Injury is recognized as a major public health issue worldwide. In most countries, injury is the leading cause of death and disability for children and young adults age 1 to 39 years. Each year in the United States, injury claims about 170,000 lives and results in over 30 million emergency room visits and 2.5 million hospitalizations. Injury is medically defined as organ/tissue damages inflicted upon oneself or by an external agent either accidentally or deliberately. Injury encompasses the undesirable consequences of a wide array of events, such as motor vehicle crashes, poisoning, burns, falls, and drowning, medical error, adverse effects of drugs, suicide and homicide. The past two decades have witnessed a remarkable growth in injury research, both in scope and in depth. To address the tremendous health burden of injury morbidity and mortality at the global level, the World Health Organization in 2000 created the Department of Injury and Violence Prevention, which has produced several influential reports on violence, traffic injury, and childhood injury. The biennial World Conference on Injury Control and Safety Promotion attracts a large international audience and has been successfully convened nine times in different countries. In the United States, the National Center for Injury Prevention and Control became an independent program of the federal Centers for Disease Prevention and Control in 1997. Since then, each state health department has created an office in charge of injury prevention activities and over a dozen universities have established injury control research centers. This volume will fill an important gap in the scientific literature by providing a comprehensive and up-to-date reference resource to researchers, practitioners, and students working on different aspects of the injury problem and in different practice settings and academic fields.

In the first ever book on the Agreements of the People, the essays explore the origins, impact and legacy of the attempt to settle the nation by a written constitution at the height of the English Revolution. The volume sheds new light on the Levellers, the army, the nature of civil war radicalism and the fragmentation of the Parliamentarian cause.

What makes the Platinum English FAL course unique? Strong support for reading and writing skills, featuring annotations and models of all writing texts; integrated and explicit grammar teaching; predictable, consistent structure; high quality, relevant artwork; strong teacher support through explicit methods and assessment. Platinum - simply superior: Superior CAPS coverage and written by expert authors; superior illustrations and activities to improve results and motivate learners; superior teacher support to save time and make teaching easy, including photocopiable worksheets; superior quality = exam success!

Superior CAPS coverage and written by expert authors. Superior illustrations and activities to improve results and motivate learners. Superior teacher support to save time and make teaching easy. Superior quality = exam success!

• A special day (story) (p. 6)
• Taking off (poem) (p. 9)
• Why dogs chase cars (story)
• A true friend (story) (p. 13)
• Sorry! (social text: letters) (p. 16)
• Making a mobile (information text)
• Holidays (poems) (p. 20)
• A lucky escape (story) (p. 21)
• Finding out about fire (information text) (p. 24)
• Lighting up our lives (information text) (p. 26)
• Dudu and the evil giant – Part 1 (story) (p. 28)
• Dudu and the evil giant – Part 2 (story)
• Our teacher says (poem) (p. 34)
• Go, Slow and Whoa Foods (information text) (p. 35)
• It takes courage (media text: newspaper article)
• Cecilia Makiwane (media text: newspaper article) (p. 39)
• World of Birds (social text: postcard) (p. 40)
• Save the crane (media text: poster)
• Why the giraffe and the oxpecker are good friends (story) (p. 42)
• The four friends (drama) (p. 44)
• The wonders of Egypt (information text)
• A journalist’s world (social text: letter) (p. 54)
• Poems about jobs (poems)
• Swim safely (media text: magazine article) (p. 58)
• Funny poems (poems) (p. 60)
• Nomathemba’s fire (story)
• Be my friend (drama) (p. 66)
• Miss you! (social text: emails) (p. 70)
• Digging up the past (information text)

Contains the following plays: "As A Man Thinks," by Augustus Thomas; "The Return of Peter Grimm," by David Belasco; "Romance," by Edward Shelton; "The Unchastened Woman," by Louis Kaufman Anspacher; and "Plots and Playwrights," by Edward Massey.

This practical book provides crucial information necessary to formulate diets with appropriate amounts of amino acids, minerals, and vitamins. The factors that influence how well animals obtain these critical nutrients and methods for determining bioavailability are reviewed in this comprehensive text. In addition, data from both ruminants and nonruminants are included as well as established estimates of bioavailability for particular feed stuffs and feed supplements.

Learn to use, and not be used by, data to make more insightful decisions The availability of data and various forms of AI unlock countless possibilities for business decision makers. But what do you do when you feel pressured to cede your position in the decision-making process altogether? Decision Intelligence For Dummies pumps the brakes on the growing trend to take human beings out of the decision loop and walks you through the best way to make data-informed but human-driven decisions. The book shows you how to achieve maximum flexibility by using every available resource, and not just raw data, to make the most insightful decisions possible. In this timely book, you'll learn to: Make data a means to an end, rather than an end in itself, by expanding your decision-making inquiries Find a new path to solid decisions that includes, but isn't dominated, by quantitative data Measure the results of your new framework to prove its effectiveness and efficiency and expand it to a whole team or company Perfect for business leaders in technology and finance, Decision Intelligence For Dummies is ideal for anyone who recognizes that data is not the only powerful tool in your decision-making toolbox. This book shows you how to be guided, and not ruled, by the data.

