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Language Acquisition and Development

A Generative Introduction

By: Misha Becker,Kamil Ud Deen

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Language Acquisition and Development

A Generative Introduction

By: Misha Becker,Kamil Ud Deen

An introduction to the study of children's language development that provides a uniquely accessible perspective on generative/universal grammar–based approaches. How children acquire language so quickly, easily, and uniformly is one of the great mysteries of the human experience. The theory of Universal Grammar suggests that one reason for the relative ease of early language acquisition is that children are born with a predisposition to create a grammar. This textbook offers an introduction to the study of children's acquisition and development of language from a generative/universal grammar–based theoretical perspective, providing comprehensive coverage of children's acquisition while presenting core concepts crucial to understanding generative linguistics more broadly. After laying the theoretical groundwork, including consideration of alternative frameworks, the book explores the development of the sound system of language—children's perception and production of speech sound; examines how words are learned (lexical semantics) and how words are formed (morphology); investigates sentence structure (syntax), including argument structure, functional structure, and tense; considers such “nontypical” circumstances as acquiring a first language past infancy and early childhood, without the abilities to hear or see, and with certain cognitive disorders; and studies bilingual language acquisition, both simultaneously and in sequence. Each chapter offers a summary section, suggestions for further reading, and exercises designed to test students' understanding of the material and provide opportunities to practice analyzing children's language. Appendixes provide charts of the International Phonetic Alphabet (with links to websites that allow students to listen to the sounds associated with these symbols) and a summary of selected experimental methodologies.

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0262043580

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The Acquisition of Syntactic Structure

Animacy and Thematic Alignment

By: Misha Becker

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The Acquisition of Syntactic Structure

Animacy and Thematic Alignment

By: Misha Becker

This book explains a well-known puzzle that helped catalyze the establishment of generative syntax: how children tease apart the different syntactic structures associated with sentences like John is easy/eager to please. The answer lies in animacy: taking the premise that subjects are animate, the book argues that children can exploit the occurrence of an inanimate subject as a cue to a non-canonical structure, in which that subject is displaced (the book is easy/*eager to read). The author uses evidence from a range of linguistic subfields, including syntactic theory, typology, language processing, conceptual development, language acquisition, and computational modeling, exposing readers to these different kinds of data in an accessible way. The theoretical claims of the book expand the well-known hypotheses of syntactic and semantic bootstrapping, resulting in greater coverage of the core principles of language acquisition. This is a must-read for researchers in language acquisition, syntax, psycholinguistics and computational linguistics.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139915886

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Andrews' Diseases of the Skin E-Book

Clinical Dermatology

By: William D. James,Dirk M. Elston,James R. Treat,Misha A. Rosenbach

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Andrews' Diseases of the Skin E-Book

Clinical Dermatology

By: William D. James,Dirk M. Elston,James R. Treat,Misha A. Rosenbach

Through thirteen superb editions, Andrews' Diseases of the Skin has remained the reference of choice for core information in dermatology for residency through clinical practice. The fully revised 14th Edition of this award-winning title continues the tradition of excellence with new tools and strategies for diagnosis and treatment, new entities and newly recognized diseases, increased coverage of skin of color, new videos, and more. It's the reference you'll turn to again and again when faced with a clinical conundrum or therapeutically challenging skin disease. - Utilizes a concise, clinically focused, user-friendly format that clearly covers the full range of common and rare skin diseases. The small team author approach provides consistency and clearly conveys the authors' first-hand experience. - Features expanded coverage of skin of color—now 46% of all images—including distinct distribution or presentations, how to recognize disease states, and how treatment responses may differ. - Works in tandem with the companion Andrews' Diseases of the Skin Clinical Atlas, 2nd Edition, which contains over 3,000 images—one-third of which are skin of color images. - Offers outstanding visual support with more than 1,500 illustrations—more than one-third are of skin of color,[RM1] and more tables and figures to help compare genetic syndromes. - Provides access to more than 20 videos online, depicting venous lake treatment using long-pulsed Nd: YAG laser, chemical peels, Q-switched laser tattoo removal, ED&C (electrodesiccation and curettage), nerve block, and more. - Includes up-to-date coverage of monoclonal antibodies; new cosmetic treatment modalities; new tools in the diagnosis and treatment of lymphoma; new staging, diagnostic modalities, and treatment for melanoma and non-melanoma skin cancers; and new treatment paradigms for hair disorders. - Keeps you current with newly defined genetic syndromes, environmental changes and alterations in infectious disease states and heat- and cold-related conditions; new contact allergens; new devices such as the 1726 nm laser for acne intervention; and new molecular investigative techniques. - Covers new biologics for psoriasis, atopic dermatitis, itch and hidradenitis suppurativa, and JAK inhibitors for alopecia area and vitiligo, with decision grids to help choose the appropriate drug for each patient.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323878725

