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Wordsworth's ethics by Potkay, Adam, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Audition and attachment -- Close encounters (i) -- Close encounters (ii) -- The ethics of things -- Music vs. conscience -- Captivation and liberty in poems on music -- The moral sublime -- Independence and interdependence -- Surviving death -- The poetics of life -- Envoy : Wordsworth's afterlives.…”
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NMDA receptors neuroprotective or excitotoxic? /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Excitotoxicity -- Historical background, implication of NMDA receptors and role in acute and chronic disorders -- Pro-survival signaling to gene expression from the NMDA receptor -- Mechanisms of excitotoxicity and role of receptor location and subunit composition -- Signaling to mitochondria in excitotoxicity.…”
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The clinical features of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis diagnosis, natural history and epidemiology /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Onset & clinical features -- Differential diagnosis -- Investigation of a suspected case of ALS -- Clinical diagnosis -- Regional syndromes -- Survival & progression -- Age distribution & life expectancy -- Familial ALS -- Frontotemporal dementia -- Cognitive & emotional impairment in ALS.…”
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Immune-mediated liver disease

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Criteria for diagnosis of AILD -- Autoimmune Hepatitis (AIH) -- Spectrum of AIH in 2008 -- Differential diagnosis of AIH -- Drugs inducing an AIH-like syndrome -- Diagnosis of Wilson disease Leipzig score -- Steps in management of AIH -- Simplified criteria for diagnosis of AIH -- When to question initiation of AIH treatment -- Screening before Immunosuppressive therapy (IST) for AIH -- Indication for AIH treatment -- Response to immunosuppressive therapy in AIH -- AIH: Treatment regiments for adults -- Standard therapy for AIH -- Preventative measures while on treatment for AIH -- Monitoring required during IST for AIH -- Remission following therapy in AIH -- Remission following IST withdrawal -- AIH: maintenance therapy with Azathioprine -- Treatment failure for AIH -- Primary & secondary sclerosing cholangitis -- Potential pathogenesis in sclerosing cholangitis -- PSC seen with Magnetic Resonance Cholangiography -- Role of ERCP in PSC -- Presenting Features of PSC -- Ulcerative colitis: link to PSC -- PSC with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) -- Survival IBD vs. IBD+PSC -- Causes of death in PSC patients -- Treatment for PSC with Ursodeoxycholic acid -- Why medical therapy fails in PSC -- Recurrent Autoimmune after liver transplant -- Primary Biliary Cirrhosis (PBC) -- PBC- physical presentation -- Typical presentation of PBC in 2009 -- Liver transplant in PBC compared to PSC -- Longterm survival in early PBC -- Survival in PBC +/- Biochemical response to Ursodeoxycholic acid -- Survival according to portal/hepatic venous gradient score -- PBC: natural history -- Treatment response and histological change in PBC -- Complications of PBC -- PBC: the drive and the trigger -- PBC cases in first degree relatives -- PBC: genome wide analysis -- The genetic web of autoimmunity.…”
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The tactics of toleration a refugee community in the age of religious wars / by Spohnholz, Jesse, 1974-

Table of Contents: “…Religious toleration and the Reformation of the refugees -- Religious refugees and the rise of confessional tensions -- Calvinist discipline and the boundaries of religious toleration -- The strained hospitality of the Lutheran community -- Surviving dissent : Mennonites and Catholics in Wesel -- The practice of toleration : religious life in Reformation-era Wesel.…”
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Biostatistics for dummies by Pezzullo, John C.

Table of Contents: “…Looking for relationships with correlation and regression -- pt. V. Analyzing survival data -- pt. VI. The part of tens.…”
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Management of the N0 neck

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Patterns of spread of oral cancer -- Prognosis with metastatic neck disease -- Risk of occult metastasis -- Predictors of metastasis -- Tumour depth -- Perineural invasion -- Imaging of the node negative neck -- Sentinel lymph node biopsy -- Survival benefits of neck dissection.…”
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The Worlds of Langston Hughes Modernism and Translation in the Americas / by Kutzinski, Vera M., 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : in others' words : translation and survival -- Nomad heart : heterolingual autobiographical -- Southern exposures : Hughes in Spanish -- Buenos Aires blues : modernism in the creole city -- Havana vernaculars : the Cuba Libre project -- Back in the USSA : Joe McCarthy's mistranslations.…”
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The Worlds of Langston Hughes : Modernism and Translation in the Americas / by Kutzinski, Vera M., 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : in others' words : translation and survival -- Nomad heart : heterolingual autobiographical -- Southern exposures : Hughes in Spanish -- Buenos Aires blues : modernism in the creole city -- Havana vernaculars : the Cuba Libre project -- Back in the USSA : Joe McCarthy's mistranslations.…”
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Seamus Heaney searches for answers / by O'Brien, Eugene, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…'Preoccupying questions' : Heaney's prose -- 'Continuous adjudication' : binary oppositions and the field of force -- 'Writing in the sand' : poetry and transformation -- 'Surviving amphibiously' : poetry and politics -- 'A bright nowhere' : the deconstruction of place -- 'Through-otherness' : the deconstruction of language -- Nobel causes : Heaney and Yeats.…”
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The essentials of biostatistics for physicians, nurses, and clinicians by Chernick, Michael R.

