Manufacturing industries Books
Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Report of the Expert Meeting on Ciguatera
Book SynopsisThis publication provides a risk assessment of known toxins leading to ciguatera poisoning as well as guidance on risk management options, including establishing and/or strengthening surveillance programmes and monitoring transmission through the food web. Ciguatera poisoning (CP) is one of the most common food-borne illnesses related to seafood consumption. While in some regions it has been known for centuries, its true incidence is not fully understood, with an estimated 10 000–50 000 people affected every year. CP is predicted to become more common due to climate change and the globalization of trade, which may contribute to its spread. CP is caused by the consumption of marine species that have become toxic from feeding on toxic benthic dinoflagellates (Gambierdicus toxicus) or from the consumption of carnivorous marine species that have consumed other toxic species that have fed on the dinoflagellate. Gambierdicus toxicus is found primarily in the tropics and more than 400 aquatic species are known to be vectors of ciguatera
£34.36
Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Régimes alimentaires sains et durables: Principes
Book SynopsisCes principes directeurs sont le résultat d'une consultation d'experts dirigée conjointement par la FAO et l'OMS en juillet 2019. Ils adoptent une approche holistique des régimes alimentaires et tiennent compte des recommandations nutritionnelles internationales, du coût environnemental de la production et de la consommation alimentaires ainsi que de la capacité d'adaptation aux contextes sociaux, culturels et économiques locaux. L'expression «alimentation saine et durable» a été convenue au cours de la consultation pour englober les deux dimensions de l'alimentation – durabilité et salubrité. Les régimes alimentaires sains et durables sont des modèles alimentaires qui promeuvent toutes les dimensions de la santé et du bien-être des individus, présentent un faible impact environnemental, sont accessibles, abordables et sont culturellement acceptables. Ils visent le bien-être des individus à toutes les étapes de la vie, pour les générations actuelles et futures. Ils contribuent à prévenir la malnutrition sous toutes ses formes et à réduire les risques de maladies non transmissibles liées à l'alimentation, tout en soutenant la préservation de la biodiversité. Ces principes directeurs soulignent le rôle de la consommation et des régimes alimentaires dans la contribution à la réalisation des objectifs de développement durable (ODD) au niveau des pays, en particulier les objectifs 1 (Pas de pauvreté), 2 (Faim zéro), 3 (Bonne santé et bien-être), 4 (Éducation de qualité), 5 (égalité entre les sexes), 12 (consommation et production responsables) et 13 (action pour le climat). Ils sont transcrits sous forme de messages clairs et non techniques à l'usage des gouvernements et d'autres acteurs impliqués dans la prise de décision politique et la communication.
£21.56
Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Joint FAO/WHO Expert Meeting on Tropane
Book SynopsisBetween March and April 2019, many cases of suspected food poisoning were reported by health care workers in the Karamoja region of the Republic of Uganda. Consumption of food products that had high levels of tropane alkaloids was identified as the cause. This group of compounds occur in several plant genera that belong to the Solanaceae family and can contaminate staples like cereals and grains. Given the absence of international guidance and regulations, a Joint FAO/WHOExpert Meeting on Tropane Alkaloids was convened remotely between 30 March – 3 April 2020. This publication captures the discussions of the expert meeting and provides risks assessments of tropane alkaloids (hyoscyamine and scopolamine) as well as recommendations outlining appropriate risk management options
£27.71
Food & Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) Microbial safety of lipid-based ready-to-use
Book SynopsisLipid-based ready-to-use foods (RUFs) for the nutritional management of moderate acute malnutrition (MAM) and severe acute malnutrition (SAM) are provided to children from 6 months to 59 months of age within the context of emergency feeding programmes supervised by governments. Based on the review, the expert committee considered that children with SAM have an increase in susceptibility to bacteraemia and sepsis that is probably between twofold and fivefold compared with children who are not malnourished and are of the same age and live in the same communities. On the basis of its common occurrence as a cause of infections and serious illnesses in children with SAM, and its documented ability to contaminate, survive in, and cause outbreaks of illness associated with low-moisture foods similar to RUFs, the expert committee concluded that Salmonella is the pathogen of most concern in lipid-based RUFs. Many outbreaks of foodborne salmonellosis have been determined to be associated with low-moisture foods that were contaminated at low levels. Therefore, the expert committee carefully considered the qualitative microbiological analyses of RUFs and the contamination levels that could be inferred, and entered into an extended deliberation of dose-response modelling to find a path toward a reasonable approximation of the likely morbidity and mortality in SAM children that could be anticipated from consumption of RUFs contaminated at the estimated levels and observed frequency. The expert committee described three approaches that purchasers of RUFs might use to establish microbiological criteria to assure the safety of RUFs and to communicate to manufacturers their safety expectations. These approaches are: (i) reference to existing standards established for similar low-moisture foods; (ii) determining an acceptable increase in risk over the pre-existing baseline of illness from other sources of exposure; and (iii) process verification sampling using the moving window technique. The microbiological criteria derived by each of these approaches accomplish different purposes, and which is most appropriate is determined by the conditions of manufacture and use
£33.71
European Commission Awareness Creation Activities in Electronic
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WHO Regional Office for Europe Food systems in correctional settings: a
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£21.96
WHO Regional Office for South East Asia Implications of the Agreement on South Asian Free
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£13.06
Speaking Tiger Publishing Private Limited Japanese Management, Indian Resistance: The
Book SynopsisThe sabotage of their efforts at effective unionizing, generally in collusion with the Haryana state government, had therefore come as no surprise to the workers.
