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The Care of the Older Person

The Care of the Older Person

The fifth edition of this widely used book by caregivers brings to you updated and revised content built on the basic understanding that medicine does not work in a vacuum but rather alongside other disciplines to provide the environment for a healthy and fulfilling long life. Edited by alumni and senior faculty at McGill University with international contributions this book advocates the achievement of better longer satisfying and more productive lives for older persons. It is a helpful resource for physicians professional caregivers therapists students and residents in medical and nursing disciplines who care for our burgeoning older population and need to know what to look for and when to consult specialists. Key Features:1. Follows a uniform structure with many chapters having a hypothetical vignette for instructional purposes and with the clinical chapters detailing the features and diagnosis of given conditions along with possible management protocols specific to afflicted older individuals. 2. Builds on the success of the previous four editions to provide high-quality content from international experts for physicians and other caregivers in the field. 3. Provides possible management for pressing problems including the nursing home challenge pandemics such as COVID and precision therapy for cancer. | The Care of the Older Person

GBP 39.99
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Workflow A Practical Guide to the Creative Process

Workflow A Practical Guide to the Creative Process

A pro isn’t just a person who can do it well. It’s a person who can do it well every time on demand and on deadline; which is why the key to being a professional creative is having a great creative process. Whether it’s writing a book animating a shot designing a game level or composing a soundtrack—ultimately we’re all facing similar challenges. Since we share challenges we can also share solutions. This book is a practical guide featuring a universal creative process that can streamline any serious creative work on any scale. Key Features Universal approach: applies to any process that starts with an idea and ends with a refined product. Profound and light: combines conceptual ideas with practical tips and fun anecdotes. Caricatures and samples: helps visually clarify ideas and processes. Variety of creative fields: draws on examples from writing animation game design 3D modeling music sculpting and more Printable summaries: provides visual outlines that can be used as cheat-sheets. | Workflow A Practical Guide to the Creative Process

GBP 46.99
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Assistive Technology Assessment Handbook

Assistive Technology Assessment Handbook

The process of matching a person who has a disability with the most appropriate assistive technology requires a series of assessments typically administered by multidisciplinary teams at specialized centers for technical aid. Assistive Technology Assessment Handbook fills the need for a reference that helps assistive technology experts perform assessments that more effectively connect the person and the technology. Emphasizing the well-being of the individual with a disability the book proposes an ideal model of the assistive technology assessment process and outlines how this model can be applied in practice internationally. Organized into three parts the handbook: Gives readers a toolkit for performing assessments Describes the roles of the assessment team members among them the new profession of the psychotechnologist who is skilled in understanding individuals and their psychosocial and technological needs and preferences Reviews cutting-edge technologies for rehabilitation and independent living including brain–computer interfaces and microswitches The book synthesizes information scattered throughout the international literature focusing on aspects that are particularly representative or innovative. It also addresses the challenges posed by the variety of health and social care systems and the different ways that individuals who need aid are defined—are they users patients clients or consumers and how does that affect the assessment? Edited by Stefano Federici and Marcia J. Scherer internationally renowned leaders in the field of assistive technology assessment this cross-cultural handbook includes contributions from leading experts across five continents. Guiding readers in matching the person and the appropriate assistive technology it offers a framework for future practice and research. Listen to Stefano Federici talk about the handbook.

GBP 74.99
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Manual of Forensic Taphonomy

