Epicenter
Epicenter

Author: Basil Jackson

Publisher: New York : Norton

Published: 1971

Total Pages: 234

ISBN-13: 9780393086232

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A leak in a nuclear power station located near Toronto endagers the lives of two million people.

A Qualified Hope
A Qualified Hope

Author: Gerald N. Rosenberg

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-08-29

Total Pages: 377

ISBN-13: 1108474500

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Examines whether the Indian Supreme Court can produce progressive social change and improve the lives of the relatively disadvantaged.

Decision Tools for Radiation Oncology
Decision Tools for Radiation Oncology

Author: Carsten Nieder

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2014-03-13

Total Pages: 307

ISBN-13: 3642371027

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A look at the recent oncology literature or a search of the common databases reveals a steadily increasing number of nomograms and other prognostic models. These models may predict the risk of relapse, lymphatic spread of a given malignancy, toxicity, survival, etc. Pathology information, gene signatures, and clinical data may all be used to compute the models. This trend reflects increasingly individualized treatment concepts, the need for approaches that achieve a favorable balance between effectiveness and side-effects, and the goal of optimal resource utilization reflecting prognostic knowledge. In order to avoid misuse, it is important to understand the limits and caveats of prognostic and predictive models. This book provides a comprehensive overview of such decision tools for radiation oncology, stratified by disease site, which will enable readers to make informed choices in daily clinical practice and to critically follow the future development of new tools in the field.>

Etre the Cow
Etre the Cow

Author: Dr. Sean Kenniff

Publisher: Health Communications, Inc.

Published: 2010-04

Total Pages: 146

ISBN-13: 075731502X

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Describes, in a completely convincing way, the drab, sometimes terrifying world of a modern "farm" seen through the eyes of a bull.

Judgment under Uncertainty
Judgment under Uncertainty

Author: Daniel Kahneman

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1982-04-30

Total Pages: 574

ISBN-13: 1107268168

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The thirty-five chapters in this book describe various judgmental heuristics and the biases they produce, not only in laboratory experiments but in important social, medical, and political situations as well. Individual chapters discuss the representativeness and availability heuristics, problems in judging covariation and control, overconfidence, multistage inference, social perception, medical diagnosis, risk perception, and methods for correcting and improving judgments under uncertainty. About half of the chapters are edited versions of classic articles; the remaining chapters are newly written for this book. Most review multiple studies or entire subareas of research and application rather than describing single experimental studies. This book will be useful to a wide range of students and researchers, as well as to decision makers seeking to gain insight into their judgments and to improve them.

Political Judgment
Political Judgment

Author: Milton Lodge

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 658

ISBN-13: 9780472105410

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How are impressions about political candidates organized in memory? What is the nature of political group stereotypes? How do citizens make voting decisions? How do citizens formulate opinions about key issues and politics? The contributors to Political Judgment: Structure and Process reach answers to these questions that will substantially influence how the next generation of scholars working at the intersection of political science and sociology, and public opinion researchers more generally, go about their work.