Building Maintenance & Construction: Tools and Maintenance Tasks introduces and develops knowledge of basic building maintenance tools and materials, applied skills and techniques, industry health and safety tandards, and preventive maintenance and troubleshooting practices required by employers for entry-level positions in the building trades and facilities maintenance fields.
This book is an introduction to intellectual property law, the set of private legal rights that allows individuals and corporations to control intangible creations and marks—from logos to novels to drug formulae—and the exceptions and limitations that define those rights. It focuses on the three graphmain forms of US federal intellectual property—trademark, copyright and patent—but many…
This book summarizes the results of 3 years of agricultural and forestry reconstructive efforts and applied research conducted directly in the affected areas of Fukushima following the Great East Japan Earthquake. It describes fast and effective revival methods and technologies from tsunami and radiation damages, demonstrated through the collaborative efforts of researchers, students, local far…
This book explores the potential for policy reform as a short-term, low-cost way to sustainably enhance global food security. It argues that reforming policies that distort food prices and trade will promote the openness needed to maximize global food availability and reduce fluctuations in international food prices. Beginning with an examination of historical trends in markets and policies, An…
Elemen ini meninjau bukti untuk tiga kondisi tempat kerja yang penting untuk meningkatkan kualitas dan keselamatan dalam perawatan kesehatan: kepegawaian; keamanan psikologis, kerja tim, dan berbicara; dan kesehatan staf dan kesejahteraan di tempat kerja. Para penulis mengusulkan bahwa ini adalah prasyarat lingkungan untuk perbaikan. Mereka memeriksa bagaimana jumlah staf dan keterampilan terka…
We are constantly bombarded by information, and finding a way to filter that information in an objective way is crucial to surviving this onslaught with your sanity intact. This is what statistics, and logic we use in it, enables us to do. Through the lens of statistics, we learn to find the signal hidden in the noise when it is there and to know when an apparent trend or pattern is really just…
Keajaiban dan keajaiban merupakan tema sentral dalam budaya Yunani kuno. Dalam buku ini, Jessica Lightfoot memberikan pemeriksaan lengkap pertama tentang signifikansinya dari Homer hingga periode Helenistik. Dia menunjukkan bahwa keajaiban adalah istilah penting dari respons estetika dan menempati posisi sentral dalam konsep tentang apa itu filsafat dan sastra. Dia juga berpendapat bahwa itu me…
Paediatrics is often thought of as following two main routes. One is that of ultra-technology and ever-narrower specialization. The other is recognition of child health in a community context, related to family circumstances (especially the health and welfare of mothers) and influenced by the environment, social stresses, economic limitations, cultural attitudes and practices, and policy decisi…
Although scientific computing is very often associated with numeric computations, the use of computer algebra methods in scientific computing has obtained considerable attention in the last two decades. Computer algebra methods are especially suitable for parametric analysis of the key properties of systems arising in scientific computing. The expression-based computational answers generally pr…
This edited volume presents the research results of the Collaborative Research Center 1026 “Sustainable manufacturing - shaping global value creation”. The book aims at providing a reference guide of sustainable manufacturing for researchers, describing methodologies for development of sustainable manufacturing solutions. The volume is structured in four chapters covering the following topi…