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Just Culture and the Criminalisation of Air Accidents
by Simon DanielsJust Culture and the Criminalisation of Air Accidents equips the reader with the tools to understand the meaning of criminalisation in the civil aviation industry. It enables them to resolve problems that arise in risk management within the context of their professional employment.By examining the priorities of pilots, air traffic controllers and prosecutors, this book analyses the anatomy of criminalisation in civil aviation and works towards constructing solutions that protect the professionals’ human rights and the Just Culture concept within the framework of criminal law and practice. It covers the duty of an air traffic controller to take the standard of care to guard against acts or omissions which might cause loss and give rise to a claim in negligence. The book illustrates the critical features discussed with numerous case studies from States and jurisdictions around the world.The book will benefit airline operators, pilots, air traffic controllers or managers, and aviation business managers.
The Just Culture Principles in Aviation Law: Towards a Safety-Oriented Approach (Legal Studies in International, European and Comparative Criminal Law #3)
by Francesca PellegrinoThis book reviews and critically analyzes the current legal framework with regard to a more just culture for the aviation sector. This new culture is intended to protect front-line operators, in particular controllers and pilots, from legal action (except in the case of willful misconduct or gross negligence) by creating suitable laws, regulations and standards. In this regard, it is essential to have an environment in which all incidents are reported, moving away from fears of criminalization. The approach taken until now has been to seek out human errors and identify the individuals responsible. This punitive approach does not solve the problem because frequently the system itself is (also) at fault. Introducing the framework of a just culture could ensure balanced accountability for both individuals and complex organizations responsible for improving safety. Both aviation safety and justice administration would benefit from this carefully established equilibrium.
Just-in-Time Elements and Benefits
by Aidé Aracely Maldonado-Macías Jorge Luis García-AlcarazThis book reports the elements required for implementing Just in Time (JIT) technique in companies. The main reasons for low implementation processes and the main benefits from the successful implementation of them are highlighted in this book. Structural equation models are presented to help identify the essential elements in JIT.
Just in Time Factory: Implementation Through Lean Manufacturing Tools (Management for Professionals)
by José Luís Pinto João Carlos Matias Carina Pimentel Susana Garrido Azevedo Kannan GovindanThis book explains the implementation of just in time (JIT) production in an industrial context, while also highlighting the application of various, vital lean production tools. Shifting the trade-off between productivity and quality, the book discusses the preparation stages needed before implementing a JIT system. After an introduction to lean manufacturing and JIT, it introduces readers to the fundamentals and practice of Kaizen, paying special attention to lean manufacturing tools. The book demonstrates how to use the 5S approach (with the stages of Seiri, Seiton, Seiso, Seiketsu and Shitsuke), Standardized Work, Single Minute Exchange of Die (SMED) and the Kanban system. In brief, the book provides an understanding of the processes associated with the application of these tools and highlights the benefits attained by companies that have implemented JIT systems. Throughout the book, a real-world case study is used to deepen readers’ understanding of how lean manufacturing tools can be implemented. The book is ideally suited for executive courses in industrial engineering and management, but can also be used for upper undergraduate and graduate courses at universities.
Just Ordinary Robots: Automation from Love to War
by Lamber Royakkers Rinie van EstA social robot is a robot that interacts and communicates with humans or other autonomous physical agents by following social behaviors and rules attached to its role. We seem to accept the use of robots that perform dull, dirty, and dangerous jobs. But how far do we want to go with the automation of care for children and the elderly, or the killin
Just Right: Searching for the Goldilocks Planet
by Curtis ManleyDo you wonder if humansare the only beings who wonderif they are alone in the universe?Our sun is a star.In the night sky are all kinds of stars,and orbiting those starsare planets like the ones in our own solar system.Could those planets have lifelike we do on Earth?Planet Earth is not too big,not too small, not too hot,and not too cold. It’s just right.Our very own Goldilocks planet . . . .Follow a young girlas she explores these questionsin this gorgeous book about the wondrous searchfor another Goldilocks planet.
