Theory is considered to be the bedrock of academic research, often being viewed as the foundation upon which scientific enquiry is organized and built. Despite its ubiquity throughout information systems research, there is much that remains unknown about theory. The Handbook of Research on Contemporary Theoretical Models in Information Systems provides a comprehensive overview and coverage of various theories, models, and related approaches used within information systems research. A defining collection of field advancements, this Handbook of Research offers examples and descriptions of real-world applications of various theories based on empirical studies.

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An inspirational and practical guide to the fastest-growing parenting philosophy in America today—from the bestselling childcare authorities who coined the term "attachment parenting."

Is it OK to sleep with your newborn baby? How old is too old for breastfeeding? These questions and more are answered in this latest addition to the Sears Parenting Library. Attachment Parenting encourages early, strong, and sustained attention to the new baby's needs and this book outlines the steps that will create the most lasting bonds between parents and their children. Practical and inspirational, this book, the heart of the Sears' parenting creed, is a necessity for every new parents' bookshelf.

Attachment parenting is a highly intuitive, high-touch, style of parenting that encourages a strong early attachment, and advocates consistent parental responsiveness to baby's dependency needs. Rather than give parents a strict set of rules about when to breastfeed or when to respond to a cry, Dr. Sears's approach encourages parents to learn and work with their baby's particular cues.

The book will explain the importance of attachment, what attachment parenting is, and the six "Baby B's"—Bonding, Breastfeeding, Babywearing, Bedding close to baby, Belief in the language value of baby's cry, and Beware of baby trainers—that form the foundation of the Sears' approach.

The book will also focus on the benefits of AP for both parent and child, and explain how AP improves development, makes discipline easier, and even promotes independence. There will be information on AP for working parents, on weaning your child from AP, as well as scientific research that explains why AP works.

The field of interventional orthopedics is changing the landscape of orthopedic care as patients seek less invasive options for the treatment of common conditions like arthritis, rotator cuff tears, and degenerative disc disease. Offering easy-to-follow, step-by-step guidance on both peripheral joint and spinal procedures, Atlas of Interventional Orthopedics Procedures is the first reference to provide this practical content in one authoritative, user-friendly text. Abundantly illustrated and easy to read, it presents simple to advanced injection skills covering all orthopedic and physical medicine procedures using up-to-date imaging techniques. Presents foundational knowledge for interventional orthopedics as well as ultrasound and x-ray guided techniques for both peripheral joint and spinal procedures. Features nearly 1,000 high-quality images including fluoroscopy, MRIs, procedural images, and unique anatomical illustrations drawn by a physical medicine and rehabilitation physician. Covers need-to-know topics such as autologous orthobiologics, allogenic tissue grafts, prolotherapy, and principles of fluoroscopy and ultrasound injection techniques. Offers several ultrasound and fluoroscopy images for each procedure, as well as step-by-step descriptions and the authors' preferred technique. Walks you through general injection techniques such as interventional spine procedures, peripheral joint injections, and spinal and peripheral ligament, tendon, and nerve techniques; advanced techniques include intraosseous injections, needle arthroscopy, perineural hydrodissection, and emerging interventional techniques. Provides an up-to-date review on regenerative medicine for musculoskeletal pathology from editors and authors who are leading physicians in the field. Follows the core tenets of interventional orthopedics, including injectates that can facilitate healing of musculoskeletal tissues, precise placement of those injectates into damaged structures using imaging guidance, and the eventual development of new tools to facilitate percutaneous tissue manipulation. Enhanced eBook version included with purchase. Your enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.

Since the shutdown of our public psychiatry system, the seriously mentally ill are now mostly managed by public safety officers, school officials, emergency first responders and social workers with little experience in recognizing symptoms, triggers and issues. This book addresses the need to recognize the psychiatric component of criminological issues and the methodology of dealing with it on a practical as well as academic basis. It provides a roadmap for training in rapid assessment built on evidence-based emergency psychiatry protocols.

Learn about your baby's emotional and physical needs, while developing a parenting style that works in your family.

