84 The Science of Christian Economy S ince we did not desire to narrow our audience to exclude non-specialists in the following matter, the author has chosen to relegate to this appended section the treatment of certain topics relevant to Chapter VI, "The reproduction of man." To indicate the fuller sCIOpe of relevance of the techni­ cal difficulties addressed in this Appendix, we excerpt two p...

Research into multi-surface systems goes back for more than thirty years, yet these systems have not been taken up in real-world settings. We believe the reason for the lack of adoption is that constructing multi-surface systems is costly and requires specialist knowledge of tasks related to device discovery, cross-platform interoperability, networking, and spatial tracking. These tasks represe...

The emerging field of corporate demography views corporations and industries in a similar way to human or animal individuals and groups. In spite of a surprisingly large overlap of subject matter with economics, corporate demography is not well-known by, nor easily accessible to economists. An outstanding recent book, The Demography of Corporations and Industries, by Glenn R. Carroll and Michae...

In the past few years, the use of spread-spectrum coded signals ceased to be the job of a limited group of specialists. Substantially more workers will be interested in applications of this part of the information theory and practice in the near future [29]. There is no need to present here the motives for the practical use of spread-spectrum coded signals. They are elucidated with details e.g....

Subject matter experts, including pharmacists, pharmacy benefit managers, health researchers and health data analytics specialists, are generally knowledgeable in drug resources, such as RxNorm, and have developed interesting use cases for it. However, processing datasets often requires programming skills, e.g., making calls to a service, such as the RxNorm Application Programming Interface (AP...

Determinism seems to rule out a robust sense of options but also prevent our choices from being a matter of luck. In this way, free will seems to require both the truth and falsity of determinism. If the concept of free will is coherent, something must have gone wrong. I offer a diagnosis on which this puzzle is due at least in part to a tension already present in the very idea of free will. I ...

The Louisiana Cooperative Extension Service (LCES) has employees in all parishes of the state, a state director, state program leaders, supervisors and subject matter specialists. These staff members work with local clientele to develop and deliver programs based on the needs of individuals and businesses. Sometimes, the needs of local clientele put a large demand on the Extension worker’s time...

As information systems are increasingly pervading human life, the way information systems designers’ conceptualize and carry out the relationship between computerised information systems (IS) and users has recurrently been brought forward as a significant question. In particular, a matter of utmost importance is how the IS specialists create the IS-user relationship from the point of view of hu...

Journal of Infusion Nursing ABSTRACT It is well documented in pediatric literature that intrusive healthcare experiences can have a profound negative impact on a child's psychological well-being for months to years after the experience. The purpose of this article is to share some general techniques and strategies for fostering patient coping. By utilization of techniques for preparation, proce...