£16.62
ANE Books Fundamentals of Food Production
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KW Publishers Pvt Ltd Prosperous Nation Building Through Shipbuilding
Book SynopsisThis book elucidates the potential of the shipbuilding industry for initiating economic development, which eventually leads to enhancing the prosperity of a nation. Productivity measurement in shipbuilding has been examined and the problems with the current system have been highlighted, along with solutions.
£26.24
Niyogi Books Traditional Indian Handcrafted Textile Vols I &
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£71.24
I K International Publishing House Pvt. Ltd Molecular Methods in Plant Biology: A
Book SynopsisThis book integrates the experimental procedures and theoretical principles for undergraduate, postgraduate, academicians and researchers in the area of agriculture and life sciences. The experiments have been updated and extended to reflect developments in the respective fields. In-text worked examples are again used to enhance student’s understanding of each topic. The book is designed to provide students with the experience of how scientists use their knowledge to understand real-world science related issues that confront them in their professional lives. Experimental procedures and troubleshooting of data are emphasised throughout the book. The book integrates theory and practices to ensure students understand why and how each technique is used.Table of Contents 1. Isolation of Plant Genomic DNA 2. Isolation of Plasmid DNA 3. Polyacrylamide Gel Electrophoresis 4. Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Amplification 5. RNA Isolation Using TRIzol Method 6. Expression Analysis Using Semi-Quantitative Real Time-PCR 7. Quantitative Expression Analysis by Real Time-PCR 8. Analysis of DNA Sequences by Southern Blotting and Hybridization 9. Analysis of DNA Sequences by Northern Blotting and Hybridization 10. Histochemical GUS Assay 11. Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) 12. DNA Gel Extraction Protocol 13. Competent Cell Preparation 14. Ligation, Transformation and Colony PCR 15. DNA Sequencing and Analysis Glossary Instruments Used in the Laboratory Appendix
£12.30
Lannoo Publishers The Future of Food: A New Recipe for the Food
Book SynopsisHow can we continue to feed a growing world population in a healthy and sustainable manner? Will we be able to make meals from a 3D printer? What will the role of supermarkets be in the years ahead? This timely book by two experienced retail professionals addresses the future of food, with an insightful overview of trends ranging from urban agriculture to sea farms, cultured meat to applied artificial intelligence, and hybrid supermarkets to new digital platform models.
£24.00
Amsterdam University Press Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Workers around the
Book SynopsisMaritime trade is the backbone of the world’s economy. Around ninety percent of all goods are transported by ship, and since World War II, shipbuilding has undergone major changes in response to new commercial pressures and opportunities. Early British dominance, for example, was later undermined in the 1950s by competition from the Japanese, who have since been overtaken by South Korea and, most recently, China. The case studies in this volume trace these and other important developments in the shipbuilding and ship repair industries, as well as workers’ responses to these historic transformations.Table of Contents1. Introduction Marcel van der Linden, Hugh Murphy, and Raquel Varela Acknowledgements NORTH-WESTERN EUROPE 2. Labour in the British shipbuilding and ship repairing industries in the twentieth century Hugh Murphy 3. Bremer Vulkan: A case study of the West German shipbuilding industry and its narratives in the second half of the twentieth century Johanna Wolf 4. From boom to bust: Kockums, Malmö (Sweden), 1950-1986 Tobias Karlsson 5. The Norwegian shipbuilding industry after 1945: Production systems, rationalization, and labour relations, with special reference to Bergens Mekaniske Verksteder and Aker Stord Hans-Jakob Ågotnes and Jan Heiret 6. From war reparations to luxury cruise liners: Production changes and labour relations at the Turku shipyard (Finland) between 1950 and 2010 Kari Teräs 7. The Dutch shipbuilding industry, 1950-2012 Sjaak van der Velden SOUTHERN AND EASTERN EUROPE 8. Always on the verge of sinking: Labour and production in the Sestri Ponente shipyard, Genoa (Italy), 1950-2014 Giulia Strippoli, Davide Tabor, and Luciano Villani 9. Work, workers, and labour conflicts in the shipyard Bazán/Navantia-Ferrol, Galicia (Spain), 1950-2014 José Gómez Alén 10. Against market rules: A Spanish shipyard nobody wanted (except workers) Rubén Vega García 11. Labour relations in a Portuguese shipyard: The case of Setenave Jorge Fontes 12. Work in the Portuguese shipyards of Lisnave: From the right to work to precariousness of employment Raquel Varela and Ana Rajado 13. The Gdansk Shipyard: Production regime and workers conflicts in the 1970s and 1980s in the People's Republic of Poland Sarah Graber Majchrzak 14. The shipbuilding industry in Galati (Romania) under Communism, 1948-1989 Constantin Ardeleanu THE AMERICAS AND AUSTRALIA 15. Charting a new course: US shipbuilding labour, 1950-2014 Robin Dearmon Muhammad 16. The Argentinean shipbuilding industry: Workers' struggles in a state shipyard Cintia Russo 17. Production and labour of a state-owned enterprise: A case study of an Argentinean