Search Results - "defection"

The power of the gene the origin and impact of genetic disorders / by Murgatroyd, Chris

Table of Contents: “…Cell division and chromosome defects -- Patterns of inheritance -- Skeletal disorders -- Connective tissue disorders -- Muscular disorders -- Dermatological disorders -- Hair disorders -- Respiratory disorders and heart disorders -- Blood disorders -- Immune disorders -- Endocrine disorders -- Metabolic disorders -- Renal, liver and digestive disorders -- Visual disorders -- Hearing disorders -- Neurological disorders -- Cancers and disorders of DNA repair.…”
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The power of the gene the origin and impact of genetic disorders / by Murgatroyd, Chris

Table of Contents: “…Cell division and chromosome defects -- Patterns of inheritance -- Skeletal disorders -- Connective tissue disorders -- Muscular disorders -- Dermatological disorders -- Hair disorders -- Respiratory disorders and heart disorders -- Blood disorders -- Immune disorders -- Endocrine disorders -- Metabolic disorders -- Renal, liver and digestive disorders -- Visual disorders -- Hearing disorders -- Neurological disorders -- Cancers and disorders of DNA repair.…”
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Force and freedom Kant's legal and political philosophy / by Ripstein, Arthur

Table of Contents: “…Kant on law and justice : an overview -- The innate right of humanity -- Private right I : acquired rights -- Private right II : property -- Private right III : contract and consent -- Three defects in the state of nature -- Public right I : giving laws to ourselves -- Public right II : roads to freedom -- Public right III : redistribution and equality of opportunity -- Public right IV : punishment -- Public right V : revolution and the right of human beings as such.…”
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States of delinquency race and science in the making of California's juvenile justice system / by Chávez-García, Miroslava, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Close : promising leader, complacent bureaucrat -- The legacy of Benny Moreno and Edward Leiva : "defective delinquents" or -- Tragic heroes? -- Epilogue: recovering youths' voices -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Force and freedom Kant's legal and political philosophy / by Ripstein, Arthur

Table of Contents: “…Kant on law and justice : an overview -- The innate right of humanity -- Private right I : acquired rights -- Private right II : property -- Private right III : contract and consent -- Three defects in the state of nature -- Public right I : giving laws to ourselves -- Public right II : roads to freedom -- Public right III : redistribution and equality of opportunity -- Public right IV : punishment -- Public right V : revolution and the right of human beings as such.…”
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States of delinquency race and science in the making of California's juvenile justice system / by Chávez-García, Miroslava, 1968-

Table of Contents: “…Close : promising leader, complacent bureaucrat -- The legacy of Benny Moreno and Edward Leiva : "defective delinquents" or -- Tragic heroes? -- Epilogue: recovering youths' voices -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Normativity and the will selected papers on moral psychology and practical reason / by Wallace, R. Jay

Table of Contents: “…How to argue about practical reason -- Three conceptions of rational agency -- Explanation, deliberation, and reasons -- Normativity and the will -- Normativity, commitment, and instrumental reason -- Reason and responsibility -- Moral responsibility and the practical point of view -- Addiction as defect of the will : some philosophical reflections -- Caring, reflexivity, and the structure of volition -- Ressentiment, value, and self-vindication : making sense of Nietzsche's slave revolt -- Virtue, reason, and principle -- Scanlon's contractualism -- The rightness of acts and the goodness of lives -- Moral reasons and moral fetishes : rationalists and anti-rationalists on moral motivation.…”
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Normativity and the will selected papers on moral psychology and practical reason / by Wallace, R. Jay

Table of Contents: “…How to argue about practical reason -- Three conceptions of rational agency -- Explanation, deliberation, and reasons -- Normativity and the will -- Normativity, commitment, and instrumental reason -- Reason and responsibility -- Moral responsibility and the practical point of view -- Addiction as defect of the will : some philosophical reflections -- Caring, reflexivity, and the structure of volition -- Ressentiment, value, and self-vindication : making sense of Nietzsche's slave revolt -- Virtue, reason, and principle -- Scanlon's contractualism -- The rightness of acts and the goodness of lives -- Moral reasons and moral fetishes : rationalists and anti-rationalists on moral motivation.…”
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Frank McGuinness's dramaturgy of difference and the Irish theatre by Cregan, David

