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Multinational Rapid Response Mechanisms From Institutional Proliferation to Institutional Exploitation

Multinational Rapid Response Mechanisms From Institutional Proliferation to Institutional Exploitation

The track record of military rapid response mechanisms troops on standby ready to be deployed to a crisis within a short time frame by intergovernmental organizations remains disappointing. Yet many of the obstacles to multinational actors launching a rapid and effective military response in times of crisis are largely similar. This book is the first comprehensive and comparative contribution to explore and identify the key factors that hamper and enable the development and deployment of multinational rapid response mechanisms. Examining lessons from deployments by the AU the EU NATO and the UN in the Central African Republic Mali Somalia and counter-piracy in the Horn of Africa the contributors focus upon the following questions: Was there a rapid response to the crises? By whom? If not what were the major obstacles to rapid response? Did inter-organizational competition hinder responsiveness? Or did cooperation facilitate responsiveness? Bringing together leading scholars working in this area offers a unique opportunity to analyze and develop lessons for policy-makers and for theorists of inter-organizational relations. This work will be of interest to scholars and students of peacebuilding peacekeeping legitimacy and international relations. | Multinational Rapid Response Mechanisms From Institutional Proliferation to Institutional Exploitation

GBP 38.99
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Rapid Bioassessment of Stream Health

Rapid Bioassessment of Stream Health

Tasked by the Clean Water Act to restore and maintain the integrity of their waters state and local governments must develop systems for assessing the health of the streams within their borders. They quickly find that one size does not fit all when it comes to sampling. Rapid Bioassessment of Stream Health examines the sampling techniques laboratory methods and data analysis necessary to create a protocol for analyzing the health of streams using rapid bioassessment techniques. The editors explore how to determine reference streams in each ecoregion and subecoregion with specific indices of health. They provide field methods for monitoring and sampling invertebrates and laboratory methods for subsampling. The work focuses on the application of the EPA’s Rapid Bioassessment Protocol (RBP) but suggests various techniques that can be used to improve sampling protocols and quality control where necessary. It also includes general listings of health classifications appendices of more than 300 streams that have been sampled and a GIS method for designating the reference condition for purposes of comparison in each ecological unit. Although the EPA’s RBP Manual is considered to be the standard of information on the types of metrics that can be used this book explores from a state regulatory standpoint the practical development of such a system to begin compliance with critical sections of the Clean Water Act. A compendium of information about prioritizing those streams and small rivers requiring analysis this book contains guidelines on the assessment of streams in a particular ecoregion and sampling streams that are at least impaired as points of comparison. It supplies guidance for the production of other rapid bioassessment tools customized to various ecoregions and subecoregions.

GBP 74.99
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U.s. Military Power And Rapid Deployment Requirements In The 1980s

U.s. Military Power And Rapid Deployment Requirements In The 1980s

This book assesses U. S. military needs in the coming decade focusing on the role of rapid deployment forces in protecting U. S. interests abroad. Dr. Cordier begins by discussing two general developments crucial to future military requirements: first increasing U. S. dependence on the global sea-lanes as links to key markets; and second improved S | U. s. Military Power And Rapid Deployment Requirements In The 1980s

GBP 39.99
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Rapid Prototyping and Engineering Applications A Toolbox for Prototype Development Second Edition

Rapid Prototyping and Engineering Applications A Toolbox for Prototype Development Second Edition

Since the publication of the first edition several Additive Manufacturing technologies have been invented and many new terminologies have been formalized. Each chapter has been brought up-to-date so that this book continues with its coverage of engineering procedures and the application of modern prototyping technologies such as Additive Manufacturing (AM) and Virtual Prototyping (VP) that quickly develops new products with lower costs and higher quality. The examples practice exercises and case studies have also been updated. Features Gears toward rapid product prototyping technologies Presents a wide spectrum of prototyping tools and state-of-the-art additive manufacturing technologies Explains how to use these rapid product prototyping tools in the development of products Includes examples and case studies from the industry Provides exercises in each chapter along with solutions | Rapid Prototyping and Engineering Applications A Toolbox for Prototype Development Second Edition

GBP 170.00
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Rapid Ethnographic Assessments A Practical Approach and Toolkit For Collaborative Community Research

Rapid Ethnographic Assessments A Practical Approach and Toolkit For Collaborative Community Research

