Books: 'End use analysis'

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Anglo-American, Real Property Institute (1990 Santa Fe New Mexico). Valuations and investment analysis: End use. [London]: Anglo-American Real Property Institute, 1990.

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Hurych, Jitka. Identification and analysis of factors affecting end use online searching. Washington, D.C: ERIC, 1986.

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(Firm), Sustainable Energy Solutions. Asia-Pacific economic cooperation high value end-use applications analysis. New York, N.Y., U.S.A: APEC, 1997.

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ICC '89 Symposium (1989 Lahti, Finland). Wheat end-use properties: Wheat and flour characterization for specific end-uses : proceedings from ICC '89 Symposium, June 13-15, 1989, Lahti, Finland. Helsinki: University of Helsinki, Dept. of Food Chemistry and Technology, 1989.

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Matu, M. S. The strategic analysis of marketing information needs and the use of end user computing to achieve competitive advantage at RS Components. Leicester: Leicester Polytechnic, 1992.

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Long-term final energy demand analysis for Chile: Development and application of dynamic econometric and end-use static simulation models and their comparative analysis. Frankfurt am Main: P. Lang, 1994.

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Wassmer, Robert W. Contracted report to the Board: An analysis of subsidies and other options to expand the productive end use of scrap tires in California. Sacramento: California Environmental Protection Agency, Integrated Waste Management Board, 2002.

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Valuations and Investment Analysis: End Use (Conference) (1990 Santa Fe, New Mexico). Valuations and investment analysis: End use : papers given to and discussed at a Conference of the Anglo-American Real Property Institute held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, in the Autumn of 1990. [London]: Anglo-American Real Property Institute, 1990.

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Walker, Geraldene. A comparative evaluation and analysis of end-user search performance in an academic environment. Ann Arbor, Mich: University Microfilms International, 1989.

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Porch, Carl Ralph. An analysis of the procurement and management of End-User Computing Equipment (EUCE) within the United States Marine Corps. Monterey, Calif: Naval Postgraduate School, 1989.

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Dream analysis in psychotherapy. New York: Pergamon Press, 1986.

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Use your words: How teacher talk helps children learn. St. Paul, Minn: Redleaf Press, 2005.

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Iwao, Nishiya, Cram L. Scott, and Gray Joe W, eds. Flow cytometry and image analysis for clinical applications: Proceedings of the International Symposium on Flow Cytometry and Image Analysis for Clinical Applications, Morioka and Hanamaki, Iwate, Japan, July 1-3, 1990. Amsterdam: Excerpta Medica, 1991.

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Burns, Marvin. The U.S. market for refurbished diagnostic imaging equipment: Recent sales trends and competitive challenges, sales and market share by manufacturer, industry and end-user analysis, technological assessment and market forecasts. Portsmouth, RI: Second Source Publications, 1993.

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Storytelling rights: The uses of oral and written texts by urban adolescents. Cambridge [Cambridgeshire]: Cambridge University Press, 1986.

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Wheat end-use properties: Wheat and flour characterization for specific end-uses : Proceedings from ICC '89 Symposium, June 13-15, 1989, Lahti, Finland. Lahti Research and Training Centre, 1989.

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Ross, B. A. End-use load and consumer assessment program: Analysis of residential refrigrator/freezer performance. Pacific Northwest Laboratory, 1988.

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Claar, C. N. Project on Restaurant Energy Performance: End-use monitoring and analysis, appendixes 1 and 2. Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories, 1985.

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Authority, Boston Redevelopment. South end housing production model. 1987.

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Wells, G. D. End-use analysis of electricity on Vermont dairy farms, a Vermont dairy farm energy study. Amer. Society of Agricultural Engineers, 1988.

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Institute, Anglo-American Real Property, ed. Valuations and investment analysis: End use : papers given at a conference of the Anglo-American Real Property Institute held in Santa Fe, NewMexico,USA, 1990. London: Anglo-American Real Property Institute, 1991.

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Authority, Boston Redevelopment. The south end development policy planning process: resource workbook. 1988.

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Witkov, Carey, and Keith Zengel. Chi-Squared Data Analysis and Model Testing for Beginners. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198847144.001.0001.

