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Overview: Provides background and insight regarding current challenges of value assessment.Teaches readers how to think about value so that they can best determine how to assess value for a given situation.PresThese days, the idea of “value” is at the center of many activities and decisions in health care in the United States. While there exist books that detail the technical steps for how to carry out a specific type of value assessment, such as cost-effectiveness or return on investment, there are few that attempt to teach healthcare professionals how to think about value. This book provides

Overview: ‘An excellent textbook for an advanced undergraduate orintroductory graduate course on polymer chemistry. ...The book is easyto read andunderstand. The emphasis on commercially importantmaterials makes ita definite choice for a textbook.‘-.MicrochemicalJournal. ‘This exellent, well-writtenbook, suitable for advancedundergraduates and graduate level classesin polymer syntheses, wouldalso be useful as a general resourcebook....thoroughly referenced,and contain[s] excellent problemsets.‘ -.Choice. Thisoutstanding text combinescomprehensive discussions of reactionmechanisms of polymer ch

Overview: The first study of the productions of the minor theatres, how they were adapted to appeal to the local patrons and the audiences who worked and lived in these communities.978-1-349-29752-8978-0-230-37065-4Series ISSN 2691-1256 Series E-ISSN 2634-5218

Overview: In today’s turbulent technological environment, it’s becoming increasingly crucial for companies to know about the principle of. least privilege.. These organizations often have the best security software money can buy, with equally developed policies with which to execute them, but they fail to take into account the weakest link in their implementation: human nature. Despite all other efforts, people can sway from what they should be doing.. . .Preventing Good People from doing Bad Things. drives that concept home to business executives, auditors, and IT professionals alike. Instead

Overview: .This book constitutes the proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming, CP 2020, held in Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, in September 2020. The conference was held virtually due to the COVID-19 pandemic...The 55 full papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 122 submissions. They deal with all aspects of computing with constraints including theory, algorithms, environments, languages, models, systems, and applications such as decision making, resource allocation, scheduling, configuration, and planni

Overview: First book of its kind to cover social welfare on a global scale, not limited to just North American or Europe.Examines the macroscopic driving forces that shape economic trends in post-indistrial soc.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 social policy at a national and local level. Among the many ramifications of these cha

Overview: Da Unternehmen zunehmend mit externen sozio-politischen Interessengruppen konfrontiert sind, kann ihnen ein ganzheitlicher Ansatz im Bereich des so genannten Public Affairs Management dauerhafte Wettbewerbsvorteile sichern. Es stellt sich die Frage, wie ein entsprechender Managementprozess gestaltet sein sollte und von welchen Kontextfaktoren er beeinflusst wird...Auf der Basis eines allgemeinen Planungsprozesses entwickelt Alexander Weiser ein idealtypisches, mehrstufiges Prozessmodell für das Public Affairs Management, das den Rahmen für eine empirische Untersuchung in Japan bildet

Overview: Control Systems Theory, a newly developing theoretical perspective, starts from an important insight into human behaviour: that people attempt to control the world around them as they perceive it. This book brings together for the first time the work of prominent sociologists contributing to the development of this wideranging theoretical paradigm.978-1-137-10809-8

Overview: Examines how presidents from Eisenhower to Obama handled the threat of contagious disease and what lessons can be learned from their responses.Covers not just spontaneous disease outbreaks, but also tThis book is an examination of the manner in which American presidents respond to pandemics and other public health crises. Skidmore argues that presidential performance in dealing with emergencies and pandemics varies, but those who are informed, focused, and confident that government can work are most likely to be successful. As an example, Gerald Ford’s “Swine Flu program” is widely d

Overview: Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind. Der Verlag stellt mit diesem Archiv Quellen für die historische wie auch die disziplingeschichtliche Forschung zur Verfügung, die jeweils im historischen Kontext betrachtet werden müssen. Dieser Titel erschien in der Zeit vor 1945 und wird daher in seiner zeittypischen politisch-ideologischen Ausrichtung vom Verlag nicht beworben.978-3-7091-5259-1978-3-7091-5407-6

