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Learn to improve your assessment, investigation, and management of
physical health conditions in people with severe mental illness The
Maudsley Practice Guidelines for Physical Health Conditions in
Psychiatry offers psychiatric and general practitioners an
evidence-based and practical guide for the appropriate assessment,
investigation, and management of common physical health conditions
seen in people with severe mental illness. Written by a renowned
team of respected experts in medicine, surgery, pharmacy,
dietetics, physiotherapy, and psychiatry, the book bridges the gap
between psychiatric and physical health services for the severely
mentally ill. The Maudsley Practice Guidelines for Physical Health
Conditions in Psychiatry also provides practitioners with expert
guidance on making effective referrals to other medical and
surgical subspecialties, telling readers what information
subspecialties would expect to receive. Its use will improve the
quality of clinical care received by mentally ill patients and, by
promoting a holistic approach to treatment that considers both body
and mind, will enhance the therapeutic relationship between patient
and practitioner. The Maudsley Practice Guidelines for Physical
Health Conditions in Psychiatry covers the following: Guidance on
assessment and management of well over a hundred different medical
and surgical presentations commonly seen in people with serious
mental illness Management of physical health emergencies in a
psychiatric setting Evidence-based approaches to management of
physical side effects of psychiatric medications Advice on
approaches to promote a healthy lifestyle in people with serious
mental illness, such as smoking cessation and changes to diet and
physical activity Perfect for both psychiatrists and general
practitioners who wish to improve the quality of care they provide
to people with serious mental illness, The Maudsley Practice
Guidelines for Physical Health Conditions in Psychiatry will be of
use to anyone setting out to navigate the divide between the
treatment of psychiatric and physical health conditions.
Considering how culturally indispensable digital technology is
today, it is ironic that computer-generated art was attacked when
it burst onto the scene in the early 1960s. In fact, no other
twentieth-century art form has elicited such a negative and hostile
response. When the Machine Made Art examines the cultural and
critical response to computer art, or what we refer to today as
digital art. Tracing the heated debates between art and science,
the societal anxiety over nascent computer technology, and the
myths and philosophies surrounding digital computation, Taylor is
able to identify the destabilizing forces that shape and eventually
fragment the computer art movement.
This is an authoritative, self-contained course book on
successfully shooting landscapes. It includes structured lessons
and projects to help track progress. David Taylor is an
award-winning photographer who has authored over 20 titles for
Ammonite Press. Aimed at beginners, Foundation Course: Black &
White Photography is part of a structured series of tutorials that
explain the basic skills and techniques of photography in relation
to a specific subject area. Written by experts, each book is
divided into six main sections: Basics, Lessons, Revision, Project,
Analysis and Progress. This chapter explains the concept of
photography in a concise, easy-to-follow manner. There's
information on the types of camera, lenses, tripods, filters and
other useful accessories; the basics of exposure, metering,
aperture and shutter speed, ISO, dynamic range, histograms,
exposure compensation and using filters. There's also information
on colour and composition, including the effects of light, the
effects of colour on the perception of a photograph, plus how this
changes when shooting black and white.
The Canon Rebel T6/EOS 1300D is a budget-friendly, entry-level
DSLR, an upgrade on the extremely popular Rebel T5/EOS 1200D.
Compared to the previous model, this camera has a DlGlC 4+
processor that is 60% faster at high ISO levels and 30% faster at
focusing and processing. The resolution of the monitor has doubled
from 460k dots to 920k dots. Perhaps the most significant upgrade
is the addition of Wi-Fi and NFC for image transfer. This book
offers the perfect guide to mastering the full creative
possibilities of this camera.
For over 130 years, Imperial Oil dominated Canada's oil industry.
