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Strategic Product Creation: Deliver Customer Satisfaction from Every Level of Your Company

Create and market the right product-fast Strategic Product Creation is a true working guide to developing market-savvy, cost-effective products and services. Delivering expert guidance in the five key stages of product development, authors Ronald Kerber and Timothy Laseter present real-world examples of industry leaders who have produced innovative products-giving you a foolproof blueprint for delivering customer satisfaction without breaking the bank. Provides not only practical experience, but a solid conceptual framework for developing your own product creation model Highlights seven principles of effective product creation Features instructive case studies of world-class leaders such as Walt Disney Imagineering, Whirlpool Corporation, Mars, Inc., and IBM Includes key questions and milestone decision issues from each stage of the product creation process Covers both short- and long-term strategies, coupled with suggestions for advanced technology Explains how to combine customer knowledge with external market needs to stimulate new product and service ideas Reveals ways to utilize your suppliers as a talent pool for process improvement and product innovation Addresses sensitive issues of branding and intellectual property rights
Internet and the World Wide Web for Preservice Teachers

From the Publisher: This brief handbook is an excellent resource for educators who want to use the Internet and the World Wide Web. Following the National Council for the Accreditation of Teacher (NCATE) guidelines on "Technology and the New Professional Teacher," it offers an introduction to the basics teachers need to know and shows how the Internet can be used as a research resource as well as a tool for the teacher's own studies, curriculum development, and more. A central web site links the user to hundreds of web site addresses listed in the book. The book first explains why the Internet and World Wide Web are important to educators, then presents the basics of using them. Specific information is included on libraries, books, literature, and museum resources; creating curriculum and developing a Web based educational portfolio; and using the Internet as a resource for studies in and outside of education. For teachers and others who want to use the Internet for educational purposes.
Response Ability: The Language, Structure, and Culture of the Agile Enterprise

AGILITY, RESPONSE ABILITY, AND CULTURE. Putting Agility in Its Place. Change-Enabling Structure and Culture. CHANGE PROFICIENCY: THE LANGUAGE OF AGILE ENTERPRISE. Frameworks for Change Proficiency. Response Situation Analysis. ADAPTABLE STRUCTURE: THE ENABLER OF AGILE ENTERPRISE. Enabling Response Ability. Response-Able Enterprise Systems. Systematic Design of Response-Able Systems. Intuitive Design of Response-Able Systems. KNOWLEDGE AND CULTURE: THE WAY OF THE AGILE ENTERPRISE. Waking Up the Enterprise. Becoming and Managing the Response-Able Enterprise. References. Index.
Model of Start-up Lost Time and Headway of Queuing Motor Vehicles under Mixed Traffic Condition

The start-up time and headway of queuing motor vehicles in the intersection,start-up lost time of through vehicles with disturbance under mixed traffic condition,and estimate of green time for discharging motor vehicles in the queue based on above results were analyzed.Based on real traffic data under mixed traffic condition,statistic values of start-up lost time and headway classification according to vehicle type were obtained.Using these values,green times for discharging vehicles in the queue were calculated,which can be applied in intersection signal control strategies.
Guidebook on Risk Analysis Tools and Management Practices to Control Transportation Project Costs

This guidebook provides guidance to state departments of transportation for using specific, practical, and risk-related management practices and analysis tools for managing and controlling transportation project costs. Containing a toolbox for agencies to use in selecting the appropriate strategies, methods and tools to apply in meeting their cost-estimation and cost-control objectives, this guidebook should be of immediate use to practitioners that are accountable for the accuracy and reliability of cost estimates during planning, priority programming and preconstruction.
Network theory : analysis and synthesis

Written specifically to meet the needs of undergraduate students of electrical and electronics engineering, electronics and communication engineering, instru-mentation and control engineering, and computer science and engineering, the book provides modularized coverage of the full spectrum of network theory suitable for a one-semester course. A balanced emphasis on conceptual understanding and problem-solving helps students master the basic principles and properties that govern circuit behaviour. A large number of solved examples show students the step-by-step processes for applying the techniques presented in the text. A variety of exercises with answers at the chapter ends allow students to practice the solution methods. Besides students pursuing courses in engineering, the book is also suitable for self-study by those preparing for AMIE and competitive examinations. An objective-type question bank at the end of book is designed to see how well the students have mastered the material presented in the text.
Constructing Cost-Effective and Targetable ICS Honeypots Suited for Production Networks

