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The Art of Insight: How Great Visualization Designers Think
By Alberto Cairo. 2023
Learn how expert data visualization designers reason about their craft In The Art of Insight: How Great Visualization Designers Think,…
renowned visualization designer and educator Alberto Cairo, in conversation with several leaders in the field, delivers an inspiring exploration of how they make design choices. The book is a celebration of visualization, and a personal journey that dives into subjects like: How the professional background and life experiences of every designer shape their choices of what to visualize and how to visualize it. What designers from different countries and cultures, and working in different fileds, such as data art, data analytics, or data journalism, have in common, or how they differ from each other. How designers reflect on research, ethical reasoning, and also aesthetic judgments, to make decisions such as selecting the most appropriate ways to encode data, or the most appealing visual style. Perfect for data scientists and data journalists, The Art of Insight will also inspire artists, analysts, statisticians, and any other professional who uses data visualizations.Events Management (Events Management)
By Leo Jago, Rob Harris, Ian McDonnell, William O'Toole, Johnny Allen, Glenn A. Bowdin. 2023
A must-have introductory text of unrivalled coverage and depth focusing on events planning and management, the fourth edition of Events…
Management provides a complete A to Z of the principles and practices of planning, managing and staging events. The book offers a systematic guide to organising successful events, examining areas such as event design, logistics, marketing, human resource management, financial planning, risk management, impacts, evaluation and reporting. The fourth edition has been fully updated and revised to include content covering technology, including virtual and hybrid events, concepts such as social capital, soft power and events, social inclusion, equality, accessibility and diversity, and the latest industry reports, research and legal frameworks. The book is logically structured and features new case studies, showing real-life applications and highlighting issues with planning events of all types and scales in a range of geographical locations. This book has been dubbed ‘the events management bible’ and fosters an interactive learning experience amongst scholars of events management, tourism and hospitality.Animales del emprendimiento chileno: Cebras, Unicornios y otras especies
By Marcos Alvo, Ronny Majlis. 2023
Historias de los más exitosos emprendimientos chilenos del último tiempo, ocupando la taxonomía animal para agruparlos con mucho humor. Cebras,…
unicornios, camellos, gacelas, cigüeñas y leones. La fauna chilena del emprendimiento es tan amplia como diversa. Los unicornios, la especie de moda, se han convertido en verdaderas estrellas de rock: algunos de sus especímenes, como los fundadores de NotCo y Cornershop, cuyas empresas están avaluadas en más de mil millones de dólares, son retratados por los medios de comunicación como el mejor ejemplo del Chilean Dream. Pero este título no se encarga solo de los animales de moda, sino también de otras especies que han sacado partido de sus características; desde la resiliencia del camello a la agilidad de la gacela, demostrando que existen otros modelos de desarrollo. Los animales del emprendimiento chileno narra las historias de startups que uno ni siquiera pensaría que son chilenos como Crystal Lagoons, Japi Jane y Runway; como también de empresas emergentes con un profundo sentido social como Algramo y Karün. Crónicas llenas de detalles, que no dejan de lado las dificultades propias de emprender. Hay éxitos meteóricos y consolidaciones pausadas, crisis de estrés con pasantías por centros médicos e historias de arduo trabajo y cuestionamientos. ¿Qué motiva a los chilenos a crear una empresa emergente? ¿Qué tienen en común quienes lo hacen? ¿Qué tiene que ver un animal cornudo mitológico con una buena idea? Estas son algunas de las preguntas que se responden a través de las historias de quienes lideran hoy el ecosistema del emprendimiento local.Introduction to Stochastic Level Crossing Techniques
By Percy H. Brill. 2023
Introduction to Stochastic Level Crossing Techniques describes stochastic models and their analysis using the System Point Level Crossing method (abbreviated…
SPLC or LC). This involves deriving probability density functions (pdfs) or cumulative probability distribution functions (cdfs) of key random variables, applying simple level-crossing limit theorems developed by the author. The pdfs and/or cdfs are used to specify operational characteristics about the stochastic model of interest. The chapters describe distinct stochastic models and associated key random variables in the models. For each model, a figure of a typical sample path (realization, i.e., tracing over time) of the key random variable is displayed. For each model, an analytic (Volterra) integral equation for the stationary pdf of the key random variable is created−by inspection of the sample path, using the simple LC limit theorems. This LC method bypasses a great deal of algebra, usually required by other methods of analysis. The integral equations will be solved directly, or computationally. This book is meant for students of mathematics, management science, engineering, natural sciences, and researchers who use applied probability. It will also be useful to technical workers in a range of professions. Key Features: A description of one representative stochastic model (e.g., a single-server M/G/1 queue; a multiple server M/M/c queue; an inventory system; etc.) Construction of a typical sample path of the key random variable of interest (e.g., the virtual waiting time or workload in queues; the net on-hand inventory in inventory systems; etc.) Statements of the simple LC theorems, which connect the sample-path upcrossing and downcrossing rates across state-space levels, to simple mathematical functions of the stationary pdf of the key random variable, at those state-space levels Creation of (usually Volterra) integral equations for the stationary pdf of the key random variable, by inspection of the sample path Direct analytic solution of the integral equations, where feasible; or, computational solutions of the integral equations Use of the derived stationary pdfs for obtaining operational characteristics of the modelClimate Change Adaptation and Green Finance: The Arctic and Non-Arctic World (Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research)
