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Enhanced Methods Optimize Ownership Costs for Catalysts (.pdf)
German catalytic technology supplier Sud-Chemie uses high-fidelity predictive modeling techniques incorporating real-world data when designing and analyzing innovative catalysts for the hydrocarbon...(read more)
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Optimize Terephthaldehyde Reactor Operations (.pdf)
High-fidelity predictive modelling was used to design a high-performance multitubular reactor for production of terephthaldehyde (TPA). This involved coupling detailed catalytic tube reaction models...(read more)
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Process Modeling Moves Center-Stage (.pdf)
Process modeling is no longer just about flowsheeting - it has become a central platform for capturing compnies' intellectual property (IP). This article looks at how high-fidelity predictive process...(read more)
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A Stork Materials Technology Case Study: Conveyor Line King Pin Failure
A king pin that failed in service on an automotive assembly line. Scanning electron microscope evaluation of the fractured surface revealed an intergranular fracture mode for the majority of the...(read more)
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Tactical RF Photonic Communications: Increased Separation Distances Between Personnel and Deployed Antenna Assets (.pdf)
Legacy communication systems present a series of disadvantages to the field deployed operator: * Co-Location of Troops, Vehicle and Equipment Assets * Coaxial Copper Cable Distance Limitations *...(read more)
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A Stork Materials Technology Case Study: Valve Spring Failure
A silicon-chromium-vanadium steel valve spring which failed during cycle testing was the subject of this first of seven investigations in Stork Toolbox Case Studies series. The spring that was...(read more)
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Process Signature VerificationTM Monitoring for Medical Device Manufacturing (.pdf)
Over the past 4 years, statistical analysis of risk in Medical Devices has moved from being centered on the design/development processes, to encompassing the full life-cycle of a medical device, from...(read more)
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AN119 Six Sigma: What? Why? How? (.pdf)
Product variation and defects undercut customer loyalty as well as company profits. Six Sigma is a rigorous, disciplined, data-driven methodology that was developed to enhance product quality and...(read more)
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Environmentally Friendly "Green Process Engineering" (.pdf)
Green Chemical Engineering is much more than a method for addressing environmental problems. It offers a framework for achieving innovation. Time and again, companies looking to the future through the...(read more)
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Heat Exchanger Design using CCTHERM Software (.pdf)
CCTHERM is an integrated software module for design and rating of heat transfer equipment...(read more)
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Oil Refining Basics (.pdf)
Petroleum is a complex mixture containing thousands of different organic hydrocarbon molecules...(read more)
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Understanding and Meeting new MSAT Regulations for Refiners (.pdf)
Mobile Source Air Toxics are U.S. EPA classified hazardous air pollutants; i.e., benzene, 1,3-butadiene, formaldehyde, acetaldehyde, acrolein, naphthalene resulting from non-point sources...(read more)
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Why Use Process Simulation?
In this modern age of powerful computers, it often makes no sense to put pencil to paper like in the old days. Now, new software can perform repetitive chemical engineering calculations in a fraction...(read more)
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AMI-C Content-Based Human Machine Interface (HMI) (.pdf)
AMI-C (Automotive Multimedia Interface Collaboration) contains an HMI specification to make it easier for multimedia devices to work in different vehicle brands, makes and models, in harmony with each...(read more)
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DOE Guidelines on Hydrogen Safety (.pdf)
Hydrogen is the most plentiful gas in the universe. However hydrogen never occurs naturally, always combines with other elements such as oxygen and carbon. Hydrogen is the ultimate clean energy...(read more)
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Emission Systems Optimization to Meet Future European Legislation (.pdf)
Euro IV emissions limits have become a major milestone for the car industry in Europe. To comply with reduced emissions targets, a significant effort was required to minimize light-off time and to...(read more)
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The Many Faces of Security (.pdf)
There are many analogies between physical security and information security. Both are concerned with protecting something of value, and both have many aspects that need to be considered to ensure the...(read more)
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LMS Engineering - Solving Brake Noise Problems
In order to solve brake related noise problems, a clear insight in the fundamentals of self-exiting oscillations is of utmost importance. When a brake path is contacted to a rotating disc or drum, a...(read more)
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LMS Engineering - Vehicle Interior Noise Reduced by 6 dB in 5 Weeks
LMS engineers helped an automotive car OEM in solving a mid-frequency road-induced booming noise that was discovered close to production. Solving the problem by trial and error and testing different...(read more)
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LMS Engineering Services Helps Valtra Resolve a Tractor Gear Whine Problem
Valtra makes tractors like no one else. Aside from being a byword for quality and reliability, the Finnish-based firm is the only one in the world to boast the production of genuinely customized...(read more)
