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Distilling the available knowledge on ethanol-induced liver damage
and directly complementing the available bio-medical literature,
Ethanol and the Liver covers pathogenic and clinical aspects of
alcoholic liver disease. Providing broader coverage of the subject
than any available monograph, the editors and their panel of
experts relate basic science to pathogenesis and treatment
modalities and explore future developments. Coverage includes:
Histopathology-fatty liver, alcoholic hepatitis, and cirrhosis
Ethanol metabolism and its consequences Mechanisms in the
pathogenesis of ALD, including genetics, immunology, and
insulin-like growth factors Extrahepatic effects of ALD and the
role of alcohol in potentiating liver damage due to other
etiologies Interaction of alcohol with viral hepatitis
Epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment Management strategies,
including transplantation The vast amount of knowledge and
expertise gathered in this book make it an unparalleled resource.
Contents: Part 1. Specific Lesions 1. Alcoholic Fatty Liver Andrew J. Bathgate and Kenneth J. Simpson 2. Alcoholic Hepatitus H. Denk, K. Zatloukal and C. StumptnerIN 3. Fibrosis in Alcoholic Cirrhosis Samuel W. French Part 2. Direct and Indirect Consequences of Alcohol Metabolism 4. Genetics of Ethanol Metabolism and Alcoholic Liver Disease Paul Y. Kwo and David W. Crabb 5. Acetaldehyde Adducts: Role in Ethanol-Induced Liver Disease John Koskinas Part 3. Mechanisms of Damage 6. Free Radicals and Alcohol-Induced Liver Injury Emanuele Albano 7. Ethanol and the Hepatic Microcirculation Robert S. McCuskey 8. Cytokines and Alcohol Liver Disease F. Javier Laso, J. Ignacio Madruga Alberto Orfao 9. Adhesion Molecules and Chemokines in Alcoholic Liver Disease Neil C. Fisher and David H. Adams 10. Role of Endotoxin and Kupffer Cells as Triggers of Hypoxia-Reoxygenation in Alcoholic Liver Injury R.G. Thurman, B.U. Bradford, K.T. Knecht, Y. Iimuro, G.E. Arteel, M. Yin, H.D. Connor, C. Rivera, J.A. Raleigh, M.V. Frankenberg, Y. Adachi, D.T. Forman, D. Brenner, M. Kadiiska and R.P. Mason 11. Ethanol and Protein Turnover Elena Volpi 12. Insulin-Like Growth Factors: Clinical and Experimental Anthony J. Donaghy 13. Cellular Mechanisms of Liver Regeneration and the Effect of Alcohol Martin Phillips, Elika Kashef and Robin Hughes 14. Alcohol and Hepatocellular Carcinoma Stephen D. Ryder 15. Animal Models of Ethanol-Induced Liver Disease Harri A. Järveläinen and Kai O. Lindros Part 4. Epidemiology and Diagnosis 16. Epidemiology and Comparative Incidence of Alcohol-Induced Liver Disease John B. Saunders and Benedict M. Devereaux 17. Serum Diagnosis of Alcoholic Liver Disease and Markers of Ethanol Intake Onni Niemelä Part 5. Extrahepatic Effects 18. Extrahepatic Effects of Alcohol: An Overview Helen L. Reeves and Christopher P. Day 19. Endocrine System Christian Gluud 20. Cardiomyopathy and Skeletal Muscle Myopathy Alvaro Urbano-Márquez, Joaquim Fernández-Solà and Ramon Estruch 21. Cerebral Consequences of Alcoholic Liver Disease Roger F. Butterworth Part 6. Management 22. General Management of Alcoholic Liver Disease Martin Phillips and John O'Grady 23. The Role of the Psychiatrist in the Treatment of Alcoholic Liver Disease José Martínez-Raga and E. Jane Marshall 24. Pharmacological Treatment for Alcoholic Hepatitis and Cirrhosis: Present Practice and Future Strategies Philippe Mathurin and Thierry Poynard 25. Nutritional Support in Alcoholic Liver Disease: Practical Management and Future Strategies Angela Madden 26. Alcohol and Viral Hepatitis: Interactions and Management Albert Parés and Joan Caballería 27. Liver Transplantation in Alcoholic Liver Disease Stephen P. Pereira and Roger Williams
This book presents the methodology and applications of Data
Envelopment Analysis (DEA) in measuring productivity, efficiency
and effectiveness in Financial Services firms such as banks, bank
branches, stock markets, pension funds, mutual funds, insurance
firms, credit unions, risk tolerance, and corporate failure
prediction. Financial service DEA research includes banking;
insurance businesses; hedge, pension and mutual funds; and credit
unions. Significant business transactions among financial service
organizations such as bank mergers and acquisitions and valuation
of IPOs have also been the focus of DEA research. The book looks at
the range of DEA uses for financial services by presenting prior
studies, examining the current capabilities reflected in the most
recent research, and projecting future new uses of DEA in finance
related applications.
