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by Lisa Cooper (Author)How can we all work together to eliminate the avoidable injustices that plague our health care system and society?Health is determined by far more than a person's choices and behaviors. Social and political conditions, economic forces, physical environments, institutional policies, health care system features, social relationships, risk behaviors, and genetic predispositions all contribute to physical and mental well-being. In America and around the world, many of these...
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by Richelle Ricard Lmt (Author)An innovative yoga manual for teachers, trainers, and advanced students--craft a safer, more effective yoga practice informed by anatomy, physiology, and biomechanics. Supplemented with more than 100 illustrations and photos, The Yoga Engineer's Manual makes yoga anatomy simple, clear, and accessible. With tips, tools, and practical advice for on-the-mat applications, this essential resource is written for yoga teachers and practitioners of all traditions. It of...
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by Ascencia (Author)Introducing our updated for 2021 Cardiac Vascular Nursing Certification Study Guide: Review Book and Resource Manual with Practice Test Questions for the CVRN Exam! Ascencia Test Prep's brand new, unofficial Cardiac Vascular Nursing Certification Study Guide offers you current examples, graphics, and information relevant to your healthcare career. And, unlike other other study guides on the market, you'll benefit from a quick yet total review of everything on the exam! The...
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by Ólöf G. Geirsdóttir (Editor), Jack J. Bell (Editor)This open access book aims to primarily support nurses as leaders and champions of multimodal, Interdisciplinary nutrition care for older adults. A structured approach to fundamentals of nutrition care across Interdisciplinary settings is combined with additional short chapters about special topics in geriatric nutrition. The book is designed to provide highly accessible information on evidence-based management and care for older adults, w...
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by Jonathan S. Abramowitz (Author)When a loved one has OCD, it's a constant struggle. It hurts to see your spouse so anxious or your teen spending so much time alone. You've tried logic, reassurance, even accommodating endless rituals--but, too often, these well-meaning attempts actually make OCD worse. Psychologist Jonathan Abramowitz has worked with countless families affected by OCD, and he understands the strain. He also knows you can turn things around. Grounded in state-of-the-art treat...
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by Jennifer Ashton (Author)From Dr. Jennifer Ashton--the Chief Medical Correspondent at ABC News covering breaking medical news for Good Morning America and GMA3: What You Need to Know--comes a doctor's guide to finding resilience in the time of COVID, while staying safe and sane in a rapidly changing world.In March 2020, "normal" life changed, perhaps forever. In its place we were confronted with life and routines that were unusual and different: the new normal. As we've all learned since th...
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by John Bodner (Author), Wendy Welch (Author), Ian Brodie (Author) As the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) spread around the world, so did theories, stories, and conspiracy beliefs about it. These theories infected communities from the halls of Congress to Facebook groups, spreading quickly in newspapers, on various social media and between friends. They spurred debate about the origins, treatment options and responses to the virus, creating distrust towards public health workers and suspicion of...
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by Aimee Wall (Author)Longlisted for the 2021 Scotiabank Giller Prize Shortlisted for the 2021 Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction Shortlisted for the 2021 Concordia University First Book Prize Le Grand Prix du livre de Montreal: 2021 Jury Selection A remarkable debut about intergenerational female relationships and resistance found in the unlikeliest of places, We, Jane explores the precarity of rural existence and the essential nature of abortion.Searching for meaning in her Montrea...
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by Shelley Ball (Author)This is a modern roadmap for getting a correct diagnosis of Lyme Disease, building on lessons learned by generations of Lyme advocates. People suffering from 'long haul' symptoms due to other diseases will, unfortunately, recognize this medical and political landscape. -- Jim Wilson, President, Canadian Lyme Disease Foundation Lyme disease has been steadily on the rise since the 1990s, and the threat is expected to grow as warmer global temperatures potentially prolo...
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by Michel Lenois (Author) The full book about the little fireman. This is the book you've been waiting for -- an in-depth look at the penis that tells you everything you need and want to know, including the chapter many will turn to first: how to increase the size of your penis, what works and what doesn't. Your Penis is an exhaustive guide to the willy, the dick, the Johnson, examining its anatomy, function, dimensions, familiar problems and cultural significance. There are sections on wha...