Answering "YES" to any of these questions may be cause to read this book WOMEN DO YOU WANT TO: Get rid of hot fl ashes, night sweats and brain fog? Know the truth about bioidentical hormone safety? Bring back the libido? Lose the extra weight? Control the Moody Blues? Stop being tired of being tired? Minimize stress and enhance sleep? MEN DO YOU WANT TO: Regain feeling of invincibility? Rebuild workout capacity and muscle mass? Maintain an active sex life? Discover the value of testosterone? Control belly fat? Sharpen mental capacity? Minimize stress and enhance sleep? WOMEN AND MEN: Are these problems getting worse? Do they cause fi nancial loss, emotional loss and physical loss? Do you want your body, health and energy back? Following the principals in this book Will help you to avoid the chronic degenerative diseases of aging: Heart Disease, Cancer, Dementia, Diabetes, Stroke, Joint Disease William H. Lee, M.D. Board Certified Obstetrician - Gynecologist Board Certified by American Association of Anti-Aging Medicine Certifi ed Schwarzbein Principles Nutrition and GI Practitioner Expertise in Female Menopause Management Expertise in Male Andropause Management Expertise in Growth Hormone Defi ciency Management Expertise in Healthy Weight Management Integration of Conventional, Functional, and Alternative Medicine Offers Bioidentical Hormone Replacement, Physiological Testosterone Replacement, Physiological Growth Hormone Replacement, and Nutritional Assessment and Guidance www.AgeManagementMD.com

Dr. Williams' book, Hearing the Voice of God, discusses the critical factors related to the postmodern confusion surrounding this issue. He approaches the subject clearly and realistically from a biblicists point of view. Mysticism is refuted. Individuals desiring the truth about God speaking to them will appreciate this volume. Many present day teachers encourage emotionally distressed people to turn to their own thoughts, as if their thoughts were God speaking to them. This work investigates the topic as it relates to revelation, conscience, inspiration, illumination, and the voice of the Lord in Scripture. Dr. Williams explains how postmodern philosophy has created an atmosphere that contributes to the confusion surrounding this important subject.

mHealth: Global Opportunities and Challenges, provides a practical guide for patients, providers, payers, and other healthcare enterprises making plans for the future. The authors offer several examples of real world application of mHealth technologies in use throughout the United States, Europe, Africa, Middle East, and in the the Far Eastern region of the world. It covers the key aspects of mHealth, including: 1) Mobile devices, such as smart phones, tablets, laptops, kiosks, interactive robots, and medical carts; 2) Mobile applications for patients, physicians, hospitals, and other participants; 3) Smart sensors for monitoring prosthetic implants and devices; 4) Wireless networks that provide real-time access to clinical and business data from virtually any location; 5) Telehealth and telemedicine programs that remove geographic restrictions on service delivery; 6) "Big data" collection and analysis programs for improved business intelligence, simulations, and predictive modeling; and 7) Emerging opportunities for healthcare technology companies and service providers. Individually, mHealth devices, applications, and systems enhance the communication capabilities of patients, providers, payers, and other participants in the global healthcare ecosystem. A groundbreaking and insightful overview of the field of mHealth as its unfolding globally in the twenty-first century.

"Living a Century or More: A Scientifically Fact-Based Journey to Longevity" is widely praised by the press, medical professionals and the general public. Cortvriendt's groundbreaking, easy-to-read health guide will provide you with the vital information you need to gain mastery over how long and how well you spend your coming years. Through fact-based and quantifiable medical evidence drawn from today's most renowned medical journals, you can learn to embrace healthy behaviors today that will radically change your tomorrow.

Covering every influential aspect of your lifestyle, from diet to physical activity to managing stress, "Living a Century or More" will guide you through the everyday habits that impact your health at the fundamental level. Day one starts today...are you ready to turn back the clock?

After three decades as a successful ear surgeon, William Wright, MD is bored beyond belief. He dabbles with retirement, but finds idleness infuriating. He has to do something.

Then he sees an ad for a doctor's position from the Colorado Department of Corrections at a supermax prison. Now that, he thinks, would be different. His wife has some thoughts on the matter too. She thinks her husband just lost his mind and is on a collision course with a prison shiv.

