With over 70 per cent of bearing failures attributed to ineffective lubrication practices, no one involved in asset management can afford to pass up this new edition! As a clear, concise, practical introduction to the world of industrial lubrication, the second edition dispels the myths surrounding lubrication and helps users develop a keen sense and understanding of how lubrication directly and indirectly impacts machine reliability, availability, and ultimately, the bottom line. What's more...

50 Steps to Improving Your Academic Writing 50 Steps to Improving Your Academic Writing addresses the challenges facing every student beginning a program of academic study. This comprehensive guide gives you everything you need to write well-constructed academic essays. It is packed full of information that is critical to attaining better marks, including: * how to apply critical thinking skills * how to strengthen your arguments * how to include paper referencing * how to avoid plagiarism 50...

English for Mechanical Engineering in Higher Education Studies The Garnet Education English for Specific Academic Purposes series won the Duke of Edinburgh English Speaking Union English Language Book Award in 2009. English for Mechanical Engineering is a skills-based course designed specifically for students of mechanical engineering who are about to enter English-medium tertiary level studies. It provides carefully graded practice and progressions in the key academic skills that all student...

This book presents a comprehensive and up-to-date account of the theory (physical principles), design, and practical implementations of various sensors for scientific, industrial, and consumer applications. This latest edition focuses on the sensing technologies driven by the expanding use of sensors in mobile devices. These new miniature sensors will be described, with an emphasis on smart sensors which have embedded processing systems.

The chapter on chemical sensors has also been expanded ...

This book explores fundamental principles for securing IT systems and illustrates them with hands-on experiments that may be carried out by the reader using accompanying software. The experiments highlight key information security problems that arise in modern operating systems, networks, and web applications. The authors explain how to identify and exploit such problems and they show different countermeasures and their implementation.

The reader thus gains a detailed understanding of how vul...

In dit boek leer je hoe je in vier stappen zelf aan de slag kunt met de 16 meest effectieve gedragstechnieken.

Gedragsveranderaars Joyce Croonen en Liza Luesink delen de geheimen van het vak aan de hand van echte praktijkvoorbeelden. De bewezen methodes zijn succesvol toegepast bij meer dan honderd kleine en grote organisaties, van Hema tot de Belastingdienst en van de Zuidas tot Zutphen.

Dit boek pak je er regelmatig weer even bij en iedereen kan er inspiratie uithalen, zowel voor werk als p...

Voor ieder in het onderwijs die echt wil weten welke didactische aanpak de resultaten van de leerlingen aantoonbaar verbetert, biedt dit boek zicht op research uitkomsten, overzichten en beschrijvingen van wat werkt. De auteurs zetten tientallen jaren wetenschappelijke informatie om in heldere actieplannen voor de praktijk. Er blijken 9 soorten didactische aanpak te zijn die het leren van de leerling op hoger niveau brengen. Van elk van deze negen didactische strategieën wordt uitgelegd:

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Steeds meer organisaties proberen de slag te maken van het werken vanuit het systeem naar het werken vanuit de bedoeling. Maar dat is in de praktijk nog niet zo gemakkelijk.

Na zijn bestseller 'Verdraaide organisaties' zet Wouter Hart in 'Anders Vasthouden' de volgende stap. Hij beschrijft met talloze voorbeelden en metaforen negen sleutels die de lezer handvatten bieden bij:

* het leren sturen vanuit de bedoeling;

* het vergroten van eigenaarschap;

* het vormgeven van ondersteunende systemen.

Wel...

Encyclopedia of Cardiovascular Research and Medicine, Four Volume Set offers researchers over 200 articles covering every aspect of cardiovascular research and medicine, including fully annotated figures, abundant color illustrations and links to supplementary datasets and references. With contributions from top experts in the field, this book is the most reputable and easily searchable resource of cardiovascular-focused basic and translational content for students, researchers, clinicians an...

An accessible introduction to ecological science, with nearly one-hundred events and developments explained. Features quotes from leading ecologists, scientists, philosophers and politicians, including Charles Darwin and Eugene Odum.