Reverberation chambers : theory and applications to EMC and antenna measurements by Boyes, Stephen J., Huang, Yi (Electrical engineer)

Table of Contents: “…2.7.2 Statistical Forms of Measured Magnitudes 2.7.3 Statistical Distribution of Complex Samples; 2.7.4 Statistical Distribution of Measured Power; 2.7.5 Statistical Distribution of Measured Phase; 2.7.6 Concluding Remarks and Recommendations; 2.8 Line of Sight Elements; 2.9 Reverberation Chamber as a Radio Propagation Channel; 2.9.1 Channel Parameters; 2.9.2 Coherence Bandwidth; 2.9.3 Doppler Shift Frequency; 2.9.4 Summary; References; Chapter 3 Mechanical Stirrer Designs and Chamber Performance Evaluation; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Paddle Design Methodology; 3.3 Numerical Analysis.…”
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Turnabout and Deception : Crafting the Double-Cross and the Theory of Outs. by Whaley, Barton

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A primer on the physics of the cosmic microwave background by Giovannini, Massimo, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Evolution equations for the brightness perturbations. 9.5. Line of sight integrals. 9.6. Tight-coupling expansion. 9.7. …”
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The music and literacy connection by Hansen, Dee

Table of Contents: “…Music in the reading environment: decoding : Enhancing reading strategies using music ; Phonological awareness ; Phonemic awareness ; Rhyming ; Sentence segmentation: words and sentences ; Awareness of syllables: syllable segmentation and blending ; Initial and final sounds: Onset rhyme, blending, and segmentation ; Phonemes: blending and segmenting individual phonemes ; Phonemic awareness and phonics instruction ; Sight identification ; Graphophonemic awareness ; Cueing-system awareness ; Fluency ; Exercises for professional learning -- ^4. …”
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RF & wireless technologies

Table of Contents: “…7.5 Improvements; 7.6 References; Chapter 8: Basics of Wireless Local Area Networks; 8.1: Networks Large and Small; 8.2: WLANs from LANs; 8.3: 802.11 WLANs; 8.4: HiperLAN and HiperLAN 2; 8.5: From LANs to PANs; 8.6: Capsule Summary; 8.7: Further Reading; WEP Attacks; Bluetooth; Trellis-Coded Modulations; Standards; Chapter 9: Outdoor Networks; 9.1 Neither Snow nor Rain nor Heat nor Gloom of Night ... ; 9.2 Line-of-Sight Sites; 9.3 Outdoor Coverage Networks; 9.4 Point-to-Multipoint Networks; 9.5 Point-to-Point Bridges; 9.6 Long Unlicensed Links; 9.7 Safety Tips; 9.8 Capsule Summary.…”
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Implantable electronic medical devices by Fitzpatrick, Dennis (Reader in Biomedical engineering)

Table of Contents: “…Front Cover; Implantable Electronic Medical Devices; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; 1 Retinal Implants; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 The Retina; 1.3 Photoreceptor Cells; 1.4 Bipolar and Ganglion Cells; 1.5 Retinal Implants; 1.6 Microelectrodes; 1.7 Microphotodiodes; 1.8 Argus II Retinal Prosthesis (Second Sight Medical Products); 1.9 Artificial Silicon Retina Implant, Optobionics; 1.10 Alpha-IMS Implant by Retina Implant AG; 1.11 Bionic Vision Australia; 1.12 Boston Retinal Implant Project: Bionic Eye Technologies, Inc. and Visus Technologies, Inc.; Bibliography; 2 Smart Contact Lens.…”
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Offshore wind farms : technologies, design and operation

Table of Contents: “…4.2.1 Cup anemometers4.2.2 Wind vanes; 4.3 Surface-based remote sensing; 4.3.1 Basic principles; 4.3.1.1 The idea in a nutshell; 4.3.1.2 How lidars measure line-of-sight wind speeds; 4.3.1.3 Continuous-wave lidars; 4.3.1.4 Pulsed lidars and some contrasts to continuous-wave systems; 4.3.1.5 Direct detection lidars; 4.3.2 Wind lidars; 4.3.2.1 ZephiR 300; 4.3.2.2 Leosphere Windcube V2; 4.3.2.3 The accuracy of wind lidar measurements; 4.3.2.4 How wind lidars measure turbulence and gusts; 4.3.2.5 Deploying wind lidars offshore; 4.3.3 Floating lidars…”
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Minds of our own : inventing feminist scholarship and women's studies in Canada and Québec, 1966-76

