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          <b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">CALL
              FOR CHAPTER PROPOSALS</span></b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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          <b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Proposal
              Submission Deadline:
            </span></b><b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif";background:white">May
              18, 2014</span></b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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          <b><i><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Encyclopedia
                of E-Health and Telemedicine<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:5.0pt"
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          <span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">A
            book edited by
          </span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif";background:white">Maria
            Manuela Cruz-Cunha<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(Polytechnic
            Institute of Cávado and Ave<span
              class="apple-converted-space">,
            </span>Portugal<span class="apple-converted-space">) and </span>Isabel
            Miranda<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">(<span
              style="background:white">Municipality of Guimarães<span
                class="apple-converted-space">,
              </span>Portugal)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:5.0pt"
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          <span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:center;mso-line-height-alt:5.0pt"
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          <span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">To
            be published by IGI Global:
          </span><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://bit.ly/1hMjfbr"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">http://bit.ly/1hMjfbr</span></a><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">
            <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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          <span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <div align="center">
          <pre><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="http://www.igi-global.com/publish/call-for-papers/submit/1355"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif";color:#3366CC">Propose a chapter for this book</span></a></pre>
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        <p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:5.0pt"><br>
        </p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:5.0pt"><b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Introduction<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:5.0pt"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Health
            and social care, e-Health, Telemedicine, are at the center
            of the research policies, on the research agenda of the
            world governments and are facing major developments.</span><b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
        <p style="background:white"><span
            style="font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">This
            publication intends to put together, in a comprehensive way,
            the problems of ageing, health, health care, social care,
            mobility, ageing well, quality of life of people with
            special needs, user needs analysis, and the recent
            approaches provided by ICT, such as e-Health and
            Telemedicine, new technologies, new applications, emerging
            trends, the ethical and legal implications (eg. clinical
            records) and case studies. It is an ambitious project of
            addressing the social, technological, organizational,
            ethical and legal aspects of the topic.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:5.0pt"><b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Objective
              of the Book<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:5.0pt"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">The
            mission of the Encyclopedia of e-Health and Telemedicine is
            to discuss the main issues, challenges, opportunities, and
            trends related to this new field of knowledge able to
            transform the way we live and deliver services, from the
            social, technological and organizational dimensions, in a
            very comprehensive way, and to disseminate current
            developments and practical solutions and applications.</span><b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;line-height:normal;background:white"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">The
            overall objectives are:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoListParagraph"
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          <!--[if !supportLists]--><span
            style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span
              style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt
                "Times New Roman"">        
              </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">To
            discuss the importance of e-Health, Telemedicine, ICT-based
            healthcare and social care delivery, and the emerging
            technological developments and practical solutions.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoListParagraph"
          style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:2.25pt;margin-left:25.5pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0
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          <!--[if !supportLists]--><span
            style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span
              style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt
                "Times New Roman"">        
              </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">To
            introduce the state-of-the-art supporting technology.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoListParagraph"
          style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:2.25pt;margin-left:25.5pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0
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          <!--[if !supportLists]--><span
            style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span
              style="mso-list:Ignore">·<span style="font:7.0pt
                "Times New Roman"">        
              </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">To
            introduce and discuss the challenges associated with
            e-Health developments, from the social, organizational and
            technological perspectives.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoListParagraph"
          style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:2.25pt;margin-left:25.5pt;text-indent:-.25in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l0
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          <!--[if !supportLists]--><span
            style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:Symbol"><span
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              </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">To
            introduce recent technological developments and associated
            human, ethical and legal implications.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:5.0pt"><b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:5.0pt"><b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Target
              Audience<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:5.0pt"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif";background:white">The
            encyclopedia intends to be a tool for researchers,
            academics, professionals of medicine, healthcare and social
            care, professionals of IT, providing some of the most
            advanced research, concepts, applications, developments,
            discussions and case studies on digital crime and digital
            threats from one side, and security, privacy, information
            assurance, law and regulation, and human aspects, on the
            other.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:5.0pt"><b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:5.0pt"><b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Recommended
              topics include, but are not limited to, the following:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:5.0pt"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">The
            Encyclopedia intends to collect the most recent
            contributions on the social and technological dimensions of
            the largely multidisciplinary field of e-Health and
            Telemedicine. It is intended to cover the following aspects:</span><b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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          <li class="MsoNormal"
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            <span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">The
              technological dimension that enables and supports
              teleservices, telemedicine, teleoperation and
              telemonitoring. The technological dimension includes:<o:p></o:p></span>
            <ul type="circle">
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                style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:2.25pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1
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                <span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Information
                  systems and technologies<o:p></o:p></span></li>
              <li class="MsoNormal"
                style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:2.25pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1
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                <span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Communication
                  technologies<o:p></o:p></span></li>
              <li class="MsoNormal"
                style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:2.25pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1
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                <span
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                  technologies<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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                <span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Information
                  and systems integration<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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                <span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Electronic
                  medical records<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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                <span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Electronic
                  devices<o:p></o:p></span></li>
            </ul>
          </li>
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            <span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">The
              social and human dimensions, which explores motivations,
              benefits and emergent effects of e-Health project