Manual of Forensic Taphonomy

The main goals in any forensic skeletal analysis are to answer who is the person represented (individualization) how that person died (trauma/pathology) and when that person died (the postmortem interval or PMI). The analyses necessary to generate the biological profile include the determination of human nonhuman or nonosseous origin the minimum number of individuals represented age at death sex stature ancestry perimortem trauma antemortem trauma osseous pathology odontology and taphonomic effects—the postmortem modifications to a set of remains. The Manual of Forensic Taphonomy Second Edition covers the fundamental principles of these postmortem changes encountered during case analysis. Taphonomic processes can be highly destructive and subtract information from bones regarding their utility in determining other aspects of the biological profile but they also can add information regarding the entire postmortem history of the remains and the relative timing of those effects. The taphonomic analyses outlined provide guidance on how to separate natural agencies from human-caused trauma. These analyses are also performed in conjunction with the field processing of recovery scenes and the interpretation of the site formation and their postdepositional history. The individual chapters categorize these alterations to skeletal remains illustrate and explain their significance and demonstrate differential diagnosis among them. Such observations may then be combined into higher-order patterns to aid forensic investigators in determining what happened to those remains in the interval from death to analysis including the environment(s) in which the remains were deposited including buried terrestrial surface marine freshwater or cultural contexts. Features Provides nearly 300 full-color illustrations of both common and rare taphonomic effects to bones derived from actual forensic cases • Presents new research including experimentation on recovery rates during surface search timing of marine alterations trophy skulls taphonomic laboratory and field methods laws regarding the relative timing of taphonomic effects reptile taphonomy human decomposition and microscopic alterations by invertebrates to bones • Explains and illustrates common taphonomic effects and clarifies standard terminology for uniformity and usage within in the field While the book is primarily focused upon large vertebrate and specifically human skeletal remains it effectively synthesizes data from human ethological geological/paleontological paleoanthropological archaeological artifactual and zooarchaeological studies. Since these taphonomic processes affect other vertebrates in similar manners The Manual of Forensic Taphonomy Second Edition will be invaluable to a broad set of forensic and investigative disciplines.

GBP 69.99
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ICPC-3 International Classification of Primary Care User Manual and Classification

ICPC-3 International Classification of Primary Care User Manual and Classification

This third edition of the International Classification of Primary Care (ICPC-3) is indispensible for anyone wishing to use the international classification system for classification of morbidity data in a primary care setting. Distilling the many standards that are applied internationally in primary & community care and public health to offer a telescopic view the classification has been completely rewritten to reflect the continued shift in the health paradigm of primary care and public health towards the person rather than the disease or provider. The content of ICPC-3 remains closely ‘linked’ to relevant related international classifications. The ICPC-3 also contributes to the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals specifically to Goal 3 and its target of ensuring healthy lives and promoting well-being for all at all ages. | ICPC-3 International Classification of Primary Care User Manual and Classification

GBP 28.99
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Multiple Sclerosis Rehabilitation From Impairment to Participation

Multiple Sclerosis Rehabilitation From Impairment to Participation

MS is always in the back of your mind. If there is something you want to do you always wonder if the MS will allow you do to it. —Darlene living with MS for 22 years Living with multiple sclerosis (MS) is challenging and multidimensional. MS pervades all aspects of life: one’s body becomes unpredictable and unreliable one’s identity and sense of self are tested and relationships with others often change. MS symptoms emerge and remit; limitations evolve and progress. MS rehabilitation is an active person-centered and goal-oriented process embedded within a respectful and collaborative partnership between the person with MS and the members of his or her rehabilitation treatment team. Using the International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health (ICF) as a guiding framework Multiple Sclerosis Rehabilitation: From Impairment to Participation provides a comprehensive and evidence-based resource to inform and guide clinical reasoning and decision making during each phase of the MS rehabilitation process from initial referral to post-discharge follow-up. With an emphasis on the application of evidence throughout the entire MS rehabilitation process the specific objectives of the book are to increase the understanding of: The nature and impact of specific impairments activity limitations and participation restrictions experienced by people with MS How to select and use valid reliable and relevant assessment tools to inform the development of rehabilitation goals and intervention plans and to evaluate outcomes This book provides information about the nature and impact of MS on the daily lives of people living with the disease describes evidence-based assessment processes and instruments and summarizes current knowledge that can inform goal setting and intervention planning. Thoughtful application of the knowledge contained in this book will inform and guide rehabilitation providers to work collaboratively with people with MS and enable them to achieve their goals for participation in everyday life. | Multiple Sclerosis Rehabilitation From Impairment to Participation

GBP 74.99
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Creating Games with Unreal Engine Substance Painter & Maya Models Textures Animation & Blueprint

Creating Games with Unreal Engine Substance Painter & Maya Models Textures Animation & Blueprint

