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Ghost-Managed Medicine by Sergio Sismondo explores a spectral side of medical knowledge, based in pharmaceutical industry tactics and practices.

Hidden from the public view, the many invisible hands of the pharmaceutical industry and its agents channelstreams of drug information and knowledge from contract research organizations (that extract data from experimental bodies) to publication planners (who produce ghostwritten medical journal articles) to key opinion leaders (who are sent out to educate physicians about drugs) to patient advocacy organizations (who ventriloquize views on diseases, treatments and regulations), and onward. The goal of this 'assemblage marketing' is to establish conditions that make specific diagnoses, prescriptions and purchases as obvious and frequent as possible. While staying in the shadows, companies create powerful markets in which increasing numbers of people become sick and the drugs largely sell themselves.

Most agents for drug companies aim to tell the truth, but the truths they tell are drawn from streams of knowledge that have been fed, channeled and maintained by the companies at every possible opportunity. Especially because those companies have concentrated influence and narrow interests, consumers and others should be concerned about how epistemic power is distributed - or 'political economies of knowledge' - and not just about truth and falsity of medical knowledge.

In pharmaceutical companies' ideal worlds, medical research, education and marketing would be tightly fused. Doctors trying to educate themselves would turn to companies' agents, such as researchers and educators sponsored to spread particular messages, local sales reps hired to change doctors' behaviour, or journalists supplied with news stories. Ghost-Managed Medicine shows that the real world of medicine is not very far from the worlds that the companies want to create. Big Pharma's many invisible hands are busy throughout medicine, and medicine changes as a result.

Ghost-Managed Medicine draws on presentations at industry conferences, especially ones where pharmaceutical companies interact with communication, marketing and other agencies. Participants at these interface conferences describe goals, practices and concerns; in the process, they reveal a lot about how the industry works. Some of the book's other data is taken from publications that also serve as interfaces between the industry and adjacent actors, and from interviews with people engaged in pharmaceutical marketing.

The third edition, lead by Russ Martinelli, provides a contemporary set of tools to reflect changes in project management learning and practice, while maintaining the framework that made the previous edition a go-to reference for on-the-job project managers and intermediate / advanced students of Project Management.  The revised edition will integrate material on forward-thinking Project Management processes like: agile, change management, governance and risk management.

Netflix, Airbnb, Verizon, Experian, and Ancestry are just some of the millions of customers who now power their business with Amazon Web Services (AWS). AWS has transformed the ability of businesses of every size and in every industry to reduce costs while being more secure, more resilient, and innovating much faster than ever before. Leaders looking to emulate this business impact with cloud will learn powerful lessons from those have gone before to accelerate their own journeys.Reaching Cloud Velocity provides leadership best practices covering the most requested customer topics, including:- How enterprises are transforming with AWS- Aligning business and technology strategy to benefit from cloud- Reskilling and scaling your cloud fluency- Setting the right culture and organization model to attract and retain engineering talent- How to migrate data centres to AWS while holistically benefitting from the improved availability, security, and governance it can offer.The book also goes deeper into how leaders can leverage the inherent reliability and durability of the AWS Cloud, and how compute, containers, serverless, APIs, microservices, database, analytics, and machine learning have evolved into a set of highly resilient, secure, and scalable building blocks - allowing builders to innovate at a fraction of the costs they would have typically come to expect.Authors Jonathan Allen and Thomas Blood, AWS Enterprise Strategists, have previously led cloud transformations as AWS customers. They bring their own unique experience - combined with that of the 500+ customers that have worked with around the globe - to create a book chockfull of lessons, knowledge, and advice that leaders have been asking for.

A Wall Street Journal Bestseller

In a world of unrelenting change and unprecedented challenges, we need organizations that are resilient and daring.

