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Colorectal cancer and hereditary colon cancer syndromes

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Colorectal cancer is a molecularly heterogeneous disease known to arise from two distinct origins, the adenomatous and serrated pathways -- Sessile serrated polyps, also known as sessile serrated adenomas, and traditional serrated adenomas are believed to be the precursor lesions for serrated carcinomas which account for up to 30% of sporadic colorectal cancers -- When colorectal polyps or cancer occur in multiple generations, numerous relatives, at a young age of onset or in association with unusual numbers of lesions or extra-colonic tumors, a hereditary colorectal cancer syndrome should be suspected as a potential cause -- The ability to recognize a patient with a hereditary colorectal cancer syndrome allows a practitioner to stratify her or his patient's lifetime cancer risk and devise prevention and management strategies for risk reduction in the patient and family once the diagnosis is confirmed.…”
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Research Guide to the Russian and Soviet Censuses

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Democrats and Republicans-- rhetoric and reality comparing the voters in statistics and anecdotes / by Fried, Joseph

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Table Of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1: Lifestyle Differences -- Introduction -- General excitement -- Details -- Family, relationships, and sex -- Health and fitness -- Religion -- Entertainment and leisure -- Family finances -- Habitat -- Miscellaneous -- Trivia -- Conclusions -- Chapter 2: Who Is More Intelligent, Knowledgeable, and Educated? …”
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Childhood well-being and resilience : influences on educational outcomes /

Table of Contents: “…Examples of practice interventions that support children and young people's well being and resilience -- Well being and outdoor learning -- The role of mindfulness in supporting well being in young children -- Education and social work working collaboratively to support vulnerable families: Benefits and tensions -- Solution focused resilience work: From the fantastical to the real -- Section 4. …”
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Aeglidae : life history and conservation status of unique freshwater anomuran decapods /

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"Shakin' up" race and gender intercultural connections in Puerto Rican, African American, and Chicano narratives and culture (1965-1995) / by Sánchez, Marta Ester

Table of Contents: “…"In bed" with La Malinche : stories of "family" à la Octavio Paz, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and Oscar Lewis -- La Malinche at the intersection of Puerto Rican and African American cultures : Piri Thomas and Down these mean streets -- La Malinche : shuffling the Puerto Rican border in Spanish and Black Harlem -- Of nutshells, frogs, and men in Manchild in the promised land -- Grandma knows best : the women in Manchild in the promised land -- Overcoming self-loathing, learning to love brownness : Oscar Zeta Acosta and the autobiography of a brown buffalo.…”
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A day apart how Jews, Christians, and Muslims find faith, freedom, and joy on the Sabbath / by Ringwald, Christopher D.

Table of Contents: “…From Sinai to Sunday: the Holy Day in three religions and three families -- The birth of the Sabbath: from creation to Mount Sinai and into the Promised Land in 1100 BCE -- The fight for the Sabbath: from the monarchy to Jesus and the age of the rabbis: 1000 BCE to 200 CE -- The Lord's Day: Easter to 1600 -- Islam's Day of Judgment -- Citizens and Sabbatarians: 1600 to 1890 -- The Sabbath defeated, reborn, converted: 1890 to the present -- The window on eternity -- Give me a break: work, rest, equality, play, and place -- The promise of peace: sharing the Holy Day.…”
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Yeomen, sharecroppers, and Socialists plain folk protest in Texas, 1870-1914 / by Wilkison, Kyle Grant, 1960-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- From homeplace to no place: the changing Texas economy, 1870-1910 -- Farmers and wealth distribution in Hunt County, Texas, 1870-1910 -- "A legitimate and useful life": family, work, and community -- "The same class of people": cohesion and conflict -- "The land shall not be sold forever": land and God in 1910s Texas -- "Whose planet is this anyway?"…”
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Sold down the river slavery in the lower Chattahoochee Valley of Alabama and Georgia / by Carey, Anthony Gene

