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Contents: The role of the life insurance company in health conservation programs, by L. K. Frankel; Co-operation between life insurance and trust companies, by E. A. Woods; Insurance of substandard lives, by Robert Henderson; Investment tendencies of life insurance companies, F. H. Ecker; Group life insurance, by W. J. Graham; Life insurance as an aid to education and philanthropy, by J. A. Stevenson; The modern life underwriter, by J. M. Holcombe, jr; Non-medical life insurance, by H. F. Larkin; Salary savings insurance, by R. L. Place; Inspection reports on persons as a factor in life insurance, by J. A. Fitzgerald; Beneficiary provisions under modern life insurance policies, by L. E. Thompson; Fraternal life insurance, by C. K. Knight.

Title appears at head of cover only. ; Municipal nomination reform, by H.E. Deming.--The development of park systems in American cities, by A.W. Crawford.--The reform movement in Chicago, by Hoyt King.--The housing problem in American cities, by Lawrence Veiller.--The progress of sanitation in Great Britain, by A.K. Chalmers.--Medical inspection of public schools, by L.D. Wald.--Recent extensions of municipal functions in the United States, by J.A. Fairlie.--The reorganization of local government in Cuba, by L.S. Rowe.--Communications: City government in Japan, by H. Sakuma.--The relation of London to Quasi-public works, by G. Gomme.--Recent amendments to election & primary laws, by R.H. Whitten.--The judicial office in Germany, by B.E. Howard.--Book department.--The activities of civic organizations for municipal improvement in the United States a symposium.--Philanthropy, charities & social problems. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Comprehensive list of medical and military personnel on campus and directly or indirectly involved with the treatment, care, or organization of victims of the 1918 Flu Epidemic.

Non-Heart-Beating Organ Transplantation -- Copyright -- Preface -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- Senior Special Experts -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Transplantation Supply and Demand -- SUPPLY -- DEMAND -- IMPROVING SUPPLY -- 3 Background -- THE HISTORICAL NHBD -- NEUROLOGIC CRITERIA FOR DEATH -- 4 The Modern Non-Heart-Beating Donor -- THE CONTROLLED NHBD -- THE UNCONTROLLED NHBD -- CURRENT STATUS OF THE NHBD IN TRANSPLANTATION -- 5 Survey of Organ Procurement Organization and Transplant Program Policies -- INTEREST IN OPO NHBD PROTOCOLS -- PROTOCOL STATISTICS -- IDENTIFICATION OF POTENTIAL DONORS -- APPROACH TO FAMILY FOR CONSENT -- OPO AND PROCUREMENT TEAM INTERVENTION BEFORE DEATH -- MEDICATION -- WITHDRAWAL OF LIFE SUPPORT AND DECLARATION OF DEATH -- UNCONTROLLED NHDS -- CONCLUSION -- 6 Analysis, Findings, and Recommendations -- GENERAL PRINCIPLES -- POLICIES AND OVERSIGHT -- MEDICAL INTERVENTIONS AND ETHICS -- CONFLICTS OF INTEREST -- DETERMINATION OF DEATH -- FAMILIES -- References -- Appendix A Letter to the Institute of Medicine from the Department of Health and Human Services -- Appendix B Agenda and Summary of Workshop on Medical and Ethical Issues in Maintaining the Viability of Organs for… -- AGENDA -- WORKSHOP SUMMARY -- Federal Government and Political Considerations -- UNOS: Procurement, Allocation, and Data Collection -- Organ Procurement Issues in the Context of the NHBD -- Scientific Issues and Medical Perspectives -- TRANSPLANT COORDINATION -- NHBD Supply, Results, Projections, and Other Information -- Consumer Concerns of Donors and Recipients -- Scientific Issues and Surgical Perspectives -- Ethical Concerns -- Determination of Death -- Interventions to Promote Organ Viability -- Conflicts of Interest -- Conclusion.