Description: This tutorial-based book allows readers to create a first-person game from start to finish using industry-standard (and free to student) tools of Maya Substance Painter and Unreal Engine. The first half of the book lays out the basics of using Maya and Substance Painter to create game-ready assets. This includes polygonal modeling UV layout and custom texture painting. Then the book covers rigging and animation solutions to create assets to be placed in the game including animated first-person assets and motion-captured NPC animations. Finally readers can put it all together and build interactivity that allows the player to create a finished game using the assets built and animated earlier in the book. • Written by industry professionals with real-world experience in building assets and games. • Build a complete game from start to finish. • Learn what the pros use: construct all assets using the tools used at industries across the world. • All software used are free to students. • When complete students will have a playable version of an FPS game. Jing Tian Li is a graduate of China’s Central Academy of Fine Arts and New York’s School of Visual Arts where he earned an MFA in Computer Art. He currently is an Assistant Professor of 3D Animation & Game Design at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio Texas. Kassandra Arevalo is an instructor of 3D Animation & Game Design at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio Texas. She previously worked as an animator at Immersed Games. Matt Tovar is an industry veteran animator. He has worked at Naughty Dog Infinity Ward and Sony Interactive on such games as The Last of Us Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and most recently Marvel’s Avengers with Crystal Dynamics. He is an Assistant Professor of 3D Animation at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio Texas. | Creating Games with Unreal Engine Substance Painter & Maya Models Textures Animation & Blueprint

GBP 56.99
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Cooperative Gaming Diversity in the Games Industry and How to Cultivate Inclusion

Cooperative Gaming Diversity in the Games Industry and How to Cultivate Inclusion

Description Cooperative Gaming provides context and practical advice regarding diversity in the games industry. The book begins with a deep dive into research literature and the history of diversity in the games industry to provide context around what diversity is and why it is a topic worth considering. The book looks at the different facets of diversity and games exploring the issues and solutions within game development studio management event planning and more. It provides people with practical advice about being a marginalized person in the games industry and how to be heard how studios can support inclusive practices and events can actively become more accessible to a diverse audience. Key Features • Explores the history of diversity in games • Provides important information around what it is like to be a marginalized person in the industry • Gives practical steps to improve the inclusivity of the industry that are designed to aid in contextualizing and upskilling new developers Author Bios Alayna Cole is the managing director of Queerly Represent Me a not-for-profit championing queer representation in games. Alayna is also a producer at Sledgehammer Games co-chair of the IGDA LGBTQ+ special interest group and an award-winning games journalist and game developer. She was featured on the 2016 and 2017 Develop Pacific 30 Under 30 lists and the 2017 and 2019 Develop Pacific Women in Games lists and she has received several other accolades in the industry. Jessica Zammit started writing in 2013 for Start Select Media and for the next five years she followed her interest in writing about representations of mental health diversity and particularly sexuality in video games. Jessica has been speaking about diversity in games at conventions such as PAX Australia since 2016 and has been featured on several other discussions in and around the topic of representation in games and games criticism. Along with her co-author she is co-chair of the IGDA LGBTQ+ special interest group and she was featured on the 2018 Develop Pacific 30 Under 30 and Women in Games lists. | Cooperative Gaming Diversity in the Games Industry and How to Cultivate Inclusion

GBP 35.99
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Creating Games with Unity Substance Painter & Maya Models Textures Animation & Code

Creating Games with Unity Substance Painter & Maya Models Textures Animation & Code

This tutorial-based book allows readers to create a first-person game from start to finish using industry-standard (and free to student) tools of Unity Substance Painter and Maya. The first half of the book lays out the basics of using Maya and Substance Painter to create game-ready assets. This includes polygonal modeling UV layout and custom texture painting. The book then covers rigging and animation solutions to create assets to be placed in the game including animated first-person assets and motion-captured NPC animations. Finally readers can put it all together and build interactivity that allows the player to create a finished game using the assets built and animated earlier in the book. • Written by industry professionals with real-world experience in building assets and games • Build a complete game from start to finish • Learn what the pros use: construct all assets using the tools used at game studios across the world • All software used are free to students • When complete students will have a playable version of an FPS game Jingtian Li is a graduate of China’s Central Academy of Fine Arts and New York’s School of Visual Arts where he earned an MFA in Computer Art. He currently is an Assistant Professor of 3D Animation & Game Design at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio Texas. Adam Watkins is a 20-year veteran of 3D education. He holds an MFA in 3D Animation and a BFA in Theatre Arts from Utah State University. He currently is the Coordinator and Professor of the 3D Animation & Game Department at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio Texas. Kassandra Arevalo is an instructor of 3D Animation & Game Design at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio Texas. She previously worked as an animator at Immersed Games. Matt Tovar is an industry veteran animator. He has worked at Naughty Dog Infinity Ward and Sony Interactive on such games as The Last of Us Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and most recently Marvel’s Avengers with Crystal Dynamics. He is an Assistant Professor of 3D Animation at the University of the Incarnate Word in San Antonio Texas. | Creating Games with Unity Substance Painter & Maya Models Textures Animation & Code