Just Technology: The Quest for a Sustainable Society (Synthesis Lectures on Sustainable Development)
by Thomas Siller Gearold JohnsonThe readers of the book Just Technology: The Quest for Cultural, Economic, Environmental, and Technical Sustainability, Second Edition of will benefit from its systematic approach in evaluating the true sustainability challenges facing society and will learn how to address these challenges in a just manner. Since the publication of the first edition of the book, the concept of a just society has become more important. Several new contemporary examples are now included to reinforce the concepts introduced in the previous edition. The book presents a framework to evaluate the appropriateness of technological approaches to address critical sustainable issues. The framework comprises four questions that aim to create more just approaches by broadening the context engineers consider when formulating solutions. Addressing the complexity of today's global challenges requires new ways of thinking. The idea that technology is always the best, maybe the only approach, needs to be reconsidered, and sustainable approaches must also draw from nontechnological areas.
Just Tell Them: The Power of Explanations and Explicit Teaching
by Zach GroshellThis book reaffirms the enduring importance of effective explanations at a time when "teacher talk" is often undervalued. Drawing on the science of learning, Zach Groshell explores essential techniques for showing, telling, demonstrating, modeling, and presenting so that even the most complex concepts become accessible to all learners.Engage with the art and science of "breaking it down" to discover how a direct and explicit approach to teaching can significantly impact classroom success.
Just Tell Them: The Power of Explanations and Explicit Teaching
by Zach GroshellThis book reaffirms the enduring importance of effective explanations at a time when "teacher talk" is often undervalued. Drawing on the science of learning, Zach Groshell explores essential techniques for showing, telling, demonstrating, modeling, and presenting so that even the most complex concepts become accessible to all learners.Engage with the art and science of "breaking it down" to discover how a direct and explicit approach to teaching can significantly impact classroom success.
A Just Transition to Decarbonisation: Themes of Loss and Damage, Transport, Nature and Youth (Just Transitions)
by Susie Siew Ho Diane Kraal Gerry Nagtzaam Katie O’Bryan Jadranka PetrovicThis book provides researchers and policy-makers with legal avenues to enable a just transition to decarbonisation. The focus is on the United Nations themes of loss and damage, transport, nature and youth - across Australia and other economies - to significantly reduce CO2 emissions by 2030 and beyond. The four themes scaffold discussions about a just transition beyond the UN Climate Change Conference COP28 in Dubai with the specific issues addressed in this book serving as a starting point for future discussions.
Just Transitions and the Future of Law and Regulation (Palgrave Studies in Environmental Transformation, Transition and Accountability)
by Alexandra R. HarringtonThis book provides a comprehensive assessment of how national and international efforts to achieve carbon neutrality have been embraced as necessary to meet the requirements of the Paris Agreement as well as the needs of the planet. The authors explore the increasing tensions between aspirations and entrenched practices as methods to implement carbon neutrality are devised, particularly at the national and sub-national levels. This is perhaps best typified by efforts to shift from “dirty” energy production, such as coal, to greener alternatives, which are often supported in laws and rules but opposed by society. To bridge this void, the concept of just transitions has increasingly come to the forefront of international and national focus yet is often poorly understood. This book examines the ways in which just transitions have been proposed as a legal and regulatory bridge to address issues that result in societal resistance to implementation. It uses past and existing practice studies of just transitions before providing an analysis of how just transitions can be used to not only to assist in the shift to carbon neutrality but also in new shifts such as those caused by the Covid-19 pandemic impacts on economy, environment and society, and to address future global challenges.
Just Watch Me
by Peter GrimsdaleYou can't escape your past... When an ex-sniper loses his family, he finds himself in the cross-hairs of a massive conspiracy. A gripping thriller from the author of PERFECT NIGHT.When Dan Carter is forced to miss a much-needed family holiday, his wife and children go ahead without him. Within hours, their plane has disappeared over the Atlantic and his life is changed for ever.Stricken by grief, Dan goes in search of answers. Was this simply a terrible tragedy or something more sinister - something personal? For the Carters are not a normal family. Perhaps they never were...Shadows from the past gather around him as Dan edges closer to the truth, and a chilling conspiracy threatens to engulf him. But in a world where nothing is as it seems, who can he really trust...?