Please see the website of author Thurka Sangaramoorthy for extra resources and material related to this book at thurkasangaramoorthy. com. Click on the book’s cover and be sure to check back for updated content This book provides provides a practical guide to understanding and conducting rapid ethnographic assessments (REAs) with an emphasis on their use in public health contexts. This team-based multi-method relatively low-cost approach results in rich understandings of social economic and policy factors that contribute to the root causes of an emerging situation and provides rapid practical feedback to policy makers and programs. Using real-world examples and case studies of completed REAs Sangaramoorthy and Kroeger provide readers with a logical easy-to-follow introduction into key concepts principles and methods of REAs including interview and observation techniques triangulation field notes and debriefing theoretical saturation and qualitative analysis. They also provide a practical guide for planning and implementing REAs and suggestions for transforming findings into written reports and actionable recommendations. Materials and detailed tools regarding the conduct of REAs are designed to help readers apply this method to their own research regardless of topic or discipline. REA is an applied approach that can facilitate collaborative work with communities and become a catalyst for action. Rapid Ethnographic Assessment will appeal to professionals and researchers interested in using REAs for research efficiency and productivity as well as action-oriented and translational research in a variety of fields and contexts. | Rapid Ethnographic Assessments A Practical Approach and Toolkit For Collaborative Community Research

GBP 38.99
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The Kaizen Event Planner Achieving Rapid Improvement in Office Service and Technical Environments

The Kaizen Event Planner Achieving Rapid Improvement in Office Service and Technical Environments

Kaizen Events are an effective way to train organizations to break unproductive habits and adopt a continuous improvement philosophy while at the same time achieve breakthrough performance-level results. Through Kaizen Events cross-functional teams learn how to make improvements in a methodological way. They learn how to quickly study a process identify and prioritize improvement opportunities implement change and sustain their gains. Most importantly they learn how to work with one another to solve problems rapidly and in a highly effective way. In The Kaizen Event Planner: Achieving Rapid Improvement in Office Service and Technical Environments authors Karen Martin and Mike Osterling provide a practical how-to guide for planning and executing Kaizen Events in non-manufacturing settings and conducting post-Event follow-ups to sustain the improvements made. Geared to continuous improvement professionals and leaders within the office areas of manufacturing the service sector and knowledge-worker environments this book provides the methodology and practical tools for generating measurable results while building a motivated workforce and laying the foundation for continuous improvement. The Kaizen Event Planner provides those responsible for improving office service and technical processes with the skills to effectively scope the activity engage the right people and facilitate successful Events! An accompanying CD provides immediate access to a number of Excel-based tools. | The Kaizen Event Planner Achieving Rapid Improvement in Office Service and Technical Environments

GBP 175.00
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Facilitating Rapid Process Improvement Workshops The Self-Study Guide for Lean Leaders

Facilitating Rapid Process Improvement Workshops The Self-Study Guide for Lean Leaders

This is a self-study guide for facilitators of rapid process improvement workshops that helps anyone who feels like they aren’t truly gaining the full results of improvement initiatives and kaizen events. They know they can do better but don’t know how. The author an experienced facilitator in government and nonprofits speaks to the facilitator through coaching notes and actual workshop documents and techniques so the reader can fully understand how greater results are achieved. This guide takes the reader through a step-by-step path of a newly created workshop agenda. The author has parsed the workshop path into more manageable parts easier for both the facilitator and the team. These parts split the improvement work into two sections: removing the unnecessary and smoothing out the flow. Smoothing out the flow is divided further into: When the work is coming in When the product/person is going through the process How the work is performed In addition the author includes newly created tools and training content. For example a data-gathering table points the facilitator to what data need to be collected when. Training for the team includes making sure they understand the structure of a process as well as to instruct them and define how a Lean process actually functions. This distinction is important because all improvements are not necessarily Lean improvements. Several bodies of knowledge are incorporated into this guide––not only Lean and Six Sigma but internal auditing organizational development and statistics. Essentially this guide includes tips nuances and original tools that are missing from the traditional training of facilitators of kaizen events. It provides enough information for the facilitator to think in a creative way. | Facilitating Rapid Process Improvement Workshops The Self-Study Guide for Lean Leaders

