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Analyzing and Modeling Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Infectious Diseases
by Jianhong Wu Bernard Moulin Dongmei ChenFeatures modern research and methodology on the spread of infectious diseases and showcases a broad range of multi-disciplinary and state-of-the-art techniques on geo-simulation, geo-visualization, remote sensing, metapopulation modeling, cloud computing, and pattern analysisGiven the ongoing risk of infectious diseases worldwide, it is crucial to develop appropriate analysis methods, models, and tools to assess and predict the spread of disease and evaluate the risk. Analyzing and Modeling Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Infectious Diseases features mathematical and spatial modeling approaches that integrate applications from various fields such as geo-computation and simulation, spatial analytics, mathematics, statistics, epidemiology, and health policy. In addition, the book captures the latest advances in the use of geographic information system (GIS), global positioning system (GPS), and other location-based technologies in the spatial and temporal study of infectious diseases.Highlighting the current practices and methodology via various infectious disease studies, Analyzing and Modeling Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Infectious Diseases features:Approaches to better use infectious disease data collected from various sources for analysis and modeling purposesExamples of disease spreading dynamics, including West Nile virus, bird flu, Lyme disease, pandemic influenza (H1N1), and schistosomiasisModern techniques such as Smartphone use in spatio-temporal usage data, cloud computing-enabled cluster detection, and communicable disease geo-simulation based on human mobilityAn overview of different mathematical, statistical, spatial modeling, and geo-simulation techniquesAnalyzing and Modeling Spatial and Temporal Dynamics of Infectious Diseases is an excellent resource for researchers and scientists who use, manage, or analyze infectious disease data, need to learn various traditional and advanced analytical methods and modeling techniques, and become aware of different issues and challenges related to infectious disease modeling and simulation. The book is also a useful textbook and/or supplement for upper-undergraduate and graduate-level courses in bioinformatics, biostatistics, public health and policy, and epidemiology.
Analyzing and Reporting Focus Group Results
by Professor Richard A. KruegerRichard Krueger offers a rich and valuable discussion of focus group analysis that is sure to become a major guide in future focus group efforts. Analysis of focus group data is different from analysis of data collected through other qualitative methodologies and this presents new challenges to researchers. This book overviews important principles guiding focus group research, suggests a systematic and verifiable analysis strategy. Krueger is not doctrinaire: he offers multiple approaches and invites others to share their strategies for analysis. The book is helpful for academic audiences, focus group practitioners and the occasional moderator. The straightforward approach contains hundreds of helpful tips.
Analyzing and Securing Social Networks
by Latifur Khan Bhavani Thuraisingham Murat Kantarcioglu Vaibhav Khadilkar Satyen Abrol Raymond HeatherlyAnalyzing and Securing Social Networks focuses on the two major technologies that have been developed for online social networks (OSNs): (i) data mining technologies for analyzing these networks and extracting useful information such as location, demographics, and sentiments of the participants of the network, and (ii) security and privacy technolo
Analyzing and Theorizing the Dynamics of the Workplace Incivility Crisis (SpringerBriefs in Psychology #8)
by Michael LeiterContemporary worklife builds upon a foundation for teamwork among skilled and dedicated people. Despite the utility of supportive working relationships and despite extensive consulting activity on leadership and team building, employees complain extensively about mistreatment by their bosses and colleagues. Analyzing and Theorizing the Dynamics of the Workplace Incivility Crisis presents a theoretic framework for considering the fundamental issues of group dynamics and individual psychology that lie behind this ongoing workplace incivility crisis. It contextualizes the need for belonging as a motivation that shapes expressed social behaviour and intensifies received social behaviour. Looking at cognitive elements as well as rudeness rationales that pertain to workplace incivility and its justification, this work maps social constructs, including the role of team leadership, that lead to setting implicit social norms. In addition to formulating a theoretical framework, Analyzing and Theorizing the Dynamics of the Workplace Incivility Crisis considers methods to address the dynamics that perpetuate incivility at work and actively points at setting an action agenda to evaluate their impact.
