Books: 'Temporale, region'

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Microsurgery of the temporo-medial region. Wien: Springer-Verlag, 1989.

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Cascioli, Raffaella. Analisi temporale della mortalità per causa nella regione Campania. Roma: Istituto superiore di sanità, 1998.

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Sick, Henri, and Francis Veillon. Atlas of Slices of the Temporal Bone and Adjacent Region. Munich: J.F. Bergmann-Verlag, 1988. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80516-5.

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Sep, Peter, and Marga Verheije. Groot en klein verzet: Temporele ordening in Nederland. [Amsterdam]: De Balie, 2004.

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Tudela, Juan Carlos Andreo. Inmigración extranjera y empresas de trabajo temporal en la Región de Murcia. Sevilla: Editorial Doble J, 2007.

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Tudela, Juan Carlos Andreo. Inmigración extranjera y empresas de trabajo temporal en la Región de Murcia. Sevilla: Editorial Doble J, 2007.

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Khoo, Gaik Cheng, Thomas Barker, and Mary Ainslie, eds. Southeast Asia on Screen. NL Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462989344.

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After the end of World War II when many Southeast Asian nations gained national independence, and up until the Asian Financial Crisis, film industries here had distinctive and colourful histories shaped by unique national and domestic conditions. Southeast Asia on Screen: From Independence to Financial Crisis (1945-1998) addresses the similar themes, histories, trends, technologies and sociopolitical events that have moulded the art and industry of film in this region, identifying the unique characteristics that continue to shape cinema, spectatorship and Southeast Asian filmmaking in the present and the future. Bringing together scholars across the region, chapters explore the conditions that have given rise to today’s burgeoning Southeast Asian cinemas as well as the gaps that manifest as temporal belatedness and historical disjunctures in the more established regional industries.

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Badiani, Reena. Temporary and permanent migration in six villages in the semi-arid tropics. Patancheru: International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics, 2007.

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service), SpringerLink (Online, ed. Studies in Temporal Urbanism: The urbanTick Experiment. Dordrecht: Springer Science+Business Media B.V., 2011.

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Service, United States Forest. USDA Forest Service: Guide to temporary employment, 1994. [Fort Collins, Colo.?]: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Rocky Mountain Region, 1994.

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Location, transport and land-use: Modelling spatial-temporal information. Berlin: Springer, 2005.

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Francis, Veillon, and Sick Henri, eds. Atlas of slices of the temporal bone and adjacent region: Anatomy and computed tomography : horizontal, frontal, sagittal sections. München: Bergmann, 1988.

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Raspini, Federico, Francesca Cigna, Sandro Moretti, and Nicola Casagli, eds. Advanced Terrain Mapping of the Gioia Tauro Plain Calabria Region, Italy. Florence: Firenze University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.36253/978-88-6655-022-8.

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In the framework of the Terrafirma project, Persistent Scatterers Interferometry (PSI) has be used for mapping land subsidence at basin scale in Gioia Tauro plain (Italy). The investigated area is built over unconsolidated fine-grained sediments, where the increasing groundwater demands for irrigation have caused the natural sediment consolidation to progressively accelerate. Both historical (1992-2001; ERS1/2 images) and recent (2002-2006; ENVISAT images) scenarios are analyzed to solve the spatial variability and temporal evolution of ground displacements affecting the plain. The results show deformation rates as high as 10-12 mm/yr in 1992-2007, with highest velocities occurred between 1992 and 2000 within the central part of the basin, in the area of Rizziconi (5 km ESE of Gioia Tauro). The outcomes of this PSI study could support the future improvement of groundwater management and the implementation of best strategies for land use planning and sustainable use of groundwater resources.

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Kerrigan, G. Costos directos de producción para los principales cultivos de la Región del Maule: Temporada 1994/95. [Talca? Chile]: Centro de Gestion Empresarial, 1995.

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Greene, Jennifer C. The Temporary State Commission on Tug Hill evaluation survey report. Watertown, N.Y: The Commission, 1985.

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Surkova, Galina. Atmospheric chemistry. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/1079840.