Unfortunately, most organizations, overburdened by bureaucracy, are sluggish and timid. In the age of upheaval, top-down power structures and rule-choked management systems are a liability. They crush creativity and stifle initiative. As leaders, employees, investors, and citizens, we deserve better. We need organizations that are bold, entrepreneurial, and as nimble as change itself. Hence this book.

In Humanocracy, Gary Hamel and Michele Zanini make a passionate, data-driven argument for excising bureaucracy and replacing it with something better. Drawing on more than a decade of research and packed with practical examples, Humanocracy lays out a detailed blueprint for creating organizations that are as inspired and ingenious as the human beings inside them.

Critical building blocks include:

Motivation: Rallying colleagues to the challenge of busting bureaucracy
Models: Leveraging the experience of organizations that have profitably challenged the bureaucratic status quo
Mindsets: Escaping the industrial age thinking that frustrates progress
Mobilization: Activating a pro-change coalition to hack outmoded management systems and processes
Migration: Embedding the principles of humanocracy—ownership, markets, meritocracy, community, openness, experimentation, and paradox—in your organization's DNA

 

If you've finally run out of patience with bureaucratic bullshit . . .
If you want to build an organization that can outrun change . . .
If you're committed to giving every team member the chance to learn, grow, and contribute . . .
. . . then this book's for you.

Whatever your role or title, Humanocracy will show you how to launch an unstoppable movement to equip and empower everyone in your organization to be their best and to do their best. The ultimate prize: an organization that's fit for the future and fit for human beings.

This book provides a comprehensive and up-to-date discussion of breakthroughs on additive manufacturing for plastic material recycling to boost a circular economy. It offers new ideas of combining/hybridizing processing methods that work as a source of information for manufacturers in making new and strategic product development plans.

Additive Manufacturing for Plastic Recycling: Efforts in Boosting a Circular Economy provides a critical, comprehensive, methodological, and strong state-of-the-art work on the processing of thermoplastic and thermosetting along with new directions and applications. It describes the common and hybrid approaches of recycling processes and includes theoretical and practical ideas of combining/hybridizing processing methods with the use of fused deposition modelling, which is one of the low-cost additive manufacturing techniques. The book also discusses mechanical twin-screw extrusion followed by case studies for developing hybrid composite structures for biomedical and structural applications. Recent innovations in melt processing for recycling and the fundaments, process parameters investigations, and applications for new product development are also presented.

This book is a first-hand reference source of information for academic scholars and commercial manufacturers for making strategic development plans for new product development.

HBO’s hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin’s internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age.A STORM OF SWORDS: BLOOD AND GOLD is the SECOND part of the third volume in the series.‘When times are tough there is no better distraction than these magical tales’ Guardian‘There are two sorts of people. The players and the pieces . . . Every man’s a piece to start with, and every maid as well. Even some who think they are players’The Starks are scattered. Robb Stark may be King in the North, but he must bend to the will of an old tyrant if he is to hold his crown. And while his youngest sister has escaped the clutches of the depraved Lannisters, Sansa Stark remains their captive.Meanwhile, across the ocean, the last heir of the Dragon King approaches Westeros with vengeance in her heart.

A wide range of real-world examples illustrates the theoretical aspects of this tutorial introduction to digital mobile wireless networks. In particular, 2.5G and 3G packet-switched systems are discussed in detail, as are wireless LANs and personal-area networks. Many worked examples and homework exercises are provided, and a solutions manual is available for instructors. The book is an ideal text for electrical engineering and computer science students taking courses in wireless communications. It will also be an invaluable reference for practicing engineers.

Drawing on the Fund’s analytical and capacity development work, including Public Investment Management Assessments (PIMAs) carried out in more than 50 countries, the new book Well Spent: How Strong Infrastructure Governance Can End Waste in Public Investment will address how countries can attain quality infrastructure outcomes through better infrastructure governance. It covers critical issues such as infrastructure investment and Sustainable Development Goals, controlling corruption, managing fiscal risks, integrating planning and budgeting, and identifying best practices in project appraisal and selection. It also covers emerging areas in infrastructure governance, such as maintaining and managing public infrastructure assets and building resilience against climate change.