Abstract : Honeypots are a technique that can mitigate the risk of cyber threats. Effective honeypots are authentic and targetable, and their design and implementation must accommodate risk tolerance and financial constraints. The proprietary, and often expensive, hardware and software used by Industrial Control System (ICS) devices creates the challenging problem of building a flexible, economical, and scalable honeypot. This research extends Honeyd into Honeyd+, making it possible to use the proxy feature to create multiple high interaction honeypots with a single Programmable Logic Controller (PLC). Honeyd+ is tested with a network of 75 decoy PLCs, and the interactions with the decoys are compared to a physical PLC to test for authenticity. The performance test evaluates the impact of multiple simultaneous connections to the PLC. The functional test is successful in all cases. The performance test demonstrated that the PLC is a limiting factor, and that introducing Honeyd+ has a marginal impact on performance. Notable findings are that the Raspberry Pi is the preferred hosting platform, and more than five simultaneous connections were not optimal.
Electric Machines: Steady State, Transients, and Design with MATLAB®

Ubiquitous in daily life, electric motors/generators are used in a wide variety of applications, from home appliances to internal combustion engines to hybrid electric cars. They produce electric energy in all electric power plants as generators and motion control that is necessary in all industries to increase productivity, save energy, and reduce pollution. With its comprehensive coverage of the state of the art, Electric Machines: Steady State, Transients, and Design with MATLAB addresses the modeling, design, testing, and manufacture of electric machines to generate electricity, or in constant or variable-speed motors for motion control. The book is organized into three stand-alone sectionsSteady State, Transients, and FEM Analysis and Optimal Designproviding a complete treatment of electric machines, which includes comprehensive coverage of: Topologies Steady-state modeling and performance Preliminary design and testing Modeling for transients Control essentials Finite element analysis Optimal design methodologies The book contains numerous computer simulation programs in MATLAB and Simulink, available on an accompanying CD-ROM, to help readers make a quantitative assessment of various parameters and performance indices of electric machines. Skillfully unifying symbols throughout the book, the authors present a great deal of invaluable practical laboratory work that has been classroom-tested in progressively modified forms. This very capable textbook presents expressions of parameters, modeling, and characteristics that are directly and readily applicable for industrial R&D in fields associated with electric machines industry for modern (distributed) power systems and industrial motion control via power electronics.
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Gross primary productivity (GPP) is the sum of leaf photosynthesis and represents a crucial component of the global carbon cycle. Space-borne estimates of GPP typically rely on observable quantities that co-vary with GPP such as vegetation indices using reflectance measurements (e.g., NDVI, NIRv , and kNDVI). Recent work has also utilized measurements of solarinduced chlorophyll fluorescence (SIF) as a proxy for GPP. However, these SIF measurements are typically coarse resolution while many processes influencing GPP occur at fine spatial scales. Here, we develop a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), 5 named SIFnet, that increases the resolution of SIF from the TROPOspheric Monitoring Instrument (TROPOMI) on board of the satellite Sentinel-5P by a factor of 10 to a spatial resolution of 500 m. SIFnet utilizes coarse SIF observations together with high resolution auxiliary data. The auxiliary data used here may carry information related to GPP and SIF. We use training data from non-US regions between April 2018 until March 2021 and evaluate our CNN over the conterminous United States (CONUS). We show that SIFnet is able to increase the resolution of TROPOMI SIF by a factor of 10 with a r2 and 10 RMSE metrics of 0.92 and 0.17 mW m-2 sr-1 nm-1, respectively. We further compare SIFnet against a recently developed downscaling approach and evaluate both methods against independent SIF measurements from Orbiting Carbon Observatory 2 and 3 (OCO-2/3). SIFnet performs systematically better than the downscaling approach (r = 0.78 for SIFnet, r = 0.72 for downscaling), indicating that it is picking up on key features related to SIF and GPP. Examination of the feature importance in the neural network indicates a few key parameters and the spatial regions these parameters matter. Namely, the CNN finds 15 low resolution SIF data to be the most significant parameter with the NIRv vegetation index as the second most important parameter. NIRv consistently outperforms the recently proposed kNDV I vegetation index. Advantages and limitations of SIFnet are investigated and presented through a series of case studies across the United States. SIFnet represents a robust method to infer continuous, high spatial resolution SIF data. Copyright statement. TEXT 20
SLOW VEHICLE TRAFFIC IS A MORE ATTRACTIVE ALTERNATIVE TO FAST VEHICLE TRAFFIC THAN PUBLIC TRANSPORT

Environmental groups normally support the extension of public transit as an alternative to roadway improvements. Public transit is seen as the alternative to vehicle traffic. However, another alternative is to make more efficient use of existing roadway capacity. Only in special circumstances can public transit be more attractive than slow vehicle traffic (SVT). This paper evaluates the concept of SVT by cost-benefit analysis.
Why the Bottom Line Isn't!: How to Build Value Through People and Organization

