Wednesday, January 11, 2012

Spotlight on Modern Transformer Design - Georgilakis - Browse Book Online

 
 

Spotlight on Modern Transformer Design introduces a novel approach to transformer design using artificial intelligence (AI) techniques in combination with finite element method (FEM).
 
AI is computationally efficient in solving hard optimization problems. On the other hand, FEM is particularly capable of dealing with complex geometries, and also yields stable and accurate solutions.
 
Many numerical examples throughout the book illustrate the application of the techniques discussed to a variety of real-life transformer design problems, including:
• problems relating to the prediction of no-load losses;
• winding material selection;
• transformer design optimisation;
• and transformer selection.
 
Spotlight on Modern Transformer Design is a valuable learning tool for advanced undergraduate and graduate students, as well as researchers and power engineering professionals working in electric utilities and industries, public authorities, and design offices.
 
 
Pavlos S. Georgilakis is currently Assistant Professor at the Production Engineering and Management Department of the Technical University of Crete (TUC), Greece. He has worked in the transformer industry for ten years before joining the TUC. He is the author of two books, more than 50 journal papers and 70 conference papers.
 
 
You can browse the book online on Springe website
 
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Handbook of Maintenance Management - Joel Levitt - Book Information and Review


2009, Industrial Press


Contents

How to Use this Book   
1    Where We Are Today    1
2    Patterns in Maintenance    10
3    Strategic Assessment of Maintenance Options    20
4    Selling Maintenance Improvements to the Whole Organization    27
5    How Assets Deteriorate    37
6    Estimating Maintenance Budget for Buildings and Equipment    42
7    Evaluating Maintenance - Two Questionnaires    48
8    Benchmarking Maintenance    66
9    How to Evaluate Worker Productivity    77
10    Maintenance Budgeting    87
11    Life Cycle Costing    96
12    The Science of Customer Service    106
13    Reengineering Maintenance    112
14    Contracting, Outsourcing    121
15    In-Sourcing    129
16    Guaranteed Maintainability    136
17    Maintenance Quality Improvement    139
18    ISO 9000 and Its Relation to Maintenance    146
19    Techniques for Continuous Improvement in Maintenance    153
20    Improving Maintenance Reliability - RCM    160
21    Accounting Issues of Maintenance    164
22    Maintenance Information Flow    175
23    Capturing Maintenance Information    186
24    What is PM?    209
25    How to Install and Run a PM System    215
26    PM Task List Development    231
27    Predictive Maintenance    247
28    Projects that Put You in the Driver's Seat    261
29    Use of Statistics in Maintenance    273
30    Planning    278
31    Project Management    282
32    Estimating Job Duration    287
33    Maintenance Scheduling    292
34    CMMS - Computerized Maintenance Management Systems    298
35    Maintenance Parts and Part Vendors    325
36    Maintenance Stockroom and Inventory Control    336
37    The Internet and Maintenance    346
38    How Maintenance Interfaces to Other Departments    354
39    Elements of Maintenance Leadership    363
40    Craft Training of Maintenance Workers    375
41    Special Issues of Factory Maintenance    394
42    Special Issues of Fleet Maintenance    401
43    Special Issues of Building Maintenance    413
44    Special Issues of Field Service    437
    Resources    449
    Glossary

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Managing Factory Maintenance - Joel Levitt - Book Information and Review


2004, Industrial Press

Contents


1    What do bosses really want from the maintenance activity?    1
2    How to improve maintenance    4
3    World class maintenance management    17
4    Evaluate your maintenance department    33
5    Maintenance quality improvement    41
6    Maintenance information flow    52
7    Managing maintenance through planning and scheduling    59
8    Maintenance work order    76
9    Computerization of maintenance CMMS    109
10    Maintenance technical library    126
11    RCM and PMO    133
12    PM (preventive maintenance)    139
13    Understanding PM    152
14    TPM (total productive maintenance)    178
15    Introducing and managing predictive maintenance, technology    188
16    Understanding the interfaces with other departments    201
17    Zero based maintenance budgeting    229
18    Shutdowns, outages, and project management    236
19    Craft training    241
20    Supervisor evaluation clinic    254
21    Delegation and communication    269
22    Time management in the maintenance pressure cooker    277


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Tuesday, January 10, 2012

What Our Speech Disrupts by Katharine Haake

A book on creative writing Pub by National Council of Teachers of English, 1111 W. Kenyon Road, Urbana, IL 61801-1096


This book explores the intersections of creative writing, composition, feminism, and critical theory in ways that speak powerfully to each discipline. It offers provocative considerations of writing and teaching, side by side with practical features including sample assignments and ready to use classroom strategies, as well as a glossary of terms adapted from theory.


Published in 2000

Download the full book from

http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/ED445332.pdf

The Business of Digital Journalism - Book Information and Review



It is an Online Book

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Executive Summary

Introduction

1.  Chapter One: News From Everywhere

2. Chapter Two: Traffic Patterns

3. Chapter Three: Local and Niche Sites

4. Chapter Four: The New New Media

5. Chapter Five: Paywalls

6. Chapter Six: Aggregation

7. Chapter Seven: Dollars and Dimes

8.Chapter Eight: New Users, New Revenue

9. Chapter Nine: Managing Digital

Conclusion: Lessons, takeaways, and bullet points








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http://www.cjr.org/the_business_of_digital_journalism/

Interesting ideas and thoughts from the book.

An old rule of thump in print journalism is that 1000 readers support one newsroom staffer. In digital world that may not hold. The newsrooms have to become lighter.

