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Life Without Bread: How a Low-Carbohydrate Diet Can Save Your Life

Based on more than 40 years of clinical research, this illuminating book unravels the mysteries of nutrition and shows that changing the way we eat can help us feel better and live longer. It describes how a low-carbohydrate/high-protein diet can prevent cancer, diabetes, heart disease, and obesity, as well as increase strength, endurance, and muscle mass.
Optimization of Data Processing Minimizes Impact of Self-Absorption on Phosphorus Speciation Results by P K-Edge XANES

Bulk soil phosphorus speciation by X-ray absorption spectroscopy (XAS) using fluorescence yield-mode measurements is an important tool for phosphorus research because of the low soil P contents. However, when measuring in fluorescence mode, increasing the concentration of the absorbing atom can dampen the XAS spectral features because of self-absorption and affect the linear combination (LC) fitting results. To reduce the self-absorption for samples of high P contents, thick boron nitride diluted samples are produced, yet the effects of self-absorption on P speciation results via LC fitting of P K-edge XANES spectroscopy, and the possible benefits of data processing optimization are unknown. Toward this end, we produced a series of ternary standard mixtures (calcium-iron-aluminum phosphates) and an example soil sample both diluted using boron nitride over a range from 1 to ~900 mmol kg−1 for the soil sample and up to ~6000 mmol kg−1 for the standard mixture. We show that by optimizing background subtraction and normalization values, consistent results with less than 10% error can be obtained for samples with up to 300 mmol kg−1 P. Our results highlight the applicability of optimized P K-edge XANES fitting across a wide range of concentrations encountered in natural environments.
A Magnetic Integrated LCL–EMI Filter for a Single-Phase SiC-MOSFET Grid-Connected Inverter

Harmonic and electromagnetic interference (EMI) filters are the two important parts in the grid-connected inverter for the harmonic and EMI noise suppression. This article investigates the combined magnetic integration of the harmonic and EMI filters with the volume and weight reduction, which is defined as the integrated LCL–EMI filter in this article. Both common-mode (CM) and differential-mode (DM) models of the integrated inductor with EE-type magnetic core are built and analyzed. By designing the air gap of the center leg and arranging the windings properly, the distribution of magnetic flux on the magnetic branch can be controlled. As a result, harmonic inductors and a CM inductor can be effectively designed in the center leg and side leg, respectively. A symmetrical LCL filter is designed instead of the traditional asymmetrical structure with an integrated magnetic core. The current harmonic distortion analysis and EMI measurement results based on simulation and experiment results verify the effectiveness of the proposed integration method in the silicon carbide (SiC) MOSFET-based grid-connected inverter. Moreover, weight and volume comparisons between the integrated inductor and the traditional discrete inductors also reflect the superiority of the magnetic integrated LCL–EMI filter.
Curriculum Development in Nursing: Process and Innovations

1. Education Philosophy and the Curriculum 2. An Overview of the Process of Curriculum Development 3. Establishing the Context and Foundations 4. Developing a Macro-Curriculum 5. Developing a Micro-Curriculum 6. Implementing a New Curriculum 7. Curriculum Evaluation 8. A Problem-Based Learning Curriculum 9. A Case-Based Curriculum 10. Developing Problem Scenarios and Cases 11. Developing a Community-Based Nurse Education 12. Developing an Outcomes-Based Curriculum 13. A Curriculum for Interprofessional Learning 14. Conclusion
Children and pollution : why scientists disagree

Prologue 1. Lead and the Roots of Environmental Controversies 2. Mercury: Not Just a Fish Story 3. PCBs: Another Global Pollutant 4. Neurotoxins Influence Neurodevelopment: Organophosphorus and Carbamate Pesticides 5. Noise: A Barrier to Children's Learning 6. It Isn't Fair: Environmental Pollution Disasters and Community Relocations 7. The Best Science, Values, and the Precautionary Principle to Protect Children 8. Protect Your Family, Protect Our Planet Afterword: A Few Remarks on Global Warming Appendix: Understanding Two Important Statistical Concepts Notes References Index
Cement and Concrete