FrontMatter -- Reviewers -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Tables, Figures, and Boxes -- Acronyms and Abbreviations -- Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Background, Definitions, Concepts -- 3 What We Have Learned from Current Approaches to Studying Environmental Risk Factors -- 4 Challenges of Studying Environmental Risk Factors for Breast Cancer -- 5 Examining Mechanisms of Breast Cancer Over the Life Course: Implications for Risk -- 6 Opportunities for Action to Reduce Environmental Risks for Breast Cancer -- 7 Recommendations for Future Research -- Appendix A: Agendas for Public Meetings -- Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members -- Appendix C: Classification Systems Used in Evidence Reviews -- Appendix D: Summary Table on Estimates of Population Attributable Risk -- Appendix E: Glossary -- Appendix F: Ionizing Radiation Exposure to the U.S. Population, with a Focus on Radiation from Medical Imaging.

FrontMatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Executive Summary -- 1 The Nature of Racial and Ethnic Differences -- 2 Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Differences -- 3 Genetic Influences -- 4 Socioeconomic Status -- 5 Behavior Risk Factors -- 6 Social and Personal Resources -- 7 Prejudice and Discrimination -- 8 Stress -- 9 Biopsychosocial Interactions -- 10 Health Care -- 11 The Life Course -- 12 Interventions -- References -- Appendix: Contents, "Critical Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Differences in Health in Late Life -- Biographical Sketches -- Index.

Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Reviewers -- Summary -- Introduction -- Patterns of Childhood Death in America -- Pathways to a Child's Death -- Communication, Goal Setting, and Care Planning -- Care and Caring from Diagnosis Through Death and Bereavement -- Providing, Organizing, and Improving Care -- Financing of Palliative and End-of-Life Care for Children and Their Families -- Ethical and Legal Issues -- Educating Health Care Professionals -- Directions for Research -- References -- Appendix A Study Origins and Activities -- Appendix B Prognostication Scores -- Appendix C Assessing Health-Related Quality of Life in End-of-Life Care for Children and Adolescents -- Appendix D Cultural Dimensions of Care at Life's End for Children and Their Families -- Appendix E Bereavement Experiences after the Death of a Child -- Appendix F End-of-Life Care in Emergency Medical Services for Children -- Appendix G Education in Pediatric Palliative Care -- Appendix H Progress in Pediatric Palliative Care in New York State-A Demonstration Project -- Appendix I Committee Biographical Statements -- Index.

