The guest editors of this issue have assembled expert authors to discuss issues in gastroenterology unique to female patients. After reading the articles in this issue, readers should be able to determine whether gender influences diagnosis and treatment of functional disorders, evaluate problems in the pregnant patient, explain immune diseases of the GI, and discuss unique genetic aspects of Lynch Syndrome and IBD.

From the authors of the award-winning Meeting the Leadership Challenge in Long-Term Care, this book provides a blueprint for success in today's performance-based healthcare system. It presents a tested approach to delivering optimal care to each resident using a proven, coordinated bundle of key practices that include: Leadership that brings out the best in staff A communication infrastructure to support teamwork throughout an organization A high-involvement performance improvement process that delivers quality person-centered care and prevents avoidable declines This practical resource takes long-term care leaders through the critical steps to achieve staff stability, strengthen coordination of care, and maintain the highest practicable well-being for each resident. It demonstrates how engaging staff in continuous quality improvement produces consistently high-quality care. Whether care communities are excelling or struggling, leaders can benefit from these performance-improving practices. Filled with candid, impactful personal accounts about implementing quality improvement in nursing homes, A Long-Term Care Leader's Guide reveals precisely how leaders and their staff can do better, together.

What you do really does matter! This book is a must read for nursing home administrators, directors of nursing, and others in leadership positions in long-term care. It offers practical, commonsense, easy-to-implement approaches that will yield immediate positive results. It also serves as a wake-up call to leaders who doubt their impact and as an affirmation to leaders who struggle daily to do a good job. Let Meeting the Leadership Challenge in Long-Term Care open the door to new possibilities and set your organisation on a better course. Too often long-term care leaders feel overwhelmed by regulatory, financial, and corporate constraints and succumb to the myth that staff turnover is an inevitable cost of doing business. This book debunks this myth, revealing the powerful link between staff satisfaction and successful organisational performance that delivers high quality, high census, good surveys, and a healthy bottom line. Based on extensive on-the-ground experience with implementing and guiding hundreds of nursing homes through successful organisational transformations, the authors offer advice and wisdom that can make your organisation more successful, efficient and stable, whether it is currently struggling or thriving. Just a few of the take-home lessons from your this constructive guide include how to Get and keep the right staff, including how to identify ""triple crown winners"" Reduce staff stress and promote solid teamwork Build a positive chain of leadership that brings out the best in the staff Convert money now spent on turnover into resources to support stability Improve corporate support with an instructive ""Stop Doing List"" Use quality improvement and culture change practices to achieve high performance Increase staff, family, and resident satisfaction Make a meaningful impact as a leader Watch these benefits unfold right before your eyes in one of the most unique features of this book: a journal documenting administrator David Farrell's experience turning around a nursing home that was by all measures doing poorly. Through his difficulties, triumphs, tragedies, and everyday experiences, see how better outcomes are attainable by focusing on leadership practices that make a difference. Widely recognised as experts in the long-term care field, the authors of Meeting the Leadership Challenge in Long-Term Care combine their years of experience in nursing home leadership and management to create a resource that can transform how long-term care facilities are run. 2012 National Mature Media Award (Bronze Award Winner)

Barbara Franke thematisiert in dem vorliegenden Buch die Rolle des sozialen Umfeldes der Studienberechtigten im Prozess der Studienentscheidung. Basierend auf soziologischen Wert-Erwartungs-Theorien und unter Berucksichtigung psychologischer, sozialkapitaltheoretischer und netzwerktheoretischer Ansatze werden die Mitschuler*innen, Freund*innen, Eltern und weitere relevante Netzwerkkontakte als Einflussfaktoren betrachtet und das Zusammenspiel zwischen kontextualen und individuellen Merkmalen ermittelt. Die empirischen Befunde belegen die Relevanz des sozialen Umfeldes bei der Studienentscheidung. Die Normen und das Verhalten relevanter Bezugsgruppen stehen direkt und indirekt im Zusammenhang mit der Entscheidung, ob Studienberechtigte ein Hochschulstudium aufnehmen.

In diesem Sammelband werden die vielfaltigen Zusammenhange von Angst und Sprechen untersucht: die Merkmale, Moeglichkeiten und Grenzen der Vermittlung von Angst in Gesprachen, Literatur und Film sowie in bestimmten sozialen und historischen Konstellationen. Dabei geht es darum, wie Erfahrungen der Angst sowohl auf individueller wie auch auf kollektiver Ebene zur Sprache gebracht werden koennen. Hierzu prasentieren die Beitragerinnen und Beitrager aktuelle Ansatze der Linguistik, Literatur-, Film-, Medien- und Geschichtswissenschaft sowie der Psychologie, Neurologie und Soziologie. Diskutiert werden innovative Wege der Diagnostik und Therapie sowie der Diskursanalyse und asthetischen Analyse, die sich auf das Sprechen und Verstandigen uber Angst beziehen, ebenso wie auf das angstinduzierte Verstummen und Schweigen.

Barbara Frank hat mehr als 24 Presence-Frageboegen verglichen, darauf basierend den Fragebogen "Presence for lab-based micro world research (PLBMR)" entwickelt und in der Mikrowelt AWAsim analysiert. Der PLBMR kann als Treatment-Check eingesetzt werden, um das Gefuhl des "Da Seins" in einer Simulation zu messen. Er wurde in einer explorativen (N=88) und konfirmatorischen Faktorenanalyse (N=233) untersucht und in einem dritten Schritt validiert. Die Autorin hat einen aufwandsoekonomischen sechs-Item Fragebogen mit zwei Faktoren entwickelt, dessen Validitat, Reliabilitat und Sensitivitat gezeigt werden konnte.

Confidence, some people just seem to exude confidence with every essence of their being and others seem to have a serious lack of it. Most of us have confidence, but it is not at the level where we want it to be, and it holds us back from enjoying life, and from getting what we want out of life. By picking up this book, you already know that you are ready to take the steps necessary to take life by the horns, to be the person you want to be, and live the life that you desire, and all of the happiness that it brings. This book shows you how to get rid of all of the things that are holding you back from being happy and successful. You will no longer be prisoner to your doubts, fears, and worries; you will be well on your way to the life you desire and deserve.

"The Imperfect Homeschooler's Guide to Homeschooling" is packed full of Barbara Frank's advice gleaned from over 20 years of homeschooling her four children, including one who has Down syndrome. As an eBook, it won rave reviews since it was published last year. Now, Cardamom Publishers has expanded the book, doubling it in size, and bringing it out in a perfect-bound edition. Readers will learn how they can: . Get past the "public school" way of thinking by customizing lessons for each child. . Boost their self-confidence by learning how to measure what their children have learned. . Reduce their stress level with "115 Organizing Tips for Homeschoolers." . Free themselves of attitudes and habits that make homeschooling harder than it has to be. "The Imperfect Homeschooler's Guide to Homeschooling" will encourage current and prospective homeschooling parents alike.

In diesem Band prasentieren Medien- und Informationswissenschaftler, Netzwerkforscher aus Informatik, Texttechnologie und Physik, Soziologen und Linguisten interdisziplinar Aspekte der Erforschung komplexer Mehrebenen-Netzwerke. Im Zentrum ihres Interesses stehen Untersuchungen zum Zusammenhang zwischen sozialen und sprachlichen Netzwerken und ihrer Dynamiken, aufgezeigt an empirischen Beispielen aus dem Bereich des Web 2.0, aber auch an historischen Dokumentenkorpora sowie an Rezeptions-Netzwerken aus Kunst- und Literaturwissenschaft."