shipyard, Astillero Río Santiago Juliana Frassa 18. Labour in the Brazilian shipbuilding industry: A contribution to an analysis of the recovery period Claudiana Guedes de Jesus 19. Brazilian shipbuilding and workers between tradition and innovation: Shipyards Caneco/Rio Nave and Mauá - Rio de Janeiro, 1950-2014 Elina G. da Fonte Pessanha and Luisa Barbosa Pereira 20. Cockatoo Island, Australia: Industry, labour, and protest culture Lisa Milner ASIA 21. Evolution and development of the shipbuilding industry in Bharati Shipyard Ltd, Maharashtra (India), from the 1970s to 2010: Employer, employee, and production perspectives S. M. Fahimuddin Pasha 22. Shipbuilding and shipbuilders in Thailand Nicola Mocci 23. The lower labour market and the development of the post-war Japanese shipbuilding industry Takeshi Haraguchi and Kazuya Sakurada 24. The evolution of labour relations in the South Korean shipbuilding industry: A case study of Hanjin Heavy Industries, 1950-2014 Wonchul Shin 25. China, Philippines, Singapore, Taiwan, and Vietnam Hugh Murphy 26. Some final observations Hugh Murphy and Marcel van der Linden Appendix 1: The effects of the oil price shocks on shipbuilding in the 1970s Hugh Murphy and Stig Tenold Appendix 2: Shipbuilding in 2013: An analysis of shipbuilding statistics Victoria Culkin Glossary of shipping and shipbuilding terms List of Tables, Graphs, and Figures Collective bibliography Notes on contributors Index
£188.10
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Tobacco And Cancer: The Science And The Story
Book SynopsisThis book tells the fascinating story of the relationship of tobacco products to cancer, from the first discoveries to the present day cancer pandemic and regulatory activities. Although there are already excellent books and monographs on this topic, both in the popular press and as government summaries, none relate the scientific story at the level of non-specialist graduate and medical students, researchers, or educated popular science readers. In this book, with a primary focus on the United States, the editors — Stephen S Hecht and Dorothy K Hatsukami — bring together 24 renowned experts on the subject of tobacco and cancer to summarize specific aspects of this critical topic in relatively non-technical terms while also incorporating some personal insights related to the story of the discovery process. This highly authoritative book is also expected to be an excellent teaching tool and basis for a course for graduate and medical students on this important topic.
£121.50
Springer Verlag, Singapore Excess Capacity and Difficulty of Exit: Evidence
Book SynopsisThis book provides cases and analyses of causes and consequences of difficulty in downsizing and exiting in the electronics industry during the “two lost decades” in Japan. Because of excess capacity in the industry, many electronics companies have been required for downsizing and exit since the 1990s. Exploiting corporate financial and segment datasets, it shows empirical evidence of misallocation of internal funds to “zombie” segments—intra-firm businesses suffering losses consecutively. The topics addressed in the book include the failure of Japanese corporate internal control systems, the lack of capital market pressure, employment protection, and misallocation of internal funds to businesses with few prospects. The last two decades indicate that the Japanese corporate governance systems have failed to resolve problems of excess capacity, as did US systems in the 1980s. Zombie lending is no more than one phase of the difficulty of downsizing and exit in response to excess capacity in the banking sector. Supported by both data analyses and rich anecdotal evidence, this book is highly recommended to readers who seek a convincing and comprehensive explanation of Japan's two lost decades from the points of view of difficulty in downsizing and exit. The authors’ analyses have implications not only for accelerating downsizing and exit in corporate Japan, but also for the world economy.Table of ContentsTitleAcknowledgmentsContents1 Introduction1.1 The Requirement for Downsizing and Exit since the 1980s1.2 Worldwide Difficulty of Downsizing and Exit1.3 Purpose and Outline of the BookReferences2 Zombie Businesses in Electrical Industry: Case Studies2.1 The case of NEC2.2 The case of SONY2.3 The case of Mitsubishi ElectricReferences3 Misallocation of Internal Fund to Loss Making Zombie Businesses in Electrical Industry3.1 Conceptual Framework3.1.1 Empire-Building Hypothesis3.1.2 Diversification Discount Hypothesis3.1.3 Employment Protection Hypothesis3.2 Empirical Design3.3 Descriptive Statistics3.4 Misallocation of Internal Fund to Loss Making Divisions3.4.1 The Failure of Internal Governance3.4.2 Waste of Internal Fund3.5 Concluding RemarksReferences4 Subsequent Downsizing after Mergers of Respective Loss Making Divisions among Concerned Companies4.1 The Case of Japan Display4.2 The Case of Elpida4.3 The Case of Renesas4.4 Concluding RemarksReferences5 Final Remarks5.1 New Findings of the Book: Delay of exit and the Lost Two Decades of Japan5.2 Implication for the WorldReferences
£49.49
Springer Verlag, Singapore Understanding China's Manufacturing Industry
