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Corti, Claudia, and Pietro Lo Cascio, eds. Fifth international Symposium on the lacertids of the Mediterranean Basin. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/88-8453-180-2.
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The volume collects the contributions to the Fifth International Symposium on the Lacertids of the Mediterranean Basinheld on the island of Lipari between 7 and 11 May 2004. The study of the Mediterranean lacertid lizards represents a key point for understanding the mechanisms regulating the evolution of the Mediterranean’s ecosystems and in particular those ones related to islands. Conservation of biodiversity is the main target that such a knowledge significantly contributes to fulfil.
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Menunggu Kedatangan Imam Mahdi, Dajjal, Nabi Isa a.s. Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia: Darul Nu'man, 1998.
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Craig, Paul, and Gráinne de Búrca. 18. Free Movement of Goods:. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/he/9780198714927.003.0018.
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All books in this flagship series contain carefully selected substantial extracts from key cases, legislation, and academic debate, providing able students with a stand-alone resource. This chapter deals with Member State action that creates barriers to trade. The most obvious form of protectionism occurs through customs duties or charges that have an equivalent effect, with the object of rendering foreign goods more expensive than their domestic counterparts. This is addressed by Articles 28-30 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU). A state may also attempt to benefit domestic goods by taxes that discriminate against imports, which is covered by Articles 110-113 TFEU. These issues are considered within the chapter.
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Schwartz, Gary L. Hypertension. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199755691.003.0393.
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Because blood pressure is a continuously distributed trait in the population and the risk of cardiovascular disease associated with the level of pressure increases progressively as it exceeds 115 mm Hg systolic or 75 mm Hg diastolic, the definition of hypertension is somewhat arbitrary. Currently for adults, it is defined as systolic pressure 140 mm Hg or higher or diastolic pressure 90 mm Hg or higher. Systolic pressures between 120 and 139 mm Hg or diastolic pressures between 80 and 89 mm Hg are classified as prehypertension. Persons who have prehypertension are at increased risk of premature cardiovascular disease and progression to hypertension over time compared with persons who have normal pressure. Epidemiology, diagnosis, and treatment of hypertension are also reviewed.
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Lyamuya, Eligius Francis, and Omary Chillo, eds. Abstracts of Tanzania Health Summit 2020. AIJR Publisher, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.21467/abstracts.116.
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This book contains the abstracts of the papers/posters presented at the Tanzania Health Summit 2020 (THS-2020) Organized by the Ministry of Health Community Development, Gender, Elderly and Children (MoHCDGEC); President Office Regional Administration and Local Government (PORALG); Ministry of Health, Social Welfare, Elderly, Gender, and Children Zanzibar; Association of Private Health Facilities in Tanzania (APHFTA); National Muslim Council of Tanzania (BAKWATA); Christian Social Services Commission (CSSC); & Tindwa Medical and Health Services (TMHS) held on 25–26 November 2020. The Tanzania Health Summit is the annual largest healthcare platform in Tanzania that attracts more than 1000 participants, national and international experts, from policymakers, health researchers, public health professionals, health insurers, medical doctors, nurses, pharmacists, private health investors, supply chain experts, and the civil society. During the three-day summit, stakeholders and decision-makers from every field in healthcare work together to find solutions to the country’s and regional health challenges and set the agenda for a healthier future.
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Byrne, Maria, and Timothy O'Hara, eds. Australian Echinoderms. CSIRO Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9781486307630.
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Echinoderms, including feather stars, seastars, brittle stars, sea urchins and sea cucumbers, are some of the most beautiful and interesting animals in the sea. They play an important ecological role and several species of sea urchins and sea cucumbers form the basis of important fisheries. Over 1000 species live in Australian waters, from the shoreline to the depths of the abyssal plain and the tropics to Antarctic waters.
Australian Echinoderms is an authoritative account of Australia’s 110 families of echinoderms. It brings together in a single volume comprehensive information on the identification, biology, evolution, ecology and management of these animals for the first time. Richly illustrated with beautiful photographs and written in an accessible style, Australian Echinoderms suits the needs of marine enthusiasts, academics and fisheries managers both in Australia and other geographical areas where echinoderms are studied.
Winner of the 2018 Whitley Medal
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William A, Schabas. Part 10 Enforcement: Exécution, Art.110 Review by the Court concerning reduction of sentence/Examen par la Cour de la question d’une réduction de peine. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198739777.003.0115.
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This chapter comments on Article of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Article 110 deals with the modification of a sentence. Although a custodial sentence is served in a prison of a State of enforcement, where the convicted prisoner is subject to the rules and regulations applicable in the domestic system, early release is governed by the Rome Statute, not national legislation. The decision to modify the sentence pursuant to article 110 of the Rome Statute is irreversible, and not conditional, as in most domestic parole schemes. A sentence pronounced by the Court may subsequently be reduced, but only after the offender has served two-thirds of the term, with special provision in the case of life imprisonment.
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Close, Frank. 6. Beyond the periodic table. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780198718635.003.0006.
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‘Beyond the periodic table’ describes the synthesis of transuranium and super heavy elements. It begins with uranium-235, uranium-238, and the breeding of plutonium in a nuclear reactor. Uranium (with 92 protons) is the heaviest element found copiously on Earth. There are trace amounts of the next six elements, neptunium (Np), number 93, to californium (Cf) at 98. All other known elements do not occur naturally on Earth. Einsteinium (Es) at 99 and fermium (Fm) at 100 were formed during hydrogen bomb tests in the 1950s. As of 2014, the heaviest element synthesised with certainty is number 117, ‘un-un-septium’. It is possible that heavier elements exist in the cosmos in the form of neutron stars.
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Oberprieler, Rolf, and Elwood Zimmerman. Australian Weevils (Coleoptera: Curculionoidea) IV. CSIRO Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9781486314515.