              implementations, and which include, for example:<o:p></o:p></span>
            <ul type="circle">
              <li class="MsoNormal"
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                <span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Increased
                  quality of life<o:p></o:p></span></li>
              <li class="MsoNormal"
                style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:2.25pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1
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                <span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Increased
                  life expectancy<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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                <span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Trust
                  and privacy issues<o:p></o:p></span></li>
              <li class="MsoNormal"
                style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:2.25pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1
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                <span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Ethical
                  aspects<o:p></o:p></span></li>
              <li class="MsoNormal"
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                <span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Legal
                  aspects<o:p></o:p></span></li>
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                <span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Training<o:p></o:p></span></li>
            </ul>
          </li>
          <li class="MsoNormal"
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            <span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Organizational
              aspects and management of e-health services<o:p></o:p></span></li>
          <li class="MsoNormal"
            style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:2.25pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1
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            <span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Business
              and entrepreneurial perspective focusing on the added
              value of specific applications<o:p></o:p></span></li>
          <li class="MsoNormal"
            style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:2.25pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1
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            <span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Impact,
              implications and challenges (social and technological) of
              e-Health<o:p></o:p></span></li>
        </ul>
        <p class="MsoNormal"
          style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:2.25pt;margin-left:.75in;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1
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              </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">On
            individuals, families and communities<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"
          style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:2.25pt;margin-left:.75in;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1
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              </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">On
            organizations and business<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"
          style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:2.25pt;margin-left:.75in;text-indent:0in;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1
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style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">On
            scientific knowledge and on research<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"
          style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:2.25pt;margin-left:7.5pt;text-indent:10.5pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1
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              </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Ongoing
            developments, applications and case studies<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <ul type="disc">
          <ul type="circle">
            <li class="MsoNormal"
              style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:2.25pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1
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              <span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Emerging
                solutions<o:p></o:p></span></li>
            <li class="MsoNormal"
              style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:2.25pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1
              level2 lfo2;background:white">
              <span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Relevant
                R&D projects<o:p></o:p></span></li>
            <li class="MsoNormal"
              style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:2.25pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1
              level2 lfo2;background:white">
              <span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Integration
                between applications and solutions<o:p></o:p></span></li>
            <li class="MsoNormal"
              style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:2.25pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1
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              <span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Current
                development trends<o:p></o:p></span></li>
          </ul>
        </ul>
        <p class="MsoNormal"
          style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:2.25pt;margin-left:7.5pt;text-indent:10.5pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1
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              </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Integration
            with other disciplines:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"
          style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:2.25pt;margin-left:58.5pt;text-indent:-4.5pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1
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              </span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Sociology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"
          style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:2.25pt;margin-left:58.5pt;text-indent:-4.5pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1
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style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Psychology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"
          style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:2.25pt;margin-left:58.5pt;text-indent:-4.5pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1
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style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Gerontology<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"
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style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Distributed
            technologies and systems<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"
          style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;margin-bottom:2.25pt;margin-left:58.5pt;text-indent:-4.5pt;line-height:normal;mso-list:l1
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style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Knowledge
            management<o:p></o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:5.0pt"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
        <p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:5.0pt"><b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Submission
              Procedure<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:5.0pt"><span
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            and practitioners are invited to submit a chapter proposal
            (an extended abstract of around 300 to 500 words) clearly
            explaining the mission and concerns of a proposed chapter by<span
              class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>May 18, 2014</b>.
            Submissions should be made through the link at the bottom of
            this page. Please include all information about the author
            and co-authors, affiliations and email addresses when
            submitting your chapter proposals. Authors of accepted
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              class="apple-converted-space"> </span>about the status of
            their proposals. Full articles (at around 3,000 to 5,000
            words) are expected to be submitted by<span
              class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>September 30,
              2014</b>. All submitted articles will be reviewed on a
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style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif""><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
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style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:5.0pt"><b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Publisher</span></b><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">This
            book is scheduled to be published by IGI Global (formerly
            Idea Group Inc.), publisher of the Information Science
            Reference (formerly Idea Group Reference), Medical
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            This book is anticipated to be released in 2015.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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              Dates<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;mso-line-height-alt:5.0pt"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif";background:white">Proposal
            Submission Deadline:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>May
              18, 2014</b></span><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif""><br>
            <span style="background:white">Notification of Acceptance:<span
                class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>May 25, 2014</b></span><br>
            <span style="background:white">Full chapter submission:<span
                class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>September 30,
                2014</b></span><br>
            <span style="background:white">Notification of acceptance:<span
                class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>December 30,
                2014</b></span><br>
            <span style="background:white">Revised version of accepted
              chapters:<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>January
                15, 2015</b></span><br>
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                class="apple-converted-space"> </span><b>April 30, 2015<o:p></o:p></b></span></span></p>
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          style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;background:white"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Candara","sans-serif"">Isabel
            Maria Miranda,<span class="apple-converted-space"><span
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