Books: 'Clustered practice'

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Formica, Piero. Industry and knowledge clusters: Principles, practices, policy. Tartu]: Tartu University Press, 2003.

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author, Gupta Shradha, Sharma Mita author, and India. Central Pollution Control Board. PR Division, eds. Adoption of cleaner practices in SME clusters tanneries. Delhi: PR Division, Central Pollution Control Board, 2013.

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Davide, Chiaroni, ed. Industrial clusters in biotechnology: Driving forces, development processes, and management practices. London: Imperial College Press, 2005.

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Gentry, Marcia Lynne. Total school cluster grouping & differentiation: A comprehensive, research-based plan for raising student achievement & improving teacher practices. Mansfield Center, CT: Creative Learning Press, 2008.

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Grigor'ev, Anatoliy, and Evgeniy Isaev. Methods and algorithms of data processing. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1032305.

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The tutorial deals with selected methods and algorithms of data processing, the sequence of solving problems of processing and analysis of data to create models behavior of the object taking into account all the components of its mathematical model. Describes the types of technological methods for the use of software and hardware for solving problems in this area. The algorithms of distributions, regressions vremenny series, transform them with the aim of obtaining mathematical models and prediction of the behavior information and economic systems (objects). The second edition is supplemented by materials that are in demand by researchers in the part of the correct use of clustering algorithms. Are elements of the classification algorithms to identify their capabilities, strengths and weaknesses. Are the procedures of justification and verify the adequacy of the results of the cluster analysis, conducted a comparison and evaluation of different clustering techniques, given information about visualization of multidimensional data and examples of practical application of clustering algorithms. Meets the requirements of Federal state educational standards of higher education of the last generation. For students of economic specialties, specialists, and graduate students.

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Seitz, John C., and Christine Firer Hinze, eds. Working Alternatives. Fordham University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823288359.001.0001.

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Popular interest in the kinds of conditions that make work productive, growing media attention to the grinding cycle of poverty, and the widening sense that consumption must become sustainable and just, all contribute to an atmosphere thirsty for humanistic economic analysis. This volume offers such analysis from a novel and generative diversity of vantage points, including religious and secular histories, theological ethics, and business management. In particular, Working Alternatives brings modern Roman Catholic forms of engaging with economic questions—embodied in the evolving set of documents that make up the area of “Catholic social thought”—into conversation with one another and with non-Catholic experiments in economic thought and practice. Clustered not by discipline but by their emphasis on either 1) new ways of seeing economic practice 2) new ways of valuing human activity, or 3) implementation of new ways of working, the volume’s essays facilitate the necessarily interdisciplinary thinking demanded by the complexities of economic sustainability and justice. Collectively, the works gathered here assert and test a challenging and far-reaching hypothesis: economic theories, systems, and practices—ways of conceiving, organizing and enacting work, management, supply, production, exchange, remuneration, wealth, and consumption—rely on basic, often unexamined, presumptions about human personhood, relations, and flourishing.

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Fye, W. Bruce. Patient Care and Clinical Research in the 1920s. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199982356.003.0004.

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The Mayo Clinic, recognized as a world center for comprehensive diagnosis and surgical therapy by World War I, became known for its research programs during the 1920s. Laboratories of experimental biochemistry and experimental surgery had already been established. In 1920 Will Mayo hired internist-pharmacologist Leonard Rowntree to build a hospital-based program of clinical research in Rochester, Minnesota. Rowntree assembled a group of internist-investigators that complemented internist Henry Plummer’s team of medical diagnosticians. Much of the research undertaken at Mayo focused on common clinical problems. The institution was among the first to study insulin therapy for diabetes. Steady growth of the multispecialty group practice led to the construction of a twenty-floor outpatient building that opened in 1928. In it, internist-diagnosticians were clustered in sections that reflected their interests in subspecialties, such as cardiology, gastroenterology, or hematology.

