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New and current approaches to organizational health intervention
research are the main focus of this comprehensive volume. Each
chapter elaborates on the respective intervention researcher's
concept of a healthy organization, his/her approach to changing
organizations, and how to research these interventions in
organizations. As a common ground, the book consistently relates to
the notion of salutogenesis, focusing on resources and positive
outcomes of health-oriented organizational change processes. Out of
the virtual dialogue between the chapters, common themes and
potential trends for the future are identified. "
Mitochondria are complex organelles, possessing a
double-membrane and even their own genome, the mtDNA. They play a
pivotal role in cellular metabolism, respiration, and production of
ATP essential for the normal function of all human organ systems.
It is not surprising, therefore, that genetic defects of
mitochondrial functions cause a wide spectrum of human diseases.
This book provides the first modern and truly comprehensive
coverage of the biochemistry, genetics, and pathology of
mitochondria in different organisms. It particularly focuses on the
recent advances in our understanding of basic mitochondrial
research to the consequences of dysfunction at the molecular
level.
The 13 contributions written by leading researchers in the field
include topics such as: mitochondrial genome evolution and mtDNA
stability, mitochondrial biogenesis and protein quality control,
mitochondrial morphology, assembly and function of the
mitochondrial energy generation apparatus and mitochondrial
metabolic pathways. These are particularly oriented to link in
these various mitochondrial pathways to the clinical consequences
of their dysfunctions.
In our complex, fast changing society, health is strongly
influenced by the continuously changing interactions between
organisations and their employees. Three major fields contribute to
health-oriented improvements of these interactions: occupational
health, organizational health and public health. As currently only
partial links exist amongst these fields, the book aims to explore
potential synergies more systematically. Considering the high
mental and social demands in a service and knowledge sector
economy, the first part of the book focuses on work-related
psychosocial factors. As a large proportion of inequalities in
health in developed countries can be explained by inequalities in
working conditions, those psychosocial factors with a particularly
high public health impact are highlighted. As addressing these
psychosocial factors requires to involve the organization as the
key change agent, the second part covers approaches to improve
public health through organizational level health interventions.
The last section takes a look into the future of occupational,
organizational and public health: what are the future challenges
regarding occupational health and how can they be tackled within
and beyond the organizational level. Overall, this integrating book
will help to broaden the evidence-base, legitimacy and efficacy of
occupational- and organizational-level health interventions and
thus increase their public health impact.
In our complex, fast changing society, health is strongly
influenced by the continuously changing interactions between
organisations and their employees. Three major fields contribute to
health-oriented improvements of these interactions: occupational
health, organizational health and public health. As currently only
partial links exist amongst these fields, the book aims to explore
potential synergies more systematically. Considering the high
mental and social demands in a service and knowledge sector
economy, the first part of the book focuses on work-related
psychosocial factors. As a large proportion of inequalities in
health in developed countries can be explained by inequalities in
working conditions, those psychosocial factors with a particularly
high public health impact are highlighted. As addressing these
psychosocial factors requires to involve the organization as the
key change agent, the second part covers approaches to improve
public health through organizational level health interventions.
The last section takes a look into the future of occupational,
organizational and public health: what are the future challenges
regarding occupational health and how can they be tackled within
and beyond the organizational level. Overall, this integrating book
will help to broaden the evidence-base, legitimacy and efficacy of
occupational- and organizational-level health interventions and
thus increase their public health impact.
New and current approaches to organizational health intervention
research are the main focus of this comprehensive volume. Each
chapter elaborates on the respective intervention researcher's
concept of a healthy organization, his/her approach to changing
organizations, and how to research these interventions in
organizations. As a common ground, the book consistently relates to
the notion of salutogenesis, focusing on resources and positive
outcomes of health-oriented organizational change processes. Out of
the virtual dialogue between the chapters, common themes and
potential trends for the future are identified.