By Gisele Arruda, Lara Johannsdottir. 2024
This book presents specific case studies of climate finance in the Arctic and examines how the green revolution could be…
a game changer in this sensitive region. Bringing together contributions from a range of experts in the field, Climate Change Adaptation and Green Finance assesses the costs of inaction versus the costs of action based on case study examples of climate finance and sustainable investment in the Arctic region. The authors draw on data from the Sixth Assessment Report published by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and respond with a solutions-based framework. This is developed around the notion of a new, carbon-neutral economy in the Arctic and presents methods for unlocking carbon finance and long-term climate investment in the region, such as finance for Arctic entrepreneurs and resilient sustainable investment structures. This volume also looks at the role of finance in meeting the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals and the ways in which innovation in investment will help shape the future of the Arctic. Climate Change Adaptation and Green Finance will be of great interest to students and scholars of climate change, sustainable finance and sustainable businessThe Political Economy of Germany in the Twentieth Century
By Karl Hardach. 2023
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out…
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1980.Uninsured in America, Updated: Life and Death in the Land of Opportunity
By Rushika Fernandopulle, Susan Sered. 2023
Uninsured in America goes to the heart of why more than forty million Americans are falling through the cracks in…
the health care system, and what it means for society as a whole when so many people suffer the consequences of inadequate medical care. Based on interviews with 120 uninsured men and women and dozens of medical providers, policymakers, and advocates from around the nation, this book takes a fresh look at one of the most important social issues facing the United States today. A new afterword updates the stories of many of the people who are so memorably presented here.Competition and Oligopsony in the Douglas Fir Lumber Industry
By Walter J. Mead. 2023
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out…
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1966.The French Worker: Autobiographies from the Early Industrial Era
By Mark Traugott. 2023
This anthology, drawn from the autobiographies of seven men and women whose lives span the nineteenth century, provides a rare…
glimpse of the everyday lives of workers in the age of early industrialization in France. Appearing for the first time in English, these stories vividly convey the ambitions, hardships, and reversals of ordinary people struggling to gain a measure of respectability.The workers' livelihoods are diverse: chair-maker, embroiderer, joiner, mason, silk weaver, machinist, seamstress. Their stories of daily activities, work life, and popular politics are filled with lively, often poignant moments. We learn of dismal, unsanitary housing; of disease; workplace accidents; and terrible hardship, especially for the children of the poor. We read of exploitation and injustice, of courtship and marriage, and of the sociability of the wine-merchant's shop and the boardinghouse.Traugott's analytic introduction discusses the many shifts in French society during the nineteenth century. Used in combination with other sources, these autobiographies illuminate the relationship between changes in working conditions and in the forms of political participation and protest occurring as the century came to a close.This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out…
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1968.Regulatory Choices: A Perspective on Developments in Energy Policy
By Richard J. Gilbert. 2023
Regulatory Choices offers the first comprehensive economic history of energy policy and its consequences for California, where some of the…
most innovative and far-ranging programs of regulatory reform have originated. The authors of this volume have gathered together an impressive wealth of material about actual policy decisions and their repercussions and have subjected their findings to astute economic analysis. This book will serve for years to come as an invaluable reference on the costs and effects of various energy policies. With its focus on bringing prices in alignment with the true cost of producing power and delivering it to the customer, the first part of the book outlines the issue of setting utility rates and considers some of the proposals to provide regulated industries with incentives to respond to economic and environmental concerns. The problems of energy supply occupy the second part of the book, which includes a survey of the costs of alternative energy sources and estimates of their environmental impacts, as well as a case study of the construction of the Diablo Canyon nuclear power plant. The book concludes by documenting the results of subsidy programs that were designed to target the development of wind power and residential energy conservation. Regulators, we learn, have a mixed record when it comes to managing the production of energy. Some conservation programs have enjoyed considerable economic success, particularly those that correct a lack of consumer information. Others, such as the renewable energy tax credits or programs designed to subsidize new technologies, have cost much more than the value of the energy they have saved. What emerges clearly from this study is that regulated industries are not immune from the forces of competition. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out…
