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Decision Aids for Selection Problems


Free Download Decision Aids for Selection Problems By David L. Olson (auth.)
1996 | 194 Pages | ISBN: 1461284597 | PDF | 10 MB
One of the most important tasks faced by decision-makers in business and government is that of selection. Selection problems are challenging in that they require the balancing of multiple, often conflicting, criteria. In recent years, a number of interesting decision aids have become available to assist in such decisions. The aim of this book is to provide a comparative survey of many of the decision aids currently available. The first chapters present general ideas which underpin the methodologies used to design these aids. Subsequent chapters then focus on specific decision aids and demonstrate some of the software which implement these ideas. A final chapter provides a comparative analysis of their strengths and weaknesses.

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Real AIDS Epidemic How the Tragic HIV Mistake Threatens Us All


Free Download Real AIDS Epidemic: How the Tragic HIV Mistake Threatens Us All by Rebecca V. Culshaw, Neenyah Ostrom – foreword, Anna Crowe
English | March 28, 2023 | ISBN: B0BWNYPJ9Z | 4 hours and 42 minutes | M4B 128 Kbps | 256 Mb
Four decades after And the Band Played On created an image of the AIDS epidemic that has survived in the public consciousness to this very day, mathematician Rebecca Culshaw is sounding the alarm that everything that iconic book told us about AIDS is demonstrably wrong. And that mistaken understanding of AIDS and its cause has the potential to affect all of us, not just certain so-called risk groups. In The Real AIDS Epidemic, Rebecca Culshaw describes her slow uncovering of these reasons over her years researching HIV for her work constructing mathematical models of its interaction with the immune system. It is rare that a researcher, having studied HIV, ever expresses any doubt in the paradigm, and an even rarer event still when she abandons the field altogether. Culshaw’s book, updated from its original edition, which was titled Science Sold Out, is one of the great insider-turned-whistleblower stories of our time.
The Real AIDS Epidemic focuses on the politics of the changing definition of AIDS and the flaws in all HIV testing. In a much broader sense, it explains how the current government-based structure of scientific research has corrupted science as the search for truth. It offers not only scientific reasons for HIV/AIDS being untenable, but also sociological explanations as to how the theory was accepted by the media and the world so quickly. In particular, this book offers a scathing criticism of the outrageous discriminatory measures that have been leveled at HIV-positives from the inception. She also warns that the toxic drugs being foisted on the Black and gay communities constitute one of the worst medical violations of human rights since the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment.
The compelling case she makes that the AIDS establishment has led us into a biomedical disaster through incompetence, fraud, and deceit will have many listeners throwing their hands up and feeling helpless and hopeless. But she does something no other book that is critical about HIV and AIDS has done. She suggests a series of strategic actions the scientific community, Congress, the media, and the public can take to undo the damage that the powerful AIDS establishment has done since the epidemic began in 1981.

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Blood Loss A Love Story of AIDS, Activism, and Art


Free Download Keiko Lane, "Blood Loss: A Love Story of AIDS, Activism, and Art"
English | ISBN: 1478030798 | 2024 | 312 pages | PDF | 3 MB
In 1991, sixteen-year-old activist Keiko Lane joined the Los Angeles chapters of Queer Nation and ACT UP. Their members protested legislation aimed at dismantling rights for LGBTQ people, people living with HIV, and immigrants while fighting for needle-exchange programs, reproductive justice, safer-sex education, hospice funding, and the right to die with dignity. At the same time, the activists were a queer chosen family of friends and lovers who took care of one another in sickness and in health. Sometimes they helped each other die. By the time Lane turned twenty-two, most had died of AIDS. In her evocative memoir, Lane weaves together love stories and afterlives of queer resistance and survival against the landscape of the Rodney King Rebellion, the movement for queer rights, and the censorship of queer artists and sexualities. Lane interrogates the social construction of power against and in queer communities of color and the recovery of sexual agency in the midst and aftermath of violence. Luminous and powerfully moving,

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Lexical Aids to the Syriac New Testament Third Expanded Edition


Free Download George Anton Kiraz, "Lexical Aids to the Syriac New Testament: Third Expanded Edition "
English | ISBN: 146324603X | 2024 | 228 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Lexical Aids to the Syriac New Testament provides an essential tool to students of Syriac. A frequency-based glossary guides the student through the text of the Syriac New Testament’s most significant terms. In addition, verbal paradigms demystify the language’s structure, fostering a deeper understanding. The volume includes: Frequency-based glossary of common words, proper nouns, and Greek loan-words; Lists of consonantal homographs; Verbs arranged by paradigm and nouns arranged by stem; Words arranged by Part of Speech; Words arranged by root; Hebrew and Arabic cognate lists; List of compound words. Lexical Aids to the Syriac New Testament is an essential tool for students of Syriac, especially of the New Testament Peshitta.

