Evidence for a 26kDa vegetative storage protein in the stem sapwood of mature pedunculate oak/Evidencia de una proteîna de depôsito vegetativo de … maduro.: An article from: Interciencia

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Title: Evidence for a 26kDa vegetative storage protein in the stem sapwood of mature pedunculate oak/Evidencia de una proteîna de depôsito vegetativo de 26kDa en la savia del tallo de roble pedunculado maduro/Evidencia de uma proteina de deposito vegetativo de 26kDa na savia do caule de Carvalhoroble maduro.
Author: Luis M. Valenzuela Nunez
Publication: Interciencia (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2011
Publisher: Interciencia Association
Volume: 36 Issue: 2 Page: 142(6)

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Interrogating the evidence: SSRIs and autism.(DRUGS, PREGNANCY, AND LACTATION): An article from: OB GYN News

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This digital document is an article from OB GYN News, published by International Medical News Group on September 1, 2011. The length of the article is 1102 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Interrogating the evidence: SSRIs and autism.(DRUGS, PREGNANCY, AND LACTATION)
Author: Lee Cohen
Publication: OB GYN News (Magazine/Journal)
Date: September 1, 2011
Publisher: International Medical News Group
Volume: 46 Issue: 9 Page: 26(1)

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Preserving religious identity through education: Economic analysis and evidence from the US [An article from: Journal of Urban Economics]

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Preserving religious identity through education: Economic analysis and evidence from the US [An article from: Journal of Urban Economics]
This digital document is a journal article from Journal of Urban Economics, published by Elsevier in 2006. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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This paper models the decision of religious parents to send their children to private religious schools as reflecting their desire to shield their children from external influences and thus preserve their religious identity. It follows that when the share of the minority in the local population grows-and outside influences become less threatening-the demand for separate religious schooling among the members of the religious group decreases. This pattern implies concavity in the relationship between enrollment in private and religious schooling and the share of the religious group in the population. We present empirical evidence from United States county data on Catholic and private school enrollment that strongly supports our theory. The paper contributes to a better understanding of the demand for religious education.

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Molecular evidence that phoronids are a subtaxon of brachiopods (Brachiopoda: Phoronata) and that genetic divergence of metazoan phyla began long before … from: Organisms Diversity & Evolution]

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Molecular evidence that phoronids are a subtaxon of brachiopods (Brachiopoda: Phoronata) and that genetic divergence of metazoan phyla began long before ... from: Organisms Diversity & Evolution]
This digital document is a journal article from Organisms Diversity & Evolution, published by Elsevier in . The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Concatenated SSU (18S) and partial LSU (28S) sequences (~2kb) from 12 ingroup taxa, comprising 2 phoronids, 2 members of each of the craniid, discinid, and lingulid inarticulate brachiopod lineages, and 4 rhynchonellate, articulate brachiopods (2 rhynchonellides, 1 terebratulide and 1 terebratellide) were aligned with homologous sequences from 6 protostome, deuterostome and sponge outgroups (3964 sites). Regions of potentially ambiguous alignment were removed, and the resulting data (3275 sites, of which 377 were parsimony-informative and 635 variable) were analysed by parsimony, and by maximum and Bayesian likelihood using objectively selected models. There was no base composition heterogeneity. Relative rate tests led to the exclusion (from most analyses) of the more distant outgroups, with retention of the closer pectinid and polyplacophoran (chiton). Parsimony and likelihood bootstrap and Bayesian clade support values were generally high, but only likelihood analyses recovered all brachiopod indicator clades designated a priori. All analyses confirmed the monophyly of (brachiopods+phoronids) and identified phoronids as the sister-group of the three inarticulate brachiopod lineages. Consequently, a revised Linnean classification is proposed in which the subphylum Linguliformea comprises three classes: Lingulata, ‘Phoronata’ (the phoronids), and ‘Craniata’ (the current subphylum Craniiformea). Divergence times of all nodes were estimated by regression from node depths in non-parametrically rate-smoothed and other chronograms, calibrated against palaeontological data, with probable errors not less than 50My. Only three predicted brachiopod divergence times disagree with palaeontological ages by more than the probable error, and a reasonable explanation exists for at least two. Pruning long-branched ingroups made scant difference to predicted divergence time estimates. The palaeontological age calibration and the existence of Lower Cambrian fossils of both main brachiopod clades together indicate that initial genetic divergence between brachiopod and molluscan (chiton) lineages occurred well before the Lower Cambrian, suggesting that much divergence between metazoan phyla took place in the Proterozoic. See also Electronic Supplement at: http://www.senckenberg.de/odes/05-11.htm

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Geriatric Medicine

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Geriatric Medicine
This new edition of a critically-acclaimed text, completely revised and updated, offers practical and comprehensive coverage of the diseases, common problems, and medical care of older persons. Building on the third edition, this revision will present a new approach focusing on Evidence-Based Medicine, with new chapters including: Physiology of Aging, Clinical Strategies of Prescribing for Older Adults, Chronic Disease Management, Prevention, Doctor-Patient Communication Issues, Sources of Suffering in the Elderly, and many others. In addition, there will be a separate chapter on Evidence-Based Geriatrics, as well as sidebars in every chapter, where applicable, on Evidence-Based Medicine. This will be an all-encompassing, authoritative volume on geriatric medicine, needed more than ever because the over-80 population is the fastest growing age group in the country.

