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Managing knock your socks off service by Bell, Chip R.

Table of Contents: “…Find and retain quality people -- Recruit creatively and hire carefully -- Paying attention to employee retention -- Keeping your best and brightest -- Know your customers intimately -- "Emotionalizing" the yardstick : why customer satisfaction isn't enough -- Listening is a contact sport -- A complaining customer is your best friend -- The binding power of customer trust -- Little things mean a lot -- Build a service vision -- The power of purpose -- Getting your vision down on paper -- A service vision statement sampler -- Standards and norms : delivering on the service promise -- Make your service delivery system ETDBW (easy to do business with) -- Bad systems undermine good people -- Fix the system, not the people -- Measure and manage from the customer's point of view -- Add magic : creating the unpredictable and unique -- Make recovery a point of pride ... and a focal part of your system -- Reinventing your service system -- Train and coach -- Start on day one (when their hearts and minds are malleable) -- Training creates competence, confidence, and commitment to customers -- Making training stick -- Thinking and acting like a coach -- Involve and empower -- Fostering "responsible freedom" on the front lines -- Removing the barriers to empowerment -- Recognize, reward, and celebrate -- Recognition and reward : fueling the fires of service success -- Feedback : breakfast, lunch, and dinner of champions -- The art of interpersonal feedback -- Celebrate success -- Your most important management mission : set the tone and lead the way -- Manager-employee trust : ground zero for service quality -- Observation is more powerful than conversation -- Great service leadership in action.…”
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Feed efficiency in the beef industry

Table of Contents: “…Issues - effects of corn for ethanol production Sustained increased fuel costs Drivers for increased focus on feed efficiency.Chapter 2 How we measure feed efficiency. …”
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Facilitating trade through competitive, low-carbon transport : the case for Vietnam's inland and coastal waterways / by Blancas, Luis C.

Table of Contents: “…Context -- Objectives of the report -- Scope and methodology -- Key data sources -- Structure of the report -- Demand for waterborne and multimodal transport -- Size and historical growth patterns of IWT and coastal shipping -- Growth projections for IWT and coastal shipping -- Commodity tonnage and tonnage distribution by mode -- Inland and coastal shipping lengths of haul -- Main freight flows -- Regional routes and modal competition -- Primary intra- and interregional corridors -- Red River delta region -- Mekong delta -- Coastal shipping -- Corridor 1: Hanoi, Haiphong, Quang Ninh -- Corridor 2: Quang Ninh, Ninh Binh -- Corridor 3: Hanoi, Ninh Binh -- Corridor 1: HCMC northwest -- Corridor 3: HCMC southwest --Container transport in the Mekong delta -- IWT market structure -- Shipping companies -- Coastal shipping -- Shipping volumes -- Container flows -- Containerized cargo (domestic cargo) -- Ccontainerized cargo (feeder cargo) -- Sea-river transport -- Market structure for coastal shipping -- Vinalines -- Competitive position of IWT and coastal shipping -- Competitive position of IWT -- Competitive position of coastal shipping -- Supply chains and logistics costs in Vietnam -- Conclusions on demand -- Supply-side considerations: waterways, ports, and fleet -- Institutional framework for the waterway and port sectors -- Waterway infrastructure -- Northern waterways -- Southern waterways -- Central region waterways -- Technical classification of the waterways -- Planned investments in waterways -- The IWT master plan for 2020 -- Major channel projects -- Ports -- River ports -- Planned investments in river ports -- Seaports -- Fleet -- Fleet of river-going vessels -- Fleet of sea-going vessels -- Fleet of sea-river vessels -- Modernization of IWT fleet -- Conclusions on waterways, ports, and fleet -- Modal differences in fuel efficiency and GHG emissions -- Relative carbon intensity among transport modes -- Main challenges and recommendations -- Planning -- Institutional/regulatory environment -- Phsical bottlenecks -- Lack of IWT hinders market development -- Financing -- Strategy and action plan -- Estimated impact of public sector interventions in IWT and coastal shipping -- Translating the IWT/coastal shipping strategy into tangible interventions -- Methodology: translating interventions into impacts -- Modal shift and emissions impact of the proposed interventions -- CBA results -- References -- Appendix A: list of stakeholders interviewed -- Appendix B: major waterway routes in the north and south -- Appendix C: general considerations on DWT capacity increases in the national IWT fleet -- Appendix D: cargo data and modal split model -- Cargo flows for northern provinces: road transport in tons per day -- Cargo flows for northern provinces: iwt in tons per day -- Cargo flows for southern provinces: road transport in tons per day -- Cargo flows for southern provinces: IWT in tons per day -- Appendix E: detailed description of proposed interventions -- Appendix F: detailed impacts of proposed interventions.…”
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Feed efficiency in the beef industry