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This book is the first to make chi-squared model testing, one of the data analysis methods used to discover the Higgs boson and gravitational waves, accessible to undergraduate students in introductory physics laboratory courses. By including uncertainties in the curve fitting, chi-squared data analysis improves on the centuries old ordinary least squares and linear regression methods and combines best fit parameter estimation and model testing in one method. A toolkit of essential statistical and experimental concepts is developed from the ground up with novel features to interest even those familiar with the material. The presentation of one- and two-parameter chi-squared model testing, requiring only elementary probability and algebra, is followed by case studies that apply the methods to simple introductory physics lab experiments. More challenging topics, requiring calculus, are addressed in an advanced topics chapter. This self-contained and student-friendly introduction to chi-squared analysis and model testing includes a glossary, end-of-chapter problems with complete solutions, and software scripts written in several popular programming languages, that the reader can use for chi-squared model testing. In addition to introductory physics lab students, this accessible introduction to chi-squared analysis and model testing will be of interest to all who need to learn chi-squared model testing, e.g. beginning researchers in astrophysics and particle physics, beginners in data science, and lab students in other experimental sciences.

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K, Luke Nancy, and Intelligent Buildings Institute Foundation, eds. Global protocol review & end-user needs analysis. Washington, DC: The Foundation, 1993.

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Corporation, Venture Development, ed. Retail automation planning service end user analysis book. [Natick, Mass: Venture Development Corp., 1988.

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Public Health Policies on Psychoactive Substance Use: A Manual for Health Planners. Pan American Health Organization, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.37774/9789275123508.

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The use of psychoactive substances has various social and health consequences. These can be addressed from the field of health and social welfare through policies formulated by government agencies in accordance with their specific mandates. An explicit policy on health and psychoactive substance use allows the development of the necessary responses to protect and promote the right to health of the population as it relates to this complex problem. This manual is an instrumental tool based on policy analysis techniques and methods developed with the purpose of facilitating the application of public health principles to define responses to problems associated with psychoactive substance use. To this end, the manual contains examples and exercises that illustrate the various phases of the planning process and can be used in workshops and other training activities. It is intended for those responsible for formulating, implementing, and evaluating policies, plans, and programs aimed at reducing the consequences of psychoactive substance use on collective health, from government health agencies and other relevant sectors to civil society.

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David, Nicholas, ed. End-users of online information systems: An analysis. London: Mansell Publishing Ltd., 1988.

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David, Nicholas, ed. End-users of online information systems: An analysis. London: Mansell Pub., 1988.

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Ammen, Sharon. The Road to Rainbow’s End. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252040658.003.0008.

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This chapter follows May Irwin’s personal and public life from 1915 to her last performance of the “Frog Song” at a Mark Twain centennial celebration in 1935 followed by her retirement to the Thousand Islands and her death in 1937. The author then analyzes the five interconnected strategies that Irwin used to maintain success, including her use of domesticity and its connection to the private sphere/public sphere argument in feminism. She also looks at how Irwin embodied the American myth of success and concludes that Irwin’s most skillful balance of shifting identities was in her performance of the coon song. Irwin unconsciously embodied the combination of love and envy that critic Eric Lott has found in the dominant white culture’s attempt at black cultural appropriation.

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The U.S. medical equipment leasing and rental services industry: A competitive, economic & end-user analysis. 3rd ed. Tampa, Fla: Marketdata Enterprises, 1997.

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Civitello, Linda. The Cream of Tartar Wars. University of Illinois Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252041082.003.0006.

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This chapter deals with three different trade wars at the end of the nineteenth century: (1) within Royal for control of the company; (2) between Royal and companies that used different formulas; and (3) among three companies that used cream of tartar, including Dr. Price. All the companies claimed that their competitors’ products were toxic and that they were perpetrating frauds on consumers. The last war was resolved by combining the three companies into the Royal trust, capitalized at $20 million, as part of the Great Merger Movement. There is also an analysis of cookbooks showing African-American and Hispanic use of baking powder.

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Erbach, Gertrud, Yin Wah Pang, and Koren Paalman. End-Users of Online Information Systems: An Analysis (British Library R & D Report 5959). Mansell, 1988.

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A, Mange Maria, and Wright David T. 1951-, eds. Heavy minerals in use. Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2007.

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Abellan, Jose Maria, Carmen Herrero, and Jose Luis Pinto. QALY-Based Cost-Effectiveness Analysis. Edited by Matthew D. Adler and Marc Fleurbaey. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199325818.013.8.

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This chapter introduces the main ideas about the use of quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) in the evaluation of health policies. It starts by explaining the theoretical underpinnings of the QALY model understood as individual utilities. Afterward, it reviews the empirical evidence about the descriptive validity of the main assumptions supporting the model. Then, it explains the main preference elicitation techniques (visual analog scale, time trade-off, and standard gamble). It also shows the practical psychological problems faced by these techniques, such as the existence of context-dependent preferences. The chapter ends by explaining how QALYs are used in priority setting, in particular, the rules governing resources allocation decisions using QALYs, the ethical implications of these rules, and the relationship between cost-benefit analysis and cost-effectiveness analysis.

