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Cerebral plasticity: New perspectives
The notion that neurons in the living brain can change in response to experience—a phenomenon known as "plasticity"—has become a major conceptual issue in neuroscience research as well as a practical focus for the fields of neural rehabilitation and neurodegenerative disease. Early work dealt with the plasticity of the developing brain and demonstrated the critical role played by sensory ex…
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- 9780262295444
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- 1 online resource (x, 415 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations (some color)
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Children and pensions
An analysis of the effect of public pension schemes on a country's fertility rate and a proposal for policies to reform pension coverage in light of this.The rapidly aging populations of many developed countries--most notably Japan and member countries of the European Union--present obvious problems for the public pension plans of these countries. Not only will there be disproportionately fewer…
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- 1 online resource (xxiii, 204 pages) : illustrations.
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Elizabeth Blackburn and the story of telomeres : Blackburn and the Story of T…
The story of molecular biologist Elizabeth Blackburn and her groundbreaking research on telomeres and what it reveals about the resourceful optimism that characterizes the best scientific thinking.
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- 1 online resource (392 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
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Strategic bargaining and cooperation in greenhouse gas mitigations : An Integ…
A fresh approach to the economics of climate change that bridges integrated assessment modeling and game theoretic modeling.
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Weather by the numbers : by the Numbers: The Genesis of Modern Meteorology
The history of the growth and professionalization of American meteorology and its transformation into a physics- and mathematics-based scientific discipline.
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Movies and the moral adventure of life
Films as life lessons, enlarging our sense of human possibilities.
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Romance in the ivory tower The Rights and Liberty of Conscience
Should the choice to engage in a faculty-student romance be protected or precluded? An argument that the right to choose a romantic partner is a fundamental right of conscience, protected by the U.S Constitution.Allen Ginsberg once declared that "the best teaching is done in bed," but most university administrators would presumably disagree. Many universities prohibit romantic relationships bet…
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Handbook of mobile communication studies / of Mobile Communication Studies
This volume offers a view of the cultural, interpersonal and family consequences of mobile communication across the globe. The contributors analyse the effects of moble communications on all aspects of life, from the relationship between literacy and the textual features of phones, to the use of ringtones as a form of social exchange.
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Children without a state: A global human rights challenge
Children are among the most vulnerable citizens of the world, with a special need for the protections, rights, and services offered by states. And yet children are particularly at risk from statelessness. Thirty-six percent of all births in the world are not registered, leaving more than forty-eight million children under the age of five with no legal identity and no formal claim on any state. …
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Austere realism Contextual Semantics Meets Minimal Ontology
This work presents a provocative ontological-cum-semantic position stating that the right ontology is austere in its exclusion of numerous common-sense and scientific posits and that many statements employing such posits are nonetheless true.
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