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Australian Weevils: Volume IV covers the 11 smaller tribes of the weevil subfamily Entiminae (broad-nosed weevils), which comprises more than 100 genera and 700 described species in Australia. Around half of this fauna is covered in Volume IV, featuring keys to all the tribes, genera and described species as well as updated concepts and diagnoses of the tribes and summarising accounts of the taxonomy, nomenclature, distribution and known hostplants of all the genera and species.
All the introduced species of Entiminae in Australia, most of which are regarded as agricultural or horticultural pests, are included, as are descriptions of 12 new genera and eight new species and identifications of about another 240 undescribed species. The book also includes an overview of the salient characters of the Entiminae, illustrated on 18 colour plates of diagnostic features needed for identifying these weevils, alongside a further 180 colour plates illustrating the habitus and genitalia of all the genera and of several other species and their diagnostic characters. The volume further includes an obituary and full publication list of the late Elwood C. Zimmerman as well as an updated list of recent literature on the Australian Entiminae and other weevils.
The book is an essential reference work for researchers and students working with entimine weevils both in Australia and abroad. It is part of the Australian Weevils series.
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Jörres, Achim, Dietrich Hasper, and Michael Oppert. Non-dialytic management of the patient with acute kidney injury. Edited by Norbert Lameire. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199592548.003.0228.
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The main focus in the non-dialytic management of patients with acute kidney injury (AKI) is the prevention and treatment of complications.Nutritional support is an important aspect as many patients tend to be hypercatabolic, thus requiring adequate caloric intake, yet without administration of excessive fluid volumes. Inadequate nutrition in AKI may lead to enhanced production of urea nitrogen and azotaemia. However, hyperglycaemia is a frequent complication in these patients, often requiring continuous insulin therapy to achieve the recommended blood glucose target range of 110–150 mg/dL (6.11–8.33 mmol/L).Patients with AKI are prone to infections which are a common cause of death in this population. Careful search for and intensive treatment of infections is therefore of utmost importance, and antimicrobial chemotherapy must be initiated as early as possible, especially in patients with sepsis and AKI.Drug dosing in patients with AKI is complex and difficult. Residual kidney function can be highly variable and drug disposition may be altered due to changes in distribution volume, protein binding, and metabolism. Moreover, many drugs can be removed by renal replacement therapy (RRT). Therefore, adequate dosing must take into account the patient’s individual clinical characteristics, the specific pharmacokinetic/pharmacodynamic properties of the drug, and the mode and intensity of renal replacement therapy.
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Brennan, T. Corey. Sabina’s Personal History. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190250997.003.0003.
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Trajan and Hadrian were natives of Hispania Baetica, sons of Roman senators, and cousins once removed. Trajan became Hadrian’s guardian, and around 100, Hadrian married Trajan’s grandniece Sabina. Nothing else of her first 30 years or so is recorded by the literary or (so it seems) inscriptional sources—even her whereabouts in August 117, when Hadrian learned of his adoption by Trajan in a dying act. This chapter reviews the few available chronological items for Sabina’s life: assumption of the title ‘Augusta’ in 128; presence on Hadrian’s third and final journey (128–133); survival into 137; deification upon death; and burial (in later 139) in Hadrian’s Mausoleum. The chapter also surveys Sabina’s representation in the literary sources, which are essentially late epitomators and the Historia Augusta. Even the most basic outlines of what Sabina did and how contemporaries regarded her are obscure, never mind her internal life.
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Theischinger, Gunther, and John Hawking. Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia. CSIRO Publishing, 2006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9780643094109.
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Dragonflies and damselflies are conspicuous insects – many are large and brightly coloured. Here for the first time is a comprehensive guide to the Australian dragonfly fauna.
The book includes identification keys not only for adults but also for their larvae, commonly known as ‘mud eyes’ and often used as bait for freshwater fish. With stunning full-colour images and distribution maps, the book covers all 30 families, 110 genera and 324 species found in Australia.
Dragonflies are valuable indicators of environmental well-being. A detailed knowledge of the dragonfly fauna and its changes is therefore an important basis for decisions about environmental protection and management. Their extraordinary diversity will interest entomologists and amateur naturalists alike.
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Shyrokov, V. A. Dictionary of the Ukrainian language in 20 volumes. UKRAINIAN LINGUA-INFORMATION FUND OF NAS OF UKRAINE, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.33190/978-966-00-1050-5.
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The Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language in 20 volumes is a part of the National Dictionary Database (NSB) of the Ukrainian Language and Information Fund, which by the order of the Cabinet of Ministers of Ukraine № 73-r of February 11, 2004 is classified as a scientific object of national heritage.
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Kendler, Kenneth S. Introduction to “Varieties of social constructionism and the problem of progress in psychiatry”. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198725978.003.0010.
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Chapter 10 is an introdcution to Chapter 11, which covers the ideas surrounding the varieties of social constructionism and the problem of progress in psychiatry. It specifically addresses issues surrounding schizophrenia, differences of opinion about psychiatric disorders, and the term ‘inclusionary social constructionism’.
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Homewood, Matthew J. 5. Free movement of goods. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/he/9780198815181.003.0005.
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This chapter discusses the law on the free movement of goods in the EU. Free movement of goods is one of the four ‘freedoms’ of the internal market. Obstacles to free movement comprise tariff barriers to trade (customs duties and charges having equivalent effect), non-tariff barriers to trade (quantitative restrictions and measures having equivalent effect), and discriminatory national taxation. The Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU) prohibits all kinds of restrictions on trade between Member States. Article 30 (ex Article 25 EC) prohibits customs duties and charges having equivalent effect; Article 34 (ex Article 28 EC) prohibits quantitative restrictions and all measures having equivalent effect; and Article 110 (ex Article 90 EC) prohibits discriminatory national taxation.
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McDermott, Rory, and Craig Davidson. Oxygen: risks as well as benefits. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199657742.003.0015.
