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A Simple Act of Betrayal

By: Ren Brim

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She was beautiful. She had everything I needed and more. I always knew that beauty was more than just skin deep. This is why I fell in love with her. Simple, practical, and down-to-earth--how those words fit her exact nature. I can't explain it. She remained the same, unchanged regardless of her possessions. She was perfect, until . . . The next person that you choose to take for granted, stop and listen. Never did David McCormick bother until it was too late.

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1496932676

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Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Calorimetry in Particle Physics

Pasadena, California, USA, 25-29 March 2002

By: Ren-yuan Zhu

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Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Calorimetry in Particle Physics

Pasadena, California, USA, 25-29 March 2002

By: Ren-yuan Zhu

Annotation The International Conference on Calorimetry in Particle Physics has become the major forum for state-of-the-art developments of calorimetry techniques. The tenth conference was attended by about 150 physicists from 20 countries and covered all aspects of calorimetric particle detection and measurements, with emphasis on high energy physics experiments as well as experiments in nuclear physics and astrophysics.The proceedings contain three parts: introductory papers, contributed papers and a summary. The introductory papers start with a historical review of the development of calorimetry technology, and continue with overviews of the current status of calorimetry in high energy physics and astrophysics, which are followed by discussions on calorimetry in future accelerator facilities, such as linear colliders and the Super B Factory. A "hot" technology regarding the "energy flow concept" is also dealt with

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World Scientific

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9812704892

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9789812704894

Eight Aneurysms

Handbook of Cerebral Aneurysm Embolization

By: Zeguang Ren

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Eight Aneurysms

Handbook of Cerebral Aneurysm Embolization

By: Zeguang Ren

This book introduces the basic tenets and technique skills for endovascular embolization and provides the most up-to-date technical advancements, treatment strategy evolution, and literature review related to the endovascular treatment of brain aneurysms. The most special feature of this book is how the content is organized. The morphology, instead of the location, dictates the treatment strategy applied and procedure skills required for the endovascular treatment of brain aneurysms. Hence, the book is structured with a new conceptual way of classifying aneurysms into eight different types based on the morphological characteristics of brain aneurysms. The specific technical skills and treatment strategies for these different aneurysm categories are described separately in their own chapters. Another important feature of the book is the combination of detailed technical descriptions of the skills, strategies, and advancement in the field accompanied with case presentations. The large and comprehensive collection of the case presentations further enhances the points in the text. This book can be used as a handbook on endovascular treatment of brain aneurysms. It can also help physicians in the early careers of these subspecialties for their daily practice and board preparation. The text will provide the most up-to-date knowledge for more experienced endovascular neurosurgeons and interventionalists on the topics of new techniques and endovascular products. Additionally, it can also serve as a practice guidance resource for nurse practitioners and physician assistants of the above subspecialties.

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Springer Nature

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303097216X

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Building Shanghai

The Story of China's Gateway

By: Edward Denison,Guang Yu Ren

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Building Shanghai

The Story of China's Gateway

By: Edward Denison,Guang Yu Ren

Shanghai's illustrious history and phenomenal future is celebrated in this book, which examines the evolution of the city's architecture and urban form in order to contextualise the challenges facing the city today. The physical legacies that reflect Shanghai's uniqueness historically and contemporarily are examined chronologically using specific case studies of exemplary architecture interwoven in a compelling narrative that unlocks the many mysteries surrounding this amazing metropolis. Some of the most influential colonial architecture in the world, outstanding examples of Modernism and Art Deco, and an exceptional selection of eclectic and vernacular architecture reflecting Shanghai's many adopted cultures are revealed. This is the first book ever to examine this remarkable subject in a manner that is both comprehensive and captivating in its written content and stunningly illustrated with over 300 archive and contemporary photographs and maps.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1118867548

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Brotherhood of Barristers

By: Ren Pepitone

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Brotherhood of Barristers

By: Ren Pepitone

A critical investigation of masculinity, the gentlemanly professional, and the exclusionary culture of the British legal profession.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009456741

