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Topical and Transdermal Drug Delivery Systems - Applications and Future Prospects (Hardcover): Nayan A. Gujarathi, Juliana... Topical and Transdermal Drug Delivery Systems - Applications and Future Prospects (Hardcover)
Nayan A. Gujarathi, Juliana Palma Abriata, Raj K. Keservani, Anil K. Sharma
R3,878 Discovery Miles 38 780 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Topical and transdermal drug delivery systems (TDDs) have several advantages over traditional drug delivery methods, as they can be less invasive, more sanitary, more cost-effective, and may result in better patient compliance. TDDs play a significant role in therapeutics with a variety of preparations and approaches designed by expert formulation scientists. This volume integrates a wide variety of case studies, research, and theories to reveal their diversity and capture the novel approaches of transdermal and topical drug delivery employed by developers and content experts in the field. It provides an abundance of important information and state-of-the-art research on topical and transdermal drug delivery systems and addresses the basics of drug delivery systems, strategies to enhance permeation across membranes, and formulation and evaluation of diverse dosage forms. The volume presents an evaluation of the pros and cons of conventional drug delivery systems against TDDs and discusses the nuances of micro- and nano-systems in TDDs. The extraordinary packages of nano systems (vesicular systems, polymeric nanoparticles, nanoemulsion and dendrimers) are broadly discussed, and their applications are reviewed through a transdermal route. The book looks at TDDs and the main nanoparticles used in skin diseases and lesions of the aging, such as psoriasis, vitiligo, cancer, lesions of the aging and others. Chapters also discuss polymeric micelles in topical and transdermal delivery; microneedles; emulsion, nanoemulsion and microemulsion; TDDs in pulmonary drug delivery systems; nanoencapsulated nasal drug delivery systems; skin sensitivity and irritation testing for transposing transdermal drug delivery systems; and regulatory aspects of drug development for dermal products. Topical and Transdermal Drug Delivery Systems: Applications and Prospects will be a valuable resource for pharmaceutical scientists and researchers, industry professionals, and academicians and students of the pharmaceutical and biomedical sciences.

Multi-Sensor and Multi-Temporal Remote Sensing - Specific Single Class Mapping (Hardcover): Anil Kumar, Priyadarshi Upadhyay,... Multi-Sensor and Multi-Temporal Remote Sensing - Specific Single Class Mapping (Hardcover)
Anil Kumar, Priyadarshi Upadhyay, Uttara Singh
R2,323 Discovery Miles 23 230 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book elaborates fuzzy machine and deep learning models for single class mapping from multi-sensor, multi-temporal remote sensing images while handling mixed pixels and noise. It also covers the ways of pre-processing and spectral dimensionality reduction of temporal data. Further, it discusses the ‘individual sample as mean’ training approach to handle heterogeneity within a class. The appendix section of the book includes case studies such as mapping crop type, forest species, and stubble burnt paddy fields. Key features: Focuses on use of multi-sensor, multi-temporal data while handling spectral overlap between classes Discusses range of fuzzy/deep learning models capable to extract specific single class and separates noise Describes pre-processing while using spectral, textural, CBSI indices, and back scatter coefficient/Radar Vegetation Index (RVI) Discusses the role of training data to handle the heterogeneity within a class Supports multi-sensor and multi-temporal data processing through in-house SMIC software Includes case studies and practical applications for single class mapping This book is intended for graduate/postgraduate students, research scholars, and professionals working in environmental, geography, computer sciences, remote sensing, geoinformatics, forestry, agriculture, post-disaster, urban transition studies, and other related areas.

Polarization Dynamics of Mode-Locked Fiber Lasers - Science, Technology, and Applications (Hardcover): Sergey V. Sergeyev,... Polarization Dynamics of Mode-Locked Fiber Lasers - Science, Technology, and Applications (Hardcover)
Sergey V. Sergeyev, Chengbo Mou
R2,753 Discovery Miles 27 530 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Features • Provides a cutting edge review of the latest emerging science, technology and applications in the field. • Tackles a topic with fast growing interest in USA, Europe and China. • Explores the simple and cheap design and tests of lasers, and outline the feasible applications.