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Oxygen administration is the most commonly used therapy in emergency medicine. It is given to 18,000 patients in the United Kingdom every day, and 14% of patients in hospital receive it at some time during their stay. Whilst some of this activity is helpful, or indeed lifesaving, in some patients, oxygen can lead to harm, or even death. The domiciliary use of oxygen is also an area in which there is the potential for both waste and harm. When appropriately used, it prolongs life and provides valuable symptom relief; yet, in up to 43% of the cases, such therapy was either not used by patients as directed or provided no clinical benefit. At an annual cost in excess of £110 million, this is a lot of waste. This chapter examines the use of oxygen in both the acute setting and the assessment for home oxygen, with a focus on the pathophysiology behind oxygen therapy and the potential dangers.
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Tangen, Catherine M., Marian L. Neuhouser, and Janet L. Stanford. Prostate Cancer. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190238667.003.0053.
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Prostate cancer is the most common solid tumor and the second leading cause of cancer-related mortality in American men. Worldwide, prostate cancer ranks second and fifth as a cause of cancer and cancer deaths, respectively. Despite the international burden of disease due to prostate cancer, its etiology is unclear in most cases. Established risk factors include age, race/ancestry, and family history of the disease. Prostate cancer has a strong heritable component, and genome-wide association studies have identified over 110 common risk-associated genetic variants. Family-based sequencing studies have also found rare mutations (e.g., HOXB13) that contribute to prostate cancer susceptibility. Numerous environmental and lifestyle factors (e.g., obesity, diet) have been examined in relation to prostate cancer incidence, but few modifiable exposures have been consistently associated with risk. Some of the variability in results may be related to etiological heterogeneity, with different causes underlying the development of distinct disease subgroups.
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Mexal, Stephen J. Darwin’s Anachronisms. Edited by Jay Williams. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199315178.013.15.
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There is nothing wrong with having a conflicted or idiosyncratic political philosophy, of course. Jack London is large; he is allowed to contain multitudes. But by reading London’s letters in conjunction with the world he conjured in The Son of the Wolf, a more complete picture of his political imagination in the years leading up to 1900 can be grasped. The liberal individualism he denied can, in this light, be understood as emerging from the temporal dimension of his Darwinism (Reesman, Jack London’s, 11, 63). In other words, despite its setting’s apparent isolation from the modernity of late nineteenth-century America, The Son of the Wolf remains in thrall to the social landscape of the Southland.
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Lawrence, Mark. The Oxford Encyclopedia of the History of American Foreign Relations. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acref/9780190699468.001.0001.
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More than 111 scholarly articles The study of US foreign relations is one of the most dynamic fields of American history. The availability of new sources in recent years has opened new opportunities for examining US behavior through the lenses of other nations. Meanwhile, historians of international affairs have increasingly borrowed the methods, questions, and insights of cultural and social history, enlivening their field and opening bold new lines of interpretation. Some scholars have moved away from the traditional focus on presidents, diplomats, intelligence chiefs, and military officers to examine the roles of activists, experts, journalists, athletes, and others in American foreign relations. This collection captures all these trends in a fully up-to-date, authoritative survey of US foreign relations across almost 250 years. More than 100 entries on topics ranging from the American Revolution to the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq provide basic background well-suited to readers approaching their topics for the first time. But the entries, written by a remarkable array of expert authors, also offer a valuable tool for experienced researchers and advanced scholars. Authors provide surveys of the scholarly literature related to each topic, along with guides to primary sources, including a rapidly growing number of online collections. The collection covers traditional topics like Anglo-American relations or the role of nuclear weapons in US diplomacy, while also considering newer themes like gender, LGBTQ issues, and environmental diplomacy.
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Brennan, T. Corey. Hadrian’s Personality. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190250997.003.0004.
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Hadrian’s life was a string of controversial episodes, on which even our summary sources had to acknowledge variant traditions: Plotina’s alleged role in Hadrian’s adoption by Trajan, his execution of four consulars in 118, his relationship with Antinoös and the youth’s death in October 130. Add to that the nature of Hadrian’s marriage, his adoption of Lucius Aelius in 136 and Antoninus Pius in 138, the emperor’s death in July 138, and the ensuing fierce debate over his memory (including deification). Our literary sources, it is argued, use these incidents to illustrate a conventional notion of Hadrian’s complex, shifting personality, which was unable to control extremes of emotions. The late-second-century senatorial biographer Marius Maximus apparently was an influential source for later writers on this emperor’s life. The biographer’s picture of a self-contradictory Hadrian colored Maximus’ portrayal of Sabina, whom he presented so as to magnify the emperor’s shortcomings and failings.
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Lawrence, John, and Adam Slipinski. Australian Beetles Volume 1. CSIRO Publishing, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9780643097292.
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This three-volume series represents a comprehensive treatment of the beetles of Australia, a relatively under-studied fauna that includes many unusual and unique lineages found nowhere else on Earth.
Volume 1 contains keys to all 117 beetle families found in Australia, and includes over 1100 illustrations of adults, larvae and anatomical structures. This volume is based in part on Lawrence & Britton’s out-of-print Australian Beetles, but is fully updated and expanded.
The biology and morphology for all major beetle lineages is described and illustrated, along with anatomical terms which clarify the characters and terminology used in the keys; few other resources for beetle identification include such a detailed morphological background. A chapter on the fossil record is also included, and family sections provide full descriptions of adults and larvae, including the world distribution of each family.
The revised identification keys (currently recognised as one of the most valuable keys worldwide) will aid quarantine agents, biologists and students in identifying members of the most species-rich order of animals.
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Bornstein, Brian H., and Jeffrey Neuschatz. Hugo Münsterberg's Psychology and Law. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190696344.001.0001.
