A socio-cultural perspective on patient safety

Table of Contents: “…Foreword / Paul Barach -- Introduction : a socio-cultural perspective on patient safety / Emma Rowley and Justin Waring -- All news is bad news : patient safety in the news media / Cecily Palmer and Toby Murcott -- Broadening the patient safety movement : listening, involving, and learning / Josephine Ocloo -- Narrowing the gap between safety policy and practice : the role of nurses' implicit theories and heuristics / Anat Drach-Zahavy and Anit Somech -- Resources of strength : an exnovation of hidden competences to preserve patient safety / Jessica Mesman -- Deviantly innovative : when risking patient safety is the right thing to do / Emma Rowley -- The precarious gap between information technology and patient safety : lessons from medication systems / Habibollah Pirnejad and Roland Bal -- The politics of learning : the dilemma for patient safety / Justin Waring and Graeme Currie -- Exploring the contributions of professional-practice networks to knowledge sharing, problem-solving, and patient safety / Simon Bishop and Justin Waring -- Challenges to learning from clinical adverse events : a study of root cause analysis in practice / Jeanne Mengis and Davide Nicolini -- Patient safety and clinical practice improvement : the importance of reflecting on real-time, in situ care processes / Rick Iedema.…”
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Aphasia and related neurogenic language disorders

Table of Contents: “…Robey -- Resources for families and clinicians / Adrienne Hancock -- Right hemisphere syndrome / Margaret L. Blake -- Dementia / Michelle S. …”


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Taekwondo Basics. by Shaw, Scott

Table of Contents: “…Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Part 1: Introduction; Chapter 1: the History of Taekwondo; Chapter 2: the Philosophy of Taekwondo; Chapter 3: the Branches of Taek-wondo; Part 2: Getting Started; Chapter 4: Choosing the Right School; Chapter 5: Taekwondo Preliminaries; Chapter 6: the Taekwondo class; Chapter 7: Your First Class; Chapter 8: Safety; Part 3: Learning the Basics; Chapter 9: Stances; Chapter 10: Blocks; Chapter 11: Hand and Arm Strikes; Chapter 12: Kicking; Part 4: Conditioning; Chapter 13: Stretching; Chapter 14: Taekwondo and Cardioaerobic Conditioning.…”
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Nursing excellence for children and families

Table of Contents: “…Hamilton -- Protecting the right to privacy and confidentiality of information / Ann M. …”


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Investment Opportunities in the United Kingdom : Parts 4-7 of The Investors' Guide to the United Kingdom 2015/16. by Reuvid, Jonathan

Table of Contents: “…6.2 Mergers and Acquisitions and Joint Ventures6.3 Merger and Acquisition Transaction Processes; 6.4 The AIM Market of the London Stock Exchange; 6.5 A Guide to Investment in UKCommercial Property; Part Seven: Emergent UK Investment Opportunities; 7.1 The UK -- A Launchpad for Starting and Scaling Up to become a Global Business; 7.2 The UK as an Export Hub for Inward Investors; 7.3 The UK Economy Offers the Right Mix for Long-term Success in Digital Healthcare.…”
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Pro TBB : C++ parallel programming with threading building blocks by Voss, Michael, Asenjo Plaza, Rafael, Reinders, James

Table of Contents: “…Part I -- Chapter 1: Jumping Right In - "Hello, TBB!" -- Chapter 2: Generic Parallel Algorithms -- Chapter 3: Flow Graphs -- Chapter 4: TBB and the C++ Parallel Standard Template Library -- Chapter 5: Synchronization: why and how to avoid it -- Chapter 6: Data Structures for Concurrency -- Chapter 7: Scalable Memory Allocation -- Chapter 8: Mapping Parallel Patterns to TBB -- Part II -- Chapter 9: The Pillars of Composability -- Chapter 10: Using tasks to create your own algorithms -- Chapter 11: Controlling the Number of Threads Used for Execution -- Chapter 12: Using Work Isolation for Correctness and Performance -- Chapter 13: Creating Thread-to-core and Task-to-thread Affinity -- Chapter 14: Using Task Priorities -- Chapter 15: Cancellation and Exception Handling -- Chapter 16: Tuning TBB Algorithms: Granularity, Locality, Parallelism and Determinism -- Chapter 17: Flow Graphs: Beyond the Basics -- Chapter 18: Beef up Flow Graphs with Async Nodes -- Chapter 19: Flow Graphs on steroids: OpenCL Nodes -- Chapter 20: TBB on NUMA architectures -- Appendix A: History and Inspiration -- Appendix B: TBB Précis -- Glossary.…”
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Will the world run out of fresh water?

