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Intravenous immunoglobulins myth and reality /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: The use of intravenous immunoglobulins (IVIg) as therapeutic proteins -- Use of IVIg to provide effective treatment for autoimmune thrombocytopenic purpura -- Use of IVIg in a large range of autoimmune or systemic inflammatory diseases -- Increase in worldwide IVIg demand -- Increased evidence showing the efficacy of IVIg -- Mechanisms for the action of IVIg in autoimmune diseases -- Need for classification of the recommendations for use -- Clinical indications for IVIg therapy.…”
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Social skills development, assessment and programming in school-aged speakers with autism spectrum disorders

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Typical development of social communication -- Pragmatic development in school age, later childhood and adolescence -- Differences in language development in ASD -- Impairments in pragmatic skills -- Assessment of pragmatic and social skills -- Experimental investigations of pragmatic communication -- Yale Pragmatic Rating Scale (YPRS) -- Critical observations for speakers with ASD -- Evidence-based approaches to social skills programming -- Principles of pragmatic intervention strategies.…”
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Deep brain stimulation for Parkinson's disease

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Deep Brain Stimulation -- Mechanisms of Action: What is the Science and Biology Behind DBS -- Screening for DBS: The Use of an interdisciplinary team -- Targets for DBS: The possible brain targets -- Tailoring DBS: How to make personalized therapy -- Evidence Base: Review of the recent randomized studies of DBS -- Adverse Events: The issues that may emerge with DBS -- Horizon: What will future therapies look like.…”
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Critical thinking skills : developing effective analysis and argument. by Cottrell, Stella

Table of Contents: “…: Finding and evaluating sources of evidence -- Critical reading and note-making: critical selection, interpretation and noting of source material -- Critical, analytical writing: critical thinking when writing -- Where's the analysis? …”

Learning and memory the brain in action / by Sprenger, Marilee, 1949-

Table of Contents: “…Locating memories in the brain -- The path most traveled : semantic memory instructional strategies -- The lanes less traveled : instructional strategies for episodic, procedural, automatic, and emotional memory -- Producing the evidence : assessment that mirrors instructional strategies -- Frequently asked questions.…”
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Developing civil society social order and the human factor / by Adjibolosoo, Senyo B-S. K.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Social engineering : survival strategies and techniques since the dawn of human civilization : an overview -- The creation of ideas and application of knowledge to social engineering -- Developing civil society the orthodox way : democratization and constitutional rule -- Legal proliferation and its implications -- The impact of human factor decay on the effectiveness of social engineering programs -- The failure of social engineering : the empirical evidence -- A human factor approach to developing civil society -- Transforming humanity : human factor principles of social engineering and community building -- The future of humanity.…”
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Understanding affirmative action politics, discrimination, and the search for justice / by Kellough, J. Edward

Table of Contents: “…Affirmative action : the concept and the controversy -- Early efforts focusing on equality of opportunity -- Affirmative action and preferential selection -- Assessing the argument : a review of the case for affirmative action -- The Supreme Court and affirmative action : an examination of the early development of statutory and constitutional constraints -- Cases from 1995 to 2003 : challenges, uncertainty, and the survival of affirmative action -- Evidence on the effectiveness of affirmative action -- Affirmative action in the Twenty-first century.…”
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The tyranny of the market why you can't always get what you want / by Waldfogel, Joel, 1962-

Table of Contents: “…Theory -- Markets and the tyranny of the majority -- Are "lumpy" markets a problem? -- Empirical evidence -- Who benefits whom in practice -- Who benefits whom in the neighborhood -- Preference minorities as citizens and consumers -- Market solutions and their limits -- Market enlargement and consumer liberation -- Fixed costs, product quality, and market size -- Trade and the tyranny of alien majorities -- Salvation through new technologies -- Policy solutions and their limits -- Government subsidies and insufficient demand -- Books and liquor: two case studies.…”
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The accidental library marketer by Dempsey, Kathy, 1965-