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Auditory Mechanisms

Processes and Models : Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium Held at Portland, Oregon, USA, 23-28 July 2005

By: Alfred L. Nuttall,Tianying Ren

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Auditory Mechanisms

Processes and Models : Proceedings of the Ninth International Symposium Held at Portland, Oregon, USA, 23-28 July 2005

By: Alfred L. Nuttall,Tianying Ren

The workshop brought together experts in genetics, molecular and cellular biology, physiology, engineering, physics, mathematics, audiology and medicine to present current work and to review the critical issues of inner ear function. A special emphasis of the workshop was on analytical model based studies. Experimentalists and theoreticians thus shared their points of view. The topics ranged from consideration of the hearing organ as a system to the study and modeling of individual auditory cells including molecular aspects of function. Some of the topics in the book are: motor proteins in hair cells; mechanical and electrical aspects of transduction by motor proteins; function of proteins in stereocilia of hair cells; production of acoustic force by stereocilia, mechanical properties of hair cells and the organ of Corti; mechanical vibration of the organ of Corti; wave propagation in tissue and fluids of the inner ear; sound amplification in the cochlea; critical oscillations; cochlear nonlinearity, and mechanisms for the production of otoacoustic emissions. This book will be invaluable to researchers and students in auditory science. Sample Chapter(s). Chapter 1: Medial-Olivocochlear-Efferent Effects on Basilar-Membrane and Auditory-Nerve Responses to Clicks: Evidence for a New Motion within the Cochlea (1,013 KB). Contents: Whole Organ Mechanics: Medial-Olivocochlear-Efferent Effects on Basilar-Membrane and Auditory-Nerve Responses to Clicks: Evidence for a New Motion Within the Cochlea (J J Guinan Jr et al.); Atomic Force Microscopic Imaging of the Intracellular Membrane Surface of Prestin-Expressing Chinese Hamster Ovary Cells (H Wada et al.); Biomechanics of Dolphin Hearing: A Comparison of Middle and Inner Ear Stiffness with Other Mammalian Species (B S Miller et al.); Hair Cells: An Experimental Preparation of the Mammalian Cochlea That Displays Compressive Nonlinearity In Vitro (A J Hudspeth & D K Chan); OC Area Change ParadoxOCO in Outer Hair Cells Membrane Motor (K H Iwasa); Outer Hair Cell Mechanics are Altered by Developmental Changes in Lateral Wall Protein Content (H C Jensen-Smith & R Hallworth); Stereocilia: Signal Transformation by Mechanotransducer Channels of Mammalian Outer Hair Cells (R Fettiplace et al.); The Cochlear Amplifier: Is it Hair Bundle Motion of Outer Hair Cells? (S Jia et al.); Emissions: Comparative Mechanisms of Auditory Function: Ground Sound Detection by Golden Moles (P M Narins); The Biophysical Origin of Otoacoustic Emissions (J H Siegel); A Comparative Study of Evoked Otoacoustic Emissions in Geckos and Humans (C Bergevin et al.); Cochlear Models: The Cochlea Box Model Once Again: Improvements and New Results (R Nobili & A Vetein k); The Evolution of Multi-compartment Cochlear Models (A E Hubbard et al.); and other papers. Readership: Graduate students and academics in medicine and otolaryngology; ear, nose and throat specialists; neuroscientists; neurobiologists.

