In this book for the optimisation of assembly conveyor lines we are dealing with series part production featured by a medium complexity degree and a medium number of individual components and assembly technique alternatives. Modern production techniques for medium to large series products or mass production usually involve assembly conveyor lines. They still use hand labour more or less automat…
Cybersecurity, cybercrime and cyber warfare as key words have taken a prominent place in the world of security in general. This is partially due to technological evolution, and in large part to the growth in security breaches, criminal acts and the presence of information-based weapons of war. In this publication, any cybersecurity incidents, crimes or acts of war are treated simply as human ac…
The first thing that should be said to someone who is thinking of “going offshore” is that it is like going into major surgery. The outcomes can differ enormously, depending on the skill of the surgeons and what they are trying to accomplish. You may simply want to protect your money from volatility that comes with market crisis, economic instability, and a turbulent U.S. dollar. Or maybe …
François Laruelle’s non-Marxist reading of Marx, executed in Introduction au non-marxisme, is accomplished by allowing Marx’s text to speak for itself, without placing it into the history of philosophy.1 A non-philosophical reading of Marx operates with the “use-value” of concepts that have been radicalized to expose their unilateral correlation with the effect of the real. In non-phi…
rgodic theory is a mathematical subject that studies the statistical proper- ties of deterministic dynamical systems. It is a combination of several branches of pure mathematics, such as measure theory, functional analysis, topology, and geometry, and it also has applications in a variety of fields in science and engineering, as a branch of applied mathematics. In the past decades, the ergodic …
The ibam study texts have been especially written to support candidates studying for the ibam Certificate and Diploma in Business Practice. All material within each study text for a particular module can be examined. The style of the study text draws on case studies and real-life examples to give candidates a strong feel for the practical application of relevant knowledge to the workplace. De…
The book you have in your hand culminates a journey that began over forty years ago (though time may show it is merely a way station). The journey mirrors developments in planning and policy making during that time – the effort to integrate theory and practice, the search for more effective ways to conduct policy, and the growing role of collaboration. This journey began in 1967 when author I…
Our ways met in early 2010 when the World Bank Group through the IFC Corporate Governance Unit decided to embark on a training program on risk governance for board members and senior managers with the aim of promoting good risk management practices linking corporate risk-taking with strategic decision-making. In preparing this work, we combined complementary insights from the corporate governan…
Difference, diversity, and disagreement are inevitable features of our ethical, social, and political landscape. Although difference of opinion is not a modern phenomenon, the modern world is particularly concerned with the ethical navigation of difference. What is the range of appropriate responses to deep disagreement? How should we interact with those with whom we do not see eye to eye? When…
For quite a long time, computer security was a rather narrow field of study that was populated mainly by theoretical computer scientists, electrical engineers, and applied mathematicians. With the proliferation of open sys- tems in general, and the Internet and the World Wide Web (WWW) in particular, this situation has changed fundamentally. Today, computer and network practitioners are equally…
About a “right to die” there is obviously not yet any legal, political, or ethical consensus. But has the very question of such a right been formulated clearly? Despite a long philosophic tradition addressing the question of suicide itself and, more recently, a half-century of legal decisions, a growing library of scholarly studies across multiple disciplines, and a steady out- pouring of p…
This new book focuses directly on how to develop a human capital (HC) strategy in today’s turbulent and changing environment . Too often, HC strategy encompasses a classic and traditional approach to human resources (HR): recruit- ing the best people, preparing them for assignments, motivating them for high performance, and retaining them for several years . While this is all necessary, it is…
This course was developed out of a training outline and the course Col. Arlow and I taught together in Manama, Bahrain. Pieter’s background is South African Defense Force, and he was responsible for the security of the World Cup in 2011. Dave’s background is civilian, industrial chemical, and environmental consulting. Together, we believe that this book will provide a different and practica…
The first edition of this book, Energy Law and the Environment, was published in 2002 and was the first one in the field that considered the legal environmental imperatives for the energy sector. The first edition was written to be accessible to both lawyers and non-lawyers alike and the same theme continues in this, the second edition. However, the interest and concerns of policymakers, multin…
This book explores fundamental questions about grand strategy, as it has evolved across generations and countries. It provides an overview of the ancient era of grand strategy and a detailed discussion of its philosophical, military, and economic foundations in the modern era. This study investigates these aspects through the lens of four approaches – those of historians, social scientists,…
Welcome to PhoneGap social app development. Social networking has changed the way we share information in our world. Where it used to be an e-mail to a friend (or even a letter!), now it's a tweet or a Facebook post, often for the world to see. What's even more amazing is how relatively young the various social networks are and how quickly they have changed the way we communicate and consume in…
Are you new to Software Defined Networking (SDN)? Have you been hung up in the SDN crazy for the past several years? Whichever bucket you fall into, do not worry. Even though this book is centered around network automation and programmability, this chapter is going to highlight and provide an introduction on several of the major trends throughout the network industry that often end up in conver…
To speed up with the content of this book, prior knowledge of OpenStack is required. If you don't have experience in OpenStack, reading small snippets from the OpenStack community, http://docs.openstack.org/admin-guide-cloud/ content/ch_getting-started-with-openstack.html, will bring you onto the same wavelength of this book. As the title of the book promises, you should not expect a long and d…
The IP version currently used in networks and the Internet is IP version 4 (IPv4). IPv4 was developed in the early ’70s to facilitate communication and information sharing between government researchers and academics in the United States. At the time, the system was closed with a limited number of access points, and consequently the devel‐ opers didn’t envision requirements such as securi…
The Windows 8 operating system is the newest member of the Microsoft Windows family. It differs from earlier Windows releases as much for what it does not change as for what it does change. That is, the features that IT pros loved about Windows 7 are still there in Windows 8—just better. The same keyboard shortcuts, management tools, security features, and deployment options are available in …
Next generation supercomputers require drastically better energy efficiency to allow these systems to scale to exaflop computing levels.Virtually all major processor ven- dors and companies such asAMD, Intel, and IBM are developing high-performance and highly energy-efficient multicore processors and dedicating their current and future development and manufacturing to multicore products. It …
Since the first edition of Hacking Exposed Wireless, the technologies and the threats facing these communications have grown in number and sophistication. Combined with the rapidly increasing number of deployments the risk of implementing wireless technologies has been compounded. Nevertheless, the risk is often surpassed by the benefits and convenience of wireless technologies, which have been…