ISO 26000 - A Standardized View on Corporate Social Responsibility Practices, Cases and Controversies

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Yoshiko Chuma : A Page Out of Order.

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Level up your classroom : the quest to gamify your lessons and engage your students by Cassie, Jonathan

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Widening scripts : cultivating feminist care in academic labor by Assis, Mariana Prandini, Forrest, Michelle, 1950-, Henderson, Angela, MacCallum, Lindsey, Reilly, Ian, Shaffner, Ellen, Stoneman, Scott

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Diseases of the Head by Rosen, Matt

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Direct and Large-Eddy Simulation IX

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Part I LES Modelling -- On scale separation in large eddy simulations, by Roel Verstappen -- Numerical experiments with a new dynamic mixed subgrid-scale model, by P. …”
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Fluid-Structure Interaction : Numerical Simulation Techniques for Naval Applications by Sigrist, Jean-Fran?cois, Leblond, C?edric

Table of Contents: “…Analytical formulations and simple experiments -- 11.2.3. Numerical methods -- 11.3. Slamming: phenomenon and formulation -- 11.4. …”
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Inorganic chemistry for dummies by Matson, Michael L.

Table of Contents: “…Accelerating change: catalysts: -- Speeding things up-the job of a catalyst -- Considering types of catalysts: -- Homogenous catalysts -- Heterogeneous -- Organocatalysts -- Bioinorganic chemistry: finding metals in living systems: -- Focusing on photosynthesis -- Climbing aboard the oxygen transport -- Feeding a nitrogen fixation: -- Fixing nitrogen for use by organisms -- Re-absorbing nitrogen -- Being human: -- Making things happen: enzymes -- Curing disease: medicines -- Causing problems: toxicity -- Answering when nature calls: environmental chemistry: -- Eyeing key indicators -- Rocking the heavy metals -- Killing me softly: pesticides -- Looking for and removing contaminants -- Living in a materials world: solid-state chemistry: -- Studying solid structures: -- Building crystals with unit cells -- Labeling lines and corners: Miller indices -- Three types of crystal structure: -- Simple crystal structures -- Binary crystal structures -- Complex crystals structures -- Calculating crystal formation: the Born-Haber cycle -- Bonding and other characteristics: -- Characterizing size -- Dissolving in liquids: solubility -- Encountering zero resistance: superconductivity -- Information technology: semiconductors -- Synthesizing solid structures -- Detecting crystal defects -- Nanotechnology: -- Defining nanotechnology: -- History of nanotechnology -- Science of nanotechnology -- Top-down versus bottom-up -- Nanomaterial's: -- Size and shape control -- Self-assembly and grapy goo -- Applications for nanotechnology: -- Cancer therapy -- Catalysis -- Education -- Part 5: Parts Of Tens: -- Ten nobels: -- Locating ligands: Alfred Werner -- Making ammonia: Fritz Haber -- Creating transuranium elements: McMillan and Seaborg -- Adding electronegativity: Pauling -- Preparing plastics: Ziegler and Natta -- Sandwiching compounds: Fischer and Wilkinson -- Illuminating Boron Bonds: Lipscomb -- Characterizing crystal structures: Hauptman and Karle -- Creating cryptands: Jean-Marie Lehn -- Making buckyballs -- Tools of the trade: ten instrumental techniques: -- Absorbing and transmitting light waves: Uv-vis and IR -- Catching diffracted light: XRD -- Rearranging excited atoms: XRF -- Measuring atoms in solution: ICP/AA -- Detecting secondary electrons: SEM -- Reading the criss-crossed lines: TEM -- Characterizing surface chemistry: XPS -- Evaporating materials: TGA -- Cyclic voltammetry -- Tracking electron spin: EPR -- Ten experiments: -- Turning blue: the clock reaction -- Forming carbon dioxide -- Presence of carbon dioxide -- Mimicking solubility -- Separating water into gas -- Testing conductivity of electrolyte solutions -- Lemon batteries -- Purifying hydrogen -- Colorful flames -- Making gunpowder -- Ten inorganic household products: -- Salting your food -- Bubbling with hydrogen peroxide -- Baking with bicarbonate -- Whitening with bleach -- Using ammonia in many ways -- Killing pests with borax -- Soothing babies with talc -- Cleaning with lye -- Scratching stainless steel -- Wrapping it up with aluminum foil -- Glossary -- Index.…”
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Benefits of Silicon in the Nutrition of Plants

Table of Contents: “…Hodson -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 A historical perspective -- 12.3 A Brief Consideration of silicon and aluminium in Soils -- 12.4 Silicon and aluminium uptake and accumulation by plants -- 12.4.1 Silicon uptake and accumulation -- 12.4.2 Aluminium uptake and accumulation -- 12.4.3 The interaction between silicon and aluminium uptake and accumulation -- 12.5 The amelioration of aluminium toxicity by silicon in experiments carried out in hydroponic cultures -- 12.5.1 Plant growth -- 12.5.2 Effects on mineral nutrition -- 12.5.3 Effects on oxidative damage -- 12.6 Co-deposition of silicon and aluminium -- 12.6.1 Co-deposition in roots -- 12.6.2 Co-deposition in conifer needles -- 12.6.3 Co-deposition in the leaves of dicot trees -- 12.6.4 Co-deposition in other systems -- 12.7. …”
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Readings for diversity and social justice

