Archive for August, 2008
Saturday, August 30th, 2008
Quality Art
Is there a good program quality art, you can download for free?
The time to make art on my computer and download, but I'm not sure where to find these free programs. Can anyone help?
GIMP is a freeware graphics. It contains basically all the things that programs are more expensive.
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Quality Is Free - The Art of Making Quality Certain
$1.09
Do things right in the first place and you won't have to pay to fix them or do them over. Whether you manage a large plant or run your own small business applying this simple principle of quality control will boost your profits and your career. "Quality Is Free" sets forth easy-to-implement programs using actual case histories to demonstrate just how well quality control works and providing important tools for success. Stated First Mentor Printing January . Paperback 270 pages includes index.Condition: Good - structurally intact and tight light yellowing to pages minimal soil and/or wear shows some light edge and corner wear on cover.
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Quality of Life
$30.9
The way we think about health and health care is changing. Two factors driving this change are that we recognise the importance of the social consequences of disease and secondly, we acknowledge that health care aims to increase both the quantity and quality of survival. For these reasons, health care focusses more and more on 'quality of life'.<br><br>Measuring quality of life brings many challenges. What do we mean by 'quality of life'? Who should measure it? How can we measure it? What can we use the information for?<br><br>This book provides an accessible but up to date and authoritative overview of the measurement of quality of life in health care. It brings together the work of authors from Medicine, Palliative Care, Nursing, Ethics, Dentistry, Assistive Technology, Sociology, Epidemiology and Statistics.Current state of the art in quality of life measurement.<p>Is quality of life determined by expectations or experience?.<p>Are quality of life measures patient centred?.<p>Quality of life in caregivers.<p>Assessing quality of life in children.<p>Who should measure quality of life?.<p>The clinical utility of quality of life measures.<p>Measuring the impact of assistive technologies on quality of life:can rehab profs rise to challenge?.<p>How to choose a quality of life measure.<p>Longitudinal analysis of quality of life data.<p>Is there such a thing as a life not worth living?.<p>Glossary.<p>IndexMeasurement of quality of life is increasingly important in both research and patient management. How is this possible when one person&#8217;s valuation may not be anything like another&#8217;s?<br><p>The problems thrown up by this conundrum are addressed in this book. Leading researchers examine the ways that meaningful measurement may be achieved. The topics they cover include:<br><ul><br><li>Current state of the art in quality o@æffffgÿ¾Úx
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Quality Is Free The Art of Making Quality Certain
$10
. Later printing. Paperback. Near Fine. No crease to spine. Book is unread. Light shelf wear to cover and edges. No markings or stamps. Clean copy. Light crease to front cover at fold. 25% of our book sales go to Sick Children's Hospital located in Toronto. There is a 8% sales tax on all Ontario orders.
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Managing Quality
$8.95
Fast track route to mastering quality management<p>Covers the key areas of quality management, from understanding the vital connections between customers and ISO 9000-2000 to the key steps to develop a practical, performance enhancing quality management process<p>Examples and lessons from some of the world's most successful businesses, including Toyota, Solectron Technology, Sun Microsystems, Sundaram-Clayton, and Prudential Assurance Company, and ideas from the smartest thinkers, including W. Edwards Deming, Philip Crosby, Genichi Taguchi, Shigeo Shingo, and Dr. A.V. Feigenbaum<p>Includes a glossary of key concepts and a comprehensive resources guideIntroduction to Express Exec<br><br>Quality Matters<br><br>What is Quality and Quality Management<br><br>Have People Always Been Interested in Quality and in Measuring it?<br><br>Quality Management and the E-Dimension: What's the Connection?<br><br>What are the Implications of Globalization on Quality?<br><br>The State of the Art of Quality<br><br>Quality In Practice: Case Studies<br><br>Key Concepts and Thinkers of Quality and Quality Management<br><br>Quality and Quality Management Resources<br><br>Ten Steps to Making it Work<br><br>Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)<br><br>IndexAMY ZUCKERMAN has written for a variety of publications, including the New York Times, Fortune special sections, Business 2.0, Continental, Industry Week and many others. Her latest book is Tech Trending: The Technology Survival Guide for Visionary Managers. NED HAMSON has also written for a number of publications, including Forbes magazine. He was lead-author of After Atlantis: Working, Managing and Leading in Turbulent Times and editor of Journal for Quality and ParticipationFast track route to mastering quality management <P> Covers the key areas of quality management, from un@!æffffgÿ¾Úx
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Software Quality: State of the Art in Management,
$79.95
This book compiles current trends in software quality management and testing. Selected practitioners, experts and researchers contribute articles that provide both overviews over important topics as well as practical experience and insights from software development projects in industry. The topics include knowledge management QA and testing in the areas of web]based applications and railway/safety critical systems, cost effectiveness of quality management systems, test process improvement, testing of non-functional requirements and test tool trends.
