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Multinational Rapid Response Mechanisms From Institutional Proliferation to Institutional Exploitation

Multinational Rapid Response Mechanisms From Institutional Proliferation to Institutional Exploitation

The track record of military rapid response mechanisms troops on standby ready to be deployed to a crisis within a short time frame by intergovernmental organizations remains disappointing. Yet many of the obstacles to multinational actors launching a rapid and effective military response in times of crisis are largely similar. This book is the first comprehensive and comparative contribution to explore and identify the key factors that hamper and enable the development and deployment of multinational rapid response mechanisms. Examining lessons from deployments by the AU the EU NATO and the UN in the Central African Republic Mali Somalia and counter-piracy in the Horn of Africa the contributors focus upon the following questions: Was there a rapid response to the crises? By whom? If not what were the major obstacles to rapid response? Did inter-organizational competition hinder responsiveness? Or did cooperation facilitate responsiveness? Bringing together leading scholars working in this area offers a unique opportunity to analyze and develop lessons for policy-makers and for theorists of inter-organizational relations. This work will be of interest to scholars and students of peacebuilding peacekeeping legitimacy and international relations. | Multinational Rapid Response Mechanisms From Institutional Proliferation to Institutional Exploitation

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U.s. Military Power And Rapid Deployment Requirements In The 1980s

U.s. Military Power And Rapid Deployment Requirements In The 1980s

This book assesses U. S. military needs in the coming decade focusing on the role of rapid deployment forces in protecting U. S. interests abroad. Dr. Cordier begins by discussing two general developments crucial to future military requirements: first increasing U. S. dependence on the global sea-lanes as links to key markets; and second improved S | U. s. Military Power And Rapid Deployment Requirements In The 1980s

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Rapid Ethnographic Assessments A Practical Approach and Toolkit For Collaborative Community Research

Rapid Ethnographic Assessments A Practical Approach and Toolkit For Collaborative Community Research

Please see the website of author Thurka Sangaramoorthy for extra resources and material related to this book at thurkasangaramoorthy. com. Click on the book’s cover and be sure to check back for updated content This book provides provides a practical guide to understanding and conducting rapid ethnographic assessments (REAs) with an emphasis on their use in public health contexts. This team-based multi-method relatively low-cost approach results in rich understandings of social economic and policy factors that contribute to the root causes of an emerging situation and provides rapid practical feedback to policy makers and programs. Using real-world examples and case studies of completed REAs Sangaramoorthy and Kroeger provide readers with a logical easy-to-follow introduction into key concepts principles and methods of REAs including interview and observation techniques triangulation field notes and debriefing theoretical saturation and qualitative analysis. They also provide a practical guide for planning and implementing REAs and suggestions for transforming findings into written reports and actionable recommendations. Materials and detailed tools regarding the conduct of REAs are designed to help readers apply this method to their own research regardless of topic or discipline. REA is an applied approach that can facilitate collaborative work with communities and become a catalyst for action. Rapid Ethnographic Assessment will appeal to professionals and researchers interested in using REAs for research efficiency and productivity as well as action-oriented and translational research in a variety of fields and contexts. | Rapid Ethnographic Assessments A Practical Approach and Toolkit For Collaborative Community Research

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Facilitating Rapid Process Improvement Workshops The Self-Study Guide for Lean Leaders

Facilitating Rapid Process Improvement Workshops The Self-Study Guide for Lean Leaders

This is a self-study guide for facilitators of rapid process improvement workshops that helps anyone who feels like they aren’t truly gaining the full results of improvement initiatives and kaizen events. They know they can do better but don’t know how. The author an experienced facilitator in government and nonprofits speaks to the facilitator through coaching notes and actual workshop documents and techniques so the reader can fully understand how greater results are achieved. This guide takes the reader through a step-by-step path of a newly created workshop agenda. The author has parsed the workshop path into more manageable parts easier for both the facilitator and the team. These parts split the improvement work into two sections: removing the unnecessary and smoothing out the flow. Smoothing out the flow is divided further into: When the work is coming in When the product/person is going through the process How the work is performed In addition the author includes newly created tools and training content. For example a data-gathering table points the facilitator to what data need to be collected when. Training for the team includes making sure they understand the structure of a process as well as to instruct them and define how a Lean process actually functions. This distinction is important because all improvements are not necessarily Lean improvements. Several bodies of knowledge are incorporated into this guide––not only Lean and Six Sigma but internal auditing organizational development and statistics. Essentially this guide includes tips nuances and original tools that are missing from the traditional training of facilitators of kaizen events. It provides enough information for the facilitator to think in a creative way. | Facilitating Rapid Process Improvement Workshops The Self-Study Guide for Lean Leaders

