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Arterial Stiffness: Implications and Interventions
Arterial stiffness is an emerging risk factor with important implications for cardiovascular disease risk. Herein, we concisely summarize the physiological and pathophysiological aspects of arterial stiffening, and highlight the importance of increased arterial stiffness for future cardiovascular events. Factors contributing to increased arterial stiffness such as advancing age, obesity, race, …
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- Ed. 1
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- 978-3-319-24844-8
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- VIII, 61
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- SpringerBriefs in Physiology
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- 616.12 FLE a
Arterial Chemoreceptors in Physiology and Pathophysiology
Every three years, the International Society for Arterial Chemoreception (ISAC) arranges a Meeting to bring together all of the major International research groups investigating the general topic of oxygen sensing in health and disease, with a prime focus upon systemic level hypoxia and carotid body function. This volume summarises the proceedings of the XIXth meeting of the Society, held in Le…
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- 978-3-319-18440-1
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- XI, 404
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- Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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- 615 ART a
Rights of the Child
This work reviews the progress of children’s rights 25 years since the adoption of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. It studies the progress of that human rights instrument as part of an ongoing process. It examines how recent past, present and future generations will benefit or suffer as part of the process in which outcomes cannot be predicted. It does not project into the futur…
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- 978-3-319-18784-6
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Reviews of Physiology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology, Vol. 171
Leading researchers are specially invited to provide a complete understanding of a key topic within the multidisciplinary fields of physiology, biochemistry and pharmacology. In a form immediately useful to scientists, this periodical aims to filter, highlight and review the latest developments in these rapidly advancing fields.
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- 978-3-319-43814-6
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Reviews of Physiology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology Vol. 170
Leading researchers are specially invited to provide a complete understanding of the key topics in these archetypal multidisciplinary fields. In a form immediately useful to scientists, this periodical aims to filter, highlight and review the latest developments in these rapidly advancing fields.
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- 978-3-319-31492-1
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Reviews of Physiology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology Vol. 169
Leading researchers are specially invited to provide a complete understanding of the key topics in these archetypal multidisciplinary fields. In a form immediately useful to scientists, this periodical aims to filter, highlight and review the latest developments in these rapidly advancing fields.
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- 978-3-319-26565-0
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Reviews of Physiology, Biochemistry and Pharmacology
Leading researchers are specially invited to provide a complete understanding of the key topics in these archetypal multidisciplinary fields. In a form immediately useful to scientists, this periodical aims to filter, highlight and review the latest developments in these rapidly advancing fields.
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- 978-3-319-22503-6
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A Guide to Teaching Information Literacy
The role of the librarian increasingly involves delivering information literacy using a range of teaching methods, from delivering induction sessions to informal one-to-one support on a day-to-day basis. Although this is increasingly recognized, many practitioners do not have teaching qualifications and are often left to fulfil a role for which they feel ill-equipped. Even when they do have tea…
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- 9781856048767
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Child Street Life : An Inside View of Hazards and Expectations of Street Chil…
This brief studies the phenomenon of street children in two cities in Peru. It looks at some of the conceptual issues and, after analysing why children are in the street and what behaviour and which aspirations they exhibit, deals with the policy issues and lessons to be learned. This brief investigates when and why the transition from children on the street (street-working children) to childre…
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- 978-3-319-11722-5
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Aging Mechanisms: Longevity, Metabolism, and Brain Aging
This book brings together the most up-to-date information on recent research results of leading laboratories on aging science in East Asia, particularly in Japan, Korea, and Hong Kong. Starting with a comprehensive overview of various hypotheses on biological mechanisms of aging by Dr. Sataro Goto, each chapter covers broad aspects of the most recent findings in aging-related topics: centenaria…
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- 1
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- 978-4-431-55763-0
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- XIV, 439
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- 153 AGI a
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