After his first day on the job, he wonders if she wasn't onto something. His first patient is an arrogant, callous youth convicted of five cold-blooded murders. Dr. Wright has to steel himself not to bolt.

Nothing prepares a doctor for life at the Colorado State Penitentiary. He quickly discovers treating maximum security convicts is like treating recalcitrant murderous four-year-olds. Always willing to threaten their doctors with bodily harm, they are more interested in scamming drugs than treatment.

Told with self-depreciating humor and scathing wit, "Maximum Insecurity" describes Dr. Wright's adventures practicing medicine in a supermax correctional facility without, he's glad to say, getting killed even once.

From a lifetime of immersion in Holy Scripture, intermixed with his own multiplex of personal setbacks and devastating family illnesses, Black brings readers a book that the anguished and heartbroken will turn to again and again for solid help.

William F. House D.D.S., M.D. is called "the Father of Neurotology"-the treatment of inner ear disorders. In this fascinating memoir, he describes his struggles to introduce new ideas to ear surgery and how medical professionals were always slow to accept his "radical" approaches. He tells of dental school, time as a dental officer in the U.S. Navy and his medical training, including time at Los Angeles County Hospital. Seven chapters each describe a problem in the treatment of ear disease and hearing loss and how he went about finding solutions. These chapters give insight into the thought processes of this giant in his field; including his use of the operating microscope for ear surgery, development of surgical approaches to remove tumors on the hearing nerve without killing the patient, and a surgical treatment for Meniere's disease that enabled one of his patients, the astronaut Alan Shepard, to fly to the moon. Perhaps his greatest achievement was the first cochlear implant, allowing so many to leave their silent worlds. Dr. House gives readers an inside look at his development of this revolutionary device and the significant opposition he faced in trying to make it a clinical reality. The controversy, struggles and ultimate success of this work is a story of commitment and dedication. He also tells of his experiences with the entertainment industry, the legal system, his world travels, and more. Finally, we hear from many of the doctors he helped to train and grateful cochlear implant patients, among others. An Appendix discusses in technical detail Dr. House's theory about how cochlear implants work.

Historical aviation, fictional adventure/drama novel, military locals, Great Britain, U.S., Japan, 1940s.

Defining opportunities for disruptive improvement in the American health care system.

Recently, the attack on the received Words of God has shifted from the letters of individual Words to the books of the Bible. Dr. Williams explores the reasons for the shift. It is paramount for today's Christians to understand the significance of this paradigm change. The most important effect is on our children. By the end of a college education, fifty-one percent of previously professing students abandon the Christian faith.

Those who drink Wine, &c., for the purpose it was given, as a Cordial, to cheer the Circulation, when it falters from Fatigue, Age, or profuse Evacuations of any kind, "for the Stomach's sake," as St. Paul recommends it, and for our "often infirmities" as a Medicine-will understand, that of all the ways of saving, to run any risk of buying bad Wine, is the most ridiculously unwise Economy.-from "Wine"Self-help instructional manuals are hardly a 20th-century invention: witness this 1824 work, which was quite a success in its day. Fully and charmingly titled The Art of Invigorating and Prolonging Life, by Food, Clothes, Air, Exercise, Wine, Sleep, &c., and Peptic Precepts, Pointing Out Agreeable and Effectual Methods to Prevent and Relieve Indigestion, and to Regulate and Strengthen the Action of the Stomach and Bowels, it is but one of the masterworks of the domestic advisor and celebrity cook William Kitchiner, who was the Martha Stewart and the Oprah Winfrey of his day. Laden with all manner of advice for everyone from delicate females to corpulent gentlemen in the matters of what to eat, how to sleep, what to wear, and more, this is a delightful look at what a healthy lifestyle looked like to the early 19th century.OF INTEREST TO: students of the history of self-help, collectors of pop culture ephemeraBritish author and bon vivant WILLIAM KITCHINER (1775-1827) was a doctor, inventor, musician, and early-19th-century household name. His 1829 book The Cook's Oracle was a bestseller in England and America.