Search Results - Six Apart~

Introduction to Engineering Statistics and Lean Six Sigma Statistical Quality Control and Design of Experiments and Systems / by Allen, Theodore T.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Part I: Statistical Quality Control -- Statistical Quality Control and Six Sigma -- Part II: Design of Experiments (DOE) and Regression -- Part III: Optimization and Strategy.…”
Full-text access
View in OPAC

Extreme Sports, Extreme Bodies Gender, Identities and Bodies in Motion / by Andreasson, Jesper, Johansson, Thomas

Table of Contents: “…Part I: Introducing Extreme Sporting Bodies -- Chapter One: Introduction -- Chapter Two: Body Studies and Carnal Sociology -- Part II: Bodybuilding and the Fitness Revolution -- Chapter Three: Getting the Pump - Pain and Pleasure in Muscle-building Practice -- Chapter Four: Negotiating the Subcultural body -- Chapter Five: Bodybuilding - Concluding Thoughts. - Part III: Bending Bodies Through Ironman Triathlon -- Chapter Six: Discipline, Transcendence and Bodily Fluids -- Chapter Seven: The Family Puzzle in Ironman Triathlon. - Chapter Eight: Ironman - Concluding Thoughts. …”
Full-text access
View in OPAC

Smart Intelligent Aircraft Structures (SARISTU) Proceedings of the Final Project Conference /

Table of Contents: “…SARISTU: Six years of project management -- Morphing Wing integrated safety approach and results -- Development and validation of a Bird Strike Protection System for an Enhanced Adaptive Droop Nose -- Adaptive Trailing Edge: Specifications, Aerodynamics and Exploitation -- Structural Design of an Adaptive Wing Trailing Edge for Large Aeroplanes -- Design, Optimization, Testing, Verification, and Validation of the Wingtip Active Trailing Edge -- Winglet design, manufacturing and testing -- Ribbon tapes, shape sensors and hardware -- Methodologies for the Damage Detection based on Fiber Optic sensors. …”
Full-text access
View in OPAC

The Geography of Climate Change Adaptation in Urban Africa

Table of Contents: “…Part I -- Introduction -- Chapter One: Climate Change, Urban Planning and Sustainable Development in Africa: The Difference worth Appreciating; Michael Addaney and Patrick Brandful Cobbinah -- Part II: Climate Change Adaptation in urban Africa: land tenure, biodiversity conservation and local responses -- Chapter Two: Towards Sustainable Development in Africa: The Challenge of Urbanization and Climate Change; Matthew Ogwu -- Chapter Three: Community-Based Mapping Methodology for Climate Change Adaptation: A Case Study of Quarry Road West Informal Settlement, Durban, South Africa; Bahle Mazeka, Catherine Sutherland, Sibongile Buthelezi and Duduzile Khumalo -- Chapter Four: Urban Residents and Communities Responses to Climate Change Impacts in Tamale, Ghana; Patrick Brandful Cobbinah and Enoch Akwasi Kosoe -- Chapter Five: Urban Farmers' Perceptions of and Responses to Climate Variability in Ibadan, Nigeria; Bolanle Wahab and Ayobami Popoola -- Chapter Six: Placing Climate Change in Wetland Conservation and Urban Agriculture Contestations in Harare, Zimbabwe; Luckymore Matenga -- Chapter Seven: Heritage Preservation in a Changing Climate: The Potential of Green Infrastructure on the Île de Saint-Louis, Senegal; Samantha McLean -- Chapter Eight: Competing Interests in Urban Biodiversity Management in the Context of a Changing Climate: A Case Study of the Giba Gorge Environmental Precinct, South Africa; Chuma Banji Chinzila, Andrew Emmanuel Okem, Fathima Ahmed and Urmila Bob -- Chapter Nine: Exploring the Future of Nairobi National Park in a Changing Climate and Urban Growth; Obed Matundura Ogega, Hellen Njoki Wanjohi and James Mbugua -- Part III: Urban Climate Change Adaptation in Africa: Towards Policy and Practice -- Chapter Ten: Connecting climate change to poverty reduction: Poverty Reduction Co-Benefits of Climate Change-Related Projects in eThekwini Municipality, South Africa; Andrew Emmanuel Okem -- Chapter Eleven: Beyond climate change adaptation in urban Africa: A synthesis of urban food (in)security; Bright Nkrumah -- Chapter Twelve: Thinking into the future: Constructing social security law as climate change adaptation strategy in urban South Africa; Ademola Oluborode Jegede and Crystal Mokoena -- Chapter Thirteen: Governing river rehabilitation for climate adaptation and water security in Durban, South Africa; Partick Martel, Catherine Sutherland, Sibongile Buthelezi and Duduzile Khumalo -- Part IV: Climate Change Adaptation Planning and Institutional Responses in Urban Africa -- Chapter Fourteen: Towards Citizen-led Planning for Climate Change Adaptation in Urban Ghana: Hints from Japanese "Machizukuri" Activities; Seth Asare Okyere, Stephen Kofi Diko, Matthew Abunyewah, Michihiro Kita -- Chapter Fifteen: Climate Change Adaptation in Ghana: The Future of Spatial Planning; Patrick Brandful Cobbinah and Nelson Nyabanyi N-yanbini -- Chapter Sixteen: Institutional Responses to Climate Change Adaptation: Flood Management at the Metropolitan Level in Accra, Ghana; Prosper Issahaku Korah and Patrick Brandful Cobbinah -- Chapter Seventeen: Adaptation Governance and Building Resilience in the face of Climate Change in African Cities: Policy Responses and Emerging Practices from Accra; Michael Addaney -- Chapter Eighteen: Missed Opportunities: Financing Climate Change Adaptation in Urban Ghana and Uganda; Stephen Diko.…”
Full-text access
View in OPAC

