Interdisciplinarity has seemingly become a paradigm for modern and meaningful research. Clearly, the interdisciplinary modus of deliberation enables to unfold relevant but quite different disciplinary perspectives to the reflection of broader scientific questions or societal problems. However, whether the comprehensive results of interdisciplinary reflection prove to be valid or to be acceptable in trans-disciplinary terms depends upon certain preconditions, which have to be fulfilled for securing scientific quality and social trust in advisory contexts. The present book is written by experts and practitioners of interdisciplinary research and policy advice. It analyses topical and methodological approaches towards interdisciplinarity, starting with the current role of scientific research in society. The volume continues with contributions to the issues of knowledge and acting and to trans-disciplinary deliberation. The final conclusions address the scientific system as substantial actor itself as well as the relevant research and education politics.

The Ends of Critique re-examines the stakes of critique in the 21st century. In view of increasingly complex socio-political realities and shifts in a fully globalized world, the roles and manners of critique also change. The volume offers an unprecedented re-examination of critique under those conditions of global entanglement and asymmetrical relations from a diversity of scholarly perspectives within the humanities. All contributions move the notion of critique into more diverse traditions than the Eurocentric, Kantian tradition and emphasize the need to attend to a plurality of critical perspectives. The volume's reflections move critique toward a situated, perspectival, and entangled critical stance, with interventions from decolonial and systemic, deconstructive and (post)human(ist) perspectives. In that way, the volume develops a decidedly different approach to critique than recent considerations of critique as post-critique (Felski) or those endebted to Frankfurt School thought and liberal theories of democracy. It is the first full-length research publication of the interdisciplinary research network Terra Critica.

Managing a successful transition of the current energy supply system to less carbon emitting options, ensuring a safe and secure supply during the whole process and in the long term, is one of the largest challenges of our time. Various approaches and first implementations show that it is not only technological issue, but also a matter of societal acceptance and acceptability, considering basic ethic values of the society. The main foci of the book are, thus, to develop an understanding about the specific challenges of the scientific policy advice in the area, to explore typical current approaches for the analysis of future energy systems and to develop criteria for the quality assessment and guidelines for the improvement of such studies. The book provides assistance to the interpretation of existing studies and guidelines for setting up and carrying out new analyses as well as for communicating and applying the results. Thereby, it aims to support the involved actors such as the respective scientific experts and researchers as well as decision makers, energy suppliers, stakeholders and the interested public in designing procedures for a successful transition process. The study elaborates consistent interdisciplinary advice as contribution for realising a continuously safe and secure, long-term viable energy supply in spite of diverse interests, multi-level responsibilities, multi-dimensional processes, large uncertainties and lack of knowledge about future developments.

Diffraction patterns in quantum physics evidence the fact that the behavior of matter is the result of its entanglements with measurement, or as Karen Barad suggests, the entanglement of matter and meaning. In this sense, therefore, phenomena (including texts, cultural agents, or life forms) are the results of their relational, onto-epistemological entanglements and not individual entities that separately pre-exist their joint becoming. As such, 'diffraction' proposes a new understanding of difference: no longer a dualist understanding, but one going beyond binaries. Diffraction is about patterns, constellations, relationalities. From this angle, the book explores 'diffraction', which has begun to impact critical theories and humanities debates, especially via (new) materialist feminisms, STS and quantum thought, but is often used without further reflection upon its implications or potentials. Doing just that, the book also pursues new routes for the onto-epistemological and ethical challenges that arise from our experience of the world as relational and radically immanent; because if we start from the ideas of immanence and entanglement, our conceptions of self and other, culture and nature, cultural and sexual difference, our epistemological procedures and disciplinary boundaries have to be rethought and adjusted. The book offers an in-depth consideration of 'diffraction' as a quantum understanding of difference and as a new critical reading method. It reflects on its import in humanities debates and thereby also on some of the most inspiring work recently done at the crossroads of science studies, feminist studies and the critical humanities. This book was originally published as a special issue of Parallax.

Managing a successful transition of the current energy supply system to less carbon emitting options, ensuring a safe and secure supply during the whole process and in the long term, is one of the largest challenges of our time. Various approaches and first implementations show that it is not only technological issue, but also a matter of societal acceptance and acceptability, considering basic ethic values of the society. The main foci of the book are, thus, to develop an understanding about the specific challenges of the scientific policy advice in the area, to explore typical current approaches for the analysis of future energy systems and to develop criteria for the quality assessment and guidelines for the improvement of such studies. The book provides assistance to the interpretation of existing studies and guidelines for setting up and carrying out new analyses as well as for communicating and applying the results. Thereby, it aims to support the involved actors such as the respective scientific experts and researchers as well as decision makers, energy suppliers, stakeholders and the interested public in designing procedures for a successful transition process. The study elaborates consistent interdisciplinary advice as contribution for realising a continuously safe and secure, long-term viable energy supply in spite of diverse interests, multi-level responsibilities, multi-dimensional processes, large uncertainties and lack of knowledge about future developments.

