A guidebook through the minefield of government contracting and procurement, this book describes the dangerous practices commonly applied in the development and management of government contracts and provides advice for avoiding the sort of errors that might compromise their ability to protect the public interest. It includes strategies for increasing profits for government contractors, rather than incurring burdensome costs, through compliance with government mandated subcontracting and financial management systems. The book provides practical processes and strategies to diminish negative impacts from government contracting perils.
• ASPA Series in Public Administration and Public Policy
Public Administration & Management
Public Finance
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Covering healthcare from clinical to nutritional services, this book provides a collection of international case studies that demonstrate how lean thinking can be applied in the healthcare industry. Offering an international perspective, the text introduces key concepts of lean healthcare and presents real-life examples to illustrate the practical benefits—which include more efficient processes, increased patient satisfaction, and cost savings—that can result from a lean philosophy. The book features a number of expert contributors who offer practical tips. It also includes a foreword from eminent psychiatry professor Jeffrey Clotheir, MD.
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Quality Assurance & Total Quality Management
Healthcare Management
Lean Manufacturing
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Supported by expert-level advice of pioneering researchers, this volume provides an accessible introduction to the foundations, applications, and design issues in OFDMA networks. It explores key techniques of effective resource management, highlighting open problems and supplying possible solutions. The text investigates radio channel modeling in OFDMA-based wireless communication systems and details detection strategies of frequency-domain equalization for broadband communications. Supplying a macro-level understanding of OFDMA, this is an ideal guide for those whose work is related to OFDMA application or other multiuser communication system projects.
• Wireless Networks and Mobile Communications
Telecommunications
Digital & Wireless Communication
Networks
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Written by academic experts, in language that is accessible to practitioners, this authoritative resource examines recent research and case studies of companies running profitable reuse/remanufacture operations in various industries. It illustrates profitable practices in returned and recovered products, clearly explaining how to: design a reverse logistics network, conduct production planning, implement effective marketing strategies, and apply closed-loop supply chain strategies in industries besides manufacturing. From product development to materials to assembly and profitability, this complete resource explores the impact of these processes across all aspects of the supply chain.
• Supply Chain Integration Modeling, Optimization and Application
Supply Chain Management
Manufacturing Engineering
Industrial Engineering & Manufacturing
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This book is designed to teach academic administrators how to apply Lean business principles to the successful running of their institutions. It returns education to the consumers it was designed to serve,the students. Applying voice of the customer (VOC) concepts, it introduces educators to Lean tools, such as Value Stream Mapping. Reflecting concepts inherent in all Lean processes, it focuses on involving stakeholders and holding them accountable for the delivery of quality every step of the way, instilling pride and maximizing value and satisfaction for employees and customers alike.
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Lean Manufacturing
Higher Education Management
Leadership Strategy
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This handbook provides an overview of the most common chemoinformatics algorithms in a single source. It explains how algorithms and graph theory are applied to chemical problems, such as structure–activity/property predictions. The book describes virtual screening techniques, docking methods, inverse-QSAR methods, de novo design algorithms, sequence alignment algorithms, and classical machine learning algorithms. Along with reviewing open source software and databases, it also explores the development and validation of QSAR models and covers applications in combinatorial library design, synthesis design, biological network inference, and systems biology.
• Chapman & Hall/CRC Mathematical & Computational Biology
Bioinformatics
Chemistry
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Drawing on the authors’ use of the Hadamard-related theory in several successful engineering projects, this book explores the applications and dimensions of Hadamard matrices. It covers classical two-dimensional Walsh and Hadamard matrices as well as new Hadamard designs based on dyadic addition sets. After focusing on three-, four-, and six-dimensional Walsh and Hadamard matrices and transforms, the authors describe applications of the n -dimensional Hadamard matrices of order 2. In a new section of the book, they explore the applications of higher-dimensional Hadamard matrices to the areas of telecommunications and information security.
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Algebra
Combinatorics
Cryptology
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With a focus on the description, modeling, prediction, and signal extraction of times series, this book provides basic tools for analyzing time series that arise in real-world problems. It employs the state-space model as a generic tool for time series modeling and presents convenient recursive filtering and smoothing methods for the state-space models. The author takes a unified approach to model evaluation based on the entropy maximization principle advocated by Dr. Akaike. He also covers standard stationary time series models, nonstationary time series models, and simulation methods.
• Chapman & Hall/CRC Monographs on Statistics & Applied Probability
Statistical Theory & Methods
Statistics
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Biotechnology is an important part of the emerging field of functional foods and nutraceuticals. This book presents current research on biotechnology in the food and nutrition industries. Chapters include information on genetic engineering of functional foods; applications of marine and animal biotechnology in nutrition; enhancement of bioactive phenolic metabolites; safety considerations of probiotics; and biotechnology to increase the bioavailability of phytonutrients. Additional topics cover the improvement of nutritional value in functional foods, food manufacturing technology, quality assurance, as well as legal, social, and regulatory aspects of food and nutrition biotechnology.
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Nutraceuticals & Functional Foods
Nutrition
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An introduction to the dynamics of internal geologic processes of earth, this book explains the origin of landforms by the processes involved in their evolution. The author expresses process activities in mathematical, empirical, and semi-empirical perspectives to highlight their distinctive identity in specific environmental stress conditions. Each chapter reviews, synthesizes, and provides recent findings and understanding of the complexity of geomorphic processes. They also include competing hypotheses on the evolution of landforms of the given environment. Examples and detailed case studies enable readers to understand the components of process-form relationships.
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