Table of Contents: “…Kimball -- Doing women's studies / Pat Armstrong -- Pioneer in feminist political economy: Overcoming the disjuncture / Joan McFarland -- Women's studies at Guelph / Terry Crowley -- Women's studies: Oppression and liberation in the university / Meg Luxton -- Reflections on teaching and writing feminist philosophy in the 1970s / Susan Sherwin -- From marginalized to "establishment": Doing feminist sociology in Canada, Australia, and New Zealand / Maureen Baker -- "To ring true and stand for something" / Wendy Robbins -- Socialist feminist and activist educator / Linda Briskin -- My path to feminist philosophy, 1970-76 / Christine Overall -- Women's sight: Looking backwards into women's studies in Toronto / Ceta Ramkhalawansingh -- The patriarchal context -- Countervailing social movements -- Intersections of gender, racialization, class, and sexual orientation -- Inventing a new scholarship and new sturctures -- Disciplinarity and/or interdisciplinarity -- Student-teacher relations -- Personal impacts -- Interesting times.…”
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Plant Biology and Biotechnology Volume II: Plant Genomics and Biotechnology

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Positioning in wireless communications systems by Sand, Stephan

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 2 Positioning Principles2.1 Propagation Time; 2.1.1 Time of Arrival-TOA; 2.1.2 Time Difference of Arrival-TDOA; 2.1.3 Round-Trip Time of Arrival-RTTOA; 2.1.4 Comparison of Circular and Hyperbolic Positioning; 2.2 Angle of Arrival-AOA; 2.2.1 Two-Dimensional; 2.2.2 Three-Dimensional; 2.2.3 AOA in the Uplink; 2.2.4 The Problem of Non-Line-of-Sight Propagation; 2.3 Fingerprinting; 2.3.1 Cell-ID; 2.3.2 Received Signal Strength-RSS; 2.3.3 Power Delay Profile-PDP; Chapter 3 Measurements and Parameter Extraction; 3.1 Parameter Estimation; 3.1.1 The Estimation Problem.…”
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Encyclopedia of nationalism. Vol. 2, Leaders, movements, and concepts

Table of Contents: “…. -- Henlein, Konrad -- Henry, Patrick -- Herder, Johann Gottfried von -- Herzl, Theodor -- Hidalgo, Miguel -- Hirohito -- Hitler, Adolf -- Hlinka, Andrej -- Ho Chi Minh -- Homeland -- Hrushevsky, Mykhailo -- Human Rights -- Humanism -- Hungarian Nationalism -- Husák, Gustav -- Husayn, Sharif -- Hussein, King of Jordan -- Hussein, Saddam -- Hypernationalism -- Icelandic Nationalism -- Identity -- Imperialism -- Indian Nationalism -- Indonesian Nationalism -- Industrial Revolution -- Industrialization -- International Community -- Iran, Nationalism in -- Iranian Nationalism -- Iraqi Nationalism -- Irish Nationalism -- Irish Republican Army -- Iron Guard -- Iroquois Confederacy -- Irredentism, Concept of -- Irredentism, History of -- Italian Nationalism -- Ito, Hirobumi -- Izetbegović, Alija -- Japanese Nationalism -- Jaruzelski, Wojciech -- Jefferson, Thomas -- Jemilev, Mustafa -- Jinnah, Mohammed Ali -- Joan of Arc -- Johnson, Lyndon B. -- Jordan, June -- Joseph (Chief) -- Jovanović, Slobodan -- Juárez, Benito -- Kádár, János.…”
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The SAGE handbook of global childhoods. volume 1

Table of Contents: “…Part V: Creating communities for global children -- Introduction -- 38: Unpacking children and childhoods in Indonesian preschool policy documents -- 39: Infants and young children in alternative care -- 40: Pedagogic resistance: children's play as political agency -- 41: Children walking diverse worlds: facing the trouble of a settler colonial past and present -- 42: Fostering community and environmental sustainability in early childhood: a project on living things in a preschool classroom -- 43: Becoming ADHD in U.S. public early childhood classrooms: childhood amidst accountability policies -- 44: What deaf children think about deaf education -- 45: Constructing an inclusive understanding of rights from the ground up: listening to young children through an international documentary film adventure -- 46: Justice, dignity and respect: love as an organizing principle in global childhoods.…”
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The Cambridge handbook of sociocultural psychology

