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221. |  Electronic Constitution: Social, Cultural, and Political Implications By: Francesco Amoretti Publisher: IGI Global Publication Date: 31-MAR-2009 Insert Date: 05-MAR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Electronic Constitution: Social, Cultural, and Political Implications
Electronic Constitution: Social, Cultural, and Political Implications provides analysis of the relationship between digital information technologies and politics, relating these issues to the historical system transformation. Addressing researchers, scholars, and students of advanced courses in political disciplines, this book highlights technological innovation as a strategy of reorganization in political-institutional systems.
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Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 10-MAR-2011 Insert Date: 04-MAR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: How Healthcare Can Be Saved This is the eBook version of the printed book.
This Element is an excerpt from
Overhauling America's Healthcare Machine: Stop the Bleeding and
Save Trillions (9780132173254) by Douglas A. Perednia.
Available in print and digital formats.
Starting with the end in mind: a set of
common sense, achievable goals for truly reforming the U.S.
healthcare system
Our American healthcare machine was never
planned with a specific result in mind: it evolved through
tradition, politics, regulation, and rational responses to
(sometimes perverse) incentives. So, if we’re really going to
“reform”...
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Why the Healthcare Machine Is Broken Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 10-MAR-2011 Insert Date: 04-MAR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Why the Healthcare Machine Is Broken This Element is an excerpt from
Overhauling America's Healthcare Machine: Stop the Bleeding and
Save Trillions (9780132173254) by Douglas A. Perednia.
Available in print and digital formats.
How to start simplifying the U.S. healthcare
system — so it will work better, cost less, and keep us
healthier
One guiding principle for building
efficient, stable systems is to simplify. No engineer would
build a machine with more parts than required–especially
moving parts that stress the entire machine simply by existing. Why
does our healthcare system have so many parts? Which are...
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Understanding the Healthcare Machine Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 10-MAR-2011 Insert Date: 04-MAR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Understanding the Healthcare Machine This Element is an excerpt from
Overhauling America's Healthcare Machine: Stop the Bleeding and
Save Trillions (9780132173254) by Douglas A. Perednia.
Available in print and digital formats.
Understand how the colossal U.S. healthcare
machine gobbles our wealth and destroys our
competitiveness--without making us healthier.
Ever wonder how the world’s richest
country can spend more than $2.5 trillion on healthcare annually,
but still not cover more than 50 million of its citizens? Are you
concerned that the huge, complex, open-ended healthcare reform law
signed by President Obama didn’t...
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Is America Getting What it Pays For? Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 10-MAR-2011 Insert Date: 04-MAR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Is America Getting What it Pays For? This Element is an excerpt from
Overhauling America's Healthcare Machine: Stop the Bleeding and
Save Trillions (9780132173254) by Douglas A. Perednia.
Available in print and digital formats.
We’re paying more for healthcare than
anyone else on in the world. Are we really getting what we’re
paying for?
To justify the status quo, politicians,
insurers, and the media say many stupid things--as when they remind
us we have the “best healthcare in the world.” The
implication: We’re getting what we’re paying for, and
the high price is simply the cost of being #1. But is this really
true? Most of...
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The Incredible Complexity of Healthcare Costs Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 10-MAR-2011 Insert Date: 04-MAR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Incredible Complexity of Healthcare Costs This Element is an excerpt from
Overhauling America's Healthcare Machine: Stop the Bleeding and
Save Trillions (9780132173254) by Douglas A. Perednia.
Available in print and digital formats.
Uncovering the heart of the U.S. healthcare
crisis: spiraling, out-of-control complexity
The U.S. healthcare system has become
absurdly complex. There is no inherent reason that it has to be,
nor did anyone consciously design it that way. Let’s be
clear: Excessive complexity is a corrosive force in society and
human interactions. Social and business systems that become too
complex are inefficient,...
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The Billion-Dollar Cottage Industry of Healthcare Billing Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 10-MAR-2011 Insert Date: 04-MAR-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Billion-Dollar Cottage Industry of Healthcare Billing This Element is an excerpt from
Overhauling America's Healthcare Machine: Stop the Bleeding and
Save Trillions (9780132173254) by Douglas A. Perednia.
Available in print and digital formats.
America’s stunningly complex, insanely
inefficient healthcare billing system: How it works--or, more
precisely, doesn’t work.
