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  1. Patient Safety

    An Engineering Approach

    By B.S. Dhillon

    With unintended harm during hospital care costing billions of dollars to the world economy, not to mention millions of deaths each year, it’s no wonder the issue is equally front and center in the minds of healthcare providers and the public. Although the issue has been tackled in journal articles...

    Published November 7th 2011 by CRC Press

  2. Cultural Factors in Systems Design

    Decision Making and Action

    Edited by Robert W. Proctor, Shimon Y. Nof, Yuehwern Yih

    Series: Industrial and Systems Engineering Series

    Cultural factors, in both the narrow sense of different national, racial, and ethnic groups, and in the broader sense of different groups of any type, play major roles in individual and group decisions. Written by an international, interdisciplinary group of experts, Cultural Factors in Systems...

    Published October 24th 2011 by CRC Press

  3. Management Obligations for Health and Safety

    By Gregory W. Smith

    In recent years, the safety management field has placed leadership and commitment at the center of effective workplace health and safety programs. At the same time, personal liability for workplace health and safety has increased, resulting in poor outcomes for individual managers. Discussing the...

    Published October 24th 2011 by CRC Press

  4. Industrial Control Systems

    Mathematical and Statistical Models and Techniques

    By Adedeji B. Badiru, Oye Ibidapo-Obe, Babatunde J. Ayeni

    Series: Industrial Innovation Series

    Issues such as logistics, the coordination of different teams, and automatic control of machinery become more difficult when dealing with large, complex projects. Yet all these activities have common elements and can be represented by mathematics. Linking theory to practice, Industrial Control...

    Published October 23rd 2011 by CRC Press

  5. Behavioral Research and Analysis

    An Introduction to Statistics within the Context of Experimental Design, Fourth Edition

    By Max Vercruyssen, Hal W. Hendrick

    Now in its fourth edition, Behavioral Research and Analysis: An Introduction to Statistics within the Context of Experimental Design presents an overview of statistical methods within the context of experimental design. It covers fundamental topics such as data collection, data analysis,...

    Published October 18th 2011 by CRC Press

  6. Optimality Conditions in Convex Optimization

    A Finite-Dimensional View

    By Anulekha Dhara, Joydeep Dutta

    Optimality Conditions in Convex Optimization explores an important and central issue in the field of convex optimization: optimality conditions. It brings together the most important and recent results in this area that have been scattered in the literature—notably in the area of convex...

    Published October 16th 2011 by CRC Press

  7. Designing Telehealth for an Aging Population

    A Human Factors Perspective

    By Neil Charness, George Demiris, Elizabeth Krupinski

    Series: Human Factors and Aging Series

    As simple and straightforward as two health professionals conferring over the telephone or as complex and sophisticated as robotic surgery between facilities at different ends of the globe, telehealth is an increasingly frequent component in healthcare. A primer on the human factors issues that can...

    Published October 10th 2011 by CRC Press

  8. The 12 Principles of Manufacturing Excellence

    A Leader's Guide to Achieving and Sustaining Excellence

    By Larry E. Fast

    Explaining how to implement and sustain a top-down strategy for manufacturing excellence, The 12 Principles of Manufacturing Excellence: A Leader’s Guide to Achieving and Sustaining Excellence provides a comprehensive, proven approach for delivering world-class performance while also cultivating...

    Published October 10th 2011 by Productivity Press

  9. Value-Added Decision Making for Managers

    By Kenneth Chelst, Yavuz Burak Canbolat

    Developed from the authors’ longstanding course on decision and risk analysis, Value-Added Decision Making for Managers explores the important interaction between decisions and management action and clarifies the barriers to rational decision making. The authors analyze strengths and weaknesses of...

    Published October 4th 2011 by Chapman and Hall/CRC

  10. Toyota Production System

    An Integrated Approach to Just-In-Time, 4th Edition

    By Yasuhiro Monden

    A bestseller for almost three decades, Toyota Production System: An Integrated Approach to Just-In-Time supplies in-depth coverage of Toyota's production practices, including theoretical underpinnings and methods for implementation. Exploring the latest developments in the Toyota Production System...

    Published October 4th 2011 by Productivity Press