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Critical strategies for confronting a dire, yet under-addressed
societal epidemic-the risky and potentially deadly consequences for
older adults living a socially isolated life, are the focus for
this book. By documenting our current understanding of the complex
and multi-dimensional nature of social isolation among elders, the
authors highlight innovative and alternative forms of community and
later-life relationships that can serve to forestall or prevent
social isolation and loneliness. With contributions from recognized
scholars, clinicians, and elder-policy activists, as well as from
multiple practice perspectives (direct service providers,
administrators, researchers, and educators) the book documents the
interrelated issues of social relationships and health in late
life. It describes creative programs and intervention techniques
that help maintain the integrity of an older adult's individual,
group, and community relations, communication pathways, and a sense
of belonging. The book also illuminates multidisciplinary and
integrated best practices for minimizing the risk of late life
social isolation. Case studies showcase the issues that arise in
clinical practice and service delivery and demonstrate proven
methods for effectively addressing them. Key Features: Delivers
best-practice strategies and interventions for bolstering older
adult social health and community engagement Written by top
scholars in the gerontology community Explores the life-threatening
risks and consequences of social isolation for older adults and
their families Describes the wide range of social relationships
that can determine the extent to which older adults will be at risk
of becoming socially isolated Considers the role that older adult
diversity and difference plays in determining quality of life and
the integrity of relationships Highlights physical, behavioral,
environmental, social, and economic forces that can influence the
quality of late life relationships
Too Good to Fail: Creating Marketplace Value form the World's
Brightest Minds is a guide for senior managers seeking to address
their need to rapidly develop globally innovative products with
constrained R&D budgets. It creates a practical strategy to
address and bring together, for the first time, the emergence of
open innovation networks, intellectual property, technology
transfer and the ubiquitous compression of technology development
time lines in a clear, connected and lucid manner. In the industry
today, companies look to remain competitive in the face of the
convergence of global innovation networks and sub-optimal equity
markets. This book offers a new perspective, turning what was once
perceived as a weakness into a strength. Drastic action is required
to address the inability of companies to control the development of
new technology. It requires relinquishing the illusion of control
over new technology development and embracing crowdsourcing
discoveries from the world's leading research institutions to
exogenously replace the "R" of corporate "R&D." The synthesis
of the literatures on open innovation and technology transfer
should prove useful to the growing number of practitioners in
technology transfer. The recent global emergence of Patent Box tax
relief has for the first time created the financial incentives for
firms to seek to create marketplace value from university
intellectual capital, to improve both their competitiveness and
after tax income.
Too Good to Fail: Creating Marketplace Value form the World's
Brightest Minds is a guide for senior managers seeking to address
their need to rapidly develop globally innovative products with
constrained R&D budgets. It creates a practical strategy to
address and bring together, for the first time, the emergence of
open innovation networks, intellectual property, technology
transfer and the ubiquitous compression of technology development
time lines in a clear, connected and lucid manner. In the industry
today, companies look to remain competitive in the face of the
convergence of global innovation networks and sub-optimal equity
markets. This book offers a new perspective, turning what was once
perceived as a weakness into a strength. Drastic action is required
to address the inability of companies to control the development of
new technology. It requires relinquishing the illusion of control
over new technology development and embracing crowdsourcing
discoveries from the world's leading research institutions to
exogenously replace the "R" of corporate "R&D." The synthesis
of the literatures on open innovation and technology transfer
should prove useful to the growing number of practitioners in
technology transfer. The recent global emergence of Patent Box tax
relief has for the first time created the financial incentives for
firms to seek to create marketplace value from university
intellectual capital, to improve both their competitiveness and
after tax income.
This book deals with the subject of optical and electronic
negative refraction (NR) and negative index materials NIM). Diverse
approaches for achieving NR and NIM are covered, such as using
photonic crystals, phononic crystals, split-ring resonators (SRRs)
and continuous media, focusing of waves, guided-wave behavior, and
nonlinear effects. It is perhaps the most comprehensive book on the
new class of negative refraction materials, covering all aspects of
negative refraction and negative index materials.
This volume is the outgrowth of a workshop held in October, 2000 at
the Institute for Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics at the
Harvard- Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, MA. The
aim of this book (similar in theme to the workshop) is to present
an overview of new directions in antimatter physics and chemistry
research. The emphasis is on positron and positronium interactions
both with themselves and with ordinary matter. The timeliness of
this subject comes from several considerations. New concepts for
intense positron sources and the development of positron
accumulators and trap-based positron beams provide qualitatively
new experimental capabilities. On the theoretical side, the ability
to model complex systems and complex processes has increased
dramatically in recent years, due in part to progress in
computational physics. There are presently an intriguing variety of
phenomena that await theoretical explanation. It is virtually
assured that the new experimental capabilities in this area will
lead to a rapid expansion of this list. This book is organized into
four sections: The first section discusses potential new
experimental capabilities and the uses and the progress that might
be made with them. The second section discusses topics involving
antihydrogen and many-body phenomena, including Bose condensation
of positronium atoms and positron interactions with materials. The
final two sections treat a range of topics involving positron and
positronium interactions with atoms and molecules.
