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Using animal models in biomedical research a primer for the investigator / by Chow, Pierce K. H.

Table of Contents: “…The development of comprehensive animal facilities in Singapore. History of the Department of Experimental Surgery as a reflection of translational research development in Singapore / Robert Ng -- Append. 1. …”
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Combating micronutrient deficiencies food-based approaches /

Table of Contents: “…Mayer ... [et al.] -- Combating iron deficiency : food-based approaches / Brian Thompson -- Human micronutrient deficiencies : linkages with micronutrient deficiencies in soils, crops and animal nutrition / Maarten Nubé, Roelf L Voortman -- Nationwide supplementation of sodium selenate to commercial fertilizers : history and 20-year results from the Finnish selenium monitoring programme / Georg Alfthan ... …”
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Werner & Ingbar's the thyroid : a fundamental and clinical text /

Table of Contents: “…The heritage of the thyroid: a brief history -- Development of the hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis -- Anatomy and pathology of the thyrotrophs -- Thyroid hormone synthesis: thyroid iodide transport -- Thyroid hormone synthesis -- Thyroglobulin structure, function, and biosynthesis -- Thyroid hormone transport proteins and the physiology of hormone binding -- Intracellular pathways of iodothyronine metabolism/implications of deiodination for thyroid hormone action -- Genomic and nongenomic actions of thyroid hormones -- Thyroid hormones structure-function relationships -- Chemistry and biosynthesis of thyrotropin -- The thyrotropin receptor -- Regulation of thyrotropin secretion -- Age related changes in thyroid function -- Effects of drugs on TSH secretion, thyroid hormones absorption, synthesis, metabolism, and action -- Nonthyroidal illness syndrome -- Iodine deficiency and endemic cretinism -- Effect of excess iodide: clinical aspects -- Thyroid radionuclide uptake and imaging studies -- Measuring serum thyroid-stimulating hormone, thyroid hormones, thyroid-directed antibodies, and transport proteins -- Measurement of thyroglobulin -- Nonisotopic techniques of thyroid imaging -- Physical examination of the thyroid gland -- Pathology and cytopathology -- Introduction to thyrotoxicosis -- Pathogenesis of graves' disease -- Ophthalmopathy -- Thyroid dermopathy and thyroid acropachy -- Thyrotropin-induced thyrotoxicosis -- Toxic adenoma and toxic multinodular goiter -- Trophoblastic tumors -- Sporadic painless, painful subacute and acute infectious thyroiditis -- Thyrotoxicosis of extrathyroid origin -- Overview of the clinical manifestations of thyrotoxicosis -- The cardiovascular system in thyrotoxicosis -- Thyroid hormones in thermogenesis, intermediary metabolism, and obesity -- The male and female reproductive system in thyrotoxicosis -- The skeletal system in thyrotoxicosis -- Behavioral and psychiatric aspects of thyrotoxicosis --…”
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Fibromyalgia & other central pain syndromes /

Table of Contents: “…The role of trauma in chronic neuromusclar pain / Samuel A. McLean, Daniel J. Clauw, and David A. Williams -- Controversial syndromes and their relationship to fibromyalgia / Swamy Venuturupalli and Daniel J. …”
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Inheritance in contemporary America : the social dimensions of giving across generations / by Angel, Jacqueline Lowe

Table of Contents: “…The story of inheritance: intergenerational giving in aging America -- Trends in wealth transfers -- The aging American family -- The inheritance revolution -- The origins of our inheritance laws -- Early America -- Forging a new path: women and inheritance laws -- Inheritance in modern America -- Family and inheritance changes -- Decisions about inheritance -- The political realities of retirement security -- Who is going to care for us? …”
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Climate Smart Agriculture Building Resilience to Climate Change /

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: A Short History of the Evolution of the Climate Smart Agriculture Approach and its Links to Climate Change and Sustainable Agriculture Debates -- Chapter 3:Economics of Climate-Smart Agriculture -- Chapter 4:  Innovation in Response to Climate Change -- Chapter 5:  Use of Satellite Information on Wetness and Temperature for Decision of Crop Yield Prediction, River Discharge and Planning -- Chapter 6:  Early Warning Techniques for Local Climate Resilience: Smallholder Rice in Lao PDE -- Chapter 7 :  Farmers' Perceptions of and Adaptations to Climate Change in Southeast Asia:  The Case Study from Thailand and Vietnam -- Chapter 8:  U.S. …”
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Impacts of the Fukushima Nuclear Accident on Fish and Fishing Grounds