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(Editor), Ottar Sjaastad, and Giuseppe Nappi (Editor), eds. Cluster Headache Syndrome in General Practice. Smith-Gordon & Co Ltd, 2000.

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Ottar, Sjaastad, Nappi G, and European Headache Federation, eds. Cluster headache syndrome in general practice: Basic concepts. London: Smith-Gordon, 2000.

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William H, Boothby. 15 Cluster Munitions. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198728504.003.0015.

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This chapter explains the grave humanitarian concerns that cluster munitions have aroused and traces the processes that culminated in legal action taken to address this concern. Cluster munitions are the subject of the most recent arms control treaty, the Cluster Munitions Convention (CMC) adopted in Dublin on 30 May 2008. The process that led to the adoption of this Convention and the parallel and ultimately fruitless discussions of the same topic under the auspices of the CCW provides an important case study that illustrates how modern weapons law is, in practice, made. The complex CMC definition of cluster munitions is explained, the core obligations provided for in the treaty are related and the important provisions of article 21 dealing with interoperability issues are examined.

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Complexity and Industrial Clusters: Dynamics and Models in Theory and Practice. Physica, 2012.

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Alberto, Quadrio Curzio, and Fortis Marco, eds. Complexity and industrial clusters: Dynamics and models in theory and practice. Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag, 2002.

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Castonguay, Louis G., Michael J. Constantino, and Larry E. Beutler, eds. Principles of Change. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med-psych/9780199324729.001.0001.

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This book aims to create a new venue for evidence-based practice in psychotherapy—a venue that goes beyond the traditional and unidirectional dissemination of research, whereby clinicians are typically viewed as passive recipients of scientific findings. In contrast, this book is the result of an active, intense, and bidirectional collaboration of psychotherapy researchers and practitioners. Based on an extensive review of literature, it first offers a list of 38 empirically based principles of change that are clustered within five categories: client prognostic, treatment/provider moderating, client process, therapeutic relationship, and therapist interventions. It then illustrates the expertise of six therapists from diverse theoretical orientations who describe how they implement each of these principles with specific cases of depression and anxiety disorders (with or without substance abuse or personality disorder). The book also includes exchanges between researchers and clinicians on several issues regarding the current list of principles of change, such as how similarly and differently they are addressed or used across a variety of treatments, how helpful they can be in clinical routine (and/or under which situations they may not be clinically valid), how they may be combined for particular purposes (such as teaching and training), and how the list can be expanded to guide future research based on clinicians’ observations and reflections. This book is an attempt to advance psychotherapy by having researchers and clinicians share their unique and yet complementary knowledge. It also lays the foundations for further collaborations and partnerships between different stakeholders in mental health services.

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Stucchi, Rodolfo. The Impact Evaluation of Cluster Development Programs: Methods and Practices. Edited by Alessandro Maffioli and Carlo Pietrobelli. Inter-American Development Bank, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0000335.

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Industrial-strength strategies: Regional business clusters and public policy (Best practice series). Aspen Institute, Rural Economic Policy Program, 1995.

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Chiesa, Vittorio, and Davide Chiaroni. Industrial Clusters In Biotechnology: Driving Forces, Development Processes And Management Practices. Imperial College Press, 2004.

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Nanolubricants (Tribology in Practice Series). John Wiley & Sons, 2008.

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(Editor), Alberto Quadrio Curzio, and Marco Fortis (Editor), eds. Complexity and Industrial Clusters: Dynamics and Models in Theory and Practice (Contributions to Economics). Physica-Verlag Heidelberg, 2002.

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Beauchamp, Tom L. The Theory, Method, and Practice of Principlism. Edited by John Z. Sadler, K. W. M. Fulford, and Cornelius Werendly van Staden. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198732365.013.31.