In this book, we report on research in methods of computational
magneto- hydrodynamics supported by the United States Department of
Energy under Contract EY-76-C-02-3077 with New York University. The
work has re- sulted in a computer code for mathematical analysis of
the equilibrium and stability of a plasma in three dimensions with
toroidal geometry but no sym- metry. The code is listed in the
final chapter. Versions of it have been used for the design of
experiments at the Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory and the Max
Planck Institute for Plasma Physics in Garching. We are grateful to
Daniel Barnes, Jeremiah Brackbill, Harold Grad, William Grossmann,
Abraham Kadish, Peter Lax, Guthrie Miller, Arnulf Schliiter, and
Harold Weitzner for many useful discussions of the theory. We are
especially indebted to Franz Herrnegger for theoretical and
pedagogical comments. Constance Engle has provided outstanding
assistance with the typescript. We take pleasure in acknowledging
the help of the staff of the Courant Mathematics and Com- puting
Laboratory at New York University. In particular we should like to
express our thanks to Max Goldstein, Kevin McAuliffe, Terry Moore,
Toshi Nagano and Tsun Tam. Frances Bauer New York Octavio
Betancourt September 1978 Paul Garabedian v Contents Chapter 1.
Introduction 1 1. 1 Formulation of the Problem 1 1. 2 Discussion of
Results 2 Chapter 2. The Variational Principle 4 4 2. 1 The
Magnetostatic Equations 6 2. 2 Flux Constraints in the Plasma . 7
2. 3 The Ergodic Constraint .
In computing science design plays an eminently important role. By
now, it is quite clear that the issue of proper design of programs
within a formal calculus is one of the most interesting and most
difficult parts of computing science. Many demanding problems have
to be envisaged here such as notations, rules and calculi, and the
study of semantic models. We are 'far away from comprehensive and
widely accepted solutions in these areas. Discussions at the summer
school have clearly shown that people have quite different
perspectives and priorities with respect to these three main areas.
There is a general agreement that notation is very important. Here,
notation is not so much used in the sense of "syntactic sugar," but
rather in the sense of abstract syntax, in the sense of language
constructs. Proper notation can significantly improve our
understanding of the nature of the objects that we are dealing with
and simplify the formal manipulation of these objects. However,
influenced by educational background, habits, and schools of
thought there are quite different tastes with respect to notation.
The papers in these proceedings show very clearly how different
those notations can be even when talking about quite similar
objects.
In this book, we describe in detail a numerical method to study the
equilibrium and stability of a plasma confined by a strong magnetic
field in toroidal geometry without two-dimensional symmetry. The
principal appli cation is to stellarators, which are currently of
interest in thermonuclear fusion research. Our mathematical model
is based on the partial differential equations of ideal
magnetohydrodynamics. The main contribution is a computer code
named BETA that is listed in the final chapter. This work is the
natural continuation of an investigation that was presented in an
early volume of the Springer Series in Computational Physics (cf.
3]). It has been supported over a period of years by the U.S.
Department of Energy under Contract DE-AC02-76ER03077 with New York
University. We would like to express our gratitude to Dr. Franz
Herrnegger for the assistance he has given us with the preparation
of the manuscript. We are especially indebted to Connie Engle for
the high quality of the final typescript. New York F. BAUER October
1983 O. BETANCOURT P. GARABEDIAN Contents 1. Introduction 1 2.
Synopsis of the Method 3 1. Variational principle 3 2. Coordinate
system 6 3. Finite Difference Scheme 8 1. Difference equations
....................... " 8 2. Island structure
............................. 10 3. Accelerated iteration procedure
.............. . . .. 12 Nonlinear Stability 15 4. 1. Second
minimization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . 15 . . . . . 2.
Test functions and convergence studies . . . . . . . .. . . 17 . 3.
Comparison with exact solutions ................. 19 5. The Mercier
Criterion 22 1. Local mode analysis . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
.. . . 22 . . . . . 2. Computational method . . . . . . . . . . . .
. . . .. . . 23 . . . ."
