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Mama's Hats (Hardcover)
Kim Gatewood; Illustrated by Cynthia J Jacksonville Ar Mosley; Edited by Tammie J Killeen Tx Rhodes
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R611
Discovery Miles 6 110
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An original and energetic examination of the relationship between
theology, faith, religious history and national politics in the
works of Oscar Wilde, which focuses in particular on his life-long
attraction to Catholicism. Wilde's Protestant heritage is also
scrutinized, and its continued influence on him, as well as his
antagonism towards it, is related to the narrative modes he chose
and the philosophical positions he adopted.
Ensuring the safety of new medical products remains a major
challenge for the pharmaceutical industry. Cardiac safety,
particularly drug-induced heart rhythm abnormalities, remains an
important cause of pipeline attrition and has resulted in countless
major product recalls or label changes. The risk of encountering
this major adverse event continues to shape the drug development
and regulatory landscape.Extensive research over the past decade
has shed light on the root causes of arrhythmias that are triggered
by medications and has helped drive, and optimize, drug safety
testing. However, current cardiac safety platforms have several
limitations and there remains a pressing unmet need to improve the
predictive power of today's drug safety tests.Fundamental to
addressing the problem of drug-induced arrhythmias, and to reducing
the impact of this safety signal on drug development, is a complete
understanding of how these events may arise, what cardiac safety
tests are currently used, and what opportunities there are to
enhance patient safety and reduce the risk of detecting cardiac
toxicity in later stages of product commercialization. By
introducing the reader to these core concepts, this book delivers
key insight into the increasingly important and dynamic field of
cardiac safety.
Because magnetically confined plasmas are generally not found in a
state of thermodynamic equilibrium, they have been studied
extensively with methods of applied kinetic theory. In closed
magnetic field line confinement devices such as the tokamak,
non-Maxwellian distortions usually occur as a result of auxiliary
heating and transport. In magnetic mirror configurations even the
intended steady state plasma is far from local thermodynamic
equilibrium because of losses along open magnetic field lines. In
both of these major fusion devices, kinetic models based on the
Boltzmann equation with Fokker-Planck collision terms have been
successful in representing plasma behavior. The heating of plasmas
by energetic neutral beams or microwaves, the production and
thermalization of a-particles in thermonuclear reactor plasmas, the
study of runaway electrons in tokamaks, and the performance of
two-energy compo nent fusion reactors are some examples of
processes in which the solution of kinetic equations is appropriate
and, moreover, generally necessary for an understanding of the
plasma dynamics. Ultimately, the problem is to solve a nonlinear
partial differential equation for the distribution function of each
charged plasma species in terms of six phase space variables and
time. The dimensionality of the problem may be reduced through
imposing certain symmetry conditions. For example, fewer spatial
dimensions are needed if either the magnetic field is taken to be
uniform or the magnetic field inhomogeneity enters principally
through its variation along the direction of the field."
An original and energetic examination of the relationship between
theology, faith, religious history and national politics in the
works of Oscar Wilde, which focuses in particular on his life-long
attraction to Catholicism. Wilde's Protestant heritage is also
scrutinised, and its continued influence on him, as well as his
antagonism towards it, is related to the narrative modes he chose
and the philosophical positions he adopted.
A detailed look at the expansion and renewal taking place on the
three U of I campuses The University of Illinois System’s
universities have undergone a dramatic transformation. This
lavishly illustrated volume showcases the major capital projects
and renovations dedicated to keeping facilities on the cutting edge
while at the same time preserving history at the universities in
Urbana-Champaign, Chicago, and Springfield. Fueled by an ambitious
capital initiative launched in 2018, these essential and
forward-looking changes include more than 500 projects valued at $4
billion over 10 years. The initiative harnesses a mix of innovative
funding programs like public-private partnerships, thoughtful use
of capital reserves and bonding authority, and generous state
funding. Covering completed and ongoing projects, Building Momentum
offers a one- or two-page feature on each undertaking that covers
its history and purpose while providing specific details about its
unit, campus, architect, square footage or renovation size, budget,
and LEED or other certifications. More than 100 architectural
drawings and commissioned and historical photographs round out the
descriptions.
Global society is once again focusing its attention on the Amazon,
but the outlook is bleak. Top-down approaches that depend on
macroeconomic policies are not changing the behaviour of the
inhabitants of the forest frontier. Efforts to improve law
enforcement have failed because frontier societies are profoundly
unequal; inequality encourages informality, breeding corruption and
illegality. Indigenous people have stepped into the breach and are
doing what they can to stave off disaster, but they are vastly
outnumbered. Most inhabitants - who are also citizens that vote -
pursue conventional production models that are fundamentally
non-sustainable. They might choose different pathways, given the
opportunity, but these are limited by the frontier economy and the
social reality of their communities. We are losing the Amazon.
Volume One of Tim Killeen's serial monograph delivers an
unvarnished description of the obstacles to conserving the world's
largest and most important tropical forest. Chapter One starts with
a lucid narrative of the complex and interrelated social and
economic forces driving deforestation, with a critical review of
policy initiatives designed to change that trajectory towards a
more sustainable future. Chapters Two (Infrastructure), Three
(Agriculture) and Four (Land) lay bare the history, economics and
business models that underpin the conventional economy. Two further
volumes will address other key aspects of a sustainable future,
including: the extractive sector (Ch. 5); the culture wars that
divide the populace (Ch. 6); evolving governance systems (Ch. 7);
the potential of the forest economy (Ch. 8); advances in
biodiversity science (Ch. 9); the looming impact of climate change
(Ch.10); the indigenous awakening (Ch.11); conservation policy
(Ch.12); and, finally, the future (Ch.13). Killeen's enormously
ambitious effort seeks to understand and explain all the complex
and interrelated phenomena driving (and impeding) change across the
region. If you are concerned about the fate of the Amazon, you must
read this book.
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Mama's Hats (Paperback)
Kim Gatewood; Illustrated by Cynthia J Jacksonville Ar Mosley; Edited by Tammie J Killeen Tx Rhodes
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R337
Discovery Miles 3 370
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Parque Nacional Noel Kempff Mercado, located in eastern Bolivia
where the moist forests of the Amazon meet the dry forests of the
Cerrado, contains numerous unique ecosystems and exceptionally high
levels of biodiversity. This book presents the results not only of
an intensive biological survey of the area conducted in 1991, but
also of long-term research conducted from 1987 to 1995. Among other
findings, the survey discovered 26 new species of plants, one new
mammal species, and three new species of reptiles.
This report, with text in both English and Spanish, includes
extensive data appendices, a large fold-out satellite map of
vegetation, and conservation recommendations for the region.
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