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Whatever analogy one chooses to describe the market decline of 2008 – tsunami, meteor strike, meltdown – it caused investors to question long-held assumptions about their investments, including their performance and liquidity expectations.

Against this backdrop, the SEI Knowledge Partnership conducted its 2009 global survey of institutional hedge fund investors. Our 2008 survey, conducted in the midst of the crisis, found institutions staying the course. But how would investors view their hedge fund investments after having a year to reflect on their performance and liquidity (or lack thereof), not to mention the Madoff scandal?

US Hedge Funds Move Towards United Front

Beset by a rash of federal regulatory scrutiny, a born-again securities cop, and politicians eager to rein-in excesses of the financial sector, the hedge fund industry is assembling a united front. The Managed Funds Association, the Washington, D.C., group mostly seen as the voice of the industry’s crème de la crème, is attempting to sew up affiliations with at least a dozen of its smaller, lesser-known cousins.

A Guide to the Clinical Care of Women With HIV addresses the health care needs unique to women with HIV. It targets clinicians who provide primary care to women as well as those seeking an understanding of how to take care of women with HIV/AIDS.

This guide includes tables, figures, color plates, resources, references, and indices. This edition includes new chapters on international issues and nutrition.

Many cancer patients are diagnosed at a stage in which the cancer is too far advanced to be cured, and most cancer treatments are effective in only a minority of patients undergoing therapy. Thus, there is tremendous opportunity to improve the outcome for people with cancer by enhancing detection and treatment approaches.

He (Pasachoff) gently takes you by the hand and tells you everything you want to know about our star. -- Sky & Telescope

Everything revolves around it...and now skywatchers and armchair scientists can learn all about the origin and history of the sun. With information on the sun's physical properties; how solar flares, sunspots, and winds on its surface affect Earth's atmosphere and environment; solar and lunar eclipses, transits, and occultations, and early astronomers' discoveries about the sun, including Galileo, Copernicus, Francis Bailey, and the Mayans.

Have you ever wondered what happens behind the scenes in mental health care? Well, with the amount of money spent and the numbers of people involved - perhaps you should.

Author Leo Vine-Knight's new book Looking Through the Windows of Madness is a tongue in cheek inside story which examines psychiatry from a variety of conventional and unconventional perspectives. It's a darkly humorous tale which highlights the one proposition we all secretly fear; society is more insane than any of the individuals within it.

The purpose of this manual is to advise those responsible for national malaria control programmes on the best ways of ensuring access to early diagnosis and appropriate, effective case management based on sound practice and WHO’s experience in the use of artemisinin-based combination treatment.

The manual describes malaria programme management, planning and implementation and outlines the technical knowledge needed for case management. It is intended for adaptation and use in all malaria-endemic countries, irrespective of their epidemiological and socioeconomic specificities.

This is the third edition of the UK National clinical guideline for stroke. It is an integral part of the broader goal of the Intercollegiate Stroke Working Party to improve the care of people who have had a stroke in the UK. The guideline and evidence tables also form the evidence base for much other work undertaken by the group, and by other organisations.

The world’s largest and most profitable companies – including the likes of GE, Bank of America, Honeywell, DuPont, Samsung, Starwood Hotels, Bechtel, and Motorola – have used Six Sigma to achieve breathtaking improvements in business performance, in everything from products to processes to complex systems and even in work environments. 

Over the past decade, over $100 billion in bottom-line performance has been achieved through corporate Six Sigma programs. Yet, despite its astounding effectiveness, few outside of the community of Six Sigma practitioners know what Six Sigma is all about.