Internet of Healthcare Things (IoHT) is an Internet of Things (IoT)-based solution that includes a network architecture which allows the connection between a patient and healthcare facilities. This book covers various research issues of smart and secure IoHT, aimed at providing solutions for remote healthcare monitoring using pertinent techniques. Applications of machine learning techniques and data analytics in IoHT, along with the latest communication and networking technologies and clou...

This book presents the proceedings of the first International Upcycling Symposium 2020, held on 4th September 2020 at De Montfort University (DMU) in Leicester, UK (online), as a joint effort between DMU, Lund University, Nottingham Trent University and Newcastle University. This book presents state of the art of research and practice in “upcycling” at the international level.The subject of this book, upcycling, is a term to describe the processes of creating or modifying a product...

In the contemporary automotive manufacturing industry, service providers are continuously working to improve system optimization in order to remain competitive in the market and deliver quality products to satisfy their customers. With this comes the possibility of failure, rejection and reworking of the components or services in the system, which can incur high costs and impact the reputation of an organization. This book uses Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (FMEA) to assess, investigate...

This book covers the strategic use of continuous improvement (CI) techniques for manufacturing performance improvement. It focuses primarily on strategies that can be adopted by small and middle-sized enterprises in manufacturing in order to meet the global challenges and competition. The book begins with an introduction to CI (or Kaizen), explaining different CI approaches and strategies. Chapter 2 offers a literature review of CI, examining conceptual frameworks, case studies, and survey...

Who holds the power in financial markets? For many, the answer would probably be the large investment banks, big asset managers, and hedge funds. These are the organizations that are in the media's spotlight and whose leaders and employees command outsized salaries and bonuses. They are the supposed leading edge of global finance and their power seems almost absolute, even as questions abound about their social and economic utility. But more and more asset owners are confronting the status...

ਇਹ ਸੱਚ ਹੈ ਅਸੀਂ ਕਾਵਾਂ ਕੁੱਤਿਆਂ ਦੀਆਂ ਨਹੀਂ ਸ਼ੇਰਾਂ ਬਗਿਆੜਾਂ ਦੀਆਂ ਕਹਾਣੀਆਂ ਸੁਣ ਕੇ ਵੱਡੇ ਹੋਏ ਆਂ ਤੇ ਸਾਨੂੰ ਜਾਣ ਬਚਾ ਗਏ ਬੁਜਦਿਲਾਂ ਦੀਆਂ ਨਹੀਂ ਸ਼ਹੀਦ ਹੋ ਗਏ ਯੋਧਿਆਂ ਦੀਆਂ ਸਾਖੀਆਂ ਤਾਕਤ ਦਿੰਦੀਆਂ ਨੇ ਤੇ ਅਸੀਂ ਉਹ ਸ਼ੇਰ ਵੀ ਨਹੀਂ ਜੋ ਢਿੱਡ ਦੀ ਭੁੱਖ ਤੋਂ ਸ਼ਿਕਾਰ ਕਰਦੇ ਆਂ ਅਸੀਂ ਤਾਂ ਗੁਰੂ ਕੇ ਉਹ ਸ਼ੇਰ ਹਾਂ ਜੋ ਭੁੱਖੇ ਬਗਿਆੜਾਂ ਨੂੰ ਭਜਾਉਣ ਦੇ ਲਈ ਸ਼ਿਕਾਰ ਤੇ ਨਿਕਲੇ ਸਾਂ ਵਿਦੇਸ਼ੀ ਤੇ ਦੇਸੀ ਧਾੜਵੀਆਂ ਦੇ ਨਾਲ ਅਸੀਂ ਇਸ ਕਰਕੇ ਨਹੀਂ ਲੜੇ ਕਿ ਅਸੀਂ ਇਸ ਧਰਤੀ ਤੇ ਕਬਜ਼ਾ ਕਰਨਾ ਸੀ। ਸਾਡੀ ਬਿਰਤੀ ਕੋਈ ਮਹਿਲ ਮਾੜੀਆਂ ਤੇ ਕਿਲੇ ਉਸਾਰ ਕੇ ਰਾਜ ਕਰਨ ਦੀ ਨਹੀਂ ਸੀ ਸਗੋਂ ਅਸੀਂ ਤਾਂ ਇਸ ਲਈ ਲੜੇ ਕਿ ਇਹ ਧਰ...

