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Cross-cultural interaction and understanding theory, practice, and reality /

Table of Contents: “…Preface -- Cross-cultural interaction & understanding : theory -- At a defining moment : cross-cultural interaction and understanding -- Understanding cultural appropriateness -- Crossing the dsm-iv-tr with culture -- Cross-cultural interaction & understanding : practice -- The African American perspective to cross-cultural interaction and understanding -- The Asian American perspective to cross-cultural interaction and understanding -- The Latino/Hispanic perspective to cross-cultural interaction and understanding -- The bi/multi-ethnic perspective to cross-cultural interaction and understanding -- The sexual minority perspective to cross-cultural interaction and understanding -- The religious/spiritualist perspective to cross-cultural interaction and understanding -- The socio-economic status perspective to cross-cultural interaction and understanding -- Cross-cultural interaction & understanding: reality -- Alien experiences -- Index.…”
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Turbulence : A Corporate Perspective on Collaborating for Resilience /

Table of Contents: “…Bresch, Jaap Berghuijs, Rainer Egloff and Roland Kupers -- Multi-sector collaboration for resilience / Mark Smith -- Building resilience through teamwork Seven tips to make it work / Marco Albani and Kimberly Henderson -- The case for green infrastructure / Neil C. …”
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Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects /

Table of Contents: “…Joy -- Sheep tracks: a multi-species impression / Julian Yates -- The renaissance res publica of furniture / Julia Reinhard Lupton -- Powers of the hoard: further notes on material agency / Jane Bennett -- Response essays: Speaking stones, John Muir, and a slower (non)humanities / Lowell Duckert -- 'Ruinous monument': transporting objects in Herbert's Persepolis / Nedda Mehdizadeh -- Animal, vegetable, mineral: twenty questions / Jonathan Gil Harris.…”
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You're a genius : using reflective practice to master the craft of leadership / by Taylor, Steven S., 1960-

Table of Contents: “…1. The meta craft of leadership: reflective practice -- 2. …”
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Fictions of the Bad Life : The Naturalist Prostitute and Her Avatars in Latin American Literature, 1880–2010 / by Solomon, Claire

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: prostitution as a (meta)discourse -- Part I. The metadiscursive naturalist prostitute in Latin America (1880-1930). …”
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Forecasting expected returns in the financial markets

Table of Contents: “…Market efficiency and forecasting -- A step-by-step guide to the Black-Litterman model -- A demystification of the Black-Litterman model : managing quantitative and traditional portfolio construction -- Optimal portfolios from ordering information -- Some choices in forecast construction -- Bayesian analysis of the Black-Scholes option price -- Bayesian forecasting of options prices: a natural framework for pooling historical and implied volatility information -- Robust optimization for utilizing forecasted returns in institutional investment -- Cross-sectional stock returns in the UK market : the role of liquidity risk -- The information horizon- optimal holding period, strategy aggression and model combination in a multi-horizon framework -- Optimal forecasting horizon for skilled investors -- Investments as bets in the binomial asset pricing model -- The hidden binomial economy and the role of forecasts in determining prices.…”
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Community and public health nursing /

Table of Contents: “…The context of primary healthcare nursing -- Community development and building capacity -- Multi-sector working and self-management in community health care -- Moving care closer to home -- Evidence-based practice and translational research applied to primary health care -- Integrating the children's public health workforce -- Community children's nursing -- Public health nursing (adult) : a vision for community nurses -- Caring for the adult in the home setting -- General practice nursing in context -- Occupational health nursing -- Caring for the person with mental health needs in the community -- Caring for the person with learning disabilities in the community -- Leadership : measuring the effectiveness of care delivery -- Social innovation and enterprise -- Adult vulnerability in the community -- End-of-life care -- Interprofessional learning and teaching for collaborative practice community -- User involvement, self-management, and compliance.…”
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R.J. Rummel: An Assessment of His Many Contributions

Table of Contents: “…Nils Petter Gleditsch: Introduction: R J Rummel: A multi-faceted scholar -- Dawn Akemi: Dad -- Doug Bond: R J Rummel, citizen scholar: An interview on the occasion of his retirement -- Sang-Woo Rhee: Rummel as a great teacher -- Richard Chadwick: Contextualizing Rummel's field theory -- Matthew Kroenig & Bardia Rahmani: R J Rummel, Nuclear superiority, and the limits of détente -- Erich Weede: Rummel’s unfinished legacy: Reconciling peace research and realpolitik -- James Lee Ray: Understanding Conflict and War An overlooked classic? …”
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The cube of strategic management : the distinctive advantage of organizations / by Putz, Mihai V.