Just Watch Me
by Jeff LindsayFrom the international bestselling author of Dexter come a brilliant new thriller starring Riley Wolfe: a master thief, expert at disguise, and not averse to violence when it's needed. ********'Another blockbuster from a can't-miss master. Enjoy the ride." - David Baldacci'The Dexter creator's new hero-thief is a blast...Far-fetched, foulmouthed and very funny.' - Mark Sanderson, The Times'Vastly entertaining, and written with verve and charm, it ushers in a character that is impossible to forget.' - Geoffrey Wansell, Daily Mail********It's no accident, though, that Riley targets the wealthiest 0.1 percent and is willing to kill them when they're in his way: he despises the degenerate and immoral rich and loves stealing their undeserved and unearned valuables.In this series launch, Riley aims for an extraordinary target in a heist that will make history. Riley will try to steal the Crown Jewels of Iran. Yes, these jewels are worth billions, but the true attraction for grabbing them comes down to one simple fact: it can't be done. Stealing these jewels is absolutely impossible. The collection is guarded by space-age electronics and two teams of heavily armed mercenaries. No one could even think of getting past the airtight security and hope to get away alive, let alone with even a single diamond from the Imperial Collection.No one but Riley Wolfe. He's always liked a challenge. But this challenge may be more than even he can handle. Aside from the impenetrable security, Riley is also pursued by a brilliant and relentless cop who is barely a step behind him.With the aid of his sometime ally, a beautiful woman who is a master art forger, Riley Wolfe goes for the prize that will either make him a legend-or, more likely, leave him dead.
Justus von Liebig: Die organische Chemie in ihrer Anwendung auf Agricultur und Physiologie (Klassische Texte der Wissenschaft)
by Georg SchwedtBereits mit 21 Jahren erhielt Justus Liebig (1803-1873) auf Vorschlag Alexander von Humboldts, den er in Paris durch Gay-Lussac kennengelernt hatte, eine Professur für Chemie an der Universität Gießen. Dort entwickelte er die Elementaranalyse zu einer hohen Perfektion und isolierte, synthetisierte und analysierte zahlreiche organische Substanzen. Auf einer Reise durch England und Irland, verbunden mit einer Einladung der British Association for the Advancement of Science in Liverpool, besuchte er zahlreiche chemische Fabriken und wandte sich der angewandten Chemie zu. Auf Anregung der genannten Gesellschaft verfasste er 1840 einen Bericht zum Stand der organischen Chemie und Analytik unter dem Titel „Die organische Chemie und ihre Anwendung auf Agricultur und Physiologie“. Er begründete damit das Fachgebiet der Agrikulturchemie, formulierte darin erstmals den Gedanken eines Kohlenstoffkreislaufes und löste damit zugleich zahlreiche kontroverse Diskussionen aus.
The Jute Genome (Compendium of Plant Genomes)
by Chittaranjan Kole Liwu Zhang Haseena KhanThis book is the first comprehensive compilation of deliberations on jute botanical descriptions, germplasm resources, genetic diversity and population structure, DUS test and DNA fingerprinting, interspecific hybridization, classical genetics, cytology and cytogenetics, genetic transformation; and detailed enumeration on molecular mapping, genome sequencing initiatives of three major jute fiber producing countries, interspecific and intergeneric comparative genomics, organellar genomes, elucidation on functional genomics and genomics resources and database. Genetics and genomics of bast fiber development, biotic stress resistance, abiotic stress tolerance, and flowering pathways have also been discussed. It also presents a narrative on the power of molecular markers and genomics technology on jute breeding. Altogether, the book contains about 400 pages over 21 chapters authored by internationally reputed experts on the relevant field in this crop. This book will be useful to the students, teachers and scientists in the academia and relevant private companies interested in agronomy, genetics, pathology, entomology, physiology, molecular genetics and breeding, genetic engineering, and structural and functional genomics.