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9812773452

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From Abbotts To Zurich

New York State Placenames

By: Ren Vasiliev

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From Abbotts To Zurich

New York State Placenames

By: Ren Vasiliev

Sangerfield: The town was established in 1795 on land originally owned by Jebediah Sanger who, wanting to have a new settlement named after him, promised a cask of rum for the first town meeting and 50 acres to the first church. The rum was drunk at the first town meeting in 1795. The Native American name for the site was Skanawis, "a long swamp." East New York: John Pitkin came here from Connecticut in 1835 and bought land that he developed. He chose this name to make people think that this place was the eastern end of New York City. Morganville: This place was named for William Morgan, a former Mason, who had written a book that supposedly revealed the secrets of Masonry. He disappeared in 1826, a possible murder victim. His disappearance sparked the anti-Masonic movement. From Abbotts to Zurich provides a provocative glimpse into the history of the region. It also tells the story of a young and growing nation, how it wanted to be identified, and how the people populating the land thought of themselves. The names are not just labels for locations, but they are cultural and historic guideposts to past ideas. Each place's origin is traced and studied, providing a reason for its name and hints at the origins of the people who originally settled there.

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Syracuse University Press

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0815607989

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Wide Energy Bandgap Electronic Devices

By: Fan Ren,J. C. Zolper

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Wide Energy Bandgap Electronic Devices

By: Fan Ren,J. C. Zolper

Presents state-of-the-art GaN and SiC electronic devices, as well as detailed applications of these devices to power conditioning, r. f. base station infrastructure and high temperature electronics.

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9812382461

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Antiviral Agents

Advances and Problems

By: S. Ren

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Antiviral Agents

Advances and Problems

By: S. Ren

The unfortunate appearance of AIDS, the manifold problems with herpesviruses and other viruses attacking humans have led to an enormous dynamism of worldwide research and to an immense increase in the corresponding literature. With this first Special Topic of the monograph series Progress in Drug Research, the editor and the publishers undertake an effort to supply concise reviews on virus research, especially on the development of new and future antiviral agents in some important and widespread viral diseases. Latest Progress in Drug Research articles dealing with new chemotherapeutics for the treatment of the most threatening viral diseases are presented. These very well received articles were upgraded and supplemented with new chapters to form this actual overview of the achievements in the respective fields of virus research. This special volume contains six review articles covering the latest studies on the HIV and hepatitis C and B viruses...

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3764365471

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Social Perspective

The Missing Element in Mental Health Practice

By: Richard U'Ren

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Social Perspective

The Missing Element in Mental Health Practice

By: Richard U'Ren

Social Perspective explores the impact of social factors on individual health, a topic often overlooked in the practice of psychiatry, psychology, and medicine. Richard U'Ren synthesizes viewpoints and information usually dispersed among many disciplines to show how social roles, political-economic conditions, and the social stratification system all contribute to individual well-being or disorder. U'Ren investigates how access to income, education, and social affiliations buffers individuals against stress and facilitates coping. He demonstrates that those who lack access to such resources suffer the poorest health and the greatest mental distress — a problem that has only grown more challenging with rising inequality. Adding a new dimension to understandings of mental health, mental illness, and psychological distress, Social Perspective offers clinicians a concise account of society's impact on the individual.

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University of Toronto Press

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1442695218

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Aligned Carbon Nanotubes

Physics, Concepts, Fabrication and Devices

By: Zhifeng Ren,Yucheng Lan,Yang Wang

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Aligned Carbon Nanotubes

Physics, Concepts, Fabrication and Devices

By: Zhifeng Ren,Yucheng Lan,Yang Wang

This book gives a survey of the physics and fabrication of carbon nanotubes and their applications in optics, electronics, chemistry and biotechnology. It focuses on the structural characterization of various carbon nanotubes, fabrication of vertically or parallel aligned carbon nanotubes on substrates or in composites, physical properties for their alignment, and applications of aligned carbon nanotubes in field emission, optical antennas, light transmission, solar cells, chemical devices, bio-devices, and many others. Major fabrication methods are illustrated in detail, particularly the most widely used PECVD growth technique on which various device integration schemes are based, followed by applications such as electrical interconnects, nanodiodes, optical antennas, and nanocoax solar cells, whereas current limitations and challenges are also be discussed to lay the foundation for future developments.

