Table of Contents: “…Mortality and other measures of disease impact -- Assessing the validity and reliability of diagnostic and screening tests -- The natural history of disease : ways of expressing prognosis -- Assessing preventive and therapeutic measures : randomized trials -- Randomized trials : some further issues -- Cohort studies -- Case-control studies and other study designs -- Estimating risk : is there an association? …”

Table of Contents: “…Natural History and Genetic Diversity -- Soybean: Market Driven Research Needs -- Soybean Molecular Genetic Diversity -- Legume Comparative Genomics -- Phaseolus vulgaris: A Diploid Model for Soybean -- Tools, Resources and Approaches -- The Soybean Molecular Genetic Linkage Map -- Soybean Genome Structure and Organization -- Sequence and Assembly of the Soybean Genome -- Advances in Soybean Breeding -- Forward and Reverse Genetics in Soybean -- Bioinformatic Resources for Soybean Genetic and Genomic Research -- Investigations of Soybean Biology -- Genomics of Soybean Seed Development -- Genomics of Soybean Oil Traits -- Genomics of Secondary Metabolism in Soybean -- Genomics of Fungal- and Oomycete-Soybean Interactions -- Genomics of Insect-Soybean Interactions -- Genomics of Viral–Soybean Interactions -- Genomics of the Soybean Cyst Nematode-Soybean Interaction -- Genomics of Abiotic Stress in Soybean -- Early Messages -- The Global Economic Impacts of Roundup Ready Soybeans.…”
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Table of Contents: “…"O beastly Jews": A Brief History of an (Un)Natural History; 2. Name that Varmint: From Gregor to Josephine; 3. …”
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Table of Contents: “…The 1890s : the continuing rise of the British Museum (Natural History) -- 12. Working independently, 1900-5 -- 13. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction / Adriana Craciun and Mary Terrall -- The British way of tea : tea as an object of knowledge between Britain and China, 1690-1730 / Markman Ellis -- Evliya Çelebi, explorer on horseback : knowledge gathering by a seventeenth-century Ottoman / Donna Landry -- Indigenous voyaging, authorship, and discovery / Michael Bravo -- The world in a nicknackatory : encounters and exchanges in Hans Sloane's collection / Miles Ogborn and Victoria Pickering -- A slaving surgeon's collection : the pursuit of natural history through the British slave trade to Spanish America / Kathleen S. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Introduction : museum exhibitions as powerplays -- Politics at the exhibition : aesthetics, history, and nationality in the culture wars of the 1990s -- Nuclear reactions : the (re)presentation of Hiroshima at the National Air and Space Museum -- Memorializing mass murder : the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum -- Signs of empire/empires of sign : Daimyo culture in the District of Columbia -- Inventing the Southwest : the Fred Harvey Company and Native American art -- Museum pieces : politics and knowledge at the American Museum of Natural History -- The Missouri Botanical Garden : sharing knowledge about plants to preserve and enrich life -- Southwestern environments as hyperreality : the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum -- Superpower aircraft and aircrafting superpower : the Pima Air and Space Museum -- Strange attractor : the Tech Museum of Innovation -- Channeling the news stream : the full press of a free press at the Newseum -- Conclusion : piecing together knowledge and pulling apart power at the museum.…”
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Table of Contents: “…-- Before organ replacement : a natural history approach to disease -- The invention of organ transplantation -- Organotherapy and organ replacement -- The rise and decline of thyroid transplantation -- The discovery of a new organ : the parathyroid gland -- Laboratory and clinic : organ replacement for diabetes -- The many uses of the adrenal gland -- Reconstructing women : ovarian transplants -- Rejuvenating men : testicle transplants -- One principle, multiple applications : further organs -- From special case to prototype : the kidney -- Ethical problems with organ transplantation -- Laboratory and clinic : the epistemic and social context -- Methods of monitoring the success of transplants -- Disillusionment: the clinical failure of organ transplantation -- The strategy of technical perfection -- A new direction : transplant immunology -- Chance or necessity : a fresh start for organ transplantation.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Cover; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Historic Preservation and European Urban History; Prologue; Natural History and Prehistoric Human Habitation; 1. Romano-Germanic Cologne (58 B.C.…”
