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While business functions such as manufacturing, operations, and
marketing often utilize various software applications, they tend to
operate without the ability to interact with each other and
exchange data. This provides a challenge to gain an enterprise-wide
view of a business and to assist real-time decision making.
Service-Driven Approaches to Architecture and Enterprise
Integration addresses the issues of integrating assorted software
applications and systems by using a service driven approach.
Supporting the dynamics of business needs, this book highlights the
tools, techniques, and governance aspects of design, and implements
cost-effective enterprise integration solutions. It is a valuable
source of information for software architects, SOA practitioners,
and software engineers as well as researchers and students in
pursuit of extensible and agile software design.
This book discusses supply chain issues and models with examples
from actual case studies. Recent advances in sustainability, supply
chains and technologies have brought promising potential for the
management of sustainable global and local supply chains. While
most of the current literature seem to consider developments in the
field of sustainable supply chains and in the field of Industry 4.0
as two distinct entities, this book attempts to explore the synergy
in bringing these two distinct fields together. The book features
chapters on management of sustainability and industry 4.0 on supply
chains as a whole, with several case studies on issues related to
the application of sustainable supply chains in specific
application sectors. They employ mathematical modeling and
statistical analyses, as well as descriptive qualitative studies.
They cover a range of application areas including multiple sectors
(restaurant, manufacturing, logistics, furniture, food and
insurance), domains (supply chains, logistics, marketing, and
reverse logistics) and multiple country contexts (UK and India).
The potential links between sustainability and the recent
technological innovations from Industry 4.0 have been explored in
detail. The book offers a valuable tool for managerial
decision-making on the current practice and future potential on the
use of Industry 4.0 tools for sustainable supply chains to
facilitate competitive advantage with case studies in various
industry sectors. In addition, some intriguing mathematical models
will appeal to students and researchers interested in modeling the
logistics process and the application of evolutionary game theory
for integrating the social and economic aspects of sustainable
supply chains. Some of these supply chain issues have been
addressed in a previous book by the Editors.
Service organizations and enterprises have the dual challenge of
embracing externally-driven variation while simultaneously evolving
the enabling of information technology operations and systems. The
co-engineering method provides a powerful tool for
interdisciplinary decision-making necessary for managing complex
interactions between layers of external and enabling services.
""Co-Engineering Applications and Adaptive Business Technologies in
Practice: Enterprise Service Ontologies, Models, and Frameworks""
provides knowledge that forms the basis for successful
co-engineering of the adaptive complex enterprise for services
delivery. Intended for practicing professionals, advanced students,
and academicians, this book enables understanding of the deeper
issues and challenges in applying IT to solve business problems.
This book explores culture, development, and spirituality from the
perspective of social work. This framework serves as foundation and
guides analytical deliberation through the use of case studies from
around the world. With emerging trends in development,
synchronistic synthesis between the inner self and interventions,
it is anticipated to contribute to advancing well-being of all
people. The book reflects global experiences from both the social
work professions and development practitioner's perspectives, as it
pertains to economic and social development. The book serves as a
guide to those who want to better understand and incorporate
spirituality into successful social work interventions, practice,
and research. It examines social development in the daily lives of
children and families by looking at larger national and
international phenomenon that can affect the well-being of
communities. The book further discusses natural disasters, poverty,
war, migration, human trafficking, war, violence and other factors
with suggestions of innovative global interventions that have been
utilized to assist diverse marginalized groups and communities.
Given our rapidly growing population, the need for judicious
management of essential natural resources is becoming a major
challenge for planners, managers and scientists/researchers. This
book presents a multidisciplinary approach to managing water,
energy and bio-resources, described in papers contributed by
distinguished scientists and academics working at reputed
universities and institutions around the globe. It includes 28
chapters grouped into three sections: Water Resources Management,
Energy and Bio-resources Management and Climate and Natural
Resources Management, examining case studies from all over the
world. These contributions address current challenges, offering
modern techniques for managing these resources in various
geographical regions. This volume will provide a valuable asset for
researchers and students, managers, environmentalists,
hydrologists, water resource and energy managers, governmental and
other regulatory bodies dealing with water, energy and
bio-resources.
In the 21st century, supply chain operations and relationships
among supply chain partners have become highly challenging,
necessitating new approaches, e.g., the development of new models.
Supply Chain Strategies, Issues and Models discusses supply chain
issues and models with examples from actual industrial cases.