Their 1947 discovery of crude oil in Leduc, Alberta transformed the
industry and the country. But from 1899 onwards, two-thirds of the
company was owned by an American giant, making Imperial Oil one of
the largest foreign-controlled multinationals in Canada. Imperial
Standard is the first full-scale history of Imperial Oil. It
illuminates Imperial's longstanding connections to Standard Oil of
New Jersey, also known as Exxon Mobil. Although this relationship
was often beneficial to Imperial, allowing them access to
technology and capital, it also came at a cost, causing Imperial to
be assailed as the embodiment of foreign control of Canada's
natural resources. Graham D. Taylor draws on an extensive
collection of primary sources to explore the complex relationship
between the two companies. This groundbreaking history provides
unprecedented insight into one of Canada's most influential oil
companies as it has grown and evolved with the industry itself.
Where a missing person's report is more than what it seems. Thomas
is torn between reliving his past to find his love's killer, or pay
for sins he did not commit. As everyone around him think he is the
one responsible for her murder. Thomas has to deal with a wayward
youth while trying to keep the peace between the factions. Come and
bear witness to the world of the vampires and humans as seen from
Thomas' eyes.
If you found a diary, would you read it? What if you were supposed
to read it? Follow a scientist in his dirigible called the
"Zognaut," and witness a remarkable diary you are suppose to read.
Have you ever wondered what the tooth faerie actually does with
your baby teeth? Have you seen a rock that could float? These are
some of the stories that will inspire the young and old alike. Each
story has an illustration that sends the mind asking for more as
you begin to travel with the "Zognaut. Taylor's Tales" is a unique
diary that pulls you into the journeys, and delivers the facts
behind the fiction.
The chapters included in this book were commissioned to serve as
the background for the national invitational conference sponsored
by the LSS at Temple University Center for Research in Human
Development and Education (CRHDE). The conference and the
publication of the conference proceedings were supported by the
Institute of Education Sciences (IES) of the U. S. Department of
Education. The opinions expressed do not necessarily reflect the
positions of the supporting agencies and no official endorsement
should be inferred.
Natural resource management by rural citizens in tropical regions
is crucial both to the conservation of biodiversity and ecosystem
processes, but also to the the well-being and food security of the
people that live there. This situation is especially acute in
Africa where conflicts between habitat destruction and utilization
can arise in areas which are important not only for biodiversity
but for the long-term maintenance of ecosystems on which the people
ultimately rely. There can also be conflicts between outside
specialists and the indigenous knowledge of local communities. A
holistic approach involving local peoples in management of their
natural resources is therefore essential. A range of approaches to
the problem is explored here in relation to natural resource
management to local development and livelihoods, and the
multi-functional nature of land-use. Major topics debated are the
dichotomy between strictly protected areas and ones including human
activity, people-centred rather than legally enforced conservation,
market forces, and the interrelationships between agriculture and
conservation. The book has 12 chapters, prepared by researchers
actively involved in community aspects of natural resource
management in Africa, and is based on an international workshop
held in Niamey, Niger, in 2008. It will be of interest to all
involved in the community approach to biodiversity conservation in
less developed countries generally and not only in Africa as many
of the issues addressed are pertinent globally. Reprinted from
Biodiversity and Conservation 18: 10 (2009).
Capital, Accumulation, and Money: An Integration of Capital,
Growth, and Monetary Theory is a book about capital and money. A
root concept of capital is formulated that allows for most existing
concepts of capital to be unified and related to one another in
consistent fashion. Capital and monetary theory are integrated in a
non-mathematical framework that imposes a number of constraints on
the macro behavior of an economy, constraints which make for the
straightforward understanding of such concepts as the real stock of
money, real-balance effects, and the general price level. New and
illuminating insights are also provided into aggregate supply and
demand, natural and money rates of interest, the relationship
between real and monetary economies, and economic growth and
development. This fully expanded, revised, and updated edition
features important new material on a variety of timely topics,
including: * Factors leading to the financial meltdown and turmoil
of 2007-09; * Why bubbles form in asset markets and how these
impact on the real economy; * The importance of a
lender-of-last-resort in times of financial stress; * Future
financing and funding of the U. S. Social Security System.
