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“The armed rebellion of poor peasants that began fifty years ago
in Naxalbari, India, continues to this day. Bernard D'Mello sets
out the story of its origins and uneven development, in historical
context. The armed struggle lives on because the conditions that
gave rise to it not only persist, but are yet more severe. To
understand the present and future of India, this story is
essential. And Bernard D’Mello's brilliant account has no
equal.”—John Mage, International Lawyer Although the 1967
revolutionary armed peasant uprising in Naxalbari, at the foot of
the Indian Himalayas, was brutally crushed, the insurgency gained
new life elsewhere in India. In fact, this revolt has turned out to
be the world’s longest-running “people’s war,” and
Naxalbari has come to stand for the road to revolution in India.
What has gone into the making of this protracted Maoist resistance?
Bernard D’Mello’s fascinating narrative answers this question
by tracing the circumstances that gave rise to India’s
“1968”decade of revolutionary humanism and those that led to
the triumph of the “1989” era of appallingly unequal growth
condoned by Hindutva-nationalism, the Indian variant of Nazism.
Will what remains of India’s continuing “1968” bring
twenty-first-century “New Democracy” to the collective agenda?
Or will the ongoing regression of “1989” lead the way to
full-blown semi-fascism and sub-imperialism? India after Naxalbari
is far more than a simple history of the ongoing Naxalite/Maoist
resistance; it is a deeply passionate and informed work that not
only captures the essence of modern Indian history but also tries
to comprehend the present in the context of that history – so
that the oppressed can exercise their power to influence its shape
and outcome.
Experimental and clinical evidence supports the view that the
activation of the renin angiotensin aldosterone system is involved
in cardiovascular pathology including hypertension, heart failure,
myocardial ischemia, and atherosclerosis. The present volume
describes the intricacies involved in these processes, including
the in?uence of prorenin/renin, angiotensin II, angiotensin (1-7),
and aldosterone on cardiac and vascular functions as well as their
involvement in the generation of cardiovascular diseases.
Fundamental aspects like intracellular signaling, regulation of
cell volume in the failing heart, and the presence of an intracrine
renin angiotensin system are discussed. Moreover, the role of the
mineralocorticoid receptor as an important c- ponent of the
intracrine renin angiotensin system and as a regulator of
extracellular action of angiotensin II is described, reinforcing
the view that aldosterone inhibitors are helpful in the treatment
of heart failure and hypertension. Let us hope the imp- tant topics
included here motivate basic and clinical investigators and
contribute to the development of new therapeutic approaches for
cardiovascular diseases. We want to thank the distinguished authors
and Humana Press for the opportunity to publish this important
book. Walmor C. DeMello Edward Frohlich v Contents 1 Systemic
Versus Local Renin Angiotensin Systems. An Overview ...1 Walmor C.
DeMello and Richard N. Re 2 Clinical Import of the Local Renin
Angiotensin Aldosterone Systems ...7 Edward D. Frohlich 3 Renin,
Prorenin, and the (Pro)Renin Receptor ...15 Genevieve Nguyen and
Aurelie Contrepas 4 Local Renin Angiotensin Systems in the
Cardiovascular System ...25 Richard N.
Experimental and clinical evidence supports the view that the
activation of the renin angiotensin aldosterone system is involved
in cardiovascular pathology including hypertension, heart failure,
myocardial ischemia, and atherosclerosis. The present volume
describes the intricacies involved in these processes, including
the in?uence of prorenin/renin, angiotensin II, angiotensin (1-7),
and aldosterone on cardiac and vascular functions as well as their
involvement in the generation of cardiovascular diseases.
