Crisis Standards of Care

The United States faces the real possibility of a catastrophic public health event that involves tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of victims. Public health emergencies—such as the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, an intentional anthrax release, infectious disease threats such as severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), fires, floods, earthquakes, and hurri- canes—highlight the ever-changing t…

Medical Surge Capacity

In June 2009 the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM’s) Forum on Medical and Public Health Preparedness for Catastrophic Events held a workshop with the goal of convening many of the best minds in health preparedness for a wide-ranging update on preparations for a major public health threat. For the health community, a primary issue at hand before and during a catastrophic incident is how to prov…

Interpersonal Expectations: Theory, Research and application

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THE LITTLE CLIMATE FINANCE BOOK

The majority of mitigation potential lies in developing countries: Of the 17 billion tonnes of emissions reductions required in 2020, 70% is achievable in developing countries (Project Catalyst, 2009)2. Given the limited ability of developing countries to finance domestic mitigation, this will therefore require large scale financing from developed countries to allow developing countries to mee…

Motivation and Personality

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17 Team Building Ideas

With employees still reeling from workplace budget cuts, now’s a great time for new team building ideas. No, you don’t need an expensive round of paintball to gain the benefits of team building exercises, but you do need to squeeze the most out of them. In this special report, 17 Team Building Ideas, we’ll show you how to do that

The Value of Genetic and Genomic Technologies

Slight variations in genetic composition can contribute greatly to the diversity which we see amongst individuals, from determining eye color and height to increasing the risk of developing breast cancer or heart disease. Numerous gene–disease associations are now known, and genetic/genomic testing is a relatively common laboratory approach for diagnosing presymp- tomatic genetic disorders, c…

Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change …

This volume, Managing the Risks of Extreme Events and Disasters to Advance Climate Change Adaptation, is a Special Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The report is a collaborative effort of Working Group I (WGI) and Working Group II (WGII). The IPCC leadership team for this report also has responsibility for the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report (AR5), scheduled for c…

A Guide to Forensic Accounting Investigation

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sport management

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1st Edition

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978-874030644-6

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Patients Charting the Course

The prosperity of a nation is tied fundamentally to the health and well-being of its citizens. It follows, then, that citizens—each one a past, current, or future patient—should represent both the healthcare system’s unwavering focus, and its fully engaged agents for change. This precept has several major implications. It means that the quality of health care should not be judged solely b…

Enhancing Trader Performance - Proven Strategies From the Cutting Edge of Tra…

This is a book forged from storms and tempests. Roughly one year after the publication of The Psychology of Trading, I left the pro- tected world of academic medicine to tackle the rough-and-tumble world of proprietary trading in Chicago. Gone were orderly therapy ses- sions in my Syracuse office. Now my day started at 4:05 A.M. and proceeded into evenings: a steady blur of tracking overseas ma…

Determinants of Risk: Exposure and Vulnerability

The severity of the impacts of extreme and non-extreme weather and climate events depends strongly on the level of vulnerability and exposure to these events (high confidence). [2.2.1, 2.3, 2.5] Trends in vulnerability and exposure are major drivers of changes in disaster risk, and of impacts when risk is realized (high confidence). [2.5] Understanding the multi-faceted nature of vulnerability …

International Marketing Management

This chapter introduces students to the different aspects of international marketing that will enable them to learn its various nuances with relative ease. Students will learn about the major differences between domestic and international marketing. The methods of scanning the business and competitive environment are discussed in this chapter. This will help students to plan marketing in a …

Managing the Risks: International Level and Integration across Scales

Increasing global interconnectivity, population, and economic growth, and the mutual interdependence of economic and ecological systems, can serve both to reduce vulnerability and to amplify disaster risks (high confidence). Global development pathways are becoming a more important factor in the management of vulnerability and disaster risk. [7.2.1]

Working in Teams

‘“The joy of working harmoniously with small groups of people who are dedicated to something bigger than themselves, and are completely loyal to each other, counts in my experience as one of the most rewarding things in life,” a senior manager told me. Most of us would agree with him.’

Accounting Best Practices

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3th Edition

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0-471-44428-6

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The Analysis of the Correlation Intensity Between Emerging Market During Econ…

Within the study we focused on an analysis of any dependence that may connect some emerging countries aiming mainly to emphasize the intensity of correlations between different financial markets. For this purpose we took into consideration two emerging markets, i.e. Romania and Turkey, due to the fact that they are two countries with common history which goes back long time, with similar approa…

Strategic Marketing Management

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3rd Edition

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EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY

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HANDBOOK OF PSYCHOLOGY. vol. 12

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Advertising Decision

Advertising and promotional expenditures have become significant in the marketing of many products. In 1966 about 16 billion dollars was spend on advertising alone. This expenditure is made because advertising has a vital communication function to play in marketing as part of the overall communication mix the firm utilizes to inform and convince customers of the desirability of its product…

Finding What Works in Health Care: Standards for Systematic Reviews

Healthcare decision makers in search of the best evidence to inform clinical decisions have come to rely on systematic reviews (SRs) of comparative effectiveness research (CER) to learn what is known and not known about the potential benefits and harms of alternative drugs, devices, and other healthcare services. An SR is a scientific investigation that focuses on a specific question and uses e…

Clinical Practice Guidelines We Can Trust

Clinicians can no longer stay abreast of the rapidly expand- ing knowledge bases related to health. The number of random- ized controlled trials published in MEDLINE (a medical literature database) grew from 5,000 per year in 1978–1985 to 25,000 per year in 1994–2001. Furthermore, contentions that much of the literature may be biased and not applicable to important subsets of target populat…

Pigs at the trough : how corporate greed and political corruption are undermi…

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1400047714

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Health Care Comes Home: The Human Factors

As attention is increasingly devoted to U.S. society’s needs for access to health care and health care delivery, one change that requires immediate attention concerns the many aspects of care that are migrating out of formal medical facilities and into the home. Although the costs of care are one driver of this change, there is also recognition that health care delivered at home is valued by …

For the Public's Health: Investing in a Healthier Future

In 2009, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation asked the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to convene a committee to examine three topics in relation to public health: measurement, the law, and funding. The committee’s complete three-part charge is provided in Box P-1. The IOM Committee on Public Health Strategies to Improve Health explored the topics in the context of contemporary opportunities and c…

Health IT and Patient Safety

The Institute of Medicine (IOM) report To Err Is Human estimated that 44,000-98,000 lives are lost every year due to medical errors in hospitals and led to the widespread recognition that health care is not safe enough, catalyzing a revolution to improve the quality of care.1 Despite considerable effort, patient safety has not yet improved to the degree hoped for in the IOM report Crossing the …

The Miracle of Mindfulness

The Miracle of Mindfulness was originally written in Vietnamese as a long letter to Brother Quang, a main staff member of the School of Youth for So- cial Service in South Vietnam in 1974. Its author, the Buddhist monk Thich Nhat Hanh, had founded the School in the 1960s as an outgrowth of "engaged Buddhism." It drew young people deeply commi…

Accounting and Routing in the Internet

There has been discussion of proposals to engage in the collection of traffic flow measurement information for monitoring and to support charging and accounting