Chapter 1. Tangling with Intangibles: Knowing the New Game. Chapter 2. Do or Die: Anteing Up the Table Stakes. Chapter 3. Growth: Setting Your Own Odds. Chapter 4. Writing the Playbook: Matching Strategy to Skill. Chapter 5. Boot Camp: Building Your Talent Base. Chapter 6. Shared Mindset: Creating Unity from the Outside In. Chapter 7. Speed: First Beats Best. Chapter 8. Learning: Changing the Game. Chapter 9. Accountability: Making Teamwork Work. Chapter 10. Collaboration: It Takes More Than Two to Intangible. Chapter 11. Leadership Brand: Captains Everywhere. Chapter 12. Tangible Intangibles: Winning the Game. Notes. Index.
Properties of the network of semantic relations in the Russian language based on the RuWordNet data

It was previously shown that the WordNet thesaurus has a small-world structure. We obtained a similar result for RuWordNet, a recently created thesaurus of the Russian language, and determined the main characteristics of the network of semantic relations in the Russian language. They are the average length of the path between the vertices, the maximum path length between the vertices, the cluster coefficient and the assortativity coefficient. The distribution of the vertices degrees was also considered. We compared the values of the structural parameters of the networks for WordNet and RuWordNet. A significant difference between RuWordNet and WordNet is that RuWordNet has many semantic relations of the ‘POS-synonymy’ type (synonymy between words of different parts of speech) that are hardly found in WordNet. The values of structural constants were determined for RuWordNet both regarding this type of relations and without taking into account these relations, which allows one to estimate the influence of relations between parts of speech on the structure of the words network.
Hard Work: Life in Low-pay Britain

'A passionately reasoned and compelling account of the avoidable cruelties still embedded in the underside of British life - by a writer who has literally worn the clothes, lived in the flats and done the jobs of the poor. Every member of the cabinet should be required to read it, apologise and then act'. - Will Hutton. A frank and breathtaking book, this is journalist and broadcaster Polly Toynbee's account of her courageous intention to live and work on the minimum wage. The 'decent living' wage set by the Council of Europe is set at GBP7.39. The minimum wage in Britain is currently GBP4.10 per hour. And often, people are working for less, their voices unheard, their faces unnoticed. The low-paid are caught in an economic double bind that victimises them and shames the rest of us. Toynbee took whatever jobs she could find, often offered for less than the official minimum wage.Living on an estate in Clapham, she started from scratch and found that if she were truly unemployed, she would not even be able to afford a new job, and that faced with starvation, it's impossible not to sink into debt. In this powerful and compelling book, Polly Toynbee journeys to the inside of Britain today and uncovers that world which is invisible to most. This is a damning portrait of social justice in Britain.
CASE STUDIES OF THE TENDER ZONE IN COARSE-GRADED SUPERPAVE MIXTURES. DRAFT FINAL REPORT

The objective of this study was to collect information concerning the production and placement of hot mix asphalt (HMA) pavements which had experienced problems with a tender zone during compaction and to determine the causes of these problems. Additionally, the study sought possible solutions to eliminate or reduce the tender zone problems. Both documentation and evaluation through mixture testing are included. Documentation of the mix design, production, transport, and laydown was conducted at each project. Items documented include the job mix formula information, plant information, roadway data, weather conditions, paving equipment, compaction methods, and specific observations pertaining to the tender zone.
Extracting Information Based on Partial or Complete Network Data

General frameworks that works for all types of networks usually do not produce reliable results. The frame- work in question here is extracting information from large unknown networks encountered in the real world. Generally, researchers and operators work with incomplete data. Under- standing and particularly measuring a network’s structure is a complex problem, and there is no general reliable way of measuring the structure in order to compare networks. In this research we present heuristic methods to gather information from a given network. We introduce an algorithm to place those monitors according to betweenness, closeness, degree and a new centrality called 2-hop centrality.
Naturalistic Driving Study: Development of the Roadway Information Database

This report describes the development of the Roadway Information Database (RID), which was carried out by Iowa State University’s Center for Transportation Research and Education (CTRE). The objective of the RID is to provide high-quality roadway data that are linkable to the Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) Naturalistic Driving Study (NDS) database in order to incorporate roadway characteristics into the analysis of the NDS data. The RID includes data from the SHRP 2 mobile data collection project (Safety Project S04B), other existing roadway data, and supplemental traffic operations data. Potential database users were identified to determine data and usability requirements, and roadway data elements were identified and prioritized. A mobile data collection vendor was selected using the 2008 SHRP 2 Safety Project S03 rodeo results and additional evaluation. A quality assurance plan defined data accuracy requirements and tolerances and outlined the handling of nonconforming data. Mobile data collection covered about 12,500 centerline miles in the six NDS sites, or approximately 25,000 miles in both travel directions. The final RID design is a simplified version of the revised UNETRANS network data model. Data are referenced to a national base map for a consistent centerline across the NDS sites, and users can employ dynamic segmentation to produce road segments with any variable of interest.
Modeling Crash Rates for a Mountainous Highway by Using Refined-Scale Panel Data

