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Based on the IOM's estimate of 44,000 deaths annually, medical
errors rank as the eighth leading cause of death in the U.S.
Clearly medical errors are an epidemic that needs to be contained.
Despite these numbers, patient safety and medical errors remain an
issue for physicians and other clinicians. This book bridges the
issues related to patient safety by providing clinically relevant,
vignette-based description of the areas where most problems occur.
Each vignette highlights a particular issue such as communication,
human facturs, E.H.R., etc. and provides tools and strategies for
improving quality in these areas and creating a safer environment
for patients.
Professor Jha and Professor Gaiha address important issues of food
security in their wide-ranging selection of the most influential
published contributions in this area of study. Their comprehensive,
original introduction discusses each article and places it within
the context of twelve distinct themes, from which emerges a cogent
view of the developing scholarly literature in this area and of the
challenges that still remain. These volumes will provide ready
access to major landmark contributions in food security and thus be
of interest to all academics, policymakers, international
organizations and students working in this area.
Ethnic and tribal loyalties in Afghanistan provided the lethal
cocktail for the violent conflict that engulfed the country
following the collapse of the Soviet backed government in 1992. The
ensuing fighting between mujahideen groups paved the way for the
tectonic social and political shifts, which continue to shape
events today. What accounts for the emergence of ethnicity, as the
main cause of conflict in Afghanistan? What moved people to respond
with such fervour and intensity to calls for ethnic solidarity?
This book attempts to make sense of ethnicity's decisive role in
Afghanistan through a comprehensive exploration of its nature and
perception. Based on new data, generated through interviews, field
notes and participant observations, Sharma maps the increased role
of ethnicity in Afghan national politics. Key social, political and
historical processes that facilitated its emergence as the
pre-dominant fault-line of conflict are explored, moving away from
grand political and military narrative to instead engage with zones
of conflict as social spaces. This book will be of interest to
students and scholars working in politics, ethnic studies and
security studies.
This volume is a welcome and timely contribution to a topic of
enduring importance. The global consequences of recent food price
crises underscore the need to examine food security issues from
diverse perspectives. This volume meets that need, featuring
accessible yet cutting-edge analyses of food security by leading
experts in fields as diverse as trade, nutrition, public health,
production, political economy, and behavioral economics. It will be
of interest to a wide range of scholars and practitioners.' -
Steven Block, Tufts University, US'This excellent volume offers a
compact but wide-ranging survey of recent research on important
changes in global food markets. Its 20 chapters accurately capture
important areas of scholarly agreement as well as on-going debates
among economists studying agriculture and nutrition, with several
provocative original contributions from other fields. The book
draws particularly on the authors' long experience in Asia,
offering widely-applicable insights for scholars and policy
analysts seeking to understand the past, present and future of food
around the world.' - William A. Masters, Tufts University, US The
global population is forecasted to reach 9.4 billion by 2050, with
much of this increase concentrated in developing regions and
cities. Ensuring adequate food and nourishment to this large
population is a pressing economic, moral and even security
challenge and requires research (and action) from a
multi-disciplinary perspective. This book provides the first such
integrated approach to tackling this problem by addressing the
multiplicity of challenges posed by rising global population, diet
diversification and urbanization in developing countries and
climate change. It examines key topics such as: - the impact of
prosperity on food demand - the role of international trade in
addressing food insecurity - the challenge posed by greenhouse gas
emissions from agriculture and land degradation - the implication
on labor markets of severe under-nutrition - viability of small
scale farms - strategies to augment food availability. The Handbook
on Food would be a welcome supplementary text for courses on
development economics, particularly those concentrating on
agricultural development, climate change and food availability, as
well as nutrition. Contributors include: Anshuman Adheleya, Alok
Adheleya, M. Das, D. Dawe, O. Ecker, C.L. Gilbert, D. Goswami, J.E.
Gready, D. Headey, K.S. Imai, S. Jha, N. Kaicker, S. Kaur, V.S.
