Throwing Gas on The Fire - Creating Drastic Change in Life (and Business)
Throwing Gas on The Fire - Creating Drastic Change in Life (and Business)

Author: Kordell Norton

Publisher: eScholars

Published: 2018-04-05

Total Pages: 41

ISBN-13: 145663075X

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Want bigger sales, more memorable marketing, and to change the Status Quo to Status Grow? This books is a parable of two men who discover a long lost journal and the secrets it reveals. Whether you are selling a product or service, planning a special event, or creating memorable customer experiences, you can learn from the principles that are used by world class marketers, promoters, artists, producers, and professional facilitators of change. You will discover how to: Stand out from the crowd. Improve creativity and innovation in your life. Make your products, services and activities unique. Mange the environment to your benefit Develop a "brand" Communicate your value to others.

Star Trek: Discovery: Drastic Measures
Star Trek: Discovery: Drastic Measures

Author: Dayton Ward

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2018-02-06

Total Pages: 349

ISBN-13: 1501171755

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An all-new novel based upon the explosive Star Trek TV series! It is 2246, ten years prior to the Battle at the Binary Stars, and an aggressive contagion is ravaging the food supplies of the remote Federation colony Tarsus IV and the eight thousand people who call it home. Distress signals have been sent, but any meaningful assistance is weeks away. Lieutenant Commander Gabriel Lorca and a small team assigned to a Starfleet monitoring outpost are caught up in the escalating crisis, and bear witness as the colony’s governor, Adrian Kodos, employs an unimaginable solution in order to prevent mass starvation. While awaiting transfer to her next assignment, Commander Philippa Georgiou is tasked with leading to Tarsus IV a small, hastily assembled group of first responders. It’s hoped this advance party can help stabilize the situation until more aid arrives, but Georgiou and her team discover that they‘re too late—Governor Kodos has already implemented his heinous strategy for extending the colony’s besieged food stores and safeguarding the community’s long-term survival. In the midst of their rescue mission, Georgiou and Lorca must now hunt for the architect of this horrific tragedy and the man whom history will one day brand “Kodos the Executioner”….

Modeling and Simulation of Environmental Systems
Modeling and Simulation of Environmental Systems

Author: Satya Prakash Maurya

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2022-08-24

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 1000626628

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This book presents an overview of modeling and simulation of environmental systems via diverse research problems and pertinent case studies. It is divided into four parts covering sustainable water resources modeling, air pollution modeling, Internet of Things (IoT) based applications in environmental systems, and future algorithms and conceptual frameworks in environmental systems. Each of the chapters demonstrate how the models, indicators, and ecological processes could be applied directly in the environmental sub-disciplines. It includes range of concepts and case studies focusing on a holistic management approach at the global level for environmental practitioners. Features: Covers computational approaches as applied to problems of air and water pollution domain. Delivers generic methods of modeling with spatio-temporal analyses using soft computation and programming paradigms. Includes theoretical aspects of environmental processes with their complexity and programmable mathematical approaches. Adopts a realistic approach involving formulas, algorithms, and techniques to establish mathematical models/computations. Provides a pathway for real-time implementation of complex modeling problem formulations including case studies. This book is aimed at researchers, professionals and graduate students in Environmental Engineering, Computational Engineering/Computer Science, Modeling/Simulation, Environmental Management, Environmental Modeling and Operations Research.

The Innovative Entrepreneur
The Innovative Entrepreneur

Author: Daniel F. Spulber

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2014-06-16

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1139952617

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Innovative entrepreneurs are the prime movers of the economy. The innovative entrepreneur helps to overcome two types of institutional friction. First, existing firms may not innovate efficiently due to incumbent inertia resulting from adjustment costs, diversification costs, the replacement effect, and imperfect adjustment of expectations. The innovative entrepreneur compensates for incumbent inertia by embodying innovations in new firms that compete with incumbents. Second, markets for inventions may not operate efficiently due to transaction costs, imperfect intellectual property protections, costs of transferring tacit knowledge, and imperfect information about discoveries. The innovative entrepreneur addresses inefficiencies in markets for inventions through own-use of discoveries and adoption of innovative ideas. The Innovative Entrepreneur presents an economic framework that addresses the motivation of the innovative entrepreneur, the innovative advantage of entrepreneurs versus incumbent firms, the effects of competitive pressures on incentives to innovate, the consequences of creative destruction, and the contributions of the innovative entrepreneur to the wealth of nations.

Nature-Inspired Methods for Metaheuristics Optimization
Nature-Inspired Methods for Metaheuristics Optimization

Author: Fouad Bennis

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2020-01-17

Total Pages: 503

ISBN-13: 3030264580

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This book gathers together a set of chapters covering recent development in optimization methods that are inspired by nature. The first group of chapters describes in detail different meta-heuristic algorithms, and shows their applicability using some test or real-world problems. The second part of the book is especially focused on advanced applications and case studies. They span different engineering fields, including mechanical, electrical and civil engineering, and earth/environmental science, and covers topics such as robotics, water management, process optimization, among others. The book covers both basic concepts and advanced issues, offering a timely introduction to nature-inspired optimization method for newcomers and students, and a source of inspiration as well as important practical insights to engineers and researchers.

Groundwater Pollution in Africa
Groundwater Pollution in Africa

Author: Yongxin Xu

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2006-10-05

Total Pages: 368

ISBN-13: 0203963547

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In 2000, various UN organizations launched a collaborative effort to assess the vulnerability of groundwater in several African cities. The project addressed the issue of aquifer vulnerability and the protection of groundwater quality. This book is a collection of thirty peer-reviewed papers on the topic, and provides a glimpse of the situation acr

Groundwater Contamination in Coastal Aquifers
Groundwater Contamination in Coastal Aquifers

Author: Senapathi Venkatramanan

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2022-06-22

Total Pages: 308

ISBN-13: 0323859747

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Groundwater Contamination in Coastal Aquifers: Assessment and Management first describes groundwater contamination in coastal aquifers and then delves into specific topics surrounding various hydrogeochemical processes. Next, the book covers case studies of groundwater quality assessment using recent techniques, explains the various pollutants and contaminants in coastal aquifers, and covers management and remediation methods to control contamination in coastal aquifers. This key reference encompasses various topics in broader perspectives on groundwater contamination in coastal aquifers, providing a significant contribution to the field of hydrogeology. - Presents global case studies that show the reader how this issue is affecting sites around the world - Includes a remediation plan that solves problems surrounding the management of groundwater, water treatment techniques, and the management of available groundwater resources - Provides advanced techniques that can be applied and used as methodologies for solving groundwater issues

The Handbook of Groundwater Engineering
The Handbook of Groundwater Engineering

Author: John H. Cushman

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 2016-11-25

Total Pages: 1092

ISBN-13: 1498703054

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This new edition adds several new chapters and is thoroughly updated to include data on new topics such as hydraulic fracturing, CO2 sequestration, sustainable groundwater management, and more. Providing a complete treatment of the theory and practice of groundwater engineering, this new handbook also presents a current and detailed review of how to model the flow of water and the transport of contaminants both in the unsaturated and saturated zones, covers the protection of groundwater, and the remediation of contaminated groundwater.