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Understanding clinical papers / by Bowers, David, 1938-

Table of Contents: “…Some preliminaries -- The abstract and introduction -- The aims and objectives -- Descriptive studies : qualitative -- Descriptive studies : quantitative -- Analytic studies -- Intervention studies -- Mixed methods studies -- The research setting -- Populations and samples in quantitative research -- The sample in qualitative research -- Identifying and defining cases -- Controls and comparisons -- Identifying the characteristics of quantitative data -- Summarising the characteristics of quantitative data -- Identifying and summarising the characteristics of qualitative data -- Measuring the characteristics of participants : quantitative -- Measuring the characteristics of participants : qualitative -- Measuring the characteristics of measures -- Measurement scales -- Exploring and explaining topic guides -- Fractions, proportions and rates -- Risk and odds -- Ratios of risks and odds -- Confidence intervals for means, proportions, and medians -- Confidence intervals for ratios -- Hypothesis testing -- Measuring association -- Measuring agreement -- Linear regression -- Logistic regression -- Measuring survival -- Systematic review -- Analysing qualitative data -- Results in text and tables -- Results in pictures -- The discussion and conclusions -- References -- Index.…”
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The Church of England and Christian antiquity the construction of a confessional identity in the 17th century / by Quantin, Jean-Louis

Table of Contents: “…The English Reformation and the Protestant view of antiquity -- The Protestant appeal to the Fathers from Cranmer to Jewel -- Sola scriptura -- Patristic orthodoxy -- Unwritten traditions and the consensus of the Fathers -- Witnesses to the truth : the Fathers and the Protestant view of church history -- Augustine, Calvin, and Reformed orthodoxy -- Becoming traditional : the appeal to antiquity in Jacobean controversies -- Primitive episcopacy -- Puritanism -- Christ's descent into hell -- The cessation of miracles -- From distinctiveness to singularity -- Arminianism, Laudianism, and the Fathers -- Theological method -- Augustinism and Calvinism -- The authority of tradition -- The Fathers assaulted -- The survival of Elizabethan theology -- Theological liberalism and the Fathers : the Great Tew circle -- An anti-patristic breviary : Jean Daill'e's use of the Fathers -- The first English fortune of Daill'e's use of the Fathers -- A patristic identity -- Puritan scripturalism -- The extinction of the Great Tew spirit? …”
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Scrapbooks, snapshots and memorabilia hidden archives of performance /

Table of Contents: “…/ Glen Mcillivray -- Tales still to be told: indigenous Australian theatre practice and the archive / Maryrose Casey -- The "not-yet archive" of sidetrack performance group / Tom Burvill and Mark Seton -- (Re)constructing the archive: a regional perspective on performance histories / Gillian Arrighi and David Watt -- More is less: public profile and academic representation in contemporary British theatre / John Bennett -- Accidents of survival: finding a place in the V&A's theatre and performance archives / Catherine Haill -- Feeling for dancing hidden in the archives of the dead / Amanda Card -- Performance, documentation and the archive within the institution / Matthew Reason, Jules Dorey Richmond, Victoria Gray, Nathan Walker -- Still not seen: photography and the archive under the bed / Glen McGillivray -- Buried treasure: the lidded box and its function / Kim Durban -- Performance as palimpsest: leaving a trace memory in site-specific performance / Lisa Warrington -- Recording forbidden careers: nineteenth-century amateur theatricals / Eileen Curley.…”
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The metabolic syndrome

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Reaven's syndrome X -- Coronary heart disease (CHD) and type 2 diabetes odds ratio -- Our "toxic" lifestyle -- Landscape change in modifiable CVD risk factors -- Risk of ischemic heart disease (IHD) -- Insulin resistance -- The metabolic syndrome: distinctions of metabolic abnormalities, CHD risk, non-obese individuals, waist girth, abdominal obesity and management, -- Liver fat and visceral fat: cardiometabolic risk link -- Sex differences in liver fat content -- Overall objectives of INSPIRE ME IAA -- Categorization by T2D and tertiles of VAT -- Triglyceride & HDL cholesterol concentrations in men & women -- Inflammatory factors, liver fat, visceral adiposity & T2D -- Frequency of prevalent CVD -- Visceral obesity/ectopic fat screening tool -- HyperTG waist survival and CHD risk study -- Clinical diagnosis limitations -- "Turbostatins" -- The EPIC-Norfolk study -- CHD event rate and physical activity -- Reshaping lifestyle habits of obese patients.…”
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Management of MDR and XDR TB

