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The Passivhaus Designer's Manual A technical guide to low and zero energy buildings

Passivhaus is the fastest growing energy performance standard in the world with almost 50 000 buildings realised to date. Applicable to both domestic and non-domestic building types the strength of Passivhaus lies in the simplicity of the concept. As European and global energy directives move ever closer towards Zero (fossil) Energy standards Passivhaus provides a robust 'fabric first' approach from which to make the next step. The Passivhaus Designers Manual is the most comprehensive technical guide available to those wishing to design and build Passivhaus and Zero Energy Buildings. As a technical reference for architects engineers and construction professionals The Passivhaus Designers Manual provides:State of the art guidance for anyone designing or working on a Passivhaus project;In depth information on building services including high performance ventilation systems and ultra-low energy heating and cooling systems;Holistic design guidance encompassing: daylight design ecological materials thermal comfort indoor air quality and economics;Practical advice on procurement methods project management and quality assurance;Renewable energy systems suitable for Passivhaus and Zero Energy Buildings; Practical case studies from the UK USA and Germany amongst others;Detailed worked examples to show you how it's done and what to look out for;Expert advice from 20 world renowned Passivhaus designers architects building physicists and engineers. Lavishly illustrated with nearly 200 full colour illustrations and presented by two highly experienced specialists this is your one-stop shop for comprehensive practical information on Passivhaus and Zero Energy buildings. | The Passivhaus Designer's Manual A technical guide to low and zero energy buildings

The Poems of Robert Browning: Volume Five The Ring and the Book Books 1-6

The Ring and the Book published serially in 1868–9 is one of the most daring and innovative poems in the English language. The story is based on the trial of an Italian nobleman Guido Franceschini for the murder of his wife Pompilia in Rome in 1698. Browning’s discovery of the ‘old yellow book’ a bundle of legal documents and letters relating to the trial on a second-hand market stall in Florence sparked an imaginative engagement with this sordid tale of domestic cruelty adultery and greed which grew through four years of arduous labour into an epic peopled not by gods and warriors but by concrete recognisably human beings. Fusing the technique of the dramatic monologue the form he had made his own with the grandeur of classical epic and the vivid realism of the modern novel Browning created a unique hybrid form that allowed him not only to bring to life an entire historical period but also to reflect on the process of artistic creation itself – the forging of the golden ‘ring’ of the poem from the ‘pure crude fact’ of its historical original. This edition comprising volumes 5 and 6 in the acclaimed Longman Annotated English Poets edition of Browning’s poems does full justice to the scope and depth of Browning’s achievement. The headnote in volume 5 gives an authoritative account of the poem’s composition publication sources and reception making use of hitherto unpublished letters and textual material. In addition to giving readers help where needed with historical and linguistic comprehension the notes track Browning’s formidable range of allusion from the most erudite to the most vulgar. The appendices in volume 6 present a selection from the original sources a list of variants from extant proofs and key passages from Browning’s fascinating and revealing correspondence with one of the earliest readers of the poem Julia Wedgwood. The aim is to enable readers not just to understand the poem as an object of study but to take pleasure in its abounding intellectual and emotional energies. | The Poems of Robert Browning: Volume Five The Ring and the Book Books 1-6

Handbook of Pharmaceutical Manufacturing Formulations Third Edition Volume Five Over-the-Counter Products

Lean Sustainability Creating Safe Enduring and Profitable Operations

The Japan Institute of Plant Maintenance defines safety as the maintenance of peace of mind. Without peace of mind or the serenity brought about by a safe working environment employees will be unwilling and even unable to focus their energies on production improvement. Thus it can be said that all improvement begins with safety. Winner of a 2013 Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award! A how-to manual on the proper integration of safety and environmental sustainability with Lean implementations Lean Sustainability: Creating Safe Enduring and Profitable Operations provides a proven recipe for achieving safety and sustainability excellence. This book is the result of the author‘s two decades of experience implementing Lean; Safety Health and Environmental (SHE); and sustainability processes in the chemical food and consumer products industries. It unveils valuable lessons learned and little-known tips for eliminating waste and increasing process efficiency while reducing safety incidents and the overall impact on the environment. The text illustrates how to use the SHE Pillar as a gateway to continuous improvement regardless of the improvement methodology you use. Bolstered with proven methodologies and real-world advice it introduces novel approaches for achieving safety and sustainability excellence including: Autonomous Safety‘supplying employees with the knowledge skills and motivation to work safely Triple Zero the achievement of zero accidents zero environmental incidents and zero losses Green Value Stream Mapping the application of Value Stream Mapping to environmental and sustainability issues Although there are many books on Lean sustainability and SHE few explain how to integrate these dynamic tools. Walking you through this process this book supplies the tools to create a synergy that wil | Lean Sustainability Creating Safe Enduring and Profitable Operations