Kulkarni, A. Mahal, K. Mathur, K. Otsuka, S. Pfuderer, A. Sarris,
C. Sathyamala, J. Schmidhuber, P.V. Srinivasan, L. Sutton, G.
Thapa, P. Timmer, J.-F. Trinh Tan, F.N. Tubiello, P. Warr, J. You
Ethnic and tribal loyalties in Afghanistan provided the lethal
cocktail for the violent conflict that engulfed the country
following the collapse of the Soviet backed government in 1992. The
ensuing fighting between mujahideen groups paved the way for the
tectonic social and political shifts, which continue to shape
events today. What accounts for the emergence of ethnicity, as the
main cause of conflict in Afghanistan? What moved people to respond
with such fervour and intensity to calls for ethnic solidarity?
This book attempts to make sense of ethnicity's decisive role in
Afghanistan through a comprehensive exploration of its nature and
perception. Based on new data, generated through interviews, field
notes and participant observations, Sharma maps the increased role
of ethnicity in Afghan national politics. Key social, political and
historical processes that facilitated its emergence as the
pre-dominant fault-line of conflict are explored, moving away from
grand political and military narrative to instead engage with zones
of conflict as social spaces. This book will be of interest to
students and scholars working in politics, ethnic studies and
security studies.
China's territorial disputes with India have been a matter of
debate since 1950s. While China has amicably resolved boundary
disputes with twelve out of its fourteen neighbouring countries, it
is yet to resolve its boundary disputes with India and Bhutan as
also its maritime disputes in the South China Sea and East China
Sea. This volume looks at the complex dynamics of India-China
boundary disputes which remains unresolved. It is still the biggest
challenge to the relations between the two countries. From the
Indian perspective securing Arunachal and the Indus Watershed is
highly important. From the Chinese point of view Karakoram and
Xinjiang-Tibet road must be respected. Secondary issues have always
occupied a central and pivotal focus in the relations between India
and China. This work also shows how British efforts to secure a
defined and natural boundary began immediately after the creation
of Jammu and Kashmir in 1846 after Amritsar treaty. In the eastern
sector such an effort began only in the first decade of twentieth
century. Relevant documents have been presented which examines the
role of bureaucrats, diplomats, generals and surveyors. It examines
the treaties, conventions, correspondence as well as internal
debates between changing British officials and their conflicting
British policies. Nehru refused Chou En Lai in 1960, which in turn
led to the unilateralism in Chinese attitude after 1962. The volume
breaks new ground by evaluating the differing policies, and
explains how a secured boundary can ultimately be agreed upon.
Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the
Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri
Lanka
Stem Cells: An Alternative Therapy for COVID-19 and Cytokine Storm
provides mechanistic insights into the role of stem cells to combat
COVID-19 outbreak and other pathologies where cytokines storm is
the cause of concern for e.g., radiation exposure, multiple organ
failure and sepsis. There has been an increase in number of cases
of new diseases in the last decade, including mucormycosis, Zika
virus, H1N1 influenza virus, among others. These diseases can be
characterized by the induction of cytokine storm, which is mainly
responsible for morbidity and mortality. Stem cell therapy has
emerged as a potential treatment for viral diseases, including, but
not limited to, COVID-19. Interestingly, clinical trials in
patients with COVID-19 complications depicted faster recovery in
patients post mesenchymal stem cells therapy owing to the decreased
cytokines levels, anti-viral effects and regeneration of the
infected tissue.
This book advances systems thinking by introducing a new philosophy
of systemic knowing. It argues that there are inescapable limits to
rational understanding. Humankind has always depended on extended
ways of knowing to complement the rational-analytic approach. The
book establishes that the application of such methods is
fundamental to systemic practice. The author advocates embracing
two modes of consciousness: intentionality, which Western
philosophy has long recognized, and non-intentional awareness,
which Eastern philosophy additionally highlights. The simultaneity
of these two modes of consciousness, and the variety of knowings
they spawn are harnessed for a more holistic, systemic knowing.
