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The business of America the cultural production of a post-war nation /
Published 2004Table of Contents: “…White male literary culture -- Errands in the post-war/cold war jungle -- Entropy, postmodernism and global systems -- Postnational recovery narratives and beyond -- The difference of gender, race and sexuality -- Objectivist fantasies and the industry of writing and piracy -- Assimilation, citizenship and post-ethnicity -- Queer profits and losses.…”
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Pathways regulating bone resorption
Published 2015Table of Contents: “…Contents: Formation and activation of osteoclasts -- Osteoporotic bone architecture -- Osteoclastic bone resorption -- Osteoclast motility and its inhibition -- Osteoclast regulation (hormones & other important factors) -- The role of low pH (acidosis) in bone loss -- Hypoxia & control of bone cell function by oxygen tension.…”
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KATP channels and insulin secretion
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Contents: KATP channels and insulin secretion -- Structure of the KATP channel -- Functional roles -- Regulation by metabolism, nucleotides and lipids -- Overview of insulin secretion and diabetes -- Effects of loss-of-function KATP channel mutations -- Effects of gain-of-function KATP channel mutations -- Implications for the treatment of neonatal diabetes.…”
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Pathways regulating bone resorption
Published 2015Table of Contents: “…Contents: Formation and activation of osteoclasts -- Osteoporotic bone architecture -- Osteoclastic bone resorption -- Osteoclast motility and its inhibition -- Osteoclast regulation (hormones & other important factors) -- The role of low pH (acidosis) in bone loss -- Hypoxia & control of bone cell function by oxygen tension.…”
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765
KATP channels and insulin secretion
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Contents: KATP channels and insulin secretion -- Structure of the KATP channel -- Functional roles -- Regulation by metabolism, nucleotides and lipids -- Overview of insulin secretion and diabetes -- Effects of loss-of-function KATP channel mutations -- Effects of gain-of-function KATP channel mutations -- Implications for the treatment of neonatal diabetes.…”
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Handbook to service the deaf and hard of hearing a bridge to accessibility /
Published 2004Table of Contents: “…Introduction to being deaf or hard of hearing -- Worlds collide : growing up with a hearing loss -- Language differences and communication issues -- Deaf culture or condition? …”
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767
KATP channels and insulin secretion
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Contents: KATP channels and insulin secretion -- Structure of the KATP channel -- Functional roles -- Regulation by metabolism, nucleotides and lipids -- Overview of insulin secretion and diabetes -- Effects of loss-of-function KATP channel mutations -- Effects of gain-of-function KATP channel mutations -- Implications for the treatment of neonatal diabetes.…”
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Pathways regulating bone resorption
Published 2015Table of Contents: “…Contents: Formation and activation of osteoclasts -- Osteoporotic bone architecture -- Osteoclastic bone resorption -- Osteoclast motility and its inhibition -- Osteoclast regulation (hormones & other important factors) -- The role of low pH (acidosis) in bone loss -- Hypoxia & control of bone cell function by oxygen tension.…”
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Statistical disclosure control
Published 2012Table of Contents: “…Machine generated contents note: Preface vii Acknowledgements ix 1 Introduction 1 1.1 Concepts and Definitions 2 1.1.1 Disclosure 2 1.1.2 Statistical disclosure control 2 1.1.3 Tabular data 3 1.1.4 Microdata 3 1.1.5 Risk and utility 4 1.2 An approach to Statistical Disclosure Control 6 1.3 The chapters of the handbook 8 2 Ethics, Principles, Guidelines and Regulations, a general background 9 2.1 Introduction 9 2.2 Ethical codes and the new ISI code 9 2.2.1 ISI Declaration on Professional Ethics 10 2.2.2 New ISI Declaration on Professional Ethics 10 2.2.3 European Statistics Code of Practice 14 2.3 UNECE Principles and guidelines 14 2.4 Laws 17 2.4.1 Committee on Statistical Confidentiality 18 2.4.2 European Statistical System Committee 18 3 Microdata 21 3.1 Introduction 21 3.2 Microdata Concepts 22 3.2.1 Stage 1: Assess need for confidentiality protection 22 3.2.2 Stage 2: Key characteristics and uses of microdata 24 3.2.3 Stage 3: Disclosure risk 27 3.2.4 Stage 4: Protection methods 29 3.2.5 Stage 5: Implementation 30 3.3 Definitions of disclosure 32 3.3.1 Definitions of disclosure scenarios 33 3.4 Definitions