Table of Contents: “…Defective histories: re-presenting history in Innocence, Mary and Lizzie, and Mutabilitie -- Queer nation: homosexual representations of national identity in Observe the sons of Ulster marching towards the Somme and Dolly West's kitchen -- The wilde Irishmen: 'theatre theatrical' in Gates of gold -- Camping in utopia: Carthaginians and the queer aesthetic -- Holy irreverence: The gospel according to Judas -- There's no place like 'home': The bird sanctuary, Someone who'll what over me, and The factory girls -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: interview with Frank McGuinness -- Appendix 2: interview with Senator David Norris -- Appendix 3: interview with Patrick Mason.…”
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Frank McGuinness's dramaturgy of difference and the Irish theatre by Cregan, David

Table of Contents: “…Defective histories: re-presenting history in Innocence, Mary and Lizzie, and Mutabilitie -- Queer nation: homosexual representations of national identity in Observe the sons of Ulster marching towards the Somme and Dolly West's kitchen -- The wilde Irishmen: 'theatre theatrical' in Gates of gold -- Camping in utopia: Carthaginians and the queer aesthetic -- Holy irreverence: The gospel according to Judas -- There's no place like 'home': The bird sanctuary, Someone who'll what over me, and The factory girls -- Conclusion -- Appendix 1: interview with Frank McGuinness -- Appendix 2: interview with Senator David Norris -- Appendix 3: interview with Patrick Mason.…”
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Information technology law / by Lloyd, Ian J.

Table of Contents: “…Privacy, technology, and surveillance -- The esergence of data protection -- The scope of data protection -- Supervisory agencies -- The data protection priniciples -- Individual rights and remedies -- Sectoral aspects of data protection -- Transborder data flows -- National and international responses to computer-related crime -- Substantive criminal law provisions -- Computer fraud and forgery -- Virtual criminality -- Detecting and prosecuting computer crime -- Key elements of the patent system -- Patents -- Copyright protection -- Enforcement issues -- Protection of databases -- Design rights -- Trade mark and domain-name issues -- Internet regulation and domain names -- International and European initiatives in e-commerce -- Electronic money -- Contractual liability for defective software.…”

Information technology law / by Lloyd, Ian J.

Table of Contents: “…Privacy, technology, and surveillance -- The esergence of data protection -- The scope of data protection -- Supervisory agencies -- The data protection priniciples -- Individual rights and remedies -- Sectoral aspects of data protection -- Transborder data flows -- National and international responses to computer-related crime -- Substantive criminal law provisions -- Computer fraud and forgery -- Virtual criminality -- Detecting and prosecuting computer crime -- Key elements of the patent system -- Patents -- Copyright protection -- Enforcement issues -- Protection of databases -- Design rights -- Trade mark and domain-name issues -- Internet regulation and domain names -- International and European initiatives in e-commerce -- Electronic money -- Contractual liability for defective software.…”

The Berlin Crisis of 1961 : Soviet-American Relations and the Struggle for Power in the Kremlin, June-November, 1961 / by Slusser, Robert M.

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The Berlin Crisis of 1961 : Soviet-American Relations and the Struggle for Power in the Kremlin, June-November, 1961 / by Slusser, Robert M.

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Time-dependent mechanical properties of solids / by Gräfe, Wolfgang

Table of Contents: “…Migration processes induced in solids -- Stress relaxation in glasses -- Density relaxations in glasses -- The background of internal friction -- Creep of steel and the static fatigue of glass -- The activation energy of the static fatigue and creep -- Fatigue due to an oscillating load of steel and aluminum -- Statistical checks of Stromeyer's fatigue formula -- Models for defect growth -- Generalized laws of strength degradation -- A compressive stress resulting from Tamm's electronic surface states -- The activation energy of creep and the surface energy of solids -- Open questions -- Nonlinear regression -- Solutions for the damped oscillations 1 -- Solutions for the damped oscillations 2 -- Harmonics by stress relaxation -- The approximate linearity of equation (7.9) -- A tube-like specimen for fatigue tests.…”
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Time-dependent mechanical properties of solids / by Gräfe, Wolfgang

