Wealth is in the eye of the beholder. --Unknown Expensive gaming systems, designer clothes, unlimited cash and jewelry-coveted treasures that often demonstrate the wealth of a person. But wealth has another meaning, one that includes something more precious than the rarest gem: compassion, faith, friendship, love for the family and community. In this collection of heart-warming short stories, meet Rachel, who is haunted by a dark secret, or take a journey into compassion with Beatrice, both who learn the true meaning of Wealth. Thought-provoking questions are at the of every tale, designed to assist the reader in their own journey of self-discovery and fulfillment.
This book presents a consistent development of the Kohn-Nirenberg type global quantization theory in the setting of graded nilpotent Lie groups in terms of their representations. It contains a detailed exposition of related background topics on homogeneous Lie groups, nilpotent Lie groups, and the analysis of Rockland operators on graded Lie groups together with their associated Sobolev spaces. For the specific example of the Heisenberg group the theory is illustrated in detail. In addition, the book features a brief account of the corresponding quantization theory in the setting of compact Lie groups. The monograph is the winner of the 2014 Ferran Sunyer i Balaguer Prize.
Galectins are glycan-binding proteins implicated in intracellular signaling, cell–cell communication, cellular proliferation and survival. These endogenous lectins have emerged as key players in the tumor microenvironment. They are expressed and released by different cell types, including tumor, stromal, endothelial and immune cells. Galectins critically influence tumor progression by modulating tumor cell migration, invasiveness, angiogenesis and antitumor immune responses. Intracellularly, galectins modulate survival and proliferation and they interact with a variety of signaling pathways. Given these extracellular and intracellular functions and their regulated expression at sites of tumor growth and metastasis, galectins have stimulated great interest as relevant biomarkers and novel targets in cancer therapy.
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