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The German American psychologist Hugo Münsterberg’s 1908 book, On the Witness Stand, is widely regarded as “founding” the modern field of psychology and law. The purpose of the present volume is twofold: first, to summarize the chapters and conclusions of On the Witness Stand, making Münsterberg’s insights available to a new generation of scholars and students; and second, to present the “state of the science” on the very issues that Münsterberg raises. These issues continue to be of great importance to the field and the contemporary criminal justice system: eyewitness memory, deception detection, false confessions, suggestibility, hypnotism, and the causes of criminal behavior. Thus, the book provides a historical perspective, as well as a contemporary, comprehensive review of topics that remain central to the discipline of psychology and law. In essence, each chapter asks, “What have we learned about this topic in the 110 years since Münsterberg first wrote about it? Has subsequent research shown him to be right or wrong?” Each chapter summarizes the content of Münsterberg’s corresponding chapter, interleaved with a contemporary assessment of the topic.
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Murgatroyd, Paul. (Satires 11 and 12). Liverpool University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5949/liverpool/9781786940698.003.0010.
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This chapter provides the Latin text and a literal translation into English of representative segments of Juvenal’s eleventh and twelfth satires, paying particular attention to poetic aspects such as sound, style, rhythm, diction, imagery, vividness and narrative technique, and also assessing humour, wit, irony and the force and validity of satirical thrusts. This chapter examines the two other poems in Juvenal’s fourth book (satires 11 and 12) and considers how they continue in the vein of Satire 10 with regard to tone (calmer, mocking), the pillorying of human stupidity with humour and wit, the inclusion of much absurdity and grotesquerie, and the gloomy picture of Rome presented with cynicism, exaggeration and an admixture of pathos. Thus Satire 10 is viewed in context.
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Macaskill, Grant. The Incarnation and Intellectual Humility. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198799856.003.0006.
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This chapter examines the ways in which the incarnation of Jesus Christ is specifically represented as an outworking of divine humility. Importantly, this is rendered using imagery borrowed from biblical descriptions of wisdom, something that is suggestive for reflection on intellectual humility. Particular attention is paid to Philippians 2:1–11, which presents Christ’s ‘humility of mind’ as exemplary for Christian life and conduct. The humility in question is not associated with limitation or deficiency, and far less with sin, but rather with ‘selflessness’ and ‘servanthood’. Participation in Christ’s wisdom entails a preparedness to make sacrifices intended for the flourishing of others or for the glory of God. The chapter will also consider 1 Corinthians 1:18–2:10, where the ‘wisdom of God’ is contrasted with human wisdom, and Matthew 11:25–30, where Jesus is represented as the embodiment of divine wisdom.
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Casey, Patricia. Making the diagnosis in clinical practice (DRAFT). Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198786214.003.0006.
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Neither ICD-10 nor DSM-5 has clinical criteria for making the diagnosis of AD. The only requirement is a stressor, either psychosocial or traumatic. The onset of symptoms within 1 month (ICD) and 3 months (DSM) is not evidence based. The symptoms may be depressive, anxious, behavioural, or a mixture of these. A useful clinical indicator that the event was the trigger is that the intensity of the symptoms increases when it is being recalled or recounted and diminishes when the person is removed from it. A number of differentials should also be considered. ICD-11 proposes specific criteria for ICD-11 that include preoccupation with the stressor and difficulty adapting, as evidenced by impaired concentration, sleep disturbance, and so on, causing impairment in functioning. It is unclear whether those diagnosed with AD using the new criteria will be the same clinically as those currently so diagnosed.
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Casey, Patricia. History of the concept of adjustment disorders (DRAFT). Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198786214.003.0001.
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Adjustment disorder (AD) was introduced by ICD-9 in 1978 and by DSM-III in 1980. Until recently it was neglected in research and in clinical practice. It has withstood the early controversies suggesting that it was a manufactured condition to facilitate the reimbursement of clinicians for treating mild conditions which otherwise would not be covered by insurance. Others argue that it medicalized problems of living. More recent controversies concern its status as a subthreshold disorder, disbarring it from being diagnosed when the threshold for other disorders is reached. Its status has been enhanced by its new positioning in DSM-5 in the Trauma and Stressor-Related Disorders category, similar to ICD-10. However, ICD-11 is proposing making AD a full-threshold disorder with specific criteria for diagnosis, unlike DSM-5. This radical proposal will put ICD-11 and DSM-5 at variance with each other and will require a reappraisal of the research, to date, on AD.
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Bratman, Michael E. Temptation and the Agent’s Standpoint. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190867850.003.0007.
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This essay aims to understand how it might be rational to follow through with a prior resolution in the face of anticipated temptation that comes in the form of a shift in evaluative assessment. In order to explain this possibility of rational willpower, it appeals to a kind of practical sensitivity to relevant cross-temporal organization, where that can include sensitivity to anticipated future regret. The idea is that this sensitivity is built into the practical standpoint of a planning agent at the time of the temptation. (These ideas are adjusted somewhat in essays 1, 10, and 11.)
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Theischinger, Günther, John Hawking, and Albert Orr. Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia. CSIRO Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9781486313754.
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Dragonflies and damselflies are conspicuous insects: many are large and brightly coloured. They are also valuable indicators of environmental wellbeing. A detailed knowledge of the dragonfly fauna is therefore an important basis for decisions about environmental protection and management.
This comprehensive guide to the Australian dragonfly fauna covers eight families of dragonflies and 10 families of damselflies, comprising the 113 genera and 333 species found in Australia. It has been updated with newly identified species and revised family names to reflect new world consensus systematics. Stunning full-colour images and distribution maps are accompanied by identification keys for adults as well as larvae, which are often used as bait for freshwater fish.
This second edition of The Complete Field Guide to Dragonflies of Australia also includes illustrations by Albert Orr, one of the most renowned dragonfly illustrators. The extraordinary diversity of dragonflies will interest entomologists and amateur naturalists alike.
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Cargill, Robert R. Melchizedek, King of Sodom. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190946968.001.0001.
