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Jacobs, James B. Busting the Mob: United States v. Cosa Nostra. New York University Press, 1994.

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Gril, Joseph, ed. Wood Science for Conservation of Cultural Heritage – Braga 2008. Firenze University Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6453-165-6.

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COST Action IE0601 "Wood Science for Conservation of Cultural Heritage" (www.woodculther.org) aims to improve the conservation of European wooden cultural heritage objects, by fostering research and interaction between researchers in various fields of wood science, conservators of wooden artworks, scientists from related fields. These proceedings contain the papers presented in the 2nd International Conference held in Braga (Portugal) 5-7/11/2008, dealing with themes such as material properties, biological degradation, characterization and measurement techniques, conservation, structures. This

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Uzielli, Luca, ed. Wood Science for Conservation of Cultural Heritage – Florence 2007. Firenze University Press, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-8453-396-8.

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COST Action IE0601 "Wood Science for Conservation of Cultural Heritage" (www.woodculther.org) aims to improve the conservation (including study, preventive conservation and restoration) of European Wooden Cultural Heritage Objects (WCHOs), by fostering targeted research and multidisciplinary interaction between Researchers in various fields of Wood Science, Conservators of wooden artworks, other Scientists from related fields. This book of Proceedings contains most of the papers presented in the International Conference held in Florence (Italy) on 8-10 November 2007, dealing with several of th

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Manfredi, Claudia, ed. Models and analysis of vocal emissions for biomedical applications: 5th International Workshop: December 13-15, 2007, Firenze, Italy. Firenze University Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-5518-027-6.

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The MAVEBA Workshop proceedings, held on a biannual basis, collect the scientific papers presented both as oral and poster contributions, during the conference. The main subjects are: development of theoretical and mechanical models as an aid to the study of main phonatory dysfunctions, as well as the biomedical engineering methods for the analysis of voice signals and images, as a support to clinical diagnosis and classification of vocal pathologies. The Workshop has the sponsorship of: Ente Cassa Risparmio di Firenze, COST Action 2103, Biomedical Signal Processing and Control Journal (Elsevi

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G, Best Leonard, Erickson Bryce J, and Armstrong Laboratory (U.S.), eds. Low-cost helmet-mounted displays. Armstrong Laboratory, Air Force Materiel Command, 1993.

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G, Best Leonard, Erickson Bryce J, and Armstrong Laboratory (U.S.), eds. Low-cost helmet-mounted displays. Armstrong Laboratory, Air Force Materiel Command, 1993.

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G, Best Leonard, Erickson Bryce J, and Armstrong Laboratory (U.S.), eds. Low-cost helmet-mounted displays. Armstrong Laboratory, Air Force Materiel Command, 1993.

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Veatch, Robert M., Amy Haddad, and E. J. Last. Health Insurance, Health System Planning, and Rationing. Edited by Robert M. Veatch, Amy Haddad, and E. J. Last. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190277000.003.0015.

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This chapter begins with a description of the various reasons for the accelerating costs of prescription drugs in the United States. It then discusses benefits and burdens of drug therapy within public and private insurance programs. Insurance risk pooling is examined in light of the requirement in the Affordable Care Act to buy health insurance and the consequences when people decide not to buy insurance. Disagreements between the personal beliefs of the owners of a privately held company and the Affordable Care Act’s requirement to cover contraceptives through employee insurance plans are di

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Jacobs, James B. Busting the mob: United States v. Cosa Nostra. New York University Press, 1994.

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Bowman, Kirk. Militaries and Modern States. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037894.003.0009.

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This chapter presents the best cases to understand the construction of the widely held assumptions that all viable countries have institutionalized militaries: Costa Rica and Honduras in the period 1948 to 1958. It is in this political space and time that Costa Rica demilitarized and Honduras militarized. The chapter focuses on the domestic and international dynamics in these two cases that produced such variance in militarization. The cases show that the local populations in 1948–1958 did not consider the military to be a necessary institution in a modern country, and that this view was const

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Nigel, Blackaby, and Wilbraham Alex. Part V Remedies and Costs, 26 Third-party Funding in Investment Treaty Arbitration. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198758082.003.0026.

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This chapter discusses the issue of third-party funding in international investment arbitration. Third-party funding has become an established part of the investment arbitration landscape. Despite criticism in some quarters, tribunals and international arbitral bodies have tended to favour the view that third-party funding promotes access to justice rather than encouraging frivolous claims. Tribunals have consistently held that receipt of third-party funding is unlikely to affect a claimant’s position from a jurisdictional perspective and will not affect a claimant’s ability to recover legal c

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Bernard, Seth. Rome from the Sack of Veii to the Gallic Sack. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190878788.003.0003.

