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For undergraduate courses in facilities planning and material
handling. Based on ten years' teaching experience, this text takes
a practical, teachable approach to facilities planning and design.
A class design project centered on a factory incorporates the
theoretical aspects of facilities planning and design. Motivating
and illustrating mathematical models wherever possible, the text
explores facilities planning, capstone design, and even simulation
modelling.
First published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
Back in the 1980s Jean Baudrillard wrote that public space was
collapsing due to a double obscenity: 'The most intimate operation
of your life becomes the potential grazing ground of the
media....The entire universe also unfolds unnecessarily on your
home screen.' He termed this the ecstasy of communication. But
today, your everyday life is not just the potential grazing ground
of the media, but of anyone with a camera, and the entire universe
unfolds not just at home but in the palm of your hand virtually
anywhere you travel. Bringing together a transdisciplinary team of
leading scholars and artists from North America, Europe and Asia,
this volume documents and theorizes this new visibility. It focuses
on the proliferation of a range of new visual technologies,
examining questions of subjectivity, agency, and surveillance as
well as mapping and theorizing new practices of visuality within
this new visual assemblage. New Visualities, New Technologies
addresses the pressing need for the conceptual understanding of new
forms of seeing, looking, presenting, and hiding.
Back in the 1980s Jean Baudrillard wrote that public space was
collapsing due to a double obscenity: 'The most intimate operation
of your life becomes the potential grazing ground of the
media....The entire universe also unfolds unnecessarily on your
home screen.' He termed this the ecstasy of communication. But
today, your everyday life is not just the potential grazing ground
of the media, but of anyone with a camera, and the entire universe
unfolds not just at home but in the palm of your hand virtually
anywhere you travel. Bringing together a transdisciplinary team of
leading scholars and artists from North America, Europe and Asia,
this volume documents and theorizes this new visibility. It focuses
on the proliferation of a range of new visual technologies,
examining questions of subjectivity, agency, and surveillance as
well as mapping and theorizing new practices of visuality within
this new visual assemblage. New Visualities, New Technologies
addresses the pressing need for the conceptual understanding of new
forms of seeing, looking, presenting, and hiding.
This book further explores the behavior aspects of corporate-higher
education inter-organizational relationships by culminating various
theories and models addressing the space where U.S. corporations
and American higher education intersect. Examples are provided
regarding the attraction, motivations, and maintenance needed for
higher education to create win-win relationships with businesses.
This work offers a new approach to the corporate citizenship
literature by providing a broad, holistic review of frameworks to
understand the range of motives and expectations of corporate
engagement in the American society as evidenced by
inter-organizational relationships with higher education.By
providing an insight to better design and to manage
inter-organizational relationships, this book will prove invaluable
to both higher education practitioners and corporations alike.
The book examines the performance and optimization of systems where
queueing and congestion are important constructs. Both finite and
infinite queueing systems are examined. Many examples and case
studies are utilized to indicate the breadth and depth of the
queueing systems and their range of applicability. Blocking of
these processes is very important and the book shows how to deal
with this problem in an effective way and not only compute the
performance measures of throughput, cycle times, and WIP but also
to optimize the resources within these systems. The book is aimed
at advanced undergraduate, graduate, and professionals and
academics interested in network design, queueing performance models
and their optimization. It assumes that the audience is fairly
sophisticated in their mathematical understanding, although the
explanations of the topics within the book are fairly detailed.
The book examines the performance and optimization of systems where
queueing and congestion are important constructs. Both finite and
infinite queueing systems are examined. Many examples and case
studies are utilized to indicate the breadth and depth of the
queueing systems and their range of applicability. Blocking of
these processes is very important and the book shows how to deal
with this problem in an effective way and not only compute the
performance measures of throughput, cycle times, and WIP but also
to optimize the resources within these systems. The book is aimed
at advanced undergraduate, graduate, and professionals and
academics interested in network design, queueing performance models
and their optimization. It assumes that the audience is fairly
sophisticated in their mathematical understanding, although the
explanations of the topics within the book are fairly detailed.
This handbook surveys important stochastic problems and models in
manufacturing system operations and their stochastic analysis.
