1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910452076703321

Titolo

India's changing innovation system [[electronic resource] ] : achievements, challenges, and opportunities for cooperation : report of a symposium / / Charles W. Wessner and Sujai J. Shivakumar, editors ; Committee on Comparative Innovation Policy: Best Practice for the 21st Century, Board on Science, Technology, and Economic Policy, Policy and Global Affairs, National Research Council of the National Academies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, c2007

ISBN

1-280-94137-5

9786610941377

0-309-66903-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

WessnerCharles W

ShivakumarSujai J

Disciplina

338/.0640954

Soggetti

Technological innovations - International cooperation

Technological innovations - India

Technological innovations - United States

Electronic books.

United States Foreign economic relations India Congresses

India Foreign economic relations United States Congresses

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Report from an international symposium held on June 17, 2006 in Washington, D.C.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 201-208).

Nota di contenuto

""Front Matter""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""I INTRODUCTION""; ""India's Changing Innovation System Achievements, Challenges, and Opportunities for Cooperation""; ""II PROCEEDINGS""; ""Welcome Remarks""; ""Opening Remarks: India and the United States: A New Strategic Responsibility""; ""Panel I: India and the United States: An Emerging Global Partnership""; ""Panel II: Synergies and Gaps in National and Regional Development Strategies""; ""Keynote Address: India's Changing Innovation System""; ""Panel III: Growing the Science and Technology, Research, and Innovation Infrastructure""

""Panel IV: Building U.S. Indian Research and Development



Cooperation""""Closing Remarks""; ""III RESEARCH PAPER""; ""India's Knowledge Economy in the Global Context--Carl J. Dahlman""; ""IV APPENDIXES""; ""Appendix A: Biographies of Speakers""; ""Appendix B: Participants List""; ""Appendix C: Bibliography""

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459568003321

Titolo

Energy, sustainability, and the environment [[electronic resource] ] : technology, incentives, behavior / / edited by Fereidoon P. Sioshansi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; Boston, : Butterworth-Heinemann, 2011

ISBN

1-283-11874-2

9786613118745

0-12-385137-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (641 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

SioshansiFereidoon P (Fereidoon Perry)

Disciplina

333.791/6

Soggetti

Renewable energy sources

Energy conservation - Social aspects

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Machine generated contents note: Foreword Preface About the contributors Introduction Part 1: Challenge of sustainability Part 2: Technological fixes Part 3: Case studies Epilogue: Towards sustainable living Index.

Sommario/riassunto

"The complexity of carbon reduction and economic sustainability is significantly complicated by competing aspects of socioeconomic practices as well as legislative, regulatory, and scientific requirements and protocols. An easy to read and understand guide, Sioshansi, along with an international group of contributors, moves through the maze of carbon reduction methods and technologies, providing steps and insights to meet carbon reduction requirements and maintaining the health and welfare of the firm"--



3.

Record Nr.

UNISA996478965003316

Autore

Grant Susan <1982->

Titolo

Soviet Nightingales : Care under Communism / / Susan Grant

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cornell University Press, 2022

Ithaca [New York] : , : Cornell University Press, , 2022

ISBN

1-5017-6260-5

1-5017-6261-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 online resource)

Disciplina

362.10947

Soggetti

Social medicine

Nursing ethics

Nurses - Social conditions

Nurses

Medical ethics

Medical ethics - Soviet Union

Nursing ethics - Soviet Union

Nurses - Soviet Union - Social conditions

Nurses - Soviet Union - History

Social medicine - Soviet Union

History

Soviet Union

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

War and revolution -- Creating order out of chaos -- Black star, red star: finding the Soviet way -- Proletarian paradise: medical workers rise up -- Stalinist care: cadres decide everything -- Fortresses of sanitary defense: preparing for war -- A decade of war and reconstruction -- Caring for the mind -- Communist morality, activism, and ethics.

Sommario/riassunto

"Examines the role nurses and orderlies played in psychiatric care post-WWII and analyzes relationships and power dynamics between medical workers. Engages with key issues affecting medical workers and



broader social and political events, including the role of nurses as moral ambassadors in the 1960s and the importance of ethics and deontology in nursing in the 1970s and 1980s."--