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The textbook contains material corresponding to the course of lectures on atmospheric chemistry prepared for students studying meteorology and climatology. The basic concepts of atmospheric chemistry are given, its gaseous components, as well as aerosols and chemical processes related to their life cycles, which are important from the point of view of the formation of the radiation, temperature and dynamic regime of the atmosphere, as well as its pollution, are considered. The main regularities of the transport of impurities in the atmosphere and the role of processes of different spatial and temporal scales in this process are presented. The concept of approaches of varying degrees of complexity used to model the transport of matter in the atmosphere, taking into account its chemical transformations, is presented. The processes in the gaseous and liquid phases that affect the chemical composition and acidity of clouds and precipitation are described. Modern methods of using information about the concentration and state of chemical compounds, including their radioactive and stable isotopes, to obtain information about the meteorological regime of the atmosphere in the present and past are considered. Meets the requirements of the federal state educational standards of higher education of the latest generation. For students of higher educational institutions studying in the field of training "Hydrometeorology".

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Lips, Adrianus Leonardus Wilhelmus. Temporal constraints on the kinematics of the destabilization of an orogen: Syn- to post-orogenic extensional collapse of the northern Aegean Region = Tijdscontrole op de kinematiek van de destabilisiering van een orogeen : syn- en post-orogene, extensie gedomineerde, instorting van het noordelijk Egeïsch gebied. [Utrecht: Universiteit Utrecht, 1998.

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Borisova, M. Pedagogy of the camp. ru: INFRA-M Academic Publishing LLC., 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.12737/25002.

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Academic edition is a part of the educational complex consisting of a tutorial and workshop, which is designed to help the students in mastering of educational disciplines included in the undergraduate program, and teaching practice. The textbook discusses the history of the emergence and development of summer camps, presents materials that are necessary for the organization of work in children's camp: theoretical foundations of organizing the activities of counselors, guidelines for working with children of different age groups, the performance of the regime moments, forms and methods of organization of process of education in DOLLARS, etc. In the workshop the material presented on the organization of different activities of children and adolescents in the camp. The allowance is aimed at assisting the counselor in working with the temporary children's collective in the conditions of the camp. The content of the textbook meets the requirements of Federal state educational standard of higher education of the last generation. For students of higher educational institutions enrolled in the fields of study within the enlarged group "Education and pedagogy", as well as professionals of education and all those interested in problems of children's recreation and recuperation.

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P, Witter Menno, and Wouterlood Floris G, eds. The Parahippocampal region: Organization and role in cognitive function. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002.

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Sick, H., and HENRI SICK. Atlas of Slices of the Temporal Bone and Adjacent Region. Springer, 1989.

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United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration., ed. The role of tropical deforestation in the global carbon cycle: Spatial and temporal dynamics ; final technical report. [Washington, D.C: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1995.

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Richardson, Kathrine E. Knowledge Borders: Temporary Labor Mobility and the Canada-US Border Region. Elgar Publishing Limited, Edward, 2017.

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Chattopadhyay, Rupendra Kumar. The Archaeology of Coastal Bengal. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199481682.001.0001.

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Research work on coastal Bengal has mostly focused on maritime trading networks. In a clear departure from the existing scholarship, this volume questions the linearity of considering trade as the sole determinant of creation of settlement in the coastal regions. Focusing on settlement strategies, Chattopadhyay unravels how human societies, through successive generations, have adapted to the coastal environment and bio-regime. First-hand data, procured through extensive fieldwork, forms the sound basis of this work. From structural remains, ceramic and bone implements, and stone tools, to terracotta figurines and inscriptions—a vast array of sources is analysed, including epigraphic and literary sources. Significantly, the volume also highlights the interconnection between the coastal geography and the hinterland. Chattopadhyay’s meticulously researched work offers a geographical and temporal frame which allows the research in coastal Bengal to be viewed as an integral part of the archaeological developments in the subcontinent, as well as in the adjoining region of the Southeast Asian countries.

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Jacobsen, Dean, and Olivier Dangles. The high altitude environment. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198736868.003.0001.

