Bottleneck

Author : Caroline Melly
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-17
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780226489063

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Bottleneck by Caroline Melly Pdf

In Bottleneck, anthropologist Caroline Melly uses the problem of traffic bottlenecks to launch a wide-ranging study of mobility in contemporary urban Senegal—a concept that she argues is central to both citizens' and the state's visions of a successful future. Melly opens with an account of the generation of urban men who came of age on the heels of the era of structural adjustment, a diverse cohort with great dreams of building, moving, and belonging, but frustratingly few opportunities to do so. From there, she moves to a close study of taxi drivers and state workers, and shows how bottlenecks—physical and institutional—affect both. The third section of the book covers a seemingly stalled state effort to solve housing problems by building large numbers of concrete houses, while the fourth takes up the thousands of migrants who attempt, sometimes with tragic results, to cross the Mediterranean on rickety boats in search of new opportunities. The resulting book offers a remarkable portrait of contemporary Senegal and a means of theorizing mobility and its impossibilities far beyond the African continent.

Author : Bernhard C. Geiger,Gernot Kubin
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9783036508023

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Information Bottleneck by Bernhard C. Geiger,Gernot Kubin Pdf

The celebrated information bottleneck (IB) principle of Tishby et al. has recently enjoyed renewed attention due to its application in the area of deep learning. This collection investigates the IB principle in this new context. The individual chapters in this collection: • provide novel insights into the functional properties of the IB; • discuss the IB principle (and its derivates) as an objective for training multi-layer machine learning structures such as neural networks and decision trees; and • offer a new perspective on neural network learning via the lens of the IB framework. Our collection thus contributes to a better understanding of the IB principle specifically for deep learning and, more generally, of information–theoretic cost functions in machine learning. This paves the way toward explainable artificial intelligence.

Author : Huaxin Liu
Publisher : GITO mbH Verlag
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783942183772

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A Dynamic Bottleneck-oriented Manufacturing Control System by Huaxin Liu Pdf

Author : David C. Evans
Publisher : Apress
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-02-11
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781484225806

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Bottlenecks by David C. Evans Pdf

Learn the psychological constrictions of attention, perception, memory, disposition, motivation, and social influence that determine whether customers will be receptive to your digital innovations. Bottlenecks: Aligning UX Design with User Psychology fills a need for entrepreneurs, designers, and marketing professionals in the application of foundational psychology to user-experience design. The first generation of books on the topic focused on web pages and cognitive psychology. This book covers apps, social media, in-car infotainment, and multiplayer video games, and it explores the crucial roles played by behaviorism, development, personality, and social psychology. Author David Evans is an experimental psychology Ph.D. and senior manager of consumer research at Microsoft who recounts high-stakes case studies in which behavioral theory aligned digital designs with the bottlenecks in human nature to the benefit of users and businesses alike. Innova tors in design and students of psychology will learn: The psychological processes determining users’ perception of, engagement with, and recommendation of digital innovations Examples of interfaces before and after simple psychological alignments that vastly enhanced their effectiveness Strategies for marketing and product development in an age of social media and behavioral targeting Hypotheses for research that both academics and enterprises can perform to better meet users’ needs Who This Book Is For Designers and entrepreneurs will use this book to give their innovations an edge on what are increasingly competitive platforms such as apps, bots, in-car apps, augmented reality content. Usability researchers and market researchers will leverage it to enhance their consulting and reporting. Students and lecturers in psychology departments will want it to help land employment in the private sector. Praise “Bottlenecks’ is a tight and eminently actionable read for business leaders in startups and enterprises alike. Evans gives us a rich sense of key psychological processes and even richer examples of them in action.” - Nir Eyal, Author of Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products “Clients frequently ask our UX researchers and designers for deeper truths about why certain designs work and others fail. Bottlenecks offers practical explanations and evidence based on the idea that human cognition did not begin with the digital age.” - John Dirks, UX Director and Partner, Blink UX “Bottlenecks brings together two very important aspects of user experience design: understanding users and translating this into business impact. A must-read for anyone who wants to learn both.” - Josh Lamar, Sr. UX Lead, Microsoft Outlook

Author : Joseph Fishkin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199812158

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Bottlenecks by Joseph Fishkin Pdf