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- There is a looming global fresh water shortage / Paul Alois -- People must learn not to take water for granted / Charles Fishman -- Desalination is part of the solution to fresh water shortages / McKinley Conway -- Desalination is too expensive to be a solution to fresh water shortages / Kris De Decker -- Desalination threatens the environment and public health / Food & water watch -- Human ingenuity will eventually solve the looming fresh water shortage / Brian Fagan -- Fresh water is becoming a privatized commodity instead of a public trust / Jeneen Interlandi with Ryan Tracy -- Fresh water should be treated as a commodity / Peter Brabeck-Letmathe -- Fresh water should be treated as a human right / Maude Barlow -- Access to fresh water may spark conflict in the Middle East / Daniel Darling -- Access to fresh water is a contentious issue in the Israel-Palestine conflict / Wilson Dizard -- Middle Eastern governments must increase fresh water conservation / Jon B. …”


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Perspectives in Business Informatics Research 19th International Conference on Business Informatics Research, BIR 2020, Vienna, Austria, September 21–23, 2020, Proceedings

Table of Contents: “…Digital Transformation and Technology Acceptance -- The Acceptance of Smart Home Technology -- Measuring the Barriers to the Digital Transformation in Management Courses – a Mixed Methods Study -- Experiences of Applying the Second Step of the Digital Innovation and Transformation Process in Zoological Institutions -- Multi-perspective Enterprise Models and Frameworks -- Cyber Security Resilience in Business Informatics: An exploratory paper -- The Model for Continuous IT Solution Engineering for Supporting Legal Entity Analysis -- Fields of Action to Advance the Digital Transformation of NPOs – Development of a Framework -- Supporting Information Systems Development -- Is Team Always Right: Producing Risk Aware Effort Estimates in Agile Development -- Design Decisions and their Implications: An Ontology Quality Perspective -- Service Dependency Graph Analysis in Microservice Architecture -- Literature and Conceptual Analysis -- Text Mining the Variety of Trends in the Field of Simulation Modeling Research -- Service Quality Evaluation Using Text Mining: A systematic literature review -- Making use of the Capability and Process Concepts – a Structured Comparison Method -- Value Creation and Value Management -- Designing Causal Inference Systems for Value-based Spare Parts Pricing: An ADR Study at MAN Energy Solutions -- Organizational Change toward IT-supported Personal Advisory in Incumbent Banks.…”
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Interfaces and interface conditions

Table of Contents: “…: navigating in question answer discourse / Regine Eckardt -- Old and new propositions / Kerstin Schwabe -- Deriving selectional properties of 'exclamative' predicates / Klaus Abels -- German w-clauses at the left and right periphery of copular sentences / Use Zimmermann -- On the syntax of prepositional phrases / Josef Bayer and Markus Bader -- The structure of events in word formation / Rosemarie Luhr -- The lexical content of connectors and its interplay with intonation : an interim balance on sentential connection in discourse / Ewald Lang and Marcela Adamikova -- Contextual boundness and contrast in the Prague dependency treebank / Eva Hajicova, Petr Sgall and Katerina Vesela -- On the semantic foundations of the contrastive focus within a lexicalist approach / Andreas Spath -- Focus on focus : the brain's electrophysiological response to focus particles and accents in German / Stefan Heim and Kai Alter -- Corpus- and psycholinguistic investigations of linguistic constraints on German object order / Sandra Pappert, Johannes Schliesser, Dirk P. …”
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The truth about day trading stocks : a cautionary tale about hard challenges and what it takes to succeed by DiPietro, Josh, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…About Those Training Programs -- Picking the Right Online Broker: Pay-per-Share versus Pay-per-Trade -- Paper-Trading Strategy -- Trading for Skill versus Trading for Income -- The Perfect Trading Day -- The Worst Trading Day -- Parting Words -- Rules to Remember -- About the Author -- Index.…”
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Marketing stripped bare : an insider's guide to the secret rules by Forsyth, Patrick

Table of Contents: “…Marketing in context -- No customer can be worse than no customer -- Sex -- A bridge over troubled water -- The company -- The market -- Competition and other difficulties -- Spotting opportunities -- Creating the right mixture -- The marketing plan -- Planning the attack -- May I ask you a few questions? …”


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Brand Media Strategy, 2nd Edition Integrated Communications Planning in the Digital Era. by Young, A. (Antony)

