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The growing market penetration of Internet mapping, satellite
imaging and personal navigation has opened up great research and
business opportunities to geospatial communities. Multi-platform
and multi-sensor integrated mapping technology has clearly
established a trend towards fast geospatial data acquisition.
Sensors can be mounted on various platforms, such as satellites,
aircrafts or helicopters, terrestrial vehicles, water-based
vessels, and may even be hand-carried by individuals. Mobile
mapping refers to a means of collecting geospatial data using
mapping sensors mounted on a mobile platform. Its development was
primarily driven by the advances in digital imaging and
direct-georeferencing technologies. With the escalating use of
telecommunication networks and the increasing availability of
low-cost and portable sensors, mobile mapping has become more
dynamic, and even pervasive. The book addresses a wide variety of
research issues in the mobile mapping community, ranging from
system development to sensor integration, imaging algorithms and
mobile GIS applications. This book will provide researchers and
practitioners a good overall view of what is being developed in
this topical area.
Based on the successful first edition, this book gives a general
theoretical introduction to electrochemical power cells (excluding
fuel cells) followed by a comprehensive treatment of the principle
battery types - covering chemistry, fabrication characteristics and
applications. There have been many changes in the field over the
last decade and many new systems have been commercialised. Since
the recent advent of battery powered consumer products (mobile
phones, camcorders, lap-tops etc.) advanced power sources have
become far more important. This text provides an up-to-date account
of batteries which is accessible to anyone with a basic knowledge
of chemistry and physics.
The Winchester pipe rolls - the estate accounts of the bishops of
Winchester - constitute one of the most remarkable documentary
survivals from medieval England, and are without parallel anywhere
in the world, supplying detailed evidence for agriculture, prices,
wages, the land market and peasant society in an exceptionally
well-preserved sequence from 1209 onwards. They have attracted the
attention of historians of medieval economy and society for over
acentury, first in deposit in the Public Record Office, more
recently in Hampshire Record Office. The essays collected here
celebrate their survival and demonstrate their quality, putting
them into perspective as a documentary source, and assessing how
far their evidence is representative of England as a whole. The
volume also demonstrates some of the new ways in which they are
being put to use to enhance knowledge of medieval England, with a
numberof the articles concerned with recent research projects. The
book is completed with a handlist of these records up to 1455, the
year in which the bishopric administration started to keep its
accounts in registers rather than rolls. Contributors: RICHARD H.
BRITNELL, BRUCE M. S. CAMPBELL, JOHN LANGDON, JOHN MULLAN, MARK
PAGE, K. J. STOCKS, CHRISTOPHER THORNTON, NICHOLAS C. VINCENT. The
late RICHARD BRITNELL was Professor of History at the University of
Durham.
When you are ready to implement measures to improve patient safety,
this is the book to consult. Charles Vincent, one of the world's
pioneers in patient safety, discusses each and every aspect clearly
and compellingly. He reviews the evidence of risks and harms to
patients, and he provides practical guidance on implementing safer
practices in health care.
The second edition puts greater emphasis on this practical side.
Examples of team based initiatives show how patient safety can be
improved by changing practices, both cultural and technological,
throughout whole organisations. Not only does this benefit
patients; it also impacts positively on health care delivery, with
consequent savings in the economy.
"Patient Safety" has been praised as a gateway to understanding
the subject. This second edition is more than that - it is a
revelation of the pervading influence of health care errors, and a
guide to how these can be overcome.
..". The beauty of this book is that it describes the complexity
of patient safety in a simple coherent way and captures the breadth
of issues that encompass this fascinating field. The author
provides numerous ways in which the reader can take this subject
further with links to the international world of patient safety and
evidence based research... One of the most difficult aspects of
patient safety is that of implementation of safer practices and
sustained change. Charles Vincent, through this book, provides all
who read it clear examples to help with these challenges" From a
review in Hospital Medicine by Dr Suzette Woodward, Director of
Patient Safety.
Access 'Essentials of Patient Safety - Free Online
Introduction':
www.wiley.com/go/vincent/patientsafety/essentials
Complementary, or alternative, medicine is now widely used in the
developed world. It encompasses an enormous range of diagnostic
techniques and therapies, many of which are highly valued by both
patients and practitioners. Critics of complementary medicine point
to the lack of supporting evidence and suggest a variety of dangers
and adverse effects. This volume provides a balanced and
even-handed review of the evidence and assesses the claims of both
advocates and critics. Complementary Medicine: A Research
Perspective draws the empirical literature together and examines
the effectiveness of complementary medicine for both patients and
practitioners by:
* Providing an overview of the major alternative therapies,
together with their methods and philosophies
* Explaining the appeal of complementary medicine to patients
* Investigating its relationship with the medical profession
* Analysing methods of evaluation and the role of placebo effects
* Reviewing the evidence for each of the major therapies
* Setting out a research agenda for the future
This timely volume is essential reading for both complementary
practitioners and those in the orthodox health professions,
including GPs, hospital doctors, nurses, and physiotherapists, as
well as medical and social scientists.
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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
A collaborator has cost the lives of several allied agents, in
Vichi France, early in World War two, by informing on new arrivals
in that area to the Germans. John, a Franco-American boy, hears
about this, and proposes a very unorthodox proposition; that a
teenage boy, fluent in French, and posing as a war orphan, would
not be suspected an agent by either the Germans or the traitor. He
assumes the identity of Jean Pierre Lemaire, a boy injured in a
bombing in Liege Belgium, having a French father and a German
mother, and is being repatriated to France. The book covers John's
acceptance, training, and activities, with the French Resistance in
France and the boy's German relatives in Germany.
This insightful book provides you with all the information you will
need to open and successfully operate a country inn. It includes
financial advice, location and purchasing tips, and sound marketing
and management guidance. But most importantly, it leads you through
a personal analysis of whether you should open an inn by
illustrating the challenges and demands of innkeeping.
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