The purpose of this book is to survey computational flow research
on the design and analysis of supercritical wing sections supported
by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration at the Energy
Research and Development Administration Mathematics and Computing
Laboratory of New York University. The work was performed under
NASA Grants NGR 33-016-167 and NGR 33-016-201 and ERDA Contract
EY-76-C-02-3077. Computer programs to be listed and described have
applications in the study of flight of modern aircraft at high sub
sonic speeds. One of the codes generates cascades of shockless tran
sonic airfoi s that are expected to increase significantly the
effici ency of compressors and turbines. Good simulation of
physically observed flows has been achieved. This work is a sequel
to two earlier books 1,2] published by Springer-Verlag under
similar titles that we shall refer to as Volumes I and II. New York
November 1977 TABLE OF CONTENTS I. INTRODUCTION 1 1. Shockless
Airfoils and Supercritical Wing Sections 1 2. Differential
Equations of Gas Dynamics 2 II. THE METHOD OF COMPLEX
CHARACTERISTICS 5 1. A New Boundary Value Problem 5 2. Topology of
the Paths of Integration 8 3. Iterative Scheme for the Map Function
9 III. TRANSONIC AIRFOIL DESIGN CODE 10 1. Isolated Airfoils 10 2.
Compressor Cascades 12 3. Turbine Cascades 13 4. Comparison with
Experiment 14 IV. TWO-DU1ENSIONAL ANALYSIS CODE 16 1. Wave Drag 16
2. A Fast Solver 19 3. Remarks about Three-Dimensional Flow 24 V.
REFERENCES 26 VI."
This handbook is a sequel to an earlier volume entitled "A Theory
of Supercritical Wing Sections, with Computer Programs and
Examples." Since the completion of the first volume, which we shall
refer to as Volume I (cf. ll), some effort has been made to improve
our airfoil design program. A number of more desirable air foils
have been designed. In addition several of our wing sections have
been tested in wind tunnels. We should like to make this material
available here, since it is more convenient to use the design
program in conjunction with data for a fairly broad range of
examples. Moreover, we have developed new analysis programs that
supersede our previous work. Chapter I is devoted to a brief
discussion of the mathematics involved in our additions and
modifications. There is only a mini mum emphasis on theory, since
the representation of important physical phenomena such as boundary
layer shock wave interaction and separation is partly empirical. It
is our contention, however, that the computer programs provide a
better simulation than might have been expected. Chapter II
presents numerical results found by our new methods, as well as
comparisons with experimental data. Chapter III contains a
discussion of the use of the program together with Fortran
listings."
At present, there is considerable interest in supercritical wing
technology for the development of aircraft designed to fly near the
speed of sound. The basic principle is the suppression of boundary
layer separation by shifting the shock waves that occur on the wing
toward the trailing edge and making them as weak as possible. The
purpose of this report is to make available to the engineering
public mathematical methods for the design of supercritical wings.
These methods depend on the numerical solution of the partial
differential equations of two-dimensional gas dynamics. The main
contribution is a computer program for the design of shockless
transonic airfoils using the hodograph transformation and analytic
continuation into the complex domain. Another contribution is a
program for the analysis of transonic flow with shocks past an
airfoil at off-design conditions. In our design work we include a
turbulent boundary layer correction. Part I of the paper is devoted
to a description of the mathemati cal theory and need not be
studied by those primarily concerned with running the programs.
Part II is a manual for users of our programs which is independent
of the theoretical part. In Part III and in Appendices II and III
we give numerical examples and discuss computa tional results. The
main substance of the report, however, is contained in the listing
of the computer programs themselves in Appendix IV. We have used
the Fortran language throughout and we have included numerous
comment cards in the listing."
This open access book is a thorough update and expansion of the
2017 edition of The Handbook of Salutogenesis, responding to the
rapidly growing salutogenesis research and application arena.
Revised and updated from the first edition are background and
historical chapters that trace the development of the salutogenic
model of health and flesh out the central concepts, most notably
generalized resistance resources and the sense of coherence that
differentiate salutogenesis from pathogenesis. From there, experts
describe a range of real-world applications within and outside
health contexts. Many new chapters emphasize intervention research
findings. Readers will find numerous practical examples of how to
implement salutogenesis to enhance the health and well-being of
families, infants and young children, adolescents, unemployed young
people, pre-retirement adults, and older people. A dedicated
section addresses how salutogenesis helps tackle vulnerability,
with chapters on at-risk children, migrants, prisoners, emergency
workers, and disaster-stricken communities. Wide-ranging coverage
includes new topics beyond health, like intergroup conflict,
politics and policy-making, and architecture. The book also focuses
on applying salutogenesis in birth and neonatal care clinics,
hospitals and primary care, schools and universities, workplaces,
and towns and cities. A special section focuses on developments in
salutogenesis methods and theory. With its comprehensive coverage,
The Handbook of Salutogenesis, 2nd Edition, is the standard
reference for researchers, practitioners, and health policy-makers
who wish to have a thorough grounding in the topic. It is also
written to support post-graduate education courses and self-study
in public health, nursing, psychology, medicine, and social
sciences.
