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Energy/people/buildings : making sustainable architecture work / by Kimpian, Judit, Hartman, Hattie, Pelsmakers, Sofie

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Pioneers in Forensic Science : Innovations and Issues in Practice / by Pyrek, Kelly M.

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Immunoregulation in avascular regions of the eye a role for the lens /

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Thalamo-cortical pain mechanisms

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Areas of the brain stimulated by different kinds of pain stimuli -- Mechanisms of activation in the thalamus and cortex -- The spinothalamic tract -- Physiological differences between different parts of the spinothalamic tract -- Superficial dorsal horn -- Response to temperature -- Laminar 1 vs. deep laminar neurons of origin -- Evidence against a separate thalamic nucleus specific to pain and thermal sensation -- Activity in the thalamic relay to cortex -- Single unit and microstimulation analysis of somatic sensory thalamus -- Stimulus evoked spike trains composed of single spikes and bursts -- Thalamocortical non-linearities -- Thalamocortical circuitry -- Binary, labelled non-linear and analog pathways traversing the thalamus: what are the cortical targets? …”
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Tumor-associated macrophages

Table of Contents: “…Contents: The correlation between Tumor Associated Macrophage (TAM) infiltration and tumor progression in cancer patients -- Evidence for a protumoral function of TAMs in mouse tumor models -- Hallmark features of TAMs enable tumor progression -- Promotion of inflammation -- Chronic inflammatory diseases and cancer risk -- Promotion of matrix remodeling -- Promotion of tumor cell invasion -- Promotion of metastasis -- Promotion of angiogenesis -- TAM heterogeneity in tumors -- Identification and characterization of TAM subsets in mouse tumor models -- TIE2-expressing macrophages and inflammatory TAMs -- Origins of TAM subsets: Distinct hypothesis -- Tumor responses to anticancer therapies: Role of TAMs -- Reprogramming TAMs from a pro- to an anti-tumoral function -- Deciphering TAM heterogeneity in human cancer -- Complexity of leukocyte infiltrates in human cancer.…”
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The role of myeloid cells in HIV associated immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome

Table of Contents: “…Contents: TB-immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS) is a common complication of combined antitubercular and antiretroviral therapy -- The two forms of IRIS: paradoxical and unmasking -- Lack of a diagnostic test for TB-IRIS -- Expansion of Interferon gamma secreting T cells is associated with TB-IRIS -- Multiple cytokines are elevated in TB-IRIS, many of myeloid origin -- Benefits of adjunctive corticosteroid therapy in TB-IRIS -- Steroid therapy reduces the levels of IL-6, IL-10, IL-12p40, TNF, Interferon-gamma and CXCL-10 in TB-IRIS patients -- Suppurative necrosis may occur in TB-IRIS, implying a role for neutrophils -- Evidence of a prominent role for myeloid cells in the pathogenesis of TB-IRIS.…”
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Extracellular calcium signaling

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Local accumulations and depletions of extracellular Calcium -- Systemic Calcium homeostasis -- Extracellular Ca2+ sensing receptor (CaR) -- Mutations in the human CaR -- How and when Calcium fluctuates locally -- Calcium fluxes across the plasma membrane during calcium signals can be significant -- Oscillations in external Calcium -- Ca2+ selective microelectrodes -- The effect of Carbachol -- Ways in which local [Ca2+]out can change -- Extracellular Ca2+ "sensors" -- Ca2+ as a paracrine messenger -- Ca2+ as a local extracellular messenger -- Co-culture model system -- Ca2+ as an autocrine signaling molecule -- Evidence for the physiological importance of fluctuations in [Ca2+]out -- [Ca2+]out affects alkaline secretion.…”
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Africa in the time of cholera a history of pandemics from 1817 to the present / by Echenberg, Myron J.

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Zoo conservation biology by Fa, John E.

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Democracy and the politics of electoral system choice engineering electoral dominance / by Ahmed, Amel

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Market liquidity asset pricing, risk, and crises /

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The Academic Sabbatical : A Voyage of Discovery /

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Archaeology of African plant use /

Table of Contents: “…Stevens and Mary Anne Murray -- Primate archaeobotany: the potential for revealing nonhuman primate plant-use in the African archaeological record / Michael Haslam -- Dietary diversity: our species-specific dietary adaptation / Gordon Hillman and Michèle Wollstonecroft -- Seeds at Sibudu: a glimpse of Middle Stone Age vegetation at Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa / Christine Sievers -- Understanding late and terminal Pleistocene vegetation change in the Western Cape, South Africa: the wood charcoal evidence from Elands Bay Cave / Caroline Cartwright, John Parkington and Richard Cowling -- Early millet farmers in the Lower Tilemsi Valley, Northeastern Mali / Katie Manning and Dorian Q. …”
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Advancements in mental skills training /

Table of Contents: “…Jackman4 The Motivational Role of Feedback in Motor Learning: Evidence, Interpretations, and ImplicationsSuzete Chiviacowsky5 Mindfulness and Mental Preparation Jean Fournier6 An Optimization Approach to Mental Health in AthletesBrad Donohue, Yulia Gavrilova, & Marina Galante Harris 7 Team Dynamics Theory: Implications for the Development of High-Performing Teams Edson Filho8 Cultural Codes Provide Novel Strategies for Mental Training Yang Ge, Liwei ZhangSection 2: Technological Advancements9 Social Media and Sport Psychology PracticeStewart T. …”
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Beyond the Reproductive Body : The Politics of Women's Health and Work in Early Victorian England / by Levine-Clark, Marjorie

Table of Contents: “…Pt 1: Contested body politics: women, health and social reform in the 1830s and 1840s -- The reproductive body, Part 1: Women's work and the biology of reproduction -- The reproductive body, Part 2: The tasks of social reproduction -- Gender, the Poor Law, and the ambiguity of the able-bodied worker -- pt. 2: Living in the body: women's experiences of health and illness -- The evidence of the body: poor women and medical cultures -- Testing the reproductive hypothesis: women's illnesses, the environment, and menstruation -- Health and the material conditions of home: sanitation, poverty, and domesticity -- "Rather a hard life": domestic relationships and health at home -- "She continued at her work": negotiating employment and health -- Conclusion: The politics of women's health and work.…”
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Ancient Carved Ambers in the J. Paul Getty Museum / by Causey, Faya

Table of Contents: “…-- The properties of amber -- Ancient names for amber -- Color and other optical characteristics: ancient perception and reception -- Ancient literary sources on the origins of amber -- Amber and forgery -- The ancient transport of amber -- Literary sources on the use of amber -- Amber medicine, amber amulets -- The bronze age -- Early iron age and the orientalizing period -- The archaic and afterward -- The working of amber: ancient evidence and modern analysis -- The production of ancient figured amber objects -- Catalogue -- Technical essay: analysis of selected ambers from the collections of the J. …”
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