Family Farms and the Conservation of Agrobiodiversity in Cuba - Food Security and Nature (Hardcover): Urbano Fra.Paleo, Leonor... Family Farms and the Conservation of Agrobiodiversity in Cuba - Food Security and Nature (Hardcover)
Urbano Fra.Paleo, Leonor Castiñeiras
R3,896 Discovery Miles 38 960 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Presents a major case study of how agriculture and biodiversity conservation can work in harmony towards more sustainable outcomes for both the environment and local communities. Shows how Cuba has provided a unique testbed for such approaches through its specific political status and focus on traditional agricultural methods. Provides the essential background for understanding future options for agriculture and conservation in Cuba, as it emerges from economic and political isolation.

The World Guide to Sustainable Enterprise - Four Volume Set (Paperback): Wayne Visser The World Guide to Sustainable Enterprise - Four Volume Set (Paperback)
Wayne Visser
R2,651 Discovery Miles 26 510 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

The World Guide to Sustainable Enterprise is the first comprehensive global compendium that clearly describes the national approaches to sustainable enterprise. Through a systematic review of each country, this quick-to-access reference Guide showcases the similarities and differences in each region. Each profile includes key information about the relevant history, country-specific issues, trends, research, best practice case studies and the leading organisations operating in the field. The Guide comprises of four volumes, each dedicated to a specific region of the world.This complete set of all four volumes of The World Guide to Sustainable Enterprise is available at a 25% discount on the price of all four books.The set comprises: Volume 1 Africa and the Middle East; Volume 2 Asia Pacific; Volume 3 Europe; and Volume 4 The Americas.

Climate Change, Ecological Catastrophe, and the Contemporary Postcolonial Novel (Paperback): Justyna Poray-Wybranowska Climate Change, Ecological Catastrophe, and the Contemporary Postcolonial Novel (Paperback)
Justyna Poray-Wybranowska
R1,217 Discovery Miles 12 170 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Climate Change, Ecological Catastrophe, and the Contemporary Novel responds to the critical need for transdisciplinary research on the relationship between colonialism and catastrophe. It represents the first sustained analysis of the connection between colonial legacy and present-day ecological catastrophe in postcolonial fiction. Analyzing contemporary South Asian and South Pacific novels that grapple with climate change and catastrophe, environmental exploitation and instability, and human-nonhuman relationships in degraded environments, it offers a much-needed corrective to dominant narratives about climate, crisis, and the everyday. Highlighting the contributions of literary fiction from the postcolonial South to the growing field of the environmental humanities, this book reconsiders the novel's relationship with climate change and the contemporary environmental imaginary. Counter to dominant current theoretical discourses, it demonstrates that the novel form is ideally suited to literary and imaginative engagements with climate change and ecological catastrophe. The six case studies it examines connect contemporary ecological vulnerability to colonial legacies, reveal the critical role animals and the environment play in literary imaginations of post-catastrophe recovery, and together constellate a decolonial perspective on ecological catastrophe in the era of climate change. Drawing on the work of Indigenous authors and scholars who write about and against the Anthropocene, this book displaces conventional ways of thinking about the relationship between the mundane and the catastrophic and promotes greater dialogue between the largely siloed fields of postcolonial, Indigenous, and disaster studies.

Daoism and Environmental Philosophy - Nourishing Life (Paperback): Eric S. Nelson Daoism and Environmental Philosophy - Nourishing Life (Paperback)
Eric S. Nelson
R1,200 Discovery Miles 12 000 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Daoism and Environmental Philosophy explores ethics and the philosophy of nature in the Daodejing, the Zhuangzi, and related texts to elucidate their potential significance in our contemporary environmental crisis. This book traces early Daoist depictions of practices of embodied emptying and forgetting and communicative strategies of undoing the fixations of words, things, and the embodied self. These are aspects of an ethics of embracing plainness and simplicity, nourishing the asymmetrically differentiated yet shared elemental body of life of the myriad things, and being responsively attuned in encountering and responding to things. These critical and transformative dimensions of early Daoism provide exemplary models and insights for cultivating a more expansive ecological ethos, environmental culture of nature, and progressive political ecology. This work will be of interest to students and scholars interested in philosophy, environmental ethics and philosophy, religious studies, and intellectual history.