Preface. Acknowledgments. History of inorganic (calcareous) cements, mortars and concretes. Production of Portland cement. Hydration of cement - setting reactions. Mortar. Concrete. Standard tests for cements, cement pastes, mortars and concrete. Some additives (admixtures) used in mortar and concrete. High performance concrete. Physical behaviour of concrete after pouring. Reinforced and prestressed concrete. Fibre reinforced cement and concrete. Deterioration of cement and concrete. Durability and protection of concrete. Resistance of concrete to fire. Special cements and concretes. Index.
Nurse Practitioner Barriers to Reporting Child Maltreatment

Each year approximately 1,000,000 child become the victims of abuse or neglect. The detrimental effects of child maltreatment (CM) have been well documented and create significant problems for the survivors and for society as well. All fifty states have enacted mandatory reporting laws to combat the CM epidemic. As mandated reporters, nurse practitioners and nurse midwives (APRNs) have the opportunity and responsibilities to identify and refer potential victims of CM, in this study a significant percentage choose not to report their suspicions. Respondents to the study survey identified several potential barriers to APRN reporting such as lack of education and training about CM, negative perceptions of child protective services and lack of physical evidence indicating CM occurred.
Academic Shared Governance and Performance: Theoretical Issues and Empirical Evidences

In the debate surrounding various reforms in higher education systems, performance, along with how universities should be governed, have been main issues. We argue that the demand for shared governance, i.e., faculty participation in decision‐making vs. concentrated or top‐down decision‐ making, is driven by the characteristics of academic transactions. Especially in universities, shared governance prevents that the unilateral allocation of authority paves the way to the abuse of authority, which would depress incentives to undertake optimal idiosyncratic investments in human cognitive resources, or prevent cooperation in a context characterized by contractual incompleteness and transactions involving multiple specific investments and coessential resources. To empirically analyze our hypothesis, we collect original survey data of Italian universities in 2015. We find that shared decision‐making processes are correlated with better performance.
Platforms as service ecosystems: Lessons from social media

The growing business expansion of social media platforms is changing their identity and transforming the practices of networking, data and content sharing with which social media have been commonly associated. We empirically investigate these shifts in the context of TripAdvisor and its evolution since its very establishment. We trace the mutations of the platform along three stages we identify as search engine, social media platform and end-to-end service ecosystem. Our findings reveal the underlying patterns of data types, technological functionalities and actor configurations that punctuate the business expansion of TripAdvisor and lead to the formation of its service ecosystem. We contribute to the understanding of the current trajectory in which social media find themselves as well as to the literature on platforms and ecosystems. We point out the importance of services that develop as commercially viable and constantly updatable data bundles out of diverse and dynamic data types. Such services are essential to the making of the complementarities that are claimed to underlie ecosystem formation.
The Effect of Sintering Temperature on Bilayers Hydroxyapatite Coating of Titanium (Ti-6Al-4V) ELI by Electrophoretic Deposition for Improving Osseointegration

Bilayers hydroxyapatite (HA) coating using electrophoretic deposition (EPD) method has been applied into a biocompatible metal, Ti-6Al-4V ELI, in order to improve bioactivity of the alloy and then to accelerate bone remodeling and osseointegration during implantation. Two steps EPD process wasconducted for obtaining based layer consist of HA nanoparticles using voltage 3 volt for 3 minutes. It was then followed by second layer formation consist of HA micro particles using voltage 5 volt for 5 minutes. The coated alloy was then sintered at temperatures of 700°C, 800°C and 900°C for each 10 minutes within vacuum tube furnace at the sintering rate 20°C/s. Surface morphologies were examined using optical microscope and scanning electron microscope (SEM). The result of this study showed that bilayers hydroxyapatite coating onto Ti-6Al-4V surface was produced through EPD with those parameters. Sintering treatment at temperature 800°C gives thin, dense, even and crack-free coatings. The Ti-6Al-4V ELI surface is almost fully covered by bilayers hydroxyapatite (with surface coverage 98.6%) with adequate bonding (without lost weight of coating layers). An improper coating layer is obtained for lower (700°C) and higher (900°C) temperature. The sintered samples at temperature 900°C have micro cracks, void and debonding layers. It is expected such bilayers hydroxyapatite with sintering at 800°C can initiate mineralization and then make a quick osseointegration.
Computer and robotic assisted hip and knee surgery

