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Books > Social sciences
Every year nine million people are diagnosed with tuberculosis,
every day over 13,400 people are infected with AIDs, and every
thirty seconds malaria kills a child. For most of the world,
critical medications that treat these deadly diseases are scarce,
costly, and growing obsolete, as access to first-line drugs remains
out of reach and resistance rates rise. Rather than focusing
research and development on creating affordable medicines for these
deadly global diseases, pharmaceutical companies instead invest in
commercially lucrative products for more affluent customers. Nicole
Hassoun argues that everyone has a human right to health and to
access to essential medicines, and she proposes the Global Health
Impact (global-health-impact.org/new) system as a means to
guarantee those rights. Her proposal directly addresses the
pharmaceutical industry's role: it rates pharmaceutical companies
based on their medicines' impact on improving global health,
rewarding highly-rated medicines with a Global Health Impact label.
Global Health Impact has three parts. The first makes the case for
a human right to health and specifically access to essential
medicines. Hassoun defends the argument against recent criticism of
these proposed rights. The second section develops the Global
Health Impact proposal in detail. The final section explores the
proposal's potential applications and effects, considering the
empirical evidence that supports it and comparing it to similar
ethical labels. Through a thoughtful and interdisciplinary approach
to creating new labeling, investment, and licensing strategies,
Global Health Impact demands an unwavering commitment to global
justice and corporate responsibility.
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on the Relation between Sleep and
Learning in Early Development, Volume 60, the latest release in
this ongoing series, focuses on the relationship between sleep and
learning for research and practice. Specific chapters cover Sleep,
Learning, Memory and Executive Functioning in Infancy and Early
Childhood, Newly walking infants' night sleep impacts next day
learning and problem solving, The effect of napping and night-time
sleep on memory in infants, The contribution of good sleep to
working memory in 2- to 4-year-olds: A matter of duration or
regulation?, Sleep development in preschool predicts executive
functioning in early elementary school, and more.
Each pack includes access to a FREE online edition of the REVISE
AQA GCSE (9-1) Mathematics Foundation Revision Guide and contains:
100 Revision Cards and three organising dividers (with a handy 'how
to use' guide) Multiple choice questions and answers Worked
examples Topic summaries and key facts to remember
In an increasingly globalised world, despite reductions in costs
and time, transportation has become even more important as a
facilitator of economic and human interaction; this is reflected in
technical advances in transportation systems, increasing interest
in how transportation interacts with society and the need to
provide novel approaches to understanding its impacts. This has
become particularly acute with the impact that Covid-19 has had on
transportation across the world, at local, national and
international levels. Encyclopedia of Transportation, Seven Volume
Set - containing almost 600 articles - brings a cross-cutting and
integrated approach to all aspects of transportation from a variety
of interdisciplinary fields including engineering, operations
research, economics, geography and sociology in order to understand
the changes taking place. Emphasising the interaction between these
different aspects of research, it offers new solutions to
modern-day problems related to transportation. Each of its nine
sections is based around familiar themes, but brings together the
views of experts from different disciplinary perspectives. Each
section is edited by a subject expert who has commissioned articles
from a range of authors representing different disciplines,
different parts of the world and different social perspectives. The
nine sections are structured around the following themes: Transport
Modes; Freight Transport and Logistics; Transport Safety and
Security; Transport Economics; Traffic Management; Transport
Modelling and Data Management; Transport Policy and Planning;
Transport Psychology; Sustainability and Health Issues in
Transportation. Some articles provide a technical introduction to a
topic whilst others provide a bridge between topics or a more
future-oriented view of new research areas or challenges. The end
result is a reference work that offers researchers and
practitioners new approaches, new ways of thinking and novel
solutions to problems. All-encompassing and expertly authored, this
outstanding reference work will be essential reading for all
students and researchers interested in transportation and its
global impact in what is a very uncertain world.
Teachers Discovering Computers introduces future educators to the
benefits and possibilities of technology and digital media in
teaching. Students will learn about the latest trends in technology
and how to integrate these concepts into the South African
classroom using a variety of practical applications. This title
provides tomorrow's teachers with extensive ideas and resources for
teaching today's digital learners through integrating technology
into their curriculum.
The Progress in Brain Research series highlights new advances in
the field, with this new volume presenting interesting chapters.
Each chapter is written by an international board of authors.
Music and the Aging Brain describes brain functioning in aging and
addresses the power of music to protect the brain from loss of
function and how to cope with the ravages of brain diseases that
accompany aging. By studying the power of music in aging through
the lens of neuroscience, behavioral, and clinical science, the
book explains brain organization and function. Written for those
researching the brain and aging, the book provides solid examples
of research fundamentals, including rigorous standards for sample
selection, control groups, description of intervention activities,
measures of health outcomes, statistical methods, and logically
stated conclusions.
The #MeToo movement has catalyzed an international discussion about
the routine challenges women face in their professional lives as a
result of male-dominated industries and office cultures. These
include well-documented cases of sexual harassment and assault, but
also unequal opportunities, unequal pay, sexist stereotypes, and a
devaluation of women's labor. While these are problems women face
in all industries and at all levels, the political and technology
sectors are particularly rife with them. Recoding the Boys' Club is
a ground-breaking deep-dive into the work experiences of women in
the political technology field in the United States. Political
technology sits at the intersection of two fields dominated by
men-politics and technology-and has become a cornerstone of
operations in political campaigns and political institutions more
generally. Drawing on a unique dataset of 1004 staffers working in
political technology on presidential campaigns from 2004-2016,
analysis of hiring patterns during the 2020 presidential primary
cycle, and interviews with 45 women who worked on 12 different
presidential campaigns, this book reveals the underrepresentation
of women in political technology, especially leadership positions,
as well as the struggle women face to have their voices heard
within the "boys' clubs" and "bro cultures" of political
technology. It chronicles the gendered expectations women face to
provide emotional labor, stereotypes about women's competencies
that shape their opportunities, the ways in which women's ideas are
discredited, and the formal and informal forms of exclusion in
campaign culture-leading to widespread feelings of "imposter
syndrome" among women in this environment. These issues are often
compounded by a mentality that the well-being of staffers must come
secondary to the goals of the campaign, despite what campaigns
might profess publically about gender and labor. Since these
campaigns are important entry and training points for the wider
field of political technology, the gendered inequities encountered
within them have implications for women's professional experiences
and careers long after campaigns have ended. This book aims to help
political practitioners create more gender equitable and inclusive
workplaces, ones that value the ideas and skills of all those who
work to get candidates elected.
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