Rethinking Wilderness and the Wild - Conflict, Conservation and Co-existence (Paperback): Robyn Bartel, Marty Branagan, Fiona... Rethinking Wilderness and the Wild - Conflict, Conservation and Co-existence (Paperback)
Robyn Bartel, Marty Branagan, Fiona Utley, Stephen Harris
R1,217 Discovery Miles 12 170 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Rethinking Wilderness and the Wild: Conflict, Conservation and Co-existence examines the complexities surrounding the concept of wilderness. Contemporary wilderness scholarship has tended to fall into two categories: the so-called 'fortress conservation' and 'co-existence' schools of thought. This book, contending that this polarisation has led to a silencing and concealment of alternative perspectives and lines of enquiry, extends beyond these confines and in particular steers away from the dilemmas of paradise or paradox in order to advance an intellectual and policy agenda of plurality and diversity rather than of prescription and definition. Drawing on case studies from Australia, Aoteoroa/New Zealand, the United States and Iceland, and explorations of embodied experience, creative practice, philosophy, and First Nations land management approaches, the assembled chapters examine wilderness ideals, conflicts and human-nature dualities afresh, and examine co-existence and conservation in the Anthropocene in diverse ontological and multidisciplinary ways. By demonstrating a strong commitment to respecting the knowledge and perspectives of Indigenous peoples, this work delivers a more nuanced, ethical and decolonising approach to issues arising from relationships with wilderness. Such a collection is immediately appropriate given the political challenges and social complexities of our time, and the mounting threats to life across the globe. The abiding and uniting logic of the book is to offer a unique and innovative contribution to engender transformations of wilderness scholarship, activism and conservation policy. This text refutes the inherent privileging and exclusionary tactics of dominant modes of enquiry that too often serve to silence non-human and contrary positions. It reveals a multi-faceted and contingent wilderness alive with agency, diversity and possibility. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of conservation, environmental and natural resource management, Indigenous studies and environmental policy and planning. It will also be of interest to practitioners, policymakers and NGOs involved in conservation, protected environments and environmental governance.

Negotiating Gender Expertise in Environment and Development - Voices from Feminist Political Ecology (Paperback): Bernadette... Negotiating Gender Expertise in Environment and Development - Voices from Feminist Political Ecology (Paperback)
Bernadette Resurreccion, Rebecca Elmhirst
R1,220 Discovery Miles 12 200 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book casts a light on the daily struggles and achievements of 'gender experts' working in environment and development organisations, where they are charged with advancing gender equality and social equity and aligning this with visions of sustainable development. Developed through a series of conversations convened by the book's editors with leading practitioners from research, advocacy and donor organisations, this text explores the ways gender professionals - specialists and experts, researchers, organizational focal points - deal with personal, power-laden realities associated with navigating gender in everyday practice. In turn, wider questions of epistemology and hierarchies of situated knowledges are examined, where gender analysis is brought into fields defined as largely techno-scientific, positivist and managerialist. Drawing on insights from feminist political ecology and feminist science, technology and society studies, the authors and their collaborators reveal and reflect upon strategies that serve to mute epistemological boundaries and enable small changes to be carved out that on occasions open up promising and alternative pathways for an equitable future. This book will be of great relevance to scholars and practitioners with an interest in environment and development, science and technology, and gender and women's studies more broadly. The Open Access version of this book, available at https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/e/9781351175180, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.

Blogging Wildlife - The Perception of Animals by Hikers on the Appalachian Trail (Paperback): Kate Marx Blogging Wildlife - The Perception of Animals by Hikers on the Appalachian Trail (Paperback)
Kate Marx
R1,207 Discovery Miles 12 070 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This volume reports on the encounters between hikers and wildlife on the Appalachian Trail. Based on narratives provided by trail hikers, it explores the ways in which humans relate to the animals with whom they temporarily share a home. With attention to the themes of pilgrimage, the changing perception of the animals encountered and reactions to them, risk, auditory experience, and a sense of wildness, the author considers the meaning constituted by nonhuman animals in the context of the walkers' narrative journeys. A phenomenologically informed study of the ways in which people perceive wild animals when in an unmediated wilderness setting, how they navigate interactions with them, and how they experience living among them, Blogging Wildlife will appeal to scholars across the social sciences with interests in anthrozoology and human-animal relations.

