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The Sense of Injustice
Social Psychological Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The importance of justice cannot be overstated. As one author has put it, "A better understanding of how justice concerns develop and function in people's lives should enable us to plan more effectively for institutional and other social change to deal with the problems that confront humankind"...
Homeostasis, Nephrotoxicity, and Renal Anomalies in the Newborn
Proceedings of Pediatric Nephrology Seminar XI held at Bal Harbour, Florida January 29–February 2, 1984
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This is the 11th of the Pediatric Nephrology series created to help us be in touch with developments which are relevant to the problems we face daily in clinical practice and the questions we ask and try to answer in clinical and experimental research. Like volume IX, this one focuses on one of the...
Globalization and Children
Exploring Potentials for Enhancing Opportunities in the Lives of Children and Youth
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2007
ALLISON JAMES Globalization seems to be the word on everyone’s lips, with politicians as much as academics extolling its benefits as well as its contradictions. For some, globali- tion means, in practice, that whether in Bangkok or Boston, in London or Rio, as travelers from wealthy countries they...
Presbyopia Research
From Molecular Biology to Visual Adaptation
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Seeing is life. Seeing is transfonning luminous col We wish to extend our academic and theoretical ored stimulations and shapes into amental represen knowledge and also to complete and exchange our tation, structured in space and in time. But seeing is technical and professional experience to...
Humor
The Psychology of Living Buoyantly
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
In his earlier work the author has studied stress and the personality characteristics that protect us from its effects on health and well-being. In this new book he places humor firmly within the literatures of coping processes, the moderation of stressful experiences, and health by showing how humor...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
There are many human cancers which actively synthesize specific characteristic proteins such as melanomas, thyroid cancer and squamous cell carcinoma. Many cancer researchers have of course tried to utilize this specific activity as a key for the selective treatment of cancers. In the past for example,...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Since human beings first appeared on the earth, we have changed land cover and land use for our own purposes, such as conveniences and high productivity. As a result of the land cover and land use changes, many serious environmental problems occur on the earth. Studying meteorological and hydrological...
by E. L. Krinitzsky
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Radiography, the use of penetrating radiation to produce shadow images of the internal structure of materials, has been with us since Roentgen made his discovery of x rays in 1895. However, applications of radiography in the earth sciences and in the related field of soils engineering have, until...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Despite the major developments in the therapeutic armamentarium for the treatment of infection, the morbidity and mortality of this complication remains very high in patients with compromised defences. Cancer and its treatment represents a major predisposing condition to a variety of infections. These...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
From recent developments in the rapidly growing area of neuroscience it has become increasingly clear that a simplistic description of brain function as a broad collection of simple input-output relations is quite inadequate. Introspection already tells us that our motor behavior is guided by a complex...
Cardiac Surgery
Current Issues 1
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This monograph is intended to compile the lectures presented at the 4th Annual Symposium "Cardiac Surgery:1992" held at the Frenchman's Reef Beach Resort, St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands, November 7-10, 1991. This symposium was organized by the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery and the School...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Neoplastic disease confined to the liver is an important worldwide problem. In the industrialized nations, metastatic disease of the most common cancers involves the liver in upwards of 50% of cases. Primary hepatic tumors are virtually epidemic in most third world countries and certainly constitute...
Advice to the Young Physician
On the Art of Medicine
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2009
Advice to the Young Physician introduces the origins of important teachings that form the basis of medicine as it has been taught by some of history's greatest educators in medicine. Advice to the Young Physician reveals how to make the transition from technician to healer.
This book reinforces...
by Theodore Shapiro
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
One of Moliere's gauche characters in Le Bourgeoise Gentilhomme re sponds with surprise when he learns that he has been speaking prose all his life. The apparent discovery, reflected in his comment, provides us with both the virtues and the difficulties in presenting "yet another book,"...