Interdisciplinarity has seemingly become a paradigm for modern and meaningful research. Clearly, the interdisciplinary modus of deliberation enables to unfold relevant but quite different disciplinary perspectives to the reflection of broader scientific questions or societal problems. However, whether the comprehensive results of interdisciplinary reflection prove to be valid or to be acceptable in trans-disciplinary terms depends upon certain preconditions, which have to be fulfilled for securing scientific quality and social trust in advisory contexts. The present book is written by experts and practitioners of interdisciplinary research and policy advice. It analyses topical and methodological approaches towards interdisciplinarity, starting with the current role of scientific research in society. The volume continues with contributions to the issues of knowledge and acting and to trans-disciplinary deliberation. The final conclusions address the scientific system as substantial actor itself as well as the relevant research and education politics.

Diffraction patterns in quantum physics evidence the fact that the behavior of matter is the result of its entanglements with measurement, or as Karen Barad suggests, the entanglement of matter and meaning. In this sense, therefore, phenomena (including texts, cultural agents, or life forms) are the results of their relational, onto-epistemological entanglements and not individual entities that separately pre-exist their joint becoming. As such, 'diffraction' proposes a new understanding of difference: no longer a dualist understanding, but one going beyond binaries. Diffraction is about patterns, constellations, relationalities. From this angle, the book explores 'diffraction', which has begun to impact critical theories and humanities debates, especially via (new) materialist feminisms, STS and quantum thought, but is often used without further reflection upon its implications or potentials. Doing just that, the book also pursues new routes for the onto-epistemological and ethical challenges that arise from our experience of the world as relational and radically immanent; because if we start from the ideas of immanence and entanglement, our conceptions of self and other, culture and nature, cultural and sexual difference, our epistemological procedures and disciplinary boundaries have to be rethought and adjusted. The book offers an in-depth consideration of 'diffraction' as a quantum understanding of difference and as a new critical reading method. It reflects on its import in humanities debates and thereby also on some of the most inspiring work recently done at the crossroads of science studies, feminist studies and the critical humanities. This book was originally published as a special issue of Parallax.

In den Entwicklungslandern leben gegenwartig etwa 3,5 Milliarden Menschen, das sind fast drei Viertel der Weltbevoelkerung. Bis zum Jahr 2000 - also in weniger als vierzehn Jahren - wird diese Zahl auf etwa 4,8 Milliarden angewachsen sein, was dem jetzigen Stand der Weltbevoelkerung entspricht. Gleichwohl wird den ent- wicklungspolitischen Fragen noch immer keine angemessene Beachtung ge- schenkt. Dies mag darin begrundet sein, dass Entwicklungspolitik auf unterschied- lichen Ebenen, z. B. national und international, praktiziert wird, dass Entwick- lungspolitik ein schwieriges Unterfangen ist und haufig nicht zu den gewunschten Ergebnissen fuhrt, dass die weltweite entwicklungspolitische Zusammenarbeit ein kaum zu durchschauendes Geflecht aus unterschiedlichen Sachzusammenhangen, Zielsetzungen und Realisierungschancen darstellt. Unser Buch versucht, dieses Geflecht zu entwirren und dem Leser Orientierungshilfen zu geben. Wegen der Vielschichtigkeit der weltweiten Verflechtungen werden die einzelnen Sachverhalte aus unterschiedlichen Blickwinkeln betrachtet. Hohes Bevoelke- rungswachstum zum Beispiel ist ein typisches Kennzeichen der Entwicklungslan- der und wird folglich als Problemfeld (Kapitel I) dargestellt. Andererseits kann eine starke UEberbevoelkerung auch Ursache von Unterentwicklung (Kapitel II) sein, weshalb Familienpolitik zu einem wichtigen Bestandteil der Eigenanstren- gungen der Entwicklungslander (KapitelllI) werden muss. Diese Eigenanstren- gungen koennen von den Industrielandern (Kapitel IV) in Form von Entwicklungs- projekten unterstutzt werden. Gemeinsam mit diesen direkten Einflussmoeglichkei- ten der Lander selbst und ihrer Partnerlander spielen die internationalen Wirt- schaftsbeziehungen (Kapitel V) eine bedeutsame Rolle. Entwicklungspolitik kann auch auf dieser Ebene ansetzen. Aussenhandel und Kapitaltransfer besitzen einen grossen Einfluss auf den Wohlstand eines Landes.