Table of Contents: “…Part VI: From Social Culture To Personal Culture -- Culture and Social Representations / Gerard Duveen -- The Institutions Inside: Self, Morality, and Culture / Piero Paolicchi -- Identity, Rights, and Duties: The Illustrative Case of Positioning by Iran, the United States, and the European Union / Fathali M. …”
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The Routledge encyclopedia of social and cultural anthropology

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- How to use this book -- List of contributors -- Analytical table of contents -- Contributions by author -- Biographical appendix -- Glossary -- Aboriginal Australia -- Acknowledgements -- Adoption and fostering -- Aesthetics -- Affect -- Africa: East -- Africa: Nilotic -- Africa: Southern -- Africa: West -- Age -- AIDS -- Alliance -- American anthropology -- Americas: Central -- Americas: Latin America -- Americas: Native North America -- Americas: Native South America (Highland) -- Americas: Native South America (Lowland) -- Ancestors -- Anthropological societies -- Archaeology -- Arctic -- Art -- Asia: Central -- Asia: East -- Asia: South -- Asia: Southeast -- Avunculate -- Belief -- Big Man -- Biological anthropology -- Boas, Franz -- Body -- British anthropology -- Buddhism -- Canadian anthropology -- Cannibalism -- Capitalism -- Cargo cult -- Caribbean -- Caste -- Cattle complex -- Children and childhood -- Chinese anthropology -- Christianity -- Citizenship -- Civil society -- Class -- Classical studies -- Classification -- Cognatic society -- Cognition -- Colonialism -- Community -- Compadrazgo -- Comparative method -- Complementary filiation -- Complex society -- Componential analysis -- Conception -- Consumption -- Cosmology -- Cosmopolitanism -- Counterinsurgency -- Crow-Omaha systems -- Cultural materialism -- Cultural studies -- Culture -- Culture and personality -- Dance -- Death -- Dedication -- Descent -- Development -- Diaspora -- Diffusionism -- Discourse -- Divination -- Dreams -- Dual organization -- Dutch anthropology -- Ecological anthropology -- Economic anthropology -- Editorial board -- Education -- Emic and etic -- Emotion -- Engagement -- Enlightenment anthropology -- Environment -- Essentialism -- Ethics, anthropological -- Ethics, anthropology of -- Ethnicity -- Ethnography -- Ethnopsychiatry -- Ethnoscience -- Europe: Central and Eastern -- Europe: Northern -- Europe: Southern -- Evolution and evolutionism -- Exchange -- Factions -- Family -- Fashion -- Feminist anthropology -- Feudalism -- Fieldwork -- Film -- Finance -- Fishing -- Folklore -- Food -- Formalism and substantivism -- French anthropology -- Friendship -- Functionalism -- Gay and lesbian anthropology -- Gender -- Genealogical method -- Genetics, anthropology of -- Genocide -- German and Austrian anthropology -- Ghost dance -- Gossip -- Great and little traditions -- Gypsies -- Hinduism -- History and anthropology -- History of anthropology -- Honour and shame -- House -- Household -- Human rights -- Hunting and gathering societies -- Identity -- Ideology -- Incest -- Indian anthropology -- Indigenous knowledge -- Indigenous peoples -- Individualism -- Inequality -- Islam -- Japan -- Japanese anthropology -- Joking and avoidance -- Kingship -- Kinship -- Kula -- Land tenure -- Landscape -- Language and linguistics -- Latin American anthropology -- Law -- Lèvi-Strauss, Claude -- Literacy -- Literature -- Magic -- Malinowski, Bronislaw -- Mana -- Markets -- Marriage -- Marxism and anthropology -- Mass media -- Material culture -- Medical anthropology -- Memory -- Menstruation -- Methodology -- Middle East and North Africa -- Migration -- Millennial movements, millenarianism -- Missionaries -- Mode of production -- Modernism, modernity and modernization -- Money -- Morgan, Lewis Henry -- Multiculturalism -- Multi-sited ethnography -- Museums -- Music -- Myth and mythology -- Names and naming -- Nationalism -- Nature and culture -- Neoliberalism -- Network analysis -- Nomadism -- Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) -- Number -- Nutrition -- Occidentalism -- Oral literature -- Oratory -- Orientalism -- Pacific: Melanesia -- Pacific: Polynesia -- Pastoralists -- Patrons and clients -- Peasants -- Person -- Pharmaceuticals -- Photography -- Pilgrimage -- Place -- Play -- Plural society -- Poetics -- Political anthropology -- Political economy -- Pollution and purity -- Possession -- Postmodernism -- Potlatch -- Power -- Preface to the second edition -- Preference and prescription -- Primitive communism -- Primitive mentality -- Property -- Psychoanalysis -- Psychological anthropology -- Race -- Radcliffe-Brown, A.R. -- Rationality -- Reflexivity -- Refugees -- Regional analysis and regional comparison -- Relatedness -- Relationship terminology -- Relativism -- Religion -- Reproductive technologies -- Resistance -- Rite of passage -- Ritual -- Russian and Soviet anthropology -- Sacred and profane -- Sacrifice -- Sapir-Whorf hypothesis -- Scandals, anthropological -- Scandinavian anthropology -- Science -- Science and technology studies (STS) -- Settlement patterns -- Sex and sexuality -- Shamanism -- Sharecropping -- Slavery -- Social structure and social organization -- Socialization -- Society -- Sociobiology -- Sociology -- South African anthropology -- Sovereignty -- State -- Structuralism -- Symbolic anthropology -- Syncretism -- Taboo -- Technology -- Text -- Time and space -- Totemism -- Tourism -- Transhumance -- Translation -- Transnationalism -- Urban anthropology -- Violence -- Visual anthropology -- War, warfare -- Well-being and happiness -- Witchcraft and sorcery -- Work -- World system -- Youth.…”