GBP 39.99
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Rapid Story Development How to Use the Enneagram-Story Connection to Become a Master Storyteller

Rapid Story Development How to Use the Enneagram-Story Connection to Become a Master Storyteller

This book offers a unique approach to storytelling connecting the Enneagram system with classic story principles of character development plot and story structure to provide a seven-step methodology to achieve rapid story development. Using the nine core personality styles underlying all human thought feeling and action it provides the tools needed to understand and leverage the Enneagram-Story Connection for writing success. Author Jeff Lyons starts with the basics of the Enneagram system and builds with how to discover and design the critical story structure components of any story featuring supporting examples of the Enneagram-Story Connection in practice across film literature and TV. Readers will learn the fundamentals of the Enneagram system and how to utilize it to create multidimensional characters master premise line development maintain narrative drive and create antagonists that are perfectly designed to challenge your protagonist in a way that goes beyond surface action to reveal the dramatic core of any story. Lyons explores the use of the Enneagram as a tool not only for character development but for story development itself. This is the ideal text for intermediate and advanced level screenwriting and creative writing students as well as professional screenwriters and novelists looking to get more from their writing process and story structure. | Rapid Story Development How to Use the Enneagram-Story Connection to Become a Master Storyteller

GBP 36.99
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Rapid Review of ECG Interpretation in Small Animal Practice

Rapid Review of ECG Interpretation in Small Animal Practice

The standard electrocardiogram (ECG) is an indispensable safe and inexpensive test to assess dogs and cats with heart disease. This bestselling user-friendly book discusses the principles of electrocardiography then systematically explores the evaluation of the ECG including determination of heart rate measurement of intervals derivation of mean electrical axis and criteria for atrial/ventricular enlargement or hypertrophy. At the core of this book is an extensive series of ECG cases for the reader to work through: practice makes perfect. New to this edition: Instructions on how to obtain an ECG A new chapter on the treatment of the most common clinically important ECG arrhythmias A second new chapter on 24-hour ECG (Holter) monitoring A handy one-page reference guide of important ECG values and diagrams which can be downloaded from the book's webpage for easy reference 15 new ECG cases have been added to the original 46 cases with a selection of advanced cases geared toward readers craving more challenging topics such as electrical cardioversion and pacemaker function. This updated edition will further aid veterinarians in their quest to better interpret the ECG. It provides information in an appealing accessible and easy to use format that fits with the busy lives of veterinary practitioners. | Rapid Review of ECG Interpretation in Small Animal Practice

GBP 35.99
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Practical Customer Success Management A Best Practice Framework for Rapid Generation of Customer Success

Practical Customer Success Management A Best Practice Framework for Rapid Generation of Customer Success

Practical Customer Success Management is a complete handbook for CSMs written by a customer success expert who has coached and trained many hundreds of customer success managers across the globe. The book is aimed at increasing both productivity and consistency of quality of output for customer success managers of all levels from relative newcomers through to seasoned professionals. The book is highly practical in nature and is packed full of good humored but very direct advice and assistance for dealing with exactly the types of real world situations CSMs face every day. Practical Customer Success Management provides a simple-to-follow best practice framework that explains what the core customer success management steps are at each stage of the customer journey to business outcome success and in what circumstances to apply those steps. It describes and explains which situations each step applies to and provides recommendations for activities or tasks that the CSM can perform to complete each step together with detailed explanations and step-by-step guidance for successfully completing each activity or task. Included in this book is an entire suite of tools and templates that enable rapid completion of each task and ensure consistency of approach both across multiple customer engagements and by multiple CSMs within a team. Each tool’s use is clearly explained within the book and CSMs are able to adapt and customize the tools to suit their own specific needs as they see fit. | Practical Customer Success Management A Best Practice Framework for Rapid Generation of Customer Success

GBP 31.99
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Re-Envisioning the Public Research University Navigating Competing Demands in an Era of Rapid Change

Re-Envisioning the Public Research University Navigating Competing Demands in an Era of Rapid Change