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3642304907

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What Momma Left Me

By: Ren�e Watson

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What Momma Left Me

By: Ren�e Watson

After the death of their mother, thirteen-year-old Serenity Evans and her younger brother go to live with their grandparents, who try to keep them safe from bad influences and help them come to terms with what has happened to their family. Includes recipe for red velvet cake.

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1599904462

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Public Interests in International Investment Law

Balancing Protection for Investor and Environment

By: Qiang Ren

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Public Interests in International Investment Law

Balancing Protection for Investor and Environment

By: Qiang Ren

Are conflicts between the ‘old capitalists’ and ‘new money’ manifest in today’s economy? Are investment treaties, which have traditionally been used to protect capital exporting states, now beginning to cause unwelcome side effects for them? International investment law has long been held as an economic and political instrument in the regime of international investment, with international investment treaties having been concluded to protect foreign investment and investors for a substantial period of time. However, the emerging new economic powers from the Third World are causing this to change. Taking the unique perspective of environmental protection in host states against states’ obligations to protect and promote foreign investments under the existing international investment treaty practice and dispute settlement practices, this book examines this inescapable conflict. This is the first major work in this field to interpret investment treaty provisions by introducing environmental reflection. It offers proposals for rethinking and reshaping the current pro-investor international investment law through taking up broad environmental exceptions.

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Cambridge Scholars Publishing

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1527526003

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Finite Element Methods for Structures with Large Stochastic Variations

By: Isaac Elishakoff,Yongjian Ren

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Finite Element Methods for Structures with Large Stochastic Variations

By: Isaac Elishakoff,Yongjian Ren

The finite element method (FEM) can be successfully applied to various field problems in solid mechanics, fluid mechanics and electrical engineering. This text discusses finite element methods for structures with large stochastic variations.

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Oxford University Press, USA

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0198526318

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Thrushes

By: Peter Clement,Ren Hathway

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Thrushes

By: Peter Clement,Ren Hathway

This book is devoted to the 162 species of thrush, one of the most widespread and well-known families of birds in the world. This is the first book for almost a century solely devoted to thrushes, one of the most widespread and well-known bird families. It is a comprehensive treatment of the world's 162 species of true thrush and includes many of the most familiar garden species, as well as some of the rarest, most elusive and least known of all birds. This family also includes, as may be expected, some of the bird world's most accomplished songsters. Thrushes contains detailed information on identification and distribution, with a full description of each species, including reference to all recognised races, with emphasis given to vocalisations, which are often of key importance in determining speciation. Other sections deal with habitat and range, movements (many species are long-distance migrants), and breeding behaviour. For the first time, all species in the family Turdidae are illustrated in full colour, with a series of supplementary line drawings depicting particular aspects of shape or plumage. The 60 colour plates comprise approximately 540 images, illustrating adults, immatures, and most of the distinctive races. The plates are accompanied by colour maps showing the breeding and wintering range for each species. Thrushes is a wonderful addition to the award-winning Helm Identification Guide series, and will surely become the standard reference work to these birds.