System Reengineering in Healthcare: Application for Hospital Emergency Departments by Ben Zayed, Salman, Bin Gani, Abdullah, Bin Othman, Mohd Khalit

Full-text access
View in OPAC

A Hetero-functional Graph Theory for Modeling Interdependent Smart City Infrastructure by Schoonenberg, Wester C. H., Khayal, Inas S., Farid, Amro M.

Full-text access
View in OPAC

Advanced Topics in Nonsmooth Dynamics Transactions of the European Network for Nonsmooth Dynamics /

Full-text access
View in OPAC

Disaster Robotics Results from the ImPACT Tough Robotics Challenge /

Full-text access
View in OPAC

Nirbhaya, new media and digital gender activism / by Dey, Adrija

Full-text access
View in OPAC

Global Perspectives on Long Term Community Resource Management

Table of Contents: “…Defining Community and Management Practices in Long Term Natural Resource Management -- Managing risk through cooperation: Need-based transfers and risk pooling among the societies of the Human Generosity Project -- Trolls, Water, Time, and Community: Resource Management in the Mývatn District of Northeast Iceland -- Organization of high-altitude summer pastures: the dialectics of conflict and cooperation -- Large-Scale Land Acquisition as Commons Grabbing: A comparative analysis of six African case studies -- Open Access, Open Systems: Pastoral Resource Management in the Chad Basin -- Mollusk Harvesting in the Pre-European Contact Pacific Islands: investigating Resilience and Sustainability -- Environment and Landscapes of Latin America's Past -- Collaborative and Competitive Strategies in the Variability and Resiliency of Early Complex Societies in Mesoamerica -- The Native California Commons: Ethnographic and Archaeological Perspectives on Land Control, Resource Use, and Management -- Identifying Common Pool Resources in the Archaeological Record: A Case Study of Water Commons from the North American Southwest.…”
Full-text access
View in OPAC

Nietzsche and transhumanism : precursor or enemy? /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction; Part I; Chapter One; Chapter Two; Chapter Three; Chapter Four; Chapter Five; Part II; Chapter Six; Chapter Seven; Chapter Eight; Chapter Nine; Part III; Chapter Ten; Chapter Eleven; Chapter Twelve; Chapter Thirteen; Chapter Fourteen; Chapter Fifteen; Contributors; Bibliography…”
Full-text access
View in OPAC

Permanent Magnet Spherical Motors Model and Field Based Approaches for Design, Sensing and Control / by Bai, Kun, Lee, Kok-Meng

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Part One: Modelling Methods for PMSMs -- Distributed Multi-Pole Models -- Magnetic Force/Torque Model for Real-Time Control -- Part Two: Sensing Methods for PMSMs -- Field-Based Orientation Sensing -- A Back-EMF for Multi-DOF Method on a PMSM -- Part 3: Control Methods for PMSMs -- Direct Field-Feedback Control -- A Two-mode Six-DOF Motion System based on a Ball-joint-like PMSM for Haptic Applications. .…”
Full-text access
View in OPAC

Multimodal Interaction with W3C Standards Toward Natural User Interfaces to Everything /

Table of Contents: “…Part I Standards -- 1 Introduction to the Multimodal Architecture -- 2 The role and importance of speech standards -- 3 Extensible Multimodal Annotation for Intelligent Interactive Systems -- 4 Emotion Markup Language -- 5 Introduction to SCXML -- 6 Dialogue Acts -- 7 Six-Layered Model for Multi-Modal Interaction Systems -- 8 WebRTC handling media on the web -- Part II Implementations -- 9 Developing portable context-aware multimodal applications for connected devices using W3C multimodal architecture -- 10 SCXML on Resource Constrained Devices -- 11 A Standard Portal for Intelligent Services -- 12 Assembling the jigsaw How multiple W3C standards are synergistically combined in the HALEF multimodal dialog system -- Part III Applications -- 13 Applications in Ambient Assisted Living -- 14 Applications in Ambient Assisted Living -- Part IV Future Directions -- 15 Finding and integrating components into dynamic systems -- 16 Laborda Multimodal Interactivity in Foreign Language Testing -- 17 Multi-device applications using the multimodal architecture -- 18 Multimodal Interaction Description Language based on data modeling -- 19 Multimodal Fusion and Fission within the W3C MMI Architectural Pattern.…”
Full-text access
View in OPAC