Equal opportunity is a powerful idea, and one with extremely broad appeal in contemporary politics, political theory, and law. But what does it mean? On close examination, the most attractive existing conceptions of equal opportunity turn out to be impossible to achieve in practice, or even in theory. As long as families are free to raise their children differently, no two people's opportunities will be equal; nor is it possible to disentangle someone's abilities or talents from her background advantages and disadvantages. Moreover, given different abilities and disabilities, different people need different opportunities, confounding most ways of imagining what counts as "equal." This book proposes an entirely new way of thinking about the project of equal opportunity. Instead of focusing on the chimera of literal equalization, we ought to work to broaden the range of opportunities open to people at every stage in life. We can achieve this in part by loosening the bottlenecks that constrain access to opportunities-the narrow places through which people must pass in order to pursue many life paths that open out on the other side. A bottleneck might be a test like the SAT, a credential requirement like a college degree, or a skill like speaking English. It might be membership in a favored caste or racial group. Bottlenecks are part of the opportunity structure of every society. But their severity varies. By loosening them, we can build a more open and pluralistic opportunity structure in which people have more of a chance, throughout their lives, to pursue paths they choose for themselves-rather than those dictated by limited opportunities. This book develops this idea and other elements of opportunity pluralism, then applies this approach to several contemporary egalitarian policy problems: class and access to education, workplace flexibility and work/family conflict, and antidiscrimination law.

Author : Joan Middendorf,Leah Shopkow
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781000981216

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Overcoming Student Learning Bottlenecks by Joan Middendorf,Leah Shopkow Pdf

Decoding the Disciplines is a widely-used and proven methodology that prompts teachers to identify the bottlenecks – the places where students get stuck – that impede learners’ paths to expert thinking in a discipline. The process is based on recognizing the gap between novice learning and expert thinking, and uncovering tacit knowledge that may not be made manifest in teaching.Through “decoding”, implicit expert knowledge can be turned into explicit mental tasks, and made available to students. This book presents a seven-step process for uncovering bottlenecks and determining the most effective way to enable students to surmount them.The authors explain how to apply the seven steps of Decoding the Disciplines – how to identify bottlenecks, unpack the critical thinking of experts, teach students how to do this kind of thinking, and how to evaluate the degree to which students have learned to do it. They provide in-depth descriptions of each step and, at the end of each chapter, at least one exercise the reader can do on his or her own. Because the decoding process works well with groups, they also provide exercises for leading groups through the process, making available to informal groups as well as groups led by professional developers, the tools to transform their understanding of teaching and learning by getting the student view that they refer to as “the bottleneck perspective”. Because it focuses on the mental moves that underlie the cognitive competencies we want students to develop, spelling out what critical thinking consists of for any field, the methodology helps teachers to get beyond focus on content delivery and transmission and provides criteria to select from the bewildering array of teaching tools the methods most appropriate to what they are teaching.This is a book for faculty who want their students to develop disciplinary forms of reasoning, and are moreover interested in a methodology with the potential to transform and reinvigorate their teaching. It is particularly suitable for use in communities of practice, and should be indispensable for any one engaged in cross-disciplinary teaching, as it enables co-teachers to surface each other’s tacit knowledge and disciplinary assumptions.

Author : Joshua Long
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-11
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1619617196

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Bottleneck Breakthrough by Joshua Long Pdf

Bottleneck Breakthrough is a tough-talking, no-nonsense guide to helping you bust through the "bottlenecks" that might be holding your business back. You'll learn how to utilize six different levers to design a customized bottleneck breakthrough plan that will improve all areas of your business.

Author : Joseph Fishkin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199812141

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Bottlenecks by Joseph Fishkin Pdf

Based on author's thesis (doctoral--Oxford University, 2009) under title: Opportunity pluralism.

Author : Clarke Ching
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1983022691

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The Bottleneck Rules by Clarke Ching Pdf

Working hard, but still can't keep up?This short, insightful book will teach you how to speed up at work, by slowing down, looking at your workplace slightly differently, then thinking a little.** Spoiler Alert **The world's best manufacturers have known the secret for decades: every workplace, big or small, has one resource that is slower than the rest. It's called The Bottleneck. Find it, speed it up, and your entire workplace speeds up. The problem is that, although this secret is well known inside manufacturing, it's been hidden from the rest of us, deep inside complicated manufacturing texts and sophisticated computer algorithms. Until now, that is. Clarke Ching, author of Rolling Rocks Downhill, has spent the last 20 years adapting and simplifying manufacturing's techniques so that everyone can use them, no matter where they work. In this book, he reveals a surprisingly simple process - called the FOCCCUS Formula - that you can use to find your bottleneck then manage it. The book takes roughly 90 minutes to read, and most readers figure out where their bottleneck is before they've finished.One reviewer wrote, "What a great and - dare I say it - inspirational read. I thoroughly enjoyed it. I'm grateful for the stories and the lack of business mumbo-jumbo. Your readers will find it a useful kick-start for their minds because it shows them how to look at their problems in different ways."Read The Bottleneck Rules today, and you'll start running faster tomorrow.

