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Chronic Conditions, Fluid States explores the uneven impact of chronic illness and disability on individuals, families, and communities in diverse local and global settings. To date, much of the social as well as biomedical research has treated the experience of illness and the challenges of disease control and management as segmented and episodic. Breaking new ground in medical anthropology by challenging the chronic/acute divide in illness and disease, the editors, along with a group of rising scholars and some of the most influential minds in the field, address the concept of chronicity, an idea used to explain individual and local life-worlds, question public health discourse, and consider the relationship between health and the globalizing forces that shape it

This book presents a broader, more courageous interpretation of economic thinking and associated tasks of policy making. The reader will go far beyond traditional boundaries of economic thought and practice. While conceptualizing in broader manner, the fundamentals of economic and managerial thought in the context of today's transformation process, it offers a genuine account regarding the pace of adaptation and change, in the wake of globalization's latest phase. It asserts that knowledge management has become an essential component beyond previous assumptions, while complimenting and enhancing larger achievements at domestic and international levels. Increasingly, necessary managerial skill levels and ability, including enhanced leadership skills, effective communication, and capacities for knowledge mobilization, while enhancing ethical outcomes, help lead societies towards greater success amidst greater uncertainty.

Introduction to the U.S. health services system -- An overview of the U.S. health services system and its users -- Access to health services -- Organization of the U.S. health services system -- Management of the U.S. health services system -- Health insurance : the major financing mechanism for the U.S. health services system -- Financing the U.S. health services system -- The health services workforce -- Hospitals -- Biomedical research, health services technology, and technology assessment -- Overview of the U.S. health services delivery system -- Health promotion and disease prevention -- Primary care -- Secondary care -- Long-term care -- Tertiary care -- Palliative care -- The care of special populations and special disorders -- The health services delivery system : how managed care has influenced delivery -- Issues in quality of care -- Epilogue

"In this book, Rugman and Doh question some of the traditional development assumptions and paradigms, arguing that many are outdated or misguided. Drawing from recent research in international business and multinational management, they bring an incisive, microeconomic, "on the ground" perspective to the mechanisms by which MNEs affect growth and development. They specifically evaluate the impact of MNEs on the processes and outcomes of development, as well as the influence of civil society, NGOs, and government policies on multinationals, especially in Asia. Examining the relationship between MNEs and the poorer countries in the world, the authors show that emerging economies have benefited greatly from MNEs, increasing these countries' per capita incomes and improving the overall internal distribution of these incomes."--Jacket

Introduction : The impact of knowledge on trade policy making / Mercedes Botto -- The research challenge in the context of permanent negotiations / Diana Tussie with Pablo Heidrich -- The role of academia in regional governance / Deisy Ventura -- Think tanks in external trade negotiations : do they advise, mediate, or legitimate interests? A comparative analysis of the southern cone / Mercedes Botto -- Mexican academia and the formulation and implementation of trade policy in Mexico / Blanca Torres -- The management of knowledge in trade policy : the case of Uruguay / Cristina Zurbriggen -- The influence of academia on Mercosur's tariff policy / Mercedes Botto and Cintia Quiliconi -- The impact of academia on the negotiations on health and education services in Argentina : challenges and opportunities / Mercedes Botto and Juliana Peixoto Batista.

"... a universally applicable scheme for classifying/evaluating energy and mineral reserves and resources -- it is the successor to UNFC-2004. Designed as an all-encompassing framework, it enables the incorporation and unification of existing national systems, while allowing their classification units and glossary to be retained. The principal objective of UNFC-2009 is to enhance international communication by providing a simple, user-friendly and uniform format for the reporting of energy reserves and resources, using market-based economic criteria. It has been developed to meet, to the extent possible, the needs of applications pertaining to international energy and mineral studies, government resource management functions, corporate business processes and financial reporting standards."--Provided by publisher

Epizootic diseases in the Netherlands, 1713-2002 : veterinary science, agricultural policy, and public response / Peter A. Koolmees -- The now-opprobrious title of "horse doctor" : veterinarians and professional identity in late nineteenth-century America / Ann N. Greene -- Breeding cows, maximizing milk : British veterinarians and the livestock economy, 1930-50 / Abigail Woods -- Policing epizootics : legislation and administration during outbreaks of cattle plague in eighteenth-century Northern Germany as continuous crisis management / Dominik Hünniger -- For better or worse? The impact of the veterinarian service on the development of the agricultural society in Java (Indonesia) in the nineteenth century / Martine Barwegen -- Fighting rinderpest in the Philippines, 1886-1941 / Daniel F. Doeppers -- Diseases of equids in Southeast Asia, c.1800-c.1945 : apocalypse or progress? / William G. Clarence-Smith --

part I FRAME OF REFERENCE -- chapter 1 Sociological Objectives -- chapter 2 The Idea of Social Control -- chapter 3 The Logic of Systemic Analysis -- part II MASTER TRENDS, 1920-1976 -- chapter 4 Political Participation: Emergence of Weak Regimes -- chapter 5 Social Stratification: Occupation and Welfare -- chapter 6 Military Participation and Total War -- part III THE SYSTEM OF SOCIAL ORGANIZATION -- chapter 7 Bureaucratic Institutions: The Hierarchical Dimension -- chapter 8 Residential Community: The Geographical Dimension -- chapter 9 Societal Socialization: Mass Persuasion -- chapter 10 Societal Socialization: Legitimate Coercion -- part IV RATIONALITY, INSTITUTION BUILDING, AND SOCIAL CONTROL -- chapter 11 The Management of Interpersonal Relations -- chapter 12 Experiments in Community Participation -- chapter 13 Political Elites and Social Control -- chapter 14 Epilogue.