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Management of multi drug resistance (MDR) and extensive drug resistance (XDR) TB -- Management of TB before era of drug treatment -- Surgery for TB -- Drug treatment was introduced from 1943-1963 -- Rifampicin (1963) -- Timeline: discovery of drugs for TB -- Emergence of totally drug resistant TB -- Epidemiology -- Outcomes of MDR-TB treatment -- Survival curve of HIV patients with XDR TB -- Current drug treatment -- Treatment outcome in several cohorts -- Death rates in several cohorts -- Current approach for treatment of MDR/XDR TB -- WHO's programmatic management of DR TB -- Treatment recommendations -- Group 1: oral first-line agents -- Group 2: fluoroquinolones -- Group 3: injectables -- Group 4: less-effective anti-TB drugs -- Group 5: less-effective or clinical data sparse drugs -- Future drug treatment -- New compounds -- Bedaquiline (TMC207) -- The nitroimidazoles -- Thioridazine -- NC-001 (PA-824, moxifloxacine, PZA) -- Dreams and realities for the future of TB treatment.…”
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European Women and Preindustrial Craft /

Table of Contents: “…Sweets -- Working women, gender, and industrialization in nineteenth-century France : the case of Lorraine embroidery manufacturing / Whitney Walton -- The calico painters of Estavayer : employers' strategies toward the market for women's labor / Pierre Caspard -- From home to factory : women in the nineteenth-century Italian silk industry / Patrizia Sione -- Survival strategies in a Saxon textile district during the early phases of industrialization, 1780-1860 / Jean H. …”
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Being and becoming Hausa interdisciplinary perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…/ Sarah Worden -- God made me a rapper : young men, Islam, and survival in an age of austerity / Adeline Masquelier -- Engendering a Hausa vernacular Christian practice / Barbara Cooper -- Hausa as a process in time and space / John E.G. …”
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Colorectal cancer risk, diagnosis and treatments /

Table of Contents: “….] -- The role of cytoreduction as a multidisciplinary treatment modality for metastatic colorectal cancer / Koji Tanaka, Yasuhiro Inoue, Masato Kusunoki -- Prognostic factors of survival in stage IIB-III and IV colorectal cancer / Nicolaos Diamantis ... …”
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Obesity and cancer research

Table of Contents: “….] -- The effect of obesity on malignancy of the gastrointestinal tract / Stephen DH Malnick, Alon Basovitz -- Influence and implications of nutrition and metabolic factors on the growth and survival of pediatric cancer cells : the IGF connection / Aru Narendran, Alexander K.C. …”
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The Pandemic Divide : How COVID Increased Inequality in America /

Table of Contents: “…Addo and Adam Hollowell -- Race, entrepreneurship, and COVID-19 : Black small business survival in pre- and post pandemic America / Henry C. …”
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The Arab Revolution of 2011 : A Comparative Perspective /

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Comparative welfare state politics : development, opportunities, and reform / by Kersbergen, Kees van, 1958-

Table of Contents: “…Can and will the welfare state survive the great recession?.…”