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Romans held that the Republican city was built almost instantly following the earlier city’s catastrophic destruction by Gauls in 390 BCE. Furthermore, the huge costs of rebuilding were held to cause socioeconomic frictions, effacing any gains made by Rome’s conquest of Veii in 396. While Rome’s economy appears stagnant and limited through the mid-fourth century, the reality of the Gauls’ total destruction of Rome is unacceptable, even accounting for an up-to-date view of the archaeology. Thus, it becomes necessary to find another explanation for Rome’s failure to follow up on the conquest of

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Margules, C., and M. Austin. Nature Conservation. CSIRO Publishing, 1990. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9780643101241.

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The proceedings of a Cost Effective Biological Surveys and Data Analysis workshop held at the old Quarantine Station, North Head, Sydney, in March 1988, under the auspices of the Council of Nature Conservation Ministers (CONCOM) and the Australian Environment Council (AEC).

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Cribb, Robert. Political Genocides in Postcolonial Asia. Edited by Donald Bloxham and A. Dirk Moses. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199232116.013.0023.

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This article discusses political genocide in postcolonial Asia, looking at Indonesia, Cambodia, and China. Mass political killing presents a special problem in genocide studies. The slaughter of human beings because of the political beliefs and attitudes they held, or were presumed to have held, cost millions of lives during the twentieth century. The Indonesian killings of 1965–6 cost half a million lives and the killings during the Cultural Revolution in China claimed a million lives. Although these are massive death tolls, both episodes involved only a relatively small proportion of the tot

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Wise, Carol. Dragonomics. Yale University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300224092.001.0001.

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This book explores the impact of Chinese growth on Latin America since the early 2000s. Some twenty years ago, Chinese entrepreneurs headed to the Western Hemisphere in search of profits and commodities, specifically those that China lacked and that some Latin American countries held in abundance—copper, iron ore, crude oil, fishmeal and soybeans. Focusing largely on Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Mexico, and Peru, the book traces the evolution of political and economic ties between China and these countries back to the 1950s and explores how more recent and ongoing interaction with Chi

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Mauldin, Erin Stewart. Deferring Crisis. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190865177.003.0002.

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This chapter explores the ecological regime of slavery and the land-use practices employed by farmers across the antebellum South. Despite the diverse ecologies and crop regimes of the region, most southern farmers employed a set of extensive agricultural techniques that kept the cost of farming down and helped circumvent natural limits on crop production and stock-raising. The use of shifting cultivation, free-range animal husbandry, and slaves to perform erosion control masked the environmental impacts of farmers’ actions, at least temporarily. Debates over westward expansion during the sect

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Ellwood, D. W. ‘America’ and Europe, 1914–1945. Edited by Nicholas Doumanis. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199695669.013.24.

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The First World War cost Europe the leadership of the world. But the United States of Woodrow Wilson was not ready to take its place. The 1920s brought Europe to a crossroads where mass democracy, mass production, and mass communications—the latter two dominated by American innovations— transformed ideas of sovereignty, modernity, and identity everywhere. The financial crash of 1929 destroyed illusions about the United States as the land of the future, and helped legitimize the totalitarians. European democrats looked to the 1930s New Deal as their last best hope. During the Second World War R

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Herbst, Jeffrey. The Challenge of State-Building in Africa. Princeton University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691164137.003.0001.

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This chapter examines three sets of issues that present a challenge to state-building in Africa: the cost of expanding the domestic power infrastructure; the nature of national boundaries; and the design of state systems. Understanding the decisions made regarding each is critical, and there are profound trade-offs inherent to different approaches. Africa’s political geography helped structure the responses that leaders adopted to each set of issues just as European decisions were influenced by the structural features of that region. The chapter first compares the political geographies of Euro

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Leslie, Thomas. Glass and Light: “Veneers” and Curtain Walls, 1889–1904. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252037542.003.0005.

