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Endogenous bioelectrical signals in development, regeneration, and neoplasm

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Defining bioelectricity -- Sources of bioelectrical signals -- Big questions about bioelectricity -- Membrane voltage and cell plasticity -- History of the field of bioelectricity -- Applying exogenous electric fields in vitro -- Microelectrode impalement -- Detection of extracellular ion flux -- Investigating signals in pattern formation -- Inverse pharmacological screen -- Transmembrane voltage gradient characterization -- Loss- and gain-of-function analyses -- Synthesizing data into a predictive model -- Control of cell behavior by electric fields -- Mammalian stem cell differentiation -- Cell orientation and outgrowth -- Transepithelial potentials, electric fields, cancer -- Mechanisms of electric field sensing by cells -- Bioelectric signals in 3D morphogenesis -- A pathway for tail regeneration -- Transmembrane potential in tail regeneration -- V-ATPase function in tail regeneration -- Using voltage- and pH-sensitive dyes -- Induction of the V-ATPase following injury -- Electrogenic targets in mitosis upregulation -- Axon patterning requires specific ion fluxes -- Gene expression requires specific ion flows -- Ion flux and induction of regeneration -- Voltage gradients control large-scale axial polarity -- Transmembrane potential and cell behavior -- The Goldman equation -- Missexpressing specific ion transporter mRNAs -- Melanocyte behavior & transmembrane potential -- Taking advantage of endogenous ion transport -- Controlling transmembrane potential -- Modulation of transmembrane potential -- Controlling proliferation rates using K channels -- Cell-autonomous mechanisms -- Non-cell-autonomous mechanisms -- Bioelectrical signals and canonical pathways -- Bioelectric gradients and gene expression -- Information carried by bioelectric signals -- Bioelectrical mechanisms, DNA, mRNA & protein -- Control of ion flux as a master regulator -- Applications in cancer, stem cells & regeneration -- Light-gated ion transporters.…”
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Mitochondrial heterogeneity in cells

Table of Contents: “…-- Live cell mitochondrial 3D reconstruction -- Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching (FRAP) -- Electrical continuity -- Atypical networks.…”
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Political careers, corruption, and impunity Panama's assembly, 1984-2009 / by Guevara Mann, Carlos

Table of Contents: “…Political representation and representative assemblies -- The party system: parties and actors in Panama's assembly -- Formal institutional incentives to behavior -- Informal institutions and assembly members' behavior -- Political advancement through reelection: prospects and possibilities in Panama -- Political advancement through reelection: the legal and illegal uses of patronage -- Political advancement through reelection: party switching and electoral manipulation -- Personal enrichment through legal means: assembly members' wages in comparative perspective -- Personal enrichment through legal means: expanding emoluments and privileges -- Personal enrichment through illegal means -- Preserving immunity through reelection.…”
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Lincoln's generals' wives : four women who influenced the Civil War-for better and for worse / by Hooper, Candice Shy

Table of Contents: “…True faith and allegiance: Eleanor Ewing Sherman -- Part IV. Center of gravity: Julia Dent Grant -- Conclusion: "The woman who is known only through a man is known wrong".…”
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Merleau-Ponty's philosophy by Hass, Lawrence

Table of Contents: “…The sensation fallacy : toward a phenomenology of perception -- The secret life of things -- Singing the living body electric -- Elemental alterity : self and others -- Later developments : [E,ACU] cart, reversibility, and the flesh of the world -- Expression and the origin of geometry -- Behold "the speaking word" : the expressive life of language.…”
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Hearing : anatomy, physiology, and disorders of the auditory system / by Møller, Aage R.

Table of Contents: “…Anatomy of the ear -- Sound conduction to the cochlea -- Physiology of the cochlea -- Sound evoked electrical potentials -- Anatomy of the auditory nervous system -- Physiology of the auditory nervous system -- Evoked potentials -- The acoustic middle ear reflex -- Hearing impairment -- Hyperactive disorders of the auditory system -- Cochlear and brainstem implants.…”
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Petroleum science and technology : petroleum generation, accumulation and prospecting / by Quddus, Muhammad Abdul (Petroleum engineer)

Table of Contents: “…Petroleum Seismological Survey 7. Petroleum Geo-Electrical Survey 8. Petroleum Geochemical Survey…”
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Profiles in humanity the battle for peace, freedom, equality, and human rights / by Cohen, Warren I.