Table of Contents: “…The what, why, and how of biostatistics in medical research -- Sampling from populations -- Graphics and summary statistics -- Normal distribution and related properties -- Estimating means and proportions -- Hypothesis testing -- Correlation, regression, and logistic regression -- Contingency tables -- Nonparametric methods -- Survival analysis.…”
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Jane Austen and altruism / by Ki, Magdalen

Table of Contents: “…The Austen family and the altruism problem -- Psychopathy and sympathy in Northanger Abbey -- Costly signaling and the handicap principle in Sense and sensibility -- Kin and kith altruism in Pride and prejudice -- Survival of the nicest in Mansfield Park -- Pathological altruism in Emma -- Punishment in persuasion -- Afterword: the choice of altruism.…”
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Rage Is the Subtext : Readings in Holocaust Literature and Film / by Derwin, Susan

Table of Contents: “…Encrypted memories : Saul Friedländer's When memory comes -- Bodies of testimony : Primo Levi's Survival in Auschwitz and The drowned and the saved -- Unbearable vulnerability : Liliana Cavani's The night porter -- Traumatic aftermaths : Binjamin Wilkomirski's Fragments -- Art of healing : Imre Kertesz's Fatelessness.…”
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Ubiquitination and Alzheimer related disorders new insights and possible therapeutic approaches! /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Alzheimer's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies -- Ubiquitin and the ubiquitin pathway of intracellular proteolysis -- Ubiquitin immunocytochemistry in understanding chronic neurodegenerative disease -- Ubiquitin and the discovery of dementia with Lewy bodies -- Importance of ubiquitin for normal brain functions -- Ubiquitin and Parkinson's disease -- Intraneuronal protein aggregation and neurodegenerative disease -- Experimental demonstration of generic gene expression changes in response to protein aggregates -- Expression of the mitogen activated protein kinase (MEK5) -- ERK5 kinase module in Alzheimer's disease and dementia with Lewy bodies -- Ubiquitin-p62-MEK5/ERK5 pathway of neuronal survival in Alzheimer related disorders -- Diagnostic and therapeutic importance of ubiquitin/kinase mediated neuronal survival and anti-apoptotic pathways.…”
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Twenty-three minutes to eternity the final voyage of the escort carrier U.S.S. Liscome Bay / by Noles, James L., Jr

Table of Contents: “…The baby flattops -- Crew for the "Listing Lizzie" -- Wildcats, avengers, and a rear admiral -- Into the breach -- Galvanic and Kourbash -- Three task forces, three brothers -- "The god of death has come" -- Twenty-three minutes and counting -- Abandon ship! -- Pacific dawn -- Surviving -- Aftermath.…”
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The new Chinese America class, economy, and social hierarchy / by Zhao, Xiaojian, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Rethinking Chinese America -- Contemporary Chinese American population : the documented and the invisible -- Drawing lines of class distinctions -- "Serve the people" : the ethnic economy -- The "spirit of change" : constructing a regional identity -- Surviving poverty in an ethnic social hierarchy -- Conclusion: Inclusion or exclusion?…”
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Minority business success refocusing on the American dream / by Greenhalgh, Leonard

Table of Contents: “…Minority business success is a national priority -- To succeed is to survive, prosper, and grow to scale -- Government must refocus on inclusion -- Corporations should refocus on development, not procurement -- Support organizations should refocus on core mission -- Minority business success requires leadership and direction.…”
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Recovering Armenia : the limits of belonging in post-genocide Turkey / by Ekmekçioğlu, Lerna, 1979-

Table of Contents: “…-- An exodus and its aftermath -- A tamed minority -- Can Armenian feminism survive the new Turkey? -- When history became destiny : a conclusion.…”
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Plastid senescence

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Critical role of senescence in plant growth, development, survival and adaptation -- The senescing chloroplast (gerontoplast) as a phase of plastid differentiation -- New biochemistry and gene expression in the chloroplast-to-gerontoplast transition -- Reversibility, manipulation and exploitation of plastid senescence -- Evolutionary origins of plastid senescence.…”
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Eagle minds selected correspondence of Istvan Anhalt and George Rochberg (1961-2005) / by Anhalt, István

Table of Contents: “…Musical composition (1965-1976) -- pt. 3. The aesthetics of survival and alternative voices (1981-1985) -- pt. 4. …”
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