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A&C Black

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1408135426

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The Wisdom of Wildness

Healing the Trauma of Domestication

By: Ren Hurst

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The Wisdom of Wildness

Healing the Trauma of Domestication

By: Ren Hurst

A guide to rewilding your heart, so you can undomesticate your life • Explores 13 principles of unconditional love for addressing the trauma of domestication, healing relationships, and restoring deep connection to the inner guidance of your wild soul • Explains the nature of trauma from the perspective of emotional development • Provides experiential practices for the cultivation of authentic relationships that are free of exploitation and codependency HOW CAN WE RECLAIM our wild soul and approach life with authenticity and emotional maturity? Looking deeply into the nature of domestication and humanity’s relationship to other animals, Ren Hurst finds our own domestication--and our resultant disconnection from nature--to be the root trauma for much of the human experience, which we seem to perpetuate by domesticating others. Ren offers another path: she reverse-engineered the conditioning process that leads to domestication and discovered a practical road map for deprogramming and undomesticating yourself in order to heal, restore connection, and reclaim the innate wisdom of wildness within. Sharing enlightening moments from her journey with a half-wild husky, Denali, The Wisdom of Wildness shows how only when emotional awareness and authentic leadership link in with your own wild parts can an authentic relationship between human and animal--or between oneself and another person--be possible. In her transformative body of work, Sanctuary13, Ren unveils 13 principles of unconditional love for deprogramming yourself, healing the trauma of domestication, and reviving deep connection to inner guidance, your wild soul, and, ultimately, freedom. Experiential practices help you cultivate authentic, undomesticated relationships free of exploitation and codependency, whether with human or animal companions. Instinct, intuition, and inspiration are just waiting to be reclaimed on this paradigm-shifting path toward healing and true soul connection.

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Simon and Schuster

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1644116804

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China's eBook Evolution

Disruptive Models and Emerging Book Cultures

By: Xiang Ren

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China's eBook Evolution

Disruptive Models and Emerging Book Cultures

By: Xiang Ren

This Element explores the changing landscape of eBook businesses and cultures in China in the past two decades and examines how disruptive innovation and the platform economy have transformed one of the world's largest book markets. Through an evolutionary perspective, this Element documents and analyses the emergence, growth, and refinement of disruptive models in three areas of trade publishing, including free eBook developments, digital self-publishing, and platformed social reading. It offers a critical account of the complex interplay between emerging technologies, business innovations, and book cultures and conceptualises China's eBook evolution as both a part of global digital publishing transformation in the platform age and an embodiment of local dynamics in a transitional society. This Element is essential for scholars, students, publishers, and the interested publics to understand China's digital publishing innovations and their global implications.

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Cambridge University Press

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1009464892

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Navigating Human Services Organizations

Essential Information for Thriving and Surviving in Agencies

By: Rich Furman,Margaret Gibelman,Ren Winnett

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Navigating Human Services Organizations

Essential Information for Thriving and Surviving in Agencies

By: Rich Furman,Margaret Gibelman,Ren Winnett

It has been 17 years since the first edition of Navigating Human Service Organizations (Navigating) was published-and about twenty years since the Margaret Gibelman began working on a unique and engaging textbook that has been used in many dozens of classrooms. I did not participate in the initial writing of the book, I joined the project later. Yet shorty after it was released, I reviewed it for possible adoption for a practice class, so can semi-dispassionately reflect upon the initial notes I made about the latest book of the director of the doctoral program from which I graduated"--

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0197531040

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Prosperity Gospel Latinos and Their American Dream

By: Tony Tian-Ren Lin

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Prosperity Gospel Latinos and Their American Dream

By: Tony Tian-Ren Lin

In this immersive ethnography, Tony Tian-Ren Lin explores the reasons that Latin American immigrants across the United States are increasingly drawn to Prosperity Gospel Pentecostalism, a strand of Protestantism gaining popularity around the world. Lin contends that Latinos embrace Prosperity Gospel, which teaches that believers may achieve both divine salvation and worldly success, because it helps them account for the contradictions of their lives as immigrants. Weaving together his informants' firsthand accounts of their religious experiences and everyday lives, Lin offers poignant insight into how they see their faith transforming them both as individuals and as communities. The theology fuses salvation with material goods so that as these immigrants pursue spiritual rewards they are also, perhaps paradoxically, striving for the American dream. But after all, Lin observes, prosperity is the gospel of the American dream. In this way, while becoming better Prosperity Gospel Pentecostals they are also adopting traditional white American norms. Yet this is not a story of smooth assimilation as most of these immigrants must deal with the immensity of the broader cultural and political resistance to their actually becoming Americans. Rather, Prosperity Gospel Pentecostalism gives Latinos the logic and understanding of themselves as those who belong in this country yet remain perpetual outsiders.