Table of Contents: “…How and why people become accidental marketers -- Starting with the basics of communication -- Assessing your current situation -- Using demographic, geographic, and census data -- What marketing experts think is most important -- Getting administrators, managers, and staff to buy in -- Making evidence-based decisions with administrators -- Don't shy away from statistics -- Understanding the cycle of true marketing -- Writing your formal plans -- Basic rules for producing good promotional materials -- Getting the message out -- Using your website for public relations and outreach -- Finally, the fun stuff.…”
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Vascular malformations : advances and controversies in contemporary management /

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Fitness and compensation

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Concept of Darwinian fitness -- Understanding the fitness impact of drug resistance -- Mathematical models -- Reversal of drug resistance in bacteria -- How to measure fitness -- The molecular epidemiology approach -- Effect of drug resistance mutations -- Environment effects on fitness measurements -- Effect of strain genetic background -- Pre-adapted strain "families" -- Biogeography of M. tuberculosis -- Compensatory evolution -- Experimental evidence -- Compensation prevents reversion to drug sensitivity -- Types of compensatory mutations -- Questions for future research -- Comparative genomics.…”
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Serial crime theoretical and practical issues in behavioral profiling /

Table of Contents: “…Criminal profiling : a continuing history -- The nature of induction and deduction in criminal profiling -- Criminal profiling methods -- The fallacy of accuracy in criminal profiling -- Criminal profiling as expert evidence -- Where to from here? -- Criminal profilers and the media : profiling the Beltway snipers -- Serial stalking : looking for love in all the wrong places? …”
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Memory's library medieval books in early modern England / by Summit, Jennifer

Table of Contents: “…Edmunds, and The fall of princes -- The lost libraries of English humanism : More, Starkey, Elyot -- Reading Reformation : the libraries of Matthew Parker and Edmund Spenser -- A library of evidence : Robert Cotton's medieval manuscripts and the generation of seventeenth-century prose -- "Cogitation against libraries" : Bacon, the Bodleian, and the weight of the medieval past -- Coda : memories of libraries.…”
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Atheist universe the thinking person's answer to christian fundamentalism / by Mills, David

Table of Contents: “…-- God of the gaps : does the universe show evidence of design? -- The "miracle" of planetary clockwork -- The "miracle" of life on earth -- Answering creationist objections to evolution -- Can Genesis be reconciled with modern science? …”
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Philosophy of exaggeration by García Düttmann, Alexander

Table of Contents: “…: exaggeration and politics -- Being guilty : exaggeration and factuality -- Flight simulator : exaggeration and trauma -- The obvious : exaggeration and self-evidence -- Blow job : exaggeration and institution -- Old opera : exaggeration and art -- Life lines : exaggeration and event -- Lexical note.…”
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From Jamestown to Jefferson the evolution of religious freedom in Virginia /

Table of Contents: “…Evidence of religion in seventeenth-century Virginia / Brent Tarter -- Lived religion in colonial Virginia / Edward L. …”
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Elusive togetherness church groups trying to bridge America's divisions / by Lichterman, Paul

Table of Contents: “…In search of the social spiral -- Studying the social spiral -- Networkers and volunteers reaching out -- Crying out : social critics -- Christ-like care : social servants -- A social spiral winds outward : partners -- Doing things with religion in local civic life -- Doing things together : lessons from religious community service groups -- Theory and evidence in a study of religious community service groups.…”
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Corruption as a last resort : adapting to the market in Central Asia / by McMann, Kelly M., 1970-

Table of Contents: “…An absence of alternatives : a new framework for understanding corruption -- Alternatives to corruption and the impact of market reform : the arguments and their theoretical implications -- Bribery, favoritism, and clientelism : evidence from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan -- Market actors as an unrealized alternative : the impact of market reforms -- Islamic institutions and secular charities : obstacles to providing substitute resources -- Families : the uneven impact of market reforms -- Reducing corruption : policy recommendations -- Appendix : statistical analysis.…”
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Criminal justice at the crossroads : transforming crime and punishment / by Kelly, W. R. (William Robert), 1950-

Table of Contents: “…-- The scientific case for alternatives to crime control : evidence-based practices and where neurocognitive implications take us from here -- Sentencing reform reconsidered -- Diversion and problem-solving courts -- Community supervision -- Recalibrating drug control policy -- Cost/benefit -- Conclusions -- Works cited -- Index.…”
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