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This chapter explains and defends the theory and methods of principlism as a theoretical approach to biomedical ethics. Principlism is not merely a framework of four principles; it is a method for using these principles in practice. I discuss their practical roles in biomedical ethics, with a focus on psychiatric ethics. I start with a history of the use of principles in bioethics and then turn to the nature and commitments of the framework of four clusters of principles that James Childress and I defend. Also analyzed is the central place occupied in principlism by common morality theory—the theory that basic moral standards apply everywhere in the moral life across all cultures. Particular moralities, such as those found in professional ethics guidelines, are shown to presuppose universally valid principles. Finally, I explain the central role of specification—the method by which general principles are made concrete and practical.

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Advanced Parallel And Distributed Computing: Evaluation, Improvement And Practice (Distributed, Cluster and Grid Computing). Nova Science Publishers, 2006.

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Aers, David, and Sarah Beckwith. The Eucharist. Edited by James Simpson and Brian Cummings. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199212484.013.0009.

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This chapter explores theological and ethical dimensions of the Eucharist in the later Middle Ages and in the Reformation. The exploration introduces a number of genres and practices, because the Eucharist was a central and pervasive presence in Christian cultures, including those opposing medieval liturgy and teaching. One of the focal points of the study is the emergence of the doctrine and practice of transubstantiation, a language that became enshrined in thirteenth century orthodoxy. The chapter sets out with St. Augustine, who did not know either this doctrine, or the theological questions it sponsored (such as, what happens when a mouse eats the consecrated host), or its practice, together with its rich visionary accompaniments (such as bleeding hosts and manifestations of bleeding parts of the body of Christ or the Infant Jesus). After Augustine, a cluster of medieval writers and performances are addressed. The chapter concludes with commentary on the Reformation, and some rumination of Shakespeare, especiallyThe Tempest.

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Human Rights and Social Policies for Children and Women: The Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) in Practice. New School University Graduate Program I, 2006.

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Steavns, Harold, Jaime Servin, and Harold C. Stearns. Sounds of American Speech: A Practice Regimen for the Neurological Patient Vol II Final Sounds, Blends and Clusters. American Articulation Associates, 1998.

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Schacher, Jan C. Algorithmic Spatialization. Edited by Roger T. Dean and Alex McLean. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190226992.013.12.

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Beginning with a brief historical overview of spatial audio and music practices, this chapter looks at principles of sound spatialization, algorithms for composing and rendering spatial sound and music, and different techniques of spatial source positioning and sound space manipulation. These operations include composing with abstract objects in a sound scene, creating compound sounds using source clusters, altering spatial characteristics by means of spectral sound decomposition, and the manipulation of artificial acoustic spaces. The chapter goes on to discuss practical issues of live spatialization and, through an example piece, the ways a number of different algorithms collaborate in the constitution of a generative audio-visual installation with surround audio and video. Finally, the challenges and pitfalls of using spatialization and some of the common reasons for failure are brought to attention.

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Eiran, Ehud. Post-Colonial Settlement Strategy. Edinburgh University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474437578.001.0001.

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Settlement projects are sustained clusters of policies that allow states to strategically plan, implement and support the permanent transfer of nationals into a territory not under their sovereignty. Once a common feature of the international system, settlement projects are now rare, and contradict international norms. Yet, these modern projects had been an important feature of some of the longest conflicts of our times, such as Israel-Palestine and Morocco-Western Sahara. Moreover, they had a profound effect on conflicts: they led to their prolongations, affected their levels of violence, patterns of resolution, as well as post-conflict stability. With this significance in mind, the book asks why states launched new settlement projects during the era of decolonization, against common practice and against international norms. The book introduces the international environment as an important enabling variable for the launch of these projects. By drawing comparisons between three such major projects--Israel in the West Bank and Gaza, Morocco in Western Sahara and Indonesia in East-Timor—the book classifies post-colonial settlement projects as a distinct cluster of cases that warrant a different analytical approach to traditional colonial studies, including settler-colonialism approaches. Built on a careful synthesis of existing principles in international relations theory and empirical research, the book advances a clearly formulated theoretical position on the launch of post-colonial settlement projects. The result yields a number of fresh insights into the relationship between conflict, territory and international norms.