Table of Contents: “…Issues - effects of corn for ethanol production Sustained increased fuel costs Drivers for increased focus on feed efficiency.Chapter 2 How we measure feed efficiency. …”
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Facilitating trade through competitive, low-carbon transport : the case for Vietnam's inland and coastal waterways / by Blancas, Luis C.

Table of Contents: “…Context -- Objectives of the report -- Scope and methodology -- Key data sources -- Structure of the report -- Demand for waterborne and multimodal transport -- Size and historical growth patterns of IWT and coastal shipping -- Growth projections for IWT and coastal shipping -- Commodity tonnage and tonnage distribution by mode -- Inland and coastal shipping lengths of haul -- Main freight flows -- Regional routes and modal competition -- Primary intra- and interregional corridors -- Red River delta region -- Mekong delta -- Coastal shipping -- Corridor 1: Hanoi, Haiphong, Quang Ninh -- Corridor 2: Quang Ninh, Ninh Binh -- Corridor 3: Hanoi, Ninh Binh -- Corridor 1: HCMC northwest -- Corridor 3: HCMC southwest --Container transport in the Mekong delta -- IWT market structure -- Shipping companies -- Coastal shipping -- Shipping volumes -- Container flows -- Containerized cargo (domestic cargo) -- Ccontainerized cargo (feeder cargo) -- Sea-river transport -- Market structure for coastal shipping -- Vinalines -- Competitive position of IWT and coastal shipping -- Competitive position of IWT -- Competitive position of coastal shipping -- Supply chains and logistics costs in Vietnam -- Conclusions on demand -- Supply-side considerations: waterways, ports, and fleet -- Institutional framework for the waterway and port sectors -- Waterway infrastructure -- Northern waterways -- Southern waterways -- Central region waterways -- Technical classification of the waterways -- Planned investments in waterways -- The IWT master plan for 2020 -- Major channel projects -- Ports -- River ports -- Planned investments in river ports -- Seaports -- Fleet -- Fleet of river-going vessels -- Fleet of sea-going vessels -- Fleet of sea-river vessels -- Modernization of IWT fleet -- Conclusions on waterways, ports, and fleet -- Modal differences in fuel efficiency and GHG emissions -- Relative carbon intensity among transport modes -- Main challenges and recommendations -- Planning -- Institutional/regulatory environment -- Phsical bottlenecks -- Lack of IWT hinders market development -- Financing -- Strategy and action plan -- Estimated impact of public sector interventions in IWT and coastal shipping -- Translating the IWT/coastal shipping strategy into tangible interventions -- Methodology: translating interventions into impacts -- Modal shift and emissions impact of the proposed interventions -- CBA results -- References -- Appendix A: list of stakeholders interviewed -- Appendix B: major waterway routes in the north and south -- Appendix C: general considerations on DWT capacity increases in the national IWT fleet -- Appendix D: cargo data and modal split model -- Cargo flows for northern provinces: road transport in tons per day -- Cargo flows for northern provinces: iwt in tons per day -- Cargo flows for southern provinces: road transport in tons per day -- Cargo flows for southern provinces: IWT in tons per day -- Appendix E: detailed description of proposed interventions -- Appendix F: detailed impacts of proposed interventions.…”
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Oil Fictions : World Literature and Our Contemporary Petrosphere /

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Big data : using smart big data, analytics and metrics to make better decisions and improve performance / by Marr, Bernard

