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Tissue damage control confers host tolerance to infection

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Host defense strategies against pathogenic microorganisms and parasites -- Expression of stress-responsive genes provide tissue damage control, uncoupling different forms of stress associated with inflammation and immunity from tissue damage and disease -- Tissue damage control confers host tolerance to infection -- Heme oxygenase-1 is a stress-responsive gene that provides tissue damage control -- Heme oxygenase-1 confers host tolerance to Plasmodium infection -- Preservation of Heme oxygenase-1 system during human evolution.…”
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Proteomics in kidney disease clinical considerations /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Proteomics for clinical use -- Available and applied single risk marker strategies in nephrology based on hypothesis driven biomarker search -- Open or unbiased multimarker approaches including plasma and urine proteomics -- Examples from different renal diseases -- Data from cross sectional and longitudinal studies -- Proteomics may provide insight into disease pathology -- Proteomics may provide risk stratification for clinical trials -- Example: intervention trial for type 2 diabetic subjects with high risk urinary proteomic pattern.…”
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Gene therapy for Hemophilia

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Hemophilia treatment past and present -- Gene transfer for genetic disease -- Viruses engineered to deliver genes -- Gene therapy using integrating vectors -- Adeno-associated virus (AAV) structure and composition -- AAV-Factor IX vectors -- AAV-mediated gene transfer for hemophilia -- Risk of germline transmission -- Peptide library based on AAV and Factor IX -- Transaminitis and liver enzymes -- Neutralizing antibodies to AAV -- Self-complementary DNA and Factor IX synthesis -- Strategies to overcome immunity to AAV -- Use of empty capsids.…”
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What makes learning fun? principles for the design of intrinsically motivating museum exhibits / by Perry, Deborah L., 1952-

Table of Contents: “…Summary of motivations, principles, and strategies -- Appendix D. Sample knowledge hierarchies.…”
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Manufacturing excellence : renewal and rebirth / by McKay, Kenneth N., 1953-, Wiers, Vincent C. S.

Table of Contents: “…Introducing Ben -- Ben and Jake -- Strategy -- The instrument cluster -- Fear -- Mr. Big intervenes -- The contract -- Culture shock -- The grim reaper -- The new boss -- The good, the bad, and the ugly -- Shared fate -- What makes a line a good line? …”
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Thinking Like a Climate : Governing a City in Times of Environmental Change / by Knox, Hannah, 1977-

Table of Contents: “…Thinking Like a Climate -- Contact Zones -- Climate Change in Manchester: An Origin Story -- 41% and the Problem of Proportion -- Giving Climate a Body -- The Carbon Life of Buildings -- Footprints and Traces, or Learning to Think like a Climate -- Footprints, Objects, and the Endlessness of Relations -- Mitigation to Adaptation -- An Irrelevant Apocalypse: Futures, Models, and Scenarios -- Cities, Mayors, and Climate Change -- Stuck in Strategies -- Rematerializing Politics -- Test Houses and Vernacular Engineers -- Activist Devices and the Art of Politics -- Symptoms, Diagnoses, and the Politics of the Hack -- Conclusion: "Going Native" in the Anthropocene.…”
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Modeling Fixed Income Securities and Interest Rate Options by Jarrow, Robert A.

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Radiation medicine rounds.

Table of Contents: “…Grandis -- Image-guidance in the radiotherapeutic management of head and neck cancer : current strategies and ongoing challenges / Allen M. Chen and James A. …”
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Stratagies for Improving Economic Mobility of Workers : Bridging Research and Practice /

Table of Contents: “…Meyer -- Helping low-wage workers persist in education programs : lessons from research on welfare training programs and two promising community college strategies / Lashawn Richburg-Hayes -- Financial aid and older workers : supporting the nontraditional student / Bridget Terry Long -- Can residential mobility programs improve human capital? …”
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Vector-borne diseases understanding the environmental, human health, and ecological connections : workshop summary /

Table of Contents: “…Beaty and Lars Eisen -- Integration of strategies: surveillance, diagnosis, and response / Roger S. …”
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The impact of reforms and interventions on K-12 education / by Burney, DeAnna McKinnie

Table of Contents: “…. -- Effective and reliable integration assessment -- Teaching strategies -- Moving up the triangle --…”
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Marketing to the campus crowd everything you need to know to capture the $200 billion college market / by Morrison, David A. (David Ashley)

Table of Contents: “…-- College marketing : past, present & future, or, the rise and "semi-fall" of the school monopoly -- The pre-college market -- The college market -- The post-collage market -- Gatekeepers : reaching the motherload through "big mother" -- The influencers -- Reaching the college crowd -- Seasonal marketing -- The Daewoo Motor Company : a good idea gone bad -- The co-branding strategies -- Concluding thoughts from a seasoned "insider" -- We want to hear from you!…”
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Dialectical behavior therapy with suicidal adolescents by Miller, Alec L.

