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Adaptive Thermal Comfort of Indoor Environment for Residential Buildings: Efficient Strategy for Saving Energy (SpringerBriefs in Architectural Design and Technology)
by David Bienvenido-Huertas Carlos Rubio-BellidoThis book is structured in four parts: First, it analyzes the sustainability objectives established for the building stock and the importance of thermal comfort in this aspect. Second, the existing adaptive thermal comfort models and the main energy-saving measures associated with these models are analyzed. Third, the energy savings obtained with these measures are analyzed in several case studies, comparing the results obtained with other energy conservation measures, such as the improvement of the façade. The analysis is carried out from an energy and economic perspective. Finally, a decision‐making process based on fuzzy logic is established. As an expected result, the content of the book contributes to assist architects in designing more efficient buildings from the perspective of user behavior.
Adaptive Water Management: Concepts, Principles and Applications for Sustainable Development (International Series in Operations Research & Management Science #258)
by Farideh Delavari Edalat M. Reza AbdiThis book explores a new framework of Adaptive Water Management (AWM) for evaluating existing approaches in urban water management. It highlights the need to adopt multidisciplinary strategies in water management while providing an in-depth understanding of institutional interactions amongst different water related sectors. The key characteristics of AWM i. e. polycentric governance, organisational flexibility and public participation are investigated and described through a critical review of the relevant literature. The book presents an empirical case study undertaken in a selected developing-country city to investigate the potential gaps between the current water management approaches and possible implementation of AWM. Feasibility of AWM operations is examined in an environment surrounded by established water management structure with centralised governance and an institutional process based on technical flexibility. The key elements of AWM performance are (re)structured and transformed into decision support systems. Multi criteria decision models are developed to facilitate quantification and visualization of the elements derived from the case study, which is involved with water companies and water consumers. The book describes how the concept of AWM, along with structuring suitable decision support systems, can be developed and applied to developing-country cities. The book highlights the barriers for applying the AWM strategies that include established centralised decision making, bureaucratic interactions with external organisations, lack of organisational flexibility within the institutions, and lack of recognition of public role in water management. The findings outline that despite the lack of adaptability in the current water management in the case study, as an example of developing countries, there are positive attitudes among water professionals and the public towards adaptability through public-institutional participation. /p>
Adaptiveness: Finding Meaning in Apparent Noise
by Stephan H. HaeckelTo demonstrate the benefits of adopting a sense-and-respond business model in order to enable the organization to respond to a much broader spectrum of possible customer needs.
ADD-FRIENDLY Ways To ORGANIZE Your Life
by Kathleen Nadeau Judith KolbergOrganizing books fall short of addressing the unique needs of adults with ADD. They fail to understand the clinical picture of ADD and how it impacts the organizing process, often making their advice irrelevant or frustrating when put into practice. Books about ADD may address organization/disorganization but do so in a cursory fashion and on a very small scale. This is a book that has ADD-Friendly advice with the ADD-er in mind. This collaboration brings forth the best underlying understanding with the most effective and practical remedy from ADD experts in two important fields-professional organization and clinical psychology. Finally, it offers organizing advice that ranges from self-help to utilizing the help of non-professionals, to using professional assistance. Thus it permits the listener to decide where they are personally in the organizing process, and what level of support will be most beneficial to their unique situation.
Add-on-Preissysteme: Determinanten und Konsequenzen der Konsumentenwahrnehmung (Fokus Dienstleistungsmarketing)
by Christopher PützChristopher Pütz untersucht in drei Forschungsprojekten, wie Konsumenten Add-on-Preissysteme wahrnehmen, bei denen Anbieter neben einem Basisprodukt optionale kostenpflichtige Zusatzleistungen vermarkten. Die Ergebnisse der empirischen Studien offenbaren eine Reihe von Determinanten, welche die Wahrnehmung von Add-on-Preissystemen beeinflussen und welche Konsequenzen daraus resultieren. Basierend auf diesen Erkenntnissen leitet der Autor Implikationen für die Wissenschaft und die Unternehmenspraxis ab.