Book SynopsisThis book gives an overall description of China's manufacturing industry in the process of China's industrialization and comprehensively analyzes the development status, level, stage, problems, tasks and future development prospects of China's manufacturing industry. Under the background of Sino-US trade dispute, understanding China’s manufacturing gives a rational analysis of the opportunities and challenges of China’s manufacturing, deeply discussing the specific tasks which China’s manufacturing is facing, such as the resolve of excess production capacity, technological innovation, intelligent manufacturing and green manufacturing, a service-oriented manufacturing and industrial base, and displaying the development prospect of China toward the high quality. Understanding China’s manufacturing has a strong reference significance for comprehensive and appropriate understanding of the development of China's manufacturing industry, as well as good policy reference significance for promoting the high-quality development of China's manufacturing industry.Table of ContentsRise of Manufacturing Nation.- Industrialization Process of 40 Years.- The development of China’s Manufacturing.- Opportunities and Challenges of China’s Manufacturing.- Resolving Overcapacity.- Technological Innovation in Manufacturing Industry.- Intelligent Manufacturing.- Green Manufacturing.- Service-oriented Manufacturing.- Industrial Foundation.- Strategy and Policy.- Moving towards High-quality Manufacturing.
£80.99
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Productivity In Singapore's Retail And Food
Book SynopsisThe Retail and Food Services sectors play an important role in Singapore. They add to the vibrancy of the economy and contribute to the social well-being of Singaporeans. At the same time, they are often highlighted and scrutinised for their low productivity performance and high reliance on manpower. There is to date a lack of local literature that addresses the issues faced by the two sectors at the enterprise and worker levels.This timely book includes major topics in services productivity in the Singapore context, with emphasis on Retail and Food Services. Topics covered include the key productivity levers of the services sectors: holistic productivity measurement framework, effective entrepreneurship, manpower management, promotion by social media, marketing, costing process and accounting sophistication. These areas are explored through literature reviews and in-depth interviews with companies and consumers. The chapters also include recommendations for policy makers and industry stakeholders. Written in a simple and accessible manner, this book will serve as an insightful guide to researchers, policy-makers, industry practitioners and enterprises and those who are keen to learn from the Singapore experience.
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd World Scientific Reference On Handbook Of The
Book SynopsisOver the last three decades, wine economics has emerged as a growing field within agricultural economics, but also in other fields such as finance, trade, growth, environmental economics and industrial organization. Wine has a few characteristics that differentiate it from other agricultural commodities, rendering it an interesting topic for economists in general. Fine wine can regularly fetch bottle prices that exceed several thousand dollars. It can be stored a long time and may increase in value with age. Fine wine quality and prices are extraordinarily sensitive to fluctuations in the weather of the year in which the grapes were grown. And wine is an experience good, i.e., its quality cannot be ascertained before consumption. As a result, consumers often rely on 'expert opinion' regarding quality and maturation prospects.This handbook takes a broad approach and familiarizes the reader with the main research strands in wine economics.After a general introduction to wine economics by Karl Storchmann, Volume 1 focuses on the core areas of wine economics. The first papers shed light on the relevance of the vineyard's natural environment for wine quality and prices. 'Predicting the Quality and Prices of Bordeaux Wine' by Orley Ashenfelter is a classic paper and may be the first wine economics publication ever. Ashenfelter shows how weather influences the quality and the price of Bordeaux Grands Crus wine. Since the weather condition of the year when the grapes were grown is known, an econometric analysis may be constructed. It turns out this model outperforms expert opinion, i.e., critical vintage scores. At best, expert opinion reflects public information. The subsequent papers, by Ashenfelter and Storchmann, Gergaud and Ginsburgh, and Cross, Plantinga and Stavins, tackle the terroir question. That is, they examine the relevance of a vineyard's physical characteristics for wine quality and prices, but from various dimensions and with different results. Next, Alston et al. analyze a question of great concern in the California wine industry: the causes and consequences of the rising alcohol content in California wine. Is climate change the culprit?The next chapter presents three papers that apply hedonic price analyses to fine wine. Combris, Lecocq and Visser show that Bordeaux wine market prices are essentially determined by the wines' objective characteristics. Costanigro, McCluskey and Mittelhammer differentiate their hedonic analysis for various market segments. Ali and Nauges incorporate reputational variables into their pricing model and distinguish between short- and long-run price effects.The next section of this volume deals with one of the unique characteristics of wine — its long storage life, which makes it potentially an investment asset. Studying wine's increasing role as an alternative asset class, Sanning et al., Burton