Author: Committee on Identifying Priority Areas for Qualit
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: health, care, quality, transforming, action, areas, national, priority
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 2003-03-10
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0309085438
ISBN-13: 9780309085434

(Institute of Medicine) Report is one in a series initiated by the Institute of Medicine to improve the quality of health care in America. Text specifies 20 areas recommended as priorities in need of quality improvement. Includes preventative health care, chronic disease management, long-term and palliative care. Softcover.

Author: Jcaho
Publisher: Joint Commission Resources
Keywords: priority, area, focus, organizations, healthcare, joint, commission, accreditation
Number of Pages: 220
Published: 2004-01
List price: $92.00
ISBN-10: 0866888411
ISBN-13: 9780866888417

Author: Domenico Bertoloni Meli
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: leibniz, versus, newton, priority, equivalence
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 1997-10-02
List price: $74.00
ISBN-10: 0198501439
ISBN-13: 9780198501435

This book contains an edition of several hitherto unpublished MSS in Leibniz’s hand illustrating his first reaction to Newton’s Principia Mathematica. The book examines the important implications of this new material.

Author: Committee to Identify High-Priority Science to Mee
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: science, ecosystem, coastal, priorities
Number of Pages: 118
Published: 1995-01-17
List price: $29.00
ISBN-10: 0309050960
ISBN-13: 9780309050968

This book describes critical environmental issues that face coastal ocean and Great Lakes areas, including eutrophication, habitat modification, hydrologic and hydrodynamic disruption, exploitation of resources, toxic effects on ecosystems and humans, introduction of nonindigenous species, global climate change and variability, and shoreline erosion and hazardous storms. These issues can be approached through science activities (including research, monitoring, and modeling) discussed in this book and through coordination among federal agencies.

Author: George Barna
Publisher: Regal
Keywords: children, priority, church, spiritual, transforming, champions
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 2003-11-21
List price: $17.99
ISBN-10: 0830732934
ISBN-13: 9780830732937

No one can deny that our culture is opposed to Christian values, and the influences bombarding our children’s moral development can be deadly. But few parents and church leaders realize how critical it is to start developing a child’s biblical worldview from the very earliest years of life. The problem is complex: parents who themselves did not receive early spiritual training leave their children’s training to the church. Yet the church often focuses on older children-not realizing that a child’s moral development is set by the age of nine. The answer is for churches t

Author: David A. Good
Publisher: University of Toronto Pre
Keywords: public, government, canadian, ipac, management, governance, inside, series, financial, spenders, money, guardians, priority, politics, setters, watchdogs
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 2007-10-13
List price: $36.95
ISBN-10: 0802095038
ISBN-13: 9780802095039

Public money is perhaps the quintessential currency of influence for politicians and public servants inside government. It shapes how they undertake the nation’s business and it impacts on the standards of living in the country. The Politics of Public Money examines the extent to which the influence of players in the budgetary process is shifting from a bilateral relationship between departmental spenders and central guardians to a more complex multilateral relationship involving spenders and central guardians, as well as priority setters and financial watchdogs.David Good analyzes this

Authors:Siegfried Wagner, Markus Kloker, Ulrich Rist,
Publisher: Springer
Keywords: transition, germany, priority, programme, mechanics, design, multidisciplinary, dfg, experimental, laminar, results, turbulent, selected, recent, numerical, contributions
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 2003-11-05
List price: $239.00
ISBN-10: 3540404902
ISBN-13: 9783540404903

This volume contains 24 papers presented at the international concluding colloquium of the German priority programme (DFG-Verbundschwerpunktprogramm) "Transition", held in April 2002 in Stuttgart. The unique and successful programme ran six years starting April 1996, and was sponsored mainly by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG, but also by the Deutsches Zentrum für Luft-und Raumfahrt, DLR, the Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt Braunschweig, PTB, and Airbus Deutschland. The papers summarise the results of the programme and cover transition mechanisms, transition prediction, transit