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Quality Control
$5.48
Practical and state-of-the-art in approach, this book provides fundamental—yet comprehensive-coverage of quality control concepts. Sufficient theory is presented to ensure that learners gain a sound understanding of the basic principles of quality control. KEY TOPICS Specific chapter topics covers principles and practices, tools and techniques, fundamentals of statistics, control charts for variables, additional SPC techniques for variables, fundamentals of probability, control charts for attributes, lot-by-lot acceptance sampling by attributes, acceptance sampling systems, reliability, and management and planning. The substantial use of probability and statistical techniques is reduced to simple mathematics or is developed in the form of tables and charts. For quality control engineers.
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Data Quality
$61.98
Poor data quality can seriously hinder or damage the efficiency and effectiveness of organizations and businesses. The growing awareness of such repercussions has led to major public initiatives like the "Data Quality Act" in the USA and the "European 2003/98" directive of the European Parliament. Batini and Scannapieco present a comprehensive and systematic introduction to the wide set of issues related to data quality. They start with a detailed description of different data quality dimensions, like accuracy, completeness, and consistency, and their importance in different types of data, like federated data, web data, or time-dependent data, and in different data categories classified according to frequency of change, like stable, long-term, and frequently changing data. The book's extensive description of techniques and methodologies from core data quality research as well as from related fields like data mining, probability theory, statistical data analysis, and machine learning gives an excellent overview of the current state of the art. The presentation is completed by a short description and critical comparison of tools and practical methodologies, which will help readers to resolve their own quality problems. This book is an ideal combination of the soundness of theoretical foundations and the applicability of practical approaches. It is ideally suited for everyone – researchers, students, or professionals – interested in a comprehensive overview of data quality issues. In addition, it will serve as the basis for an introductory course or for self-study on this topic.
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Data Quality
$74.95
Poor data quality can seriously hinder or damage the efficiency and effectiveness of organizations and businesses. The growing awareness of such repercussions has led to major public initiatives like the Data Quality Act in the USA and the European 2003/98 directive of the European Parliament. Batini and Scannapieco present a comprehensive and systematic introduction to the wide set of issues related to data quality. They start with a detailed description of different data quality dimensions, like accuracy, completeness, and consistency, and their importance in different types of data, like federated data, web data, or time-dependent data, and in different data categories classified according to frequency of change, like stable, long-term, and frequently changing data. The book's extensive description of techniques and methodologies from core data quality research as well as from related fields like data mining, probability theory, statistical data analysis, and machine learning gives an excellent overview of the current state of the art. The presentation is completed by a short description and critical comparison of tools and practical methodologies, which will help readers to resolve their own quality problems. This book is an ideal combination of the soundness of theoretical foundations and the applicability of practical approaches. It is ideally suited for everyone researchers, students, or professionals interested in a comprehensive overview of data quality issues. In addition, it will serve as the basis for an introductory course or for self-study on this topic.
