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Following in the tradition of its bestselling predecessor, The 12 Principles of Manufacturing Excellence, Second Edition outlines a comprehensive, proven process for delivering world-class performance while also creating the right culture through leadership, mentoring, and hourly employee involvement. While most books on continuous improvement focus on specific tools and methods, this book details a top-down strategy and proven process that Lean leaders can use to implement and sustain manufacturing excellence. It outlines a clear pathway to excellence via the 12 Principles of Manufacturing Excellence and provides a method for tracking progress.

Cannabis sativa is best known as the source of marijuana, the world's most widely consumed illicit recreational drug. However, the plant is also extremely useful as a source of stem fiber, edible seed oil, and medicinal compounds, all of which are undergoing extremely promising research, technological applications, and business investment. Indeed, despite its capacity for harm as a recreational drug, cannabis has phenomenal potential for providing new products to benefit society and for generating extensive employment and huge profits. Misguided policies, until recently, have prevented legitimate research on the beneficial properties of cannabis, but there is now an explosion of societal, scientific, and political support to reappraise and remove some of the barriers to usage. Unfortunately, there is also a corresponding dearth of objective analysis. Towards redressing the limitation of information, Cannabis: A Complete Guide is a comprehensive reference summarizing botanical, business, chemical, ecological, genetic, historical, horticultural, legal, and medical considerations that are critical for the wise advancement and management of cannabis in its various forms. This book documents both the risks and benefits of what is indisputably one of the world's most important species. The conflicting claims for medicinal virtues and toxicological vices are examined, based mainly on the most recent authoritative scientific reviews. The attempt is made consistently to reflect majority scientific opinion, although many aspects of cannabis are controversial. Aside from the relevance to specialists, the general public should find the presentation attractive because of the huge interest today in marijuana. Unfortunately, society has become so specialized and compartmentalized that most people have limited appreciation of the importance of science to their lives, except when a topic like marijuana becomes sensationalized. This review of cannabis can serve as a vehicle for public education in the realm of science and technology. Indeed, towards the goal of disseminating the important information in this book to a wide audience, the presentation is user-friendly, concise, and well-illustrated in the hope that non-specialists will find the topics both informative and entertaining.

Edited and contributed to by eminent scholars, this book takes a systematic scientific approach to canine olfaction. It provides a wealth of information beneficial to a wide range of professionals, including trainers of detection dogs and those working in healthcare, law enforcement, and environmental conservation. It also gives a thorough understanding of the remarkable power of the canine nose while encouraging further advances in applications and discussing current controversies within the field with a view toward resolution through dialogue.

Although residents and paediatric ophthalmology fellows examine patients in the clinic, they may not be involved in surgery on the same patients and even less often get to follow the progress of these patients postoperatively. The Wills Eye Strabismus Surgery Handbook is designed to address this challenge in residency and fellowship education.

Preceded by: An occupational perspective of health / Ann A. Wilcock. 2nd ed. c2006.

Retaining the same accessible format of the popular first edition, this book explains how to easily perform an analytical task in both SAS and R. Through the extensive indexing and cross-referencing, users can directly find and implement the material they need. This edition now covers RStudio, a powerful and easy-to-use interface for R. Along with extended examples of simulations, it also incorporates a number of additional topics, including APIs, reproducible analysis tools, database management systems, MCMC methods, and finite mixture models.

This bestseller helps students understand the algorithms of machine learning. It puts them on a path toward mastering the relevant mathematics and statistics as well as the necessary programming and experimentation. Along with improved Python code, this second edition includes two new chapters on deep belief networks and Gaussian processes. It incorporates new material on the support vector machine, random forests, the perceptron convergence theorem, filters, and more. All of the code is available on the author¿s website.

Currently available topography books focus only on the technology behind topography, or a particular application of topography, as opposed to presenting a comprehensive collection of topographic patterns that provide quick, consistent pattern recognition and identification.

Showing how students can be taught to write effectively, Kelly shares a number of classroom-tested strategies that enable teachers to understand the importance of teaching writing, and also motivate young writers to see the importance modelling plays, as well as many other techniques.

An illustrated quick reference which provides the rehabilitation professional with a very basic approach to various goniometric techniques.

