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Self-determination theory in the clinic motivating physical and mental health / by Sheldon, Kennon M. (Kennon Marshall)

Table of Contents: “…Self-determination: Theory, concepts, and evidence. Self-actualization, society, and scientific psychology -- Self-determination theory and its supporting research base -- Autonomy support and behavioral internalization: promoting ownership of non-enjoyable behaviors -- Pt. 2.: Self-determination: Theory applied to medical practice. …”
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Theoretical and crosslinguistic approaches to the semantics of aspect

Table of Contents: “…Partee -- Habituality and the habitual aspect / Nora Boneh and Edit Doron -- Aspectual universals of temporal anaphora / Maria Bittner -- The syntax and semantics of change/transition: evidence from Mandarin Chinese / Hooi Ling Soh -- Bare nouns and telicity in Japanese / Keiko Yoshida.…”
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Vascular complications of diabetes current issues in pathogenesis and treatment /

Table of Contents: “…The public health impact of the diabetes epidemic -- Risk factors -- Diabetic nephropathy -- Coronary heart disease and diabetes -- Diabetes and cerebrovascular disease -- Erectile dysfunction -- Evidence-based interventions to prevent or retard vascular complications -- Classification and clinical features of neuropathy -- Pathophsiology [sic] of diabetic neuropathy -- Epidemiology and natural history of DPN -- Detections/screenings/assessment -- Foot ulceration and charcot arthropathy -- Treatment options -- Management guidelines for diabetic peripheral neuropathy and foot ulceration -- Diabetic retinopathy: epidemiology and risk factors -- Classification and diagnosis of diabetic retinopathy -- Diabetic maculopathy -- Proliferative diabetic retinopathy -- Non-retinal diabetic ocular complications -- Pathophysiology & potential targets for therapeutic intervention -- Protein kinase C -- PKC activation & vascular permeability -- Role of PKC activation in cardiovascular and renal complications of diabetes -- Experimental pharmacology using isoform-selective PKC inhibitors -- Clinical trials with ruboxistaurin.…”
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The Roman family in the empire Rome, Italy, and beyond /

Table of Contents: “…Putting the family across : Cicero on natural affection / Susan Treggiari -- Family imagery and family values in Roman Italy / Michele George -- The Roman child in sickness and in health / Keith Bradley -- Parent-child conflict in the Roman family : the evidence of the Code of Justinian / Judith Evans Grubbs -- Searching for the Romano-Egyptian family / Richard Alston -- The Jewish family in Judaea from Pompey to Hadrian--the limits of romanization / Margaret Williams -- Family relations in Roman Lusitania : social change in a Roman province? …”
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The organization of firms in a global economy

Table of Contents: “…Feenstra and Hong Ma -- Firm heterogeneity, intra-firm trade, and the role of central locations / Stephen Ross Yeaple -- Export dynamics in Colombia : firm-level evidence / Jonathan Eaton ... [et al.] -- Fair wages and foreign sourcing / Gene M. …”
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Thinking with cases specialist knowledge in Chinese cultural history /

Table of Contents: “…Satisfying both sentiment and law : fairness-centered judicial reasoning as seen in late Ming casebooks / Jiang Yonglin and Wu Yanhong -- Developing forensic knowledge through cases in the Qing dynasty / Pierre-Étienne Will -- From oral testimony to written records in Qing legal cases / Yasuhiko Karasawa -- Producing medical knowledge through cases : history, evidence, and action / Charlotte Furth -- Facts in the tale : case records and pediatric medicine in late imperial China / Ping-chen Hsiung -- The literary fashioning of medical authority : a study of Sun Yikui's case histories / Judith T. …”
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The challenge of youth unemployment in Sri Lanka by Gunatilaka, Ramani

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Labor market trends and outcomes in Sri Lanka -- Labor market institutions and labor market segmentation in Sri Lanka -- Explaining labor market imbalance in Sri Lanka : evidence from JobsNet data -- Effects of training on labor market outcomes -- School-to-work transitions of Sri Lankan university graduates -- Youth mobility and overseas migration in Sri Lanka -- Developing youth entrepreneurs : a critical analysis of policies and programs on entrepreneurship as a youth employment -- Strategy in Sri Lanka -- Discrimination and social exclusion of youth in Sri Lanka -- A analysis of gender and ethnic wage differentials among youth in Sri Lanka : 1996-2004 -- Concerns of youth affected by civil conflict in Sri Lanka.…”
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Diachronic studies on information structure language acquisition and change /

Table of Contents: “…The role of information structure in language change : introductory remarks / Gisella Ferraresi & Rosemarie Lühr -- Information Structure, constituent order, and case in Warihío / Rolando Féliz Armendáriz -- The information structure of OVS in Vedic / Carlotta Viti -- Information packaging and the rise of clitic doubling in the history of Spanish / Christoph Gabriel & Esther Rinke -- Cue-based acquisition and information structure drift in diachronic language development / Marit Westergaard -- Discourse and syntax in linguistic change : decline of postverbal topical subjects in Serbo-Croat / Dejan Mati -- Prosody, information structure and word order changes in Portuguese / Kristin Gunn Eide -- The development of V-to-C movement in the West Germanic and romance languages / Melanie Wratil -- Evidence for two types of focus positions in Old High German / Svetlana Petrova & Roland Hinterhölzl.…”
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Business regulation and economic performance

