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Safer healthcare : strategies for the real world
The authors of this book set out a system of safety strategies and interventions for managing patient safety on a day-to-day basis and improving safety over the long term. These strategies are applicable at all levels of the healthcare system from the frontline to the regulation and governance of the system. There have been many advances in patient safety, but we now need a new and broader v…
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- 9783319255590
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- xvii, 157p. : ill.
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- 362.110289 VIN s
Fabricating modern societies : education, bodies, and minds in the age of steel
Fabricating Modern Societies: Education, Bodies, and Minds in the Age of Steel, edited by Karin Priem and Frederik Herman, offers new interdisciplinary and transnational perspectives on the history of industrialization and societal transformation in early twentieth-century Luxembourg. The individual chapters focus on how industrialists addressed a large array of challenges related to industrial…
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- 9789004410510
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- xviii, 246p. : ill.
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- 338.94935009041 FAB f
S-BPM in the production industry : a stakeholder approach
This volume presents several case studies highlighting the latest findings in Industry 4.0 projects utilizing S-BPM features. Their potential is explored in detail, while the limits of engineering a company from a communication-centred perspective are also discussed. After a general introduction and an overview of the book in chapter 1, chapter 2 starts by condensing the industrial challenge…
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- 9783319484662
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- xiv, 232p. : ill.
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- 658.5 SUB s
Understanding the bigger energy picture : DESERTEC and beyond
This book focuses on the global cycles of energy, water and carbon, which are not only the essentials of our main energy carriers, the fossil fuels, but are also the building blocks of life. The book offers an overview of the basic scientific facts and relationships that are needed to understand today’s energy generation and use, how they relate to global climate, the water cycle and other re…
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- 9783319579665
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- xv, 110p. : ill.
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- 333.79 DUR u
The illusion of risk control : what does it take to live with uncertainty?
This book explores the implications of acknowledging uncertainty and black swans for regulation of high-hazard technologies, for stakeholder acceptability of potentially hazardous activities and for risk governance. The conventional approach to risk assessment, which combines the likelihood of an event and the severity of its consequences, is poorly suited to situations where uncertainty and am…
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- 9783319329390
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- v, 112p. : ill.
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- 658.155 ILL i
Paris climate agreement : beacon of hope
This volume presents an Empirical Model of Global Climate developed by the authors and uses that model to show that global warming will likely remain below 2ºC, relative to preindustrial, throughout this century provided: a) both the unconditional and conditional Paris INDC commitments are followed; b) the emission reductions needed to achieve the Paris INDCs are carried forward to 2060 and be…
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- 9783319469393
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- xvii. 186p. : ill.
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- 363.738746 PAR p
Sustainable manufacturing : challenges, solutions and implementation perspect…
Sustainability imposes an unprecedented challenge on society and has become the driving force of an urgent search for innovative solutions in all branches of economy. Manufacturing plays a key role in many areas of human living, and it is both part of the problem and of the solution. This book offers an overview of the broad field of research on sustainability in manufacturing with a particula…
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- 9783319485140
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- xii, 283p. : ill.
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- 670 SUS s
Institutional reform for innovation and entrepreneurship : an agenda for Europe
The authors of this book advise the economies of the European Union to become more entrepreneurial in promoting innovation and economic growth. The authors propose a reform strategy with respect to several aspects to achieve this goal. Starting with the rule of law and the protection of property rights; the tax system; the authors deal with regulations governing savings, capital and finance, an…
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- 9783319550923
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- x, 102p. : ill.
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- 338.6 ELE i
Cultures of anti-racism in Latin America and the Caribbean
Latin America’s long history of showing how racism can co-exist with racial mixture and conviviality offers useful ammunition for strengthening anti-racist stances. This volume asks whether cultural production has a particular role to play within discourses and practices of anti-racism in Latin America and the Caribbean. The contributors analyse music, performance, education, language, film a…
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- 9781908857729
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- X, 220 p.
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- 305.80098 CUL c
Information technology project managers' competencies : an analysis of perfor…
The purpose of this book is to shed light on the performance and personal competencies of information technology (IT) project managers in South Africa. Predictive models are built to determine what project managers consider the crucial competencies they should possess to deliver an IT project successfully. This investigation takes place in the context of poor IT project success rates globally a…
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- 9781928396055
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- XXV, 241 p.
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- 658.4092 MAR i
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