and Jacobsen, Masset and Weisskopf, Masset and Henderson, and Fogarty all examine the rate of return to holding wine as well as the related risks. Since these papers analyze different wines and different time periods there is no 'one message.' However, all point out that, while wine may diversify an investor's portfolio, wine's returns do not beat common stock in the long run.The last two chapters examine the role of wine experts. First, Ashenfelter and Quandt revisit the 1976 'Judgment of Paris' and show that aggregating the assessments of several judges should go beyond 'adding points.' Depending on the method employed, the results may vary, and some measure of statistical precision is essential for interpreting the reliability of the results. In two different papers, Cicchetti and Quandt respond to the necessity to provide statistical tools for the assessment of wine tastings.In a seminal paper, Hodgson reports a remarkable field experiment in which similar wines were placed before judges at a major competition. The results have the shocking implication that how medals are awarded at a major California wine fair is not far from being random. Ashton analyzes the performance of professional wine judges and finds little support for the idea that experienced wine judges should be regarded as experts.Do experts scores influence the price of wine? The answer to this question is less obvious then commonly thought since expert opinion oftentimes only repeats public information such as wine quality that results from the weather that produced the wine grapes. Hadj Ali, Lecocq, and Visser as well as Dubois and Nauges find that high critical scores exert only small effects on wine prices. However, Roberts and Reagans show that a high critical exposure reduces the price-quality dispersion of wineries.Lecocq and Visser analyze wine prices and find that 'characteristics that are directly revealed to the consumer upon inspection of the bottle and its label explain the major part of price differences.' Expert opinion and sensory variables appear to play only a minor role. In an experimental setting using two Vickrey auctions, Combris, Lange and Issanchou confirm the leading role of public information, i.e., the label remains a key determinant for champagne prices. In a provocative and widely discussed study drawing on blind tasting results of some 5,000 wines, Goldstein and collaborators find that most consumers prefer less expensive over expensive wine.Finally, Weil examines the value of expert wine descriptions and lets several hundred subjects match the wines and their descriptors. His results suggest that the ability to assign a certain description to the matching wine is more or less random.Volume 2 covers the topics reputation, regulation, auctions, and market organizational. Landon and Smith, Anderson and Schamel, and Schamel analyze the impact of current quality and reputation (i.e., past quality) on wine prices from different regions. Their results suggest that prices are more influenced by reputation than by current quality. Costanigro, McCluskey and Goemans develop a nested framework for jointly examining the effects of product, firm and collective reputation on market prices.The following four papers deal with regulatory issues in the US as well as in Europe. While Riekoff and Sykuta shed light on the politics and economics of the three-tier system of alcohol distribution and the prohibition of direct wine shipments in the US, Deconinck and Swinnen analyze the European planting rights system. The political economy of European wine regulation is then covered by Melonie and Swinnen, before Anderson and Jensen shed light on Europe's complex system of wine industry subsidies.The next chapter is devoted to wine auctions. In three different papers, Fevrier, Roos and Visser, Ashenfelter, and Ginsburgh analyze the effects of specific auction designs on the resulting hammer prices. The papers focus on multi-unit ascending auctions, absentee bidders, and declining price anomalies.The last chapter, supply and organization, is devoted to a wide range of issues. First, Heien illuminates the price formation process in the California winegrape industry. Then, Frick analyzes if and how the separation of ownership and control affects the performance of German wineries.Vink, Kleynhans and Willem Hoffmann introduce us to various models of wine barrel financing, particularly to the Vincorp model employed in South Africa. Galbreath analyzes the role of women in the wine industry. He finds that (1) women are underrepresented and (2) that the presence of a female CEO increases the likelihood of women in winemaker, viticulturist, and marketing roles in that firm. Gokcekus, Hewstone, and Cakal draw on crowdsourced wine evaluations, i.e., Wine Tracker data, and show that private wine assessments are largely influenced by peer scores lending support to the assumption of the presence of a strong herding effect.Mahenc refers to the classic model of information asymmetries and develops a theoretical model highlighting the role of informed buyers in markets that are susceptible to the lemons problem. Lastly, in their paper 'Love or Money?' Scott, Morton and Podolny analyze how the presence of hobby winemakers may distort market outcomes. Hobby winemakers produce higher quality wines, charge higher prices, and enjoy lower financial returns than professional for-profit winemakers. As a result, profit-oriented winemakers are discouraged from locating at the high-quality end of the market.