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Quality Control
$37.52
Practical and state-of-the-art in approach, this book provides fundamental--yet comprehensive-coverage of quality control concepts. Sufficient theory is presented to ensure that learners gain a sound understanding of the basic principles of quality control. KEY TOPICS Specific chapter topics covers principles and practices, tools and techniques, fundamentals of statistics, control charts for variables, additional SPC techniques for variables, fundamentals of probability, control charts for attributes, lot-by-lot acceptance sampling by attributes, acceptance sampling systems, reliability, and management and planning. The substantial use of probability and statistical techniques is reduced to simple mathematics or is developed in the form of tables and charts. For quality control engineers.pProviding a fundamental, yet comprehensive, coverage of quality control concepts, Quality Control, Seventh Edition, takes a practical approach throughout. Readers are presented with a sufficient amount of theory to ensure a sound understanding of the basic principles of quality control. The use of probability and statistical techniques is presented through the use of simple mathematics, as well as tables and charts. Featuring:ulliA CD-ROM of Excel spreadsheet files for use in solving many chapter problems/liliNumerous figures and tables help clarify and reinforce concepts presented/liliAn emphasis on Total Quality Management/li/ul
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Quality Customer Service Rekindling the Art of Service to Customers
$18.06
Quality Customer Service Rekindling the Art of Service provides reflective and easy to read narratives about customer service, via the lens of seven characters that individually represent different business types. The characters, Dollar, Stu, Meaty, Shopper, Peachie, Medic, and BATS, depict quality customer service for personal usage, businesses, educational institutions, and organizations offering enhancement skills. Whether working for a business, planning to operate a business, or know someone in business, this innovative work will greatly assist professional efforts. The book offers skill sets to bridge customer service gap between generations (Matures, Baby Boomers, Generation X, and Generation Y. It provides a well illustrated range of customer service scenarios, a better understanding of internal and external customer service, diversity in customer service, and an enhanced awareness of communication methods. The reader gains increased knowledge of how people, businesses, and leaders affect quality.
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Fine Art Printing for Photographers: Exhibition Quality Prints with In
$28.94
This book provides the necessary foundation for fine art printing: the understanding of color management, profiling, paper, and inks. It demonstrates how to set up the printing workflow as it guides the reader step-by-step through this process from an image file to an outstanding fine art print.pToday's digital cameras provide image data files allowing large-format output at high resolution. At the same time, printing technology has moved forward at an equally fast pace bringing us new inkjet systems capable of printing in high precision at a very fine resolution, providing an amazing tonality range and longtime stability of inks.pMoreover, these systems are now affordable to the serious photographer. In the hands of knowledgeable and experienced photographers, these new inkjet printers can help create prints comparable to the highest quality darkroom prints on photographic paper.pThis book provides the necessary foundation for fine art printing: The understanding of color management, profiling, paper and inks. It demonstrates how to set up the printing workflow as it guides the reader step-by-step through this process from an image file to an outstanding fine art print.
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Quality Without Tears: The Art of Hassle-Free Management
$7.79
Now available in trade paperback, this mega-seller brings the timeless message of the leading evangelist of quality (as Time called Philip Crosby) to an ever-widening audience. Drawing on quality lessons learned from hundreds of corporate and government clients and presenting them through practical step-by-step guidance, Crosby shows managers at all levels how to build quality into all aspects of their operations.