Handbook on Tunnels and Underground Works - Volume 2: Construction - Methods, Equipment, Tools and Materials (Hardcover):... Handbook on Tunnels and Underground Works - Volume 2: Construction - Methods, Equipment, Tools and Materials (Hardcover)
Emilio Bilotta, Renato Casale, Claudio Giulio di Prisco, Salvatore Miliziano, Daniele Peila, …
R5,500 Discovery Miles 55 000 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

* Updated vision on tunnelling design, tools, materials and construction * Balanced mix of theory, technology and applied experience * Different and harmonized points of view from academics, professionals and contractors * Easy consultation in the form of a handbook * Risk-oriented approach to tunnelling problems

Lubricant Marketing, Selling, and Key Account Management (Hardcover): R. David Whitby Lubricant Marketing, Selling, and Key Account Management (Hardcover)
R. David Whitby
R4,442 Discovery Miles 44 420 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

The global lubricants market exceeds $110 billion, with strong future-estimated annual growth projections. While much has been written about the technical aspects of lubricant development, Lubricant Marketing, Selling, and Key Account Management fills a need for a comprehensive guide on the important commercial aspects of the business, offering unique and valuable insights from a veteran of the industry. It answers questions and offers insights on how to effectively market and sell all types of lubricants, including automotive, industrial, mining, marine, agricultural and aerospace, among others. Covers how and why people and companies buy lubricants. Instructs readers how to research and analyze markets and use the results to plan marketing and sales campaigns and activities. Details how to identify specific target market segments and sell to key lubricant accounts. Discusses how to forecast future demand for lubricants in all types of global markets. This practical book is written for technical and non-technical readers involved in the sale and management of lubricant products and offers hands-on guidance for how to successfully navigate and grow your profitability in this vitally important product sector.

Climate Change Temporalities - Explorations in Vernacular, Popular, and Scientific Discourse (Paperback): Kyrre Kverndokk,... Climate Change Temporalities - Explorations in Vernacular, Popular, and Scientific Discourse (Paperback)
Kyrre Kverndokk, Marit Ruge Bjaerke, Anne Eriksen
R1,210 Discovery Miles 12 100 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Climate Change Temporalities explores how various timescales, timespans, intervals, rhythms, cycles, and changes in acceleration are at play in climate change discourses. It argues that nuanced, detailed, and specific understandings and concepts are required to handle the challenges of a climatically changed world, politically and socially as well as scientifically. Rather than reflecting abstractly on theories of temporality, this edited collection explores a variety of timescales and temporalities from narratives, experience, popular culture, and everyday life in addition to science and history - and the entanglements between them. The chapters are clustered into three main sections, exploring a range of genres, such as questionnaires, interviews, magazines, news media, television series, aquariums, and popular science books to critically examine how and where climate change understandings are formed. The book also includes chapters historising notions of climate and temporality by exploring scientific debates and practices. Climate Change Temporalities will be of great interest to students and scholars of humanistic climate change research, environmental humanities, studies of temporality and historicity, cultural studies, cultural history, and popular culture.

What Is Life and How Might It Be Sustained? - Reflections in a Pandemic (Paperback): Jim Lynch What Is Life and How Might It Be Sustained? - Reflections in a Pandemic (Paperback)
Jim Lynch
R457 Discovery Miles 4 570 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Author Prof Jim Lynch is widely known and very experienced, well-connected with wide international networks, and globally distinguished. He was awarded the UNESCO Prize in Microbiology and Einstein Medal and Distinguished Scientist of the US Department of Agriculture. His OUP textbook Soil Microbiology was a bestseller. Taps directly into the topical area of the COVID-19 pandemic and One Health. Affordable and accessible to a wide interdisciplinary audience.

