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Surgical care is increasingly recognized as a critical component of
global health, and strong surgical skills, teamwork, and poise
under pressure become even more imperative during conflict or
disaster. When faced with hospital bombings or devastating
earthquakes, healthcare personnel must develop special techniques
and abilities to ably care for patients despite limited resources
and a disrupted health system. In Operation Crisis, Dr. Adam L.
Kushner brings together 22 medical experts from around the world to
recount their experiences in the field when disaster struck. These
candid firsthand accounts from both local and international aid
surgeons provide clinicians and public health practitioners with
insightful lessons for effectively treating surgical patients under
the most grueling of circumstances. Moving from conflict settings
that include war zones in Afghanistan, the Democratic Republic of
the Congo, Syria, and South Sudan, Operation Crisis also touches on
post-earthquake Haiti and Nepal and post-tsunami Indonesia.
Individual themed chapters cover mass casualty training, burn care,
obstetric care, sexual violence, and landmine injuries. Combining
personal stories with lessons learned and possible interventions,
these vivid and affecting essays detail the immediate aftermath of
conflict and disaster while pointing the way to improving care for
future victims of crisis. Intended to spark further discussion and
function as an advocacy tool while highlighting situations where
surgical care can save lives and reduce disability, this book is a
valuable resource for medical professionals, students, policy
makers, international aid organizations, and philanthropic donors.
Contributors: Kapendra Shekhar Amatya, Samer Attar, Jeffrey A.
Bailey, Lucas C. Carlson, James C. Cobey, Dattesh R. Dave, Dan L.
Deckelbaum, Richard A. Gosselin, Shailvi Gupta, Edna Adan Ismail,
Thaim B. Kamara, T. Peter Kingham, Adam L. Kushner, Judy M. Lee,
Maria "Tane" Pilar Luna, Brijesh Mishra, Kyle N. Remick, Lauri J.
Romanzi, Michael Sinclair, Barclay T. Stewart, Marten van Wijhe,
Evan G. Wong
This reference discusses state-of-the-art methods for the
management of children with conditions affecting the nervous
system-providing over 80 chapters that outline direct, logical
approaches to numerous pediatric neurologic disorders using clear
tables, algorithms, and figures for quick reference to key
material.
One of the horrors of the West African Ebola outbreak was the
decimation of the area's already thin ranks of surgeons. As Ebola
spread, health facilities closed, and some doctors-afraid of
catching the disease-left the region or stopped performing surgery.
Many of those who stayed contracted Ebola and died. As the pool of
doctors available-and willing-to perform surgery dwindled,
treatable conditions unrelated to the disease, including
appendicitis, unrepaired hernias, stomach ulcers, and obstructed
labor, went untreated with devastating results. Drs. Sherry M. Wren
and Adam L. Kushner both worked extensively with surgeons in
Ebola-ravaged countries during the 2014 outbreak. Recognizing that
there was no guidance available for how to perform surgery under
such dangerous conditions, Wren and Kushner collaborated to create
official guidelines for safe surgical procedures in cases of
confirmed or suspected Ebola. Operation Ebola documents these
procedures and describes in vivid detail the conditions that faced
both local surgeons and the international surgeons who came to
help. Bringing together a group of medical experts from Sierra
Leone and across the globe to tell their stories and offer
hard-learned lessons, this book is a riveting first-hand account of
performing surgery in under-resourced parts of the world. Through
these health workers' eyes, readers will come to understand what it
feels like to wear personal protective equipment (PPE) while
operating, what dangers remain when using PPE, how to construct an
Ebola maternity ward, and how to give anesthesia to patients during
a time of Ebola. A succinct and gripping exploration of how an
outbreak can affect surgical care and the surgeons who provide it,
this book will interest medical professionals, students, policy
makers, donors, and anyone who cares about Ebola or global health.
Contributors: Kathryn P. Barron, Hakon A. Bolkan, Severine
Caluwaerts, Joseph Forrester, Andrew M. R. Hall, Eva Hancilles,
Mark J. Harris, Angela Hewlett, David B. Hoyt, Daniel W. Johnson,
Thaim B. Kamara, Songor S. J. Koedoyoma, Michael Koroma, Adam L.
Kushner, Marta Lado, Ronald C. Marsh, Andrew J. Michaels, Mohamed
G. Sheku, Sherry M. Wren
This reference discusses state-of-the-art methods for the
management of children with conditions affecting the nervous
system-providing over 80 chapters that outline direct, logical
approaches to numerous pediatric neurologic disorders using clear
tables, algorithms, and figures for quick reference to key
material.
