Tag: Balance

April 26, 2024

Work-Life Balance in Africa A Critical Approach

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Free Download Hakeem Adeniyi Ajonbadi, "Work-Life Balance in Africa: A Critical Approach"
English | ISBN: 303138007X | 2023 | 296 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Work-life balance has drawn much attention from academic researchers, professionals, and politicians over the past two decades. However, despite the increased interest globally, there has been an under-representation of academic work on work-life balance across the African continent. So, this book serves as a collection of cases from various contexts across Africa and an exploration of the challenges and how best to manage human resources in this ‘Mother Continent’ with phenomenal potential.

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April 25, 2024

Life in the Balance A Physician’s Memoir of Life, Love, and Loss with Parkinson’s Disease and Dementia

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Free Download Thomas Graboys MD, "Life in the Balance: A Physician’s Memoir of Life, Love, and Loss with Parkinson’s Disease and Dementia"
English | 2008 | pages: 224 | ISBN: 1402753411, 1402768737 | EPUB | 0,4 mb
At the age of 49, Dr. Thomas Graboys had reached the pinnacle of his career and was leading a charmed life. A nationally renowned Boston cardiologist popular for his attention to the hearts and souls of his patients, Graboys was part of "The Cardiology Dream Team" summoned to treat Boston Celtics star Reggie Lewis after he collapsed on the court in 1993. He had a beautiful wife, two wonderful daughters, positions on both the faculty of Harvard Medical School and the staff of Boston’s Brigham and Women’s Hospital, and a thriving private practice.

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April 25, 2024

Balance of power theory and practice in the 21st century

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Free Download Balance of power : theory and practice in the 21st century By Fortmann, Michel; Paul, T. V.; Wirtz, James J
2004 | 384 Pages | ISBN: 0804750165 | PDF | 2 MB
Since the 16th century, balance of power politics have profoundly influenced international relations. But in recent years-with the sudden disappearance of the Soviet Union, growing power of the United States, and increasing prominence of international institutions-many scholars have argued that balance of power theory is losing its relevance. This book examines the current position and future of balance of power dynamics in international politics.In this book, prominent scholars pay special attention to the theoretical and historical criticisms of balance of power theory while empirically assessing its validity at both global and regional levels. The volume also looks at systemic factors favoring or hindering a return to balance of power politics. It evaluates the challenges posed by subnational actors, such as terrorist groups, and weapons of mass destruction to international order. Further, it examines the relevance of balance of power axioms in selected regions: Western Europe, Eastern Europe, East Asia, South Asia, and Latin America.

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February 4, 2024

State Failure, Power Expansion, and Balance of Power in the Middle East The Struggle Over Failed States

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Free Download State Failure, Power Expansion, and Balance of Power in the Middle East: The Struggle Over Failed States by Aso M. Ali
English | PDF EPUB (True) | 2024 | 288 Pages | ISBN : 3031446321 | 5 MB
This book examines the strategies of regional powers in the Middle East regarding their response to cases of state failure in the region, thus connecting the theoretical concepts of statehood, state failure, and revisionist and pro-status quo interventionist behavior. Through a detailed comparative analysis of five case studies of failed states occurring in the region during 1960-2010s -Yemen (1962-1970), Lebanon (1975-1989), Iraq (2003-2020), Yemen (2004-2020), and Syria (2011-2020) – the author employs the conceptual theory of balance of power to analyze the behavior of six regional powers in the Middle East: Egypt, Iran, Israel, Syria (pre-2011), Saudi Arabia, and Turkey toward each one of those cases. The book proposes that when states become failed states, regional powers with revisionist strategies expand into them, which in turn induce status quo regional powers to react by imposing balancing action, and that this power struggle turns failed states into battlegrounds for regional power (im)balances. This book offers empirical and theoretical insights into regional politics of the Middle East over the past six decades, contributes to international policy and security studies scholarship from a Middle East regional perspective, and draws attention to the importance of analyzing the destabilizing and historical consequences of state failures for contemporary contexts.

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January 31, 2024

Wa The Art of Balance Live Healthier, Happier and Longer the Japanese Way [Audiobook]

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Free Download Wa: The Art of Balance: Live Healthier, Happier and Longer the Japanese Way (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CSPTVFG8 | 2024 | 5 hours and 18 minutes | MP3@64 kbps | 146 MB
Author: Kaki Okumura
Narrator: Cindy Kay
A guide to four simple and easy-to-adopt daily practices based on the Japanese lifestyle: nourish, move, rest, and socialize. CREATE A LONG, MEANINGFUL, AND JOYFUL LIFE THE JAPANESE WAY. All you need is one revolutionarily simple concept: Wa. Wa means harmony, a central tenet at the heart of the Japanese belief that to live well is to live in balance. In this book, wellness expert Kaki Okumura shares the practices and psychology behind Wa and the Japanese health secrets that allow anyone, at any point in their life, to improve and sustain their health. Her method to bring Wa into your life is based on four pillars: nourish, move, rest, and socialize. This is a holistic solution to gaining vitality in all aspects of life. Rather than enforcing restrictions or relying on willpower, the pillars are gentle, timeless, and easy to adopt, ensuring that improvements to your health and well-being are long-term and effortless. This book will revolutionize how you care for yourself and lead to greater peace, fulfillment, and ultimately, contentment.

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January 30, 2024

Compact Kernel Of A Metabolic Flux Balance Solution Space, The Concepts, Algorithms And Implementation

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Free Download Compact Kernel Of A Metabolic Flux Balance Solution Space, The: Concepts, Algorithms And Implementation by Wynand S Verwoerd
English | September 23, 2022 | ISBN: 9811255830 | 248 pages | MOBI | 2.41 Mb
This monograph offers a fundamentally new approach to facilitate the study of metabolic networks in cells. It aims to overcome the limitations of either just a single FBA solution, or an overwhelming number of extreme pathways in a realistic network. Instead it focusses on the FBA solution space and describes it in a simplified way by extracting just a bounded subspace: the Solution Space Kernel or SSK. This reduces the relevant number of flux space dimensions by orders of magnitude, and allows its location, size and shape to be characterised. It is a multi-stage process, requiring many new concepts and algorithms for manipulating polytopes in high dimensional spaces. The book introduces and develops these concepts in a pragmatic way that takes into account the difficulties of performing analyses in a flux space with dimensions counting in the hundreds or thousands. It emphasizes the details of implementation in computational code and applications to realistic models are demonstrated. For many cases, the number of constraints and flux variables that fully specify the SSK polytope is only a single or double-digit number. This allows the range of metabolic states accessible to a cell to be further interpreted geometrically in terms of a manageable set of orthogonal diameters and aspect ratios. In addition, explicit representative fluxes, giving the centre and periphery of the solution space kernel, become available for further exploration.

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