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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
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- SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology (BRIEFSAPPLSCIENCES)
- Call Number
- 620 VIS
Systemic Risk and Complex Networks in Modern Financial Systems
This open access book is a groundbreaking exploration of systemic risk in modern financial systems. Through its theoretical and empirical investigations, it reveals the multidimensionality of systemic risk, the transmission channels of crises, and the interlinkages between physical, transition, and financial risks. It introduces cutting-edge methodologies, including prediction and optimization …
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- 9783031649165
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- XXIII, 412
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Future Space-Transport-System Components under High Thermal and Mechanical Lo…
This open access book presents the findings of Collaborative Research Center Transregio 40 (TRR40), initiated in July 2008 and funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). Gathering innovative design concepts for thrust chambers and nozzles, as well as cutting-edge methods of aft-body flow control and propulsion-component cooling, it brings together fundamental research undertaken at univers…
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- 9783030538477
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- IX, 419
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- 146
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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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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
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- -
- 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
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- SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology (BRIEFSAPPLSCIENCES)
- Call Number
- 620 SAF
European Narratives on Remote Working and Coworking During the COVID-19 Pande…
This open access book offers a multidisciplinary and comprehensive perspective regarding the immediate and long-term effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on coworking spaces in the European Region. The current pandemic has imposed several effects on work and spaces for work. Some are immediate effects and will last for a short time (such as the closing down of the space), some will last longer (nam…
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- 978-3-031-26018-6
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- VIII, 153
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- SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology (BRIEFSAPPLSCIENCES)
- Call Number
- 330 EUR
Digital and Strategic Innovation for Alpine Health Tourism : Natural Resource…
This open access book presents a set of practical tools and collaborative solutions in multi-disciplinary settings to foster the Alpine Space health tourism industry’s innovation and competitiveness. The proposed solutions emerge as the result of the synergy among health, environment, tourism, digital, policy and strategy professionals. The approach underlines the pivotal role of a sustainabl…
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- 1
- ISBN/ISSN
- 978-3-031-15457-7
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- IX, 130
- Series Title
- SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology
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- IX, 130
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