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Free Download Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, "Farming Systems and Poverty: Improving Farmer’s Livelihoods in a Changing World"
English | 2001 | ISBN: 9251046271 | PDF | pages: 406 | 2.0 mb
Small farmers produce much of the developing world’s food. Yet they are generally much poorer than the rest of the population in these countries, and are less food secure than even the urban poor. Furthermore, although the majority of the world’s population will live in urban areas by 2030, farming populations will not be much smaller than they are today. For the foreseeable future, therefore, dealing with poverty and hunger in much of the world means confronting the problems that small farmers and their families face in their daily struggle for survival. Through an examination of a wide variety of farmimg systems across the developing world, this book, co-published with the World Bank, shows how the farming systems approach can be used to identify key local, regional and international priorities for the reduction of hunger and poverty.

Free Download Improving Medical Outcomes: The Psychology of Doctor-Patient Visits By Jessica Leavitt, Fred Leavitt
2011 | 256 Pages | ISBN: 144220303X | PDF | 5 MB
The problems faced by medical doctors and automobile mechanics are in some ways quite similar-something isn’t working right and must be fixed. They must both figure out the cause of malfunctions and determine the appropriate treatments. Yet, the mechanic has no need to worry about an automobile’s psyche; the specific mechanical factors are the only ones that come into play. In health care, however, the factors influencing outcomes are broader, more complicated, and colored by the underlying psychological factors of those involved. These factors have profound effects. Doctors are often influenced by patients’ description of symptoms, yet information is often incomplete or inaccurate or colored by the patient’s own experiences. The doctor’s own demeanor may greatly affect outcomes, as can the doctor’s ability to interpret the ever-expanding medical literature. These underlying influences are often not acknowledged, and yet they can have far-reaching consequences. Acknowledging these psychological factors and learning how to overcome them are the first steps in improving communications between doctors and patients and to improving diagnosis and treatment. Here, the authors offer strategies for remedying the situation and moving forward to a better understanding of doctor-patient visits and their outcomes.

Free Download Improving Healthcare: A Dose of Competition A Report By The Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice (July, 2004), with various Supplementary Materials By David Hyman (eds.)
2005 | 431 Pages | ISBN: 0387257519 | PDF | 8 MB
Improving Healthcare: A Dose of Competition systematically examines the American health care system from a competition-oriented perspective. The volume surveys the performance of each major sector of the health care system, and identifies impediments to more effective competition. Improving Healthcareexamines such issues as competition v. regulation, public and private sector approaches to health care financing, cross-subsidies, licensure, provider market concentration, financial and clinical integration, payment for performance, quality, pharmacy benefit managers, direct-to-consumer advertising of pharmaceuticals, certificates of need, mandates, unionization, the significance of organizational status (nonprofit v. for-profit), and the role of antitrust and consumer protection in health care. It offers concrete recommendations to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of the American health care marketplace.

Free Download Establishing Transdisciplinary Professionalism for Improving Health Outcomes: Workshop Summary By Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education, Board on Global Health, Institute of Medicine, Patricia A. Cuff
2014 | 150 Pages | ISBN: 0309289017 | PDF | 6 MB
Establishing Transdisciplinary Professionalism for Improving Health Outcomes is a summary of a workshop convened by the Institute of Medicine Global Forum on Innovation in Health Professional Education to explore the possibility of whether different professions can come together and whether a dialogue with society on professionalism is possible. Most of the 59 members making up the Global Forum were present at the workshop and engaged with outside participants in active dialogue around issues related to professionalism and how the different professions might work effectively together and with society in creating a social contract. The structure of the workshop involved large plenary discussions, facilitated table conversations, and small-group breakout sessions. In this way, the members – representing multiple sectors, countries, health professions, and educational associations – had numerous opportunities to share their own perspectives on transdisciplinary professionalism as well as hear the opinions of subject matter experts and the general public. Efforts to improve patient care and population health are traditional tenets of all the health professions, as is a focus on professionalism. But in a time of rapidly changing environments and evolving technologies, health professionals and those who train them are being challenged to work beyond their traditional comfort zones, often in teams. A new professionalism might be a mechanism for achieving improved health outcomes by applying a transdisciplinary professionalism throughout health care and wellness that emphasizes crossdisciplinary responsibilities and accountability. Establishing Transdisciplinary Professionalism for Improving Health Outcomes discusses how shared understanding can be integrated into education and practice, ethical implications of and barriers to transdisciplinary professionalism, and the impact of an evolving professional context on patients, students, and others working within the health care system.

Free Download David U. Sladkey, "Engaging Teaching Tools: Measuring and Improving Student Engagement"
English | ISBN: 1483316416 | 2014 | pages | EPUB | 2 MB
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Free Download Improving Sustainability Through Information Governance
English | 2025 | ISBN: 1637427123 | 301 Pages | EPUB | 3 MB
This book begins by elucidating the significance of ESG, core frameworks, and regulatory mandates. Part two delves into Information Governance (IG) elements such as data management, privacy, and security, alongside relevant ISO standards. The final section outlines strategies for applying IG standards to enhance ESG reporting and outcomes.

Free Download Improving Retrieval with RAG Fine-tuning
Published 8/2024
MP4 | Video: h264, 1920×1080 | Audio: AAC, 48 KHz
Language: English | Size: 75.50 MB | Duration: 20m 9s
Learn effective ways to adapt and optimize RAG models. This course will teach techniques for Fine-tuning RAG models using different methods, such as task-specific, domain adaptation, and multi-task fine-tuning.

Free Download Generative AI for Improving Writing
Published 3/2024
MP4 | Video: h264, 1920×1080 | Audio: AAC, 48 KHz
Language: English | Size: 238.22 MB | Duration: 47m 47s
This course will teach you how to use Generative AI technology to improve your writing

Free Download Troubleshooting and Improving Neural Network Performance
Released 5/2024
MP4 | Video: h264, 1280×720 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz, 2 Ch
Level: Beginner | Genre: eLearning | Language: English + vtt | Duration: 1h 22m | Size: 203 MB
This course will teach you neural network troubleshooting and performance tuning from a data scientist’s perspective

Free Download Business Operations Improving Protocol Efficiency
Published 4/2024
MP4 | Video: h264, 1920×1080 | Audio: AAC, 44.1 KHz
Language: English | Size: 1.07 GB | Duration: 4h 12m
Complete Guide on How to Operate a Business more Effectively