Expert authors with a wide spectrum of knowledge working in various
areas of supply chain management from various geographical
locations offer refreshing, novel and insightful ideas and address
possible solutions using established theories and models. Supply
Chain Strategies, Issues and Models features studies that have used
mathematical modeling, statistical analyses and also descriptive
qualitative studies. The chapters cover many relevant themes
related to supply chains and logistics including supply chain
complexity, information sharing, quality (six sigma), electronic
Kanbans, inventory models, scheduling, purchasing and contracts. To
facilitate easy reading, the chapters that deal with supply chain
related issues are first, followed by studies on inventory,
scheduling, purchasing and logistics. This book can be used as a
useful resource of supply chain management by academics, students
and practitioners. This book can serve as a helping tool in
managerial decision making for investments in collaboration and
information exchange to improve forecasts, scheduling and inventory
management, and for supply chain managers to leverage product and
process complexities into competitive advantage. Some interesting
mathematical models can appeal to students and researchers
interested in modeling the impact of information sharing in supply
chains.
Odyssey of Light in Nonlinear Optical Fibers: Theory and
Applications presents a collection of breakthrough research
portraying the odyssey of light from optical solitons to optical
rogue waves in nonlinear optical fibers. The book provides a simple
yet holistic view on the theoretical and application-oriented
aspects of light, with a special focus on the underlying nonlinear
phenomena. Exploring the very frontiers of light-wave technology,
the text covers the basics of nonlinear fiberoptics and the
dynamics of electromagnetic pulse propagation in nonlinear
waveguides. It also highlights some of the latest advances in
nonlinear optical fiber technology, discussing hidden symmetry
reductions and Ablowitz-Kaup-Newell-Segur (AKNS) hierarchies for
nonautonomous solitons, state-of-the-art Brillouin scattering
applications, backpropagation, and the concept of eigenvalue
communication-a powerful nonlinear digital signal processing
technique that paves the way to overcome the current limitations of
traditional communications methods in nonlinear fiber channels. Key
chapters study the feasibility of the eigenvalue demodulation
scheme based on digital coherent technology by throwing light on
the experimental study of the noise tolerance of the demodulated
eigenvalues, investigate matter wave solitons and other localized
excitations pertaining to Bose-Einstein condensates in atom optics,
and examine quantum field theory analogue effects occurring in
binary waveguide arrays, plasmonic arrays, etc., as well as their
ensuing nonlinear wave propagation. Featuring a foreword by Dr.
Akira Hasegawa, the father of soliton communication systems,
Odyssey of Light in Nonlinear Optical Fibers: Theory and
Applications serves as a curtain raiser to usher in the photonics
era. The technological innovations at the core of the book form the
basis for the next generation of ultra-high speed computers and
telecommunication devices.
The immobilized biocatalyst (IMB) is a key component of
biotransformation systems that are used to transform substrates to
desired products. The impro- ment of biocatalyst properties has a
direct influence on the overall effectiveness of the process based
on the biotransformation. The basic catalytic characte- stics of
biocatalyst that are followed include kinetic properties, pH
optima, stability,and inhibition. The investigation of catalytic
properties of immobilized enzymes is still a time consuming
procedure and is not always simple. In the 1980s,a major effort was
made to standardize the rules by which IMB is char- terized. The
Working Party of EFB on immobilized biocatalysts has formul- ed
principles of individual methods, among them the requirement of
kinetic characterization [1]. It was recommended to use a
packed-bed reactor,equipped with temperature control and with
infinite flow circulation. The system should be equipped with a
post-column unit to measure the time-dependence of the product or
substrate concentration [2, 3], the most commonly used analytical
methods being spectrophotometry, chemiluminiscence, automatic
titration, bioluminiscence, chromatography, polarimetry, and
biosensors based on the oxygen electrode. There are two main
drawbacks to the application of these methods: 1. The need to vary
the analytical principles, depending on the chemical and
physical-chemical properties of analytes; 2. In some cases, mainly
in the study of hydrolytic enzymes, the natural s- strate must be
replaced by an artificial one,that is chromolytic,chromogenic,
chemiluminiscent,bioluminiscent,or fluorescent.
This volume presents a development of the ideas of harmonic
analysis with a special emphasis on application-oriented themes. In
keeping with the interdisciplinary nature of the subject,
theoretical aspects of the subject are complemented by in-depth
explorations of related material of an applied nature. Thus, basic
material on Fourier series, Hardy spaces and the Fourier transform
are interwoven with chapters treating the discrete Fourier
transform and fast algorithms, the spectral theory of stationary
processes, H-infinity control theory, and wavelet theory.
The essays and research papers in this collection explore current
issues in Language Education, English for Academic Purposes,
Contrastive Discourse Analysis, and Language Policy and Planning,
and outline promising directions for theory and practice in applied
linguistics. The collection also honours the life-long contribution
of Robert B. Kaplan to the field.
This book offers a critical exploration of the role of English in
postcolonial communities such as India. Specifically, it focuses on
some local ways in which the language falls along the lines of a
class-based divide (with ancillary ones of gender and caste as
well). The book argues that issues of inequality, subordination and
unequal value seem to revolve directly around the general
positioning of English in relation to vernacular languages. The
author was raised and schooled in the Indian educational system.