Analyzing the Analyzers: An Introspective Survey of Data Scientists and Their Work
by Sean Murphy Marck Vaisman Harlan HarrisDespite the excitement around "data science," "big data," and "analytics," the ambiguity of these terms has led to poor communication between data scientists and organizations seeking their help. In this report, authors Harlan Harris, Sean Murphy, and Marck Vaisman examine their survey of several hundred data science practitioners in mid-2012, when they asked respondents how they viewed their skills, careers, and experiences with prospective employers. The results are striking.Based on the survey data, the authors found that data scientists today can be clustered into four subgroups, each with a different mix of skillsets. Their purpose is to identify a new, more precise vocabulary for data science roles, teams, and career paths.This report describes:Four data scientist clusters: Data Businesspeople, Data Creatives, Data Developers, and Data ResearchersCases in miscommunication between data scientists and organizations looking to hireWhy "T-shaped" data scientists have an advantage in breadth and depth of skillsHow organizations can apply the survey results to identify, train, integrate, team up, and promote data scientists
Analyzing the Global Political Economy
by Andrew Walter Gautam SenIdeally suited to upper-undergraduate and graduate students, Analyzing the Global Political Economy critically assesses the convergence between IPE, comparative political economy, and economics. Andrew Walter and Gautam Sen show that a careful engagement with economics is essential for understanding both contemporary IPE and for analyzing the global political economy. The authors also argue that the deployment of more advanced economic theories should not detract from the continuing importance for IPE of key concepts from political science and international relations. IPE students with little or no background in economics will therefore find this book useful, and economics students interested in political economy will be alerted to the comparative strengths of political science and other social science disciplines. A concise look at the foundations of analysis in the political economy of global trade, money, finance, and investment Suitable for upper-undergraduate and graduate students with some or no economic background Techniques and findings from a range of academic disciplines, including international relations, political science, economics, sociology, and history Further reading and useful weblinks including a range of relevant data sources, listed in each chapter
Analyzing the Korean Alphabet: The Science of Hangul
by Hye K. PaeThis book provides comprehensive coverage of the Korean alphabet, Hangul, and includes a synthesis of research findings relating to reading in the non-Roman alphabet. This, in turn, contributes to the science of reading through an understanding of reading mechanisms that are essential for all writing systems, and that are particular for a given writing system. Hangul has been recognized as “the world’s best alphabet,” “one of the great intellectual achievements of Mankind,” and “alphabet’s epitome, a star among alphabets” by international linguists and historians. It is known that writing systems have evolved based on the ecological principle that visual signs are culturally selected to match objects found in natural scenes through selection pressures for optimal visual processing. However, Hangul is an exception. It was purposely invented by King Sejong in the 15th century to combat the illiteracy prevalent at the time. The chapters excavate the historical background of Hangul, and the unique characteristics of Hangul that contribute to learnability for emergent readers and efficiency for skilled readers. The author presents empirical evidence of psycholinguistic research into reading Hangul, building theories and presenting implications for the science of reading (psycholinguistics) and the science of writing (grapholinguistics). This book is relevant to students, researchers, and practitioners in applied linguistics, psycholinguistics, language studies, reading studies, and grammatology, with a particular focus on the Korean alphabet.
Analyzing the Large Number of Variables in Biomedical and Satellite Imagery
by Phillip I. GoodThis book grew out of an online interactive offered through statcourse.com, and it soon became apparent to the author that the course was too limited in terms of time and length in light of the broad backgrounds of the enrolled students. The statisticians who took the course needed to be brought up to speed both on the biological context as well as on the specialized statistical methods needed to handle large arrays. Biologists and physicians, even though fully knowledgeable concerning the procedures used to generate microaarrays, EEGs, or MRIs, needed a full introduction to the resampling methods--the bootstrap, decision trees, and permutation tests, before the specialized methods applicable to large arrays could be introduced. As the intended audience for this book consists both of statisticians and of medical and biological research workers as well as all those research workers who make use of satellite imagery including agronomists and meteorologists, the book provides a step-by-step approach to not only the specialized methods needed to analyze the data from microarrays and images, but also to the resampling methods, step-down multi-comparison procedures, multivariate analysis, as well as data collection and pre-processing. While many alternate techniques for analysis have been introduced in the past decade, the author has selected only those techniques for which software is available along with a list of the available links from which the software may be purchased or downloaded without charge. Topical coverage includes: very large arrays; permutation tests; applying permutation tests; gathering and preparing data for analysis; multiple tests; bootstrap; applying the bootstrap; classification methods; decision trees; and applying decision trees.