Quickly gain the insight necessary to address a multitude of
Java-based Spring Framework and Spring Boot coding challenges using
this succinct reference guide. Short, focused code examples will
help you master many of the Spring elements such as AOP, data
access, MVC for web development, security, web services/REST for
microservices development, Batch for large data sets, and more.
You'll also get a rundown of the increasingly popular Spring Boot
microframework as well. You won't find any technical jargon,
bloated samples, drawn out history lessons, or witty stories in
this book. What you will find is a language reference that is
concise, to the point, and highly accessible. The book is packed
with useful information and is a must-have for any Java programmer.
What You Will Learn Discover the Spring Framework and its many
sub-projects Work with the Spring Boot microframework Program with
the Spring Boot framework to build Java-based microservices, native
cloud applications, and more Use some of the lesser-known but still
important frameworks and tools such as REST Docs, HATEOAS, Cloud,
and more Leverage these Spring frameworks and tools for building
your next Java-based cloud application Who This Book Is For Those
with prior experience with Java who want a quick and handy
reference to using Spring.
This volume brings together the latest basic and clinical research
examining the effects and underlying mechanisms of psychedelic
drugs. Examples of drugs within this group include LSD, psilocybin,
and mescaline. Despite their structural differences, these
compounds produce remarkably similar experiences in humans and
share a common mechanism of action. Commonalities among the
substances in this family are addressed both at the clinical and
phenomenological level and at the basic neurobiological mechanism
level. To the extent possible, contributions relate the clinical
and preclinical findings to one another across species. The volume
addresses both the risks associated with the use of these drugs and
the potential medical benefits that might be associated with these
and related compounds.
Learn the fundamentals of the Java 17 LTS or Java Standard Edition
version 17 Long Term Support release, including basic programming
concepts and the object-oriented fundamentals necessary at all
levels of Java development. Authors Kishori Sharan and Adam L.
Davis walk you through writing your first Java program
step-by-step. Armed with that practical experience, you'll be ready
to learn the core of the Java language. Beginning Java 17
Fundamentals provides over 90 diagrams and 240 complete programs to
help you learn the topics faster. While this book teaches you the
basics, it also has been revised to include the latest from Java 17
including the following: value types (records), immutable objects
with an efficient memory layout; local variable type inference
(var); pattern matching, a mechanism for testing and deconstructing
values; sealed types, a mechanism for declaring all possible
subclasses of a class; multiline text values; and switch
expressions. The book continues with a series of foundation topics,
including using data types, working with operators, and writing
statements in Java. These basics lead onto the heart of the Java
language: object-oriented programming. By learning topics such as
classes, objects, interfaces, and inheritance you'll have a good
understanding of Java's object-oriented model. The final collection
of topics takes what you've learned and turns you into a real Java
programmer. You'll see how to take the power of object-oriented
programming and write programs that can handle errors and
exceptions, process strings and dates, format data, and work with
arrays to manipulate data. What You Will Learn Write your first
Java programs with emphasis on learning object-oriented programming
How to work with switch expressions, value types (records), local
variable type inference, pattern matching switch and more from Java
17 Handle exceptions, assertions, strings and dates, and object
formatting Learn about how to define and use modules Dive in depth
into classes, interfaces, and inheritance in Java Use regular
expressions Take advantage of the JShell REPL tool Who This Book Is
For Those who are new to Java programming, who may have some or
even no prior programming experience.
This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the Third International Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experimentation, ALENEX 2001, held in Washington, DC, USA in January 2001.The 15 revised full papers presented together with the abstracts of three invited presentations have gone through two rounds of reviewing and revision and were selected from 31 submissions. Among the topics addressed are heuristics for approximation, network optimization, TSP, randomization, sorting, information retrieval, graph computations, tree clustering, scheduling, network algorithms, point set computations, searching, and data mining.
IVP Readers' Choice Award Stop outsourcing justice! Many local
churches don't know what to do about justice. We tend to
compartmentalize it as merely a strategy for outreach, and we often
outsource it to parachurch justice ministries. While these
organizations do good work, individual congregations are left
disconnected from God's just purposes in the world. Adam Gustine
calls the local church to be just and do justice. He provides a
theological vision for our identity as a just people, where God's
character and the pursuit of shalom infuses every aspect of our
congregational DNA. As we grow in becoming just, the church becomes
a prophetic alternative to the broken systems of the world and a
parable of God's intentions for human flourishing and societal
transformation. This renewed vision for the church leads us into
cultivating a just life together-in community, discipleship,
worship, and more-extending justice out into the world in concrete
ways. Let's hold being and doing together, so we can become just,
compassionate communities that restore shalom and bring hope to the
world.