Traditional traffic safety analyses on crash frequency or crash rate usually focus on highly aggregated cross-sectional data. The adoption of aggregated data ignores the time-varying nature of some critical factors, and their effects on traffic safety may be masked through data aggregation. For mountainous highways, weather- and environment-related variables become critical as a result of complex time- and spatial-varying characteristics as well as interactions with mountainous terrain. Therefore, refined-scale models are often desired to appropriately model crash safety risks on mountainous highways and disclose the inherent crash mechanism. An advanced random parameter Tobit model with panel data (time series cross-sectional data) in refined temporal scale was developed. This is so far the first reported effort on integrating random parameter Tobit model and refined-scale panel data to develop crash rate models. A random parameter model was adopted not only to handle unobserved heterogeneity explicitly, but also to account for serial correlations across observations in panel data. Refined-scale weather and traffic data in a panel formation were adopted to accommodate the varying nature of complex driving conditions. Interstate 70 (I-70) in Colorado is well known for its typical mountainous terrain, critical role for local and national traffic, and inclement weather. As a demonstration of the modeling techniques, crash rates for a segment of I-70 were investigated in refined temporal scale. Results showed that a random parameter Tobit model outperformed a fixed-parameter Tobit model, and factors related to traffic, weather, and surface conditions were found to play significant roles in an accident rate model.
Ultra-processed Food Intake and Risk of Cardiovascular Disease: a systematic review

Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of mortality worldwide. An unhealthy diet, among other risk factors, can be involved in the development of the disease. This type of diet is usually characterized by being low in unprocessed foods (fruits, vegetables, etc.) and high in ultra-processed foods (UPFs). It has been suggested that a high consumption of UPFs could be related to the development of CVD. However, as UPFs are a broad group in which multiple foods with different compositions coexist, it is not only difficult but also a generalization to draw a conclusion about their possible association. The present systematic review studies the relationship between the consumption of UPFs and the risk of CVD. A systematic review was performed in the PubMed database. PRISMA criteria were applied to identify articles that met the following criteria: studies performed in humans, in English or Spanish, and be original articles, excluding meta-analyses and reviews. The search was performed using the terms “Ultra-processed food” or “Fast food” and “Cardiovascular disease” or “Cardiovascular risk factor”, with a total of 10 articles included: 4 prospective cohort studies, 4 cross-sectional studies and 2 modeling studies. An association between the consumption of UPFs and CVD was found in all the studies analyzed. However, there are limitations with respect to the use of different food classification systems according to the degree of processing. This systematic review concludes that more studies are needed to establish with greater evidence the relationship between the consumption of UPFs and risk of CVD.
Computer Systems Experiences of Users with and Without Disabilities: An Evaluation Guide for Professionals

This book provides the necessary tools for the evaluation of the interaction between the user who is disabled and the computer system that was designed to assist that person. The book creates an evaluation process that is able to assess the user's satisfaction with a developed system. Presenting a new theoretical perspective in the human computer interaction evaluation of disabled persons, it takes into account all of the individuals involved in the evaluation process.
On the Art of Doing Field Studies: An Experience-Based Research Methodology

This manual offers methods of conducting field studies within the social sciences, and aims to present the rational features of this seemingly irrational process. The authors have systematized their own extensive experience with field studies, providing advice to future researchers on how to avoid the most mundane and traditional mistakes. The first part of the manual describes four real-life research stories, and the second part is a systematic effort to draw methodological conclusions from the stories.
Motor Vehicle Conspicuity

This paper addresses the relationship between vehicle conspicuity and probability of accident involvement. As used here, conspicuity refers not only to the "noticeability" of the vehicle, but also to the recognizability of the vehicle and its behavior relative to the observer. All classes of vehicles are considered during both day and night driving on all types of roadways. Relevant vehicle, driver, and environmental characteristics are identified, and their frequency of occurrence and relationship to accidents (or pertinent proxies) discussed whenever such information is available. The bulk of the report is devoted to reviewing, summarizing, and integrating the available body of data concerning vehicle conspicuity, including engineering analyses and other analytic studies, as well as experimental data from laboratory, simulation and field studies. The major output of this review and summary is the identification of: 1) the major problems associated with vehicle conspicuity, 2) mitigating concepts, including a discussion of how these concepts should be evaluated, and 3) considerations for future attention of the research community.