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Analytics is one of a number of terms which are used to describe a
data-driven more scientific approach to management. Ability in
analytics is an essential management skill: knowledge of data and
analytics helps the manager to analyze decision situations, prevent
problem situations from arising, identify new opportunities, and
often enables many millions of dollars to be added to the bottom
line for the organization. The objective of this book is to
introduce analytics from the perspective of the general manager of
a corporation. Rather than examine the details or attempt an
encyclopaedic review of the field, this text emphasizes the
strategic role that analytics is playing in globally competitive
corporations today. The chapters of this book are organized in two
main parts. The first part introduces a problem area and presents
some basic analytical concepts that have been successfully used to
address the problem area. The objective of this material is to
provide the student, the manager of the future, with a general
understanding of the tools and techniques used by the analyst.
Winner of a Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award
Information Technology is supposed to enable business performance
and innovation, improve service levels, manage change, and maintain
quality and stability, all while steadily reducing operating costs.
Yet when an enterprise begins a Lean transformation, too often the
IT department is either left out or viewed as an obstacle. What is
to be done? Winner of a 2011 Shingo Research and Professional
Publication Award, this book shares practical tips, examples, and
case studies to help you establish a culture of continuous
improvement to deliver IT operational excellence and business value
to your organization. Praise for: ...will have a permanent place in
my bookshelf.-Gene Kim, Chief Technology Officer, Tripwire, Inc.
... provides an unprecedented look at the role that Lean IT will
play in making this revolutionary shift and the critical steps for
sustained success.-Steve Castellanos, Lean Enterprise Director,
Nike, Inc. Twenty years from now the firms which dominate their
industries will have fully embraced Lean strategies throughout
their IT organizations. -Scott W. Ambler, Chief Methodologist for
Agile and Lean, IBM Rational ... a great survival manual for those
needing nimble and adaptive systems.-Dr. David Labby, MD, PhD,
Medical Director and Director of Clinical Support and Innovation,
CareOregon ... makes a major contribution in an often-ignored but
much-needed area.-John Bicheno, Program Director MS in Lean
Operations, Cardiff University ... a comprehensive view into the
world of Lean IT, a must read!-Dave Wilson, Quality Management,
Oregon Health & Science University
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Reachability Problems - 15th International Conference, RP 2021, Liverpool, UK, October 25-27, 2021, Proceedings (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Paul C. Bell, Patrick Totzke, Igor Potapov
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Discovery Miles 24 150
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 15th
International Conference on Reachability Problems, RP 2021, held in
Liverpool, UK in October 2021. The 6 full papers presented were
carefully reviewed and selected from 27 submissions. In addition, 4
invited papers were included in this volume. The RP proceedings
cover topics such as reachability for infinite state systems;
rewriting systems; reachability analysis in
counter/timed/cellular/communicating automata; Petri nets;
computational aspects of semigroups, groups, and rings;
reachability in dynamical and hybrid systems; frontiers between
decidable and undecidable reachability problems; complexity and
decidability aspects; predictability in iterative maps; and new
computational paradigms. Chapter 'Recent Advances on Reachability
Problems for Valence Systems' is available open access under a
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via
link.springer.com.
In this fully updated second edition of the highly acclaimed
Managing Gigabytes, authors Witten, Moffat, and Bell continue to
provide unparalleled coverage of state-of-the-art techniques for
compressing and indexing data. Whatever your field, if you work
with large quantities of information, this book is essential
reading--an authoritative theoretical resource and a practical
guide to meeting the toughest storage and access challenges. It
covers the latest developments in compression and indexing and
their application on the Web and in digital libraries. It also
details dozens of powerful techniques supported by mg, the authors'
own system for compressing, storing, and retrieving text, images,
and textual images. mg's source code is freely available on the
Web.
* Up-to-date coverage of new text compression algorithms such as
block sorting, approximate arithmetic coding, and fat Huffman
coding
* New sections on content-based index compression and distributed
querying, with 2 new data structures for fast indexing
* New coverage of image coding, including descriptions of de facto
standards in use on the Web (GIF and PNG), information on CALIC,
the new proposed JPEG Lossless standard, and JBIG2
* New information on the Internet and WWW, digital libraries, web
search engines, and agent-based retrieval
* Accompanied by a public domain system called MG which is a fully
worked-out operational example of the advanced techniques developed
and explained in the book
* New appendix on an existing digital library system that uses the
MG software
Masters of esoteric knowledge and miraculous practices, the lineage
of the Karmapas descends from the great Indian tantric master
Tilopa through a chain that includes Naropa, Marpa, and Milarepa.