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This book argues that the biblical figure Melchizedek mentioned in Gen. 14 as the king of Shalem originally appeared in the text as the king of Sodom. Textual evidence is presented to demonstrate that the word סדם (Sodom) was changed to שׁלם (Shalem) in order to avoid depicting the patriarch Abram as receiving a blessing and goods from the king of Sodom, whose city was soon thereafter destroyed for its sinfulness according to the biblical tradition. This change from Sodom to Shalem caused a disjointed narrative in Gen. 14:18–20, which many scholars have wrongly attributed to a later interpolation. This book also provides textual evidence of minor, strategic redactional changes to the Hebrew Bible and the Samaritan Pentateuch that demonstrate the evolving, polemical, sectarian discourse between Jews and Samaritans as they were competing for the superiority of their respective temples and holy mountains. These minor strategic changes to the HB were used as the ideological motivation in the Second Temple Jewish literary tradition for the relocation of Shalem away from the Samaritan religious center at Mt. Gerizim to the Levitical priestly center in Jerusalem. This book also examines how the possible reference to Melchizedek in Ps. 110 may have influenced later Judaism’s understanding of Melchizedek.
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Wilsey, Brian J. Grasslands of the World. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198744511.003.0001.
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Grasslands are herbaceous dominated areas with very low abundance of trees and shrubs. They are found in areas with intermediate precipitation amounts (250–1000 mm) characterized by occasional droughts and are usually the most extensive in the interior of continents. Grasslands began to form 11–24 million years ago (MYA) when grasses invaded woodlands. Grasses initially all had C3 photosynthesis and were found in shaded conditions. However, grasses with C4 photosynthesis require full sun, and they increased in abundance during this time to achieve between 20–40 percent of the local vegetation. By around 6–8 MYA before present, C4 grasses were widespread on most continents that now have extensive grasslands. Grasslands can be classified by soil type or based on gradients of humidity-aridity and human impact (wild grasslands to improved pastures). African savanna grasslands are important because it is where Homo sapiens (humans) speciated and eventually spread to other continents.
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Slipinski, Adam, and Hermes Escalona. Australian Longhorn Beetles (Coleoptera: Cerambycidae) Volume 2. CSIRO Publishing, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9781486304592.
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Longhorn Beetles — Cerambycidae are one of the most easily recognised groups of beetles, a family that worldwide encompasses over 33 000 species in 5200 genera. With over 1400 species classified in 300 genera, this is the sixth largest among 117 beetle families in Australia.
These beetles often attack and kill living forest or orchard trees and develop in construction timber (like the European House borer, introduced to WA), causing serious damage. Virtually all Cerambycidae feed on living or dead plant tissues and play a significant role in all terrestrial environments where plants are found. Larvae often utilise damaged or dead trees for their development, and through feeding on rotten wood form an important element of the saproxylic fauna, speeding energy circulation in these habitats. Many species are listed as quarantine pests because of their destructive role to the timber industry.
This second of three volumes on Australian Longhorn Beetles covers the taxonomy of genera of the Cerambycinae, with comments on natural history and morphology. One hundred and forty-two Cerambycinae genera are diagnosed and described, an illustrated key to their identification is provided, and images illustrate representatives of genera and of actual type specimens. A full listing of all Australian species with synonymies and bibliographic citations is also included.
Recipient of a 2017 Whitley Awards Certificate of Commendation for Taxonomic Zoology
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Ojakangas, Mika. Plato. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474423632.003.0019.
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There are not many books by Agamben in which Plato does not figure. In The Man Without Content (MC 52–64), Agamben discusses the Platonic discrepancy between politics and poetry; in Stanzas, he examines Plato’s conceptions of love (S 115–21) and phantasm (S 73–5); in Infancy and History (IH 73), Agamben takes up Plato’s concept of time (aion and chronos), while in The End of the Poem (EP 17) he examines Plato’s criticism of tragedy. In Language and Death (LD 91–2), he gives an account of Socrates’ ‘demon’ and Plato’s Idea (eidos) – though he investigates the latter more thoroughly in Potentialities (PO 27–38), in which he also briefly touches upon Plato’s doctrine of matter (khôra) (PO 218). In Idea of Prose (IP 120–3) and The ComingCommunity (CC 76–7), it is the Platonic Idea again that is under scrutiny, albeit more implicitly than in Potentialities. In Homo Sacer (HS 33–5), Agamben offers an interpretation of Plato’s treatment of Pindar’s nomos basileus fragment and the sophistic opposition between nomos and physis, whereas in The Sacrament of Language (SL 29) he touches on Plato’s critique of oath. In The Signature of All Things (ST 22–6), Agamben gives an account of Plato’s ‘paradigmatic’ method, while in Stasis (STA 5–12) we find an analysis of Plato’s conception of civil war (stasis).
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Tarmann, Gerhard M. Zygaenid Moths of Australia. CSIRO Publishing, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/9780643092198.
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The Zygaenidae are a family of day-flying moths with an unusual biology – they are capable of releasing prussic (hydrocyanic) acid. All Australian species belong to the subfamily Procridinae (commonly known as foresters) and many of these feature iridescent green colours or a wasp-like look. This is the first study of the Australian fauna of these attractive and biologically interesting moths.
In this volume their beauty is captured larger-than-life in 114 finely detailed portraits by acclaimed artist František Gregor, setting a new benchmark for moth illustrations. Comprehensive general chapters discuss zygaenid morphology, biology, phylogeny and classification, with considerable new information of world-wide relevance.
The book then provides in-depth treatments of the 10 genera and 43 species present in Australia, including 4 genera and 21 species new to science. It features keys to genera and species, photos of genitalia of both sexes and other diagnostic structures, and distribution maps for all species. Additionally, there are 8 pages of colour photographs and over 400 photos of microscopic structures, including more than a hundred spectacular scanning electron micrographs.
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Waldo, Albert L. Rate versus rhythm control therapy for atrial fibrillation. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198784906.003.0511.
