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The curmudgeon's guide to getting ahead : dos and don'ts of right behavior, tough thinking, clear writing, and living a good life
A \"fussy--and entertaining--book on the hidden rules of the road in the workplace, and in life, from the standpoint of an admonishing but encouraging workplace grouch and taskmaster. Why the curmudgeon? The fact is, most older, more senior people over us in the workplace are closet curmudgeons. In today's politically correct world, they may hide their displeasure over your misuse of grammar, or your overly familiar use of their first name without an express invitation. But don't be fooled by their pleasant demeanor. Underneath, they are judging and evaluating your every move and utterance\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Long Hard Road
Long Hard Road: The Lithium-Ion Battery and the Electric
Car provides an inside look at the birth of the lithium-ion
battery, from its origins in academic labs around the world to its
transition to its new role as the future of automotive power. It
chronicles the piece-by-piece development of the battery, from its
early years when it was met by indifference from industry to its
later emergence in Japan where it served in camcorders, laptops,
and cell phones. The book is the first to provide a glimpse inside
the Japanese corporate culture that turned the lithium-ion
chemistry into a commercial product. It shows the intense race
between two companies, Asahi Chemical and Sony Corporation, to
develop a suitable anode. It also explains, for the first time, why
one Japanese manufacturer had to build its first preproduction
cells in a converted truck garage in Boston, Massachusetts.
Building on that history, Long Hard Road then takes
readers inside the auto industry to show how lithium-ion solved the
problems of earlier battery chemistries and transformed the
electric car into a viable competitor. Starting with the Henry Ford
and Thomas Edison electric car of 1914, it chronicles a long list
of automotive failures, then shows how a small California car
converter called AC Propulsion laid the foundation for a revolution
by packing its car with thousands of tiny lithium-ion cells. The
book then takes readers inside the corporate board rooms of Detroit
to show how mainstream automakers finally decided to adopt
lithium-ion.
Long Hard Road is unique in its telling of the
lithium-ion tale, revealing that the battery chemistry was not the
product of a single inventor, nor the dream of just three Nobel
Prize winners, but rather was the culmination of dozens of
scientific breakthroughs from many inventors whose work was united
to create a product that ultimately changed the world.
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Long hard road : the lithium-ion battery and the electric car
\"Long Hard Road: The Lithium-Ion Battery and the Electric Car provides an inside look at the birth of the lithium-ion battery, from its origins in academic labs around the world to its transition to its new role as the future of automotive power. It chronicles the piece-by-piece development of the battery, from its early years when it was met by indifference from industry to its later emergence in Japan where it served in camcorders, laptops, and cell phones. The book is the first to provide a glimpse inside the Japanese corporate culture that turned the lithium-ion chemistry into a commercial product. It shows the intense race between two companies, Asahi Chemical and Sony Corporation, to develop a suitable anode. It also explains, for the first time, why one Japanese manufacturer had to build its first preproduction cells in a converted truck garage in Boston, Massachusetts. Building on that history, Long Hard Road then takes readers inside the auto industry to show how lithium-ion solved the problems of earlier battery chemistries and transformed the electric car into a viable competitor. Starting with the Henry Ford and Thomas Edison electric car of 1914, it chronicles a long list of automotive failures, then shows how a small California car converter called AC Propulsion laid the foundation for a revolution by packing its car with thousands of tiny lithium-ion cells. The book then takes readers inside the corporate board rooms of Detroit to show how mainstream automakers finally decided to adopt lithium-ion. Long Hard Road is unique in its telling of the lithium-ion tale, revealing that the battery chemistry was not the product of a single inventor, nor the dream of just three Nobel Prize winners, but rather was the culmination of dozens of scientific breakthroughs from many inventors whose work was united to create a product that ultimately changed the world\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Between progress and changing times: The journey of UEG Education Committee's chair
In 2014, we then brought the e-learning team into the Education Committee with a plan to develop education further, to provide accessible and up to date information to all UEG Member Societies, and to ensure that the content provided was always cutting edge and up to date. With a great deal of work and collaboration with multiple experts in their fields, we increased the online users of our courses from a number of over 40 in 2013, to nearly 13,000 unique users today. The second Masterclass on Colorectal Cancer is imminent, and with the ability to blend online and classroom learning with experts in the field, the offerings are taking the education we provide to the next level. [...]as my term comes to an end, it is with great pride and gratitude that I look back on the last 4 years as UEG Education Committee Chair, and nearly a decade of involvement in education in UEG.
Journal Article
Cause or effect? Interpreting emerging evidence for dysbiosis in systemic sclerosis
Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is an immune-mediated fibrotic disease affecting skin, lung and gut which are all sites with an established microbiome. Altered microbial flora may occur and contribute to the initiation, progression or severity of disease. However, dysbiosis could also be secondary to the disease or immunosuppressive therapy. Here we consider how lessons could be learned from gastroenterology, a speciality where dysbiosis is strongly implicated in disease mechanism and treatment. This could be highly relevant to molecular pathology of skin in SSc and could drive the inflammatory gene signature observed in some skin biopsies.
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UK guideline on transition of adolescent and young persons with chronic digestive diseases from paediatric to adult care
The risks of poor transition include delayed and inappropriate transfer that can result in disengagement with healthcare. Structured transition care can improve control of chronic digestive diseases and long-term health-related outcomes. These are the first nationally developed guidelines on the transition of adolescent and young persons (AYP) with chronic digestive diseases from paediatric to adult care. They were commissioned by the Clinical Services and Standards Committee of the British Society of Gastroenterology under the auspices of the Adolescent and Young Persons (A&YP) Section. Electronic searches for English-language articles were performed with keywords relating to digestive system diseases and transition to adult care in the Medline (via Ovid), PsycInfo (via Ovid), Web of Science and CINAHL databases for studies published from 1980 to September 2014. The quality of evidence and grading of recommendations was appraised using the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation (GRADE) system. The limited number of studies in gastroenterology and hepatology required the addition of relevant studies from other chronic diseases to be included.These guidelines deal specifically with the transition of AYP living with a diagnosis of chronic digestive disease and/or liver disease from paediatric to adult healthcare under the following headings;1. Patient populations involved in AYP transition2. Risks of failing transition or poor transition3. Models of AYP transition4. Patient and carer/parent perspective in AYP transition5. Surgical perspective
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