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Command Performance: The Art of Delivering Quality Service
$16.85
Now more than ever, companies that want to stay competitive must deliver superb service to their customers. In Command Performance, leading business thinkers and executives provide valuable - and often unexpected - insights into achieving that goal. Featuring the most influential recent articles and interviews on quality service from the Harvard Business Review, Command Performance focuses on four major areas (Developing a Service Strategy, The Art of Quality Service Delivery, Delivering Quality Service in the Public Sector, and Linking Service and Profit). The contributors provide a range of timely, specific, and practical insights into what it takes to deliver quality service profitably and competitively. In addition, first-person accounts and profiles of individual firms provide inspiration and lessons from the field. Command Performance effectively integrates cutting-edge thinking on successful service delivery with experiences from real companies. Peter F. Drucker writes about how the economic landscape in the coming century will be dominated by nations with high productivity gains in knowledge and service. Frederick F. Reichheld uses the success of State Farm to demonstrate ways in which companies must revitalize their services in order to gain long-term customers. Harvard Business School professors Leonard Schlesinger and James Heskett describe a new model of the service-driven service company, which designs business processes around workers with the closest customer contact. A twenty-five-step audit allows managers to determine how to implement successful service practices in their own companies. Other writers explore issues of delivering quality service in the public sectorarena. Peter Johnson analyzes the challenges he faced as the administrator of the Bonneville Power Administration in Portland, Oregon. Former New York City Police Commissioner Lee P. Brown describes that city's Community Patrol Officers Program. Also included are profiles of two success@0Ù™™™™šÿ¾Úx
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Fine Art Printing for Photographers: Exhibition Quality Prints with In
$24.75
Today's digital cameras provide image data files allowing large-format output at high resolution. At the same time, printing technology has moved forward at an equally fast pace bringing us new inkjet systems capable of printing in high precision at a very fine resolution, providing an amazing tonality range and longtime stability of inks.pToday's digital cameras provide image data files allowing large-format output at high resolution. At the same time, printing technology has moved forward at an equally fast pace bringing us new inkjet systems capable of printing in high precision at a very fine resolution, providing an amazing tonality range and longtime stability of inks.pMoreover, these systems are now affordable to the serious photographer. In the hands of knowledgeable and experienced photographers, these new inkjet printers can help create prints comparable to the highest quality darkroom prints on photographic paper.pThis book provides the necessary foundation for fine art printing: The understanding of color management, profiling, paper and inks. It demonstrates how to set up the printing workflow as it guides the reader step-by-step through this process from an image file to an outstanding fine art print.
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Assisted Reproductive Technologies Quality and Safety: Quality and Saf
$265.95
Worldwide, approximately 500,000 in vitro fertilization cycles are performed every year. Although the best possible result is a healthy child, the technology carries a number of varying risks and complications leading to a trade-off between the efficacy of these treatments and their quality and safety. Drawing on contributions from international experts with academic and clinical backgrounds, Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Quality and Safety presents an analysis of the medical risks and complications involved in reproductive medicine.brPutting the intricacies of reproductive health in the spotlight, the book describes side-effects, risks, and complications related to ART treatments. It discusses ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome, demonstrates the impact of judicious elective single embryo transfer, and focuses heavily on multiple pregnancy as the major risk factor of ART. The editors highlight the relatively less likely, but important risks of oncogenic complications, bleeding at the time of ovum retrieval, and the even smaller but still existing risk for maternal mortality. They include discussions of non-medical factors that can have a major impact on people's lives such as psychological, sexual, financial, moral, ethical, and philosophical dilemmas.brIn today's litigious climate, modern management of any clinic is all about minimizing risks and complications. Thoroughly addressing quality and safety issues in ART, this book provides succinct, up-to-date information on quality care in reproductive medicine.
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Assisted Reproductive Technologies Quality and Safety: Quality and Saf
$67.83
Worldwide, approximately 500,000 in vitro fertilization cycles are performed every year. Although the best possible result is a healthy child, the technology carries a number of varying risks and complications leading to a trade-off between the efficacy of these treatments and their quality and safety. Drawing on contributions from international experts with academic and clinical backgrounds, Assisted Reproductive Technologies: Quality and Safety presents an analysis of the medical risks and complications involved in reproductive medicine.brPutting the intricacies of reproductive health in the spotlight, the book describes side-effects, risks, and complications related to ART treatments. It discusses ovarian hyperstimulation syndrome, demonstrates the impact of judicious elective single embryo transfer, and focuses heavily on multiple pregnancy as the major risk factor of ART. The editors highlight the relatively less likely, but important risks of oncogenic complications, bleeding at the time of ovum retrieval, and the even smaller but still existing risk for maternal mortality. They include discussions of non-medical factors that can have a major impact on people's lives such as psychological, sexual, financial, moral, ethical, and philosophical dilemmas.brIn today's litigious climate, modern management of any clinic is all about minimizing risks and complications. Thoroughly addressing quality and safety issues in ART, this book provides succinct, up-to-date information on quality care in reproductive medicine.