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Based on data from several clinical trials, either rate control or rhythm control is an acceptable primary therapeutic strategy for patients with atrial fibrillation. However, since atrial fibrillation tends to recur no matter the therapy, rate control should almost always be a part of the treatment. If a rhythm control strategy is selected, it is important to recognize that recurrence of atrial fibrillation is common, but not clinical failure per se. Rather, the frequency and duration of episodes, as well as severity of symptoms during atrial fibrillation episodes should guide treatment decisions. Thus, occasional recurrence of atrial fibrillation despite therapy may well be clinically acceptable. However, for some patients, rhythm control may be the only strategy that is acceptable. In short, for most patients, either a rate or rhythm control strategy should be considered. However, for all patients, there are two main goals of therapy. One is to avoid stroke and/or systemic embolism, and the other is to avoid a tachycardia-induced cardiomyopathy. Also, because of the frequency of atrial fibrillation recurrence despite the treatment strategy selected, patients with stroke risks should receive anticoagulation therapy despite seemingly having achieved stable sinus rhythm. For patients in whom a rate control strategy is selected, a lenient approach to the acceptable ventricular response rate is a resting heart rate of 110 bpm, and probably 90 bpm. The importance of achieving and maintaining sinus rhythm in patients with atrial fibrillation and heart failure remains to be clearly established.
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Partington, Martin. Introduction to the English Legal System. 15th ed. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/he/9780198852926.001.0001.
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Introduction to the English Legal System 2021–2022 has been fully updated to consider the latest developments in the English legal system. The underlying theme is change and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and the underlying approach is holistic. Changes to the criminal system (Chapter 5), the administrative system (Chapter 6), the family justice system (Chapter 7), and the civil and commercial (Chapter 8) justice systems are all considered. Developments in the ways in which the legal profession is regulated are also discussed (Chapter 9). Ways of funding access to justice and controlling the cost of litigating are considered (Chapter 10), as are the purposes and sources of law (Chapters 2 and 3). Chapter 11 offers a final reflection on a system in flux.
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Dussaule, Jean-Claude, Martin Flamant, and Christos Chatziantoniou. Function of the normal glomerulus. Edited by Neil Turner. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199592548.003.0044_update_001.
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Glomerular filtration, the first step leading to the formation of primitive urine, is a passive phenomenon. The composition of this primitive urine is the consequence of the ultrafiltration of plasma depending on renal blood flow, on hydrostatic pressure of glomerular capillary, and on glomerular coefficient of ultrafiltration. Glomerular filtration rate (GFR) can be precisely measured by the calculation of the clearance of freely filtrated exogenous substances that are neither metabolized nor reabsorbed nor secreted by tubules: its mean value is 125 mL/min/1.73 m² in men and 110 mL/min/1.73 m² in women, which represents 20% of renal blood flow. In clinical practice, estimates of GFR are obtained by the measurement of creatininaemia followed by the application of various equations (MDRD or CKD-EPI) and more recently by the measurement of plasmatic C-cystatin. Under physiological conditions, GFR is a stable parameter that is regulated by the intrinsic vascular and tubular autoregulation, by the balance between paracrine and endocrine agents acting as vasoconstrictors and vasodilators, and by the effects of renal sympathetic nerves. The mechanisms controlling GFR regulation are complex. This is due to the variety of vasoactive agents and their targets, and multiple interactions between them. Nevertheless, the relative stability of GFR during important variations of systemic haemodynamics and volaemia is due to three major operating mechanisms: autoregulation of the afferent arteriolar resistance, local synthesis and action of angiotensin II, and the sensitivity of renal resistance vessels to respond to NO release.
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Strain, James J., Patricia Casey, and Peter Tyrer. Diagnostic Dilemmas. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190603342.003.0011.
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This chapter describes the universal problems with the issue of diagnosis for the psychiatric disorders. Taxonomies, DSM-5 and ICD-10, ICD-11, are symptom driven with no biological markers. This is in contrast to medical disorders which years ago began to derive their diagnoses on the basis of mechanisms of action, and guided diagnosis where it could be done by biological markers. This means in psychiatry there are not “zones of rarity” between diagnoses and there is considerable symptom overlap among the diagnosis. Research attempts to improve this condition are explored: (1) Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) and (2) genetic studies. The concept that depression is a systemic disorder and not just a mental disorder is enhanced with our increasing understanding of the biology underlying the disorder and its effects on the body.
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Sugden, Robert. The Principle of Mutual Benefit. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198825142.003.0011.
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Chapter 11 begins by arguing that, if one takes a contractarian approach, one can recommend to citizens together that they uphold specific normative principles. I then present a contractarian argument for a normative principle, the Principle of Mutual Benefit, that generates intentions for mutual benefit of the kind analysed in Chapter 10. I argue that this normative principle has psychological stability because of a mechanism of ‘correspondence of sentiments’ first proposed by Adam Smith, and which is supported by psychological evidence. The final section of the chapter rounds off the book by using Immanuel Kant’s relationship with the builders of his house to link the Principle of Mutual Benefit with the idea of a market as a community of advantage.
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John, Choong. 8 Formation and Challenge of the Arbitral Tribunal: (SIAC RULES 9 TO 18). Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198810650.003.0008.
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The ability of parties to influence the constitution of their arbitral tribunal is an important manifestation of party autonomy in international arbitration. This chapter first discusses the means by which parties can do so pursuant to Rules 9 to 13. Specifically, Rule 9 covers the number and appointment of arbitrators; Rule 10 provides a default procedure for the nomination and appointment of a sole arbitrator should the parties fail to agree on a candidate; Rule 11 discusses the appointment of arbitrators; Rule 12 covers the multi-party appointment of arbitrator(s); and Rule 13 deals with the qualifications of arbitrators. The chapter then considers the procedures for, and consequences of, a party challenging an appointed arbitrator under Rules 14 to 18.
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Rowett, Catherine. Introduction and Summary for Part IV: Plato’s Theaetetus. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199693658.003.0009.
