Tag: Response

Innovative Quick Response Programs in Logistics and Supply Chain Management


Free Download T. C. Edwin Cheng, Tsan-Ming Choi, "Innovative Quick Response Programs in Logistics and Supply Chain Management"
English | 2010 | pages: 470 | ISBN: 3642043127, 3642262929 | PDF | 3,1 mb
Quick Response (QR) policy is a market-driven business strategy in which supply chain members work together to react quickly to volatile market demand. Nowadays, with advances in information technologies (such as RFID and ERP systems), new challenges and opportunities arise for the application of QR. This handbook explores QR extensively with a view to discovering innovative QR measures that can help tackle the observed and emerging challenges. The book is organized into four parts, which include chapters on analytical modeling and analyses, information technologies, cases, reviews, and applications. This handbook provides new analytical and empirical results with valuable insights, which will not only help supply chain agents to better understand the latest applications of QR in business, but also help practitioners and researchers to know how to improve the effectiveness of QR using innovative methods.

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Technology-mediated Crisis Response in Language Studies


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English | ISBN: 180050456X | 2024 | 378 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
The COVID-19 crisis was unplanned, unprecedented, and highly unpredictable, leading educators to rethink their pedagogies, policies, practices, technologies, strategies and more. In the months and years following, educational institutions were forced to adjust to new ways of doing their work, refinements with long-term implications for language learning and teaching. Much of the early research in language education which came about as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic focused on its negative effects, such as the lack of infrastructure and preparedness (Tao & Gao, 2022), (in)equitable access for educators and learners (Back, Zavala, & Franco, 2022), perceived lowered outcomes (Moser, Wei & Brenner, 2021), and emotional burdens (MacIntyre, Gregersen, & Mercer, 2020). In this volume, we capture some of the lessons learned during and as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic in order to move forward as a field with intention and purpose, and to take advantage of any crisis-prompted innovation. The volume aims to provide implications for other current and future challenges and crises that require our attention in language teaching and technology. Contributions will bring additional depth to the pandemic discussion in each of the four parts: (1) Emergency Response, (2) Problem Solving, (3) Outcomes, and (4) By-Products.

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Public Opinion and Political Response in Palestine Leadership, Campaigns and Elections since Arafat


Free Download Erika Schwarze, "Public Opinion and Political Response in Palestine: Leadership, Campaigns and Elections since Arafat"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1784534692 | EPUB | pages: 336 | 0.5 mb
The 2006 elections for the Palestinian Legislative Council, the first in which both Fatah and Hamas fielded candidates, resulted in a resounding victory for Hamas. Winning 74 out of the 132 seats (compared to Fatah s 45), Hamas election strategy had proved effective against Fatah s ineffectual campaign and failure to properly consider public opinion. Erika Schwarze offers here an in-depth examination of these two separate campaigns, and how Fatah s lack of responsiveness to the popular mood in the run-up to elections following Arafat s death and beyond, led to its defeat in spite of its considerable experience of electioneering. She analyses the conduct of Palestinian leadership during this critical period, exploring the reasons for Fatah s inability to prioritise responsiveness to public opinion, and providing insights into the movement s electoral prospects in the future and its chances of survival and revival."

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Incident Response for Windows


Free Download Incident Response for Windows: Adapt effective strategies for managing sophisticated cyberattacks targeting Windows systems by Svetlana Ostrovskaya, Anatoly Tykushin
English | August 23rd, 2024 | ISBN: 1804619329 | 244 pages | True PDF | 5.26 MB
Get to grips with modern sophisticated attacks, their intrusion life cycles, and the key motivations of adversaries, and build the most effective cybersecurity incident preparedness, response, remediation, and prevention methodologies

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How Motivation Affects Cardiovascular Response Mechanisms and Applications


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English | ISBN: 1433810263 | 2011 | 424 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Cardiovascular response refers to changes in parameters such as heart rate, blood pressure, and heart contraction in reaction to an event or set of events. The chapters in this book, authored by an international group of distinguished scientists, show that applied motivational research has considerable predictability, informing us about cardiovascular responses and highlighting conditions under which those responses might pose a health risk.

