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Medical imaging essentials for physicians / by Wolbarst, Anthony B.

Table of Contents: “…-- The creation of two-dimensional x-ray projection maps (shadowgrams) of the body : differential attenuation of x-rays by tissues -- 20th century (analog) radiography and fluoroscopy : capturing the x-ray shadow with a film cassette or with an image intensifier tube plus electronic optical camera combination -- Radiation dose and radiogenic risk : ionization-induced damage to DNA can cause stochastic, deterministic, and teratogenic health effects and how to prevent them -- 21st century (digital) imaging : computer-based representation, acquisition, processing, storage, transmission, and analysis of images -- Digital planar imaging : replacing film and image intensifiers with solid state, electronic image receptors -- Computed tomography : superior contrast in three-dimensional x-ray attenuation maps -- Nuclear medicine : contrast from differential uptake of a radiopharmaceutical by tissues -- Diagnostic ultrasound : contrast from differences in elasticity or density across tissue interfaces -- MRI in one dimension and without relaxation : a gentle approach to a challenging subject -- MRI with T1 and T2 relaxation and in three dimensions -- Evolving and experimental modalities.…”
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AIDS and religious practice in Africa

Table of Contents: “…The rise of occult powers, AIDS and the Roman Catholic church in western Uganda / Heike Behrend -- Christian salvation and Luo tradition : arguments of faith in a time of death in western Kenya / Ruth Prince -- The new wives of Christ : paradoxes and potentials in the remaking of widow lives in Uganda / Catrine Christiansen -- AIDS and the power of God : narratives of decline and coping strategies in Zanzibar / Nadine Beckmann -- Competing explanations and treatment choices : Muslims, AIDS and ARVs in Tanzania / Felicitas Becker -- 'Muslims have instructions' : HIV/AIDS, modernity and Islamic religious education in Kisumu, Kenya / Jonas Svensson -- 'Keeping up appearances' : sex and religion amongst university students in Uganda / Jo Sadgrove -- Healing the wounds of modernity : salvation, community and care in a Neo-Pentecostal church in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania / Hansjörg Dilger -- Gloves in times of AIDS : Pentecostalism, hair and social distancing in Botswana / Rijk van Dijk -- Leprosy of a deadlier kind : Christian conceptions of AIDS in the South African Lowveld / Isak Niehaus -- Subjects of counselling : religion, HIV/AIDS and the management of everyday life in South Africa / Marian Burchardt -- Therapeutic evangelism : confessional technologies, antiretrovirals and biospiritual transformation in the fight against AIDS in West Africa / Vinh-Kim Nguyen.…”
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Ritual in narrative the dynamics of feasting, mourning, and retaliation rites in the Ugaritic tale of Aqhat / by Wright, David P. (David Pearson), 1953-

Table of Contents: “…General Conclusion223 -- Indexes231 -- Index of Subjects231 -- Index of Authors232 -- Index of Ugaritic Texts235 -- Index of Other Ancient Near Eastern Texts239 -- Index of Biblical Passages240 -- v.…”
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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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AIDS and religious practice in Africa /

Table of Contents: “…The rise of occult powers, AIDS and the Roman Catholic church in western Uganda / Heike Behrend -- Christian salvation and Luo tradition : arguments of faith in a time of death in western Kenya / Ruth Prince -- The new wives of Christ : paradoxes and potentials in the remaking of widow lives in Uganda / Catrine Christiansen -- AIDS and the power of God : narratives of decline and coping strategies in Zanzibar / Nadine Beckmann -- Competing explanations and treatment choices : Muslims, AIDS and ARVs in Tanzania / Felicitas Becker -- 'Muslims have instructions' : HIV/AIDS, modernity and Islamic religious education in Kisumu, Kenya / Jonas Svensson -- 'Keeping up appearances' : sex and religion amongst university students in Uganda / Jo Sadgrove -- Healing the wounds of modernity : salvation, community and care in a Neo-Pentecostal church in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania / Hansjörg Dilger -- Gloves in times of AIDS : Pentecostalism, hair and social distancing in Botswana / Rijk van Dijk -- Leprosy of a deadlier kind : Christian conceptions of AIDS in the South African Lowveld / Isak Niehaus -- Subjects of counselling : religion, HIV/AIDS and the management of everyday life in South Africa / Marian Burchardt -- Therapeutic evangelism : confessional technologies, antiretrovirals and biospiritual transformation in the fight against AIDS in West Africa / Vinh-Kim Nguyen.…”
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Pain brain stimulation in the treatment of pain /

Table of Contents: “….] -- Safety of transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) in protocols involving human subjects / Arun Sundaram ... [et al.].…”
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Medical imaging essentials for physicians / by Wolbarst, Anthony B.