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Introduction to Statistical Quality Control
$15.48
This book explores the modern use of statistical methods in quality control and improvement. It provides comprehensive coverage of the subject from basic principles to state-of-the-art concepts and applications. While statistical techniques are emphasized throughout, the book has a strong engineering and management orientation, showing how modern engineers use quality control today.
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Soil Quality and Soil Erosion
$35.99
Soil Quality and Soil Erosion is based on invited and contributory papers of a July 1996 symposium organized by the NC-174 and NC-59 Committees in conjunction with the 51st Annual Meeting of the Soil and Water Conservation Society at the Keystone Center in Colorado. The authors review progress made on soil quality and erosion-induced changes in soil quality and productivity. This volume presents state-of-the-art knowledge on soil erosion and soil quality and their impact on productivity and environments.
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Introduction to Statistical Quality Control
$47.69
This Student Solutions Manual is meant to accompany the trusted guide to the statistical methods for quality control, Introduction to Statistical Quality Control, Sixth Edition. Quality control and improvement is more than an engineering concern. Quality has become a major business strategy for increasing productivity and gaining competitive advantage. Introduction to Statistical Quality Control, Sixth Edition gives you a sound understanding of the principles of statistical quality control (SQC) and how to apply them in a variety of situations for quality control and improvement. With this text, you''ll learn how to apply state-of-the-art techniques for statistical process monitoring and control, design experiments for process characterization and optimization, conduct process robustness studies, and implement quality management techniques.
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Quality of Future Internet Services
$65.48
This book presents a state-of-the-art survey of technologies, algorithms, models, and experiments in the area quality of Internet service. It is based on the European Action COST 263 Quality of Future Internet Services, which involved 70 researchers during a period of almost five years. The results presented in the book reflect the state of the art in the area beyond the Action COST 263. The six comprehensive chapters are written by teams of leading researchers in the area; a roadmap outlines and summarizes the overall situation and indicates future developments. The book offers chapters on traffic managements, quality of service routing, Internet traffic engineering, mobile networking, algorithms for scalable content distribution, and pricing and QoS.
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Encyclopedia of Statistics in Quality and Reliability
$1360
An essential reference for statisticians, engineers, and quality professionals in industry, academia, and government, Encyclopedia of Statistics in Quality and Reliability offers an essential knowledge source in an area where one is sorely needed. Providing a practical orientation with a large selection of case studies, this multi-volume state-of-the-art publication examines the widespread use of Six Sigma. This popular quality measuring technique is a highly adaptable tool with many wide-reaching applications in a large variety of sectors.
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Software Quality: State of the Art in Management, Testing, and Tools
$35.83
From the reviews of the first edition:pFor those who need a snapshot as to the current state of software testing in Europe, this is a very good book to acquire. a ] There are some gems to be found in this book a ] . What happens in safety-critical and certificated systems has a way of migrating into non-critical systems, probably because it gives such organizations a competitive edge. Because of this migration effect the testing consultant needs to keep up-to-date and this well-produced book is a useful source of recent work. (Geoff Quentin, Professional Tester, Vol. 2 (4), 2001)This book compiles current trends in software quality management and testing. Selected practitioners, experts and researchers contribute articles that provide both overviews over important topics as well as practical experience and insights from software development projects in industry. The topics include knowledge management QA and testing in the areas of web]based applications and railway/safety critical systems, cost effectiveness of quality management systems, test process improvement, testing of non-functional requirements and test tool trends.