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LMS Engineering Services Optimizes Impact Harshness Performance Before Prototypes are Built
A Japanese automotive OEM requested LMS Engineering Services to investigate the possibilities of optimizing chassis design for impact harshness - the seat accelerations caused by a vehicle crossing...(read more)
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Civil Engineering: Foundations & Retaining Structures Review
Civil Engineering: Foundations & Retaining Structures Review For civil engineers who only want to study for the foundations retaining structures topics of the PE exam, this review book offers...(read more)
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The Comprehensive Guide to Wireless Technologies: Cellular, PCS, Paging, SMR and Satellite
The Comprehensive Guide to Wireless Technologies: Cellular, PCS, Paging, SMR and Satellite This guide provides a roadmap to distinguish the technical means of communication in wireless...(read more)
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Bombardier Bullish On Long-Term Bizjet Market
Despite the sharp economic downturn in 2009, Bombardier Aerospace believes business aircraft manufacturers will still deliver some 75 percent more aircraft in the next 10 years than they did in the...(read more)
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Inconel 718 Low Cycle Fatigue (.pdf)
The threat of low cycle fatigue (LCF) failure greatly increases the cost of inspection, maintenance, and operation of turbine engines. Surface enhancement, or the introduction of a layer of...(read more)
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Being Successful as an Engineer
Being Successful as an Engineer Designed to help young engineers make the transition from students to professionals, this text provides experience-based suggestions and helpful warnings to guide...(read more)
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Brownfields: Redeveloping Environmentally Distressed Properties
Brownfields: Redeveloping Environmentally Distressed Properties Complete with case studies and the latest hands-on tools, this ready-to-use, how-to manual simplifies the task of removing the...(read more)
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Access Networks: Technology and V5 Interfacing
Access Networks: Technology and V5 Interfacing If you've ever wondered how your telephone really works, this book will tell you....(read more)
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Advanced Systems Thinking, Engineering, and Management
Advanced Systems Thinking, Engineering, and Management This unique resource helps you add a systems-scientific grounding to systems engineering enterprises, showing you how to solve intractable...(read more)
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The Advanced Communications Technology Satellite: An Insider’s Account of the Emergence of Interactive Broadband Services in Space
The Advanced Communications Technology Satellite: An Insider’s Account of the Emergence of Interactive Broadband Services in Space A candid insider's look at the creation of the most...(read more)
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Engineering Terminology (.pdf)
This document contains definitions for common engineering terminology....(read more)
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Engineering Terminology II (.pdf)
This document contains additional definitions for common engineering terminology....(read more)
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Business Success Through Service Excellence
Business Success Through Service Excellence Including a series of case studies, as well as a service excellence questionnaire, this guide identifies the key ingredients of service excellence and...(read more)
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A Brief Description of Synthetic Fuels Production
This paper provides a brief overview of how synthetic fuels are produced from biomass. The paper gives a introductory description of the gasification process, the Fischer-Tropsch unit and the...(read more)
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Drainage Repair System
Drainage repair is a challenge for underground engineering specialists. A common scene used to be that of stressed excavator operators, annoyed residents and impatient drivers. Today however, modern...(read more)
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The Performance Manager
The Performance Manager By examining what makes a high performing team, this workbook features practical steps you can take to improve your teams' performance....(read more)
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Managing Strategic Enterprise Systems and e-Government Initiatives In Asia: A Casebook
Managing Strategic Enterprise Systems and e-Government Initiatives In Asia: A Casebook Presenting a socio-technical view of strategic information systems issues, this book provides regional...(read more)
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Trends in Military Communication Systems (.pdf)
Military communications is no different than the rest of the world's communications; they want it smaller, lighter, covering more bands and carrying more voice and data than the last generation of...(read more)
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Engineering In Time: The Systematics of Engineering History and Its Contemporary Context
Engineering In Time: The Systematics of Engineering History and Its Contemporary Context Introducing concepts and methods and selectively adapting symbolic-mathematical relations, this innovative...(read more)
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Governing and Managing Knowledge in Asia
Governing and Managing Knowledge in Asia Including case studies of Asian countries and organizations, this book examines both the theoretical and practical aspects of effective knowledge...(read more)
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Lean Manufacturing Principles (.pdf)
