IT best practices : management, teams, quality, performance, and projects / / Tom C. Witt

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910457873403321
• Autore: Witt Tom C.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Boca Raton : , : CRC Press, , 2012
• ISBN: 0-429-11278-5; 1-4665-5137-2; 1-283-59640-7; 9786613908858; 1-4398-6855-7
• Edizione: [1st edition]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (560 p.)
• Disciplina: 004.068/4
• Soggetti: Information technology - Management; Knowledge management; Project management; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: An Auerbach book.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Management Best Practices; Chapter 3: Five Disciplines of a Learning Organization; Chapter 4: The Effects of Management on Subordinates; Chapter 5: Management Types; Chapter 6: Crisis Management; Chapter 7: Jack Welch and Management; Chapter 8: Robert Greenleaf and Servant Leadership; Chapter 9: Management Wrap-Up; Chapter 10: Business Model; Chapter 11: High-Performance Teams; Chapter 12: Quality; Chapter 13: W. Edwards Deming, Father of Quality; Chapter 14: Process Engineering; Chapter 15: Lean Management; Chapter 16: Six SigmaChapter 17: Workplace Efficiencies and Distraction; Chapter 18: Technology; Chapter 19: Contractors; Chapter 20: Defects; Chapter 21: Knowledge Base for Project Work; Chapter 22: Project Selection Criteria; Chapter 23: Project Characteristics; Chapter 24: Effects of Project Failure; Chapter 25: Controlling Failure; Chapter 26: Project Methodology; Chapter 27: Project Phases; Chapter 28: Factors That Affect Projects; Chapter 29: Spiral and Linear Project ; Methodology; Chapter 30: Project Management Improvement; Chapter 31: Conclusion; Bibliography; Index; Author Biography
• Sommario/riassunto: Consistent success does not happen by chance. It occurs by having an understanding of what is happening in the environment and then having the skills to execute the necessary changes. Ideal for project, IT, and systems development managers, IT Best Practices: Management, Teams, Quality, Performance, and Projects details the skills, knowledge, and attributes needed to succeed in bringing about large-scale change. It explains how to incorporate quality methods into the change management process and outlines a holistic approach for transformation management.<

Lives of the novelists / / by Sir Walter Scott; with an introduction by Austin Dobson

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910765709803321
• Autore: Scott Walter, Sir, <1771-1832., >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; Toronto : , : H. Frowde, Oxford University Press, , [1906]
• ISBN: 0-665-85231-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Collana: CIHM/ICMH Digital series = CIHM/ICMH collection numérisée ; 85231
• Disciplina: 820.092
• Soggetti: Authors, Scottish; Authors, English; Écrivains anglais; Écrivains écossais
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Includes publisher's list.; Original issued in series: The World's classics ; 94.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references.
• Nota di contenuto: Contents: Introduction -- Fielding -- Smollett -- Le Sage -- Charles Johnstone -- Sterne -- Goldsmith -- Johnson -- Mackenzie -- Walpole -- Reeve -- Richardson -- Bagr -- Cumberland -- Mrs. Radcliffe.

Host Manipulations by Parasites and Viruses / / edited by Heinz Mehlhorn

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910298442603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015
• ISBN: 3-319-22936-2
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2015.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (199 p.)
• Collana: Parasitology Research Monographs, , 2192-3671 ; ; 7
• Disciplina: 591.5249
• Soggetti: Parasitology; Behavioral sciences; Neurosciences; Behavioral Sciences
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Introduction -- Parasites: an own world of cross reactions with their hosts -- Trait-mediated effects of parasites on invader-native interactions -- Cooperation or Conflict: Host manipulation in multiple infections -- Can parasites change thermal preferences of hosts? -- Host Manipulation by Toxoplasma gondii -- The brain worm story -- The bodyguard phenomenon -- Remote control: parasite induced phenotypic changes in fish -- Virus-induced behavioural changes in insects.
• Sommario/riassunto: This edited volume focuses on parasite-host relationships and the behavioral changes parasites may trigger in their hosts. Parasites have developed strategies which enhance their chances to find a host to survive inside its body and to become most easily transmitted to one another. Many of these parasites influence the host’s behavior by various mechanisms, so that the rate of their transmissions to further hosts becomes considerably enhanced in comparison to that of non-influenced specimens of the same host species. A broad number of recent studies elucidate more and more examples in an extreme spectrum of host-parasite relationships, where successful transmission and /or survival of a parasite inside a host is based on parasite-derived behavioral manipulations of the hosts. In the literature, an increasing ; numbers of papers appear which prove that these behavioral alterations are based on complicated psychoimmunologic, neuropharmacologic and genomically steered mechanisms. Researchers working in parasitology or behavioral sciences will find this work thought-provoking, instructive and informative.