When people think about starting a business, writing a business plan is usually the last thing they consider. It's exciting to dive into details, start choosing paint colors, pricing equipment. Yet...

Origami Kusudama Garden will show you how to make delightful floral paper spheres, called Kusudama. Kusudama is a decorative paper ball usually made of several modules, folded from paper and then c...

Design for Manufacturability: How to Use Concurrent Engineering to Rapidly Develop Low-Cost, High-Quality Products for Lean Production shows how to use concurrent engineering teams to design produc...

The application of molecules in technological devices hinges on the proper understanding of their behavior on metallic electrodes or substrates. The intrinsic molecular electronic and magnetic prop...

For the last 100 years the assembly line has been the dominant model for organizing business operations. But now high rates of change and the unpredictable nature of our real-time global economy ca...

This textbook explains how to perform Finite Element Analysis using the Generative Structural Analysis workbench in CATIA V5. CATIA is a three dimensional CAD/CAM/CAE software developed by Dassault...

With the dramatic increase in RNA 3D structure determination in recent years, we now know that RNA molecules are highly structured. Moreover, knowledge of RNA 3D structures has proven crucial for u...

Anyone who has ever had a job has probably experienced work-related stress at some point or another. For many workers, however, job-related stress is experienced every day and reaches more extreme ...

A unified, systematic approach to applying mixed integer programming solutions to integrated scheduling in customer-driven supply chainsSupply chain management is a rapidly developing field, and th...

In 2010, Burj Khalifa achieved the title of Tallest Building in the World. The 2,717-foot structure, located in downtown Dubai, has 160 habitable floors and can accommodate more than 12,000 people....

Taiwan's rapid industrialization during the 1960s and 1970s, combined with the democratic revolution that began with the lifting of martial law in 1987 were of deep historic importance. Over the ne...

Taiwan's rapid industrialization during the 1960s and 1970s, combined with the democratic revolution that began with the lifting of martial law in 1987 were of deep historic importance. Over the ne...

The book highlights recent prominent results in the domain of the synthesis of new polyoxometalates with a specific attention to polyoxothioanions, and provides some novelties and perspectives in s...

Chronic diseases are the leading cause of deaths worldwide and according to the World Economics Council and the Harvard School of Public Health, the cost of chronic diseases is expected to reach a ...

Politicians and diplomats have for many years proclaimed a human right to water as a solution to the global water crisis, most recently in the 2010 UN General Assembly Resolution "The human right t...