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Wiebe, Peter H., Ann Bucklin, and Mark Benfield. Sampling, Preservation and Counting of Samples II: Zooplankton. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199233267.003.0010.

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This chapter reviews traditional and new zooplankton sampling techniques, sample preservation, and sample analysis, and provides the sources where in-depth discussion of these topics is addressed. The net systems that have been developed over the past 100+ years, many of which are still in use today, can be categorized into eight groups: non-opening/closing nets, simple opening/closing nets, high-speed samplers, neuston samplers, planktobenthos plankton nets, closing cod-end samplers, multiple net systems, and moored plankton collection systems. Methods of sample preservation include preservation for sample enumeration and taxonomic morphological analysis, and preservation of samples for genetic analysis. Methods of analysis of zooplankton samples include determination of biomass, taxonomic composition, and size by traditional methods; and genetic analysis of zooplankton samples.

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E, Lewis Philip, ed. Analysing the relationship between wholesale and end-user prices in the Nordic electricity market. Finland: Ministry of Trade and Industry, 2004.

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Hannan, Jason, ed. Meatsplaining. Sydney University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.30722/sup.9781743327104.

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The animal agriculture industry, like other profit-driven industries, aggressively seeks to shield itself from public scrutiny. To that end, it uses a distinct set of rhetorical strategies to deflect criticism. These tactics are fundamental to modern animal agriculture but have long evaded critical analysis. In this collection, academic and activist contributors investigate the many forms of denialism perpetuated by the animal agriculture industry. What strategies does the industry use to avoid questions about its inhumane treatment of animals and its impact on the environment and public health? What narratives, myths and fantasies does it promote to sustain its image in the public imagination?

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Soodalter, Jesse A., and Yael Schenker. Quality End-of-Life CarePatients’ Perspectives (DRAFT). Edited by Nathan A. Gray and Thomas W. LeBlanc. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780190658618.003.0041.

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This chapter summarizes Singer and colleagues’ 1999 “Quality End-of-Life Care: Patients’ Perspectives,” which investigates elements of quality end-of-life (EOL) care from patients’ perspectives. The study uses content analysis of previously conducted interviews with 126 dialysis and HIV patients and long-term care residents to identify five domains of quality EOL care: receiving adequate pain and symptom management, avoiding inappropriate prolongation of dying, achieving a sense of control, relieving burden, and strengthening relationships with loved ones. The authors compare these with three other, non-patient-derived taxonomies, finding the study’s domains to be simpler and more specific, less conceptually driven (e.g., “processes of care”), and more outcome-focused. This study pioneered patient-centered research into quality of EOL care, which has since expanded to many other populations

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Levesque, Roger J. R. Empirical Assessments of the Implementation of Laws Addressing School Segregation and Diversity. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190633639.003.0005.

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This chapter analyzes research related to the necessity of remedial approaches as well as potential alternatives to addressing racial disparity and the segregation of schools. These constitute critical analyses due to the manner in which the US Supreme Court addresses group classifications relating to race. These analyses reveal scant empirical evidence that addresses the law’s direct needs. Notably, it is not clear that integration efforts that use racial classifications are necessary to address the ills described by the legal system. In addition, it is not clear that alternatives, such as using economic status to shape school districts, increase integration in ways that reduce the harms associated with discrimination. In the end, the conclusion is not that these approaches could not receive empirical support; rather, it is that researchers simply have not engaged in the type of research needed to address key legal claims.

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Timcke, Scott. Algorithms and the End of Politics. Policy Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1332/policypress/9781529215311.001.0001.

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As the United States contends with issues of populism and de-democratization, this book considers the impacts of digital technologies on the country's politics and society. The book provides a Marxist analysis of the rise of digital media, social networks and technology giants like Amazon, Apple, Facebook and Microsoft. It looks at the impact of these new platforms and technologies on their users who have made them among the most valuable firms in the world. The book is concerned with unfreedom and class rule in contemporary American capitalism as seen in the digital realm. Class struggle is the first and last force shaping developments in communication. The book looks at the response of the ruling class to an organic crisis in the United States, and it traces how digital media instruments are used by different factions within the capitalist ruling class to capture and maintain the commanding heights of the American social structure. The book moves on to examine the role of data and whiteness in American social life. It traces the evolving intersection of capital, security and technology to examine the broad trajectory of unfreedom. The book concludes that digital society requires significant restructuring if it is to facilitate greater democratization. Offering bold, new thinking across data politics and digital and economic sociology, this is a powerful demonstration of how algorithms have come to shape everyday life and political legitimacy in the United States and beyond.