Added Value in Design and Construction
by Allan Ashworth Keith HoggAdded Value in Design and Construction takes a holistic, student-centred approach to offering public and private sector clients the ultimate reward; doing more for less. The Latham Report was a call to action and this book provides students of construction with the theoretical and practical knowledge to deliver the recommendations of the report. It describes the principles and techniques crucial to adding value and reducing costs in design and construction in the twenty first century. This book examines in detail a wide range of strategies that can be applied during the design and construction process to add value and bring the best interests of the client sharply into focus.
Added Value von Behavioral-Finance-Fonds: Analyse Des Investmentkonzeptes Und Übersicht Über Den Anlageerfolg
by Daniel AverbeckDieses Buch liefert die bislang erste kritische Überprüfung des Anlageerfolgs von Behavioral Finance Fonds. Dabei steht eine intensive Analyse des Investmentprozesses dieser neuen Fondsart im Fokus. Zu diesem Zweck wird herausgearbeitet, auf welchen Annahmen die Fondsstrategie beruht, welche Besonderheiten bei der Assetauswahl beachtet werden und wodurch sich die Methodik von traditionellen Fondskonzepten unterscheidet. Gleichzeitig wird eine Klassifizierung der unterschiedlichen Behavioral Finance Fonds Strategien sowie eine eigenständige definitorische Abgrenzung innerhalb der existierenden Fondswelt konzipiert.
Addicted to Busy
by Brady BoydWe are all spread too thin, taking on more than we can handle, trying to do so much--almost as if we are afraid that if we were to take a moment of rest, we might discover that all our busyness is covering up an essential lack in our lives.But God never meant for us to be so busy. God desires for us to have rest and peace. Brady Boyd shows you how to live a life that embraces stillness and solitude, so you can find the peace that God wants for you.
Addicted to Growth: Societal Therapy for a Sustainable Wellbeing Future (Routledge Explorations in Environmental Studies)
by Robert CostanzaThis book takes a compelling approach to describing what is needed to create the kind of future that most people on Earth really want. Our global society is hopelessly addicted to a particular vision of the world and a future that has become both unsustainable and undesirable. Addicted to Growth frames our current predicament as a societal addiction to a ‘growth at all costs’ economic paradigm. While economic growth has produced many benefits, its side effects are now producing existential problems that are rapidly getting worse. Robert Costanza considers lessons from what works at the individual level to overcome addictions and applies them to a societal scale. Costanza recognises that the first step to recovery is recognising the addiction and that it is leading to disaster; however, simply pointing out the dire consequences of our societal addiction is only the first step and can be counterproductive by itself in motivating change. The key next step is creating a truly shared vision of the kind of world we all want, and the book explores creative ways to implement this societal therapy. The final step is using that shared vision to motivate the changes needed to achieve it, including adaptive transformations of our economic systems, property rights regimes, and governance institutions. An exciting contribution from a key thinker in the field, this book will be a valuable resource to students and scholars of public policy and sustainability studies, and anyone interested in understanding and overcoming our societal addiction to growth.
Addiction as Consumer Choice: Exploring the Cognitive Dimension (Routledge Studies in Marketing)
by Gordon FoxallA striking characteristic of addictive behavior is the pursuit of immediate reward at the risk of longer-term detrimental outcomes. It is typically accompanied by the expression of a strong desire to cease from or at least control consumption that has such consequences, followed by lapse, further resolution, relapse, and so on. Understood in this way, addiction includes substance abuse as well as behavioral compulsions like excessive gambling or even uncontrollable shopping. Behavioral economics and neurophysiology provide well-worn paths to understanding this behavior and this book regards them as central components of this quest. However, the specific question it seeks to answer is, What part does cognition – the desires we pursue and the beliefs we have about how to accomplish them – play in explaining addictive behavior? The answer is sought in a methodology that indicates why and where cognitive explanation is necessary, the form it should take, and the outcomes of employing it to understand addiction. It applies the Behavioral Perspective Model (BPM) of consumer choice, a tried and tested theory of more routine consumption, ranging from everyday product and brand choice, through credit purchasing and environmental despoliation, to the more extreme aspects of consumption represented by compulsion and addiction. The book will advance debate among behavioral scientists, cognitive psychologists, and other professionals about the nature of economic and social behavior.
