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Durable Use of Consumer Products: New Options for Business and Consumption (1998)
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Dynamic Control of Quality in Production-Inventory Systems: Coordination and Optimization (2002)
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Dynamic Models of the Firm: Determining Optimal Investment, Financing and Production Policies by Computer (Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 1996)
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Dynamic Theory of the Firm: Production, Finance and Investment (Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 1983)
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Dynamics of Planktonic Primary Productivity in the Indian Ocean (2023)
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Eco-Regional Approaches for Sustainable Land Use and Food Production: Proceedings of a Symposium on Eco-Regional Approaches in Agricultural Research,
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EcoDesign for Sustainable Products, Services and Social Systems I (2023)
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EcoDesign for Sustainable Products, Services and Social Systems II (2024)
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ECODESIGN Implementation: A Systematic Guidance on Integrating Environmental Considerations Into Product Development (2004)
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EcoDesign Pilot: Product Investigation, Learning and Optimization Tool for Sustainable Product Development with CD-ROM (2001)
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Econodynamics: The Theory of Social Production (2012)
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Economic Hierarchies, Organization and the Structure of Production (1992)
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Economic Models of Material-Product Chains for Environmental Policy Analysis
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Economic Models of Material-Product Chains for Environmental Policy Analysis (1999)
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Economic, Environmental, and Health Tradeoffs in Agriculture: Pesticides and the Sustainability of Andean Potato Production (1998)
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Economics of Made-To-Order Production: Theory with Applications Related to the Airframe Industry (Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 1986)
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Economics of the U.S. Commercial Airline Industry: Productivity, Technology and Deregulation (1999)
Economics of the U.S. Commercial Airline Industry: Productivity, Technology and Deregulation illustrates the impact of upstream technological change in capital goods (aircraft and aircraft engines) on demand, productivity, and cost reduction in the U.S. airline industry for the years 1970-1992. The aim is to...- $169.99
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Ecosystem Restoration Through Managing Socio-Ecological Production Landscapes and Seascapes (Sepls) (2023)
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Effective Resource Management in Manufacturing Systems: Optimization Algorithms for Production Planning
Manufacturing systems work with scarce resources in dynamic environments. Managers need to assign production facilities to parallel activities, respecting operational constraints and deadlines while keeping costs low. Old scheduling approaches are inadequate when a task both requires a set of different resources and a...- $169.99
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Effective Resource Management in Manufacturing Systems: Optimization Algorithms for Production Planning (2006)
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Effects of Climate Change and Variability on Agricultural Production Systems (2002)
Effects of Climate Change and Viarability on the Agricultural Production Systems provides an integrated assessment of global climate change's impact on agriculture at the farm level, in the context of farm level adaptation decisions. Ten agricultural areas in the Upper Midwest region - the...- $109.99
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Effects of Crop Rotation on Potato Production in the Temperate Zones: Proceedings of the International Conference on Effects of Crop Rotation on Potat
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Efficiency Analysis by Production Frontiers: The Nonparametric Approach (1989)
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Efficiency and Creativity of Product Development: Lessons from the Game Software Industry in Japan (2022)
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Electricity Production from Renewables (2022)
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Electrochemical Hydrogen Production from Water Splitting: Basic, Materials and Progress (2023)
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Electrochemical Production of Metal Powders (2012)
This new volume of Modern Aspects of Electrochemistry reviews different methods for the production of metal powders including mechanical, chemical and electrochemical powders. Electrochemically produced metal powders are of high purity and they are extremely active during sintering. These powders find a wide-range of...- $169.99
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Electrolytic Production of Al-Si Alloys: Theory and Technology (2023)
This monograph presents the theoretical background of the industrial process for the production of Al-Si alloys in standard aluminum electrolyzers. It reviews the physical chemistry and electrochemistry of cryolite melts containing silica and focuses on analyzing the exchange reactions in Na3AlF6-Al2O3-SiO2 melts. It presents...- $179.99
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Electronics Process Technology: Production Modelling, Simulation and Optimisation
