Providing the population of the Earth with safe drinking water is one of the biggest challenges of modern society. In recognition of this problem the United Nations Organization and UNESCO declared 2003 to be the International Year of Freshwater. On November 19-22, 2003, the...

In this book is summarized those management principles that should be valid in areas where forests continuously are used for production, where biodiversity aspects are important as well as economy and productivity, and where demands on soil status and water quality are set. Especially...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe...

Elements of Physics, or, Natural Philosophy, General and Medical, Volume 2, by Neil Arnott, presents a comprehensive exploration of physics explained without relying on advanced mathematics. This 1831 edition delves into various aspects of natural philosophy relevant to both general scientific understanding and medical...

Explore the landscape of early American medicine with Volume 50 of "The American Journal of the Medical Sciences." Published in 1828, this historical volume provides a detailed look at the medical practices, research, and thought of the time. Offering insights into the challenges and...

"Convention, Volume 42, part 5" presents a detailed record of the proceedings of the National Electric Light Association's convention. This historical volume offers insights into the discussions, advancements, and challenges within the electrical industry during the early 20th century. It serves as a valuable...

This volume, "Convention, Volume 42, part 1," presents a comprehensive record of the proceedings from the National Electric Light Association's convention. It offers insights into the discussions, presentations, and activities of professionals within the burgeoning electrical industry during the early 20th century. Covering a...

This volume is dedicated to the life work of Ray Chambers, who was continually seeking ways to stimulate and advance the development of a demonstrably rigorous and serviceable system of accounting. This search for an ideal led Chambers into myriad environments, an aspect of...

This is the first book-length study of the rich fiction that has emerged from the AIDS crisis. Examining first the ways in which scientific discourse on AIDS has reflected ideologies of gender and sexuality-such as the construction of AIDS as a disease of gay...

Transcending Transaction examines recent attempts to show how, in theory and history, market transaction can emerge from the unregulated interaction of competitive traders.Author: Alan ShipmanISBN-10: 1138881023ISBN-13: 9781138881020Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/09/2015Pages: 232Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.73lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.49d

An invaluable resource on the basic principles of case management, including the necessary guidelines for practice.Author: Charlotte SanbornISBN-10: 1138873101ISBN-13: 9781138873100Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/21/2015Pages: 218Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.69lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.46d

Presenting a new way of thinking about the risks of medical innovation, this volume considers the issues from a social historical perspective, and studies specific cases in their respective contexts.Author: Thomas SchlichISBN-10: 1138867942ISBN-13: 9781138867949Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/09/2015Pages: 304Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.96lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x...

This volume charts changing perceptions of sport within medical discourse, attempts by sports medicine providers to forge professional identities in response to these processes, the day-to-day experiences of deliverers of sports medicine and the reactions of recipients of that healthcare.Author: Dominic MalcolmISBN-10: 1138809470ISBN-13: 9781138809475Publisher:...

The Routledge Handbook of Language and Health Communication consists of forty chapters that provide a broad, comprehensive, and systematic overview of the role that linguistics plays within health communication research and its applications. The Handbook is divided into three sections: Individuals' everyday health communication...

Methodologies for the Rhetoric of Health & Medicine charts new methodological territories for rhetorical studies and the emerging field of the rhetoric of health and medicine. It advances the larger goal of differentiating the rhetoric of health and medicine as a distinct but pragmatically...

This book focuses on major aspects of post Cold War defence expenditure reduction. Key problems obstructing optimal market response are identified and possible remedial action by government and others considered.Author: Derek BraddonISBN-10: 1138002321ISBN-13: 9781138002326Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/15/2014Pages: 306Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.12lbsSize: 9.69h x 6.85w x...

Unlocking India's time-honored medical heritage, Scientific Synopsis of Vāgbhaṭa's Classic Ayurveda Treatise Aṣṭāṅgasaṅgraha: A Comparison with its Abridged Version Aṣṭāṅgahṛdaya delves into Ayurveda, where it emerges from an interplay of observations and yogic introspection, that shaped its principles over centuries.Author: N. K. M. Ikbal,G....

Traditional and Herbal Medicines for COVID-19 explores ways to manage COVID-19, post-COVID, and long-COVID conditions. The plans are based on anti-virus activity, anti-inflammatory, and diverse health benefits of traditional and herbal medicines through a comprehensive summarization of scientific literature by experts in the field.Author:...

Written in 1884, this book offers a unique perspective on 19th century attitudes towards health, morality, and family life. The author provides detailed medical advice for women and children, including recommended treatments for a range of illnesses and disorders. Through her writing, Goldson also...

Peritoneal Dialysis: A Bath for my Belly explains the purpose and experience of treatment called peritoneal dialysis. Written in easy to understand language with vibrant illustrations, this book explains that the treatment helps people who have kidneys that don't work so well and need...

This book is the culmination of an international collaboration of zoologists to describe the embryology of Xenopus, including the origins of the organ systems, with the purpose of promoting the use of Xenopus as a model amphibian for embryological study.Author: J. FaberISBN-10: 0815318960ISBN-13: 9780815318965Publisher:...

This is an impartial, complete, and most informative assessment of the first thirteen years of the National Health Service. It represents the clearest alternative to private medicine of the kind that is generally practiced in America. Proponents and opponents of socialized medicine will gain...

A comprehensive overview of the way bodily experiences of health and disease in everyday life are given meaning in a society dominated by the biomedical model of well-being... [Radley] draws on studies from a variety of disciplines including medical sociology, health psychology and medical...

Bringing together key issues in the provision and use of caring services, this volume is an invaluable training resource for health and social work practitioners. Roles and relationships are central themes: their complexity is stressed, as is their relevance to a better understanding of...