GBP 56.99
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Essential Geriatrics

Essential Geriatrics

In an ageing society developing high-quality healthcare for older people becomes increasingly important. This revised and updated fourth edition focuses on the key aspects of ageing and healthcare for older people especially those with moderate to severe frailty. It has expanded sections on the key topics of frailty and medicines optimisation with evidence from critically appraised clinical trials formulated into practical guidance for management. It details the non-pharmacological management of cognitive disorders and models of person-centred care. Additional topics of acute coronary syndromes and COVID-19 have also been added in this comprehensive text for healthcare professionals. Key Features Provides practical therapeutic advice including deprescribing decisions for all medication types. Presents statistics in more clinically meaningful ways – i. e. number needed to treat and no p-values to aid the process of shared decision-making for clinicians and professionals. Includes 200 revised questions and answers throughout the text in the 'best of five' format suitable for the SCE and similar higher-training exams. | Essential Geriatrics

GBP 56.99
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Assistive Technology Assessment Handbook

Assistive Technology Assessment Handbook

Assistive Technology Assessment Handbook Second Edition proposes an international ideal model for the assistive technology assessment process outlining how this model can be applied in practice to re-conceptualize the phases of an assistive technology delivery system according to the biopsychosocial model of disability. The model provides reference guidelines for evidence-based practice guiding both public and private centers that wish to compare evaluate and improve their ability to match a person with the correct technology model. This second edition also offers a contribution to the Global Cooperation on Assistive Technology (GATE) initiative whose activities are strongly focused on the assistive products service delivery model. Organized into three parts the handbook: gives readers a toolkit for performing assessments; describes the roles of the assessment team members among them the new profession of psychotechnologist; and reviews technologies for rehabilitation and independent living including brain–computer interfaces exoskeletons and technologies for music therapy. Edited by Stefano Federici and Marcia J. Scherer this cross-cultural handbook includes contributions from leading experts across five continents offering a framework for future practice and research.

GBP 160.00
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Alcoholism Causes Symptoms Effects and Treatment

Alcoholism Causes Symptoms Effects and Treatment

The book includes research on multi-dimensional aspects of problems related to alcohol. The chapters cover a wide range of topics on the theme of Alcoholism ranging from reasons and factors that induce alcoholism to health risks and finally possible medical psychological and alternative remedial measures. Various factors such as genetics childhood influences antisocial behaviour and personality traits contribute to this menace of alcoholism. Cultural values beliefs and childhood experiences to govern thought process are indirectly related to earlier stages of alcohol addiction. Family history and life stress have implications on an individual's susceptibility to alcohol addiction. Personality traits influence the addiction in individuals. The treatment of alcoholism involves different therapies besides medicines for comprehensive and smooth recovery of the person. The important inducing factors impact on society individual brain family nutritional deficiency and possible therapies such as body psychotherapies herbal and natural therapy have been covered in the book in hope of a comprehensive solution. Note: T& F does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India Pakistan Nepal Bhutan Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. | Alcoholism Causes Symptoms Effects and Treatment

GBP 99.99
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Neural Networks Machine Learning and Image Processing Mathematical Modeling and Applications

Neural Networks Machine Learning and Image Processing Mathematical Modeling and Applications

