Search Results - "Evolution"

Molecular endocrinology by Bolander, Franklyn F.

Table of Contents: “…Classical endocrinology -- Nonclassical endocrinology -- Overview of receptors and transducers -- Kinetics -- Nuclear receptors -- Membrane receptors -- Receptor regulation -- G proteins and cyclic nucleotides -- Calcium, calmodulin, and phospholipids -- Miscellaneous second messengers -- Phosphorylation and other nontranscriptional effects of hormones -- Hormonally regulated transcription factors -- Modifications and conformations of DNA and nuclear proteins -- Posttranscriptional control -- Pathogen-endocrine system interactions -- Molecular bases of endocrinopathies -- Molecular evolution of the endocrine system.…”
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The European Union explained institutions, actors, global impact / by Staab, Andreas, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…The evolution of the European Union -- Parameters of European integration -- Enlargement -- Institutions -- The European Commission -- The European Council -- The Council of Ministers -- The Presidency -- The European Parliament -- The European Court of Justice -- Checks and balances -- Policies -- The single market and competition -- Regional policy and cohesion -- The common agricultural policy -- Economic and monetary union -- Justice and home affairs -- Common foreign and security policy -- Trade and the common commercial policy.…”
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Smartsourcing driving innovation and growth through outsourcing / by Koulopoulos, Thomas M.

Table of Contents: “…-- Digital value chains -- Deorganization -- The invisible hand of commerce -- On demand -- Evolution of the xEnterprise -- A new social contract.…”
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Networks of the brain by Sporns, Olaf

Table of Contents: “…-- Network measures and architectures -- Brain networks : structure and dynamics -- A network perspective on neuroanatomy -- Mapping cells, circuits, and systems -- The brain's small world : motifs, modules, and hubs -- Economy, efficiency, and evolution -- Dynamic patterns in spontaneous neural activity -- Networks for cognition -- Brain network disease -- Network growth and development -- Dynamics : stability and diversity -- Neural complexity -- Brain and body.…”
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The Blackwell companion to science and Christianity

Table of Contents: “…Cosmology and physics -- pt. 5. Evolution -- pt. 6. The human sciences -- pt. 7. Christian bioethics -- pt. 8. …”
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Microcalorimetry of macromolecules the physical basis of biological structures / by Privalov, Peter L.

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Fungal Biology and Biotechnology

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NGOs in international politics by Ahmed, Shamima, 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Overview of NGOs in international politics -- NGOs and international relations theory -- NGO evolution -- NGO roles in international politics -- NGO relations with states -- NGOs and IGOs -- Case studies -- NGOs and foreign aid -- NGOs and transnational accountability in Bangladesh -- NGOs and international security -- NGOs and human rights : women's rights at the UN -- NGOs and global environmental activism -- Conclusion.…”
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Fundamentals of geomorphology / by Huggett, Richard J.

Table of Contents: “…-- 2.Introducing process and form -- 3.Introducing history -- 4.The geomorphic system -- 5.Plate tectonics and associated structural landforms -- 6.Volcanoes, impact craters, folds, and faults -- 7.Weathering and associated landforms -- 8.Hillslopes -- 9.Fluvial landscapes -- 10.Glacial and glaciofluvial landscapes -- 11.Periglacial landscapes -- 12.Aeolian landscapes -- 13.Coastal landscapes -- 14.Karst landscapes -- 15.Landscape evolution: long-term geomorphology.…”

From despair to hope HOPE VI and the new promise of public housing in America's cities /

Table of Contents: “…Schmoke -- Acknowledgements -- Program origins and defining principles -- A new moment for people and cities / Henry Cisneros -- The origins of HOPE VI / Bruce Katz -- The evolution of HOPE VI as a development program / Richard D. …”
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Development and assessment of self-authorship exploring the concept across cultures /

Table of Contents: “…Jones -- Using the subject-object interview to promote and assess self-authorship / Jennifer Garvey Berger -- Future directions: pursuing theoretical and methodological issues in the evolution of self-authorship / Marcia B. Baxter Magolda.…”
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Gut Pathogens

