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ITIL® Version 3 At a Glance takes a graphical approach to consolidating the information of ITIL® volume 3. ITIL® is an internationally-recognized set of best practices for providing IT service management. IT organizations worldwide are implementing ITIL® as a vehicle for improving IT service quality and improve return on investment for IT services. The desk reference’s unique graphical approach will take otherwise complex textual descriptions and make the information accessible in a series of consistent, simple diagrams. ITIL® Version 3 At a Glance will be of interest to organizations looking to train their staffs in a consistent and cost-effective way. Further, this book is ideal for anyone involved in planning consulting, implementing, or testing an ITIL® Version 3 implementation. Each chapter in ITIL® Version 3 at a Glance summarizes one of the ITIL® v3 books in the following consistent structure: - Brief Description of the Stage - Overview Diagram of the Stage - Key Concepts of the Stage - Practices or Processes - Roles - Process Purpose -Overview Diagram -Key Concepts.
Computer service industry --- Information technology --- Management. --- Quality control --- Standards. --- IT (Information technology) --- Technology --- Telematics --- Information superhighway --- Knowledge management --- Computer-related services industry --- Computer industry --- Service industries --- Computer technical support --- Computer science. --- Information Systems. --- Models and Principles. --- Management of Computing and Information Systems. --- Informatics --- Science --- Computers. --- Management information systems. --- Computer-based information systems --- EIS (Information systems) --- Executive information systems --- MIS (Information systems) --- Sociotechnical systems --- Information resources management --- Management --- Automatic computers --- Automatic data processors --- Computer hardware --- Computing machines (Computers) --- Electronic brains --- Electronic calculating-machines --- Electronic computers --- Hardware, Computer --- Computer systems --- Cybernetics --- Machine theory --- Calculators --- Cyberspace --- Communication systems
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This book provides an in-depth background to better understanding of finite element results and techniques for improving accuracy of finite element methods. Thus, the reader is able to identify and eliminate errors contained in finite element models. Three different error analysis techniques are systematically developed from a common theoretical foundation: 1) modeling erros in individual elements; 2) discretization errors in the overall model; 3) point-wise errors in the final stress or strain results.Thoroughly class tested with undergraduate and graduate students. A Unified Approa
Finite element method. --- Error analysis (Mathematics) --- Méthode des éléments finis --- Erreurs, Théorie des --- Error analysis (Mathematics). --- Errors, Theory of --- Instrumental variables (Statistics) --- Mathematical statistics --- Numerical analysis --- Statistics --- FEA (Numerical analysis) --- FEM (Numerical analysis) --- Finite element analysis --- Isogeometric analysis --- Error analysis
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"ITIL® 2011 At a Glance" is an important update to the internationally-recognized ITIL® best practices for IT Service Management. "ITIL® 2011 At a Glance" provides graphical and textual memory joggers for the primary concepts of those best practices. IT organizations worldwide are implementing ITIL® as a vehicle for improving IT service quality and improve return on investment for IT services. This book is an update based on the ITIL 2011 Update. The desk reference’s unique graphical approach will take otherwise complex textual descriptions and make the information accessible in a series of consistent, simple diagrams. "ITIL® 2011 At a Glance" will be of interest to organizations looking to train their staffs in a consistent and cost-effective way. Further, this book is ideal for anyone involved in planning consulting, implementing, or testing an ITIL® implementation.
Information technology -- Management. --- Information technology -- Quality control. --- ITIL (Information technology management standard) --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Computer Science --- Information technology --- Management. --- Quality control. --- IT infrastructure library. --- IT (Information technology) --- ITIL --- Computer science. --- Industrial management. --- Computers. --- Management information systems. --- Computer Science. --- Models and Principles. --- Management of Computing and Information Systems. --- Innovation/Technology Management. --- Technology --- Telematics --- Information superhighway --- Knowledge management --- Information Systems. --- Informatics --- Science --- Administration --- Industrial relations --- Organization --- Business administration --- Business enterprises --- Business management --- Corporate management --- Corporations --- Industrial administration --- Management, Industrial --- Rationalization of industry --- Scientific management --- Management --- Business --- Industrial organization --- Computer-based information systems --- EIS (Information systems) --- Executive information systems --- MIS (Information systems) --- Sociotechnical systems --- Information resources management --- Automatic computers --- Automatic data processors --- Computer hardware --- Computing machines (Computers) --- Electronic brains --- Electronic calculating-machines --- Electronic computers --- Hardware, Computer --- Computer systems --- Cybernetics --- Machine theory --- Calculators --- Cyberspace --- Communication systems
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This engaging volume presents the exciting new technology of additive manufacturing (AM) of metal objects for a broad audience of academic and industry researchers, manufacturing professionals, undergraduate and graduate students, hobbyists, and artists. Innovative applications ranging from rocket nozzles to custom jewelry to medical implants illustrate a new world of freedom in design and fabrication, creating objects otherwise not possible by conventional means. The author describes the various methods and advanced metals used to create high value components, enabling readers to choose which process is best for them. Of particular interest is how harnessing the power of lasers, electron beams, and electric arcs, as directed by advanced computer models, robots, and 3D printing systems, can create otherwise unattainable objects. A timeline depicting the evolution of metalworking, accelerated by the computer and information age, ties AM metal technology to the rapid evolution of global technology trends. Charts, diagrams, and illustrations complement the text to describe the diverse set of technologies brought together in the AM processing of metal. Extensive listing of terms, definitions, and acronyms provides the reader with a quick reference guide to the language of AM metal processing. The book directs the reader to a wealth of internet sites providing further reading and resources, such as vendors and service providers, to jump start those interested in taking the first steps to establishing AM metal capability on whatever scale. The appendix provides hands-on example exercises for those ready to engage in experiential self-directed learning. Provides a solid introduction to the fundamental technologies utilized in AM metal processing, ranging from 3D computer models to lasers, electron beams, and computer controlled AM machines Offers the reader a guide to speaking the language of AM metal, with links to additional reading, references, resources, and service providers Illustrates how a new generation of designers and engineers are thinking outside the box to create the future of manufacturing through innovative applications and the use of advanced materials.