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Expert Witnessing and Scientific Testimony: Surviving in the Courtroom

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Expert Witnessing and Scientific Testimony: Surviving in the Courtroom
Simply put, the primary role of the expert witness is to make clear and simple a complex technical or scientific issue. In practice, there are negative and positive aspects that must be considered before committing to the role. In a major case suing for big dollar amounts witnesses can expect to have their life history spread out like a roadmap for the world to see. On the other hand, finding and excavating the “smoking gun” piece of evidence can bring satisfaction far beyond any fees or hourly wage.
Based on the author’s more than 30 years of experience as a successful expert witness, Expert Witnessing and Scientific Testimony: Surviving in the Courtroom demonstrates how to properly present scientific testimony and survive the onslaught of cross examination in court. Written in an engaging style, the book begins with introductory material to the world of litigation and the role and qualifications of the expert witness. It covers necessary legal protocols such as rules of evidence and procedure.
Focusing on scientific testimony, the author demonstrates the use of scientific literature, presentation of testimony, and the language of lawyers. He addresses the courtroom experience with actual cases, experience, and pitfalls to illustrate procedure and strategy, cross-examination, and the exposure of personal history. Offering critical observations and judicial opinions, the book presents several exemplary civil, criminal, medical malpractice, and workers compensation cases. The author also includes his personal advice and tips on the business of expert witnessing.  There is an extensive glossary of legal terms, detailed footnotes, and useful appendices summarizing code of conduct, paperwork, and examples of case reports.
Offering an insider’s look at the labyrinthine world of litigation, Expert Witnessing and Scientific Testimony: Surviving in the Courtroom provides a guide for expert witnesses in today’s legal environment.

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Challenges to Digital Forensic Evidence

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Challenges to Digital Forensic Evidence
Challenges to Digital Forensic Evidence is a monograph about how the seemingly perfect evidence from computers, networks, and other automated mechanisms goes wrong, and how it can be challenged successfully in a legal setting.

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Digital Forensic Evidence Examination – 2nd Ed.

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Digital Forensic Evidence Examination - 2nd Ed.
This book is about the the science of examination of digital forensic evidence in legal settings. When a legal action involving the formalisms of a court system are involved, and that action involves evidence consisting of 1s and 0s (the binary digits), there are specific concerns that have to be addressed in order to provide accurate facts to those who have to make judgements based on facts. This book provides the scientific basis for examination of digital forensic evidence in a legal context.

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Analysis of convergent evidence in an evidential reasoning knowledge-based classification [An article from: Remote Sensing of Environment]

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Analysis of convergent evidence in an evidential reasoning knowledge-based classification [An article from: Remote Sensing of Environment]
This digital document is a journal article from Remote Sensing of Environment, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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The use of knowledge-based systems (KBSs) that use evidential reasoning for land-cover mapping derived from remotely sensed images is spreading widely. In recent years, KBSs utilizing the Dempster-Shafer Theory of Evidence (D-S ToE) have been found most successful in a wide range of remote sensing applications, partly because of their ability to combine diverse information sources. An important feature of the D-S ToE is that it provides a measure for the evidential support (belief) accumulated for each object class at each pixel. Despite the importance of cumulative belief values (CBVs) in representing the weighting of supportive versus conflicting evidence for each class, their analysis has received little attention in the literature. The objective of the present study was to assess the performance (represented by the kappa coefficient) of a KBS based on D-S ToE and of an unsupervised classification (ISODATA), with relation to the CBV distribution determined for each class. This was done for the task of crop recognition in a wide heterogeneous region in Israel. It was found that while KBS performs very well in cases of conflicts and moderate support, the US classification performed well only in cases of homogeneity and uniqueness. Crop recognition by means of KBS was applied to almost one-third of the country’s agricultural areas, and it provided a high level of differentiation among seven crop types, orchards and natural vegetation types.

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Population Mental Health: Evidence, Policy, and Public Health Practice (Routledge Studies in Public Health)

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Population Mental Health: Evidence, Policy, and Public Health Practice (Routledge Studies in Public Health)

Over the last century public health efforts, such as immunization, safer food practices, public health education and promotion, improved sanitation, and water purification have been very successful in eradicating and controlling a host of diseases. The result has been a dramatic improvement in health and life expectancy. However, the impact that mental illnesses have on individuals and society as a whole has largely been overlooked by the discipline.
This pioneering volume examines the evidence-base for incorporating mental health into the public health agenda by linking the available research on population mental health with public mental health policy and practice. Issues covered in the book include the influence of health and mental health policies on the care and well-being of individuals with mental illness, the interconnectedness of physical and mental disorders, the obstacles to adopting a public health orientation to mental health/mental illness, and the potential application of public health models of intervention.
Setting out a unique and innovative model for integrated public mental health care, Population Mental Health identifies the tools and strategies of public health practice â?? surveillance and screening, early identification, preventive interventions, health promotion and community action â?? and their application to twenty-first century public mental health policy and practice.


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