Author : Wieslaw Kubiak
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780387877198

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Proportional Optimization and Fairness by Wieslaw Kubiak Pdf

Proportional Optimization and Fairness is a long-needed attempt to reconcile optimization with apportionment in just-in-time (JIT) sequences and find the common ground in solving problems ranging from sequencing mixed-model just-in-time assembly lines through just-in-time batch production, balancing workloads in event graphs to bandwidth allocation internet gateways and resource allocation in computer operating systems. The book argues that apportionment theory and optimization based on deviation functions provide natural benchmarks for a process, and then looks at the recent research and developments in the field. Individual chapters look at the theory of apportionment and just-in-time sequences; minimization of just-in-time sequence deviation; optimality of cyclic sequences and the oneness; bottleneck minimization; competition-free instances, Fraenkel’s Conjecture, and optimal admission sequences; response time variability; applications to the Liu-Layland Problem and pinwheel scheduling; temporal capacity constraints and supply chain balancing; fair queuing and stride scheduling; and smoothing and batching.

Author : B. Mahadevan
Publisher : Pearson Education India
Page : 612 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8177585649

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Operation Management by B. Mahadevan Pdf

Author : Rolf G. Poluha
Publisher : Springer
Page : 159 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-01-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783662485156

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The Quintessence of Supply Chain Management by Rolf G. Poluha Pdf

This book describes the fundamentals of Supply Chain Management in clear and concise terms. It explains why in the near future real competition is going to be between supply chains and what the consequences will be. Managers and decision-makers will be able to build on their business’s competitive advantage with the essentials provided in this work. The focus here is upon what you really need to know in order to optimally manage your processes in procurement, manufacturing, warehousing and logistics. In addition to a wealth of illustrations and examples, valuable suggestions for further expansive reading are included. Essential insights are provided into how to analyse and evaluate the supply chain, based upon key aspects from research and practice, which helps readers to initiate their own optimisation processes.

Author : Woody Mann
Publisher : Oak Publications
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1979-12-31
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781783235261

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Bottleneck Blues Guitar by Woody Mann Pdf

A comprehensive instruction guide to blues slide guitar styles. Contains over 25 accurate transcriptions of authentic bottleneck blues tunes by such masters as Son House, Robert Johnson, Charlie Patton and many more.

Author : Paul Fuhr
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2018-07-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0692142673

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Bottleneck by Paul Fuhr Pdf

BOTTLENECK traces the messy, alcoholic life of writer Paul Fuhr from his days as an insecure James Bond-loving teenager all the way to his bleary-eyed parenthood, when nearly every one of his kids' diaper changes came against the headwind of a hangover. From stealing his very first drink (two terrible bottles of Zima) to breaking out of a detox center many decades later, BOTTLENECK charts the aimless trajectory of an alcoholic who refuses to acknowledge that he's an alcoholic. Fuhr's memoir is much more than a chronicle of the quiet corrosion of alcohol: BOTTLENECK is a darkly funny, occasionally artful account of deserts, death, disillusionment, DUIs, narrow escapes, unpaid bar tabs, unhappy reunions, unexpected friendships, epic lies, awkwardly admitted truths, rehab routines, horrible AA-meeting coffee, and staring down life without happy hour. It's a book that reveals as much about relationships as it does addiction, showing what happens to families, friends, strangers and casual acquaintances when the sagging weight of alcoholism finally breaks loose, sweeping everyone and everything away. "One of the best recovery memoirs of all time." - Anna David, New York Times bestselling author of PARTY GIRL "Deserves to be a classic." - Raymond Benson, New York Times bestselling author of 007, THE BLACK STILETTO books and IN THE HUSH OF THE NIGHT "Eye-opening and courageous." - Nancy Carr, author of LAST CALL "Hilarious, heart-wrenching and unflinchingly honest." - Chuck Salmons, author of PATCH JOB and STARGAZER SUITE "Reading this book was like experiencing a car crash in slow motion." - Chris Aguirre, "Since Right Now" podcast

Author : Eliyahu M. Goldratt,Jeff Cox
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781351982115

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The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt,Jeff Cox Pdf

Alex Rogo is a harried plant manager working ever more desperately to try and improve performance. His factory is rapidly heading for disaster. So is his marriage. He has ninety days to save his plant - or it will be closed by corporate HQ, with hundreds of job losses. It takes a chance meeting with a colleague from student days - Jonah - to help him break out of conventional ways of thinking to see what needs to be done. Described by Fortune as a 'guru to industry' and by Businessweek as a 'genius', Eliyahu M. Goldratt was an internationally recognized leader in the development of new business management concepts and systems. This 20th anniversary edition includes a series of detailed case study interviews by David Whitford, Editor at Large, Fortune Small Business, which explore how organizations around the world have been transformed by Eli Goldratt's ideas. The story of Alex's fight to save his plant contains a serious message for all managers in industry and explains the ideas which underline the Theory of Constraints (TOC) developed by Eli Goldratt. Written in a fast-paced thriller style, The Goal is the gripping novel which is transforming management thinking throughout the Western world. It is a book to recommend to your friends in industry - even to your bosses - but not to your competitors!