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Chapter 1 gives a brief overview of the climatic and terrestrial environment in which high altitude waters are embedded. This context is necessary to understand the prevailing environmental conditions in the aquatic systems. The chapter begins by defining high altitude, alpine, and mountain, and provides an overview of the distribution of the world’s main high altitude regions. The overall picture of the climatic setting is drawn, from the inevitable consequences of high altitude (low temperature, low atmospheric pressure, and high solar radiation) to the highly region-specific patterns in precipitation and wind. The various ways that highland regions are formed, their temporal evolution, and climatic changes are treated in a section on the palaeo-environmental perspective. Finally, general patterns in high altitude (alpine) vegetation zones and treelines on different continents are synthesized, as well as major soil-forming processes in the catchments surrounding aquatic systems.

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Rajan, Shobana, and Vibha Mahendra. Awake Craniotomy. Edited by David E. Traul and Irene P. Osborn. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190850036.003.0003.

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Awake craniotomies are performed when the site of surgical instrumentation or resection directly involves or abuts eloquent areas of the brain and require a cooperative patient, a tailored neuroanesthetic technique, and good teamwork. Eloquent cortex refers to any cortical region in which injury produces a symptomatic cognitive or motor deficit and includes the primary sensorimotor cortex, essential speech areas, occipital visual areas, and mesial temporal regions crucial for episodic memory. An awake patient allows for intraoperative testing of motor, speech, or sensation function while removing or manipulating brain tissue. The two principal aims of resection of a brain tumor or an epileptic focus are to maximize excision of the offending lesion for better prognosis while minimizing or avoiding damage to surrounding brain tissue. Damage to adjacent brain tissue can be catastrophic, especially if the tumor or epileptogenic areas are located close to the eloquent regions of the brain.

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Paus, Tomáš. Combining brain imaging with brain stimulation: causality and connectivity. Edited by Charles M. Epstein, Eric M. Wassermann, and Ulf Ziemann. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198568926.013.0034.

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This article establishes the concept of a methodological approach to combine brain imaging with brain stimulation. Transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) is a tool that allows perturbing neural activity, in time and space, in a noninvasive manner. This approach allows the study of the brain-behaviour relationship. Under certain circumstances, the influence of one region on other, called the effective connectivity, can be measured. Functional connectivity is the extent of correlation in brain activity measured across a number of spatially distinct brain regions. This tool of connectivity can be applied to any dataset acquired with brain-mapping tools. However, its interpretation is complex. Also, the technical complexity of the combined studies needs to be resolved. Future studies may benefit from focusing on neurochemical transmission in specific neural circuits and on temporal dynamics of cortico-cortical interactions.

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Chan, Yupo. Location, Transport and Land-Use: Modelling Spatial-Temporal Information. Springer, 2004.

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Arregui, Ana, María Luisa Rivero, and Andrés Salanova. Aspect and tense in evidentials. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198718208.003.0011.

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This chapter investigates the interaction between evidential categories and temporal anchoring in Bulgarian, a South Slavic language, Mébengokre, a Jê language in Central Brazil, and Matses, a Panoan language in the Amazon region in Brazil and Peru. It argues that temporal categories retain their usual interpretation in evidential contexts both in Mébengokre, a language whose evidential system seems independent from tense, and in Bulgarian and Matses, two languages where evidential markers are fused with temporal categories. The conclusion is that there is no need to hypothesize an independent “evidential” system of temporal reference in these languages. A careful analysis of tense and aspect, with particular attention to aspectual interpretations, can account for cases in which temporal relations appear to shift in evidential contexts. The chapter thus argues against the postulation of independent “evidential specific” temporal paradigms.

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Atlas of Slices of the Temporal Bone and Adjacent Region: Anatomy and Computed Tomography Horizontal, Frontal, Sagittal Sections. J.F. Bergmann-Verlag, 1989.

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Rivers, Larry Eugene. Flight Away from Florida. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036910.003.0007.

