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original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
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Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are
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access to any online entitlements included with the product. New
edition of a comprehensive text: an ideal resource for the
occupational health professional! An updated and comprehensive
guide to occupational and environmental injuries and illnesses,
their diagnosis and treatment, and preventive measures in the
workplace and community. Complete and concise, this clinically
focused book is the go-to reference for health care professionals
in all specialties who diagnose and treat acute and chronic
occupational and environmental injuries and illnesses. In addition
to clinical management and toxicology, the text covers important
aspects of multidisciplinary occupational health and safety
practice including ethical principles, disability management,
workers' compensation, medical monitoring, and health risk
assessment. This new edition features new chapters on the impact of
climate change on workers, the changing nature of work, Total
Worker Health, workplace violence, pediatric environmental health,
genetic toxicology and responder safety and health latest
approaches to prevent workplace-related injuries through the
application of ergonomic principles updated practical information
on the toxic properties and clinical manifestations of industrial
materials and environmental agents.
Artists are increasingly interested in producing work that is not
only beautifully designed and produced, but is also environmentally
friendly and socially responsible. In Sustainable Ceramics, pioneer
Robert Harrison draws on more than four decades of making, and a
wealth of experience shared by other artists to present practical
possibilities for ceramic artists. This book covers all the factors
to consider when going 'green', from fuels and alternative firing
technology to energy-saving methods, sustainable ways to collect
and use clay itself, and ways to deal with or recycle waste
materials and save water. He suggests simple and achievable methods
by which to reduce the carbon footprint of ceramic art, and draws
on interviews and examples throughout by practitioners who reclaim,
reuse and recycle in their studio or work. Sustainable Ceramics is
an essential resource for any ceramicist, studio or school looking
for ideas on how to reduce the impact of their practice on the
environment.
This book presents cutting-edge emerging technologies and
approaches in the areas of service-oriented architectures,
intelligent devices and cloud-based cyber-physical systems. It
provides a clear view on their applicability to the management and
automation of manufacturing and process industries. It offers a
holistic view of future industrial cyber-physical systems and their
industrial usage and also depicts technologies and architectures as
well as a migration approach and engineering tools based on these.
By providing a careful balance between the theory and the practical
aspects, this book has been authored by several experts from
academia and industry, thereby offering a valuable understanding of
the vision, the domain, the processes and the results of the
research. It has several illustrations and tables to clearly
exemplify the concepts and results examined in the text and these
are supported by four real-life case-studies. We are witnessing
rapid advances in the industrial automation, mainly driven by
business needs towards agility and supported by new disruptive
advances both on the software and hardware side, as well as the
cross-fertilization of concepts and the amalgamation of information
and communication technology-driven approaches in traditional
industrial automation and control systems. This book is intended
for technology managers, application designers, solution
developers, engineers working in industry, as well as researchers,
undergraduate and graduate students of industrial automation,
industrial informatics and production engineering.
This book presents cutting-edge emerging technologies and
approaches in the areas of service-oriented architectures,
intelligent devices and cloud-based cyber-physical systems. It
provides a clear view on their applicability to the management and
automation of manufacturing and process industries. It offers a
holistic view of future industrial cyber-physical systems and their
industrial usage and also depicts technologies and architectures as
well as a migration approach and engineering tools based on
these.
By providing a careful balance between the theory and the
practical aspects, this book has been authored by several experts
from academia and industry, thereby offering a valuable
understanding of the vision, the domain, the processes and the
results of the research. It has several illustrations and tables to
clearly exemplify the concepts and results examined in the text and
these are supported by four real-life case-studies.
We are witnessing rapid advances in the industrial automation,
mainly driven by business needs towards agility and supported by
new disruptive advances both on the software and hardware side, as
well as the cross-fertilization of concepts and the amalgamation of
information and communication technology-driven approaches in
traditional industrial automation and control systems. This book is
intended for technology managers, application designers, solution
developers, engineers working in industry, as well as researchers,
undergraduate and graduate students of industrial automation,
industrial informatics and production engineering.
This book consists of eight chapters, authored by distinguished
researchers and practitioners, that highlight the state of the art
and recent trends in addressing the project portfolio selection and
scheduling problem (PPSSP) across a variety of domains,
particularly defense, social programs, supply chains, and finance.
Many organizations face the challenge of selecting and scheduling a
subset of available projects subject to various resource and
operational constraints. In the simplest scenario, the primary
objective for an organization is to maximize the value added
through funding and implementing a portfolio of projects, subject
to the available budget. However, there are other major
difficulties that are often associated with this problem such as
qualitative project benefits, multiple conflicting objectives,
complex project interdependencies, workforce and manufacturing
constraints, and deep uncertainty regarding project costs,
benefits, and completion times. It is well known that the PPSSP is
an NP-hard problem and, thus, there is no known polynomial-time
algorithm for this problem. Despite the complexity associated with
solving the PPSSP, many traditional approaches to this problem make
use of exact solvers. While exact solvers provide definitive
optimal solutions, they quickly become prohibitively expensive in
terms of computation time when the problem size is increased. In
contrast, evolutionary and memetic computing afford the capability
for autonomous heuristic approaches and expert knowledge to be
combined and thereby provide an efficient means for high-quality
approximation solutions to be attained. As such, these approaches
can provide near real-time decision support information for
portfolio design that can be used to augment and improve existing
human-centric strategic decision-making processes. This edited book
provides the reader with a broad overview of the PPSSP, its
associated challenges, and approaches to addressing the problem
using evolutionary and memetic computing.
This book consists of eight chapters, authored by distinguished
researchers and practitioners, that highlight the state of the art
and recent trends in addressing the project portfolio selection and
scheduling problem (PPSSP) across a variety of domains,
particularly defense, social programs, supply chains, and finance.
Many organizations face the challenge of selecting and scheduling a
subset of available projects subject to various resource and
operational constraints. In the simplest scenario, the primary
objective for an organization is to maximize the value added
through funding and implementing a portfolio of projects, subject
to the available budget. However, there are other major
difficulties that are often associated with this problem such as
qualitative project benefits, multiple conflicting objectives,
complex project interdependencies, workforce and manufacturing
constraints, and deep uncertainty regarding project costs,
benefits, and completion times. It is well known that the PPSSP is
an NP-hard problem and, thus, there is no known polynomial-time
algorithm for this problem. Despite the complexity associated with
solving the PPSSP, many traditional approaches to this problem make
use of exact solvers. While exact solvers provide definitive
optimal solutions, they quickly become prohibitively expensive in
terms of computation time when the problem size is increased. In
contrast, evolutionary and memetic computing afford the capability
for autonomous heuristic approaches and expert knowledge to be
combined and thereby provide an efficient means for high-quality
approximation solutions to be attained. As such, these approaches
can provide near real-time decision support information for
portfolio design that can be used to augment and improve existing
human-centric strategic decision-making processes. This edited book
provides the reader with a broad overview of the PPSSP, its
associated challenges, and approaches to addressing the problem
using evolutionary and memetic computing.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th
International Symposium on Bioinformatics Research and
Applications, ISBRA 2015, held in Norfolk, VA, USA, in June 2015.
The 34 revised full papers and 14 two-page papers included in this
volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 98 submissions.
The papers cover a wide range of topics in bioinformatics and
computational biology and their applications.
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