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Evaluation and Decision Models with Multiple Criteria Case Studies
This book showcases a large variety of multiple criteria decision applications (MCDAs), presenting them in a coherent framework provided by the methodology chapters and the comments accompanying each case study. The chapters describing MCDAs invite the reader to experiment with MCDA methods and perhaps develop new variants using data from these case studies or other cases they encounter, equipp…
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- 978-3-662-46816-6
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- 67 b/w illustrations, 72 illustrations in colour
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Evaluation Method of Energy Consumption in Logistic Warehouse Systems
This book focuses on guidelines for reducing the energy consumption in warehousing processes. It presents a model of formal assessment for energy consumption in the context of storage-system logistics, as well as a computational model consisting of three sub-models: energy consumption models for forklifts and stacker cranes, respectively, and an energy intensity model for roller conveyors. The …
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- 978-3-319-22044-4
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- 19 b/w illustrations, 26 illustrations in colour
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Translational Toxicology
Bringing together a distinguished interdisciplinary team of contributors, this volume provides a comprehensive exploration of translational toxicology—a systematic approach to developing therapeutic interventions that can protect against, mitigate, or reverse the effects of exposures. In particular, the book addresses modes of action and biomarkers, developmental risks of exposures, and poten…
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- 978-3-319-27449-2
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- XV, 380
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- Molecular and Integrative Toxicology
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Evaluating e-Participation Frameworks, Practice, Evidence
There is a widely acknowledged evaluation gap in the field of e-participation practice and research, a lack of systematic evaluation with regard to process organization, outcome and impacts. This book addresses the state of the art of e-participation research and the existing evaluation gap by reviewing various evaluation approaches and providing a multidisciplinary concept for evaluating the o…
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- 978-3-319-25403-6
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- 13 b/w illustrations, 26 illustrations in colour
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Transition of the Yangtze River Delta
This is the first English book that presents a professional analysis of the recent dynamic movement of the Chinese economy by focusing on the Yangtze River Delta region, which is the main engine of the Chinese economy. The impact of the international financial crisis on China’s economic development requires a change from the first wave of economic globalization oriented toward exports to the …
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- 978-4-431-55178-2
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- X, 241
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- New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives
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Eutrophication and Oligotrophication in Japanese Estuaries The present statu…
This book presents lessons learnt from Japan’s past, in relation to coastal waters, industrial pollutants and concentrated urban populations. It examines ecosystem damage and pollution in coastal sea areas and addresses the question: What is the present status of Japanese estuaries from the view point of eutrophication and oligotrophication? The authors describe three typical situations, name…
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- 978-94-017-9915-7
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- 17 b/w illustrations, 140 illustrations in colour
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Transforming Teacher Quality in the Global South
A common story of teachers from the Global South portrays them as deficient, unreliable and unprofessional. However, this book uses an innovative Capability Approach/Critical Realist lens to reveal the causal links between teachers' constrained capabilities and their 'criticised' behaviours and offer nuanced, creative strategies for improvements.
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- 978-1-137-49544-0
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- X, 233
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Bacterial pathogens in the non-clinical environment
When thinking about bacterial pathogens, most will consider their interaction with humans. Nevertheless, many pathogens affecting humans will not be transmitted directly from one individual to another but will rather come from or transit through the environment to infect the human host. Outside their hosts, bacterial pathogens must be able to resist environmental stresses and perhaps grow …
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- 16664-8714
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- 579 FAU b
Systemic Flexibility and Business Agility
Flexibility and agility in business are emerging as key dimensions of business excellence that encompass the requirements of both choice and speed. The two concepts, flexibility and agility, have been used in multiple ways and often interchangeably, both in literature and in practice. The growing need for flexibility/agility in business can be seen from reactive as well as proactive perspective…
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- 978-81-322-2151-7
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- XVII, 416
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- Flexible Systems Management
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Jealousy in Infants: Laboratory Research on Differential Treatment
This Brief synthesizes findings from recent experiments on jealousy in infants with insights from pioneering thinkers in developmental science. It discusses attachment issues, status of jealousy as an emotion and as a feature of temperament, underpinnings in social cognition, the development of adaptive versus maladaptive presentations, and facets of jealousy that may be part of a normal reper…
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- 978-3-319-10452-2
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