This issue of Interventional Cardiology Clinics, Guest Edited by Dr. Brian O'Neill, will focus on Mechanical Circulatory Support. This issue is one of four selected each year by the series Consulting Editor, Dr. Marvin H. Eng. Mechanical circulatory support (MCS) plays an important role in the management of a variety of patients with a range of conditions in interventional cardiology. As many times the question of MCS arises in the most critical of patients, an understanding of each of the devices along with which patients may potentially benefit is vital. This issue aims to provide a review of the various options of MCS, as well as a variety of scenarios in which MCS may play a beneficial role in the management of patients.

Bringing together the analysis of a diverse team of social scientists, this book proposes a new approach to environmental problems. Cutting through the fragmented perspectives on water crises, it seeks to shift the analytic perspectives on water policy by looking at the social logics behind environmental issues. Most importantly, it analyzes the dynamic influences on water management, as well as the social and institutional forces that orient water and conservation policies. The first work of its kind, The Field of Water Policy: Power and Scarcity in the American Southwest brings the tools of Pierre Bourdieu's field sociology to bear on a moment of environmental crisis, with a study of the logics of water policy in the American Southwest, a region that allows us to see the contest over the management of scarce resources in a context of lasting drought. As such, it will appeal to scholars in the social and political sciences with interests in the environment and the management of natural resources.

Bringing together the analysis of a diverse team of social scientists, this book proposes a new approach to environmental problems. Cutting through the fragmented perspectives on water crises, it seeks to shift the analytic perspectives on water policy by looking at the social logics behind environmental issues. Most importantly, it analyzes the dynamic influences on water management, as well as the social and institutional forces that orient water and conservation policies. The first work of its kind, The Field of Water Policy: Power and Scarcity in the American Southwest brings the tools of Pierre Bourdieu's field sociology to bear on a moment of environmental crisis, with a study of the logics of water policy in the American Southwest, a region that allows us to see the contest over the management of scarce resources in a context of lasting drought. As such, it will appeal to scholars in the social and political sciences with interests in the environment and the management of natural resources.

The revitalisation of audience studies is not only about new approaches and methods; it entails a crossing of disciplines and a bridging of long-established boundaries in the field. The aim of this volume is to capture the boundary-crossing processes that have begun to emerge across the discipline in the form of innovative, interdisciplinary interventions in the audience research agenda. Contributions to this volume seek to further this process though innovative, audience-oriented perspectives that firmly anchor media engagement within the diversity of contexts and purposes to which people incorporate media in their daily lives, in ways often unanticipated by industries and professionals.

Assistive technology for cognition is technology which can be used to enable, enhance, or extend cognitive function. This book systematically examines how cutting-edge digital technologies can assist the cognitive function of people with cognitive impairments, with the potential to revolutionize rehabilitation. Technologies are reviewed which direct attention, remind, recognize, prompt, and generally guide people through activities of daily living. Written by experts in neuropsychology and technology development, Assistive Technology for Cognition provides a comprehensive overview of the efficacy of technologies to assist people with brain impairments. Based on the list provided by the International Classification of Function, each chapter covers a different cognitive function; namely, attention, memory, affect, perception, executive function, language, numeracy, sequencing, and navigation onto which existing and future assistive technologies for cognition are mapped. This structure provides in-depth research in an accessible way, and will allow practitioners to move from an assessment of cognitive deficits to the prescription of an appropriate assistive technology for cognition. The chapters also make suggestions for future developments. Assistive Technology for Cognition will be of great interest to clinicians and researchers working in brain injury rehabilitation, technology developers, and also to students in clinical psychology, neuropsychology, and allied health disciplines.