Die Reihe der Fortbildungsbiinde der Sektion "Innere Medizin - Inten- sivrnedizin" der Schriftenreihe Fachschwester-Fachpfleger wird durch den zweiten Band "Dberwachung des zentralen Venendrucks" fortge- setzt. Die Fortbildungsbiinde befassen sich mit speziellen Problemen und Ver- fahren der Intensivmedizin, wahrend die Weiterbildungsbiinde der Schriftenreihe den Grundstoff der praktischen Unterweisung und des theoretischen Unterrichtes der einzelnen Weiterbildungslehrgange er- fassen. Die Fortbildungsbande sollen den Lernenden das Verstandnis flir den theoretischen Hintergrund, den Sinn und Zweck der von ihnen ausge- ftihrten praktischen MaBnahmen vertiefen und den Lehrenden die Erar- beitung des Lehrstoffs und die Durchftihrung des Unterrichts erleich- tern. Die Bestimmung des zentralen Venendruckes hat in der Intensivmedizin eine besonders groBe Bedeutung erlangt. Die genaue Kenntnis der MeB- technik, der Fehierquellen und der Aussagem6glichkeiten dieser MeB- gr6Ben ist unbedingt zu fordern. Aus diesen Griinden haben wir dem zentralen Venendruck einen eigenen Fortbildungsband gewidmet und daftir die Form des programmierten Lernunterrichtes gewahlt. Dieser Band solI tiber das unmittelbare Anliegen der Weiterbildung hinaus allen in der Intensivrnedizin tatigen Schwestern, Pflegern und Arzten, besonders aber auch den in Sonderdiensten auf Intensivstationen arbei- tenden Studierenden der Medizin eine Hilfe bei der Austibung ihres taglichen Dienstes sein. Juni 1978 Die Herausgeber VII Inhaltsverzeichnis Warum Bestimmung des zentralen Venendrucks? 1 Einfiihrung ........ . . . . . . . . . . . . 2 Welche Voraussetzungen mu8 der Lemende erfiillen? 3 Lernziele ...................... . 4 Teill. Instrumentarium 5 1.1. Venenkatheter . 7 1.2. Manometer . . . 12 1.3. Infusionssystem 16 1.4. Dreiwegehahn . 21 Teil2. Theoretiscbe Grundlagen ..... 25 2.1. Definition des zentralen Venendrucks 27 2.2. Beurteilung der Me8ergebnisse ...

Als Berufsneuling muE die Schwesternhelferin in kurzer Zeit eine Menge lernen. Obwohl sie gewohnlich ohne pflegerische Kenntnisse ins Krankenhaus kommt, muE sie darauf vorberei- tet sein, oft nach nur wenigen Wochen der EinfUhrung pflegeri- sche Aufgaben zu tibernehmen. Von der Unterrichtsschwester wird jede Schwesternhelferin in ihre Aufgaben und Pflichten eingefiihrt, ohne deren Kenntnis sie dem Pflegepersonal keine wirkliche Hllfe sein kann. Dieses Buch sollte ursprunglich der Unterrichtsschwester diese Aufgabe einfacher machen und den LernprozeB der Schwesternhelferin erleichtern. Uberarbeitet und auf den neue- sten Stand gebracht, beginnt es mit einem Rundgang durch das Krankenhaus und seine verschiedenen Abtellungen, wo die Schwesternhelferin tiber den Mitarbeiterstab und seine verschie- denen Arbeitsbereiche informiert wird. AnschlieBend werden Aufnahme eines Patienten und seine verschiedenen Bediirfnisse wlihrend des Aufenthalts im Krankenhaus beschrieben. Der Haupttell dieses Buchs erkliirt, wie die Schwesternhelferin diese Bediirfnisse erftillen kann. In jedem Krankenhaus gibt es Richtlinien, die detailliert aus- flihren, wie die verschiedenen Tlitigkeiten und MaBnahmen im Krankenhaus durchzuflihren sind. In diesem Buch wird nicht nur auf die korrekte DurchfUhrung all dieser PflegemaBnahmen Wert gelegt, sondern sie werden auch immer wieder in Verbin- dung gebracht zu den menschlichen und personlichen Bediirf- nissen des Patienten. Die Schwesternhelferin lernt, sein Verhal- ten und seine Beweggrtinde verstehen, wenn er in seiner Weise auf StreB und Belastung eines Krankenhausaufenthalts reagiert.