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Electronics Process Technology: Production Modelling, Simulation and Optimisation ( and)
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Electrospun Nanofibrous Technology for Clean Water Production (2023)
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Emerging Challenges to Food Production and Security in Asia, Middle East, and Africa: Climate Risks and Resource Scarcity (2021)
This book, as a part of a series of CERES publications, provides a multi-regional and cross-sectoral analysis of food and water security, especially in the era of climate risks, biodiversity loss, pressure on scarce resources, especially land and water, increasing global population, and changing...- $139.99
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Emerging Sustainable Technologies for Biofuel Production (2024)
This book is presented on biofuel production which includes different technologies developed and adopted to synthesize green renewable fuel alternatives for sustainable development. It also reflects different sources of biofuel, application of microbial community and microbial engineering to design fuel production and the biosynthetic...- $199.99
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Emerging Trends and Techniques in Biofuel Production from Agricultural Waste (2024)
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Emotion-Driven Innovation: A Methodology to Envision Emotion-Focused New Product Ideas (2024)
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Encyclopedia of Fermented Fresh Milk Products: An International Inventory of Fermented Milk, Cream, Buttermilk, Whey, and Related Products (1992)
This wide-ranging encyclopedia presents an international survey of fermented fresh milk and related products. 400 entries cover traditional and non-traditional fermented fresh milk, cream, buttermilk, and whey products. Many new or little-known products and by-products are included, providing R&D personnel with a wealth of...- $219.00
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Energy Efficiency in Oil Production (2024)
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Energy from Biomass: Proceedings of the Workshop on Biomass Pilot Projects on Methanol Production and Algae, Held in Brussels, 22 October 1981 (1982)
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Energy from Biomass: Proceedings of the Workshop on Biomass Pilot Projects on Methanol Production and Algae, Held in Brussels, 22 October 1981 (Softco
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Energy Production in the Mississippi River Delta: Impacts on Coastal Ecosystems and Pathways to Restoration (2022)
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Energy Productivity and Economic Growth: Experiences of the Japanese Industries, 1955-2019 (2022)
Energy costs in the economy amount to only a few percent of gross domestic product, but their importance to economic growth is much greater than their apparent number. Energy is used in almost all production and consumption activities, and energy price changes induce significant...- $139.99
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Energy Resources: Occurrence, Production, Conversion, Use (2000)
This book is directed primarily toward two types of readers. First, it is intended for use as a textbook for students in a liberal education course in science for non-science and non-engineering majors in college or univer- sity. The technical level of presentation assumes...- $54.99
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Energy-Related Material Flow Simulation in Production and Logistics (2024)
This book provides for the first time an overview on the current approaches and applications of energy aspects in production and logistics by the use of simulation techniques. During the last decade, the importance of energy in the material flow processes has become more...- $159.99
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Engineering Principles for Food Process and Product Realization (2022)
As an introductory text book on food engineering principles, this text gives students a firm, quantitative foundation in all aspects of food process and product formulation, packaging, manufacturing processes; engineering aspects of the fate of food in the GI tract; engineering principles of the...- $54.99
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Engineering Production Control Strategies: A Guide to Tailor Strategies That Unite the Merits of Push and Pull (2012)
This book helps companies with complex and discrete production systems to tailor a production control strategy to their needs, showing them how to create hyrid strategies. A real-life case study demonstrates the applicability of the presented framework.- $54.99
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Entrepreneurship, Technological Change and Circular Economy for a Green Transition: Research Contributions for a More Productive Environment (2024)
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Environment and Climate-Smart Food Production (2022)
Agriculture and food systems, forestry, the marine and the bio-based sectors are at the very heart of the climate change crisis. Evidence on climate change reveals that it will affect farming first, through changes to rainfall regimes, rising temperatures, the variability and seasonality of...- $279.99
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Environmental Assessment of Products: Volume 1 Methodology, Tools and Case Studies in Product Development (1997)
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Environmental Assessment of Products: Volume 1 Methodology, Tools and Case Studies in Product Development (Softcover Reprint of the Original 1st 1997)
The aim of this book is to support industry in their effort to design environ- mentally friendly products. The book comprises a method and a manual for life cycle assessment of products and it includes examples of how industrial companies have used the method...- $299.99
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