Fundamental aspects like intracellular signaling, regulation of
cell volume in the failing heart, and the presence of an intracrine
renin angiotensin system are discussed. Moreover, the role of the
mineralocorticoid receptor as an important c- ponent of the
intracrine renin angiotensin system and as a regulator of
extracellular action of angiotensin II is described, reinforcing
the view that aldosterone inhibitors are helpful in the treatment
of heart failure and hypertension. Let us hope the imp- tant topics
included here motivate basic and clinical investigators and
contribute to the development of new therapeutic approaches for
cardiovascular diseases. We want to thank the distinguished authors
and Humana Press for the opportunity to publish this important
book. Walmor C. DeMello Edward Frohlich v Contents 1 Systemic
Versus Local Renin Angiotensin Systems. An Overview ...1 Walmor C.
DeMello and Richard N. Re 2 Clinical Import of the Local Renin
Angiotensin Aldosterone Systems ...7 Edward D. Frohlich 3 Renin,
Prorenin, and the (Pro)Renin Receptor ...15 Genevieve Nguyen and
Aurelie Contrepas 4 Local Renin Angiotensin Systems in the
Cardiovascular System ...25 Richard N.
An innovative psychiatry textbook that presents behavioral
disorders from the perspective of what is seen in medical settings
The goal of Essentials of Psychiatry in Primary Care is not to make
psychiatrists out of medical clinicians, but rather, to help
clinicians manage common behavioral conditions that most often
present in a medical setting. Essentials of Psychiatry in Primary
Care seeks to integrate medicine and psychiatry --- as the authors'
systems-based biopsychosocial model proposes. The book identifies
physical symptoms as a common mode of presentation of mental health
problems and describes how to integrate them with psychological
symptoms to make diagnoses of mental disorders. Essentials of
Psychiatry in Primary Care also details a behaviorally defined,
evidence-based mental healthcare model that can be effectively used
in a medical setting. The combined experiences in primary care of
the authors --- who specialize in both general internal medicine
and psychiatry --- provide the perfect background for a book of
this nature. Having trained medical students, as well as internal
and family medicine residents since 1986, their experience and
research demonstrates the information they outline is effective and
associated with improved mental and physical health outcomes.
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Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction - Fourth International Conference, ACII 2011, Memphis,TN, USA, October 9-12, 2011; Proceedings, Part II (Paperback)
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The two-volume set LNCS 6974 and LNCS 6975 constitutes the refereed
proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Affective
Computing and Intelligent Interaction, ACII 2011, held in Memphis,
TN, USA, in October 2011. The 135 papers in this two volume set
presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and
selected from 196 submissions. The papers are organized in topical
sections on recognition and synthesis of human affect,
affect-sensitive applications, methodological issues in affective
computing, affective and social robotics, affective and behavioral
interfaces, relevant insights from psychology, affective databases,
Evaluation and annotation tools
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Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction - Fourth International Conference, ACII 2011, Memphis, TN, USA, October 9-12, 2011, Proceedings, Part I (Paperback)
Sidney D'Mello, Arthur Graesser, Bjoern Schuller, Jean Claude Martin
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The two-volume set LNCS 6974 and LNCS 6975 constitutes the refereed
proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Affective
Computing and Intelligent Interaction, ACII 2011, held in Memphis,
TN, USA, in October 2011. The 135 papers in this two volume set
presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and
selected from 196 submissions. The papers are organized in topical
sections on recognition and synthesis of human affect,
affect-sensitive applications, methodological issues in affective
computing, affective and social robotics, affective and behavioral
interfaces, relevant insights from psychology, affective databases,
Evaluation and annotation tools
A hands on approach to learning ReasonML from the perspective of a
web developer. Key Features Hands on learning by building a real
world app shell that includes client-side routing and more.
Understand Reason's ecosystem including BuckleScript and various
npm workflows. Learn how Reason differs from TypeScript and Flow,
and how to use it to make refactoring less stressful. Book
DescriptionReasonML, also known as Reason, is a new syntax and
toolchain for OCaml that was created by Facebook and is meant to be
approachable for web developers. Although OCaml has several
resources, most of them are from the perspective of systems
development. This book, alternatively, explores Reason from the
perspective of web development. You'll learn how to use Reason to
build safer, simpler React applications and why you would want to
do so. Reason supports immutability by default, which works quite
well in the context of React. In learning Reason, you will also
learn about its ecosystem - BuckleScript, JavaScript
interoperability, and various npm workflows. We learn by building a
real-world app shell, including a client-side router with page
transitions, that we can customize for any Reason project. You'll
learn how to leverage OCaml's excellent type system to enforce
guarantees about business logic, as well as preventing runtime type
errors.You'll also see how the type system can help offload
concerns that we once had to keep in our heads. We'll explore using
CSS-in-Reason, how to use external JSON in Reason, and how to
unit-test critical business logic. By the end of the book, you'll
understand why Reason is exploding in popularity and will have a
solid foundation on which to continue your journey with Reason.
