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• Chapter 1: Present State of Cooling, Energy Consumption and Sustainability
• Chapter 2: Future of Air Conditioning
• Chapter 3: Dew Point Evaporative Cooling Systems
• Chapter 4: Adsorbent Coated Heat and Mass Exchanger
• Chapter 5: Liquid-Based Desiccant Air Dehumidification
• Chapter 6: Membrane-Based Air Dehumidification
• Chapter 7: Dissipative Losses in Cooling Cycles
• Chapter 8: Efficacy comparison for cooling cycles
• Chapter 9: Thermo-economic analysis for cooling needs.
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This book highlights key recent developments in air conditioning technologies for cooling and dehumidification with the specific objectives to improve energy efficiency and to minimize environmental impact. Today, air conditioning, comprising cooling and dehumidification, is a necessity in commercial and residential buildings and even in many industrial processes. This book provides key update on recent developments in air conditioning systems, cooling cycles and innovative cooling/dehumidification technologies. Key technologies related to cooling include heat-driven absorption and adsorption cooling and water-based dew point evaporative cooling. Technologies connected with dehumidification involve new generations of adsorbent-desiccant dehumidifiers, liquid-based desiccants and membranes that sieve out water vapor from air. Losses in cooling cycles and thermo-economic analysis for a sustainable economy are also judiciously documented.
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• Part I: Growth.-
• 1. Growth.- Part II: Functionalization.-
• 2. Surface science.-
• 3. Doping.- Part III: Characterization.-
• 4. In-situ TEM.-
• 5. Time-resolved in-situ X-ray.-
• 6. Characterisation of semiconductor nanowires by electron beam induced microscopy and cathodoluminescence.-
• 7. Optical Spectroscopy.-
• 8. Raman Spectroscopy.-
• 9. First-principles calculations.- Part IV: Applications.-
• 10. FET.-
• 11. Laser. .
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This book covers virtually all aspects of semiconductor nanowires, from growth to related applications, in detail. First, it addresses nanowires' growth mechanism, one of the most important topics at the forefront of nanowire research. The focus then shifts to surface functionalization: nanowires have a high surface-to-volume ratio and thus are well-suited to surface modification, which effectively functionalizes them. The book also discusses the latest advances in the study of impurity doping, a crucial process in nanowires. In addition, considerable attention is paid to characterization techniques such as nanoscale and in situ methods, which are indispensable for understanding the novel properties of nanowires. Theoretical calculations are also essential to understanding nanowires' characteristics, particularly those that derive directly from their special nature as one-dimensional nanoscale structures. In closing, the book considers future applications of nanowire structures in devices such as FETs and lasers.
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• 1 Formulations
• 1.1 Introduction
• 1.2 What Is an Integer Program?
• 1.3 Formulating IPs and BIPs
• 1.4 The Combinatorial Explosion
• 1.5 Mixed Integer Formulations
• 1.6 Alternative Formulations
• 1.7 Good and Ideal Formulations
• 1.8 Notes
• 1.9 Exercises
• 2 Optimality, Relaxation, and Bounds
• 2.1 Optimality and Relaxation
• 2.2 Linear Programming Relaxations
• 2.3 Combinatorial Relaxations
• 2.4 Lagrangian Relaxation
• 2.5 Duality
• 2.6 Linear Programming and Polyhedra
• 2.7 Primal Bounds: Greedy and Local Search
• 2.8 Notes
• 2.9 Exercises
• 3 Well-Solved Problems
• 3.1 Properties of Easy Problems
• 3.2 IPs with Totally Unimodular Matrices
• 3.3 Minimum Cost Network Flows
• 3.4 Special Minimum Cost Flows
• 3.5 Optimal Trees
• 3.6 Submodularity and Matroids
• 3.7 Two Harder Network Flow Problems
• 3.8 Notes
• 3.9 Exercises
• 4 Matchings and Assignments
• 4.1 Augmenting Paths and Optimality