Using analytical models to design and control manufacturing systems
and their operations entail critical stochastic performance
analysis as well as integrated optimization models of these
systems. Topics deal with the areas of facilities planning,
transportation, and material handling systems, logistics and supply
chain management, and integrated productivity and quality models
covering: * Stochastic modeling and analysis of manufacturing
systems * Design, analysis, and optimization of manufacturing
systems * Facilities planning, transportation, and material
handling systems analysis * Production planning, scheduling
systems, management, and control * Analytical approaches to
logistics and supply chain management * Integrated productivity and
quality models, and their analysis * Literature surveys of issues
relevant in manufacturing systems * Case studies of manufacturing
system operations and analysis Today's manufacturing system
operations are becoming increasingly complex. Advanced knowledge of
best practices for treating these problems is not always well
known. The purpose of the book is to create a foundation for the
development of stochastic models and their analysis in
manufacturing system operations. Given the handbook nature of the
volume, introducing basic principles, concepts, and algorithms for
treating these problems and their solutions is the main intent of
this handbook. Readers unfamiliar with these research areas will be
able to find a research foundation for studying these problems and
systems.
Analysis and Modeling of Manufacturing Systems is a set of papers
on some of the newest research and applications of mathematical and
computational techniques to manufacturing systems and supply
chains. These papers deal with fundamental questions (how to
predict factory performance: how to operate production systems) and
explicitly treat the stochastic nature of failures, operation
times, demand, and other important events. Analysis and Modeling of
Manufacturing Systems will be of interest to readers with a strong
background in operations research, including researchers and
mathematically sophisticated practitioners.
This handbook surveys important stochastic problems and models in
manufacturing system operations and their stochastic analysis.
Using analytical models to design and control manufacturing systems
and their operations entail critical stochastic performance
analysis as well as integrated optimization models of these
systems. Topics deal with the areas of facilities planning,
transportation, and material handling systems, logistics and supply
chain management, and integrated productivity and quality models
covering: * Stochastic modeling and analysis of manufacturing
systems * Design, analysis, and optimization of manufacturing
systems * Facilities planning, transportation, and material
handling systems analysis * Production planning, scheduling
systems, management, and control * Analytical approaches to
logistics and supply chain management * Integrated productivity and
quality models, and their analysis * Literature surveys of issues
relevant in manufacturing systems * Case studies of manufacturing
system operations and analysis Today's manufacturing system
operations are becoming increasingly complex. Advanced knowledge of
best practices for treating these problems is not always well
known. The purpose of the book is to create a foundation for the
development of stochastic models and their analysis in
manufacturing system operations. Given the handbook nature of the
volume, introducing basic principles, concepts, and algorithms for
treating these problems and their solutions is the main intent of
this handbook. Readers unfamiliar with these research areas will be
able to find a research foundation for studying these problems and
systems.
A clarion call about the dangers of medicine for women, as well as
a manual for how women can get the right care for their bodies. Sex
Matters tackles one of the most urgent, yet unspoken issues facing
women's health care today: all models of medical research and
practice are based on male-centric models that ignore the unique
biological and emotional differences between men and women - an
omission that endangers women's lives. The facts surrounding how
male-centric medicine impacts women's health every day are
chilling: in the ER, women are more likely to receive a psychiatric
diagnosis with regard to opioid use, while men are more likely to
be referred for detoxification; the more vocal women become about
their pain, the more likely their providers are to prescribe either
inadequate or inappropriate pain relief medication; women often
present with nontraditional symptoms of stroke, which causes delays
in recognition by both them and their health professionals; and a
government accountability study found that 80% of drugs that are
withdrawn from the market are due to side effects that happen to
women (a result of testing drugs mostly on men). Leading expert on
sex and gender medicine Dr Alyson McGregor focuses on the key areas
where these differences are most potentially harmful, addressing: *
Cardiac and stroke diagnosis and treatment in women; * Prescription
and dosing of pharmaceuticals; * Subjective evaluation of women's
symptoms; * Pain and pain management; * Hormones and female
biochemistry (including prescribed hormones); * How economic
status, race, and gender identity are additional critical factors.