What you will learn Learn why Reason is exploding in popularity and
why it's the future of React Become familiar with Reason's syntax
and semantics Learn about Reason's ecosystem: BuckleScript and
JavaScript interoperability Learn how to build React applications
with Reason Learn how to use Reason's type system as a tool to
provide amazing guarantees Gain a solid foundation on which to
continue your journey Who this book is forThe target audience of
this book is web developers who are somewhat familiar with ReactJS
and who want to learn why ReasonML is the future of ReactJS.
How the 1967 uprising at Naxalbari inspired a generation of
resistance across India and the South Asian subcontinent Although
the 1967 revolutionary armed peasant uprising in Naxalbari, at the
foot of the Indian Himalayas, was brutally crushed, the insurgency
gained new life elsewhere in India. In fact, this revolt has turned
out to be the world's longest-running "people's war," and Naxalbari
has come to stand for the road to revolution in India. What has
gone into the making of this protracted Maoist resistance? Bernard
D'Mello's fascinating narrative answers this question by tracing
the circumstances that gave rise to India's "1968"decade of
revolutionary humanism and those that led to the triumph of the
"1989" era of appallingly unequal growth condoned by
Hindutva-nationalism, the Indian variant of Nazism. Will what
remain of India's continuing "1968" bring twenty-first-century "New
Democracy" to the collective agenda? Or will the ongoing regression
of "1989" lead the way to full-blown semi-fascism and
sub-imperialism? India after Naxalbari is far more than a simple
history of the ongoing Naxalite/Maoist resistance; it is a deeply
passionate and informed work that not only captures the essence of
modern Indian history but also tries to comprehend the present in
the context of that history - so that the oppressed can exercise
their power to influence its shape and outcome.
Use JSON for building web applications with technologies like HTML,
JavaScript, Angular, Node.js, Hapi.js, Kafka, socket.io, MongoDB,
Gulp.js, and handlebar.js, and others formats like GEOJSON,
JSON-LD, MessagePack, and BSON. Key Features Use JSON with trending
technologies like Angular, Hapi.js, MongoDB, Kafka, and Socket.io
Debug, validate, and format JSON using developer toolkits,
JSONLint, and JSON Editor Online Explore other JSON formats like
GeoJSON, JSON-LD, BSON, and MessagePack Book DescriptionJSON is an
established and standard format used to exchange data. This book
shows how JSON plays different roles in full web development
through examples. By the end of this book, you'll have a new
perspective on providing solutions for your applications and
handling their complexities. After establishing a strong basic
foundation with JSON, you'll learn to build frontend apps by
creating a carousel. Next, you'll learn to implement JSON with
Angular 5, Node.js, template embedding, and composer.json in PHP.
This book will also help you implement Hapi.js (known for its
JSON-configurable architecture) for server-side scripting. You'll
learn to implement JSON for real-time apps using Kafka, as well as
how to implement JSON for a task runner, and for MongoDB BSON
storage. The book ends with some case studies on JSON formats to
help you sharpen your creativity by exploring futuristic JSON
implementations. By the end of the book, you'll be up and running
with all the essential features of JSON and JavaScript and able to
build fast, scalable, and efficient web applications. What you will
learn Use JSON to store metadata for dependency managers, package
managers, configuration managers, and metadata stores Handle
asynchronous behavior in applications using callbacks, promises,
generators, and async-await functions Use JSON for Angular 5,
Node.js, Gulp.js, and Hapi.js Implement JSON as BSON in MongoDB
Make use of JSON in developing automation scripts Implement JSON
for realtime using socket.io and distributed systems using Kafka
Who this book is forIf you're a web developer with a basic
understanding of JavaScript and want to write JSON data, integrate
it with RESTful APIs to create faster and scalable applications,
this book is for you.
