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Astrology and cosmology in the world's religions by Campion, Nicholas

Table of Contents: “…Cosmology and religion: measurement and meaning -- Astrology: the celestial mirror -- Australia: the dreaming -- Oceania: navigating the sky -- North Americas: the Great Spirit -- South and Central America: salvation and sacrifice -- Sub-Saharan Africa: heaven on earth -- Egypt: the solar society -- China: the celestial offices -- India: ancient traditions and modern practice -- Babylon: signs in the sky -- The Jews: myth, magic, and transcendence -- Classical Greece: ascent to the stars -- Christianity: influence and transcendence -- Islam: faith and reason -- Theosophical, new age, and pagan cosmologies: nature and transformation.…”
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Cult cinema an introduction / by Mathijs, Ernest

Table of Contents: “…Exploitation and B movies -- Underground and avant-garde cinema -- Cult cinema and drugs -- Cult cinema and music -- Classical Hollywood cults -- Cult horror cinema -- Cult science fiction cinema -- Cult blockbusters -- Intertextuality and irony -- Meta-cult.…”
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Biopharmaceutics modeling and simulations theory, practice, methods, and applications / by Sugano, Kiyohiko

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Theoretical framework I : solubility -- Theoretical framework II : dissolution -- Theoretical framework III : biological membrane permeation -- Theoretical framework IV : gastrointestinal transit models and integration -- Physiology of gastrointestinal tract and other administration sites in humans and animals -- Drug parameters -- Validation of mechanistic models -- Bioequivalence and biopharmaceutical classification system -- Dose and particle size dependency -- Enabling formulations -- Food effect -- Biopharmaceutical modeling for miscellaneous cases -- Intestinal transporters -- Strategy in drug discovery and development -- Epistemology of biopharmaceutical modeling and good simulation practice.…”
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Lectures and thoughts on mineral economics by Chatterjee, Kaulir Kisor

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to mineral economics -- Mineral demand analysis -- Exploration project management : issues and strategies -- Evolution of modern mineral resource classification system -- Mineral exploitation : maintaining bottom lines -- Mining and conservation -- Factor mobility and international mineral trade -- India's mineral policy in relation to some other countries -- Trade and investment in mineral market -- Mineral exploration and production management system in India -- Exploration and mining in globalized economy -- Coal economics and management : the challenges -- Mineral industry of India and the world : past and future.…”
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The economics of business valuation towards a value functional approach / by Anderson, Patrick L.

Table of Contents: “…Modern value quandaries -- Methods and theories of value -- The failure of the neoclassical investment rule -- The nature of the firm -- The organization and scale of private business -- Accounting for the firm -- Value in classical economics -- Value in neoclassical economics -- Modern recursive equilibrium and the basic pricing equation -- Arbitrage-free pricing in complete markets -- Portfolio pricing methods -- Real options and expanded net present value -- Traditional valuation methods -- Practical application of the income method -- The value functional : theory -- The value functional : applications -- Applications : finance and valuation -- Applications : law and economics.…”
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Measurement and the measurement of change : a primer for the health professions / by Polit, Denise F., Yang, Frances (Frances M.)

Table of Contents: “…Basics of measurement -- Types of measurement -- Measurement properties : an overview -- Challenges in scale development -- Scale development : classical test theory -- Scale development : item response theory -- Developing clinimetric measures -- Reliability : test--retest, parallel test, inter-rater, and intra-rater reliability -- Internal consistency -- Measurement error -- Content validity and face validity -- Criterion validity -- Construct validity : hypothesis testing -- Construct validity : structural validity -- Cross-cultural validity -- Interpretation of scores -- Change scores and their reliability -- Responsiveness -- The interpretation of change scores.…”

Apoptosis in the nervous system

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Cell death programs in the nervous system -- PCD -- Similarities and differences in the classical PCD paradigm between worms and vertebrates -- Conserved death mechanisms -- Apoptosis, necrosis and autophagic cell death -- Other death subroutines -- The caspases -- Intracellular ATP level -- Common characteristics of cell death programmes in vertebrates -- Different executioners and cell death routines -- Brain ischemia -- Calpain activation -- Spatial control of cell death -- Spatial control of neurodegeneration -- BoNT/C -- Mitochondrial dysfunction -- Spatial control of cell death in central neurons.…”
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Hepatic encephalopathy in acute liver failure a primary neurogliopathy /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Classification of hepatic encephalopathy -- Acute liver failure -- Neuropathology of Acute liver failure -- Pathogenesis of hepatic encephalopathy in Acute liver failure: key role of ammonia -- Arterial NH3: risk factor of intracranial hypertension -- Selective gene expression alterations in Acute liver failure -- Glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) -- Glutamate transporter EAAT-2 -- Extracellular brain glutamate and neurological status -- Systemic inflammation in Acute liver failure -- Brain cytokines in Acute liver failure -- Therapeutic implications.…”
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Quantum mechanics and quantum field theory a mathematical primer / by Dimock, Jonathan, 1945-

