Designed for nursing educators and students interested in the field of nursing education, Integrating Technology in Nursing Education: Tools for the Knowledge Era provides valuable, easy-to-use strategies on incorporating technology into the classroom. The text examines the increased role of technology in healthcare and its transformational impact on that field, allowing nurses to understand current and future trends and thus, integrate technology into nursing education in order to effectively prepare students for a new, technologically-driven healthcare environment. Also featured are topics on learning theories, the instructional design process, changes in higher education, and variations in learning environments. Using case studies, critical-thinking exercises, weblinks, and more, the text challenges nurses to think critically and formulate compelling teaching strategies.Written by a renowned nursing educator, instructional designer, informaticist, and simulation expert, Integrating Technology in Nursing Education: Tools for the Knowledge Era gives nurses the tools they need to step boldly into the technology era.
In North America obesity continues to be a problem, one that extends throughout life as children move into adolescence and adulthood and choose progressively less physical activity and less healthy diets. This public health issue needs to be addressed early in childhood, when kids are adopting the behaviors that they will carry through life. Eat Well & Keep Moving, Third Edition, will help children learn physically active and nutritionally healthy lifestyles that significantly reduce the risk of obesity, heart disease, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, and other diseases. BENEFITS This award-winning evidence-based program has been implemented in all 50 states and in more than 20 countries. The program began as a joint research project between the Harvard School of Public Health (currently the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health) and Baltimore Public Schools. In extensive field tests among students and teachers using the program, children ate more fruits and vegetables, reduced their intake of saturated and total fat, watched less TV, and improved their knowledge of nutrition and physical activity. The program is also well liked by teachers and students. This new edition provides fourth- and fifth-grade teachers with the following: • Nutrition and activity guidelines updated according to the latest and best information available • 48 multidisciplinary lessons that supply students with the knowledge and skills they need when choosing healthy eating and activity behaviors • Lessons that address a range of learning outcomes and can be integrated across multiple subject areas, such as math, language arts, social studies, and visual arts • Two new core messages on water consumption and sleep and screen time along with two new related lessons • A new Kid's Healthy Eating Plate, created by nutrition experts at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, that offers children simple guidance in making healthy choices and enhances the USDA's MyPlate Eat Well & Keep Moving also offers a web resource that contains numerous reproducibles, many of which were included in the book or the CD-ROM in previous editions. The web resource also details various approaches to getting parents and family members involved in Eat Well & Keep Moving. A Holistic ApproachEat Well & Keep Moving is popular because it teaches nutrition and physical activity while kids are moving. The program addresses both components of health simultaneously, reinforcing the link between the two. And it encompasses all aspects of a child's learning environment: classroom, gymnasium, cafeteria, hallways, out-of-school programs, home, and community centers. Further, the material is easily incorporated in various classroom subjects or in health education curricula. Eight Core Principles Central to its message are the eight core Principles of Healthy Living. Those principles—at least one of which is emphasized in each lesson—have been updated to reflect key targets as defined by the CDC-funded Childhood Obesity Research Demonstration partnership. These are the principles: • Make the switch from sugary drinks to water. • Choosse colorful fruits and vegetables instead of junk food. • Choose whole-grain foods and limit foods with added sugar. • Choose foods with healthy fat, limit foods high in saturated fat, and avoid foods with trans fat. • Eat a nutritious breakfast every morning. • Be physically active every day for at least an hour per day. • Limit TV and other recreational screen time to two hours or less per day. • Get enough sleep to give the brain and body the rest it needs. Flexible, Inexpensive, Easy to Adopt The entire curriculum of Eat Well & Keep Moving reflects the latest research and incorporates recommendations from the latest Dietary Guidelines for Americans. It fits within school curricula, uses existing school resources, is inexpensive to implement, and is easy to adopt. The content is customizable to school and student population profiles and can help schools meet new criteria for federally mandated wellness policies. Most important, armed with the knowledge they can gain from this program, elementary students can move toward and maintain healthy behaviors throughout their lives.
