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Springhouse, "Nurse's Legal Handbook"
English | 2004 | pages: 441 | ISBN: 1582552800 | PDF | 1,6 mb
The newly revised Fifth Edition of this handbook is an up-to-the-minute, authoritative guide to the legal and ethical issues faced daily by nurses. Replete with real-life examples and information from hundreds of court cases, the book covers the full range of contemporary concerns, including computer documentation, cloning, stem cell research, pain management, euthanasia, prescribing, privacy, and confidentiality as well as the nursing shortage. New topics include workplace violence and harassment, needlesticks, telephone triage, and quality assurance. A new Legal Tip logo highlights proactive, protective actions nurses can take, and an entire chapter explains step-by-step what to expect in a malpractice lawsuit.

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Michel Kern, "Numerical Methods for Inverse Problems"
English | 2016 | pages: 234 | ISBN: 1848218184 | PDF | 2,5 mb
This book studies methods to concretely address inverse problems. An inverse problem arises when the causes that produced a given effect must be determined or when one seeks to indirectly estimate the parameters of a physical system.

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Michael Starbird, David C. Marshall, Edward Odell, "Number Theory Through Inquiry"
English | 2007 | pages: 140 | ISBN: 0883857510 | PDF | 0,7 mb
Number Theory Through Inquiry is an innovative textbook that leads students on a carefully guided discovery of introductory number theory. The book has two equally significant goals. One goal is to help students develop mathematical thinking skills, particularly, theorem-proving skills. The other goal is to help students understand some of the wonderfully rich ideas in the mathematical study of numbers. This book is appropriate for a proof transitions course, for an independent study experience, or for a course designed as an introduction to abstract mathematics. Math or related majors, future teachers, and students or adults interested in exploring mathematical ideas on their own will enjoy Number Theory Through Inquiry. Number theory is the perfect topic for an introduction-to-proofs course. Every college student is familiar with basic properties of numbers, and yet the exploration of those familiar numbers leads us to a rich landscape of ideas. Number Theory Through Inquiry contains a carefully arranged sequence of challenges that lead students to discover ideas about numbers and to discover methods of proof on their own. It is designed to be used with an instructional technique variously called guided discovery or Modified Moore Method or Inquiry Based Learning (IBL). Instructors materials explain the instructional method. This style of instruction gives students a totally different experience compared to a standard lecture course. Here is the effect of this experience: Students learn to think independently: they learn to depend on their own reasoning to determine right from wrong; and they develop the central, important ideas of introductory number theory on their own. From that experience, they learn that they can personally create important ideas, and they develop an attitude of personal reliance and a sense that they can think effectively about difficult problems. These goals are fundamental to the educational enterprise within and beyond mathematics.

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Nuclear North Korea versus the U.S.-South Korea: Threat and Options by Hwee-rhak Park
English | May 14, 2022 | ISBN: N/A | ASIN: B0B1BM5DB4 | 355 pages | MOBI | 0.98 Mb
This book explains the gravity of the North Korean nuclear threat and the options available to the United States and South Korea. It is the main body of the author's previous book, Nuclear North Korea versus the United States of America and South Korea: "Synopses." The author is concerned that North Korea will use nuclear weapons to reunify South Korea. North Korea could decouple the US-South Korea alliance with its threat to attack a few US cities with ICBMs and SLBMs.

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Tae-Hwan Kwak, "North Korea and Security Cooperation in Northeast Asia "
English | ISBN: 1472417860 | 2014 | 270 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
Relations between the two Koreas continue to be hostile, volatile and unpredictable with North Korea's nuclear issue remaining as untamed as ever. As such, there is a growing urgency for security cooperation in Northeast Asia to be given immediate attention. The key players in the region - the US, China, Japan and Russia - are keenly aware of the security threat of an armed clash between North and South Korea and are committed to denuclearization of the Korean peninsula. This book explores the domestic factors of the two Koreas and the four major powers that influence their security policies towards North Korea and Northeast Asia. This well thought out and consistently analysed volume has huge potential to frame the conversation on Northeast Asian relations in the coming years.