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This chapter aims to emphasize the complexities inherent in Florida′s slave resistance experience. To this point, temporary flight, flight within the immediate vicinity, flight within the immediate region, flight to area havens, and flight into the wilds of the peninsula receive close attention. Highly relevant to this kind of examination are additional factors, including flight away from Florida, as well as consideration of the methods of flight that suggest how escapees eased their passages through the state and to other places—including ones within the Atlantic world and the associated Caribbean basin. In West and East Florida, bondservants typically possessed more of an Atlantic worldview than did slaves living in Middle Florida. For hundreds of years, enslaved persons had been employed in or around the maritime industries in those regions.

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Joan, Gómez Pallarés, and Caerols Pérez José J, eds. Antiqua tempora: Reflexiones sobre las ciencias de la antigüedad en España. Madrid: Ediciones Clásicas, 1991.

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Schomer, Andrew, Margitta Seeck, Andres M. Kanner, and Donald L. Schomer. Anterotemporal, Basal Temporal, Nasopharyngeal, and Sphenoidal Electrodes and High-Density Arrays. Edited by Donald L. Schomer and Fernando H. Lopes da Silva. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190228484.003.0006.

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Temporal lobe epilepsy is the most frequent type of epilepsy of focal origin in adults. Electroencephalographic evaluation for surgical treatment requires accurate localization of epileptic foci. The yield of detection with scalp electrodes depends on three variables: source and extent of the epileptogenic area relative to the scalp electrodes’ position; electric field generated by the epileptiform activity and the electric vectors’ orientation; and extent of propagation of the epileptiform activity from mesial to temporal lateral regions. Recordings of epileptiform activity of presumed mesial-temporal origin should include additional electrodes such as anterior temporal or basal temporal electrodes or a subtemporal chain. Nasopharyngeal electrodes appear to yield no advantage over anterior temporal or basal temporal electrodes or a subtemporal chain and are associated with discomfort. Sphenoidal electrodes should be considered in special circumstances; reliability is improved if placed under fluoroscopy. High-density scalp recordings allow for even greater resolution and improved spatial sampling.

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In the Mean Time: Temporal Colonization and the Mexican American Literary Tradition. University of Nebraska Press, 2020.

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Whitehead, Neil L. Native Americans and Europeans. Edited by Nicholas Canny and Philip Morgan. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199210879.013.0004.

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The first sustained encounters between Europeans and native peoples of America in the fifteenth century were temporally episodic and geographically uneven. The prevailing winds and currents across the Atlantic nonetheless pushed European shipping repeatedly towards northern South America and the Caribbean region, as in the first voyage of Christopher Columbus. From this initial zone of contact European expeditions ranged to the south and west, enumerating rivers and assessing opportunities for trade and plunder. Within a decade of Columbus' first landfall under the flag of Spain, Portuguese expeditions had reported on the coastal regions of Brazil, followed in the 1530s and 1540s by reports from expeditions into the river basins of the Amazon and Orinoco. The organisation of production within native economies was largely domestically based and kinship relations were the basis for the organisation of agriculture and hunting.

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Bellamy, Alex J. East Asia's Other Miracle. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198777939.001.0001.

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East Asia, until recently a boiling pot of massacre and blood-letting, has achieved relative peace. A region that at the height of the Cold War had accounted for around 80 percent of the world’s mass atrocities has experienced such a decline in violence that by 2015 it accounted for less than 5 percent. This book explains East Asia’s “other” miracle and asks whether it is merely a temporary blip in the historical cycle or the dawning of a new, and more peaceful, era for the region. It argues that the decline of mass atrocities in East Asia resulted from four interconnected factors: the consolidation of states and emergence of responsible sovereigns; the prioritization of economic development through trade; the development of norms and habits of multilateralism; and transformations in the practice of power politics. Particular attention is paid to North Korea and Myanmar, countries whose experience has bucked regional trends largely because these states have not succeeded in consolidating themselves to the point where they no longer depend on violence to survive. Although the region faces several significant future challenges, this book argues that the much reduced incidence of mass atrocities in East Asia is likely to be sustained into the foreseeable future.

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L, Martin J., ed. Temporal and spatial characteristics of the diatom Eucampia zodiacus in the Western Isles region of the Bay of Fundy. [Ottawa]: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, 2007.

