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Evaluation and Management of Dysphagia: An Evidence-Based Approach

Springer, 2019

This book provides a state-of-the-art overview of dysphagia. The text reviews current evidence behind the diagnosis, evaluation, and management of esophageal disorders that cause dysphagia, including GERD, eosinophilic esophagitis, achalasia, and spastic motor disorders. The book also focuses on the different variants of dysphagia, from...

Institutions as Conscious Food Consumers: Leveraging Purchasing Power to Drive Systems Change

Academic Press, 2018

Institutions like schools, hospitals, and universities are not well known for having quality, healthy food. In fact, institutional food often embodies many of the worst traits of our industrialized food system, with long supply chains that are rife with environmental and social problems and growing market concentration in many stages...

HackNotes(tm) Web Security Pocket Reference

McGraw-Hill, 2003

HackNotes Web Security Portable Reference describes the hacks and vulnerabilities threatening today's Web applications, then provides the defenses necessary to counteract and destroy threats of all manner. Determine whether a vulnerability exists, then attack and overcome application weaknesses through a series of tested and trusted...

Constructing Measures: An Item Response Modeling Approach

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2004

Constructing Measures introduces a way to understand the advantages and disadvantages of measurement instruments, how to use such instruments, and how to apply these methods to develop new instruments or adapt old ones. The book is organized around the steps taken while constructing an instrument. It opens with a summary of the...

Current Review of Chinese Medicine: Quality Control of Herbs And Herbal Material (Annals of Traditional Chinese Medicine)

World Scientific Publishing, 2006

The second volume of this book series on the modern practice of Chinese medicine continues with the focus on evidence-based TCM research. It is focused on detailed information about the best sources of herbal supply and its quality control required for research and drug development purposes. Herbal quality has always been a major concern for...

Water Resources: A New Water Architecture (Challenges in Water Management Series)

John Wiley & Sons, 2017

Over 7 billion people demand water from resources that the changing climate is making more and more difficult to harness. Water scarcity and shortage are increasingly common and conditions are becoming more extreme. Inadequate and inappropriate management of water is already taking its toll on the environment and on the quality of life of...

Assessing Children's Well-Being: A Handbook of Measures

Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2003

The emphasis on collaborative management of children's health has led to the involvement of multiple disciplines in pediatric health care. This shift has resulted in an increasing focus on the assessment of children's functioning across multiple domains. The Task Force on Pediatric Education (1978) noted several decades ago that the types of...

Infection and Local Treatment in Orthopedic Surgery

Springer, 2007

Bone infections involve enormous social, economic and human impact. Despite improvements in surgical techniques, asepsis and prevention, the increasing use of surgery in orthopaedics and trauma means that the absolute number of bone infections is progressively increasing in western countries.

The work of orthopaedic surgeons is...

Evidence-Based Hematology (Evidence-Based Medicine)

BMJ Books, 2008

This unique new book uses a series of focussed questions, comprehensive literature evaluations and structured grades of recommendation to provide evidence for the treatment of hematological disorders, both malignant and benign. With contributions from leading international experts who have a real understanding of evidence-based medicine the...

Anxiety Management in Adult Day Surgery: A Nursing Perspective

John Wiley & Sons, 2005

The book is the first of its kind to specifically outline the psycho-educational nursing interventions required by the anxious, adult patient undergoing elective, ambulatory surgery. Anxiety management is a considerable issue for the majority of surgical patients and has been recognised as such for many decades. However, no formal nursing...

Mathematics for the Analysis of Algorithms

Birkhauser, 1990

"The book presents a welcome selection and careful exposition of material that can be (and is) covered in a single course...In this reviewer's opinion, this would be an interesting text to use with a group of advanced students well-grounded in undergraduate mathematics and computer science, and would produce a valuable course for the...

The Fifth Vital Sign: Master Your Cycles & Optimize Your Fertility

Fertility Friday, 2019

MENSTRUATION ISN'T JUST ABOUT HAVING BABIES

Your menstrual cycle is a vital sign, just like your pulse, temperature, respiration rate, and blood pressure. And it provides you with essential information about your health.The Fifth Vital Sign: Master Your Cycles and Optimize Your Fertility...

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