Four practices from fields related to systems thinking are
examined: two contemporary action research methodologies from the
US and the UK; the Sumedhian (Indian) approach to inquiry about
processes within groups; and a technique of group psychotherapy
originating in Eastern Europe. Each of these systematically
harnesses knowing using both modes of consciousness. Therefore, the
author insists, such approaches must be included in systemic
practice, in purposeful and methodical juxtaposition to
rational-analytic ways. The book provides examples and guidelines
for deployment. "All researchers and practitioners of systems
thinking and action research must read this book...Raghav has
craftfully blended Eastern and Western wisdom. He uses his
immersion into Eastern ways of knowing practically, to elaborate
the systems philosophy in rich detail. He has incorporated, from
cooperative inquiry as action research, the idea of four ways of
knowing: practical, propositional, presentational and experiential,
to bolster the foundations of systems thinking" SHANKAR SANKARAN,
Professor, University of Technology Sydney, Australia; President
International Society of Systems Sciences (ISSS) 2019-2020 "This is
a book with the potential to stimulate the emergence of a new
paradigm. Raghav shows that systems thinking can transcend rational
analysis and incorporate other ways of knowing, such as arts-based
methods... also, rather than be overly preoccupied with striving
for change, there is value in simply abiding, which comes with a
deep appreciation of the ecological relationships we are part of.
It's not that rational analysis is wrong - it's that it is only
part of a genuinely transformative practice". GERALD MIDGLEY,
Co-Director, Centre for Systems Studies, University of Hull; former
President, ISSS (2013-14) "Raghav Rajagopalan's writing on
generating deep appreciation for the social and ecological
interdependencies ties in closely with my own work. The
philosophical ideas he develops contain the tracings and essential
tones of Gregory Bateson's idea of "Mind" as a process of living
complexities reaching well beyond the notion of the body. This book
demonstrates outstanding erudition and deep compassion at the same
time. It should delight the adventurous reader unafraid of big
questions". NORA BATESON, President of the International Bateson
Institute
Based on the IOM's estimate of 44,000 deaths annually, medical
errors rank as the eighth leading cause of death in the U.S.
Clearly medical errors are an epidemic that needs to be contained.
Despite these numbers, patient safety and medical errors remain an
issue for physicians and other clinicians. This book bridges the
issues related to patient safety by providing clinically relevant,
vignette-based description of the areas where most problems occur.
Each vignette highlights a particular issue such as communication,
human facturs, E.H.R., etc. and provides tools and strategies for
improving quality in these areas and creating a safer environment
for patients.
This book advances systems thinking by introducing a new philosophy
of systemic knowing. It argues that there are inescapable limits to
rational understanding. Humankind has always depended on extended
ways of knowing to complement the rational-analytic approach. The
book establishes that the application of such methods is
fundamental to systemic practice. The author advocates embracing
two modes of consciousness: intentionality, which Western
philosophy has long recognized, and non-intentional awareness,
which Eastern philosophy additionally highlights. The simultaneity
of these two modes of consciousness, and the variety of knowings
they spawn are harnessed for a more holistic, systemic knowing.
Four practices from fields related to systems thinking are
examined: two contemporary action research methodologies from the
US and the UK; the Sumedhian (Indian) approach to inquiry about
processes within groups; and a technique of group psychotherapy
originating in Eastern Europe. Each of these systematically
harnesses knowing using both modes of consciousness. Therefore, the
author insists, such approaches must be included in systemic
practice, in purposeful and methodical juxtaposition to
rational-analytic ways. The book provides examples and guidelines
for deployment. "All researchers and practitioners of systems
thinking and action research must read this book...Raghav has
craftfully blended Eastern and Western wisdom. He uses his
immersion into Eastern ways of knowing practically, to elaborate
the systems philosophy in rich detail. He has incorporated, from
cooperative inquiry as action research, the idea of four ways of
knowing: practical, propositional, presentational and experiential,
to bolster the foundations of systems thinking" SHANKAR SANKARAN,
Professor, University of Technology Sydney, Australia; President
International Society of Systems Sciences (ISSS) 2019-2020 "This is
a book with the potential to stimulate the emergence of a new
paradigm. Raghav shows that systems thinking can transcend rational
analysis and incorporate other ways of knowing, such as arts-based
methods... also, rather than be overly preoccupied with striving
for change, there is value in simply abiding, which comes with a
deep appreciation of the ecological relationships we are part of.
