The Implementation of Electronic Medical Records into Existing Medical Practice

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Abstract Electronic medical records (EMRs) are computerized medical record systems that allow for the storage, retrieval, and modification of patient records and information. The 2009 federal stimulus fund sought to expand EMR adoption in the United States to replace traditional paperbased record...

Statistics: An Animated Journey

Author(s): Rick Martinez, Gene Seelbach, Geoffre A. Seelbach

Statistics: An Animated Journey is a turn-key online course package that uses videos with animation to help students develop a basic understanding of statistical concepts and methods that are used in other disciplines. Statistics is a process that involves understanding types of data, representing d...

Informational and Affective needs: Considering Media Dependency Theory in the Context of Twitter and Natural Disasters

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Sample In a relatively short period of time, social media has emerged as a critical resource in the ways in which people make sense of the world around them. Platforms like Twitter and Facebook allow for the production of user-generated content, allowing individuals to broadcast publicly-availabl...

Contemporary Debates in Social Justice: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Exploring the Lives of Black and Brown Americans

Author(s): FARRAH GAFFORD CAMBRICE, William T. Hoston, MARCO ROBINSON

The social and cultural inclusion for Black and Brown people continues to be one of the pressing concerns in the 21st century. This pathbreaking collection of works in Contemporary Debates in Social Justice encourages a multi-discipline approach to examining the existing societal injustices affectin...

Risk Communication at the Neighborhood Level Following Superstorm Sandy

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Sample The decades-old discussion continues as to why practitioners and researchers cannot seem to connect so that research findings might have a greater influence on risk communication practice. An even greater gap exists between practitioners of risk communication and the public audiences with ...

A Student Guide to SPSS

Author(s): Carrie Cuttler

The 3rd edition of A Student Guide to SPSS provides easy to follow step-by-step instructions on how to compute introductory and advanced statistics using one of the most popular statistical software programs in psychology, business, education, and other social sciences. Written in a non-intimidating...

The Vicious Valentine

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Abstract Carol Sander, CEO of the Sentiments from the Heart greeting card company, needs to respond to a crisis situation involving a mix-up in Valentine’s Day greeting cards that caused young children to receive cards with offensive messages. Although a subcontractor caused the problem, her comp...

Louder Than Words

Author(s): Lorena Turner, Alan Reyes

The field of public relations is changing – the look of a message is now just as important as the message itself. Louder Than Words is the first book that presents the fundamentals of visual communication to public relations practitioners. Whether you’re a just starting out in the field, or have exp...

Like the Marines, Do We Need a Few Good Men?: Contesting the Single-Sex Mandate of the YWCA

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Sample After returning from dropping baby Claire off at daycare, Grace took a few minutes to herself and slowly sipped her morning cup of green tea infused with ginger and peppermint. Her physician had told her both herbs helped to calm nerves, and she certainly needed that now. She absent-minded...

Temporal Characteristics of Speech: The Case of the Hesitant Stripper

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Sample This chapter focuses on an aspect of human message behavior that is as fascinating as it is subtle. The temporal characteristics of speech (e.g., silent pauses, speech rate) belong to the category of nonverbal cues termed vocalics (or paralinguistics) which encompasses all the features of ...