• 4.2 Bipartite Maximum Cardinality Matching
• 4.3 The Assignment Problem
• 4.4 Matchings in Non-Bipartite Graphs
• 4.5 Notes
• 4.6 Exercises
• 5 Dynamic Programming
• 5.1 Some Motivation: Shortest Paths
• 5.2 Uncapacitated Lot-Sizing
• 5.3 An Optimal Subtree of a Tree
• 5.4 Knapsack Problems
• 5.5 The Cutting Stock Problem
• 5.6 Notes
• 5.7 Exercises
• 6 Complexity and Problem Reductions
• 6.1 Complexity
• 6.2 Decision Problems, and Classes NP and P
• 6.3 Polynomial Reduction and the Class NPC
• 6.4 Consequences of P = NP or P ?= NP
• 6.5 Optimization and Separation
• 6.6 The Complexity of Extended Formulations
• 6.7 Worst Case Analysis of Heuristics
• 6.8 Notes
• 6.9 Exercises
• 7 Branch-and-Bound
• 7.1 Divide and Conquer
• 7.2 Implicit Enumeration
• 7.3 Branch and Bound: An Example
• 7.4 LP-based Branch and Bound
• 7.5 Using a Branch-and-Bound/Cut System
• 7.6 Preprocessing or Presolve
• 7.7 Notes
• 7.8 Exercises
• 8 Cutting Plane Algorithms
• 8.1 Introduction
• 8.2 Some Simple Valid Inequalities
• 8.3 Valid Inequalities
• 8.4 A Priori Addition of Constraints
• 8.5 Automatic Reformulation or Cutting Plane Algorithms
• 8.6 Gomory's Fractional Cutting Plane Algorithm
• 8.7 Mixed Integer Cuts
• 8.8 Disjunctive Inequalities and Lift-and-Project
• 8.9 Notes
• 8.10 Exercises
• 9 Strong Valid Inequalities
• 9.1 Introduction
• 9.2 Strong Inequalities
• 9.3 0-1 Knapsack Inequalities
• 9.4 Mixed 0-1 Inequalities
• 9.5 The Optimal Subtour Problem
• 9.6 Branch-and-Cut
• 9.7 Notes
• 9.8 Exercises
• 10 Lagrangian Duality
• 10.1 Lagrangian Relaxation
• 10.2 The Strength of the Lagrangian Dual
• 10.3 Solving the Lagrangian Dual
• 10.4 Lagrangian Heuristics and Variable Fixing
• 10.5 Choosing a Lagrangian Dual
• 10.6 Notes
• 10.7 Exercises
• 11 Column (and Row) Generation Algorithms
• 11.1 Introduction
• 11.2 The Dantzig-Wolfe Reformulation of an IP
• 11.3 Solving the Master Linear Program by Column Generation
• 11.4 Solving the Column Generation Subproblem
• 11.4 Solving the IP Master Integer Program: Branch-and-Price
• 11.5 Problem Variants
• 11.5.1 Handling Multiple Subproblems
• 11.5.2 Partitioning/Packing Problems with Additional Variables
• 11.5.3 Partitioning/Packing Problems with Identical Subsets
• 11.6 Computational Issues
• 11.7 Branch-and-Cut-and-Price: Capacitated Vehicle Routing
• 11.8 Notes
• 11.9 Exercises
• 12. Benders' Algorithm
• 12.1 Introduction
• 12.2 Benders' Reformulation
• 12.3 MIPs with Block Diagonal Structure
• 12.4 Solving the LP Separation Problems
• 12.5 Integer Subproblems: Basic Algorithms
• 12.6 Notes
• 12.7 Exercises
• 13 Heuristic Algorithms
• 13.1 Introduction 195
• 13.2 Greedy and Local Search Revisited 196
• 13.3 Improved Local Search Heuristics 199
• 13.4 Heuristics inside MIP Solvers
• 13.5 User-designed MIP Heuristics
• 13.6 Notes
• 13.7 Exercises
• 14 From Theory to Solutions
• 14.1 Introduction
• 14.2 Software for Solving Mixed Integer Programs
• 14.3 How Do We Find an Improved Formulation?
• 14.4 Multi-Item Single Machine Lot-Sizing
• 14.5 A Multiplexer Assignment Problem
• 14.6 Integer Programming and Machine Learning
• 14.7 Notes
• 14.8 Exercises
• References
• Index.
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A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS WITH DISCRETE OR INTEGER VARIABLES, REVISED AND UPDATED The revised second edition of Integer Programming explains in clear and simple terms how to construct custom-made algorithms or use existing commercial software to obtain optimal or near-optimal solutions for a variety of real-world problems. The second edition also includes information on the remarkable progress in the development of mixed integer programming solvers in the 22 years since the first edition of the book appeared. The updated text includes information on the most recent developments in the field such as the much improved preprocessing/presolving and the many new ideas for primal heuristics included in the solvers. The result has been a speed-up of several orders of magnitude. The other major change reflected in the text is the widespread use of