Materials science. --- Engineering design. --- Manufacturing industries. --- Machines. --- Tools. --- Nanotechnology. --- Metals. --- Materials Science. --- Metallic Materials. --- Engineering Design. --- Optics, Lasers, Photonics, Optical Devices. --- Manufacturing, Machines, Tools. --- Materials. --- Machinery. --- Metal-work. --- Metalwork --- Decoration and ornament --- Manufacturing processes --- Metals --- Coloring --- Manufactures. --- Manufacturing, Machines, Tools, Processes. --- Molecular technology --- Nanoscale technology --- High technology --- Manufactured goods --- Manufactured products --- Products --- Products, Manufactured --- Commercial products --- Manufacturing industries --- Design, Engineering --- Engineering --- Industrial design --- Strains and stresses --- Engineering materials --- Industrial materials --- Engineering design --- Design --- Materials --- Lasers. --- Photonics. --- New optics --- Optics --- Light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation --- Masers, Optical --- Optical masers --- Light amplifiers --- Light sources --- Optoelectronic devices --- Nonlinear optics --- Optical parametric oscillators --- Metallic elements --- Chemical elements --- Ores --- Metallurgy
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Successful democracies throughout history--from ancient Athens to Britain on the cusp of the industrial age--have used the technology of their time to gather information for better governance. Our challenge is no different today, but it is more urgent because the accelerating pace of technological change creates potentially enormous dangers as well as benefits. Accelerating Democracy shows how to adapt democracy to new information technologies that can enhance political decision making and enable us to navigate the social rapids ahead. John O. McGinnis demonstrates how these new technologies combine to address a problem as old as democracy itself--how to help citizens better evaluate the consequences of their political choices. As society became more complex in the nineteenth century, social planning became a top-down enterprise delegated to experts and bureaucrats. Today, technology increasingly permits information to bubble up from below and filter through more dispersed and competitive sources. McGinnis explains how to use fast-evolving information technologies to more effectively analyze past public policy, bring unprecedented intensity of scrutiny to current policy proposals, and more accurately predict the results of future policy. But he argues that we can do so only if government keeps pace with technological change. For instance, it must revive federalism to permit different jurisdictions to test different policies so that their results can be evaluated, and it must legalize information markets to permit people to bet on what the consequences of a policy will be even before that policy is implemented. Accelerating Democracy reveals how we can achieve a democracy that is informed by expertise and social-scientific knowledge while shedding the arrogance and insularity of a technocracy.
Information technology --- Technological innovations --- Democracy. --- Democratization. --- Democratic consolidation --- Democratic transition --- Self-government --- Breakthroughs, Technological --- Innovations, Industrial --- Innovations, Technological --- Technical innovations --- Technological breakthroughs --- Technological change --- Political aspects. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / General. --- LAW / Science & Technology. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General. --- POLITICAL SCIENCE / General. --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Creative ability in technology --- Inventions --- Domestication of technology --- Innovation relay centers --- Research, Industrial --- Technology transfer --- New democracies --- Internet. --- administrative government. --- artificial intelligence. --- bias. --- collective decision making. --- computational advances. --- computer. --- cultural cognition. --- democracy. --- dispersed media. --- earmarks. --- education reform. --- elections. --- empirical analysis. --- empiricism. --- federalism. --- friendly AI. --- governance. --- government data. --- information age. --- information costs. --- information markets. --- information technology. --- innate majoritarian bias. --- knowledge falsification. --- machine intelligence. --- majority rule. --- modern technology. --- political bias. --- political campaigns. --- political culture. --- political decision making. --- political information. --- political life. --- political prediction markets. --- politics. --- public action problem. --- public policy. --- regulation. --- representation. --- social governance. --- social knowledge. --- social planning. --- social policy. --- social science. --- social-scientific knowledge. --- special interests. --- status quo. --- technocracy. --- technological acceleration. --- technological change. --- term limits.