The Karmapas are distinguished by their black crowns, said to have
been woven by dakinis and symbolizing the activity of the buddhas.
In their recounting of the histories of the seventeen Karmapas, the
authors reveal the universal and marvelous concealed in the
everyday world. Their lively account, peppered with anecdotes, is
the most comprehensive in the West on this subject, with
information from Tibetan, Chinese, Mongolian, French, and English
sources.
Human illness attributed to foodborne pathogenic microorganisms has
been prominent in the mass media in recent years. The Practical
Food Microbiology Series has been devised to give practical and
accurate information about specific organisms of concern to public
health. The information is designed for use by those in the food
industry working in manufacturing, retailing and quality assurance,
those in associated professional sectors e.g. public health, and
students in each of these areas.
The series is unique in its practical approach as it draws on
real life situations to highlight practical means for controlling
the organism in foods.
Salmonella species are arguably the most commonly reported food
associated human pathogens in the developed world. They are
zoonotic agents and many different animal reservoirs are known.
They can be found widely in the environment and may also establish
in food processing environments. Over 2000 serotypes of Salmonella
have been identified to-date, some of which cause very serious
illness in humans particularly in vulnerable populations such as
the elderly. Although rare, illness may result in fatality or long
term debility and sequelae. Salmonella spp. are so widespread in
raw foods and food source environments that the food industry has
to maintain constant vigilance regarding contamination in raw
materials, effectiveness of food processing systems and control of
finished product characteristics for assuring food safety with
respect to this important pathogen.
This book details the causes of selected outbreaks and assesses
the lessons that can be learnt from them. It examines the
characteristics of Salmonella spp. and identifies factors that make
foods susceptible to contamination and growth of these organisms.
Specific product sectors are used to indicate practical measures
that can be applied to control Salmonella spp. in foods and
minimise their potential to cause harm to the consumer. It also
provides guidance in selecting effective sampling plans and test
methods to monitor and detect the organism and offers pragmatic
advice on action to be taken when the organism is detected during
monitoring programmes.
Analytics is one of a number of terms which are used to describe a
data-driven more scientific approach to management. Ability in
analytics is an essential management skill: knowledge of data and
analytics helps the manager to analyze decision situations, prevent
problem situations from arising, identify new opportunities, and
often enables many millions of dollars to be added to the bottom
line for the organization. The objective of this book is to
introduce analytics from the perspective of the general manager of
a corporation. Rather than examine the details or attempt an
encyclopaedic review of the field, this text emphasizes the
strategic role that analytics is playing in globally competitive
corporations today. The chapters of this book are organized in two
main parts. The first part introduces a problem area and presents
some basic analytical concepts that have been successfully used to
address the problem area. The objective of this material is to
provide the student, the manager of the future, with a general
understanding of the tools and techniques used by the analyst.
Learn to Feel Better by Eating Better. The Diverticuliculitis Diet
Cookbook will teach you how to prevent diverticulitis flareups from
occurring. The book includes a 30 day meal plan and more than 110
easy to make, delicious recipes designed to heal your body. I would
like to share with you my experience with Diverticular disease.
Several years ago, my mother was diagnosed with Diverticulitis. We
had never heard of this medical condition before, and at that time
there was very little information about it. When we asked the
doctor how to prevent a Diverticulitis attack from occurring again,
his advice was don't eat nuts and seeds! Over the next few years,
she followed her general practitioner's well-meaning advice, but
still suffered several Diverticulitis attacks and had no relief
from the pain. Sick and tired of the pain and being afraid of her
next attack, both of us embarked on a journey to take her health
into our own hands. Working with the esteemed Andrea Johnson, a
well-known, registered clinical dietician and researcher, we
developed a cookbook and meal plan that actually worked! The
recipes were compiled based on their health value, high fiber
content and because they taste really good. We wouldn't have been
able to get my picky-eater mom to eat our recipes if they weren't
absolutely yummy!! Not only that, they are easy to make. You don't
have to be a master chef or have loads of time to prepare these
meals.
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