An Asian plant with mysterious cathartic powers, medicinal rhubarb
spurred European trade expeditions and obsessive scientific inquiry
from the Renaissance until the twentieth century. Rarely, however,
had there been a plant that so thoroughly frustrated Europeans'
efforts to acquire it and to master its special botanical and
chemical properties. Here Clifford Foust presents the remarkable
efforts of the explorers, traders, botanists, gardeners,
physicians, and pharmacists who tried to adapt rhubarb for
convenient use in Europe. His is an intriguing tale of how humans
and their institutions have been affected by natural realities they
do not entirely comprehend. Readers interested in the history of
medicine, pharmaceutics, botany, or horticulture will be fascinated
by this once-perplexing plant: highly valued by physicians for its
cathartic properties, rhubarb resisted revealing its active
chemical principles, had many widely varying species, and did not
breed true by seed. This history includes sections on the
geographic and economic importance of rhubarb--which explain how
the plant became a major state monopoly for Russia and an important
commodity for the East India companies--and a discussion of
rhubarb's emergence as an international culinary craze during the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Originally published in 1992.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These editions preserve the original texts of these important books
while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions.
The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase
access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of
books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in
1905.
Keine wissenschaftliche Theorie ist auf solche Faszination auch
ausserhalb der Wissenschaft gestossen wie die Allgemeine
Relativitatstheorie von Albert Einstein, und keine wurde so
nachdrucklich mit den Mitteln der modernen Physik uberpruft. Wie
hat sie diesen Test mit Raumsonden, Radioastronomie, Atomuhren und
Supercomputern standgehalten? Hatte Einstein recht? Mit der
Autoritat des Fachmanns und dem Flair des unvoreingenommenen
Erzahlers schildert Clifford Will die Menschen, Ideen und Maschinen
hinter den Tests der allgemeinen Relativitatstheorie. Ohne Formeln
und Fachjargon wird der leser mit Einsteins Gedanken vertraut und
erfahrt von der Bestatigung seiner Vorhersagen, angefangen bei der
Lichtablenkung im Schwerefeld der Sonne 1919 bis zu den
ausgefeilten Kreiselexperimenten auf dem Space Shuttle. Die
Allgemeine Relativitatstheorie hat nich nur alle diese Tests
bestanden, sie hat daruber hinaus wesentlich beigetragen zu unserem
Verstandnis von Phanomenen wie Pulsaren, Quasaren, Schwarzen
Lochern und Gravitationslinsen. Dieses Buch erzahlt lebendig und
spannend die Geschichte einer der grossten geistigen Leistungen
unserer Zeit.
An Asian plant with mysterious cathartic powers, medicinal
rhubarb spurred European trade expeditions and obsessive scientific
inquiry from the Renaissance until the twentieth century. Rarely,
however, had there been a plant that so thoroughly frustrated
Europeans' efforts to acquire it and to master its special
botanical and chemical properties. Here Clifford Foust presents the
remarkable efforts of the explorers, traders, botanists, gardeners,
physicians, and pharmacists who tried to adapt rhubarb for
convenient use in Europe. His is an intriguing tale of how humans
and their institutions have been affected by natural realities they
do not entirely comprehend. Readers interested in the history of
medicine, pharmaceutics, botany, or horticulture will be fascinated
by this once-perplexing plant: highly valued by physicians for its
cathartic properties, rhubarb resisted revealing its active
chemical principles, had many widely varying species, and did not
breed true by seed. This history includes sections on the
geographic and economic importance of rhubarb--which explain how
the plant became a major state monopoly for Russia and an important
commodity for the East India companies--and a discussion of
rhubarb's emergence as an international culinary craze during the
nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
Originally published in 1992.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these
important books while presenting them in durable paperback
editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly
increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the
thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since
its founding in 1905.
The rosary has been at the core of Catholic devotional life for
centuries. Renewing its place in our spiritual life today can be
powerfully assisted by going to Sacred Scripture to focus our minds
and hearts on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ, Son of God
and Son of Mary. Hail Mary, Holy Bible delves deeply into the
Bible, bringing both fresh and timeless insights into five or more
Scripture passages for each set of mysteries (Joyful, Sorrowful,
Luminous, and Glorious).
"Welcome to the Feast" is an invitation to explore the theme of
celebrating God's unfolding covenant relationship with humanity in
the context of a meal. Starting with Abraham's hospitality in
providing a feast for three divine visitors, the menu in "Welcome
to the Feast" begins with ample servings from the Old Testament
before delving into Jesus' many controversial meals with his
disciples and other sinners. After savoring the accounts of
miraculous feedings, the accounts of the Last Supper as recorded in
Paul and the Synoptic Gospels become the main course. Yeary follows
with the "breaking of the bread," in the book of Acts. Finally, we
hear in Jesus' bread of life discourse in John the call for all who
are hungry for true food to come to the feast.
This is a new release of the original 1949 edition.
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