Addiction at Work: Tackling Drug Use and Misuse in the Workplace
by Hamid GhodseDrugs and the workplace just don't mix. Yes, most users of illicit drugs are employed adults and there's a high correlation between levels of stress, income and alcohol abuse amongst professional and managerial employees. But the risks associated with drug use and abuse in the workplace have been well defined. Addiction at Work enables you to understand the background and extent of the problem: the cost of drug abuse to your organization; the role your own organizational culture may have in encouraging drug misuse; the risks associated with dangerous or stressful jobs. There are also chapters to help you understand the symptoms of drug abuse and the potential risks associated with perfectly legal prescription or over-the-counter medicines. The right kind of drug policy can be a significant weapon to fight this problem. So Addiction at Work explores your responsibility as an employer and how to design, communicate and implement a policy that is appropriate for your organization. Finally, there are chapters on the tools and techniques open to your organization for tackling the problem head on; ways of addressing problem behaviours; the advantages and disadvantages of drug screening and the ethics associated with this practice; employee assistance programmes and specialist care and, finally, the employment law issues around drugs. Addiction at Work has been written by some of the world-authorities on drug use in the workplace. It is an essential reference for organizations seeking a way through the human, ethical and legal issues (and the risk they present to any employer) of a social problem that is increasingly impacting employees whatever their work or the nature of their workplace.
Adding Indonesia to the Global Projection Model
by Michal Andrle Charles Freedman Roberto Garcia-Saltos Danny Hermawan Douglas Laxton Haris MunandarAdding Indonesia to the Global Projection Model
Adding Latin America to the Global Projection Model
by Jorge Canales Kriljenko Charles Freedman Roberto Garcia-Saltos Marianne Johnson Douglas LaxtonAdding Latin America to the Global Projection Model
Adding Prestige to Your Portfolio: How to Use the Creative Luxury Process to Develop Products Everyone Wants
by Drew BoydExpand your existing portfolio by using the creative luxury process to elevate specific products and provide greater value to customers.Contrary to popular belief, luxury is a well-defined code that can be reapplied to any other product or service to enhance its value. Adding Prestige to Your Portfolio reveals how non-luxury companies can apply the principles of luxury and creativity to transition parts of their portfolio to luxury status.Adding Prestige to Your Portfolio describes how companies can elevate any product or service at each step of the customer buying journey (awareness, search and compare, purchase, use, advocate). By applying the creativity technique Closed World Principle, readers can determine which luxury benefits (security, fun, self-respect, self-fulfillment, accomplishment, recognition, relationships or belonging) would best map to their product or service and garner the greatest business impact at that particular stage of the customer buying journey.Illustrated with examples from industries as diverse as healthcare and industrial equipment, Adding Prestige to Your Portfolio shows companies how to borrow the elements of luxury and sprinkle them throughout the customer experience in order to strengthen loyalty and increase their appeal to potential new customers. Online resources include sample syllabi, templates to aid in application of framework, case studies and discussion questions.
Adding Value: Brands and Marketing in Food and Drink (Routledge Library Editions: Marketing)
by Geoffrey Jones Nicholas J. MorganAn international group of scholars, drawn from the United States, Europe and Australia and from a number of academic disciplines, explores the history of marketing in the food and drink industries, focusing on the meaning of brands, the ways in which they add value and the surrounding business strategies.
Additions to Market Indices and the Comovement of Stock Returns Around the World
by Stijn Claessens Yishay YafehAdditions to Market Indices and the Comovement of Stock Returns Around the World.
