Taylor francis inc aug 2002 (14 risultati)

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book covers the latest developments in pain research as presented at the Fifth World Congress on Myofascial Pain (MYOPAIN 2001). It examines the results of a wide scope of basic and applied research on soft-tissue pain, with a strong focus on therapeutic approaches. Its three main sections explore the neurobiology of central sensitization, regional pain syndromes, and chronic widespread pain. In addition, this well-referenced book presents a fascinating chapter on the relationship between muscle pain and aging. Handy graphs, charts, and illustrations make the information easy to assimilate.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Freedom in the World is an institutional effort by Freedom House to monitor the progress and decline of political rights and civil liberties in 192 nations and 17 related and disputed territories. These year-end reviews of freedom began in 1955, when they were called the Balance Sheet of Freedom and, still later, the Annual Survey of the Progress of Freedom. This program was expanded in the early 1970s, and has been issued in a more developed context as a yearbook since 1978.…

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - How much money is your business wasting How good is the service you deliver This pioneering book will familiarize you with benchmarking techniques that can be used to gauge and improve the performance of hospitality and tourism businesses anywhere! With compelling case studies drawn from hotel management, environmental systems, and destination practices, it examines important aspects of benchmarking, including satisfaction barometers, indicator development, and finding/networking with benchmarking partners.After an overview of benchmarking concepts and processes, this essential book explores: benchmarking's strengths and weaknesses ways to apply benchmarking to tourist facilities and destinations the role of customer satisfaction and loyalty in benchmarking--and a way to efficiently measure it a procedure for identifying benchmarking partners the Tyrolean Tourism Barometer--its value, its usefulness, and ways to improve it the changing functions of hotel front office operations and procedures and benchmarks that can help empower front office employees benchmarks in quality management benchmarks in accreditation for hospitality and tourism businesses a case study of environmental management systems for Caribbean resorts and hotels--how they have saved money on water, electricity, diesel fuel, and liquefied petroleum gas while improving environmental performance.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Freedom in the Worldis an institutional effort by Freedom House to monitor the progress and decline of political rights and civil liberties in 192 nations and 17 related and disputed territories.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book focuses on the question whether the world we see around us is the real world itself, or whether it is merely a copy of the world presented to consciousness by our brain in response to input from our senses.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The federal government has issued guidelines that must be incorporated into any program for criminal deterrence in the workplace. If these guidelines are not met, corporations themselves may be legally accountable for the misdeeds of their employees. This book helps readers meet and exceed federal guidelines, whether they are starting from scratch or they wish to benchmark an existing program against another framework. Written by a 25-year veteran of corporate internal security and a certified fraud examiner, Occupational Crime integrates the legal, practical, and philosophical aspects of planning for, producing, and operating a successful compliance program to prevent and/or detect crime in the workplace. This step-by-step guide takes the reader from legal mandates and program design, to implementation and maintenance.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This volume introduces the relationship of statistics, probability, and reliability as they apply to quality in general and to Six Sigma in particular. The author brings the theoretical into the practical by providing statistical techniques, tests, and methods that the reader can use in any organization. He reviews basic parametric and non-parametric statistics, probability concepts and applications, and addresses topics for both measurable and attribute characteristics. He delineates the importance of collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data not from an academic point of view but from a practical perspective.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Outlining a new four-step process that supports adaptive management, The Watershed Project Management Guide explores an innovative approach for addressing complex water and related management issues. Integrating science, policy, and public opinion, this four-phased approach will assist watershed practitioners develop a plan consistent with the recently released USDA-EPA Watershed Management Planning and Implementation Process guidance. This process can be used to implement a management strategy to meet the load allocations required by an approved Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL), the goals of a Source Water Protection Plan, USDA programs such as EQIP, or Section 319 Project.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - According to the National Resources Defense Council, throughout the United States stormwater runoff rivals or exceeds discharges form factories and sewage plants as a source of pollution. The U.S. EPA identifies urban stormwaters as the second largest source of water quality damage in estuaries and a significant contributor to the damage to lakes, rivers, and bays. Based on seminars presented by international experts for the EPA, Wet-Weather Flow in the Urban Watershed: Technology and Management covers a broad spectrum of urban wet-weather flow management and pollution abatement topics. The topics covered will assist municipal engineers, consultants, and academic researchers with design, cost, and water quality issues.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Highlighting a broad range multiscale modeling and methods for anticipating the morphologies and the properties of interfaces and multiphase materials, this reference covers the methodology of predicting polymer properties and its potential application to a wider variety of polymer types than previously thought possible. A comprehensive source, the book features discussions of the interplay between thermodynamic and kinetic factors in multiphase materials, analytical and numerical methods for predicting thermoelastic and transport properties of multiphase materials, mechanical properties under large deformation, and influence of interfaces via simulations.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - Intelligent systems, or artificial intelligence technologies, are playing an increasing role in areas ranging from medicine to the major manufacturing industries to financial markets. The consequences of flawed artificial intelligence systems are equally wide ranging and can be seen, for example, in the programmed trading-driven stock market crash of October 19, 1987. Intelligent Systems: Technology and Applications, Six Volume Set connects theory with proven practical applications to provide broad, multidisciplinary coverage in a single resource. In these volumes, international experts present case-study examples of successful practical techniques and solutions for diverse applications ranging from robotic systems to speech and signal processing, database management, and manufacturing.…

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - From health and economic consequences to exposure assessment and detoxification, this title covers the formation, characteristics, and control of various toxins that occur in the production, storage, and preparation of food. It discusses toxin sources, mechanisms, routes of exposure and absorption, and their chemical and biochemical components. …