Table of Contents: “…Cross-Cultural Management by Eighth-Fold Matrix of Social Versus Personal Values: Lessons from X-Generation -- The Strategic Cube of the Distinctive Advantage: An Epistemological Approach -- The Strategic Cube of the Distinctive Advantage: Networks with Catastrophic Surfaces -- Strategic Innovating Paths for the Distinctive Advantage: The Changing Management Faraway from Equilibrium -- Scientific Entrepreneurship by the Strategic Double Cube of Competitiveness: Knowledge Transfer -- Business Strategies by the Multi-Nodal Logistics within the Cubic Network of Distinctive Advantage -- Risks Management in Nanotechnology Projects Toward Eighth-Fold Ws -- Clustering in and Out Strategies of the Prisoner Dilemmain the Cube of Distinctive Advantage -- Strategic Innovation in the Organization Governance: The Eight-Folding of the Mission Balance -- Global Strategies in the Knowledge Economy: The Case of R&D Sustainability in the European Union -- Cubic Management of Inclusive Scientific Change.…”
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Receptors and channels in pain

Table of Contents: “…Contents: CNS pain circuits -- Receptors, ligands , mediators & ion channels involved in pain signaling -- Key types of pain -- Inflammation (ongoing activation of pain sensors) -- Nerve growth factor and bone innervation -- Tanezumab: humanized monoclonal antibody -- Symptoms of neuropathic pain -- Sodium channel changes, redistribution, activation -- Channelopathic pain syndromes -- Pregabalin and gabapentin -- Ca channels -- Peripheral activity causes central hyperexcitability -- Post-synaptic neuron activation -- Spinal mechanisms -- NMDA receptors -- Central sensitization -- Noradrenaline and 5HT -- Pain sensitivity: pathway alterations -- Reduced NA\increased 5HT function: effects -- Diffuse Noxious Inhibitory Controls (DNIC) -- Morphine and codeine -- Opioid mechanisms -- Pain signaling, multi-level changes & drug targets -- Similar symptoms\signs: many mechanisms.…”
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Empirical theology in texts and tables qualitative, quantitative and comparative perspectives /

Table of Contents: “…Cartledge -- Religious socialisation in the family : a multi-dimensional and multi-level perspective / Sabine Zehnder Grob, Christoph Morgenthaler and Christoph Käppler -- Apostolic networks in Britain : personality and praxis / William K. …”
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Statistical aspects of the design and analysis of clinical trials by Everitt, Brian

Table of Contents: “…An introduction to clinical trials -- Treatment allocation, the size of trials and reporting results -- Monitoring trial progress: outcome measures, compliance, dropouts and interim analyses -- Basic analyses of clinical trials, the generalized linear model and the economic evaluation of trials -- Simple approaches to the analysis of longitudinal data from clinical trials -- Multivariate normal regression models for longitudinal data from clinical trials -- Models for non-normal longitudinal data from clinical trials -- Survival analysis -- Bayesian methods longitudinal data -- Meta-analysis.…”
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Cult cinema an introduction / by Mathijs, Ernest

Table of Contents: “…Exploitation and B movies -- Underground and avant-garde cinema -- Cult cinema and drugs -- Cult cinema and music -- Classical Hollywood cults -- Cult horror cinema -- Cult science fiction cinema -- Cult blockbusters -- Intertextuality and irony -- Meta-cult.…”
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Japan's bubble, deflation, and long-term stagnation