As the complexity and criticality of software increase and projects are pressed to develop software faster and more cheaply, it becomes even more important to ensure that software-intensive systems are reliable and safe. This book helps you develop, manage, and approve safety-critical software more efficiently and effectively. Although the focus is on aviation software and compliance with RTCA/DO-178C and its supplements, the principles also apply to other safety-critical software. Written by an international authority on the subject, this book brings you a wealth of best practices, real-world examples, and concrete recommendations.

This book uses examples in OpenGL and OpenGL Shading Language to present the theory and application of shader programming. It explains how to program graphics shaders effectively for use in art, animation, gaming, and visualization. Along with improved graphics and new examples and exercises, this edition includes a new chapter on converting a fixed-function OpenGL program to a shader-based OpenGL program. It also explains how best to use tessellation shaders, illustrates the importance of the invariant qualifier for multipass rendering, and presents new applications, including terrain bump-mapping and LIDAR data.

"A chronicle of one of the most unusual series of events in the history of medicine, this book tells the story a group of men and women clinicians, administrators, frontline workers, trustees, and leaders blessed with vision, courage, and a relentless determination to improve. It is the story of a medical center transformed. Ultimately, it is the story of a new and possibly better way to take on the challenge we face in the United States today to provide superb medical care to our people while at the same time controlling costs"--Provided by publisher.

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In Our Clients' Shoes conveniently assembles a number of important papers on the Therapeutic Assessment approach in one resource, explicating its history, theory, techniques, as well as its impact on clients and assessors. Author Stephen E. Finn incorporates pieces presented at various conferences over the past 13 years, in addition to previously unpublished work, with the intent to allow psychologists greater insight into their clients' perspectives.Arranged in three sections, the first set of papers describes the history and development of Therapeutic Assessment, including personal experiences of the author, which ultimately led him to focus on psychological assessment as a potential therapeutic intervention. The second section follows with a variety of essays to illustrate particular techniques of collaborative and Therapeutic Assessment. In this section, readers gain an understanding of how to integrate test findings, engage clients in discussing their experiences of a test, conduct assessment intervention sessions, and teach Therapeutic Assessment to graduate students. Finn concludes by drawing a link between Therapeutic Assessment and two major schools of psychotherapy: intersubjectivity theory and control-mastery theory. He also discusses how assessors grow and change as a result of practicing psychological assessment, and addresses practical matters such as when to apply the approach, how to bill for Therapeutic Assessment sessions, how to market Therapeutic Assessment, and where to find professional support for this kind of work.In Our Clients' Shoes is appropriate for all clinicians who wish to further impact the lives of their clients and enhance their own wisdom, compassion, and personal and professional development.

Presenting the developments in QRM since the publication of Rajan Suri's landmark text, Quick Response Manufacturing, this book illustrates how QRM can not only reduce lead times but also improve quality, reduce operating costs, and enable companies to gain a substantial market share. It explains how factories in advanced nations can us

Explores geometry and tilings through the art of origami. This book provides the fundamentals of origami tessellations - including techniques to tessellation folding - as well as step-by-step instructions for 25 origami tessellation projects. It is suitable for beginners, intermediate folders, and expert origamists.

Provides potential process industry change agents with the information needed to eliminate waste and achieve sustainable optimal efficiency. This book focuses on developing the four measures of Lean: Business Results; Consistent Lean Enterprise Culture; Continuous Process Improvement; and, Cultural Enablers.

Physiological Basis of Aging and Geriatrics

Of the many conceptual distinctions present in psychology, the approach-avoidance distinction stands out as one of, if not the, most fundamental and basic. This volume is designed to illustrate and highlight the central importance of this distinction.

This book grew out of a course of lectures given to third year undergraduates at Oxford University and it has the modest aim of producing a rapid introduction to the subject. It is designed to be read

Michael Young has christened the oligarchy of the future "Meritocracy

The new edition of a bestseller, this book covers the principles of chemistry and biology necessary to understand drug action at the cellular level. The book places special emphasis on the chemical and physical properties of drugs, drug absorption and distribution, drug interactions with cellular receptors, drug metabolism and elimination, and the genetic basis for variations in drug response. The book includes revision and updates of chapters. It also includes new material on pharmacogenomics, cancer chemotherapies, and drug-receptor and drug-enzyme interactions.