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9780323878722

Lever's Dermatopathology

Histopathology of the Skin

By: David E. Elder,Rosalie Elenitsas,George F. Murphy,Misha Rosenbach,Adam I. Rubin,John T. Seykora,Xiaowei Xu

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Lever's Dermatopathology

Histopathology of the Skin

By: David E. Elder,Rosalie Elenitsas,George F. Murphy,Misha Rosenbach,Adam I. Rubin,John T. Seykora,Xiaowei Xu

Used by generations of physicians who encounter patients with dermatological diseases, Lever’s Dermatopathology: Histopathology of the Skin comprehensively covers skin disease in which histopathology plays an important role in diagnosis. The updated 12th Edition, edited by Drs. David E. Elder, Rosalie Elenitsas, George F. Murphy, Misha Rosenbach, Adam I. Rubin, John T. Seykora, and Xiaowei Xu, maintains the proven, clinicopathologic classification of cutaneous disease while incorporating a “primer” on pattern-algorithm diagnosis. It features larger images throughout, as well as thoroughly revised content with new diseases and new information on pathophysiology and molecular pathogenesis—all in an easy-to-navigate, highly readable format.

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Lippincott Williams & Wilkins

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197517450X

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9781975174507

Physics In A Mad World

By: Misha Shifman

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Physics In A Mad World

By: Misha Shifman

This book tells captivating stories of misadventures of two renowned theoretical physicists in the Soviet Union. The first part is devoted to Friedrich (Fritz) Houtermans, an outstanding Dutch-Austrian-German physicist who was the first to suggest that the source of stars' energy is thermonuclear fusion, and also made a number of other important contributions to cosmochemistry and geochemistry. In 1935, Houtermans, a German communist, in an attempt to save his life from Hilter's Gestapo, fled to the Soviet Union. He took up an appointment at the Kharkov Physico-Technical Institute, working there for two years with the Russian physicist Valentin P Fomin. In the Great Purge of 1937, Houtermans was arrested in December by the NKVD (Soviet Secret Police, KGB's predecessor). He was tortured, and confessed to being a Trotskyist plotter and German spy, out of fear of threats against his wife Charlotte. However, Charlotte had already escaped from the Soviet Union to Denmark, after which she went to England and finally the USA. As a result of the Hilter-Stalin Pact of 1939, Houtermans was turned over to the Gestapo in May 1940 and imprisoned in Berlin.The second part consists of two essays that narrate the life story of Yuri Golfand, one of the codiscoverers of supersymmetry, a major discovery in theoretical physics in the 20th century. In 1973, just two years after the publication of his seminal paper, he was fired from the Lebedev Physics Institute in Moscow. Because of his Jewish origin he could find no job. Under such circumstances, he applied for an exit visa to Israel, but his application was denied. Yuri Golfand became a refusnik and joined the Human rights movement, along with two other prominent physicists, Andrei Sakharov and Yuri Orlov. To earn his living, he had to do manual work, repeatedly being intimidated by KGB. Only 18 years later, shortly before the demise of the Soviet Union, did he obtain permission to leave the country, emigrating to Israel in 1990.These personal life stories of two outstanding theorists are interwined with the tragedies of the 20th century and make for compelling reading.

