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Receptor tyrosine kinases function, families and evolution /

Table of Contents: “…Contents: History of protein phosphorylation -- Protein kinase bioinformatics -- History of tyrosine phosphorylation and functions of tyrosine kinases -- Genomic catalogues of protein kinases (kinomes) -- The human kinome -- The evolution of kinomes -- The human tyrosine kinase subfamily -- Receptor and nonreceptor tyrosine kinases -- Activation of receptor tyrosine kinases by ligand-induced dimerization -- Signal transduction pathways downstream of receptor tyrosine kinases -- Insulin and IOGF-1 receptor signaling via the mTOR pathway -- mTOR-S6 kinase feedback loop leading to downregulation of the IRS1 docking protein and insulin resistance -- History of Eph receptor tyrosine kinases and their ephrin ligands -- Bidirectional signaling via Eph-ephrin interactions on neighboring cells -- Simultaneous signaling by EphAs and ephrin As in motor neurons -- Compartmentalized signaling by receptor tyrosine kinases and their ligands through localization to discrete membrane domains -- Protein kinases and human disease -- Human cancer genes and protein kinases -- Protein kinases and phosphatases and cancer -- The long road to Gleevec.…”
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Battling the plantation mentality Memphis and the Black freedom struggle / by Green, Laurie Boush

Table of Contents: “…Migration, memory, and freedom in the urban heart of the Delta -- Memphis before World War II: migrants, mushroom strikes, and the reign of terror -- Where would the Negro women apply for work?…”
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Fire in the ashes God, evil, and the Holocaust /

Table of Contents: “…Horror vacui: God and evil in/after Auschwitz -- 10. Deliver us from evil? Kuhn's prayer and the masters of death -- 11. …”
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Women psychotherapists journeys in healing /

Table of Contents: “…The birthing of a womanist psychologist : on becoming a guide to healing and empowerment / Thema Bryant-Davis -- Hannah Krants : conversion / Janice Crawford -- (As) if i had a choice / Beverly Fauman -- Psychologist by accident, profession by choice : my journey of compassion and service / Patricia Pitta -- Slave and midwife : healing in the midst of social injustice / Beverly Greene -- The woman psychotherapist : a spiritual perspective / Marcella Bakur Weiner -- Transcultural woman : healing in a strange land / Lillian Comas-D�az -- The delicate art of connection and healing / Cinzia Levalds -- Becoming a psychotherapist : discovering the self amidst cultural shifts / Pratyusha Tummala-Narra -- Unbroken chain / Carla Bradshaw -- Adversity, healing, and the development and practice of a woman psychologist / Jennifer Ruff.…”
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Attaining the 2030 sustainable development goal of good health and well-being /

Table of Contents: “…Drugmex, the family-owned company which delivered the first covid-19 vaccine to Mexico / Josephine Igoe, Alejandro (Alec) Delaney, and Deborah Mireles -- Chapter 6. …”
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The courtesan's arts cross-cultural perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Pilzer -- Female agency and patrilinieal constraints : situating courtesans in twentieth-century India / Regula Burckhardt Qureshi -- Tawa'if, tourism, and tales : the problematics of twenty-first-century musical patronage of North India's courtesans / Amelia Maciszewski.…”
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Dangerous dreams : essays on American film and television / by Whitt, Jan

Table of Contents: “…Shutter Island: Martin Scorsese's allegory of despair -- When fiction becomes reality: Authorial voice in the door in the floor, secret window, and swimming pool -- The "very simplicity of the thing": Edgar Allan Poe, Jessica B. …”
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Recovering self-evident truths : Catholic perspectives on American law /

Table of Contents: “…Rougeau -- Tort law : toward a trinitarian theory of products liability / Amelia J. Uelmen -- Criminal law : "Everlasting splendours" : death-row volunteers, lawyers' ethics, and human dignity / Richard W. …”
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The Unfinished Art of Theater : Avant-Garde Intellectuals in Mexico and Brazil / by Townsend, Sarah J.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The uneven stage of the avant-gardes -- Mexico -- Rehearsals of the tragi-co(s)mic race -- Primitivist accumulation and Teatro sintetico -- Radio/puppets, or the institutionalization of a (media) revolution -- Brazil -- Parsifal on the periphery of capitalism -- Phonography, operatic ethnography, and other bad arts -- Total theater and missing pieces -- Postscript: Loose ends.…”
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The Unfinished Art of Theater : Avant-Garde Intellectuals in Mexico and Brazil / by Townsend, Sarah J.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The uneven stage of the avant-gardes -- Mexico -- Rehearsals of the tragi-co(s)mic race -- Primitivist accumulation and Teatro sintetico -- Radio/puppets, or the institutionalization of a (media) revolution -- Brazil -- Parsifal on the periphery of capitalism -- Phonography, operatic ethnography, and other bad arts -- Total theater and missing pieces -- Postscript: Loose ends.…”
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Facilitating trade through competitive, low-carbon transport : the case for Vietnam's inland and coastal waterways / by Blancas, Luis C.