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Temporal and spatial characteristics of the ciliate Mesodinium rubrum in the Western Isles region of the Bay of Fundy. [Ottawa]: Fisheries and Oceans Canada, 2007.

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MacKinnon, Michael. Animals, acculturation, and colonization in ancient and Islamic North Africa. Edited by Umberto Albarella, Mauro Rizzetto, Hannah Russ, Kim Vickers, and Sarah Viner-Daniels. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199686476.013.31.

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Zooarchaeological comparisons of Roman and Islamic North Africa indicate changes in animal use largely resultant from shifting parameters of urban and economic expansion and development, presence and involvement of the military, cultural preferences, and restrictions in dietary resources. ‘Urbanized’ and ‘militarized’ zones, such as Carthage, and the Egyptian delta and eastern desert, typically display increases in pork consumption during Roman times; others areas, such as Morocco and inland Tunisia and Libya, regions arguably less affected by, or exposed to, Roman dietary and cultural customs or demands, maintain greater temporal consistency. Islamic patterns display regional diversity, with sheep/goat pastoralism predominating, integrated husbandry schemes and animal breed manipulation generally diminishing, and cultural taboos against pork consumption registering in many areas.

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March, Luke. Populism in the Post-Soviet States. Edited by Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser, Paul Taggart, Paulina Ochoa Espejo, and Pierre Ostiguy. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198803560.013.9.

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In the former Soviet Union (FSU), sustained instances of populism are rare. The demand side does not represent an equally propitious “breeding ground” for populist backlash as in East Central Europe. However, the supply side is still more problematic, given the consolidation of authoritarian tendencies across the region. Without a minimal level of pluralism, it is extremely difficult to develop genuine and stable populist forces, except in (usually temporary) cases of regime breakdown or elite infighting. Anti-populist leaders (such as Vladimir Putin) have become the rule. Such leaders may employ populist rhetoric, but their fundamental impulse is elitist. They co-opt, mimic, or simply oppress social mobilization, making stability their watchword and regarding genuine populism as a dangerous threat to their rule.

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DiFrisco, James. Biological Processes. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198779636.003.0004.

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This chapter investigates the identity and persistence conditions for processes as a task of biological process ontology. It argues that the problem of intrinsic variation in evolution, development, and metabolism motivates viewing biological individuals as processes rather than as substances. Different criteria of identity for processes are then evaluated, including causal and spatio-temporal relations. The chapter ultimately settles on the view that processes are individuated by causal cohesion and are identical if they share the same cohesive properties and spatio-temporal region. The persistence of processes is interpreted on the model of perdurance, as a form of causal continuity or genidentity.

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Lamont, Christopher K. The Scope and Boundaries of Transitional Justice in the Arab Spring. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190628567.003.0005.

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Chapter 5, by Christopher K. Lamont, further elaborates on critical debates regarding the scope of transitional justice processes. Drawing upon the Tunisian transition, he observes that one of the important debates has been over the appropriate temporal and substantive scope of any transitional justice mechanisms. He argues that transitional justice literature may not understand these debates well, not only because it has not until recently engaged with the MENA region, but because the former literature has been driven by legalism, while debates in Tunisia (and perhaps other countries in the region) over transitional justice issues have been driven by state-building contestation. He suggests that this is partly to do with the fact that in this region justice is understood as more than legal justice, also encompassing Islamic conceptions of social justice, and because decisions relate to political contestations about state identity.

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Frye, Timothy. Economic Transformation and Comparative Politics. Edited by Carles Boix and Susan C. Stokes. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199566020.003.0038.

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This article discusses how research on the transformation of command economies has contributed to the broader literature in comparative politics. It depicts the great variation in economic reform across countries over the last fifteen years, and examines how the European Union (EU), quality of governance, regime type, and interest groups influenced economic reform. The article attempts to identify ways in which stronger causal links between middle-range factors and economic reform can be linked. Arguments criticizing middle-range theories due to lack of causal depth are reviewed as well. The article ends by presenting an attempt to combine temporally proximate and distant factors into an explanation for reform outcomes in the region. The argument is focused on the impact of executive partisanship, democratic institutions, and the relation of the Communist Party to national sovereignty before 1989.

