Managing Risk and Complexity through Open Communication and Teamwork
Автор: Phillip K. Tompkins
Год издания: 0000
Along with increased complexities in work and life in general in the twenty-first century come new and dangerous risks to workers, customers, and the general public. Drawing on decades of experience as a researcher and consultant for a range of organizations and individuals in high-risk domains, the author of this book presents a powerful theory of open communication and teamwork. This unites a range of communication practices and principles that have proven to combat risk and complexity in organizations.The book initially focuses on NASA, an organization that experiences and engages with high complexity and risk daily. As a participant-observer in the Apollo program, the author witnessed pioneering communication practices that, for example, empowered engineers with «automatic responsibility» for any technical problem they perceived. It was partly the failure to follow such protocols that resulted in the catastrophes experienced in the Challenger and Columbia tragedies, as the author shows.Using the lessons learned from the space program, the book then explores complexity and risk in medicine, aviation, the fighting of forest fires, and homelessness, again consistently finding communication practices that worked and did not work. Based on detailed research conducted over several decades, the book presents a unified theory linked to generally applicable communication practices. Case studies include the results of an international experiment of surgery conducted in ten countries that produced a highly significant reduction of deaths and infections in Africa, India, and other parts of the world, to the creation of innovative communication practices that significantly reduced risks in the US aviation industry.
Английский язык в картинках (English Through Pictures)
Автор: Ричардс И. А.
Год издания:
Предлагаемое пособие составлено по весьма оригинальной методике с включением иллюстраций и поясняющих текстов. Книга ведет обучающегося от понимания элементарнейших вещей к осознанию самых глубинных явлений как внешнего, так и внутреннего мира человека. В нее включены сведения по самым различным областям человеческих знаний - от механики до философии, социологии, политики, - и все это излагается простым, не отягощенным грамматическими сложностями языком. Пособие снабжено англо-русским словарем употребляемых в нем слов с транскрипциями.
The increase in power through supercharging of street racing in eBook
Автор: Автоклуб
Год издания:
Content
Foreword
Introduction to boost technology
Lessons from history
Turbochargers: past and present
Nitrous oxide: from the beginnings to the present day
Aspiration: theory and basic principles
What you should know about turbochargers
Turbocharger boost pressure control
The strategy to prevent the turbocharger turboyam
What you should know about turbochargers
Cooling the intake charge
Injection water and other alternative solutions
Fuels and fuel additives
Fuel
Air intake system
Injection of nitrous oxide
Exhaust system
The process of combustion and ignition system
The engine management system
Increased engine durability
Lubrication system
Cooling system
Modification of the factory engine supercharged
Testing theory in practice and a few thoughts
Through the Looking-Glass
Автор: Льюис Кэрролл
Год издания:
Аудиокнига на английском языке. Продолжение чудесных приключений Алисы в Стране Чудес – по ту сторону зеркала в шахматном королевстве. После встречи с доброй Белой королевой Алиса отправляется в длительное путешествие по стране шахмат длиною в восемь клеток с целью добраться до замка злой Красной Королевы. По дороге ее ждет много интересных, забавных, а порой и опасных встреч.