Table of Contents: “…-- Dialectical behavior therapy: treatment stages, primary targets, and strategies -- DBT program structure: functions and modes -- Dialectical dilemmas for adolescents : addressing secondary treatment target -- Assessing adolescents: suicide risk, diagnosis, and treatment feasibility -- Orienting adolescents and families to treatment and obtaining commitment -- Individual therapy with adolescents -- Including families in treatment -- Skills training with adolescents -- Assessing progress, running a graduate group, and terminating treatment -- Program issues.…”
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Post-conflict administrations in international law international territorial administration, transitional authority and foreign occupation in theory and practice / by Brabandere, Eric de

Table of Contents: “…Early forms of international administration -- Evolving peace operations -- UN international administrations, the 'light footprint' approach and the occupation of Iraq -- The competence of the United Nations to engage in comprehensive peace-building and international territorial administration -- The legal status of territories and states under international administration -- The temporary nature of authority -- Human rights obligations of international actors -- The laws of occupation -- Civil administration -- The rule of law and judicial reconstruction -- Institution-building and democratic governance -- Exit strategies and post-conflict administration -- Internationalisation, consultation and local ownership -- International administration, the light footprint and beyond.…”
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Meeting the needs of gifted and talented students by Goodhew, Gwen

Table of Contents: “…-- Identifying gifted and talented children -- School-wide strategies for supporting gifted and talented children -- Providing for gifted and talented pupils at classroom level -- Three important issues: exceptional ability (EA); literacy; ICT -- Gifted and talented children with additional needs -- Appendix 1. …”
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Tyler's guide the healthcare executive's job search / by Tyler, J. Larry

Table of Contents: “…Resumes -- Cover letters -- References -- Networking -- Outplacement/transition firms -- Dealing with recruiters -- The interview and follow-up -- Evaluating job offers and employment contracts -- Starting off on the right foot/making a smooth transition -- Making the transition from the military -- Physician executives -- Breaking through the glass ceiling: interviews with female healthcare -- Executives -- The student as job seeker -- Beyond racial barriers: interviews with minority healthcare executives -- Overcoming discrimination: personal strategies -- Relocation and maintaining loved ones' support -- Getting motivated -- Managing your career in an era of uncertainty.…”
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Liberal epic the Victorian practice of history from Gibbon to Churchill / by Adams, Edward, 1963-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The ethical-aesthetic challenge to epic: Pope, Gibbon, and Scott -- Romantic liberal epic: Southey, Byron, and Napier -- Epic history, the novel, and war in the 1850s: Thackeray, MaCaulay, and Carlyle -- Utilitarianism and the intellectual critique of war: Mill, Creasy, and Buckle -- Popeian strategies in primitive and modern war epic: Morris, Kinglake, and high Victorian liberal epic -- Liberal epic before the Great War: Hardy, Trevelyan, Tolstoy, and Keynes -- Conclusion. from liberal epic to epic liberalism: Churchill and Wedgwood -- Epilogue. the warm and visible hand of liberal epic.…”
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Old stories retold narrative and vanishing pasts in modern China / by Stuckey, G. Andrew, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: history, memory, and phantasmal pasts -- Part I parody: traditional narrative revamped -- Tradition redux: parody and pathology -- Return to the primitive: de-civilized origins in Han Shaogong's fiction -- Interlude: the maoist (anti)tradition and the nationalist (neo)tradition -- Part II citation: strategies of intertextual connection -- The lyrical and the local: Shen Congwen, roots, and temporality in the lyrical tradition -- Tradition in exile: allusion and quotation in Bai Xianyong's Taipei people -- Back to the future: temporality and cliché in Wang Anyi's Song of everlasting sorrow -- Globalized traditions: Zhu Tianxin's The ancient capital.…”
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Gender-based explosions the nexus between Muslim masculinities, jihadist Islamism and terrorism / by Aslam, Maleeha

Table of Contents: “…Framing the global chaos: an overview -- The global jihadist movement -- Terrorism and counterterrorism: an overview of current strategies -- Islam, masculinities and performance -- Gender theory -- Islamic masculinities -- Muslim masculinities -- Pakistani masculinities and vulnerable social groups in the age of terror: a pilot study of Muslim men in Islamabad, aged 18-40 -- Research setting: contextualizing the pilot study on Pakistani masculinities -- Self-image, social expectations and pressures -- Muslim masculinities in the age of terror -- Muslim masculinities, militant-jihadist Islamism and suicide terrorism -- Islamism, terrorism and "the vulnerable" in society -- Analysis of the pilot study.…”
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The power of oratory in the medieval Muslim world by Jones, Linda G.

Table of Contents: “…The khutba: rhetorical and discursive strategies of persuasion; 4. Putting it all together: the khutba, texts, and contexts; Part I. …”
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