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Information Trapping: Real-Time Research on the Web

New Riders Publishing, 2006

For a long time—and especially around 1994, when the World Wide Web was just getting its jumpstart—the Internet appeared to many as a vast pool of information just sitting in cyberspace. People who used the Internet for research “cast their nets” by entering queries into a search engine, and then pulled...

Montreal & Quebec City For Dummies (Dummies Travel)

For Dummies, 2006

European flair and French joie de vivre — you’ll definitely find these elusive old-world qualities in Montréal and Québec City. Visiting Montréal is like escaping into a little corner of Europe, except that you don’t have to cross the Atlantic to get here. And Montréal doesn’t...

Enterprise Games: Using Game Mechanics to Build a Better Business

O'Reilly, 2012

We are living in a time of big changes. We face changes driven by powerful forces like world population growth; rising prices for food, fuel, and raw materials; depletion of natural resources; and increasing levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. And at the very same time, we are also surrounded by the...

Earthquake Early Warning Systems

Springer, 2007

In the last few decades economic losses due to natural disasters have increased exponentially worldwide and little progress has been seen in reducing their rate of fatalities. This also holds for earthquake disasters and is mainly due to increasing population and industrial density in high hazard and vulnerability areas....

Area-Wide Control of Insect Pests: From Research to Field Implementation

Springer, 2007

The world population is still growing at an alarming rate, requiring ever increasing productivity and less waste in agriculture to cope with the increasing demands to satisfy food security for all humans. Alleviation of poverty is in many countries hampered by a myriad of insect pests that cause enormous economic...

Shock Wave Applications in Musculoskeletal Disorders

Thieme Medical Publishers, 2002

Plantar fasciitis is one of the most common conditions presenting to foot and ankle specialists. Although the condition is usually responsive to conservative and nonoperative care, recalcitrant plantar fasciitis occurs in 10–20 % of the patients treated.

Until recently, plantar...

Health and the Good Society: Setting Healthcare Ethics in Social Context (Issues in Biomedical Ethics)

Oxford University Press, 2005

In this book I explore some of the implications of looking at healthcare ethics in social context. My starting point is the contention that clinical ethics cannot be insulated from questions in public-health ethics; and the book is in large part an elaboration and defence of that contention. My purpose is partly substantive and...

Outcome Prediction in Cancer

Elsevier Limited, 2007

This book is organized into 4 sections, each looking at the question of outcome prediction in cancer from a different angle. The first section describes the clinical problem and some of the predicaments that clinicians face in dealing with cancer. Amongst issues discussed in this section are the TNM staging, accepted methods for survival...

Community-Acquired Pneumonia (Birkh?user Advances in Infectious Diseases)

Birkhauser, 2007

Community-acquired pneumonia is a disease of high morbidity and mortality. Demographic changes in industrialised countries with a growing population of elderly persons will add to its significance. In the last years much progress in the field of community-acquired pneumonia has been achieved. Vaccination programs against...

Radiation Oncology Advances (Cancer Treatment and Research)

Springer, 2007

Radiation therapy remains a mainstay of cancer treatment: it is estimated that around half of all cancer patients in Europe, in the US probably close to two-thirds, receive radiation therapy as part of their initial therapy, for salvage or for palliation. There are good reasons to expect the role of radiation therapy in the management of...

Cardiovascular Prevention and Rehabilitation

Springer, 2007

Over the past decades the medical care of the patient with cardiovascular disease (CVD) has shown an impressive development, with marked positive consequences for mortality, morbidity, and the quality of life of coronary patients. This improvement has profoundly changed the arena in which cardiac rehabilitation (CR) has been acting...

Integrating Employee Health: A Model Program for NASA

National Academy Press, 2005

The American workforce is changing, creating new challenges for employers to provide occupational health services to meet the needs of employees. First, a shift from manufacturing to services, knowledgecentered, and mobile work has changed the focus of occupational health from physical injury and exposure-related illness...

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