118 resultater (0,34919 sekunder)

Vis alle filtre

Mærke

Butik

Pris (EUR)

Nulstil filter

Produkter
Fra
Butikker

Living with HIV/AIDS - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Booktok.dk

Living with HIV/AIDS - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Booktok.dk

The opening chapter of Living with HIV/AIDS: Challenges, Perspectives and Quality of Life is concerned with exploring the implications of living with invisible conditions in both social and professional networks, and how that may impact their overall health and wellbeing. The authors use empirical examples of people living with mental illness and people living with HIV/AIDS to examine how the level of their visible or invisible symptoms played out on their experience of living with such invisible conditions. The goal of the subsequent study is to explore the process of interviewing sero-discordant couples through a participatory action research methodology, as well as the outcome of science-in-action that was developed and formed into social capital by the community of couples living with HIV. The authors also present a theoretical taxonomy on the various themes of microaggressions that people living with HIV/AIDS encounter, including stigmatized language, desexualization and dating/sex-related microaggressions, dehumanization and second-class citizenship, pathology of HIV/AIDS, romanticizing of HIV/AIDS, and criminalization of HIV/AIDS. The final section of this compilation aims to determine the reflexivity of HIV/AIDS survivors and the strategies taken to maintain a good quality of life. The data was collected from information coming from Peer Support Group, People Affected by HIV/AIDS, health workers, Local AIDS Commission and NGOs caring about AIDS using observation, in-depth interview, and documentation methods.

DKK 771.00
1

Living Systems - Tage Frandberg - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Booktok.dk

Living Systems - Tage Frandberg - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Booktok.dk

There is contrast to the belief that all energy and matter came into existence after the Big Bang. If we wish to understand the way the Greeks and other philosophers view our environment, we need to study the data that was collected by them. This book sees our portrayal of reality as having its departure point in concrete systems by which means of conceptual systems result in abstracted systems. This data must be sorted and information must now be surveyed, structured, and analysed to find qualities and connections between the different aspects systems thinking. This has led to the theory for ''Living Systems''. It gives examples of applications which a basis for further studies of systems can be formed. The Internet now provides a major advantage to the retrieval of statistical information and opens a means for the future exploration and verification of how systems work.

DKK 983.00
1

Living Longer & Livelier - James H Humphrey - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Booktok.dk

Living Longer & Livelier - James H Humphrey - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Booktok.dk

Whatever is the world coming to? Eighty-year-olds are running the Marathon. Card shop are selling birthday greeting cards for 100-year-olds. A physician asks his octogenarian patient if his parents are still living. There is an increasing number of grandchildren who are upwards of 50 years of age. And on and on and on. These days when a statistic regarding life expectancy is announced it becomes obsolete almost immediately. The oldest of the old are not only here to stay, but in increasingly larger numbers. This book is concerned essentially with the behaviours, needs and interests and other important factors in the lives of those in the upper age ranges. It is hoped that the information will be useful In helping them to live a longer and livelier life. This does not mean that it is restricted reading only for older adults. Younger persons will also have an interest as it relates not only to older loved ones but to their own future as well.

DKK 611.00
1

Employment of Native American Veterans Living on Tribal Lands - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Booktok.dk

Employment of Native American Veterans Living on Tribal Lands - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Booktok.dk

The unemployment rate for all veterans has risen since the beginning of the economic downturn, but the unemployment rate for Native Americans living on tribal land has been higher. In addition, tribal land is frequently located in remote areas characterised by limited economic development, which can make finding a job challenging. A range of federal programs provide employment assistance that can serve veterans of any race or ethnicity; in addition, other federal programs offer similar services to Native Americans (veterans and non-veterans alike). The Department of Labor''s (DOL) Veterans'' Employment and Training Service administers several grant programs to support eligible veterans through the Jobs for Veterans State Grants Program. This book provides recommendations for improving employment and job training opportunities for Native American Veterans on tribal lands, especially through the utilisation of resources for Veterans; and reviews current and prior government-to-government relations between tribal organisations and the Department of Labor Veterans'' Employment and Training Service (DOL-VETS).