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1 Walmart: How Big Data Is Used To Drive Supermarket Performance 2 CERN: Unravelling the Secrets of the Universe with Big Data 3 Netflix: How Netflix Used Big Data to Give Us the Programmes We Want 4 Rolls-Royce: How Big Data Is Used To Drive Success In Manufacturing 5 Shell: How Big Oil Uses Big Data 6 Apixio: How Big Data Is Transforming Healthcare 7 Lotus F1 Team: How Big Data Is Essential To The Success Of Motorsport Teams 8 Pendleton & Son Butchers: Big Data for Small Business 9 US Olympic Women's Cycling Team: How Big Data Analytics Is Used To Optimize Athletes' Performance 10 ZSL: Big Data In The Zoo And To Protect Animals 11 Facebook: How Facebook Use Big Data to Understand Customers 12 John Deere: How Big Data Can Be Applied On Farms 13 Royal Bank of Scotland: Using Big Data to Make Customer Service More Personal 14 LinkedIn: How Big Data Is Used To Fuel Social Media Success 15 Microsoft: Bringing Big Data To The Masses 16 Acxiom: Fuelling Marketing With Big Data 17 US Immigration and Customs: How Big Data Is Used To Keep Passengers Safe and Prevent Terrorism 18 Nest: Bringing the Internet of Things into The Home 19 GE: How Big Data Is Fuelling the Industrial Internet 20 Etsy: How Big Data Is Used In A Crafty Way 21 Narrative Science: How Big Data Is Used To Tell Stories 22 BBC: How Big Data Is Used In The Media 23 Milton Keynes: How Big Data Is Used To Create Smarter Cities 24 Palantir: How Big Data Is Used To Help The CIA And To Detect Bombs In Afghanistan 25 Airbnb: How Big Data Is Used To Disrupt the Hospitality Industry 26 Sprint: Profiling Audiences Using Mobile Network Data 27 Dickey's Barbecue Pit: How Big Data Is Used to Gain Performance Insights Into One Of America's Most Successful Restaurant Chains 28 Caesars: Big Data At The Casino 29 Fitbit: Big Data In The Personal Fitness Arena 30 Ralph Lauren: Big Data In The Fashion Industry 31 Zynga: Big Data In The Gaming Industry 32 Autodesk: How Big Data Is Transforming The Software Industry 33 Walt Disney Parks and Resorts: How Big Data Is Transforming Our Family Holidays 34 Experian: Using Big Data To Make Lending Decisions And To Crack Down On Identity Fraud 35 Transport for London: How Big Data Is Used To Improve And Manage Public Transport In London 36 The US Government: Using Big Data To Run A Country 37 IBM Watson: Teaching Computers To Understand And Learn 38 Google: How Big Data Is At The Heart Of Google's Business Model 39 Terra Seismic: Using Big Data To Predict Earthquakes 40 Apple: How Big Data Is At The Centre Of Their Business 41 Twitter: How Twitter And IBM Deliver Customer Insights From Big Data 42 Uber: How Big Data Is At The Centre Of Uber's Transportation Business 43 Electronic Arts: Big Data In Video Gaming 44 Kaggle: Crowdsourcing Your Data Scientist 45 Amazon: How Predictive Analytics Are Used To Get A 360-Degree View Of Consumers Final Thoughts About the Author Acknowledgements Index.…”
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Big data : using smart big data, analytics and metrics to make better decisions and improve performance / by Marr, Bernard

Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Introduction 1 Walmart: How Big Data Is Used To Drive Supermarket Performance 2 CERN: Unravelling the Secrets of the Universe with Big Data 3 Netflix: How Netflix Used Big Data to Give Us the Programmes We Want 4 Rolls-Royce: How Big Data Is Used To Drive Success In Manufacturing 5 Shell: How Big Oil Uses Big Data 6 Apixio: How Big Data Is Transforming Healthcare 7 Lotus F1 Team: How Big Data Is Essential To The Success Of Motorsport Teams 8 Pendleton & Son Butchers: Big Data for Small Business 9 US Olympic Women's Cycling Team: How Big Data Analytics Is Used To Optimize Athletes' Performance 10 ZSL: Big Data In The Zoo And To Protect Animals 11 Facebook: How Facebook Use Big Data to Understand Customers 12 John Deere: How Big Data Can Be Applied On Farms 13 Royal Bank of Scotland: Using Big Data to Make Customer Service More Personal 14 LinkedIn: How Big Data Is Used To Fuel Social Media Success 15 Microsoft: Bringing Big Data To The Masses 16 Acxiom: Fuelling Marketing With Big Data 17 US Immigration and Customs: How Big Data Is Used To Keep Passengers Safe and Prevent Terrorism 18 Nest: Bringing the Internet of Things into The Home 19 GE: How Big Data Is Fuelling the Industrial Internet 20 Etsy: How Big Data Is Used In A Crafty Way 21 Narrative Science: How Big Data Is Used To Tell Stories 22 BBC: How Big Data Is Used In The Media 23 Milton Keynes: How Big Data Is Used To Create Smarter Cities 24 Palantir: How Big Data Is Used To Help The CIA And To Detect Bombs In Afghanistan 25 Airbnb: How Big Data Is Used To Disrupt the Hospitality Industry 26 Sprint: Profiling Audiences Using Mobile Network Data 27 Dickey's Barbecue Pit: How Big Data Is Used to Gain Performance Insights Into One Of America's Most Successful Restaurant Chains 28 Caesars: Big Data At The Casino 29 Fitbit: Big Data In The Personal Fitness Arena 30 Ralph Lauren: Big Data In The Fashion Industry 31 Zynga: Big Data In The Gaming Industry 32 Autodesk: How Big Data Is Transforming The Software Industry 33 Walt Disney Parks and Resorts: How Big Data Is Transforming Our Family Holidays 34 Experian: Using Big Data To Make Lending Decisions And To Crack Down On Identity Fraud 35 Transport for London: How Big Data Is Used To Improve And Manage Public Transport In London 36 The US Government: Using Big Data To Run A Country 37 IBM Watson: Teaching Computers To Understand And Learn 38 Google: How Big Data Is At The Heart Of Google's Business Model 39 Terra Seismic: Using Big Data To Predict Earthquakes 40 Apple: How Big Data Is At The Centre Of Their Business 41 Twitter: How Twitter And IBM Deliver Customer Insights From Big Data 42 Uber: How Big Data Is At The Centre Of Uber's Transportation Business 43 Electronic Arts: Big Data In Video Gaming 44 Kaggle: Crowdsourcing Your Data Scientist 45 Amazon: How Predictive Analytics Are Used To Get A 360-Degree View Of Consumers Final Thoughts About the Author Acknowledgements Index.…”
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The Arab world unbound tapping into the power of 350 million consumers / by Mahajan, Vijay, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Capturing the region's yalla energy with a new Arab brand Sustaining the yalla energy of family businesses Harvesting the yalla energy of Arab youth Fueling the yalla energy of Arab entrepreneurs Enabling a new yalla energy among disadvantaged Arabs Letting the yalla energy flow A call to action The richness of the past and the promise of the future Acknowledgments The Authors Index.…”
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The Arab world unbound tapping into the power of 350 million consumers / by Mahajan, Vijay, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Capturing the region's yalla energy with a new Arab brand Sustaining the yalla energy of family businesses Harvesting the yalla energy of Arab youth Fueling the yalla energy of Arab entrepreneurs Enabling a new yalla energy among disadvantaged Arabs Letting the yalla energy flow A call to action The richness of the past and the promise of the future Acknowledgments The Authors Index.…”
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Aerospace sensors by Nebylov, A. V. (Aleksandr Vladimirovich)