Not only does Dr McGregor explore these disparities in depth, she
shares clear, practical suggestions for what we can do. A work of
riveting expose, revelatory insights into the medical establishment
and actionable guidance for putting this information to use, Sex
Matters is an empowering roadmap for reinventing modern medicine -
and for self-care. (P)2020 Hachette Audio
Analysis and Modeling of Manufacturing Systems is a set of
papers on some of the newest research and applications of
mathematical and computational techniques to manufacturing systems
and supply chains. These papers deal with fundamental questions
(how to predict factory performance: how to operate production
systems) and explicitly treat the stochastic nature of failures,
operation times, demand, and other important events.
Analysis and Modeling of Manufacturing Systems will be of
interest to readers with a strong background in operations
research, including researchers and mathematically sophisticated
practitioners.
'McGregor is kickass; a respected crusader. If you're a woman,
she's definitely the doctor you'd want to see in an emergency or to
install as head of medical education' The Times A clarion call
about the dangers of medicine for women, as well as a manual for
how women can get the right care for their bodies. Sex Matters
tackles one of the most urgent, yet unspoken issues facing women's
health care today: all models of medical research and practice are
based on male-centric models that ignore the unique biological and
emotional differences between men and women - an omission that
endangers women's lives. The facts surrounding how male-centric
medicine impacts women's health every day are chilling: in the ER,
women are more likely to receive a psychiatric diagnosis with
regard to opioid use, while men are more likely to be referred for
detoxification; the more vocal women become about their pain, the
more likely their providers are to prescribe either inadequate or
inappropriate pain relief medication; women often present with
nontraditional symptoms of stroke, which causes delays in
recognition by both them and their health professionals; and a
government accountability study found that 80% of drugs that are
withdrawn from the market are due to side effects that happen to
women (a result of testing drugs mostly on men). Leading expert on
sex and gender medicine Dr Alyson McGregor focuses on the key areas
where these differences are most potentially harmful, addressing: *
Cardiac and stroke diagnosis and treatment in women; * Prescription
and dosing of pharmaceuticals; * Subjective evaluation of women's
symptoms; * Pain and pain management; * Hormones and female
biochemistry (including prescribed hormones); * How economic
status, race, and gender identity are additional critical factors.
Not only does Dr McGregor explore these disparities in depth, she
shares clear, practical suggestions for what we can do. A work of
riveting expose, revelatory insights into the medical establishment
and actionable guidance for putting this information to use, Sex
Matters is an empowering roadmap for reinventing modern medicine -
and for self-care.
This textbook provides an introduction to the use and understanding
of optimization and modeling for upper-level undergraduate students
in engineering and mathematics. The formulation of optimization
problems is founded through concepts and techniques from operations
research: Combinatorial Optimization, Linear Programming, and
Integer and Nonlinear Programming (COLIN). Computer Science (CS) is
also relevant and important given the applications of algorithms
and Apps/algorithms (A) in solving optimization problems. Each
chapter provides an overview of the main concepts of optimization
according to COLINA, providing examples through App Inventor and
AMPL software applications. All apps developed through the text are
available for download. Additionally, the text includes links to
the University of Wisconsin NEOS server, designed to handle more
computing-intensive problems in complex optimization. Readers are
encouraged to have some background in calculus, linear algebra, and
related mathematics.
Cardinal Patrick O'Boyle (1896-1987) is largely remembered as the
controversial leader of the Archdiocese of Washington during its
first, formative quarter century. Combining considerable foresight
about the Church's social concerns with a stubborn resistance to
innovation, he countered opposition from those who reviled his
progressive stand, especially his steadfast demand for racial
equality and support of organized labor. At the same time he earned
the opprobrium of those who resisted his firm support of the
magisterium, in particular his controversial defense of the pope's
ban on artificial birth control and his rejection of liturgical
experimentation in the wake of the Second Vatican Council. Often
overlooked is the fact that O'Boyle's Washington years followed a
quarter-century participation in the modernization of the American
Church's charity apparatus and the organization of its
international relief effort. Such assignments placed him at the
epicenter of the debate over the proper roles of church and state
in providing social services. A product of the Catholic
ghettoization of the early twentieth century, he was expected to
lead his Church into fruitful partnerships with government and
other organizations in support of society's most needy. This
engaging biography seeks to explain O'Boyle's apparent
contradictions by placing special emphasis on his formative years
as the only child in an immigrant, staunchly pro-labor family in
Scranton, Pennsylvania, and his training as a seminarian and curate
in the rigidly traditional Church of his adopted New York. These
influences, combined with his subsequent work with the poor and
orphaned, instilled in him a progressive economic and social
outlook as well as a lifetime sympathy for society's neglected. At
the same time they strengthened an unquestioned obedience and
loyalty to those in authority that figured so prominently in his
later Washington years, where he came to embody the paradox of
simple faith and complex humanity. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Morris J.