decomposition algorithms, in particular column generation (branch-(cut)-and-price) and Benders' decomposition. The revised second edition: Contains new developments on column generation Offers a new chapter on Benders' algorithm Includes expanded information on preprocessing, heuristics, and branch-and-cut Presents several basic and extended formulations, for example for fixed cost network flows Also touches on and briefly introduces topics such as non-bipartite matching, the complexity of extended formulations or a good linear program for the implementation of lift-and-project Written for students of integer/mathematical programming in operations research, mathematics, engineering, or computer science, Integer Programming offers an updated edition of the basic text that reflects the most recent developments in the field.
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• Obstacle Avoidance Based Decision Making and Management of Articulated Agents.- Management of Soft Agents with Structural Uncertainty.- A Novel Damping Mechanism for Soft Agents with Structural Uncertainty.- Management of Electrical Machine Using Torque Control Strategy.
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In this book, the authors focus on three aspects related to the development of articulated agents: presenting an overview of high-level control algorithms for intelligent decision-making of articulated agents, experimental study of the properties of soft agents as the end-effector of articulated agents, and accurate management of low-level torque-control loop to accurately control the articulated agents. This book summarizes recent advances related to articulated agents. The motive behind the book is to trigger theoretical and practical research studies related to articulated agents.
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• 1. Fundamentals of Measurement Systems
• 2. Instrument Types and Performance Characteristics
• 3. Measurement Uncertainty
• 4. Statistical Analysis of Measurements Subject to Random Errors
• 5. Calibration of Measuring Sensors and Instruments
• 6. Data Acquisition and Signal Processing
• 7. Variable Conversion
• 8. Measurement Signal Transmission
• 9. Display, Recording, and Presentation of Measurement Data
• 10. Intelligent Devices
• 11. Measurement Reliability and Safety Systems
• 12. Data Acquisition with LabVIEW
• 13. Sensor Technologies
• 14. Temperature Measurement
• 15. Pressure Measurement
• 16. Flow Measurement
• 17. Level Measurement
• 18. Mass, Force, and Torque Measurement
• 19. Translational Motion, Vibration, and Shock Measurement
• 20. Rotational Motion Transducers
• 21. Summary of Other Measurements
• Appendix 1. Imperial-Metric-SI Conversion Tables
• 2. Thevenin's Theorem
• 3. Thermocouple Tables
• 4. Using Mathematical Tables.
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Measurement and Instrumentation: Theory and Application, Third Edition, introduces undergraduate engineering students to measurement principles and the range of sensors and instruments used for measuring physical variables. Providing the most balanced coverage of measurement theory/technologies and instrumentation, this clearly and comprehensively written text arms students and recently graduated engineers with the knowledge and tools to design and build measurement systems for virtually any engineering application.
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• Intro
• Preface
• Contents
• Forming Machine Tools and Manufacturing Processes
• Experimental Characterisation of Tool Hardness Evolution Under Consideration of Process Relevant Cyclic Thermal and Mechanical Loading During Industrial Forging
• Abstract.
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Methodology
• 3 Results and Discussion
• 3.1 Pretesting
• 3.2 Re-hardening Study
• 3.3 High Cycle Loading
• 4 Summary and Outlook
• References
• Modelling of Hybrid Parts Made of Ti-6Al-4V Sheets and Additive Manufactured Structures
• Abstract.
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Experimental Setup and Procedure