DKK 738.00
1

Assistive Technology: Devices, Services and Legislation - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Booktok.dk

Assistive Technology: Devices, Services and Legislation - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Booktok.dk

Substantial progress has been made in the development of assistive technology devices, including adaptations to existing devices that facilitate activities of daily living that significantly benefit individuals with disabilities of all ages. These devices increase involvement in, and reduce expenditures associated with, programs and activities that facilitate communication, ensure independent functioning, enable early childhood development, support educational achievement, provide and enhance employment options, and enable full participation in community living for individuals with disabilities. Access to such devices can also reduce expenditures associated with early childhood intervention, education, rehabilitation and training, health care, employment, residential living, independent living, recreation opportunities, and other aspects of daily living. This book reviews the IDEA’s assistive technology requirements, dispels common misconceptions regarding AT, and provides examples of the use of AT devices and services for children with disabilities and to highlight the different requirements under Part C and Part B of IDEA.

DKK 707.00
1

Living with Aphasia - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Booktok.dk

Living with Aphasia - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Booktok.dk

Aphasia is a debilitating disorder, resulting from brain damage, that causes a person to lose the ability to understand or express speech. While aphasia is sometimes permanent, some people can completely recover their language ability spontaneously or with treatment. This monograph consists of four chapters that provide details about the disorder and describe various treatment options. Chapter One reports non-invasive brain stimulation's contribution to the study of phonological, syntactic and semantic language processing, as well as the recent interest in connections between language and motor systems. Chapter Two describes linguistically focused intensive group therapy and discusses the specific needs of adolescents and young adults with acquired aphasia. Chapter Three presents a case report of a patient with post-traumatic aphasia. Chapter Four provides details about subcortical aphasia, which is a language disorder caused by injuries in subcortical areas, such as the basal ganglia, white matter tracts, and thalamus, but not by injuries in cortical language areas, such as Wernicke's and Broca's areas.

DKK 897.00
1

Living with Huntington's Disease - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Booktok.dk

Living with Huntington's Disease - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Booktok.dk

The book first discusses the variety of sleep disorders in Huntington''s Disease, as well as how sleep quality can be associated with other important clinical symptoms. Although Huntington''s disease is categorised as a movement disorder, the wide range of non-motor symptoms including cognitive impairment and behavioural abnormalities are considered by patients and their caregivers to be just as disabling as the motor symptoms. As such, the authors explore the importance of symptomatic treatment of Huntington''s disease-related symptoms. Following this, the emotional and communicational issues in Huntington''s disease and their interrelations are examined, including depressive symptomatology, anxiety, helplessness or anger, as well as verbal and non-verbal communication and assistive technology. Lastly, the authors describe current trends and efforts in gene therapy techniques and the improvements in health conditions of Huntington''s disease patients and their families.

DKK 897.00
1

Neuroscience Imaging Research Trends - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Booktok.dk

Neuroscience Imaging Research Trends - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Booktok.dk

This book focuses on advances in imaging and mapping strategies to study the brain''s structure, function and the relationship between both, from the whole brain to the molecular and cellular tissue level in order to improve the understanding of normal and disease processes. Studies of intact living organisms may be at the human, animal, cellular or molecular level, which advance our understanding of biological events in living systems and how these events relate to normal and pathological processes. Imaging modalities include nuclear medicine techniques (SPECT and PET) and non-nuclear techniques such as MRI, MRS, CT, ultrasound, intravital microscopy, optical imaging, diffuse optical tomography, electromagnetic tomography and other methods which elucidate molecular and cellular mechanisms, accelerate the understanding of biology, test the efficacy of therapeutic interventions in intact living systems and assess the therapeutic outcomes.

DKK 897.00
1

Water Pollution - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Booktok.dk

Water Pollution - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Booktok.dk

Pollution is undesirable state of the natural environment being contaminated with harmful substances as a consequence of human activities so that the environment becomes harmful or unfit for living things; especially applicable to the contamination of soil, water, or the atmosphere by the discharge of harmful substances. In addition to the harm to living beings, both present or future and known or unknown, pollution cleanup and surveillance are enormous financial drains of the economies of the world. This book focuses on issues and developments critical for the field.