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Pleniceanu, Oren, and Benjamin Dekel. Kidney stem cells. Edited by Adrian Woolf. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199592548.003.0344.

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End-stage renal failure is a major cause of death with currently only dialysis and transplantation available as therapeutic options, each with its own limitations and drawbacks. To allow regenerative medicine-based kidney replacement therapies and due to the fact that neither haematopoietic stem cells nor mesenchymal stem cells, the most accessible human stem cells, can be used to derive genuine nephron progenitors, much attention has been given to finding adult renal stem cells. Several candidates for this have been described, but their true identity as stem or progenitor cells and their potential use in therapy has not yet been shown. However, the analysis of embryonic renal stem cells, specifically stem/progenitor cells that are induced into the nephrogenic pathway to form nephrons until the 34th week of gestation, has been much more conclusive.

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Harris, Ellen T., and Ellen T. Harris. Musical and Dramatic Structure. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190271664.003.0004.

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The early sources of Dido and Aeneas differ in their overall layout. The harmonic structure of the opera provides a key to its organization in a practice based on earlier seventeenth-century models. Purcell, however, uses harmony in a more dramatic way than his models. The lack of a musical setting of the final chorus and dance indicated in the libretto at the end of Act II seems to skew the harmonic organization, but it also reflects his use of harmony as a dramatic tool. A structural analysis of the opera without these movements reveals a two-part symmetrical structure dividing the opera in half. The successive movements in the two halves are paired in musical structure while their textual opposition reflects the central conflict of the opera.

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Van de Noort, Robert. North Sea Archaeologies. Oxford University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199566204.001.0001.

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This innovative study offers an up-to-date analysis of the archaeology of the North Sea. Robert Van de Noort traces the way people engaged with the North Sea from the end of the last ice age, around 10,000 BC, to the close of the Middle Ages, about AD 1500. Van de Noort draws upon archaeological research from many countries, including the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Belgium and France, and addresses topics which include the first interactions of people with the emerging North Sea, the origin and development of fishing, the creation of coastal landscapes, the importance of islands and archipelagos, the development of seafaring ships and their use by early seafarers and pirates, and the treatments of boats and ships at the end of their useful lives.

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Stuart, Casey-Maslen, Clapham Andrew, Giacca Gilles, and Parker Sarah. Art.11 Diversion. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198723523.003.0015.

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This chapter analyses Article 11 of the ATT. The article includes a series of obligations and commitments aimed at preventing, addressing, and comprehending the diversion of conventional arms, generally understood as delivery to an unauthorized end user or unauthorized use by an authorized end user. The commitments pertain to all states parties involved in the transfer of arms including exporting, importing, transit, and trans-shipment states, as well as those involved in any brokering activities relating to a proposed transfer. The obligations concern only the possible diversion of conventional arms covered under Article 2(1), not ammunition/munitions or parts and components. Co-operation and assistance, particularly information-sharing among states parties, are central to the provisions in Article 11, highlighting that the diversion of conventional arms is not something that states can prevent or address in isolation from each other.

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Sinke, Suzanne M. Written Forms of Communication from Immigrant Letters to Instant Messaging. Edited by Ronald H. Bayor. Oxford University Press, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199766031.013.024.

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This article discusses written communications by international migrants across time, from immigrant letters to instant messaging. Chronologically, it ranges from the nineteenth century to the end of the twentieth century, and spatially, the focus is on the United States and those who migrated to or from the country. It covers the definition of an immigrant letter, particularly as it relates to systematic study of the genre, and some of the cultural associations bound to the term. It relates issues of literacy—who could write and how well—and the status of postal connections, how they influenced the production and distribution of correspondence by migrants. Other sections explore how scholars have used epistolary records by migrants as sources for various topics and in several disciplines, and types of analysis they use for both written and electronic communications, including e-mail. Finally, there are suggestions for further study of correspondence related to immigration.

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Branford, Ruth, Emily Wighton, and Joy Ross. Principles of drug therapy: focus on opioids. Oxford University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780199656097.003.0091.

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Key principles of clinical pharmacology inform prescribing in palliative care. The use of opioid therapy for pain in populations with serious medical illness exemplifies the relevance of these principles. Concepts include the differences among efficacy, effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness; the nature of a benefit-to-risk analysis; and the meaning of pharmacokinetic variation and pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic relationships. This information complements related information about opioid therapy, including best practices during routine care and the role of opioid switching, opioid abuse, and opioid prescribing at the end of life. More extensive information about general pharmacology is available in comprehensive pharmacology textbooks.

