Adaptive management

Part 1 of ebook "Retirement portfolios: Theory, construction, and management" provides readers with contents including: framing the problem; portfolio focus and stage of life; the top-down view; the importance of lifestyle flooring; flooring with capital markets products; adapting portfolios for retirement income; building retirement income portfolios; creating allocations for constructing practical portfolios by age and lifestyle needs;...

128p mothoiphong 28-06-2024 1 1   Download

Part 2 of ebook "Adapting buildings and cities for climate change: A 21st century survival guide" provides readers with contents including: how wet will it get; windstorms; sea level rises; vulnerability, exposure and migration; air conditioning – the ultimate solution; tall buildings; the fossil fuel crisis;...

211p mothoiphong 28-06-2024 1 1   Download

Ebook "Abatement techniques for reducing emissions from livestock buildings" identifies future scientific research priorities for developing emissions inventories, emissions abatement techniques and mitigation strategies in order to improve and sustain livestock production that is in line with climate change adaptation. This book provides solutions on how to abate these emissions by using effective abatement techniques such as additives, manure storage covers, aerobic and anaerobic treatments, and dietary manipulation.

71p mothoiphong 28-06-2024 3 1   Download

Part 1 of ebook "Boundary spanning elements and the marketing function in organizations: Concepts and empirical studies" provides readers with contents including: managing boundary spanning elements; customer cyberbullying; a study of service worker burnout in Russia; drivers of salesperson’s customer orientation; exploring the role of salesperson attributes and service behaviors in adaptive selling;...

85p giangmacvien 22-06-2024 1 1   Download

Part 2 of ebook "Driving demand: Transforming B2B marketing to meet the needs of the modern buyer" provides readers with contents including: Chapter 7 - Adapting the lead management process; Chapter 8 - Measuring for success; Chapter 9 - Optimizing data and technology; Chapter 10 - Creating an outcome accountable culture; Chapter 11 - Managing people through change; Chapter 12 - The need for change;...

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The paper presents an overview of underwater traffic management systems utilizing sonar principles. Based on the evaluation of the current situation both domestically and internationally, the research team has proposed the development of a underwater signal processing algorithm based on an adaptive threshold in the Ultra-short Baseline System (USBL).

9p visergeyne 18-06-2024 0 0   Download

TCP-targeted low-rate distributed denial-of-service (LDDoS) attacks pose a serious challenge to the reliability and security of the Internet. Among various proposed solutions, we are particularly interested in the Congestion Participation Rate (CPR) metric and the CPR-based approach.

17p viambani 18-06-2024 2 1   Download

Ebook "Online brand communities: Using the social web for branding and marketing" presents and analyzes the concept of online brand communities, an emerging and exciting topic in marketing and eCommerce. First, it lays out the foundations like the evolution of the Web and the so-called Social Web, its utility for users and businesses, and the evolution of the marketing mind-set to adapt the Social Web. On this basis, the book then presents a detailed analysis of online brand communities, examining the concept of virtual community with a specific focus on virtual brand communities.

256p giangdongdinh 30-05-2024 4 2   Download

Ebook "Global marketing strategy: An executive digest" has been written for experienced managers and students in postgraduate programs, such as MBA or specialized master’s programs. In a systematic yet concise manner, it addresses all major issues companies face when conducting business across national and cultural boundaries, including assessing and selecting the most promising overseas markets, evaluating market entry alternatives, and examining the forces that drive adaptation versus standardization of the marketing mix.

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The book is intended to be a study and guide for people undertaking a self-assessment process. The book, questions and self-assessment process can be adapted as a development tool and training material for an organisation even if the organisation does not adopt an ISO 14001 based Environmental Management System.

110p vimeyers 29-05-2024 3 1   Download

Explaining the latest techniques used by companies worldwide, author Jean-Noel Kapferer covers all the leading issues faced by brand strategists today, supported by numerous international case studies. With both gravitas and intelligent insight, the book reveals new thinking on an array of topics including: brand architecture and diversity strategies; market adaptation approaches; and positioning in the private label and store brand environment.

577p vimeyers 29-05-2024 7 2   Download

Ebook "Climate change and food security: Adapting agriculture to a warmer world" aims to resolve some of the controversy by exploring and comparing the different methodologies and data that scientists use to understand climate’s effects on food security. In explains the nature of the climate threat, the ways in which crops and farmers might respond, and the potential role for public and private investment to help agriculture adapt to a warmer world.

201p giangdongdinh 28-05-2024 3 1   Download

Ebook "Advanced agent-based environmental management systems" presents a comprehensive reference of state-of-the-art efforts. Specifically, it presents current and future ways in which adaptive information technologies, techniques, protocols and architectures, such as software agent technologies and multi-agent systems, can be used to support the development of real-world agent-based systems in the area of e-Environment.

174p giangdongdinh 28-05-2024 3 1   Download

Ebook "Handbook of climate change adaptation" addresses the scientific, social, political and cultural aspects of climate change in an integrated and coherent way. The multi-volume reference focuses on one of the key aspects of climate change: adaptation and how to handle its impacts on physical, biotic and human systems, analyzing the social and normative scientific concerns and presenting the tools, approaches and methods aimed at management of climate change impacts.

2186p giangdongdinh 28-05-2024 5 1   Download

Ebook "Peri-urban water and sanitation services: Policy, planning and method" contains excellent case studies from Africa, Asia and South America (as well as the Netherlands) that draw on a unifying framework for examining developmental and environmental challenges facing the people living in peri-urban settings.

326p giangdongdinh 28-05-2024 2 1   Download

This study aims to review supply chain risks and construct a model of supply chain performance for Thai cassava chip exports to China to test the relationship between supply chain risks and supply chain performance. The primary theoretical model was constructed from four main supply chain risk factors, product risks, demand-side risks, logistical and infrastructural risks, and political risks, and five main supply chain performance variables, dependability, speed, qualities, information and response, adapted from and S.M.

9p longtimenosee10 26-04-2024 6 3   Download

The article studies the insufficiently studied problem of adaptation of enterprises in the real sector of the economy to digitalization, in the conditions of active development of virtual relations. The author has set a goal - analyzing various aspects of this problem, to identify theoretical, practical features, the fundamental basis for the adaptation of enterprises in the real sector of the economy to digitalization and to develop a system of measures for its improvement.

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The outcomes of this study are useful for firms adapting ERP as they would be able to strategize future ERP system implementation in different sectors, such as education, and large firms in general. One limitation of the study is its small sample size. Moreover, the author has not included other measures of medium sized enterprises performance outside of the procurement area despite these factors could provide further insights to medium sized enterprises performance, and will be an interesting topic for future research.

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This study focuses on the effect of supply chain agility, efficiency and government regulations on the business performance of firms. It also focuses on the adaptation abilities of firms because of changing environment effecting their supply chain performance through its cost leadership strategy. Survey approach in the form of questionnaires have been adopted to collect data from the manufacturing firms in Thailand. Purposive sampling technique is used to select sample. The constructs were sent through mails and direct contact with firms.

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This paper reviews research on leveraging genetic algorithms (GAs)–adaptive bioinspired search techniques–to enhance decision-making in construction management spanning planning, scheduling, and control.

12p viohoyo 25-04-2024 3 2   Download