DKK 897.00
1

Living a Celiac Life - Carolina Ciacci - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Booktok.dk

Living a Celiac Life - Carolina Ciacci - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Booktok.dk

This novel was written to focus on some relevant aspects of a disease from the patients'' perspective but also to show the caregivers'' perspective. It is about celiac disease for two reasons. First, celiac disease is an emerging disease, so frequent to be considered a social epidemic'' and it involves several levels of intervention, beside the medical one. Secondly, the writers know well celiac disease because of many years of work with celiac patients. The story is about a common case of celiac disease, not a real one but a representative one: a young woman, her symptoms that worsen and allow the diagnosis. Celiac disease is not a rare disease and one must think of it. Every action intended to improve the awareness of celiac disease will increase the diagnosis rate but also ease the burden of a special'' life. A diagnosis of celiac disease gives a great opportunity to improve one''s people life, both because of better health and better quality of life. The aim of this novel is to offer a simple tool to increase the knowledge of celiac disease in people but also to ''humanise'' as much as possible what is for someone an extraordinary event.

DKK 738.00
1

Capacity Building for Environment Learning & Sustainable Living - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Booktok.dk

Capacity Building for Environment Learning & Sustainable Living - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Booktok.dk

The past two decades alone have witnessed four major shocks to the global financial system: the collapse of the European exchange rate mechanism in 1992-1993, the peso crisis in 1994-1995 and the Asian turmoil in 1997-1998. The last, and most current, is the sub-prime bubble, which started in the summer of 2007 in the United States, intensified in 2008 and 2009, and has since changed the face of global finance and economics. This book examines the aspects of the financial crisis which have had the most prominent impacts on African countries.

DKK 558.00
1

Continuing Care Retirement Communities - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Booktok.dk

Continuing Care Retirement Communities - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Booktok.dk

This book examines the risks and benefits of Continuing Care Retirement Communities (CCRC). CCRCs can benefit older Americans by allowing them to move among and through independent living, assisted living, and skilled nursing care in one community. They offer a range of contract types and fees that are designed to provide long-term care and transfer different degrees of the risk of future cost increases from the resident to the CCRC. Developing CCRCs can be a lengthy, complex process that requires significant long-term financing and accurate revenue and cost projections. Once operational, risks to long-term viability include declining occupancy and unexpected cost increases. While few CCRCs have failed, challenging economic and real estate market conditions have negatively affected some CCRCs occupancy and financial conditions.

DKK 654.00
1

Youth Transitioning From Foster Care - Adrienne L Fernandes - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Booktok.dk

Youth Transitioning From Foster Care - Adrienne L Fernandes - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Booktok.dk

Nearly half of states have laws that explicitly permit the state child welfare system to continue providing foster care for children beyond the age of majority (usually no later than 19). However, the number of states that actually facilitate youth remaining in care beyond their 18th or 19th birthdays is significantly smaller. Over 20,000 young people have been emancipated from foster care annually from FY2002 through FY2006. While most young people have access to emotional and financial support systems throughout their early adult years, older youth in care and those who age out of care often face obstacles to developing independent living skills and building supports that ease the transition to adulthood. Older foster youth who return to their parents or guardians may continue to experience poor family dynamics or a lack of emotional and financial supports, and studies have shown that recently emancipated foster youth fare poorly relative to their counterparts in the general population on several outcome measures. Recognising the difficulties faced by older youth in care and youth emancipating from foster care, Congress created a new Independent Living initiative (P.L. 99-272)in 1986 to assist certain older foster youth as they enter adulthood. The legislation authorised mandatory funding to states under a new Section 477 of the Social Security Act. In 1999, the John H. Chafee Foster Care Independence Act (P.L. 106-169) replaced the Independent Living Program with the Chafee Foster Care Independence Program (CFCIP) and doubled the total annual funds available to states from $70 million to $140 million. The law also expanded the population of youth eligible to receive independent living services - with no lower age limit - and gave states greater flexibility in designing independent living programs. Independent living services can refer to assistance in obtaining a high school diploma, training in daily living skills, and training in financial management, among other services. Amendments to the CFCIP in FY2002 (P.L. 107-133) authorised discretionary funding for states to provide education and training vouchers to eligible youth. Along with the CFCIP, federal child welfare law and other federal programs are intended to help older current youth in care and foster care alumni make the transition to adulthood. The federal foster care program has protections in place to ensure that older youth in care have a written case plan that addresses the programs and services that will assist in this transition, among other supports. Further, federal law authorises funding for states to provide workforce assistance and housing to older foster youth. Despite these efforts and the resilience displayed by current and former foster youth, policymakers and child welfare practitioners have suggested that at a minimum, young people need better support to build stronger connections with caring adults before leaving foster care and should have the option to remain in care upon reaching their 18th or 19th birthdays.