The principles of Lean Manufacturing can be applied throughout the labels of supply chain. Howard Letendre, director, finishing technology at FLEXcon, explains his company's implementation and the...(read more)
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China Adds Precision Strike To Capabilities
China has been developing and purchasing weapons for precision-strike warfare. This is the hard edge of the People’s Liberation Army’s (PLA) doctrinal drive toward using increasingly...(read more)
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2009 Open Market Component Outlook
MarketWatch Quarterly, presented each quarter by Smith & Associates, is a collection of original analysis produced by Smith & Associates' expert staff covering current trends and issues affecting the...(read more)
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Niosh Load Weight Assessment Method (.doc)
The Americans have taken a different approach to our own Health and Safety Executive. Their NIOSH Work Practices Guide for Manual Lifting, dictates strict lifting boundaries. The American culture for...(read more)
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A Practical Guide to Call Center Technology
A Practical Guide to Call Center Technology A handy, comprehensive guide for those setting up technology-based phone systems to manage customer matters....(read more)
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Risk Analysis in Theory and Practice
Risk Analysis in Theory and Practice Presenting a mix of conceptual analyses and applied problems, this book provides useful insights into the economic rationality of decision-making under...(read more)
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Value-based Human Resource Strategy: Developing Your Consultancy Role
Value-based Human Resource Strategy: Developing Your Consultancy Role This book demonstrates how HR strategy can be positioned and implemented to generate real shareholder value, using case...(read more)
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Voice over IP: Systems and Solutions
Voice over IP: Systems and Solutions Provides an extensive look at Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and its effects on the communications industry....(read more)
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Achieving Project Management Success Using Virtual Teams
Achieving Project Management Success Using Virtual Teams This in-depth guide describes how to build high-performance virtual project teams, shows how to reduce the cost of virtual teams and...(read more)
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Bottom-Line Organization Development: Implementing and Evaluating Strategic Change for Lasting Value
Bottom-Line Organization Development: Implementing and Evaluating Strategic Change for Lasting Value This timely book explains the five steps in the Organization Development value process, as well...(read more)
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Business Research Projects: A Solution-Oriented Approach
Business Research Projects: A Solution-Oriented Approach Offering readers a comprehensive framework for going through the successive process steps of a fieldwork project, this guide shows students...(read more)
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Corporate Politics for IT Managers: How to Get Streetwise
Corporate Politics for IT Managers: How to Get Streetwise This book shows you how to succeed in the corporate world and uses both humor and wisdom to do it....(read more)
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Delivering IT and e-Business Value
Delivering IT and e-Business Value This book is focused on the evaluation issue in IT and how IT evaluation can proceed across the life-cycle of any IT investment and be linked positively to...(read more)
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Essential Project Investment Governance and Reporting: Preventing Project Fraud and Ensuring Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance
Essential Project Investment Governance and Reporting: Preventing Project Fraud and Ensuring Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Invaluable for project managers and accountants in all types of firms, this...(read more)
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Get Streaming!: Quick Steps to Delivering Audio and Video Online
Get Streaming!: Quick Steps to Delivering Audio and Video Online Whether you want to stream a corporate video, home videos, or your favorite music for friends, this step-by-step, introductory...(read more)
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Inside the SPAM Cartel: Trade Secrets From the Dark Side
Inside the SPAM Cartel: Trade Secrets From the Dark Side This book is a must for any system and/or network administrator who runs mail servers, or anyone who must ensure their organization is as...(read more)
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International Project Management
International Project Management This book provides specific guidelines for achieving greater project success and addresses a need for modern techniques in project management geared and suited to...(read more)
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Internet and Wireless Security
Internet and Wireless Security This book presents an overview of current and future infrastructures for e-business including XML security mechanisms and next generation Public Key Infrastructures...(read more)
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Knowledge Networking: Creating the Collaborative Enterprise
Knowledge Networking: Creating the Collaborative Enterprise A comprehensive overview of the strategic application of knowledge management within global corporations....(read more)
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Leading High Performance Projects
Leading High Performance Projects This book explains how project managers can adopt the most appropriate leadership styles, encourage greater teaming, become more effective decision-makers, reduce...(read more)
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Learning to Think Strategically
