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This book explains and outlines the new role and characteristics of today¿s facilitator. Discussing the tools and techniques that facilitators need to master to be successful, it illustrates the use of critical success factors (CSFs) for measuring progress towards achieving the objectives of a long-term program. The book examines the planning, conducting, and completing of meeting responsibilities in explicit detail and also highlights important factors not covered in the International Association of Facilitators (IAF) certification process.

This book features a series of operations management case studies that illustrate everyday scenarios for a Lean process improvement journey. Each Lean case study helps the reader to understand and apply a different approach to the strategic elimination of waste. The case studies are organized into a framework for implementing a Lean transformation called The Five Cs: Customer, Capability, Control, Coordination, and Context/Culture. This collection offers a relevant and interesting approach to the challenges and opportunities involved with a Lean journey.

Written by an engineer, this book is for those who aren't afraid of digging into the technical details. David Deming, a leading storage networking technologist, presents the necessary SATA information and references required to design, analyze, and troubleshoot any data center application utilizing SATA technology. The book will help readers with tasks associated with the installation, configuration, and care of SATA-based storage applications. Readers will learn how SATA powers data center applications and how it influences and interacts with all protocol layers and system components.

Approaching the topic from a law enforcement perspective, this volume provides an unprecedented look at the investigation of human trafficking in America. Beginning with historical, sociological, and psychological perspectives, the book discusses how authorities can best conduct an investigation of trafficking. It reviews federal agencies responsible for confronting the problem, examines relevant laws and legal trends, and discusses law enforcement awareness and training. An ideal resource for police investigators, police training, and community outreach organizations, the book is also suitable as a college text for criminal justice courses.

Emergency departments have become the new primary access point into the healthcare system for many. As a result, emergency departments have become notorious for their long wait times and questionable quality of care. By adopting Lean manufacturing concepts, hospitals can turn the emergency department into a valuable service for the community it serves. This book supplies a functional understanding of Lean emergency department processes and quality improvement techniques. It presents numerous examples, case studies, and lessons learned from successful Lean deployments that walk readers through various Lean initiatives.

There are many departments within a hospital that support the primary function of caregiving and each can benefit from implementing Lean methodologies. This book provides a functional understanding of Lean processes and quality improvement techniques in nutritional services, inpatient floors, pharmacy, and radiology. Identifying powerful Lean solutions specific to the needs of ancillary hospital services, it provides examples, case studies, and lessons learned from successful Lean deployments in radiology, pharmacy, and nutritional services.

Baylor Scott & White Health (BSWH) has formalized its commitment to quality with the adoption of the STEEEP framework supporting the Institute of Medicine's call for health care that is safe, timely, effective, efficient, equitable, and patient centered. This Shingo Prize-winning guide book is a companion to BSWH's recent book Achieving STEEEP Health Care. It presents practical approaches and tools, including sample workflows, forms, charters, and checklists, that health care delivery organizations can use to organize, lead, execute, and measure the impact of their own improvement efforts.

Lean principles can help medical laboratories drive up efficiencies and quality without increasing costs or compromising quality. This book provides a functional understanding of Lean laboratory processes and quality improvement techniques. The first section provides an overview of Lean concepts, tools, methodologies, and applications. The second section focuses on the application of Lean in the laboratory environment. Presenting numerous examples, stories, case studies, and lessons learned, it introduces actionable blueprints that readers can duplicate or modify for use in their own institutions.

Because ambulatory care settings play a significant role in the healthcare delivery system, it is important to understand how Lean concepts and tools can be used to deliver high-quality, cost-effective care. This book provides a functional understanding of Lean processes and quality improvement techniques in an outpatient clinic environment. The first section provides an overview of Lean concepts, tools, methodologies, and applications. The second section focuses on the application of Lean in the outpatient clinic environment. It presents examples of Lean deployments in primary care, GI, and preadmission testing clinics.

In today's healthcare economy, with reduced reimbursement and closer scrutiny of quality patient care, Lean principles are becoming invaluable in healthcare improvement initiatives. This dual-faceted book explains Lean terminology as used in healthcare and defines healthcare terms and acronyms that commonly arise in Lean transformations. It's an invaluable resource for anyone involved in applying Lean principles in healthcare.

This book provides frameworks, use cases, and examples that illustrate the role of big data and analytics in modern health care, including how public health information can inform health delivery. Written for health care professionals and executives, this book presents the current thinking of academic and industry researchers and leaders from around the world. Using non-technical language, it includes case studies that illustrate the business processes that underlie the use of big data and health analytics to improve health care delivery.