Table of Contents: “…Context -- Objectives of the report -- Scope and methodology -- Key data sources -- Structure of the report -- Demand for waterborne and multimodal transport -- Size and historical growth patterns of IWT and coastal shipping -- Growth projections for IWT and coastal shipping -- Commodity tonnage and tonnage distribution by mode -- Inland and coastal shipping lengths of haul -- Main freight flows -- Regional routes and modal competition -- Primary intra- and interregional corridors -- Red River delta region -- Mekong delta -- Coastal shipping -- Corridor 1: Hanoi, Haiphong, Quang Ninh -- Corridor 2: Quang Ninh, Ninh Binh -- Corridor 3: Hanoi, Ninh Binh -- Corridor 1: HCMC northwest -- Corridor 3: HCMC southwest --Container transport in the Mekong delta -- IWT market structure -- Shipping companies -- Coastal shipping -- Shipping volumes -- Container flows -- Containerized cargo (domestic cargo) -- Ccontainerized cargo (feeder cargo) -- Sea-river transport -- Market structure for coastal shipping -- Vinalines -- Competitive position of IWT and coastal shipping -- Competitive position of IWT -- Competitive position of coastal shipping -- Supply chains and logistics costs in Vietnam -- Conclusions on demand -- Supply-side considerations: waterways, ports, and fleet -- Institutional framework for the waterway and port sectors -- Waterway infrastructure -- Northern waterways -- Southern waterways -- Central region waterways -- Technical classification of the waterways -- Planned investments in waterways -- The IWT master plan for 2020 -- Major channel projects -- Ports -- River ports -- Planned investments in river ports -- Seaports -- Fleet -- Fleet of river-going vessels -- Fleet of sea-going vessels -- Fleet of sea-river vessels -- Modernization of IWT fleet -- Conclusions on waterways, ports, and fleet -- Modal differences in fuel efficiency and GHG emissions -- Relative carbon intensity among transport modes -- Main challenges and recommendations -- Planning -- Institutional/regulatory environment -- Phsical bottlenecks -- Lack of IWT hinders market development -- Financing -- Strategy and action plan -- Estimated impact of public sector interventions in IWT and coastal shipping -- Translating the IWT/coastal shipping strategy into tangible interventions -- Methodology: translating interventions into impacts -- Modal shift and emissions impact of the proposed interventions -- CBA results -- References -- Appendix A: list of stakeholders interviewed -- Appendix B: major waterway routes in the north and south -- Appendix C: general considerations on DWT capacity increases in the national IWT fleet -- Appendix D: cargo data and modal split model -- Cargo flows for northern provinces: road transport in tons per day -- Cargo flows for northern provinces: iwt in tons per day -- Cargo flows for southern provinces: road transport in tons per day -- Cargo flows for southern provinces: IWT in tons per day -- Appendix E: detailed description of proposed interventions -- Appendix F: detailed impacts of proposed interventions.…”
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50 landmark papers every spine surgeon should know /

Table of Contents: “…chapter 36 SCOLIOSIS RESEARCH SOCIETY–SCHWAB ADULT SPINAL DEFORMITY CLASSIFICATION: A VALIDATION STUDY --…”
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Migrants and Migration in Modern North America : Cross-Border Lives, Labor Markets, and Politics /

Table of Contents: “…Aguila and Brian Gratton -- Through the northern Borderlands : Canada-U.S. migrations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Bruno Ramirez -- The making and unmaking of the circum-Caribbean migratory sphere : mobility, sex across boundaries, and collective destinies, 1840-1940 / Lara Putnam -- Population movements and the making of Canada-U.S. not-so-foreign relations / Nora Faires -- Greater southwest North America : a region of historical integration, disjunction, and imposition / Carlos G. Velez-Ibáñez with Dirk Hoerder -- Independence and interdependence : Caribbean-North American migration in the modern era / Melanie Shell-Weiss -- Migration to Mexico, migration in Mexico : a special case on the North American continent / Delia González de Reufels and Dirk Hoerder -- The construction of borders : building North American nations, building a continental perimeter, 1890s-1920s / Angelika E. …”
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La cooperación internacional en un mundo desigual /

