How many patients will require admission to my hospital in two days? How widespread will influenza be in my community in two weeks? What will the changing demographics of our community do to affect demand for medical services in our region in two years? These and similar questions are the province of Modelling in Healthcare. This new volume, presented by the Complex Systems Modelling Group at Simon Fraser University in Canada, uses plain language, sophisticated mathematics and vivid examples to guide and instruct. Sage advice on the benefits and limitations of the modelling process and model predictions is generously distributed so that the reader comes away with an understanding not only of the process but also on the practical uses (and misuses!) of models. Perhaps the most important aspect of this book is that the content and the logic are readily understandable by modelers, administrators and clinicians alike. This volume will surely serve as their common and thus preferred reference for modelling in healthcare for many years.

In der Arbeit wird mit einem transdisziplinären Ansatz herausgearbeitet, auf welche Weise literarische Texte der Gegenwartsliteratur Erfahrungen der Adoleszenz in der DDR verhandeln und inwiefern sie einen Beitrag zur Erweiterung des kollektiven Gedächtnisses leisten. Die ausgewählten Texte berücksichtigen spezifische Formen der weiblichen und männlichen Adoleszenz, verzeichnen unterschiedliche subkulturelle Tendenzen sowie spezifische Rituale des jugendkulturellen Lebens in den 1970er- und 1980er-Jahren. Sie erfüllen damit eine Archivierungsfunktion, die für die Pflege des kulturellen Gedächtnisses von Bedeutung ist. In einem Exkurs werden ausgewählte Adoleszenzmuster diskutiert, die in den Texten, die in der DDR in den 1970er-Jahren entstanden sind, zum Gegenstand der Darstellung werden.In this work, a transdisciplinary approach is used to find out the ways in which literary texts of contemporary literature represent experiences of adolescence in the GDR and the extent to which they contribute to the expansion of collective memory. The selected texts take into consideration specific forms of female and male adolescence, record different subcultural tendencies as well as specific rituals of youth cultural life in the 1970s and 1980s, therefore fulfilling an archival function that is important for the maintenance of cultural memory. In an excursus, selected patterns of adolescence that become the subject of representation in texts produced in the GDR in the 1970s are discussed.

How many patients will require admission to my hospital in two days? How widespread will influenza be in my community in two weeks? What will the changing demographics of our community do to affect demand for medical services in our region in two years? These and similar questions are the province of Modelling in Healthcare. This new volume, presented by the Complex Systems Modelling Group at Simon Fraser University in Canada, uses plain language, sophisticated mathematics and vivid examples to guide and instruct. Sage advice on the benefits and limitations of the modelling process and model predictions is generously distributed so that the reader comes away with an understanding not only of the process but also on the practical uses (and misuses!) of models. Perhaps the most important aspect of this book is that the content and the logic are readily understandable by modelers, administrators and clinicians alike. This volume will surely serve as their common and thus preferred reference for modelling in healthcare for many years.

In der Arbeit wird mit einem transdisziplinären Ansatz herausgearbeitet, auf welche Weise literarische Texte der Gegenwartsliteratur Erfahrungen der Adoleszenz in der DDR verhandeln und inwiefern sie einen Beitrag zur Erweiterung des kollektiven Gedächtnisses leisten. Die ausgewählten Texte berücksichtigen spezifische Formen der weiblichen und männlichen Adoleszenz, verzeichnen unterschiedliche subkulturelle Tendenzen sowie spezifische Rituale des jugendkulturellen Lebens in den 1970er- und 1980er-Jahren. Sie erfüllen damit eine Archivierungsfunktion, die für die Pflege des kulturellen Gedächtnisses von Bedeutung ist. In einem Exkurs werden ausgewählte Adoleszenzmuster diskutiert, die in den Texten, die in der DDR in den 1970er-Jahren entstanden sind, zum Gegenstand der Darstellung werden.In this work, a transdisciplinary approach is used to find out the ways in which literary texts of contemporary literature represent experiences of adolescence in the GDR and the extent to which they contribute to the expansion of collective memory. The selected texts take into consideration specific forms of female and male adolescence, record different subcultural tendencies as well as specific rituals of youth cultural life in the 1970s and 1980s, therefore fulfilling an archival function that is important for the maintenance of cultural memory. In an excursus, selected patterns of adolescence that become the subject of representation in texts produced in the GDR in the 1970s are discussed.