What causes dyslexia, and how does it manifest across languages? As bilingualism becomes increasingly important globally, these questions have never been more critical—and this comprehensive volume from The Dyslexia Foundation explores them in unprecedented depth. Bringing together the best brain-based, genetics, and behavioral research in the field from more than 40 of today's most highly respected researchers, this landmark volume fully examines what we know about the identification, manifestations, and potential differences in dyslexia across languages and orthographies. International contributors share their groundbreaking studies, helping researchers and graduate-level students investigate key questions about dyslexia: * How does dyslexia vary in frequency and manifestation among speakers of various alphabetic and nonalphabetic languages? * How might the characteristics of different languages affect reading acquisition and reading difficulties? * How do genetic profiles interact with environment to influence how reading difficulties manifest? * Are there unique neurobiological and/or behavioral characteristics that are universal to dyslexia? * How can computational and statistical modeling contribute to a better understanding of reading difficulties in children and adults? * In what ways might bilingualism influence reading and reading difficulties? The editors also lay out a clear agenda for future research on reading, writing, and dyslexia across the world's languages and orthographies. These specific next steps will pave the way for more and better research and encourage stronger interdisciplinary collaborations among fields, such as cognitive science, neuroscience, genetics, and education. Reflecting 20 years of progress in our understanding of dyslexia, this foundational volume will lay the groundwork for tomorrow's practical resources—and help ensure that all children around the world have access to the best, most effective reading instruction.
The accelerating rate at which new materials are appearing, and transforming the engineering world, only serves to emphasize the vast potential for novel material structure and related performance. Microstructure Sensitive Design for Performance Optimization (MSDPO) embodies a new methodology for systematic design of material microstructure to meet the requirements of design in optimal ways. Intended for materials engineers and researchers in industry, government and academia as well as upper level undergraduate and graduate students studying material science and engineering, MSDPO provides a novel mathematical framework that facilitates a rigorous consideration of the material microstructure as a continuous design variable in the field of engineering design.
What is it about puzzles that drives us to figure them out? In this unique and innovative book, Bret L. Rothstein explores how mechanical problems delight and frustrate us, distracting our attention from recognizably “useful” activities and directing it toward something that may be even more important.All too often puzzles can seem like some kind of cruel test to be beaten or passed. But according to Rothstein, they really want nothing more than for us to drop what we are doing and play. In that way, they can actually enhance consciousness, as we are perhaps never more aware than when we grapple with an object that refuses to satisfy our expectations. The Shape of Difficulty is an ode to and exploration of these “unruly objects”—Rubik's cubes, geometric dissections, secret-opening boxes, string disentanglements, and so many more—that bring interpretive failure out of the shadows and allow it to take center stage in physical ways. While many puzzles may offer perceptible expressions of mathematical concepts, logical propositions, and logistical problems, this book urges readers to dwell for a while with objects that, built specifically to be misunderstood, demand that we reconsider our approaches to understanding—and, in the bargain, how we conceive of the interpretive self.Drawing on landmark theories of play, Rothstein’s richly illustrated meditation on our fascination with objects reveals the lasting allure of puzzles while underscoring the intellectual worth of doubt, failure, and idle time.
The debate between modernization theory and dependency theory has been waged for decades without either being fully accepted. Billet attempts to bridge the gap in that debate by evaluating the underlying causes of economic discontent in the developing world. The author's evaluation is based on a theoretical and empirical analysis of the interrelatedness of external forms of development capital and the implications of these patterns not only for modernization and dependency theorists but also for the least developed countries of the world. The purpose of this analysis is two-fold: (1) to evaluate the degree to which modernization and/or dependency theory is applicable to the experiences of developing countries; and (2) to evaluate why external capital flows have resulted in an overabundance of economically discontented developing countries.
This examiniation of America's national pastime explores the dichotomous relationship between race and merit in professional baseball. It critically evaluates the role that race and performance play in determining the extent to which the sport is representative of a culture that continues to harbor racist attitudes. The authors look specifically at several interrelated variables as they pertain to baseball and players salaries: (1) merit-performance statistics, (2) experience/qualifications-number of years of experience in the major leagues, (3) environment-metropolitan size/economic support, (4) race-various categories of race, and (5) salary requirements-salaries during earlier years of players' careers. Significantly, the authors find that, based upon the statistical evidence from the late 1980s and early 1990s, merit plays a greater role in salary determination in professional baseball than does the issue of race, despite the continuing charges in the press of racism underlying professional sports.
This issue of Neurologic Clinics features a review of clinical neurogenetics as it pertains to the following disorders: Huntington Disease; Autism/ASD; Fragile X Tremor Ataxia Syndrome (FXTAS); Lysosomal Storage Diseases; Psychiatric Disorders; Dominant Spinocerebellar Ataxias; Metabolic Disorders; Friedreich Ataxia; ALS; Dementia; Neuromuscular Disorders; Stroke; Epilepsy; and Dystonia.
