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PSD-95 dynamic localization of PSD-95 and glutamate receptors at postsynaptic sites /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: PSD-95 -- Structural proteins -- PSD-95 identification and structure -- Glutamatergic synapse -- PSD-95 anchors glutamate receptors -- Alpha-actinin anchors PSD-95 -- AMPAR and NMDAR -- Alpha-actinin function and binding -- Ca2+/CaM binding to PSD-95 -- Effect of Ca2+/CaM on PSD-95 -- Palmitoylation/depalmitoylation cycle of PSD-95 -- Long term depression (LTD) -- Homeostatic downscaling.…”
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Spinal cord injury in natural disasters

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Disaster and spinal cord injury (SCI) -- Persons with existing SCI in disaster zones -- Co-ordination and mobilization -- Expertise -- Survey and assessment -- Regional capacity -- Haiti 2010 -- Acute care -- Acute care challenges: ISCOS summary -- Field hospital critical needs -- Best practice guidelines on surgical response -- Rehabilitation -- Health maintenance -- Adapting to local needs -- Equipment -- Community reintegration -- Post disaster considerations -- Planning for the next disaster.…”
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The Idea of Democracy in the Modern Era / by Ketcham, Ralph, 1927-

Table of Contents: “…Prospects for government in 1989 -- Aristotelian and Confucian insights -- Tensions of Citizenship: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam -- The first era of modern thought, ca. 1600-1750 -- The United States and first modernity democracy -- The second modernity: from Bentham to Dewey -- Liberal democracy in the twentieth century -- Second modernity thought in Japan and China -- An Asian third modernity -- Postmodernism and a fourth modernity democracy -- Comparing rationales for democracy -- The idea of democracy in the third millennium.…”
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Why humans cooperate a cultural and evolutionary explanation / by Henrich, Natalie, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Evolution, culture, cooperation, and the Chaldeans -- Dual inheritance theory: the evolution of cultural capacities and cultural evolution -- Evolutionary theory and the social psychology of human cooperation -- The Chaldeans: history and the community today -- Family first: kinship explains most cooperative bahavior -- Cooperation through reciprocity and reputation -- Social norms and prosociality -- Culturally evolved social norms lead to context-specific cooperation -- Ethnicity: in-group preferences and cooperation -- Cooperative dilemmas in the world today.…”
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Spinal cord injury in natural disasters

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Disaster and spinal cord injury (SCI) -- Persons with existing SCI in disaster zones -- Co-ordination and mobilization -- Expertise -- Survey and assessment -- Regional capacity -- Haiti 2010 -- Acute care -- Acute care challenges: ISCOS summary -- Field hospital critical needs -- Best practice guidelines on surgical response -- Rehabilitation -- Health maintenance -- Adapting to local needs -- Equipment -- Community reintegration -- Post disaster considerations -- Planning for the next disaster.…”
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PSD-95 dynamic localization of PSD-95 and glutamate receptors at postsynaptic sites /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: PSD-95 -- Structural proteins -- PSD-95 identification and structure -- Glutamatergic synapse -- PSD-95 anchors glutamate receptors -- Alpha-actinin anchors PSD-95 -- AMPAR and NMDAR -- Alpha-actinin function and binding -- Ca2+/CaM binding to PSD-95 -- Effect of Ca2+/CaM on PSD-95 -- Palmitoylation/depalmitoylation cycle of PSD-95 -- Long term depression (LTD) -- Homeostatic downscaling.…”
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The Idea of Democracy in the Modern Era / by Ketcham, Ralph, 1927-

Table of Contents: “…Prospects for government in 1989 -- Aristotelian and Confucian insights -- Tensions of Citizenship: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam -- The first era of modern thought, ca. 1600-1750 -- The United States and first modernity democracy -- The second modernity: from Bentham to Dewey -- Liberal democracy in the twentieth century -- Second modernity thought in Japan and China -- An Asian third modernity -- Postmodernism and a fourth modernity democracy -- Comparing rationales for democracy -- The idea of democracy in the third millennium.…”
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Contemporary Issues in Human Rights Law Europe and Asia /