A Robotic Framework for the Mobile Manipulator - Theory and Application (Hardcover): Nguyen Van Toan, Phan Bui Khoi A Robotic Framework for the Mobile Manipulator - Theory and Application (Hardcover)
Nguyen Van Toan, Phan Bui Khoi
R1,369 Discovery Miles 13 690 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

By proposing and forming a mobile manipulator for modern multi-floor buildings, A Robotic Framework for the Mobile Manipulator: Theory and Application helps readers visualize an end-to-end workflow for making a robot system work in a targeted environment. From a product-oriented viewpoint, this book is considered as a bridge from theories to real products, in which robotic software modules and the robotic system integration are mainly concerned. In the end, readers will have an overview of how to build and integrate various single robotic modules to execute a list of designed tasks in the real world, as well as how to make a robot system work independently, without human interventions. With references and execution guidelines provided at the end of each chapter, the book will be a useful tool for developers and researchers looking to expand their knowledge about the robotics and the robotic software.

Current Applications of Deep Learning in Cancer Diagnostics (Hardcover): Jyotismita Chaki, Aysegul Ucar Current Applications of Deep Learning in Cancer Diagnostics (Hardcover)
Jyotismita Chaki, Aysegul Ucar
R2,239 Discovery Miles 22 390 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

- First book to focus on deep learning-based approaches in the field of cancer diagnostics. - Covers the state of the art across a wide-range of topics. - Topics include preprocessing data, prediction of cancer susceptibility and reoccurence, detection of different cancers, complexity and challenges.

Process Intensification - Faster, Better, Cheaper (Hardcover): Ramamurthy Nagarajan Process Intensification - Faster, Better, Cheaper (Hardcover)
Ramamurthy Nagarajan
R2,756 Discovery Miles 27 560 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Explores Cost Impact of Process Intensification, and their relative magnitudes, as a universal metric. Covers a range of industrial applications, including heat and mass transfer, atomization and comminution, and nano-composite synthesis. Discusses the application of Process Intensification for clean technology and environmental remediation. Includes end-of-chapter problems, examples, and case studies.

Managing Innovative Projects and Programs - Using the ISO 56000 Standards for Guidance and Implementation (Hardcover): H. James... Managing Innovative Projects and Programs - Using the ISO 56000 Standards for Guidance and Implementation (Hardcover)
H. James Harrington, Sid Ahmed Benraouane
R1,618 Discovery Miles 16 180 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

It has been estimated that over 75% of the innovative projects that begin through the Innovation Management System (IMS) are either failures or they failed to produce the desired results. The biggest wastes most medium- to large-size organizations face are the waste of money, time, reputation, opportunity, and income that these failures are costing them. Following this book's recommendations could reduce this failure cost by as much as 70%. The purpose of this book is to provide a step-by-step procedure on how to process a medium- or large-size project, program, or product using an already-established IMS that considers the guidance given in ISO 56002:2019 - Innovation Management Systems Standard. Often the most complicated, complex, difficult, and challenging system used in an organization is the IMS. At the same time, it usually is the most important system because it is the one that generates most of the value-adding products for the organization, and it involves most of the key functions within the organization. The opportunity for failure in time and the impact on the organization is critical and often means the difference between success and bankruptcy. Throughout this book, the authors detail the high-impact inputs and activities that are required to process individual projects/programs/products through the innovation cycle. Although this book was prepared to address how medium to large projects, programs, and products proceed through the cycle, it also provides the framework that can be used for small organizations and simple innovation activities. Basically, the major difference between large- and small-impact innovation projects is that the small projects can accept more risks, require less formal documentation, use simpler communication systems, and require fewer resources. It's important to remember that the authors are addressing an existing IMS rather than trying to create an entirely new one. Currently, this is the only book geared for professionals responsible for managing innovative projects and programs using ISO 56002:2019 - Innovation Management - Innovation Management System - Guidance to provide a comprehensive management strategy and step-by-step plan and ISO 56004 Innovation Management Assessment -Guidance. It provides a comprehensive analysis of what is required from the time an opportunity is recognized to the time the customer is using the innovative product. The book also introduces a new Process modeling cloud service that allows you to drill down 5 levels from the system level to the job description level and includes free access to many of the book's best practice Process models.