This book discusses the concepts behind modern cryptography and details how programmers can use cryptography to maintain the privacy of computer data. It describes dozens of cryptography algorithms, gives practical advice on how to implement them into cryptographic software, and shows how they can be used to solve security problems. Covering recent developments in practical cryptographic techniques, it teaches readers how to build security into their software and systems. This book not only demonstrates the algorithms but also demonstrates how to implement them using C++.

This beginner¿s guide presents the essential aspects of creating 3D art: 3D space, modeling, rendering, and animation. It builds readers¿ understanding of 3D graphics from the ground up, explaining the fundamental mechanics of the most important aspects of 3D art in a software-independent manner. The book also explains the mathematical functions of 3D art in non-mathematical terms, which allows readers to understand the nature of the underlying structure without needing to calculate the math.

Although project planning is known to be critical to project success, it remains a relatively under-studied area of project management research. This book draws on a literature review of planning that covers more than 270 sources. It also discusses new research that analyzed data from more than 1,300 global projects. The book brings this under-studied area of knowledge to the forefront. It emphasizes that planning is required for project success and that shortchanging planning will have a negative impact on project success.

This volume presents the insight of police leaders and researchers who provide worldwide perspectives and case studies about the complex interrelations between socioeconomics, crime, and policing and the influence of these issues on police practice in developed, developing, and transitioning countries.

As the world¿s natural resource base is limited, the world is looking for solutions in the domains of energy, water, alternate building materials, resource redeployment, and sustainable livelihoods as well. The tourism and hospitality industry is a large deployer of natural and created resources. The book discusses constituents of the hospitality sector and analyzes each of those from a sustainability standpoint. The book includes case studies that are global in nature and that show how sustainable applications can be used and how concerns can be addressed.

This book presents research and conceptual chapters about the ethical factors to be considered in teaching, administration, and professional practice in higher education settings. The book includes recent research-based ideas in the field of higher education. It covers cultural competencies for higher education faculty, professionals, and administrators, such as use of language in communicating concepts to students for whom English is not a first language, avoiding imposition of bias, encouraging exposition of perspective, and ethical practices for professionals working with the diverse environments and populations in higher education settings.

The book provides scope and knowledge on advanced techniques and its applications into the modern fields of biotechnology¿genomics and proteomics. In this book, different genomics and proteomics technologies and principles are examined. The fundamental knowledge presented opens up an entirely new way of approaching DNA chip technology, DNA array assembly, gene expression analysis, assessing changes in genomic DNA, structure-based functional genomics, protein networks, and so on. The book will be valuable for biotechnology researchers and bioinformatics professionals and students in all fields of biotechnology.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.Childhood obesity is a major public health crisis nationally and internationally. This insightful compendium provides valuable information and assesses the research foundations behind several school initiatives to help combat the epidemic of obesity in children and adolescents, particularly using interventions to increase physical activity. The book looks at the issue from three levels: first, the effects of unhealthy eating and lack of exercise on a number of health outcomes in children and adolescents; second, successful small- and large-scale school-based interventions; and finally, synthesis of current literature and translation into specific guidelines and recommendations.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters.This collection of timely chapters presents a nuanced study of environmental toxins and the risks they pose to children¿s development. The book details the impact of a number of commonplace environmental toxins, focusing on everyday exposure to tobacco smoke, lead, pesticides, and flame retardants. This book aims to create greater awareness to spur additional research, provide vital information to clinicians, and send a powerful message to government officials, putting pressure on them to develop policies that improve the quality of the environment and spare children the detrimental effects of such exposures.

This title includes a number of Open Access chapters. Mental illnesses are often difficult to treat. They do not just affect individuals, they are rooted within communities and affect many other aspects of individuals¿ social and physical lives as well. This book examines mental health specifically in adolescents, exploring how mental illnesses interface with communities, schools, families, and peers. It also explores the connotations for educators, social workers, medical professionals, and public policymakers.

The ultimate goal of crop production is to provide quality produce to consumers at reasonable rates. Most fresh produce is highly perishable, and postharvest losses are significant under the present methods of management in many countries. However, significant achievements have been made during the last few years to curtail postharvest losses in fresh produce and to ensure food security and safety as well. This new book describes advancements in postharvest quality improvement of fresh horticultural produce. This book will be a standard reference work for postharvest management for the fresh produce industry.

This new book facilitates the study of problematic chemicals in such applications as chemical fate modeling, chemical process design, and experimental design. It provides a valuable overview of current chemical processes, products, and practices and analyzes theories to formulate and prove physicochemical principles. It addresses the production and application of polymers, including chemical, physicochemical, and purely physical methods of examination. The research found in this book will aid scientists and researchers in developing improved engineering materials. The book¿s coverage of key developments can be applied in industrial chemistry, biochemistry, and materials science.