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Rapid Story Development How to Use the Enneagram-Story Connection to Become a Master Storyteller

Rapid Story Development How to Use the Enneagram-Story Connection to Become a Master Storyteller

This book offers a unique approach to storytelling connecting the Enneagram system with classic story principles of character development plot and story structure to provide a seven-step methodology to achieve rapid story development. Using the nine core personality styles underlying all human thought feeling and action it provides the tools needed to understand and leverage the Enneagram-Story Connection for writing success. Author Jeff Lyons starts with the basics of the Enneagram system and builds with how to discover and design the critical story structure components of any story featuring supporting examples of the Enneagram-Story Connection in practice across film literature and TV. Readers will learn the fundamentals of the Enneagram system and how to utilize it to create multidimensional characters master premise line development maintain narrative drive and create antagonists that are perfectly designed to challenge your protagonist in a way that goes beyond surface action to reveal the dramatic core of any story. Lyons explores the use of the Enneagram as a tool not only for character development but for story development itself. This is the ideal text for intermediate and advanced level screenwriting and creative writing students as well as professional screenwriters and novelists looking to get more from their writing process and story structure. | Rapid Story Development How to Use the Enneagram-Story Connection to Become a Master Storyteller

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Rapid Review of ECG Interpretation in Small Animal Practice

Rapid Review of ECG Interpretation in Small Animal Practice

The standard electrocardiogram (ECG) is an indispensable safe and inexpensive test to assess dogs and cats with heart disease. This bestselling user-friendly book discusses the principles of electrocardiography then systematically explores the evaluation of the ECG including determination of heart rate measurement of intervals derivation of mean electrical axis and criteria for atrial/ventricular enlargement or hypertrophy. At the core of this book is an extensive series of ECG cases for the reader to work through: practice makes perfect. New to this edition: Instructions on how to obtain an ECG A new chapter on the treatment of the most common clinically important ECG arrhythmias A second new chapter on 24-hour ECG (Holter) monitoring A handy one-page reference guide of important ECG values and diagrams which can be downloaded from the book's webpage for easy reference 15 new ECG cases have been added to the original 46 cases with a selection of advanced cases geared toward readers craving more challenging topics such as electrical cardioversion and pacemaker function. This updated edition will further aid veterinarians in their quest to better interpret the ECG. It provides information in an appealing accessible and easy to use format that fits with the busy lives of veterinary practitioners. | Rapid Review of ECG Interpretation in Small Animal Practice

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Practical Customer Success Management A Best Practice Framework for Rapid Generation of Customer Success

Practical Customer Success Management A Best Practice Framework for Rapid Generation of Customer Success

Practical Customer Success Management is a complete handbook for CSMs written by a customer success expert who has coached and trained many hundreds of customer success managers across the globe. The book is aimed at increasing both productivity and consistency of quality of output for customer success managers of all levels from relative newcomers through to seasoned professionals. The book is highly practical in nature and is packed full of good humored but very direct advice and assistance for dealing with exactly the types of real world situations CSMs face every day. Practical Customer Success Management provides a simple-to-follow best practice framework that explains what the core customer success management steps are at each stage of the customer journey to business outcome success and in what circumstances to apply those steps. It describes and explains which situations each step applies to and provides recommendations for activities or tasks that the CSM can perform to complete each step together with detailed explanations and step-by-step guidance for successfully completing each activity or task. Included in this book is an entire suite of tools and templates that enable rapid completion of each task and ensure consistency of approach both across multiple customer engagements and by multiple CSMs within a team. Each tool’s use is clearly explained within the book and CSMs are able to adapt and customize the tools to suit their own specific needs as they see fit. | Practical Customer Success Management A Best Practice Framework for Rapid Generation of Customer Success

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Re-Envisioning the Public Research University Navigating Competing Demands in an Era of Rapid Change

Re-Envisioning the Public Research University Navigating Competing Demands in an Era of Rapid Change