Table of Contents: “…1 Introduction: Overview of Our Research on Impacts of the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant Accident on Fish and Fishing Grounds -- Part I Seawater and Plankton -- 2 134Cs and 137Cs in the Seawater Around Japan and in the North Pacific -- 3 Temporal Changes in 137Cs Concentration in Zooplankton and Seawater off the Joban–Sanriku Coast, and in Sendai Bay, After the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Accident -- Part II Sediments and Benthos -- 4 Three-Dimensional Distribution of Radiocesium in Sea Sediment Derived from the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant -- 5 Radiocesium Concentrations in the Organic Fraction of Sea Sediments -- 6 Bottom Turbidity, Boundary Layer Dynamics, and Associated Transport of Suspended Particulate Materials off the Fukushima Coast -- 7 Investigation of Radiocesium Translation from Contaminated Sediment to Benthic Organisms -- Part III Marine Fish -- 8 Detection of 131I, 134Cs, and 137Cs Released into the Atmosphere from FNPP in Small Epipelagic Fishes, Japanese Sardine and Japanese Anchovy, off the Kanto Area, Japan -- 9 Radiocesium Concentration of Small Epipelagic Fishes (Sardine and Japanese Anchovy) off the Kashima-Boso Area -- 10 Why Do the Radionuclide Concentrations of Pacific Cod Depend on the Body Size? …”
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Green chemistry and biodiversity : principles, techniques, and correlations /

Table of Contents: “…Photodegradation of 2-nitrophenol, an Endocrine Disruptor, Using TiO2 Nanospheres/SnO2 Quantum Dots / Jayesh Bhatt, Kanchan Kumari Jat, Avinash K. …”
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Advanced ENT Training A Guide to Passing the FRCS (ORL-HNS) Examination. by Manjaly, Joseph

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword -- Editors -- Senior Section Editors -- Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Personal Reflections on the FRCS (ORL-HNS) Part 1 Experience -- Chapter 3: General Advice for Preparing for Part 2 -- Chapter 4: Histories and examinations in the Part 2 clinical section -- Examining the 'Dizzy' Patient -- Chapter 5: Common head and neck viva topics -- Benign Laryngeal Lesions -- Deep Neck Space Infections -- Hypercalcaemia and Hypocalcaemia -- Hypopharyngeal Cancer…”
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The Routledge handbook of visual impairment / by Ravenscroft, John

Table of Contents: “…; Conclusion; References; Chapter 6: A personal perspective on CVI; Introduction; A CVI journey; Conclusion; References; Chapter 7: Assessment of visual processing functions and disorders; Introduction; Case 1; Case 2; Case 3…”
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Aid paradoxes in Afghanistan : building and undermining the state / by Bizhan, Nematullah