1. History of computer-assisted orthopaedic surgery for hip and knee 2. Rationale for hip reconstructive CAOS 3. Rationale for knee reconstructive CAOS 4. Clinical classification of CAOS systems 5. Hardware components 6. Software infrastructure for computer-assisted orthopaedic surgery 7. Robotic systems for orthopaedic surgery 8. Surgical navigation systems 9. Total hip replacement - robotic assistive technique 10. Total hip replacement - navigation technique 11. Rationale for computer-assisted orthopaedic knee surgery 12. Total knee replacement: Robotic assistive technique 13. Knee reconstructive surgery: preoperative model system 14. Total knee replacement: navigation technique intra-operative model system 15. Unicompartmental knee prosthesis implantation with a non-image-based navigation system 16. Hip and pelvic osteotomies 17. Computer-assisted high-tibial osteotomies 18. ACL reconstruction - preoperative model system 19. Computer assistance in arthroscopic anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction 20. CRA hip and knee reconstructive surgery: ligament reconstructions in the knee - intra-operative model system (non-image based) 21. Ligament reconstruction in the knee: the use of the CASPAR system 22. Pelvic trauma 23. Hip trauma 24. Long bone trauma 25. Accuracy and validation 26. Future challenges
Toxic substances and mental retardation : neurobehavioral toxicology and teratology

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Efeitos de diferentes tempos de intervalo entre a realização das séries de exercício de força na pressão arterial de homens : evidências científicas

Hypertension is a public health problem in Brazil. It is diagnosed in adults when blood pressure (BP) levels reaches, or exceeds, 140/90 mmHg. The important role that physical exercise has in this picture is well documented in literature, and its practice is considered a strategy for prevention and treatment of the disease. In this thread, studies show the presence of arterial hypotension after the execution of strength exercise, and the scientific literature recommends the utilization of strength training as an auxiliary to the aerobic training in the exercise program of hypertensive individuals, due, mainly, to the benefits it provides to the neuromuscular system. The present study presents a literature review about the acute effects of the realization of strength exercise in the behavior of BP, specially focusing in the execution of multiples sets and in the rest interval between these sets. Important acute cardiovascular responses occur during the realization of strength exercise, and, among these, the rise of BP might be considered one of the occurrences of biggest risk. Because of that, it is very important that the health professional evaluates carefully these responses, together with their causes, and the way they can be better circumvented. The rise of BP appears to be related to the realization of the Valsalva maneuver, and to the time of execution of the exercise, considering that longer sets generates bigger rises. It also seems to be a cumulative effect over the BP during the realization of multiples sets, with the highest values in the last executed sets, in comparison with the initials, suggesting that the rest interval might have influence in this picture. Studies reviewed presents conflicting results about the theme, however methodological differences indicates to the need of more researches in the area, suggesting its possible that rest pause have an important role in the BP responses. Key-words: cardiovascular acute responses, rest interval, hypertension, strength training.
MAdCAM-1 expression and function in human liver.

