Published October, 2014
By Maggie Davies, Antony Morgan and Erio Ziglio
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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While local political issues or cultural conflicts may play a part in these situations, an important new book points to a universal factor: the prevailing deficit model of assessing health needs, which puts disadvantaged communities on the defensive while ignoring their potential strengths.

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Published October, 2014
By Olga A. Smirnova
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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Speci?cally, in the framework of the developed deterministic mathematical models, the effects of both acute and chronic irradiation in a wide range of doses and dose rates on vital body systems (hematopoiesis, small intestine, and humoral immunity), as well as on the development of autoimmune diseases, are investigated.

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Published October, 2014
By Roy C.P. Kerckhoffs
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This requires automated segmentation of the vascular geometry from magnetic re- nance images and finite element analysis of wall stress using large deformation elasticity theory applied to the geometric model created from the segmentation.

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Published October, 2014
By Louis D. Brown and Scott Wituk
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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This comprehensive book provides research-based insight into effective mental health self-help initiatives in the community. The book offers thorough and balanced coverage of the field, and addresses numerous issues relevant to researchers and practitioners.

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Published October, 2014
By J. Rick Turner
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Optimum quality data facilitate optimum quality statistical analysis and interpretation of the results obtained, which in turn permit optimum quality decisions to be made: Rational decision making is predicated on appropriate research questions and optimum quality numerical information.

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Published October, 2014
By Erin Martz
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This book's dual focus on individual and community healing builds on the concept of the protective "trauma membrane," a component crucial to coping and healing, to humanitarian efforts, and to promoting and sustaining peace.

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Published October, 2014
By Sreedharan Sajikumar
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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Serves as a comprehensive introduction and overview of synaptic tagging and capture (STC) and covers the topic from molecular and cellular aspects to behavior. Various researchers have investigated the cellular mechanisms for the formation of long-term memory using the STC model, but this is the first book-length treatments of STC.

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Published October, 2014
By Joseph R. Pisegna
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
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This book provides the reader with a multidisciplinary approach that is state of the art and reflects input from the European Neuroendocrine Tumor Society and the North American Neuroendocrine Tumor Society.

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Published October, 2014
By Weili He, Jose C. Pinheiro, Olga M. Kuznetsova and José Pinheiro
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Statistics for Biology and Health
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Practical Considerations for Adaptive Trial Design and Implementation

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Published October, 2014
By Markus Muller
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: AAPS Advances in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Series
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A vast number of diagnostic and therapeutic decisions are based on measuring blood concentrations of molecules, yet most biochemical and pharmacological events actually take place in the tissues.

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