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The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling student and researcher to read the material themselves.
English literature --- Scott, Walter, --- Literature, Victorian --- Victorian literature --- Author of "Waverley," "Ivanhoe," &c., --- Cleishbotham, Jedediah, --- Layman, --- Malagrowther, Malachi, --- Paul, --- S., W. --- Scott, W. --- Skott, Valʹter, --- Skott, Walter, --- Somnambulus, --- Ssu-ko-tʻe, --- Ssu-ko-tʻe, Wa-erh-tʻe, --- Sukotsu, --- Sukotto, --- Templeton, Laurence, --- W. S. --- Wa-erh-tʻe Ssu-ko-tʻe, --- "Waverley," "Ivanhoe," &c., Author of, --- סקאט, וואלטער, --- סקוט, וולטר, --- Scott, Walter --- Author of "Waverley," "Ivanhoe," &c. --- Cleishbotham, Jedediah --- Malagrowther, Malachi --- Paul --- Skott, Valʹter --- Skott, Walter --- Somnambulus --- Ssu-ko-tʻe --- Ssu-ko-tʻe, Wa-erh-tʻe --- Sukotsu --- Sukotto --- Templeton, Laurence --- Wa-erh-tʻe Ssu-ko-tʻe --- "Waverley," "Ivanhoe," &c., Author of
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"In this book, Hyland examines the international relations of the First Persian Empire (the Achaemenid Empire) as a case study in ancient imperialism. He focuses in particular on Persian's relations with the Greek city-states and its diplomatic influence over Athens and Sparta. Previous studies have emphasized the ways in which Persia sought to protect its borders by playing the often warring Athens and Sparta off each other, prolonging their conflicts through limited aid and shifts of alliance. Hyland proposes a new model, employing Persian ideological texts and economic documents to contextualize the Greek narrative framework, that demonstrates that Persian Kings were less interested in control of the Ionian region where Greece bordered the empire than in displays of universal power through the acquisition of Athens or Sparta as client states. On the other hand, the establishment of "Pax Persica" beyond the Aegean was delayed by Persian efforts to limit the interventions' expense, and missteps in dealing with fractious Greek allies. This reevaluation of Persia's Greek relations marks an important contribution to scholarship on the Achaemenid empire and Greek history, and has value for the broader study of imperialism in the ancient world."--Provided by publisher.
Imperialism --- Achaemenid dynasty, --- Sparta (Extinct city) --- Athens (Greece) --- Greece --- Foreign relations. --- History --- Foreign relations --- Colonialism --- Empires --- Expansion (United States politics) --- Neocolonialism --- Political science --- Anti-imperialist movements --- Caesarism --- Chauvinism and jingoism --- Militarism --- Lacedaemon (Extinct city) --- Lakedaímon (Extinct city) --- Sparta (Ancient city) --- Aḟiny (Greece) --- Atene (Greece) --- Atʻēnkʻ (Greece) --- Ateny (Greece) --- Athen (Greece) --- Athēna (Greece) --- Athēnai (Greece) --- Athènes (Greece) --- Athinai (Greece) --- Athīnā (Greece) --- Αθήνα (Greece) --- Antiquities --- Imperialism - Case studies --- Achaemenid dynasty, - 559 B.C.-330 B.C. --- Sparta (Extinct city) - Foreign relations --- Athens (Greece) - Foreign relations --- Greece - History - To 146 B.C.
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Northwestern California is mainly known for its majestic redwood forests and incomparable coastline, but there is much more in its rich biota and scenery. The forests are part of the most diverse temperate coniferous forest in the world. Rugged mountains, numerous lakes, wilderness areas, and wild rivers attract outdoor enthusiasts and geologists came here to refine the theory of plate tectonics. Distilling a vast amount of knowledge, this book is the starting point for anyone who wants to explore the biological and geographical richness of northwestern California. John O. Sawyer describes the famous forests and varied landscapes from a geographic perspective. He explains its long geological history and the changing roles of fire and land use. The result of a lifetime of work, his rich narrative illustrates how the region, in many ways the least modified portion of the state, is a place where plants and animals have been shielded from extinction. Sawyer documents the restoration of dunes and forests, the control of nonnative plant invasions, and innovative approaches to restoring rivers so they can support thriving fisheries.
Natural history --- History, Natural --- Natural science --- Physiophilosophy --- Biology --- Science --- Natural history -- California, Northern.
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Supposing "Bleak House" claims Dickens as a powerful investigator of the unconscious mind and as a "popular" novelist deeply committed to social justice and a politics of inclusiveness. Victorian Literature and Culture Series.
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