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This chapter describes major structures built from 1889 to 1904, many of which used skins of lightweight terra-cotta and glass that exploited new wind-bracing techniques and depressed glass prices to achieve unprecedented transparency. The flourishing of lightweight skins supported by rigid steel frames was uniquely permitted by Chicago's codes, which minimized the required thickness of masonry walls. Chicago's code helped architects and engineers solve the problems that continued to plague tall buildings on its poor soil. At 90 pounds per cubic foot for hollow brick and up to 140 pounds for p

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Ciccantell, Paul S., and Paul K. Gellert. Raw Materialism and Socioeconomic Change in the Coal Industry. Edited by Debra J. Davidson and Matthias Gross. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190633851.013.6.

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In the midst of activist, citizen, and policymaker concerns about and advocacy for the end of coal as a fuel, this chapter takes a long-term historical-materialist perspective on energy and society relations. The historical evolution of coal commodity chains from mines in global peripheries to consumption in world-system cores through four periods of attempted and real hegemonic ascent (British, US, Japanese, and Chinese) are addressed. This analysis from the nineteenth century to 2015 demonstrates that generative sectors based on coal helped drive economic ascent in all four of these cases. F

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Majumdar, Sumit K. Organization Type and Productive Efficiency. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199641994.003.0008.

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The chapter highlights the structure of India’s industry and the performance of its constitutive components. The Molecular sector has employed a third of all people in industry. The Private sector has always been dominant in output and employment. The State sector has never commanded the heights. After liberalization, the boundaries of the State sector reduced. The shrinkage of the State sector has been achieved without privatization. Molecular sector efficiency had been highest before liberalization, but has declined over time. The Private sector’s high efficiency score after liberalization h

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Arneil, Barbara. Farm Colonies for the Irrational in Britain and Canada. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198803423.003.0006.

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In Chapter 6, the volume examines the implementation of farm colonies for the mentally disabled and ill in Britain and the justifications provided for them by Winston Churchill, G.A. Auden, and Anthony Langdon Downs as well as the members of the Royal Commission on the Care and Control of the Feeble-Minded in 1905; before turning to examine domestic colonies in Canada, and their defenders including Tommy Douglas, Frank Hodgins, Helen MacMurchy, William Penfield, along with members of multiple Royal Commissions and Mental Hygiene committees. Like America, the farm colony was proposed as prefera

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Goldsmith, William W. Saving Our Cities. Cornell University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501704314.001.0001.

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This book shows how cities can be places of opportunity rather than places with problems. With strongly revived cities and suburbs, working as places that serve all their residents, metropolitan areas will thrive, thus making the national economy more productive, the environment better protected, the citizenry better educated, and the society more reflective, sensitive, and humane. The book argues that America has been in the habit of abusing its cities and their poorest suburbs, which are always the first to be blamed for society's ills and the last to be helped. As federal and state budgets,

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Bebbington, Anthony, Abdul-Gafaru Abdulai, Denise Humphreys Bebbington, et al. Conclusions. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198820932.003.0006.

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This chapter synthesizes findings from Bolivia, Ghana, Peru, and Zambia. It concludes that political settlements influence the relationships between resource-dependent economies and patterns of social inclusion. However, neither authoritarian, dominant leader forms of politics, nor competitive democratic politics has fostered significant economic diversification or reduced levels of resource dependence. The extractive economy does, however, influence the dynamics of national political settlements. The rents that resource extraction makes possible, and the high cost of engaging in extractive in

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Ciccu, Mukhopadhaya. 9 India. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780199655717.003.0010.

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This chapter evaluates the merits of India as a venue for international arbitration proceedings. It discusses the history and development of arbitration in India; the processes and rules involved as well as the role of courts in the conduct of arbitration proceedings; and rules for arbitral awards. Many arbitration practitioners lament the current state of affairs in India. Delays are common at nearly every stage of arbitration, from the very constitution of the tribunal, to the conduct of the arbitration proceedings, and the delivery, challenge, and enforcement of awards. India is not equippe

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Ballestero, Andrea, and Brit Ross Winthereik, eds. Experimenting with Ethnography. Duke University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9781478013211.

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Experimenting with Ethnography collects twenty-one essays that open new paths for doing ethnographic analysis. The contributors—who come from a variety of intellectual and methodological traditions—enliven analysis by refusing to take it as an abstract, disembodied exercise. Rather, they frame it as a concrete mode of action and a creative practice. Encompassing topics ranging from language and the body to technology and modes of collaboration, the essays invite readers to focus on the imaginative work that needs to be performed prior to completing an argument. Whether exchanging objects, show

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Hartog, Hendrik. The Trouble with Minna. University of North Carolina Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469640884.001.0001.

