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Controversy in Cardiology
The Practical Clinical Approach
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The purpose of this book is not to discuss in depth various topics in medicine nor to describe in detail all possible controversial subjects in car diology. The primary intention is to describe common cardiac problems with significant controversial viewpoints frequently encountered in our daily...
Primary and Secondary Prevention of Coronary Heart Disease
Results of New Trials
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In recent years, major social forces such as: ageing populations, social trends, migration patterns, and the globalization of economies, have reshaped social welfare policies and practices across the globe. Multinational corporations, NGOs, and other international organizations have begun to influence...
Legal Integration and Language Diversity
Rethinking Translation in EU Lawmaking
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
How can the European Union create laws that are uniform in a multitude of languages? Specifically, how can it attain both legal integration and language diversity simultaneously, without the latter compromising the former? C.J.W. Baaijargues that the answer lies in the domain of translation. A uniform...
by B. Ablad, C.-J. Estler, J.W. Franz
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In conjunction with the Twelfth International Congress of Gerontology, the Carl-Korth Institute for Cardiovascular Research organized an international symposium on "Beta Blockers in the Elderly." It was the intention of the Scientific Committee that during this symposium we would discuss...
by C.G Clarke, Dr J P Dickenson, J.P Dickenson
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
The label of "Third World" covers half the land surface and three quarters of the population of the planet. The problems and potential of this region and its peoples are attracting increasing concern and interest.
Fully revised and updated this edition includes: * a wealth of photographic...
by J.A. Butters, D.W. Hollomon, S.J. Kendall
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
Over the past 30 years one alarming trend is the emergence of plant species resistant to agrochemicals (e.g. insecticides, herbicides, fungicides). Considering the fact that these pesticides are crucial to human health and to food, feed and fiber production, impressive research was carried out during...
Interstitial, Endocavitary and Perfusional Hyperthermia
Methods and Clinical Trials
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
"Internal" hyperthermia is a type of thermotherapy by which heat is sup plied to tumor tissue in situ. There are three different techniques for pro viding internal hyperthermia: (1) interstitial hyperthermia using implanted needle probes, (2) intracavitary hyperthermia using probes introduced...
Promoting Self-Change from Problem Substance Use
Practical Implications for Policy, Prevention and Treatment
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
For many years, what has been known about recovery from addictive behaviors has come solely from treatment studies. Only recently has the study of recoveries in the absence of formal treatment or self-help groups provided an alternative source of information.
This book on the process of self-change...
Connecting Teaching and Learning
History, Evolution, and Case Studies of Teacher Work Sample Methodology
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2011
As accountability in education has become an increasingly prominent topic, teacher preparation programs are being asked to provide credible evidence that their teacher candidates can impact student learning.
Teacher Work Samples, first developed 30 years ago, have emerged as an effective method...
Relationships Between Perception and Action
Current Approaches
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book is the fruit of a study group on perception and action that worked at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiP) of the University of Bielefeld, FRG in the academic year 1984-1985. We express our gratitude to the ZiF for hosting the group and for providing fmancial and organizational...
The Low Countries History Yearbook 1979
Acta Historiae Neerlandicae
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
by J.R. Durant, F.W. Gunz, E.S. Henderson
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This new series on the treatment of cancer is sponsored by the VICe. The editors and authors feel strongly that more standardiza tion is needed on a worldwide basis in cancer therapy. This, of course, is only possible if experts from all countries subscribe to a joint policy of making their treatment...
Patient Care Information Systems
Successful Design and Implementation
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In the current era of health care reform, the pressures to truly manage patient care and to build effective integrated delivery systems are generating intense interest in patient care information systems. Health care institutions cannot provide seamlees access to care without seamless access to information,...
Sherrington
His Life and Thought
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
So much has been written about the scientific contributions of Sherrington that the man himself, and his thoughts, have been overshadowed. More and more, students of history are calling for creative writing on the whole man, particularly when he is a genius. Those interested in the genesis of ideas...