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Bade, David W. Misinformation and meaning in library catalogs. Chicago: D.W. Bade, 2003.

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Bade, David W. Misinformation and meaning in library catalogs. Chicago: D.W. Bade, 2003.

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2002-2003 MAT: An exhaustive treatise on new millennium alternative tax : covering all present and possible issues with critical comments, precedents, and tests-- a veritable treasury of all that is to be known on the subject. 2nd ed. Mumbai: Snow White Publications, 2002.

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The minimal residual QR-factorization algorithm for reliably solving subset regression problems. Moffett Field, Calif: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Ames Research Center, 1987.

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The minimal residual QR-factorization algorithm for reliably solving subset regression problems. Moffett Field, Calif: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Ames Research Center, 1987.

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H, Verhaegen M., and Ames Research Center, eds. The minimal residual QR-factorization algorithm for reliably solving subset regression problems. Moffett Field, Calif: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Ames Research Center, 1987.

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Hrushovski, Ehud, and François Loeser. Strongly stably dominated points. Princeton University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691161686.003.0008.

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This chapter focuses on the properties of strongly stably dominated types over valued fields bases. In this setting, strong stability corresponds to a strong form of the Abhyankar property for valuations: the transcendence degrees of the extension coincide with those of the residue field extension. The chapter proves a Bertini type result and shows that the strongly stable points form a strict ind-definable subset Vsuperscript Number Sign of unit vector V. It then proves a rigidity statement for iso-definable Γ‎-internal subsets of maximal o-minimal dimension of unit vector V, namely that they cannot be deformed by any homotopy leaving appropriate functions invariant. The chapter also describes the closure of iso-definable Γ‎-internal sets in Vsuperscript Number Sign and proves that Vsuperscript Number Sign is exactly the union of all skeleta.
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Karttunen, Lauri. Finite-State Technology. Edited by Ruslan Mitkov. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199276349.013.0018.

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The article introduces the basic concepts of finite-state language processing: regular languages and relations, finite-state automata, and regular expressions. Many basic steps in language processing, ranging from tokenization, to phonological and morphological analysis, disambiguation, spelling correction, and shallow parsing, can be performed efficiently by means of finite-state transducers. The article discusses examples of finite-state languages and relations. Finite-state networks can represent only a subset of all possible languages and relations; that is, only some languages are finite-state languages. Furthermore, this article introduces two types of complex regular expressions that have many linguistic applications, restriction and replacement. Finally, the article discusses the properties of finite-state automata. The three important properties of networks are: that they are epsilon free, deterministic, and minimal. If a network encodes a regular language and if it is epsilon free, deterministic, and minimal, the network is guaranteed to be the best encoding for that language.
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Strawson, Galen. The Minimal Subject. Oxford University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199548019.003.0011.

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Georgalis, Nicholas. Mind, Language and Subjectivity: Minimal Content and the Theory of Thought. Taylor & Francis Group, 2017.

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Georgalis, Nicholas. Mind, Language and Subjectivity: Minimal Content and the Theory of Thought. Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.

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Georgalis, Nicholas. Mind, Language and Subjectivity: Minimal Content and the Theory of Thought. Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.

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Mind, Language and Subjectivity: Minimal Content and the Theory of Thought. Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.

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Georgalis, Nicholas. Mind, Language and Subjectivity: Minimal Content and the Theory of Thought. Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.

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Georgalis, Nicholas. Mind, Language and Subjectivity: Minimal Content and the Theory of Thought. Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.

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Brownlee, Kimberley, David Jenkins, and Adam Neal, eds. Being Social. Oxford University PressOxford, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198871194.001.0001.

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Abstract Human rights capture what people need to live minimally decent lives. Recognized dimensions of this minimum include physical security, due process, political participation, and freedom of movement, speech, and belief, as well as—more controversially for some—subsistence, shelter, health, education, culture, and community. Far less attention has been paid to the interpersonal, social dimensions of a minimally decent life, including our basic needs for decent human contact and acknowledgement, for interaction and adequate social inclusion, and for relationship, intimacy, and shared ways of living, as well as our competing interests in solitude and associative freedom. This pioneering collection of original essays aims to remedy the neglect of social needs and rights in human rights theory and practice by exploring the social dimensions of the human-rights minimum. The essays subject both enumerated social human rights and proposed social human rights to philosophical scrutiny, and probe the conceptual, normative, and practical implications of taking social human rights seriously. The contributors to this volume demonstrate powerfully how important this undertaking is, despite the thorny theoretical and practical challenges that social rights present.
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Haddad, Youssef A. Subject-Oriented Attitude Datives in Social Context. Edinburgh University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9781474434072.003.0005.

