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A collection of insider accounts describing the organizational
impact of COVID-19 In The Great Lockdown: Lessons Learned During
the Pandemic from Organizations Around the Globe, expert
strategists Shivaji Das, Aroop Zutshi, and Janesh Janardhanan
deliver an insightful exploration of this once-in-a-lifetime event
to unearth invaluable learnings for the future. Told through the
experiences of CXOs at billion-dollar companies, star start-ups,
and non-profits from around the world, the book chronicles the ups
and downs of sophisticated organizations as they navigated the
COVID-19 crisis through initiatives impacting people, processes,
and technology. Revealing case studies contributed by the CXOs of
companies spanning multiple geographies - from the USA to Iran,
Uganda to Hong Kong, and multiple sectors - social media,
technology, aviation, luxury retail, healthcare, etc. Incisive
analyses of the techniques and strategies that worked--or
didn't--for organizations during the COVID-19 pandemic, covering
the role and evolution of leadership, organizational culture,
innovation and digitization Practical guidance for business leaders
to apply to their own firms in times of great economic upheaval:
the next pandemic, climate disasters, cyber-attacks The leaders
contributing their organization's survival and revival stories
include those from Julius Baer, SAP, Terumo, IndiGrid, Tapsi,
Fonterra, Hornet Networks, Globalization Partners, beCuriou, GoGoX,
Abacus Pharma, Real Wear Inc, SOS Children's Villages, Bangalore
International Airport, and A Lange & Sohne. Perfect for
executives, managers, and other business leaders, The Great
Lockdown is an invaluable addition to the libraries of anyone
interested in case studies of corporate resilience and endurance in
the face of unprecedented economic challenges.
A guide to the fascinating application of CO2 as a building block
in organic synthesis This important book explores modern organic
synthesis' use of the cheap, non-toxic and abundant chemical CO2 as
an attractive C1 building block. With contributions from an
international panel of experts, CO2 as Building Block in Organic
Synthesis offers a review of the most important reactions which use
CO2 as a building block in organic synthesis. The contributors
examine a wide-range of CO2 reactions including methylation
reactions, CH bond functionalization, carboxylation, cyclic
carbonate synthesis, multicomponent reactions, and many more. The
book reviews the most recent developments in the field and also:
Presents the most important reactions like CH-bond
functionalization, carboxylation, carbonate synthesis and many more
Contains contributions from an international panel of experts
Offers a comprehensive resource for academics and professionals in
the field Written for organic chemists, chemists working with or on
organometallics, catalytic chemists, pharmaceutical chemists, and
chemists in industry, CO2 as Building Block in Organic Synthesis
contains an analysis of the most important reactions which use CO2
as an effective building block in organic synthesis.
This book presents the advances in abrasive based machining and
finishing in broad sense. Specifically, the book covers the novel
machining and finishing strategies implemented in various advanced
machining processes for improving machining accuracy and overall
quality of the product. This book presents the capability of
advanced machining processes using abrasive grain. It also covers
ways for enhancing the production rate as well as quality. It
fulfills the gap between the production of any complicated
components and successful machining with abrasive particles.
Dieses Buch befasst sich mit den Herausforderungen und
Möglichkeiten von Open-Source- und kollaborativen Designansätzen
und -strategien im biomedizinischen Bereich. Es bietet eine
umfassende Reihe von bewährten Verfahren und Methoden, damit diese
sicheren, innovativen und zertifizierbaren biomedizinischen Geräte
die Patienten erreichen und erfolgreiche Lösungen für Probleme im
Gesundheitswesen bieten. Die Kapitel sind so gegliedert, dass sie
den gesamten Lebenszyklus von Open-Source-Medizintechnologien
verfolgen. Die bereitgestellten Informationen sind äußerst
praxisorientiert, da sie sich auf reale Studienfälle stützen, bei
denen sich die Zusammenarbeit zwischen medizinischen Fachkräften,
Ingenieuren und Technikern, Patienten und Patientenverbänden,
politischen Entscheidungsträgern, Regulierungsbehörden und
Bürgern als vorteilhaft erwiesen hat. Das Buch wird auch durch
eine Online-Infrastruktur, UBORA, unterstützt, über die
Open-Source-Medizinprodukte gemeinsam entwickelt und geteilt werden
können, um die Medizintechnik zu demokratisieren und eine
zugängliche biomedizintechnische Ausbildung zu fördern.Â
This book presents the advances in abrasive based machining and
finishing in broad sense. Specifically, the book covers the novel
machining and finishing strategies implemented in various advanced
machining processes for improving machining accuracy and overall
quality of the product. This book presents the capability of
advanced machining processes using abrasive grain. It also covers
ways for enhancing the production rate as well as quality. It
fulfills the gap between the production of any complicated
components and successful machining with abrasive particles.
A new unsupervised approach to the problem of Information
Extraction by Text Segmentation (IETS) is proposed, implemented and
evaluated herein. The authors approach relies on information
available on pre-existing data to learn how to associate segments
in the input string with attributes of a given domain relying on a
very effective set of content-based features. The effectiveness of
the content-based features is also exploited to directly learn from
test data structure-based features, with no previous human-driven
training, a feature unique to the presented approach. Based on the
approach, a number of results are produced to address the IETS
problem in an unsupervised fashion. In particular, the authors
develop, implement and evaluate distinct IETS methods, namely
"ONDUX," "JUDIE" and "iForm."