This concise text introduces an integrated view of all project management-related activities in an organization, called Organizational Project Management (OPM). Practical cases from several organizations, as well as popular theories such as the Resource-Based Theory and Institutional Theory provide for an insightful yet realistic understanding of OPM as an integrative tool for organizations to improve their efficiency and effectiveness.

 

The reader will learn how separate organizational functions, such as project, program and portfolio management and governance integrate in a cohesive manner. The authors describe how different approaches to competing in the marketplace link to strategies, and the ways of selecting the 'best' business opportunities for organizations and integrating them into existing workflows and structures. They develop and describe a model that shows how OPM works within organizations.

The book is a valuable resource for top managers, reflective practitioners, academics, and postgraduate students in organization theory.

Reviews innovative processing techniques and recent developments in food formulation, identification, and utilization of functional ingredients

Food Formulation: Novel Ingredients and Processing Techniques is a comprehensive and up-to-date account of novel food ingredients and new processing techniques used in advanced commercial food formulations. This unique volume will help students and industry professionals alike in understanding the current trends, emerging technologies, and their impact on the food formulation techniques. Contributions from leading academic and industrial experts provide readers with informed and relevant insights on using the latest technologies and production processes for new product development and reformulations.

The text first describes the basis of a food formulation, including smart protein and starch ingredients, healthy ingredients such as salt and sugar replacers, and interactions within the food components. Emphasizing operational principles, the book reviews state-of-the-art 3D printing technology, encapsulation and a range of emerging technologies including high pressure, pulsed electric field, ultrasound and supercritical fluid extraction. The final chapters discuss recent developments and trends in food formulation, from foods that target allergies and intolerance, to prebiotic and probiotic food formulation designed to improve gut health. A much-needed reference on novel sourcing of food ingredients, processing technologies, and application, this book:

• Explores new food ingredients as well as impact of processing on ingredient interactions Describes new techniques that improve the flavor and acceptability of functional food ingredients
• Reviews mathematical tools used for recipe formulation, process control and consumer studies
• Includes regulations and legislations around tailor-made food products

Food Formulation: Novel Ingredients and Processing Techniques is an invaluable resource for students, educators, researchers, food technologists, and professionals, engineers and scientists across the food industry.

Fundamentals of Futures and Options Markets covers much of the same material as Hull’s acclaimed title, Options, Futures and Other Derivatives. However, this text simplifies the language for a less mathematically sophisticated audience. Omitting calculus completely, the book is suitable for any graduate or undergraduate course in business, economics and other faculties. The Ninth Edition has a flexible structure that can be used for any course length. Instructors can choose to cover only the first 12 chapters, finishing with binomial trees or to cover chapters 13-25 in a variety of different sequences. Each chapter from 18 onwards can be taught independently as its own unit. No matter how you elect to divide the material, Fundamentals of Futures and Options Markets offers a wide audience a sound and easy-to-grasp introduction into financial mathematics.FeaturesUpdated! Streamlined material based on recent trends in the derivatives market makes the text both more appealing and logical.The derivatives market’s move towards IOS discounting has continued since the last edition and changes have been made to the first seven chapters to reflect this trend.LIBOR discounting is no longer presented as a way to value instruments such as swaps and forward rate agreements. Instead, the valuation of these instruments requires a) forward rates for the rate used to calculate payments (usually LIBOR) and b) the zero-coupon, risk-free zero curve used for discounting (usually the OIS zero curve). Information Throughout Has Been Brought Up-to-dateNew regulations concerning the clearing and trading of OTC derivatives has been expanded on throughout the text.Revised Chapter 7 on swaps has been majorly reworked to improve material presentation and reflect the derivatives market’s move to OIS discounting.Updated Discussion of the impact of daily settlement when futures contracts are used for hedging has been expanded.Updated Details on the calculation and use of Greek letters are included.Updated Discussion of the expected shortfall measure reflects its increasing importance in the field.Table of Contents1. Introduction2. Futures markets and central counterparties3. Hedging strategies using futures4. Interest rates5. Determination of forward and futures prices6. Interest rate futures7. Swaps8. Securitization and the credit crisis of 20079. Mechanics of options markets10. Properties of stock options11. Trading strategies involving options12. Introduction to binomial trees13. Valuing stock options: the Black–Scholes–Merton model14. Employee stock options15. Options on stock indices and currencies16. Futures options and Black’s model17. The Greek letters18. Binomial trees in practice19. Volatility smiles20. Value at risk and expected shortfall21. Interest rate options22. Exotic options and other nonstandard products23. Credit derivatives24. Weather, energy and insurance derivatives25. Derivatives mishaps and what we can learn from them