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The Quality Imperative: Measurement and Management of Quality in Healt
$80.24
Efforts to reform healthcare systems around the globe are proliferating rapidly. No country is immune from the two fundamental pressures that are driving change: cost and access. Every system is experimenting with measures designed to contain costs while simultaneously trying to determine how best to resolve the question of who should be eligible for what services under what conditions.PIn the midst of these experiments, serious concerns about quality are being raised. Are efforts to contain costs leading to practices which have a detrimental impact on quality? What, in fact, is quality in the world of healthcare? How should it be measured? And how can it be improved? These questions are on the cutting edge of debates about the management of healthcare in the future.PThis book examines these questions in detail by combining chapters outlining the basic issues with others describing state-of-the-art efforts to measure and manage quality more effectively. The result is an up-to-date compendium of issues and experiences presented by leading researchers and practitioners which should be of interest to healthcare managers and policy makers as well as to students and researchers in the field.
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Optimization in Quality Control
$218.48
Optimization in Quality Control presents a broad survey of the state of the art in optimization in quality, and focuses on industrial and national competitiveness. Each chapter has been carefully developed and refereed anonymously by experts in the area of optimization in quality control. Some of the topics covered in this volume include: fundamentals of optimization techniques contemporary approaches to optimization models in process control economic design of control charts determining optimal target values in multiple criteria economic selection models examining quality improvement schemes by trading off between expected warranty servicing costs and increasing manufacturing costs designing optimal inspection plans. This book will serve as an important reference source for academics, professionals and researchers.
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Optimization in Quality Control
$209
Optimization in Quality Control presents a broad survey of the state of the art in optimization in quality, and focuses on industrial and national competitiveness. Each chapter has been carefully developed and refereed anonymously by experts in the area of optimization in quality control. Some of the topics covered in this volume include: fundamentals of optimization techniques contemporary approaches to optimization models in process control economic design of control charts determining optimal target values in multiple criteria economic selection models examining quality improvement schemes by trading off between expected warranty servicing costs and increasing manufacturing costs designing optimal inspection plans. This book will serve as an important reference source for academics, professionals and researchers.
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Optimization in Quality Control
$223.3
Optimization in Quality Control presents a broad survey of the state of the art in optimization in quality, and focuses on industrial and national competitiveness. Each chapter has been carefully developed and refereed anonymously by experts in the area of optimization in quality control. Some of the topics covered in this volume include: fundamentals of optimization techniques contemporary approaches to optimization models in process control economic design of control charts determining optimal target values in multiple criteria economic selection models examining quality improvement schemes by trading off between expected warranty servicing costs and increasing manufacturing costs designing optimal inspection plans. This book will serve as an important reference source for academics, professionals and researchers.
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Introduction To Statistical Quality Control
$67.08
This is a trusted guide to the statistical methods for quality control. Quality control and improvement is more than an engineering concern. Quality has become a major business strategy for increasing productivity and gaining competitive advantage. Introduction to Statistical Quality Control, Sixth Edition gives you a sound understanding of the principles of statistical quality control (SQC) and how to apply them in a variety of situations for quality control and improvement. With this text, you'll learn how to apply state-of-the-art techniques for statistical process monitoring and control, design experiments for process characterization and optimization, conduct process robustness studies, and implement quality management techniques.You'll appreciate the significant updates in the sixth edition including an in-depth attention to DMAIC, the problem-solving strategy of Six Sigma. It will give you an excellent framework to use in conducting quality improvement projects. It offers new examples that illustrate applications of statistical quality improvement techniques in non-manufacturing settings. In this guide, many examples and exercises are based on real data. It contains new developments in the area of measurement systems analysis. It also offers new features of Minitab V15 incorporated into the text. It provides numerous new examples, exercises, problems, and techniques to enhance your absorption of the material.
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Quality Control (7th Edition)
$35.48
Practical and state-of-the-art in approach, this book provides fundamental—yet comprehensive-coverage of quality control concepts. Sufficient theory is presented to ensure that learners gain a sound understanding of the basic principles of quality control. KEY TOPICS Specific chapter topics covers principles and practices, tools and techniques, fundamentals of statistics, control charts for variables, additional SPC techniques for variables, fundamentals of probability, control charts for attributes, lot-by-lot acceptance sampling by attributes, acceptance sampling systems, reliability, and management and planning. The substantial use of probability and statistical techniques is reduced to simple mathematics or is developed in the form of tables and charts. For quality control engineers.