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Herrera, Eduardo. “That’s Not Something to Show in a Concert”. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190842741.003.0002.

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Between 1962 and 1971, a total of fifty-four composers from all across Latin America went to Buenos Aires to study classical music composition at the Centro Latinoamericano de Altos Estudios Musicales, part of the Di Tella Institute. This chapter demonstrates that the practices, sounds, ideas, and attitudes that this community of creators and connoisseurs were calling “experimental” were a sign of not one thing but a cluster of things that included at least four different associations: electroacoustic music, unfamiliar instrumental compositions, live improvisations, and most importantly, a lived, embodied experience of being avant-garde in a way felt as authentic, valid, and truthful. Participation in the musical avant-garde meant not only composing within certain aesthetic ideals but also extending these ideals to everyday practices that directly affected the body. The four snapshots presented create a picture of the complex indexical cluster that was known as “experimental” at the time.

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(Editor), Peter Kacsuk, Stephen C. Winter (Editor), and Jose C. Cunha (Editor), eds. Parallel Program Development for Cluster Computing: Methodology, Tools and Integrated Environments (In Advances in Computation: Theory and Practice). Nova Science Publishers, 2001.

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Total School Cluster Grouping and Differentiation: A Comprehensive, Research-Based Plan for Raising Student Achievement and Improving Teacher Practice. Prufrock Press, 2014.

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Sahota, Pradeep, and Niranjan N. Singh. Sleep in other neurological disorders—headache. Edited by Sudhansu Chokroverty, Luigi Ferini-Strambi, and Christopher Kennard. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199682003.003.0031.

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Headache and sleep disorder are among the most commonly reported problems in clinical practice and often coexist in the same patient. The two are related in several ways, though the relationship is very complex and is still not very well understood. The brainstem and hypothalamic nuclei are hypothesized to regulate both sleep and headache. Differential diagnosis of headache during sleep includes cluster headache, hypnic headache, migraine, sleep apnea headache, exploding head syndrome, tension-type headache, and paroxysmal hemicrania. Management of these headaches depends upon the diagnosis as a primary headache like migraine and cluster headaches versus secondary headaches during sleep seen in the patient with brain tumors, stroke, or meningitis. Management of primary headaches can be divided into nonpharmacological approaches, which predominantly include lifestyle modification, diet and exercise, avoidance of triggers, and sleep hygiene, and pharmacological approaches, including preventive and abortive treatments.

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Martin, Elizabeth A., and Tanya A. McFerran. A Dictionary of Nursing. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acref/9780198788454.001.0001.

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Over 10,200 entriesThis bestselling dictionary provides comprehensive and authoritative coverage of all aspects of nursing. The new edition has been fully revised and updated to take account of recent developments in nursing practice and related fields. New coverage focuses in particular upon key areas such as nutrition, medical research, lymphology, and critical care nursing.Written by medical and nursing specialists, it provides concise entries on the theory and practice of nursing, and comprehensive coverage of the ever-expanding vocabulary of the nursing professions. As well as nursing-specific terms, there are also many entries in the fields of medicine, anatomy, physiology, nutrition, statistics, and pharmacology. Almost 100 illustrations, and 16 appendices covering the Code of Conduct 2015, the calculation of drug dosages, essential skill clusters, religion and nursing practice, recommended alcohol intake, and much more, help to make this an essential reference tool for all nursing students and professionals.

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Promoting student achievement and exemplary classroom practices through cluster grouping: A research-based alternative to heterogeneous elementary classrooms. Storrs, CT: National Research Center on the Gifted and Talented, University of Connecticut, 1999.

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Dworkin, Steven N. Phonetics, phonology, and orthography of medieval Hispano-Romance. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199687312.003.0002.