Get an easy introduction to reactive streams in Java to handle
concurrency, data streams, and the propagation of change in today's
applications. This compact book includes in-depth introductions to
RxJava, Akka Streams, and Reactor, and integrates the latest
related features from Java 9 and 11, as well as reactive streams
programming with the Android SDK. Reactive Streams in Java explains
how to manage the exchange of stream data across an asynchronous
boundary-passing elements on to another thread or thread-pool-while
ensuring that the receiving side is not forced to buffer arbitrary
amounts of data which can reduce application efficiency. After
reading and using this book, you'll be proficient in programming
reactive streams for Java in order to optimize application
performance, and improve memory management and data exchanges. What
You Will Learn Discover reactive streams and how to use them Work
with the latest features in Java 9 and Java 11 Apply reactive
streams using RxJava Program using Akka Streams Carry out reactive
streams programming in Android Who This Book Is For Experienced
Java programmers.
A teenage mother arrives by donkey cart to a hospital after
attempting to deliver her baby in the bush. A young father faces
the loss of a leg after receiving a gunshot wound that will not
heal. A man walks miles to a hospital for a pain in his side caused
by an appendix that burst five days earlier. Without access to
surgical resources, millions of people with conditions like these
become disabled or die. In Operation Health, Adam L. Kushner argues
that not only are severe medical conditions - like a strangulated
hernia or obstetric fistula-treatable by surgical means in
low-income countries; they are, in fact, surgically preventable.
Although the World Bank estimates that 11 percent of the global
disease burden is treatable by surgery, more than a quarter of the
world's population lacks access to straightforward and life-saving
surgical procedures. Operation Health makes a strong and compelling
justification for adding surgical care to the global health agenda
by providing an overview of dangerous but repairable medical
conditions common in developing countries. Every chapter opens with
a vignette by Kushner which tells the remarkable story of the
patients and situations he encountered in the field. Carefully
crafted case studies demonstrate the power of surgery to heal
people suffering from potentially debilitating conditions,
including clubfoot, obstructed labor, and broken bones. The
chapters - written by world-renowned surgical experts - cover
related medical topics such as epidemiology, women's health,
cancer, and trauma in locations from Sierra Leone to Nepal, Ghana,
Mongolia, and elsewhere. This detailed and compassionate book will
be of great interest to medical professionals, students, public
health policy makers, philanthropic donors, and those with a
general interest in global health.
'A revelation' Sunday Times, Books of the Year 2018 The first
Penguin anthology of Japanese haiku, in vivid new translations by
Adam L. Kern. Now a global poetry, the haiku was originally a
Japanese verse form that flourished from the sixteenth to
nineteenth centuries. Although renowned for its brevity, usually
running over three lines in seventeen syllables, and by its use of
natural imagery to make Zen-like observations about reality, in
fact the haiku is much more: it can be erotic, funny, crude and
mischievous. Presenting over a thousand exemplars in vivid and
engaging translations, this anthology offers an illuminating
introduction to this widely celebrated, if misunderstood, art form.
Adam L. Kern's new translations are accompanied here by the
original Japanese and short commentaries on the poems, as well as
an introduction and illustrations from the period.
Manga from the Floating World is the first full-length study in
English of the kibyoshi, a genre of woodblock-printed comic book
widely read in late-eighteenth-century Japan. By combining analysis
of the socioeconomic and historical milieus in which the genre was
produced and consumed with three annotated translations of works by
major author-artist Santo Kyoden (1761-1816) that closely reproduce
the experience of encountering the originals, Adam Kern offers a
sustained close reading of the vibrant popular imagination of the
mid-Edo period. The kibyoshi, Kern argues, became an influential
form of political satire that seemed poised to transform the
uniquely Edoesque brand of urban commoner culture into something
more, perhaps even a national culture, until the shogunal
government intervened. Based on extensive research using primary
sources in their original Edo editions, the volume is copiously
illustrated with rare prints from Japanese archival collections. It
serves as an introduction not only to the kibyoshi but also to the
genre's readers and critics, narratological conventions, modes of
visuality, format, and relationship to the modern Japanese manga
and to the popular literature and wit of Edo. Filled with graphic
puns and caricatures, these entertaining works will appeal to the
general reader as well as to the more experienced student of
Japanese cultural history-and anyone interested in the global
history of comics, graphic novels, and manga.