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Handbook Of Manufacturing
Book SynopsisHandbook of Manufacturing provides a comprehensive overview of fundamental knowledge on manufacturing, covering various processes, manufacturing-related metrology and quality assessment and control, and manufacturing systems. Many modern processes such as additive manufacturing, micro- and nano-manufacturing, and biomedical manufacturing are also covered in this handbook. The handbook will help prepare readers for future exploration of manufacturing research as well as practical engineering applications.
£229.50
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Institutional Change And The Development Of
Book SynopsisThe book mainly uses the New Institutional Economics Approach (NIE) to examine the formation and development of industrial clusters in China through multiple case studies of textile and clothing clusters in the Zhejiang province. The micro case studies illustrate the interaction between institutional change and the industrial development of China in transition.It also attempts to fill the information gap through an analysis of the typical institutional factors leading to the development and upgrading of industrial clusters, and provides a better understanding of the changing nature of the public-private interface in the process of cluster development in China.Table of ContentsInstitutions, Industrial Clusters and Economic Development; The Development of Textile and Clothing Clusters in China; Social Network, Entrepreneurship and the Development of Industrial Clusters in Zhejiang Province; The Local Government and the Development of Industrial Clusters in Zhejiang Province; Ningbo Clothing Cluster; Shaoxing Synthetic Fibre Cluster; Yiwu Socks Cluster.
£76.95
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Future Of Food Business, The: The Facts, The
Book SynopsisThis unique book is a collection of articles published by the author in leading newspapers around the world. The papers focus on food chains and new concepts and ideas on how to increase competitiveness and value within the food and agricultural sectors. The book gives a comprehensive description of the food chain and suggests methods and tools that can be used by companies to re-structure their innovative market strategies. It discusses up-to-date trends, world food crises, integrated food chains and strategic planning for companies in the food sector. It also covers international investments and the role of governments in food chains. The book will motivate readers to rethink how business is conducted in the food chain and proposes new strategies for companies in the food sector. It is a must-read for entrepreneurs and researchers who are active in the food chain network.Table of ContentsThe Food Production Chains Environment; Food Crises; Strategic Planning for Food Companies; How to Capture Value and Innovate in Food Chains; International Investments in Food Chains; The Role of Governments in Food Chains.
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Pan Stanford Publishing Pte Ltd MEMS Cost Analysis: From Laboratory to Industry
Book SynopsisThis volume demonstrates show cost analysis can be adapted to MEMS, taking into account the wide range of processes and equipment, the major differences with the established semiconductor industry, and the presence of both large-scale, product-orientated manufacturers and small- and medium-scale foundries. The content examines the processes and equipment sufficiently for the reader to appreciate how costs arise. It examines representative costs are examined in sufficient detail and accuracy for specific equipment, processes, products, or foundries to show how financial models can be introduced to estimate the cost and price for a MEMS product.Table of ContentsThe World of MEMS; Chapter 2: Basic Fabrication Processes; Chapter 3: Surface Microengineering. High Aspect Ratio Microengineering; Chapter 5: MEMS Testing; Chapter 6: MEMS Packaging. Clean Rooms, Buildings and Plant; Chapter 8: The MEMSCOST Spreadsheet; Chapter 9: Product Costs – Accelerometers. Product Costs – Microphones. MEMS Foundries. Financial Reporting and Analysis. Conclusions.
