“The Implementation of an Effective and Sustainable Academic Model” is Alessandro Augusto Pereira s acclaimed dissertation, carried out as part of the MBA in Business Management at USP ESALQ, which scored 10 in its assessment. The book offers a practical analysis of the implementation of an innovative and financially sustainable academic model, in line with the demands of the 21st-century job market. Based on the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), Pereira describes the process of financial recovery and academic restructuring of a college that has been operating for over 50 years. Divided into stages, the book covers everything from the reorganization of the organizational chart to the reformulation of curricular matrices, highlighting the training of graduates prepared for contemporary professional challenges. With two forewords, by Prof. Dr. Miklos Maximiliano Bajay and Prof. Dr. Antonio Álvaro de Assis Moura, the book also details aspects of communication with the academic community and indicators of success, such as the increase in re-enrollment and the reduction in drop-outs. “Implementing an Effective and Sustainable Academic Model” is a practical and inspiring guide for educational institutions seeking to innovate and offer quality education.
This 3rd Edition, written by control systems engineers with extensive FOUNDATIONA(TM) Fieldbus installation experience, builds on the contents of the previous two editions, providing quick reference information on all aspects of the FOUNDATIONA(TM) Fieldbus H1 protocol life cycle, including design considerations, installation tips, and commissioning. Operations and maintenance tips are also provided along with other useful information that design engineers, control system engineers, and instrumentation technicians need to know about FOUNDATIONA(TM) Fieldbus when meeting with a vendor or client, and while managing an installation at a job site. Packed with handy reference information, the book covers the essentials on network design, including power distribution and power supply requirements. It also provides rules for cabling length, documentation requirements, a commissioning checklist, topology diagrams, system sizing formulas, and tips for integrating with other systems. This valuable resource explains the different forms of Fieldbus Power Conditioners such as Fieldbus Intrinsic Safety Concept (FISCO) along with a useful range of configuration and troubleshooting tips.
Feature selection aims to find the most important information to save computational efforts and data storage. We formulated this task as a combinatorial optimization problem since the exponential growth of possible solutions makes an exhaustive search infeasible. In this work, we propose a new nature-inspired feature selection technique based on bats behavior, namely, binary bat algorithm The wrapper approach combines the power of exploration of the bats together with the speed of the optimum-path forest classifier to find a better data representation. Experiments in public datasets have shown that the proposed technique can indeed improve the effectiveness of the optimum-path forest and outperform some well-known swarm-based techniques.
Almost a decade has passed since the last textbook on the science of cryobiology, Life in the Frozen State, was published. Recently, there have been some serious tectonic shifts in cryobiology which were perhaps not seen on the surface but will have a profound effect on both the future of cryobiology and the development of new cryopreservation methods. We feel that it is time to revise the previous paradigms and dogmas, discuss the conceptually new cryobiological ideas, and introduce the recently emerged practical protocols for cryopreservation. The present books, "Current Frontiers in Cryobiology" and "Current Frontiers in Cryopreservation" will serve the purpose. This is a global effort by scientists from 27 countries from all continents and we hope it will be interesting to a wide audience.
Almost a decade has passed since the last textbook on the science of cryobiology, Life in the Frozen State, was published. Recently, there have been some serious tectonic shifts in cryobiology which were perhaps not seen on the surface but will have a profound effect on both the future of cryobiology and the development of new cryopreservation methods. We feel that it is time to revise the previous paradigms and dogmas, discuss the conceptually new cryobiological ideas, and introduce the recently emerged practical protocols for cryopreservation. The present books, "Current Frontiers in Cryobiology" and "Current Frontiers in Cryopreservation" will serve the purpose. This is a global effort by scientists from 27 countries from all continents and we hope it will be interesting to a wide audience.
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