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This book explores Industry 5.0, a transformative phase where human-centered innovations and advanced technologies come together to create more inclusive and sustainable economic systems. It examines how this new industrial era focuses on enhancing human creativity, well-being, and teamwork within industrial processes. It investigates sustainable economic models that balance social responsibility, environmental stewardship, and profitability. It also explores how emerging technologies like robotics, IoT, and artificial intelligence can support these sustainable practices. Through real-world case studies and practical insights, it shows how these technologies can be integrated into industrial...
This book focuses on the impact of digitalization on supply chains and how it is affecting every aspect of people’s lives. It covers the operational changes that are happening in organizations due to the use of technologies such as IoT, cloud computing, smart sensors, electric vehicles, blockchain, AI, drones, smart factories, smart logistics, and smart warehouses. Additionally, it explores how digitalization is helping organizations achieve sustainability through methods like life cycle costing, carbon emission reduction, green supply chains, and recycling technologies. Sustainable Supply Chains and Digital Transformation includes case studies, and exploratory studies utilizing quantitati...
This book is a unique collection of thoughts by independent thinkers, researchers, and corporate practitioners that demonstrates the concept of constructive discontent, which can be defined as looking for the opportunity to deconstruct something in order to build something else or build something better. The book discusses the concept of constructive discontent and provides a slate of examples of its application in practice. Taking an interdisciplinary focus that highlights fostering an innovative and entrepreneurial culture that can lead to creative solutions, the chapters look at innovations in information technology, business, the automobile and transportation industry, medical devices, a...
This research book compiles concise reviews on business trends that drive innovation and competitive advantages. The book includes 15 referenced chapters covering topics in advertising, agriculture, digital marketing, human resource management, healthcare and sustainability. Chapters focus on the use of disruptive technologies such as virtual reality, artificial intelligence and Internet of Things that harness the power of big data and visualizations to provide a framework for insightful analytics. Readers will be able to understand the practical applications and implications of these technologies so that they can apply them to their businesses. Special topics of interest are highlighted, including industry 4.0, women empowerment for industry 5.0, sustainability models for achieving UN SDG 9, over the top media platforms, and more.
This reference discusses state-of-the-art methods for the management of children with conditions affecting the nervous system-providing over 80 chapters that outline direct, logical approaches to numerous pediatric neurologic disorders using clear tables, algorithms, and figures for quick reference to key material.
One of the most urgent development challenges facing many low and middle income countries is the need for adequate financing systems to pay for health care provision to the estimated 1.3 billion impoverished people living in rural areas or working in the informal sector in urban areas. This publication considers ways of improving the financing of health care at low income levels, as part of a global strategy for increased investment in health and poverty reduction. Topics discussed include: global and regional trends in healthcare financing; strengths and weaknesses of community-based health financing, and experiences in Asia and Africa; country case studies using household survey analysis from Senegal, Rwanda, India and Thailand; deficit financing; and the impact of risk sharing on achieving health system goals.
This book explores the much talked about but less understood issue of sustainability reporting, in a global context, linking it to the application of blockchain and other emerging technologies. It provides a transnational platform to examine the experiences of investors, researchers, academicians, and policymakers as they confront these concerns across a variety of industries and countries, thus offering best-practice guidance to assess the technological landscape and to model sustainable business initiatives. It offers relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings. Further, it argues that in order to reduce ‘carbon footprints’ globally, by reporting all thei...
This book presents peer-reviewed articles from the International Conference on Optics and Electro-optics, ICOL-2019, held at Dehradun in India. It brings together leading researchers and professionals in the field of optics/optical engineering/optical materials and provides a platform to present and establish collaborations in this important area, with the theme “Trends in Electro-optics Instrumentation for Strategic Applications”. Topics covered but not limited to are Optical Engineering, Optical Thin Films, Optical Materials, IR Sensors, Image Processing & Systems, Photonic Band Gap Materials, Adaptive Optics, Optical Image Processing & Holography, Lasers, Fiber Lasers & its Applications, Diffractive Optics, Innovative packaging of Optical Systems, Nanophotonics Devices and Applications, Optical Interferometry & Metrology, Terahertz, Millimeter Wave & Microwave Photonics, Fiber, Integrated & Nonlinear Optics and Optics and Electro-optics for Strategic Applications.
Kids and COVID provides an in-depth look at mistakes pandemic officials made that hurt children and adolescents around the world. In spring of 2020, it was understandable that those directing government policies made errors of judgment since data was just emerging. However, within the first year of the declared pandemic, physicians and scientists from around the globe published data and made reliable observations that should have prompted a change of course. Dr. Elizabeth Mumper documents early warnings from eminent clinicians that repurposed drugs could be used to treat patients early, rather than waiting until they had trouble breathing, as advised. Sound epidemiological evidence suggested...