Authors:Russell W. Glenn, Steven Hartman, Scott Gerwehr
Publisher: RAND
Keywords: shoulders, atlas, operations, support, combat, service, urban
Number of Pages: 100
Published: 2004
ISBN-10: 0833034669
ISBN-13: 9780833034663

Operations in urban areas pose specific challenges for U.S. Army combat service support (CSS)--which is responsible for arming, manning, sustaining, and otherwise supporting these operations. This report gives an overview of these tasks and ways in which the CSS community can prepare itself to meet them. The authors conducted literature reviews and interviews, and they drew on extensive prior research. Findings fall into two broad categories: (1) functional-area specific, applying exclusively to arming, manning, sustaining, moving, fixing, force protection, and selected other areas; and (2) th

Author: Jacob Burghardt
Publisher: Flashbulb Interaction
Keywords: user, experiences, knowledge, work, productive, engaging, screens, ideas, envisioning, powerful, working
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2010-05-31
eBookDB-ID: EBDBD89072

Working through Screens is a reference for product teams creating new or iteratively improved applications for thinking work. Written for use during early, formative conversations, it provides teams with a broad range of considerations for setting the overall direction and priorities for their onscreen tools. With hundreds of envisioning questions and fictional examples from clinical research, financial trading, and architecture, this volume can help definers and designers to explore innovative new directions for their products. Working through Screens is built around a suggested overal

Author: OECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and D
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Keywords: china, surveys, economic, oecd
Number of Pages: 234
Published: 2010-02-03
ISBN-10: 9264076670
ISBN-13: 9789264076679

This 2010 edition of OECD’s periodic review of China’s economy finds that China’s spectacular expansion has continued in recent years, making for impressive improvements in living standards. The slowdown associated with the global financial and economic crisis was contained by massive fiscal and monetary policy stimulus, which has boosted domestic demand. This survey includes chapters on recent achievements and prospects, monetary policy, financial reforms, product market regulation and competition, inequality, the labour market, old-age security and the health care system.