Use the two popular web development stacks, Node.js and MongoDB, to
build full-featured web applications About This Book * Learn the
new ECMAScript along with Node 8 and MongoDB to make your
application more effective. * Get the up-to-date information
required to launch your first application prototype using the
latest versions of Node.js and MongoDB. * A practical guide with
clear instructions to designing and developing a complete web
application from start to finish using trending frameworks such as
angular4 and hapi Who This Book Is For The book is designed for
JavaScript developers of any skill level who want to get
up-and-running using Node.js and MongoDB to build full-featured web
applications. A basic understanding of JavaScript and HTML is the
only prerequisite for this book. What You Will Learn * Work with
Node.js building blocks * Write and configure a web server using
Node.js powered by the Express.js framework * Build dynamic HTML
pages using the Handlebars template engine * Persist application
data using MongoDB and Mongoose ODM * Test your code using
automated testing tools such as the Mocha framework * Automate test
cases using Gulp * Reduce your web development time by integrating
third-party tools for web interaction. * Deploy a development
environment to the cloud using services such as Heroku, Amazon Web
Services, and Microsoft Azure * Explore single-page application
frameworks to take your web applications to the next level In
Detail Node.js builds fast, scalable network applications while
MongoDB is the perfect fit as a high-performance, open source NoSQL
database solution. The combination of these two technologies offers
high performance and scalability and helps in building fast,
scalable network applications. Together they provide the power for
manage any form of data as well as speed of delivery. This book
will help you to get these two technologies working together to
build web applications quickly and easily, with effortless
deployment to the cloud. You will also learn about angular 4, which
consumes pure JSON APOIs from a hapi server. The book begins by
setting up your development environment, running you through the
steps necessary to get the main application server up-and-running.
Then you will see how to use Node.js to connect to a MongoDB
database and perform data manipulations. From here on, the book
will take you through integration with third-party tools to
interact with web apps. You will see how to use controllers and
view models to generate reusable code that will reduce development
time. Toward the end, the book supplies tests to properly execute
your code and take your skills to the next level with the most
popular frameworks for developing web applications. By the end of
the book, you will have a running web application developed with
MongoDB, Node.js, and some of the most powerful and popular
frameworks. Style and approach A practical guide with clear
instructions to designing and developing a complete web application
from start to finish
Build an interactive and full-featured web application from scratch
using Node.js and MongoDB About This Book * Configure your
development environment to use Node.js and MongoDB * Use Node.js to
connect to a MongoDB database and perform data manipulations * A
practical guide with clear instructions to design and develop a
complete web application from start to finish Who This Book Is For
This book is designed for JavaScript developers of any skill level
that want to get up and running using Node.js and MongoDB to build
full-featured web applications. A basic understanding of JavaScript
and HTML is the only requirement for this book. What You Will Learn
* Configure your development environment to use Node.js and MongoDB
* Write and configure a web server using Node.js powered by the
Express.js framework * Build dynamic HTML pages using the
Handlebars template engine * Persist application data using MongoDB
and Mongoose ODM * Test your code using automated testing tools
such as the Mocha framework * Deploy the development environment to
the cloud using services such as Heroku, Amazon Web Services, and
Microsoft Azure * Explore Single-Page application frameworks to
take your web applications to the next level In Detail Node.js and
MongoDB are quickly becoming one of the most popular tech stacks
for the web. Powered by Google's V8 engine, Node.js caters to
easily building fast, scalable network applications while MongoDB
is the perfect fit as a scalable, high-performance, open source
NoSQL database solution. Using these two technologies together, web
applications can be built quickly and easily and deployed to the
cloud with very little difficulty. The book will begin by
introducing you to the groundwork needed to set up the development
environment. Here, you will quickly run through the steps necessary
to get the main application server up and running. Then you will
see how to use Node.js to connect to a MongoDB database and perform
data manipulations. From here on, the book will take you through
integration with third-party tools for interaction with web apps.