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The chapter summarizes the results of Part IV and explains and introduces the work on the Theaetetus in Chapters 10, 11, and 12. It explains what misguided assumptions undermine all Theaetetus’s attempts to define knowledge (focusing especially on the reductionist assumptions throughout the dialogue). Second, it examines the significance of the motif of the midwife, whose task is twofold: first to provide life-saving aids for each failing infant, and then to judge its viability once those aids are in place. The dialogue therefore manifests an alternating sequence of constructive work, to prop up failing theories, and destructive work to prove their non-viability. Third, it explains the importance of the search for ousia (being) and its relation to the quest for ‘what it is’ about a concept.
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Saunders, Max. Imagined Futures. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198829454.001.0001.
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This study provides the first substantial history and analysis of the To-Day and To-Morrow series of 110 books, published by Kegan Paul Trench and Trübner (and E. P. Dutton in the USA) from 1923 to 1931, in which writers chose a topic, described its present, and predicted its future. Contributors included J. B. S. Haldane, Bertrand Russell, Vernon Lee, Robert Graves, Vera Brittain, Sylvia Pankhurst, Hugh McDiarmid, James Jeans, J. D. Bernal, Winifred Holtby, André Maurois, and many others. The study combines a comprehensive account of its interest, history, and range with a discussion of its key concerns, tropes, and influence. The argument focuses on science and technology, not only as the subject of many of the volumes, but also as method—especially through the paradigm of the human sciences—applied to other disciplines; and as a source of metaphors for representing other domains. It also includes chapters on war, technology, cultural studies, and literature and the arts. This book has three main aims. First, to reinstate the series as a vital contribution to the writing of modernity. Second, to reappraise modernism’s relation to the future, establishing a body of progressive writing which moves beyond the discourses of post-Darwinian degeneration and post-war disenchantment, projecting human futures rather than mythic or classical pasts. Third, to show how, as a co-ordinated body of futurological writing, the series is also revealing about the nature and practices of modern futurology.
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De Bruin, Erica. How to Prevent Coups d'État. Cornell University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501751912.001.0001.
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This book looks at the threats that rulers face from their own armed forces. Can they make their regimes impervious to coups? This book shows that how leaders organize their coercive institutions has a profound effect on the survival of their regimes. When rulers use presidential guards, militarized police, and militia to counterbalance the regular military, efforts to oust them from power via coups d'état are less likely to succeed. Even as counterbalancing helps to prevent successful interventions, however, the resentment that it generates within the regular military can provoke new coup attempts. And because counterbalancing changes how soldiers and police perceive the costs and benefits of a successful overthrow, it can create incentives for protracted fighting that result in the escalation of a coup into full-blown civil war. Drawing on an original dataset of state security forces in 110 countries over a span of fifty years, as well as case studies of coup attempts in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East, the book sheds light on how counterbalancing affects regime survival. Understanding the dynamics of counterbalancing, the book shows, can help analysts predict when coups will occur, whether they will succeed, and how violent they are likely to be. The arguments and evidence in this book suggest that while counterbalancing may prevent successful coups, it is a risky strategy to pursue — and one that may weaken regimes in the long term.
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Bibb, Bryan D. Blood, Death, and the Holy in the Leviticus Narrative. Edited by Danna Nolan Fewell. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199967728.013.10.
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After briefly discussing the final literary structure of Leviticus, this chapter considers three parts of the book in light of particular themes: blood ritual and mythic drama in chapters 1–7 and 11–15; life, death, and ambiguity in chapters 8–10 and 16; and holiness and God’s people in chapters 17–27. By embedding ritual instructions within a mythical-narrative frame, the authors/editors of Leviticus created a sacred timeless and authoritative world that resists challenge from dissent and doubt. However, narratives interspersed within the ritual texts expose ambiguities within the system and raise questions about the ability of the law to accomplish its purposes. In the second half of Leviticus, the world of “holiness” is expanded and reframed in order to apply to the whole community, a recognition that priestly ritual is a cosmic reality that is broader and more transformative than what happens only in the tabernacle.
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Manny, Iarla. Oscar as (Ovid as) Orpheus. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198789260.003.0016.
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Whereas Plato is more commonly considered as an ancient source for The Picture of Dorian Gray, this chapter looks at Ovid and his Metamorphoses as a classical model for Wilde’s sole novel. Unlike Narcissus and Pygmalion, who are more obviously alluded to in Dorian Gray, Ovid’s Orpheus has mainly been overlooked as a mythical archetype for Wilde’s novel. Orpheus, the legendary minstrel whose story is related in Books 10 and 11 of the Metamorphoses, has long been regarded as the archetypal artist who is the most relevant self-reflexive representative of the poet Ovid himself. While the tragic relationship between Dorian Gray and Sibyl Vane in Wilde’s novel has been compared to that between Orpheus and Eurydice in Ovid’s poem, this chapter proposes that the Ovidian Orpheus’ misogynistic and pederastic tendencies can help unravel the evocatively named Dorian’s troubled relations with the sexes, as well as those of Wilde himself.
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Ling, Roger, and Lesley Ling. The Insula of the Menander at Pompeii. Oxford University Press, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199266951.001.0001.
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This volume is the second in a series of five on the Insula (city block) of the Menander at Pompeii. The first (on the structures) and the fourth (on the silver treasure) have already been published; the third (on the objects) and the fifth (on the graffiti) are in preparation. The Insula of the Menander, approximately 3500 sq. m. in area, derives its name from the House of the Menander, one of the best-known dwellings of the ancient city. This was evidently the property of one of Pompeii's leading citizens. Renowned for its architectural grandeur and for the hoard of 110 pieces of silver plate found in a cellar, it also yielded room upon room of splendid wall-paintings and mosaic pavements, ranging in date from the first century BC to the eve of the eruption of AD 79. In addition to this dominant house, the block contains several smaller houses--notably the House of the Lovers and the House of the Craftsman--most of which contain further paintings and pavements of interest. The present volume publishes these decorations in full for the first time. Its importance lies in the fact that it covers the whole block, rather than concentrating upon isolated houses (as most previous volumes have done). This enables the reader not only to look at questions of chronology and iconography room by room and house by house, but also to observe broad patterns of taste and social differentiation within a particular neighborhood of Pompeii.