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: writing slaveries from the perspectives of one place -- Slaveries, rivalries, revolutions, removals: the valley from creek heartland to American frontier -- Markets in flesh: the parameters of slavery and the slave trade -- The work of slavery, the lineaments of life -- "A tight fight where us was": punishment, resistance, and power -- Praying together for different things: evangelicalism and the limits of biracial worship -- Whose bodies? whose families? whose homes? Contesting identity and domesticity -- Epilogue: "Dere is sumpin' 'bout bein' free": the overthrow of slavery.…”
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Nursing the neonate

Table of Contents: “…The evolution of neonatal care -- Obstetric issues relating to neonatal care -- Normal adaptation to the postnatal environment -- The neonatal environment and care of families -- The small baby -- Thermoregulation -- Fluids, electrolytes, and glucose -- Respiratory illness and ventilatory support -- Neonatal surgery -- Congenital conditions -- Cardiovascular pathology -- Nutrition of the term and preterm infant -- Neonatal stabilisation and transport -- Neonatal neurology -- The dying infant -- Infection in the term and preterm infant -- Haematology in the term and preterm neonate -- Developmental care -- Neonatal ethics -- Discharge planning and the community outreach service.…”
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A clinical guide for contraception / by Speroff, Leon, 1935-

Table of Contents: “…. -- Oral Contaception -- Special Uses of Oral Contraception EMERGENCY CONTRACEPTION THE PROGESTIN-ONLY MINIPILL -- Transdermal and Vaginal Contraception -- Implant Contraception -- Injectable Contraception -- Intrauterine Contraception -- Barrier Methods -- Natural Family Planning: Periodic Abstinence and Withdrawal -- The Postpartum Period, Breastfeeding and Contraception -- CHAPTER 11: Clinical Guidelines for Contraception at Different Ages: Early and Late -- Sterilization -- Induced Abortion and Post-Abortion Contraception -- Interpreting Epidemiologic Reports and Contraceptive Eligibility Criteria EPILOGUE.…”
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Molecular genetics of bacteria / by Snyder, Larry

Table of Contents: “…The bacterial chromosome : DNA structure, replication, and segregation -- Bacterial gene expression : transcription, translation, and protein folding -- Bacterial genetic analysis : fundamentals and current approaches -- Plasmids -- Conjugation -- Transformation -- Lytic bacteriophages : development, genetics, and generalized transduction -- Lysogeny : the lambda paradigm and the role of lysogenic conversion in bacterial pathogenesis -- Transposition, site-specific recombination, and families of recombinases -- Molecular mechanisms of homologous recombination -- DNA repair and mutagenesis -- Regulation of gene expression: genes and operons -- Global regulation : regulons and stimulons -- Bacterial cell biology and development.…”
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Bean Blossom : the Brown County Jamboree and Bill Monroe's bluegrass festivals / by Adler, Thomas A.

Table of Contents: “…Brown County history and roots -- Origins of the Brown County Jamboree (1939-1941) -- The Rund Family's Brown County Jamboree (1941-1951) -- Bill Monroe's Brown County Jamboree Park (1952-1957) -- Survivals, revivals, and arrivals (1958-1966) -- Building the festivals (1967-1968) -- The festival becomes a landmark (1969-1971) -- The festival's golden age (1972-1982) -- Festival people and lore -- Bill and James Monroe's festival park (1983-1997) -- Renaissance, continuity, and change (1998 and after).…”
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Children, youth and development / by Ansell, Nicola, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Immediate contexts : growing up with families and peers in a changing world -- 4. Protecting children? …”
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Protein aggregation, metals and oxidative stress in neurodegenerative diseases

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Introduction to protein conformational brain diseases -- Alzheimer's disease, A-beta and tau -- A-beta oligomers and toxicity -- A-beta generates hydrogen peroxide -- Results from experiments using electron spin resonance spectroscopy -- Parkinson's disease -- Generation of hydrogen peroxide from alpha synuclein, toxic fragments of the prion protein and the familial British dementia peptide -- Early oligomers appear to generate hydrogen peroxide -- Huntington's disease -- Protein aggregates could be protective -- Potential common toxic pathway for these brain diseases.…”
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Faces of aging the lived experiences of the elderly in Japan /