Mucosal addressin cell adhesion molecule-1 (MAdCAM-1) is a tissue–specific protein that promotes α4β7+ lymphocyte recruitment on gut mucosal endothelium, playing an important role in the development of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). Recent studies have reported its expression in liver diseases such as primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) and autoimmune hepatitis (AIH) that complicate IBD, therefore understanding the factors that drive hepatic expression of MAdCAM-1 might elucidate the pathogenesis of these diseases. In vitro stimulation of HSEC with tumor necrosis factor-α (TNFα) and methylamine, the physiological substrate of vascular adhesion protein-1 (VAP-1), as well as with the end products of methylamine deamination by VAP-1, resulted in increased levels of secreted and cell surface MAdCAM-1 protein that was able to support binding of α4β7+ lymphocytes under flow conditions. In vivo stimulation of mice that expressed hVAP-1 as a transgene, with methylamine, induced expression of MAdCAM-1 in Peyer’s patches and mesenteric lymph nodes, validating the effect of VAP-1 enzyme activity. In conclusion, we report for the first time that MAdCAM-1 is normally present in human liver and is further induced upon TNFα and methylamine stimulation resulting in the recruitment of mucosal cells to the liver, thus sustaining a destructive inflammatoty influx responsible for the establishment of chronic inflammation.
Effect of Access to Credit and Financial Services on Poverty Reduction in Central Region of Ghana

The study sought to determine the effect of access to credit and financial services on poverty reduction in Central Region of Ghana from the perspectives of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSME’s). Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises contribute significantly to the economic growth and poverty reduction strategies of most countries. The importance of the MSME’s have long been recognized in many countries across the globe. However, lack of access to credit and financial services has been identified by several studies as the main obstacle to MSME’s growth and the reduction of poverty in Ghana. The Specific objective of this study was to establish the effect of access to credit and financial services on poverty reduction. One hypothesis was formulated to cover the specific objective and operationalized into four sub-hypotheses to cover the various indicators of poverty (growth in income, increase in consumption expenditure, acquisition of business assets and ability to educate children). Using cluster sampling techniques, this cross sectional study sampled 370 entrepreneurs of Micro Small and Medium Enterprises. Questionnaire was used as the data collection instrument in an exercise that took place in November and December 2016. SPSS was used to perform cross tabulations and multiple regression analysis. The study found that access to credit and financial services had a fairly weak positive effect on growth in income, increase in consumption expenditure and acquisition of business assets. The study however found access to credit and financial services to have a significant effect on ability to educate children as poverty indicators. Consequently, the study rejected the null hypotheses in question. In view of the findings, the study makes conclusions and recommendations for further studies besides highlighting limitations.
The Capability Problem in Contract Law: Further Readings on Well-Known Cases

After a quarter century in active use, this respected title has been revised and expanded in a collaboration between its original author, Professor Richard Danzig and Professor Geoffrey Watson of Catholic. The materials in this book are widely recognized as an invaluable complement to contracts casebooks. A mixture of essays, interviews, newspapers, and court records combines to take students behind appellate court opinions that are the staples of the first year law student's diet. By showing that """"facts"""" are typically ambiguous and difficult to ascertain, that litigation narrows and thereby distorts experience, that race, class, gender, and quality of representation affect findings, that psychological variables often dominate practical, economic, and legal considerations, and that outcomes are often not what they seem, these materials raise fundamental questions about American law in general, and the law of contracts in particular. The Second Edition drops some material not now widely
The Cerebral Circulation in Health and Disease

Following a brief review of the anatomical problems invoIved in cerebral circulation, the author discusses in some detail the influence of vasoconstrictor and vasodilating nerves on cerebral circulation. The effects of drugs, hormones and metabolic products are nest coiisidered. Much of the material in these sections has heretofore been of theoretical interest, primarily, b u t with the more recent use of rasodilating drugs in the treatment of cerebral vascular disease, the material in these sections is of fundagraph * 1950. Springfield, Illinois: Charles C .
Experimental study of transient processes in the elements of climatic systems

Transition processes for different modes of functioning of elements of the climate system model are experimentally investigated and analyzed. The following elements have been selected as the objects of experimental research: the air heater and the fan as the main elements that are part of each climate system. The system under study consisted of the following sequential elements: air heater-fan-room. The relative excess heat is proposed as a dimensionless parameter in the analysis and normalization of experimental data. First, the relative excess heat takes into account changes in temperature, moisture content and flow rate of humid air, and secondly, allows identifying similarities in the processes of change over time of the thermodynamic state of the air when passing through the climate system elements for different operating modes of the fan and air heater. Analysis of the evolution of relative excess heat during transient changes in the parameters of the flow of humid air, as in case of abrupt changes in performance of a heater but with a fixed performance of a fan and in case of abrupt changes in performance of a fan, but with a fixed power of the air heater. The regularities of the evolution of relative excess heat in the flow of moist air and its most important qualitative types when passing through the elements of the model climate system are shown. It was found that the types of behavior of relative excess heat depend only on the state in which the elements of the system are located during the transition process, and not on the element itself as a physical object.
Handbook of Alcoholism

