|
Showing 1 - 13 of
13 matches in All Departments
For three long years, the entire Kuhn family suffered through a
mysterious illness that no doctor could identify. They had been
everywhere and tried everything. MRIs, CT scans, diagnostic
ultrasounds, panels of blood work, hormone testing, urinalysis; you
name it, they did it. Visiting general practitioners, emergency
room doctors, specialists in every field of medicine and several
different hospitals provided no answers. They were in trouble. Dr.
Rob Kuhn, his wife, Wendy, and their three children, Alex, Nick,
and Nolan, rode this rollercoaster of misdiagnosis and
non-diagnosis nearly all the way to their graves. Finally in May of
2008, through a truly synchronistic event, they discovered that
they were being attacked by a deadly biotoxin. At last, they had an
answer. Sadly, the new challenge became the fact that traditional
medicine has a very poor track record in treating biotoxic illness.
Another solution had to be found. In Return to Health, Dr. Kuhn
shares with you the challenges that his family faced and how they
were able to overcome them through the use of functional medicine
techniques. Inspired by his own health turnaround, he changed the
focus of his practice and began taking care of people with chronic
conditions. Now board certified in integrative medicine, Dr. Kuhn
enjoys the rewarding feeling of helping people whose health
problems are the worst of the worst. Autoimmune conditions, type-II
diabetes, fibromyalgia, hypothyroidism, biotoxic illness, and those
strange mystery conditions are all in a day's work for this natural
healthcare physician. This situation may sound familiar to you. You
may be watching your health deteriorate while getting no answers.
If you have been suffering with health problems that nobody has
been able to figure out, read Return to Health.
The most critical need second only to military support for the
State of Israel is the economic expansion of its science-based
industry--an industry that exploded in the 1970's due to a flood of
public support for technological advancement. "Industrial Research
and Development in Israel" investigates Israel's present industrial
research situation and maps out the years to come as the nation
strives to escalate its export of self-developed products. The
author's detailed description of Israel's present research and
development (R&D) status will interest management scholars
concerned with high technology issues and questions relating to
commercialized defense technology, as well as students of military
and Middle East studies.
This book outlines the history of rickets, a disease commonly
associated with childhood, and studies its association with race
and its long-reaching effects on childbirth. For centuries, the
condition was recognized but poorly understood. For females,
rickets could pose a double jeopardy: suffering in childhood and
severe danger in adulthood when giving birth. The disease could
result in a contracted pelvis that obstructs the birth canal.
Medical researchers were faced with two distinct challenges:
unravelling the aetiology of rickets and ensuring the safety of
women giving birth. Solving the riddle of rickets proved especially
difficult. Thought variously to be a disease of industrial cities
and children of the poor, grounded in lack of exercise or sunlight,
or the product racial difference, the condition defied analysis
until the discovery of vitamin D early in the 20th century. The
dangers of rickets radically diminished. Medical intervention in
childbirth continued, and birth increasingly shifted from the home
to the hospital. Medical practitioners justified intervention by
emphasizing the dangers of pelvic disproportion, continually
enlarging the definition to gain full control of birth. Often
conditioned by racial assumptions, surgical experimentation
promoted common use of anaesthesia and a radical increase in
caesarean sections, and birth became a colder, more clinical
experience.
In 1947, as the integration of Major League Baseball began, the
once-daring American League had grown reactionary, unwilling to
confront post-war challenges - population shifts, labor issues and,
above all, racial integration. The league had matured in the Jim
Crow era, when northern cities responded to the Great Migration by
restricting black access to housing, transportation, accommodations
and entertainment. The racial divide forced blacks to create their
own, often poorly funded institutions, including baseball's Negro
Leagues. As the political climate changed and some major league
teams realized the necessity of integration, the American League
proved painfully reluctant. With the exception of the Cleveland
Indians, integration was slow and often ineffective. This book
examines the integration of baseball - widely viewed as a triumph -
through the experiences of the American League and finds only a
limited shift in racial values. The teams accepted few black
players and made no effort to alter management structures, and
organized baseball remained an institution governed by
tradition-bound owners.
The re-established forests of the Upper Delaware are a living
reminder of centuries of both exploitation and good intentions.
Emerging after the last glaciation, they were first modified by
Native Americans to promote hunting and limited agriculture. The
forests began to disappear as European settlers clear-cut farmland
and fed sawmills and tanneries. The advent of the railroad
accelerated demand and within 30 years industry consumed virtually
every mature tree in the valley, leaving barren hillsides subject
to erosion and flooding. As unchecked cutting continued,
conservation efforts began to save what little remained. A century
and a half later, a forest for the 21st century has emerged-an
ecological patchwork protected by a web of governmental agencies,
yet still subject to danger from humans.
A Wider View of the Universe traces the origins and development of
Henry David Thoreau's painstaking and profound study of the natural
world. Arguing that Thoreau in his early career did not perceive
nature a worthy subject for his pen, the author chronicles his
growing interest and the reasons behind the shift in viewpoint.
Making do with a superficial knowledge of nature-even while living
at Walden Pond-Thoreau began to study the subject more acutely in
1849 and 1850. Over the next dozen years, he applied himself
especially to botany and ornithology, while seeking to integrate
this more exact knowledge into the large patterns of life.
