This book uses the first volume’s exploration of theory, basic properties, and modeling topics to develop readers’ understanding of applications and devices that are based on artificial materials. It explores a wide range of applications in fields including electronics, telecommunications, sensing, medical instrumentation, and data storage. The text also includes a practical user’s guide and explores key areas in which artificial materials have developed. It includes experts’ perspectives on current and future applications of metamaterials, to present a well-rounded view on state-of-the-art technologies.
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Electromagnetics & Microwaves
Optics & optoelectronics
Composites
Reference
Professional

Why plant a vegetable garden with the same old tomato and cucumber plants that everyone else has? Small Fruits in the Home Garden is your home gardener's guide to growing and harvesting small fruit for personal enjoyment. The contributors to this book provide the necessary information and helpful hints for you to grow many new varieties of small fruits that have wonderful flavor but may not be suitable for commercial production. Now you can harvest the tastiest varieties at their peak flavor!
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Crop Science
Botany
Fruit & Vegetables
Textbook
Undergraduate

While other books focus on either production process Value Stream Mapping (VSM) or transactional process mapping, this work meets the needs of manufacturers and service sector organizations by detailing both. It teaches readers what techniques are commonly applicable, and also explains areas of difference, so that mappers will be able to adapt to whatever situations arise. Extending the lessons originally put forward in Value Stream Management for the Lean Office, this work goes beyond theory. Among other practical considerations, it expands the concept of availability , discussing employees as well as equipment availability in transactional processes.
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Lean Manufacturing
Reference
Professional

Amidst the plethora of resources on merging Lean and Six Sigma initiatives, this book details a logical alternative — a no-nonsense strategy for maintaining the best of both initiatives without diluting either. The authors lay out the differences between Lean and Six Sigma, define the distinct power and focus of each, and detail why and how to use them together in a synchronized and complementary way. This practical, easy read shows how to choose the right projects, approach, people, and toolset to achieve bottom-line results faster. Readers will benefit from the authors' years of experience implementing Lean with Six Sigma, through detailed case studies from both manufacturing and service companies.
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Quality Assurance & Total Quality Management
Reference
Professional

El siglo V d.C. supone un período verdaderamente convulso en el que, con la caída del último emperador en 476, desaparece todo vestigio de poder central en el Imperio Romano de Occidente y en el que se consolidan los primeros reinos bárbaros independ

1ª edición.

1ª edición.

1ª edición.