This volume explores the numerous and competing demands that face America’s public research universities and considers how institutions and their leaders can best navigate this challenge to ensure longevity relevance and success on the local national and global stage. Today’s public research universities have the unique challenge of responding to new societal pressures and policies while remaining true to their core educational missions and values. Highlighting the multiple roles that universities must now fulfil – as institutions of higher learning as research bodies as institutions with global reputations and as organizations that serve the public – the volume asks how they can best evolve in the rapidly changing education landscape. Tackling subjects such as faculty culture the role of technology financial sustainability institutional identity diversity and organizational development chapters identify innovative and transformative mechanisms for acclimatizing the public research university to current educational academic and societal needs. This text will benefit researchers academics and educators with an interest in higher education educational reform and policy and the sociology of education more broadly. | Re-Envisioning the Public Research University Navigating Competing Demands in an Era of Rapid Change

GBP 38.99
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State–Society Relations around the World through the Lens of the COVID-19 Pandemic Rapid Test

State–Society Relations around the World through the Lens of the COVID-19 Pandemic Rapid Test

The collection examines state–society relations during the COVID-19 pandemic from governance at the outset of the pandemic to vaccine rollouts via a series of case studies from around the world. With a focus on the Global South the book includes chapters on the experiences of – Angola Zimbabwe South Africa Bolivia Argentina Brazil Jamaica and Indonesia as well as contributions from the Global North – on Sweden Canada Czech Republic and New Zealand. The collection demonstrates that the effects of the pandemic can only be properly revealed by looking at the regional and local contexts in which states and societies experienced it. Contributors examine themes such as the nature of contemporary democracy state capacity the legitimacy of state institutions and trust in government questions of social solidarity and forms and impacts of inequality. Focusing on national (or sub-national) cases each chapter analyses the underlying forces and structures revealed when the authority of the state is brought to bear on the agency of citizens under emergency conditions. In doing so contributors embed analysis of pandemic governance in the historical context of each country or region highlighting how political choices histories of the state’s treatment of citizens and the orientations of a region’s elites shaped the actions taken by the state. The book will be of interest to those looking to understand how the pandemic was interpreted accepted or contested at the local (national or sub-national) level and to those interested in state–society relations more generally. It will appeal to scholars and students interested in questions of pandemic government from a social scientific point of view and especially to those interested in perspectives from the Global South. | State–Society Relations around the World through the Lens of the COVID-19 Pandemic Rapid Test

GBP 35.99
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Additive Manufacturing Design Methods and Processes

Additive Manufacturing Design Methods and Processes

Additive manufacturing has matured from rapid prototyping through the now popular and maker-oriented 3D printing recently commercialized and marketed. The terms describing this technology have changed over time from rapid prototyping to rapid manufacturing to additive manufacturing which reflects largely a focus on technology. This book discusses the uptake use and impact of the additive manufacturing and digital fabrication technology. It augments technical and business-oriented trends with those in product design and design studies. It includes a mix of disciplinary and transdisciplinary trends and is rich in case and design material. The chapters cover a range of design-centered views on additive manufacturing that are rarely addressed in the main conferences and publications which are still mostly and importantly concerned with tools technologies and technical development. The chapters also reflect dialogues about transdisciplinarity and the inclusion of domains such as business and aesthetics narrative and technology critique. This is a great textbook for graduate students of design engineering computer science marketing and technology and also for those who are not students but are curious about and interested in what 3D printing really can be used for in the near future. | Additive Manufacturing Design Methods and Processes

GBP 76.99
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Population and Development in the Third World

Population and Development in the Third World

Allan and Anne Findlay argue that a nation's human population is a vital resource in the development process. Changes in its composition - increased life expectancy combined with a falling birth rate for example - can have profound effects upon a society. Warfare and mass migration of male workers also have long-reaching effects on those left behind. The rapid growth of Third World populations has often incorrectly been identified as the major force preventing more rapid economic development. Population pressure has been known to generate technological breakthroughs. Their final chapter examines family planning programmes and concludes by asking who benefits most from population policies and questioning the right of developed countries to advocate family planning programmes for Third World nations. | Population and Development in the Third World

GBP 175.00
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Colour Television Techniques Business Impact

Colour Television Techniques Business Impact

Colour Television (1968) examines the rapid growth of colour television in the 1960s as technological advances enabled programmes to be effectively transmitted in colour for the first time. It looks at the technologies involved the differences in programme-making that colour required the audience response and the changes in advertising and network systems that colour broadcasting brought about. | Colour Television Techniques Business Impact

GBP 90.00
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