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Risk-Conscious Operations Management : An Integrated Paradigm for Complex Engineering System
Presents various concepts and applications related to risk-conscious operations management. It also provides an overview of the risk-based engineering – fundamental to the concept of risk-conscious operations management. It presents the reliability concept to support Dependency Modelling, which includes hardware systems structures and components for reliability improvement and risk reduction. The book further develops and builds attributes and model for risk-conscious culture – critical to characterize operational approach to risk and presents human factor modelling, where it works on developing an approach for human error precursor analysis.
Risk Management : With Applications from the Offshore Petroleum Industry
Risk management is a process to assist in the decision-making. The risk management process takes the potential hazards as a starting point, in order to identify suitable arrangements and measures for accident prevention and emergency response in case of an incident. Risk management is a useful approach to satisfy functional regulatory requirements to safety. Technological developments, organisational changes and increased demand for efficiency have influenced the vulnerability of our society. Thus, safety and risk management is becoming an important field. Risk Management with Applications from the Offshore Petroleum Industry presents an in-depth discussion of some fundamental principles of risk management, related to the use of expected values, uncertainty handling and risk acceptance criteria.
Risk Assessment, Modeling and Decision Support : Strategic Directions
The papers in this volume integrate results from current research efforts in earthquake engineering with research from the larger risk assessment community. The authors include risk and hazard researchers from the major U.S. hazard and earthquake centers and some from abroad as well as programmers and analysts from leading insurance and risk assessment firms. The introductory chapter provides an historical overview of the rise of risk assessment in the U.S., with particular emphasis on the role of seismic risk assessment. Four key components of risk assessment and decision support software are analyzed in detail in the remaining papers: treatment of uncertainty, loss assessment, modeling of seismic mitigation strategies, and visualization of risk and uncertainty. The volume lays out a road map for future developments in risk modeling and decision support and positions earthquake engineering research within the family of risk analysis tools and techniques.
Risk Assessment and Risk Communication Strategies in Bioterrorism Preparedness
In this book, we have included articles from leading experts in the various disciplines associated with risk assessment and risk communication associated with bioterrorism. These papers are based on presentations at a NATO Advanced Research Workshop in Israel in June 2005, which addressed these issues. The resulting volume integrates the viewpoints of public health, law enforcement, risk analysis and media experts into a comprehensive, practical guide for approaching risk assessment and risk communication in a bioterrorism event.
Risk assessment : Theory, methods, and applications
The book begins with an introduction of risk analysis, assessment, and management, and includes a new section on the history of risk analysis. It covers hazards and threats, how to measure and evaluate risk, and risk management. It also adds new sections on risk governance and risk-informed decision making; combining accident theories and criteria for evaluating data sources; and subjective probabilities. The risk assessment process is covered, as are how to establish context; planning and preparing; and identification, analysis, and evaluation of risk. Risk Assessment also offers new coverage of safe job analysis and semi-quantitative methods, and it discusses barrier management and HRA methods for offshore application. Finally, it looks at dynamic risk analysis, security and life-cycle use of risk.
Rightshore! : Successfully SAP(R) Projects Offshore
At a time when business demands urge companies to innovate and CIOs face increasing cost pressures, offshore delivery offers the opportunity to industrialize the implementation processes for system harmonization, consolidation, and enhancement, thereby realizing substantial cost savings and quality improvements. Rightshore® - a registered trademark of Capgemini - is about organizing the distributed delivery process that embraces on-site, nearshore and offshore services.
Riemannian Geometry and Geometric Analysis ; 5th ed.
This established reference work continues to lead its readers to some of the hottest topics of contemporary mathematical research.This new edition introduces and explains the ideas of the parabolic methods that have recently found such a spectacular success in the work of Perelman at the examples of closed geodesics and harmonic forms. It also discusses further examples of geometric variational problems from quantum field theory, another source of profound new ideas and methods in geometry.
Riemannian Geometry and Geometric Analysis ; 4th ed.
Offering some topics of contemporary mathematical research, this fourth edition provides an introduction to Riemannian geometry and geometric analysis. It focuses on using analytic methods in the study of some fundamental theorems in Riemannian geometry, and the existence of harmonic mappings. It also includes an introduction to Kahler geometry.
Rho Family GTPases
Humans contain more than 20 Rho type GTPases. This volume not only presents a detailed phylogenetic analysis of Rho proteins, but also discusses the possible origins of the human members. Such an analysis of human Rho GTPases has not previously been attempted. The book includes an overview of how Rho GTPases become activated which is complemented by an extensive Chapter by Darerca Owen and Helen Mott who unravel the beautiful molecular details given to us by the many structural studies of Rho GTPases. The key areas currently being investigated in relation to these ubiquitous proteins are described for both in vitro and in vivo systems. These are presented in a format that ensures the reader can approach the topic with minimal background knowledge, while ultimately bringing the subject to the level of an expert. Timely and highly authoritative, this volume illuminates newer findings, particularly as they relate to Rho proteins in vertebrate biology.