Table of Contents: “…Part I Human Rights in Europe -- 1 Mechanisms to Protect Human Rights in the EU’s External Relations (Yumiko Nakanishi) -- 2 Fundamental Rights Regimes in European Union: Contouring their Spheres (Ferdinand Wollenschläger) -- 3 Human Rights Protection in the EU and Sovereign Rights of the Member States: On the Functioning of EU Citizenship (Noriko Ofuji) -- Part II Human Rights in Asia -- 4 Protection of Fundamental Rights and the Role of the Judicial Branch in Japan (Masahito Tadano) -- 5 Does Formal Rank Matter? …”
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Common Sense as a Paradigm of Thought : An Analysis of Social Interaction / by Delaney, Tim

Table of Contents: “…Wright Mills, Situated Actions and Vocabularies of Motives and Common Sense -- Symbolic Interactionism, Social Action and Common Sense -- William James, Pragmatism, Habits, and Consciousness -- Charles Horton Cooley, Symbols, Language, and Social Interaction -- George Herbert Mead, Pragmatism, the Social Act, Gestures, and Language -- Herbert Blumer, Meanings, Language, Gestures, and Social Action -- Erving Goffman, The Presentation of Self and Common Sense -- Phenomenology and Common Sense -- Edmund Husserl, The Rudiments of Common Sense -- Alfred Schutz, The Life-World, Stocks of Knowledge and Common Sense -- Peter Berger, The Social Construction of Reality and Common Sense -- Ethnomethodology and the Commonsense World -- Harold Garfinkel, Taken-for-Granted World, Accounts and the Commonsense World -- Popular Culture Box 3: "The Heresy of Heresies was Common Sense"George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Explaining Common Sense: From the Early Twentieth Century to the Postmodern Era -- Introduction -- Contemporary Scholarship in the Study of Common Sense -- Hermeneutic Phenomenology and Common Sense -- Martin Heidegger -- Hans-Georg Gadamer -- Paul Ricoeur -- Cornelius Castoriadis -- Antonio Gramsci and Common Sense -- Jurgen Habermas and Common Sense -- Immanuel Wallerstein and Common Sense -- Anthony Giddens, Structuration Theory and Common Sense -- Randall Collins, Interaction Ritual Chains and Common Sense -- McDonnell, Bail and Tavory, Resonance Theory and Common Sense -- Feminism and Post-feminism and Common Sense -- Postmodernism and Common Sense -- Posthumanism and Transhumanism -- Postcolonialism -- Popular Culture Box 4: Posthumanism and the Rise of Machines -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Learning About and Adhering to Common Sense -- Introductory Story -- Common Sense Is Learned Behavior -- The Socialization Process: A Critical Aspect of Learning About Common Sense -- Primary Groups -- Agents of Socialization -- Cyber Socialization and Social Media -- Observation and Personal Experience -- The Development of Enlightened Rational Thought and Reason -- Social Theoretical Explanations on How We Learn and Common Sense -- Social Learning Theory -- Symbolic Interactionism -- Subcultural Theory -- Anomie/Strain Theory -- Differential Association Theory -- Labeling Theory -- Control/Social Bond Theory -- Adhering to Common Sense -- Common Sense -- Common, Common Sense -- Popular Culture Box 5: "Robots Lack Common Sense, But They Will Shape Future Employment" -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Violating Common Sense: Uncommon Sense -- Introductory Story -- Impediments to Common Sense: -- Failure to Learn -- The Lack of a Formal Higher Education -- Overly Emotional and Irrational Fear -- Believing in Weird Things: Pseudoscience, Superstitions and Other Oddities -- Ignorance and Stupidity -- People Doing Dumb and Stupid Things: The Award Goes To -- Darwin Awards -- Stella Awards -- Dumb Criminals -- Not Adhering to Common Sense -- Uncommon Sense: It's Bad for Our Health -- Common, Uncommon Sense -- Popular Culture Box 6: "If Seemingly Every Decision You Make in Life Turns Out to Be a Matter of Uncommon Sense, Do the Opposite!" …”
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A lawyer in Indian country a memoir / by Ziontz, Alvin J.