Encyclopedic Handbook of Cults in America

Covers the history founders beliefs and literature of over five hundred nonconventional and alternative religious movements. | Encyclopedic Handbook of Cults in America

Introduction to High Performance Computing for Scientists and Engineers

Written by high performance computing (HPC) experts Introduction to High Performance Computing for Scientists and Engineers provides a solid introduction to current mainstream computer architecture dominant parallel programming models and useful optimization strategies for scientific HPC. From working in a scientific computing center the authors gained a unique perspective on the requirements and attitudes of users as well as manufacturers of parallel computers. The text first introduces the architecture of modern cache-based microprocessors and discusses their inherent performance limitations before describing general optimization strategies for serial code on cache-based architectures. It next covers shared- and distributed-memory parallel computer architectures and the most relevant network topologies. After discussing parallel computing on a theoretical level the authors show how to avoid or ameliorate typical performance problems connected with OpenMP. They then present cache-coherent non-uniform memory access (ccNUMA) optimization techniques examine distributed-memory parallel programming with message passing interface (MPI) and explain how to write efficient MPI code. The final chapter focuses on hybrid programming with MPI and OpenMP. Users of high performance computers often have no idea what factors limit time to solution and whether it makes sense to think about optimization at all. This book facilitates an intuitive understanding of performance limitations without relying on heavy computer science knowledge. It also prepares readers for studying more advanced literature. Read about the authors' recent honor: Informatics Europe Curriculum Best Practices Award for Parallelism and Concurrency.

The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy Politics and Economics

This handbook advances the interdisciplinary field of Philosophy Politics and Economics (PPE) by identifying thirty-five topics of ongoing research. Instead of focusing on historically significant texts it features experts talking about current debates. Individually each chapter provides a resource for new research. Together the chapters provide a thorough introduction to contemporary work in PPE which makes it an ideal reader for a senior-year course. The handbook is organized into seven parts each with its own introduction and five chapters: I. FrameworksII. Decision-MakingIII. Social StructuresIV. MarketsV. Economic SystemsVI. Distributive JusticeVII. Democracy The Frameworks part discusses common tools and perspectives in PPE and the Decision-making section shows different approaches to the study of choice. From there parts on Social Structures Markets and Economic Systems each use tools from the three PPE disciplines to study and distinguish parts of society. The next part explains dominant theories and challenges to the paradigm of Distributive Justice. Finally a part on Democracy offers five challenges to current democratic practice. | The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy Politics and Economics

The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature and Culture

Focusing on significant and cutting-edge preoccupations within children’s literature scholarship The Routledge Companion to Children’s Literature and Culture presents a comprehensive overview of print digital and electronic texts for children aged zero to thirteen as forms of world literature participating in a panoply of identity formations. Offering five distinct sections this volume: Familiarizes students and beginning scholars with key concepts and methodological resources guiding contemporary inquiry into children’s literature Describes the major media formats and genres for texts expressly addressing children Considers the production distribution and valuing of children’s books from an assortment of historical and contemporary perspectives highlighting context as a driver of content Maps how children’s texts have historically presumed and prescribed certain identities on the part of their readers sometimes addressing readers who share some part of the author’s identity sometimes seeking to educate the reader about a presumed “other ” and in recent decades increasingly foregrounding identities once lacking visibility and voice Explores the historical evolutions and trans-regional contacts and (inter)connections in the long process of the formation of global children’s literature highlighting issues such as retranslation transnationalism transculturality and new digital formats for considering cultural crossings and renegotiations in the production of children’s literature Methodically presented and contextualized this volume is an engaging introduction to this expanding and multifaceted field. | The Routledge Companion to Children's Literature and Culture