Learning to Think Strategically Examining the relationship between strategic thinking and the learning process involved in taking learning from the academic to the everyday, this authoritative...(read more)
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Managing for Knowledge: HR's Strategic Role
Managing for Knowledge: HR's Strategic Role This book shows how human resource professionals can make real strategic and operational business impact beyond the traditional scope of the "personnel...(read more)
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The Complete E-Commerce Book: Design, Build, & Maintain a Successful Web-based Business, Second Edition
The Complete E-Commerce Book: Design, Build, & Maintain a Successful Web-based Business, Second Edition Showing how to build a successful e-commerce operation from the ground up, this text...(read more)
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The Economics of Recreation, Leisure and Tourism
The Economics of Recreation, Leisure and Tourism A real world text in applied economics, this book explains the necessary economic theories from first principles and applies them to a range of...(read more)
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The Innovation Superhighway: Harnessing Intellectual Capital for Sustainable Collaborative Advantage
The Innovation Superhighway: Harnessing Intellectual Capital for Sustainable Collaborative Advantage This thought-provoking book provides global insights into how you can use knowledge processes...(read more)
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High-Technology Crime Investigator's Handbook: Working in the Global Information Environment
High-Technology Crime Investigator's Handbook: Working in the Global Information Environment This handbook will bring to light many high tech tools, advanced methods and streamlined applications...(read more)
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Kontron Safety Conformity Policy Guide (.pdf)
All Kontron equipment meets or exceeds safety requirements based on the IEC/EN/UL/CSA 60950-1 family of standards entitled, "Safety of information technology equipment." All components are chosen to...(read more)
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Advances in Integrated Design and Manufacturing in Mechanical Engineering
Advances in Integrated Design and Manufacturing in Mechanical Engineering Focusing on the symbiotic relationship between design and manufacture, this book offers those confronted with training...(read more)
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Broadband Applications and the Digital Home
Broadband Applications and the Digital Home A look at the ways consumers will use broadband access and what the key applications will be for provider and consumer....(read more)
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Developer's Digital Media Reference: New Tools, New Methods
Developer's Digital Media Reference: New Tools, New Methods Designed for media professionals working across a broad range of formats, this "quick-look-up" guide is organized to explain today's...(read more)
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Developing .NET Web Services with XML
Developing .NET Web Services with XML Write higher-level applications in less time using this hands-on guide, and learn the interrelated Web Services involved with .NET and XML....(read more)
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Developing E-Business Systems & Architectures: A Manager's Guide
Developing E-Business Systems & Architectures: A Manager's Guide This book provides managers with a road map to help them develop a strategic plan for their own transition to e-businesses....(read more)
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Handbook of Integrated Risk Management for E-Business: Measuring, Modeling, and Managing Risk
Handbook of Integrated Risk Management for E-Business: Measuring, Modeling, and Managing Risk With contributions from leading academic and business organizations, this ground-breaking book...(read more)
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Next Generation Wireless Networks
Next Generation Wireless Networks Focusing on the defining architectures, services and applications, this book is an organized and edited work of enabling technologies for the applications and...(read more)
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Physical Security for IT
Physical Security for IT Providing practical, easy-to-understand and readily usable advice, this practical book shows organizations how to design and implement physical security plans for IT,...(read more)
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Ordinary Nanofiber Proven Inferior to Ultra-Web (.pdf)
Recent technological analysis has uncovered significant performance differences between ordinary nanofiber cartridge filters and cartridge filters with proven Ultra-Web technology. Tests show that...(read more)
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Manage IT as a Business: How to Achieve Alignment and Add Value to the Company
Manage IT as a Business: How to Achieve Alignment and Add Value to the Company Including several examples in each chapter to illustrate the points, this book presents over 200 specific, practical...(read more)
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Management of Knowledge in Project Environments
Management of Knowledge in Project Environments Offering practical applications, models and case studies from a variety of international perspectives, this unique text demonstrates how the...(read more)
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Managing Software Deliverables: A Software Development Management Methodology
Managing Software Deliverables: A Software Development Management Methodology This text describes a set of processes for establishing an effective SPMO function in a corporate setting and provides...(read more)
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Managing Stakeholders in Software Development Projects
Managing Stakeholders in Software Development Projects Written from a practitioner's perspective and including relevant case studies and readings, this book aims to explain some of the...(read more)