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World Scientific

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9814619310

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George Placzek: A Nuclear Physicist's Odyssey

By: Ales Gottvald,Misha Shifman

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George Placzek: A Nuclear Physicist's Odyssey

By: Ales Gottvald,Misha Shifman

This book presents the first detailed biography of George Placzek — an outstanding physicist, a participant in the Manhattan Project who stood at the very inception of nuclear physics and the subsequent development of the nuclear bomb in the course of the WWII. In the 1930s, George Placzek was known as an adventurous person with a sharp sense of humor, a tireless generator of novel physics ideas which he generously shared with his colleagues. Born in Brno (now Czech Republic) into a wealthy Jewish family, he lost all his relatives to Holocaust, casting a tragic shadow on his life.Placzek's scientific career began in the late 1920s when the quantum revolution was almost over, but nuclear physics was still at its infancy. He established personal and scientific relations with the creators of quantum mechanics, such as Heisenberg in Leipzig and Niels Bohr in Copenhagen. In Rome, he worked with Fermi, and in Copenhagen he became a part of Bohr's nuclear physics team which dominated nuclear theory at that time. The scope of Placzek's pilgrimage around world physics centers in the 1930s was unique among his colleagues. In January 1939, George Placzek managed to emigrate from Europe to the US, and became a part of the British Mission within the Manhattan Project. His physical insights were instrumental in advancing from the basic discoveries on nuclear chain reactions to the Trinity experiment, Hiroshima and Nagasaki.This book is a unique compilation of a large number of previously unknown and unpublished documents from private and university archives, police reports, etc. Placzek's correspondence with the leadership of the Hebrew University in 1934, the 1937 NKVD interrogation files of Konrad Weisselberg, recollections of Ella Andriesse as well as the Zurich Police report of 1956 detailing the circumstances of Placzek's death in a Zurich hotel are illuminating as they shed light on poorly known pages of his life.

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9813236930

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Andrews' Diseases of the Skin

Clinical Dermatology

By: William D. James,Dirk M. Elston,James R. Treat,Misha A. Rosenbach

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Andrews' Diseases of the Skin

Clinical Dermatology

By: William D. James,Dirk M. Elston,James R. Treat,Misha A. Rosenbach

Now in a fully revised thirteenth edition, Andrews' Diseases of the Skin remains your single-volume, must-have resource for core information in dermatology. From residency through clinical practice, this award-winning title ensures that you stay up to date with new tools and strategies for diagnosis and treatment, new entities and newly recognized diseases, and current uses for tried-and-true and newer medications. It's the reference you'll turn to again and again when faced with a clinical conundrum or therapeutically challenging skin disease. - Utilizes a concise, clinically focused, user-friendly format that clearly covers the full range of common and rare skin diseases. - Provides outstanding visual support with 1,340 illustrations – more than 500 new to this edition. - Presents comprehensively updated information throughout, including new and unusual clinical presentations of syphilis, new diagnostic classifications and therapies for vascular anomalies, and an updated pediatric and genodermatosis review. - Covers new and evolving treatments for inflammatory, neoplastic, and blistering skin diseases among others. New biologics and phosphodiesterase inhibitors for psoriasis and atopic dermatitis, JAK inhibitors for alopecia areata and vitiligo, immune checkpoint inhibitors for melanoma and rituximab for pemphigus are all covered. - Features a revised and revamped cutaneous adverse drug reaction section, including novel eruptions from new and emerging chemotherapeutic agents and small molecule/targeted inhibitors. - Discusses new and emerging viruses including Zika and human polyomaviruses.