Table of Contents: “…-- Tax states -- Aid-dependent states -- The effects of oil revenue -- Distinction between aid and oil-revenue rentier effects -- Conclusion -- Reliance on external revenue : Afghanistan from 1747 to 2000 -- The society : an inheritance of history -- Relying on tribute for state building : the importance of external revenue to the Durrani empire (1747-1824) -- The Durrani empire ineffective tax system -- Subsidies and state building : the loss of tribute and search for alternative revenue (1824-1879) -- Institution building -- Consolidation of a modern buffer state (1880-1919) : the significance of subsidies and external military support -- And military administration -- State-society relations -- Amanullah Khan's reforms : the loss of subsidies, budget surplus and fiscal decline (1919-1929) -- Foreign aid and state building : reshaping the state building process (1929-1978) -- The rise of a weak aid-based rentier state -- Decline in foreign aid -- The state and the Mujahidin Tanzims (organizations) and sources of revenue : conflict in state-society relations (1978-2000) -- The Mujahidin government financial crises and Pakistani aid to the Taliban -- Conclusion -- Rebuilding an aid-based rentier state -- Establishing a new political order -- Building the state institutions -- Responding to the flow of aid -- Chaotic aid coordination : a challenge for state building -- Access to foreign aid : a prime focus -- Improving fiscal management -- Aid modality : undermining institution building -- Government preoccupation with foreign donors -- Relations at the administration level -- Relations in regard to senior appointments -- Conclusion -- Reforms and setbacks : rebuilding the revenue system -- State revenue sources -- Aiding the revenue reforms -- Reforming revenue policy and laws -- Reforming revenue administration -- Improving revenue infrastructure -- Confrontation and consultation -- Failing to enforce tax compliance -- Failing to prevent illegal taxation and extortion -- Ambiguity to end aid-dependency -- Fragmenting the tax system -- Conclusion -- Budget spending : fiscal fragmentation and patronage -- Some improvements in government budget transparency -- The citizen's role -- Underreported on-budget items -- Poor off-budget transparency -- Secret cash payments -- Conclusion -- Interactions between the state and society -- Reinforcing the state-society inherited gap -- Commanders -- Traditional actors -- Urban intelligentsia -- Reshaping the state-society relations -- Building and undermining the state -- Conclusion -- Conclusion : findings and implications -- Path dependency : Afghan state reliance on external revenue -- Building and undermining the state : Afghanistan after 9/11 -- Upward accountability to donors -- Creating a parallel public sector -- Paradoxical tax outcomes -- Divergence in state-society fiscal relations -- The future -- Implications fo externally aided state building.…”
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Animism in contemporary Japan : voices for the Anthropocene from post-Fukushima Japan /

Table of Contents: “…Discourse on animism in Japan 1: Japanological discoursePositioning 'Japan'; Discourse on animism in Japan 2: Grassroots discourse; Life stories as method; The 'data' and the structure of the book; Notes; PART I: Animism as a grassroots response to a socio-ecological disaster; 1. …”
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Affective societies : key concepts.

Table of Contents: “…Examples from researchConclusion; References; Chapter 4: Feeling; A brief history of the term feeling; Feelings within 20th-century emotion research; Feeling as bodily affection and meaningful world-orientation; Outlook; References; Chapter 5: Gefühlsbildung (the formation of feeling); Education, socialization, Bildung, and theformation of feeling; The formation of feeling in childhood and adolescence; The formation of feeling in transnational social fields; Emotion pedagogies on the move; Outlook; References; Chapter 6: Attachment; Attachment in affect studies; Classical attachment theory…”
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Lizard behavior : evolutionary and mechanistic perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…<B>"<I>Everyday</I>" Behavior</B><BR><BR>Behavioral thermoregulation in lizards: Strategies for achieving preferred temperature - <EM>Ian R.G. …”
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Inheritance in Contemporary America The Social Dimensions of Giving across Generations / by Angel, Jacqueline Lowe

Table of Contents: “…The story of inheritance: intergenerational giving in aging America -- Trends in wealth transfers -- The aging American family -- The inheritance revolution -- The origins of our inheritance laws -- Early America -- Forging a new path: women and inheritance laws -- Inheritance in modern America -- Family and inheritance changes -- Decisions about inheritance -- The political realities of retirement security -- Who is going to care for us? …”
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Race and Rurality in the Global Economy /

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Inheritance in Contemporary America : The Social Dimensions of Giving across Generations / by Angel, Jacqueline Lowe

Table of Contents: “…The story of inheritance: intergenerational giving in aging America -- Trends in wealth transfers -- The aging American family -- The inheritance revolution -- The origins of our inheritance laws -- Early America -- Forging a new path: women and inheritance laws -- Inheritance in modern America -- Family and inheritance changes -- Decisions about inheritance -- The political realities of retirement security -- Who is going to care for us? …”
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The Examined Life : An Adventure in Moral Philosophy by Fite, Warner, 1867-1955

Table of Contents: “…I. Morality: what is it? : The meaning of "morality" ; Obligation vs. choice. -- II. …”
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Uncivil disobedience studies in violence and democratic politics / by Kirkpatrick, Jennet, 1970-

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Air operations in Israel's war against Hezbollah learning from Lebanon and getting it right in Gaza / by Lambeth, Benjamin S.

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