DKK 536.00
1

Kidney Transplantation - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Booktok.dk

Kidney Transplantation - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Booktok.dk

Despite significant accomplishments to date, kidney transplantation is a relatively young field in medicine. The shortage of deceased donor organs available for transplantation has led to the need to identify novel strategies to increase the organ donor pool. Due to the armamentarium of agents available to effectively suppress the immune system, the past decade has seen a shift in focus from prevention of rejection to a focus on extending the life of the allograft, with much focus on developing agents and immunosuppression combinations that are less toxic to the transplanted kidney. These concepts provide the framework for this textbook. For the first time in years, agents with novel mechanisms of action are beginning to come to market for use in kidney transplantation, and novel concepts to increase both deceased and living donor organ availability have been adapted by progressive transplant centers. Within the field of living donation, kidney paired donation and single site laparoendoscopic donor nephrectomy are important methods of increasing access to living donor transplantation. Utilization of expanded criteria, donation after cardiac death, hepatitis C positive, and pediatric donor organs are discussed as methods to increase deceased donor transplant opportunities for the over 90,000 patients currently on the kidney transplant waiting list in the United States alone.

DKK 738.00
1

Polyamine-Containing DNA Fragments - A S Levina - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Booktok.dk

Polyamine-Containing DNA Fragments - A S Levina - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Booktok.dk

Polyamines are known to play an essential role in living organisms, where they act as metabolic regulators, in cell proliferation and differentiation, and as stabilising agents of nucleic acid structure and conformation. Polyamines are also known to protect DNA from damage caused by external agents, such as reactive oxygen species or radiation. The essential role of polyamines for maintaining cell growth has been widely documented. Polyamines can stabilise double- and triplex-stranded DNAs. Furthermore, polyamines and their derivatives can be used as condensing agents to package genes of interest for efficient transfection into living cells. This book discusses aspects concerning polyamines and nucleic acid fragments including the synthesis of covalent polyamine-oligonucleotide conjugates, the preparation of DNA arrays using polyamines, and the use of polyamines as vehicles to deliver nucleic acids into cells.

DKK 558.00
1

Strategies of Economic Growth & Catch-Up - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Booktok.dk

Strategies of Economic Growth & Catch-Up - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Booktok.dk

Economic growth is a major source of wealth creation at the national and international level. It elevates a nation''s standard of living as well as being able to lift it out of poverty. With suitable guidance on population growth, fiscal soundness, environmentally sustainable development and resource use, an acceptable distribution of income and a constant rate of technical progress, economic growth will always have a quantitative, as well as a qualitative dimension, both of which improve general living conditions and individual growth. This book argues that a key driver of economic growth among nations or regional economic entities is an intrinsic, ongoing, perpetual and historically observable rivalry to propel a state''s standing, prestige, power and economic performance through getting ahead of or not to fall too much behind its rivals in a pecking order.

DKK 983.00
1

Psychology of Sadness - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Booktok.dk

Psychology of Sadness - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Booktok.dk

In this book, the authors present current research in the study of the psychology of sadness. Topics discussed include the grieving process and living with persons with bipolar affective disorder; depression and pregnancy; children''s knowledge of the consequences of expressing sadness; the themes of sadness and frustration among returning combat veterans; and the perception and experience of sadness in music.

DKK 897.00
1

Breast Cancer Screening & Prevention - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Booktok.dk

Breast Cancer Screening & Prevention - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Booktok.dk

This book presents and discusses research in the study of breast cancer diagnosis and prevention. Topics discussed include strategies for the prevention of breast cancer; health benefits and breast cancer screenings; access to mammography facilities; the reduction in the risk of human breast cancer by selective cyclooxygenase-2 (COX-2) inhibitors and breast cancer perceptions and knowledge among women living in a rural community.