Industry realized losses from the digital era, Now it is time to understand the business of digital journalism and develop appropriate responses and reap the benefits.


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More on Digital Journalism

Doing Digital Journalism: How South African newsgatherers are using ICT
http://www.highwayafrica.com/media/guyberger/Doing_Digital_Web.pdf


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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOGdWxR4I5M

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Fundamentals of Software Engineering -Carla Ghezzi - Book Information and Review

 
 
Publisher Prentice Hall
 
Chapters and Chapter Objectives
1 . Software Engineering: A preview
 
 
 
 
 
 
Powerpoint Slides

Saturday, January 7, 2012

Operations Strategy - Nigel Slack - Book Information and Review

 
 
 
Contents
 
What is operations strategy?
Operations performance
Capacity strategy
Supply network strategy
Process technology strategy
Improvement strategy
Product and service development and organization
The process of operations strategy – sustainable alignment
The process of operations strategy – substitutes for strategy?
The process of operations strategy – implementation?
 
 
Students' Guide
 

Best Books in Various Categories - Selection by Various Papers



2011

Best Business Self-Help Books on Starting and Running Business Firms

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424053111903554904576460143775095086.html
14 November 2011

The E-Myth by Michael E. Gerber
Who The A Method for Hiring by Geoff Smart and Randy Street
Start with Why by Simon Sinek
The Art of the Start by Guy Kawasaki
Little Bets by Peter Sims
Mastering the Rockefeller Habits
Street Smarts An All Purpose Toolkit for Entrepreneurs

Best Sellers - New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/best-sellers-books/overview.html

Little Bets by Peter Sims - Book Information



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kl5ATK7tCsI
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Peter Sims on HBR Blog
http://blogs.hbr.org/cs/2011/03/big_bets_vs_little_bets_and_th.html

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Reviews of the book

Inc. com
http://www.inc.com/magazine/20110501/book-review-little-bets-by-peter-sims-on-creative-innovation.html

Kirkus Reviews
http://www.kirkusreviews.com/blog/nonfiction/little-bets-peter-sims-breakthrough-ideas-and-smal/

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Thursday, January 5, 2012

Human Resource Management - H. John Bernardin


Human resource management concerns the personnel policies and managerial practices and systemss that influence the workforce.

The text provides the conceptual background and content necessary to understand the relevant issues in HRM, along with individual and group exercises that require the application of the chapter content to specific problems designed to develop critical personal competencies.


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Human Resource Management: An Experiential Approach (SIE), 4/e
Copyright year: 2007

H. John Bernardin, Florida Atlantic University


The text focuses on enhancement of personal competencies while providing a theoretical and experiential approach to the study of HRM. The author provides the conceptual background and content necessary to understand the relevant issues in HRM, along with individual and group exercises that require the application of the chapter content to specific problems designed to develop critical personal competencies.
Students "learn by doing" by participating in experiential exercises that require the application of HR knowledge expected of practicing managers and HR generalists.
New content includes: latest research on expatriates, equal employment opportunity laws, internet recruiting, gender wage differences, social security and pensions.

About The Author

H. John Bernardin is University Research Professor and the Adams Professor of Management in the College of Business at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. He earned his Ph.D in industrial/organizational psychology from Bowling Green State University and is the former director of doctoral studies in I/O psychology at Virginia Tech. He is past Chair of the Division of Personnel/Human Resources of The Academy of Management.  He is the author of six books and over 100 articles related to human resource management.


Pub by McGraw Hill
Google books page for the book. Preview and search facility are available

http://books.google.co.in/books?id=0Vb-lyIy5aMC

Table of Contents




PART I - Human Resource Management and the Environment

Strategic Human Resource Management in a Changing Environment
The Role of Globalization in HR Policy and Practice
The Legal Environment of HRM: Equal Employment Opportunity

PART II - Acquiring Human Resource Capability

Work Analysis and Design
Human Resource Planning and Recruitment
Personnel Selection

PART III - Developing Human Resource Capability

Performance Management and Appraisal
Training and Development
Career Development

PART IV - Compensating and Managing Human Resources

Compensation: Base Pay and Fringe Benefits
Pay for Performance
Managing the Employment Relationship
Labor Relations and Collective Bargaining
Employee Health and Safety

Appendix A Critical Thinking Applications

Appendix B Chapter Exercises

Appendix C Assessment Guidelines for Self, Peer, and Designated Assessors

Endnotes

Indexes

Revision Articles for  Chapters

Links will be provided when the knols are published by me.

PART I - Human Resource Management and the Environment
  1. Strategic Human Resource Management in a Changing Environment
  2. The Role of Globalization in HR Policy and Practice
  3. The Legal Environment of HRM: Equal Employment Opportunity
PART II - Acquiring Human Resource Capability
  1. Work Analysis and Design
  2. Human Resource Planning and Recruitment
  3. Personnel Selection
PART III - Developing Human Resource Capability
  1. Performance Management and Appraisal
  2. Training and Development
  3. Career Development
PART IV - Compensating and Managing Human Resources
  1. Compensation: Base Pay and Fringe Benefits
  2. Pay for Performance
  3. Managing the Employment Relationship
  4. Labor Relations and Collective Bargaining
  5. Employee Health and Safety
References (Sources)

Visit for Review articles on HRM based on this book:
Human Resource Management Revision Articles Series Originally posted on Knol http://knol.google.com/k/narayana-rao/human-resource-management-an/2utb2lsm2k7a/ 737