1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450059303321

Titolo

Observing organisations : anxiety, defence and culture in health care / / edited by R.D. Hinshelwood and Wilhelm Skogstad ; with a forward by Anton Obholzer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, Pa. : , : Routledge, , 2000

ISBN

9786610328475

0-203-19047-5

1-134-64425-6

1-280-32847-9

0-203-13515-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (192 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HinshelwoodR. D

SkogstadWilhelm <1952->

Disciplina

362.1068

Soggetti

Health facilities - Administration - Psychological aspects

Health services administration - Psychological aspects

Health care teams - Psychological aspects

Attitude of Health Personnel

Medical Staff - psychology

Organizational Culture

Professional-Patient Relations

Stress, Psychological - prevention & control

Health Facility Administration

Health Facility Environment

Electronic books.

United Kingdom

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminaries; Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 The dynamics of health care institutions; 2 The method of observing organisations; 3 Madness and morale: a chronic psychiatric ward; 4 Food for thought the canteen of a mental hospital; 5 At a crossroad



between institutional and community psychiatry an acute psychiatric admission ward; 6 Mental and physical space a long stay psychiatric ward; 7 Tyrannical equality: a mental health hostel; 8 Working in a world of bodies a medical ward; 9 Nowhere to hide a day case centre; 10 Sitting close to death a palliative care unit

11 Reflections on health care culturesBibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Provides a psychonanalytically informed examination of the cultures that arise within health care organisations, and shows how findings can be used to overcome difficulties that arise,

2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996466407803316

Autore

Ellerman David P.

Titolo

New foundations of information theory : logical entropy and Shannon entropy / / David Ellerman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

3-030-86552-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (121 pages)

Collana

SpringerBriefs in philosophy

Disciplina

003.54

Soggetti

Entropy (Information theory)

Entropia (Teoria de la informació)

Llibres electrònics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- About this book -- Contents -- About the Author -- 1 Logical Entropy -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Logical Information as the Measure of Distinctions -- 1.3 Classical Logical Probability and Logical Entropy -- 1.4 Information Algebras and Joint Distributions -- 1.5 Brief History of the Logical Entropy Formula -- References -- 2 The Relationship Between Logical Entropy and Shannon Entropy -- 2.1 Shannon Entropy -- 2.2 Logical Entropy, Not Shannon Entropy, Is a (Non-negative) Measure -- 2.3 The Dit-Bit Transform -- References -- 3 The Compound Notions for Logical and Shannon



Entropies -- 3.1 Conditional Logical Entropy -- 3.2 Shannon Conditional Entropy -- 3.3 Logical Mutual Information -- 3.4 Shannon Mutual Information -- 3.5 Independent Joint Distributions -- 3.6 Cross-Entropies, Divergences, and Hamming Distance -- 3.6.1 Cross-Entropies -- 3.6.2 Divergences -- 3.6.3 Hamming Distance -- 3.7 Summary of Formulas and Dit-Bit Transforms -- References -- 4 Further Developments of Logical Entropy -- 4.1 Entropies for Multivariate Joint Distributions -- 4.2 An Example of Negative Mutual Information for Shannon Entropy -- 4.3 Entropies for Countable Probability Distributions -- 4.4 Metrical Logical Entropy = (Twice) Variance -- 4.5 Boltzmann and Shannon Entropies: A Conceptual Connection? -- 4.6 MaxEntropies for Discrete Distributions -- 4.7 The Transition to Coding Theory -- 4.8 Logical Entropy on Rooted Trees -- References -- 5 Quantum Logical Information Theory -- 5.1 Density Matrix Treatment of Logical Entropy -- 5.2 Linearizing Logical Entropy to Quantum Logical Entropy -- 5.3 Theorems About Quantum Logical Entropy -- 5.4 Quantum Logical Entropies with Density Matrices as Observables -- 5.5 The Logical Hamming Distance Between Two Partitions -- 5.6 The Quantum Logical Hamming Distance -- References -- 6 Conclusion.

6.1 Information Theory Re-founded and Re-envisioned -- 6.2 Quantum Information Theory Re-envisioned -- 6.3 What Is to Be Done? -- References -- A Basics of Partition Logic -- A.1 Subset Logic and Partition Logic -- A.2 The Lattice Operations on Partitions -- A.3 Implication and Negation in Partition Logic -- A.4 Relative Negation in Partition Logic and the Boolean Core -- A.5 Partition Tautologies -- References -- Index.