Table of Contents: “…-- The creation of two-dimensional x-ray projection maps (shadowgrams) of the body : differential attenuation of x-rays by tissues -- 20th century (analog) radiography and fluoroscopy : capturing the x-ray shadow with a film cassette or with an image intensifier tube plus electronic optical camera combination -- Radiation dose and radiogenic risk : ionization-induced damage to DNA can cause stochastic, deterministic, and teratogenic health effects and how to prevent them -- 21st century (digital) imaging : computer-based representation, acquisition, processing, storage, transmission, and analysis of images -- Digital planar imaging : replacing film and image intensifiers with solid state, electronic image receptors -- Computed tomography : superior contrast in three-dimensional x-ray attenuation maps -- Nuclear medicine : contrast from differential uptake of a radiopharmaceutical by tissues -- Diagnostic ultrasound : contrast from differences in elasticity or density across tissue interfaces -- MRI in one dimension and without relaxation : a gentle approach to a challenging subject -- MRI with T1 and T2 relaxation and in three dimensions -- Evolving and experimental modalities.…”
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Advances in Proof-Theoretic Semantics

Table of Contents: “…BHK and Brouwer's Theory of the Creative Subject; Göran Sundholm -- Chapter 11. Compositional semantics for predicate logic: Eliminating bound variables from formulas and deductions; William W. …”
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AIDS and religious practice in Africa /

Table of Contents: “…The rise of occult powers, AIDS and the Roman Catholic church in western Uganda / Heike Behrend -- Christian salvation and Luo tradition : arguments of faith in a time of death in western Kenya / Ruth Prince -- The new wives of Christ : paradoxes and potentials in the remaking of widow lives in Uganda / Catrine Christiansen -- AIDS and the power of God : narratives of decline and coping strategies in Zanzibar / Nadine Beckmann -- Competing explanations and treatment choices : Muslims, AIDS and ARVs in Tanzania / Felicitas Becker -- 'Muslims have instructions' : HIV/AIDS, modernity and Islamic religious education in Kisumu, Kenya / Jonas Svensson -- 'Keeping up appearances' : sex and religion amongst university students in Uganda / Jo Sadgrove -- Healing the wounds of modernity : salvation, community and care in a Neo-Pentecostal church in Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania / Hansjörg Dilger -- Gloves in times of AIDS : Pentecostalism, hair and social distancing in Botswana / Rijk van Dijk -- Leprosy of a deadlier kind : Christian conceptions of AIDS in the South African Lowveld / Isak Niehaus -- Subjects of counselling : religion, HIV/AIDS and the management of everyday life in South Africa / Marian Burchardt -- Therapeutic evangelism : confessional technologies, antiretrovirals and biospiritual transformation in the fight against AIDS in West Africa / Vinh-Kim Nguyen.…”
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Going Greek : Jewish College Fraternities in the United States, 1895-1945 / by Sanua, Marianne Rachel

Table of Contents: “…Appendix C: Some Distinguished AlumniAppendix D: Songs of the Jewish Fraternities and Sororities c. 1920s-1950s; Notes; Bibliography; Index of Names; Index of Colleges and Universities; Index of Subjects…”
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Lenin Reloaded : Toward a Politics of Truth, sic vii /

Table of Contents: “…/ Daniel Bensaïd -- Lenin as reader of Hegel: hypotheses for a reading of Lenin's notebooks on Hegel's The science of logic / Stathis Kouvelakis -- War and imperialism -- The philosophical moment in politics determined by war: Lenin 1914-16 / Etienne Balibar -- From imperialism to globalization / Georges Labica -- Lenin and the Herrenvolk democracy / Domenico Losurdo -- Politics and its subject -- Lenin and the Party, 1902-November 1917 / Sylvain Lazarus -- Lenin the just, or Marxism unrecycled / Jean-Jacques Lecercle -- Lenin and the great awakening / Lars T. …”
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Distributive and procedural justice research and social applications /

Table of Contents: “…Hegtvedt -- Social injustice in Indian country : historical antecedents of current issues / Laurence Armand French & Nancy Picthall-French -- Distributive and procedural justice research : epistemology, method and application -- Subjective morality : justice judgments between morality and self-interest / Holger Lengfeld -- Studying justice : measurement, estimation, and analysis of the actual reward and the just reward / Guillermina Jasso -- Justice conflicts and the justice of conflict resolution / Leo Montada.…”
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Advances in Proof-Theoretic Semantics

Table of Contents: “…BHK and Brouwer's Theory of the Creative Subject; Göran Sundholm -- Chapter 11. Compositional semantics for predicate logic: Eliminating bound variables from formulas and deductions; William W. …”
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Internet for nursing research a guide to strategies, skills, and resources /

Table of Contents: “…Online subject recruitment / Suzanne Hetzel Campbell -- Techniques to improve database searching / Laree J. …”
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Going Greek : Jewish College Fraternities in the United States, 1895-1945 / by Sanua, Marianne Rachel

