Doctors and Their Workshops

Doctors and Their Workshops
Author: Mark V. Pauly
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 143
Release: 2009-05-15
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0226650464

Doctors are obviously influential in determining the costs of their services. But even more important, many believe, is the influence physicians have over the use and cost of nonphysician health-care resources and services. Doctors and Their Workshops is the first comprehensive attempt to use economic analysis to understand some of the physician effects on nonphysician aspects of health care.

Workshop Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Environments

Workshop Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Environments
Author: J.A. Botía
Publisher: IOS Press
Total Pages: 808
Release: 2013-07-26
Genre: Computers
ISBN: 161499286X

Intelligent Environments (IE) play an increasingly important role in many areas of our lives, including education, healthcare and the domestic environment. The term refers to physical spaces incorporating pervasive computing technology used to achieve specific goals for the user, the environment or both. This book presents the proceedings of the workshops of the 9th International Conference on Intelligent Environments (IE ‘13), held in Athens, Greece, in July 2013. The workshops which were presented in the context of this conference range from regular lectures to practical sessions. They provide a forum for scientists, researchers and engineers from both industry and academia to engage in discussions on newly emerging or rapidly evolving topics in the field. Topics covered in the workshops include artificial intelligence techniques for ambient intelligence; applications of affective computing in intelligent environments; smart offices and other workplaces; intelligent environment technology in education for creative learning; museums as intelligent environments; the application of intelligent environment technologies in the urban context for creating more sociable, intelligent cities and for constructing urban intelligence. IE can enrich user experience, better manage the environment’s resources, and increase user awareness of that environment. This book will be of interest to all those whose work involves the application of intelligent environments.

Local Researchers and International Practitioners

Local Researchers and International Practitioners
Author: Jacob Phillipps
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2021-10-09
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 3030826619

This book is driven by the question: what role is played by the local security research community in Kosovo’s internationally-led Security Sector Reform? Kosovo’s SSR has been heavily driven by international knowledge rather than the context-sensitive evidence, with negative implications for the legitimacy and sustainability of SSR. Centred on an analysis of an extensive interview survey of international SSR practitioners and local researchers in Kosovo and local research papers, this book highlights how local research has engaged with, challenged and contributed to international SSR. Despite the general experience of local marginalisation, local researchers have an important role to play. Following engagement with local research, international SSR practitioners may consider local context in greater depth and think more critically about SSR implications. This highlights the potentially key role that local researchers can play to support effective post-conflict recovery.

Cyber Peace

Cyber Peace
Author: Scott J. Shackelford
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2022-05-05
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1108845037

Chapters and essays thinking through both the meaning of, and the mechanisms for achieving, cyber peace.

CranioSacral Therapy: Touchstone for Natural Healing

CranioSacral Therapy: Touchstone for Natural Healing
Author: John E. Upledger
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Total Pages: 129
Release: 2001-05-31
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1556433689

In CranioSacral Therapy: Touchstone for Natural Healing, John E. Upledger, DO, OMM, recounts his development of CranioSacral Therapy. He shares poignant case studies of restored health: a five-year-old autistic boy, a man with Erb’s palsy, a woman with a fifteen year history of severe headaches, and numerous others. And he offers simple CranioSacral Therapy techniques you can perform at home on yourself or loved ones.