The Red Book is a unique source of information on immunizations and infectious diseases for practitioners. The practice of pediatric infectious diseases is changing rapidly. With the limited time available to the practitioner, the ability to quickly obtain up-to-date information about new vaccines and vaccine recommendations, emerging infectious diseases, new diagnostic modalities, and trea…
This guide book is intended to give owners of small dams (those under 15 metres in height) a basic understanding of the dam owners responsibilities with regard to the inspection, operation, maintenance, and reporting procedures for their dams. Large dams (those over 15 metres in height) may require additional operation, maintenance, surveillance (inspection), and reporting procedures that are …
Computers have been a theme of intense discussion within the mathematics education community for more than two decades. If the notion of computers is extended to include other devices, such as calculators, it can be said that the debate has been going on for over thirty years. This being the case, a reasonable question might be: Why write about computers? This book represents an attempt to resp…
The answer to this question does not depend necessarily upon the reply to that other question, whether women ought to be permitted to exercise the right or privilege of suffrage as do men. The Legislatures of the several States must decide this in ratifying or rejecting the proposed amendment. Upon solemn occasions concerning grave public affairs, and when large numbers of the citizens of the…
PERHAPS the sentiments contained in the following pages, are not YET sufficiently fashionable to procure them general favor; a long habit of not thinking a thing WRONG, gives it a superficial appearance of being RIGHT, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom. But the tumult soon subsides. Time makes more converts than reason. As a long and violent abuse of power, is genera…
Health IT can improve patient safety in some areas such as medication safety; however, there are significant gaps in the literature regarding how health IT impacts patient safety overall Safer implementation and use begins with viewing health IT as part of a larger sociotechnical system All stakeholders need to work together to improve patient safety
Recently, people in local community often address tourism planning through their collaboration. The process of the collaborative tourism planning con- sists of planners’ learning and consensus building. Without the knowledge of the tourism planning, it is difficult for the planners to begin the collaborative tourism planning. Nowadays, the practical case reports of tourism planning are availa…
: Firms and workers are much more productive in large and dense urban environments. There is substantial evidence of such agglomeration economies based on three aproaches. First, on a clustering of production beyond what can be explained by chance or comparative advantage. Second, on spatial patterns in wages and rents. Third, on systematic variations in productivity with the urban enviro…
This is the first in a three-semester series of core courses designed to introduce students to the field of global studies and to processes of globalization. The course’s approach is interdisciplinary and thematic, with special attention to the political, economic, social, historical and cultural patterns that are defining the modern world – its “people” and its “politics.” The co…
This study examined the principles and practice of lending in the banking sector of some selected banks. It looked at the perceptions of respondents in these selected banks regarding principles and practice of lending. A total number of twenty-five (25) questionnaires were administered to the credit department and some staff of five (5) selected banks within the Accra Metropolis. The descrip…
T he information security (InfoSec) profession got its start decades ago, but it consisted of few people, mostly in military and other secret organizations. With the appearance of the Internet in the 1990s, organizations started to put information online, and the InfoSec profession became a little more popular. Fast‐forward to the mid 2010s, with its big security breaches as well as new laws …
’ve looked here at three issues around adaptation. There are others that I could have selected but, working as I do in NCCARF at the interface between research and policy, these are three that come up time and time again when we are considering how to overcome barriers to adaptation and equip decision makers with the best tools for their task. Time and again, it boils down to equipping decisi…
With more than 200 million active users and 250,000 new registrants every day, Facebook has become a virtual world unto itself. But, what started as a dorm room exercise to extend the popular printed college directory of incoming freshmen online, Harvard drop-out Mark Zuckerberg has developed an international organization employing more than 400 programmers, graphic artists, and business develo…
An index is an optionally created database object used primarily to increase query performance. The purpose of a database index is similar to an index in the back of a book. A book index associates a topic with a page number. When you’re locating information in a book, it’s usually much faster to examine the index first, find the topic of interest, and identify associated page numbers. With…
Philosophy and business don’t always get along well. Philosophy is generally not much concerned with the practical implications of its investigations and, conversely, business is often deeply interested in the tactical outcomes of its operations. And ethics is a loaded word. Preconceived notions of what ethics mean, even as a le gitimate field of study, often make people shy away from it as…
The current financial crisis poses many challenges to all countries. The need for enhanced transparency and financial integrity in national financial systems is more important than ever. It is therefore critically important to have in place strong antimoney laundering/combating the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) oversight mechanisms, not only to protect the integrity of the financial syst…