The text comprehensively discusses the latest mathematical modelling techniques and their applications in various areas such as fuzzy modelling signal processing neural network machine learning image processing and their numerical analysis. It further covers image processing techniques like Viola-Jones Method for face detection and fuzzy approach for person video emotion. It will serve as an ideal reference text for graduate students and academic researchers in the fields of mechanical engineering electronics communication engineering computer engineering and mathematics. This book: Discusses applications of neural networks machine learning image processing and mathematical modeling. Provides simulations techniques in machine learning and image processing-based problems. Highlights artificial intelligence and machine learning techniques in the detection of diseases. Introduces mathematical modeling techniques such as wavelet transform modeling using differential equations and numerical techniques for multi-dimensional data. Includes real-life problems for better understanding. The book presents mathematical modeling techniques such as wavelet transform differential equations and numerical techniques for multi-dimensional data. It will serve as an ideal reference text for graduate students and academic researchers in diverse engineering fields such as mechanical electronics and communication and computer. | Neural Networks Machine Learning and Image Processing Mathematical Modeling and Applications

GBP 110.00
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Infection Prevention and Control A Social Science Perspective

Infection Prevention and Control A Social Science Perspective

An understanding of the social sciences within infection prevention and control (IPC) is important for those working in health and social care. This new book Infection Prevention and Control: A Social Science Perspective positions the specialty of IPC as more than a technical discipline concerned with microbes. It is about people and their behaviour in context and the book therefore explores a number of relevant social sciences and their relationship to IPC across different contexts and cultures. IPC is relevant to every person who works in and accesses health care and it remains a global challenge. Exploring novel approaches and perspectives that expand our collective horizons in an ever changing and evolving IPC landscape therefore makes sense. Key Features: Offers new perspectives beyond the topic area of infection prevention and control to push the frontiers of knowledge and to challenge the status quo Interprofessional in nature and relevant to all those involved in the provision of medicine health and social care irrespective of their roles Truly international in nature in that the chapters have been developed by a range of individuals from across the globe | Infection Prevention and Control A Social Science Perspective

GBP 36.99
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Enterprise Architecture and New Generation Information Systems

Enterprise Architecture and New Generation Information Systems

Based on an extensive research project done by the author in the United States Britain Germany France Switzerland Sweden and Austria from December 1999 to June 2001 Enterprise Architecture and New Generation Information Systems focuses on four main themes: Next Generation Information TechnologyThe Likely Technologies of this DecadeEnterprise ComputingThe Internet as the 21st Century's Answer to MerchandisingWhile the majority of books presently available on information systems are written from the viewpoint of system analysis programming or common applications this text:Brings to the reader's attention the importance of organization and infrastructurePresents a wealth of case studies to explain the need for reengineering and restructuringDetails the latest advances which influence the implementation of advanced technologyWritten in a simple comprehensive manner without specific prerequisites and data processing jargon with concepts and case studies properly explained this book addresses itself to practitioners in computer technology telecommunications and software development who are interested in acquiring skills through knowledge of the most advanced applications tools and methods both present and coming. Enterprise Architecture and New Generation Information Systems will prove appealing to every person charged with planning developing applying and delivering advanced information systems architectural solutions and programming products.

GBP 59.99
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Rethinking Faecal Sludge Management in Emergency Settings Decision Support Tools and Smart Technology Applications for Emergency Sanitation

Rethinking Faecal Sludge Management in Emergency Settings Decision Support Tools and Smart Technology Applications for Emergency Sanitation

The development of technology in the emergency sanitation sector has not been emphasised sufficiently considering that the management of human excreta is a basic requirement for every person. The lack of technology tailored to emergency situations complicates efforts to cater for sanitation needs in challenging humanitarian crisis. Concerns persists on the lack of faecal sludge management that considers the whole sanitation chain from containment until treatment. This study focused on the development of a smart emergency toilet termed the eSOS (emergency sanitation operation system) smart toilet to address the limitation in technical options. This toilet is based on the eSOS concept that takes into account the entire sanitation chain. This study also addresses the limited time for planning in emergencies by developing a decision support system (DSS) to help quick selection of optimal sanitation options. The aim was to enable users of the DSS to plan their emergency sanitation response within the shortest time possible. The study aims to contribute toward a better emergency sanitation response by application of technology advances. | Rethinking Faecal Sludge Management in Emergency Settings Decision Support Tools and Smart Technology Applications for Emergency Sanitation