Analyzing the Maryland Campaign of 1862
by Patrick TierneyA short analysis of the decisions and actions that led to Gen Lee's invasion of Maryland in 1862
Analyzing the Operation of Performance-Based Accountability Systems for Public Services
by Brian M. Stecher Frank CammThis report describes a framework used to organize available empirical information on one form of performance-based management, a performance-based accountability system (PBAS), which identifies individuals or organizations that must change their behavior to improve an activity's performance, an incentive structure to motivate those changes, and measures tailored to inform the incentive structure.
Analyzing the Third World: Essays from Comparative Politics
by Norman ProvizerFirst Published in 2017. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an Informa company.
Analyzing the U.S. Content of Imports and the Foreign Content of Exports
by National Research Council of the National AcademiesThe National Academies Press (NAP)--publisher for the National Academies--publishes more than 200 books a year offering the most authoritative views, definitive information, and groundbreaking recommendations on a wide range of topics in science, engineering, and health. Our books are unique in that they are authored by the nation's leading experts in every scientific field.
Anam Cara
by John O'DonohueDiscover the Celtic Circle of Belonging John O'Donohue, poet, philosopher, and scholar, guides you through the spiritual landscape of the Irish imagination. In Anam Cara, Gaelic for "soul friend," the ancient teachings, stories, and blessings of Celtic wisdom provide such profound insights on the universal themes of friendship, solitude, love, and death as: Light is generous The human heart is never completely born Love as ancient recognitionThe body is the angel of the soul Solitude is luminous Beauty likes neglected places The passionate heart never ages To benatural is to be holy Silence is the sister of the divine Death as an invitation to freedom
Anam Cara [Twenty-fifth Anniversary Edition]: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
by John O'Donohue“In this twenty-fifth anniversary edition, you will find John a “soul friend” on your own journey through life, offering support and solace, clarity, and consciousness—expanding narratives that invite you to experience relationships with people, nature, and even your inner world in new ways that nurture well-being and resilience in these challenging times.” —Daniel J. Siegel, MD, Neuropsychiatrist and New York Times Bestselling AuthorA special twenty-fifth anniversary edition of the classic work of Celtic spirituality and mysticism by beloved poet and philosopher, John O'Donohue, with a new introduction by the President of Ireland, Michael D. Higgins, an afterword by the late author’s brother, Pat O'Donohue, and insightful material from O'Donohue's circle of close friends.In this revered classic, John O’Donohue excavates themes of friendship, belonging, solitude, creativity and the imagination, among many others. Widely recognized for bringing Celtic spirituality into modern dialogue, his unique insights from the ancient world speak with urgency for our need to rediscover the thresholds of the soul. With lyrical wisdom and fluency, O'Donohue encourages pathways of discovery to come home to the natural rhythm in ourselves in sacred connection with one another and the landscapes we inhabit. This timeless collection nourishes the heart and elevates the spirit. It is "a book to read and reread forever.” (Irish Times)
Anammox Technology in Industrial Wastewater Treatment
by Maulin P. ShahAmmonia in wastewater causes the eutrophication of water bodies and the subsequent depletion of dissolved oxygen. In addition, certain forms of nitrogen such as ammonia, nitrite, and nitrate are highly toxic to aquatic life. Although there are several biological and physical–chemical techniques for the removal of ammoniacal nitrogen compounds, including air stripping and breakpoint chlorination, which have been widely applied, a microbiological or microbe-based approach is attractive because it is based on sustainable technologies. In this regard, ammonia-oxidizing bacteria have recently gained great interest, specifically in wastewater treatment plants for the removal of ammoniacal nitrogen especially, owing to its relatively low capital cost, eco-friendliness, and high efficiency when compared with conventional cleanup technologies. This book provides specific and advanced knowledge on the microbial ecology of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and their diversity and functions in the treatment of toxic pollutants present in wastewater. The book thus serves as a valuable resource for engineers, scientists, and managers who require an excellent introductory and advanced knowledge of the field, professionals who are working or interested in the environmental microbiology or bioremediation field, and students learning about environmental biotechnology and microbiology.