• 2.1 Material and Modelling Approach
• 2.2 Sheet Material Modelling Validation
• 2.3 Investigated Parameter Combinations
• 3 Results and Discussion
• 4 Summary and Outlook
• References
• Investigation of a Superimposed Oscillation Compression Process for the Production of a Bulk Component
• Abstract.
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Experimental Setup
• 3 Results
• 3.1 Influence on Plastic Work
• 3.2 Metallographic and Mechanical Properties
• 3.3 Influence on Surface Quality
• 4 Conclusion and Outlook
• References

• Towards an Adaptive Production Chain for Sustainable Sheet-Metal Blanked Components
• Abstract.
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Implications of Digital Technologies for Manufacturing
• 2.1 Prerequisites of Data Processing in Manufacturing
• 2.2 Current Situation
• 2.3 The Gap
• 3 Mitigating the Uncertainty in Fine Blanking
• Grinding
• 3.1 Quantifying Process Variations
• 3.2 Predicting Quality for Intermediary Steps
• 3.3 From Monitoring to Adaption
• 4 Defining the Roadmap
• References

• Investigation on Noise Reduction During Cutting of High-Strength Materials Based on Machine Acoustic Simulation
• Abstract.
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Measurement of the Noise Emissions of a Cutting Press
• 3 Modeling
• 3.1 Elastic Multibody Simulation of Structural Dynamics
• 3.2 Mapping of the Machine Acoustics
• 4 Measures of Noise Reduction
• 4.1 Basics
• 4.2 Simulation Results
• 5 Summary
• References
• Equal-Channel-Angular-Swaging for the Production of Medical Implants Made of Fine-Grained Titanium
• Abstract.
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Approach
• 3 Numerical and Experimental Setup

• 4 Results and Discussion
• 5 Summary and Outlook
• References
• Numerical Development of a Tooling System for the Co-extrusion of Asymmetric Compound Profiles on a Laboratory Scale
• Abstract.
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Numerical Investigations
• 2.1 Model Setup
• 2.2 Results and Discussion
• 3 Conclusions and Outlook
• References
• Investigation of the Phase Transformation in Hot Stamping Processes with Regard to the Testing Facility
• Abstract.
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Material and Methodology
• 2.1 Deformation Dilatometer
• 2.2 Thermomechanical Simulator
• 3 Results and Discussion

