Forrester upended the conventional thinking in management, redefined what growth means, and invented system dynamics. In this excerpt from The Age of Heretics, Art Kleiner describes how the MIT Sloan School professor did it.MIT Sloan Review
Birch, for example, he describes as benign, feminine, yielding; a loving wood; while oak is very male, hard and resistant. When he hits it with an axe it answers back like stone. The sound the blow makes keeps him attuned to the correctness of the cut. Lime is one of the best ...
The present paper describes the modeling of RO plant processes and systems using the simulation program IPSEProTM which has helped to improve the design an... M Verhuelsdonk,T Attenborough,O Lex,... - 《Desalination & Water Treatment》 被引量: 3发表: 2009年 Self-adaptive numerical dispersion...
before continuing up the Torridge Estuary, getting caught in one of those heavy but mercifully short summer downpours, then quickly drying off in the afternoon sun.
It is only a few weeks since I came to live here, but I have known the grey, steep town beside its level estuary for years. At last I found a house I wanted, looking out over the opaque harbour arranged with moored boats biding their winter time. Every half an hour the sturdy ferry...
An integrated modelling approach to forecast the impact of human pressure in the Seine estuary Within the framework of the European Water Framework Directive, the Seine-Normandie Water Agency has defined prospective scenarios describing possible tren... S Even,B Thouvenin,N Bacq,... - 《Hydrobiologi...
Resilience describes the ability of a species population to recover after a perturbance [83] and can be rated as low, medium, or high [84]. The population doubling time is a good indicator of resilience [85]. Intrinsic vulnerability (V) to fishing can be assessed from knowledge of the li...