This volume focuses on processes and means to revitalise the academic field of audience research. Ultimately, the revitalisation of audience studies not only means developing new approaches and methods; it also requires a 'Kuhnian discussion', in the sense of discussing the need for the introduction of new paradigms or conceptual developments into the field of audience research. This requires that researchers transcend established boundaries in the field, and entails both the need to cross disciplines (e.g., between the social sciences tradition and the critical/cultural tradition, or the computational tradition) and the need to bridge long-established boundaries in the field (e.g. between 'old media' and 'new media'; between mass communication and group communication; between content/production and audience/reception). Contributors therefore aim to facilitate this process of boundary crossing through a series of interdisciplinary debates across the full range of audience consumption and reception studies.

Assistive technology for cognition is technology which can be used to enable, enhance, or extend cognitive function. This book systematically examines how cutting-edge digital technologies can assist the cognitive function of people with cognitive impairments, with the potential to revolutionize rehabilitation. Technologies are reviewed which direct attention, remind, recognize, prompt, and generally guide people through activities of daily living. Written by experts in neuropsychology and technology development, Assistive Technology for Cognition provides a comprehensive overview of the efficacy of technologies to assist people with brain impairments. Based on the list provided by the International Classification of Function, each chapter covers a different cognitive function; namely, attention, memory, affect, perception, executive function, language, numeracy, sequencing, and navigation onto which existing and future assistive technologies for cognition are mapped. This structure provides in-depth research in an accessible way, and will allow practitioners to move from an assessment of cognitive deficits to the prescription of an appropriate assistive technology for cognition. The chapters also make suggestions for future developments. Assistive Technology for Cognition will be of great interest to clinicians and researchers working in brain injury rehabilitation, technology developers, and also to students in clinical psychology, neuropsychology, and allied health disciplines.

This book brings together the overlapping paths of psychology, spirituality and gestalt therapy. It considers the life of pioneers who have gone before on this journey and left a well marked trail for others to follow - those who have contributed to the bridging of the psychological and spiritual, such as Carl Jung, Evelyn Underhill, William James, Emanuel Swedenborg, Roberto Assagioli, Viktor Frankl and Wilson Van Dusen. It begins with a series of essays on spirituality and psychology and moves to the specific relationship between spirituality and gestalt therapy. This book attends to what many people can relate to today - the common threads which bring understanding to our life through these interrelated streams - spirituality, psychotherapy and our search for meaning.

Step into ABAP with this beginner's guide. First understand ABAP syntax and find out how to add data and logic to your applications. Then delve into backend programming: learn to work with the ABAP data dictionary, create database objects, and process and store data. Round out your skill set by practicing error handling, modularization, string manipulation, and more. With guided examples, step-by-step instructions, and detailed code you'll become an ABAP developer in no time. In this book, you'll learn about: A. ABAP Language Basics - Learn the ABAP language, from formatting code to using variables and constants. Understand how to add binary logic to applications, create simple user interfaces, and more. B: Working with Data - Create data dictionary objects and program ABAP applications to process and read data from a database. Use working memory to store retrieved data and display it to users. C: Manipulating Programs - Modularize ABAP programs, handle errors, and work with strings, texts, dates, times, and currencies. D: Preparing for an ABAP Career - Understand the SAP system landscape, prepare your development environment, and explore the official ABAP development guidelines.

This is a comprehensive but concise reference that documents the nature and importance of the injury problem in the United States. For each of more than sixty causes of injury, data are presented by age, race, sex, geographic area, urban/rural residence, and per capita income. This second edition includes new chapters on injuries related to sports, work, aviation, and large trucks. Also new are many analyses subdivided by four racial groups as well as age and sex, made possible by the use of mortality data from a seven year period. The updated analyses of time trends throughout the book document major reductions in death rates over the past decade. As a statistical compilation, the book offers users a quick reference to valuable detail, much of which would otherwise be inaccessible. It also discusses reasons for many of the extreme differences among groups of people in injury death rates and describes promising avenues to prevention. This accessible, readable reference will be valuable to public health personnel, physicians, epidemiologists, safety planners and policy makers.

