In today’s business world, project managers not only have to be diligent in project planning and execution, but also need to have skills in persuasion, self-management, communication, and relationship management. This volume empowers project managers to master the skills necessary to succeed in the current environment. The book examines several trends within the project landscape, describes the challenges created by these trends, and provides illuminating case studies that elucidate each trend and its impact. Then the book offers techniques that can be applied to fully master needed skills and includes more case studies in which the skills and techniques are used and the outcomes discussed.
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Management of IT
Software Engineering & Systems Development
Engineering Project Management
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This second edition of a bestseller provides a well-illustrated resource that comprehensively covers the design of inherently safer and user-friendly plants. The book demonstrates how chemical plants can withstand human error and equipment failures without serious effects on safety, output, or efficiency. This edition features new chapters that outline the role of inherently safer design in explosion prevention and mitigation and the link between inherently safer design and process safety design. New sections address the hierarchy of controls and highlight human factors in determining risk. The text also includes case studies that review major process incidents.
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Industrial Chemistry
Plant Engineering
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Emphasizing the power of up-front planning techniques to prevent projects from imploding, this book explains the tools and concepts of Design for Six Sigma (DFSS) in an easy to understand style. By adding a layer of statistical methods and tools to the front-end of a project, DFSS augments the standard Six Sigma process to ensure that a project fully meets the customers' needs so that delays caused by new requirements and rework after implementation are either eliminated or substantially reduced. Detailed case studies demonstrate project management fundamentals and common pitfalls to translate concepts into practical applications.
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Management of IT
Software Engineering & Systems Development
Engineering Project Management
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Nanoporous materials are critical to various fields of research. In this volume, a pioneering researcher guides experimentalists in their design of nanoporous material using computer simulation methodologies. The book explores molecular modeling, placing a heavy focus on simpler methods such as Monte Carlo simulation and thus proposing easier technology for the bench chemist. It examines density functional theory (DFT) and local reactivity descriptors. It also discusses the synthesis of nanoporous materials, the structural characterization of materials, and the design of new nanoporous materials. Dr. Chatterjee explores projected applications and concludes with a discussion of the catalytic activity of the nanoporous material and the reaction mechanism.
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Materials Chemistry
Materials Science
Catalysis
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Drawing on contributions from plant physiologists and researchers in various other disciplines, this book presents the current status of knowledge on the physiology of the pea crop. It first discusses vegetative and reproductive development, growth under non-limiting conditions, and the nitrogen nutrition of the pea crop. It then explores the effects of the abiotic and biotic stresses on the development as well as the growth and nitrogen uptake by the plant. The book concludes with a global model of the functioning of the pea crop, which is proposed as a tool for the diagnosis of the yield-limiting factors.
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Crop Science
Botany
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A comprehensive overview of new postharvest technologies, this book examines the physical, chemical, and nutritional changes that occur during the ripening process. The text focuses on how to maintain both sensorial and nutritional fruit quality parameters as well as how to extend shelf life. The authors present a wide range of technological applications for postharvest strategies, including heat treatments, naturally-occurring compounds, modified atmosphere packaging, non-toxic chemical compounds, and active packaging. The text also discusses the advantages and disadvantages of using cold temperatures during handling, packaging, and storage.
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Nutrition
Fruit & Vegetables
Food Packaging
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The ever-increasing interest in oceanography and marine biology and its relevance to global environmental issues creates a demand for authoritative reviews summarizing the results of recent research. This annual reference has catered to this demand for more than 40 years. It considers basic areas of marine research, covers subjects of special and topical importance, and addresses new areas as they arise. This volume features papers on ecosystem-based management of marine macroalgae; the ecology and management of temperate mangroves; the biology of vestimentiferan tubeworms; precious coral exploitation; and the historical reconstruction of human-induced changes in U.S. estuaries.
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Marine & Aquatic Science
Environmental & Ecological Toxicology
Civil Engineering
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The new edition of this highly respected text explores advances in specific therapeutic approaches and other key information that is otherwise available only through multiple sources. It offers pharmacological, anatomical, and physiological information for basic therapeutic rationales that are not well understood in the field. Expanding coverage from the last edition, it includes details on metabolic and bioenergetic factors in brain injury, neuroendocrine dysfunction following brain injury, blast injury, ethical issues in treatment of brain injury, interventions for the minimally conscious patient, neuropharmacological and neuropsychological interventions following brain injury, and dietary and exercise considerations after brain injury.
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Neurology
Rehabilitation Medicine
Medical & Healthcare Law
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An essential introduction to AC motor control and its application to electric vehicles, this book explains first principles, presenting the information in a concise and logical manner with excellent transitions between theoretical and practical examples of AC motor control. Each chapter focuses on a specific topic and is supplemented by a detailed bibliography of related research in the area. The mathematical theory contained in this book comes from actual research, and each section features detailed diagrams and illustrations, which help readers link presented mathematics to practical results.
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Power Electronics
Systems & Controls
Automotive Technology & Engineering
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Site-specific drug delivery and targeting has attracted much research interest from both academia and industry, but because of the wide array of challenges faced in the development of these systems, only a very few targeted therapies have made it to clinics. Bringing together key research, this volume summarizes current progress with a focus on the novel ideas that are being explored to overcome these challenges. This forward-looking volume includes an in-depth review of various aspects of these drug delivery approaches as well as a detailed discussion of a few case studies in each category.
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Pharmacology
Drug Design & Development
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