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Thyroid and Parathyroid Diseases

New Insights into Some Old and Some New Issues

By: Laura Ward

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Thyroid and Parathyroid Diseases

New Insights into Some Old and Some New Issues

By: Laura Ward

This book was designed to meet the requirements of all who wish to acquire profound knowledge of basic, clinical, psychiatric and laboratory concepts as well as surgical techniques regarding thyroid and parathyroid glands. It was divided into three main sections: 1. Evaluating the Thyroid Gland and its Diseases includes basic and clinical information on the most novel and quivering issues in the area. 2. Psychiatric Disturbances Associated to Thyroid Diseases addresses common psychiatric disturbances commonly encountered in the clinical practice. 3. Treatment of Thyroid and Parathyroid Diseases discusses the management of thyroid and parathyroid diseases including new technologies.

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9535102214

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9789535102212

The New European Security Disorder

By: S. Duke

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The New European Security Disorder

By: S. Duke

The New European Security Disorder presents a clear and comprehensive overview of the main actors, institutions and changes in European security since the end of the Cold War. Special emphasis is put on the assessment of threats to Europe's security, the lack of coherent leadershop in Bosnia and elsewhere, and the need for pan-European security institutions.

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Springer

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0230390153

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9780230390157

Blooming and Contending

Chinese Literature in the Post-Mao Era

By: Michael S. Duke

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Blooming and Contending

Chinese Literature in the Post-Mao Era

By: Michael S. Duke

Chinese literature has been the slave of politics at least since 1948 and especially during the Cultural Revolution. So repressed and convoluted is most Chinese literature that the West cannot read it as literature at all but rather as sociological and political texts. Professor Duke believes this has changed enough since 1977 to permit genuine literary analysis. This book surveys and analyzes the most important literary events in the PRC from 1977 to 1982. Chapter I covers the significant changes in the Chinese Party line on literature and art during this period and thus provides the backdrop for literary and artistic endeavor. Subsequent chapters deal with the critique of Chinese literature by China's own writers, the neo-realistic fiction of 1979-80, the nonfiction works of a courageous investigative reporter for the People's Daily, and the theme of humanism and its treatment in the works of Bai Hua and Dai Houying. The final chapter discusses the post-Mao generation of young writers, who are trying to create works that go beyond narrowly ideological boundaries of the past and reach toward a true modern Chinese literature.

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Indiana University Press

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0253312027

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9780253312020

Immunosuppression and Human Malignancy

By: David Naor,Benjamin Y. Klein,Nora Tarcic,Jonathan S. Duke-Cohan

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Immunosuppression and Human Malignancy

By: David Naor,Benjamin Y. Klein,Nora Tarcic,Jonathan S. Duke-Cohan

The immune system can deal effectively with the majority of viruses and bacteria, less effectively with parasites, and very poorly with cancer. Why is this so? Why are McFarlane Burnet's and Lewis Thomas' predictions that the immune system is in volved in ridding the body of cancer cells, encapsulated in the catchy phrase "immunologic surveillance," so difficult to experi mentally establish? Cancer differs from infectious agents in being derived from the host. Hence, it has been postulated that cancer cells lack anti gens that the immune system can recognize. They are not "im munogenic. " However, this argument is seriously weakened by the existence of numerous human autoimmune diseases, in which the immune system effectively recognizes and attacks a va riety of self tissues. Thus, the potential clearly exists for recogni tion of the surfaces of tumor cells. Professor Naor and his colleagues have written a book that explores another possible reason: cancer cells are recognized by the immune system-but is it possible that the consequence of recognition is inhibition of the immune system-by suppressor T cells or macrophages? The evolution of the malignant state may only occur in individuals who develop this suppression. This book reviews the evidence that suppressor cells, poorly characterized and difficult to study, may be of fundamental im portance in cancer. In fact, our incapacity to understand the na ture of suppressor cells and their mode of action is one of the ma jor problems in immunology research today.

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279

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Springer Science & Business Media

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146124496X

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9781461244967

The Elusive Quest for European Security

From EDC to CFSP

By: S. Duke

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The Elusive Quest for European Security

From EDC to CFSP

By: S. Duke

The Elusive Quest for European Security provides a detailed overview of the various attempts to incorporate a security and defence role in the European integration process. Consideration is given to why these aspects of the integration process have proven so elusive and what progress has been made towards this goal. The assessment includes topics such as the enlargement of NATO, the EU's Amsterdam Treaty, and the role of the revived Western European Union, as well as the role of the main actors which includes Britain's bid for European leadership in defence, and the changing attitudes of administrations in Washington DC.

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406

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Palgrave Macmillan

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1349417645

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9781349417643

A Life in Hand

Creating the Illuminated Journal

By: Hannah Hinchman,Michael S. Duke

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A Life in Hand

Creating the Illuminated Journal

By: Hannah Hinchman,Michael S. Duke

Describes techniques and exercises for creating an illustrated journal, offers ideas for creative designs, and shares the rewards that keeping a journal can bring.

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160

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Gibbs Smith Publishers

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0879053712

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9780879053710

Worlds of Modern Chinese Fiction

Short Stories & Novellas from the People's Republic, Taiwan & Hong Kong

By: Michael S. Duke

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Worlds of Modern Chinese Fiction

Short Stories & Novellas from the People's Republic, Taiwan & Hong Kong

By: Michael S. Duke

This book's pluralistic, non-dogmatic, and committed investigation of the values of ecological sustainability, economic justice, and human dignity provides balanced analysis of environmental problems and their potential solutions.

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368

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M.E. Sharpe

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0873327578

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9780873327572

Decision Analysis Using Value Focused Thinking to Select Renewable Energy Sources

By: James S. Duke

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Decision Analysis Using Value Focused Thinking to Select Renewable Energy Sources

By: James S. Duke

The United States is heavily dependent on fossil fuels to produce electricity. Renewable energy can provide an alternative source of energy for electricity production as well as reduce fossil fuel consumption. The executive agencies in the U.S. must also reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2010 based on 1990 emission levels as directed by Executive Order. However, there is currently no analysis model to provide guidance toward which renewable energy to select as a course of action. This research effort used value-focused thinking decision analysis to create a model based on inputs from the Air Force Civil Engineer Support Agency. This model allows a decision-maker to easily alter weights and value functions related to renewable energy sources as needed to correspond to the personal values of that person. These values combined with the objective scores obtained from the generated alternatives results in a suggested course of action. The sensitivity analysis shows the changes of the output based on the alterations of the weighting of each measure. All measures were varied to study their influence on the final outcome. Application of the model at three bases showed this model appears to work based on the influencing weights and values of the decision-maker.

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1423515390

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Book's by S. Duke

Thyroid and Parathyroid Diseases

Thyroid and Parathyroid Diseases

The New European Security Disorder

The New European Security Disorder

Blooming and Contending

Blooming and Contending

Immunosuppression and Human Malignancy

Immunosuppression and Human Malignancy

The Elusive Quest for European Security

The Elusive Quest for European Security

A Life in Hand

A Life in Hand

Worlds of Modern Chinese Fiction

Worlds of Modern Chinese Fiction

Decision Analysis Using Value Focused Thinking to Select Renewable Energy Sources

Decision Analysis Using Value Focused Thinking to Select Renewable Energy Sources

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