This congress proceedings provides recent research on leading-edge manufacturing processes. The aim of this scientific congress is to work out diverse individual solutions of "production in the border area" and transferable methodological approaches. In addition, guest speakers with different backgrounds will give the congress participants food for thoughts, interpretations, views and suggestions. The manufacturing industry is currently undergoing a profound structural change, which on the one hand produces innovative solutions through the use of high-performance communication and information technology, and on the other hand is driven by new requirements for goods, especially in the mobility and energy sector. With the social discourse on how we should live and act primarily according to guidelines of sustainability, structural change is gaining increasing dynamic. It is essential to translate politically specified sustainability goals into socially accepted and marketable technical solutions. Production research is meeting this challenge and will make important contributions and provide innovative solutions from different perspectives.
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• 1. Introduction--
• 2. Quantum-mechanical framework--
• 3. Linear response theory--
• 4. Dissipation and decoherence--
• 5. Quantum current flow--
• 6. Quantum tunneling--
• 7. Quantum noise.
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Nanooptics which describes the interaction of light with matter at the nanoscale, is a topic of great fundamental interest to physicists and engineers and allows the direct observation of quantum mechanical phenomena in action. This self-contained and extensively referenced text describes the underlying theory behind nanodevices operating in the quantum regime for use both in advanced courses and as a reference for researchers in physics, chemistry, electrical engineering, and materials science. Presenting an extensive theoretical toolset for design and analysis of nanodevices, the authors demonstrate the art of developing approximate quantum models of real nanodevices. The rudimentary mathematical knowledge required to master the material is carefully introduced, with detailed derivations and frequent worked examples allowing readers to gain a thorough understanding of the material. More advanced applications are gradually introduced alongside analytical approximations and simplifying assumptions often used to make such problems tractable while representative of the observed features.
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• 1. Which 4.0 Professional Competencies Should Develop Middle Managers and Operators?.-
• 2. Integrated Project Delivery: A Literature Review and Research Agenda.-
• 3. Empirical Measurement Instruments for Business Model Innovation: A Review.-
• 4. Scrip Dividends and Share Buy-Back Strategies Based on Volatility.-
• 5. The Evolution of Business Intelligence with Neuroinformatics.-
• 6. A General Overview of the Industry 4.0 Concept for Production Management and Engineering.-
• 7. Identification and Prioritization of Industry 4.0 Projects in SME's: A Process Approach.-
• 8. Blockchain for Electronic Voting Purposes.-
• 9. Identification of Barriers of Entry to the European Market of Medical Devices. Study of Cases in Spanish Companies.-
• 10. Application of Combinatorial Auctions to Create a 3D Printing Market.
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This book highlights some of the latest research advances and cutting-edge analyses of real-world case studies on Industrial Engineering and Operations Management from diverse international contexts, while also identifying business applications for the latest findings and innovations in operations management and the decision sciences. It gathers a selection of the best papers presented at the XXII International Conference on Industrial Engineering and Industrial Management, which was promoted by ADINGOR (Asociacion para el Desarrollo de la Ingenieria de Organizacion) and held at the Escola Politecnica Superior of the Universitat de Girona, Spain, on July 12th and 13th, 2018.
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This book presents high-quality research on the concepts and developments in the field of information and communication technologies, and their applications. It features 134 rigorously selected papers (including 10 poster papers) from the Future of Information and Communication Conference 2020 (FICC 2020), held in San Francisco, USA, from March 5 to 6, 2020, addressing state-of-the-art intelligent methods and techniques for solving real-world problems along with a vision of future research Discussing various aspects of communication, data science, ambient intelligence, networking, computing, security and Internet of Things, the book offers researchers, scientists, industrial engineers and students valuable insights into the current research and next generation information science and communication technologies.
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• Intro
• Preface
• Contents
• Comparative Study on Swarm Based Algorithms for Feature Reduction in Twitter Sentiment Analysis on Figurative Language
• Abstract
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Related Work
• 3 Feature Reduction
• 3.1 Binary Particle Swarm Optimisation
• 3.2 Binary Genetic Algorithm
• 3.3 Binary Gravitational Search Algorithm
• 4 Systematic Architecture
• 4.1 Collecting Data
• 4.2 TF
• IDF Algorithm
• 4.3 Feature Selection
• 4.4 Models
• 4.5 Experiment Results
• 5 Result and Analysis
• 5.1 Feature Selection
• 5.2 Final Accuracy
• 5.3 Time Taken
• 6 Conclusions

• 5 The Taxonomy
• 5.1 People (Employees)
• 5.2 Data
• 5.3 Software and Hardware (SW/HW)
• 5.4 Network
• 6 Threats to Validity
• 7 Conclusion
• References
• A Trust Framework for the Collection of Reliable Crowd-Sourced Data
• 1 Introduction
• 2 The Trust Issue in Crowd-Sourced Data
• 3 Framework for Creating Trust
• 3.1 User and Framework Interaction
• 3.2 Malicious Users
• 3.3 Framework Implementation and Survey Design
• 3.4 Benefits of Framework
• 4 Comparison of Traditional Survey and Trusted Survey
• 4.1 Analysis
• 5 Conclusions and Future Work
• References

• Sentiment Analysis for University Students' Feedback
• Abstract
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Related Work
• 3 Vietnamese Students' Feedbacks Data
• 4 Methodology
• 4.1 Classification Methods
• 4.2 Features
• 5 Experiments and Results
• 5.1 Experiment Settings
• 5.2 Results
• 5.3 Error Analysis
• 5.4 Application
• 6 Conclusion and Future Work
• References
• Development of Waste Collection Model Using Mobile Phone Data: A Case Study in Latvia
• Abstract
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Glass Waste Collection System and Mobile Phone Base Stations Location in Riga