Power BI for FinOps: Data Driven Multi Cloud Financial Management" is a comprehensive, in-depth guide that addresses the complexities of managing financial operations (FinOps) in a multi-cloud environment. In today's digital age, enterprise organizations are increasingly leveraging cloud technologies. However, this shift has brought about a new set of challenges, particularly in terms of cost management and optimization. This book is designed to help you navigate these challenges and implement effective strategies using Power BI, a robust data visualization and business intelligence tool.

The book begins by shedding light on the chaotic landscape of cloud billing. It introduces the concept of FinOps, a practice that instills financial accountability in the variable spend model of cloud, a critical need in today's cloud-centric business environment. It then delves into the capabilities of Power BI and explains why it is an indispensable tool for FinOps, particularly for its ability to provide clear, actionable insights from complex data.

The book presents a detailed, step-by-step approach to using Power BI for FinOps in a multi-cloud environment, encompassing Azure, AWS, and GCP. It provides a comparative analysis of these cloud platforms, offering insights into their unique features and billing processes, a crucial understanding for any organization operating in a multi-cloud environment.

In the first part of the book, you'll learn how to visualize and interpret cloud financial management data with Power BI. You'll uncover the cost implications of tagged vs. untagged resources, learn strategies to optimize orphaned resources, and discover how to manage overprovisioned assets effectively. These insights will empower you to make informed decisions and drive cost efficiency.

The second part of the book focuses on leveraging Power BI for data-driven cloud cost optimization. It covers predictive budgeting, fair cost attribution through the chargeback approach, visualization of cloud governance, and anomaly detection. These strategies are designed to maximize savings and ensure financial accountability in your cloud operations.

In the third part, you'll explore how to visualize multi-cloud ROI with Power BI dashboards. You'll learn effective performance measurement techniques, unlock ROI by visualizing unit economics, and understand how to safeguard your cloud data with Power BI. These insights will enable you to measure the financial impact of your cloud investments accurately.

The book concludes with bonus material that looks into the future of FinOps, exploring the potential of end-to-end analytics and introducing the AI-powered Copilot for Power BI to accelerate measures. This forward-looking perspective ensures you are well-equipped to handle the evolving landscape of cloud financial management.

"Power BI for FinOps: Data Driven Multi Cloud Financial Management" is an essential resource for anyone involved in managing cloud costs, including cloud architects, FinOps practitioners, IT managers, and data analysts. Whether you're new to FinOps or an experienced professional, this book provides a roadmap to navigate the complexities of multi-cloud financial management. It offers practical, actionable strategies that can be implemented right away, helping you to drive cost efficiency, optimize resources, and ultimately, achieve a higher return on your cloud investments.

