Polymericmaterials, both “inert” and degradable, constantly interact with the
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Information technology (IT) quality engineering and quality improvement methods
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Managers do not have the luxury of abdicating participation in information
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This book is intended for designers who are serious about their craft. It is ideal for students who
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The data collected by organizations is growing in volume and complexity. As such, businesses are
abandoning traditional methods and relying more heavily on enterprise information systems to aid in
the analysis and utilization of time-sensitive data and organizational knowledge. Enterprise information
systems have gained in popularity...
This earliest recorded attempt to regulate the engineering profession reminds
us, in the bluntest way possible, that the paramount purpose of engineering and
engineering design is to serve the user. One would assume that the engineer’s
responsibility to users is so self evident that it goes without saying. Various
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Project management is more than merely parceling out work assignments to
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This book is an annotated version of the C# Language Standard, created by adding around 400
separate annotations to the complete text of the Standard. The Standard was formally adopted
as ISO Standard 23270:2006 in April 2006 and published in August 2006, and adopted as Ecma
International Standard 334 version 4 in June 2006. Microsoft...
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The goal of this book is to provide an overview of the current state of knowledge of educational
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sets to better understand learning and to provide information about the learning process.
Although researchers have been studying human learning for over a...
As it turns out Bennis underestimated the impact that bad leadership
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has made the Enron debacle seem almost quaint by comparison
to the global financial crisis that we now face. Although numerous pundits
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