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Genetic, environmental and other design issues relevant for pharmacogenetics studies

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Definition of pharmacogenetics (PGx), pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics -- Modulation of PGx phenotypes -- Genetic factors play a role in determining the variability of PGx phenotypes -- Study design -- Genetic epidemiology -- Familial aggregation studies -- Twin and adoption studies -- Therapeutic response to psychotropic drugs -- Pharmaco-epidemiology and PGx phenotypes -- Animal models -- Balancing modest epidemiological evidence against biological pertinence -- Studying PGx phenotypes in relation to candidate genes -- Family-based vs. case control designs -- Observer effect -- Sampling bias -- Factors related to the subject.…”
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Visual perception and spatial awareness

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Selective attention -- Unattended information -- Spatial cueing of attention -- Goal-directed (endogenous) cueing -- Stimulus-driven (exogenous) cueing -- Spatial attention facilitates detection -- Federico Fellini -- Anton Raderscheidt -- Patients with parietal lesions -- Vision and eye movements -- Location and duration of fixations -- Neglect in visual imagery -- Matched control and neglect subjects -- Is attention always necessary? -- Unconscious processing of neglect information -- Priming paradigm -- Nature of the task may influence awareness -- Perceptual organization in absence of attention -- Patients vary in neglect severity -- Neural correlates of visual awareness.…”
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Gaelic Scotland in the Colonial Imagination Anglophone Writing from 1600 to 1900 / by Stroh, Silke

Table of Contents: “…The modern nation-state and its others: civilizing missions at home and abroad, ca. 1600 to 1800 -- Anglophone literature of civilization and the hybridized Gaelic subject: Martin Martin's travel writings -- The reemergence of the primitive other? …”
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Before Official Multiculturalism : Women’s Pluralism in Toronto, 1950s-1970s / by Iacovetta, Franca, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…The Case Study -- The Scholarship -- Toronto Counsellors and International Institute Social Work Theory and Practice -- Professionals, Narrative, and Gendered Middle-Class Subjectivities -- Marital Conflict, Emotions, and "De-culturalizing" Violence -- Generational Conflict: Intimacy, Money, and "Mini-Skirt" Feminism -- Making Multicultural Community at the Institute -- Community Projects for Rural Villagers: Health and Occupational Training -- Food as Charity, Community-Building, and Cosmopolitanism on a Budget -- Immigrant Gifts, Pluralist Spectacles, and Staging the Modern City and Nation -- Handicrafts, High Art, and Human Rights: Cultural Guardianship and Internationalism.…”
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Mutha' Is Half A Word : Intersection of Folklore, Vernacular, Myth, and Queerness in Black Female Culture / by Horton-Stallings, LaMonda

Table of Contents: “…The black woman and the trickster trope of unnaming -- The erotics of a healing subjectivity: sexual desire, the spirit, and the divine nature of trickster -- "Mutha' is half a word!"…”
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On Style: An Atelier /

Table of Contents: “…Snediker -- The aesthetics of style and the politics of identity formation / Gila Aloni -- Renegade style : fashion and the (non)modern subject-object in Massinger's The Renegado / Jessica Roberts Frazier -- Always accessorize : in defense of scholarly cointise / Christine Neufeld -- The unceasing call of style : a novelist's perspective / Valerie Vogrin.…”
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English modality : core, periphery and evidentiality /