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1992.INCREaSE 2023: Proceedings of the 3rd INternational CongRess on Engineering and Sustainability in the XXI CEntury (Advances in Sustainability Science and Technology)
By Jorge Filipe Leal Costa Semião, Nelson Manuel Santos Sousa, Rui Mariano Sousa da Cruz, Gonçalo Nuno Delgado Prates. 2023
This book includes the proceedings of the 3rd International Congress on Engineering and Sustainability in the XXI CEntury, INCREaSE 2023.…
INCREaSE is a congress with the aim to bring together valuable and novel scientific contributions that address the critical issues of renewable energy, sustainable building, sustainable manufacturing, sustainable food production and other sustainability science and engineering topics that have an impact in this diverse and fast-changing research area, both in academia and industry. This 3rd edition of INCREaSE was held during July 5-7, 2023, in Faro, Portugal, organized by the Institute of Engineering and hosted by University of Algarve. The areas to be covered were:• Big data and data analytics applied to sustainability;• Climate change and mitigation, carbon reduction;• Combined heat and power and district heating systems;• Control and optimization of renewable energy systems;• Energy and environmental assessment in buildings and cities;• Food loss and food waste solutions;• Food safety and quality engineering;• Information technology and artificial intelligence applied to sustainability;• Nanoelectronic, nanomachining, and new nanomaterials;• Smart buildings, smart cities, smart districts, smart countryside;• Sustainability in water management;• Sustainable building technologies;• Sustainable development and circular economy;• Sustainable energy generation and management;• Sustainable food processing and packaging;• Sustainable manufacturing and maintenance processes and technology;• Sustainable technologies for risk mitigations;• Sustainable transport, smart vehicles and smart roads; and• Thermo fluids modelling and experiments for sustainability. High quality and unpublished content is an essential feature for all included papers. Moreover, the Organizing Committee of the conference guarantees that contributions were subjected to an appropriate level of reviewing process.Work Identity: A Neurophilosophical Perspective
By Billy Adamsen. 2023
At present, 80% of the employees are no longer engaged in their work and capable of performing, while 44% are…
experiencing work related stress and getting sick from working. A significant increase in time spent on interpretation at work trying to understand what managers and colleagues are saying has been observed too. This book offers a critical view on vocational inventory tests and the development of the work language and the use of it describing work identity. As well as a neurophilosophical perspective on self and work identity, this book provides a plausible neurophilosophical explanation for the negative impact of losing work identity on our work behavior, well-being, and success. Furthermore, the author introduces the innovative Work Identity Pro, the first work identity test to independently measure work identity. It will be of great interest to scholars and students of human resources management, organisation studies and organisational psychology. It will also be of interest to managers and those with an interest in work identity, behaviour and well-being.Integrated Reporting: Business Cases in South Asia (Eco-Efficiency in Industry and Science #34)
By Ki-Hoon Lee, Samanthi Senaratne, Nuwan Gunarathne. 2023
The book presents a rich collection of research studies on the theory and practice of corporate integrated reporting (IR) in…
South Asia. South Asia is emerging to compete in the world marketplace and one of fast economically growing regions to contribute to the global economy. As the region’s economic development accelerates, balancing economic and environmental development appears as a key sustainability challenge for governments, investors, consumers, and local communities. Companies in South Asia region are therefore increasingly challenged to reduce their environmental impacts and to contribute to sustainable development. This book includes valuable contributions of advanced research, concepts, applications, developments and case studies on corporate IR and sustainability accounting in South Asia and the roles of different professional accounting bodies to strength corporate sustainability and build capacity in the South Asian Region.The Farm Crisis, 1919-1923
By James H. Shideler. 2023
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out…
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1957.North for the Trade: The Life and Times of a Berber Merchant
By John Waterbury. 2023
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out…
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1972.This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out…
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984.Discipline and Discharge in the Unionized Firm
By Orme W. Phelps. 2023
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out…
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1959.Pilot Project, India: The Story of Rural Development at Etawah, Uttar Pradesh
By Albert Mayer. 2023
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out…
and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1958.