Sight and Spirituality in Early Netherlandish Painting examines the importance of vision as a narrative and thematic concern in works by artists such as Jan van Eyck, Petrus Christus, and Roger van der Weyden. Bret Rothstein argues that their paintings invited the viewer to demonstrate a variety of mental skills. Depicting religious visual experience, these works alluded to the imperceptibility of the divine and implicated the viewer's own experience as part of a larger spiritual and intellectual process. Rothstein demonstrates how and why the act of seeing became a highly valued skill, one to be refined and displayed, as well as a source of competition among both artists and patrons.
What is the evidence?Why do you need it?How do you evaluate it?How do you use it to make decisions?Put the evidence to work for your patients.Master the knowledge and clinical decision-making skills you need to provide the very best care for your clients…based on the evidence.Step by step, you’ll learn how to find and evaluate the existing research and determine whether there is sufficient clinical evidence to support a specific treatment and whether it should be recommended or used to address a client’s need. A wealth of examples drawn from the literature illustrates its role in everyday practice.An access code inside new printed texts unlocks your student-focused questions that guide and reinforce learning.
The history of sexuality is central to social history, the history of ideas, the realization or repression of human rights, and other areas of focus. This is also true about those who have had, or do have, what could be called minority sexualities. Same-sex attraction has generally been a minority sexuality; it has been the object of tremendous repression and vociferous complaint but also one of praise by talented poets and philosophers. The Historical Dictionary of Homosexuality provides a comprehensive survey of same-sex relations from ancient China and Greece to the contemporary world. It covers the gay rights movement from its origins in 19th century Europe to the nascent global network today. Philosophic treatments, such as natural law and queer theory, along with legal issues and court decisions are included. Global in its coverage of the variety of same-sex relations, their legal treatment, and social norms concerning same-sex attraction, this reference includes a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and cross-referenced dictionary entries on specific countries and regions, influential historical figures, laws that criminalized same-sex sexuality, various historical terms that have been used to refer to aspects of same-sex love, and contemporary events and legal decisions.
The history of sexuality is central to social history, the history of ideas, the realization or repression of human rights, and other areas of focus. This is also true about those who have had, or do have, what could be called minority sexualities. Same-sex attraction has generally been a minority sexuality; it has been the object of tremendous repression and vociferous complaint but also one of praise by talented poets and philosophers. The A to Z of Homosexuality provides a comprehensive survey of same-sex relations from ancient China and Greece to the contemporary world. It covers the gay rights movement from its origins in 19th century Europe to the nascent global network today. Philosophic treatments, such as natural law and queer theory, along with legal issues and court decisions are included. Global in its coverage of the variety of same-sex relations, their legal treatment, and social norms concerning same-sex attraction, this reference includes a chronology, an introductory essay, a bibliography, and cross-referenced dictionary entries on specific countries and regions, influential historical figures, laws that criminalized same-sex sexuality, various historical terms that have been used to refer to aspects of same-sex love, and contemporary events and legal decisions.
Mustard Seeds is a collection of essays by L. Brent Bozell, Yale Law School graduate, former editor at National Review, founding editor of Triumph magazine, and, in 1985, founder of MisiÛn Guadalupe, a program devoted to the assistance and evangelization of Hispanic immigrants. Section I, Early Sowings, begins with Bozell's early work with National Review; Section II, The Triumph Years, chronicles Bozell's development as a Catholic and as a Catholic thinker who formed an entire generation of Catholic thinkers; Section III, Heading Home, and Section IV, MisiÛ Guadalupe, include more recent essays, including Bozell's current writings about Christ's mercy. Throughout, Bozell's ideas are illuminated by a beautifully personal style which makes even the most difficult concepts strike home with life-changing force. Originally published in 1987 by Trinity Communications.
Patterns of American Terrorism provides a detailed empirical examination of the patterns of behavior exhibited by persons indicted in federal criminal courts for "terrorism-related activities" in the United States over the past 35 years. Not intended to be a theoretical treatise on the etiology of terrorism, nor to be an indictment of federal counterterrorism efforts, this book seeks to provide a definitive guide to what we know about the behavior of terrorists who have targeted the United States and the country’s efforts to prosecute and punish them. Utilizing data from the American Terrorism Study, this volume provides an in-depth analysis of the temporal and spatial patterns that shaped the manner in which terrorists in the United States planned and carried out their attacks; how terrorists are investigated, prosecuted, and punished in federal courts; and how counterterrorism efforts have affected the behavior of individual terrorists and groups. Smith, Damphousse, and Gruenewald delve into the demographic characteristics and geospatial and temporal patterns of terrorist behavior as an outgrowth of research they conducted over many years in the American Terrorism Study. Building on this foundation, the authors compare "lone actor" or "lone wolf" terrorists with the patterns of behavior exhibited by groups or cells and examine more recent behaviors of ISIS conspiracies in the United States with those of terrorists from other types of groups. Providing a comprehensive overview of the nature and evolution of modern international and domestic terrorism, this book offers a wealth of findings that will be useful in setting policy and developing guidelines for counterterrorism efforts as well as in formulating hypotheses to test theoretical models. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of terrorism and political violence, criminology, sociology, international security, and political science.