Anamnese en advies: Richtlijnen voor de informatie-uitwisseling tussen arts en patient
by J. A. M. SchoutenDe informatie-uitwisseling tussen arts en patiënt schiet nogal eens tekort, met nadelige consequenties voor de kwaliteit van de medische zorg tot gevolg. Diagnosen worden onjuist of te laat gesteld, verwijzingen zijn overbodig of behandeladviezen worden niet opgevolgd door ontevredenheid van patienten. Anamnese en advies, richtlijnen voor de informatie-uitwisseling tussen arts en patient is geschreven om een bijdrage te kunnen leveren aan de verbetering van de informatieuitwisseling tussen arts en patiënt. Deze informatie-uitwisseling heeft betrekking op het gesprek tussen arts en patient, zoals zich dat afspeelt in het consult van de patient bij de huisarts, in het bezoek van de patient aan de specialistische polikliniek, en in de vele -soms incidentele- contacten met artsen en specialisten tijdens het verblijf van de patiënt in het ziekenhuis. In deze derde, herziene druk van Anamnese en advies zijn herzieningen aangebracht op die punten waar de aard van de gespreksvoering veranderd is ten gevolge van recente ontwikkelingen in de geneeskunde en de maatschappij. Te denken valt hierbij aan de zogenaamde 'mondige' patiënten en de verbreiding van medische kennis onder de bevolking. Nieuw is ook het laatste hoofdstuk, waarin in het aanbevolen gespreksmodel in verband wordt gebracht met de vraag: 'Wat is eigenlijk de grondhouding waarmee de arts zijn beroep wil uitoefenen?'.
Anamnese en gespreksvoering
by A. J. Kooter T.O.H. de Jongh R. Franssen N. Th. van den Broek J.A. de Wilde J. Damen† A. Kaemingk G.J.M. RoodbolEen zorgvuldige anamnese blijft de grondslag van de medische diagnostiek. Tijdens het afnemen van een anamnese moet je je bewust zijn van de aard en het doel van het vraagproces. Met Anamnese en gespreksvoering leer je hoe je een gestructureerde anamnese afneemt op basis van het Calgary-Cambridge model, en hoe je effectieve gesprekken voert met patiënten. Naast het medisch diagnostisch spoor speelt ook het patiëntenperspectief een belangrijke rol. Wat wil jouw patiënt met het gesprek bereiken, hoe ervaart hij zijn klachten? Anamnese en gespreksvoering komt voort uit het Leerboek anamnese en is volledig herzien en uitgebreid.Ook verschillende anamnesevormen zoals klachtgerichte anamnese, hypothesegestuurde anamnese en tractusanamnese worden besproken.Voor de bruikbaarheid in de praktijk worden hierbij veel voorbeelden van anamnesevragen gegeven met de betekenis van de mogelijke antwoorden. Ook lees je achtergrondinformatieover de patiënt, dearts en hun behandelrelatie, gespreksvaardigheden en verschillende consultmodellen. Tot slot is in deze herziening veel aandacht voor andere vormen van gespreksvoering zoals gezondheidsgerichte gesprekken, motiverende gespreksvoering en informerende gesprekken.Bij dit boek hoort een website. Hierop staan behalve de inhoud van dit boek ook een aantal videoconsulten, met voorbeelden van anamnese afnemen en enkele gespreksfragmenten in de praktijk. Anamnese en gespreksvoering is een praktische en onmisbare gids voor medische studenten, verpleegkundig specialisten en physician assistants in opleiding die een goede, patiëntgerichte, diagnostische anamnese willen afnemen en hun gespreksvoering willen verbeteren. Ook artsen en andere medische hulpverleners kunnen met dit boek hun anamnesevaardigheid en gespreksvoering verbeteren.