Table of Contents: “…Wilkie -- Las políticas migratorias de la Comunidad Económica Europea / Catherine Withol de Wenden -- Comentarios / Ilán Bizberg, Roberta Lajous -- Cooperación y comercio pesquero / Clara Jusidman de Bialostoky y Dámaso Luna Corona -- Comercio en condiciones de desigualdad / Richard Lipsey -- Comentarios / Jaime Zabludovsky, Gustavo Vega -- La deuda externa de America Latina y la cooperación internacional / Arturo O'Connell -- Relaciones de poder y deuda: el caso de Mexico / Jose Alberro -- Comentarios / Marco Provencio, Robert R. …”
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Translation and Transfer of Knowledge in Encyclopedic Compilations, 1680–1830 /

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La cooperación internacional en un mundo desigual /

Table of Contents: “…Wilkie -- Las políticas migratorias de la Comunidad Económica Europea / Catherine Withol de Wenden -- Comentarios / Ilán Bizberg, Roberta Lajous -- Cooperación y comercio pesquero / Clara Jusidman de Bialostoky y Dámaso Luna Corona -- Comercio en condiciones de desigualdad / Richard Lipsey -- Comentarios / Jaime Zabludovsky, Gustavo Vega -- La deuda externa de America Latina y la cooperación internacional / Arturo O'Connell -- Relaciones de poder y deuda: el caso de Mexico / Jose Alberro -- Comentarios / Marco Provencio, Robert R. …”
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Property rights, indigenous people and the developing world issues from aboriginal entitlement to intellectual ownership rights / by Lea, David, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Aboriginal entitlement and conservative theory -- Individual autonomy, group self-determination and the assimilation of indigenous cultures -- Shareholder wealth maximization, multinational corporations and the developing world -- Tully and de Soto on uniformity and diversity -- Customary land tenure and communal holdings -- Custom as law -- Papua New Guinea and the legal methods for maintaining customary land tenure -- Customary land tenure in Fiji : a questionable colonial legacy -- The expansion and restructuring of intellectual property and its implications for the developing world -- The myth of free markets : intellectual property the IT industry, and market freedom in the global arena -- From the Wright Brothers to Microsoft : issues in the moral grounding of intellectual property rights -- A delicate balance : the right to health care, IP rights in pharmaceuticals and TRIPS compliance -- Rights and genetic material in agriculture and human research : two forms of biopiracy?…”
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Poison in small measure Dr. Christopherson and the cure for bilharzia / by Crichton-Harris, Ann

Table of Contents: “…Worms and dead eggs in the long hot summer -- Three generations of Christophersons : tanner to clergyman to physician -- The Boer War experience : the Imperial Yeomanry Hospital-a palace in the desert -- Sudan 1902-3 : smallpox delivers both fear and opportunity -- 1904 and the appointment blunder -- The wellcome laboratory on the Nile and a relapsing fever dispute. …”
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Researching violence in Africa ethical and methodological challenges /

Table of Contents: “…Miller and Ron Scollon -- Hidden agendas in conflict research : informants' interests and research -- Objectivity in the Niger delta / Ukoha Ukiwo -- Silence and authoritative speech in post-violence northern Ghana / Martijn Wienia.…”
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The challenges of the housing economy an international perspective /

Table of Contents: “…Contributors -- Glossary -- Introduction : the housing economy and the credit crunch -- The housing boom, the bust and US housing policy -- Housing bubbles and foreclosures that follow : the case of Las Vegas -- Unemployment risk, homeownership, and housing wealth : lessons from the bubble -- The changing nature of household demand and housing market trends in China -- The structural sustainability of home ownership in Australia -- Impacts on wealth and debt of changes in the Danish financial framework over a housing cycle -- Market stability, housing finance, and home ownership in Germany -- The responsiveness of new supply to house prices : a perspective from the Spanish housing market -- The UK housing market cycle and the role of planning : the policy challenge following the financial crisis -- Developments in the role of social housing in Europe -- Delivering affordable housing in the UK -- The UK private rented sector as a source of affordable accommodation -- Conclusions: the challenges ahead -- References -- Index.…”
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