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by Jackson C. Boswell (Author)This volume is a compilation of references and allusions to Chaucer from the beginning of the English Civil War to the beginning of the eighteenth century. Chaucer's Fame in Britannia 1641-1700 is a continuation of Jackson Campbell Boswell and Sylvia Wallace Holton's Chaucer's Fame in England: 1475-1640. Both books are meant to supplement the equivalent parts of Caroline Spurgeon's invaluable Five Hundred Years of Chaucer Criticism and Allusion 1357-1900. Togethe...
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by Sulafa Ahmed (Author)This book highlights the crucial role of telomerase enzyme in cancertherapeutic. Telomerase activity is repressed in normal human somatic cellsin contrary it is activated in most cancers. Since most tumour cells arereliant on the activity of telomerase to maintain the stability ofpredominant short individual telomeres, inhibition of this enzyme presentsan attractive approach for a mechanism-based anti-cancer therapy.
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by Turki Menwer J. Almuhaid (Author), Theeb Naif S. Alsalem (Author), Fawaz Sulaiman A. Albati (Author)A favorite among successful students, and often recommended by professors, the unique examples & explanations given you extremely clear introductions to concepts followed by realistic examples that mirror those presented in the classroom throughout the semester. Use at the beginning and midway through the semester to deepen your understanding through clear explanations, corresponding hyp...
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by Santiago Box Davó (Author)Un problema tan contempor neo y trascendental como es la obesidad precisa un remedio acorde a las personas que la sufren, destacando su incidencia en la poblaci n adulta. Realizar una entrevista motivacional dar lugar a un resultado positivo en la motivaci n y adherencia al tratamiento de las personas frente al problema.
Number of Pages: 52
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Publication Date: October 12, 2020
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by Shreya Pandya (Author), Pooja Dave (Author), Naisarg Pujara (Author)The present investigation was to formulate and evaluate extended release tablet of glipizide using natural gum for the treatment of type II diabetes. Extended release tablet was prepared by employing hydrophobic diluents (DCP) and hydrophilic diluents (starch). Experimental work done: Preformulation studies and drug excipient profile were carried out for glipizide and dammar gum. Different batches of glipizide extended rel...
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by Philip W. Davidson (Author), Susan L. Hyman (Author)A history of the University of Rochester Medical Center's Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics Division from its inception in 1947 through 2019. The field of intellectual and developmental disabilities has evolved dramatically from the end of the nineteenth century, changing from dehumanizing institutional care to community-based services and supports. The University of Rochester Medical Center's response to community needs in this fie...
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by Karma R. Chávez (Author), Piya Chatterjee (Editor)As soon as US media and politicians became aware of AIDS in the early 1980s, fingers were pointed not only at the gay community but also at other countries and migrant communities, particularly Haitians, as responsible for spreading the virus. Evangelical leaders, public health officials, and the Reagan administration quickly capitalized on widespread fear of the new disease to call for quarantines, immigration bans, and deportations, scape...
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by Yan Liu (Author)At first glance, medicine and poison might seem to be opposites. But in China's formative era of pharmacy (200-800 CE), poisons were strategically deployed as healing agents to cure everything from chills to pains to epidemics. Healing with Poisons explores the ways physicians, religious devotees, court officials, and laypeople used powerful substances to both treat intractable illnesses and enhance life. It illustrates how the Chinese concept of du--a word carrying a core ...
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by Edgar Williams (Author)Our knowledge of breathing has shaped our social history and philosophical beliefs since prehistory. Breathing occupied a spiritual status for the ancients, while today it is central to the practice of many forms of meditation, like Yoga. Over time physicians, scientists, and engineers have pieced together the intricate biological mechanisms of breathing to devise ever more sophisticated devices to support and maintain breathing indefinitely, from iron lungs to the m...
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by Linda de Cossart (Author), Della Fish (Author), Deborah Bowman (Foreword by)Transformative Reflection for Practicing Physicians and Surgeons is addressed to physicians and surgeons but the principles upon which it rests would be valuable for members of any profession. The Transformative Reflective Process has been designed and, over many years, tested in everyday practice with medical practitioners. Its focus is to unpack and explore the decision-making and professional judgements that doc...
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by Hercules Dalianis (Created by)This open access book describes the results of natural language processing and machine learning methods applied to clinical text from electronic patient records.It is divided into twelve chapters. Chapters 1-4 discuss the history and background of the original paper-based patient records, their purpose, and how they are written and structured. These initial chapters do not require any technical or medical background knowledge. The remaining eight chapters are ...