Table of Contents: “…: an essay on the declining frequency of core modal auxiliaries in recent standard English / Geoffrey Leech -- Had better, 'd better and better : diachronic and transatlantic variation / Johan van der Auwera, Dirk Noël and An van Linden -- Grammatical colloquialism and the English quasi-modals : a comparative study / Peter Collins -- Modal necessity and impersonality in English and Galician / Lucía Loureiro-Porto -- Modal uses of the English present progressive / Frank Brisard and Astrid De Wit -- On the generic argument for the modality of will / Debra Ziegeler -- Reality and related concepts : towards a semantic-pragmatic map of English adverbs / Anne-Marie Simon-Vandenbergen -- A cross-linguistic look at the multifunctionality of the English verb seem / Aurelija Usoniené and Jolanta Šinkūnienė -- Annotating English adverbials for the categories of epistemic modality and evidentiality / Marta Carretero and Juan Rafael Zamorano-Mansilla -- Modal verbs in news-related blogs : when the blogger counts / Roberta Facchinetti -- Modality and personal pronouns as indexical markers of stance : intersubjective positioning and construction of public identity in media interviews / Laura Hidalgo Downing and Begoñia Núñez Perucha -- Stancetaking and inter/subjectivity in the Iraq inquiry : Blair vs. Brown / Juana I. …”
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Morality, ethics and responsibility in organization and management /

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From psychoanalytic bisexuality to bisexual psychoanalysis : desiring in the real / by Rapoport, Esther

Table of Contents: “…-- Object choice: choosing objects of psychoanalytic inquiry from among the different meanings of bisexuality -- Bisexual subjectivity through the lenses of Lacanian, object relations and relational theories -- Epistemologies of the fence: meeting points between bisexual and contemporary psychoanalytic epistemologies -- Bisexuality and oedipus, a strained relationship: anti-Oedipal, post-Oedipal, and extra-Oedipal bisexualities -- Abjection in action: bisexual patient and transference-countertransference dynamics -- Women and men: overlapping experiences, different pressures -- Masters of transformation: bisexual and transgender bodies and the problem of death.…”
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Affect, narratives and politics of Southeast Asian migration / by Piocos, Carlos M., III

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A comprehensive critique of student evaluation of teaching : critical perspectives on validity, reliability, and impartiality / by Clayson, Dennis E.

Table of Contents: “…Issues and debates surrounding student evaluations of teaching -- Potential impacts of gender bias on student evaluations -- The influence of personality traits on student evaluations -- Halo effects impacting on student evaluations -- Questioning the truthfulness of student evaluations -- Rigor, grades and how they impact on student evaluations -- The association between student learning and student evaluations -- Student evaluations and the improvement of instruction -- Challenging the statistical reliability of student evaluations -- Traditional validity and SET -- Identifying valid applications of SET -- Validity and the impacts of subjectivity -- Introducing a likability hypothesis -- Justifications of the likability hypothesis -- Conclusion and recommendations : the future of SET.…”
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Cross-Cultural Visions in African American Modernism : From Spatial Narrative to Jazz Haiku / by Hakutani, Yoshinobu, 1935-

Table of Contents: “…The Chicago Renaissance, Theodore Dreiser, and Richard Wright's spatial narrative -- The cross-cultural vision of Ralph Ellison's Invisible man -- No name in the street : James Baldwin's exploration of American urban culture -- If Beale Street could talk : Baldwin's search for love and identity -- Jazz and Toni Morrison's urban imagination of desire and subjectivity -- Wright's The outsider and French existentialism -- Pagan Spain : Wright's discourse on religion and culture -- The African "primal outlook upon life" : Wright and Morrison -- The poetics of nature : Wright's haiku, Zen, and Lacan -- Private voice and Buddhist enlightenment in Alice Walker's The color purple -- Cross-cultural poetics : Sonia Sanchez's Like the singing coming off the drums -- James Emanuel's jazz haiku and African American individualism.…”
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The Tao of the West Western transformations of Taoist thought / by Clarke, J. J. (John James), 1937-

Table of Contents: “…Wade-Giles/Pinyin conversion table -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Name index -- Subject index.…”
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The emergence of genetic rationality space, time, & information in American biological science, 1870-1920 / by Thurtle, Phillip