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This chapter describes the phonetics, phonology, and the orthographic practices of Old Spanish. It first identifies the vocalic and consonantal phonemes of the medieval language. The following sections describe specific phonetic and phonological issues such as possible allophonic variation between stressed and unstressed vowels, apocope of word-final /-e/, the formation and evolution of new and unfamiliar consonant clusters in the medieval language through vowel syncope, word-final consonant groups resulting from vowel apocope, the phonetic nature of word-initial /f-/, the nature of affricate consonants, and the possible first manifestations in the late medieval language of seseo and yeísmo. The chapter concludes with an overview of the wide orthographic variation in the earliest texts and the attempt to regularize to some degree spelling practices starting in the mid-thirteenth century.

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McFerran, Tanya A. A Dictionary of Nursing. Edited by Jonathan Law. 8th ed. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acref/9780198864646.001.0001.

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Over 10,000 entries The new edition of this bestselling and trusted dictionary has been fully revised to take account of recent developments in nursing practice and related fields. Updates to this edition cover many areas, with a particular focus on radiography, public health and the NHS, theoretical concepts familiar in nursing education, and key vocabulary used in the 2018 Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC) Standards of Proficiency for Registered Nurses. Written by medical and nursing specialists, the dictionary provides comprehensive coverage of the ever-expanding vocabulary of the nursing professions. As well as nursing-specific terms, there are also many entries in the fields of medicine, anatomy, physiology, ethics, psychiatry, nutrition, statistics, and pharmacology. Almost 100 helpful illustrations and tables, and 16 appendices covering the calculation of drug dosages, essential skill clusters, religion and nursing practice, recommended alcohol intake, and much more, help to make this an essential reference tool for all nursing students and professionals.

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Hans, Steiner, Daniels Whitney, Kelly Michael, and Stadler Christina. Epidemiology of Disruptive Behavior Disorders. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190265458.003.0003.

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This chapter summarizes the available epidemiological evidence supporting the current diagnoses grouped in the disruptive behavior disorder (DBD) cluster. It seems DBDs are common disorders, but although researchers have made great strides in capturing the prevalence of these disorders in normal and clinical populations, and although there are some very solid longitudinal findings, there are still many unknowns that need to be corrected. Most of the difficulties encountered in epidemiology are a function of the ongoing changes in the descriptive diagnostic criteria and the lack of a truly state-of-the-art three-level epidemiological design. This chapter discusses these issues including implications for clinical practice.

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Paiva, Carlos Eduardo, and André Filipe Junqueira dos Santos. Liverpool Care Pathway for Hospitalized Cancer Patients (DRAFT). Edited by Nathan A. Gray and Thomas W. LeBlanc. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190658618.003.0044.

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The Liverpool Care Pathway (LCP) for patients who are dying was developed in the UK with the aim of transferring the best practice of hospices to hospitals. In this chapter, an important cluster randomized trial is dissected. Sixteen Italian general medicine hospital wards were randomly assigned to implement the Italian LCP (LCP-I) program or standard health care practice. The results of this trial did not show a significant difference in the overall quality of end-of-life care between the wards in which the LCP-I program was implemented and the control wards (primary aim). Of the nine secondary outcomes investigated, only two showed significant improvements. At the end of the chapter, the authors present a real situation where one hospital CEO, after identifying end-of-life care as a weakness of his institution, evaluates the possibility to implement the LCP or to build a new physical structure dedicated to palliative care.

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Sokas, Rosemary K., Barry S. Levy, David H. Wegman, and Sherry L. Baron. Recognizing and Preventing Occupational and Environmental Disease and Injury. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190662677.003.0004.