Anamnese en lichamelijk onderzoek
by J.W.M Meer J. Meer G. Linthorst C. T. Postma D. BlockmansAnamnese en lichamelijk onderzoek is een handleiding voor het onderzoek van pati#65533;nten die op een afdeling voor inwendige geneeskunde worden opgenomen of naar een polikliniek worden verwezen. Het boek is allereerst bedoeld voor studenten in de eerste fase van de opleiding en voor coassistenten inwendige geneeskunde. De nadruk ligt dan ook op problemen die in de kliniek frequent worden aangetroffen. Anamnese en lichamelijk onderzoek is hierdoor eveneens zeer geschikt voor huisartsen en specialisten in opleiding, maar ook voor verpleegkundig specialisten en physician assistants in opleiding. Het boek is rijkelijk ge#65533;llustreerd met kleurenfoto's, tekeningen en tabellen. Een waardevolle aanvulling is de online leeromgeving op www. studiecloud. nl. StudieCloud biedt extra informatie zoals oefenvragen en samenvattingen bij elk hoofdstuk en deeplinks naar relevante artikelen, geluidsfragmenten, films en foto's. Op film ziet men bijvoorbeeld de uitvoering van percussie, auscultatie en meting van de centraalveneuze druk, alsmede onderdelen van het lichamelijk onderzoek die belangrijke informatie opleveren maar veel aandacht en oefening vereisen.
Anamnese en lichamelijk onderzoek
by C. T. Postma J.W.M. van der Meer D. E. Blockmans S.E.J.A. de RooijDit leerboek geeft studenten geneeskunde en coassistenten de kennis en vaardigheden die ze nodig hebben voor het afnemen van een anamnese en uitvoeren van lichamelijk onderzoek. Dit is onontbeerlijk om tot een diagnose te komen en een behandeling in te stellen. Anamnese en lichamelijk onderzoek richt zich primair op patiënten met internistische aandoeningen. Toch is het niet alleen zeer geschikt voor specialisten in opleiding maar ook voor huisartsen, verpleegkundig specialisten en physician assistants in opleiding.Anamnese en lichamelijk onderzoek bespreekt systematisch en bondig de differentiaaldiagnose van veelvoorkomende klachten en bevindingen bij onderzoek. Ook wordt er ingegaan op de verslaglegging die daarbij hoort. Het boek is rijk geïllustreerd met kleurenfoto’s, tekeningen en tabellen. Daarnaast is er een uitgebreide onlineleeromgeving met aanvullende informatie. Hierin staan bij elk hoofdstuk samenvattingen en oefenvragen én links naar artikelen, geluidsfragmenten, films en foto’s. In deze films is bijvoorbeeld de uitvoering van percussie, auscultatie en palpatie te zien. Net als belangrijke onderdelen van het lichamelijk onderzoek die veel aandacht en oefening vereisen. De redactie en de auteurs van het boek zijn afkomstig uit de universitaire medische centra in Nederland en België.
Anamnese en lichamelijk onderzoek van hart en perifere arteriën
by J.P.M Hamer P. G. Pieper R.B.A. BrinkEen patiënt met een mogelijke hart- of vaatziekte heeft belang bij een zorgvuldige anamnese als uitgangspunt voor de juiste diagnose en behandeling. Het lichamelijk onderzoek gaat daarbij hand in hand met het anamnestische gesprek. Dit onderzoek dreigde in de laatste jaren echter in het gedrang te komen door de populariteit van (beeldvormende) diagnostische technieken. Inmiddels zien velen weer in dat de bruikbaarheid van aanvullende technieken wordt bepaald door de juiste indicatie, gebaseerd op een gerichte anamnese. De auteurs, allen met ruime ervaring in het medische onderwijs, behandelen op systematische wijze de anamnese en het lichamelijk onderzoek. Zij benadrukken in dit rijk geïllustreerde handboek de voorspellende waarde van zowel anamnestische gegevens als bevindingen bij het lichamelijk onderzoek. De opgenomen fonocardiogrammen onderbouwen de waarde van auscultatie. De lezer wordt gewezen op gangbare fouten en misvattingen bij bloeddrukmeting. Meting van de centraalveneuze druk, door velen moeilijk gevonden, wordt in detail behandeld en met schema's en foto's ondersteund. Het boek verwijst naar webpagina's over auscultatie en lichamelijk onderzoek. Achtergrondinformatie wordt als kadertekst aangeboden, zodat de lezer voor meer of minder informatie kan kiezen. Anamnese en lichamelijk onderzoek van hart en perifere arteriën ondersteunt de dagelijkse praktijk van studenten, coassistenten, arts-assistenten in uiteenlopende specialismen, cardiologen, huisartsen, physician-assistants en anderen die werkzaam zijn in de zorgsector en belangstelling hebben voor de diagnostiek van harten vaatziekten.