Table of Contents: “…The road to Neah Bay -- The road to Neah Bay begins in Chicago -- The University of Chicago, the army, and Seattle -- Becoming a lawyer -- Seven years of lawyering in West Seattle -- Creating a law firm -- Indian fishing rights : joining the struggle -- The Makahs -- Recovering lost property : Ozette, Tatoosh, and Waadah -- The Lummi Tribe -- Indian fishing rights : eighty years of suppression, twenty years of confrontation -- The big bang : U.S. v. …”
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Gender, development, and climate change /

Table of Contents: “….] -- Gendering responses to El Niño in rural Peru / Rosa Rivero Reyes -- The Noel Kempff project in Bolivia: gender, power, and decision-making in climate mitigation / Emily Boyd -- Reducing risk and vulnerability to climate change in India: the capabilities approach / Marlene Roy and Henry David Venema -- Promoting the role of women in sustainable energy development in Africa: networking and capacity-building / Tieho Makhabane -- Transforming power relationships: building capacity for ecological security / Mary Jo Larson -- Resources / compiled by Ruth Evans.…”

Complexity science and world affairs / by Clemens, Walter C.

Table of Contents: “…-- Basic concepts of complexity science -- A crucial test case: why the Baltic is not the Balkans -- Culture and the capacity to cope with complexity -- Complexity science as a tool to understand the new Eurasia -- How complexity concepts explain past and present fitness -- Hyperpower challenged: prospects for Americans -- End of the American dream? …”
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Economics of the Indian steel industry / by Dasgupta, Susmita, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…-- The demand failure of steel in India -- The myth of the s curve -- Metallic balance of steel -- Bad loans of steel companies -- Technologies for making steel -- The cost of steel -- The price of steel -- Profits from steel -- Management of over capacity of steel -- Steel trade of India -- Summary of arguments -- Conclusion.…”
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When Right Makes Might : Rising Powers and World Order / by Goddard, Stacie E., 1974-

Table of Contents: “…The great powers' dilemma : uncertainty, intentions, and rising power politics -- The politics of legitimacy : how a rising power's right makes might -- America's ambiguous ambition : Britain and the accommodation of the United States, 1817-1823 -- Prussia's rule-bound revolution : Europe and the destruction of the balance of power, 1863-1864 -- Germany's rhetorical rage : Britain and the abandonment of appeasement, 1938-1939 -- Japan's folly : Manchuria and the turn to revolution, 1931-1933 -- Conclusion : legitimacy, power, and strategy.…”
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Mental disorders in older adults fundamentals of assessment and treatment / by Zarit, Steven H.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: clinical practice with older adults -- Normal processes of aging -- Disorders of aging: dementia, delirium, and other cognitive problems -- Mood and anxiety disorders -- Other common mental health problems in later life -- The clinical interview -- Psychological testing for differential diagnosis and capacity evaluations -- Foundations of treatment -- Treatment of depression -- Treatment of anxiety symptoms -- Treatment of paranoid symptoms -- Treatment of dementia -- Family caregiving -- Consultation in institutional settings -- Ethical issues in geriatric psychology.…”
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Global religions an introduction /

Table of Contents: “…Goldberg -- Hinduism / T.N. Madan -- Buddhism / Gananath Obeyesekere -- African religion / Jacob Olupona -- Local religious societies / Juha Pentikäinen -- Religion in a global age. …”
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When Right Makes Might : Rising Powers and World Order / by Goddard, Stacie E., 1974-

Table of Contents: “…The great powers' dilemma : uncertainty, intentions, and rising power politics -- The politics of legitimacy : how a rising power's right makes might -- America's ambiguous ambition : Britain and the accommodation of the United States, 1817-1823 -- Prussia's rule-bound revolution : Europe and the destruction of the balance of power, 1863-1864 -- Germany's rhetorical rage : Britain and the abandonment of appeasement, 1938-1939 -- Japan's folly : Manchuria and the turn to revolution, 1931-1933 -- Conclusion : legitimacy, power, and strategy.…”
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The Objectionable Li Zhi : Fiction, Criticism, and Dissent in Late Ming China /

Table of Contents: “…The Problem of Genuineness in Li Zhi / Wai-yee Li -- Li Zhi's Strategic Self-Fashioning: Sketch of a Filial Self / Maram Epstein -- Friends and Teachers. The Perils of Friendship: Li Zhi's Predicament / Martin W. …”
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The Objectionable Li Zhi : Fiction, Criticism, and Dissent in Late Ming China /

Table of Contents: “…The Problem of Genuineness in Li Zhi / Wai-yee Li -- Li Zhi's Strategic Self-Fashioning: Sketch of a Filial Self / Maram Epstein -- Friends and Teachers. The Perils of Friendship: Li Zhi's Predicament / Martin W. …”
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Molecular realizations of quantum computing.

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