Table of Contents: “…CONDUCTING THE ORCHESTRA: Making Integration Real CHAPTER 8; UNLOCKING MOMENTS OF RECEPTIVITY: How Media Context Helps Advertising Deliver More Relevant Communications ; CHAPTER 9; TOUCH POINT SELECTION: Determining the Right Media Channel Mix ; CHAPTER 10; GETTING SOCIAL: Connecting Through Socially Enabled Communications ; CHAPTER 11; EXECUTION IS THE X-FACTOR: Bringing the Brand Media Strategy to Life ; CHAPTER 12; MEASUREMENTS AND METRICS: Making the Brand Media Strategy Accountable ; CHAPTER 13; BIG DATA AND ANALYTICS: From Mad Men to Math Men (And Women); Acknowledgments.…”
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The new inquisitions : heretic-hunting and the intellectual origins of modern totalitarianism by Versluis, Arthur, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…-- Digital revolution -- High weirdness in the American hinterlands -- The satanic panic of late-twentieth-century America -- Illuminatiphobia -- The Christian illuminati -- The American state of exception -- Rendering to the secular arm -- Berdyaev's insight -- Dostoevsky revisited -- Berdyaev on inquisitional psychopathology -- Totalitarianism of the left and of the right -- The betrayal of humanity -- It can happen here -- Conclusion : disorder as order -- Böhme's metaphysics of evil -- Ideocracy's consequences -- Heresy and history -- The ubiquity of ideopathology -- Mysticism and Plato's cave.…”
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Clinical echocardiography review : a self-assessment tool

Table of Contents: “…14 Stress Echocardiography: Ischemic and Nonischemic15 Dyssynchrony Evaluation/AV Optimization; 16 Aortic Valve Disease; 17 Mitral Valvular Disease; 18 Pulmonic and Tricuspid Valvular Disease; 19 Prosthetic Valves; 20 Endocarditis; 21 Interventional Echocardiography; 22 Cardiomyopathies; 23 Left Ventricular Assist Devices and Transplantation; 24 Systemic Disease; 25 Pericardial Diseases; 26 Aortic Diseases; 27 Atrial Fibrillation; 28 Right Ventricular Disease and Pulmonary Hypertension; 29 Tumors, Masses, and Source of Emboli; 30 Noncyanotic Congenital Heart Disease.…”
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The Revolt Against Psychiatry A Counterhegemonic Dialogue by Burstow, Bonnie

Table of Contents: “…“This is Not a Time to Lie Low”: Dialogue with International Lawyer, Survivor, and Human Rights Advocate Tina Minkowitz -- 13. “I So Loved My Son that I Had to Promise Him that I Had Do Everything that I Could”: Dialogue with Mother and Archivist Julie Wood -- 14. …”
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Participatory Biodiversity Conservation Concepts, Experiences, and Perspectives

Table of Contents: “…Domesticated Nature: The culturally constructed niche of humanity -- 3. The right to food? Protected areas, conservation and access -- 4. …”
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The international MBA student's guide to the U.S. job search.

Table of Contents: “…Job Interviews; Interview Preparation; Discussing Your Visa Status; In the Interview; Finding the Right Job; Researching Potential Employers; What to Watch Out For; Companies Likely to Sponsor a Visa; Who's Hiring; Negotiating Your Job Offer; The U.S. …”
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Samuel Fuller : interviews by Fuller, Samuel, 1912-1997

Table of Contents: “…Weaver (1949) -- Fuller emblem: big red one signifies Sammy's wartime days / James Bacon (1958) -- Samuel Fuller: interview / Stig Bjorkman (1965) -- Samuel Fuller / Eric Sherman and Martin Rubin (1968) -- Samuel Fuller: a cinema interview / Ian Christie [et al.] (1969) -- Proust's Madeleine, that's pure cinema / Dominique Rabourdin and Tristan Renaud (1974) -- Sam Fuller's suicide note / Richard Thompson (1976) -- "Being wrong is the right way of living": an interview with Samuel Fuller / Russell Merritt and Peter Lehman (1980) -- Rough trade on Ivar Boulevard: Griffith Meets Sam Fuller / Russell Merritt (1980) -- Cigars and cinema with Sam Fuller / Gerald Peary (1980) -- Samuel Fuller: survivor / Tom Ryan (1980) -- Fuller without a script / Noel Simsolo (1982) -- An interview with Sam Fuller / Don Ranvaud (1982) -- A long chat with Sam Fuller / Richard Schickel (1982) -- Seven questions for foreign filmmakers shooting in France / Hubert Niogret ... …”


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Music, power, and politics

Table of Contents: “…Eldridge -- Fighting for the right (to) party? : discursive negotiations of power in pre-unification East German popular music / E. …”
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Constructing power and place in Mesoamerica : pre-Hispanic paintings from three regions

Table of Contents: “…Dynasty and Hierarchy in the Tombs of Monte Albán, Oaxaca -- Chapter Seven. The Divine Right to Hold Power in the Mixtec Capitals of Monte Negro and Tilantongo -- Chapter Eight. …”
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