""Within twenty-four standard hours we will sit firmly astride the
communications link that connects the worlds of the Republic. . . .
Our control will be a dagger thrust directly at Coruscant. This is
the move that will win the war for us."
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With these ominous words, Pors Tonith, ruthless minion of Count
Dooku, declares the fate of the Republic sealed. Commanding a
Separatist invasion force more than one million strong, the cunning
financier-turned-warrior lays siege to the planet Praesitlyn, home
of the strategic intergalactic communications center that is key to
the Republic's survival in the Clone Wars. Left unchallenged, this
decisive strike could indeed pave the way for the toppling of more
Republic worlds . . . and ultimate victory for the Separatists.
Retaliation must be swift and certain.
But engaging the enemy throughout the galaxy has already stretched
Supreme Chancellor Palpatine's armies to the limit. There is no
choice but to move against the surging waves of invading
battle-droids on Praesitlyn with only a small contingent of clone
soldiers. Commanding them will be Jedi Master Nejaa
Halcyon-hand-picked by the Council for the do-or-die mission. And
at his side, skilled young starfighter pilot Anakin Skywalker, a
promising young Jedi Padawan eager to be freed of the bonds of
apprenticeship-and to be awarded the title of Jedi Knight.
Shoulder to shoulder with a rogue Republic army officer and his
battle-hardened crew, a hulking Rondian mercenary with an
insatiable taste for combat, and a duo of ready-for-anything
soldiers, the Jedi generals take to the skies and the punishing
desert terrain of occupied Praesitlyn-to bring the battle to the
Separatist forces. Already outnumbered and outgunned, when
confronted with an enemy ultimatum that could lead to the massacre
of innocents, they may also be out of options. Unless Anakin
Skywalker can strike a crucial balance between the wisdom born of
the Force . . . and the instincts of a born warrior."
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"From the Hardcover edition."
Here is an in-depth guide to the most powerful available
benchmarking technique for improving service organization
performance - Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). The book outlines
DEA as a benchmarking technique, identifies high cost service
units, isolates specific changes for elevating performance to the
best practice services level providing high quality service at low
cost and most important, it guides the improvement process.
Service Productivity Management is an in-depth guide to using the
most powerful available benchmarking technique to improve service
organization performance - Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA). It
outlines the use of DEA as a benchmarking technique. It identifies
high costs service units. It isolates specific changes to each
service unit to elevate their performance to the best practice
services level providing high quality service at low cost. And most
important, it guides the improvement process. The discussion and
methods are all supported by case-study applications to
organizations that have sought and have successfully improved its
performance. The techniques discussed in the book are accessible to
any and all managers with access to Microsoft Excel spreadsheet
software (Excel). Step-by-step guidance is provided to enable any
reader to apply DEA and the Excel software to their organization
with a ready-to-use DEA software CD for Microsoft Excel Add-in to
run DEA analyses on any set of organizations of interest.
Antonio Negri is known in the English-speaking world primarily
through his collaborations with Michael Hardt; Empire , Multitude,
and Commonwealth have become some of the most widely discussed
political works of recent times. Here, Reading Negri unravels the
ideas and life of the man whose work has become a rallying point
for students, workers, and intellectuals opposing capitalist
globalization. It also delves into many of the thinker's other
writings, such as his novel readings of Machiavelli, Descartes, and
Spinoza -- revolutionary reinterpretations of the central texts of
Marx -- and his works of contemporary political analysis. Whereas
most critical accounts of Negri focus only on his collaborations
with Hardt, this insightful collection of essays presents readers
with a fuller picture of his thoughts, one that does justice to his
ability to use the great texts of the philosophical tradition to
illuminate the present. This collection contains essays from
scholars representing a broad spectrum of disciplines and
interests, and offers both criticism of and positive commentary on
Negri's work.
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