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Meester-verteller Ken Blanchard snijdt in dit verhaal een van de meest wezenlijke vragen op de werkvloer aan: Hoe komt het toch dat mensen vaak weten wat ze moeten doen, maar het uiteindelijk niet uitvoeren? Daarmee blokkeren ze alle verandering. Blanchard en zijn co-auteurs leggen uit hoe dat komt en geven vervolgens heldere principes waarmee je als manager medewerkers (en jezelf!) het gat tussen weten en doen kunt laten dichten.

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Marine renewable energy is a significant resource for generating electricity, and if some conversion technologies have already reached a certain level of maturity, others are emerging. The originality of this multidisciplinary book is to offer a broad spectrum of knowledge from academic and industry experts of various origins. It deals with general aspects such as the specificities and constraints of the marine environment, the concepts of hydrodynamics and ocean engineering, as well as the i...

The leading introduction to computer algorithms in use today, including fifty algorithms every programmer should know Princeton Computer Science professors, Robert Sedgewick and Kevin Wayne, survey the most important computer algorithms in use and of interest to anyone working in science, mathematics, and engineering, and those who use computation in the liberal arts. They provide a full treatment of data structures and algorithms for key areas that enable you to confidently implement, debug,...

It's a new era of business and consumerism-and you play a role in defining it Today's biggest trends-the mobile web, social media, real-time-have produced a new consumer landscape. The End of Business As Usual explores this complex information revolution, how it has changed the future of business, media, and culture, and what you can do about it. "To be successful in business, you need to see what others don't.

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Financial Risk Forecasting is a complete introduction to practical quantitative risk management, with a focus on market risk. Derived from the authors teaching notes and years spent training practitioners in risk management techniques, it brings together the three key disciplines of finance, statistics and modeling (programming), to provide a thorough grounding in risk management techniques. Written by renowned risk expert Jon Danielsson, the book begins with an introduction to financial mark...

Revised and updated, this second edition of Walter Gautschi's successful Numerical Analysis explores computational methods for problems arising in the areas of classical analysis, approximation theory, and ordinary differential equations, among others. Topics included in the book are presented with a view toward stressing basic principles and maintaining simplicity and teachability as far as possible, while subjects requiring a higher level of technicality are referenced in detailed bibliogra...

Dit boek verstrekt elementaire informatie die nodig is bij het theoretisch beschouwen van processen en onderdelen van processen ten behoeve van de procesindustrie. Daarnaast zijn ook gegevens uit de praktijk van alledag opgenomen. Onderwerpen die aan de orde komen zijn:

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"This book presents the essential math needed to describe, simulate, and render a 3D world. It provides an introduction to mathematics for game designers, including fundamentals of coordinate spaces, vectors, and matrices, orientation in three dimensions, introduction to calculus and dynamics, graphics, and parametric curves"--Provided by publisher.

This engaging book presents the essential mathematics needed to describe, simulate, and render a 3D world. Reflecting both academic and in-the-tr...

A general class of powerful and flexible modeling techniques, spline smoothing has attracted a great deal of research attention in recent years and has been widely used in many application areas, from medicine to economics. Smoothing Splines: Methods and Applications covers basic smoothing spline models, including polynomial, periodic, spherical, thin-plate, L-, and partial splines, as well as more advanced models, such as smoothing spline ANOVA, extended and generalized smoothing spline ANOV...