This volume explores the numerous and competing demands that face America’s public research universities and considers how institutions and their leaders can best navigate this challenge to ensure longevity relevance and success on the local national and global stage. Today’s public research universities have the unique challenge of responding to new societal pressures and policies while remaining true to their core educational missions and values. Highlighting the multiple roles that universities must now fulfil – as institutions of higher learning as research bodies as institutions with global reputations and as organizations that serve the public – the volume asks how they can best evolve in the rapidly changing education landscape. Tackling subjects such as faculty culture the role of technology financial sustainability institutional identity diversity and organizational development chapters identify innovative and transformative mechanisms for acclimatizing the public research university to current educational academic and societal needs. This text will benefit researchers academics and educators with an interest in higher education educational reform and policy and the sociology of education more broadly. | Re-Envisioning the Public Research University Navigating Competing Demands in an Era of Rapid Change

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State–Society Relations around the World through the Lens of the COVID-19 Pandemic Rapid Test

State–Society Relations around the World through the Lens of the COVID-19 Pandemic Rapid Test

The collection examines state–society relations during the COVID-19 pandemic from governance at the outset of the pandemic to vaccine rollouts via a series of case studies from around the world. With a focus on the Global South the book includes chapters on the experiences of – Angola Zimbabwe South Africa Bolivia Argentina Brazil Jamaica and Indonesia as well as contributions from the Global North – on Sweden Canada Czech Republic and New Zealand. The collection demonstrates that the effects of the pandemic can only be properly revealed by looking at the regional and local contexts in which states and societies experienced it. Contributors examine themes such as the nature of contemporary democracy state capacity the legitimacy of state institutions and trust in government questions of social solidarity and forms and impacts of inequality. Focusing on national (or sub-national) cases each chapter analyses the underlying forces and structures revealed when the authority of the state is brought to bear on the agency of citizens under emergency conditions. In doing so contributors embed analysis of pandemic governance in the historical context of each country or region highlighting how political choices histories of the state’s treatment of citizens and the orientations of a region’s elites shaped the actions taken by the state. The book will be of interest to those looking to understand how the pandemic was interpreted accepted or contested at the local (national or sub-national) level and to those interested in state–society relations more generally. It will appeal to scholars and students interested in questions of pandemic government from a social scientific point of view and especially to those interested in perspectives from the Global South. | State–Society Relations around the World through the Lens of the COVID-19 Pandemic Rapid Test

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The Caribbean Basin To The Year 2000 Demographic Economic And Resource Use Trends In Seventeen Countries: A Compendium Of Statistics And

The Caribbean Basin To The Year 2000 Demographic Economic And Resource Use Trends In Seventeen Countries: A Compendium Of Statistics And

This book analyzes long-term demographic economic and resource-use trends in seventeen Caribbean basin countries. It points to the potentially destabilizing role of rapid population growth incorporating forecasting techniques to examine the impact of the factors for each country to the year 2000. | The Caribbean Basin To The Year 2000 Demographic Economic And Resource Use Trends In Seventeen Countries: A Compendium Of Statistics And

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Interpreting Musculoskeletal Images Anatomy Pathology and Emergency Reporting

Interpreting Musculoskeletal Images Anatomy Pathology and Emergency Reporting

This visual manual is an accessible guide to musculoskeletal image interpretation and reporting including common trauma pathologies arthropathies mechanisms of injury and classification systems. Beautifully illustrated with schematic line diagrams supplemented with radiographs and scans the content has been developed to enhance learning and understanding of both radiology and anatomy and the relationship between them. Key features: Concise yet highly informative Large high-quality illustrations supplement and enhance the written descriptions with colour-coding for rapid matching of image to corresponding text Relates imaging to underlying anatomy and pathology aiding accurate interpretation Carefully designed to support rapid access in the clinical setting and ideal also as a revision aid during examination preparation The book delivers hands-on support to junior doctors other emergency medicine personnel and practising radiographers for use in the clinical setting and is also ideal for students preparing for qualifying examinations in medicine and radiography. | Interpreting Musculoskeletal Images Anatomy Pathology and Emergency Reporting

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Private Rented Housing in the United States and Europe

Private Rented Housing in the United States and Europe

Originally published in 1985 this book analyses the development of private rented housing in Britain France the former West Germany the Netherlands and the USA. The book shows that the changing fortunes of the private rented sector are seen in some measure to be connected with the social economic and political conditions which surrounded the rapid industrialisation and urbanisation of the 19th Century. | Private Rented Housing in the United States and Europe

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Agricultural Growth Productivity and Regional Change in India Challenges of globalisation liberalisation and food insecurity

Agricultural Growth Productivity and Regional Change in India Challenges of globalisation liberalisation and food insecurity