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0323551882

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9780323551885

Dermatological Signs of Systemic Disease E-Book

By: Jeffrey P. Callen,Joseph L. Jorizzo,John J. Zone,Warren Piette,Misha A. Rosenbach,Ruth Ann Vleugels

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Dermatological Signs of Systemic Disease E-Book

By: Jeffrey P. Callen,Joseph L. Jorizzo,John J. Zone,Warren Piette,Misha A. Rosenbach,Ruth Ann Vleugels

The new edition of Dermatological Signs of Systemic Disease helps you identify a full range of common and rare systemic diseases early on so they can be managed as effectively as possible. Formerly titled Dermatological Signs of Internal Disease, it takes an evidence-based approach to diagnosis and treatment, offering dependable clinical recommendations that enable you to attain definitive diagnoses of internal diseases that manifest on the skin. - Allows you to attain definitive diagnoses of internal diseases that manifest on the skin. - Uses a consistent, user-friendly format for easy reference. - Expert Consult eBook version included with purchase. This enhanced eBook experience allows you to search all of the text, figures, images, and references from the book on a variety of devices. - Covers hot topics such as lupus erythematosus, dermatomyositis, autoinflammatory diseases, eosinophilic and neutrophilic dermatoses, and psoriasis therapies and co-morbidities. - Highlights newer therapies and treatment options for most diseases. - Includes over 500 full-color illustrations - 200 new to this edition - that provide the best possible representations of diseases as they appear in the clinic. - Features more viewpoints from an expanded team of nationally recognized experts in their respective fields.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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0323358314

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9780323358316

Something's Coming, Something Good

West Side Story and the American Imagination

By: Misha Berson

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Something's Coming, Something Good

West Side Story and the American Imagination

By: Misha Berson

A critical and comprehensive exploration of the influential Broadway musical analyzes West Side Story against a backdrop of its cultural period while considering its reflection of both classical Shakespeare conflicts and modern youth issues. Original.

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Applause Theatre & Cinema

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155783766X

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Standing Together In Troubled Times: Unpublished Letters Of Pauli, Einstein, Franck And Others

By: Misha Shifman

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Standing Together In Troubled Times: Unpublished Letters Of Pauli, Einstein, Franck And Others

By: Misha Shifman

This captivating book is a story of the friendship between a genius physicist Wolfgang Pauli and Charlotte Houtermans whose career in physics was not as glamorous. They met in the late 1920s in Germany, at the very onset of the quantum era and personally knew all the major players in the emergent quantum world that was very much part of central Europe: Germany, Austria, Hungary, Denmark and Switzerland. And Charlotte was a student at Göttingen that was right at the heart.Caught between two evils — Soviet Communism and German National Socialism — she would have probably perished if it were not for the brotherhood of physicists: Niels Bohr, Wolfgang Pauli, Albert Einstein, James Franck, Max Born, Robert Oppenheimer and many other noted scientists who tried to save friends and colleagues (either leftist sympathizers or Jews) who were in mortal danger of being entrapped in a simmering pre-WWII Europe.Using newly discovered documents from the Houtermans family archive: twenty three Pauli's letters to Charlotte Houtermans, her correspondence with other great physicists, Charlotte's diaries, interviews with her children, almost all documents presented in this book are published for the first time.

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World Scientific

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9813201037

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9789813201033

Cutaneous Manifestations of Infection in the Immunocompromised Host

By: Marc E. Grossman,Lindy P. Fox,Carrie Kovarik,Misha Rosenbach

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Cutaneous Manifestations of Infection in the Immunocompromised Host

By: Marc E. Grossman,Lindy P. Fox,Carrie Kovarik,Misha Rosenbach

The updated second edition of Cutaneous Manifestations of Infection in the Immunocompromised Host is an invaluable reference for physicians and ancillary medical professionals involved in the care of patients with impaired immune systems due to cancer, chemotherapy, systemic steroids and other immunosuppressive drugs, HIV/AIDS or organ transplantation. This volume will help you recognize skin lesions and diagnose their infectious cause. Textbook features include: · Over 350 color images demonstrating pathognomonic, atypical, rare and routine skin lesions · Tables for differential diagnosis of different skin lesions in the immunocompromised host · Complete coverage of infectious pathogens with the patterns of infection and the likely causes in different clinical settings (HIV/AIDS versus solid organ transplantation versus neutropenia post-chemotherapy versus bone marrow recovery post hematopoietic stem cell transplantation ) · New chapter discussing the role of viruses causing malignancies with cutaneous signs in the immunocompromised patient Written by dermatologists, the new edition is an indispensable diagnostic tool intended for use by all clinicians who care for immunocompromised patients.