Table of Contents: “…Appendix C: Some Distinguished AlumniAppendix D: Songs of the Jewish Fraternities and Sororities c. 1920s-1950s; Notes; Bibliography; Index of Names; Index of Colleges and Universities; Index of Subjects…”
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Lenin Reloaded : Toward a Politics of Truth, sic vii /

Table of Contents: “…/ Daniel Bensaïd -- Lenin as reader of Hegel: hypotheses for a reading of Lenin's notebooks on Hegel's The science of logic / Stathis Kouvelakis -- War and imperialism -- The philosophical moment in politics determined by war: Lenin 1914-16 / Etienne Balibar -- From imperialism to globalization / Georges Labica -- Lenin and the Herrenvolk democracy / Domenico Losurdo -- Politics and its subject -- Lenin and the Party, 1902-November 1917 / Sylvain Lazarus -- Lenin the just, or Marxism unrecycled / Jean-Jacques Lecercle -- Lenin and the great awakening / Lars T. …”
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From the nature of the mind to personal dignity the significance of Rosmini's philosophy / by Franck, Juan F., 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Rosmini's life and work -- Toward an ontological foundation of personhood -- The present study -- The nature of knowledge -- The problem of knowledge -- Fundamental difference between sensation and idea -- Activity and passivity in sense perception -- The subjective and the extrasubjective in sensation -- Sensation and idea compared -- The intellective perception -- The judgment contained in the idea of the thing -- The idea of existence -- Characteristics of this idea -- Innatism of the idea of existence -- The idea and sensation are primitive elements -- The idea as a necessary means of knowledge -- Ideas and reality -- The idea of being, pure mediator of knowledge -- The knowledge of existing reality through the idea -- Kant's a priori synthesis and Rosmini's primitive synthesis -- Kant, innatism, and the lumen intellectuale -- The idea is one form of being -- Ideal being is the knowability of real being -- Ideal being is the possibility of things -- Note on the possibility and necessity of ideas -- The idea and the mind -- The book about the idea in the Teosofia -- Essere per sè manifesto : manifestato and manifestante -- Objective mode (or form) of being : absolute and relative existence -- Absolute and relative existence of ideas and ideal being -- Intelligibility is an attribute of being itself -- The intimate bond between the idea and the intelligence -- Objective being and Plato's Parmenides -- Self-contradictory objects -- The idea and the dignity of the person -- Initial being and the place of intelligences in the whole of being -- Initial being and the lumen intellectuale -- The divine in nature -- Individuality and immortality -- The intelligent will -- Objective being and ethics -- The ultimate root of personal dignity.…”
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Information structure and language change new approaches to word order variation in Germanic /

Table of Contents: “…: accents, word separation, and related phenomena in Old High German manuscripts / Jürg Fleischer -- On the "syntax of silence" in Proto-Indo-European / Thomas Krisch -- Information-structural categories in the main texts of early German inheritance -- Word order variation and information structure in Old High German : an analysis of subordinate dhazs-clauses in Isidor / Eva Schlachter -- Information structure and word order variation in the Old High German Tatian / Svetlana Petrova -- Verb placement and information structure in the OHG Gospel Harmony by Otfrid von Weissenburg / Andreas Lötscher -- Translating information structure : a study of Notker's translation of Boethius's Latin De consolatione philosophiae into Old High German / Rosemarie Lühr -- Aspects of word order and information structure in Old Saxon / Sonja Linde -- Subject index.…”
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Representation matters (re)articulating collective identities in a postcolonal world /

Table of Contents: “…Resignifying genesis, identity, and landscape : routes versus roots / Anette Hoffmann ; From Salsipuedes to Tabaré : race, space, and the Uruguayan subject / Vannina Sztainbok ; Bolivian indigenous identities : reshaping the terms of political debate, 1994-2004 / Claret Vargas -- 4. …”
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Approaching the theater of Antonio Buero Vallejo contemporary literary analyses from structuralism to postmodernism / by Pennington, Eric Wayne

Table of Contents: “…Valmy : a view from the feminine -- La doble historia del Dr. Valmy as subjective drama -- Freudian fundamentals : life, death, and love in El tragaluz -- From the periphery to the center : the forgotten muñeco of El tragaluz -- El misterio de elche as polysemic intertext -- Philosophy and interpretation : the mercantile modernist versus the situated self in El tragaluz -- The uchronian quest for simple truth in El tragaluz -- Foucault on punishment : power and fear in El sueño de la razón -- Deconstructing the soft bottoms in La fundación -- Jungian psychology : masks of mortals in Diálogo secreto -- Perspectival truth and Buero's controversial premise in Diálogo secreto -- Validating the feminine through art and music in Diálogo secreto -- Misión al pueblo desierto : a cultural study.…”
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