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Global undergrounds : exploring cities within

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Global Undergrounds Exploring Cities within -- Imprint Page -- Contents -- Preface: Global Undergrounds -- Introduction: Exploring Cities Within -- Origins -- Taming the Quagmire: Cloaca Maxima, Rome -- Journey of an Underground Army: Xi'an -- Protective Labyrinths: Sint Petersburg Tunnels, Maastricht -- A Skiff, Fish and Wells: Basilica Cistern, Istanbul -- Old, Deep and Discreet: Cappadocia's Underground Cities -- Under Kingdom: The Layers of Mexico City -- Labour -- Absurd Space: Williamson Tunnels, Liverpool -- Hidden Labour: Broad Street Subway, Philadelphia -- Salt of a Mining Cathedral: Zipaquirá, Colombia -- Human Life Underground: Vale un Potosí, Bolivia -- Infrastructural Fetishism: York Metro Extension, Toronto -- Wares, Rights and Stars: Delhi's Metro and Bazar -- Dwelling -- Underground Outback: Coober Pedy, Australia -- Beneath the Neon: Flood Channels, Las Vegas -- Death Squads and Firebombs: Sewers of Bogotá -- Mateship Below: Melbourne Drains -- Class Dividers: Lower Wacker Drive, Chicago -- Diggers and Deserters: Odessa Catacombs -- Refuse -- Into the Vortex: Brighton Sewers -- Waste and Work: New York City Sewers -- Lost Undergrounds: Atlantic Avenue Tunnel, New York -- Repressed Wastes: London's Sewers -- Burying Incomprehensible Horror: Yucca Mountain Nuclear Storage -- Memory -- Sinking Histories: Berlin's S- and U-Bahn Tunnels -- Bunker Art: Christian and Karen Boros Collection, Berlin -- Bedrock Memories: Nottingham's Caves -- Remembering the Map: Prestwich Memorial, Cape Town -- Underground Clouds: Hong Kong Data Centres -- Mirror of History: Berlin's Water Tower -- Ghosts -- Haunted Spaces: Edinburgh's Medieval Vaults -- Visiting the Dead: London's Victorian Catacombs -- Temporal Disjunctions: Abandoned London Underground -- Adopting the Dead: Fontanelle Cemetery, Naples.…”
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Human Centered Computing 6th International Conference, HCC 2020, Virtual Event, December 14–15, 2020, Revised Selected Papers

