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This book provides a clear and practical approach to creating and implementing cost-effective business processes. Focusing on the key elements of a robust business plan, it defines the core business processes needed in a successful process-driven organisation. The core processes are described supported by diagrams and checklists of essential criteria for designing the process. The book distils the author's extensive experience of business plan...

Dr. McCarthy and his colleagues at NYU have developed techniques of distracting various components of the craniofacial skeleton. These techniques hold considerable promise for reconstructive surgery, allowing the surgeon to make precise changes in the lengthening and shape of the new craniofacial bone. This is the first volume of its kind, bringing together the pioneers of these revolutionary techniques: an international group of experts prese...

Leveraged Innovation reveals that a dramatically different approach to the supplier-client relationship is being developed by leading companies around the world. It documents the benefits of Early Supplier Involvement (ESI), a radically new approach to inter-company relations which is providing a powerful impetus for increased creativity. Based on the findings of a European Research team, the text clearly shows how, why and to what effect supp...

What is art? Must it be a unique, saleable luxury item? Can it be a concept that never takes material form? Or an idea for a work that can be repeated endlessly? Conceptual art favours a vivid engagement with such questions. It can take many forms: photographs, videos, posters, billboards, charts, plans and, in particular, language itself. Tony Godfrey has written the first ever clear, extensive, concise and informative account of this fasci...

Brian Morgan uses his own teaching experience in Canada and China to investigate the complexities of teaching English as a second language to those newly arrived in Canada and to suggest ways of becoming a more effective ESL teacher.

This collection is the first forum in which the merits and pitfalls of the case-file approach are debated. A timely contribution to current scholarship and debate in social history and related fields.

Ausgehend von den grundlegenden Entwürfen bei Frege, Wittgenstein, Carnap und Russell mit ihren Anknüpfungspunkten in der klassischen Erkenntnistheorie werden in dieser Einführung die zentralen Themenstellungen der Sprachphilosophie vermittelt. Die Diskussion um das Verständnis von Bedeutung, Wahrheit, Referenz usw. wird von den Anfängen über Austin und Quine bis zu den Debatten der Gegenwart bei Davidson, Searle, Grice u.a. verfolgt.

Today's advances in communications technology have created exciting new possibilities for training professionals. But not all technologies are created equal." Distance Training" examines these new tools to show how compressed video, satellite broadcasting, the Internet, and other innovations can each be used to their best advantage. In-depth case studies of sixteen progressive organizations--NYNEX, Bell Atlantic, and Unisys among them--provide...

Diese Datenbank auf Papier und CD-ROM bringt eine immense Zeitersparnis für jeden Analytiker, der mit HPLC arbeitet! Sie macht die mühsame Suche nach Vorschriften und Reagenzien in Originalarbeiten überflüssig. Leicht können Sie die CD nach Derivatisierungstypen, Reagenzien, Verbindungen, Reaktionen, Matrizen und Verschriften durchsuchen: Hier finden Sie einfach jede Angabe, die Sie benötigen.

An exposition of the derivation and use of equations of motion for two-phase flow. The approach taken derives the equations of motion using ensemble averaging, and compares them with those derived from control volume methods. Closure for dispersed flows is discussed, and some fundamental solutions are given. The work focuses on the fundamental aspects of two-phase flow, and is intended to give the reader a background for understanding the dyna...

This guide provides useful insight for first-time telescope buyers as well as experienced amateurs. It examines the advantages and disadvantages of different types of telescopes, mountings, and accessories-ranging from refractors and reflectors to computer controlled drives and CCD cameras. The author also covers observation techniques, photographic equipment, astronomical software, as well as equipment care and maintenance.

Fifty-two examples of Allen's versatility and virtuousity, with pieces on Raymond Chandler, psychic phenomena and the mysteries of Mensa. "If Allen had lived in Elizabethan England, scholars would now be considering him alongside Dryden, Pope and Swift" "Daily Telegraph".

The greatest mathematicians, such as Archimedes, Newton, and Gauss, always united theory and applications in equal measure. Felix Klein There exists the remarkable possibility that one can master a subject mathemati­ cally, without really understanding its essence. Albert Einstein Don't give us numbers: give us insight! A contemporary natural scientist to a mathematician Numerous questions in physics, chemistry, biology, and economics lead to ...

Um wettbewerbsfähig zu bleiben, müssen Unternehmen ständig die Qualität ihrer Produkte und Prozesse verbessern. Die Voraussetzung ist eine systematische Aufnahme und Analyse von qualitätsrelevanten Daten. Das Buch stellt erstmals die für die Produktion und Verfahrenstechnik geeigneten Methoden zusammenfassend dar. Mit Beispielen, Aufgaben und Lösungen ist es die ideale Arbeitshilfe für Praxis und Selbststudium.

How can curriculum content be adjusted to tomorrow's needs? Can student assessment help make curricula more relevant? How can further training for teachers make their teaching more effective? These questions lie at the heart of curriculum reform, which

An expanded edition of the Public Culture special issue, which explores current meanings and contestations of citizenship in relation to the urban experience.

From the Ten Commandments to the Golden Rule to many of today's most common phrases and expressions, this reference provides a well-documented and in-depth look at the impact the Book of Books has had on humanity.

Mit der Verwendung von K¿hlschmierstoff in der spanenden Fertigung sind erhebliche Kosten und Probleme zur Vermeidung von Gesundheitssch¿gungen und Umweltbelastungen verbunden. Ein einfacher Verzicht auf K¿hlschmierstoff w¿rde jedoch Einbu¿n an Leistungsf¿gkeit und Sicherheit der Prozesse bei der Zerspanung mit sich bringen. Dieses Problemfeld f¿hrte nun in den letzten Jahren zu vielf¿igen Aktivit¿n in Wissenschaft und Praxis. Es wurden grundl...

This book overviews and reconsiders media organizations - the news agencies - which report and film the news for the press and broadcast media. Incorporating institutional, historical, political economic and cultural studies perspectives, the book: reviews agency provision of general news, video news and financial news, analyzes agency-state relations through periods of dramatic social upheaval, and critically examines the impact of deregulati...

In this timely and authoritative overview on social gerontology and social theory, Chris Phillipson outlines the changing contexts and experiences associated with later life as we move into a new century. The book critically reviews the different theoretical explanations which attempt to explain these changes. Phillipson shows how in late modernity changes to pensions, employment and retirement, and intergenerational relations, are placing do...