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Evolution of the diagnostic criteria for diabetes

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Description & symptoms of diabetes -- Criteria for screening and challenges -- Abbreviated history of diabetes diagnosis -- Glucose distribution (unimodal & bimodal) -- Cutoff values & mathematical manipulations -- Different criteria for diagnosis of diabetes & diabetes classifications -- WHO criteria for diabetes mellitus -- Relationship between FPG & 2hr value on OGTT -- Decisions of the expert committee -- Glycation -- The Pima Indians, Egyptian, and NHANES III studies -- Prevalence of retinopathy -- Oral glucose tolerance tests -- Quantitation of variation -- Using HbA1c levels to diagnose diabetes -- Expert committee on diagnosis of diabetes -- Screening for diabetes before and after 2010 ADA criteria and recommendations for diabetes diagnosis.…”
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People, plants, and genes the story of crops and humanity / by Murphy, Denis J.

Table of Contents: “…Early human societies and their plants -- Plant management and agriculture -- How some people became farmers -- Plant genomes -- Fluid genomes, uncertain species, and the genetics of crop domestication -- The domestication of cereal crops -- The domestication of non-cereal crops -- People and the emergence of crops -- Agriculture : a mixed blessing -- Evolution of agrourban cultures : I The Near East -- Evolution of agrourban cultures : II south and east Asia -- Evolution of agrourban cultures : III Africa, Europe, and the Americas -- Crop management in the classical and medieval periods -- Agricultural improvement and the rise of crop breeding -- Imperial botany and the early scientific breeders -- Agricultural improvement in modern times -- The future of agriculture and humanity.…”
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Soft in the Middle : The Contemporary Softcore Feature in Its Contexts / by Andrews, David, 1970-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: approaching the softcore feature -- Soft v. hard -- The disorderly feminization of classical sexploitation: tracing the genealogy of contemporary softcore -- "Spicy, but not obscene": industrial and formal retooling in 1980s sexploitation -- Class, gender, and genre in Zalman King's "real high erotica": the conflicting mandates of female fantasy -- Sex is dangerous, so satisfy your wife: the softcore thriller in its contexts -- Softcore as serialized (and feminized) featurette: postfeminist propriety on late-night cable -- The softcore public: a cult of bad faith? …”
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The proverbial "Pied piper" a festschrift volume of essays in honor of Wolfgang Mieder on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday /

Table of Contents: “…Anhalt / Stéphane Viellard -- Proverbs and the folk tale in the Russian cinema: the case of Sergei Eisenstein's film classic Aleksandr Nevsky / Kevin J. McKenna.…”
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ABC of epilepsy

Table of Contents: “…Incidence, prevalence and aetiology / Henry Smithson & Matthew Walker -- Describing and classifying the condition / Colin Ferrie & Matthew Walker -- Making the diagnosis - taking a history, clinical examination, investigations / Jan Bagshaw, Colin Ferrie, Mike Kerr -- Managing the drug treatment of epilepsy / Colin Ferrie ... …”
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The Oxford guide to library research / by Mann, Thomas

Table of Contents: “…General Browsing, Focused Browsing, and Use of Classified Bookstacks -- 4. Subject Headings and Descriptors in Databases for Journal Articles -- 5. …”

Anatomizing Civil War studies in Lucan's epic technique / by Dinter, Martin T.

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Ritual in Deuteronomy : the performance of doom / by Ramos, Melissa D.

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How Informal Institutions Matter : Evidence from Turkish Social and Political Spheres / by Sarigil, Zeki

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New Publication Cultures in the Humanities : Exploring the Paradigm Shift /

Table of Contents: “…Or, a historian swamped by the web / Luca Codignola -- Electronic textual criticism : a challenge to the editor and to the publisher / Gábor Kecskemeti -- Computer-assisted scholarly editing of manuscript sources / Andrea Bozzi -- Electronic media and changing methods in classics / Bernhard Palme -- Publication practices in motion : the benefits of open access publishing for the humanities / Janneke Adema and Eelco Ferwerda -- The future of publications in the humanities : possible impacts of research assessment / Milena Žic Fuchs -- ERIH's role in the evaluation of research achievements in the humanities / Ferenc Kiefer -- Performing excellence in the humanities : the funding initiative 'Opus magnum' of the VolkswagenStiftung / Vera Szöllösi-Brenig.…”
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War and peace in world religions : the Gerald Weisfeld lectures 2003 /

Table of Contents: “…War and peace in eastern religions ; War and peace in Hinduism / Michael von Brück ; War and peace in Buddhism / Perry Schmidt-Leukel ; War and peace in classical Chinese thought, with particular regard to Chinese religion / Gregor Paul -- Part II. …”