Table of Contents: “…Dynamic Pick and Place Trajectory of Delta Parallel Manipulator -- Design of aquatic product traceability coding scheme based on EPC label -- DEVS-based Modeling and Simulation of Wireless Sensor Network -- Spatial Reciprocity Aided CSI Acquirement for HST Massive MIMO -- A flexible film thermocouple temperature sensor -- Design of a Morphing Surface Using Auxetic Lattice Skin for Space-Reconfigurable Reflectors -- The Method of User Information Fusion Oriented to Manufacturing Service Value Net -- Image Fusion Method for Transformer Substation Based on NSCT and Visual Saliency -- Permission Dispatching Mechanism Inside and Outside of the Warranty Period for Equipment Maintenance Service System -- New Technology Development and Application Trends Based on Monitoring of Patent Data -- A K-means clustering optimization algorithm for spatiotemporal trajectory data -- Temporal and Spatial Changes of Ecosystem Health in Guangdong Province in Recent 11 years -- Salient Attention Model and Classes Imbalance Remission for Video Anomaly Analysis with Weak Label -- A Data Fusion Model based on Multi-source Non-real-time Intelligence -- Ancient Chinese Lexicon Construction Based on Unsupervised Algorithm of Minimum Entropy and CBDB Optimization -- Availability Analysis of GNSS RAIM based on Maximum Undetectable Position Bias -- Psychological semantic differences of Zhang Juzheng before and after DuoQing event -- Digital Rights Management Platform Based on Blockchain Technology -- A Deep Hybrid Neural Network Forecasting for Multivariate Non-stationary Time Series -- Risk Assessment of Flood Disasters in Hechi City Based on GIS -- Cultural Symbol Recognition Algorithm Based on CTPN+CRNN -- Spatial-temporal Variation and Future Changing Trend of NDVI in the Pearl River Basin from 1982 to 2015 -- An Improved Collaborative Filtering Algorithm Based on Filling Missing Data -- Diagnosis method of Alzheimer's disease in PET image based on CNN multi-mode network -- Research on Multi-floor Path Planning Based on Recommendation Factors -- E-commerce Review Classification Based on SVM -- Experimental Research of Galfenol Composite Cantilever -- A capacitive flexible tactile sensor -- Multi-objective optimization of e-commerce logistics warehouse layout based on genetic algorithm -- Magnetic Circuit Design of Galfenol Composite Cantilever.…”
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Ronald Reagan on the Economy and Government Spending

Table of Contents: “…America: Keeper of the Dreams (0:36) -- Thanksgiving Address on Arms Reduction (0:45) -- Americans and the Soviet Union (0:14) -- No Nobler Purpose (0:58) -- A Time of Reawakening in America (1:11) -- What Makes Americans a Good and Loving People (0:47) -- Leadership was Thrust Upon Us After World War II (0:24) -- 40th Anniversary of D-Day at Pointe du Hoc (1:07) -- Don't Take Democracy for Granted (0:27) -- Lady Liberty's Promise to All Citizens (2:06) -- Why America is Committed to the World (0:33) -- Statue of Liberty Centennial Celebration (3:22) -- America's Accomplishments (0:56) -- Dedicated to the Dream of Freedom for America and the World (1:13) -- On the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (0:39) -- Tax Reform and the American Dream (0:27) -- Honoring Martin Luther King, Jr. (4:03) -- "You Can't Put a Price Tag on the American Dream" (0:39) -- Family is the Bedrock of American Society (0:27) -- On Supporting the Family (0:21) -- Inspiring Americans - What President Lincoln Sought to Save (0:58) -- "The Time for Action is Always Now" (0:34) -- On America's Will to Succeed (0:20) -- "Our Glorious Experiment in Democracy" (0:49) -- On Freedom (0:20) -- Inspiring Young People to Dream Big (0:43) -- "This is No Time for Small Plans" (0:43) -- Anybody...Can Become an American (0:28) -- Why Reagan Likes America (0:23) -- God's Verdict-the Only Ballot That Matters (0:32) -- The Enduring Sail and Compass of Our Nation: We the People (0:35) -- USS Midway, Freedom Man & the Shining City (3:13) -- "Win Just One for the Gipper" (0:57)…”
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Collected Works of George Grant : Vol. 4: 1970-1988. by Davis, Arthur