K-Best Decoders for 5G+ Wireless Communication
by Mehnaz Rahman Gwan S. ChoiThis book discusses new, efficient and hardware realizable algorithms that can attain the performance of beyond 5G wireless communication. The authors explain topics gradually, stepping from basic MIMO detection to optimized schemes for both hard and soft domain MIMO detection and also to the feasible VLSI implementation, scalable to any MIMO configuration (including massive MIMO, used in satellite/space communication). The techniques described in this book enable readers to implement real designs, with reduced computational complexity and improved performance.
Ka-boom!: The Science of Extremes
by David DarlingWhat&’s the brightest light on Earth? The coldest corner of the universe? The blackest material ever made? The most poisonous substance in nature? &‘You will learn something new in every chapter, on every page and probably in every paragraph. Hugely entertaining.&’ Kit Yates, author of The Maths of Life and Death Ka-boom! probes extremes of size and speed, depth and density, and reveals the stickiest, sweetest, smelliest and nastiest substances known to science. In an unabashed celebration of the exceptional, David Darling takes an enlightening journey through the universe&’s weirdest and most wonderful extremes. Travel to far-flung galaxies in pursuit of habitable planets and extra-terrestrial life. Journey to the rainforests of South America and discover the top-speed of the notoriously sluggish sloth. Find out how Earth&’s hardiest creatures – tardigrades or &‘water bears&’ – ended up living on the moon. And meet the scientists and engineers using these quirks of nature to design faster computers, produce greener energy and revolutionise space travel.
Kahoot! Quiz Time Space: Test Yourself Challenge Your Friends (Kahoot! Quiz Time)
by DKMore than 250 trivia questions for curious minds!What is the nearest neighbor to Earth? Do astronauts wear heated gloves? What is the force that pushes a rocket called? Find out in this quiz book, packed with questions and facts about space. Challenge yourself, your family, and friends with awesome questions based on the award-winning online Kahoot! games. Answer the questions, keep score, and declare the winner. Scan the QR codes throughout the book to find more cool quizzes on the same topics within Kahoot! and test your knowledge further. Go for gold and make learning awesome!
Kaizen Assembly: Designing, Constructing, and Managing a Lean Assembly Line
by Chris A. OrtizIt is easy to learn the philosophy and the concepts of kaizen. It is quite another challenge to translate the philosophy into action. While most books expound on the underlying principles and theory, Kaizen Assembly: Designing, Constructing, and Managing a Lean Assembly Line takes you step-by-step through an actual kaizen event. This approach demon
Kalahari
by Jessica KhouryDeep in the Kalahari Desert, a Corpus lab protects a dangerous secret...But what happens when that secret takes on a life of its own? When an educational safari goes wrong, five teens find themselves stranded in the Kalahari Desert without a guide. It's up to Sarah, the daughter of zoologists, to keep them alive and lead them to safety, calling on survival know-how from years of growing up in remote and exotic locales. Battling dehydration, starvation and the pangs of first love, she does her best to hold it together, even as their circumstances grow increasingly desperate. But soon a terrifying encounter makes Sarah question everything she's ever known about the natural world. A silver lion, as though made of mercury, makes a vicious, unprovoked attack on the group. After a narrow escape, they uncover the chilling truth behind the lion's silver sheen: a highly contagious and deadly virus that threatens to ravage the entire area--and eliminate life as they know it. In this breathtaking new novel by the acclaimed author of Origin and Vitro, Sarah and the others must not only outrun the virus, but its creators, who will stop at nothing to wipe every trace of it.
Kali Linux Hacking-Tools für Dummies (Für Dummies)
by Felix Alexa Konstantin Goretzki Tobias ScheibleSie möchten testen, wie sicher Ihr IT-System ist? Dann hilft Ihnen dieses Buch! Es zeigt Ihnen Schritt für Schritt, wie Sie Ihre Systeme mit Kali Linux auf Herz und Nieren prüfen. Sie lernen, wie Passwörter geknackt werden, wie Sie Schwachstellen von Websites finden, die Konfigurationen von Webservern überprüfen und vieles mehr. Außerdem führen die Autoren Sie in Wireless Attacks, Sniffing, Spoofing und IT-Forensik-Analysen ein. Endlose Theorie? Fehlanzeige! Unter Anleitung ausgewiesener IT-Security-Experten lernen Sie aus der Sicht von Hackern zu denken und Ihre IT-Infrastruktur entsprechend zu sichern.