ਇਹ ਰਚਨਾ ਭਾਈ ਰਤਨ ਸਿੰਘ ਭੰਗੂ ਦੇ ‘ਸ੍ਰੀ ਗੁਰ ਪੰਥ ਪ੍ਰਕਾਸ਼’ ਦੇ ਆਧਾਰ ’ਤੇ 18 ਵੀਂ ਸਦੀ ਦੇ ਸਿੱਖ ਇਤਿਹਾਸ ਦੀ ਗਾਲਪਨਿਕ ਪੇਸ਼ਕਾਰੀ ਹੈ । ਇਸ ਵਿਚੋਂ ਸਿੱਖੀ ਸਿਦਕ, ਦ੍ਰਿੜ੍ਹਤਾ, ਕੁਰਬਾਨੀ ਤੋਂ ਇਲਾਵਾ ਉੱਚੇ-ਸੁੱਚੇ ਖ਼ਾਲਸਈ ਕਿਰਦਾਰ ਦੇ ਪ੍ਰਤੱਖ ਦਰਸ਼ਨ ਹੁੰਦੇ ਹਨ । ਖ਼ਾਲਸਈ ਜਜ਼ਬੇ ਨਾਲ ਸ਼ਰਸ਼ਾਰ ਇਹ ਰਚਨਾ ਲਹੂ-ਵੀਟਵੇਂ ਸਿੱਖ ਇਤਿਹਾਸ ਦਾ ਪ੍ਰੇਰਨਾ-ਭਰਪੂਰ ਪੁਨਰ-ਕਥਨ ਹੈ ।

#1 bestselling author and acclaimed venture capitalist John Doerr reveals a sweeping action plan to conquer humanity’s greatest challenge: climate change.In 2006, John Doerr was moved by Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth and a challenge from his teenage daughter: “Dad, your generation created this problem. You better fix it.” Since then, Doerr has searched for solutions to this existential problem—as an investor, an advocate, and a philanthropist.Fif...

How governments can do a better job of supporting entrepreneurship and venture capitalSilicon Valley, Singapore, Tel Aviv—the global hubs of entrepreneurial activity—all bear the marks of government investment. Yet, for every public intervention that spurs entrepreneurial activity, there are many failed efforts that waste untold billions in taxpayer dollars. When has governmental sponsorship succeeded in boosting growth, and when has it fallen terribly short? Should...

The best way to select emerging markets to exploit is to evaluate their size or growth potential, right? Not according to Krishna Palepu and Tarun Khanna. In Winning in Emerging Markets, these leading scholars on the subject present a decidedly different framework for making this crucial choice.The authors argue that the primary exploitable characteristic of emerging markets is the lack of institutions (credit-card systems, intellectual-property adjudication, data research firms) t...

A ground-breaking book on the transformative power of impact investingThis is the first book to chart the catalytic path of this new industry, explaining how it is and can be a positive disruptive force. It shows how impact investing is a transformational vehicle for delivering "blended value" throughout the investment spectrum, giving a single name to a set of activities previously siloed in enclaves, revealing how they are linked within what is becoming a new fie...

Our free-market capitalist system is the world's greatest driver of prosperity, but it has a dark side. Under intense pressure to make the numbers, executives and employees face temptation to cut corners, fudge accounts, or worse. And in today's unforgiving environment, such lapses can be catastrophic. Fines and settlements have amounted to billions of dollars. Careers and companies have imploded.In High Performance with High Integrity, Ben Heineman argues that there is only one wa...