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UNC Press Books

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1469658968

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Child and Youth Well-being in China

By: Lijun Chen,Dali L. Yang,Di Zhou,Qiang Ren

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Child and Youth Well-being in China

By: Lijun Chen,Dali L. Yang,Di Zhou,Qiang Ren

The true measure of any society is how it treats its children, who are in turn that society’s future. Making use of data from the longitudinal Chinese Family Panel Studies survey, the authors of this timely study provide a multi-faceted description and analysis of China’s younger generations. They assess the economic, physical, and social-emotional well-being as well as the cognitive performance and educational attainment of China's children and youth. They pay special attention to the significance of family and community contexts, including the impact of parental absence on millions of left-behind children. Throughout the volume, the authors delineate various forms of disparities, especially the structural inequalities maintained by the Chinese Party-state and the vulnerabilities of children and youth in fragile families and communities. They also analyze the social attitudes and values of Chinese youth. Having grown up in a period of sustained prosperity and greater individual choice, the younger Chinese cohorts are more independent in spirit, more open-minded socially, and significantly less deferential to authority than older cohorts. There is growing recognition in China of the importance of investing in children’s future and of helping the less advantaged. Substantial improvements in child and youth well-being have been achieved in a time of growing economic prosperity. Strong political commitment is needed to sustain existing efforts and to overcome the many obstacles that remain. This book will be of considerable interest to researchers of Chinese society and development.

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Routledge

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0429627734

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Deployable Multimodal Machine Intelligence

Applications in Biomedical Engineering

By: Hongliang Ren

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Deployable Multimodal Machine Intelligence

Applications in Biomedical Engineering

By: Hongliang Ren

This book highlights the principles, design and characterization of mechanically compliant soft and foldable robots. Traditional rigid robots with bulky footprints and complicated components prolong the design iteration and optimization for keyhole and minimally invasive transluminal applications. Therefore, there is an interest in developing soft and foldable robots with remote actuation, multimodal sensing and machine intelligence. This book discusses the use of foldable and cuttable structures to design biomimetic deployable soft robots, that can exhibit a fair number of motions with consistency and repeatability. It presents the overall design principles, methodology, instrumentation, metamorphic sensing, multi-modal perception, and machine intelligence for creating untethered foldable active structures. These robotic structures can generate a variety of motions such as wave induction, compression, inchworm, peristalsis, flipping, tumbling, walking, swimming, flexion/extension etc. Remote actuation can control motions along regular and irregular surfaces from proximal sides. For self-deployable medical robots, motion diversity and shape reconfiguration are crucial factors. Deployable robots, with the use of malleable and resilient smart actuators, hold this crucial advantage over their conventional rigid robot counterparts. Such flexible structures capable of being compressed and expanded with intelligence perceptions hold enormous potential in biomedical applications.

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Springer Nature

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9811959323

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Landscapes for the People

George Alexander Grant, First Chief Photographer of the National Park Service

By: Ren Davis,Helen Davis

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Landscapes for the People

George Alexander Grant, First Chief Photographer of the National Park Service

By: Ren Davis,Helen Davis

George Alexander Grant is an unknown elder in the field of American landscape photography. Just as they did the work of his contemporaries Ansel Adams, Edward Weston, Eliot Porter, and others, millions of people viewed Grant’s photographs; unlike those contemporaries, few even knew Grant’s name. Landscapes for the People shares his story through his remarkable images and a compelling biography profiling patience, perseverance, dedication, and an unsurpassed love of the natural and historic places that Americans chose to preserve. A Pennsylvania native, Grant was introduced to the parks during the summer of 1922 and resolved to make parks work and photography his life. Seven years later, he received his dream job and spent the next quarter century visiting the four corners of the country to produce images in more than one hundred national parks, monuments, historic sites, battlefields, and other locations. He was there to visually document the dramatic expansion of the National Park Service during the New Deal, including the work of the Civilian Conservation Corps. Grant’s images are the work of a master craftsman. His practiced eye for composition and exposure and his patience to capture subjects in their finest light are comparable to those of his more widely known contemporaries. Nearly fifty years after his death, and in concert with the 2016 centennial of the National Park Service, it is fitting that George Grant’s photography be introduced to a new generation of Americans.