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The focus of this chapter is on Levantine Arabic attitude datives that take the subject of the construction in which they occur as a referent. The chapter analyzes specific instances of subject-oriented attitude datives as used in different types of social acts. It shows that when a speaker uses these datives in representatives (i.e., statements that may be assessed as true or false), she expresses an evaluative attitude toward an event as either unimportant/trivial or unexpected/surprising, based on her familiarity with the subject of that event and her expectations of that subject. When a speaker uses the same datives in directives (e.g., requests), she evaluates the potential cost of the action required by her utterance as minimal compared to any potential gain. All social functions are contingent on contextual factors, including the sociocultural, situational, and co-textual context.
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Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service., ed. The small business exemption in the Fair Labor Standards Act: Number of employees subject to the 1989 amendments. [Washington, D.C.]: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, 1991.

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The small business exemption in the Fair Labor Standards Act: Number of employees subject to the 1989 amendments. [Washington, D.C.]: Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress, 1991.

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Prussing, John E. Second-Order Conditions. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198811084.003.0009.

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Second-order conditions for both parameter optimization problems and optimal control problems are analysed. A new conjugate point test procedure is discussed and illustrated. For an optimal control problem we will examine the second variation of the cost. The first variation subject to constraints provides first-order NC for a minimum of J. Second-order conditions provide SC a minimum.
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Hrushovski, Ehud, and François Loeser. Definable compactness. Princeton University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691161686.003.0004.

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This chapter describes the notion of definable compactness for subsets of unit vector V. One of the main results is Theorem 4.2.20, which establishes the equivalence between being definably compact and being closed and bounded. The chapter gives a general definition of definable compactness that may be useful when the definable topology has enough definable types. The o-minimal formulation regarding limits of curves is replaced by limits of definable types. The chapter relates definable compactness to being closed and bounded and shows that the expected properties hold. In particular, the image of a definably compact set under a continuous definable map is definably compact.
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Hrushovski, Ehud, and François Loeser. An equivalence of categories. Princeton University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691161686.003.0013.

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This chapter deduces from Theorem 11.1.1 an equivalence of categories between a certain homotopy category of definable subsets of quasi-projective varieties over a given valued field and a suitable homotopy category of definable spaces over the o-minimal Γ‎. The chapter introduces three categories that can be viewed as ind-pro definable and admit natural functors to the category TOP of topological spaces with continuous maps. The discussion is often limited to the subcategory consisting of A-definable objects and morphisms. The morphisms are factored out by (strong) homotopy equivalence. The chapter presents the proof of the equivalence of categories before concluding with remarks on homotopies over imaginary base sets.
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Nash, Léa. The Structural Source of Split Ergativity and Ergative Case in Georgian. Edited by Jessica Coon, Diane Massam, and Lisa Demena Travis. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198739371.013.8.

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On the basis of the study of split ergativity in Georgian, this chapter defends a simple principle according to which the difference between a nominative and an ergative behaviour of the same language, and possibly across languages, consists in the capacity of the transitive subject to be theta-licensed, and by consequence case-licensed, in a position outside vP only in the nominative type. An outcome of this difference is that the transitive subject in ergative languages is licensed in vP, which is also the minimal domain containing the direct object. As both arguments of the transitive verb stay in vP, they are case-licensed by the same c-commanding functional head, according to the mechanism of Dependent Case (DC) assignment as originally proposed by Marantz (1991). The reason why one functional head marks two arguments in a language is due to the functional impoverishment between T and vP.
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Goldberg, Sanford C. Core Criteria II. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198793670.003.0005.

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This chapter completes the account of the explicit criteria for epistemically proper belief. Given a belief formed through a process or processes on which the subject enjoyed a default permission to rely, the belief is epistemically proper just in case it satisfies a version of Process Reliabilism which the author calls Coherence-Infused Reliabilism (CIR). CIR requires that (i) beliefs be formed and sustained through processes that were reliable (or conditionally reliable), and (ii) the propositional content of the belief, as well as the hypothesis asserting the reliability of the processes as used on this occasion, cohere with the subject’s background beliefs. After arguing that such a view is well motivated, the author suggests that condition (ii) amounts to the exemplification of a minimal kind of epistemic responsibility, and goes on to generalize the account to cover all beliefs (not just basic ones).
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Brogaard, Berit. The Representational View of Experience. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190495251.003.0004.

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In chapter 3, the author presents two arguments for the view that visual experience is representational. The first shows that phenomenal ‘look’ and ‘seem’ reflect phenomenal, representational properties of visual perception. It follows that experience is representational. This conclusion is consistent with some versions of naive realism, but considerably stronger than the minimal content view that takes content to be a description of what it is like for the subject to have the experience. The second argument establishes that the perceptual relation that obtains between experience and its object in core cases cannot fully explain the phenomenology of experience. In order to explain its phenomenology, we will need to appeal to the experience’s representational nature. The second argument thus shows that visual experience is fundamentally representational and not fundamentally relational, which is the central claim of the representational view.
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Gerard, McMeel. Part III Particular Contractual Provisions, 24 Payment, Agreed Damages, and Acceleration Clauses. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198755166.003.0024.

