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    • Managing Urban Logistics

      • 1st Edition
      • March 21, 2024
      • Rosario Macario + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Managing Urban Logistics provides new insights based on the most recent research, theories, and developments in technological and ICT solutions, contemporary corporate trends, the re-evaluation of the role of authorities, and much more. The book shows how to manage these complex urban logistics issues using a long term, systemic perspective where urban freight distribution is an integral part of the entire urban mobility system. It examines the convergence points between mass and customized deliveries, thus modeling the decision processes, trade-offs and tolerances behind these processes to enable a more fluid sharing of urban space.Users will find an approach that tackles these issues from an empirical viewpoint that is based on analysis from a wide set of cases in urban environments around the world. A fresh and unique multidisciplinary approach that is based on solid theoretical background and a pragmatic management standpoint makes this book a must have for those involved in urban logistics.

    • Urban Risk Management in China

      • 1st Edition
      • January 23, 2024
      • Jianping Sun
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Urban Risk Management in China: Principles, Methods and Practices discusses the management of urban risk, the practical application of risk prevention, and the practice of control in the industry. Urban risk management is an emerging and interdisciplinary research field, and this book meets the urgent need to identify, analyze, and summarize urban risks and management difficulties that are experienced worldwide, especially in metropolitan cities. With rapid and large-scale urbanization, China's urban management experience in facing a series of comprehensive challenges provides a helpful way forward for urban planners around the world.This book clarifies the concept of urban risk, which includes urban land use, housing, infrastructure construction, economic and social development, and environmental protection, with an aim of analyzing the obstacles to urban risk management, forming a cognitive framework, organizing the practice of urban risk management, and finally forming a workable urban risk management system.

    • The Real Case for Driverless Mobility

      • 1st Edition
      • January 24, 2024
      • Alain L. Kornhauser + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      The Real Case for Driverless Mobility: Putting Driverless Vehicles to Use for Those Who Really Need a Ride explores solutions for providing mobility for the unserved/underserved... including those who cannot drive themselves, afford transport alternatives, or who live in areas where neither public nor private transport is offered. The book synthesizes the career-long activities of the authors and the Princeton SmartDrivingCars Summits and assesses whether cars without drivers can deliver an affordable and more effective alternative to mass transit and taxis.A high percentage of the residents in many U.S. cities are poor, and the jobs that remain are often not easily reached by public transit systems which struggle to deliver a minimum level of service with their limited budgets. The SDC Summits were initiated in 2017 by Alain Kornhauser to attempt to address this problem. This book presents the problem and the proposed solution in a form that can be used by a wide audience and help build a constituency, both for the proof of concept and for an eventual implementation in many cities and towns in North America and other parts of the world.Professionals, investors, researchers and students alike will find this book a valuable exploration of how driverless technology can be applied to personal transport that can be used by a large sub-group of the population who are not currently served by automobile transport and are poorly served by public transport solutions.

    • Freight Transport Planning

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 14
      • November 14, 2024
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Freight Transport Planning highlights new advances in the field of transportation, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors. Specific chapters in this new release include E-commerce, Decarbonization, Equity, Climate resilience, Spatial patterns and investments, Regional planning, Urbanism, Drones, Stakeholder engagement, and Digital twins.

    • Natural Behavior

      • 1st Edition
      • Volume 66
      • August 1, 2024
      • English
      • Hardback
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      Natural Behavior, Volume 66 highlights new advances in the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters written by an international board of authors.There is a long history of studying natural behavior in science. In 1872, Charles Darwin documented his observations on the development of his children in words, which was published in an article titled “A Biographical Sketch of an Infant.” Traditionally, observational studies like this had been viewed as insightful but also criticized as not objective and quantitative. More recently, building on advanced computation, the contemporary approaches to studying natural behavior in the real world delivered quantitative results. New sensing and wearable technologies allow researchers to collect high-density data in everyday contexts. With technological advances, we can scale up and obtain quantitative results from real-world data. This volume contains a collection of papers on studying natural behavior of child development. Those papers aim at understanding and predicting behavior and cognition as it occurs within complex real-world situations. Compared with findings from laboratories, the results derived from natural behavior are remarkably reliable, which provides an answer to the reproducibility crisis in science. Moreover, the findings based on natural behavior can be directly applied to the real world, especially in the health and education domains.

