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Ear, Nose, Throat and Tracheobronchial Diseases in Dogs and Cats
Ear, Nose, Throat, and Tracheobronchial Diseases in Dogs and Cats is the first textbook to provide a complete overview of all ENT diseases, both common and rare. It includes such problems as inflammation of the outer ear, deafness, nasal discharge, swallowing disorders, and cough. Detailed and up-to-date clinical information gives insight into ENT function and dysfunction for teachers and ...
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Atlas and Textbook of Small Animal Neurology
This is a comprehensive overview of small animal neurology covering the diagnosis and treatment of all clinical problems. It contains detailed information on neurological examination procedures, neuropathology and genetic disorders. There are also individual chapters on laboratory tests, anaesthesia, radiology and electrodiagnostics, rehabilitation, pharmacology and surgery. This book usefully ...
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Construction and Culture Protocol of Neural Stem Cells
Because neural stem cells (NSCs) have the potential of self-renewal and multidirectional differentiation, the method of suspended neural bulb culture can be used to obtain and study. After processing the embryonic brain tissue into a single cell, only the cells with the ability of self-renewal can be cloned and proliferated into a suspended nerve ball in the culture medium, and with the progress ...
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Neuromodulation Using Ultra Low Frequency Current Waveform Reversibly Blocks Axonal Conduction And Chronic Pain
KEY TAKEAWAYS: Novel Ultra Low Frequency (ULF™) neuromodulation inhibits pain signals in pre-clinical animal models, computational models, and in a clinical trial The mechanism of ULF™ neuromodulation is unique, enabling controlled and reversible inhibition of pain neurons through sodium channel inactivation. This mechanism of action is different than existing SCS ...
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Journal of Future Robot Life
What will robots be like ten, twenty and more years from now? What will they be able to accomplish? How will human–robot relationships have advanced? What place in society will be occupied by robots? These are just some of the questions which will be debated in the pages of this new publication – the Journal of Future Robot ...
By IOS Press
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Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
While an ever-present and familiar toxin, carbon monoxide (CO) remains the number one poison in our environment. This silent killer is responsible for over 2,000 deaths a year in the United States alone. The public and healthcare communities need quality information about the many risks presented by carbon monoxide exposure. Edited by a leading expert in the field, Carbon Monoxide Poisoning ...
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Tiger Bone & Rhino Horn: The Destruction of Wildlife for Traditional Chinese Medicine
In parts of Korea and China, moon bears, black but for the crescent-shaped patch of white on their chests, are captured in the wild and brought to "bear farms" where they are imprisoned in squeeze cages, and a steel catheter is inserted into their gall bladders. The dripping bile is collected as a cure for ailments ranging from an upset stomach to skin burns. The bear may live as long as fifteen ...
By Island Press
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Cognition and Tool Use: Forms of Engagement in Human and Animal Use of Tools
The ability to use tools is a distinguishing feature of human beings. It represents a complex psychomotor activity that we are only now beginning to comprehend. Robust new theoretical accounts allow us to better understand how people use tools and explain differences in human and animal tool use from the perspective of cognitive ...
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Advanced Laboratory Stress-Strain Testing of Geomaterials
A discussion of developments in the measurement and interpretation of advanced laboratory stress-strain testing of geomaterials. It includes a collection of case studies which apply the test results and is based on the activities of the technical committee No 29 of the ISSMGE. ...
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The Psychology of Safety Handbook
You cannot improve your organization´s safety performance to enviable levels without addressing human behavior and attitude effectively. The only comprehensive reference on the psychology of the human dynamics of safety, The Psychology of Safety Handbook shows you how to apply psychology to improve safety and health in your organization. Dr. Geller provides theory, procedures, and tools to guide ...
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Healthy and Productive Work: An International Perspective
The Enterprise Culture of the 1980s helped transform economies of Western Europe, but left behind a legacy of stress, both for managers and shop floor workers. The cost to business is seen in absenteeism, reduced productivity, compensation claims, health insurance and direct medical costs, which in the US cost approximately $150 billion a year. Stress related absences are about ten time more ...
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Structural Integrity of Fasteners
The first publication of its kind offering the latest information on fatigue and fracture behavior, as well as evaluation standards and design criteria for safe, sturdy industrial fasteners. Features current data from leading designers, researchers and analysts active in the field. Thirteen peer-reviewed papers cover a comprehensive range of topics including fatigue, fracture mechanics, stress ...
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Chevron-Notched Specimens: Testing and Stress Analysis
Twenty papers in this volume are presented in three sections, including stress analysis, test method development, and fracture toughness measurements. One purpose of this volume, given the precracking and other differences in chevron-notched testing compared with existing tests, is to identify conditions that will yield reproducible ...
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Introduction to Biosemiotics - The New Biological Synthesis
This book is addressed to students, researchers and academics who have barely heard of the emerging young science of Biosemiotics, and who want to know more about it. Written by many of the field’s major contributors, it provides a highly qualified introduction to Biosemiotics and illustrates the most recent views in its background and development. Combining research approaches from biology, ...
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Primate Origins of Human Cognition and Behavior
Biologists and anthropologists in Japan have played a crucial role in the development of primatology as a scientific discipline. Publication of Primate Origins of Human Cognition and Behavior under the editorship of Tetsuro Matsuzawa reaffirms the pervasive and creative role played by the intellectual descendants of Kinji Imanishi and Junichiro Itani in the fields of behavioral ecology, ...
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The Neglected Ape
Orangutan: Man of the Forest: Of Human Fear and Indifference: The Plight of the Orangutan (G. Kaplan, L. Rogers). The Neglected Ape? (H.D. Rijksen). Orangutan, Science and Collective Reality (A.L. Rose). The Impact of Socioeconomic Decisions on the Status of the Orangutan and Other East Asian Fauna (A.A. Eudey). Conservation, Translocation and Rehabilitation: Conservation of Orangutans: ...
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Preventing Drug & Alcohol Abuse On The Waterfront: Every Choice Counts (DVD)
Make sure that your drug-and-alcohol abuse prevention standards are high. Taking drugs disrupts employee performance and causes problems, both physical and psychological: slow breathing rates, fatigue, vision impairment, anxiety, confusion and violence. And when these problems result in accidents, your employees can be tested, and if proven guilty, can lose their jobs. Kick the risks now and save ...
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Preventing Drug & Alcohol Abuse On The Waterfront: Every Choice Counts (Video)
Make sure that your drug-and-alcohol abuse prevention standards are high. Taking drugs disrupts employee performance and causes problems, both physical and psychological: slow breathing rates, fatigue, vision impairment, anxiety, confusion and violence. And when these problems result in accidents, your employees can be tested, and if proven guilty, can lose their jobs. Kick the risks now and save ...
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Frontiers in Bioactive Lipids
Fatty Acids and Esters. Molecular Mechanisms Involved in the Adipogenic Action of Fatty Acids; P.A. Grimaldi, et al. Acyl Coenzyme A Synthetase and the Transport of Long-Chain Fatty Acids; P.N. Black. Lipid Binding Proteins. Structural and Functional Studies on the Heart Fatty Acid-Binding Protein; J.H. Veerkamp, C.F.M. Prinsen. The Role of Intracellular Fatty Acid-Binding Proteins in ...
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Oxidants and Antioxidant Defense Systems
Oxidative stress is one of the major symptoms accompanying physiological functions and numerous diseases. Oxidants and free radicals are connected with diseases such as cancer, diabetes, infectious, cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases and also in the aging process itself. Therefore, comprehensive knowledge of the underlying mechanisms of oxidant and free radical production and the ...
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