Table of Contents: “…Mahatma Gandhi and nonviolent resistance -- Václav Havel and the power of the powerless -- Aung San Suu Kyi, martyr for democracy -- Margaret Sanger and the liberation of women -- Muslim feminists -- Jack Greenberg and the NAACP-Legal Defense Fund -- Martin Luther King, Jr., and the struggle for racial equality -- Donald Woods, Bram Fischer, Helen Suzman and the fight against apartheid -- Nelson Mandela : grace in victory -- Holocaust rescuers -- Pope John XXIII and Catholic humanism -- Mikhail Gorbachev, Andrei Sakharov, and human rights in Europe -- Liu Binyan : the quest for truth and justice in China -- Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt and the welfare state -- Muhammad Yunus, microfinance, and an end to poverty.…”
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The new Black politician Cory Booker, Newark, and post-racial America / by Gillespie, Andra

Table of Contents: “…It's Not Easy Being Elite : Governing Challenges in Post Racial Black America -- Winning : The 2006 Election -- Policy Is Politics -- Perception Is Reality : Judging Cory Booker -- The Politics of Perception : Cory Booker in Local and State Affairs -- 2010 : Electoral Politics Revisited -- Joshua, Esther and Uncle Julius : Black Political Entrepreneurs and the Future of Black Politics -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: Methodological Notes -- Appendix B: List of Interviewees.…”
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Energy in the 21st century by Fanchi, John R.

Table of Contents: “…A brief history of energy consumption -- Energy options : fossil energy -- Energy options : nuclear energy -- Energy options : solar energy -- Energy options : wind and water -- Energy options : biomass and synfuels -- Hydrogen : an energy carrier -- Electricity generation and distribution -- Energy, economics and the environment -- Energy forecasts.…”
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McLuhan a guide for the perplexed / by Gordon, W. Terrence, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Background, context, definitions, and-- stumbling blocks -- Literary links -- From Madison, Wisconsin to Madison Avenue: The mechanical bride and her electrical brood -- From media as political forms to Understanding media -- McLuhan's tool box: From Through the vanishing point to Laws of media -- Using McLuhan's tools.…”
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Critical thinking and learning

Table of Contents: “…why or why not? / Ho Mun Chan and Hektor K. T. Yan -- False dichotomy? 'Western' and 'Eastern' concepts of scholarship and learning / Janette Ryan and Kam Louie -- Learning, empowerment and judgement / Michael Luntley -- Is Popper's falsificationist heuristic a helpful resource for developing critical thinking? …”
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Congress and policy change

Table of Contents: “…A theory of congressional cycles / Lawrence C. Dodd -- Electoral realignments in the U.S. House of Representatives / David W. …”
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The Political process and economic change

Table of Contents: “…Frey -- The political dimensions of wage dynamics / Martin Paldam -- Inflation, unemployment, and electoral terms : when can reform of political institutions improve macroeconomic policy? …”
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The African National Congress and the Regeneration of Political Power / by Booysen, Susan

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : ANC pathways to claiming, consolidating and regenerating political power -- Aluta continua, from Polokwane to Mangaung -- The ANC and its pillars of people's power -- Power through the ballot and the brick -- Participation and power through co-operation, complicity, co-optation -- Power through elections: serial declines, but the centre holds -- Floor-crossing and entrenchment of ANC electoral supremacy -- Subjugation and demise of the (new) National Party -- Countered and cowered Congress of the People (Cope) -- State institutions as site of struggle in ANC wars -- Between centralisation and centralism : the Presidency of South Africa -- Policy, pursuit of the 'turn to the left' and the paradox of continuity -- ANC at a critical conjuncture : movement, people, elections, governance.…”
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First Ladies and the Press : The Unfinished Partnership of the Media Age / by Beasley, Maurine Hoffman

Table of Contents: “…Eleanor Roosevelt and the "newspaper girls" -- Early first ladies and the public sphere -- Jackie Kennedy and the construction of Camelot -- First ladies as political helpmates : Lady Bird Johnson and Pat Nixon -- First ladies and feminism : Betty Ford and Rosalynn Carter -- First ladies and image-making : Nancy Reagan and Barbara Bush -- Hillary Rodham Clinton as media polarizer -- Laura Bush as emblem of national caring -- Looking ahead.…”
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Metabolomics metabolites, metabonomics, and analytical technologies /

Table of Contents: “…Singh ... and others -- Machine reconstruction of metabolic networks from metabolomic data through symbolic-statistical learning / Marenglen Biba ... and others -- Metabolomics / Viroj Wiwanikit -- The role of specific estrogen metabolites in the initiation of breast and other human cancers / Eleanor G. Rogan, Ercole L. Cavalieri.…”
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Building the golden gate bridge / by Schwartz, Harvey

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Imagination without Borders : Feminist Artist Tomiyama Taeko and Social Responsibility /

Table of Contents: “…Elizabeth Condie-Pugh -- Talking across the world: a discussion between Tomiyama Taeko and Eleanor Rubin / introduced and translated by Rebecca Jennison -- Working on and off the margins / by Hagiwara Hiroko.…”
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Fields watered with blood : critical essays on Margaret Walker /

Table of Contents: “…Baxter Miller -- Fields Watered with Blood: Myth and Ritual in -- the Poetry of Margaret Walker 98 -- Eugenia Collier -- "Bolder Measures Crashing Through": Margaret Walker's -- Poem of the Century nlo -- Eleanor Traylor -- Folldoric Elements in Margaret Walker's Poetry 139 -- B. …”
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