The Routledge Handbook of Religion Medicine and Health

The relationships between religion spirituality health biomedical institutions complementary and alternative healing systems are widely discussed today. While many of these debates revolve around the biomedical legitimacy of religious modes of healing the market for them continues to grow. The Routledge Handbook of Religion Medicine and Health is an outstanding reference source to the key topics problems and debates in this exciting subject and is the first collection of its kind. Comprising over thirty-five chapters by a team of international contributors the Handbook is divided into five parts: Healing practices with religious roots and frames Religious actors in and around the medical field Organizing infrastructures of religion and medicine: pluralism and competition Boundary-making between religion and medicine Religion and epidemics Within these sections central issues debates and problems are examined including health and healing religiosity spirituality biomedicine medicalization complementary medicine medical therapy efficacy agency and the nexus of body mind and spirit. The Routledge Handbook of Religion Medicine and Health is essential reading for students and researchers in religious studies. The Handbook will also be very useful for those in related fields such as sociology anthropology and medicine.

A Concise Introduction to Pure Mathematics

Accessible to all students with a sound background in high school mathematics A Concise Introduction to Pure Mathematics Fourth Edition presents some of the most fundamental and beautiful ideas in pure mathematics. It covers not only standard material but also many interesting topics not usually encountered at this level such as the theory of solving cubic equations; Euler‘s formula for the numbers of corners edges and faces of a solid object and the five Platonic solids; the use of prime numbers to encode and decode secret information; the theory of how to compare the sizes of two infinite sets; and the rigorous theory of limits and continuous functions. New to the Fourth Edition Two new chapters that serve as an introduction to abstract algebra via the theory of groups covering abstract reasoning as well as many examples and applications New material on inequalities counting methods the inclusion-exclusion principle and Euler‘s phi function Numerous new exercises with solutions to the odd-numbered ones Through careful explanations and examples this popular textbook illustrates the power and beauty of basic mathematical concepts in number theory discrete mathematics analysis and abstract algebra. Written in a rigorous yet accessible style it continues to provide a robust bridge between high school and higher-level mathematics enabling students to study more advanced courses in abstract algebra and analysis.

Effects Conservation Tillage On Ground Water Quality Nitrates and Pesticides

Nowadays the environmental sustainability of the cropping systems is increasingly requested by the consumers. Conventional tillage practices totally turning over the soil between the vineyard rows may cause erosion due to rain as well as structure destruction of the soil in the long term. Conservation tillage is a soil management technique poorly widespread in Sardinia allowing cover cropping between vineyard rows. Furthermore this technique makes the canopy development control of herbage possible by cutting it up during specific phenological phases. Conservation tillage usually involves direct benefits to farmers such as increasing soil fertility as well as reductionof tillage costs soil erosion and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions in the atmosphere. This long term trial during at least five years aims to assess the conservation tillage impact on chemical-physical soil characteristics in comparison with traditional tillage by evaluating the change of organic matter C. E. C. and availability of major plant nutrients in the soil and to estimate their probable rise. The field plots are located in a 35% slope condition vineyard showing massive erosion problem and organic matter low content. A split/plot design with four replications was set up with the comparison between conservation and traditional tillage apart as main plots. Moreover the effects of two different irrigation levels were evaluated in the subplots of each main plot. At the beginning of the trial (2011) a pedological survey was made. Three soil profiles were described and sampled along the field slope and soil sampling in each plot were made both to characterize the soil and to find the zero point. The soil chemical and physical characteristics were monitored through a second soil sampling made at the end of 2013. Conservation tillage caused increasing organic matter content and C. E. C. values. As for major plant nutrients in soil results were more uncertain. Grapevine yield and quality parameters did not show any negative effect when passing from conventional to conservation tillage techniques. The trial provided a preliminary positive evaluation of conservation tillage. However more years are required to confirm this trend. | Effects Conservation Tillage On Ground Water Quality Nitrates and Pesticides