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Table of Contents: “…Stewart and Andrew Strathern -- Iconic images: landscape and history in the local poetry of the Scottish borders / John Gray -- Céide Fields: natural histories of a buried landscape / Stuart McLean -- Landscape representation: place and identity in nineteenth-century ordnance survey maps of Ireland / Angèle Smith -- Memories of ancestry in the forests of Madagasacar / Janice Harper -- Moon shadows: aboriginal and European heroes in an Australian landscape / Veronica Strang -- History, mobility and land use interests of aborigines and farmers in the East Kimberly in North-West Australia / Ruth Lane -- Co-present landscapes: routes and rootedness as sources of identity in highlands New Guinea / Michael O'Hanlon and Linda Frankland -- 'Island builders': landscape and historicity among the Langalanga, Solomon Islands / Pei-yi Guo -- Biography, ecology, political economy: seascape and conflict in Jamaica / James G. …”
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Table of Contents: “…Fundamental Concepts of Bone Metastases -- Bone Anatomy, Physiology and Function -- Pathophysiology of Bone Metastases -- Angiogenesis and Bone Metastasis: Implications for Diagnosis, Prevention and Treatment -- Natural History, Prognosis, Clinical Features and Complications of Metastatic Bone Disease -- Bone Biomarkers in Research and Clinical Practice -- Imaging Modalities -- Radiologic Evaluation Of Skeletal Metastases: Role Of Plain Radiographs And Computed Tomography -- The Contribution Of Nuclear Medicine In The Diagnosis Of Bone Metastases -- Magnetic Resonance Imaging Of Metastatic Bone Disease -- Therapeutic Strategies -- Radiotherapy And Bone Metastases -- Biphosphonates In The Management Of Metastatic Bone Disease -- Combined Radiotherapy and Bisphosphonates: State of Art -- Biphosphonates in the Treatment of Bone Metastases – Osteonecrosis of the Jaw -- Surgical Management of Bone Metastases -- The Role of Chemotherapy in the Treatment of Bone Metastases -- Hormonotherapy of Bone Metastases -- Radionuclide Therapy -- Assessment of Therapeutic Response -- Assessment of Therapeutic Response -- Outcome Measures in Bone Metastases Clinical Trials.…”
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Table of Contents: “…The natural history of ADP-ribosyltransferases and the ADP ribosylation system -- Identification and Analysis of ADP-ribosylated Proteins -- Photorhabdus luminescens toxins TccC3 and TccC5: Insecticidal ADP-ribosyltransferases that modify threonine and glutamine -- Reaction mechanism of mono-ADP-ribosyltransferase based on structures of the complex of enzyme and substrate protein -- Regulation of nitrogenase by reversible mono-ADP-ribosylation -- ADP-ribosylation of P2X7: a matter of life and death for regulatory T cells and natural killer T cells -- Pierisins and CARP-1: ADP-ribosylation of DNA by ARTCs in butterflies and shellfish -- Comparative structural analysis of the putative mono-ADP-ribosyltransferases of the ARTD/PARP family -- Function and regulation of the mono-ADP-ribosyltransferase ARTD10 -- Regulation of nucleocytoplasmic transport by ADP-ribosylation: the emerging role of karyopherin-β1 mono-ADP-ribosylation by ARTD15.…”
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Table of Contents: “…The Origin of Life -- The History of Life -- Part IV: Why Understanding Evolution Matters -- Evolution in the Anthropocene -- Natural History -- Our Genealogy and Ancestry -- Sex/Gender/Sexuality -- Combatting Post-Truth with Trust -- Conversation with a Creationist -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Glossary -- Notes -- Further Reading -- Figure Credits -- Index -- Plates…”
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Table of Contents: “…David Brainerd -- Jonathan Edwards -- Prophet in bearskins -- Immanence versus representation -- Writing and self-division in Crèvecoeur's Farmer -- Literary embodiment of revolutionary conditions -- European rage for ruins -- American natural history -- Bartram's Travels -- Ordering the exotic -- Botanizing and republicanism -- Identity and duplicity -- Stephen Burroughs and confidence -- Charlotte Temple and real property -- Arthur Mervyn and personal property -- Benjamin Franklin and urban experience -- Autobiography, secrecy, and books -- Print culture and republican ideology -- Adams, Jefferson, Rush -- Declaration of Independence and personality -- Franklin and representative autobiography -- Rousseau, Emerson, and the return of the immanent -- Thomas Jefferson and Timothy Dwight -- Continuity despite revolution -- Wieland -- Irving, Cooper, and literary conservatism -- Social science and the Indian -- Lewis and Clark expedition -- Journal versus history -- Language and captivity -- Sensitive frontiersman -- Savage frontiersman -- Wildness and democracy -- Wild man in the margin…”

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Table of Contents: “…Barrett -- The golden mouse : taxonomy and natural history / George A. Feldhamer and Donald W. Linzey -- Population ecology of the golden mouse / Robert K. …”
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Table of Contents: “…MacNider Museum / Richard Leet -- The puppet collection of the American Museum of Natural History / Kathy Foley and Ann Wright-Parsons -- The Burr Tillstrom collection and archives at the Chicago Historical Society / Bernard F. …”
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