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This chapter discusses payment, liquidated damages, minimum payment, and accelerated payment clauses. It first gives a brief introduction to payment clauses and their construction, before turning to liquidated damages clauses. For the latter, the chapter introduces the clause with a set of propositions delivered during the Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Co Ltd v New Garage and Motor Co Ltd case. Next, the chapter turns to minimum payment clauses. These clauses are a feature of many hire-purchase arrangements and are subject to the new legitimate interest test. Acceleration clauses, meanwhile, are particularly common in asset finance arrangements and commercial lending. Such clauses often work in tandem with express termination clauses, and appear to have become more common in the wake of the restrictive common law approach to damages resulting from the exercise of an express termination provision.
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Fay, Jennifer. Still Life. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190696771.003.0005.

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China’s Three Gorges Dam is the largest hydroelectric megadam in world history and the subject of Jia Zhangke’s digital film Still Life (2006), Liu Xiaodong’s oil paintings, and Yang Yi’s digital photographs. Built in part to address the problems of global warming, the dam has had a number of surprising effects on the environment and has led to massive displacement of people to make way for the water. Jia populates his film with migrant workers, refugees, tourists, visitors, and even aliens from outer space, none of whom are at home in this world. Jia captures the city at the moment of its undoing, a place that is changing, he remarks, too fast for film. Reading Jia’s film together with Liu and Yang’s artwork and through the genre of still life painting, the chapter argues that Jia’s film envisions a kind of minimal hospitality that emerges when the world is past.
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William A, Schabas. Part 3 General Principles of Criminal Law: Principes Généraux Du Droit Pénal, Art.26 Exclusion of jurisdiction over persons under 18/Incompétence à l’égard des personnes de moins de 18 ans. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780198739777.003.0031.

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This chapter comments on Article 26 of the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. Article 26 declares that the Court has no jurisdiction over a person under the age of eighteen at the time of the infraction. However, a Trial Chamber of the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia confirmed that article 26 of the Rome Statute is ‘for jurisdictional purposes’. It also held that there is no rule in convention or customary international law against criminal liability for a war crime committed by an individual below the age of eighteen. Juveniles may be prosecuted for international crimes, just as they may be prosecuted for ordinary crimes, subject to national legislation governing the minimum age of responsibility and the applicable norms of international human rights law.
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Bechky, Perry S. Microinvestment Disputes. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198795650.003.0011.

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When Salini v Morocco held that the word ‘investment’ in the ICSID Convention has an objective meaning that limits the ability of Member States to submit disputes to ICSID arbitration, the tribunal included ‘a contribution to development’ as an element of its definition. This chapter introduces the concept of a micro-investment dispute, which focuses attention on small investments giving rise to ICSID cases. The micro-investment lens reveals the failings of Salini’s contribution-to-development prong. By conditioning ICSID jurisdiction on an individualized showing of such a contribution, this prong disproportionately burdens micro-investors, inhibiting their access to ICSID despite the fact that the drafters of the ICSID Convention specifically rejected a minimum size requirement. In so doing, the development prong also limits ICSID’s value to those who need it most. In the name of promoting development, Salini may well undercut it.
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Markus S, Rieder, and Kreindler Richard. 4 The Arbitral Proceedings. Oxford University Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/law/9780199676811.003.0004.

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This chapter addresses the legal framework applicable to proceedings before arbitral tribunals seated in Germany. On this basis, it first discusses the typical structure and frequent steps of arbitral proceedings. Regarding the initiation of arbitral proceedings, German law follows a three-step model consisting of: request for arbitration, constitution of the arbitral tribunal and initial pleadings by claimant (statement of claim) and respondent (statement of defence). German ad-hoc proceedings usually contain few mandatory formalities for the request for arbitration. Pursuant to the ZPO, its minimum contents are designation of the parties, designation of the subject matter of the dispute, and reference to the applicable arbitration agreement. The chapter concludes by examining a wide range of special situations, highlighting the steps taken by the German Institute of Arbitration (DIS) during events such as multi-party arbitration, as well as issues of fraud, money laundering, and corruption.
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Kemp, Peter A. Housing Programs. Edited by David Brady and Linda M. Burton. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199914050.013.37.

