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A journey through the Cold War a memoir of containment and coexistence / by Garthoff, Raymond L.

Table of Contents: “…-- The Cold War begins : the formative years, 1945-50 -- The view from a think tank : Soviet affairs expert at RAND -- The thaw : observing the Soviet Union after Stalin -- CIA and intelligence analysis and estimates -- "Foreign affairs adviser" at the Pentagon -- Intelligence excursions in the Soviet Union -- The espionage game -- Department of State : the Kennedy years (I) -- Department of State : the Kennedy years (II) -- The Cuban Missile Crisis : turning point of the Cold War -- Department of State : the Johnson years -- The diplomacy of East-West relations -- Negotiating on strategic arms : SALT and the ABM Treaty -- Developing détente in U.S.…”
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Corporate takeovers causes and consequences /

Table of Contents: “…Harris and Colin Mayer -- A time-series analysis of mergers and acquisitions in the U.S. economy / Devra L. …”
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Ragnar Nurkse trade and development / by Nurkse, Ragnar, 1907-1959

Table of Contents: “…Causes and effects of capital movements (1934) -- The schematic representation of the structure of production (1935) -- Conditions of international monetary equilibrium (1945) -- Domestic and international equilibrium (1947) -- International monetary policy and the search for economic stability (1947) -- Growth in underdeveloped countries (1952) -- Problems of capital formation in underdeveloped countries (1953) -- Period analysis and inventory cycles (1954) -- A new look at the dollar problem and the United States balance of payments (1954) -- International investment to-day in the light of nineteenth-century experience (1954) -- The relation between home investment and external balance in the light of British experience, 1945-1955 (1956) -- Reflections on India's development plan (1957) -- Balanced and unbalanced growth (1957) -- International trade theory and development policy (1957) -- Trade fluctuations and buffer policies of low-income countries (1958) -- Patterns of trade and development (1959).…”
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Challenges to the World Bank and IMF developing country perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…/ Aziz Ali Mohammed -- An analysis of IMF conditionality / Ariel Buira -- Achieving long-term debt sustainability in heavily indebted poor countries (HIPCs) / Bernhard Gunter -- The poverty reduction strategy paper approach : good marketing or good policy? …”
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Behavioural economics and policy design examples from Singapore /

Table of Contents: “…/ Philip Ong -- Promoting competition in electricity retail : insights from behavioural economics / Eugene Toh and Vivienne Low -- Discretionary transfers : providing fiscal support in a behaviourally compatible way / Pamela Qiu and Tan Li San -- Using behavioural insights to improve individual health decisions / Lavinia Low and Yee Yiling -- A behavioural view on designing Singapore's national annuity scheme / Donald Low -- Behavioural economics, policy analysis and the design of regulatory reform / Jack Knetsch.…”
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A distant drummer foreign perspectives on F. Scott Fitzgerald /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Jamal Assadi -- "This tremendous detail" : the Oxford stone in the house of Gatsby / Bonnie Shannon McMullen -- Icons and myths in The great Gatsby / Nicole Guetin -- Translations as instruments of analysis : The great Gatsby in French / Michel Viel -- Of celebrity status, posthumous publications, scholar's choice, and the American novel : a case study of F. …”
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Inclusion and resilience the way forward for social safety nets in the Middle East and North Africa / by Silva, Joana

Table of Contents: “…-- The way forward : how to make MENA safety nets more effective and innovative -- Annex 1.1: Posters presenting global showcase of best practice in SSN -- Annex 2.1: Demographic statistics and poverty incidence for selected mena countries -- Annex 2.2: Description of the data used for the micro-analysis -- Annex 3.1: Methodological annex -- Annex 3.2: Non-subsidy SSN programs included in household survey assessment -- Annex 3.3: SSN programs in MENA SSN inventory -- Annex 4.1: MENA speaks questionnaire -- Annex 4.2: Awareness of programs and subsidies.…”
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Trans-Himalayan linguistics /

Table of Contents: “…Post -- The Tibetic languages and their classification / Nicolas Tournadre -- Internal diversity in the Tamangic lexicon / Isao Honda -- A preliminary reconstruction of East Bodish / Gwendolyn Hyslop -- Burushaski kinship terminology of Indo-European origin / Ilija Čašule -- Subject and object agreement in Shumcho / Christian Huber -- The tone patterns of numeral-plus-classifier phrases in Yongning Na : a synchronic description and analysis / Alexis Michaud -- Rengmitca : the most endangered Kuki-Chin language of Bangladesh / David A. …”
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ISO 26000 in practice : a user guide / by Bernhart, Michelle, Maher, Sonny