No single aspect of the healthcare system is
more inefficient, destructive, and harmful to the average American
than the way in which medical services are currently priced,
billed, and paid for. It is hard to conceive of a system that is
harder to understand, more difficult to...
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228. |  By: Steve Schroeder Publisher: Course Technology PTR Publication Date: 16-FEB-2011 Insert Date: 14-FEB-2011 Slots: 1.0 | The Lure: The True Story of How the Department of Justice Brought Down Two of the World's Most Dangerous Cyber Criminals provides a case study of a large, complex, and highly technical prosecution of two Russian hackers. The materials presented offer a wealth of information that can be used by IT professionals, business managers, and academics who wish to learn how to protect systems from abuse, and who wish to respond appropriately to network incidents. In addition to its value as a training tool, THE LURE is also the true, riveting story of how two Russian hackers, who bragged that the laws...
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229. |  The Other Side of Wall Street: In Business It Pays to Be an Animal, In Life It Pays to Be Yourself By: Todd A. Harrison Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 12-MAY-2011 Insert Date: 11-FEB-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Other Side of Wall Street: In Business It Pays to Be an Animal, In Life It Pays to Be Yourself In The Other Side of Wall Street,
Minyanville.com founder and former hedge fund honcho Todd Harrison
shares never-before-told stories from the hidden side of Wall
Street, including the adrenaline rush of trading at the highest
levels, Wall Street’s super-indulgent lifestyles;
Harrison’s time in the trenches fighting with (and then
against) Jim Cramer; why he left investing completely, and how he
returned to earn his redemption. Thousands of readers have tasted
Harrison’s story in a recent Dow Jones MarketWatch
serialization: now for the first time, he shares his entire
extraordinary personal...
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230. | Following in the footsteps of the web, Web
2.0, and the iPod, Ubiquitous Computing ("UbiComp") is the next
game-changing technology. Leading expert Bo Begole, the director of
PARC’s UbiComp Center, shows executives, technology managers,
and entrepreneurs how to successfully incorporate UbiComp into
their own products, services, and strategies. Begole introduces the
technologies of UbiComp, shows how they fit together, and
identifies the challenges and opportunities they present. Next, he
answers the key questions decision-makers and strategists ask most
often about UbiComp,...
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231. |  The New Korea: An Inside Look at South Korea's Economic Rise By: Myung Oak Kim; Sam Jaffe Publisher: AMACOM Publication Date: 30-APR-2010 Insert Date: 03-JAN-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The New Korea: An Inside Look at South Korea's Economic Rise
A fascinating look at South Korea's miraculous rise from poverty to affluence and influence... and what it means for the rest of the world.
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232. |  Wild West 2.0: How to Protect and Restore Your Online Reputation on the Untamed Social Frontier By: Michael Fertik; David Thompson Publisher: AMACOM Publication Date: 30-JUN-2010 Insert Date: 20-DEC-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Wild West 2.0: How to Protect and Restore Your Online Reputation on the Untamed Social Frontier
Your reputation can be made or destroyed - in just a few clicks.
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Can We See the Invisible Mind of God? By: The Chicago Social Brain Network Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 30-NOV-2010 Insert Date: 06-DEC-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Can We See the Invisible Mind of God? This Element is an excerpt from Invisible
Forces and Powerful Beliefs: Gravity, Gods, and Minds
(9780137075454) by the Chicago Social Brain Network. Available in
print and digital formats.
How do people understand others’
minds…God’s, yours, anyone’s?
Shortly after taking off from LaGuardia, the
engines of US Airways Flight 1549 failed. The pilots glided onto
the Hudson River, where all the passengers were rescued. Explained
one passenger, “God was certainly looking out for us.”
To psychologists, such statements reveal one of the social
brain’s most impressive capacities--the ability...
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A New Approach for Meeting the Challenges of AIDS Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 30-NOV-2010 Insert Date: 06-DEC-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: A New Approach for Meeting the Challenges of AIDS This Element is an excerpt from AIDS:
Taking a Long-Term View (9780132172592) by the aids2031
Consortium. Available in print and digital formats.
Reconceiving the world’s response to
AIDS: toward more positive, sustainable outcomes.