Independently deriving what now would be considered an ecological
world view, Thoreau devoted the last years of his writing career to
nature studies, written in his own unique and exacting fashion.
Henry Thoreau wrote after the fashion of a painter. How he arrived
at this art provides an intriguing and arresting story.
This historical survey of parallel processing from 1980 to 2020 is
a follow-up to the authors' 1981 Tutorial on Parallel Processing,
which covered the state of the art in hardware, programming
languages, and applications. Here, we cover the evolution of the
field since 1980 in: parallel computers, ranging from the Cyber 205
to clusters now approaching an exaflop, to multicore
microprocessors, and Graphic Processing Units (GPUs) in commodity
personal devices; parallel programming notations such as OpenMP,
MPI message passing, and CUDA streaming notation; and seven
parallel applications, such as finite element analysis and computer
vision. Some things that looked like they would be major trends in
1981, such as big Single Instruction Multiple Data arrays
disappeared for some time but have been revived recently in deep
neural network processors. There are now major trends that did not
exist in 1980, such as GPUs, distributed memory machines, and
parallel processing in nearly every commodity device. This book is
intended for those that already have some knowledge of parallel
processing today and want to learn about the history of the three
areas. In parallel hardware, every major parallel architecture type
from 1980 has scaled-up in performance and scaled-out into
commodity microprocessors and GPUs, so that every personal and
embedded device is a parallel processor. There has been a
confluence of parallel architecture types into hybrid parallel
systems. Much of the impetus for change has been Moore's Law, but
as clock speed increases have stopped and feature size decreases
have slowed down, there has been increased demand on parallel
processing to continue performance gains. In programming notations
and compilers, we observe that the roots of today's programming
notations existed before 1980. And that, through a great deal of
research, the most widely used programming notations today,
although the result of much broadening of these roots, remain close
to target system architectures allowing the programmer to almost
explicitly use the target's parallelism to the best of their
ability. The parallel versions of applications directly or
indirectly impact nearly everyone, computer expert or not, and
parallelism has brought about major breakthroughs in numerous
application areas. Seven parallel applications are studied in this
book.
For three long years, the entire Kuhn family suffered through a
mysterious illness that no doctor could identify. They had been
everywhere and tried everything. MRIs, CT scans, diagnostic
ultrasounds, panels of blood work, hormone testing, urinalysis; you
name it, they did it. Visiting general practitioners, emergency
room doctors, specialists in every field of medicine and several
different hospitals provided no answers. They were in trouble. Dr.
Rob Kuhn, his wife, Wendy, and their three children, Alex, Nick,
and Nolan, rode this rollercoaster of misdiagnosis and
non-diagnosis nearly all the way to their graves. Finally in May of
2008, through a truly synchronistic event, they discovered that
they were being attacked by a deadly biotoxin. At last, they had an
answer. Sadly, the new challenge became the fact that traditional
medicine has a very poor track record in treating biotoxic illness.
Another solution had to be found. In Return to Health, Dr. Kuhn
shares with you the challenges that his family faced and how they
were able to overcome them through the use of functional medicine
techniques. Inspired by his own health turnaround, he changed the
focus of his practice and began taking care of people with chronic
conditions. Now board certified in integrative medicine, Dr. Kuhn
enjoys the rewarding feeling of helping people whose health
problems are the worst of the worst. Autoimmune conditions, type-II
diabetes, fibromyalgia, hypothyroidism, biotoxic illness, and those
strange mystery conditions are all in a day's work for this natural
healthcare physician. This situation may sound familiar to you. You
may be watching your health deteriorate while getting no answers.
If you have been suffering with health problems that nobody has
been able to figure out, read Return to Health.
Die Mediennutzung im Allgemeinen und die H rfunknutzung im
Speziellen haben sich in den vergangenen Jahren und Jahrzehnten
ebenso ver ndert, wie sie sich auch in den kommenden Jahren ver
ndern wird. Seit fast zehn Jahren wird die f r die Finanzierung der
Privatradios wesentliche Erhebung der H rerzahlen mit dem oft und
von vielen Seiten kritisierten Befragungssystem der
Media-Analyse-Radio durchgef hrt. W hrend dieser Zeit sind
zahlreiche neue Erhebungsmethoden in anderen europ ischen L ndern
getestet und teilweise eingef hrt worden. Eines der Systeme,
welches bereits seit mehreren Jahren eingesetzt wird, ist das
Radiocontrolsystem der Schweiz, bei dem die Probanden nicht mehr
befragt werden, sondern ihr H rverhalten durch eine Armbanduhr
gemessen wird. Der Autor untersucht in seiner Arbeit, ob
Radiocontrol tats chlich zuverl ssigere und korrektere Ergebnisse
liefern kann als die Media-Analyse Radio und ob ein Einsatz von
Radiocontrol in Deutschland berhaupt umsetzbar ist.
|
You may like...
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R383
R310
Discovery Miles 3 100
Loot
Nadine Gordimer
Paperback
(2)
R383
R310
Discovery Miles 3 100
|