It's not that rational analysis is wrong - it's that it is only
part of a genuinely transformative practice". GERALD MIDGLEY,
Co-Director, Centre for Systems Studies, University of Hull; former
President, ISSS (2013-14) "Raghav Rajagopalan's writing on
generating deep appreciation for the social and ecological
interdependencies ties in closely with my own work. The
philosophical ideas he develops contain the tracings and essential
tones of Gregory Bateson's idea of "Mind" as a process of living
complexities reaching well beyond the notion of the body. This book
demonstrates outstanding erudition and deep compassion at the same
time. It should delight the adventurous reader unafraid of big
questions". NORA BATESON, President of the International Bateson
Institute
Nanotechnology for CO2 Utilization in Oilfield Applications
delivers a critical reference for petroleum and reservoir engineers
to learn the latest advancements of combining the use of CO2 and
nanofluids to lower carbon footprint. Starting with the existing
chemical and physical methods employed for synthesizing nanofluids,
the reference moves into the scalability and fabrication techniques
given for all the various nanofluids currently used in oilfield
applications. This is followed by various, relevant
characterization techniques. Advancing on, the reference covers
nanofluids used in drilling, cementing, and EOR fluids, including
their challenges and implementation problems associated with the
use of nanofluids. Finally, the authors discuss the combined
application of CO2 and nanofluids, listing challenges and benefits
of CO2, such as carbonation capacity of nanofluids via rheological
analysis for better CO2 utilization. Supported by visual world maps
on CCS sites and case studies across the industry, this book gives
today's engineers a much-needed tool to lower emissions.
This book presents a comprehensive introduction to Integrated
Business Planning (IBP), building on practitioner's experience and
showcasing the value gains when moving from disconnected planning
to IBP. It also proposes a road map for the transformation of
planning, including technological initiatives, business priorities
and organizational processes, and demonstrates how to motivate
different IBP stakeholders to work together, when and how to
connect strategic (to be understood as long term SC&O),
tactical and operational planning and how to leverage functional
and data integration features of SAP IBP. Real-world
business-process use cases help to show the practical implications
of implementing SAP IBP. Furthermore the book explores new
capabilities, talent acquisition and retention, career development
leadership, IBP Center of Expertise. A discussion of how disruptive
technology trends like big data, Internet of Things, machine
learning and artificial intelligence can influence IBP now and in
the near future rounds out the book.
This volume is a welcome and timely contribution to a topic of
enduring importance. The global consequences of recent food price
crises underscore the need to examine food security issues from
diverse perspectives. This volume meets that need, featuring
accessible yet cutting-edge analyses of food security by leading
experts in fields as diverse as trade, nutrition, public health,
production, political economy, and behavioral economics. It will be
of interest to a wide range of scholars and practitioners.' -
Steven Block, Tufts University, US'This excellent volume offers a
compact but wide-ranging survey of recent research on important
changes in global food markets. Its 20 chapters accurately capture
important areas of scholarly agreement as well as on-going debates
among economists studying agriculture and nutrition, with several
provocative original contributions from other fields. The book
draws particularly on the authors' long experience in Asia,
offering widely-applicable insights for scholars and policy
analysts seeking to understand the past, present and future of food
around the world.' - William A. Masters, Tufts University, US The
global population is forecasted to reach 9.4 billion by 2050, with
much of this increase concentrated in developing regions and
cities. Ensuring adequate food and nourishment to this large
population is a pressing economic, moral and even security
challenge and requires research (and action) from a
multi-disciplinary perspective. This book provides the first such
integrated approach to tackling this problem by addressing the
multiplicity of challenges posed by rising global population, diet
diversification and urbanization in developing countries and
climate change. It examines key topics such as: - the impact of
prosperity on food demand - the role of international trade in
addressing food insecurity - the challenge posed by greenhouse gas
emissions from agriculture and land degradation - the implication
on labor markets of severe under-nutrition - viability of small
scale farms - strategies to augment food availability. The Handbook
on Food would be a welcome supplementary text for courses on
development economics, particularly those concentrating on
agricultural development, climate change and food availability, as
well as nutrition. Contributors include: Anshuman Adheleya, Alok
Adheleya, M. Das, D. Dawe, O. Ecker, C.L. Gilbert, D. Goswami, J.E.
Gready, D. Headey, K.S. Imai, S. Jha, N. Kaicker, S. Kaur, V.S.