Table of Contents: “…Mathematical prelude; 2. Classical mechanics; 3. Quantum mechanics; 4. Single particle; 5. …”
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Nation-building beyond Afghanistan and Iraq /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Nation-building and the failure of institutional memory / Francis Fukuyama -- From consensus to crisis : the postwar career of nation-building in U.S. foreign relations / David Ekbladh -- Nation-building in the heyday of the classic development ideology : Ford Foundation experience in the 1950s and 1960s / Francis X. …”
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A step from death a memoir / by Woiwode, Larry

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Securities fraud detection, prevention, and control / by Straney, Louis L., 1946-

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The funny parts a history of film comedy routines and gags / by Balducci, Anthony, 1958-

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The ethics challenge in public service a problem-solving guide / by Lewis, Carol W. (Carol Weiss), 1946-

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MRI of the musculoskeletal system /

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Germline pharmacogenomics as a tool to individualize therapy in breast cancer

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Major clinical issues in the personalized treatment of breast cancer -- The efficacy barrier: tamoxifen and anastrozole -- Advances in targeting that have improved the treatment of breast cancer -- Tumor-based expression arrays -- Prognostic expression arrays remain valuable beyond tumor grade and stage -- Pharmacogenetic principles -- Principles for valuable predictive biomarkers -- COBRA -- Anti-estrogen therapy for breast cancer -- The ELPH trial -- Aromatase inhibitor side effects in the ELPH trial -- The problem with aromatase inhibitors in Asia -- Breast cancer around the world -- Classic understanding of tamoxifen pharmacology -- Tamoxifen metabolism -- Endoxifen -- Serum concentrations of tamoxifen and metabolites predict efficacy -- CYP2D6 -- Relapse-free survival was worse in poor metabolizers -- Clinical consequences -- Pharmacodynamic pharmacogenomics -- Multiple targets to inhibit angiogenesis -- Bevacizumab in breast cancer.…”
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On Being Human : Folklore of Mormon Missionaries / by Wilson, William A. (William Albert), 1933-2016

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X marks the spot : women writers map the Empire for British children, 1790-1895 / by Norcia, Megan A., 1976-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: mapping imperial hierarchies and ruling the world -- The dysfunctional "family of man": Mary Anne Venning and Barbara Hofland classify human races in pre-darwinian primers -- Place settings at the imperial dinner party: hierarchies of consumption in the works of Favell Lee Mortimer, Sarah Lee, and Priscilla Wakefield -- Terra incognita: the gendering of geographic experience in the works of Barbara Hofland, Priscilla Wakefield, Mary H.C. …”
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Visual impairment in children due to damage to the brain

Table of Contents: “…Disorders commonly accompanied by cerebral visual impairment -- Children with severe brain damage: functional assessment for diagnosis and intervention -- Visual impairment in cerebral palsy -- Children with intellectual disabilities and cerebral visual impairment: problems with detection and diagnosis -- Helping children with cerebral visual impairment -- Approaches to deal with visual problems due to cerebral visual impairment -- The principles -- Strategies to support the development and learning of children with CVI at home and at school: Communication and Orientation and Mobility -- Strategies to support the development and learning of children with cerebral visual impairment, at home and at school: Sustained Visual Work and Activities of Daily Living (ADL) -- Strategies to help children who have both visual and hearing impairments Setting up integrated services for children with cerebral visual impairment -- Classification of cerebral visual impairment -- Classification of visual functioning and disability in children with visual processing disorders due to cerebral visual impairment -- Towards the development of a classification of vision-related functioning: a framework.…”
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A history of feminist and gender economics / by Becchio, Giandomenica

Table of Contents: “…I.1 Women economists in Great Britain between classical liberalism and Fabianism I.1.1 The classical liberal tradition during Victorianism I.1.2 The socialist tradition between Fabianism and Guildism I.2 Woman question in Austria and Germany: Jewishness and political economy I.2.1 The classical liberal tradition in Austria and the Austrian school women economists I.2.2 The socialist tradition in Austrian women economists I.2.3 Early feminism and political economy in Germany. …”
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