Since the World Conference on Education for All (EFA) in Jomtien, Thailand in 1990, the push for modern mass schooling has become a primary focus of national education policymakers and researchers around the world. The EFA declaration that grew out of this conference served as a culmination of a century-long movement to transform existing national educational systems into the most comprehensive mass system of schooling ever devised.
Comparative education researchers have been studying both the promises and the challenges surrounding EFA for decades, but in comparative education research literature there is still neither consensus on the impact that EFA has nor clearly identified global trends in either EFA policymaking or policy implementation. It seems that for every promise that EFA brings, there is an accompanying challenge. It is this struggle between the global promises and the national challenges that this volume of International Perspectives on Education and Society seeks to identify and explain.
Chapters range from critical syntheses of EFA policymaking or policy implementation to original comparative education research on the impact that EFA has had in specific nations or across clusters of nations.
*Compares and contrasts the promises of EFA v. implementation of policy
*International contributions ensure global coverage of content
*Part of the International Perspectives on Education and Society series

What makes the English FAL Today course unique? 2 complete sets of mid-year and end-of-year examination papers; one set for practice, one set for testing; the learner has everything in the learner's book - notes, rubrics, exercises, tests and homework exercises!; skills boxes provide added help and guidance. Trust Today to be up-to-date and fresh for the classroom: Opportunities for revision, exam practice and assessment throughout; develops language skills alongside subject knowledge; all content is fully CAPS-compliant. Your easy-to-use complete classroom solution! Today, for successful teaching tomorrow.

In this book, moto-journalist Christopher P. Baker offers a complete guide to every production engine ever built by the USA's leading motorcycle brand. Packed with technical data and specifications for all the engine families, the text examines key innovations in minute detail while capturing the spirit of more than a century of mechanical excellence that has come to embody the American Dream. Superlative 3D illustrations showcase the engines including unique detailed close-ups that reveal their inner workings and more than 45 bike model variations make this book a must-have for every Harley-Davidson aficionado.

Featuring numerous updates and additional anthology selections, the 3rd edition of "Introduction to Old English" confirms its reputation as a leading text designed to help students engage with Old English literature for the first time.

A new edition of one of the most popular introductions to Old English Assumes no expertise in other languages or in traditional grammar Includes basic grammar reviews at the beginning of each major chapter and a "minitext" feature to aid students in practicing reading Old EnglishFeatures updates and several new anthology readings, including King Alfred's Preface to Gregory's "Pastoral Care"

The theme of warfare as a collective enterprise investigated in the theatres of both land and sea. From warhorses to the men-at-arms who rode them; armies that were raised to the lords who recruited, led, administered, and financed them; and ships to the mariners who crewed them; few aspects of the organisation and logistics ofwar in late medieval England have escaped the scholarly attention, or failed to benefit from the insights, of Dr Andrew Ayton. The concept of the military community, with its emphasis on warfare as a collective social enterprise, has always lain at the heart of his work; he has shown in particular how this age of warfare is characterised by related but intersecting military communities, marked not only by the social and political relationships within armies and navies, but by communities of mind, experience, and enterprise. The essays in this volume, ranging from the late thirteenth to the early fifteenth century, address various aspects of this idea. They offer investigations of soldiers' and mariners' equipment; their obligations, functions, status, and recruitment; and the range and duration of their service. Gary P. Baker is a Research Associate at the University of East Angliaand a Researcher in History at the University of Groningen; Craig L. Lambert is Lecturer in Maritime History at the University of Southampton; David Simpkin teaches history at Birkenhead Sixth-Form College. Contributors: Gary P. Baker, Adrian R. Bell, Peter Coss, Anne Curry, Robert W. Jones, Andy King, Craig L. Lambert, Tony K. Moore, J.J.N. Palmer, Philip Preston, Michael Prestwich, Matthew Raven, Clifford J. Rogers, Nigel Saul, David Simpkin.

The Agreements of the People were a series of written constitutions proposed variously by Levellers, soldiers and citizens for the settlement of the nation at the height of the English Revolution. The essays in this book explore the various Agreements in the context of the constitutional crisis that engulfed England in the late 1640s and 1650s.

The mechanical properties of small volumes of materials such as thin films and patterned structures can be very different from the mechanical properties of those same materials in bulk. Many explanations of the mechanical behaviors of such small volumes have depended on simplified models of dislocation behavior. However, recent developments in dislocation modeling have made it possible to understand dislocation behavior in much more detail than before. A wide range of topics is presented in these proceedings, including mechanisms of plastic deformation in heteroepitaxial, multilayered and polycrystalline thin films, as well as three-dimensional mesostructures such as epitaxial islands, semiconducting devices and microcrystallites. Experimental, theoretical and numerical simulations are addressed. Topics include: dislocation and deformation mechanisms in thin metal films and multilayers; discrete dislocations - observations and simulations; dislocations and deformation mechanisms in thin films and small structures; dislocations in small structures; dislocations and deformation in epitaxial layers; dislocation fundamentals -observations, calculations and simulations.