This book explores a central issue in the study of close relationships: the reevaluation of traditional gender roles to take into account what is both functional and optimal for people in dual-career relationships.The author discusses how many women and men are attempting to negotiate...

Offering an insider′s view of the subject, this practical guide demystifies the process of publishing in scholarly journals. The author explains how to increase the chances of having articles accepted, how to market published articles and how to achieve a consistent level of productive...

Published in Cooperation with the Center for Practice Innovations, Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, Case Western Reserve University How do working parents balance their work and child care responsibilities? What if an employee has responsibilities for adult or elderly family members or friends?...

In cooperative games, one generally assumes that the agents know exactly the joint (monetary) gains that can be achieved by any possible coalition of cooperating agents. In reality, however, only little is known with certainty. This does not necessarily imply that traditional cooperative game...

During the last three decades, interest has increased significantly in the representation and manipulation of imprecision and uncertainty. Perhaps the most important technique in this area concerns fuzzy logic or the logic of fuzziness initiated by L. A. Zadeh in 1965. Since then, fuzzy...

This book summarizes the results of our modeling-from-reality (MFR) project which took place over the last decade or so. The goal of this project is to develop techniques for modeling real objects and/or environments into geometric and photometric models through computer vision techniques. By...

In the 1990s the world community has arrived at a particularly in developing countries and in econo- historical turning point. Global issues- the decline mies in transition. These three organizations have of biological diversity, climate change, the fate of different backgrounds and focuses, but...

The aim of the present book is to give, in a single volume, an introduction to the fields of transition, turbulence and combustion modelling of compressible flows and to provide the physical background for today's modelling approaches in these fields. The basic equations for...

The "Non-Sleeping Universe" was a conference conceived to commemorate the opening of the new building of the Centro de Astroffsica da U niversidade do Porto (CAUP). It seemed appropriate to include the two major areas of work at CAUP: Stellar Astrophysics and Cosmology. For...

An anthology of personal narratives reflecting the issues confronting women in the medical academy today, including sexual harassment, equity issues, and maternity leave policies.Women in Medical Education combines personal narratives written by sixteen women medical educators who, as clinicians, basic scientists, administrators, and medical...

The author presents a plethora of infomation on users as individuals, their communities, research, healthcare markets and health service myths - old and new. It's a cool academic appraisal of where the power lies and how more might be shared with the patient' -...

While citizens experiment with illegal drugs, their governments experiment with regulations to prohibit drugs. Scholars, analysts, and policy makers who know what legal prohibitions other countries have tried and found successful will have a better chance of crafting effective drug policy for their countries....

With the popularity of the Internet on the rise, more and more people are turning to their computers for health information, advice, support and services. With its information based firmly on research, The Internet and Health Communication provides an in-depth analysis of the changes...

Basing psychological interventions and mental-health treatments on empirically validated best practice' is the subject of this controversial book.The first part of the book comprises theoretical issues surrounding the development and promotion of empirically validated interventions. In particular, the contributors consider whether many empirically validated...

Tim Edwards finally found the love of his life, but shortly thereafter, he was shocked by a devastating diagnosis that confirmed that the newly married couple would not be able to conceive children naturally. In spite of this diagnosis, Tim and his wife did...

Words of Wisdom from Women Around the World is a journal filled with inspirational quotes that will motivate, guide, and empower women to live their dreams. Through journaling and encouraging the reader to reflect, Mable wants all women to live life to its fullest...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you...

This Handbook adopts a traditional definition of the subject, and focuses primarily on the explanation of international transactions in goods, services, and assets, and on the main domestic effects of those transactions. The first volume deals with the real side of international economics. It...

This book is an investigation of the most important organizational forms of our time. Central to the four main trends: rational bureaucracy, the human network, the harmonious system and the strong culture.Author: Kaj SkoldbergISBN-10: 0415868254ISBN-13: 9780415868259Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/12/2014Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 8.90h x...

This book explores international governance of the human genome from a human rights perspective and challenges paradigms of property that are entrenched in relevant international instruments. Author: Chamundeeswari KuppuswamyISBN-10: 0415534259ISBN-13: 9780415534253Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/11/2012Pages: 224Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.71lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.48d

As Natural Language Processing (NLP) gets more and more traction in healthcare applications, there is a growing demand for developing solutions that can understand, analyze, and generate languages that humans can understand. Author: Satya Ranjan DashISBN-10: 036768540XISBN-13: 9780367685409Publisher: CRC PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 10/08/2024Pages: 312Format: PaperbackWeight:...

Written in a lecture format with solutions at the end of each chapter, this book serves to familiarize the reader with quantitative techniques utilized in planning and optimizing complex systems, through examples and problems.Author: Roy M. ChiulliISBN-10: 0367579200ISBN-13: 9780367579203Publisher: CRC PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/30/2020Pages: 574Format:...

This book demonstrates the challenges of modern econometric practice and the role that computer software and hardware play in this field. It examines the properties of some tests for various types of non-stationarity that can arise with time-series data that are recorded semiannually.Author: David...

Offering numerous illustrations and tables, this comprehensive resource explores the control of foodborne pathogens. It emphasizes traditional and emerging techniques as well as current applications for the inactivation of microorganisms to reduce illness and enhance food safety and quality. Highlighting state-of-the-art methods to diminish...

This book highlights the day-to-day challenges of organic crop management for cost-effective real-world application, and explores the biological control of diseases in 12 major crops. It focuses on the use of host plant resistance through transgenics.Author: Samuel S. GnanamanickamISBN-10: 0367454971ISBN-13: 9780367454975Publisher: CRC PressLanguage: EnglishPublished:...