The Green Six Sigma Handbook - A Complete Guide for Lean Six Sigma Practitioners and Managers (Paperback): Ron Basu The Green Six Sigma Handbook - A Complete Guide for Lean Six Sigma Practitioners and Managers (Paperback)
Ron Basu
R1,424 Discovery Miles 14 240 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book is a hands-on single-source reference of tools, techniques, and processes integrating both Lean and Six Sigma. This comprehensive handbook provides up-to-date guidance on how to use these tools and processes in different settings, such as start-up companies and stalled projects, as well as establish enterprises where the ongoing drive is to improve processes, profitability, and long-term growth. It contains the "hard" Six Sigma approach as well as the flexible approach of FIT SIGMA, which is adaptable to manufacturing and service industries and also public sector organisations. You will also discover how climate change initiatives can be accelerated to sustainable outcomes by the holistic approach of Green Six Sigma. The book is about what we can do now with leadership, training, and teamwork in every sphere of our businesses. Lean, originally developed by Toyota, is a set of processes and tools aimed at minimising wastes. Six Sigma provides a set of data-driven techniques to minimise defects and improve processes. Integrating these two approaches provides a comprehensive and proven approach that can transform an organisation. To make change happen, we need both digital tools and analog approaches. We know that there has been a continuous push to generate newer approaches to operational excellence, such as Total Quality Management, Six Sigma, Lean Sigma, Lean Six Sigma, and FIT SIGMA. It is vital that we harness all our tools and resources to regenerate the economy after the Covid-19 pandemic and make climate change initiatives successful for the survival of our planet. Six Sigma and its hybrids (e.g., Lean Six Sigma) should also play a significant part. Over the last three decades, operational performance levels of both public sector and private sector organisations improved significantly and Lean Six Sigma has also acted as a powerful change agent. We urgently need an updated version of these tools and approaches. The Green Six Sigma Handbook not only applies appropriate Lean and Six Sigma tools and approaches, fitness for the purpose, but it aims at sustainable changes. This goal of sustainability is a stable bridge between Lean Six Sigma and climate change initiatives. Hence, when the tools and approaches of Lean Six Sigma are focused and adapted primarily to climate change demands, we get Green Six Sigma.

Monte-Carlo Simulation - An Introduction for Engineers and Scientists (Hardcover): Alan Stevens Monte-Carlo Simulation - An Introduction for Engineers and Scientists (Hardcover)
Alan Stevens
R2,556 Discovery Miles 25 560 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Monte-Carlo techniques have increasingly become a key method used in quantitative research. This book introduces engineers and scientists to the basics of using the Monte-Carlo simulation method which is used in Operations Research and other fields to understand the impact of risk and uncertainty in prediction and forecasting models. Monte-Carlo Simulation: An Introduction for Engineers and Scientists explores several specific applications in addition to illustrating the principles behind the methods. The question of accuracy and efficiency with using the method is addressed thoroughly within each chapter and all program listings are included in the discussion of each application to facilitate further research for the reader using Python programming language. Beginning engineers and scientists either already in or about to go into industry or commercial and government scientific laboratories will find this book essential. It could also be of interest to undergraduates in engineering science and mathematics, as well as instructors and lecturers who have no prior knowledge of Monte-Carlo simulations.

Business Intelligence and Human Resource Management - Concept, Cases, and Practical Applications (Paperback): Deepmala Singh,... Business Intelligence and Human Resource Management - Concept, Cases, and Practical Applications (Paperback)
Deepmala Singh, Anurag Singh, Amizan Omar, S. B. Goyal
R1,539 Discovery Miles 15 390 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Business Intelligence (BI) is a solution to modern business problems. This book discusses the relationship between BI and Human Resource Management (HRM). In addition, it discusses how BI can be used as a strategic decision-making tool for the sustainable growth of an organization or business. BI helps organizations generate interactive reports with clear and reliable data for making numerous business decisions. This book covers topics spanning the important areas of BI in the context of HRM. It gives an overview of the aspects, tools, and techniques of BI and how it can assist HRM in creating a successful future for organizations. Some of the tools and techniques discussed in the book are analysis, data preparation, BI-testing, implementation, and optimization on GR and management disciplines. It will include a chapter on text mining as well as a section of case studies for practical use. This book will be useful for business professionals, including but not limited to, HR professionals, and budding business students.

