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The holistic thermodynamic approach based on material (charge, concentration and electron) balances is a firm and valuable tool for a choice of the best a priori conditions of chemical analyses performed in electrolytic systems. Such an approach has been already presented in a series of papers issued in recent years, see [1-4] and references cited therein. In this communication, the approach will be exemplified with electrolytic systems, with special emphasis put on the complex systems where all particular types (acid-base, redox, complexation and precipitation) of chemical equilibria occur in parallel and/or sequentially. All attainable physicochemical knowledge can be involved in calculations and none simplifying assumptions are needed. All analytical prescriptions can be followed. The approach enables all possible (from thermodynamic viewpoint) reactions to be included and all effects resulting from activation barrier(s) and incomplete set of equilibrium data presumed can be tested. The problems involved are presented on some examples of analytical systems considered lately, concerning potentiometric titrations in complex titrand + titrant systems. All calculations were done with use of iterative computer programs MATLAB and DELPHI. 

A culture that cares for all of its people must hear the stories of all, as did Native American communities before the U.S. government pressured them into adoption of the European model of allowing a dominant few to do the speaking and decision-making for all. Today we are farther than ever from an all-inclusive model of community. In a country racked by racism, sexism, homophobia, and economic injustice, the stories of non-dominant people represent a crucial undercurrent or subtext necessary for a viable, holistic understanding of life experience. 

So far we can conclude that it is possible to describe intentions in communicative acts with the help of qualitative changes in movements. Yet it is still unclear which changes are present, because MED only crudely describes qualitative changes on a holistic level. Single movement features are not captured by this method. Yet our hypothesis is confirmed that under high risk conditions, communicative acts are forced to a level where it is only difficult to assess them with generic coding methods. This situation has lead us to a series of new developments which we currently pursue. 

In many developing countries of the world, there is still a major reliance on crude drug preparation of plants used in traditional medicines for their primary health care. Pharmacognosists employed in the different institutions are aware of the changing trends of herbal medications and a number of useful texts on the analysis, uses, and potential toxicities of herbal remedies have appeared recently, which serves as useful guides in pharmacy practice. The history of medicine includes many ludicrous therapies. Nevertheless, ancient wisdom has been the basis of modem medicine and will remain as one important source of future medicine and therapeutics. The future of natural products drug discovery will be more holistic, personahzed and involve the wise use of ancient and modem therapeutic skills in a complementary manner so that maximum benefits can be accmed to the patients and the community. 

Aldo Leopold, a leading ecocentric theorist and biologist wrote A thing is right when it tends to preserve the integrity, stability, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong when it tends otherwise (Leopold 1949, pp. 224-225). This statement emphasises the holistic view and systems approaches associated with ecocentric ethics. 

A holistic strategy in hierarchical modeling, which enables the communication between physical phenomena in different length and time scales and provides understanding of the systematic properties using nanoscale parameters has been presented in this paper via two benchmark systems, that is, HDD and PEFC. By illustrating representative modeling methods on each level of scale, physical phenomena in each... 

McLean W, Gillis J, Waller R. 2003. The BC Community Pharmacy Asthma Study A study of clinical, economic and holistic outcomes influenced by an asthma care protocol provided by specially trained community pharmacists in British Columbia. Can Respir/10 195. 

Standards (e.g., IEC 61508), methods of risk and hazard analysis, and certification methods have evolved long before IT. Security has evolved quite recently with networked IT-systems and concerns about privacy, data integrity, authenticity and protection. Both communities have developed their own standards, methods and system views—and neither in standardization nor in application areas they cooperate well. The paper takes a holistic view of critical systems and proposes a unified approach to system dependability, integrating both safety and security, arguing that in case of massively deployed embedded systems security issues have severe safety impact and vice versa. 

On the other hand, we have ISO 15508 (Common Criteria, focusing on component evaluation) and ISO 17799 (system guidelines on security, holistic, not only IT), for Security. They have even another language than the safety community, and another view what levels of protection mean (EALs vs. SILs). From the dependability point of view, requirements could be derived for security features and profiles depending on the SILs required for safety. Allocations could be done not only between HW, SW and components on functional level with respect to safety but with respect to security also. But interaction and discussion would be necessary (Note The aspects of multilateral security could be correlated to SILs according to... 

It has been demonstrated, that mass deployment of networked, dependable embedded systems with critical control functions require a new, holistic system view on safety critical and security critical systems. Both communities have to interact, communicate and integrate at the end. A unified approach to address the safety AND security requirements of safety related systems is proposed, based on the functional safety standard IEC 61508 and IT-Security management standards, handbooks and guidelines. 

In the aftermath of a disaster, the evidence of death, injury, and devastation can overwhelm both victims and responders. The evidence of destruction and the inevitable life changes that the disaster has caused become rapidly apparent. The disaster continuum plays out—leaving its victims and responders in its wake. Yet the disaster response is not over—in fact, the final recovery and evaluative phases of the disaster continuum are just beginning. And in all probability, the role of the nurse is never more important than during recovery. Nursing, with roots firmly planted in health promotion and wellness and the provision of holistic health care, now needs to address holistic disaster recovery with the goals being to assist individuals and communities to recover and create a more sustainable future. 

Adams, M.S., Crumby, W.D., Greeley, M.S., Shugart, L.R. and Saylor, C. (1992) Responses of fish populations and communities to pulp mill effluents a holistic assessment Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 24, 347-360. 

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