Agriculture productivity growth and regional change in post-colonial India from a spatial perspective are yet to be rigorously examined. In particular the impacts of economic liberalisation globalisation and deregulation are not being empirically investigated at a small-area level using advanced statistical and spatial techniques. Understanding the process of regional formation and the rapid transitioning of agricultural landscapes in the Post-Liberalisation phase is pivotal to developing and devising regional economic development strategies. This book employs advanced methods to empirically examine the key characteristics and patterns of regional change in agricultural growth and productivity. It offers insights on changes in agricultural production and practices since the colonial period through to the Post-Liberalisation phase in India. It also incorporates the key public policy debates on the progress of India’s agricultural development with the aim of formulating spatially integrated strategies to reduce rapid rise in the regional convergence and to promote equitable distribution of strategic government investment. | Agricultural Growth Productivity and Regional Change in India Challenges of globalisation liberalisation and food insecurity

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Routledge Handbook of Urban Planning in Africa

Routledge Handbook of Urban Planning in Africa

This handbook contributes with new evidence and new insights to the on-going debate on the de-colonization of knowledge on urban planning in Africa. African cities grew rapidly since the mid-20th century in part due to rising rural migration and rapid internal demographic growth that followed the independence in most African countries. This rapid urbanization is commonly seen as a primary cause of the current urban management challenges with which African cities are confronted. This importance given to rapid urbanization prevented the due consideration of other dimensions of the current urban problems challenges and changes in African cities. The contributions to this handbook explore these other dimensions looking in particular to the nature and capacity of local self-government and to the role of urban governance and urban planning in the poor urban conditions found in most African cities. It deals with current and contemporary urban challenges and urban policy responses but also offers an historical overview of local governance and urban policies during the colonial period in the late 19th and 20th centuries offering ample evidence of common features and divergent features as well on a number of facets from intra-urban racial segregation solutions to the relationships between the colonial power and the natives to the assimilation policy as practiced by the French and Portuguese and the Indirect Rule put in place by Britain in some or in part of its colonies. Using innovative approaches to the challenges confronting the governance of African cities this handbook is an essential read for students and scholars of Urban Africa urban planning in Africa and African Development. | Routledge Handbook of Urban Planning in Africa

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Choosing and Keeping Computer Staff Recruitment Selection and Development of Computer Personnel

Choosing and Keeping Computer Staff Recruitment Selection and Development of Computer Personnel

This clear and detailed analysis first published in 1976 of recruitment methods staff development techniques staff motivation and organisational structures will be valuable to data processing managers and personnel officers alike. Its practical flavour and real understanding will also be welcomed by general management. The guidelines and detailed checklists will help cut the direct costs of recruiting and the often astonishingly high indirect costs of rapid staff turnover. | Choosing and Keeping Computer Staff Recruitment Selection and Development of Computer Personnel

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Changing Representations of Nature and the City The 1960s-1970s and their Legacies

Changing Representations of Nature and the City The 1960s-1970s and their Legacies

The turn of the 1960s-70s characterized by the rapid acceleration of globalization prompted a radical transformation in the perception of urban and natural environments. The urban revolution and related prospect of the total urbanisation of the planet in concert with rapid population growth and resource exploitation instigated a surge in environmental awareness and activism. One implication of this moment is a growing recognition of the integration and interconnection of natural and urban entities. The present collection is an interdisciplinary inquiry into the changing modes of representation of nature in the city beginning from the turn of the 1960s/70s. Bringing together a number of different disciplinary approaches including architectural studies and aesthetics heritage studies and economics environmental science and communication the collection reflects upon the changing perception of socio-natures in the context of increasing urban expansion and global interconnectedness as they are/were manifest in specific representations. Using cases studies from around the globe the collection offers a historical and theoretical understanding of a paradigmatic shift whose material and symbolic legacies are still accompanying us in the early 21st century. | Changing Representations of Nature and the City The 1960s-1970s and their Legacies

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Serving the State Global Public Administration Education and Training Volume II: Diversity and Change

Serving the State Global Public Administration Education and Training Volume II: Diversity and Change

This title was first published in 2000: Serving the State is an invaluable two-volume exploration of global trends in public administration education and training. Volume 2 of this important reference work explores traditions and contexts. Included for examination are the French and Islamic traditions The Netherlands Scandinavia Latin America Small Island States and former communist countries such as Poland and the Ukraine as well as other countries undergoing rapid economic change. | Serving the State Global Public Administration Education and Training Volume II: Diversity and Change

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