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Quality Control (6th Edition)
$22.48
Practical and state-of-the-art in approach, this book provides fundamental—yet comprehensive-coverage of quality control concepts. Sufficient theory is presented to ensure that learners gain a sound understanding of the basic principles of quality control. KEY TOPICS Specific chapter topics covers principles and practices, tools and techniques, fundamentals of statistics, control charts for variables, additional SPC techniques for variables, fundamentals of probability, control charts for attributes, lot-by-lot acceptance sampling by attributes, acceptance sampling systems, reliability, and management and planning. The substantial use of probability and statistical techniques is reduced to simple mathematics or is developed in the form of tables and charts. For quality control engineers.
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Modern Image Quality Assessment
$38.06
This Lecture book is about objective image quality assessmentwhere the aim is to provide computational models that can automatically predict perceptual image quality. The early years of the 21st century have witnessed a tremendous growth in the use of digital images as a means for representing and communicating information. A considerable percentage of this literature is devoted to methods for improving the appearance of images, or for maintaining the appearance of images that are processed. Nevertheless, the quality of digital images, processed or otherwise, is rarely perfect. Images are subject to distortions during acquisition, compression, transmission, processing, and reproduction. To maintain, control, and enhance the quality of images, it is important for image acquisition, management, communication, and processing systems to be able to identify and quantify image quality degradations. The goals of this book are as follows; a) to introduce the fundamentals of image quality assessment, and to explain the relevant engineering problems, b) to give a broad treatment of the current state-of-the-art in image quality assessment, by describing leading algorithms that address these engineering problems, and c) to provide new directions for future research, by introducing recent models and paradigms that significantly differ from those used in the past. The book is written to be accessible to university students curious about the state-of-the-art of image quality assessment, expert industrial R&D engineers seeking to implement image/video quality assessment systems for specific applications, and academic theorists interested in developing new algorithms for image quality assessment orusing existing algorithms to design or optimize other image processing applications.
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Introduction to Statistical Quality Control
$149.2
The trusted guide to the statistical methods for quality control.<br><br>Quality control and improvement is more than an engineering concern. Quality has become a major business strategy for increasing productivity and gaining competitive advantage. Introduction to Statistical Quality Control, Sixth Edition gives you a sound understanding of the principles of statistical quality control (SQC) and how to apply them in a variety of situations for quality control and improvement.<br><br>With this text, you'll learn how to apply state-of-the-art techniques for statistical process monitoring and control, design experiments for process characterization and optimization, conduct process robustness studies, and implement quality management techniques.<br><br>You'll appreciate the significant updates in the Sixth Edition including:<br>* In-depth attention to DMAIC, the problem-solving strategy of Six Sigma. It will give you an excellent framework to use in conducting quality improvement projects.<br>* New examples that illustrate applications of statistical quality improvement techniques in non-manufacturing settings. Many examples and exercises are based on real data.<br>* New developments in the area of measurement systems analysis<br>* New features of Minitab V15 incorporated into the text<br>* Numerous new examples, exercises, problems, and techniques to enhance your absorption of the materialPart I: Introduction.<p>Chapter 1: Quality Improvement in the Modern Business Environment.<p>Chapter 2: The DMAIC Process.<p>Part II: Statistical Methods Useful in Quality Control and Improvement.<p>Chapter 3: Modeling Process Quality.<p>Chapter 4: Inferences about Process Quality.<p>Part III: Basic Methods of Statistical Process Control and Capability Analysis.<p>Chapter 5: Methods and Philosophy of Statistical Process Control.<p>Chapter 6: Control Charts for Variables.@b¦ffffgÿ¾Úx
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Component-Based Software Quality
$59
Component-based software development, CBSD, is no longer just one more new paradigm in software engineering, but is effectively used in development and practice. So far, however, most of the efforts from the software engineering community have concentrated on the functional aspects of CBSD, leaving aside the treatment of the quality issues and extra-functional properties of software components and component-based systems.This book is the first one focusing on quality issues of components and component-based systems. The 16 revised chapters presented were carefully reviewed and selected for inclusion in the book; together with an introductory survey, they give a coherent and competent survey of the state of the art in the area. The book is organized in topical parts on COTS selection, testing and certification, software component quality models, formal models to quality assessment, and CBSD management.