This book offers a meaningful and practicable guide to better
management of arsenic problems in the groundwater of the Gangetic
Plain. It gathers contributions from distinguished researchers who
have been actively working in the area for over a decade. The
arsenic contamination of groundwater is a growing concern in the
central Gangetic Plain, where the local population's main sources
of fresh water are surface water, groundwater and rain water; of
these sources, only the last two generally meet the most important
criteria for drinking water in their natural state. Natural
geological changes are presumed to be the primary reason for
arsenic contamination in this region. Further, most of the people
living in this area have developed the habit of drinking water
(groundwater) from the arsenic-contaminated tubewells in many parts
of the region. As a result, many are suffering from arsenicosis and
many more are at risk. Since the cause of arsenic contamination in
groundwater still remains unclear, this book seeks to address the
arsenic issue in this region by pursuing a holistic and systematic
scientific approach. Accordingly, it delineates various sources,
processes, hypotheses and remedial approaches that are needed to
manage the arsenic contamination in the Central Gangetic Plain.
Comprehensive and authoritative, this Handbook provides a
nuanced description and analysis of educational systems, practices,
and policies in Asian countries and explains and interprets these
practices from cultural, social, historical, and economic
perspectives.
Using a culture-based framework, the volume is organized in five
sections, each devoted to educational practices in one civilization
in Asia: Sinic, Japanese, Islamic, Buddhist, and Hindu. Culture and
culture identities essentially are civilization identities; the
major differences among civilizations are rooted in their different
cultures. This framework offers a novel approach to capturing the
essence of the diverse educational systems and practices in
Asia.
Uniquely combining description and interpretation of educational
practices in Asia, this Handbook is a must-have resource for
education researchers and graduate students in international and
comparative education, globalization and education, multicultural
education, sociocultural foundations of education, and Asian
studies, and for educational administrators and education policy
makers.
Although interest in Spatial Decision Support Systems (SDSS)
continues to grow rapidly in a wide range of disciplines, students,
planners, managers, and the research community have lacked a book
that covers the fundamentals of SDSS along with the advanced design
concepts required for building SDSS. Filling this need, Spatial
Decision Support Systems: Principles and Practices provides a
comprehensive examination of the various aspects of SDSS evolution,
components, architecture, and implementation. It integrates
research from a variety of disciplines, including the geosciences,
to supply a complete overview of SDSS technologies and their
application from an interdisciplinary perspective. This
groundbreaking reference provides thorough coverage of the roots of
SDSS. It explains the core principles of SDSS, how to use them in
various decision making contexts, and how to design and develop
them using readily available enabling technologies and commercial
tools. The book consists of four major parts, each addressing
different topic areas in SDSS: 1. Presents an introduction to SDSS
and the evolution of SDSS 2. Covers the essential and optional
components of SDSS 3. Focuses on the design and implementation of
SDSS 4. Reviews SDSS applications from various domains and
disciplines -- investigating current challenges and future
directions The text includes numerous detailed case studies,
example applications, and methods for tailoring SDSS to your work
environment. It also integrates sample code segments throughout.
Addressing the technical and organizational challenges that affect
the success or failure of SDSS, the book concludes by considering
future directions of this rapidly emerging field of study.
This collection features six peer-reviewed reviews on optimising
key quality attributes in poultry products. The first chapter
considers recent research on enhancing the nutritional quality of
poultry meat, focussing primarily on increasing the meat's
polyunsaturated fat content. The second chapter describes different
mechanisms and chemical compounds responsible for poultry meat
flavour and off-flavour development. The chapter also reviews how
these compounds can be manipulated to enhance flavour. The third
chapter provides a comprehensive overview of 20 years' worth of
research on understanding the genetics and genomics of meat quality
traits in poultry species. The fourth chapter reviews the main
factors affecting poultry meat colour and includes a case study to
demonstrate how packaging can influence poultry meat colour and
lipid oxidation. The fifth chapter addresses the role and influence
of egg appearance and colour on consumer preferences and purchasing
decisions, focussing on the shell, albumen and yolk. The final
chapter reviews the use of molecular breeding techniques to improve
internal and external egg quality, including whole-genome methods,
such as genome-wide association studies and genomic selection.
Groundwater is the most important source of domestic,
industrial, and agricultural water and also a finite resource.
Population growth has created an unprecedented demand for water,
with the situation most critical in the developing world, where
several million people depend on contaminated groundwater for
drinking purposes. Geogenic contaminants, such as arsenic and
fluoride at toxic levels, pose major environmental risks and
endanger public health. This book is a collection of papers
providing a multi-disciplinary overview for scientists and
professionals involved in the sustainable development of
groundwater resources.
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