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Modern industrial services : a cookbook for design, delivery, and management
This open access book is an outcome of several years of research, practice, and teaching experience of the authors on the challenges that underpin the successful switch to services for manufacturing firms. Ideal for a student as well as a practitioner, the book describes the industrial services ecosystem, the barriers and challenges, and a roadmap for building service excellence. Curated cases …
- Edition
- 9
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030805111
- Collation
- xix; 202p; ill
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 658 MOD S
From Digital Twins to Digital Selves and Beyond Engineering and Social Model…
This open access book aims at deepening the understanding of the relation between cyber-physical systems (CPSs) as socio-technical systems and their digital representations with intertwined artificial intelligence (AI). The authors describe why it is crucial for digital selves to be able to develop emotional behavior and why a humanity-inspired AI is necessary so that humans and humanoids can c…
- Edition
- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030964122
- Collation
- XVIII, 127 p ; ill
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 006.301 FRO F
Control problems for conservation laws with traffic applications
Conservation and balance laws on networks have been the subject of much research interest given their wide range of applications to real-world processes, particularly traffic flow. This open access monograph is the first to investigate different types of control problems for conservation laws that arise in the modeling of vehicular traffic. Four types of control problems are discussed - bound…
- Edition
- 1st
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783030930158
- Collation
- xvii, 227p, ; ill
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 512.94 CON c
German Operetta on Broadway and in the West End, 1900–1940
This book provides the first in-depth empirical study of the European Parliament's powers of scrutiny of the executive in the European Union (EU) political system, focusing on the politically salient field of the Economic and Monetary Union. The expansion of executive decision-making during the euro crisis was accompanied by an empowerment of the European Parliament through legislative oversigh…
- Edition
- first edition
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781108614306
- Collation
- x, 396p,:ill,
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- -
- Call Number
- 782.120943097471 DER g
The juggler of Notre Dame and the medievalizing of modernity : volume 4 pictu…
This ambitious and vivid study in six volumes explores the journey of a single, electrifying story, from its first incarnation in a medieval French poem through its prolific rebirth in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The Juggler of Notre Dame tells how an entertainer abandons the world to join a monastery, but is suspected of blasphemy after dancing his devotion before a statue of the M…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781783745319
- Collation
- 510 p. : ill. ; 25.4 cm.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 841.109 ZIO t
Chinese and Japanese music-dramas
Chinese and Japanese Music-Dramas is the result of a conference on the relations between Chinese and Japanese music-drama held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, on October 1–4, 1971. In addition to the Association for Asian Studies, four U-M departments participated in the conference: the Center for Japanese Studies, the Center for Chinese Studies, the School of Music, and the Speech …
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9780472901371
- Collation
- VIII, 255 p.
- Series Title
- Michigan Monographs In Chinese Studies, 19
- Call Number
- 782.10951 CHI c
The impact of individual expertise and public information on group decision-m…
In this open-access-book the author concludes that expertise could be the key factor for global and interconnected problems. Experimental results have shown that expertise was a stronger predictor than public information regarding change in behavior and strategy adaption. Identifying non-routine problem-solving experts by efficient online assessments could lead to less volatile system performan…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783658331399
- Collation
- xviii, 185p. : ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 658.4036 STR i
Global governance and the emergence of global institutions for the 21st century
Is there any hope for those who despair at the state of the world and the powerlessness of governments to find a way forward? Global Governance and the Emergence of Global Institutions for the 21st Century provides ambitious but reasonable proposals to give our globalized world the institutions of international governance necessary to address effectively the catastrophic risks facing humanity t…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9781108569293
- Collation
- xiv, 545p. : ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 341.7 LOP g
Atlas of challenges and opportunities in European neighbourhoods : stemming f…
This atlas provides a macro-regional overview of the areas that surround the European Union, from the Sahara to the Middle East, Western Balkans to European Russia, Turkey to the Arctic. Detailing key socio-economic data as well as developmental trends, the maps provide a comprehensive territorial analysis at a local scale and explore the potential for regional integration and cooperation. Thes…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783319285214
- Collation
- xxiii, 198p. : ill.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 304.2 ATL a
The third sector as a renewable resource for Europe : concepts, impacts, chal…
This book provides a critical account of the third sector and its future in Europe. It offers an original conceptualization of the third sector in its European manifestations alongside an overview of its major contours, including its structure, sources of support, and recent trends. It also assesses the impact of this sector in Europe which considers its contributions to European economic devel…
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- -
- ISBN/ISSN
- 9783319714738
- Collation
- xv, 196 p.
- Series Title
- -
- Call Number
- 361.61 ENJ t
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