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Suppose you had a single framework that allowed you to understand why certain candidates win elections and why nations go to war. And why a country’s internal politics can be peaceful one minute and beset with strikes, protests and terrorism the next. Such is the value of Socionomic Causality in Politics. In a paradigm-shifting work that trumps conventional wisdom, Robert Prechter and fellow contributors unveil why politics frequently confound even the most brilliant pollsters, historians, politicians, social scientists and the media—and how you can understand and sometimes even anticipate political changes with one simple shift in your perspective. Whether you wish to understand the actions of governments or to get elected to office, Socionomic Causality in Politics gives you the tools to be at the forefront of the most promising work in the field of behavioral studies. Are you a professor or student? Special pricing available. Contact the publisher for details at institute@socionomics.net.

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Professional Nursing Concepts: Competencies for Quality Leadership, Fifth Edition takes a patient-centered, traditional approach to the topic of nursing education. An ideal text for teaching students how to transition from the classroom to practice, it focuses on the core competencies for health professionals as determined by the Institute of Medicine (IOM). Completely updated and revised, the Fifth Edition content on epidemics and pandemics (specifically COVID-19), minority health, integrating social care into health care, infection control and prevention, competency-based education, motivational interviewing, Healthy People 2020, and more. Students can stay engaged with Stop and Consider statements that examine key topics from a personal and a clinical point-of-view, and with End-of-Chapter Special Teaching Learning Features that encourage students to interact with the content in dynamic ways, from group discussions to reflection journals to designing their own clinical case scenarios.

Successfully make the transition to professional nursing practice.

Two books in one, for the price of one―all the issues and trends coverage you need, plus leadership and management content.

The completely revised and updated 6th Edition of this popular resource prepares you to meet the challenges you'll face as a professional in today's changing health care environment. You'll explore your future responsibilities as a leader and a manager and the workplace issues and trends that you'll encounter in practice.

A wealth of resources online at DavisPlus provides tools to hone your skills and prepare for the future, including interactive case studies, review questions, bonus chapters, a resume template, sample letters and emails, and much more

Paperback Publisher: Elsevier; Third edition (2011) Language: English ISBN-10: 9380931891 ISBN-13: 978-9380931890 Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 18.2 x 2.8 cm

Staff hold annual discussions with the regional institutions responsible for common policies of each of: (i) the Central African Economic and Monetary Union; (ii) the Eastern Caribbean Currency Union; and (iii) the West African Economic and Monetary Union pursuant to Decision No. 13654-(06/1), Decision No. 13655-(06/1), and Decision No. 13656-(06/1), as amended, respectively. Further, there is an annual staff report and Board discussion on common policies of each of the currency unions. The next Board discussion with the regional institutions of each of the currency unions will take place within twelve months following the expected deadline established at the time of the last Board discussion for the respective currency union.

Producing food industrially like we do today causes tremendous global economic losses in terms of malnutrition, diseases, and environmental degradation. But because the food industry does not bear those costs and the price tag for these losses does not show up at the grocery store, it is too often ignored by economists and policymakers.

The Economics of Sustainable Food details the true cost of food for people and the planet. It illustrates how to transform our broken system, alleviating its severe financial and human burden. The key is smart macroeconomic policy that moves us toward methods that protect the environment like regenerative land and sea farming, low-impact urban farming, and alternative protein farming, and toward healthy diets. The book’s multidisciplinary team of authors lay out detailed fiscal and trade policies, as well as structural reforms, to achieve those goals.

Chapters discuss strategies to make food production sustainable, nutritious, and fair, ranging from taxes and spending to education, labor market, health care, and pension reforms, alongside regulation in cases where market incentives are unlikely to work or to work fast enough. The authors carefully consider the different needs of more and less advanced economies, balancing economic development and sustainability goals. Case studies showcase successful strategies from around the world, such as taxing foods with a high carbon footprint, financing ecosystems mapping and conservation to meet scientific targets for healthy biomes permanency, subsidizing sustainable land and sea farming, reforming health systems to move away from sick care to preventive, nutrition-based care, and providing schools with matching funds to purchase local organic produce.

In the years ahead, few issues will be more important for individual prosperity and the global economy than the way we produce our food and what food we eat. This roadmap for reform is an invaluable resource to help global policymakers improve countless lives.