• 3 Analysis of Collected Waste Volumes Based on Location and Time Period
• 3.1 Data Statistical Analysis
• 3.2 The Strategies for Waste Containers Location
• 4 The Data Model of Glass Waste Collection Information System
• 4.1 MS Excel Functionality Model
• 4.2 Conceptual Architecture of Waste Container Placement Software
• 5 Conclusions
• Acknowledgments
• References
• Artificial Social Intelligence: Hotel Rate Prediction
• Abstract
• 1 Introduction
• 2 Microservices
• 3 Cloud Native Computing Foundation
• 4 Artificial Social Intelligence
• 5 Case Study: Hotel Rate Prediction

This book presents high-quality research on the concepts and developments in the field of information and communication technologies, and their applications. It features 134 rigorously selected papers (including 10 poster papers) from the Future of Information and Communication Conference 2020 (FICC 2020), held in San Francisco, USA, from March 5 to 6, 2020, addressing state-of-the-art intelligent methods and techniques for solving real-world problems along with a vision of future research. Discussing various aspects of communication, data science, ambient intelligence, networking, computing, security and Internet of Things, the book offers researchers, scientists, industrial engineers and students valuable insights into the current research and next generation information science and communication technologies.
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• SYNTHESIS AND CHARACTERIZATION OF NOVEL SUPPORTS FOR ENZYME IMMOBILIZATION - Ca-ALGINATE AND MULTIWALLED CARBON NANOTUBE
• OVERVIEW OF ENZYME IMMOBILIZATION ON NANOSUPPORTS
• GRAPHENE-BASED IMMUNOSENSORS: SYNTHESIS AND IMMOBILIZATION METHODS
• EXPERIMENTAL METHODS FOR THE PHYTOCHEMICAL PRODUCTION OF NANOPARTICLES
• POLY(LACTIC ACID)/ORGANOCLAY NANOCOMPOSITES FOR PACKAGING MATERIALS
• ISOLATION OF MICROCRYSTALLINE CELLULOSE (MCC) FROM COCOA POD (THEOBROMA CACAO L.) VIA ALKALINE TREATMENT COMBINED WITH ULTRASONICATION
• CURRENT TRENDS IN NANOFILTRATION OF COLOURED WASTEWATERS.
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This book highlights current trends and research advances in nanotechnology and its applications. It discusses the synthesis and characterization of nanomaterials / nanocomposites for novel applications in environmental monitoring and sustainability, and presents new findings on wastewater treatment technologies using nanofiltration membranes. .
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This book brings together studies broadly addressing human error and safety management from the perspectives of various disciplines, and shares the latest findings on ensuring employees' safety, health, and welfare at work. It combines a diverse range of disciplines - e.g. work physiology, health informatics, safety engineering, workplace design, injury prevention, and occupational psychology - and presents new strategies for safety management, including accident prevention methods such as performance testing and participatory ergonomics. It reports on cutting-edge methods and findings concerning safety-critical systems, defense, and security, and discusses advanced topics regarding human performance, human variability, and reliability analysis; medical, driver and pilot error, as well as automation error; and cognitive modeling of human error. Further, it highlights cutting-edge applications in safety management, defense, security, transportation, process controls, and medicine. Gathering the proceedings of the AHFE 2020 International Conference on Safety Management and Human Factors and the AHFE 2020 Virtual Conference on Human Error, Reliability, Resilience, and Performance, held on July 16-20, 2020, USA, the book offers an extensive, timely, and multidisciplinary guide for researchers and practitioners dealing with safety management and human error. .
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• Livre I. La réécriture cybernétique de la réalité. L'âge du Minotaure
• Heidegger et le cyborg
• La sophistique réalisée - vers le Psycho-cosme
• Le Minotaure ou La tristesse d'Astérion
• Livre II. L'achèvement inhumain de l'humanisme
• L'homme, absolu d'un siècle
• L'humanité du jour d'après
• Conclusion des livres I et II : Rupture dans l'être - Au bord de l'Histoire
• Livre III. L'esprit objectif du technocosme. Morale, religion, art, économie
• La cyber-éthique
• Le déluge, en silence
• L'art du jour d'après
• Le capitalisme épilogique
• Conclusion générale : La fin du Monde ou Le nouveau règne.