The unfinished war Korea / by Lee, Bong

Table of Contents: “…Thus it began: Korea, the hermit kingdom ; Korean nationalists -- The Lee family under Japanese occupation: out of the frying pan, into the fire, World War II --The Russians are coming: Kim Il Sung makes an entrance -- Americans in South Korea -- North Koreans discover communism -- Chaos in South Korea: MacArthur in Japan -- Prelude to a hot war -- On a rainy Sunday across the 38th parallel: reactions of Washington -- The ROK army on the brink of disintegration: MacArthur in Suwon ; Tactical errors all around -- An ugly war -- The first hundred days -- Mao's thought in Beijing -- The Inchon landing and its aftermath -- Chinese traps -- A brand new ball game --Refugee stories: the plight of refugees and massacres of innocent civilians -- An old soldier just fades away, a new one steps in -- The way we survived the war -- A talking war -- The tortuous path to armistice agreement -- South Korea after the ceasefire: two schoolgirls -- North Korea now -- Old war, new crisis: the nuclear weapons developement program ; the sunshine policy ; military provocations ; what next.…”
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Conversations with remarkable Native Americans

Table of Contents: “…Tragic wisdom and survivance / Deborah L. Madsen -- From the forgotten American to indigenous rights / Joëlle Rostkowski -- Conversation with series editor Gerald Vizenor -- Scott Momaday, poet, novelist, painter, and UNESCO artist for peace -- Suzan Harjo, policy advocate, journalist, and poet -- Richard West, lawyer and founding director of the National Museum of the American Indian -- Emil Her Many Horses, curator, National Museum of the American Indian -- Sven Haakanson, director of the Alutiiq Museum, Kodiak, Alaska -- Veronical Tiller, historian, consultant, and writer -- Erma Vizenor, tribal chair, White Earth Reservation, Minnesota -- Louisita Warren, elder of Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico -- Tony Abeyta, painter and sculptor -- David Bradley, painter and sculptor -- Darren Vigil Gray, painter and musician -- Jill Momaday, actress, model, and chief of protocol, State of New Mexico -- Rulen Tangen, dancer and choreographer -- Robert Tim Coulter, laywer, founder and director of the Indian Law Resource Center -- Kenneth Deer, journalist, educator, and UN indigenous representative -- Text from U.N. document: Declaration on the rights of indigenous peoples.…”
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Structural materials and engineering

Table of Contents: “…Cortinez -- The prediction of survival probabilities of building structures under transient extreme execution loads / Antanas Kudzys.…”
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Encountering life in the universe ethical foundations and social implications of astrobiology /

Table of Contents: “…/ Jill Tarter -- AstroEthics : engaging extraterrestrial intelligent life forms / Ted Peters -- A scientifically minded citizenry : the ethical responsibility of all scientists / Erika Offerdahl -- Survival ethics and astrobiology / Neville Woolf.…”
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Environment, society and the Black Death : an interdisciplinary approach to the late-medieval crisis in Sweden /

Table of Contents: “…Empirical studies -- Abandonment, agricultural change and ecology / Per Lagerås, Anna Broström, Daniel Fredh, Hans Linderson, Anna Berg, Leif Björkman, Tove Hultberg, Sven Karlsson, Matts Lindbladh, Florence Mazier, Ulf Segerström & Eva Sköld -- Change, desertion and survival : an archaeology of the late-medieval crisis / Lars Ersgård -- Living conditions in times of plague / Caroline Arcini, T. …”
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Natural killer cells development, diversity and applications to human disease /

Table of Contents: “…-- NK progenitor, NK precursor, mature NK cell -- Only CD34dimCD45RA(+) HPC differentiate into CD56bright NK cells -- NK cells are in human lymph nodes and are CD56bright -- Putative stages of human NK cell differentiation in nodes/tonsils -- How NK cell development fits in human lymphopoiesis -- IL-15 and human NK cell survival -- Adoptive transfer of NK cells into IL-15-deficient mice -- IL-15 transgene -- Lymphoblastic leukemia -- Human NK cell subsets -- Do NK cell subsets have unique immunoregulatory roles? …”
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The return of geopolitics in Europe? social mechanisms and foreign policy identity crises /

Table of Contents: “…Czech geopolitics: struggling for survival / Petr Drul�ak; 5. The theme that dare not speak its name: Geopolitik, geopolitics and German foreign policy since unification / Andreas Behnke; 6. …”
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German history from the margins

Table of Contents: “…Sex and antisemitism in the Third Reich / Dagmar Herzog -- Defeated Germans and surviving Jews: gendered encounters in everyday life in U.S.…”
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