Patterns of American Terrorism provides a detailed empirical examination of the patterns of behavior exhibited by persons indicted in federal criminal courts for "terrorism-related activities" in the United States over the past 35 years. Not intended to be a theoretical treatise on the etiology of terrorism, nor to be an indictment of federal counterterrorism efforts, this book seeks to provide a definitive guide to what we know about the behavior of terrorists who have targeted the United States and the country’s efforts to prosecute and punish them. Utilizing data from the American Terrorism Study, this volume provides an in-depth analysis of the temporal and spatial patterns that shaped the manner in which terrorists in the United States planned and carried out their attacks; how terrorists are investigated, prosecuted, and punished in federal courts; and how counterterrorism efforts have affected the behavior of individual terrorists and groups. Smith, Damphousse, and Gruenewald delve into the demographic characteristics and geospatial and temporal patterns of terrorist behavior as an outgrowth of research they conducted over many years in the American Terrorism Study. Building on this foundation, the authors compare "lone actor" or "lone wolf" terrorists with the patterns of behavior exhibited by groups or cells and examine more recent behaviors of ISIS conspiracies in the United States with those of terrorists from other types of groups. Providing a comprehensive overview of the nature and evolution of modern international and domestic terrorism, this book offers a wealth of findings that will be useful in setting policy and developing guidelines for counterterrorism efforts as well as in formulating hypotheses to test theoretical models. The book will be of interest to scholars and students of terrorism and political violence, criminology, sociology, international security, and political science.
Pharmaceutical Marketing will provide students and new industry professionals with a thorough overview of the general principles of marketing including marketing as a process, marketing effectives in the pharmaceutical environment, and coverage of marketing brand and generic drugs with special emphasis on direct-to-consumer advertising and the impact of social media and technology. Two unique chapters of the text are Chapter 10 Social Media, which addresses exactly what Social Media is, how it is currently being used within the industry, and how it should be used from the manufacturer's perspective; and Chapter The New 4 P's of Pharmaceutical Marketing takes a unique look at how the Internet and mobile technology has shaped the pharmaceutical industry and shifted the promotion paradigm to these current "P's" - Predictive modeling/analysis, Personalization, Peer-to-peer networking and Participation. Pharmaceutical Marketing examines the current pharmaceutical marketing environment from both an academic and practical perspective with a focus on providing practical applications of all material discussed according to the perspectives of various market segments including industry, community, and institutional pharmacy, as well as the practicing pharmacist. Key Features - "Case in Points" - Multiple examples per chapter illustrate key concepts with a real-life or hypothetical example - Discussion Questions - 10 questions per chapter to facilitate active learning and student participation- Unique Chapters - Social Media and The New 4 P's of Pharmaceutical Marketing * Each new text includes an access code for the Student Companion Website. Electronic and eBook formats do not include access to the Companion Website.
Pharmaceutical Marketing will provide students and new industry professionals with a thorough overview of the general principles of marketing including marketing as a process, marketing effectives in the pharmaceutical environment, and coverage of marketing brand and generic drugs with special emphasis on direct-to-consumer advertising and the impact of social media and technology. Two unique chapters of the text are Chapter 10 Social Media, which addresses exactly what Social Media is, how it is currently being used within the industry, and how it should be used from the manufacturer’s perspective; and Chapter The New 4 P’s of Pharmaceutical Marketing takes a unique look at how the Internet and mobile technology has shaped the pharmaceutical industry and shifted the promotion paradigm to these current “P’s” - Predictive modeling/analysis, Personalization, Peer-to-peer networking and Participation. Pharmaceutical Marketing examines the current pharmaceutical marketing environment from both an academic and practical perspective with a focus on providing practical applications of all material discussed according to the perspectives of various market segments including industry, community, and institutional pharmacy, as well as the practicing pharmacist. Key Features • “Case in Points” - Multiple examples per chapter illustrate key concepts with a real-life or hypothetical example • Discussion Questions – 10 questions per chapter to facilitate active learning and student participation • Unique Chapters - Social Media and The New 4 P’s of Pharmaceutical Marketing * Each new text includes an access code for the Student Companion Website. Electronic and eBook formats do not include access to the Companion Website.