"Manipulation génétique. Artificialisation de l'intelligence. Création de chimères. La métamorphose actuelle de la réalité par la technique ne constitue pas une révolution de plus. Par elle, tous les référentiels théoriques et symboliques de la Tradition comme de la Modernité sont niés. Avec la reprogrammation intégrale du vivant, s'effacent les seuils qui séparaient l'homme de la machine et le distinguaient du dieu comme de l'animal. Et avec eux, s'efface aussi, de plus en plus, la possibilité de penser ce qui nous arrive. Il faut pourtant s'y essayer. Quelle est la clef de cette malléabilité ontologique et de l'actuelle confusion de tous les régimes de présence ? Quel avenir cette reprogrammation de la réalité dessine-t-elle pour l'homme ? L'âge du Minotaure remonte aux origines d'une métamorphose dont la profondeur et le déni actuel interdisent pour l'heure d'entretenir, vis-à-vis d'elle, un rapport libre."--Page 4 of cover.

• The Leibniz archipelago
• Last of the Apaches
• Age of reptiles
• Voice of the dolphins
• Tree house
• String theory
• Erewhon revisited
• No time is there
• Continuum hypothesis

"In Analogia, technology historian George Dyson presents a startling look back at the analog age and life before the digital revolution--and an unsettling vision of what comes next"-- Provided by publisher

• 1. Introduction.
• 2. Vision of Productivity and Efficiency from a Systemic Perspective.
• 3. Practical Problems in Productivity and Efficiency.
• 4. Techniques for Calculating Productivity and Efficiency.
• 5. Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA).
• 6. DEA Modeling Method (DEAMM).
• 7. Illustrating the Application of the DEAMM.
• 8. Applications for DEA Calculations. 9.Two-Stage Analysis: Techniques for Joint Assessment with the DEA.
• 10. Examples of DEA Application.
• 11. Exercises.
• 12. Future Perspectives.
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In companies that produce goods and services, productivity and efficiency improvements are a constant challenge. This book reviews the differences between productivity and efficiency. It proposes a new method and makes available a computational tool for implementation that contributes to facilitating the use of Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The book presents a discussion about productivity and efficiency, illustrating the potentials of use and conceptual differences. It covers the concepts and techniques for analysis of productivity and efficiency, analyzing critical benefits and limitations, explains in detail how to use DEA for analysis, provides innovative methods for using DEA, offers a free online computer tool with a direction guide, shows real empirical applications, and covers other techniques that can be used to complement the analysis performed. The book is for professionals, managers, consultants, students working and taking courses in productive systems of goods and services. Ancillary materials include a free online computer tool to operationalize the concepts and methods proposed in the book, a guide on how to use the method and the software developed for the DEA application. Solutions manual, instructor's manual, PowerPoint slides, and figure slides also will be available upon qualified adoption.
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• L'inoculation du risque
• L'émergence casuistique du risque
• Le risque et le gouvernement des autonomies
• Du contrat viral au contrat social
• La rationalité de l'État et la pratique du maître d'esclaves
• L'échec moral dû risque
• Risque et sensibilités
• La fabrique mondaine, du risque
• Le virus philanthrope
• L'objectivité du philanthrope
• Incertitudes et catastrophisme
• Les corps éprouvettes
• Les contre-épreuves font-elles preuve ?
• La nature graphique du pouvoir vaccinal
• Utopie de la statistique, dystopie de l'information
• L'Ancien Régime et les "choses environnantes"
• Policer les arts et les airs
• Les règles de l'art
• La surveillance vicinale : santé et servitudes
• L'information de commodité-incommodité et le pouvoir des notables
• L'expertise corsetée
• La gestion coutumière des environnements
• Botanique et politique
• La fin de l'Ancien Régime et les choses environnantes
• La libéralisation de l'environnement
• L'économie politique du décret de 1810
• La construction étatique du marché chimique
• La pollution capitale
• Une régulation en trompe l'oeil
• La réorganisation des illégalismes environnementaux
• L'hygiénisme est un industrialisme
• De l'environnement au social : la reconfiguration hygiénique des étiologies
• Combien vaut l'environnement ?
• Façonner la technique ou se laisser façonner par elle
• Les ouvriers fantômes
• Éclairer la France, après Waterloo
• La technique dans l'espace public
• La controverse comme évaluation technologique
• Un monument honorable de l'industrie française
• Savants français et témoins anglais : pratiques et heuristiques d'expertises
• La norme et la légalisation du risque
• Le règne de l'imprévisible
• La construction sociale de la sécurité
• La mécanique de la faute
• Norme, responsabilité et autodiscipline
• Vices et perfectionnements
• En Grande-Bretagne : le marché de la responsabilité
• La crise technologique de l'homme responsable
• Les chemins de fer et la régulation a posteriori
• Les catastrophes aléatoires
• Corps assurés, corps monnayés
• Conclusion. L'apocalypse joyeuse
• Postface. De l'histoire comme détecteur de fumée.