Kulkarni, A. Mahal, K. Mathur, K. Otsuka, S. Pfuderer, A. Sarris,
C. Sathyamala, J. Schmidhuber, P.V. Srinivasan, L. Sutton, G.
Thapa, P. Timmer, J.-F. Trinh Tan, F.N. Tubiello, P. Warr, J. You
This book presents a comprehensive introduction to Integrated
Business Planning (IBP), building on practitioner's experience and
showcasing the value gains when moving from disconnected planning
to IBP. It also proposes a road map for the transformation of
planning, including technological initiatives, business priorities
and organizational processes, and demonstrates how to motivate
different IBP stakeholders to work together, when and how to
connect strategic (to be understood as long term SC&O),
tactical and operational planning and how to leverage functional
and data integration features of SAP IBP. Real-world
business-process use cases help to show the practical implications
of implementing SAP IBP. Furthermore the book explores new
capabilities, talent acquisition and retention, career development
leadership, IBP Center of Expertise. A discussion of how disruptive
technology trends like big data, Internet of Things, machine
learning and artificial intelligence can influence IBP now and in
the near future rounds out the book.
Master the essential skills needed to recognize and solve complex
problems with machine learning and deep learning. Using real-world
examples that leverage the popular Python machine learning
ecosystem, this book is your perfect companion for learning the art
and science of machine learning to become a successful
practitioner. The concepts, techniques, tools, frameworks, and
methodologies used in this book will teach you how to think,
design, build, and execute machine learning systems and projects
successfully. Practical Machine Learning with Python follows a
structured and comprehensive three-tiered approach packed with
hands-on examples and code. Part 1 focuses on understanding machine
learning concepts and tools. This includes machine learning basics
with a broad overview of algorithms, techniques, concepts and
applications, followed by a tour of the entire Python machine
learning ecosystem. Brief guides for useful machine learning tools,
libraries and frameworks are also covered. Part 2 details standard
machine learning pipelines, with an emphasis on data processing
analysis, feature engineering, and modeling. You will learn how to
process, wrangle, summarize and visualize data in its various
forms. Feature engineering and selection methodologies will be
covered in detail with real-world datasets followed by model
building, tuning, interpretation and deployment. Part 3 explores
multiple real-world case studies spanning diverse domains and
industries like retail, transportation, movies, music, marketing,
computer vision and finance. For each case study, you will learn
the application of various machine learning techniques and methods.
The hands-on examples will help you become familiar with
state-of-the-art machine learning tools and techniques and
understand what algorithms are best suited for any problem.
Practical Machine Learning with Python will empower you to start
solving your own problems with machine learning today! What You'll
Learn Execute end-to-end machine learning projects and systems
Implement hands-on examples with industry standard, open source,
robust machine learning tools and frameworks Review case studies
depicting applications of machine learning and deep learning on
diverse domains and industries Apply a wide range of machine
learning models including regression, classification, and
clustering. Understand and apply the latest models and
methodologies from deep learning including CNNs, RNNs, LSTMs and
transfer learning. Who This Book Is For IT professionals, analysts,
developers, data scientists, engineers, graduate students
Computational Biology for Stem Cell Research is an invaluable guide
for researchers as they explore HSCs and MSCs in computational
biology. With the growing advancement of technology in the field of
biomedical sciences, computational approaches have reduced the
financial and experimental burden of the experimental process. In
the shortest span, it has established itself as an integral
component of any biological research activity. HSC informatics (in
silico) techniques such as machine learning, genome network
analysis, data mining, complex genome structures, docking, system
biology, mathematical modeling, programming (R, Python, Perl, etc.)
help to analyze, visualize, network constructions, and
protein-ligand or protein-protein interactions. This book is aimed
at beginners with an exact correlation between the biomedical
sciences and in silico computational methods for HSCs
transplantation and translational research and provides insights
into methods targeting HSCs properties like proliferation,
self-renewal, differentiation, and apoptosis.
