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This book explores the concept of key concepts, theories and practices related to life course issues associated with social work, power and trust in contemporary society. The book begins by narrating how aging studies has been colonized by biomedical conceptualizations, which have masked a social understanding of how aging and life course are socially constituted. The book explores the power of an aging society with populational increases and impacts on different parts of the world. As a healthy corrective to most texts on aging and life course, the book explores the work of Foucault and applicability of power relationships to

This book is a demographical overview of the key issues associated with globalisation and global aging in the 21st century. The book explores how populational aging has increased the implications for socio-economic issues for individuals and populations. The book also explores China which is fast on its way to becoming the most powerful economic force in the world. The book explores some of the major issues populational aging impacts, including pensions, the labour market, care, social security and family life. The power of global aging in the 21st century is one of the greatest challenges, along with climate change, for the sustainability of

Autoimmune Myasthenia Gravis MG is mediated by pathogenic autoantibodies to components of the postsynaptic muscle endplate at the neuromuscular junction. Due to the clinical heterogeneity of the disease, there is a great need for objective biomarkers for diagnostic as well as therapeutic purposes. Humoral biomarkers of MG can be divided into two categories 1 autoantibodies and 2 other immune-related molecules including inflammatory proteins, microRNA, HLA genes. Regarding autoantibodies, the radio immuno assay RIA allows for the detection of IgG1 and IgG3 antibodies directed against the nicotinic acetylcholine receptors AChRAb

This book examines various issues facing global elections including the electoral college and how it works in contemporary presidential elections, foreign money and US elections, politics, human rights and US policy of Iran, contested elections in Honduras, politics, economy and elections in Peru, issues surrounding Frances 2017 presidential election, and main political parties and key election issues in Germany.

Biosynthesis Classes and Function. Myosin Biosynthesis, Classes and Function opens with a discussion on class I myosins, the most varied members of the myosin superfamily and a remarkable group of molecular motor proteins that move actin filaments and produce force. Class I myosin molecules have various physiological roles including maintenance of normal intestinal brush border structure, glucose homeostasis, glomerular filtration, immune function, and tumor promotion and suppression, and new studies are revealing that mutations may lead to diseases including cancer and kidney disease. Thus, the authors review

The CRS Reports that comprise this book examines criminal justice issues we are currently facing in the United States. The first chapter examines mental incompetency and firearms ineligibility, and amendments to acts such as the Restoring Americans Healthcare Freedom Reconciliation Act, which were initiated after the mass shootings in San Bernardino in December 2015 and in Orlando in June 2016. The next report examines how domestic terrorism, hate crime and homegrown violent extremism relate and differ from one another and current trends. Additional reports include an overview on human trafficking trends, background, federal programs and

Energy is one of the main determinants of economic growth, but the high dependence of electricity production by fossil fuels could be a brake for the development of countries which do not have a sufficient level of richness and/or which possess a high level of environmental sensitivity. Countries tend to contrast these limits to growth using a higher percentage of renewable sources for electricity generation, though the technological limits still suffer. Renewable energy sources are appreciated worldwide for their ability to limit significantly the impact of anthropic activities on energy production and counter the gradual

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Relation and Assessment. Handwriting and Dysgrafia Relation and Assessment presents in eleven chapters no less the interdisciplinary perspective and relation between handwriting and dysgraphia. Therefore, in organizing this e-book, the authors think about how it would be possible, through their experiences with the care of students with dysgraphia complaints in the Investigation Learning Disabilities Laboratory at the Speech and Hearing Sciences Department So Paulo State University Jlio de Mesquita Filho UNESP Marlia, So Paulo, Brazil, to assist educators as well as health and education professionals to broaden

