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Payer, Provider, Consumer: Industry Confronts Health Care Costs
Industry Confornts Health Care Costs
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
With this first monograph, Springer-Verlag launches an unusual publishing venture. The purpose of the Springer Series on Industry and Health Care is to explore in depth the current and potential future role of industry both management and labor in all private sector enterprises-as a financer of...
National Service and Volunteerism
Achieving Impact in Our Communities
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
National service and volunteerism enjoy a rich history in the United States and an emergent future in other parts of the world. However, there remains relatively scant evidence of overall impact of national service programs and volunteer effectiveness. This condition continues to threaten national...
Advanced Petroleum Reservoir Simulation
Towards Developing Reservoir Emulators
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 2016
This second edition of the original volume adds significant new innovations for revolutionizing the processes and methods used in petroleum reservoir simulations. With the advent of shale drilling, hydraulic fracturing, and underbalanced drilling has come a virtual renaissance of scientific methodologies...
by Jaan S. Islam, M. R. Islam, Meltem Islam
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2018
Every year, as soon as reports on global economic inequality remind us about the direction our civilization is heading, there is a hysterical reaction, but hysteria dies down within weeks and we go back to the lifestyle that brought us here today. Often the blame is laid on the Millennial generation...
by M. R. Islam, Jaan S. Islam, Gary M. Zatzman
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2016
This is the second volume in a four-volume series aimed at guiding the pharmaceutical industry toward sustainability. After analyzing and exposing some of the backward and ill-conceived notions that guide the present state of the industry, this volume presents key theories and new, groundbreaking...
by M. R. Islam, Jaan S. Islam, Gary M. Zatzman
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015
The pharmaceutical industry is one of the most important industries in the world, offering new medicines, vaccines, and cures to a global population. It is a massive industry, worthy of a deep and thorough examination of its processes and chemistry, with a view toward sustainability. The authors describe...
Gravity and Magnetic Exploration
Principles, Practices, and Applications
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2013
This combination of textbook and reference manual provides a comprehensive account of gravity and magnetic methods for exploring the subsurface using surface, marine, airborne and satellite measurements. It describes key current topics and techniques, physical properties of rocks and other Earth materials,...
Engineering Materials 2
An Introduction to Microstructures, Processing and Design
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2005
Engineering Materials 2 is a best-selling stand-alone text in its own right for more advanced students of materials science and mechanical engineering, and is the follow-up to its renowned companion text, Engineering Materials 1: An Introduction to Properties, Applications & Design . This book develops...
by R. E. Smallman, PhD, A.H.W. Ngan
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
Modern Physical Metallurgy describes, in a very readable form, the fundamental principles of physical metallurgy and the basic techniques for assessing microstructure. This book enables you to understand the properties and applications of metals and alloys at a deeper level than that provided in an...
Principles of Conflict Economics
A Primer for Social Scientists
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2009
Conflict economics contributes to an understanding of violent conflict in two important ways. First, it applies economic analysis to diverse conflict activities such as war, arms races, and terrorism, showing how they can be understood as purposeful choices responsive to underlying incentives. Second,...
Accelerated Expertise
Training for High Proficiency in a Complex World
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
Speed in acquiring the knowledge and skills to perform tasks is crucial. Yet, it still ordinarily takes many years to achieve high proficiency in countless jobs and professions, in government, business, industry, and throughout the private sector. There would be great advantages if regimens of training...
Comparing Public Policies
Issues and Choices in Industrialized Countries
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
The study of comparative public policy reveals the intensely political nature of policy choices. While policy analysts often look to policy successes and failures outside their borders to draw valuable lessons and insights, cultural, economic, political, and institutional conditions vary from country...
by Hentschel Jesko; Aran Meltem; Can Raif; Ferreira Francisco H.G.; Gignoux Jérémie; Uraz Arzu
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2010
Children in Turkey have vastly different odds of success. Their paths are affected by factors over which they have no control, such as how wealthy or educated their parents and even grandparents are. By investing in its children and youth, Turkey can create a virtuous cycle whereby these children and...
by R. H. B. Ranns, E. J. M. Ranns
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2016
Filled with practical advice for all aspects of the construction manager's role, this invaluable book fills a need for training in this essential subject, to ensure greater efficiency on site and smoother client-contractor relations.
Developed as a handy-reference guide for practitioners and...