This is a collection of writings by members of the New York Institute for Gestalt Therapy previously published from 2000 to 2014. Here you will find essays with much in common and with important differences. These papers reflect the authors' relationship to the institute and offer what they believe is representative of their work. This collection exemplifies the institute: our membership, our mission our sense of history-and marks our place in contemporary gestalt therapy.

This book accentuates poetry creativity and the spirituality of the Tao as aspects of the organism/environment field in general and Gestalt therapy in particular. This is in accord with the early founders of gestalt therapy who seek to further the recollection of childhood as "some of the most beautiful powers of adult life that must be recovered: spontaneity, imagination, directness of awareness and manipulation." and embrace a "unitary approach." By being present to the emergent creation of the field with the recovered faculties of children and artists we work and live creatively and authentically in the present moment.

A blueprints book with 10 different projects built in 10 different chapters which demonstrate the various use cases of storm for both beginner and intermediate users, grounded in realworld example applications. Although the book focuses primarily on Java development with Storm, the patterns are more broadly applicable and the tips, techniques, and approaches described in the book apply to architects, developers, and operations. Additionally, the book should provoke and inspire applications of distributed computing to other industries and domains. Hadoop enthusiasts will also find this book a good introduction to Storm, providing a potential migration path from batch processing to the world of realtime analytics.

This book presents an anthology of the history, theory and practice of living in community by gestalt psychotherapists and practitioners around the world.

This current book offers such a continuing contribution to this field along with our ability as a therapy to integrate the diversity of fields such as ancient spirituality with advances in the physical sciences, in this case neurobiology and Buddhism. What is an additional benefit is the author, Declan Brady, offers specific mindfulness based techniques and practices that you can use in your clinical practice and personal life. He also draws on his personal experience of many years of practice in Buddhist based meditation as well as his interest in neuroscience and neurobiology, linked to his personal therapy experience and clinical work with clients.

Gestalt therapy, of all the therapies, might be expected to have developed a literature in this area due to its significant focus on organisational management, both through the Gestalt Institute of Cleveland (GIC) and the Gestalt International Study Centre (GISC) and the body of literature and training they have developed. The theory and practice of Gestalt OSD (Organisation and Systems Dynamics) or GIO (Gestalt in Organisations) is a field or application of Gestalt therapy which has developed for a range of people around the world.

Since the beginning of time people have developed knowledge to make sense of who we are and the world we live in. The ancient forms of psychology (as in the original meaning of the study of the 'psyche' or soul) included the visible and invisible aspects of reality - unlike the current split today between secular and spiritual, between the visible and the invisible which proliferates in Western culture. Most modern psychologies, by attending mainly to the visible world, have focused on that which will fade and die - the visible. The ancient psychologies began in the visible realm and included the invisible beyond external appearance. These approaches are seen by modern psychologists as religions or spiritual practices. Yet ancient psychologies were simply broader and more holistic, discovering the source of the visible world in the invisible world. They discovered the Holy and for many this Holy is God. This is the aim of this book. To tell the story of the loss of the Holy in psychology and regain this experience, as it is happening today. To make whole the visible and invisible realities currently divided. It offers a journey of exploration to discover a golden thread of the wider reality that makes us essentially human. This wider reality helps in understanding and healing the unavoidable sufferings of being human.

This is not a book geared to one branch of activity - like gestalt group therapy, or organization development, or applications to management. The papers assembled here embrace a whole variety of practice settings and areas of professional endeavour: organisations, training groups, communities, national groupings, life - focus groups, as well as (of course) the special case of two people working together, in the relational fields of group facilitator-participant, or of consultant-consultee, or of teacher-student, all or which are fields within fields.

"Being open to physics and spirituality as aspects of Gestalt therapy is in harmony with the founders of gestalt therapy who embrace a "unitary approach." This book encourages appreciation of each each of these fields in an expansion of how we view ourselves and the potential of the Gestalt Approach."