    • Mémofiches Anatomie Netter - Membres

      • 6th Edition
      • March 15, 2024
      • John T. Hansen
      • French
      • Spiral-bound
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      Ce carnet de 143 fiches constitue un outil de référence indispensable à la révision desexamens d’anatomie et un mémento de l’essentiel des connaissances anatomiquesde la région Membres.Chaque fiche est constituée de 2 pages en vis-à-vis : à gauche, une planche muetteen couleur ; à droite sa légende, accompagnée d’informations complémentaires.Son format de poche spiralé, conçu pour une consultation rapide et pratique, permetau lecteur, quel que soit son niveau de connaissances, une utilisation multiple :apprendre, réviser, s’entraîner, s’auto-évaluer.Cette 6e édition actualisée propose une mise à jour de la terminologie en lien aveccelle de la 8e édition de l’Atlas Netter d’anatomie humaine, et s’enrichit de nouvelleslégendes au sein des planches.Pour compléter l’approche régionale, chaque planche comporte désormaisl’indicatio... du système concerné (musculaire, squelettique, etc.) dont le repérage estfacilité par un titre courant au bas de la page. Enfin, une table des matières parsystème, de l’ensemble des fiches, a été ajoutée en début d’ouvrage pour faciliter larecherche par système.Le publicÉtudiants des filières médicales et paramédicales, professionnels de la santé.Les osLes musclesLes nerfsLes vaisseauxEn complémentLe tome Tête et cou 76 fichesLe tome Tronc 106 fiches

    • Managing Airport Corporate Performance

      • 1st Edition
      • February 27, 2024
      • Dimitrios J. Dimitriou + 2 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Managing Airport Corporate Performance: Leveraging Business Intelligence and Sustainable Transition provides a comprehensive and up-to-date resource that explores the integration of business intelligence (BI) techniques in management practices of airport operators. The book sheds light on how BI can play a pivotal role in enhancing corporate performance, strategic decision-making, and operational efficiency within the aviation industry. It uniquely explores the relationship between intelligent and effective management practices in airport operations and the achievement of corporate performance objectives in the aviation industry.This book showcases the practical applications of BI in the airport operators' context by providing a contemporary and holistic review of the strategies, best practices, and challenges involved in managing airport operations based on BI to drive corporate performance. Additionally, it recognizes the increasing focus on sustainability and the need for airport operators to align their operations with environmental considerations, corporate social responsibility, and economic viability.

    • Computational Intelligence Techniques for Sustainable Supply Chain Management

      • 1st Edition
      • May 23, 2024
      • Sanjoy Kumar Paul + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Computational Intelligence Techniques for Sustainable Supply Chain Management presents state-of-the-art computational intelligence techniques and applications for supply chain sustainability issues and logistic problems, filling the gap between general textbooks on sustainable supply chain management and more specialized literature dealing with methods for computational intelligence techniques. This book focuses on addressing problems in advanced topics in the sustainable supply chain and will appeal to practitioners, managers, researchers, students, and professionals interested in sustainable logistics, procurement, manufacturing, inventory and production management, scheduling, transportation, and supply chain network design.

    • Fundamentals of Industrial Heat Exchangers

      • 1st Edition
      • January 13, 2024
      • Hossain Nemati + 3 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Fundamentals of Heat Exchangers: Selection, Design, Construction, and Operation details the design and construction of heat exchangers in both research and industry contexts. This book is split into three parts, firstly outlining the fundamental properties of various types of heat exchangers and the critical decisions surrounding material selection, manufacturing methods, and cleaning options. Other sections provide a comprehensive grounding in the theory and analysis of heat exchangers, guiding the reader through thermal design. Finally, the book shows how to apply industrial codes to this process with detailed demonstrations, designing a shell-and-tube exchanger compliant with important but complex code ASME, Sec. VIII, Div.1. Taking into account the real-world considerations of heat-exchanger design, this book takes a reader from fundamental principles to the mechanical design of heat exchangers for industry or research.

    • Surface Modifications of Nanocellulose

      • 1st Edition
      • June 1, 2024
      • Ning Lin + 1 more
      • English
      • Paperback
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      Surface Modifications of Nanocellulose: Strategies, Methods, and Applications establishes the basic framework of nanocellulose. This book systemically summarizes the strategy and protocols of surface modifications on nanocellulose and comprehensively analyzes the relationship between surface modifications and their functional applications. It provides a one-stop reference for researchers engaged in biopolymer research with a commitment to the development of highly-valued functional polymers, nanomaterials, and green chemistry.

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