Author: Arjan van Weele
Publisher: Cengage Learning Business Pre
Keywords: management, chain, supply, purchasing
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2004-11-18
List price: $55.99
ISBN-10: 1844800245
ISBN-13: 9781844800247

Purchasing and supply chain management provides a highly structured and comprehensive approach to the fundamental principles and practice of purchasing and supply chain management. It adopts a rigorous managerial perspective on the process of purchasing and analyses its role, position and importance within business processes. The book is logically structured into three distinct sections: analysis, strategy and planning, and practice. Learning objectives, varied and interesting case studies, thought provoking discussion questions, chapter summaries and the use of a highly accessible style and l

Author: Arjan van Weele
Publisher: Cengage Learning Business Press
Keywords: strategy, planning, practice, analysis, management, supply, chain, purchasing
Number of Pages: 418
Published: 2009-12-09
List price: $59.99
ISBN-10: 1408018969
ISBN-13: 9781408018965

In an era of unprecedented turbulence and change, Arjan J. van Weele’s market-leading textbook keeps you up-to-speed with the latest developments in purchasing and supply chain management theory and practice. Employing a flexible managerial perspective, Purchasing and Supply Chain Management, 5th Edition walks you through the core concepts, strategy, and implementation to provide the complete introduction for modern courses. Global examples from organizations including Volvo, Intel, Shell, Sony and Tesco reveal the practical challenges of today’s purchasing processes, while the

Author: Arjan van Rooij
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Keywords: dsm, transformations, itself, changed, company
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2008-02-15
List price: $39.50
ISBN-10: 9053569553
ISBN-13: 9789053569559

In-house industrial research has long been one of the most striking features of the innovative processes that govern twentieth-century business development. In-house industrial research and development has seen its share of both spectacular successes and dismal failures, provoking essential questions: What are the pragmatic results of industrial research? Are there ways to make this research a more effective tool? In response, The Company That Changed Itself offers a fascinating case study of the Dutch chemical company DSM. Over the course of the past one hundred years DSM has transformed its

Author: Arjan Egges
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: computer, notes, lecture, science, vision, graphics, recognition, pattern, papers, revised, international, first, games, workshop, mig, june, netherlands, utrecht, motion
Number of Pages: 257
Published: 2008-12-05
List price: $69.95
ISBN-10: 3540892192
ISBN-13: 9783540892199

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-workshop proceedings of the First International Workshop on Motion in Games, held in Utrecht, The Netherlands, during June 14-17, 2008, in collaboration with the NLGD Festival of Games. The 24 revised papers presented during the workshop cover topics on crowd simulation; virtual humans; motion synthesis; interfaces; navigation and steering; and facial and behavioral animation.

Author: Arjan van der Schaft
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: control, communications, engineering, nonlinear, passivity, techniques, gain
Number of Pages: 249
Published: 2000-01
List price: $209.00
ISBN-10: 1852330732
ISBN-13: 9781852330736

This book gives a unified treatment of classical input-output stability theory and recent developments in nonlinear robust and passivity-based control. The synthesis between these areas is provided by the theory of dissipative systems. Specifically, the small-gain and passivity theorems and their implications for nonlinear stability and stabilization are discussed from this vantage-ground. The connection between L2-gain and passivity via scattering is detailed. The passivity concepts are enriched by a generalised Hamiltonian formalism, emphasizing the close relations with modeling and control

Authors:Leo M. Sreebny, Arjan Vissink,
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Keywords: clinical, guide, symptom, malevolent, mouth, dry
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 2010-05-10
List price: $74.99
ISBN-10: 0813816238
ISBN-13: 9780813816234

Xerostomia, more commonly called dry mouth, affects an estimated 20% of adults worldwide and can severely diminish one’s quality of life. Dry Dry Mouth, the Malevolent Symptom: A Clinical Guide relies on evidence-based research to provide an introductory primer on oral dryness and the modalities available to treat it. The book describes the varied aetiology of the disease, but emphasizes clinical protocols and step-by-step procedures for diagnosis and treatment planning. Dry Mouth is a user-friendly manual guiding clinicians through identifying and managing this common condition.

Authors:Henk Nijmeijer, Arjan van der Schaft,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: systems, control, dynamical, nonlinear
Number of Pages: 492
Published: 1990-04-06
List price: $159.00
ISBN-10: 038797234X
ISBN-13: 9780387972343

This volume is intended for researchers in engineering and applied mathematics. It can also be used as a textbook for gradute students dealing with non-linear systems and control theory. After a self-contained treatment of the differential-geometric prerequisites, the book deals with controlability and observability properties of nonlinear systems, as well as various ways to obtain input-output representations. Problems of transforming nonlinear systems into simpler forms are discussed, including feedback linearization problem. The disturbance and input-output decoupling problems are treated i