Conventional and Fuzzy Regression: Theory and Applications aims to present both conventional and fuzzy regression analyses from theoretical aspects followed by application examples. The present book contains eight chapters originating from different scientific fields: River Engineering, Ecohydraulics, Telecommunications, Urban Planning, Transportation Planning, Hydrology, Soil Mechanics and Ecology. The first chapter deals with both crisp (conventional) linear or nonlinear regression and fuzzy linear or nonlinear regression. The application example refers to the relationship between sediment transport rates on the one hand and stream discharge and rainfall intensity on the other hand. In the examined case, the data of both categories are insufficient, and furthermore, the phenomenon is characterized by high complexity and uncertainties. The second chapter refers to the crisp linear or nonlinear regression of six heavy metals between different soft tissues and shells of Telescopium telescopium and its habitat surface sediments. The third chapter describes the crisp linear, multiple linear, nonlinear and Gaussian process regressions. The main application paradigms include the prediction in wireless systems, the predictive analytics in Internet of Things (IoT) based systems, and coding theory focused on extrinsic information scaling in turbo codes. The fourth chapter is confronted with a classic regression model, named Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR), which constitutes a spatial statistics method. The application example of this chapter concerns the housing value, i.e., a spatial phenomenon that is expressed as a function of housing characteristics. The fifth chapter regards fuzzy linear regression based on symmetric triangular fuzzy numbers. The main application of this regression consists of the analysis and forecast of rail passenger demand between two nearby cities. The dependent variable concerns the rail passengers and the independent variables are the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capita, the cost of transport by rail and the road transport fuel prices. The sixth chapter treats fuzzy linear regression based on trapezoidal membership functions. In concrete terms, three possible models with trapezoidal fuzzy parameters are described. The main application of this chapter concerns the dependence of rainfall records between neighboring rainfall stations for a small sample of data. The seventh chapter refers to the multivariable crisp and fuzzy linear regression. In the application paradigm, the dependent variable is the strength of fiber reinforced soils, while the independent variables are pertinent to soil, fiber and laboratory tests. The eighth chapter deals with the fuzzy linear regression, with crisp input data and fuzzy output data. In the application example, a relation between the levels of chlorophyll-a in an artificial lake and water temperature, nitrate, total phosphorus and Secchi depth is established. All the above chapters offer a proper foundation of either widely used or new techniques upon regression. Among the new techniques, several innovated fuzzy regression based methodologies are developed for real problems, and useful conclusions are drawn.

Curiosity is the foundation of childhood development and continues on into adulthood; it is the cornerstone of scientific discovery, art and play. In the past, the study of curiosity has been mainly restricted to the field of psychology. Recently, a new science of curiosity has emerged that is multidisciplinary, applicative, and transformative. In this book, some of the leading researchers of this emerging field give a comprehensive background description, explain in detail the state-of-the-art advances, and raise future-looking insights into curiosity. The book includes accounts of new neuroscientific research of curiosity, computational models of infant-like robots, thought-provoking insights into knowledge and wisdom, and curious social robots that play with curious children. Furthermore, applications of The New Science of Curiosity in art and game-design highlight the importance of these new approaches to fields outside science. The New Science of Curiosity also has a great impact on our day-to-day lives, described in the book regarding the medical profession and the educational system. The New Science of Curiosity holds great promise for a better, deeper, and more comprehensive understanding of this elusive, yet crucial, aspect of human cognition. Only a multi-disciplinary diverse approach, as presented in this book, holds the key to unlocking the mysteries of exploration, seeking and investigative experiences of our grandiose dreams and daily lives.

Public Health Yearbook 2017 present research on: adolescent alcohol use in the Caribbean region; discussion about how to break the cycle of child and adolescent environmental health disparities affecting development; serious debate about parental refusal of childhood vaccinations; food security; social and health issues surrounding Chinese adolescents; and a world tour of suicide ideation in school-age teenagers. We hope this Yearbook and the research will be of interest to our readers.

This book is that of the earliest history of the Papacy, but even were it provided with the most exhaustive notes, it could never furnish by itself an adequate basis for a modern narrative. This book is not an attempt to present a history of the Papacy during the first six centuries. It is simply the presentation of an ancient text.

This book is the hearing that took place on September 14th 2005 before the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on the recovery efforts (or lack thereof) from Hurricane Katrina. According to the Opening Statement by Chairman Collins, the hearing asks the hard questions about the adequacy of planning efforts for this long-predicted natural disaster. They explore the coordination among local, State and Federal emergency management officials before and after the hurricanes landfall. They then critically examine the legal structures and authorities that define who is in charge of assets that must be brought to bear in such a catastrophic event. As he states we would have expected a sharp, crisp response to this terrible tragedy. Instead, we witness a sluggish initial response. This book examines the next phrase that took place from recovering from the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina and the steps that were and were not taken.

This book is a compilation of hearings before the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs on Nuclear Terrorism in 2008. It includes: The Defense Departments Homeland Security Role, specifically how the military can and should contribute to combating nuclear terrorism now and in the future; Assessing the threats of Nuclear Terrorism; Confronting the Challenges of the Day After of any Nuclear Terrorism, including providing medical care and meeting basic needs in the aftermath; Strategies in preventing Nuclear Terrorism.

Perspectives Challenges and Future Directions. Sustainable development is triggering a re-assessment of innovation and technological change in all fields, and energy is no exception. A key challenge of energy sustainability is to examine the range of credible potential pathways of combined social, environmental and technological systems under conditions of uncertainty, stagger, personal preferences and complication. Conventional energy resources essentially fossil fuels are becoming limited because of the swift increase in energy demand. This disparity in energy demand and supply has placed enormous coercion not only on