The M. H. Ross Papers contain information pertaining to labor, politics, social issues of the twentieth century, coal mining and its resulting lifestyle, as well as photographs and audio materials. The collection is made up of five different accessions; L2001-05, which is contained in boxes one through 104, L2002-09 in boxes 106 through 120, L2006-16 in boxes 105 and 120, L2001-01 in boxes 120-121, and L2012-20 in boxes 122-125. The campaign materials consist of items from the 1940 and 1948 political campaigns in which Ross participated. These items include campaign cards, posters, speech transcripts, news clippings, rally materials, letters to voters, and fliers. Organizing and arbitration materials covers labor organizing events from "Operation Dixie" in Georgia, the furniture workers in North Carolina, and the Mine-Mill workers in the Western United States. Organizing materials include fliers, correspondence, news articles, radio transcripts, and some related photos. Arbitration files consist of agreements, decisions, and agreement booklets. The social and political research files cover a wide time period (1930's to the late 1970's/early 1980's). The topics include mainly the Ku Klux Klan, racism, Communism, Red Scare, red baiting, United States history, and literature. These files consist mostly of news and journal articles. Ross interacted with coal miners while doing work for the United Mine Workers Association (UMWA) and while working at the Fairmont Clinic in West Virginia. Included in these related files are books, news articles, journals, UMWA reports, and coal miner oral histories conducted by Ross. Tying in to all of the activities Ross participated in during his life were his research and manuscript files. He wrote numerous newspaper and journal articles on history and labor. Later, as he worked for the UMWA and at the Fairmont Clinic, he wrote more in-depth articles about coal miners, their lifestyle, and medical problems they faced (while the Southern Labor Archives has many of Ross's coal mining and lifestyle articles, it does not have any of his medical articles). Along with these articles are the research files Ross collected to write them, which consist of notes, books, and newspaper and journal articles. In additional to his professional career, Ross was adamant about documenting his and his wife's family history in the oral history format. Of particular interest are the recordings of his interviews with his wife's family - they were workers, musicians, and singers of labor and folk songs. Finally, in this collection are a number of photographs and slides, which include images of organizing, coal mining (from the late 19th through 20th centuries), and Appalachia. Of note is a small photo album from the 1930s which contains images from the Summer School for Workers, and more labor organizing. A few audio items are available as well, such as Ross political speeches and an oral history in which Ross was interviewed by his daughter, Jane Ross Davis in 1986. All photographic and audio-visual materials are at the end of their respective series. ; Myron Howard "Mike" Ross was born November 9, 1919 in New York City. He dropped out of school when he was seventeen and moved to Texas, where he worked on a farm. From 1936 until 1939, Ross worked in a bakery in North Carolina. In the summer of 1938, he attended the Southern School for Workers in Asheville, North Carolina. During the fall of 1938, Ross would attend the first Southern Conference on Human Welfare in Birmingham, Alabama. He would attend this conference again in 1940 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. From 1939 to 1940, Ross worked for the United Mine Workers Non-Partisan League in North Carolina, working under John L. Lewis. He was hired as a union organizer by the United Mine Workers of America, and sent to Saltville, Virginia and Rockwood, Tennessee. In 1940, Ross ran for a seat on city council on the People's Platform in Charlotte, North Carolina. During this time, he also married Anne "Buddie" West of Kennesaw, Georgia. From 1941 until 1945, Ross served as an infantryman for the United States Army. He sustained injuries near the Battle of the Bulge in the winter of 1944. From 1945 until 1949, Ross worked for the International Union of Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers, then part of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO), as a union organizer. He was sent to Macon, Georgia, Savannah, Georgia and to Winston-Salem, North Carolina, where he worked with the United Furniture Workers Union. He began handling arbitration for the unions. In 1948, Ross ran for United States Congress on the Progressive Party ticket in North Carolina. He also served as the secretary for the North Carolina Progressive Party. Ross attended the University of North Carolina law school from 1949 to 1952. He graduated with honors but was denied the bar on the grounds of "character." From 1952 until 1955, he worked for the Mine, Mill and Smelter Workers as a union organizer, first in New Mexico (potash mines) and then in Arizona (copper mines). From 1955 to 1957, Ross attended the Columbia University School of Public Health. He worked for the United Mine Workers of America Welfare and Retirement Fund from 1957 to 1958, where he represented the union in expenditure of health care for mining workers. By 1958, Ross began plans for what would become the Fairmont Clinic, a prepaid group practice in Fairmont, West Virginia, which had the mission of providing high quality medical care for miners and their families. From 1958 until 1978, Ross served as administrator of the Fairmont Clinic. As a result of this work, Ross began researching coal mining, especially coal mining lifestyle, heritage and history of coal mining and disasters. He would interview over one hundred miners (coal miners). Eventually, Ross began writing a manuscript about the history of coal mining. Working for the Rural Practice Program of the University of North Carolina from 1980 until 1987, Ross taught in the medical school. M. H. Ross died on January 31, 1987 in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. ; Digitization of the M. H. Ross Papers was funded by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission.

Front Matter -- Reviewers -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Tables, Figures, and Boxes -- Abbreviations and Acronyms -- Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Veterans with Disabilities in the 21st Century -- 3 Impairment, Disability, and Quality of Life -- 4 The Rating Schedule -- 5 The Medical Examination and Disability Rating Process -- 6 Medical Criteria for Ancillary Benefits -- 7 Individual Unemployability -- 8 Other Diagnostic Classification Systems and Rating Schedules -- 9 Service Connection on Aggravation and Secondary Bases -- 10 Conclusion: Into the 21st Century -- Appendixes -- Appendix A: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members, Consultants, and Staff -- Appendix B: Committee Charge -- Appendix C: The Relationship Between Impairments and Earnings Losses in Multicondition Studies -- Appendix D: The Role of Medical Personnel in Selected Disability Benefit Programs -- Appendix E: Diagram: Assessing Impairment and Functional Disability.