"Sommes-nous les premiers à distinguer dans les lumières éblouissantes du progrès l'ombre de ses risques ? Ce livre nous plonge au coeur des luttes et des controverses qui, aux XVIIIe et XIXe siècles, surgirent autour des usines, des machines, des vaccins et des chemins de fer. Il montre comment les critiques et les contestations furent réduites au silence ou surmontées pour qu'advienne la société industrielle. L'histoire qu'il raconte n'est pas celle d'une prise de conscience environnementale, mais celle d'une désinhibition modernisatrice."--Page 4 of cover.

• Patrons of the Nation
• Exciting an Emulation
• Peculiar Genius
• Jack of All Trades
• The Greatest Beauty for the Greatest Number
• For the Masses, by the Masses
• A System to Force down the General Throat
• An Education for the Whole People
• A Society Against Ugliness
• "Society of Snobs"
• Rise of the Managers
• Furious Brainstorming
• Building a Social Movement?

• Acknowledgments Note on Works Cited Note on Asian Names
• 1. Introduction: Setting the Stage
• 2. The Master of the Form: Japan at San Francisco's 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition
• 3. The New China and Chinese-Americanness: China at San Francisco's 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition
• 4. Performing Japan in the 'World of Tomorrow': Japan at the 1939-1940 New York World's Fair
• 5. From 'Panda Diplomacy' to Acrobat Diplomacy: China at the Brisbane's Expo '88
• 6. Fashion, Dance, and Representing the Filipina: The Philippines at the 1964-1965 New York World Fair
• 7. Performing Modernity under Sukarno's 'Roving Eye': Indonesia at the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair
• 8. Maximizing Affect, Minimizing Impact with Hansik: South Korea at the 2015 Milan International Exposition
• 9. Hard and Soft Power in the Thai Pavilion: The Spectral Presence of King Bhumibol at the 2015 Milan Exposition
• 10. Conclusion: The Future of Asian Self-Representation at the International Exposition Works Cited Index.
• (source: Nielsen Book Data)

International expositions or "world's fairs" are the largest and most important stage on which millions routinely gather to directly experience, express, and respond to cultural difference. Rather than looking at Asian representation at the hands of colonizing powers, something already much examined, Asian Self-Representation at World's Fairs instead focuses on expressions of an empowered Asian self-representation at world's fairs in the West after the so-called golden age of the exhibition. New modes of representation became possible as the older "exhibitionary order" of earlier fairs gave way to a dominant "performative order, " one increasingly preoccupied with generating experience and affect. Using case studies of national representation at selected fairs over the hundred-year period from 1915-2015, this book considers both the politics of representation as well as what happens within the imaginative worlds of Asian country pavilions, where the performative has become the dominant mode for imprinting directly on human bodies.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)