Table of Contents: “…/ Beverly Daniel Tatum ; A different mirror / Ronald Takaki ; Symbolic racism, history, and reality : the real problem with Indian mascots / Kimberly Roppolo ; The possessive investment in whiteness / George Lipsitz ; Heteropatriarchy and the three pillars of white supremacy : rethinking women of color organizing / Andrea Smith ; La conciencia de la mestiza : towards a new consciousness / Gloria Anzaldúa ; 50 experiences of racially mixed people / Maria P. P. Root ; Over-raided, under siege : U.S. immigration laws and enforcement destroy the rights of immigrants / Human Rights Immigrant Community Action Network ; Finding my eye-dentity / Olivia Chung ; Identification pleas / Erie Gansworth ; The Arab woman and I / Mona Fayad ; My tongue is divided into two / Quique Aviles ; The emperor's new clothes / Patricia J. …”


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Manufacturing Planning and Control for Supply Chain Management : The CPIM Reference, Third Edition by Jacobs, F. Robert, Vollmann, Thomas E., Berry, William L., Whybark, D. Clay

Table of Contents: “…Approach -- Integrated Supply Chain Metrics -- Calculating the Cash-to-Cash Time -- Concluding Principles -- Discussion Questions -- Problems -- CPIM Certification Questions -- CHAPTER 3 Demand Management -- Demand Management in MPC Systems -- Demand Management and the MPC Environment -- The Make-to-Stock (MTS) Environment -- The Assemble-to-Order (ATO) Environment -- The Make (Engineer)-to-Order (MTO) Environment -- Communicating with Other MPC Modules and Customers -- Sales and Operations Planning -- Master Production Scheduling -- Dealing with Customers on a Day-to-Day Basis -- Information Use in Demand Management -- Make-to-Knowledge -- Data Capture and Monitoring -- Customer Relationship Management -- Outbound Product Flow -- Managing Demand -- Organizing for Demand Management -- Monitoring the Demand Management Systems -- Balancing Supply and Demand -- Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, -- and Replenishment (CPFR) -- The CPFR Process -- Concluding Principles -- Discussion Questions -- Problem -- CPIM Certification Questions -- CHAPTER 4 Forecasting -- Providing Appropriate Forecast Information -- Forecasting for Strategic Business Planning -- Forecasting for Sales and Operations Planning -- Forecasting for Master Production Scheduling -- and Control -- Regression, Trend, and Seasonal Forecasting -- Linear Regression Forecasting -- Trend Forecasting -- Seasonal Forecasting -- Short-Term Forecasting Techniques -- Moving-Average Forecasting -- Exponential Smoothing Forecasting -- Evaluating Forecasts -- Using the Forecasts -- Considerations for Aggregating Forecasts -- Pyramid Forecasting -- Incorporating External Information -- Concluding Principles -- Discussion Questions -- Problems -- CPIM Certification Questions -- CHAPTER 5 Sales and Operations Planning -- Sales and Operations Planning in the Firm -- Sales and Operations Planning Fundamentals -- Sales and Operations Planning and Management -- Operations Planning and MPC Systems -- Payoffs -- The Sales and Operations Planning Process -- The Monthly Sales and Operations Planning Process -- Sales and Operations Planning Displays -- The Basic Trade-Offs -- Economic Evaluation of Alternative Plans -- The New Management Obligations -- Top Management Role -- Functional Roles -- Integrating Strategic Planning -- Controlling the Operations Plan -- Concluding Principles -- Discussion Questions -- Problems -- CPIM Certification Questions -- CHAPTER 6 Advanced Sales and Operations Planning -- Mathematical Programming Approaches -- Linear Programming -- Mixed Integer Programming -- Company Example: Lawn King Inc -- Company Background -- Deciding on a Planning Model -- The Linear Programming Model -- Developing the Planning Parameters -- Solving the Linear Programming Model and -- Understanding the Results -- A Collaborative Session to Discuss the LP Results -- Concluding Principles -- Discussion Questions -- Problems -- CPIM Certification Questions -- CHAPTER 7 Master Production Scheduling -- The Master Production Scheduling Activity -- The MPS Is a Statement of Future Output -- The Business Environment for the MPS -- Linkages to Other Company Activities -- Master Production Scheduling Techniques -- The Time-Phased Record -- Rolling through Time -- Order Promising and Available-to-Promise (ATP) -- Bill of Materials Structuring for the MPS -- The Two-Level MPS -- Master Production Schedule Stability -- Freezing and Time Fencing -- Managing the MPS -- The Overstated MPS -- Concluding Principles -- Discussion Questions -- Problems -- CPIM Certification Questions -- CHAPTER 8 Material Requirements Planning -- Material Requirements Planning in Manufacturing -- Planning and Control -- Record Processing -- The Basic MRP Record -- An Example Bill of Materials -- Gross to Net Explosion -- Lead Time Offsetting -- Linking the MRP Records -- Technical Issues -- Processing Frequency -- Bucketless Systems -- Lot Sizing -- Safety Stock and Safety Lead Time -- Low-Level Coding -- Pegging -- Firm Planned Orders -- Service Parts -- Planning Horizon -- Scheduled Receipts versus Planned Order Releases -- Using the MRP System -- The MRP Planner -- Order Launching -- Allocation and Availability Checking -- Exception Codes -- Bottom-Up Replanning -- System Dynamics -- Transactions during a Period -- Rescheduling -- Complex Transaction Processing -- Procedural Inadequacies -- Concluding Principles -- Discussion Questions -- Problems -- CPIM Certification Questions -- CHAPTER 9 Advanced MRP and Demand-Driven MRP -- Determining Manufacturing Order Quantities -- Economic Order Quantities (EOQ) -- Periodic Order Quantities (POQ) -- Part Period Balancing (PPB) -- Wagner-Whitin Algorithm -- Simulation Experiments -- Buffering Concepts -- Categories of Uncertainty -- Safety Stock and Safety Lead Time -- Scrap Allowances -- Other Buffering Mechanisms -- Nervousness -- Reducing MRP System Nervousness -- Demand-Driven MRP Concepts -- Selecting Items for Decoupling Processes -- Managing the Decoupling Points -- DDMRP Example Problem -- MRP and Safety Stock Comparison -- Concluding Principles -- Discussion Questions -- Problems -- CPIM Certification Questions -- CHAPTER 10 Capacity Planning and Management -- The Role of Capacity Planning in MPC Systems -- Hierarchy of Capacity Planning Decisions -- Links to Other MPC System Modules -- Capacity Planning and Control Techniques -- Capacity Planning Using Overall Factors -- Capacity Bills -- Resource Profiles -- Capacity Requirements Planning -- Scheduling Capacity and Materials Simultaneously -- Finite Capacity Scheduling: Component Parts -- Finite Capacity Scheduling: Product Structures -- Management and Capacity Planning and Utilization -- Capacity Monitoring with Input/Output Control -- Managing Bottleneck Capacity -- Capacity Planning in the MPC System -- Choosing the Measure of Capacity -- Choice of a Specific Technique -- Using the Capacity Plan -- Concluding Principles -- Discussion Questions -- Problems -- CPIM Certification Questions -- CHAPTER 11 Production Activity Control -- A Framework for Production Activity Control -- MPC System Linkages -- The Linkages between MRP and PAC -- Just-in-Time Effect on PAC -- The Company Environment -- Basic Scheduling Research -- The One-Machine Case -- The Two-Machine Case -- Production Activity Control Techniques -- Basic Shop-Floor Control Concepts -- Gantt Charts -- Dynamic Environment Scheduling -- Dispatching Approaches -- Sequencing Rules? …”
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IBM® SPSS® statistics 19 guide to data analysis by Norušis, M. J. (Marija J.), 1948-