GBP 74.99
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Security Operations An Introduction to Planning and Conducting Private Security Details for High-Risk Areas

Security Operations An Introduction to Planning and Conducting Private Security Details for High-Risk Areas

Security Operations: An Introduction to Planning and Conducting Private Security Details for High-Risk Areas Second Edition was written for one primary purpose: to keep people alive by introducing them to private security detail tactics and techniques. The book provides an understanding of the basic concepts and rules that need to be followed in protective services including what comprises good security practice. This second edition is fully updated to include new case scenarios threat vectors and new ambush ploys and attack tactics used by opportunistic predators and seasoned threat actors with ever-advanced sophisticated schemes. Security has always been a necessity for conducting business operations in both low- and high-risk situations regardless of the threat level in the operating environment. Overseas those with new ideas or businesses can frequently be targets for both political and criminal threat agents intent on doing harm. Even in the United States people become targets because of positions held publicity politics economics or other issues that cause unwanted attention to a person their family or business operations. Security Operations Second Edition provides an introduction to what duties a security detail should perform and how to effectively carry out those duties. The book can be used by a person traveling with a single bodyguard or someone being moved by a full security detail. FEATURES • Identifies what can pose a threat how to recognize threats and where threats are most likely to be encountered • Presents individuals and companies with the security and preparedness tools to protect themselves when operating in various environments especially in high-risk regions • Provides an understanding of operational security when in transit: to vary route selection and keep destinations and movement plans out of the public view • Outlines the tools and techniques needed for people to become security conscious and situationally aware for their own safety and the safety of those close to them An equal help to those just entering the protection business or people and companies that are considering hiring a security detail Security Operations is a thorough detailed and responsible approach to this serious and often high-risk field. Robert H. Deatherage Jr. is a veteran Special Forces Soldier and private security consultant with thirty years’ experience in military and private security operations. His various writings on security topics cover security operations threat assessment risk management client relations surveillance detection counter surveillance operations foot and vehicle movements and building security—blending solid operational theory with practical field experience. | Security Operations An Introduction to Planning and Conducting Private Security Details for High-Risk Areas

GBP 58.99
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Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapies for Autoimmune Diseases

Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapies for Autoimmune Diseases

This book summarizes the global progress in medical and scientific research toward converting traditionally chronic autoimmune diseases into a drug-free reversible illness using hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) and other cellular therapies such as T regulatory cells (Treg) mesenchymal stromal/stem cells and chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR T) cells in order to reintroduce sustained immune tolerance. This title provides information on different types of stem cells and immune cells; post-transplant immune regeneration; cellular regulatory requirements; ethical and economic considerations; and the advantages and disadvantages of HSCT in the treatment of a variety of autoimmune diseases versus current conventional treatments. Arranged by disease the text provides a comprehensive guide to HSCT for all types of autoimmune/immune disorders including monogenetic autoimmune diseases; autoimmune aplastic anemia; neurologic immune diseases including multiple sclerosis chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy neuromyelitis optica and stiff person syndrome; rheumatologic diseases such as systemic sclerosis and systemic lupus erythematosus; dermatologic diseases such as pemphigus; gastrointestinal disorders such as Crohn’s disease and celiac disease; and immune-mediated endocrinologic disease type I diabetes mellitus. Guidance is provided on the transplantation technique cell collection and processing conditioning regimens infections and early and late complications. Key Features Outlines therapies and techniques for HSCT for autoimmune diseases Discusses the advantages of HSCT over conventional therapies Reviews the entire process of stem cell therapy from harvest and ethics to indications efficacy and regulatory oversight | Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapies for Autoimmune Diseases

GBP 180.00
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Environmental Policy and Public Health Principal Health Hazards and Mitigation Volume 1

Environmental Policy and Public Health Principal Health Hazards and Mitigation Volume 1