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Cumming, Douglas, ed. The Oxford Handbook of IPOs. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190614577.001.0001.
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Firms generally begin as privately owned entities. When they grow large enough, the decision to go public and its consequences are among the most crucial times in a firm’s life cycle. The first time a firm is a reporting issuer gives rise to tremendous responsibilities about disclosing public information and accountability to a wide array of retail shareholders and institutional investors. Initial public offerings (IPOs) offer tremendous opportunities to raise capital. The economic and legal landscape for IPOs has been rapidly evolving across countries. There have been fewer IPOs in the United States in the aftermath of the 2007–2009 financial crisis and associated regulatory reforms that began in 2002. In 1980–2000, an average of 310 firms went public every year, while in 2001–2014 an average of 110 firms went public every year. At the same time, there are so many firms that seek an IPO in China that there has been a massive waiting list of hundreds of firms in recent years. Some countries are promoting small junior stock exchanges to go public early, and even crowdfunding to avoid any prospectus disclosure. Financial regulation of analysts and investment banks has been evolving in ways that drastically impact the economics of going public—in some countries, such as the United States, drastically increasing the minimum size of a company before it can expect to go public. This Handbook not only systematically and comprehensively consolidates a large body of literature on IPOs, but provides a foundation for future debates and inquiry.
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Parran, Theodore V., John A. Hopper, and Bonnie B. Wilford. Diagnosing Patients and Initiating Treatment (DRAFT). Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190265366.003.0011.
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Chapter 11 provides an organized approach to diagnosis and to the initial treatment plan, focusing on substance use disorders. The elements of pharmacological and behavioral approaches to treatment, including the management of withdrawal, are addressed separately (Sections III and IV). It begins with directions on initiation of the patient relationship, with the object of eliciting cooperation. The sources of information that should be interrogated are listed, including the history, screening tools, physical examination, laboratory studies, and collateral information (e.g., the prescription drug monitoring program or PDMP). A discussion of diagnosis includes the principles underlying the ICD-10 and the DSM-5. The process of enlisting the patient in a treatment agreement and in the formulation of a collaborative treatment plan is described; the practical elements of patient education in medication accountability and dosing are included. The chapter concludes with a treatment planning checklist to facilitate orderly transition to the treatment itself.
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Corrigan, John, ed. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Religion in America. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acref/9780190456160.001.0001.
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Over 110 scholarly articlesThis encyclopedia is a groundbreaking collection of detailed scholarly articles that address a wide range of topics in American religious history and culture, all written by experts in their fields. It is not an amalgam of articles on the traditionally invoked topics that have directed thinking about religion in America. Rather, it is organized in a way that utilizes the most recent categories of scholarly research to identify the crucial themes, events, people, places, and ideas that have constituted the rich history of religion in America. It is arranged in five sections: Space, Religious Ideas, Race and Ethnicity, Public Life, and Empire. In each section, a range of articles address the religious lives of Americans and the institutions, theologies, and social forces that have influenced those lives and given shape to a broad cultural landscape of religion in America.The articles in each section draw upon scholarship from an assortment of fields. As a result, The Oxford Encyclopedia of Religion in America is fully interdisciplinary in its approach to religion in America. It is informative about cutting-edge debates not only in the fields of religion and history, but in sociology, geography, philosophy, ethnic studies, literature, and a number of other fields as well. The articles are interconnected in various ways. There are common themes as defined by the section headings, such as space, race, and religious ideas. There are also mutually reinforcing articles on specific topics such as a particular denomination, a distinctive intellectual tradition, gender, class, economics, and immigration. The encyclopedia accordingly is best engaged as a tool that can be read both through and across the categories that organize it. It offers multiple insightful takes on a range of topics and represents the history and culture of religion in America in ways that will both resonate with and challenge the perspectives of readers.
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Gray, Francoise, Charles Duyckaerts, and Umberto de Girolami, eds. Escourolle and Poirier's Manual of Basic Neuropathology. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190675011.001.0001.
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Escourolle and Poirier’s Manual of Basic Neuropathology is a monograph on neuropathology that provides classic macroscopic and microscopic descriptions of the pathology of diseases of the nervous system complemented with the most up-to-date accounts of the pathophysiology, genetics, and molecular biology of these diseases. The book is divided into 14 chapters that cover all the major categories of neurological diseases. The chapter topics are as follows: 1, introduction to the basic reactions of the nervous system; 2, neoplasms; 3, traumatic injury; 4, vascular disease; 5, infectious disease; 6, prion disease; 7, demyelinating disease; 8, degenerative disease; 9, acquired metabolic disease; 10, hereditary metabolic disease; 11, congenital malformations and perinatal disease; 12, disease of skeletal muscle; 13, disease of peripheral nerve; and 14, disease of the pituitary gland. An Appendix gives an overview of the technical aspects of laboratory study of the nervous system, including the latest concepts in molecular diagnosis.
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Williams, David M., Ryan E. Rhodes, and Mark T. Conner, eds. Affective Determinants of Health Behavior. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190499037.001.0001.
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In the last twenty to thirty years, research on affective determinants of health behavior has proliferated. For the first time, this burgeoning area of research is reviewed and discussed in a single volume, with chapters from leading experts in their respective areas. Authors focus on a range of affective concepts, including, but not limited to, hedonic response, incidental affect, perceived satisfaction, anticipated affect, affective attitudes, and affective associations. In the first part of the book (chapters 2–10), the role of affective concepts is highlighted and expanded in multiple theories of health behavior, including theories of action control, self-regulation, self-determination, dual-processing, affective associations, and hedonic motivation. The second part of the book (chapters 11–20) focuses on the role of affective concepts in specific health behavior domains, including physical activity, eating, smoking, substance use, sex, tanning, blood donation, performance of health professionals, cancer screening, and cancer control. Each chapter offers a summary of existing research, as well as the authors’ insights on possible new directions and implications for intervention.