Table of Contents: “…Lane -- Consumption, land prices, and the monetary transmission mechanism in Japan / John Muellbauer and Keiko Murata -- The Japanese employment system after the bubble burst : new evidence / Ryo Kambayashi and Takao Kato -- Labor immobility in Japan : its causes and consequences / Kenn Ariga and Ryosuke Okazawa -- The changing role of main banks in aiding distressed firms in Japan / Joe Peek -- Corporate restructuring in Japan during the lost decade / Takeo Hoshi, Satoshi Koibuchi, and Ulrike Schaede -- An exploration of Japan's 1990 slowdown / Diego Comin.…”
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Art in Spain and Portugal from the Romans to the Early Middle Ages : Routes and Myths / by Walker, Rose

Table of Contents: “…The Lie of the Land; Art and Architecture Along the Roman Roads; The Via Herculea: Iberians, Greeks, Carthaginians and Romans; The Via Augusta and Monumentalizing the Provincial Capitals; The Golden Triangle: Astorga, Braga, and Lugo; East-West and Mining the Meseta; Art along the Roads in the Second and Third Centuries AD; Sarcophagi; Emperor Diocletian's Reorganisation; 2. …”
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Población y desarrollo en América Latina /

Table of Contents: “…. -- Comentario / Mariano Requena -- Comentario / George Roberts -- Comentario / Damaris de Bermúdez -- Comentario / Nelly Niedworok -- Relatoría / Julieta Quilodrán -- El impacto del crecimiento demográfico en los mercados de trabajos rurales y urbanos / Alfredo E. …”
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Reclaiming moral agency the moral philosophy of Albert the Great / by Cunningham, Stanley B., 1934-

Table of Contents: “…Albert and the career of virtue theory -- Modern virtue theory as foreground to Albert's moral philosophy -- Albert's ethical treatises -- The significance of Albert's moral treatises in early-thirteenth-century moral philosophy -- Approaching the moral order -- Meta-ethical reflections on "moral science" and its procedures -- The metaphysics of the good -- The architecture of moral goodness -- The genesis of virtue : intrinsic causes -- The genesis of virtue : extrinsic causes -- The concept of virtue -- The organization of the virtues -- The passions -- Morality, obligation, and law -- Natural law -- Virtue's rewards -- Friendship -- Last ends and happiness -- Conclusion: Albertus redux.…”
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Dietary determinants of obesity

Table of Contents: “…Contents: Environmental factors causing weight gain and obesity -- Genes interacting with dietary fat -- Portion size -- Eating away from home -- Recommended dietary composition of a weight-reducing diet -- Risk of obesity and type 2 diabetes -- Role of energy density -- Fast food -- Meta-analysis of low fat diets -- Lifestyle intervention -- Dietary composition -- The Glycemic Index -- Sugar-sweetened drinks and childhood obesity -- Low carbohydrate vs. low fat diets -- Hierarchy of satiety -- Energy expenditure -- Protein vs. carbohydrate -- Dietary intervention.…”
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Biophysical chemistry by Allen, James P.

Table of Contents: “…Quantum theory: introduction and principles ; Particle in a box and tunneling ; Vibrational motion and infrared spectroscopy ; Atomic structure: hydrogen atom and multi-electron atoms ; Chemical bonds and protein interactions ; Electronic transitions and optical spectroscopy ; X-ray diffraction and extended x-ray absorption fine structure ; Magnetic resonance -- Pt. 3. …”
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Power electronic converters PWM strategies and current control techniques /

Table of Contents: “…Carrier based pulse width modulation for two-level three-phase voltage inverters -- Space vector modulation strategies -- Overmodulation of three-phase voltage inverters -- Computed and optimized pulse width modulation strategies -- Delta-sigma modulation -- Stochastic modulation strategies -- Electromagnetic compatibility of variable speed drives : impact of PWM control strategies -- Multiphase voltage source inverters -- PWM strategies for multilevel converters -- PI current control of a synchronous motor -- Predictive current control for a synchronous motor -- Sliding mode current control for a synchronous motor -- Hybrid current controller with large bandwidth and fixed switching frequency -- Current control using self-oscillating current controllers -- Current and voltage control strategies using resonant correctors: examples of fixed-frequency applications -- Current control strategies for multi-cell converters.…”
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