Mit den "Grundlagen des Wasser-, Elektrolyt-und Saure/ Basen-Haushaltes" legen wir den ersten Fortbildungsband der Sektion Innere Medizin - Intensivmedizin der Schrif tenreihe Fachsehwester - Fachpfleger vor. Wahrend die Weiterbildungsbande dieser Schriftenreihe den Grundstoff der praktischen Unterweisung und des theoretischen Un terrichtes der einzelnen Weiterbildungslehrgange in syste matischer Weise erfassen, sollen die Fortbildungsbande spezielle Probleme der Intensivmedizin eingehender dar legen. Sie sollen den Lernenden das Verstandnis flir den theoretischen Hintergrund, den Sinn und Zweck der von ihnen ausgeflihrten praktischen MaBnahmen vertiefen und dem Lehrenden die Erarbeitung des Lehrstoffs und die Durchfiihrung des Unterrichts erleichtem. Die Fortbildungsbande sollen iiber das unmittelbare An liegen der Weiterbildung hinaus allen in der Intensivmedi zin tatigen Schwestem, Pflegem und Arzten eine Hilfe bei der Ausiibung ihres taglichen Dienstes sein. Oktober 1977 Die Herausgeber VII Vorwort zur driften amerikanischen AuOage In diesem Buch werden die physiologischen Grundlagen des Fliissigkeits- und Elektrolythaushalts kurz und leicht versHindlich dargestellt und Richtlinien zur Infusionsthe rapie gegeben. Der Leser sollte immer daran denken, daB auch auf diesem Gebiet die Meinungen der Fachleute in einzelnen Punkten noch immer auseinandergehen und da her keine Lehrmeinung ein absolutes Dogma sein kann. Ich hoffe, daB die vorliegende, iiberarbeitete, dritte Aus gabe den Anklang findet, der der zweiten zuteil wurde. Waban, Massachusetts, Januar 1973 Stewart M. Brooks IX InhaItsverzeichnis 1. Einleitung . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 . . . . 2. Wasser 2 2.1. Gesamtk6rperwasser 2 2.2. 2 Fliissigkeitsriiume . . 2.3. Fliissigkeitsverschiebungen zwischen den F1iissigkeitsriiumen und Osmose. . . . . . 3 2.4. F1iissigkeitsverschiebungen im Magen-Darm-Trakt ."

In the third book of his popular trilogy on creating and sustaining arts organizations, Michael Kaiser reveals the hidden engine that powers consistent success. According to Kaiser, successful arts organizations pursue strong programmatic marketing campaigns that compel people to buy tickets, enroll in classes, and so on--in short, to participate in the organization's programs. Additionally, they create exciting activities that draw people to the organization as a whole. This institutional marketing creates a sense of enthusiasm that attracts donors, board members, and volunteers.
Kaiser calls this group of external supporters the family. When this hidden engine is humming, staff, board, and audience members, artists, and donors feel confidence in the future. Resources are reinvested in more and better art, which is marketed aggressively; as a result, the "family" continues to grow, providing even more resources. This self-reinforcing cycle underlies the activities of all healthy arts organizations, and the theory behind it can be used as a diagnostic tool to reveal--and remedy--the problems of troubled ones.
This book addresses each element of the cycle in the hope that more arts organizations around the globe--from orchestras, theaters, museums, opera companies, and classical and modern dance organizations to service organizations and other not-for-profit cultural institutions--will be able to sustain remarkable creativity, pay the bills, and have fun doing so

The Love She Found in Darness is a girl Roxanne who is raped and kidnapped and know one will do anything not even the police. It is up to Andy to find her and keep her safe, before it is all to late. This story is filled with ups and downs, suspense, love and i enjoyed writing it.

While I call this a reference for those interested in switching from conservative to liberal, it's actually a "sarcastic" view of what we see on television. This will definitely help you look at the country with a sense of humor instead of a sense of doom...

On July 7, 2004, an old congressional support agency was given a new name, while keeping the same initials (GAO): at that time, the General Accounting Office, established in 1921, was re-designated the Government Accountability Office (P.L. 108-271). The renaming, which came at the request of its head, the Comptroller General (CG), is designed to reflect the agency's evolution and additional duties since its creation more than eight decades before. Importantly, the act also expands the CG's authority over pay and personnel matters. The Government Accountability Office is the largest of three agencies that provide staff support, research, review, and analysis for Congress. GAO operates under the control and direction of the Comptroller General of the United States, who is appointed by the President, with the advice and consent of the Senate, for a 15-year nonrenewable term. A unique arrangement begins the process with a special bicameral commission of legislators from both parties making recommendations to the President. GAO was established in 1921 as an independent auditor of government agencies and activities by the Budget and Accounting Act. The office was intended to be "independent of the executive departments," the entities it would audit and review. Sometimes called "Congress's watchdog" ...