Table of Contents: “…'An Interview with George Grant' -- Technology and Justice -- Thinking about Technology -- Faith and the Multiversity -- Nietzsche and the Ancients -- Research in the Humanities -- The Language of Euthanasia -- Abortion and Rights -- Review of If You Love This Country: Facts and Feelings on Free Trade -- 'Sacrifice and the Sanctity of Life' (with Sheila Grant) -- 'The Triumph of the Will' -- 'George Grant and Religion' -- A Conversation with William Christian -- George Grant on Simone Weil -- Editorial Introduction -- 'Some Comments on Simone Weil and the Neurotic and Alienated' -- 'Introduction to Simone Weil' -- 'Introduction to the Reading of Simone Weil' -- Excerpts from Graduate Seminar Lectures, 1975-6 -- Review of Simone Weil: A Life -- 'In Defence of Simone Weil, ' a Review Essay on Simone Weil: A Modern Pilgrimage -- Excerpt from Interview by David Cayley -- Primarily on Simone Weil -- Book Reviews Published in the Globe and Mail -- Review of The Collected Works of Walter Bagehot: Volumes V-VIII, The Political Writings -- Review of The Gladstone Diaries: Volumes III and IV -- Review of Essays on Politics and Society, Volumes XVIII and XIX of The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill -- 'Torture in Greece, ' a Review of The First Torturer's Trial 1975 -- Review of The Idea File of Harold Adams Innis -- Review of The Great Code: The Bible and Literature -- Review of Benjamin Disraeli: The Early Letters, Volumes I and II -- Review of Outsiders: A Study in Life and Letters -- 'Literature and the Uncertainty of Modern Criticism, ' a Review of The World, the Text and the Critic -- Some Letters to the Editor of the Globe and Mail -- Lectures at McMaster University in the 1970s -- A Selection -- Undergraduate Lectures -- 'Five Lectures on Christianity' -- 'The Beautiful and the Good' -- 'Resurrection'.…”
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The Eternal Dissident Rabbi Leonard I. Beerman and the Radical Imperative to Think and Act by Beerman, Leonard I., 1921-2014

Table of Contents: “…Bush, April 11, 2008 / commentary by Norman Lear -- Human rights watch, November 17, 2009 / commentary by Jane Olson -- A sermon for all saints, July 3, 2007 / commentary by Mel Levine -- Time in Israel, part I, Time in israel, part II / commentary by Daniel Sokatch -- CCAR Breira statement / commentary by Professor Michael Meyer -- Yom Kippur morning, October 11, 1978 / commentary by Milton Viorst -- Yom Kippur eve, September 26, 1982 / commentary by Connie Bruck -- Visions of peace in the Middle East, October 31, 1992 / commentary by Salam al-Mariyati -- A sermon for Yom Kippur morning, October 1, 2006 (on the 24th anniversary of the 1982 war) / commentary by Rabbi Brant Rosen -- Exchange with Bruce Ramer, October 2006-January 2007 / commentary by Bruce Ramer -- Last sermon on Gaza, October 4, 2014 / commentary by Professor Nomi Stolzenberg -- Sayings of Leonard I. …”
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Engaging Patients In Healthcare. by Coulter, Angela

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1 The policy context -- Overview -- The case for engagement -- Challenging professional dominance -- Promoting responsiveness -- Policy goals -- The patient's role -- Trust -- A note on terminology -- Summary -- References -- 2 Improving care processes -- Overview -- Policy levers -- Patient-centred care -- Patients' priorities -- Monitoring the quality of care -- Substandard care -- International comparisons -- Obtaining and using patient feedback -- Perceptions of NHS care -- Incentivizing quality improvements -- Giving patients a choice of provider -- The pros and cons of choice -- Exercising choice -- Strengthening patients' rights -- The Patients' Charter -- The NHS Constitution -- Involving patients in redesigning services -- Experience-based design -- Summary -- References -- Further reading -- 3 Building health literacy -- Overview -- The importance of health literacy -- Literacy and health inequalities -- Measuring health literacy -- Raising standards -- Health education -- Theories of health behaviour -- Health information -- Information sources -- Health information on the Internet -- Information quality -- Information as therapy -- Impact of health information -- Health in the media -- Impact of media stories -- Disease-mongering -- Social marketing -- Summary -- References -- Further reading -- 4 Selecting treatments -- Overview -- Shared decision-making -- Practice variations -- Sharing expertise -- Clinician-patient relationships -- Shared decision-making and health reform -- Expectations of involvement -- Lack of involvement in decisions -- Informed consent -- Patient decision aids -- Risk communication -- Support for participation -- Advance care plans -- Improving decision quality -- Overcoming the barriers -- Summary -- References -- Further reading -- 5 Strengthening self-care.…”
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