From the late nineteenth century through the post-Holocaust era,
the world was divided between countries that tried to expel their
Jewish populations and those that refused to let them in. The
plight of these traumatized refugees inspired numerous proposals
for Jewish states. Jews and Christians, authors and adventurers,
politicians and playwrights, and rabbis and revolutionaries all
worked to carve out autonomous Jewish territories in remote and
often hostile locations across the globe. The would-be founding
fathers of these imaginary Zions dispatched scientific expeditions
to far-flung regions and filed reports on the dream states they
planned to create. But only Israel emerged from dream to reality.
Israel's successful foundation has long obscured the fact that
eminent Jewish figures, including Zionism's prophet, Theodor Herzl,
seriously considered establishing enclaves beyond the Middle East.
In the Shadow of Zion brings to life the amazing true stories of
six exotic visions of a Jewish national home outside of the
biblical land of Israel. It is the only book to detail the
connections between these schemes, which in turn explain the
trajectory of modern Zionism. A gripping narrative drawn from
archives the world over, In the Shadow of Zion recovers the mostly
forgotten history of the Jewish territorialist movement, and the
stories of the fascinating but now obscure figures who championed
it. Provocative, thoroughly researched, and written to appeal to a
broad audience, In the Shadow of Zion offers a timely perspective
on Jewish power and powerlessness. Visit the author's website:
http://www.adamrovner.com/.
Start building powerful apps that take advantage of the dynamic
scripting capabilities of the Groovy language, including what's new
in Groovy version 3.0. This book covers Groovy fundamentals, such
as installing Groovy, using Groovy tools, and working with the
Groovy Development Kit (GDK). You'll also learn more advanced
aspects of Groovy, such as using Groovy design patterns, writing
DSLs in Groovy, and taking advantage of Groovy's functional
programming features. Also, Learning Groovy 3 has been updated to
Groovy 3.0 to include the new Parrot parser which was extended to
support additional syntax options and language features. It also
includes coverage of Groovydoc, which allows you to embed Groovydoc
comments in various ways. And, this book covers how Groovy supports
Java type annotations and more. There is more to Groovy than the
core language, so Learning Groovy 3, Second Edition covers the
extended Groovy ecosystem. You'll see how to harness Gradle
(Groovy's build system), Grails (Groovy's web application
framework), Spock (Groovy's testing framework), and Ratpack
(Groovy's reactive web library). What You Will Learn Grasp Groovy
fundamentals, including the GDK Master advanced Groovy, such as
writing Groovy DSLs Discover functional programming in Groovy Work
with GPars, the built-in concurrency library Use Gradle, the build
system Master Grails, the web application framework Work with
Spock, the testing framework Harness Ratpack, the reactive web
library Who This Book Is For Those with a Java background, though
anyone with basic programming skills can benefit from it. This book
is a data-filled, yet easy-to-digest tour of the Groovy language
and ecosystem.
This issue of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North
America is devoted to "Difficult to Treat Pain Syndromes," and is
edited by Adam L. Schreiber, DO of the Jefferson Medical College of
Thomas Jefferson University. Articles in this issue will include:
Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Diagnosis; Non-surgical Treatment of Carpal
Tunnel Syndrome; Parsonage Turner Syndrome Diagnosis and Treatment;
Trochanteric Pain Syndrome Diagnosis and Treatment; Complex
Regional Pain Syndrome Diagnosis and Treatment; Discogenic Spine
Pain Syndrome Diagnosis and Treatment; Failed Back Surgery Syndrome
Diagnosis and Treatment; Myofascial Pain Syndrome Diagnosis and
Treatments; Opioid Syndrome Diagnosis and Treatment; Spinal Cord
Pain Syndrome Diagnosis and Treatment; Cerebral Vascular Accident
Hemishoulder Pain Syndrome Diagnosis and Treatment; and Cancer Pain
Syndromes. "Each chapter follows a pattern of discussion through
diagnosis in terms of up-to-date criteria." Reviewed by Paul
Cameron, January 2015
Get up and running fast with the basics of programming using Java
as an example language. This short book gets you thinking like a
programmer in an easy and entertaining way. Modern Programming Made
Easy teaches you basic coding principles, including working with
lists, sets, arrays, and maps; coding in the object-oriented style;
and writing a web application. This book is largely language
agnostic, but mainly covers the latest appropriate and relevant
release of Java, with some updated references to Groovy, Scala, and
JavaScript to give you a broad range of examples to consider. You
will get a taste of what modern programming has to offer and set
yourself up for further study and growth in your chosen language.
What You'll Learn Write code using the functional programming style
Build your code using the latest releases of Java, Groovy, and more
Test your code Read and write from files Design user interfaces
Deploy your app in the cloud Who This Book Is For Anyone who wants
to learn how to code. Whether you're a student, a teacher, looking
for a career change, or just a hobbyist, this book is made for you.
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