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In this intriguing book, Hendrik Hartog uses a forgotten 1840 case to explore the regime of gradual emancipation that took place in New Jersey over the first half of the nineteenth century. In Minna’s case, white people fought over who would pay for the costs of caring for a dependent, apparently enslaved, woman. Hartog marks how the peculiar language mobilized by the debate—about care as a “mere voluntary courtesy”—became routine in a wide range of subsequent cases about “good Samaritans.” Using Minna’s case as a springboard, Hartog explores the statutes, situations, and conflicts that helped

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Serrano, Mónica. Latin America. Edited by Alex J. Bellamy and Tim Dunne. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198753841.013.23.

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This chapter explores why Latin American countries have endorsed, or objected to, the principle of the responsibility to protect. Through an exploration of the various positions held by Latin American (LA) countries in international discussions on R2P the chapter aims to account for the role that the region has played in efforts to develop and consolidate the R2P norm. It finds that those countries that experienced mass atrocities have been more willing to accept R2P. Assessments of the relative costs and benefits of a multilateral solution to atrocity crimes have been influenced by the countr

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TENS-like devices. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199673278.003.0011.

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TENS-like devices deliver electrical currents across the intact surface of the skin using pulse generators with technical output specifications that differ from a standard TENS device. Technological advances have resulted in reductions in the size and cost of electrotherapeutic devices with increasing varieties of self-administered hand-held TENS-like devices available to practitioners and the general public. The diversity of TENS-like devices available on the market makes synthesizing evidence difficult. The purpose of this chapter is to categorize TENS-like devices and briefly overview the c

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Winneg, Kenneth M., Daniel M. Butler, Saar Golde, Darwin W. Miller, and Norman H. Nie. Online News Consumption in the United States and Ideological Extremism. Edited by Kate Kenski and Kathleen Hall Jamieson. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199793471.013.021.

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In an earlier study, the authors found evidence that supported a framework predicting that consumers of Internet news sources held more extreme political views and were interested in more diverse political issues than those who solely consume mainstream television news using data covering the period April 2000 to June 2007. In this essay, they test whether the same patterns hold using data from the 2008 National Annenberg Election Survey online panel conducted during the 2008 presidential election cycle. The authors combine insights from theories of selective media exposure from political comm

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Winneg, Kenneth M., Daniel M. Butler, Saar Golde, Darwin W. Miller, and Norman H. Nie. Online News Consumption in the United States and Ideological Extremism. Edited by Kate Kenski and Kathleen Hall Jamieson. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199793471.013.021_update_001.

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In an earlier study, the authors found evidence that supported a framework predicting that consumers of Internet news sources held more extreme political views and were interested in more diverse political issues than those who solely consume mainstream television news using data covering the period April 2000 to June 2007. In this essay, they test whether the same patterns hold using data from the 2008 National Annenberg Election Survey online panel conducted during the 2008 presidential election cycle. The authors combine insights from theories of selective media exposure from political comm

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Krueger, Anne O. International Trade. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/wentk/9780190900465.001.0001.

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International trade and trade policy have become increasingly important and complex in recent years. In this comprehensive introduction to the key aspects of international trade policy, noted authority Anne O. Krueger explains what has happened and why these issues are so difficult. With evidence-based analysis and an even-handed approach, International Trade: What Everyone Needs to Know lays the foundation to understand what trade does and does not do. Focusing on the importance of trade in both goods and services, Krueger explores the effects of various trade policies step-by-step and demons

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Noorlander, D. Heaven's Wrath. Cornell University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9780801453632.001.0001.

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Heaven’s Wrath explores the religious thought and religious rites of the early Dutch Atlantic world. The book argues that the Reformed Church and the West India Company forged and maintained a close union, with considerable consequences. Merchants, officers, sailors, and soldiers found in their faith an ideology and justification for mercantile, martial activities. The company, on the other hand, supported the church financially in Europe and helped spread Calvinism to other continents. Calvinist employees and colonists both benefitted from the familiar, comforting aspects of religious instruc

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Pellerin, Denis, Nuno Cardim, and Christian Prinz. Hand-held echocardiography. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198726012.003.0009.

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Pocket-size hand-held echocardiography (PHE) is low cost, portable, user friendly, and battery powered. Studies using PHE do not replace conventional echo studies and do not provide a complete diagnostic echocardiographic examination. PHE should be used for goal-oriented studies that include assessment of left ventricular (LV) cavity size, LV systolic function, detection of pericardial effusion, and haemodynamic compromise. Examinations using PHE have been demonstrated to be feasible and provide additional information to the physical examination. For potential users other than cardiology exper

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Rahmstorf, Lorenz, Gojko Barjamovic, and Nicola Ialongo, eds. Merchants, Measures and Money. Understanding Technologies of Early Trade in a Comparative Perspective. Wachholtz Verlag, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.23797/9783529035418.