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Norrgård, Stefan. Changes in Precipitation Over West Africa During Recent Centuries. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acrefore/9780190228620.013.536.

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Water, not temperature, governs life in West Africa, and the region is both temporally and spatially greatly affected by rainfall variability. Recent rainfall anomalies, for example, have greatly reduced crop productivity in the Sahel area. Rainfall indices from recent centuries show that multidecadal droughts reoccur and, furthermore, that interannual rainfall variations are high in West Africa. Current knowledge of historical rainfall patterns is, however, fairly limited. A detailed rainfall chronology of West Africa is currently only available from the beginning of the 19th century. For the 18th century and earlier, the records are still sporadic, and an interannual rainfall chronology has so far only been obtained for parts of the Guinea Coast. Thus, there is a need to extend the rainfall record to fully understand past precipitation changes in West Africa.The main challenge when investigating historical rainfall variability in West Africa is the scarcity of detailed and continuous data. Readily available meteorological data barely covers the last century, whereas in Europe and the United States for example, the data sometimes extend back two or more centuries. Data availability strongly correlates with the historical development of West Africa. The strong oral traditions that prevailed in the pre-literate societies meant that only some of the region’s history was recorded in writing before the arrival of the Europeans in the 16th century. From the 19th century onwards, there are, therefore, three types of documents available, and they are closely linked to the colonization of West Africa. These are: official records started by the colonial governments continuing to modern day; regular reporting stations started by the colonial powers; and finally, temporary nongovernmental observations of various kinds. For earlier periods, the researcher depends on noninstrumental observations found in letters, reports, or travel journals made by European slave traders, adventurers, and explorers. Spatially, these documents are confined to the coastal areas, as Europeans seldom ventured inland before the mid-1800s. Thus, the inland regions are generally poorly represented. Arabic chronicles from the Sahel provide the only source of information, but as historical documents, they include several spatiotemporal uncertainties. Climate researchers often complement historical data with proxy-data from nature’s own archives. However, the West African environment is restrictive. Reliable proxy-data, such as tree-rings, cannot be exploited effectively. Tropical trees have different growth patterns than trees in temperate regions and do not generate growth rings in the same manner. Sediment cores from Lake Bosumtwi in Ghana have provided, so far, the best centennial overview when it comes to understanding precipitation patterns during recent centuries. These reveal that there have been considerable changes in historical rainfall patterns—West Africa may have been even drier than it is today.

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Beaugrand, Gregory. Plankton Biodiversity and Biogeography. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199233267.003.0002.

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This chapter discusses the biodiversity and main biogeographic patterns of marine plankton, the causes of such patterns, as well as factors that influence spatial and temporal plankton distribution. Plankton are influenced by a large number of environmental factors and as a result are not distributed randomly in the oceans and seas. Plankton biodiversity is constrained by hydroclimatic parameters such as temperature, bathymetry, and oceanic surface currents or large-scale hydrodynamic features such as the subarctic gyre. Plankton also follow most of the main divisions of the pelagic realm. The marine ecosphere can be divided into three main ecomes: (1) cold regions (Arctic and Antarctic), (2) cold-temperate regions, and (3) warm-temperate regions.

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MacNamara, Annmarie, and K. Luan Phan. Neurocircuitry of Affective, Cognitive, and Regulatory Systems. Edited by Christian Schmahl, K. Luan Phan, Robert O. Friedel, and Larry J. Siever. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199362318.003.0001.

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This chapter provides a review and synthesis of the neurocircuitry involved in affect and cognition and their interactions as it relates to regulatory functions. Cognition and emotion are considered together taking a more integrated, functional perspective. The chapter first gives an overview regarding structure and function of key brain regions, that is, prefrontal and cingulate regions, insula, and subcortical regions, as well as other temporal-parietal-occipital regions. Following this overview, the chapter proceeds with summarizing key neuroscientific findings as organized by cognitive processes and their relevance for emotion. The choice of processes reflects the key stages involved in responding to a stimulus, from the time of sensory input to behavioral response/output, namely perception, learning and memory central executive functions, cognitive appraisal, and reappraisal. The overall aim of the chapter is to provide a better understanding of cognitive-emotional interactions at the neurocircuit level.