Overview: Includes supplementary material: The two-volume set CCIS 662 and CCIS 663 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th Chinese Conference on Pattern Recognition, CCPR 2016, held in Chengdu, China, in November 2016.The 121 revised papers presented in two volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 199 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on robotics; computer vision; basic theory of pattern recognition; image and video processing; speech and language; emotion recognition..978-981-10-3001-7978-981-10-3002-4Series ISSN 1865-0929 Series E-ISSN 1865-0937

Overview: Updates and expands instruction on conducting psychoeducational assessments of children in grades K-12.Provides sample reports that model well-organized results accessible to parents, caregivers, teac.The second edition of this textbook provides expanded and updated guidance on the process of psychoeducational assessment and report writing for children in grades K-12. It casts the entire process within a newly proposed evidence-based psychoeducational assessment and report writing framework, and explains how to convey results through detailed, well-written reports. The new edition gu

Overview: Explores the interplay between micro- and macro-level factors to explain participation in political protest.Successfully merges different theoretical perspectives on political protest, from social mov.This book analyzes the individual and contextual determinants of protest politics in Western Europe. Building on different theoretical perspectives, from social movements theory to political behavior approaches, the author provides new empirical evidence on the patterns of protest politics. Readers will discover why some citizens are more likely to get involved in protests than others,

Overview: Selected outcome of the 2012 International Conference on Information Technology and Software Engineering (ITSE2012).Includes the latest theories and related applications in the fields of information t.Proceedings of the 2012 International Conference on Information Technology and Software Engineering. presents selected articles from this major event, which was held in Beijing, December 8-10, 2012. This book presents the latest research trends, methods and experimental results in the fields of information technology and software engineering, covering various state-of-the-art research t

Overview: This is the only book on FogBugz.While this book references FogBugz, you read more about the process rather than the specific product. You can apply the same process principles to other defect trackin.Project management is the bane of the team approach to programming. Many programs out there purport to help a development team manage a project; the only trouble is, most of them aren‘t very good. World-renowned software guru .Joel Spolsky.‘s company, Fog Creek Software, has created a tool called FogBugz that incorporates all of Joel‘s insight into what works and what doesn‘t work in pr

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Overview: .In der öffentlichen Diskussion stellt Populismus vor allem im europäischen Raum einen negativ konnotierten Begriff dar. Meist werden populistische Parteien als Gefahr für die liberale Demokratie, ihre Institutionen und Garantien betrachtet. Die Forschung schreibt ihnen jedoch bereits seit längerem eine potenzielle Wirkung als Korrektiv zu. Diese Ausgangslage nimmt die vorliegende Studie zum Anlass, die beiden Wirkperspektiven (Korrektiv/Gefahr) zu systematisieren und mithilfe von jeweils vier zugehörigen Funktionen auszudifferenzieren. Dieses theoretisch ausbuchstabierte Funktionsta

Overview: Includes supplementary material: This book constitutes the proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Principles of Security and Trust, POST 2017, which took place in Uppsala, Sweden in April 2017, held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2017..The 14 papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 40 submissions. They were organized in topical sections named: information flow; security protocols; security policies; and information leakage. 978-3-662-54454-9978-3-662-54455-6Series ISSN 0302-9743 Series

Overview: This book is an elementary and practical introduction to probability theory. It differs from other introductory texts in two important respects. First, the per­ sonal (or subjective) view of probability is adopted throughout. Second, emphasis is placed on how values are assigned to probabilities in practice, i.e. the measurement of probabilities. The personal approach to probability is in many ways more natural than other current formulations, and can also provide a broader view of the subject. It thus has a unifying effect. It has also assumed great importance recently because of th

Overview: 1 This year marks the l0 h anniversary of the IFIP International Workshop on Protocols for High-Speed Networks (PfHSN). It began in May 1989, on a hillside overlooking Lake Zurich in Switzerland, and arrives now in Salem Massachusetts 6,000 kilometers away and 10 years later, in its sixth incarnation, but still with a waterfront view (the Atlantic Ocean). In between, it has visited some picturesque views of other lakes and bays of the world: Palo Alto (1990 - San Francisco Bay), Stockholm (1993 - Baltic Sea), Vancouver (1994- the Strait of Georgia and the Pacific Ocean), and Sophia­