Research Methods for Operations and Supply Chain Management, third edition, is a toolkit of research approaches primarily for advanced students and beginner researchers, but also a reference book for any researcher in operations and supply chain management (OSCM). Many students begin their careers in research limited by the one or few approaches taken by their department. The concise, accessible overviews found here equip them with an understanding of a variety of methods and how to use them,...

This book will introduce you to simple and practical techniques designed to remove a lot of the anxiety around learning.

Cybercrime and Society is a student focused and pedagogically developed introduction to the area of cybercrime, which over the past few decades has seen an explosion of growth due to new global forms of electronic communication. Â

Exploring the influence of early family relationships on a child's development, with essential insights for fostering holistic well-being in the early years.

This textbook is aimed at readers who have little or no knowledge of computer programming but want to learn to program in Python. It starts from the very basics including how to install your Python environment, how to write a very simple program and run it, what a variable is, what an if statement is, how iteration works using for and while loops as well as important key concepts such as functions, classes and modules. Each subject area is prefaced with an introductory chapter, before continu...

De in 2021 overleden Hans Beckman wordt als grondlegger van het Nederlandse jaarrekeningenrecht beschouwd. In deze bundel zijn al zijn relevante publicaties over kernonderwerpen van het Nederlandse jaarrekeningenrecht bijeengebracht. Ook publicaties die minder goed toegankelijk zijn, maar nog steeds relevantie hebben, zijn daardoor ontsloten en op één plaats bijeengebracht. De Beckmanbundel bevat een groot aantal publicaties van de in 2021 overleden prof. mr. dr. Hans Beckman op het terrein...

Investigators of freshwater ecosystems inevitably are faced with various microphytes. It is generally accepted that algal species (among which phytoplankters) are important indicators of water quality. In particular desmids (a group of green algae) are excellent indicators of environmental conditions such as pH, conductivity and trophic state of a water body. 

In addition to that, because of their preferential occurrence in vulnerable habitats, desmids lend themselves well to figuring i...

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With the rise of multi-core architecture, parallel programming is an increasingly important topic for software engineers and computer system designers. Principles of Parallel Programming, written by well-known researchers Calvin Lin and Lawrence Snyder, focuses on the underlying principles of parallel computation, explains the various phenomena, and clarifies why these phenomena represent opportunities or barriers to successful parallel programming. This book is ideal for an upper-level unde...