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Springer Science & Business Media

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144191577X

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The Acquisition of Syntactic Structure

Animacy and Thematic Alignment

By: Misha Becker

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The Acquisition of Syntactic Structure

Animacy and Thematic Alignment

By: Misha Becker

This book explains how children's early ability to distinguish between animate and inanimate nouns helps them acquire complex sentence structure. The theoretical claims of the book expand the well-known hypotheses of syntactic and semantic bootstrapping, resulting in greater coverage of the core principles of language acquisition.

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1107007844

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Continuous Advances In Qcd 2002: Arkadyfest - Honoring The 60th Birthday Of Arkady Vainshtein, Proceedings Of The Conference

By: Keith A Olive,Misha Shifman,M B Voloshin

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Continuous Advances In Qcd 2002: Arkadyfest - Honoring The 60th Birthday Of Arkady Vainshtein, Proceedings Of The Conference

By: Keith A Olive,Misha Shifman,M B Voloshin

The symposium and workshop “Continuous Advances in QCD / Arkadyfest” was the fifth in the series of meetings organized by the William I Fine Theoretical Physics Institute at the University of Minnesota. This meeting brought together leading researchers in high-energy physics to exchange the latest ideas in QCD and gauge theories at strong coupling at large. It honored the 60th birthday of Professor Arkady Vainshtein, and the papers included in this proceedings volume also look back on the history of the subjects in which Arkady played such a central role: applications of PCAC, penguins, invisible axions, QCD sum rules, exact beta functions, condensates in supersymmetry, powerful heavy quark expansions, and new anomalies in 2D SUSY theories. The current status of these subjects was summarized in several excellent presentations that also outlined a historical perspective. A number of papers from leading researchers in the field present new developments and ideas in modern areas of study, such as the cosmological constant problem in extra-dimension theories, supersymmetric monopoles, solitons and confinement, AdS/CFT correspondence, and high density QCD.

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World Scientific

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9814487112

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9789814487115

Language Acquisition and Development

A Generative Introduction

By: Misha Becker,Kamil Ud Deen

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A Generative Introduction

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Language Acquisition and Development

Language Acquisition and Development

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The Acquisition of Syntactic Structure

Andrews' Diseases of the Skin E-Book

Andrews' Diseases of the Skin E-Book

Lever's Dermatopathology

Lever's Dermatopathology

Physics In A Mad World

Physics In A Mad World

George Placzek: A Nuclear Physicist's Odyssey

George Placzek: A Nuclear Physicist's Odyssey

Andrews' Diseases of the Skin

Andrews' Diseases of the Skin

Dermatological Signs of Systemic Disease E-Book

Dermatological Signs of Systemic Disease E-Book

Something's Coming, Something Good

Something's Coming, Something Good

Standing Together In Troubled Times: Unpublished Letters Of Pauli, Einstein, Franck And Others

Standing Together In Troubled Times: Unpublished Letters Of Pauli, Einstein, Franck And Others

Cutaneous Manifestations of Infection in the Immunocompromised Host

Cutaneous Manifestations of Infection in the Immunocompromised Host

The Acquisition of Syntactic Structure

The Acquisition of Syntactic Structure

Continuous Advances In Qcd 2002: Arkadyfest - Honoring The 60th Birthday Of Arkady Vainshtein, Proceedings Of The Conference

Continuous Advances In Qcd 2002: Arkadyfest - Honoring The 60th Birthday Of Arkady Vainshtein, Proceedings Of The Conference

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