RF System Design of Transceivers for Wireless Communications
In this book the author develops systematic methods for RF systems design, complete with a comprehensive set of design formulas. Its focus on mobile station transmitter and receiver system design also applies to transceiver design of other wireless systems.
Rewriting Techniques and Applications; 19th International Conference, RTA 2008 Hagenberg, Austria, July 15-17, 2008 Proceedings
The book covers current research on all aspects of rewriting including typical areas of interest such as applications, foundational issues, frameworks, implementations, and semantics.
Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology ; Vol.195
Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology attempts to provide concise, critical reviews of timely advances, philosophy and significant areas of accomplished or needed endeavor in the total field of xenobiotics, in any segment of the environment, as well as toxicological implications.
Reviewing design process theories : Discourses in architecture, urban design and planning theories
Simplifies 140 complex theories into 8 categories, supplemented with diagrams, tables, and illustrations / Offers a comprehensive guide to design methodology in a range of design-related fields and for a broad audience: architects, urban designers, planners, graphic designers, industrial designers, etc. / Includes chronological literature reviews for each theory category
Reverse engineering of regulatory networks
Details the development of updated dry lab and wet lab based methods for the reconstruction of Gene regulatory networks (GRN). And guide readers through culprit genes, in-silico drug discovery techniques, genome-wide ChIP-X data, high-Throughput Transcriptomic Data Exome Sequencing, Next-Generation Sequencing, Fuorescence Spectroscopy, data analysis in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology, and S-system based modeling of GRN.
Reverse Engineering : An Industrial Perspective
This edited collection of essays from world-leading academic and industrial authors yields insight into all aspects of reverse engineering:• The methods of reverse engineering analysis are covered, with special emphasis on the investigation of surface and internal structures.• Frequently-used hardware and software are assessed and advice given on the most suitable choice of system.• Rapid prototyping is introduced and its relationship with successful reverse engineering is discussed.• Applications of reverse engineering in three significant areas: automotive; aerospace; and medical engineering are reported in depth.
Revenue Management and Survival Analysis in the Automobile Industry
André Jerenz develops a price-based revenue management framework to support retailers in establishing better and more profitable pricing strategies, including assigning an initial asking price and the adjustment of price over time. For the profit maximization problem of a used car retailer, the author derives different algorithms for determining optimal strategies by applying stochastic control theory. Within the scope of the demand forecasting component, he proposes the adoption of survival analysis for estimating individual price response functions, modeled by parametric and semi-parametric survival functions. Thus, the effects of variables such as the asking price are taken into account. The evaluation of data from a case study in the German used car market reveals a significant potential for an increase in profitability and confirms the proposed price-based revenue management concept.
Retrosynthesis in the Manufacture of Generic Drugs : Selected Case Studies
This book illustrates how the retrosynthetic tool is applied in the Pharmaceutical Industry. It considers and evaluates the many viable synthetic routes that can be used by practicing industrialists, guiding readers through the various steps that lead to the "best" processes and the limits encountered if these are put into practice on an industrial scale of seven key Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API). It presents an evaluation of the potential each process has for implementation, before merging the two points of view—of retrosynthesis and process chemistry—in order to show how retrosynthetic analysis assists in selecting the most efficient route for an industrial synthesis of a particular compound whilst giving insight into the industrial process.
Retrial Queueing Systems : A Computational Approach
Retrial Queueing Systems: A Computational Approach also : Presents motivating examples in telephone and computer networks. / Establishes a comparative analysis of the retrial queues versus standard queues with waiting lines and queues with losses. / Integrates a wide range of techniques applied to the main M/G/1 and M/M/c retrial queues, and variants with general retrial times, finite population and the discrete-time case. / Surveys basic results of the matrix-analytic formalism and emphasizes the related tools employed in retrial queues. / Discusses a few selected retrial queues with QBD, GI/M/1 and M/G/1 structures.
Rethinking Scientific Change and Theory Comparison : Stabilities, Ruptures, Incommensurabilities?
The volume is a collection of essays devoted to the analysis of scientific change and stability. It explores the balance and tension that exists between commensurability and continuity on the one hand, and incommensurability and discontinuity on the other. And it discusses some central epistemological consequences regarding the nature of scientific progress, rationality and realism. In relation to these topics, it investigates a number of new avenues and revisits some familiar issues, with a focus on the history and philosophy of physics, and an emphasis on developments in cognitive sciences as well as on the claims of "new experimentalists".
Responsibility on trial : Liability standards in International criminal law
Examines the drafting, interpretation, and application of the rules for assessing individual criminal responsibility as those rules emerge from the intense contestations among judges, lawyers, and academics within the legal field. Focusing on the International Criminal Court (ICC), the book provides a rich analysis of the international debates around questions of criminal responsibility by interrogating formal legal documents and legal scholarship alongside more candid accounts .