Additionally, the author offers a number of ideas for alleviating
the severity, if not the avoidance altogether, of financial crises
in the future. This is a book for those -- students (both graduate
and undergraduate) and their teachers, investors, and the informed
public -- who want an understanding of how economies and financial
markets function, without an advanced degree in mathematics.
Intended for entry-level digital SLR users, this camera helps to
capture brilliant still and video images. It is a comprehensive
step-by-step guide that includes a pullout quick reference card. UK
author David Taylor provides practical tips on how to get the best
from this versatile camera. Canon's Rebel T5/EOS1200D is the latest
model in the company's DSLR line-up, replacing the Rebel T3/EOS
1100D, and intended for entry-level photographers. The camera
features an 18 megapixel CMSOS (APS-C) image sensor, a
high-performance DIGIC 4 image processor, and a nine-point
autofocus (AF) system. It is equipped a continuous shooting mode of
up to three frames per second (fps) - ideal for capturing fast
action. An ISO range of 100-6400 (expandable to 12800) allows
shooting in conditions from bright natural outdoor lighting to
dimly lit indoor settings. The T5, which comes with an 18-55mm
lens, is also compatible with the complete lineup of Canon EF and
EF-S lenses detail. The camera's Full HD Movie mode allows shooting
of high-quality 1080p movies with ease.
The Canon PowerShot G16 compact digital camera is the successor to
the successful G15 and the first in the G-series to come equipped
with built-in Wi-Fi. This facility makes it ideal for sharing
images and video on social networking websites, or via email
through the Canon Image Gateway. Images can also be uploaded using
the maker's compatible iOS(R) or Android(t) device with the
download of a free Canon CameraWindow app. The G16's 28 - 140mm
wide-angle lens has an aperture range of f/1.8 - f/2.8, making it
ideal for shooting in low-light conditions or for capturing a
dramatic shallow depth-of-field with soft backgrounds. The camera
features Canon's HS System, which combines a DIGIC 6 image
processor and a 12.1-megapixel High-Sensitivity CMOS image sensor.
Autofocus (AF) times and reduced shooting lag are improved over
previous G-series models and continuous shooting speeds of up to
9.3 frames-per-second are possible. New shooting modes include Star
mode for capturing the night sky: Star Nightscape will capture
stars in a landscape image, while Star Trails will capture trails
of stars in a still image; Star Time Lapse Movie will shoot
continuous still images of stars and combine them into a video that
replicates the motion of the stars in the sky.
An examination of the modernization of the English and Welsh police
during the interwar years, focusing upon the increasing
professionalization of the police, the Federation, forensic work
and the growth of traffic policing. The authors challenge the
established viewpoint by arguing that this period saw significant
changes in policing.
The Maudsley(R) Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry The new
edition of the world-renowned reference guide on the use of
medications for patients presenting with mental health problems The
Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry is the essential
evidence-based handbook on the safe and effective prescribing of
psychotropic agents. Covering both common and complex prescribing
situations encountered in day-to-day clinical practice, this
comprehensive resource provides expert guidance on drug choice,
minimum and maximum doses, adverse effects, switching medications,
prescribing for special patient groups, and more. Each clear and
concise chapter includes an up-to-date reference list providing
easy access to the evidence on which the guidance is based. The
fourteenth edition has been fully updated to incorporate the latest
available research, the most recent psychotropic drug
introductions, and all psychotropic drugs currently used in the UK,
USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan. Several new
sections cover topics such as deprescribing of major psychiatric
drugs, prescribing psychotropics at the end of life, the treatment
of agitated delirium, the genetics of clozapine prescribing, the
use of weekly penfluridol, and the treatment of psychotropic
withdrawal. Featuring contributions by an experienced team of
psychiatrists and specialist pharmacists, the new edition of The
Maudsley Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry Provides succinct
coverage of drug treatment of psychiatric conditions and
formulating prescribing policy in mental health Covers a wide range
of psychiatric conditions including schizophrenia, bipolar
disorder, depression and anxiety, borderline personality, eating
disorders, and many others Provides advice on prescribing for
children and adolescents, older people, pregnant women, and other
special patient groups Offers new sections on genetic prescribing,
long-acting injectable formulations, ketamine administration and
uses, and dopamine super-sensitivity Includes referenced
information on off-label prescribing, potential interactions with
other substances such as alcohol, tobacco, and caffeine, and
treating patients with comorbid physical conditions Whether in the
doctor's office, in the clinic, or on the ward, The Maudsley
Prescribing Guidelines in Psychiatry, Fourteenth Edition is a
must-have for psychiatrists, pharmacists, neuropharmacologists,
clinical psychologists, nurses, and other healthcare professionals
working in mental health, as well as trainees and students in
medicine, pharmacy, and nursing.