Table of Contents: “….] -- Tension, dependency, and sacrifice in the relationship of an elderly couple / Susan Orpett Long -- Generations apart : burdens, bad families, and elder suicide in rural Japan / John W. …”
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Challenging heterosexism from the other point of view representations of homosexuality in Queer as folk and The L word / by Frei, Dana, 1980-

Table of Contents: “…Queer representation and popular media -- Television series and homosexuality -- Theoretical background -- Queer studies: current state of research -- Developing theses -- Deconstructing heteronormativity -- Challenging institutionalized -- Attitudes and expectations -- Reinforcing stereotypes -- Subjects of investigation -- Queer as folk and The L word -- Queer as folk (QAF-UK) -- Queer as folk (QAF-US) -- The L word (TLW) -- Format conventions and characteristics -- Methodology -- Preparing audiovisual material for analysis -- Cultural negotiations and television serials -- Analysing content in products of popular media -- Qualitative content analysis -- Methodological steps -- Categories and coding -- Results -- Points of focus -- Creating a homonormative world -- Representation of the others -- Social and legal injustice -- Family: questioning genetic bonds -- Bigotry, homophobia and violence -- Hypocrisy & failing morals -- Heterophobia -- New order and value system -- Pride, self-acceptance and linguistic Resignification -- New forms of partnership -- Families of choice: loyalty and friendship -- Assimilation versus diversity -- Questioning gender and sexual dichotomies -- Unmasking the performativity of gender -- Limits of sexual fluidity -- Stereotypes and the mandate of representation -- Hedonism and promiscuity -- Celebrating a lifestyle: party, sex and drugs -- Dangers and the threat of HIV -- The requirement of youth and beauty -- Politics of visibility -- Visibility and the construction of a community -- Representing queer diversity -- Results, conclusion and outlook.…”
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Signaling by innate immune receptors

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Understanding how receptors involved in the detection of infection (TLRs and NLRs) and inflammation (TNFRs) mediated their biological effects -- The activation of innate immune responses depends on recognition of infectious organisms (bacteria, fungi, viruses, etc.) by specialized pattern recognition receptors that include the large families of membrane-associated TLRs and cytosolic NLRs -- Signaling mechanisms used by TLRs and NLRs, as well as by TNFRs that respond to pro-inflammatory cytokines -- Their biological effects include the production of cytokines, chemokines, anti-microbial peptides and enzymes that generate inflammatory mediators and reactive oxygen.…”
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The non-coding RNA revolution in the cancer society

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Cancer: a complex genetic disease -- microRNAs discovery -- miRNAs in physiological processes -- Alterations of non-coding RNAs in human disease -- ncRNA expression profiles in cancer -- Abnormal miRNA expression -- "in cascade" model -- A non-coding RNA revolution in the cancer society -- microRNAs as oncogenes and tumor suppressors -- miR alterations and cancer predisposition -- SNPs in miRs could predispose to familial cancer -- microRNAs in plasma -- miRNAs as new therapeutic targets & drugs -- lncRNAs -- Mechanisms of action.…”
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Participatory reading in late-medieval England / by Blatt, Heather

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Reading practices and participation in digital and medieval media -- Corrective reading: Geoffrey Chaucer's Troilus and Criseyde and John Lydgate's Troy Book -- Nonlinear reading: The Orcherd of Syon, Titus and Vespasian, and Lydgate's Siege of Thebes -- Reading materially: John Lydgate's 'Soteltes for the coronation banquet of Henry VI' -- Reading architecturally: The wall texts of a Percy family manuscript and the Poulys Daunce of St Paul's Cathedral -- Reading temporally: Thomas of Erceldoune's prophecy, Eleanor Hull's Commentary on the penitential Psalms, and Thomas Norton's Ordinal of alchemy -- Conclusion: Nonreading in late-medieval England.…”
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