Table of Contents: “…Middle class mores : Beaufort's bastards -- Breeding true : processing a new elite -- The political economy of natural history -- Homologous networks of exchange : the intersubjective infrastructure of scientific exchange -- Categorizing experience : space and time in nineteenth-century natural history -- The Pacific Railway survey : the subject in the panoramic mode -- Storied pasts -- The plot thickens : the political economic dimensions of biological stories -- Wandering and narrative -- Wandering and inheritance in light of the sensory-motor complex -- Writing, goods, and memory -- Industrial perspectives : Luther Burbank -- Record keeping : a post-hermeneutic means for charting the space of flows.…”
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Bilingual first language acquisition French and German grammatical development /

Table of Contents: “…Meisel -- More about INFL-ection and agreement : the acquisiton of clitic pronouns in French / Georg Kaiser -- Case assignment and functional categories in bilingual children / Achim Stenzel -- NP-movement and subject raising / Regina Köppe -- Parameters cannot be reset : evidence from the development of COMP / Natascha Müller.…”
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Differentiating instruction with technology in middle school classrooms / by Smith, Grace E.

Table of Contents: “…Technology's big picture: 21st century skills, NETS, and current research -- Differentiated instruction and middle school learners -- Using the new Web 2.0 and other technologies -- Using technology to differentiate English/language arts -- Using technology to differentiate math -- Using technology to differentiate science -- Using technology to differentiate social studies -- Using technology to differentiate encore subjects: art, secondary languages, music, and physical education/health -- Using technology to assess learning -- Final summary -- Appendixes: Glossary of strategies -- Bibliography -- National Educational Technology Standards for Students (NETS*S).…”
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Northern men with Southern loyalties : the Democratic Party and the sectional crisis / by Landis, Michael Todd

Table of Contents: “…Democrats and the slave power -- Fidelity and firmness: Northern Democrats and the crises of 1850 -- Harmony, unity, and victory: state politics and presidential posturing -- One of the most reliable politicians on the subject of slavery: the rewards of fidelity and the perils of power -- Pandora's box: Northern Democrats in command -- Leave us of the North to fight the great battle: party punishments and purges -- The strongest Northern man on Southern principles: James Buchanan and Southern power -- let us stand by our colors: Lecompton and minority rule -- We regarded you as brothers: defeat and division -- Though the heavens fall: 1860 and beyond.…”
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Law among nations : an introduction to public international law / by Von Glahn, Gerhard, 1911-, Taulbee, James Larry, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…The nature of international law -- Development of law among nations -- Sources of the law -- International agreements -- International legal process -- The relationship between international and municipal law -- Subjects of international law : recognition -- Rights and duties of international legal persons -- Nationality -- Principles of jurisdiction -- State responsibility -- The law of the sea -- Jurisdiction over air space and outer space -- Agents of international intercourse immunities -- The individual and international law : human rights -- International criminal law -- Adjudication -- International law and protection of the environment -- The use of force -- International humanitarian law : war crimes -- War crime tribunals.…”

Constructing a personal orientation to music teaching : growth, inquiry, and agency / by Campbell, Mark Robin, Thompson, Linda K., Barrett, Janet R.

Table of Contents: “…Starting the Journey : Developing a Personal View of Teaching and Learning -- Learning to Teach : From Student to Teacher -- Learning from Others : Looking forward to a Thriving Career in Music Teaching -- Orientations to Teacher Preparation -- Cultivating a Personal Orientation toward Change -- Teachers and Teaching : Understanding Curriculum As Inquiry and Stance -- Studying the Commonplace of the Teacher : Exploring Action and Practice -- Studying the Commonplace of Subject Matter: Examining Music in the Curriculum -- Studying the Commonplace of the Learner : Expanding Understandings of Students Information Classification : General -- Studying the Commonplace of Context : Cultivating Knowledge of Schools and Awareness of Place.…”
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Everyday Sustainability : Gender Justice and Fair Trade Tea in Darjeeling / by Sen, Debarati, 1976-

Table of Contents: “…: domesticating fair trade through cultural entrepreneurship -- "Tadpoles in water" versus "police of our fields:" competing subjectivities and women's political agency and fair trade -- Conclusion.…”
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