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This second volume in the series collects papers from two workshops held at the University of Göttingen in 2019 and 2020. The international meetings tackled questions related to merchants and money in a comparative perspective, with examples spanning from the Bronze Age to the early Modern period and embracing Europe, the Mediterranean, Asia and East Africa. The first part of this volume presents historical case studies of how merchants planned and carried out commercial expeditions; how risk, cost, and potential profit was calculated; and how the value of goods was calculated and converted. T

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Gordon, Jeffrey N., and Wolf-Georg Ringe, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Corporate Law and Governance. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198743682.001.0001.

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This handbook offers a comparative and functional overview of corporate law and governance. It examines the shift from corporate law to corporate governance — from a largely legal emphasis to one that focuses on the corporation’s inputs, outputs and how they are managed and, ultimately, the ways in which governance interacts with other institutional elements that comprise a capitalist system. It also discusses the conventional goals and mechanisms of corporate governance, along with their limitations when applied to banks; the roles and functions of the board of directors, how boards fail, and

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Hazelton, Jacqueline L. Bullets Not Ballots. Cornell University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501754784.001.0001.

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This book challenges the claim that winning “hearts and minds” is critical to successful counterinsurgency campaigns. Good governance, this conventional wisdom holds, gains the besieged government popular support, denies support to the insurgency, and makes military victory possible. The book argues that major counterinsurgent successes since World War II have resulted not through democratic reforms but rather through the use of military force against civilians and the co-optation of rival elites. The book offers new analyses of five historical cases frequently held up as examples of the effec

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Fontani, Marco, Mariagrazia Costa, and Mary Virginia Orna. The Lost Elements. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199383344.001.0001.

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The Periodic Table of Elements hasn't always looked like it does now, a well-organized chart arranged by atomic number. In the mid-nineteenth century, chemists were of the belief that the elements should be sorted by atomic weight. However, the weights of many elements were calculated incorrectly, and over time it became clear that not only did the elements need rearranging, but that the periodic table contained many gaps and omissions: there were elements yet to be discovered, and the allure of finding one had scientists rushing to fill in the blanks. Supposed "discoveries" flooded laboratori

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Reychler, Luc. Peacemaking, Peacekeeping, and Peacebuilding. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190846626.013.274.

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Peacemaking, peacekeeping, and peacebuilding have generated considerable interest in the areas of education, research, and politics. This can be attributed in part to the growing recognition that there are limits to violence and that proactive violence prevention is more cost-effective than reactive conflict prevention. Peacebuilding became part of the official discourse when the United Nations Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali introduced the concept of post-conflict peacebuilding in the Agenda for Peace. The agenda specified four areas of action relating to preventive diplomacy, peacema

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Carmo, Leide Silva do, and Nelson Iguimar Valerio. Psicologia & saúde treino de habilidades de vida e saúde mental em universitários. Brazil Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31012/978-65-87836-06-5.

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Several factors can cause damage to the mental health of university students, e.g. academic adaptation, housing change, distance from family and friends, and dealing with stressors regarding new requirements, which need some resources to cope with such situations. The content of this book, from the Master's Dissertation developed by the authors at the Stricto-Sensu Psychology and Health Post-Graduation Program at the Medical School of São José do Rio Preto - FAMERP, aims at describing the presence of mental disorders and demonstrating the implementation of a life-skills training in university

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Gray, Jenny. Zoo Ethics. CSIRO Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9781486306992.

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Well-run modern zoos and aquariums do important research and conservation work and teach visitors about the challenges of animals in the wild and the people striving to save them. They help visitors to consider their impact and think about how they can make a difference. Yet for many there is a sense of disquiet and a lingering question remains – can modern zoos be ethically justified?  Zoo Ethics examines the workings of modern zoos and considers the core ethical challenges that face those who choose to hold and display animals in zoos, aquariums or sanctuaries. Using recognised ethical

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Padilla Peralta, Dan-el. Divine Institutions. Princeton University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691168678.001.0001.

