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Item Open Access DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS & LINEAR ALGEBRA WITH WOLFRAM MATHEMATICA(Nazarbayev University School of Engineering and Digital Sciences, 2022-08) Zhaidarbek, Balnur; Tleubek, Aruzhan; Wang, YanweiThis book is written primarily for students enrolled in the course "Engineering Mathematics III (Differential Equations and Linear Algebra)" (ENG200) at Nazarbayev University. ENG200 is a compulsory course offered to all 2nd-year engineering students. This course has a computational lab session where students are expected to practice what they have learned in the theoretical sessions on computers with Wolfram Mathematica. The content of the book has been designed to equip young engineering students with as much knowledge on all topics as is desirable from the point of view of the ENG200 course learning outcomes. Efforts have been made to make the fundamental subjects in every engineering curriculum, such as Ordinary Differential Equations (ODEs) and Linear algebra, more exciting and engaging with the help of the Wolfram Mathematica language. Every subject (listed in the table of contents) has been summarized and supported by several solved sample problems. In addition to analytical math skills, the book helps to learn a new Wolfram Mathematica programming software. Learning Wolfram Mathematica takes time, effort, and dedication, like acquiring any new skill. Therefore, we believe this learning journey will also benefit our readers to become more self-disciplined.Item Open Access The Quest for Economic Recovery: Innovative Development and KM Perspectives(2015) Tsakalerou, Mariza; Lee, Rongbin W. B.Most organizations respond to an economic crisis by focusing on operational efficiency and/or on intellectual capital utilization and innovation. The conjecture is that intellectual capital confers distinct competitive advantage to an enterprise via knowledge management and knowledge spillovers and improved innovation capacity. Despite mixed empirical evidence to support this claim, intellectual capital and knowledge management remain at the forefront of an organization’s agenda during an economic downturn. Recent surveys from the field indicate some dissatisfaction with practical knowledge management. These findings are difficult to interpret because at the same time organizations appear to adopt the position that management of knowledge resources is extremely important from a strategic perspective. The objective of this chapter is to provide some new perspectives on what drives success in the knowledge economy and to demonstrate how knowledge management is the ideal response to the challenge of innovation