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Advances in rice science : botany, production, and crop improvement / by Maiti, R. K., 1938-, Sarkar, Narayan Chandra, 1976-, González Rodriguez, Humberto, 1959-, Aruna Kumari, C. H., 1972-, Begum, Sameena, Rajkumar, Dasari

Table of Contents: “…Background and Importance of Rice -- World Rice Production -- Origin, Evolution, and Domestication of Rice -- Rice Ideotype -- Rice Botany -- Physiological Basis of Rice Growth and Productivity -- Research Advances in Abiotic Stress Management -- Biotic Stress Affecting Crop Productivity -- Methods of Cultivation -- Rice Grain Quality Analysis, Food Quality, Chemistry, and Food Processing -- Improvement of Rice: Rice Varieties and Hybrid Rice Technology -- Research Advances in Breeding and Biotechnology of Rice.…”
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Genius Envy : Women Shaping French Poetic History, 1801–1900 / by Paliyenko, Adrianna M., 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Un/sexing genius -- Literary reception and its discontents -- The other history of French poetry, 1801-1900 -- Anaïs Segalas on race, gender, and "la mission civilisatrice" -- Work, genius, and the in-between in Malvina Blanchecotte -- The poetic edges of dualism in Louisa Siefert -- Louise Ackermann's turn to science -- Marie Krysinska on eve, evolution, and the property of genius.…”
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The company they kept migrants and the politics of gender in Caribbean Costa Rica, 1870-1960 / by Putnam, Lara

Table of Contents: “…The evolution of family practice in Jamaica and Costa Rica -- Sojourners and settlers : economic cycles and traveling lives, 1850s-1940s -- Las princesas del dollar : prostitutes and the banana booms, 1890s-1920s -- Compañeros : communities and kinship, 1920s-1950s -- Facety women : rudeness and respectability, 1890s-1930s -- Men of respect : authority and violence, 1890s-1950s.…”
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The church in the barrio Mexican American ethno-Catholicism in Houston / by Treviño, Roberto R.

Table of Contents: “…Tejano Catholicism and Houston's Mexican American community -- Ethno-Catholicism : empowerment and way of life -- The poor Mexican : church perceptions of Texas Mexicans -- Answering the call of the people : patterns of institutional growth -- In their own way : parish funding and ethnic identity -- The church in the barrio : the evolution of Catholic social action -- Faith and justice : the church and the Chicano movement.…”
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Socialism after Hayek by Burczak, Theodore A., 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Hayek, Marx, and socialism -- Hayek's postmodern economics -- Hayek's theory of the common good: social evolution, law, and justice -- Recasting Hayek's good society: the non-neutrality of the law and the market -- Social justice and Hayekian knowledge problems -- Socialist appropriative justice and the labor-managed firm -- Socialist distributive justice and the stakeholder society -- Socialism after Hayek.…”
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The steps to war an empirical study / by Senese, Paul Domenic

Table of Contents: “…The steps to war -- The evolution of a research program : research design -- From territorial claims to territorial disputes : testing for selection effects -- Territory, contiguity, and their interaction : a contingent model of interstate conflict -- The probability of war between nation-states -- The probability of crisis escalation -- Exploring interactions in the steps to war -- Explaining war, thinking about peace.…”
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Information and communication technologies in Nigeria prospects and challenges for development / by Akpan-Obong, Patience Idaraesit

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Information and communication technologies and theories of development -- Evolution of Nigerian economic development -- A journey to the future : the policy framework -- All in a day's work : diffusion and usage in the public sector -- Use IT : patterns of usage in the societal context -- Potholes on the information superhighway and detours -- 'African giant' meets Africa : information and communication technologies beyond borders.…”
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Of beasts and beauty gender, race, and identity in Colombia / by Stanfield, Michael Edward, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…"La mujer reina pero no gobierna," 1845-1885 -- Bicycle race, 1885-1914 -- Apparent modernity, 1914-1929 -- Liberal beauty, 1930-1948 -- Exclusive beasts, 1948-1958 -- From Miss Universe to the anti-reina, 1958-1968 -- Static government, social evolution, 1968-1979 -- Pulchritude, the palacio, and power, 1979-1985.…”
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