It then moves on to show you how to use controllers and view models
to generate reusable code that will reduce development time. Toward
the end of the book, we will cover tests to properly execute the
code and some popular frameworks for developing web applications.
By the end of the book, you will have a running web application
developed with MongoDB and Node.js along with it's popular
frameworks. Style and approach An easy guide to Node.js and
MongoDB, which will quickly introduce you to the relevant concepts
by taking you through the different steps involved in building a
full-fledged web application.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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Carminum: Libri IV. Accedit Prudentii Amaralii ... De Sacchari
Opificio Carmen Jose Rodriguez de Mello, Prudencio d'. Amaral ex
typographia fratrum Puccinelliorum, 1781
Web Services currently is the main enabling technique to realize
Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). This book provides brief
introduction to the conceptual Web services architecture and brings
out potential research issues related to non-functional property
based Web service selection and compositions. The author provides
Quality of Service (QoS) and Service Offer based selection
mechanisms for primitive and composite Web services. The book
contains the various works carried out towards QoS aware Web
service selection and compositions.
There are approximately 700,000 non Government organisations in
Australia employing approximately 936,000 people. Many of these can
be classified as Non Government Human Service Organisations
(NGHSOs). These organisations provide an array of services to
people experiencing disadvantage. In the emerging information
intensive climate, NGHSOs are increasingly under pressure to
consider their own use of information technology (IT) to underpin
and transform traditional methods of service delivery, or risk
becoming irrelevant to their clients and those that support them
materially. This thesis argues that NGHSOs have a critical role to
play in addressing the so-called "digital divide" affecting their
disadvantaged clients. It suggests a critical role for IT vendors
in NGHSO IT management and examines this vendor role in diffusing
new IT innovations. The thesis also highlights the multitude of
impacting structures and policies that that influence NGHSO IT
management practice. There has been little research into the IT
management practices of small NGHSOs, and more particularly those
that operate in regional, rural and remote communities. The study
seeks to address this situation.
Affective Computing is a growing multidisciplinary field
encompassing computer science, engineering, psychology, education,
neuroscience, and many other disciplines. It explores how affective
factors influence interactions between humans and technology, how
affect sensing and affect generation techniques can inform our
understanding of human affect, and on the design, implementation,
and evaluation of systems that intricately involve affect at their
core. The Oxford Handbook of Affective Computing will help both new
and experienced researchers identify trends, concepts,
methodologies, and applications in this burgeouning field. The
volume features 41 chapters divided into five main sections:
history and theory, detection, generation, methodologies, and
applications. Section One begins with a look at the makings of AC
and a historical review of the science of emotion. Chapters discuss
the theoretical underpinnings of AC from an interdisciplinary
perspective involving the affective, cognitive, social, media, and
brain sciences. Section Two focuses on affect detection or affect
recognition, which is one of the most commonly investigated areas
in AC. Section Three examines aspects of affect generation
including the synthesis of emotion and its expression via facial
features, speech, postures and gestures. Cultural issues in affect
generation are also discussed. Section Four features chapters on
methodological issues in AC research, including data collection
techniques, multimodal affect databases, emotion representation
formats, crowdsourcing techniques, machine learning approaches,
affect elicitation techniques, useful AC tools, and ethical issues
in AC. Finally, Section Five highlights existing and future
applications of AC in domains such as formal and informal learning,
games, robotics, virtual reality, autism research, healthcare,
cyberpsychology, music, deception, reflective writing, and
cyberpsychology. With chapters authored by world leaders in each
area, The Oxford Handbook of Affective Computing is suitable for
use as a textbook in undergraduate or graduate courses in AC, and
will serve as a valuable resource for students, researchers, and
practitioners across the globe.
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