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The Acute-Care Nurse Practitioner A Transformational Journey
The Acute-Care Nurse Practitioner is based on in-depth interviews with twenty-six nurse practitioners working in acute-care settings within tertiary-care institutions all across Canada. Employing a hermeneutic approach, Rashotte explores the perspectives from which NPs view their reality as they undergo a transformational journey of becoming—a journey that is directed both outward, into the w…
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- 978-1-927356-26-5
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- 292 pages
Teaching Health Professionals Online Frameworks and Strategies
Teaching Health Professionals Online is a must-read for professionals in the health care field who strive to deliver excellence in their online classes. Intended for a wide range of professionals, including nurses, social workers, occupational and radiation therapists, chiropractors, dietitians, and dental hygienists, this compendium of teaching strategies will inspire both new and experienced …
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- 978-1-927356-66-1
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- 173 pages
Mobile Networks for Biometric Data Analysis
This book showcases new and innovative approaches to biometric data capture and analysis, focusing especially on those that are characterized by non-intrusiveness, reliable prediction algorithms, and high user acceptance. It comprises the peer-reviewed papers from the international workshop on the subject that was held in Ancona, Italy, in October 2014 and featured sessions on ICT for health ca…
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- 978-3-319-39698-9
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- IX, 323
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- Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
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Multimodal Retrieval in the Medical Domain
This book constitutes the proceedings of the First International Workshop on Multimodal Retrieval in the Medical Domain, MRMD 2015, held in Vienna, Austria, on March 29, 2015. The workshop was held in connection with ECIR 2015. The 14 full papers presented, including one invited paper, a workshop overview and five papers on the VISCERAL Retrieval Benchmark, were carefully reviewed and sele…
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- 978-3-319-24470-9
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- VIII, 153
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- Lecture Notes in Computer Science
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Modern Stroke Rehabilitation through e-Health-based Entertainment
Describes innovative approaches for achieving mixed-reality environments, combining augmented and virtual environments with full-body immersive user interfaces; Offers cost-effective means of body motion capture by hybridizing wearable sensor data; Utilizes energy-efficient micro-embedded sensors for wearable sensing applications; Includes innovative, power autonomous sensing using Bod…
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- 978-3-319-21293-7
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Treatment versus Punishment for Drug Addiction
Transnational, interdisciplinary comparison of drug laws and treatment for drug-addicted offenders Explores decisive factors for judges and prosecutors to select treatment instead of punishment options Examines challenges of cooperation between law enforcement and public health for drug treatment, and presents possible solutions
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- 978-3-319-18824-9
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- XIV, 100
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- SpringerBriefs in Criminology
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Traumatic Stress and Long-Term Recovery
This evidence-rich collection takes on the broad diversity of traumatic stress, in both its causes and outcomes, as well as the wide variety of resources available for recovery. Its accessible coverage shows varied presentations of post-traumatic stress affected by individual, family, and group contexts, including age, previous trauma exposure, and presence or lack of social resources, as well …
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- 978-3-319-18865-2
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- XV, 443
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Translational Toxicology
Bringing together a distinguished interdisciplinary team of contributors, this volume provides a comprehensive exploration of translational toxicology—a systematic approach to developing therapeutic interventions that can protect against, mitigate, or reverse the effects of exposures. In particular, the book addresses modes of action and biomarkers, developmental risks of exposures, and poten…
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- 978-3-319-27449-2
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- XV, 380
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- Molecular and Integrative Toxicology
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Translational Research Methods for Diabetes, Obesity and Cardiometabolic Drug…
The world is beset by a pandemic of obesity and type 2 diabetes and the need for new drugs is startlingly clear; recent years have seen a huge increase in research activity to fill this gap. The development of new drugs for diabetes and obesity must be founded upon a sound appreciation of the pathophysiology of these common disorders. The dual defects of insulin resistance and impaired insulin …
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- 978-1-4471-7032-7
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- XII, 312
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Translational Informatics
Integrative and translational methodologies and frameworks have transformed modern biomedical research and the delivery of clinical care. This shift has been manifested in a number of ways, including the rapid growth and increasing availability of high-throughput bio-molecular instrumentation and analysis platforms, innovative clinical research programs intended to accelerate knowledge translat…
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- 978-1-4471-4646-9
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- IX, 185
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- Health Informatics
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