1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910704965003321

Autore

Ojczyk C (Cindy)

Titolo

Expert meeting report : windows options for new and existing homes / / prepared by C. Ojczyk, J. Carmody, and K. Haglund

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : U.S. Department of Energy, Energy Efficiency & Renewable Energy, Building Technologies Office, , May 2013

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vi, 23 pages) : color illustrations

Soggetti

Dwellings - Energy conservation

Insulation (Heat)

Windows - Thermal properties

Buildings - Retrofitting

Windows

Conference papers and proceedings.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"May 2013."

"Prepared for the National Renewable Energy Laboratory on behalf of the U.S. Department of Energy's Building America Program, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy."

"DOE/GO-102013-3829"--Page [30].

Title from title screen (viewed on Feb. 10, 2014).



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910154756903321

Autore

Lella Joseph W. <1936->

Titolo

The perils of patient government : professionals and patients in a chronic-care hospital / / Joseph W. Lella, with J.Z. Csank, J. McKay, and J.R. Bayne

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Waterloo, Ont., Canada, : Wilfrid Laurier University Press, c1986

ISBN

9786613810175

9781282167100

1282167103

9780889207349

0889207348

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Disciplina

362.1/6

362.16

Soggetti

Long-term care facilities - Sociological aspects

Chronically ill - Social conditions

Medical personnel and patient

Long-term care facilities - Administration

Veterans - Medical care

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Tables and Figures; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; PART I: BEFORE PATIENT GOVERNMENT; PART II: ACHIEVING PATIENT GOVERNMENT; PART III: A MODEST SUCCESS; APPENDICES: THEORY AND METHOD; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

In 1964 the Senate Committee on Aging reported that ""once admitted to an institution ... the veteran begins ... to show signs of social and physical degeneration,"" a phenomenon that has not escapted the attention of clinicians, social scientists, veterans, and other chronic-care patients.     Assuming that social withdrawal in the institutional setting was avoidable ad that a strictly medical model of chronic care was inappropriate, Lella and his collaborators established a patient-government project designed to give thirty elderly men in a large



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