The process of creating and implementing sectoral policy has been described from two perspectives. On the one hand, the attention of the contributors focuses mainly on the social actors of these policy – individuals and institutions on whose activity the process of implementing specific policy provisions depends. On the other hand, the complexity of sectoral policy forces the need to refer to many areas of social life around which specific solutions are created. The effectiveness of public policy, including sectoral policy, also requires indicating the context related to the socio-political conditions in Poland. To understand why different public policies emerge in different regions, it is important to understand the details that shape them. In this volume, it is crucial to indicate the determinants of the process of creating and implementing policy relating to selected aspects of socio-economic life (de facto sectoral policy) in Polish society.
Today’s critical discourses and theorizing vanguards agree on the importance of getting lost, of failure, of erring — as do life coaches and business gurus. The taste for a departure from progress and other teleologies, the fascination with disorder, unfocused modes of attention, or improvisational performances cut across wide swaths of scholarly and activist discourses, practices in the arts, but also in business, warfare, and politics. Yet often the laudible failures are only those that are redeemed by subsequent successes. What could it mean to think errancy beyond such restrictions? And what would a radical critique of productivity, success, and fixed determination look like that doesn’t collapse into the infamous ‘I would prefer not to’? This volume looks for an answer in the complicated word field branching and stretching from the Latin errāre. Its contributions explore the implications of embracing error, randomness, failure, non-teleological temporalities across different disciplines, discourses, and practices, with critical attention to the ambivalences such an impossible embrace generates.
This book explores craniofacial anatomical variations using photographic images, three-dimensional images, and computed tomography reconstruction, giving the reader a better understanding of the craniofacial structures involved in each type of facial cleft, their phenotypic variations, and their associations with other rare facial clefts. This will also aid the visualization of the relationship between tissue and bone changes. This book, through providing in-depth knowledge of the morphology of rare facial clefts, aims to contribute towards the establishment of personalized and individualized therapeutic practices in highly complex cases of facial clefts, and the improvement of the rehabilitation process for the patients.
This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th IFIP International Working Conference on Knowledge Management in Electronic Government, KMGov 2004, held in Krems, Austria in May 2004. The 34 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected for publication. The papers are organized in topical sections on KM concepts and methodologies, strategies to implement KM in the public sector, knowledge ontologies and structuring concepts for public administration, technologies for KM support in public administrations, requirements engineering for KM, representing legal and procedural knowledge, KM support for democratic processes and citizen participation, and examples of KM in public administrations and case studies.
Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Metal Ions in Biology and Medicine, Held in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, Europe, on May 18-22, 2004
Proceedings of the Eighth International Symposium on Metal Ions in Biology and Medicine, Held in the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary, Europe, on May 18-22, 2004
8th International Congress on Metal Ions in Biology and Medicine, Budapest, Hungary 18 to 22 May 2004. Every two years, the world's leading specialists meet exchange information on the most recent advances in understanding metals and the part they play in treating some diseases. This book aims to help advance our knowledge of the role of metal ions in a number of fields in biology and medicine.
Based on years of archival research, ‘The Doctors of the Warsaw Ghetto’ is the most detailed study ever undertaken into the fate of more than 800 Jewish doctors who devoted themselves, in many cases until the day they died, to the care of the sick and the dying in the Ghetto. The functioning of the Ghetto hospitals, clinics and laboratories is explained in fascinating detail. Readers will learn about the ground-breaking research undertaken in the Ghetto as well as about the underground medical university that prepared hundreds of students for a career in medicine; a career that, in most cases, was to be cut brutally short within weeks of them completing their first year of studies.
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