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This chapter describes various approaches to recognizing and preventing occupational and environmental disease and injury from primarily a clinical perspective. It describes in detail the occupational and environmental health history, including what questions to ask and when to ask them. It also describes recognizing occupational or environmental disease clusters or outbreaks. The chapter describes in detail the options that health and safety professionals have for implementing and facilitating preventive measures, including substitution of hazardous substances, installation of engineering controls, changes in job design and work practices and organization, education and training, use of personal protective equipment, and screening surveillance. Prevention options are discussed both at the individual and organizational levels.

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Shears, Paul, Andrea Ledgerton, and Rita Huyton. Hospital and community infection prevention and control (IPC). Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198745471.003.0018.

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This chapter outlines the key principles of infection prevention and control (IPC) in both hospital and community settings. This includes understanding the structures surrounding infection prevention and control in these two different environments. It outlines some of the practical components including hand hygiene, infection surveillance, personal protective equipment, decontamination, and policies and guidelines. The chapter also covers the investigation and management of clusters/outbreak, and provides an outline of situations that require local health protection team input. Finally, the interface between community and hospital IPC is discussed, along with the importance of providing a seamless IPC service in all geographical areas.

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Benedek, David M., and Gary H. Wynn. Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190205959.003.0002.

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Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) may develop after exposure to a traumatic event (or events) such as interpersonal violence, disasters, war, or terrorism. PTSD is characterized by specific symptoms organized into core clusters, including reexperience, hyperarousal, avoidance, and negative alterations in mood and cognition. Although these symptoms may resolve without any intervention, they may also progress to a chronic, debilitating state. The characteristics of the disorder as described, as are the incidence and prevalence of PTSD and subgroups that may be at greater risk. The fact that many persons exposed to traumatic events do not develop lasting symptoms of PTSD (or PTSD at all) is explained through a discussion of risk and protective factors. Last, brief reviews of diagnostic assessments and current noncomplementary/nonalternative treatments supported by practice guidelines and clinical consensus are described.

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Temperley, David. Harmony. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190653774.003.0003.

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An exploration of the harmonic language of rock is presented, relying heavily on corpus data. Chords in rock are overwhelmingly root-position major and minor triads. The commonly-used triads are those within the “supermode”—a global scale containing all scale degrees except flat-2 and sharp-4. With regard to harmonic progression, rock shows an almost equal frequency of “classical” harmonic motions (descending fifths and thirds, ascending seconds) and “anti-classical” ones (ascending fifths and thirds, descending seconds). “Flat-side” chords (bVII, bIII, bVI) tend to cluster together, as do “sharp-side” chords (ii, vi, iii), suggesting something like the major/minor organization of common-practice music, though it is much more of a continuum in rock. Other topics addressed include common harmonic patterns, linear and common-tone logic, cadences, tonicization, and pedal points.

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Levy, Benjamin R. Compositional Flourishing (1967–70). Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199381999.003.0007.

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Having codified a repertoire of personalized techniques, Ligeti deployed them in many new combinations in an extremely productive period at the end of the 1960s. Works composed in this period include Continuum, Two Études for Organ, String Quartet no. 2, Ten Pieces for Wind Quintet, Ramifications, and the Chamber Concerto. This chapter looks at the contrapuntal techniques that built on the composer’s previous practice as well as those derived from harmonic networks. The latter allowed Ligeti to move away from the cluster-based harmonic palate characteristic of his earlier works. In these works Ligeti looked for diverse means of expression and presentation, and he founds ways of composing transitions between techniques, putting patterns derived from harmonic procedures into polyphonic combinations and deriving static harmonic fields from material generated as a melody.

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Yamin, Alicia Ely, and Andrés Constantin. The Evolution of Applying Human Rights Frameworks to Health. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190672676.003.0003.

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This chapter explores the evolution and struggles of the “health and human rights movement,” focusing particularly on relevant developments in health and international law that enabled greater attention to the right to health. It discusses the evolution of human rights-based approaches (HRBAs) to health, which extended these legal concepts into the domains of development and social policy. Over twenty years after it began to take shape, the “health and human rights” field is not one discipline but many. This cluster of related work now faces the new challenges of a precariously constructed international normative scaffolding, the rising complexities of moving from constitutional norms to effective enjoyment in practice at the national level, and the potential danger of HRBAs being reduced to technocratic formulas and emptied of their subversive potential.