In this pathbreaking study, authors Davis B. Bobrow and Mark A. Boyer argue for "muted optimism" about the future of international cooperation. Leaders of a growing movement that integrates constructivism into traditional international studies concepts and methods, Bobrow and Boyer analyze four key international issues: development cooperation, debt management, peacekeeping operations, and environmental affairs. Their approach integrates elements of public goods theory, identity theory, new institutionalism, and rational choice. Defensive Internationalism is a well-written, creative and coherent synthesis of ideas that have up to now been considered irreconcilable. It is appropriate for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in international relations, conflict studies, and political economy, and promises to become a foundational work in its field

(...) The OSCE/ODIHR deployed an expert group to 15 EU Member States from 11 to 30 May 2009. The scale and nature of these elections - essentially 27 separate national elections to a supra-national body - dictated the need for an innovative activity beyond the existing OSCE/ODIHR methodology. (...) The complexities of these elections, the overall declining turnout, the limited interest among much of the electorate, and the specificities of national election legislation underlined the continued need for further harmonizing and improving some aspects of the legal and administrative frameworks both at EU and national levels. However, a high level of public confidence in the electoral process and national electoral management bodies was highlighted in all Member States visited. (OSCE / Pll)

We examine evidence for a systematic underperformance of Germany's state-owned banks in the current financial crisis and study if the bank losses can be traced to the quality of bank governance. For this purpose, we examine the biographical background of 593 supervisory board members in the 29 largest banks and find a pronounced difference in the finance and management experience of board representatives across private and state-owned banks. Measures of boardroom competenceʺ are then related directly to the magnitude of bank losses in the recent financial crisis. Our data confirms that supervisory board (in-)competence in finance is related to losses in the financial crisis. Improved bank governance is therefore a suitable policy objective to reduce bank fragility.

Appropriating terror in the Arroyo Administration: radicalizing state-civil society relations / Maria Elissa Jayme Lao and Jennifer Santiago Oreta Australia's response to tensions between Islam and the West since 9/11: the Howard Government's Legacy / Michalis S. Michael Anchoring ties in waves of change: Malaysia's evolving relations with the West / Elina Noor The Australian media's treatment of Muslims, Post-11 September 2001 / George Myconos Islam and Anti-Americanism in today's Indonesia / Jajat Burjanudin and Dadi Darmadi Deconstructing indentity: ethnicity, religion, and intercommunal relations in Malaysia / Elina Noor Religion and the conventional understanding of the Mindanao conflict / Zainudin S. Malang Locating triggers, reducing domestic tensions : community-based conflict management and the prospects for peace in the Southern Philippines / Alber A. Husin

COVER -- TITLE -- COPYRIGHT -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER 1 ENTER THE DECIDUOUS FOREST -- Location and Classification -- All About Leaves -- Age, Height, and Weight -- Reproduction -- Deciduous Forest Zones -- CHAPTER 2 THE DECIDUOUS ENVIRONMENT -- Reliably Mild -- The Ups and Downs of Forest Geography -- Wet and Wild -- Rich, Fertile Soil -- CHAPTER 3 FOREST PLANTS AND ANIMALS -- Seasons Full of Plants -- Annuals and Perennials -- Herbivores and Carnivores -- Winter Adaptations -- CHAPTER 4 THREATS TO THE DECIDUOUS FOREST -- Farming and Development -- Logging and Mining -- Pollution and Global Warming -- CHAPTER 5 THE FUTURE OF THE FOREST -- Why Saving Forests Is Important -- Management, Conservation, and Restoration -- Hope for the Future -- GLOSSARY -- FOR MORE INFORMATION -- Web Sites -- FOR FURTHER READING -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX -- About the Author -- Photo Credits.

"Kerry Ward argues that the Dutch East India Company empire manifested itself through multiple networks that amalgamated spatially and over time into an imperial web whose sovereignty was effectively created and maintained but always partial and contingent. Networks of Empire proposes that early modern empires consisted of durable networks of trade, administration, settlement, legality, and migration whose regional circuits and territorially and institutionally based nodes of regulatory power operated not only on land and sea but discursively as well." "By closely examining the Dutch East India Company's network of forced migration, this book explains how empires are constituted through the creation, management, contestation, devolution, and reconstruction of these multiple and intersecting fields of partial sovereignty."--Jacket

Do we need to improve oral health research? / Dominique Declerck and Emmanuel Lesaffre -- Grading evidence with a focus on etiology, surrogates, and clinical devices / Philippe Hujoel -- The effective use of research data for evidence-based oral health care / Ian Needleman and Helen Worthington -- Planning a research project / Timothy A. DeRouen and Donald E. Mercante -- How to carry out successful clinical studies : lessons from project management / Jocelyne S. Feine, Stephanie D. Wollin, and Faahim Rashid -- Design and analysis of randomized clinical trials in oral health / Brian Leroux and Emmanuel Lesaffre -- Epidemiological oral health studies : aspects of design and analysis / Jimmy Steele and Mark Pearce -- Qualitative research / Christophe Bedos [and others] -- Data validity and quality / Finbarr Allen and Jimmy Steele.