Eksploitasi sumber daya mineral yang tak terkendali berdampak terhadap terjadinya degradasi lingkungan dan menyisakan sumber daya marginal. Oleh karena itu, pemanfaatan sumber daya marginal perlu dilakukan secara efektif dan efisien. Buku ini memberikan informasi inovasi baru tentang pemrosesan mineral yang secara ekonomi menguntungkan. Rekayasa benefisiasi tidak meningkatkan kualitas atau memu…
Hampir setiap organisasi, baik perusahaan swasta Hmaupun instansi pemerintah, memiliki prosedur kerja. Pelaksanaan prosedur kerja dapat kita lihat dalam kehidupan sehari-hari, misalnya ketika kita sedang mengurus pembuatan dokumen di kelurahan atau ketika kita menjalankan SOP di perusahaan tempat kita bekerja. Tujuannya agar aktivitas-aktivitas tersebut dapat dilaksanakan dengan efektif dan efi…
Ada tiga permasalahan utama dalam pengelolaan embung di NTT, yaitu 1), permasalahan degradasi daerah tangkapan air (catchment area), rendahnya penutupan vegetasi dan keanekaragaman jenis, tataguna lahan, kebakaran padang savana, laju aliran permukaan dan erosi; 2) permasalahan pada kolam embung (water storage), meliputi tingginya laju sedimentasi, infiltrasi dan evaporasi15, retak dan longsoran…
Dalam naskah orasi ini diuraikan kebutuhan akan bahan bakar dan bahan kimia yang semakin meningkat, sementara ketersediaan bahan bakunya yang berasal dari fosil semakin menipis. Oleh karena itu, diperlukan penelitian dan pengembangan teknologi konversi biomassa agar dihasilkan bahan bakar dan bioproduk untuk menyubstitusi bahan bakar dan bahan kimia asal fosil tersebut.
Quantitative models are omnipresent –but often controversially discussed– in todays risk management practice. New regulations, innovative financial products, and advances in valuation techniques provide a continuous flow of challenging problems for financial engineers and risk managers alike. Designing a sound stochastic model requires finding a careful balance between parsimonious mode…
This book provides insight into the Life Cycle Management (LCM) concept and the progress in its implementation. LCM is a management concept applied in industrial and service sectors to improve products and services, while enhancing the overall sustainability performance of business and its value chains. In this regard, LCM is an opportunity to differentiate through sustainability performance on…
What is the impact of information and communication technologies (ICTs) on the human condition? In order to address this question, in 2012 the European Commission organized a research project entitled The Onlife Initiative: concept reengineering for rethinking societal concerns in the digital transition. This volume collects the work of the Onlife Initiative. It explores how the development and…
This book is devoted to innovative medicine, comprising the proceedings of the Uehara Memorial Foundation Symposium 2014. It remains extremely rare for the findings of basic research to be developed into clinical applications, and it takes a long time for the process to be achieved. The task of advancing the development of basic research into clinical reality lies with translational science, ye…
This book covers the latest in snow sport epidemiology, snow sport injuries and treatment, and biomechanical/mechanical engineering related to snow sports injuries (mechanisms of injury, injury prevention by equipment design, injury prevention by design of resort features, and more). It brings together a collection of papers from the International Congress on Ski Trauma and Safety (the biennal …
The editors present essential methods and tools to support a holistic approach to the challenge of system upgrades and innovation in the context of high-value products and services. The approach presented here is based on three main pillars: an adaptation mechanism based on a broad understanding of system dependencies; efficient use of system knowledge through involvement of actors throughout t…