Table of Contents: “…Building the social responsibility foundation -- Determining your social responsibility destination -- Beginning the paradigm shift -- Planning for social responsibility implementation : the self-assessment -- Planning for social responsibility implementation : identify and build the team -- Implementing social responsibility -- Key factors for implementing the standard -- Determining the sphere of influence -- Identifying and prioritizing stakeholders -- Conducting due diligence -- Identifying relevant and significant issues -- Conducting a social responsibility gap analysis -- Using your current management system(s) with ISO 26000 -- Choosing new systems or tools to implement your social responsibility strategy -- Integrating, measuring, and reviewing social responsibility performance -- Communicating, monitoring, and improving social responsibility -- Applying communications principles -- Building stakeholder engagement and aligning communications -- Developing key messages and planning internal and external communications -- Reporting -- Enhancing credibility -- Monitoring and improving performance.…”
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The postulates of restorative justice and the continental model of criminal law as illustrated by Polish criminal law /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Leszek Wilk and Piotr Zawiejski -- The concept of restorative justice / Piotr Zawiejski -- Damage and its redress in criminal and civil law : the doctrinal and case-law position to date / Teresa Dukiet-Nagórska -- An attempt to assess the manner in which damage and its redress can be understood from the point of view of fundamental principles of criminal law / Dominika Bek -- The mediation settlement as a directive of the level of sanction / Olga Sitarz -- Active repentance at the stage of preparation for or attempt at an offence and restorative justice / Olga Sitarz, Leszek Wilk -- Post-perpetration active repentance and restorative justice / Anna Jaworska-Wieloch -- Selected aspects of enforcement of judicial decisions awarding redress of a damage / Leszek Wilk -- The concept of restorative justice in fiscal penal law / Jakub Hanc -- The idea of restorative justice: an attempt at a comparative analysis -- Final conclusions.…”
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Newborn screening systems : the complete perspective /

Table of Contents: “…Newborn screening : history, principles, and analysis / Carlie J. Driscoll & Bradley McPherson -- Screening from an economic viewpoint / Robert J. …”
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Methods for Measuring Greenhouse Gas Balances and Evaluating Mitigation Options in Smallholder Agriculture

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1 Introduction to the SAMPLES Approach -- Chapter 2 Targeting Landscapes to Identify Mitigation Options -- Chapter 3 Determining Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Removals Associated with Land Use and Land Cover Change -- Chapter 4 Quantifying Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Managed and Natural Soils -- Chapter 5 A Comparison of Methodologies for Measuring Methane Emissions from Ruminants -- Chapter 6 Quantifying Tree Biomass Carbon Stocks and Fluxes in Agricultural Landscapes -- Chapter 7 Methods for Smallholder Quantification of Soil Carbon Stocks and Stock Changes -- Chapter 8 Yield Estimation of Food and Non-Food Crops in Smallholder Production Systems -- Chapter 9 Scaling Point and Plot Measurements of Greenhouse Gas Fluxes, Balances and Intensities to Whole Farms and Landscapes -- Chapter 10 Methods for Environment-Productivity Trade-off Analysis in Agricultural Systems.…”
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Biochemical and Environmental Bioprocessing : Challenges and Developments.

Table of Contents: “…Biosorption-an elective strategy for wastewater treatment: An eco-friendly approach, Recent Advancements and Perspectives on Biological Degradation of Azo Dye, Performance analysis of anaerobic digestion of textile dyeing industry effluent in a modified sequential batch reactor, Waste sea shells for biodiesel production -- Current status and future perspective, AN INTENSIFIED AND INTEGRATED BIOREFINARY APPROACH FOR BIOFUEL PRODUCTION, Hydrothermal carbonization for valorisation of ricehusk, Production of biofuels from algal biomass, Diffusion limitations in biocatalytic reactions: Challenges and Solutions, Recent advancements and applications of nanotechnology inexpelling heavy metal contaminants from wastewater, Organic Flocculation as an Alternative For Wastewater Treatment, Power production in Microbial Fuel Cells (MFC): Recent progress and Future scope, Synthesis, Characterization and Antimicrobial Properties of Cuo Loaded Hydrophobically Modified Chitosans, Fucoxanthin: Biosynthesis, structure, extraction, characteristics and its application…”
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Design controls for the medical device industry / by Teixeira, Marie B., 1965-