Additive Manufacturing (AM): Entwicklung eines Informationsversorgungskonzepts zur Unterstützung des AM-Produktentstehungsprozesses
by Dominik MorarDie Fertigungstechnologie Additive Manufacturing (AM) erfreut sich zunehmender Beliebtheit und steigender Verbreitung in der produzierenden Industrie. Neben produktbezogenen Anwendungspotenzialen eröffnet AM weitreichende Möglichkeiten, die die Kollaboration in der Produktentstehung betreffen. So eignet sich AM zur orts- und zeitunabhängigen Produktion in Wertschöpfungsnetzwerken. Hierfür ausschlaggebend ist der hohe Digitalisierungsgrad im Produktentstehungsprozess. Folglich wird AM als eine Schlüsseltechnologie der digitalen Transformation produzierender Unternehmen verstanden. Zur proaktiven Gestaltung dieser Transformation kommt der Nutzung der Ressource Information eine zentrale Rolle zu. Das Ziel dieser Arbeit ist die Konzeption einer bedarfsgerechten Informationsversorgung für den Entstehungsprozess von AM-Produkten durch eine angemessene Integration von Informationssystemen. Das entwickelte Informationsversorgungskonzept basiert auf einer Exploration unter AM-Anwendern. Den Kern des Konzepts bildet das digitale AM-Produktmodell, das eine AM-gerechte Struktur für den Informationsaustausch im AM-Produktentstehungsprozess bildet.
Additive Manufacturing: Design, Processes and Applications (SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology)
by Panagiotis StavropoulosThis book is a comprehensive guide to Additive Manufacturing (AM) product development. It offers a practical, reader-friendly approach to integrating the stages of product development. It covers current design and manufacturing strategies with a step-by-step approach, divided into three pillars: design, processes, and applications.The book addresses the challenges hindering the industrial application of AM and provides a roadmap for its successful implementation. It discusses specific AM case studies and hybrid AM cell and production line setups, with the goal of achieving high-quality, low-cost products that are both flexible and productive. The book concludes with an examination of Industry 4.0 capabilities in decentralized manufacturing.It is aimed to be read by researchers and professionals in industry who are interested in the development and potential of additive manufacturing, and will help to lead to wider adoption of AM.
Additive Manufacturing for Plastic Recycling: Efforts in Boosting A Circular Economy (Sustainable Manufacturing Technologies)
by Rupinder SinghThis book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date discussion of breakthroughs on additive manufacturing for plastic material recycling to boost a circular economy. It offers new ideas of combining/hybridizing processing methods that work as a source of information for manufacturers in making new and strategic product development plans. Additive Manufacturing for Plastic Recycling: Efforts in Boosting a Circular Economy provides a critical, comprehensive, methodological, and strong state-of-the-art work on the processing of thermoplastic and thermosetting along with new directions and applications. It describes the common and hybrid approaches of recycling processes and includes theoretical and practical ideas of combining/hybridizing processing methods with the use of fused deposition modelling, which is one of the low-cost additive manufacturing techniques. The book also discusses mechanical twin-screw extrusion followed by case studies for developing hybrid composite structures for biomedical and structural applications. Recent innovations in melt processing for recycling and the fundaments, process parameters investigations, and applications for new product development are also presented. This book is a first-hand reference source of information for academic scholars and commercial manufacturers for making strategic development plans for new product development.
Additive Manufacturing of Metals: The Technology, Materials, Design and Production (Springer Series in Advanced Manufacturing)
by Francisco Medina Li Yang Keng Hsu Brian Baughman Donald Godfrey Mamballykalathil Menon Soeren WienerThis book offers a unique guide to the three-dimensional (3D) printing of metals. It covers various aspects of additive, subtractive, and joining processes used to form three-dimensional parts with applications ranging from prototyping to production. Examining a variety of manufacturing technologies and their ability to produce both prototypes and functional production-quality parts, the individual chapters address metal components and discuss some of the important research challenges associated with the use of these technologies. As well as exploring the latest technologies currently under development, the book features unique sections on electron beam melting technology, material lifting, and the importance this science has in the engineering context. Presenting unique real-life case studies from industry, this book is also the first to offer the perspective of engineers who work in the field of aerospace and transportation systems, and who design components and manufacturing networks. Written by the leading experts in this field at universities and in industry, it provides a comprehensive textbook for students and an invaluable guide for practitioners
Additive Manufacturing Technologies: 3D Printing, Rapid Prototyping, and Direct Digital Manufacturing