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University of Georgia Press

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0820348414

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Engaging Comparative Urbanism

Art Spaces in Beijing and Berlin

By: Ren, Julie

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Engaging Comparative Urbanism

Art Spaces in Beijing and Berlin

By: Ren, Julie

Julie Ren investigates the motivations and practices of making art spaces in Beijing and Berlin to engage with comparative urbanism as a framework for doing research, beyond its significance as a critical intervention. Across vastly different contexts, where universal theories of modernity or development seem increasingly misplaced, she innovatively explores the ways that art spaces employ creative capital to sustain themselves in a competitive urban landscape. She shows how these art spaces are embedded within a politics of aspiration and demonstrates that aspiration is an important lens through which to understand the nature of, and possibilities for, urban change.

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Policy Press

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152920707X

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Foundations of Average-Cost Nonhomogeneous Controlled Markov Chains

By: Xi-Ren Cao

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Foundations of Average-Cost Nonhomogeneous Controlled Markov Chains

By: Xi-Ren Cao

This Springer brief addresses the challenges encountered in the study of the optimization of time-nonhomogeneous Markov chains. It develops new insights and new methodologies for systems in which concepts such as stationarity, ergodicity, periodicity and connectivity do not apply. This brief introduces the novel concept of confluencity and applies a relative optimization approach. It develops a comprehensive theory for optimization of the long-run average of time-nonhomogeneous Markov chains. The book shows that confluencity is the most fundamental concept in optimization, and that relative optimization is more suitable for treating the systems under consideration than standard ideas of dynamic programming. Using confluencity and relative optimization, the author classifies states as confluent or branching and shows how the under-selectivity issue of the long-run average can be easily addressed, multi-class optimization implemented, and Nth biases and Blackwell optimality conditions derived. These results are presented in a book for the first time and so may enhance the understanding of optimization and motivate new research ideas in the area.

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3030566781

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Autophagy and Cardiometabolic Diseases

From Molecular Mechanisms to Translational Medicine

By: Jun Ren,James R. Sowers,Yingmei Zhang

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Autophagy and Cardiometabolic Diseases

From Molecular Mechanisms to Translational Medicine

By: Jun Ren,James R. Sowers,Yingmei Zhang

Autophagy and Cardiometabolic Diseases: From Moleculer Mechanisms to Translational Medicine covers the science of autophagy in relation to cardiometabolic diseases and the future therapeutic potentials of autophagy regulation in these processes. Processes are not described in isolation, but in concert with other cellular and/or metabolic processes, such as lipogenesis, glucose, energy metabolism and apoptosis. This approach recognizes the multifactorial nature of cardiometabolic diseases, including obesity, diabetes, insulin resistance, hypertension and dyslipidemia. The book provides explanations, while also distinguishing the delicate role for autophagy in pathogenesis and exploring complications for cardiometabolic diseases. By targeting autophagy, it offers new avenues for drug discovery and treatment for cardiometabolic anomalies. It is a perfect resource for cardiology researchers, scientists and medical practitioners. - Explains the processes inherent in the protein quality control for pathogenesis and complications of cardiometabolic diseases - Provides knowledge from internationally recognized contributors in the field - Incorporates a translational approach, covering the basic cellular biology of autophagy and presenting the role of autophagy regulation for both pathogenesis and complication in cardiometabolic diseases - Contains access to a companion website with additional illustrations

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0128054425

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Internet GIS

Distributed Geographic Information Services for the Internet and Wireless Networks

By: Zhong-Ren Peng,Ming-Hsiang Tsou

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Internet GIS

Distributed Geographic Information Services for the Internet and Wireless Networks

By: Zhong-Ren Peng,Ming-Hsiang Tsou

* Provides case studies in each chapter illustrating how principles work in practice. * Compares strengths and weaknesses of off-the-shelf software packages.