Table of Contents: “…Migration processes induced in solids -- Stress relaxation in glasses -- Density relaxations in glasses -- The background of internal friction -- Creep of steel and the static fatigue of glass -- The activation energy of the static fatigue and creep -- Fatigue due to an oscillating load of steel and aluminum -- Statistical checks of Stromeyer's fatigue formula -- Models for defect growth -- Generalized laws of strength degradation -- A compressive stress resulting from Tamm's electronic surface states -- The activation energy of creep and the surface energy of solids -- Open questions -- Nonlinear regression -- Solutions for the damped oscillations 1 -- Solutions for the damped oscillations 2 -- Harmonics by stress relaxation -- The approximate linearity of equation (7.9) -- A tube-like specimen for fatigue tests.…”
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Engineering ethics an industrial perspective / by Baura, Gail D.

Table of Contents: “…A personal engineering ethics threshold -- Options for action when an engineering ethics threshold is reached -- 1978: Ford Pinto recall -- 1981: Kansas City Hyatt Regency skywalk collapse -- 1986: Challenger space shuttle explosion -- 1989: Exxon Valdez oil spill -- 1989: San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge earthquake collapse -- 1994: Bjork-Shiley heart valve defect -- 1999: Y2K software conversion -- 2002: Bell Laboratories scientific fraud -- 2002: Ford Explorer rollover -- 2003: Columbia space shuttle explosion -- 2003: Guidant Ancure Endograft System -- 2003: Northeast blackout -- 2004: Indian Ocean tsunami -- Anonymous industrial engineering ethics cases.…”
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Engineering ethics an industrial perspective / by Baura, Gail D.

Table of Contents: “…A personal engineering ethics threshold -- Options for action when an engineering ethics threshold is reached -- 1978: Ford Pinto recall -- 1981: Kansas City Hyatt Regency skywalk collapse -- 1986: Challenger space shuttle explosion -- 1989: Exxon Valdez oil spill -- 1989: San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge earthquake collapse -- 1994: Bjork-Shiley heart valve defect -- 1999: Y2K software conversion -- 2002: Bell Laboratories scientific fraud -- 2002: Ford Explorer rollover -- 2003: Columbia space shuttle explosion -- 2003: Guidant Ancure Endograft System -- 2003: Northeast blackout -- 2004: Indian Ocean tsunami -- Anonymous industrial engineering ethics cases.…”
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Street on torts / by Witting, Christian A

Table of Contents: “…Overview of tort law -- Duty of care I : foundational principles -- Duty of care II : recognized harm -- Duty of Care III: public authorities -- Breach of duty -- Causation and remoteness -- Defences to negligence -- Liability for defective premises and structures -- Trespass to the person and related torts -- Wrongful interference with goods -- Trespass to land -- Defences to intentional torts against the person or property -- Background to the protection of economic and intellectual property interests -- False representations -- The general economic torts -- Product liability -- Nuisance -- The rule in Rylands v Fletcher -- Breach of statutory duty -- Defamation : foundational principles -- Defences and remedies in defamation -- Misuse of private information -- Misuse of process and public powers -- Vicarious liability -- Capacity and parties -- Remedies : basic principles -- Principles of compensation for personal injuries and associated losses.…”

Street on torts / by Witting, Christian A

Table of Contents: “…Overview of tort law -- Duty of care I : foundational principles -- Duty of care II : recognized harm -- Duty of Care III: public authorities -- Breach of duty -- Causation and remoteness -- Defences to negligence -- Liability for defective premises and structures -- Trespass to the person and related torts -- Wrongful interference with goods -- Trespass to land -- Defences to intentional torts against the person or property -- Background to the protection of economic and intellectual property interests -- False representations -- The general economic torts -- Product liability -- Nuisance -- The rule in Rylands v Fletcher -- Breach of statutory duty -- Defamation : foundational principles -- Defences and remedies in defamation -- Misuse of private information -- Misuse of process and public powers -- Vicarious liability -- Capacity and parties -- Remedies : basic principles -- Principles of compensation for personal injuries and associated losses.…”