant. Incorporating new research on their use, reviews are made of recent analytical studies of plants used …
This book presents an empirical investigation into the relationship between companies' short-term response to capital and labor market frictions and performance. Two different kinds of performance measures are considered, namely innovation performance and firm performance. The author focuses on two major topics: first, on the relation between innovation performance and the use of trade credit. …