"ONDUX" (On Demand Unsupervised Information Extraction) is an
unsupervised probabilistic approach for IETS that relies on
content-based features to bootstrap the learning of structure-based
features. "JUDIE" (Joint Unsupervised Structure Discovery and
Information Extraction) aims at automatically extracting several
semi-structured data records in the form of continuous text and
having no explicit delimiters between them. In comparison with
other IETS methods, including "ONDUX," "JUDIE" faces a task
considerably harder that is, extracting information while
simultaneously uncovering the underlying structure of the implicit
records containing it." iForm" applies the authors approach to the
task of Web form filling. It aims at extracting segments from a
data-rich text given as input and associating these segments with
fields from a target Web form.
All of these methods were evaluated considering different
experimental datasets, which are used to perform a large set of
experiments in order to validate the presented approach and
methods. These experiments indicate that the proposed approach
yields high quality results when compared to state-of-the-art
approaches and that it is able to properly support IETS methods in
a number of real applications. The findings will prove valuable to
practitioners in helping them to understand the current
state-of-the-art in unsupervised information extraction techniques,
as well as to graduate and undergraduate students of web data
management."
This book deals with the concept of moments, and how they find
application in subsurface hydrologic problems-particularly those
dealing with solute transport. Both temporal and spatial moments
are dealt with in some detail for a wide variety of problems.
Several examples using experimental data, both from laboratory
columns and field experiments, are provided to give the readers a
clear idea about the scope of this method.
This book deals with the concept of moments, and how they find
application in subsurface hydrologic problems-particularly those
dealing with solute transport. Both temporal and spatial moments
are dealt with in some detail for a wide variety of problems.
Several examples using experimental data, both from laboratory
columns and field experiments, are provided to give the readers a
clear idea about the scope of this method.
This book provides readers with up-to-date coverage of fault
location algorithms in transmission and distribution networks. The
algorithms will help readers track down the exact location of a
fault in the shortest possible time. Furthermore, voltage and
current waveforms recorded by digital relays, digital fault
recorders, and other intelligent electronic devices contain a
wealth of information. Knowledge gained from analysing the fault
data can help system operators understand what happened, why it
happened and how it can be prevented from happening again. The book
will help readers convert such raw data into useful information and
improve power system performance and reliability.
China has reached a stage where further financial sector reforms
appear essential. As the reform process progresses and
macrofinancial linkages deepen, the preservation of financial
stability will become a major policy preoccupation. China is
already working toward enhancing its surveillance and monitoring
capabilities and is actively determining ways to undertake a series
of reforms that would lay the foundation for a strong, sustained,
and balanced growth. "China's Road to Economic Stability" focuses
on the key financial policy issues facing China today. The volume
draws upon contributions from senior Chinese authorities and
academics, as well as staff from the IMF to discuss the financial
policy context within China, macroeconomic factors affecting
financial stability, and the critical role of financial system
oversight. It seeks to improve the understanding of the financial
sector policy processes underway and the shifts taking place among
China's economic priorities. The book also covers issues such as
the financial stability framework, systemic linkages, liquidity
management, risk and vulnerability analysis, and sequencing
financial reforms. The book is a must read for academics,
researchers, and stakeholders interested in China and the shifts
taking place in the manner in which China views its financial
sector policies and oversees the stability of the financial system.
The present study revealed that, majority of the respondents were
in favour of inclusion of sex education in schools. Thus, there is
a need to consider sex education essential for proper growth for a
balanced view point. The more we consider this taboo and hide
information, the more mystiques are built around it, and the more
alluring it gets. Though sex education alone cannot eradicate all
the crimes, Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs) and other
adolescents' problems; but it could be one of the best initiatives
which may at least decrease the probability of problems faced by
the adolescents and the society in matters related to sex. Thus,
there is a need to contemplate on the matters concerning sex
education to build a better society. It is very rightly said that,
'Knowledge is Power' and in this high-risk day and age, children
need all the information they can get. Only by opening up the
discussion about sex and beginning to talk to children by catching
them young, we will be able to protect and help them to adopt right
attitude, values and healthy relationships.
In recent times a lot of interest has been directed to the study of
tool wear due to its influence on the technological performance of
machining operations such as tool life, cutting forces, cutting
power and surface finish. These studies have mostly been guided by
an ever increasing demand for design of more efficient machine
tools and cutting tools and due to increased use of unmanned
machining centres where on- line monitoring of tool condition is
very vital.The present text provides an exhaustive analysis of the
chip forming process while machining with a worn tool using the
rigid-plastic slipline field theory. Tool-chip interface friction
is assumed to be adhesion and the fields are analysed by the matrix
operational procedure with and without the assumption of an elastic
contact region both for machining with chip curl and also for the
case, when the chip streams past the cutting tool producing the
straight chip. The book provides enough information on the effect
of tool wear on cutting forces, force ratio and interface coulomb's
friction and is bound to be of value to those engaged in metal
cutting research both in industry and academia.
The subject of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is continuing on its
journey of affecting each and every individual and will keep on
this path in the times to come. This handbook is a collection of
topics on the application of artificial intelligence applications
for sustainability in different areas. It provides an insight into
the various uses of concepts and practical examples for different
domains all in one place which makes it unique and important for
the potential reader. Handbook of Artificial Intelligence
Applications for Industrial Sustainability: Concepts and Practical
Examples examines the influence of AI and how it can be used in
several industries to improve corporate performance, reduce
security concerns, improve customer experience, and ultimately
generate value for customers and maximize profits. The handbook
offers practical examples, concepts, and applications that provide
an easy understanding and implementation process. It provides AI
applications in many fields such as sustainable credit decisions,
cyber security and fraud prevention, warehouse management, and much
more. This handbook will provide an insight to customers, managers,
professionals, engineers, researchers, and students on the various
uses of AI and sustainability in different domains. All of this
needed information compiled into one handbook makes it unique and
important for the engineering, business, and computer science
communities.
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