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Many narrative histories of Rome's transformation from an Italian city-state to a Mediterranean superpower focus on political and military conflicts as the primary agents of social change. This book places religion at the heart of this transformation, showing how religious ritual and observance held the Roman Republic together during the fourth and third centuries BCE, a period when the Roman state significantly expanded and diversified. Blending the latest advances in archaeology with innovative sociological and anthropological methods, the book takes readers from the capitulation of Rome's n

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Paris, Joel. Psychotherapy in An Age of Neuroscience. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190601010.001.0001.

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Psychiatry, once proud of its biopsychosocial model, has now adopted a neuroscience-based approach that strongly favors psychopharmacological treatments and downplays the role of psychotherapies (or social interventions). This kind of practice can be sufficient for the psychoses, but it is neither evidence-based nor beneficial for patients with common mental disorders such as depression, anxiety, substance use, and personality disorders. Current practice derives from a theoretical model in which psychiatry is viewed primarily as an application of neuroscience, with little reference to the vast

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Walker, William O. III. The Rise and Decline of the American Century. Cornell University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501726132.001.0001.

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This book discusses how U.S. officials, influenced by publisher Henry R. Luce in an essay in Life magazine in 1941, strove to create an American Century at the close of World War II, and beyond. The United States, Luce held, must seek comprehensive leadership, that is, global hegemony. The advent of the Cold War hastened that undertaking. Communist victory in China’s civil war in 1949 and the start of the Korean War in June 1950 made the Cold War international. U.S. officials implemented the dual strategy of global containment and multilateralism in trade and finance in order to counter Soviet

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Julien, Mic, Rachel McFadyen, and Jim Cullen, eds. Biological Control of Weeds in Australia. CSIRO Publishing, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9780643104204.

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Biological control of weeds has been practised for over 100 years and Australia has been a leader in this weed management technique. The classical example of control of prickly pears in Australia by the cactus moth Cactoblastis cactorum, which was imported from the Americas, helped to set the future for biocontrol of weeds in many countries. Since then there have been many projects using Classical Biological Control to manage numerous weed species, many of which have been successful. Importantly, there have been no serious negative non-target impacts – the technique, when practised as it is in

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Koppelman, Andrew. Gay Rights vs. Religious Liberty? Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197500989.001.0001.

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Should religious people who conscientiously object to facilitating same-sex weddings, and who therefore decline to provide cakes, photography, or other services, be exempted from antidiscrimination laws? This issue has taken on an importance far beyond the tiny number who have made such claims. Gay rights advocates fear that exempting even a few religious dissenters would unleash a devastating wave of discrimination. Conservative Christians fear that the law will treat them like racists and drive them to the margins of American society. Both sides are mistaken. This is not a matter of abstract

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Walter, Stefanie, Ari Ray, and Nils Redeker. The Politics of Bad Options. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198857013.001.0001.

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Why did the Eurozone crisis prove to be so difficult to resolve? Why was it resolved in a manner in which some countries bore a much larger share of the pain than other countries? Why did no country leave the Eurozone rather than implement unprecedented austerity? Who supported and who opposed the different policy options in the crisis domestically, and how did the distributive struggles among these groups shape crisis politics? Building on macro-level statistical data, original survey data from interest groups, and qualitative comparative case studies, this book argues and shows that the answ

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Stubbe, Peter. Legal Consequences of the Pollution of Outer Space with Space Debris. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190647926.013.68.

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This is an advance summary of a forthcoming article in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Planetary Science. Please check back later for the full article.Space debris has grown to be a significant problem for outer space activities. The remnants of human activities in space are very diverse; they can be tiny paint flakes, all sorts of fragments, or entirely intact—but otherwise nonfunctional spacecraft and rocket bodies. The amount of debris is increasing at a growing pace, thus raising the risk of collision with operational satellites. Due to the relative high velocities involved in on-orbit collisio

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Pastrana Buelvas, Eduardo, Stefan Reith, and Fabricio Cabrera Ortiz, eds. Identidad e intereses nacionales de Colombia. Escuela Superior de Guerra, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.25062/9789585250499.

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La construcción de la identidad y la de los intereses nacionales de todo Estado constituyen procesos interdependientes y complementarios que se llevan a cabo de manera intersubjetiva al interior de sus sociedades en una línea de tiempo de largo aliento. En tal sentido, las identidades nacionales son proyectadas en el plano internacional por los líderes de los respectivos Estados, quienes a través de sus ideas, cosmovisiones y decisiones, desempeñan roles internacionales específicos que son percibidos por sus pares en el escenario internacional. De esta manera, la identidad nacional es relacion

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