Unassisted Emergency Management of Acute Alcohol Intoxication PATIENT CARE Screening and Diagnosis First Contact and Early Intervention Natural History Laboratory Parameters Psychometric Screening Instruments Acute Treatment Acute Alcohol Intoxication Alcohol Withdrawal Syndrome Alcohol-Induced Psychotic Disorders Treatment of Alcohol Abuse and Dependence Overview and Outlook Psychotherapy Pharmacotherapy Adolescent Patients Geriatric Patients Women Primary Care Setting Treatment of Non-Psychiatric Alcohol-Related Disorders Nervous System Liver Gastrointestinal System and Pancreas Cardiovascular System Kidney and Electrolyte Disturbances Immune System Endocrine Disorders Vitamin Deficiencies, Zinc Deficiency, and Anaphylactic Reactions Skin Alcohol Embryopathy RESEARCH Epidemiology Comorbidity Heritability Pathogenesis of Alcoholic Liver Disease Harmful Alcohol Consumption Psychometric Instruments to Evaluate Outcome in Alcoholism Treatment Meta-Analysis of Pharmacotherapeutic Trials Calculating a Meta-Analysis on Your Own Patient-to-Treatment Matching Molecular Pharmacology and Neuroanatomy Behavioral Pharmacology Controversial Research Areas USEFUL DATA AND DEFINITIONS Physicochemical Properties of Ethanol How to Calculate Maximum Blood Alcohol Levels After A Drinking Event Basic Pharmacokinetics of Ethanol Drug Interactions With Alcohol Definitions of a "Standard Drink" Harmful Alcohol Consumption DSM-IV and ICD-10 Definitions of Alcohol Alphabetical List of Psychometric Instruments Including Validated Translations Useful (Internet) Addresses Abbreviations Used Alcohol of Common Drinks and Unit Conversion Table
Practical Ambulatory Geriatrics

Section I: Principles of Ambulatory Geriatric Care. Goals of Care. The Office Visit. Principles of Prescribing Medications. Rehabilitation. Home Care. Caregiver Stress. Social Work, Case Management, And Community Support. Advance Care Planning. Managing Dying at Home. Financing Health Care. Ethnogeriatrics: Unique Health Issues of Culturally Diverse Elderly. Section II: Approaches to Assessment. Comprehensive Assessmentin the Office. Preoperative Assessment and Management. Evaluation of the Older Driver. Evaluation for Nursing Home Admission. Hearing Impairment. Safety in the Home. Elder Mistreatment. Section III: Prevention and Health Maintenance. Health, Modifiability, And Human Potential with Aging. Nutritional Assessment and Dietary Recommendation. Physical Activity and Exercise. Preventive Interventions. Social and Spiritual Contributors to Independence. Section IV: Common Geriatric Syndromes and Problems. Urinary Incontinence. Prostatism and Prostate Cancer. Gynecologic Disorders. Sexual Dysfunction. Urinary Tract Infection. Common Skin Problems. Pressure Ulcers. Falls. Dizziness and Syncope. Weakness. Confusion and Delirium. Dementia. Common Psychiatric Disorders. Movement Disorders. Headache. Pain. Joint Problems. Foot Care. Osteopenia: Osteoporosis and Osteomalacia. Diabetes Mellitus. Thyroid Disorders. Weight Problems. Anemia. Oral and Dental Problems. Peptic Ulcer. Constipationand Diarrhea. Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Asthma. Respiratory Infections. Cardiac Problems. Hypertension. Peripheral Vascular Disease. Eye Disorders. Sleep Disorders.