Allison Hill was the first suburb of Harrisburg City, Pennsylvania, the Capital of Pennsylvania. The "Hill" once housed Pennsylvania's Lieutenant Governor as well as other upwardly mobile individuals. Now, Allison Hill is home to Harrisburg's poor, elderly, disabled and disenfranchised. It remains one of the most densely populated areas in the City. With the great recession and continued budget cuts, Allison Hill residents increasingly rely on churches and the few remaining long-term residents to assist with food, clothing and protection from those that take advantage of the poor and neglected.

Published continuously since 1972, Agricultural Product Prices has become the standard textbook and reference work for students in agricultural and applied economics, buyers and sellers of commodities, and policymakers, clearly explaining conceptual and empirical models applicable to agricultural product markets. The new fifth edition uses up-to-date information and models to explain the behavior of agricultural product prices. Topics include price differences over market levels (marketing margins), price differences over space (regionally and internationally) and by quality attributes, and price variability with the passage of time (seasonal and cyclical variations, trends, and random behavior).

William G. Tomek and Harry M. Kaiser review and adapt microeconomic principles to the characteristics of agricultural commodity markets and then apply these principles to the various dimensions of price behavior. They also provide an in-depth discussion of prices established for futures contracts and their relationship to cash (spot) market prices; cover the influential roles of price discovery institutions, such as auctions and negotiated contracts, and government policies regulating trade and farms; and discuss the specification, use, and evaluation of empirical models of agricultural prices, placing emphasis on the challenges of doing high-quality, useful analyses and interpreting results.

This fifth edition of Chassin's Operative Strategy in General Surgery is a major revision that strives to remain faithful to the purpose and tone of Dr. Chassin's original text. This unique textbook provides an emphasis on surgical strategy that is unmatched by other textbooks of surgical technique. The text explains the conceptual basis of each operation, outlines strategies to avoid common pitfalls, and carefully describes and beautifully illustrates the technical steps of each operation. The fifth edition preserves the unique qualities of its previous edition while providing a comprehensive update. This updated volume also features a vast amount of richly detailed artwork and operative photographs, which help depict operative techniques step-by-step. No other text so successfully combines operative technique with the concept of strategy - that is, key governing principles that dictate safe surgery and avoidance of complications. There are books of technique, there are books about complications, and there are books about the rationale involved in the treatment of various kinds of surgical pathology. Chassin's combines all three. Chassin's Operative Strategy in General Surgery: An Expositive Atlas Fifth Edition comprehensively covers all non-vascular operations commonly performed by general surgeons. This edition expands this comprehensive general surgery reference while remaining true to the special character of the work. The revision expands upon procedures not covered in the previous edition and incorporates new techniques into many other chapters.

Figures of Simplicity explores a unique constellation of figures from philosophy and literature Heinrich von Kleist, Herman Melville, G. W. Leibniz, and Alexander Baumgarten in an attempt to recover alternative conceptions of aesthetics and dimensions of thinking lost in the disciplinary narration of aesthetics after Kant. This is done primarily by tracing a variety of simpletons that populate the writings of Kleist and Melville. These figures are not entirely ignorant, or stupid, but simple. Their simplicity is a way of thinking; one that author Birgit Mara Kaiser here suggests is affective thinking. Kaiser avers that Kleist and Melville are experimenting in their texts with an affective mode of thinking, and thereby continue, she argues, a key line within eighteenth-century aesthetics: the relation of rationality and sensibility. Through her analyses, she offers an outline of what thinking can look like if we take affectivity into account."

The Ends of Critique re-examines the stakes of critique in the 21st century. In view of increasingly complex socio-political realities and shifts in a fully globalized world, the roles and manners of critique also change. The volume offers an unprecedented re-examination of critique under those conditions of global entanglement and asymmetrical relations from a diversity of scholarly perspectives within the humanities. All contributions move the notion of critique into more diverse traditions than the Eurocentric, Kantian tradition and emphasize the need to attend to a plurality of critical perspectives. The volume's reflections move critique toward a situated, perspectival, and entangled critical stance, with interventions from decolonial and systemic, deconstructive and (post)human(ist) perspectives. In that way, the volume develops a decidedly different approach to critique than recent considerations of critique as post-critique (Felski) or those endebted to Frankfurt School thought and liberal theories of democracy. It is the first full-length research publication of the interdisciplinary research network Terra Critica.