Kali's Song
by Jeanette WinterRenowned picture book author and illustrator Jeanette Winter brings us the enchanting story of a boy named Kali who lived thousands and thousands of years ago. Kali must learn to hunt, like the rest of the men in his tribe. But when Kali plucks the string on his bow, he forgets about shooting arrows, and makes music long into the night. Even the stars come close to listen. This lovely story, celebrating the uniqueness in all of us, the beauty of the natural world, and showing the power of music and art over violence, will be cherished by children everywhere.From the Hardcover edition.
Kalkulation für Ingenieure (essentials)
by Ekbert HeringDie Kalkulation errechnet Preise und Preisuntergrenzen für Produkte und Dienstleistungen. Sie liefert auch wertvolle Informationen für die Wirtschaftlichkeit, der Kostensenkung sowie der Erhöhung der Produktivität in allen Funktionen des Herstellungsprozesses. Behandelt werden die Methoden der Zuschlagskalkulation, die Berechnung der Maschinenstundensätze in der Fertigung sowie die Kalkulation mit Deckungsbeiträgen, mit Prozesskosten und die Kalkulation im Handel. Die klaren Strukturierungen ermöglichen dem Leser, seine Kalkulationsanforderungen in der Praxis sofort erfüllen zu können.
Kalkulation von Baupreisen und Vergabe von Bauleistungen: Ausschreibung, Angebotsbearbeitung, Vergabe und Abrechnung (erfolgreich studieren)
by Peter VogtIm Fokus dieses Lehrbuchs steht zunächst die Pflicht des Bauherrn, Bauleistungen so umfangreich wie nötig zu beschreiben. Diese wichtige Vorarbeit versetzt potenzielle Bieter in die Lage, angemessene Baupreise zu kalkulieren. Damit kommt der Bauherr seinem Ziel, möglichst viele Angebote zu erhalten, ein Stück näher. Das Buch vermittelt anhand von acht Kapiteln, wie die Prozesskette von der Ausschreibung über die Kalkulation bis zur Vertragsgestaltung typischerweise abläuft und welche Verantwortlichkeiten und Risiken sich daraus für die beteiligten Partner ergeben können. Insbesondere der für öffentliche Aufträge streng formale und nach VOB/A geregelte Ablauf wird um praxisnahe Fallbeispiele ergänzt. Zahlreiche Aufgaben mit Lösungen runden das Werk ab. Der Aufbau dieses kompakten Lehrbuchs orientiert sich an der besonderen Didaktik der Reihe "erfolgreich studieren".
Kalman-Filter: Einführung in die Zustandsschätzung und ihre Anwendung für eingebettete Systeme
by Reiner Marchthaler Sebastian DinglerDieses Lehrbuch befasst sich leicht verständlich mit der Theorie der Kalman-Filterung. Die Autoren geben damit eine Einführung in Kalman-Filter und deren Anwendung für eingebettete Systeme. Zusätzlich wird anhand konkreter Praxisbeispiele der Kalman-Filterentwurf demonstriert – Teilschritte werden im Buch ausführlich erläutert.Kalman-Filter sind die erste Wahl, um Störsignale auf den Sensorsignalen zu eliminieren. Dies ist von besonderer Bedeutung, da viele technische Systeme ihre prozessrelevanten Informationen über Sensoren gewinnen. Jeder Messwert eines Sensors weißt jedoch aufgrund verschiedener Ursachen einen Messfehler auf. Würde ein System nur auf Basis dieser ungenauen Sensorinformationen arbeiten, so wären viele Anwendungen, wie zum Beispiel ein Navigationssystem oder autonome arbeitende Systeme, nicht möglich.Das Buch ist geeignet für interessierte Bachelor- und Master-Studierende der Fachrichtungen Informatik, Maschinenbau, Elektrotechnik undMechatronik. Ebenso ist das Buch eine Hilfe für Ingenieure und Wissenschaftler, die ein Kalman-Filter z. B. für die Datenfusion oder die Schätzung unbekannter Größen in Echtzeitanwendungen einsetzen möchten.