The MISSION-VET Consumer Workbook

Summary: Supplemental workbook for the Maintaining Independence and Sobriety through Systems Integration, Outreach, and Networking (MISSION) treatment approach, which was adapted specifically for Veterans (MISSION-VET). MISSION-VET, a flexible, integrated, time-limited, yet assertive service delivery platform was designed specifically to provide direct treatment, ongoing support, and care coordination to homeless Veterans suffering from co-occurring disorders and transitioning and/or adjusting to independent living in the community. The Consumer Workbook is a supplemental workbook to engage homeless Veterans by providing exercises and resources to aid in their recovery from a co-occurring disorder and homelessness. Peer Support Specialists and Case Managers should work with the Veteran to complete the items in the workbook that correspond with specific Dual-Recovery Therapy sessions and use the workbook as a talking point in helping clients with co-occurring mental illness and substance abuse, homelessness and related issues that arise in the various stages of their recovery

2012 ACCF/AHA/ACP/AATS/PCNA/SCAI/STS guideline for the diagnosis and management of patients with stable ischemic heart disease

The recommendations listed in this document are, whenever possible, evidence based. An extensive evidence review was conducted as the document was compiled through December 2008. Repeated literature searches were performed by the guideline development staff and writing committee members as new issues were considered. New clinical trials published in peer-reviewed journals and articles through December 2011 were also reviewed and incorporated when relevant. Furthermore, because of the extended development time period for this guideline, peer review comments indicated that the sections focused on imaging technologies required additional updating, which occurred during 2011. Therefore, the evidence review for the imaging sections includes published literature through December 2011

Affirmative action

Affirmative action was first instituted as part of the 1960s civil rights movement, with the goal of giving African Americans equal opportunities in business and education. Although it is rare to encounter blatant racism in America today, some advocates of affirmative action argue that the policy remains necessary in order to make the U.S. workforce more diverse

Religion in public schools

This book contains pro/con articles on religion in the schools including whether it should be allowed, if public schools should teach intelligent design, and whether public schools should allow school prayer. Theme on this book are: should religion be allowed in public schools?; should public schools teach intelligent design?; should public schools allow school prayer

Capital punishment

Each book explains all the statutes, legal opinions, and studies a student needs to structure a cohesive argument on a given controversial topic. Issues are presented from multiple points of view; sidebars cite law and opinions to aid in critical analysis, paratextual questions encourage reader engagement, and all sources are fully documented and grouped by side of the argument. This book explores the many arguments - ethical, practical, and sociological - for and against the death penalty

The synthesis, stereochemistry and properties of linear and branched chain tetraethylenepentaamine cobalt(III) complexes

Described are the syntheses, isolation and resolution of many diastereoisomers of pentaaminecobalt(III) complexes obtained from commercial-grade tetraethylenepentaamine. They contain both linear (tetraen; 3,6,9-triazaundecane-1,11-diamine) and branched chain (trenen; 3-(2-aminoethyl)-3,6-diazaoctane-1,8-diamine) isomers of C8H23N5 and are free of the many other amines present in the original (crude) pentaamine mixture. A dimeric bridging peroxocobalt(III) complex [Co2(C8H23N5)2O2] (C1O4)4 has been isolated and converted into a mixture of s-[Co(trenen)X]n+ and α-anti β-, α-syn β- and α-α-[Co(tetraen)X]2+ complexes (X = Cl-, Br-, N3-), and the various isomers have been separated by a combination of fractional crystallization and ion-exchange chromatography. In addition, some X = NO3- and OH2 derivatives have been made by a kinetic route, including the unstable α-syn β isomers. Many of the complexes have been resolved into their enantiomers, and visible, o.r.d. and c.d. spectra are reported. An X-ray crystallographic analysis of a prototype of each of the four isomeric complexes (X = Cl- or N3-) has been determined previously, thereby establishing the identity of many related complexes. Stereoretentive reactions are used to correlate these related isomers, and13C and1H n.m.r. spectra are reported. The pure trenen and tetraen ligands have been recovered from the CoIII complexes and can be distinguished by13C n.m.r. spectroscopy

A Process-Driven Tool to Support Online Dispute Resolution

This demonstration shows a prototype tool that projects an impression of how execution of a formally defined process will facilitate dispute resolution. Tool flexibility supports projecting the look and feel of a range of different processes, facilitating user evaluation of alternatives. Categories and Subject Descriptors K.4.3 [Organizational Impacts]: Requirements elicitation, prototyping, process definitio