This scarce antiquarian book is a selection from Kessinger
Publishing's Legacy Reprint Series. Due to its age, it may contain
imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed
pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we
have made it available as part of our commitment to protecting,
preserving, and promoting the world's literature. Kessinger
Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and
hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!
This open access book is a thorough update and expansion of the
2017 edition of The Handbook of Salutogenesis, responding to the
rapidly growing salutogenesis research and application arena.
Revised and updated from the first edition are background and
historical chapters that trace the development of the salutogenic
model of health and flesh out the central concepts, most notably
generalized resistance resources and the sense of coherence that
differentiate salutogenesis from pathogenesis. From there, experts
describe a range of real-world applications within and outside
health contexts. Many new chapters emphasize intervention research
findings. Readers will find numerous practical examples of how to
implement salutogenesis to enhance the health and well-being of
families, infants and young children, adolescents, unemployed young
people, pre-retirement adults, and older people. A dedicated
section addresses how salutogenesis helps tackle vulnerability,
with chapters on at-risk children, migrants, prisoners, emergency
workers, and disaster-stricken communities. Wide-ranging coverage
includes new topics beyond health, like intergroup conflict,
politics and policy-making, and architecture. The book also focuses
on applying salutogenesis in birth and neonatal care clinics,
hospitals and primary care, schools and universities, workplaces,
and towns and cities. A special section focuses on developments in
salutogenesis methods and theory. With its comprehensive coverage,
The Handbook of Salutogenesis, 2nd Edition, is the standard
reference for researchers, practitioners, and health policy-makers
who wish to have a thorough grounding in the topic. It is also
written to support post-graduate education courses and self-study
in public health, nursing, psychology, medicine, and social
sciences.
Dieses Lehrbuch bietet einen leichten Einstieg und verständlichen
Gesamtüberblick über die quantitativen und qualitativen Methoden
der Psychologie und angrenzenden Sozialwissenschaften: alle
wichtigen Verfahren, ihre Logik und Einsatzgebiete, Stärken und
Schwachpunkte und auch neuere Entwicklungen. Methoden sind das
Fundament der Psychologie und aller Sozialwissenschaften und
deshalb allgegenwärtig im Studium. Doch das Thema weckt bei
manchen auch Sorgen, insbesondere wenn unter Zeit- und Erfolgsdruck
gelernt werden muss. Aber: Keine Angst vor den Forschungsmethoden!
Die 3. Auflage wurde vollständig überarbeitet und enthält
Fallbeispiele, Definitionen, Tipps für die Praxis, Lernziele,
Kontrollfragen und vertiefende Literatur. Lern-Tools für
Studierende sowie Abbildungen und Foliensätze zum Download für
Dozierende finden sich darüber hinaus auf
www.lehrbuch-psychologie.springer.com.
Mitochondria are complex organelles, possessing a double-membrane
and even their own genome, the mtDNA. They play a pivotal role in
cellular metabolism, respiration, and production of ATP essential
for the normal function of all human organ systems. It is not
surprising, therefore, that genetic defects of mitochondrial
functions cause a wide spectrum of human diseases. This book
provides the first modern and truly comprehensive coverage of the
biochemistry, genetics, and pathology of mitochondria in different
organisms. It particularly focuses on the recent advances in our
understanding of basic mitochondrial research to the consequences
of dysfunction at the molecular level. The 13 contributions written
by leading researchers in the field include topics such as:
mitochondrial genome evolution and mtDNA stability, mitochondrial
biogenesis and protein quality control, mitochondrial morphology,
assembly and function of the mitochondrial energy generation
apparatus and mitochondrial metabolic pathways. These are
particularly oriented to link in these various mitochondrial
pathways to the clinical consequences of their dysfunctions.
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