Written by environmental health experts with long teaching and professional careers in policy and public health the third edition of Environmental Policy and Public Health comprises two volumes addressing key physical hazards in the environment that impact public health. The first volume on Principal Health Hazards and Mitigation is complemented by the second volume Emerging Health Hazards and Mitigation. The health of the environment is inextricably linked to that of people. Thoroughly updated Volume 1 describes how the quality of air water and food is threatened by the presence of toxic substances and explains why climate change is a global health priority already impacting human health and the environment. The mitigations discussed in this volume are twofold: policies that are intended for control of specific hazards and suggested hazard interventions. The role of policy in addressing each of these key environmental health areas is extensively discussed in this volume as well. Each chapter explains step by step how new environmental health issues are translated into public health policies and concludes with practice questions to facilitate interactive learning for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students taking courses in public health and environmental sciences. The step-by step approach as well as the case studies and practice questions allow for a diverse portfolio of in-person and hybrid pedagogical strategies and tools at the fingertips of faculty who not only teach policy courses but whose course topics such as climate and health have policy relevance. | Environmental Policy and Public Health Principal Health Hazards and Mitigation Volume 1

GBP 82.99
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Configuration Management Implementation Principles and Applications for Manufacturing Industries

Configuration Management Implementation Principles and Applications for Manufacturing Industries

Best Practices in Configuration Management to Ensure QualityMany organizations are invoking a new kind of management technique – Configuration Management – meant to ensure a product maintains its originally intended design materials composition and processing throughout its entire lifecycle. This method moves away from current supply chain thinking in which products often undergo countless changes throughout the process. Configuration Management: Implementation Principles and Applications for Manufacturing Industries decreases the risk of safety breaches and timely and expensive changes while preserving the quality of the end product. This volume provides businesses with the management objectives necessary for survival in today’s corporate structure. Examines the Lost Tribal Wisdom of Project ManagementThis valuable guide emphasizes that configuration management is driven by designers not by the often unpredictable whims of end-users. It also addresses ways to overcome missing tribal wisdom – the tendency to fall into the new-newer-newest syndrome always looking for the next great technology software etc. The book contains more than 60 reader-friendly tables figures and checklists to help bolster understanding of these and other discussed management concepts. The author emphasizes these foundational principles:Configuration management is designed to turn perception into realityIf changes are made to configuration items the safety of the product could be breachedConfiguration item selections must be made by a team not by one person or departmentIn addition to providing an unprecedented overview of this groundbreaking management style this text presents case studies in which an understanding of config | Configuration Management Implementation Principles and Applications for Manufacturing Industries

GBP 59.99
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Swarm Intelligence From Social Bacteria to Humans

Swarm Intelligence From Social Bacteria to Humans

The notion of swarm intelligence was introduced for describing decentralized and self-organized behaviors of groups of animals. Then this idea was extrapolated to design groups of robots which interact locally to cumulate a collective reaction. Some natural examples of swarms are as follows: ant colonies bee colonies fish schooling bird flocking horse herding bacterial colonies multinucleated giant amoebae Physarum polycephalum etc. In all these examples individual agents behave locally with an emergence of their common effect. An intelligent behavior of swarm individuals is explained by the following biological reactions to attractants and repellents. Attractants are biologically active things such as food pieces or sex pheromones which attract individuals of swarm. Repellents are biologically active things such as predators which repel individuals of swarm. As a consequence attractants and repellents stimulate the directed movement of swarms towards and away from the stimulus respectively. It is worth noting that a group of people such as pedestrians follow some swarm patterns of flocking or schooling. For instance humans prefer to avoid a person considered by them as a possible predator and if a substantial part of the group in the situation of escape panic (not less than 5%) changes the direction then the rest follows the new direction too. Some swarm patterns are observed among human beings under the conditions of their addictive behavior such as the behavior of alcoholics or gamers. The methodological framework of studying swarm intelligence is represented by unconventional computing robotics and cognitive science. In this book we aim to analyze new methodologies involved in studying swarm intelligence. We are going to bring together computer scientists and cognitive scientists dealing with swarm patterns from social bacteria to human beings. This book considers different models of simulating controlling and predicting the swarm behavior of different species from social bacteria to humans. | Swarm Intelligence From Social Bacteria to Humans

GBP 58.99
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Evidence-Based Assessment Framework for Assistive Technology The MPT and MATCH-ACES Assessments

Evidence-Based Assessment Framework for Assistive Technology The MPT and MATCH-ACES Assessments