Behavior Modification : Principles And Procedures, 6Th Editionraymond G. Miltenberger

Are you looking into how to advance your professional development through certification? Need a reliable and credible reference resource? No matter where you are in the process, make sure you have the most valuable review and resource tool at your disposal.

This is a must-have tool for nurses planning to take the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s (ANCC’s) Psychiatric-Mental Health Nurse Practitioner certification exam.

Based on the official ANCC certification exam test content outline, this review and resource manual will help you:

• Study and analyze comprehensive material and concepts written by nursing experts.
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A seamless integration of the best-selling conceptual text and casebook.

Based on O’Neil, Fields, and Share’s market-leading textbook and casebook, Essentials of Comparative Politics with Cases integrates key concepts with the relevant six case studies for the AP® curriculum―United Kingdom, Russia, China, Iran, Mexico, and Nigeria―following the relevant chapters. Students get all of the material they need in a seamless narrative that makes seeing connections easy.

This book builds theoretical statistics from thefirst principles of probability theory. Startingfrom the basics of probability, the authorsdevelop the theory of statistical inferenceusing techniques, definitions and conceptsthat are statistical and are natural extensionsand consequences of previous concepts.Intended for first-year graduate students, thisbook can be used for students majoring instatistics who have a solid mathematicsbackground. It can also be used in a way thatstresses the more practical uses of statisticaltheory, being more concerned withunderstanding basic statistical concepts andderiving reasonable statistical procedures for avariety of situations and less concerned withformal optimality investigations.FEATURES Offers new coverage of randomnumber generation, simulation methods,bootstrapping, EM algorithm, p-values androbustness.Includes new sections on "Logistic Regression"and "Robust Regression"Restructures material for clarity purposesContains updated and expanded Exercises Key Features

The instant #1 New York Times bestseller | A Washington Post Notable Book | One of NPR's Best Books of 2021

The definitive behind-the-scenes story of Trump's final year in office, by Phil Rucker and Carol Leonnig, the Pulitzer-Prize winning reporters and authors of A Very Stable Genius.

“Chilling.” – Anderson Cooper
“Jaw-dropping.” – John Berman
“Shocking.” – John Heilemann
“Explosive.” – Hallie Jackson
“Blockbuster new reporting.” – Nicolle Wallace 
“Bracing new revelations.” – Brian Williams
“Bombshell reporting.” – David Muir

The true story of what took place in Donald Trump’s White House during a disastrous 2020 has never before been told in full. What was really going on around the president, as the government failed to contain the coronavirus and over half a million Americans perished? Who was influencing Trump after he refused to concede an election he had clearly lost and spread lies about election fraud? To answer these questions, Phil Rucker and Carol Leonnig reveal a dysfunctional and bumbling presidency’s inner workings in unprecedented, stunning detail.
 
Focused on Trump and the key players around him—the doctors, generals, senior advisers, and Trump family members— Rucker and Leonnig provide a forensic account of the most devastating year in a presidency like no other. Their sources were in the room as time and time again Trump put his personal gain ahead of the good of the country. These witnesses to history tell the story of him longing to deploy the military to the streets of American cities to crush the protest movement in the wake of the killing of George Floyd, all to bolster his image of strength ahead of the election. These sources saw firsthand his refusal to take the threat of the coronavirus seriously—even to the point of allowing himself and those around him to be infected. This is a story of a nation sabotaged—economically, medically, and politically—by its own leader, culminating with a groundbreaking, minute-by-minute account of  exactly what went on in the Capitol building on January 6, as Trump’s supporters so easily breached the most sacred halls of American democracy, and how the president reacted. With unparalleled access, Rucker and Leonnig explain and expose exactly who enabled—and who foiled—Trump as he sought desperately to cling to power.
 
A classic and heart-racing work of investigative reporting, this book is destined to be read and studied by citizens and historians alike for decades to come.