MacGregor is the author of several books, including A Parish for
the Federal City: St. Patrick's in Washington, 1794-1994 and The
Emergence of a Black Catholic Community: St. Augustine's in
Washington. FROM THE BOOK: ""Today there are poor people--too many
people--who are really poor, miserably poor. . . . To a great
extent poverty resulted from injustice in the past and it continues
to exist because of injustices we have not yet taken the trouble to
end. . . . More important than money are the lives salvaged, the
homes and families preserved, the young given a chance, the aged
sheltered and cared for.""--Cardinal O'Boyle PRAISE FOR THE BOOK:
""Steadfast in the Faith is a detailed and accurate picture of a
complicated man, placed in the context of his times. It is both
excellent biography and history. Kudos to Morris J. MacGregor for
his faithful stewardship of both disciplines!""--Tracy Dowling,
Catholic Standard ""This biography presents a fair, balanced
picture of a key bishop at a critical time in the Church who
founded a new diocese, fought for civil rights, responded to
Vatican II, and faced dissent over Humanae vitae. It should be in
every Catholic library.""--John Shewmaker, Catholic Library World
""This volume, an important addition to any serious library of
United States church history, provides an important window through
which to gain an understanding of the many significant transitions
which took place in the national Catholic experience during the
twentieth century, an insight into the episcopal world of that
time, and much information on the foundational period of the
Archdiocese of Washington. . . . [H]istorians will be grateful to
MacGregor for providing us with this biography.""--James Garneau,
American Catholic Studies ""[A] very readab
Winner of the Surveillance Studies Network Book Award: 2017
Surveillance is a common feature of everyday life. But how are we
to make sense of or understand what surveillance is, how we should
feel about it, and what, if anything, can we do? Surveillance and
Film is an engaging and accessible book that maps out important
themes in how popular culture imagines surveillance by examining
key feature films that prominently address the subject. Drawing on
dozens of examples from around the world, J. Macgregor Wise
analyzes films that focus on those who watch (like Rear Window,
Peeping Tom, Disturbia, Gigante, and The Lives of Others), films
that focus on those who are watched (like The Conversation, Cache,
and Ed TV), films that feature surveillance societies (like 1984,
THX 1138, V for Vendetta, The Handmaid's Tale, The Truman Show, and
Minority Report), surveillance procedural films (from The Naked
City, to Hong Kong's Eye in the Sky, The Infernal Affairs Trilogy,
and the Overheard Trilogy of films), and films that interrogate the
aesthetics of the surveillance image itself (like Sliver, Dhobi
Ghat (Mumbai Diaries), Der Riese, and Look). Wise uses these films
to describe key models of understanding surveillance (like Big
Brother, Panopticism, or the Control Society) as well as to raise
issues of voyeurism, trust, ethics, technology, visibility,
identity, privacy, and control that are essential elements of
today's culture of surveillance. The text features questions for
further discussion as well as lists of additional films that engage
these topics.
The roles that corporate social responsibility (CSR) and business
support of democracy play in American higher education are
infrequently discussed, though very important. There are many
ethical issues that concern both corporate interests as well as
higher education, linking the two more than many would think. It is
necessary to understand the environment, inter-organizational
relationships, and documents holistically to observe the rich
history, pluralistic American societal issues, and relevant
milestones between corporate America and higher education.
Partnership Motives and Ethics in Corporate Investment in Higher
Education provides comprehensive documentation of business and
corporate entanglements with higher education. This work discusses
the historic journey of funding from business and U.S. corporate
engagement in American higher education. Covering topics such as
academy-business relationships, philanthropic partnerships, and
transactional partnerships, this work is essential for professors,
executives, managers, faculty, fundraisers, leaders in higher
education, researchers, students, and academicians with interests
in CSR, business ethics, and higher education.
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