Thermal Processing of Packaged Foods by Holdsworth, S. Donald, Simpson, Ricardo

Full-text access
View in OPAC

Advanced and Intelligent Computations in Diagnosis and Control

Full-text access
View in OPAC

English Language Teaching Research in the Middle East and North Africa Multiple Perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction, Sahbi Hidri -- PART ONE: TESTING, EVALUATION AND ASSESSMENT -- Chapter One: Assessing Second Language Proficiency under "Unequal" Perspectives: A Call for Research in the MENA Region, Lee McCallum -- Chapter Two: State-of-the-Art of Assessment in Tunisia: The Case of Testing Listening Comprehension, Sahbi Hidri -- Chapter Three: Cultural Content Evaluation of English Language Textbooks (Link Up Series Elementary & Intermediate), Hala Salih Mohamed Nur, Asjad Ahmed Saeed and Abdelkaliq Abbood -- Chapter Four: The Washback Effect of the Thanaweya Amma English Test: Drawbacks and Solutions, Mahmoud Ibrahim -- PART TWO: INTERFACES BETWEEN TEACHING AND ASSESSMENT -- Chapter Five: A Proposed Metacognitive-Based Approach to Promoting EFL Cohesion and Coherence in Essay Writing of Algerian Master Students, Manal Boudghene Stambouli and Amine Belmekki -- Chapter Six: More than a Pyramid of Papers: Students' Portfolios and Developmental Language Assessment in the ESL Classroom, Charles Edonmi -- Chapter Seven: The Effectiveness of Pre-assessment to Differentiate the Reading Tasks for the Mixed-Abilities EFL Learners, Syeda Saima Ferheen Bukhari -- Chapter Eight: Self-Esteem, Self-Expectancy and Oral Achievement in the Tunisian EFL Context, Marwa Mekni Toujani and Tarek Hermessi -- Chapter Nine: Investigating the Quality of Argument Structure in First-Year University Writing, Besma Allagui -- PART THREE: ARGUMENTATION IN DISCOURSE ANALYSIS -- Chapter Ten: Aspects of Cohesion and Coherence in Moroccan EFL Learners' Written Discourse, Ahmed Sahlane -- Chapter Eleven: Publish or Perish: The Research Letter Genre and Non-Anglophone Scientists' Struggle for Academic Visibility, Mimoun Melliti -- Chapter Twelve: Hedging in Applied Linguistics Theses: An Exploratory Comparative Study, Nourhan Sorour -- Chapter Thirteen: Analyzing Argumentative Essay as an Academic Genre on Assessment Framework of IELTS and TOEFL, Zulfiqar Ahmad -- PART FOUR: TEACHING DIGLOASSIA AND VOCABULARY -- Chapter Fourteen: Including Diglossia in Teaching Arabic as Second Language Programmes: Suggestions and Implications from a Darija Course in Casablanca, Fracesca Tabloni -- Chapter Fifteen: Vocabulary Instruction through Patterns of Activity Sequencing Use: Revising the Understanding of Integration in Language Teaching, Ahlam Bouirane -- Chapter Sixteen: Arabic-Speaking Students of EFL, Vocabulary and the Art of Structured Review, Nathaniel Lotze -- PART FIVE: ENGLISH LANGUAGE LEARNING PROBLEMS -- Chapter Seventeen: Understanding English Speaking Difficulties: Implications for the English Language Curriculum for the Arab Students in a Pakistani University, Musharraf Aziz -- Chapter Eighteen: Domain-Specific and Domain-General Processing Accounts in Children with Specific Language Impairment (SLI): Contribution of Cross Linguistic Evidence, Areej M. …”
Full-text access
View in OPAC

Transactions on Engineering Technologies

Table of Contents: “…Assessment and Comparison of Machining Performance -- Heat Transfer Performance for an Obliquely Impinging Slot Jet on a Convex Surface -- Combustion of Coal in Fluidized Bed -- An Experimental Study of Catalysts and Carrier Gas Diffusion -- A Comparison of Loading on a Single or Double Temporomandibular Joint -- Catalytic Membrane Reactor -- Characterization of an Alumina Membrane -- A Motorized Yam Pounding Machine Developed -- Lean Six Sigma Project for Productivity Enhancement -- A Method for Mechanical Design of Am Fabricated Viscoelastic Parts -- Lean Manufacturing Implementation -- Using OWAS in Automotive Subsidiary Sector -- Manufacturing Flexibility as a Strategy -- ORE Processing By PGM Concentration Process and Assessment of Co2 Equivalent Emissions -- Optimal Policies of Condition-Based Maintenance -- Identifying Maintenance Actions -- A Mathematical Model of Integrated Production-Inventory-Distribution System -- Novel Study of Catalysts and Membrane. …”
Full-text access
View in OPAC

Recent Developments in Intelligent Information and Database Systems

Full-text access
View in OPAC

Robot Operating System (ROS) The Complete Reference (Volume 2) /

Full-text access
View in OPAC

Sociological studies of children and youth.

Full-text access
View in OPAC