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Managing World Heritage Sites
Managing World Heritage Sites Providing case studies, references, examples and best practices, this guide covers the management issues encountered at cultural and natural world heritage sites...(read more)
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Mobile Marketing: Achieving Competitive Advantage Through Wireless Technology
Mobile Marketing: Achieving Competitive Advantage Through Wireless Technology Providing a wealth of carefully chosen international cases and examples to demonstrate techniques in the real world,...(read more)
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Implementing Extranets: The Internet as a Virtual Private Network
Implementing Extranets: The Internet as a Virtual Private Network How to lay the groundwork for extranet applications....(read more)
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Implementing Homeland Security for Enterprise IT
Implementing Homeland Security for Enterprise IT This book shows what IT organizations need to accomplish to implement National Strategy for the Physical Protection of Critical Infrastructures and...(read more)
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Intelligent IT Outsourcing: Eight Building Blocks to Success
Intelligent IT Outsourcing: Eight Building Blocks to Success Including research findings and case examples throughout, this guide enables practitioners to focus in on the essential issues that...(read more)
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Introduction to Project Finance: Essential Capital Markets
Introduction to Project Finance: Essential Capital Markets Including questions with answers, study topics, real-world examples and an extensive bibliography, this book offers an overview of...(read more)
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ISO 14001 Environmental Certification Step by Step, Revised First Edition
ISO 14001 Environmental Certification Step by Step, Revised First Edition With steps to success, simple explanatory notes, and designed for real companies, this guide provides quick and...(read more)
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IT in Business: A Business Manager's Casebook
IT in Business: A Business Manager's Casebook Eighteen academic papers studying the practical business implications of information technology on large British organizations....(read more)
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IT Security Project Management Handbook
IT Security Project Management Handbook Rather than losing sleep at night wondering who's wandering around your network in the dark, this practical book will help you create a comprehensive...(read more)
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Knowledge Cities: Approaches, Experiences, and Perspectives
Knowledge Cities: Approaches, Experiences, and Perspectives Based on knowledge-based development, this book shows how knowledge is placed at the center of city planning and economic development to...(read more)
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Knowledge Management for IT Professionals
Knowledge Management for IT Professionals Written by two leading knowledge management practitioners, this book looks beyond academic theory and software company hype to focus on the roles that...(read more)
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Leveraging WMI Scripting: Using Windows Management Instrumentation to Solve Windows Management Problems
Leveraging WMI Scripting: Using Windows Management Instrumentation to Solve Windows Management Problems This text offers a structured description of the most important WMI providers available:...(read more)
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Local Access Network Technologies
Local Access Network Technologies This text reviews the major new access technologies that are finding their way into significant use. It defines terms and technologies, and goes on to discuss how...(read more)
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Location and Personalisation: Delivering Online and Mobility Services
Location and Personalisation: Delivering Online and Mobility Services This book takes a look at two application technologies location and personalization and presents an understanding of the...(read more)
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Netspionage: The Global Threat to Information
Netspionage: The Global Threat to Information The authors provide an outstanding insight into real and potential cyber-based threats and offer a sound approach to deal with such threats. The text...(read more)
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Due Diligence and Corporate Governance
Due Diligence and Corporate Governance With its coverage on the practical uses of due diligence, combined with explanations and illustrations of best practice by case studies, diagrams and...(read more)
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Future Mobile Networks: 3G and Beyond
Future Mobile Networks: 3G and Beyond A valuable resource which presents technological advances and market expectations to those in the mobile communications field....(read more)
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Global Strategic Planning: Cultural Perspectives for Profit and Nonprofit Organizations
Global Strategic Planning: Cultural Perspectives for Profit and Nonprofit Organizations Presents the impact of culture on the strategic planning process in both for-profit and non-profit sectors,...(read more)
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Transparency It is About the Data - the Quality of the Data
We live in a data centric environment where the real world is increasingly viewed not first hand but through the data that represents it. Very few of us actually touch, or even see the tangible...(read more)
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Management Extra: Project Management
Management Extra: Project Management Focusing on the activities involved in initiating, planning, implementing and completing a project successfully, this guide covers the necessary tools and...(read more)
