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John and Shawn are the best of pals. One day, Shawn was suddenly diagnosed with stage 4 cancer and has months left to live. Shawn gets hospitalised. Left with insufficient time, it is a race against time for both friends to spend as much time together before Shawn departs the planet altogether. Both friends decide to meet up every Sunday, at Shawn's hospital bed-side to discuss various issues in life. Before Shawn's life comes to a close, John managed to learn 7 vital lessons from Shawn. John's weekly meetings with Shawn dramatically improved John's life for the better. John rediscovered his...

Nutritional Management of Hospitalized Small Animals offers veterinarians, veterinary students and technicians a comprehensive reference to the latest information relating to the principles and practice of nutritional support in small animals that require hospitalization.

• Represents the definitive resource for small animal veterinarians in providing optimal nutritional support for their patients during hospitalization
• Discusses and demonstrates the most up-to-date techniques available for successfully implementing nutritional support for hospitalized small...

Improved efficiency and effectiveness in the construction industry provide huge potential savings. Various forms of relational contracting such as partnering, alliancing, public private partnership (PPP), and joint venture are good examples of this.

Relational Contracting for Construction Excellence presents the principles of relational contracting, practicalities and a series of short case studies. Principles begins with the fundamentals then covers development in major countries, definitions of relational contracting, their benefits, difficulties, critical success factors...

This book provides an up-to-date study of the fundamental facets of supporting information technologies: organization and people, data and information, presentation of information, and process. To improve the effective use of human resources, it is necessary to capture the structure of an organization and the knowledge of people within the organization. Data can be processed to produce new information by either inferring hidden implications or summarizing a large volume of information into more manageable information units. Information may also be required to be presented using different...

The problems inherent in the traditional design-bid-build procurement method often lead to the adversarial working relationships within the construction industry. Target cost contracts, accompanied by a gain-share/pain-share arrangement serving as a cost incentive mechanism, have emerged in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia and Hong Kong with the aim of achieving better value for money and more satisfactory overall project performance under a collaborative working relationship.

This book presents the underlying principles, practicalities and a series of short...

The Computer Supported Collaborative Learning (CSCL) conference has become an internationally-recognized forum for the exchange of research findings related to learning in the context of collaborative activity and the exploration of how such learning might be augmented through technology. This text is the proceedings from CSCL 2005 held in Taipei, Taiwan. This conference marked the 10th anniversary of the first CSCL Conference held at Indiana University in 1995. Subsequent meetings have been held at the University of Toronto, Stanford University, University of Maastricht (Netherlands),...

Nearly half a century has passed since Hymes proposed the concept of communicative competence to describe the knowledge and skills required for the appropriate use of language in a social context. During these decades, a number of scholars have applied and refined this concept. In language education, communicative competence has been identified as a major objective of learning.

This book will inform readers about communicative competence as a highly complex construct encompassing an array of sub-competencies such as linguistic skills and proficiencies, knowledge of socio-cultural...