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Thomas W. Matteo

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Images of America

In 1911, Rev. Terence Shealy purchased the Meyer estate on Staten Island. With magnificent views of the New York Harbor, the estate was a dream come true for Father Shealy. He was at the forefront of the lay retreat movement in the United States, and the Meyer estate was the perfect refuge for men to escape from the stress of everyday life. Judges and bricklayers came together to meditate and enjoy the beauty of this hilltop in rural Staten Island. The lay retreat movement grew and spread ...

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Operations Research (R0)

Building on the foundation laid by Friedli et al. (2013, Springer) in "Leading Pharmaceutical Operational Excellence," this book presents an evolved perspective on Operational Excellence in the Pharmaceutical Industry. It offers an update on two decades of research and provides deep insights into current practices. This essential guide supports practitioners on their journey towards sustainable implementation of Operational Excellence, featuring the latest developments, databased and quali...

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Springer Nature Proceedings Computer Science

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 11th IFIP WG 6.12 European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, ESOCC 2025, held in Bolzano, Italy, during February 20–21, 2025.The 12 full papers and 6 short papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 28 submissions. This paper focus on the cutting-edge research in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing areas.

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Law, Language and Communication

This collection focuses on how troubled times impact upon the law, the body politic, and the complex interrelationship among them. It centres on how they engage in a dialogue with the imagination and literature, thus triggering an emergent (but thus far underdeveloped) field concerning the ‘legal imagination.’Legal change necessitates a close examination of the historical, cultural, social, and economic variables that promote and affect such change. This requires us to attend to th...

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Joseph McLaughlin, Thomas Matteo

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Campus History

Saint Peter's College was founded in 1872 by the Jesuits as a Catholic liberal arts college for men. Situated in an urban setting, the college seeks to develop the whole person in preparation for a lifetime of learning, leadership, and service in a diverse and global society. In 1966, Saint Peter's became coeducational and today educates students from 65 countries all over the world. Committed to academic excellence and individual attention, Saint Peter's College provides education, inform...

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Matteo Scotto, Thomas Mayer, Francesco Papadia, Christiane Liermann Traniello, Jean-Claude Trichet

Thanks to the collaboration with renowned economists and policymakers, the publication compares Italian and German macro-economic cultures and performances. When the Bretton Woods system crumbled and currencies lost their direct link to the dollar and their indirect link to gold, these two countries embarked upon strongly different monetary policies. This divergence was reflected in the evolution of the exchange rates: the value of one D-Mark increased from 170 Italian lira under Bretton W...

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Marco Aliberti, Matteo Cappella, Tomas Hrozensky

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Law and Criminology (R0)

This book provides an in-depth investigation of the concept of space power and devises a novel conceptual framework for empirically measuring and comparing different typologies of space actors on the basis of clearly defined criteria. In turn, the book identifies a comprehensive set of conditions required to achieve and maintain the status of space power and explores the main political, security, and socio-economic stakes involved. Building on this basis, the book conducts a comparative as...

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Robert Thong

The past decade has seen a massive paradigm shift in how new drugs and other therapies are discovered, developed and commercialized. This new distributed model of networked R&D seamlessly blends external partnerships with in-house efforts to generate innovations and create value. Smaller companies and academia have been both beneficiaries and targets of this shift in focus. Partnering with giant pharmaceutical corporations can provide the resources and channels to market that an academic l...

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Joseph A. Defeo

A practical, concise guide to improving business performance by properly applying quality management methods"Dr. Juran's wisdom on quality and management is timeless. The tenets of modern quality that were forged by Dr. Juran in the second half of the 20th century are made contemporary by Joe DeFeo's practical experience and application of these principles in hundreds of organizations. This book belongs in the library of every leader who strives for world-class performance an...

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Gregory Kesler, Amy Kates

Five practical steps to enhance organization effectiveness on a global scaleBridging Organization Design and Performance is a handbook for leaders looking to enhance the success of their organizations and themselves. Companies that compete globally require organizational operating models as robust as their strategies. Many companies have created elegant designs and consider their worldwide, matrix organizations sources of competitive advantage. However, th...

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Marc Helmold, Brian Terry

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Business and Management (R0)

Fierce competition, globalisation and the permanent liberalisation of markets have changed the face of supply chains and operations drastically. Companies, which want to survive in a hostile environment, must establish the optimum combination of supply and operations. This book provides a holistic and practical approach to operations management 4.0 and supply management 4.0. It combines operations and supply best practices across the value chain. It explains comprehensively, how these new ...

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Mark L. Dean

Best Practices for Achieving the Full Benefits of Lean in Healthcare Lean Healthcare Deployment and Sustainability reveals how to successfully implement Lean methodologies in a hospital, physician practice, long-termcare facility, or other healthcare setting. This strategic guide provides an organizational infrastructure and systematic approach for transforming a healthcare system into a Lean enterprise and lays out a detailed roadmap that describes the processes and tools ...