of Disclosure Risk 34 3.4.1 Disclosure risk for categorical quasi-identifiers 35 3.4.2 Disclosure risk for continuous quasi-identifiers 37 3.5 Estimating Re-identification Risk 39 3.5.1 Individual risk based on the sample: threshold rule 39 3.5.2 Estimating individual risk using sampling weights 39 3.5.3 Estimating individual risk by Poisson model 42 3.5.4 Further models that borrow information from other sources 43 3.5.5 Estimating per record risk via heuristics 44 3.5.6 Assessing risk via record linkage 45 3.6 Non-Perturbative Microdata Masking 45 3.6.1 Sampling 46 3.6.2 Global recoding 46 3.6.3 Top and bottom coding 47 3.6.4 Local suppression 47 3.7 Perturbative Microdata Masking 48 3.7.1 Additive noise masking 48 3.7.2 Multiplicative noise masking 52 3.7.3 Microaggregation 54 3.7.4 Data swapping and rank swapping 66 3.7.5 Data shuffling 66 3.7.6 Rounding 67 3.7.7 Resampling 67 3.7.8 PRAM 67 3.7.9 MASSC 71 3.8 Synthetic and Hybrid Data 71 3.8.1 Fully synthetic data 72 3.8.2 Partially synthetic data 77 3.8.3 Hybrid data 79 3.8.4 Pros and cons of synthetic and hybrid data 88 3.9 Information Loss in Microdata 91 3.9.1 Information loss measures for continuous data 92 3.9.2 Information loss measures for categorical data 99 3.10 Release of multiple files from the same microdata set 101 3.11 Software 102 3.11.1 _-ARGUS 102 3.11.2 sdcMicro 103 3.11.3 IVEware 106 3.12 Case Studies 106 3.12.1 Microdata files at Statistics Netherlands 106 3.12.2 The European Labour Force Survey Microdata for Research Purposes 108 3.12.3 The European Structure of Earnings Survey Microdata for Research Purposes 111 3.12.4 NHIS Linked Mortality Data Public Use File, USA 117 3.12.5 Other real case instances 119 4 Magnitude tabular data 121 4.1 Introduction 121 4.1.1 Magnitude Tabular Data: Basic Terminology 121 4.1.2 Complex tabular data structures: hierarchical and linked tables 122 4.1.3 Risk Concepts 124 4.1.4 Protection Concepts 127 4.1.5 Information Loss Concepts 127 4.1.6 Implementation: Software, Guidelines and Case Study 127 4.2 Disclosure Risk Assessment I: Primary Sensitive Cells 128 4.2.1 Intruder Scenarios 128 4.2.2 Sensitivity rules 129 4.3 Disclosure Risk Assessment II: Secondary risk assessment 140 4.3.1 Feasibility Interval 141 4.3.2 Protection Level 142 4.3.3 Singleton and multi cell disclosure 143 4.3.4 Risk models for hierarchical and linked tables 144 4.4 Non-Perturbative Protection Methods 145 4.4.1 Global Recoding 145 4.4.2 The Concept of Cell Suppression 145 4.4.3 Algorithms for Secondary Cell Suppression 146 4.4.4 Secondary Cell Suppression in Hierarchical and Linked Tables 149 4.5 Perturbative Protection Methods 151 4.5.1 A pre-tabular method: Multiplicative Noise 152 4.5.2 A Post-tabular Method: Controlled Tabular Adjustment 153 4.6 Information Loss Measures for Tabular Data 153 4.6.1 Cell Costs for Cell Suppression 153 4.6.2 Cell Costs for CTA 154 4.6.3 Information Loss Measures to Evaluate the Outcome of Table Protection 155 4.7 Software for Tabular Data Protection 155 4.7.1 Empirical comparison of cell suppression algorithms 156 4.8 Guidelines: Setting up an efficient table model systematically 160 4.8.1 Defining Spanning Variables 161 4.8.2 Response Variables and Mapping Rules 162 4.9 Case Studies 164 4.9.1 Response Variables and Mapping Rules of the Case Study 164 4.9.2 Spanning Variables of the Case Study 165 4.9.3 Analysing the Tables of the Case Study 165 4.9.4 Software Issues of the Case Study 167 5 Frequency tables 169 5.1 Introduction 169 5.2 Disclosure risks 169 5.3 Methods 176 5.4 Post-tabular methods 178 5.4.1 Cell Suppression 178 5.4.2 ABS Cell Perturbation 179 5.4.3 Rounding 179 5.5 Information loss 184 5.6 Software 186 5.6.1 Introduction 186 5.7 Case Studies 188 5.7.1 UK Census 188 5.7.2 Australian and New Zealand Censuses 190 6 Data Access Issues 193 6.1 Introduction 193 6.2 Research Data Centres 193 6.3 Remote Execution 194 6.4 Remote Access 195 6.5 Licensing 196 6.6 Guidelines on output checking 196 6.6.1 Introduction 196 6.6.2 General approach 197 6.6.3 Rules for output checking 199 6.6.4 Organizational/procedural aspects of output checking 208 6.6.5 Researcher training 215 6.7 Additional issues concerning data access 218 6.7.1 Examples of disclaimers 218 6.7.2 Output description 218 6.8 Case Studies 219 6.8.1 The U.S. …”
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Bitter knowledge learning Socratic lessons of disillusion and renewal /
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…Socrates recounts his conversations in the Protagoras -- The poverty of Socratic questioning : asking and answering in the Meno -- The labor of Socratic inquiry : learning in the Theaetetus to give an account of oneself -- Learning to find ourselves at a loss : how does philosophy begin? -- Epilogue: Realities of the classroom.…”
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Step into our lives at the funeral home