Two prisoners are told that they will be brought to a room and
seated so that each can see the other. Hats will be placed on their
heads; each hat is either red or green. The two prisoners must
simultaneously submit a guess of their own hat color, and they both
go free if at least one of them guesses correctly. While no
communication is allowed once the hats have been placed, they will,
however, be allowed to have a strategy session before being brought
to the room. Is there a strategy ensuring their release? The answer
turns out to be yes, and this is the simplest non-trivial example
of a hat problem.
This book deals with the question of how successfully one can
predict the value of an arbitrary function at one or more points of
its domain based on some knowledge of its values at other points.
Topics range from hat problems that are accessible to everyone
willing to think hard, to some advanced topics in set theory and
infinitary combinatorics. For example, there is a method of
predicting the value "f"("a") of a function f mapping the reals to
the reals, based only on knowledge of "f"'s values on the open
interval ("a" 1, "a"), and for every such function the prediction
is incorrect only on a countable set that is nowhere dense.
The monograph progresses from topics requiring fewer
prerequisites to those requiring more, with most of the text being
accessible to any graduate student in mathematics. The broad range
of readership includes researchers, postdocs, and graduate students
in the fields of set theory, mathematical logic, and combinatorics.
The hope is that this book will bring together mathematicians from
different areas to think about set theory via a very broad array of
coordinated inference problems. "
Bryozoa are among the most abundant yet least understood of phyla
in the fossil record. These exclusively colonial animals can be
traced back to the Ordovician as fossils and are common elements of
sediments deposited in shallow marine environments. On occasion
their calcareous skeletons are sufficiently numerous to produce
bryozoan limestones. The potential of bryozoans in facies analysis,
and their use in macroevolutionary studies, have both been widely
recognised, but to date have been incompletely exploited. Bryozoan
Paleobiology brings together the scattered research on living and
fossil bryozoans in broad and profusely illustrated overview that
will help students and researchers alike in understanding this
fascinating group of animals. Beginning with the basics of bryozoan
morphology, ecology and classification, the book progresses from
the smallest scale of skeletal ultrastructure, to the largest of
bryozoan distributions in time and space. On the way, topics such
as the origin of zooidal polymorphism and macroevolutionary trends
in colony forms are covered. Case studies illuminate these topics,
and areas in which further research is particularly required are
highlighted.
Usually, when we consider the information that is given in a
household budget survey, we do so in terms of expenditures for
different goods and services and how these relate to income,
prices, and socio demographic factors such as age, family size, and
education. Allocation of expenditures amongst different categories
of consumption is seen as being determined by tastes and
preferences acting in conjunction with a constraint imposed by
prices and income. The parameters thus obtained are obviously
useful in analyzing the impact on consumption resulting from
changes in income and prices (should the latter be available), but
income and price elasticities, in themselves, say little about the
internal structure of consumption spending. How expenditures for
housing, transportation, and personal care to pick three standard
categories of consumption spending - are related to expenditures
for food, for example, has never been a direct focus of empirical
study. This book focuses on these relationships and provides
insight into consumer behavior that complements and goes beyond
that given by conventional price and income elasticities, making it
of interest to students as well as economists in both government
and academia concerned with consumer behavior.
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