As career and technical education continues to evolve, technology applications are rapidly becoming vital instruments for instructional training and valuable learning tools for the overall enhancement of student experience. This handbook provides an authoritative reference collection on leading...

In the fields of engineering, science and information technology, there remains an underrepresentation of female leadership in entry level, intermediate, upper level, and senior level management positions, creating an insufficient number of role models to encourage other women to join these...

1. Working toward self-evaluation / Patricia Cranton -- 2. Transformative learning and ancient Asian educational perspectives / Victor Wang, Kathleen King -- 3. Philosopher or Philistine? / Kerry Lee -- 4. A productive decade of andragogy's history and philosophy / John A. Henschke -- 5. New...

Engendered workplace segregation: work is still essentially a male domain -- Male dominated industries: jobs for the boys -- The computer games industry: new industry, same old issues -- Self, career, and gender issues: a complex interplay of internal/external factors -- Stereotype, attitudes,...

What do library workers want from professional conferences? / Samantha Schmehl Hines -- International library conferences: the professional development benefits for librarians, the hurdles of attending and the potential outcomes / James Thull -- Moving beyond the one-shot for professional...

1. A Treatise on Rural Public Health Nursing -- 2. Assessment in a Computer-Based Nursing Documentation -- 3. Clinical Decision Support Systems in Nursing -- 4. Culturally Sensitive Healthcare for Newcomer Immigrants -- 5. Mobile Technology in a Developing Context: Impacts and Directions for...

The investigation of healthcare databases can be used to examine physician decisions and develop evidence-based treatment guidelines that optimize patient outcomes. This book demonstrates how concern for detail in datasets and the use of data mining techniques can extract important and...

"This multi-volume book delves into the many applications of information technology ranging from digitizing patient records to high-performance computing, to medical imaging and diagnostic technologies, and much more"--

Content-based Image Retrieval for Advancing Medical Diagnostics, Treatment and Education -- Evaluation Challenges for Computer-Aided Diagnostic Characterization: Shape Disagreements in the Lung Image Database Consortium Pulmonary Nodule -- Multi-modal Content Based Image Retrieval in Healthcare:...

"This book offers a framework for measuring quality of service in the healthcare industry as it pertains to nursing, with insight into how new technologies and the design of personalized medicine have improved quality of care and quality of life"--Provided by publisher.