An answer to E. Haeckel's Riddle of the universe, H. Drummond's The ascent of man, and A. Binet's The psychic life of the micro-organism. ; Three pages on "The horrors of vaccination" inserted between p. 288 and 289. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Die Grundlagen des Gilbrethschen Mauerns -- I. Bewegungsstudien -- Die Faktoren einer Arbeit -- II. Die Anlagen des Arbeiters -- 1. Körperbeschaffenheit des Arbeiters -- 2. Die Größe des Arbeiters -- 3. Die Muskelkraft des Arbeiters -- 4. Die Qualität des Arbeiters -- 5. Die Veranlagung des Arbeiters -- 6. Ausdauer und Ermüdung des Arbeiters -- 7. Die Geschicklichkeit des Arbeiters -- 8. Die Arbeitsgewohnheiten des Arbeiters -- 9. Die Ausbildung des Arbeiters -- 10. Die Arbeitsfreude -- 11. Die Gesundheit des Arbeiters -- 12. Die Lebenshaltung des Arbeiters -- 13. Die Ernährung des Arbeiters -- 14. Geistige Momente -- Zusammenfassung -- III. Die Arbeitsbedingungen -- 1. Die Arbeitsanordnung -- 2. Die Werkzeuge -- 3. Das Gewicht der zu bewegenden Einheit -- 4. Rauminhalt der zu bewegenden Einheit -- 5. Besondere arbeitserleichternde Ratschläge -- 6. Die Art des Materials -- 7. Heizung und Lüftung -- 8. Beleuchtung -- 9. Farbenwirkungen -- 10. Kleidung -- 11. Unterhaltung und Musik -- 12. Belohnung und Strafe -- 13. Die Gewerkschaften -- Zusammenfassung -- IV. Die Bedeutung der Bewegung -- 1. Das Bewegungsbild -- 2. Nutzeffekt der Bewegungen -- 3. Automatische Bewegungen -- 4. Antriebskraft und tote Punkte -- 5. Die Geschwindigkeit der Bewegung -- 6. Die Beschleunigung der Bewegung -- 7. Die Länge der Bewegung -- 8. Der Energieverbrauch der Bewegung -- 9. Die Kosten der Bewegung -- V. Praktische Ratschläge zur Einführung von Normalarbeitsverfahren -- VI. Ausblick in die Zukunft.

FrontMatter -- Reviewers -- Preface -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Tables, Figures, and Boxes -- Executive Summary -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Current and Future State of Performance Measurement and Reporting -- 3 Achieving a National System for Performance Measurement and Reporting -- 4 Moving Forward: What Should Be Measured? -- 5 Research Agenda -- Appendixes -- Appendix A Glossary -- Acronym List -- Appendix B National Organizations Involved in Performance Measurement -- Appendix C Case Studies -- Appendix D Ten Design Principles -- Appendix E Methodology and Analytic Frameworks -- Appendix F Commissioned Paper: Improving the Quality of Quality Measurement--John D. Birkmeyer, Eve A. Kerr, and Justin B. Dimick -- Appendix G Starter Set of Measures -- Appendix H Commissioned Paper: Efficiency/Value-Based Measures for Services, Defined Populations, Acute Episodes, and Chronic Conditions--Kyle L. Grazier -- Appendix I Commissioned Paper: Transitional Care Performance Measurement--Eric A. Coleman -- Appendix J Commissioned Paper: Palliative Care/End-of-Life Measures--Sydney Dy and Joanne Lynn -- Appendix K Biographical Sketches -- Index.

Letter indicating an outbreak of mumps on campus, further complicating the Influenza situation and draining medical resources from focus on its victims.