DKK 897.00
1

Veterans' Disability Claims - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Booktok.dk

Veterans' Disability Claims - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Booktok.dk

The lengthy delays of benefit claims decisions that persist for Veterans returning home with injuries from recent (and past) conflicts confound their transition from military to civilian community living. This book presents findings of the National Council on Disability and evaluates the perceived factors contributing to the sustained Veterans Administration backlog. The book contains potential solutions and recommended measures to facilitate the resolution of initial disability claims and appeals.

DKK 738.00
1

Money Management for Financial Caregivers - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Booktok.dk

Money Management for Financial Caregivers - - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Booktok.dk

In this book the authors present information, guidance and responsibilities of money management for financial caregivers. Topics discussed in the book includes helpful information on help for agents under a power of attorney; help for court-appointed guardians of property and conservators; help for trustees under revocable living trust; help for representative payees and VA fiduciaries; top tips for selecting a financial professional; and what you need to know before choosing an investment adviser.

DKK 738.00
1

Organ Donation - Petr T Grinkovskiy - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Booktok.dk

Organ Donation - Petr T Grinkovskiy - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Booktok.dk

The issue of living organ donation is important because it represents one important set of possibilities for balancing the needs of people seeking organs with one another, and with the needs of potential organ donors. On one side of the balance, the drive to increase the supply of transplantable organs is fueled by people awaiting organ transplants. They are, in a sense, competing with one another on waiting lists for potentially life-saving scarce resources. On the other side of the balance, the drive to ensure that the transplant system is ethical and equitable precludes some mechanisms that would increase the supply of transplantable organs. Some options that have been rejected to date in the United States include paying healthy persons to donate their organs, and mandating that transplantable organs be harvested from all cadavers. To maintain the most ideal balance for the organ transplantation system, Congress may now wish to clarify whether certain new types of living organ donation should be adopted to increase the supply of transplantable organs, or prohibited for ethical and/or equitable reasons.

DKK 897.00
1

Visible Parts of Plants - Thomas P Hanna - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Booktok.dk

Visible Parts of Plants - Thomas P Hanna - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Booktok.dk

Why do plants need to be watered and what good does the wood in its trunk do for the tree? The root, stem, leaf, flower and seed -- all the parts that most of us think of when we think of a plant -- are examined in detail in this illuminating book to see how living structures are shaped by the jobs to be done. All the pieces and processes are defined in plain language and explained using easy to understand comparisons.

DKK 654.00
1

Lou Henry Hoover - Dale C Mayer - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Booktok.dk

Lou Henry Hoover - Dale C Mayer - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Booktok.dk

Recent interest in the wives of American Presidents has led to the rediscovery of many First Ladies whose public service and accomplishments had been forgotten. The prime example is Lou Henry Hoover, a vivacious woman with a thoroughly modern approach to life, an unquenchable zest for living, and a long-term dedication to public service that dated from the Spanish-American War. Lou Henry Hoover: A Prototype for First Ladies provides readers with their first in-depth examination of the adventure-filled life and numerous public services of this complex and fascinating First Lady. Readers will wonder how Lou Hoover could have become a forgotten First Lady when they discover references to her zest for living and extensive public service activities in contemporary newspaper accounts and letters. The reason for the obscure knowledge about this First Lady is there was no access to her papers, and historians also had tended to dismiss Mrs. Hoover as an aloof and uncaring First Lady who lacked purpose, mission, or audience. The fog began to lift when her personal and public papers became available to historians in 1985.

DKK 749.00
1

System Thinking in the Control of Organizational & Technical Problems - Z Gasitashvili - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Booktok.dk

System Thinking in the Control of Organizational & Technical Problems - Z Gasitashvili - Bog - Nova Science Publishers Inc - Booktok.dk

The term "systems thinking" generates from systems theory, in particular the theory of living systems, which appeared in cybernetics and computer sciences in the 1940s and 1950s. Systemic view is the point of view with which the world is understood in terms of relationship and integration. This book presents the results of long-term research of Georgian scientists in the field of automated information management systems and automated databases. The management efficiency depends on the management theory, initial information adequacy and managerial mechanisms of corporative systems.

DKK 1079.00
1