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Linda Tamura, "Nisei Soldiers Break Their Silence: Coming Home to Hood River "
English | ISBN: 0295992093 | 2012 | 360 pages | PDF | 3 MB
Nisei Soldiers Break Their Silence is a compelling story of courage, community, endurance, and reparation. It shares the experiences of Japanese Americans (Nisei) who served in the U.S. Army during World War II, fighting on the front lines in Italy and France, serving as linguists in the South Pacific, and working as cooks and medics. The soldiers were from Hood River, Oregon, where their families were landowners and fruit growers. Town leaders, including veterans' groups, attempted to prevent their return after the war and stripped their names from the local war memorial. All of the soldiers were American citizens, but their parents were Japanese immigrants and had been imprisoned in camps as a consequence of Executive Order 9066. The racist homecoming that the Hood River Japanese American soldiers received was decried across the nation.

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Tom M. Apostol, Mamikon A. Mnatsakanian, "New Horizons in Geometry"
English | 2013 | pages: 526 | ISBN: 088385354X, 147044335X | PDF | 5,8 mb
The collaborative work of Tom Apostol and Mamikon Mnatsakanian has been lauded for its clarity and originality. In this volume the authors present an impressive collection of geometric results that reveal surprising connections between lengths, areas and volumes in various shapes, and allow one to compute difficult integrals, all using intuitive visual calculations. One noteworthy idea that the reader will encounter is Mamikon's Sweeping Tangent Theorem from which the authors obtain a visual derivation of the property that the length of an arc of a catenary is proportional to the area under the arc. This is one of many 'proofs without words' contained within. In addition, a variety of results are derived visually for cycloids, conic sections, and many more geometric objects. As befits a book that emphasises visual thinking, the text is beautifully illustrated. This is a book that will inspire students and enrich any geometry or calculus course.

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New Delivery Systems for Controlled Drug Release from Naturally Occurring Materials By Nicholas Parris, LinShu Liu, Cunxian Song, and V. Prasad Shastri (Eds.)
2008 | 315 Pages | ISBN: 084127424X | PDF | 36 MB
Content: Efficacy assessment of hyaluronan vehicles for sustained release of pDNA / Weiliam Chen ... [et al.] -- A new soy-based hydrogel: development, viscoelasic properties and application for controlled drug release / Zengshe Liu and Sevin Z. Erhan -- Application of lipases to develop novel acyltransferase substrates / Thomas McKeon ... [et al.] -- Controlled release of indomethacin from spran-dried chitosan microspheres containing microemulsion / Jun Bae Lee ... [et al.] -- Synbiotic matrices derived from plant oligosaccharides and polysaccharides / Arland T. Hotchkiss ... [et al.] -- Significant role of naturally occurring materials in drug delivery technology for tissue regeneration therapy / Yasuhiko Tabata -- PH and temperature sensitive block copolymer hydrogels based on poly(ethylene glycol) and sulfamethazine / Doo Sung Lee, Woo Sun Shim, and Dai Phu Huynh -- Engineering of solid lipid nanoparticles / Jie Huang Peng ... [et al.] -- Antibody modified collagen matrix for site-specific gene delivery / Xu Jin ... [et al.] -- A review: controlled release systems for agricultural and food applications / LinShu Liu, Marshall F. Fishman, and Kevin B. Hicks -- State of the art mass spectrometric and chromatographic techniques for residue analysis / Katerina Mastovska.

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Hannah Jones, "Negotiating Cohesion, Inequality and Change: Uncomfortable Positions in Local Government"
English | ISBN: 1447310047 | 2015 | 248 pages | EPUB | 2 MB
How are multiculturalism, inequality and belonging understood in the day-to-day thinking and practices of local government? Examining original empirical data, this book explores how local government officers and politicians negotiate 'difficult subjects' linked with community cohesion policy: diversity, inequality, discrimination, extremism, migration, religion, class, power and change. The book argues that such work necessitates 'uncomfortable positions' when managing ethical, professional and political commitments. Based on first-hand experience of working in urban local government and extensive ethnographic, interview and documentary research, the book applies governmentality perspectives in a new way to consider how people working within government are subject to regimes of governmentality themselves, and demonstrates how power operates through emotions. Its exploration of how 'sociological imaginations' are applied beyond academia will be valuable to those arguing for the future of public services and building connections between the university and wider society, including scholars and students in sociology, social policy, social geography, urban studies and politics, and policy practitioners in local and central government. Winner of the BSA Philip Abrams Memorial Prize 2014

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Nature-Based Solutions for Flood Mitigation: Environmental and Socio-Economic Aspects by Carla S. S. Ferreira
English | EPUB | 2022 | 512 Pages | ISBN : 3030775046 | 124.9 MB
This book provides an overview of the typical nature-based solutions (NBS) used for flood mitigation at different scales and in different areas (e.g. from catchment to hillslope scale; from urban to coastal areas).

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