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Horne, Cynthia M. Conclusion: Evaluating Post-Communist Transitional Justice. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198793328.003.0009.

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Unlike the blanket criticisms or accolades transitional justice measures receive in the literature, we are confronted with the reality of divergent and contingent relationships between transitional justice measures like lustration, public disclosures, and truth commissions and political and social trust-building goals. These findings force us to reconsider policy recommendations associated with transitional justice programs both because of possibly contrary outcomes, and due to previously unconsidered temporal conditions. With respect to comparative democratization, this study demonstrated a potentially important democracy promotion effect from transitional justice measures meriting continued exploration. This retrospective of nearly twenty-five years of transitional justice in Central and Eastern Europe and parts of the former Soviet Union contributes to the growing body of knowledge on regional regime change, with special attention to how issues of complicity, trust building, and nostalgia constitute unique challenges faced by former communist countries.

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Wampler, Brian, Stephanie McNulty, and Michael Touchton. Participatory Budgeting in Global Perspective. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192897756.001.0001.

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Participatory Budgeting (PB) incorporates citizens directly into budgetary decision-making. It continues to spread across the globe as government officials and citizens adopt this innovative program in the hopes of strengthening accountability, civil society, and well-being. Governments often transform PB’s rules and procedures to meet local needs, thus creating wide variation in how PB programs function. Some programs retain features of radical democracy, others focus on community mobilization, and yet other programs seek to promote participatory development. This book provides a theoretical and empirical explanation to account for widespread variation in PB’s adoption, adaptation, and impacts. The book first develops six “PB types,” then, to illustrate patterns of change across the globe, four empirical chapters present a rich set of case studies that illuminate the wide differences among these programs. The empirical chapters are organized regionally, with chapters on Latin America, Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe and North America. The empirical chapters demonstrate that there are temporal, spatial, economic, and organizational factors that produce different programs across regions but similar programs within each region. A key finding is that the change in PB rules and design is now leading to significant differences in the outcomes these programs produce. We find that some programs successfully promote accountability, expand civil society, and improve well-being, but, that we continue to lack evidence that might demonstrate if PB leads to significant social or political change elsewhere.

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Kempermann, MD, Gerd. Adult Neurogenesis 2. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199729692.001.0001.

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This resource is aimed at those interested in adult neurogenesis and stem cell biology of the adult brain, and covers the historical background and describes in detail adult neurogenesis in the hippocampus as well as the subventricular zone and olfactory bulb. It then discusses the regulatory mechanisms, and the subject of neurogenesis outside the "canonical" neurogenic regions of rodents and primates, as well as how adult neurogenesis in different species. It concludes with coverage of the provocative hypotheses that link failing adult neurogenesis with diseases such as temporal lobe epilepsy, major depression, schizophrenia, brain tumors, and dementias.

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Voigt, Jens-Uwe. Quantification of left ventricular function and synchrony using tissue Doppler, strain imaging, and speckle tracking. Oxford University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199599639.003.0006.

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Modern echocardiographic systems allow the quantitative and qualitative assessment of regional myocardial function by measuring velocity, motion, deformation, and other parameters of myocardial function.Both colour Doppler (CD) and spectral Doppler modes provide one-dimensional estimates of velocity. From CD data only, further parameters can be derived. Tracking techniques have recently been introduced which provide all parameters two-dimensionally, but at the cost of lower temporal resolution.Several clinical applications have been proposed, including regional and global systolic function assessment, evaluation of diastolic cardiac properties, and assessment of ventricular dyssynchrony.This chapter provides an introduction to the method of Doppler- and tracking-based function assessment and provides a basis for understanding its different clinical applications.

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P, Livingston G., Durden S. L, and United States. National Aeronautics and Space Administration., eds. Use of SAR in regional methane exchange studies. [Washington, D.C: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, 1994.

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