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World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Future Of Food Business, The: The Facts, The
Book SynopsisThe Second Edition of The Future of Food Business: The Facts, The Impacts and The Acts is an updated collection of thoughtful articles previously published in leading newspapers around the world based on the author's practical life as international project leader, consultant, businessman, academic professor and world traveller.These articles focus on global food and agribusiness environment, food production trends, the structure of food chains as well as new concepts and ideas on how to increase competitiveness of food companies to create, capture and share value within the global food and agricultural sectors.This book also includes practical methods and smart tools that can be used by companies to facilitate their strategic planning and thinking processes, demand-driven orientation, supply chain organization, marketing channels re-structure and mostly, how to create, capture and share value in innovative market strategies.It is designed to be an easy-to-read business book with short chapters, discussion questions and group exercises. Receiving more than 20 positive endorsements from CEOs, the book is a must-read for entrepreneurs, researchers, executives and students who are active in the world's food business.Table of ContentsEnvironmental Changes Affecting Food and Agribusiness: What Are the Trends?; Let Us Ensure the Seven Billionth Inhabitant is Well Fed; Dry Spell Necessitates Plan for a Crisis; Effects of Exchange Rates in Food Trade; From Farms to - Everything; Navigating the Global Food System; The Roots of Food and Agribusiness Thinking; Understanding the Global Food Consumer; The World of Retaliers Brands; Retailers: The Giants of Chains; The Evolving Role of Trading Companies in Food Chains; The New World of Farmers; The World of "Seed, Weed and Bug" Companies within Food Chains; Global Risks, Financial Crisis, BRIC and Food Companies; The Food Crisis Will be Back; Strategies for Solving the Food Inflation Problem; Bridging the Food Dilemma: The Case of China and Brazil; Interesting Differences of Developed and Emerging Economies; How Can Chinese Companies Feed the World?; Structural Challenges in Chinese Food and Meat Chains; An Incredible Journey through India; What to Expect from Africa?; There Are Alternative Solutions for the Food Crisis; Food Chains and Networks Development: A 14-Point List; Scenario Planning for Food Chains; How to Build a Strategic plan for a Food Chain: The ChainPlan Method; The Four P's of Sustainability Planning; Producing More Food with Less Resources; Sustainable Supply Chain Initiatives; More about Sustainable Supply Chains; The Consumer's Kingdom; Developing Offers in Tune with Consumer Movements; Demand-Driven Organizations; Questions Toward a Demand-Driven Orientation; Strategic Planning Satellite; The Company is an Integrated Network in the New Era; Food Companies' Strategies in the Network Era; Planning Strategies for 2025; Questions to Think "Out of the Box"; Strategic Planning of Clusters; How to Organize the Supply Chain of a Company?; The Macro-Environment and Risk Analysis; Innovation in Integrated Food Chains; Innovation Agenda for Food Industry and Retailers; Marketing and Distribution Channels Analysis and Trends; Improving Food Marketing Channel's Performance; What Are Advantages and Risks of Building Joint Ventures in Food Business?; What Are Advantages and Disadvantages of Building Franchisees in Food Business?; Developing Own Stores: What are Advantages and Disadvantages?; Creating Differentiation and Positioning for Food Business; "Go to Market" Strategies in Emerging Countries; Creative Food Pricing Strategies; Value Creation, Capture and Sharing Trilogy: The Costs; Value Creation, Capture and Sharing Trilogy: Differentiation; Value Creation, Capture and Sharing Trilogy: Collective Actions; Creating a Winning Food Concept; The Consumer's Risk Analysis; Building Inter-Organizational Relationships and Contracts; The Connectivity Era: Receiving Information; Gap Analysis Tool (GAT) for Improving Performance; Building a Strategy for International Investments in Food and Agribusiness; How to Promote and Regulate International Investments in Food and Agribusiness?; How to Evaluate International Investments' Capacity to Promote Economic Development?; Land for Free - Is This Possible for Food Companies? The CODEVASF Case (Harvard Business School, 2010); The Benefits and Risks of Governments Supporting Local Companies to Internationalize; Colombia: An Example of the Role of Governments; Incorporating Small Holders into Modern Food Chains; Social Inclusion in Modern Food Chains.
£38.00
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd World Scientific Reference On Handbook Of The
Book SynopsisOver the last three decades, wine economics has emerged as a growing field within agricultural economics, but also in other fields such as finance, trade, growth, environmental economics and industrial organization. Wine has a few characteristics that differentiate it from other agricultural commodities, rendering it an interesting topic for economists in general. Fine wine can regularly fetch bottle prices that exceed several thousand dollars. It can be stored a long time and may increase in value with age. Fine wine quality and prices are extraordinarily sensitive to fluctuations in the weather of the year in which the grapes were grown. And wine is an experience good, i.e., its quality cannot be ascertained before consumption. As a result, consumers often rely on 'expert opinion' regarding quality and maturation prospects.This handbook takes a broad approach and familiarizes the reader with the main research strands in wine economics.After a general introduction to wine economics by Karl Storchmann, Volume 1 focuses on the core areas of wine economics. The first papers shed light on the relevance of the vineyard's natural environment for wine quality and prices. 