The world is at a crossroads in the
still-unfolding history of the AIDS pandemic. In 30 years, an
immense amount has been accomplished. Millions of lives have been
saved. But we are losing ground. We must reconceive our response to
the pandemic to have more positive and sustainable outcomes, both
in the short term and over the coming decades....
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Insights on Environmental Effects By: Sherry Seethaler Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 30-NOV-2010 Insert Date: 06-DEC-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Insights on Environmental Effects This Element is an excerpt from Curious
Folks Ask 2: 188 Real Answers on Our Fellow Creatures, Our Planet,
and Beyond (9780137057399) by Sherry Seethaler. Available in
print and digital formats.
Inside hurricanes, cyclones, and
tornadoes… and do toilets really drain the opposite
way in the southern hemisphere?
Computer models show it is theoretically
possible to weaken or reroute hurricanes. One suggested method is
to use an array of orbiting solar power stations that would beam
microwaves to heat and perturb sections of a storm. Another idea:
to cool the ocean surface or cover it with...
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Inside Scoops on the Environment By: Sherry Seethaler Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 30-NOV-2010 Insert Date: 06-DEC-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Inside Scoops on the Environment This Element is an excerpt from Curious
Folks Ask 2: 188 Real Answers on Our Fellow Creatures, Our Planet,
and Beyond (9780137057399) by Sherry Seethaler. Available in
print and digital formats.
Gluttonous TVs, vampire appliances, nature
that “burps,” and the truth about carbon dioxide.
The climate change issue has plenty of
legitimate scientific debates. However, whether the increase in
atmospheric CO2 is less than, equal to, or greater than
what humans have produced is measurable and should not be
controversial. The increase is two-thirds or less of what humans
have produced from...
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Designing More Effective Programs to Prevent HIV Transmission Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 30-NOV-2010 Insert Date: 06-DEC-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Designing More Effective Programs to Prevent HIV Transmission This Element is an excerpt from AIDS:
Taking a Long-Term View (9780132172592) by the aids2031
Consortium. Available in print and digital formats.
What we’ve learned about building
prevention programs that can dramatically reduce the worldwide
impact of AIDS.
If the picture of AIDS is to be
substantially more favorable in 2031 than it is today, markedly
greater progress is required in preventing new infections. Given
the rate at which the pandemic is outpacing programmatic scale-up,
incremental improvements won’t suffice. Prevention programs
will need to have radically greater impact.......
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How to Implement a Seeds of Prosperity Policy Blueprint By: Glenn Hubbard; Peter Navarro Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 03-NOV-2010 Insert Date: 03-NOV-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: How to Implement a Seeds of Prosperity Policy Blueprint This Element is an excerpt from Seeds of
Destruction: Why the Path to Economic Ruin Runs Through Washington,
and How to Reclaim American Prosperity (9780137027736) by Glenn
Hubbard and Peter Navarro. Available in print and digital
formats.
After the failures of Obama and Congress: a
better, bipartisan route back to prosperity.
Mr. Bernanke is right that if the profligate
policies of Congress and the Obama administration continue, we will
face some hard choices. But he offers as the only choice harsh
budget and program cuts and painfully higher taxes. There is a
better way: to undertake...
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By: Tony Crescenzi Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 15-OCT-2010 Insert Date: 31-OCT-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Keynesian Endpoint What happens now? Economics in an age when
fiscal stimulus can’t be funded and no longer works.
After Lehman fell, the scope of the
financial crisis became so great that only the fiscal and monetary
authorities possessed balance sheets large enough to resolve it.
But if the U.S. is backing its financial system, who’s
backing the U.S.? Practically, nations have reached “the
Keynesian Endpoint”: No more balance sheets are left to
support either economic activity or the financial system....
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Fixing Toyota: Quality Is Hard—Lean Is Much Harder Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 15-OCT-2010 Insert Date: 30-OCT-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Fixing Toyota: Quality Is Hard—Lean Is Much Harder A closer look at Toyota’s quality and
lean manufacturing problems–and the powerful lessons and
warnings they represent.
In the general and business press,
Toyota’s quality issues are just that: quality issues. The
industrial community wonders if there might be more to it: whether
Toyota’s namesake production system (TPS), also called lean
manufacturing or just-in-time production (JIT), has been sullied.
To see why this is a concern, consider the primary objective of the
Toyota system/lean/JIT…...
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