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The Fundamental Elements of Strategy Concepts, Theories and Cases


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English | ISBN: 9813347120 | 2021 | 221 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This open access book clarifies confusions of strategy that have existed for nearly 40 years through the core thoughts of three fundamental elements. Unlike the traditional definition of strategy as "a plan to achieve a long-term goal from overall considerations"in a linear view, this book defines strategy from non-linear viewpoint as it is in the real world. The art of a strategy lies not only in the determination of development goals, but also in the identification of development problems and putting forward overall guiding ideology of solving problems. Rich illustrations as well as numerous business and military cases are presented in helping readers to understand the fundamental elements of strategy.The general scope of the book includes introductions to the three fundamental elements of strategy, three-sub decisions of a complete strategic decision, incomplete strategies, relationship between tactic and strategy, three elements of competitive and corporativestrategies. There may be biases in company-level, real strategic decision-making which makes a complete strategy not necessarily a perfect one. The book introduces biases and reasons for the biases, helping industrial strategic decision-makers understand the importance of knowing the nature of the company, the industry and its environment. In addition, this book also presents principles and evaluation approaches of strategic decisions, explores the reasons for the excessive definitions of the strategy concept, and discusses directions of future’s research tasks.The book will benefit business managers who are interested in knowing what a complete strategic decision is and how to avoid errors or biases in strategic decision-making. It also benefits students in business schools (especially in MBA/EMBA programs) who are (or will be) on executive positions. Academic researchers may find it is interesting to understand strategy from the view of the three elements. The new view provides a novel insight into strategy and promotes several research directions in the future. The three elements of strategy are also applicable to military strategies and readers who are interested in military and may find its value as well.

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OFDM Concepts for Future Communication Systems


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English | 2011 | pages: 261 | ISBN: 3642174957, 3642267483 | PDF | 8,1 mb
(Preliminary): The Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) digital transmission technique has several advantages in broadcast and mobile communications applications. The main objective of this book is to give a good insight into these efforts, and provide the reader with a comprehensive overview of the scientific progress which was achieved in the last decade. Besides topics of the physical layer, such as coding, modulation and non-linearities, a special emphasis is put on system aspects and concepts, in particular regarding cellular networks and using multiple antenna techniques. The work extensively addresses challenges of link adaptation, adaptive resource allocation and interference mitigation in such systems. Moreover, the domain of cross-layer design, i.e. the combination of physical layer aspects and issues of higher layers, are considered in detail. These results will facilitate and stimulate further innovation and development in the design of modern communication systems, based on the powerful OFDM transmission technique.

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New Concepts in Diastasi Recti Surgery


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English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031749464 | 221 Pages | PDF EPUB (True) | 85 MB
This book sheds new light on the anatomy, pathophysiology, clinical implications, and surgical interventions for diastasis of the rectus abdominis muscles. Diastasis recti is a prevalent condition, affecting approximately one-third of women post-delivery. Often dismissed as merely an aesthetic issue, recent research over the past 15 years has revealed its profound functional implications on core stability, lumbar support, pelvic floor function, and the overall integrity of the antero-lateral abdominal wall.

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Coloured Petri Nets Basic Concepts, Analysis Methods and Practical Use


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1996 | 241 Pages | ISBN: 3642082432 | PDF | 8 MB
This book presents a coherent description of the theoretical and practical aspectsof Coloured Petri Nets (CP-nets or CPN). It shows how CP-nets have been developed- from being a promising theoretical model to being a full-fledged languagefor the design, specification, simulation, validation and implementation oflarge software systems (and other systems in which human beings and/or computerscommunicate by means of some more or less formal rules). The bookcontains the formal definition of CP-nets and the mathematical theory behindtheir analysis methods. However, it has been the intention to write the book insuch a way that it also becomes attractive to readers who are more interested inapplications than the underlying mathematics. This means that a large part of thebook is written in a style which is closer to an engineering textbook (or a users’manual) than it is to a typical textbook in theoretical computer science. The bookconsists of three separate volumes.The first volume defines the net model (i.e., hierarchical CP-nets) and thebasic concepts (e.g., the different behavioural properties such as deadlocks, fairnessand home markings). It gives a detailed presentation of many smaIl examplesand a brief overview of some industrial applications. It introduces the formalanalysis methods. FinaIly, it contains a description of a set of CPN toolswhich support the practical use of CP-nets. Most of the material in this volume isapplication oriented. The purpose of the volume is to teach the reader how toconstruct CPN models and how to analyse these by means of simulation.The second volume contains a detailed presentation of the theory behind theformal analysis methods – in particular occurrence graphs with equivalenceclasses and place/transition invariants. It also describes how these analysis methodsare supported by computer tools. Parts of this volume are rather theoreticalwhile other parts are application oriented. The purpose of the volume is to teachthe reader how to use the formal analysis methods. This will not necessarily requirea deep understanding of the underlying mathematical theory (although suchknowledge will of course be a help).The third volume contains a detailed description of a selection of industrialapplications. The purpose is to document the most important ideas and experiencesfrom the projects – in a way which is useful for readers who do not yethave personal experience with the construction and analysis of large CPN diagrams.Another purpose is to demonstrate the feasibility of using CP-nets and theCPN tools for such projects.

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Cognitive Wireless Networks Concepts, Methodologies and Visions Inspiring the Age of Enlightenment of Wireless Communications


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English | 2007 | pages: 725 | ISBN: 1402059787 | PDF | 79,1 mb
In the Age of Enlightenment the German philosopher Immanuel Kant encouraged people to use their own mind as the basis for reasoning instead of following dogmatic religious rules – Sapere aude! (dare to know!) – Today wireless communication networks are increasingly becoming aware of the conditions of its their component parts and surrounding environment. Cognition, a continuous process involving sensing, reasoning, understanding and reacting, can be applied to wireless networks in order to adapt the system to the highly dynamic wireless ecosystem. The ultimate goals are to enhance the efficiency in the use of radio resources as well as to improve both link and network performance. This book presents a detailed overview of a rapidly emerging topic in modern communications: cognitive wireless networks. The key aspects of cognitive and cooperative principles in wireless networks are discussed in this book. Furthermore, Cognitive Wireless Networks advocates the concept of breaking up the cellular communication architecture by introducing cooperative strategies among wireless devices. Cognitive wireless networking is the key to success in handling the upcoming dynamic network configurations and exploiting this cross-over to the fullest extent.

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Genetics Essentials Concepts and Connections


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English | ISBN: 1319244920 | 2021 | 592 pages | EPUB | 130 MB
The new edition of Genetics Essentials is now supported in Achieve, Macmillan’s new online learning platform. Similar in approach to Ben Pierce’s popular and acclaimed Genetics: A Conceptual Approach, this streamlined text covers basic transmission, molecular, and population genetics in just 18 chapters, helping students uncover major concepts of genetics and make connections among those concepts as a way of gaining a richer understanding of the essentials of genetics.

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