Diabetes and its management

Table of Contents: “…1. Diagnosis and classification -- 2. Epidemiology of diabetes -- 3. Synthesis, secretion and actions of insulin -- 4. …”
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The Enlightenment a genealogy / by Edelstein, Dan

Table of Contents: “…-- The spirit of the moderns: from the new science to the Enlightenment -- Society, the subject of the modern story -- Quarrel in the Academy: the ancients strike back -- Humanism and Enlightenment: the classical style of the philosophes -- The philosophical spirit of the laws: politics and antiquity -- An ancient god: pagans and philosophers -- Post tenebras lux: Begriffsgeschichte or regime d'historicité? …”
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Jefferson headache manual by Young, William B. (William Boyd), 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Classification of headache : how and why-primary versus secondary headache -- Headache epidemiology -- Diagnosis and testing of primary and secondary headache -- Pathophysiology of migraine and how to explain it to your patients -- Migraine : treating the acute attack -- Migraine : preventing attacks -- Hormones and headache -- Chronic daily headache : diagnosis and treatment -- Medication overuse headache : diagnosis and treatment -- Comorbid disorders associated with migraine and chronic daily headache -- Behavioral treatment of migraine and chronic daily headache -- Headache in the emergency department -- Infusion and inpatient treatment -- Cluster headache -- Unusual primary headaches -- Posttraumatic headache -- Headache associated with high and low cerebrospinal fluid pressure or volume -- Headaches and the neck -- Headaches and the nose and sinuses : a practical approach.…”
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Herbert Spencer and the invention of modern life by Francis, Mark, 1944-

Table of Contents: “…I: An individual and his personal culture -- A portrait of a private man -- The longing for passion -- The problem with women -- Spencer's feminist politics -- Culture and beauty -- Eccentricities : health and the perils of recreation -- II: The lost world of Spencer's metaphysics -- The new reformation -- Intellectuals in the strand -- The genesis of a system -- Common sense in the mid-nineteenth century -- From philosophy to psychology -- III: Spencer's biological writings and his philosophy of science -- On goodness, perfection and the shape of living things -- The meaning of life -- Science and the classification of knowledge -- IV: Politics and ethical sociology -- Spencer's politics and the foundations of liberalism -- The 1840s : Spencer's early radicalism -- Sociology as an ethical discipline -- Sociology as political theory -- Progress versus democracy.…”
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Eric Rohmer's Film Theory (1948-1953) : From 'école Scherer' to 'politique des auteurs' / by Grosoli, Marco

Table of Contents: “…Classic = Modern; 6.3. An anti-evolutionist approach; 6.4. …”
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Pacification in Algeria, 1956-1958 by Galula, David, 1919-1967

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Lost souls stories / by Hwang, Sun-wŏn, 1915-2000

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Queerying planning challenging heteronormative assumptions and reframing planning practice /

Table of Contents: “…Anacker -- Queerying planning in Australia : the problems and possibilities of multiscalar governance for LGBT sexual minorities / Andrew Gorman-Murray -- Queering the political-economy : antidiscrimination law and the urban regime in Orlando, Florida / Tom Chapman -- Queerying creative cities / Tiffany Muller Myrdahl -- Planning for sex/work / Phil Hubbard -- Queerying urban governance : the emergence of sex industry premises into the planned city / Jason Prior and Penny Crofts -- Reflections on classic articles on planning and LGBT communities -- Reflections on "toward an analysis of the role of gay communities in the urban renaissance" / Mickey Lauria and Larry Knopp -- Revisiting "gender and space : lesbians and gay men in the city" / Sy Adler and Johanna Brenner -- The heterosexist project of planning revisited / Michael Frisch -- Conclusions and reflections for the future : reframing planning practice / Petra L. …”
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Listening well on Beethoven, Berlioz, and other music criticism in Paris, Boston, and New York, 1764-1890 / by Saloman, Ora Frishberg, 1938-

Table of Contents: “…Chabanon and Chastellux on music and language, 1764-73 ; Lacépède, critical contemporary of Chabanon : divergent perspectives in the music treatises of 1785 ; French revolutionary perspectives on Chabanon's De la musique of 1785 ; Classic and romantic : Berlioz's "Aperçu" (1830) and musical modernity in Paris during the 1820s ; Chrétien Urhan and Beethoven's Ninth symphony in Paris, 1838 ; Literary and musical aspects of the hero's Romance in Berlioz's Benvenuto Cellini, 1838 ; "The harmony of opposites" : characterizing Cellini's apprentice -- Boston and New York. …”
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