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Plugge, A.G. (author), Nikou, S. (author)This chapter addresses the positioning of business services from three different perspectives. First, we describe the increasing demand and rise of business services and corresponding delivery modes. Second, we address the growth and position of global business services and their multi-nature. Next, we address GBS implementation challenges...book chapter 2024
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Plugge, A.G. (author), Nikou, S. (author)In the present chapter, our investigative focus shifts towards a nuanced exploration of the determinants shaping the orchestration of a business service portfolio by applying fuzzy-set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA). This methodology is renowned for its capacity to elucidate complex causal configurations within complex systems. Our...book chapter 2024
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Mazza, F. (author), Castellanos, Leonardo (author), Klyukin, Dmitry (author), Bohlin, G.A. (author)Coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering (CARS) spectroscopy has been used to provide gas-phase quantitative scalar information (e.g. temperature, density, and species concentrations) for more than 5 decades. This technique is renowned for its ability to realize non-intrusive in-situ measurements in harsh environments with excellent spatial and...book chapter 2024
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Overeem, A. (author), Uijlenhoet, R. (author), Leijnse, Hidde (author)This chapter reviews the state-of-the-art of land surface rainfall estimation using measurements from weather radars, personal weather stations, and commercial microwave links, including comparisons to rain gauge measurements. These studies are related to recently emerging field of opportunistic weather sensing using the existing communications...book chapter 2024
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van der Lugt, P. (author)The latest generation of timber products enable complete multi storey neighbourhoods to be built from sustainably sourced softwood.<br/>This chapter explores how a large-scale transition to timber building in urban environments could contribute to solving the three major global crises we are currently facing with climate, natural resources, and...book chapter 2023
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van Duin, Ron (author), Wiegmans, Bart (author)This contribution proposes a future research agenda for the sustainable development of the freight corridors for the next five years. This is done by discussing three themes. i.e. (1) use of capacity, (2) lower impact modalities and (3) digitalization of the supply chain. As the corridors can be seen as the connecting lifelines of our ports and...book chapter 2023
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Clegg, Stewart (author), Ninan, Dr Johan (author)The concept of governmentality has proven useful to analyse how the reflexive management of people within and without the project is conducted. In this chapter we explore the organizational theory of governmentality and its importance in project settings. First, we identify the specificity of project governance and relate it to the definition...book chapter 2023
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Muñoz Aparici, M. (author), Domingo-Calabuig, Débora (author)Maieutic is the Socratic method by which new knowledge is created by formulating a series of questions followed by thoughtful responses. It is a kind of birthing through a process. First, questioning will lead to the awareness of ignorance. Secondly – and consequently – the desire to repair this lack of knowledge will be awakened and; therefore,...book chapter 2023
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Cieraad, I.G. (author)Throughout most of the seventeenth century plague epidemics raged through Dutch cities and took their toll in an enormous loss of life. However, seventeenth-century paintings of domestic life do not show the sorrow or the death toll, but portray healthy, thriving mothers and children in sunlit interiors. The sunny imagery of the seventeenth...book chapter 2023
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Cipriani, L. (author)The Rhenish crater is one of Europe’s largest and deepest open-cast coal mines. Humans have transformed the landscape to the point of giving life to a new geological era. The mine is the symbol of humanity’s power over territorial, environmental, and climatic transformations at impressive levels of scale and scope.<br/>This contribution sums up...book chapter 2023
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