Table of Contents: “…-- 3.Sources of Data -- Know Your Data -- Survey Data -- Asking the Question -- Measuring Time -- Selecting Participants -- Selecting a Sample -- General Social Survey -- Random-Digit Dialing -- Internet Surveys -- Designing Experiments -- Random Assignment…”

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Designing high availability systems : design for Six Sigma and classical reliability techniques with practical real-life examples by Taylor, Zachary, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Six Sigma Tools for Predictive Engineering 278 -- 14.1 Introduction 278 -- 14.2 Gathering Voice of Customer (VOC) 279 -- 14.3 Processing Voice of Customer 281 -- 14.4 Kano Analysis 282 -- 14.5 Analysis of Technical Risks 284 -- 14.6 Quality Function Deployment (QFD) or House of Quality 284 -- 14.7 Program Level Transparency of Critical Parameters 287 -- 14.8 Mapping DFSS Techniques to Critical Parameters 287 -- 14.9 Critical Parameter Management (CPM) 287 -- 14.10 First Principles Modeling 289 -- 14.11 Design of Experiments (DOE) 289 -- 14.12 Design Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (DFMEA) 289 -- 14.13 Fault Tree Analysis 290 -- 14.14 Pugh Matrix 290 -- 14.15 Monte Carlo Simulation 291 -- 14.16 Commercial DFSS Tools 291 -- 14.17 Mathematical Prediction of System Capability instead of (3z (BGut Feel (3y (B 293 -- 14.18 Visualizing System Behavior Early in the Life Cycle 297 -- 14.19 Critical Parameter Scorecard 297 -- 14.20 Applying DFSS in Third-Party Intensive Programs 298 -- 14.21 Summary 300 -- 15. …”
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Semiconductor laser engineering, reliability and diagnostics : a practical approach to high power and single mode devices by Epperlein, Peter W.

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At war with yourself by Williams, Samuel

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Letter to Lord Liszt by Walser, Martin, 1927-2023

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Education for democratic intercultural citizenship

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Braving the wilderness : the quest for true belonging and the courage to stand alone by Brown, Brené

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Power equipment engine technology by Abdo, Edward

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Mastering MongoDB 3.x. by Giamas, Alex

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