The Reflective Practitioner How Professionals Think in Action

A leading M. I. T. social scientist and consultant examines five professions - engineering architecture management psychotherapy and town planning - to show how professionals really go about solving problems. The best professionals Donald Schön maintains know more than they can put into words. To meet the challenges of their work they rely less on formulas learned in graduate school than on the kind of improvisation learned in practice. This unarticulated largely unexamined process is the subject of Schön's provocatively original book an effort to show precisely how 'reflection-in-action' works and how this vital creativity might be fostered in future professionals. | The Reflective Practitioner How Professionals Think in Action

Origami Polyhedra Design

This book unravels the mystery of Geometry in Origami with a unique approach: 64 Polyhedra designs each made from a single square sheet of paper no cuts no glue; each polyhedron the largest possible from the starting size of square and each having an ingenious locking mechanism to hold its shape. The author covers the five Platonic solids (cube tetrahedron octahedron icosahedron and dodecahedron). There are ample variations with different color patterns and sunken sides. Dipyramids and Dimpled Dipyramids unexplored before this in Origami are also covered. There are a total of 64 models in the book. All the designs have an interesting look and a pleasing folding sequence and are based on unique mathematical equations. | Origami Polyhedra Design

The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Psychology of Forgiveness

The Routledge Handbook of the Philosophy and Psychology of Forgiveness brings into conversation research from multiple disciplines offering readers a comprehensive guide to current forgiveness research. Its 42 chapters newly commissioned from an internationally acclaimed group of scholars are divided into five parts: Religious Traditions Historic Treatments The Nature of Forgiveness Normative Issues Empirical Findings While the principal aim of the handbook is to provide a guide to the philosophical literature on forgiveness that ideally will inform the psychological sciences in developing more philosophically accurate measures and psychological treatments of forgiveness the volume will be of interest to students and researchers with a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds including philosophy psychology theology religious studies classics history politics law and education.

The Routledge Companion to Gender Sexuality and Culture

The Routledge Companion to Gender Sexuality and Culture is an intersectional diverse and comprehensive collection essential for students and researchers examining the intersection of sexuality and culture. The book seeks to reflect established theories while anticipating future developments within gender sexuality and cultural studies. A range of international contributors including leaders in their field provide insights into dominant and marginalised subjects. Comprising over 30 chapters the volume is comprised into five thematic parts: Identifying Embodying Making Doing and Resisting. Topics explored include homonormativity poetry video games menstruation fatness disability sex toys sex work BDSM dating apps body modifications and politics and activism. This is an important and unique collection aimed at scholars researchers activists and practitioners across cultural studies gender studies and sociology.

Advanced Technologies for Meat Processing

As with the first edition the main goal of Advanced Technologies for Meat Processing is to provide the reader with recent developments in new advanced technologies for the full meat- processing chain. This book is written by distinguished international contributors with recognized expertise and excellent reputations and brings together all the advances in a wide and varied number of technologies that are applied in different stages of meat processing. This second edition contains 21 chapters combining updated and revised versions of several chapters with entirely new chapters that deal with new online monitoring techniques like hyperspectral imaging and Raman spectroscopy the use of nanotechnology for sensor devices or new packaging materials and the application of omics technologies like nutrigenomics and proteomics for meat quality and nutrition. The book starts with the control and traceability of genetically modified farm animals followed by four chapters reporting the use of online non-destructive monitoring techniques like hyperspectral imaging and Raman spectroscopy real-time PCR for pathogens detection and nanotechnology-based sensors. Then five chapters describe different advanced technologies for meat decontamination such as irradiation hydrostatic and hydrodynamic pressure processing other non-thermal technologies and the reduction in contaminants generation. Nutrigenomics in animal nutrition and production is the object of a chapter that is followed by five chapters dealing with nutritional-related issues like bioactive peptides functional meats fat and salt reduction processing of nitrite-free products and the use of proteomics for the improved processing of dry-cured meats. The last four chapters are reporting the latest developments in bacteriocins against meat-borne pathogens the functionality of bacterial starters modified atmosphere packaging and the use of new nanotechnology-based materials for intelligent and edible packaging.

Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi/450D

Focal Digital Camera Guides: Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi/450D Just bought a Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi/450D and looking to combine practical know-how with inspiration? This one-stop easy-to-read guide covers all the basic functions of the camera and everything beyond. For the basics turn to the quick start guide which will get you up and running in five minutes. For an understanding of your camera's many controls and features check out the section called The Camera. If all you need is a quick explanation you'll find it. If you're looking for the Whole Story you'll find that too. Settings that affect how your pictures look are accompanied by full-color examples that show you exactly what you can expect. This section also covers the camera's menus playback features memory and power sources. The section called Software shows you how to get the most out of your camera's software. It covers tethered shooting color management RAW conversion storing your images managing your library and backup strategies - to name just a few topics. Ultimately this book's greatest strength isn't its focus on the camera or the software; it's the detailed easy-to-follow instruction it offers on using your camera to take truly superior photographs. Sections devoted to lenses subject matter and light cover these variables in depth always presenting the most effective techniques in the context of the strengths and limitations of the Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi/450D. Written by a widely acclaimed photographer and photography teacher Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi/450D shows you how to get the shots you can see in your head but have never been able to capture with a camera. The quick start guide will have you taking great photos in five minutes. In-depth

Optimization for Energy Systems and Supply Chains Fundamentals and Applications

To curb the impacts of rising CO2 emissions the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report states that a net zero target needs to be achieved by the year 2055. Experts argue that this is a critical time to make important and accurate decisions. Thus it is essential to have the right tools to efficiently plan and deploy future energy systems and supply chains. Mathematical models can provide decision-makers with the tools required to make well-informed decisions relating to development of energy systems and supply chains. This book provides an understanding of the various available energy systems the basics behind mathematical models the steps required to develop mathematical models and examples/case studies where such models are applied. Divided into two parts one covering basics for beginners and the other featuring contributed chapters offering illustrative examples this book: Shows how mathematical models are applied to solve problems in energy systems and supply chains Provides fundamentals of the working principles of various energy systems and their technologies Offers basics of how to formulate and best practices for developing mathematical models topics not covered in other titles Features a wide range of case studies Teaches readers to develop their own mathematical models to make decisions on energy systems This book is aimed at chemical process mechanical and energy engineers. | Optimization for Energy Systems and Supply Chains Fundamentals and Applications

Routledge Handbook of Urban Public Space Use Design and Management

Is it truly the end of public space? This handbook presents evidence that the answer is no. In cities in different parts of the world people still use public space to pursue activities of their choice. The book is divided into seven sections. The first section presents three emerging types of public space. Each of the subsequent five sections focuses on a type of activity: recreation commerce protest living and celebration. These sections are international in scope presenting cases of activities in Brazil China Colombia DR Congo Egypt Finland Germany Libya Taiwan Turkey and the U. S. The closing section composed of three chapters presents research methods for studying public space. Graduate students faculty members and researchers in social science architecture landscape architecture geography and urban design will find the book useful for understanding studying and designing urban public space. | Routledge Handbook of Urban Public Space Use Design and Management

Routledge International Handbook of Therapeutic Stories and Storytelling

The Routledge International Handbook of Therapeutic Stories and Storytelling is a unique book that explores stories from an educational community social health therapeutic and therapy perspectives acknowledging a range of diverse social and cultural views in which stories are used and written by esteemed storytellers artists therapists and academics from around the globe. The book is divided into five main sections that examine different approaches and contexts for therapeutic stories and storytelling. The collected authors explore storytelling as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic in education social and community settings and in health and therapeutic contexts. The final section offers an International Story Anthology written by co-editor Sharon Jacksties and a final story by Katja Gorečan. This book is of enormous importance to psychotherapists and related mental health professionals as well as academics storytellers teachers people working in special educational needs and all those with an interest in storytelling and its applied value.

Routledge Handbook of Chinese Business and Management

This handbook representing the collaboration of 36 scholars provides a multi-faceted exploration of Chinese business and management. The volume represents an ‘inside-out’ perspective offering local knowledge and experience in conjunction with an ‘outside-in’ approach presenting measured and sensitive observations from an outsider’s perspective. The handbook’s approach is organised around five key themes: Cultural and institutional contexts for business in China Management including digital marketing and entrepreneurship Work and employment covering gender and trade unions in the workplace Human resource management and human resource development in Chinese businesses including multinational corporations in the UK Business and economic overviews revealing the impact of guanxi relations and networks on Chinese business and management Revealing major recent developments in Chinese business and management alongside an appreciation of the unique historical institutional and cultural context of Chinese business and management this book is a must-read for scholars students and educators of Chinese business and theory and business in Asia. | Routledge Handbook of Chinese Business and Management

