Nanotechnology is a new and emerging discipline that is multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary. The usage of nanosystems, nanomaterials, nano-devices, etc. permeates all aspects of society. Cancer targeting and curing nanosystems are being introduced into the biomedical and pharmaceutical industries; so are lightweight energy absorbing or...
Time—don’t we all wish we had more of it! I don’t need to tell you that twenty-four hours per day is all we get. The trick is to make the most of our time. You really do have time for what you need and want to do. You just need to start setting priorities.
Most of my clients find that they are so overwhelmed by all the...
Every customer-facing corporation has at least one call center. In the United States, call centers handle a billion calls per year. Call Center Operation gives you the complete coverage of the critical issues involved in the design, implementation, organization, and management of a customer call center. Sharp provides information on...
Really new products and services are scarce, yet the need for them is huge. That's why Innovation is an important managerial instrument - but many of us struggle with how to approach it. Gijs van Wulfen's "Creating Innovative Products and Services" is an essential read for anyone involved in new product or service design,...
The conjunction of several factors having occurred throughout the past few years will make humans significantly change their behavior vis-à-vis machines. In particular the use of speech technologies will become normal in the professional domain, but also in everyday life. The performance of speech recognition components...
Twenty-five years ago, the high-tech business was small, computers were largely relegated to accounting, and the money major corporations spent on information technology barely made a dent in their overall budgets. Today that has all changed. High-tech businesses are some of the largest in the world. The Dow Jones Industrial Average includes four...
It was not long ago that database systems were revolutionized through the birth of
the relational concepts and theory, which are now materialized in most commercial
database management systems. It was then thought that data should be structured
in a rather simple way to support the day-to-day business operations. This
has...
The 8 recurring volumes of the "Essentials in Ophthalmology" series cover the most recent developments in one of eight subspecialties in Ophthalmology. With four volumes published per year, each subspecialty is newly visited every 24 months, with a distinct focus on recent developments. By bridging the gap between original research and...
Reaction-diffusion and excitable media are amongst most intriguing substrates. Despite apparent simplicity of the physical processes involved the media exhibit a wide range of amazing patterns: from target and spiral waves to travelling localisations and stationary breathing patterns. These media are at the heart of most natural processes,...
Eclipse is the world's most popular IDE for Java development. And although there are plenty of large tomes that cover all the nooks and crannies of Eclipse, what you really need is a quick, handy guide to the features that are used over and over again in Java programming. You need answers to basic questions such as: Where...
Digital Communities in a Networked Society: e-Commerce, e-Business and e-Government deals with the accelerating evolution in the computerization of society. This evolution, or should we call it a revolution, is dominantly driven by the Internet, and documented by the novelties introduced, year by year, by Information and Communication Technologies....