Table of Contents: “…Overview / Norman Loayza (World Bank) and Luis Servén (World Bank) -- Product market regulation and macroeconomic performance : a review of cross-country evidence / Fabio Schiantarelli (Boston College) -- Regulation and macroeconomic performance across the world / Norman Loayza, Ana María Oviedo (World Bank), and Luis Servén -- Regulation and microeconomic dynamics / Norman Loayza, Ana María Oviedo, and Luis Servén -- Informality in Latin America and the Caribbean / Norman Loayza, Luis Servén, and Naotaka Sugawara (World Bank) -- Slow recoveries / Raphael Bergoeing (U. of Chile), Norman Loayza, and Andrea Repetto (U. of Chile) -- Market reforms, factor reallocation, and productivity growth in Latin America / Marcela Eslava (U. …”
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Increasing persistence research-based strategies for college student success / by Habley, Wesley R.

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The school counseling and school social work treatment planner by Knapp, Sarah Edison

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Biocomplexity of plant-fungal interactions

Table of Contents: “…Fungal endophytes as a driving force in land plant evolution: evidence from the fossil record / Michael Krings, Thomas N. …”
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Health care operations and supply chain management operations, planning, and control / by Kros, John F.

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Forging new conventional wisdom beyond international policing learning from complex, political realities / by Hughes, Bryn, 1948-

Table of Contents: “…Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Setting the context -- The global context : the historical evolution of police in peace operations -- Monitoring and evaluation and performance reporting -- Recasting key ontological and epistemological aspects -- Reshaping the substance of international contributions-beyond rethinking the "state of the state" -- The rule of law in peace and capacity building operations : appreciating more than the state -- The case for peace operations to engage the "political" diversity -- Pushing back on conventional monitoring and evaluation -- An unconventional approach to monitoring and evaluation -- Applying systems thinking to M&E : learning in spite of "uncertainty" -- Becoming emotional about assessment -- Evidence from the field for an unconventional wisdom -- The Marshall Islands microcosm : showing the need for a "political" lens -- Hybridity and police capacity development in the Solomon Islands -- The UN in Liberia : articulating the unarticulated consensus for change conclusions -- Appendix 1: Change theory -- Compendium.…”
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The Harvard sampler liberal education for the twenty-first century /

Table of Contents: “…Lewis -- Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution : pattern, process, and the evidence / Jonathan B. Losos -- Global history for an era of globalization : an introduction / Charles S. …”
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Amphetamines neurobiological mechanisms, pharmacology and effects /

Table of Contents: “….] -- The importance of contextual control over amphetamine dependence : evidence from an animal model of addiction / M.L. Andersen, R. …”
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Tryptophan dietary sources, functions and health benefits /

Table of Contents: “….] -- Commentary : health benefits from tryptophan supplementation in humans : is there sufficient scientific evidence? / Daniel Keszthelyi -- Metabolism of tryptophan and evaluation of tryptophan supplementation on fish larval growth and frequency of skeletal deformities / Margarida Saavedra -- Modulation of tryptophan metabolism, promotion of neurogenesis, and alteration of anxiety-related behavior in tryptophan 2,3-dioxygenase-deficient mice / Hiroshi Funakoshi -- Implication of tryptophan 2,3-dioxygenase and its variants for higher brain functions / Masaaki Kanai -- Tryptophan / Javier Cubero Juanez -- Therapeutic application of tryptophan : design of efficient peptidic antibiotics for treatment of gram-negative bacteria superbugs / Mojtaba Bagheri.…”
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Essential simulation in clinical education

Table of Contents: “…Essential simulation in clinical education / Judy McKimm and Kirsty Forrest -- Medical simulation : the journey so far / Aidan Byrne -- The evidence what works, why and how? / Doris Ostergaard and Jacob Rosenberg -- Pedagogy in simulation-based training in health care / Peter Dieckmann and Charlotte Ringsted -- Assessment / Thomas Gale and Martin Roberts -- The roles of faculty and simulated patients in simulation / Bryn Baxendale, Frank Coffey, and Andrew Buttery -- Surgical technical skills / Rajesh Aggarwal and Amit Mishra -- The non-technical skills / Nikki Maran, Simon Edgar, and Alistair May -- Teamwork / Jennifer Weller -- Designing effective simulation activities / Joanne Barrott ... …”
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Devoted to nature : the religious roots of American environmentalism / by Berry, Evan, 1977-

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The rise and fall of the biopsychosocial model : reconciling art and science in psychiatry / by Ghaemi, S. Nassir

Table of Contents: “…The perils of open-mindedness : Adolf Meyer's psychobiology -- So many theories, so little time : the rise of eclecticism -- Riding madly in all directions : Roy Grinker's "struggle for eclecticism" -- A new model of medicine : George Engel's biopsychosocial model -- Before and after : precursors and followers of the biopsychosocial model -- Cease-fire : ending the psychiatric civil war -- Drowning in data -- Teaching eclecticism -- Psychopharmacology awry -- The vagaries of the real world -- The limits of evidence-based medicine -- Osler's ghost -- The two cultures -- Between science and the humanities -- The meaning of meaning : verstehen explained -- The beginning of a solution : Method-based psychiatry-- A new psychiatric humanism.…”
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