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Ritzinger, Justin. Anarchy in the Pure Land. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190491161.001.0001.

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Anarchy in the Pure Land investigates the cult of Maitreya, the future Buddha, promoted by the Chinese Buddhist reform movement spearheaded by Taixu as an avenue through which to consider the formation of alternative modernities. The cult presents an apparent anomaly: It shows precisely the kind of concern for ritual, supernatural beings, and the afterlife that much scholarship contends the reformers rejected in the name of “modernity.” This book shows that rather than a concession to tradition, the reimagining of ideas and practices associated with Maitreya was an important site for formulating a Buddhist vision of modernity. To make sense of this it develops a new perspective on alternative modernities by drawing on Charles Taylor’s notion of moral frameworks, arguing that the cult of Maitreya represents an attempt to articulate a new constellation of values that integrates novel understandings of the good clustered around modern visions of utopia with the central Buddhist value of Buddhahood. Part I traces the roots of this constellation to Taixu’s youthful career as an anarchist. Part II examines its articulation in the “Maitreya School’s” theology and the cult’s development from its inception to World War II. Part III examines its subsequent decline and its contemporary legacy within and beyond orthodox Buddhism.

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Turda, Marius. History of Medicine in Eastern Europe, Including Russia. Edited by Mark Jackson. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199546497.013.0012.

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The aim of this article is to chart the broad contours of historical scholarship on medicine in Russia/Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. Whether dealing with practical developments or clusters of ideas, the history of medicine in Eastern European countries, as much as in Russia, shares certain narratives, conceptual traits, and methodological conventions. The comparative conceptual strategy proposed here, moreover, is intended not only to reveal much-needed research on neglected national case studies, but also to redefine wider debates in the history of medicine more generally. This article further mentions the need for substantial research and analytical effort to stimulate historiographic interest in these topics from a comparative perspective, at both regional and international levels.

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Corrigan, John. Emotion. Edited by Michael Stausberg and Steven Engler. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198729570.013.37.

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Religion often has attended to emotion as a part of religious experience. While that has enhanced theological depth and precision, it also has framed a highly psychologized view of emotion in religion. Historical scholarship of religious practice has prompted other views of emotion, shifting attention from religious experience to culturally derived emotional frameworks. Researchers have also emphasized the cognitive element in emotion, and the biological superstructures of emotional life. Research has translated to a range of investigative projects, some blending discussion of cognition, feeling, and biology with analysis of social life and the role of culture in emotional performances in religious settings. Current research on emotion has revolved around a fairly standard listing of familiar emotions. It may be, however, that emotions or emotional clusters in religion are not easily placed on such lists. The subfield should not shy from studying emotions that seem strange.

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Manning, Susan, and Lucia Ruprecht. Introduction. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036767.003.0001.

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This introductory chapter first sets out the book's purpose, which is to offer fresh histories and theoretical inquiries that will resonate not only for scholars working in the field of dance, but also for scholars working on literature, film, visual culture, theater, and performance. It then sketches the intellectual and artistic trends over the last thirty years that have shaped the scholarship featured in New German Dance Studies. It follows the broadly chronological organization of the volume as a whole: opening essays on theater dance before 1900; then research clusters on Weimar dance, dance in the German Democratic Republic, and conceptual dance; and a closing reflection on the circulation of dance in an era of globalization. Throughout it emphasizes the complex interplay between dance-making and dance writing, as well as interrelations between dance practice and research and artistic and intellectual trends in German culture at large.

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Stamatakis, Chris. Early Tudor Literary Criticism? Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199935338.013.146.