'Predicting the Quality and Prices of Bordeaux Wine' by Orley Ashenfelter is a classic paper and may be the first wine economics publication ever. Ashenfelter shows how weather influences the quality and the price of Bordeaux Grands Crus wine. Since the weather condition of the year when the grapes were grown is known, an econometric analysis may be constructed. It turns out this model outperforms expert opinion, i.e., critical vintage scores. At best, expert opinion reflects public information. The subsequent papers, by Ashenfelter and Storchmann, Gergaud and Ginsburgh, and Cross, Plantinga and Stavins, tackle the terroir question. That is, they examine the relevance of a vineyard's physical characteristics for wine quality and prices, but from various dimensions and with different results. Next, Alston et al. analyze a question of great concern in the California wine industry: the causes and consequences of the rising alcohol content in California wine. Is climate change the culprit?The next chapter presents three papers that apply hedonic price analyses to fine wine. Combris, Lecocq and Visser show that Bordeaux wine market prices are essentially determined by the wines' objective characteristics. Costanigro, McCluskey and Mittelhammer differentiate their hedonic analysis for various market segments. Ali and Nauges incorporate reputational variables into their pricing model and distinguish between short- and long-run price effects.The next section of this volume deals with one of the unique characteristics of wine — its long storage life, which makes it potentially an investment asset. Studying wine's increasing role as an alternative asset class, Sanning et al., Burton and Jacobsen, Masset and Weisskopf, Masset and Henderson, and Fogarty all examine the rate of return to holding wine as well as the related risks. Since these papers analyze different wines and different time periods there is no 'one message.' However, all point out that, while wine may diversify an investor's portfolio, wine's returns do not beat common stock in the long run.The last two chapters examine the role of wine experts. First, Ashenfelter and Quandt revisit the 1976 'Judgment of Paris' and show that aggregating the assessments of several judges should go beyond 'adding points.' Depending on the method employed, the results may vary, and some measure of statistical precision is essential for interpreting the reliability of the results. In two different papers, Cicchetti and Quandt respond to the necessity to provide statistical tools for the assessment of wine tastings.In a seminal paper, Hodgson reports a remarkable field experiment in which similar wines were placed before judges at a major competition. The results have the shocking implication that how medals are awarded at a major California wine fair is not far from being random. Ashton analyzes the performance of professional wine judges and finds little support for the idea that experienced wine judges should be regarded as experts.Do experts scores influence the price of wine? The answer to this question is less obvious then commonly thought since expert opinion oftentimes only repeats public information such as wine quality that results from the weather that produced the wine grapes. Hadj Ali, Lecocq, and Visser as well as Dubois and Nauges find that high critical scores exert only small effects on wine prices. However, Roberts and Reagans show that a high critical exposure reduces the price-quality dispersion of wineries.Lecocq and Visser analyze wine prices and find that 'characteristics that are directly revealed to the consumer upon inspection of the bottle and its label explain the major part of price differences.' Expert opinion and sensory variables appear to play only a minor role. In an experimental setting using two Vickrey auctions, Combris, Lange and Issanchou confirm the leading role of public information, i.e., the label remains a key determinant for champagne prices. In a provocative and widely discussed study drawing on blind tasting results of some 5,000 wines, Goldstein and collaborators find that most consumers prefer less expensive over expensive wine.Finally, Weil examines the value of expert wine descriptions and lets several hundred subjects match the wines and their descriptors. His results suggest that the ability to assign a certain description to the matching wine is more or less random.Volume 2 covers the topics reputation, regulation, auctions, and market organizational. Landon and Smith, Anderson and Schamel, and Schamel analyze the impact of current quality and reputation (i.e., past quality) on wine prices from different regions. Their results suggest that prices are more influenced by reputation than by current quality. Costanigro, McCluskey and Goemans develop a nested framework for jointly examining the effects of product, firm and collective reputation on market prices.The following four papers deal with regulatory issues in the US as well as in Europe. While Riekoff and Sykuta shed light on the politics and economics of the three-tier system of alcohol distribution and the prohibition of direct wine shipments in the US, Deconinck and Swinnen analyze the European planting rights system. The political economy of European wine regulation is then covered by Melonie and Swinnen, before Anderson and Jensen shed light on Europe's complex system of wine industry subsidies.The next chapter is devoted to wine auctions. In three different papers, Fevrier, Roos and Visser, Ashenfelter, and Ginsburgh analyze the effects of specific auction designs on the resulting hammer prices. The papers focus on multi-unit ascending auctions, absentee bidders, and declining price anomalies.The last chapter, supply and organization, is devoted to a wide range of issues. First, Heien illuminates the price formation process in the California winegrape industry. Then, Frick analyzes if and how the separation of ownership and control affects the performance of German wineries.Vink, Kleynhans and Willem Hoffmann introduce us to various models of wine barrel financing, particularly to the Vincorp model employed in South Africa. Galbreath analyzes the role of women in the wine industry. He finds that (1) women are underrepresented and (2) that the presence of a female CEO increases the likelihood of women in winemaker, viticulturist, and marketing roles in that firm. Gokcekus, Hewstone, and Cakal draw on crowdsourced wine evaluations, i.e., Wine Tracker data, and show that private wine assessments are largely influenced by peer scores lending support to the assumption of the presence of a strong herding effect.Mahenc refers to the classic model of information asymmetries and develops a theoretical model highlighting the role of informed buyers in markets that are susceptible to the lemons problem. Lastly, in their paper 'Love or Money?' Scott, Morton and Podolny analyze how the presence of hobby winemakers may distort market outcomes. Hobby winemakers produce higher quality wines, charge higher prices, and enjoy lower financial returns than professional for-profit winemakers. As a result, profit-oriented winemakers are discouraged from locating at the high-quality end of the market.
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