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Stochastic Dynamic Response Analysis and Performance-Based Seismic Safety Evaluation for High Concrete Faced Rockfill Dams


Free Download Stochastic Dynamic Response Analysis and Performance-Based Seismic Safety Evaluation for High Concrete Faced Rockfill Dams by Bin Xu , Rui Pang
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 201 Pages | ISBN : 9819771978 | 53 MB
This book provides a complete probabilistic analysis method and a performance-based seismic safety evaluation for high concrete faced rockfill dam (CFRD). Combined with random sample generation and reliability analysis methods, the dynamic response characteristics and reliability level of CFRD under various random factors are comprehensively described. In Chapter 2, a random ground motion model based on spectral representation-random function and a high-dimensional random variable generation method based on GF- discrepancy are established. Combined with probability density evolution method (PDEM) and the random sample generation methods to verify its effectiveness and reliability for nonlinear complex geotechnical engineering. In Chapter 3, the dynamic response and probabilistic characteristics of high CFRD under random ground motion are revealed based on the elastoplastic analysis. A performance-based seismic safety evaluation method is established. In Chapter 4, the influence of material parameter randomness on dynamic response and seismic safety of high CFRD is studied from the perspective of stochastic dynamics and probability. In Chapter 5, the stochastic dynamic response and probability distribution of high CFRD under the coupled random action of ground motion and material parameters are systematically studied, and the performance-based seismic safety evaluation framework is improved. In Chapter 6, The stochastic dynamic response of 3D high CFRD is studied, and the failure performance index and performance level based on overstress volume ratio combined with overstress accumulation time are discussed. The performance-based seismic safety evaluation framework is further improved. In Chapter 7, combined with the finite element dynamic time-history analysis method considering the softening effect of rockfill, a performance-based seismic safety evaluation framework for dam slope stability of high CFRD under multiple random factors is systematically explored from the perspective of stochastic dynamics and probability. In Chapter 8, The performance indexes of seismic safety evaluation for high CFRDs are suggested and the corresponding performance level with probability assurance is put forward. The multi-seismic intensity – multi-performance target – failure probability performance relationship is established, and a performance-based seismic safety evaluation framework is initially formed. This book can be used as a reference for scholars studying random vibration and reliability analysis, as well as for scholars studying dam safety evaluation.

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From Disaster Response to Risk Management Australia’s National Drought Policy


Free Download From Disaster Response to Risk Management: Australia’s National Drought Policy By Linda Courtenay Botterill, Donald A Wilhite (auth.), Linda Courtenay Botterill, Donald A. Wilhite (eds.)
2005 | 212 Pages | ISBN: 1402031238 | PDF | 4 MB
In 1992 Australia’s Commonwealth and State governments announced the introduction of a National Drought Policy adopting an innovative risk management approach, which received broad support from Australia’s major political parties and the policy community. This trail-blazing attempt and the experiences with the development and implementation of this policy over the past decade have intrigued the international scientific and policy communities. The present book comprises an academically focused collection of papers, which the Editors hope will provide others moving in a similar direction with the benefit of experience. The work highlights the successes and challenges of a move from disaster to risk management in responding to drought.As such it will be a valuable and useful addition to the international literature on drought preparedness and response.

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Disaster Response Practices Guide to Mass CasualtyMass Fatality Management Planning (Management for Professionals)


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English | January 13, 2024 | ISBN: 3031421469 | 256 pages | MOBI | 4.65 Mb
This book provides guidelines for emergency managers, responders, and health care professionals to establish a mass casualty/mass fatality (MC/MF) management plan. It identifies a need for a stronger and more global management structure for MC/MF events that includes standardized practices of identification, disposition, and possible repatriation to restore the situation to pre-event levels. This book covers this comprehensive process including disaster mortuary operational response teams (DMORTs), simple triage and rapid treatment (START) and national nurse response teams. It also demonstrates leadership in MC/MF events within government agencies, the public sector and international organizations featuring case studies, scenario questions and summaries of lessons learned.

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