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…In the beginning -- What happens when someone dies -- Visitations and services -- The day of the funeral -- Grieving the loss -- The pain of suicide -- Family lifestyle -- The funeral director's role and traits/characteristics -- A spouse remembers -- How our children thrived -- Stress takes its toll -- Grown children recall the past -- Looking back.…”
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The last dance : encountering death and dying /
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…Attitudes toward death : a climate of change -- Learning about death : the influence of sociocultural forces -- Perspectives on death : cultural and historical -- Death systems : mortality and society -- Health care : patients, staff, and institutions -- End-of-life issues and decisions -- Facing death : living with life-threatening illness -- Last rites : funerals and body disposition -- Survivors : understanding the experience of loss -- Death in the lives of children and adolescents -- Death in the lives of adults -- Suicide -- Threats of horrendous death -- Beyond death/after life -- The path ahead : personal and social choices.…”
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One plus one is better than two genome doubling in flowering plants /
Published 2013Table of Contents: “…Contents: Polyploidy: traditional views and new paradigm -- Success of the tetraploids: size matters -- Ancient polyploidy and "hexaploidy" -- Autopolyploids vs. allopolyploids -- Origins of polyploid species -- Polyploids as evolutionarily dynamic -- Predictable and repeated evolution -- Defining homeologs and homeolog loss -- Tissue-specific expression of homeologs -- Aneuploidy and its compensation.…”
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The last dance : encountering death and dying /
Published 2009Table of Contents: “…Attitudes toward death : a climate of change -- Learning about death : the influence of sociocultural forces -- Perspectives on death : cultural and historical -- Death systems : mortality and society -- Health care : patients, staff, and institutions -- End-of-life issues and decisions -- Facing death : living with life-threatening illness -- Last rites : funerals and body disposition -- Survivors : understanding the experience of loss -- Death in the lives of children and adolescents -- Death in the lives of adults -- Suicide -- Threats of horrendous death -- Beyond death/after life -- The path ahead : personal and social choices.…”
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"Evil" Arabs in American popular film orientalist fear /
Published 2006Table of Contents: “…The exorcist : assault on American confidence (1973) -- Rollover : assault on the American economy (1981) -- Black Sunday: the loss of frontier heroism (1976) -- Three kings : assault on victory culture (1999) -- Rules of engagement : attack from the multicultural front (2000) -- CNN's America remembers : the "real" attack (2002) -- The South Park lesson and orientalist fear.…”
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Desertion and the American soldier, 1776-2006
Published 2006Table of Contents: “…The Gulf War -- Cruelty towards the Iraqis -- living conditions -- Disagreement with the war -- The "stop loss" policy -- 11. The Iraq War -- Disagreement with the war -- The horror of war -- The stop-loss program -- 12. …”
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Trauma, resistance, reconstruction in post-1994 South African writing
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Lyric monsters: the humanizing process of lyric language in Antjie Krog's Country of my skull / Okla Elliot -- Reconstruction and resistance in the poetry of Gcina Mhlophe / Denise Handlarski -- Transcending apartheid: empathy and the search for redemption / Imke Brust -- Damaged narratives, silenced voices and race. Mut(e)ilations: the loss of voice and the voice of loss: memory, reconstruction and reconciliation in South African literature / Deborah Donig -- Secrets and lies: trauma, resistance and reconciliation postponed in Zoë Wicombs David's story / Jane Poyner -- Driving the devil into the ground: settler myth in André Brink's Devil's Valley / John Highfield -- Trauma, confession and autobiographies. …”
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Digital Video Concepts, Methods, and Metrics Quality, Compression, Performance, and Power Trade-off Analysis /
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Ensuring corporate misconduct how liability insurance undermines shareholder litigation /
Published 2010Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Shareholder litigation -- An introduction to directors' and officers' liability insurance -- The puzzle of entity-level D&O coverage -- Pricing and deterrence -- Insurance monitoring and loss-prevention programs -- The D&O insurer at defense and settlement -- What matters in settlement? …”
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