Android Best Practices by Godfrey Nolan shows you how to make your
Android apps stand out from the crowd with great reviews. Why
settle for just making any Android app? Build a brilliant Android
app instead that lets your users praise it for ease of use, better
performance, and more. Using a series of example apps which
gradually evolve throughout this book, Android Best Practices
brings together current Android best practices from user interface
(UI)/user experience (UX) design, test-driven development (TDD),
and design patterns (e.g., MVC) to help you take your app to the
next level. In this book you'll learn how to: * Use Android design
patterns for consistent UI experience on many devices * Use agile
techniques such as test-driven development, behavior-driven
development, and continuous integration * Improve the speed and
overall performance of your app * Organize an Android app using
design patterns such as MVC/MVP * Create and consume REST and SOAP
web services Designing and developing an app that runs well on many
if not all the leading Android smartphones and tablets today can be
one of the most daunting challenges for Android developers. Well,
this book takes much of the mystery out of that for you. After
reading and using Android Best Practices, you'll become a much
better Android app designer and developer, which in turn can make
your apps better placed and more successful in the market place.
Business modelling is a vast arena of research and practice, which
is gaining increasing important in the rapid development of
e-commerce, globalization, and in particular, the movement toward
global e-business. The ability to utilize advanced computing
technology to model, analyse and simulate various aspects of
ever-changing businesses has made a significant impact on the way
businesses are designed and run these days. With the current global
e-business and e-commerce initiatives, it has become important that
all businesses carefully validate their business objectives,
requirements, and strategies through a careful process of formal
business modelling. It is important for effective enterprise
decision making to have clear, concise business models that allow
the extraction of critical value from business processes and
specify the rules to be globally enforced. Particularly in
e-business specifications, the need to be unambiguous, accurate,
and complete becomes even greater, because there may be no human
mediator or agent to rely on in complex or unforeseen situations.
Business Modelling: Multidisciplinary Approaches - Economics,
Operational, and Information Systems Perspectives, arranged in
three parts, brings scholarly perspectives from various disciplines
to bear on some of the critical aspects of business modeling. The
first part (chapters 1-8) focuses on business modelling
fundamentals and starts with a series of economics and operations
research perspectives. The second part (chapters 9-19) concentrates
on modelling in electronic businesses and focuses on Management
Information Systems and Decision Support Systems. The third part
(chapters 20-22) centers on multidisciplinary business modelling
progress, in particular on the seminal work of Professor Andrew B.
Whinston.
Augmented reality (AR) offers a live direct or indirect view of a
physical, real-world environment, where the elements and
surroundings are augmented by computer-generated sensory input such
as graphics and GPS data. It makes a game more real. Your social
media app puts you where want to be or go. Pro Android Augmented
Reality walks you through the foundations of building an augmented
reality application. From using various software and Android
hardware sensors, such as an accelerometer or a magnetometer
(compass), you'll learn the building blocks of augmented reality
for both marker- and location-based apps. Case studies are included
in this one-of-a-kind book, which pairs nicely with other Android
development books. After reading Pro Android Augmented Reality,
you'll be able to build augmented reality rich media apps or
integrate all the best augmented reality into your favorite Android
smartphone and/or tablet.What you'll learn * How to use most
Android cameras * How to find the user's location with GPS data *
How to detect movement and orientation of the device * How to
program against the accelerometer and compass * How to use the
AndAR library in marker recognition * How to create an artificial
horizon for your app * How to integrate the Google Maps API into AR
apps * How to build enterprise augmented reality apps using the
case studies in this book Who this book is for This book is for
Android developers familiar with Android programming, but new to
the camera, accelerometer, magnetometer and building augmented
reality applications in general. Table of Contents * Applications
of Augmented Reality * Basics of Augmented Reality on the Android
Platform * Adding Overlays * Artificial Horizons * Other Features
of Augmented Reality * A Simple App Using AR * A More Complex
Project Using More AR Features * A Project Using All AR Features *
An AR Game
Business modelling is a vast arena of research and practice, which
is gaining increasing important in the rapid development of
e-commerce, globalization, and in particular, the movement toward
global e-business. The ability to utilize advanced computing
technology to model, analyse and simulate various aspects of
ever-changing businesses has made a significant impact on the way
businesses are designed and run these days. With the current global
e-business and e-commerce initiatives, it has become important that
all businesses carefully validate their business objectives,
requirements, and strategies through a careful process of formal
business modelling. It is important for effective enterprise
decision making to have clear, concise business models that allow
the extraction of critical value from business processes and
specify the rules to be globally enforced. Particularly in
e-business specifications, the need to be unambiguous, accurate,
and complete becomes even greater, because there may be no human
mediator or agent to rely on in complex or unforeseen situations.