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by Bruce Spiegelman (Created by)The world is faced with an epidemic of metabolic diseases such as obesity and type 2 diabetes. This is due to changes in dietary habits and the decrease in physical activity. Exercise is usually part of the prescription, the first line of defense, to prevent or treat metabolic disorders. However, we are still learning how and why exercise provides metabolic benefits in human health. This open access volume focuses on the cellular and molecular pathways that lin...
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by Yolana Pringle (Author)This open access book investigates psychiatry in Uganda during the years of decolonisation. It examines the challenges facing a new generation of psychiatrists as they took over responsibility for psychiatry at the end of empire, and explores the ways psychiatric practices were tied to shifting political and development priorities, periods of instability, and a broader context of transnational and international exchange. At its heart is a question that has concerned ...
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by Peter Furtado (Author)Plague, pestilence, and pandemics have been a part of the human story from the beginning and have been reflected in art and writing at every turn. Humankind has always struggled with illness; and the experiences of different cities and countries have been compared and connected for thousands of years.Many great authors have published their eyewitness accounts and survivor stories of the great contagions of the past. When the great Muslim traveler Ibn Battuta visited D...
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by Luciano Floridi (Author), Jenny Krutzinna (Author)This open access book presents an ethical approach to utilizing personal medical data. It features essays that combine academic argument with practical application of ethical principles. The contributors are experts in ethics and law. They address the challenges in the re-use of medical data of the deceased on a voluntary basis. This pioneering study looks at the many factors involved when individuals and organizations wish to share informa...
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by Horst Spielmann (Author), Troy Seidle (Author), Hajime Kojima (Author)This open access book presents recent advances in the pure sciences that are of significance in the quest for alternatives to the use of animals in research and describes a variety of practical applications of the three key guiding principles for the more ethical use of animals in experiments - replacement, reduction, and refinement, collectively known as the 3Rs. Important examples from across the world of implementatio...
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by Manabu Fukumoto (Author)This open access book summarizes the latest scientific findings regarding the biological effects of the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant (FNPP) accident in 2011. Various cases of changes in animals and organisms have been reported since the FNPP accident. However, it is often unknown whether they are actually due to radiation, since the dose or dose-rate are not necessarily associated with the changes observed. This book brings together the works of radiation b...
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by Grant Gillett (Author), Derek Bolton (Author)This open access book is a systematic update of the philosophical and scientific foundations of the biopsychosocial model of health, disease and healthcare. First proposed by George Engel 40 years ago, the Biopsychosocial Model is much cited in healthcare settings worldwide, but has been increasingly criticised for being vague, lacking in content, and in need of reworking in the light of recent developments. The book confronts the rapid changes ...
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by Marco Merlo (Author), Bruno Pinamonti (Author), Gianfranco Sinagra (Author)This open access book presents a comprehensive overview of dilated cardiomyopathy, providing readers with practical guidelines for its clinical management. The first part of the book analyzes in detail the disease's pathophysiology, its diagnostic work up as well as the prognostic stratification, and illustrates the role of genetics and gene-environment interaction. The second part presents current and future treatm...
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by Nancy L. Moureau (Author)This Open access book offers updated and revised information on vessel health and preservation (VHP), a model concept first published in poster form in 2008 and in JVA in 2012, which has received a great deal of attention, especially in the US, UK and Australia. The book presents a model and a new way of thinking applied to vascular access and administration of intravenous treatment, and shows how establishing and maintaining a route of access to the bloodstream is...
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by Aletta Bonn (Author), Horst Korn (Author), Melissa R. Marselle (Author)This open access book identifies and discusses biodiversity's contribution to physical, mental and spiritual health and wellbeing. Furthermore, the book identifies the implications of this relationship for nature conservation, public health, landscape architecture and urban planning - and considers the opportunities of nature-based solutions for climate change adaptation. This transdisciplinary book will attract a wide ...
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by Sally Frampton (Author)This open access book looks at the dramatic history of ovariotomy, an operation to remove ovarian tumours first practiced in the early nineteenth century. Bold and daring, surgeons who performed it claimed to be initiating a new era of surgery by opening the abdomen. Ovariotomy soon occupied a complex position within medicine and society, as an operation which symbolised surgical progress, while also remaining at the boundaries of ethical acceptability. This book tra...