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Lexical Aids to the Syriac New Testament Third Expanded Edition


Free Download George Anton Kiraz, "Lexical Aids to the Syriac New Testament: Third Expanded Edition "
English | ISBN: 146324603X | 2024 | 228 pages | PDF | 2 MB
Lexical Aids to the Syriac New Testament provides an essential tool to students of Syriac. A frequency-based glossary guides the student through the text of the Syriac New Testament’s most significant terms. In addition, verbal paradigms demystify the language’s structure, fostering a deeper understanding. The volume includes: Frequency-based glossary of common words, proper nouns, and Greek loan-words; Lists of consonantal homographs; Verbs arranged by paradigm and nouns arranged by stem; Words arranged by Part of Speech; Words arranged by root; Hebrew and Arabic cognate lists; List of compound words. Lexical Aids to the Syriac New Testament is an essential tool for students of Syriac, especially of the New Testament Peshitta.

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Piecing the Puzzle The Genesis of AIDS Research in Africa


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English | ISBN: 0887557309 | 2012 | 220 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
In 1979, Dr. Allan Ronald, a specialist in infectious diseases from Canada, and Dr. Herbert Nsanze, head of medical microbiology at University of Nairobi, met through the World Health Organization. Ronald had just completed a successful project that cured a chancroid (genital ulcer) epidemic in Winnipeg and Nsanze asked him to come to Kenya to help with Kenya’s "sexual diseases problem." That initial invitation led to a groundbreaking international scientific collaboration that would uncover critical pieces in the complex puzzle that became today’s HIV/AIDS pandemic. In Piecing the Puzzle, journalist and documentary filmmaker Larry Krotz chronicles the fascinating history of the pioneering Kenyan, Canadian, Belgian, and American research team that uncovered HIV/AIDS in Kenya, their scientific breakthroughs and setbacks, and their exceptional thirty-year relationship that began a new era of global health collaboration.

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Job Aids and Performance Support Moving From Knowledge in the Classroom to Knowledge Everywhere


Free Download Job Aids and Performance Support: Moving From Knowledge in the Classroom to Knowledge Everywhere By Allison Rossett, Lisa Schafer
2006 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 0787976210 | PDF | 5 MB
Job Aids and Performance Support in the Workplace gives us everything we’ve ever wanted to know about these invaluable tools and techniques! Allison Rossett and Lisa Schafer have created a comprehensive, pragmatic, and very readable guide. The authors don’t exaggerate when they claim it’s ‘knowledge everywhere.’

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Job Aids and Performance Support Moving From Knowledge in the Classroom to Knowledge Everywhere


Free Download Job Aids and Performance Support: Moving From Knowledge in the Classroom to Knowledge Everywhere By Allison Rossett, Lisa Schafer
2006 | 240 Pages | ISBN: 0787976210 | PDF | 5 MB
Job Aids and Performance Support in the Workplace gives us everything we’ve ever wanted to know about these invaluable tools and techniques! Allison Rossett and Lisa Schafer have created a comprehensive, pragmatic, and very readable guide. The authors don’t exaggerate when they claim it’s ‘knowledge everywhere.’

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HIV and AIDS Basic Elements and Priorities


Free Download S. Kartikeyan, R.N. Bharmal, R.P. Tiwari, "HIV and AIDS:: Basic Elements and Priorities"
English | 2007 | pages: 410 | ISBN: 9048174457, 1402057881 | PDF | 3,5 mb
In June 1981, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported the first evidence of a new disease that would later become known as Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS). HIV and AIDS: Basic Elements and Priorities is a concise collection of all aspects of this disease, and is a source of readily available knowledge. All currently advocated preventive measures such as health education, condom use, safer sex practices, and treatment of sexually transmitted infections have been incorporated.

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AIDS in Asia


Free Download Yichen Lu, Max Essex, "AIDS in Asia"
English | 2004 | pages: 586 | ISBN: 1441934529, 0306484838 | PDF | 15,4 mb
Asia has become the new battle ground for the war against HIV/AIDS. The magnitude of the potential public health problems caused by AIDS in this populous continent may become a catastrophic disaster. A 10% rate of prevalence of HIV-1 in India and China alone would mean more than 200 million people are infected with HIV.

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