The Routledge Handbook of Religious and Spiritual Tourism

The Routledge Handbook of Religious and Spiritual Tourism provides a robust and comprehensive state-of-the-art review of the literature in this growing sub-field of tourism. This handbook is split into five distinct sections. The first section covers past and present debates regarding definitions theories and concepts related to religious and spiritual tourism. Subsequent sections focus on the supply and demand aspects of religious and spiritual tourism markets and examine issues related to the management side of these markets around the world. Areas under examination include religious theme parks the UNESCO branding of religious heritage gender and performance popular culture pilgrimage environmental impacts and fear and terrorism among many others. The final section explores emerging and future directions in religious and spiritual tourism and proposes an agenda for further research. Interdisciplinary in coverage and international in scope through its authorship and content this will be essential reading for all students researchers and academics interested in Tourism Religion Cultural Studies and Heritage Studies.

The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Psycholinguistics

The Routledge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition and Psycholinguistics provides a comprehensive survey of the latest research at the intersection of linguistics cognitive psychology and applied linguistics for those seeking to understand the mental architecture and processes that shape the acquisition of additional languages. The handbook represents the full complexity of second language acquisition across the lifespan spanning childhood bilinguals and adult L2 learners and is inclusive of heritage languages early bilingualism and multilingualism and language attrition. An authoritative selection of diverse global leading psycholinguists synthesize the latest research to provide a thorough overview in a single volume and set the agenda for the future. The volume is organized into five key parts for ease of use: psycholinguistics across the lifespan; methods; theoretical perspectives; the psycholinguistics of learning; and transdisciplinary perspectives. This handbook will be an indispensable resource for scholars and students of psycholinguistics second language acquisition applied linguistics bilingualism cognitive science psychology and research methodology.

The Routledge Companion to Applied Musicology

The Routledge Companion to Applied Musicology brings together academics artist-researchers and practitioners to provide readers with an extensive and authoritative overview of applied musicology. Once a field that addressed music’s socio-political or performative contexts applied musicology today encompasses study and practice in areas as diverse as psychology ecomusicology organology forensic musicology music therapy health and well-being and other public-oriented musicologies. These rapid advances have created a fast-changing field whose scholarship and activities tend to take place in isolation from each other. This volume addresses that shortcoming bringing together a wide-ranging survey of current approaches. Featuring 39 authors The Routledge Companion to Applied Musicology falls into five parts—Defining and Theorising Applied Musicology; Public Engagement; New Approaches and Research Methods; Representation and Inclusion; and Musicology in/for Performance—that chronicle the subject’s rich history and consider the connections that will characterise its future. The book offers an essential resource for anyone exploring applied musicology.

Manufacturing Optimization through Intelligent Techniques (2006)

Effective utilization of equipment is critical to any manufacturing operation especially with today's sophisticated high-cost equipment and increased global competition. To meet these challenges in the manufacturing industry you must understand and implement the myriad conventional and intelligent techniques for different types of manufacturing problems. Manufacturing Optimization Through Intelligent Techniques covers design of machine elements integrated product development machining tolerance allocation selection of operating parameters for CNC machine tools scheduling part family formation selection of robot coordinates robot trajectory planning and both conventional and intelligent techniques providing the tools to design and implement a suitable optimization technique. The author explores how to model optimization problems select suitable techniques develop the optimization algorithm and software and implement the program. The book delineates five new techniques using examples taken from the literature for optimization problems in design tolerance allocation; selection of machining parameters integrated product development scheduling concurrent formation of machine groups and part families selection of robot co-ordinates robot trajectory planning and intelligent machining. All the manufacturing functions described have been successfully solved by Genetic Algorithm. Other intelligent techniques have been implemented only for solving certain types of problems: simulated annealing; design and scheduling particle swarm optimization and ant colony optimization; tolerance allocation and tabu search; as well as machining parameters optimization. After reading this book you will understand the different types of manufacturing optimization problems as well as the conventional and intelligent techniques suitable for solving them. You will also be able to develop and implement effective optimization procedures and algorithms for a wide variety of problems in design manufacturing. | Manufacturing Optimization through Intelligent Techniques (2006)