Business Intelligence and Human Resource Management - Concept, Cases, and Practical Applications (Hardcover): Deepmala Singh,... Business Intelligence and Human Resource Management - Concept, Cases, and Practical Applications (Hardcover)
Deepmala Singh, Anurag Singh, Amizan Omar, S. B. Goyal
R4,429 Discovery Miles 44 290 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

Business Intelligence (BI) is a solution to modern business problems. This book discusses the relationship between BI and Human Resource Management (HRM). In addition, it discusses how BI can be used as a strategic decision-making tool for the sustainable growth of an organization or business. BI helps organizations generate interactive reports with clear and reliable data for making numerous business decisions. This book covers topics spanning the important areas of BI in the context of HRM. It gives an overview of the aspects, tools, and techniques of BI and how it can assist HRM in creating a successful future for organizations. Some of the tools and techniques discussed in the book are analysis, data preparation, BI-testing, implementation, and optimization on GR and management disciplines. It will include a chapter on text mining as well as a section of case studies for practical use. This book will be useful for business professionals, including but not limited to, HR professionals, and budding business students.

Gender and the Sustainable Development Goals - Infrastructure, Empowerment and Education (Paperback): Astrid Skjerven, Maureen... Gender and the Sustainable Development Goals - Infrastructure, Empowerment and Education (Paperback)
Astrid Skjerven, Maureen Fordham
R1,120 Discovery Miles 11 200 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

This book sheds light on the important and mostly neglected role that gender plays in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals, doing so by investigating three key problem areas: empowerment, education, and infrastructure. Starting with a theoretical and methodological framework, this edited collection contains 12 chapters from scholars and researchers from around the world. The book includes numerous case studies discussing the current status of gender equality relating to the SDGs. It reinforces the significance of gender for sustainable and just development, highlighting how women play a major role in work organization, disaster management, income, household maintenance, and mediation of knowledge. "Women" as a classification encompasses much diversity with many intersecting axes of difference; this book focuses on the excluded and disadvantaged majority social group, without imposing homogeneity on that categorization. Many chapters focus on critical situations occurring in the Global South, where these issues are highly prominent, and importantly, these contributions are written by local scholars. Finally, the volume provides pathways for basic and professional gender responsive education and innovation in the field. The book will generate important discussions in interdisciplinary research and higher education settings focusing on sustainable development, gender, equality, human rights, and education.

Virtual Reality Usability Design (Paperback): David Gerhard, Wil J. Norton Virtual Reality Usability Design (Paperback)
David Gerhard, Wil J. Norton
R1,619 Discovery Miles 16 190 Ships in 9 - 15 working days

1. Provides a toolkit of templates for common VR interactions, as well as practical advice on when to use them and how to tailor them for specific use cases; 2. Includes case studies detailing the practical application of interaction theory discussed in each chapter; 3. Presents tables of guidelines for practicing VR developers, for reference during software development; 4. Covers procedures for Interface Evaluation - formulas and testing methodologies to ensure that VR interfaces are effective, efficient, engaging, error-tolerant, and easy to learn; 5. Non-linear organisation - chapters of the book on different concepts can be read to gain knowledge on a single topic, without requiring other chapters to be read beforehand; 6. Includes ancillaries - PowerPoint slides, 3D models, videos, and a teacher's guide

Nanofillers - Fabrication, Characterization and Applications of Organic Nanofillers (Hardcover): Partha Pratim Das, Shashank... Nanofillers - Fabrication, Characterization and Applications of Organic Nanofillers (Hardcover)
Partha Pratim Das, Shashank Shekhar, Bhasha Sharma, Vijay Chaudhary
R2,299 Discovery Miles 22 990 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

1) Aids professionals in meeting an increasing demand for more sustainable materials which are biodegradable, as nanomaterials meet these criteria 2) Monitors the impact of organic nanofillers in promoting polymer circular economy 3) Discusses computational studies on the effect of nanofillers on polymer matrices 4) Looks at properties of nanofillers including the mechanical, thermal, electrical, optical, and magnetic properties

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