by David Rosen Ian Gibson Brent StuckerThis book covers in detail the various aspects of joining materials to form parts. A conceptual overview of rapid prototyping and layered manufacturing is given, beginning with the fundamentals so that readers can get up to speed quickly. Unusual and emerging applications such as micro-scale manufacturing, medical applications, aerospace, and rapid manufacturing are also discussed. This book provides a comprehensive overview of rapid prototyping technologies as well as support technologies such as software systems, vacuum casting, investment casting, plating, infiltration and other systems. This book also: Reflects recent developments and trends and adheres to the ASTM, SI, and other standards Includes chapters on automotive technology, aerospace technology and low-cost AM technologies Provides a broad range of technical questions to ensure comprehensive understanding of the concepts covered
Addressing: Leveraging the Seductive Power of Interpreters--Bringing Radical Innovations to Market
by Roberto VergantiAfter you have defined a new vision for a product family in the research phase of design-driven innovation, you must effectively propose that vision and product to the market. There are many known challenges. People may be confused by a radical new proposal, even though they may eventually convert and become passionate about it. Design-driven innovation implies a change in socially accepted paradigms: if it is successful, the market--and consumption culture--will not be the same. Thus, rather than simply launch the product and wait for customers to embrace it, a firm needs to support this paradigm shift through proactive investments aimed at facilitating the understanding, assimilation, and adoption of the new meaning that the product proposes. This chapter looks at how firms, both big and small, can leverage the insights and influence of the very designers who worked on a game-changing product or service to bring these radical innovations to market. This chapter was originally published as chapter 9 of "Design-Driven Innovation: Changing the Rules of Competition by Radically Innovating What Things Mean."
Addressing Inequality in South Asia
by The World BankInequality in South Asia appears to be moderate when looking at standard indicators such as the Gini index, which are based on consumption expenditures per capita. But other pieces of evidence reveal enormous gaps, from extravagant wealth at one end to lack of access to the most basic services at the other. Which prompts the question: How bad is inequality in South Asia? And why would that matter? This book takes a comprehensive look at the extent, nature, and drivers of inequality in this very dynamic region of the world. It discusses how some dimensions of inequality, such as high returns to investments in human capital, contribute to economic growth while others, such as high payoffs to rent-seeking or broken aspirations, undermine it. Drawing upon a variety of data sources, it disentangles the contribution that opportunity in young age, mobility in adult years, and support throughout life make to inequality at any point in time. Equally important, the book sheds light on the prospects of escaping disadvantage over time. The analysis shows that South Asia performs poorly in terms of opportunity. Access to basic services is partial at best, and can be traced to characteristics at birth, including gender, location, and caste. Conversely, the region has had a robust performance in terms of geographical and occupational mobility despite its cluttered urbanization and widespread informality. Migration and jobs have served disadvantaged groups better than the rest, highlighting the importance of the urbanization and private sector development agendas. Support falls somewhere in between. Poverty alleviation programs are pervasive. But the mobilization of public resources is limited and much of it is wasted in regressive subsidies, while inter-government transfers do not do enough to mitigate spatial inequalities.
Addressing Korea's Long-Term Fiscal Challenges
by Tarhan Feyzioğlu Michael Skaarup Murtaza SyedAddressing Korea's Long-Term Fiscal Challenges
Addressing the Human Capital Crisis in the Federal Government: A Knowledge Management Perspective
by Jay LiebowitzPresident Bush's number-one management initiative for the federal government is the Strategic Management of Human Capital. According to Knowledgeworkers.com, human capital is the accumulated value of an individual's intellect, knowledge, and experience. In the U.S. federal government, a human capital crisis exists. The factors contributing to a human capital dilemma include a knowledge bleed due to retirement eligibility, changing perspectives on work, and escalating knowledge loss. According to a Joint Hearing on the Federal Human Capital, by 2005, more than half of the 1.8 million non-postal civilian employees will be eligible for early or regular retirement. An even greater percentage of the Senior Executive Service, the government's core managers, will be eligible to leave.All government agencies are required to develop a human capital strategy by 2005. Many of these agencies have scored a "red" (lowest rating) on the Government Scorecard in the way they are approaching their strategic management of human capital. This book is an executive briefing on developing a successful human capital strategy based on lessons learned from analyzing existing strategies at government agencies such as NASA.Using a knowledge management perspective, Liebowitz identifies four pillars of an effective strategy and gives examples of these in practice.