Table of Contents: “…Propulsion sensors -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Fuel quantity sensors -- 8.2.1 Mechanical and electromechanical methods of level sensing -- 8.2.1.1 Buoyancy or float methods -- 8.2.1.2 Level sensing using pressure transducers -- 8.2.2 Electronic methods of level sensing -- 8.2.2.1 Conductivity level sensing -- 8.2.2.2 Capacitive level sensing -- 8.2.2.3 Heat-transfer level sensing -- 8.2.2.4 Ultrasonic methods -- 8.3 Fuel consumption sensors -- 8.3.1 Introduction -- 8.3.2 Flow-obstruction methods -- 8.3.2.1 Practical considerations for obstruction meters -- 8.3.3 The turbine flow meter -- 8.3.4 The vane-type flow meter -- 8.4 Pressure sensors -- 8.4.1 Basic concepts -- 8.4.2 Basic sensing methods -- 8.4.2.1 The diaphragm -- 8.4.2.2 Capsules -- 8.4.2.3 The bourdon tube -- 8.4.3 Signal acquisition -- 8.4.3.1 Capacitive deflection transducers -- 8.4.3.2 Inductive deflection transducers -- 8.4.3.3 Potentiometric deflection transducers -- 8.4.3.4 Null-balance servo pressure transducers -- 8.4.4 Operational requirements -- 8.5 Engine temperatures -- 8.5.1 Intermediate turbine temperature (ITT) -- 8.5.2 Oil temperature/fuel temperature -- 8.5.3 Fire sensors -- 8.5.4 Exhaust gas temperature (EGT) -- 8.5.5 Nacelle temperature -- 8.6 Tachometry -- 8.6.1 The eddy current tachometer -- 8.6.2 The AC generator tachometer -- 8.6.3 The variable reluctance tachometer -- 8.6.4 The Hall effect tachometer -- 8.7 Vibration sensors, engine and nacelle -- 8.8 Regulatory issues -- References -- Bibliography --…”
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Aerospace sensors by Nebylov, A. V. (Aleksandr Vladimirovich)

Table of Contents: “…Propulsion sensors -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 Fuel quantity sensors -- 8.2.1 Mechanical and electromechanical methods of level sensing -- 8.2.1.1 Buoyancy or float methods -- 8.2.1.2 Level sensing using pressure transducers -- 8.2.2 Electronic methods of level sensing -- 8.2.2.1 Conductivity level sensing -- 8.2.2.2 Capacitive level sensing -- 8.2.2.3 Heat-transfer level sensing -- 8.2.2.4 Ultrasonic methods -- 8.3 Fuel consumption sensors -- 8.3.1 Introduction -- 8.3.2 Flow-obstruction methods -- 8.3.2.1 Practical considerations for obstruction meters -- 8.3.3 The turbine flow meter -- 8.3.4 The vane-type flow meter -- 8.4 Pressure sensors -- 8.4.1 Basic concepts -- 8.4.2 Basic sensing methods -- 8.4.2.1 The diaphragm -- 8.4.2.2 Capsules -- 8.4.2.3 The bourdon tube -- 8.4.3 Signal acquisition -- 8.4.3.1 Capacitive deflection transducers -- 8.4.3.2 Inductive deflection transducers -- 8.4.3.3 Potentiometric deflection transducers -- 8.4.3.4 Null-balance servo pressure transducers -- 8.4.4 Operational requirements -- 8.5 Engine temperatures -- 8.5.1 Intermediate turbine temperature (ITT) -- 8.5.2 Oil temperature/fuel temperature -- 8.5.3 Fire sensors -- 8.5.4 Exhaust gas temperature (EGT) -- 8.5.5 Nacelle temperature -- 8.6 Tachometry -- 8.6.1 The eddy current tachometer -- 8.6.2 The AC generator tachometer -- 8.6.3 The variable reluctance tachometer -- 8.6.4 The Hall effect tachometer -- 8.7 Vibration sensors, engine and nacelle -- 8.8 Regulatory issues -- References -- Bibliography --…”
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Applied sedimentology by Selley, Richard C., 1939-

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Applied sedimentology by Selley, Richard C., 1939-

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Innovation for development and the role of government a perspective from the East Asia and Pacific region /

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Innovation for development and the role of government a perspective from the East Asia and Pacific region /

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Energy Transitions

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Energy Transitions

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International Journal of Mechanical and Materials Engineering

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