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Orphans and Incentives

Developing Technology to Address Emerging Infections

By: Forum on Emerging Infections,Institute of Medicine

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Orphans and Incentives

Developing Technology to Address Emerging Infections

By: Forum on Emerging Infections,Institute of Medicine

Infectious diseases remain a leading cause of prolonged illness, premature mortality, and soaring health costs. In the United States in 1995, infectious diseases were the third leading cause of death, right behind heart disease and cancer. Mortality is mounting over time, owing to HIV/AIDS, pneumonia, and septicemia, with drug resistance playing an ever-increasing role in each of these disease categories. This book, a report from a Forum on Emerging Infections workshop, focuses on product areas where returns from the market might be perceived as being too small or too complicated by other factors to compete in industrial portfolios with other demands for investment. Vaccines are quintessential examples of such products. The lessons learned fall into four areas, including what makes intersectoral collaboration a reality, the notion of a product life cycle, the implications of divergent sectoral mandates and concepts of risk, and the roles of advocacy and public education. The summary contains an examination of the Children's Vaccine Initiative and other models, an industry perspective on the emerging infections agenda, and legal and regulatory issues.

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National Academies Press

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0309591333

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9780309591331

Veterans and Agent Orange

Update 2006

By: Institute of Medicine,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Committee to Review the Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Herbicides (Sixth Biennial Update)

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Veterans and Agent Orange

Update 2006

By: Institute of Medicine,Board on Population Health and Public Health Practice,Committee to Review the Health Effects in Vietnam Veterans of Exposure to Herbicides (Sixth Biennial Update)

From 1962 to 1971, the U.S. military sprayed herbicides over Vietnam to strip the thick jungle canopy that could conceal opposition forces, to destroy crops that those forces might depend on, and to clear tall grasses and bushes from the perimeters of U.S. base camps and outlying fire-support bases. In response to concerns and continuing uncertainty about the long-term health effects of the sprayed herbicides on Vietnam veterans, Veterans and Agent Orange provides a comprehensive evaluation of scientific and medical information regarding the health effects of exposure to Agent Orange and other herbicides used in Vietnam. The 2006 report is the seventh volume in this series of biennial updates. It will be of interest to policy makers and physicians in the federal government, veterans and their families, veterans' organizations, researchers, and health professionals.

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National Academies Press

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0309107083

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9780309107082

Making a Prince's Museum

Drawings for the Late-eighteenth-century Redecoration of the Villa Borghese

By: Carole Paul,Alberta Campitelli,Getty Research Institute

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Making a Prince's Museum

Drawings for the Late-eighteenth-century Redecoration of the Villa Borghese

By: Carole Paul,Alberta Campitelli,Getty Research Institute

In 1775 Prince Marcantonio Borghese IV and the architect Antonio Asprucci embarked upon a decorative renovation of the Villa Borghese. Initially their attention focused on the Casino, the principal building at the villa, which had always been a semi-public museum. By 1625 it housed much of the Borghese's outstanding collection of sculpture. Integrating this statuary with vast baroque ceiling paintings and richly ornamented surfaces, Asprucci created a dazzling and unified homage to the Borghese family, portraying its legendary ancestors as well as its newly born heir. In this book, Carole Paul reads the inventive decorative program as a set of exemplary scenes for the education of the ideal Borghese prince. Her wide-ranging essay also situates the Villa Borghese among the sumptuous palaces and suburban villas of Rome's collectors of antiquities and outlines the renovated Casino's pivotal role in the historic transition from the princely collection to the public museum. Rounding out this volume is a catalog of the Getty Research Institute's fifty-nine drawings for the refurbishing of the Villa Borghese and Alberta Campitelli's discussion of sketches for the short-lived Museo di Gabii, the Villa's other antiquities museum.

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Getty Publications

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0892365390

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9780892365395

State of the World 2012

Moving Toward Sustainable Prosperity

By: The The Worldwatch Institute

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State of the World 2012

Moving Toward Sustainable Prosperity

By: The The Worldwatch Institute

In the 2012 edition of its flagship report, Worldwatch celebrates the twentieth anniversary of the 1992 Earth Summit with a far-reaching analysis of progress toward building sustainable economies. Written in clear language with easy-to-read charts, State of the World 2012 offers a new perspective on what changes and policies will be necessary to make sustainability a permanent feature of the world's economies. The Worldwatch Institute has been named one of the top three environmental think tanks in the world by the University of Pennsylvania's Think Tanks and Civil Societies Program.

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272

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Island Press

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1610910451

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9781610910453

The Architect's Handbook of Professional Practice

By: American Institute of Architects

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The Architect's Handbook of Professional Practice

By: American Institute of Architects

Architects must be proficient in a variety of business practices to contribute to, manage, or launch a successful firm. They are responsible for the same kind of legal, financial, marketing, management, and administrative activities as any other professional. Within these broad categories, however, there are many details, including professional standards and documents, that are unique to the profession of architecture.

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John Wiley & Sons

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111817416X

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9781118174166

SIPRI Yearbook 2008

Armaments, Disarmament, and International Security

By: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

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SIPRI Yearbook 2008

Armaments, Disarmament, and International Security

By: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute

The 39th edition of the SIPRI Yearbook analyses developments in 2007 in * Security and conflicts* Military spending and armaments* Non-proliferation, arms control and disarmament The SIPRI Yearbook contains extensive annexes on the implementation of arms control and disarmament agreements and a chronology of events during the year in the area of security and arms control.

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SIPRI Yearbook

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0199548951

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9780199548958

Working Papers Volume II

By: Peterson Institute for International Economics

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Working Papers Volume II

By: Peterson Institute for International Economics

Perhaps the most popular of all Institute products, selected Working Papers are now available in a print format. These papers contain the preliminary results of ongoing Institute research. The book covers a wide range of topics including offshoring, central banks, Eurasian growth, Europe, and international reserves. Included in the book are papers by Edwin M. Truman, Adam Posen, J. Bradford Jensen, Anders slund, C. Randall Henning, and Jacob Kirkegaard. Volume II contains papers from 2006. Future volumes will be published on a semi-regular schedule as material is available.

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Peterson Institute

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0881324043

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9780881324044

The Conservation of Tapestries and Embroideries

Proceedings of Meetings at the Institut Royal du Patrimoine Artistique, Brussels, Belgium, September 21-24, 1987

By: Institut royal du patrimoine artistique (Belgium),Getty Conservation Institute

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The Conservation of Tapestries and Embroideries

Proceedings of Meetings at the Institut Royal du Patrimoine Artistique, Brussels, Belgium, September 21-24, 1987

By: Institut royal du patrimoine artistique (Belgium),Getty Conservation Institute

Contributors discuss current research, new findings, and specific problems, innovations, methods, and materials.

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0892361549

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Book's by Institute of Design Research Vienna

Orphans and Incentives

Orphans and Incentives

Veterans and Agent Orange

Veterans and Agent Orange

Making a Prince's Museum

Making a Prince's Museum

State of the World 2012

State of the World 2012

The Architect's Handbook of Professional Practice

The Architect's Handbook of Professional Practice

SIPRI Yearbook 2008

SIPRI Yearbook 2008

Working Papers Volume II

Working Papers Volume II

The Conservation of Tapestries and Embroideries

The Conservation of Tapestries and Embroideries

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