Table of Contents: “…Appendix F: Design phase review meeting record. Appendix G: Risk analysis. Appendix H: Clinical evaluation report. Appendix I: Design transfer checklist. …”
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Intrinsically unstructured proteins regulation and disease /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Regulatory genomics and systems biology -- Intrinsically unstructured proteins (IUPs): structural and biophysical advantage -- Functional advantage -- Thermodynamic and kinetic advantage -- Conformational advantage -- Identification of IUPs -- Functions of IUPs -- Disadvantages of unstructured regions -- Unstructured regions in proteins -- Cells minimize the risks of unstructured proteins -- Tight regulation of IUPs -- Key regulatory events affecting protein availability -- IUPs in yeast -- Gene-ontology functional enrichment analysis -- Genome-scale datasets on transcript availability -- Transcripts encoding IUPs are tightly controlled -- Mechanisms affecting transcript stability -- Genome-scale datasets on protein availability -- IUPs are tightly controlled at the translational level -- PEST sequences -- Aggregation prone IUPs: more tightly regulated -- Control calculation -- Tight regulation of IUPs is evolutionarily conserved -- Control of IUP affects signaling fidelity/regulation -- Control of specific IUP affects protein aggregation.…”
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Presynaptic plasticity

Table of Contents: “…Contents: What is short-term synaptic plasticity? -- Use of quantal analysis to show that plasticity arises presynaptically -- Synaptic depression and the "Depletion Model" -- Relationship of depletion model parameters to binomial statistical parameters -- Refinements to the depletion hypothesis -- Origin of slow phases of depression -- Role of multiple vesicle pools -- Role of vesicle endocytosis -- Role for calcium in recovery -- Why depression is sometimes absent -- Other forms of depression -- Phases of synaptic enhancement: facilitation, augmentation, and potentiation -- Presynaptic electrical events in synaptic enhancement -- Calcium and the nonlinear summation single site hypothesis -- Kinetic components of calcium removal -- Multiple sites of calcium action -- Problems with identifying molecular mediators -- Candidate molecular mediators -- A comprehensive model of presynaptic plasticity -- Other forms of synaptic enhancement -- Computational roles of short-term synaptic plasticity -- Physiological roles of short-term synaptic plasticity.…”
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Dosage calculations made incredibly easy! /

Table of Contents: “…Fractions / Carol Lee Cherry -- Decimals and percentages / MaryAnn Edelman -- Ratios, fractions, proportions, and solving for X / Carol Lee Cherry -- Dimensional analysis / MaryAnn Edelman -- Metric system / Lisa Benson -- Alternative measurement systems / Lisa Benson -- Drug orders / Donna Blair -- Administration records / Donna Blair -- Preventing drug errors / Nancy J. …”
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Premises and Problems : Essays on World Literature and Cinema /

Table of Contents: “…In search of universal laws : Averroes' interpretation of Aristotle's Poetics / Tarek Shamma -- Lost in transliteration : Morisco travel writing and the Coplas del hijante de Puey Monçón / Benjamin Liu -- Modern Hebrew literature as "world literature" : the political theology of Dov Sadan / Hannan Hever -- Islam in the theory and practice of world literature : translating Adab in the Middle Eastern novel / Karim Mattar -- Selective invisibility : Elizabeth Bishop, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, and world literature / Luiza Franco Moreira -- Latin America and the world : Borges, Bolaño, and the inconceivable universal / Patrick Dove -- Analysis of the socio-culture in the study of the modern world-system / Richard E. …”
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Breaking Down the State : Protestors Engaged /

Table of Contents: “…Jasper -- The courts : criminal trials as strategic arenas / Brian Doherty and Graeme Hayes -- Political parties and legislators : a Latin American perspective / Helene Combes -- Political parties and legislators : an American perspective / Katherine Krimmel -- Contentious governance : local governmental players as social movement actors / Imrat Verhoeven and Christian Bröer -- The police / Donatella della Porta and Kıvanç Atak -- The military : the mutual determination of strategy in Ireland, 1912-1921 / Ian Roxborough -- Infiltrators / David Cunningham and Roberto Soto-Carrión -- Liberal violence : strategies of repression in transitional regimes / Vince Boudreau -- The United Nations : gay versus anti-gay players in transnational contention / Clifford Bob -- Conclusion : simplicity vs. complexity in the analysis of social movements / Jack A. Goldstone.…”
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Food safety and international competitiveness the case of beef / by Spriggs, John

Table of Contents: “…Ilnernational Institutional Arrangements -- International Drivers -- International Institutional Arrangements -- Analysis of International Institutional Arrangements -- The United States of America -- Introduction -- Drivers for Change -- Institutional Arrangements -- Implications of these Developments -- 4. …”
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