Anamnesis and the Eucharist: Contemporary Anglican Approaches (Routledge New Critical Thinking in Religion, Theology and Biblical Studies)
by Julie GittoesEngaging with contemporary Anglican theology of the Eucharist through the concept of anamnesis, this book seeks to enrich the Church's understanding of transformation and mission. Eucharistic theology finds its place in the midst of much contemporary Anglican theology but little attention has been given to the interrelationship between mission and the Eucharist. Julie Gittoes engages with the work of David Ford, Rowan Williams and Catherine Pickstock who share a common concern to engage with the way in which the Eucharist shapes the life of the worshipping community as the body of Christ. Focusing on the concept of anamnesis (remembrance or memorial), Gittoes highlights a language of connection in the way in which anamnesis describes the integration of historical, sacramental and ecclesial embodiments of Christ. The Eucharist looks back to the saving events of Christ's life, death and resurrection; through it the Church is nourished with the body of Christ; participating in it anticipates the eschatological fulfilment of the Kingdom. This book explores the connection between the source event of the Church's life and the transformative encounter with Christ in the Eucharist, the effects of which are seen in social/ethical/political action and the Church's mission.
Anamorphic Authorship in Canonical Film Adaptation: A Case Study of Shakespearean Films (Palgrave Studies in Adaptation and Visual Culture)
by Robert GealThis book develops a new approach for the study of films adapted from canonical ‘originals’ such as Shakespeare’s plays. Departing from the current consensus that adaptation is a heightened example of how all texts inform and are informed by other texts, this book instead argues that film adaptations of canonical works extend cinema’s inherent mystification and concealment of its own artifice. Film adaptation consistently manipulates and obfuscates its traces of ‘original’ authorial enunciation, and oscillates between overtly authored articulation and seemingly un-authored unfolding. To analyse this process, the book moves from a dialogic to a psychoanalytic poststructuralist account of film adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays. The differences between these rival approaches to adaptation are explored in depth in the first part of the book, while the second part constructs a taxonomy of the various ways in which authorial signs are simultaneously foregrounded and concealed in adaptation’s anamorphic drama of authorship.
Anamorphosis in Early Modern Literature: Mediation and Affect (Literary and Scientific Cultures of Early Modernity)
by Jen E. BoyleAnamorphosis in Early Modern Literature explores the prevalence of anamorphic perspective in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in England. Jen Boyle investigates how anamorphic media flourished in early modern England as an interactive technology and mode of affect in public interactive art, city and garden design, and as a theory and figure in literature, political theory and natural and experimental philosophy. Anamorphic mediation, Boyle brings to light, provided Milton, Margaret Cavendish, and Daniel Defoe, among others, with a powerful techno-imaginary for traversing through projective, virtual experience. Drawing on extensive archival research related to the genre of "practical perspective" in early modern Europe, Boyle offers a scholarly consideration of anamorphic perspective (its technical means, performances, and embodied practices) as an interactive aesthetics and cultural imaginary. Ultimately, Boyle demonstrates how perspective media inflected a diverse set of knowledges and performances related to embodiment, affect, and collective consciousness.
Anansesem: Telling Stories And Storytelling African Maternal Pedagogies
by Ntozake Adwoa OnuoraAnansesem: Telling Stories and Storytelling African Maternal Pedagogies is a composite story on African Canadian mothers' experiences of teaching and learning while mothering. It seeks to celebrate the African mother's everyday experiences and honor her embodied and cultural knowledge as important sites of meaning making and discovery for the African child. Through the Afro-indigenous art of Anansi storytelling, memoir, creative non-fiction and illustrations, the author takes you on an evocative narrative journey that focuses on how African descended women draw upon and are central to African childrens' cultural, social and identity development. In entering these stories, readers access their joys, sadness, strengths and weaknesses as they mother in the midst of marginalization. The book is a testament to the power of counter-storytelling for inspiring internal and external transformation.
