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Information Technology Strategies from the United States and the European Union

Transferring Research to Practice for Health Care Improvement

Clinical and biomedical research production is rapidly growing, but delivery to practitioners remains unacceptably slow. To improve health care quality and to make the best scientific achievements part of usual practices, clinicians need better information systems and services. The international, multi-disciplinary author team presents the analyses and recommendations that will lead to competitive advantages by increasing quality and effectiveness of health care delivery. The book includes the latest findings on: -Advanced information technologies in disseminating research results -Information infrastructure for transferring research -Structuring knowledge for practical application -Practical solutions: better information for improved health care quality. The practical approach of this book ensures easy to read, stand-alone chapters that will benefit medical group managers and local and commercial developers of health care information systems. The book is also a useful educational tool for medical informatics, health care administration, and health services research.

Internet and World Wide Web technology have raised many technical as well as
social and economic issues. The paper begins with a description of the recent
digital library research initiative funded by the U.S. federal government.

Respect Yourself

Stax Records and the Soul Explosion

The story of Stax Records unfolds like a Greek tragedy. A white brother and sister build a record company that becomes a monument to racial harmony in 1960's segregated south Memphis. Their success is startling, and Stax soon defines an international sound. Then, after losses both business and personal, the siblings part, and the brother allies with a visionary African-American partner. Under integrated leadership, Stax explodes as a national player until, Icarus-like, they fall from great heights to a tragic demise. Everything is lost, and the sanctuary that flourished is ripped from the ground. A generation later, Stax is rebuilt brick by brick to once again bring music and opportunity to the people of Memphis. Set in the world of 1960s and '70s soul music, Respect Yourself is a story of epic heroes in a shady industry. It's about music and musicians -- Isaac Hayes, Otis Redding, Sam and Dave, Wilson Pickett, the Staple Singers, and Booker T. and the M.G.'s, Stax's interracial house band. It's about a small independent company's struggle to survive in a business world of burgeoning conglomerates. And always at the center of the story is Memphis, Tennessee, an explosive city struggling through heated, divisive years. Told by one of our leading music chroniclers, Respect Yourself brings to life this treasured cultural institution and the city that created it.

Years later, the song “Respect Yourself” galvanized a race of people that had
tailspun across America in search of validation. A cry for healing, the song rivaled
the “Negro National Anthem” for viability as an AfricanAmerican theme ...

Ethics in Accounting

A Decision-Making Approach

This book provides a comprehensive, authoritative, and thought-provoking examination of the multitude of ethical issues encountered by accountants working in the industry, public practice, nonprofit service, and government. Gordon Klein's essential text, Ethics in Accounting: A Decision-Making Approach, 1st edition helps students understand all topics commonly prescribed by state Boards of Accountancy regarding ethics literacy. This text can be utilized in either a one-term or two-term course in Accounting Ethics. Each chapter takes on a wide array of subjects and stands on its own allowing chapters to be assigned separately without any loss of continuity. A contemporary focus immerses readers in real world ethical questions with recent scandals such as celebrity privacy, basketball point-shaving, auditor inside trading, and online dating. Woven into chapters are tax-related issues that address fraud, cheating, confidentiality, contingent fees and auditor independence. Duties arising in more commonplace roles as internal auditors, external auditors, and tax practitioners are, of course, examined as well.

This book provides a comprehensive, authoritative, and thought-provoking examination of the ethical issues encountered by accountants working in the industry, public practice, nonprofit service, and government.

International Financial Accounting

A Comparative Approach

This comprehensive text book examines why differences and similarities in accounting systems exist across national boundaries. It analyses the significance of these differences to accounts users, preparers, standards setters and capital markets.

This comprehensive text book examines why differences and similarities in accounting systems exist across national boundaries.

Slavery in the Arab World

...a comprehensive portrait of slavery in the Islamic world from earliest times until today...D>--Arab Book World

...a comprehensive portrait of slavery in the Islamic world from earliest times until today...D>--Arab Book World

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