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John Wiley & Sons

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0471359238

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9780471359234

The Chang’E-1 Topographic Atlas of the Moon

By: Chunlai Li,Jianjun Liu,Lingli Mu,Xin Ren,Wei Zuo

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The Chang’E-1 Topographic Atlas of the Moon

By: Chunlai Li,Jianjun Liu,Lingli Mu,Xin Ren,Wei Zuo

This atlas is based on the lunar global Digital Elevation Models (DEM) of Chang'E-1 (CE-1), and presents CCD stereo image data with digital photogrammetry. The spatial resolution of the DEM in this atlas is 500m, with horizontal accuracy of 192m and vertical accuracy of 120m. Color-shaded relief maps with contour lines are used to show the lunar topographical characteristics. The topographical data gathered by CE-1 can provide fundamental information for the study of lunar topographical, morphological and geological structures, as well as for lunar evolution research.

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Springer

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3662484390

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9783662484395

Practical Intracardiac Echocardiography in Electrophysiology

By: Jian-Fang Ren,Francis E. Marchlinski,David J. Callans,David Schwartsman

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Practical Intracardiac Echocardiography in Electrophysiology

By: Jian-Fang Ren,Francis E. Marchlinski,David J. Callans,David Schwartsman

Tremendous advances in intracardiac echocardiography (ICE) have coincided with the evolution of interventional electrophysiology. This book is designed to provide both the electrophysiologist and echocardiographer with an in-depth view of the role and value of ICE during electrophysiologic procedures. A guide to techniques used for optimal ICE imaging in cardiac electrophysiology is provided. In addition, new and less-recognized uses of ICE in electrophysiological procedures are described and their clinical applications are presented. Illustrated with over 500 images, many of which are in color, the book can also be used as a practical atlas. Readers need not be experts in the field of echocardiography to benefit from this practical approach to intracardiac imaging in electrophysiology.

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0470994967

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Enriched Composition and Inference in the Argument Structure of Chinese

By: Ren Zhang

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Enriched Composition and Inference in the Argument Structure of Chinese

By: Ren Zhang

As with many other languages, Mandarin Chinese exhibits a rich variety of ways in expressing the arguments of the predicator in a sentence. Unlike other languages, such variation is typically devoid of any formal marking. Previous attempts in explaining such phenomena usually focus on the syntax as an explanatory tool. This book argues that a large majority of such argument structure phenomena are better accounted for by recourse to enriched representations in lexical semantics. Drawing insights from conceptual semantics, cognitive semantics, Generative Lexicon, construction grammar and formal syntax, this book constitutes the first attempt at a comprehensive account of lexical semantic issues in Mandarin Chinese.

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Routledge

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1135876428

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9781135876425

Business Leadership Development in China

By: Shuang Ren,Robert Wood,Ying Zhu

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Business Leadership Development in China

By: Shuang Ren,Robert Wood,Ying Zhu

This book argues that China’s businesses, and hence China’s future economic development, face a huge crisis in that there is a considerable "leadership gap" in China, with a shortage of competent business leaders, at a time when new leadership skills are required urgently, as China’s businesses evolve rapidly and engage ever more with the global economy. Moreover, the book argues, training is an undervalued and often marginalised activity in Chinese companies. The book outlines the nature of this problem, and goes on to demonstrate that there is a new breed of manager emerging in China, aware of the need to upgrade management skills, moving away from skills appropriate in traditional industrial firms, and emphasising more flexibility, positive engagement with workers, and competence in the market economy. The book includes an evaluation of different management approaches in China, reports on extensive original research, including interviews with practising managers, and sets out how self-development in widespread, deep and important.

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1317752783

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