Business Modelling: Multidisciplinary Approaches - Economics,
Operational, and Information Systems Perspectives, arranged in
three parts, brings scholarly perspectives from various disciplines
to bear on some of the critical aspects of business modeling. The
first part (chapters 1-8) focuses on business modelling
fundamentals and starts with a series of economics and operations
research perspectives. The second part (chapters 9-19) concentrates
on modelling in electronic businesses and focuses on Management
Information Systems and Decision Support Systems. The third part
(chapters 20-22) centers on multidisciplinary business modelling
progress, in particular on the seminal work of Professor Andrew B.
Whinston.
Chemoinformatics and Bioinformatics in the Pharmaceutical Sciences
brings together two very important fields in pharmaceutical
sciences that have been mostly seen as diverging from each other:
chemoinformatics and bioinformatics. As developing drugs is an
expensive and lengthy process, technology can improve the cost,
efficiency and speed at which new drugs can be discovered and
tested. This book presents some of the growing advancements of
technology in the field of drug development and how the
computational approaches explained here can reduce the financial
and experimental burden of the drug discovery process. This book
will be useful to pharmaceutical science researchers and students
who need basic knowledge of computational techniques relevant to
their projects. Bioscientists, bioinformaticians, computational
scientists, and other stakeholders from industry and academia will
also find this book helpful.
This book provides comprehensive guidance on leveraging SAP IBP
technology to connect strategic (to be understood as long term
SC&O), tactical and operational planning into one coherent
process framework, presenting experience shared by practitioners in
workshops, customer presentations, business, and IT transformation
projects. It offers use cases and a wealth of practical tips to
ensure that readers understand the challenges and advantages of IBP
implementation. The book starts by characterizing disconnected
planning and contrasting this with key elements of a transformation
project approach. It explains the functional foundations and SAP
Hybris, Trade Promotion Planning, Customer Business Planning,
ARIBA, and S/4 integration with SAP IBP. It then presents process
for integrating finance in IBP. Annual planning and monthly
planning are taken as examples of explain Long term planning (in
some companies labeled as strategic). The core of the book is about
sales and operations planning (S&OP) and its process steps,
product demand, supply review, integrated reconciliation and
management business review, illustrating all steps with use cases.
It describes unconstrained and constrained optimized supply
planning, inventory optimization, shelf life planning. We explain
how to improve responsiveness with order-based allocation planning,
sales order confirmation, and big deal / tender management coupled
with simultaneous re-planning of supply. The book closes with a
chapter on performance measurement, measurement of effectiveness,
efficiency, and adherence.
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Secure Knowledge Management In The Artificial Intelligence Era - 9th International Conference, SKM 2021, San Antonio, TX, USA, October 8-9, 2021, Proceedings (Paperback, 1st ed. 2022)
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 9th
International Conference On Secure Knowledge Management In
Artificial Intelligence Era, SKM 2021, held in San Antonio, TX,
USA, in 2021. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the conference was held
online. The 11 papers presented were carefully reviewed and
selected from 30 submissions. They were organized according to the
following topical sections: intrusion and malware detection; secure
knowledge management; deep learning for security; web and social
network.
Pharmaceutical analysis is the application of analytical procedures
used to determine the purity, safety and quality of drugs and
chemicals. Meant for undergraduate students of Pharmacy, this book
emphasizes the basics of pharmaceutical analysis, techniques used
in analysis, methods of expressing concentrations, preparation and
standardization of various molar and normal solutions, titrations
& electrochemical methods of analysis. Recent developments in
pharmaceutical analysis have been incorporated. Pharmaceutical
analysis is used to: identify the drug in the formulated product;
confirm whether the formulation contain solely the active
ingredient or additional impurities are presents; check the
stability of the drug; find the rate of drug release from its
formulation; confirm the identity and purity of pure drug meets
specification; measure the concentrations of specified impurities;
and confirm the pKa values, partition coefficients, solubilities.
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