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Industrial Water Quality
$123.98
The classic guide to controlling industrial water pollution–updated with the latest regulations and new technologies Turn to the Fourth Edition of Industrial Water Quality for guidance on state-of-the-art methods for optimizing or upgrading existing wastewater treatment systems, as well as selecting the best treatment options to solve specific wastewater problems. This hands-on tool reflects today’s more stringent water-quality regulations and the new technologies developed to meet them. Filled with examples and case studies from a variety of industries, the book covers reverse osmosis or alternative membrane processes and discusses Biological Nutrient Removal (BNR) processes.
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Industrial Water Quality
$137.87
The classic guide to controlling industrial water pollution-updated with the latest regulations and new technologies Turn to the Fourth Edition of Industrial Water Quality for guidance on state-of-the-art methods for optimizing or upgrading existing wastewater treatment systems, as well as selecting the best treatment options to solve specific wastewater problems. This hands-on tool reflects today''s more stringent water-quality regulations and the new technologies developed to meet them. Filled with examples and case studies from a variety of industries, the book covers reverse osmosis or alternative membrane processes and discusses Biological Nutrient Removal (BNR) processes.
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Air Quality in Cities
$120.98
Understanding urban air pollution is a prerequisite to finding effective solutions to air quality problems and for a sustainable development in the urban environment. In this book the current state of the art in urban air pollution research is presented. A major focus is on suitable air pollution modelling concepts, covering also street canyon geometries. Such models may be applied to establish source-receptor relationships in support of urban air quality management. Procedures for evaluating the performance of air pollution models are proposed, and results from field experiments and laboratory studies are shown to provide better insight into the characteristics of air pollution at the urban and local scales. The contents of this book are of a high policy relevance, given their direct connection to the formulation of improved tools for urban air quality assessments.
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Air Quality in Cities
$159
Understanding urban air pollution is a prerequisite to finding effective solutions to air quality problems and for a sustainable development in the urban environment. In this book the current state of the art in urban air pollution research is presented. A major focus is on suitable air pollution modelling concepts, covering also street canyon geometries. Such models may be applied to establish source-receptor relationships in support of urban air quality management. Procedures for evaluating the performance of air pollution models are proposed, and results from field experiments and laboratory studies are shown to provide better insight into the characteristics of air pollution at the urban and local scales. The contents of this book are of a high policy relevance, given their direct connection to the formulation of improved tools for urban air quality assessments.
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Over the course of three nights at Hollywood's Pantages Theater in December 1983, filmmaker Jonathan Demme joined creative forces with cinematographer Jordan Cronenweth and Talking Heads... and miracles occurred...
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Over the course of three nights at Hollywood's Pantages Theater in December 1983, filmmaker Jonathan Demme joined creative forces with cinematographer Jordan Cronenweth and Talking Heads... and miracles occurred...
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No Description AvailableNo Track Information AvailableMedia Type: DVDArtist: PRESLEY,ELVISTitle: ELVIS: '68 COMEBACKStreet Release Date: 08/01/2006
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From The Terminator to Titanic, you can always rely on writer-director James Cameron to show you something you've never seen on the big screen before. The guy may not consistently pen the most scintillating dialogue in the world (and, especially in this movie, he doesn't seem to have a particularly high regard for women), but as a director of kinetic, push-the-envelope action sequences, he is in a class by himself...
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