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This article considers whether the activity that we recognize as criticism existed in the literary culture of early Tudor England. Before the appearance of formal poetic defenses and literary treatises in English (an Elizabethan phenomenon associated with Sir Philip Sidney and George Puttenham), English vernacular culture of the early sixteenth century seems to have been devoid of a fully fledged poetics or literary theory. Yet the composite evidence of printed prefaces, various endeavors to translate classical rhetorical terminology, and poetic practice itself in these early decades reveals a series of literary-critical interests that recur in the writing and intellectual history of this period. Literary theory in early Tudor England evolves as it addresses a set of preoccupations that cluster around questions of authorial inventiveness, models of style and vernacular eloquence, the domestication of imported critical terminology, and the agency of readers.

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Raffe, Alasdair. Conclusion: Revolutions, Settlements and Scotland’s Political Development. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474427579.003.0008.

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THE REVOLUTION SETTLEMENT OF 1689–90 repudiated many of the principles and policies of royal government in the Restoration period. But while their responses were different, James VII and the makers of the settlement sought solutions to the same fundamental problems. By studying the upheavals of the 1685–90 period, we have focused on two sets of challenges confronting the rulers of seventeenth-century Scotland. The first concerned the character of the established Church. How was it to be constituted and what was the appropriate role for the monarch in its government? How should the civil magistrate deal with religious dissent? A second cluster of problems involved the crown’s power and authority. Was the king ‘absolute’ and what did this mean in practice? To what extent was local government in Scotland autonomous, and how far was it amenable to central direction?...

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Bhopal, Raj S. Variation in disease by time, place, and person: Background and a framework for analysis of genetic and environmental effects. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198739685.003.0003.

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Diseases wax and wane in their population frequency. The underlying reasons are often difficult to detect and may remain a mystery. The principles behind the investigation of clusters, outbreaks, epidemics, and inequalities in both of communicable and non-communicable diseases, are similar. On those occasions when the mystery is solved we tend to gain huge insights, both scientific and practical to help in disease control. Disease variations are often, however, artefactual, and arise from data errors. A systematic approach to the analysis of variation in disease begins by differentiating artefactual change from real change. Real change results from changes in host susceptibility, in the agent’s capacity to cause disease, and in the influence of the environment. The epidemiological challenge is to pinpoint the causal factors.

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Shapiro, Aaron. ‘Levelling the Sublime’. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198754824.003.0004.

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The eighteenth century saw the curious tradition of translating Milton’s Paradise Lost into normative English prose and verse. The status of these translations as literary curiosities belies their serious ambition: to secure a universal readership of this English classic, an ambition also articulated in contemporary works of criticism and commentaries. Rather than treating this cluster of works as adaptations, this chapter conceives of them as intralingual translations, thus positioning them in the terms with which their authors describe them and within the earlier tradition of translation-as-commentary. Milton’s English translators aim at making his epic accessible to women, ‘foreigners’, ‘young people’, and ‘those of a capacity and knowledge below the first class of learning’, even if that accessibility requires some rewriting. Borrowing methods from the teaching of Latin, these authors established a practice that persists to this day in student-friendly translations of English poetry.

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Strange, Carolyn, and Jennifer A. Stephen. Eugenics in Canada: A Checkered History, 1850s–1990s. Edited by Alison Bashford and Philippa Levine. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780195373141.013.0032.

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This article discusses eugenics in Canada and states that Canada's eugenic past was connected closely to that of the United States and to a lesser extent England. It presents numerous case studies and this body of research paints a checkered history of eugenics in Canada. It was a cluster of ideas and a disparate set of solutions that responded to local concerns, inflected by the unique Canadian demographic, and legal, political, and economic conditions. The race-based reproduction management efforts established a prior logic for eugenic policies concerned to shore up the fitness of Canada's Euro-Canadian majority. This article explains that the history of eugenics in Canada is inseparable from racist assimilationist policies and practices. The people most affected by Canada's eugenic policies were those whose sexual morality and reproductive futures appeared suspect.

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