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Out to see America and satisfy his travel bug, W. T. Pfefferle resigned from his position as director of the writing program at Johns Hopkins University and hit the road to interview sixty-two poets about the significance of place in their work. The lively conversations that resulted may surprise with the potential meanings of a seemingly simple concept. This gathering of voices and ideas is illustrated with photo and word portraits from the road and represented with suitable poems. The poets are James Harms, David Citino, Martha Collins, Linda Gregerson, Richard Tillinghast, Or

AIDS (Disease). --- AIDS (Disease) --- Risk perception --- Health behavior --- HIV Infections --- Probability --- Behavior --- Slow Virus Diseases --- Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes --- Lentivirus Infections --- Statistics as Topic --- Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral --- Mathematical Concepts --- Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms --- Virus Diseases --- Immune System Diseases --- Psychiatry and Psychology --- Epidemiologic Methods --- Sexually Transmitted Diseases --- Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms --- Phenomena and Processes --- Retroviridae Infections --- Diseases --- Quality of Health Care --- Public Health --- RNA Virus Infections --- Investigative Techniques --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation --- Environment and Public Health --- Health Care --- Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome --- Risk --- Health Behavior --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Communicable Diseases --- Risk perception. --- Health behavior. --- Acquired immune deficiency syndrome --- Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome --- Acquired immunological deficiency syndrome --- Behavior, Health --- Health habits --- Awareness, Risk --- Risk awareness --- HIV infections --- Immunological deficiency syndromes --- Virus-induced immunosuppression --- Habit --- Health attitudes --- Human behavior --- Medicine and psychology --- Perception --- Causes and theories of causation

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Case studies of twelve existing human biospecimen repositories performed to evaluate their utility for genomics- and proteomics-based cancer research and to identify ?best practices? in collection, processing, annotation, storage, privacy, ethical concerns, informed consent, business plans, operations, intellectual property rights, public relations, marketing, and education that would be useful in designing a national biospecimen network.

Cadaver homografts--Case studies. --- Organizational Case Studies--United States. --- Preservation of organs, tissues, etc.--Case studies. --- Tissue banks--Case studies. --- Tissue Banks--standards--United States. --- Tissue Preservation--methods--United States. --- Health Care Evaluation Mechanisms --- Histocytological Preparation Techniques --- Preservation, Biological --- Health Services Research --- Biological Specimen Banks --- Quality of Health Care --- Investigative Techniques --- Cytological Techniques --- Specimen Handling --- Health Planning --- Histological Techniques --- Health Facilities --- Laboratory Techniques and Procedures --- Health Care Economics and Organizations --- Clinical Laboratory Techniques --- Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services --- Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation --- Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment --- Health Care --- Diagnosis --- Tissue Preservation --- Tissue Banks --- Organizational Case Studies --- Surgery & Anesthesiology --- Health & Biological Sciences --- Transplantation of Organs & Tissues --- Tissue banks --- Preservation of organs, tissues, etc. --- Cadaver homografts --- Post-mortem homografts --- Postmortem homografts --- Organ preservation (Anatomy) --- Organs (Anatomy) --- Banks, Organ --- Banks, Tissue --- Banks, Transplant --- Organ banks --- Transplant banks --- Preservation --- Homografts --- Non-heart-beating organ donation --- Transplantation of organs, tissues, etc. --- Biobanks --- Health facilities --- Procurement of organs, tissues, etc.

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The ability to measure emergency preparedness - to predict the likely performance of emergency response systems in future events - is critical for policy analysis in homeland security. Yet it remains difficult to know how prepared a response system is to deal with large-scale incidents, whether it be a natural disaster, terrorist attack, or industrial or transportation accident. This research draws on the fields of systems analysis and engineering to apply the concept of system reliability to the evaluation of emergency response systems. The authors describe a method for modeling an emergency response system; identifying how individual parts of the system might fail; and assessing the likelihood of each failure and the severity of its effects on the overall response effort. The authors walk the reader through two applications of this method: a simplified example in which responders must deliver medical treatment to a certain number of people in a specified time window, and a more complex scenario involving the release of chlorine gas. The authors also describe an exploratory analysis in which they parsed a set of after-action reports describing real-world incidents, to demonstrate how this method can be used to quantitatively analyze data on past response performance. The authors conclude with a discussion of how this method of measuring emergency response system reliability could inform policy discussion of emergency preparedness, how system reliability might be improved, and the costs of doing so. --From publisher description.

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Updates the policy context of the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) patient safety initiative; documents the current priorities and activities undertaken; and assesses contributions of health information technology projects and dissemination actions to support adoption of evidence-based safe practices. Discusses implications for future AHRQ policy, programming, and research; suggests ways to strengthen AHRQ activities.

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Firefighters, law enforcement officers, and emergency medical service responders play a critical role in protecting people and property in the event of fires, medical emergencies, terrorist acts, and numerous other emergencies. The authors examine the hazards that responders face and the personal protective technology needed to contend with those hazards. The findings are based on in-depth discussions with 190 members of the emergency responder community and are intended to help define the protective technology needs of responders and develop a comprehensive personal protective technology re

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