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Roller, Michael P. An Archaeology of Structural Violence. University Press of Florida, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813056081.001.0001.

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Using evidence of historical changes in landscape, community life, and material culture from a coal mining company town in the Anthracite Coal Region of Northeast Pennsylvania, Michael Roller introduces an archaeological approach to the structural violence on workers, citizens, and consumers that developed across the twentieth century. The study begins with an analysis of a moment of explicit violence at the end of the nineteenth century, an event known as the Lattimer Massacre, in which as many as nineteen immigrant miners were shot by a posse of local businessmen. From this touchstone, material history and theoretical contexts across the twentieth century are documented in a manner both locally specific and broadly generalizable. Historical archaeology is used strategically, opportunistically, and dialectically, supported, amplified, and illuminated by archival and ethnographic research, spatial analysis, and social theory. In the process, attention is brought to contradictions, ironies, and absences in our understandings of this formative era in labor history. This study illuminates the development of systematized violence and soft forms of social control enacted by the collusion of state and capital through materialities such as infrastructure, urban redevelopment, mass consumerism, governmentality, biopolitics, and the shifting boundaries of sovereign power. Varied in its use of sources, the study returns again and again to the material life and the shifting landscapes of the company towns and shanty enclaves of the region, as well as the violence of the Massacre. This archaeology of the recent past shows us the unconscious material foundations for present social troubles.

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Resende, Edivan de. Cristo Sumo Sacerdote dos Bem Vindouros: A identidade messiânico-sacerdotal de Jesus. Brazil Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.31012/978-65-5861-398-5.

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The present work aims to contribute to the reflection on the identity, life and mission of Jesus. This reflection considers the theological concepts of priest and messiah and their development throughout the Old Testament until it ends in the Epistle to the Hebrews. This course will have as its end the analysis of the messianic-priestly identity of Christ in the mentioned New Testament writing. Thus, this research will provide the formulation of the substratum on which the priestly interpretation of the life and work of Jesus developed. To get the final result, the search method used is Critical History. The text is structured in three parts: in the first analysis it is in the religious institution of Israel; in the second the development of messianism in Israel and in the third as the confluence between the concepts of high priest and messiah in the Epistle to the Hebrews.

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Woolley, Samuel C., and Douglas Guilbeault. United States. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190931407.003.0009.

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Do bots have the capacity to influence the flow of political information over social media? This chapter answers this question through two methodological avenues: a) a qualitative analysis of how political bots were used to support United States presidential candidates and campaigns during the 2016 election, and b) a network analysis of bot influence on Twitter during the same event. Political bots are automated software programs that operate on social media, written to mimic real people in order to manipulate public opinion. The qualitative findings are based upon nine months of fieldwork on the campaign trail, including interviews with bot makers, digital campaign strategists, security consultants, campaign staff, and party officials. During the 2016 campaign, a bipartisan range of domestic and international political actors made use of political bots. The Republican Party, including both self-proclaimed members of the “alt-right” and mainstream members, made particular use of these digital political tools throughout the election. Meanwhile, public conversation from campaigners and government representatives is inconsistent about the political influence of bots. This chapter provides ethnographic evidence that bots affect information flows in two key ways: 1) by “manufacturing consensus,” or giving the illusion of significant online popularity in order to build real political support, and 2) by democratizing propaganda through enabling nearly anyone to amplify online interactions for partisan ends. We supplement these findings with a quantitative network analysis of the influence bots achieved within retweet networks of over 4 million tweets, collected during the 2016 US election. The results of this analysis confirm that bots reached positions of measurable influence during the 2016 US election.

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Ciccantell, Paul S., and Paul K. Gellert. Raw Materialism and Socioeconomic Change in the Coal Industry. Edited by Debra J. Davidson and Matthias Gross. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190633851.013.6.

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In the midst of activist, citizen, and policymaker concerns about and advocacy for the end of coal as a fuel, this chapter takes a long-term historical-materialist perspective on energy and society relations. The historical evolution of coal commodity chains from mines in global peripheries to consumption in world-system cores through four periods of attempted and real hegemonic ascent (British, US, Japanese, and Chinese) are addressed. This analysis from the nineteenth century to 2015 demonstrates that generative sectors based on coal helped drive economic ascent in all four of these cases. Further, coal remains critical for aspiring powers, notably China and India, to produce steel and electricity. China’s and India’s combined coal consumption drove a near doubling of global hard coal production between 2000 and 2015, despite declining coal use in the OECD countries. The medium-term future of coal is therefore far from certain, despite environmental costs and concerns.

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