The primary focus of this book is to educate the reader on the Matching Person and Technology (MPT) model and assessment process that will guide the reader on consumer-centered assistive technology assessment and outcome measures designed to be used for individuals of all ages and all types of disabilities. The first section of the book introduces the MPT and Matching Assistive Technology and CHild (MATCH) assessment process and discusses key documents that align with the assessments including the International Classification of Functioning Disability and Health and the Occupational Therapy Framework III. The second section of the book focuses on the international emphasis of the MPT and MATCH assessments. At present there are eight countries that are represented in this section. Each chapter includes information on the assessment translations (with access to copies if available or at least access on how to obtain copies). The authors discuss research on the use of the assessment within their country to support the assessment use. Lastly a case scenario is discussed in each chapter to provide the reader with an example of how the assessment was used with an actual consumer. The last section of the book includes a focus on outcome studies in the areas of early childhood education (primary secondary and postsecondary) work and functional independence. This section provides the reader insight into how to outline outcome measures within the MPT and MATCH process. There is an additional section on future works that includes a brief introduction to the Service Animal Adaptive Intervention Assessment. This book is targeted to the Assistive Technology Providers (ATP) and policymakers (health care education and rehabilitation engineering) the university student pursuing a career in these areas and the consumer of assistive technology. | Evidence-Based Assessment Framework for Assistive Technology The MPT and MATCH-ACES Assessments

GBP 100.00
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Principles and Practices of Transportation Planning and Engineering

Principles and Practices of Transportation Planning and Engineering

Connie Kelly Tang and Lei Zhang have provided a holistic coverage of the entire surface transportation project and program development process from the beginning of planning though environmental approval design right-of way acquisition construction to operations and maintenance. — Neil Pedersen Executive Director Transportation Research Board National Academies of Sciences Engineering and Medicine Washington DC Transportation program and project development is complex. The process spans over planning programming environment design right of way construction operations and maintenance. Professionals from civil engineering planning social and environmental sciences business and project management and data science work together in a relay team to transform an idea into a highway a transit hub an airport or a water facility. It is challenging for any one person to master all the knowledge and skills needed to perform every relevant task. However it is critical for all involved to understand how this relay works and how the societal environmental governmental and regulatory contexts influence the process and the technical solution. Professionals who understand the process and see the big picture are those who rise to the top as leaders. Transportation Project and Program Development provides holistic coverage on the technical subject matter processes and procedures and policy and guidance associated with transportation project and program development which can help professionals become program leaders. For each phase of the process key products delivered processes used governing principles foundations of applicable science and engineering technologies deployed and knowledge required are discussed. While all coverages reflect the practices of the United States the logic principles science and engineering are applicable to all countries of the world. The book can also serve as an introductory textbook for undergraduate students and as a textbook or reference for a graduate-level course in civil engineering transportation engineering planning and project management. | Principles and Practices of Transportation Planning and Engineering

GBP 74.99
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Crime Scene Staging Dynamics in Homicide Cases

Crime Scene Staging Dynamics in Homicide Cases

Individuals who perpetrate murder sometimes pose or reposition victims weapons and evidence to make it look like events happened in a different way than what actually transpired. Until now there has been scarce literature published on crime scene staging. Crime Scene Staging Dynamics in Homicide Cases is the first book to look at this practice providing a methodology of identifying analyzing synthesizing and evaluating the evidence of each case by learning to marry the physical evidence to the behavioral evidence. The book begins with the history of crime scene staging and includes many case examples that illustrate how when and why criminals stage crime scenes. The characteristics of crime scene stagers and their victims are examined along with the intent of crime scene staging and dynamics of the staged crime scene. In addition coverage of forensic victimology explores the reasons why a person might become a victim and why based on this staging may be performed. The book emphasizes the importance of recognizing behavioral red flags which are often present in staged crime scenes. These indicators can be commonly overlooked by investigators when they focus only on the physical evidence of a crime scene. Early detection crime scene analysis and crime scene reconstruction of the staged crime scene are each supported—by the full body of literature and latest published research on staging as well as by proven real-world field-based methodologies. The book identifies and describes various types of crime scene staging behavioral patterns presenting the complications and challenges that crime scene staging presents for investigators. This book will be an invaluable tool for forensic scientists investigators homicide detectives and law enforcement to understand all aspects of crime scene staging dynamics.

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