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This article examines the nature and role of housing programs for low-income households in the rich democracies. It first describes the characteristics of housing and why these can be problematic for people living in poverty before discussing the social construction of “the housing question.” It then explores private and public responses to these problematic aspects of housing. Private “solutions” include poor dwelling conditions, undermaintenance, overcrowding, high rent-to-income ratios, and homelessness. Public “solutions” include public health regulations, minimum building standards, rent controls, public housing, housing vouchers, and tax expenditures. The article shows that some public solutions have been regarded as the causes of other “poverty problems”—including high levels of joblessness and ethnic segregation—that have in turn been the subject of policy responses. Finally, it analyzes housing affordability as well as the impact of housing allowances and mortgage subsidies in relation to poverty.
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Arsenault, Elizabeth Grimm. Geneva Convention Compliance in Iraq and Afghanistan. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199379774.003.0005.

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US compliance with the Geneva Conventions in Iraq and Afghanistan appeared to vary with the particular subject matter and battle space. In military operations during the last decade, the United States assessed the legality of virtually every proposed target to avoid the intentional targeting of civilians. Legal specialists also, however, flagrantly overlooked Common Article 3’s minimum prescription that all captured individuals have the right to be treated humanely. This variation in compliance is explained by the shift in mission objectives: When the United States approached these conflicts as purely counterterror operations, the goal was to disrupt the enemy. However, under the population-centric counterinsurgency mission, noncompliance with the Geneva Conventions equated to mission failure. The shift from counterterrorism to counterinsurgency increased US sensitivity to civilian casualties and the operational consequences of detainee abuse. By adapting practice to comply with the Conventions, the people became the prize in the war on terror.
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Glasmeier, Amy. Income Inequality and Growing Disparity: Spatial Patterns of Inequality and the Case of the USA. Edited by Gordon L. Clark, Maryann P. Feldman, Meric S. Gertler, and Dariusz Wójcik. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198755609.013.3.

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Deemed one of the major concerns of our time, income inequality has been on the rise for decades. While there is ample discussion and a vast body of knowledge already written on the subject, the focus of this chapter is on tracing the geography of rising inequality starting in the 1970s. An absence of support to maintain a middle class, an erosion of the value of wage labour, and stagnant minimum wages are a few of the many reasons for rising income inequality. Data show that inequality is highest in areas where there are growing disparities in the difference of employment opportunities between high- and low-income families. Evidence also suggests income and wealth gaps go hand in hand. If you do not own anything now your chances of ever owning anything in the future are bleak despite the pacification accorded the American dream. While this chapter highlights events and policies within the USA, rising income inequality is a significant global issue.
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Solymar, Laszlo, Donald Walsh, and Richard R. A. Syms. Electrical Properties of Materials. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198829942.001.0001.

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A classic text in the field providing a readable and accessible guide for students of electrical and electronic engineering. Fundamentals of electric properties of materials are illustrated and put into context with contemporary applications in engineering. Mathematical content is kept to a minimum allowing the reader to focus on the subject. The starting point is the behaviour of the electron, which is explored both in the classical and in the quantum-mechanical context. Then comes the study of bonds, the free electron model, band structure, and the theory of semiconductors, followed by a chapter on semiconductor devices. Further chapters are concerned with the fundamentals of dielectrics, magnetic materials, lasers, optoelectronics, and superconductivity. The last chapter is on metamaterials, which has been a quite popular subject in the past decade. The book includes problems, the worked solutions are available in a separate publication: Solutions manual for electrical properties of materials. There is an appendix giving a list of Nobel Prize winners whose work was crucial for describing the electric properties of materials, and there are further appendices giving descriptions of phenomena which did not fit easily within the main text. In particular there is a quite detailed appendix that summarizes the properties of memory elements. The book is ideal for undergraduates, and is also an invaluable reference for graduate students and others wishing to explore this rapidly changing field.
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Morgan, Marina. Other bacterial diseasesStreptococcosis. Oxford University Press, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/med/9780198570028.003.0023.

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Many pyogenic (β -haemolytic) streptococci of clinical significance have animal connections. In the last edition of this book two species of streptococci were considered of major zoonotic interest, namely Streptococcus suis and S. zooepidemicus. Since then, numerous sporadic zoonoses due to other streptococci have been reported, and a newly recognized fish pathogen with zoonotic potential termed S. iniae has emerged. Changes in nomenclature make the terminology confusing. For example, the organism known as S. zooepidemicus — now termed S. dysgalactiae subsp. zooepidemicus — still causes pharyngitis in humans, complicated rarely by glomerulonephritis after ingestion of unpasteurized milk. Pigs remain the primary hosts of S. suis with human disease mainly affecting those who have contact with pigs or handle pork.Once a sporadic disease, several major epidemics associated with high mortality have been reported in China. The major change in reports of zoonotic streptococcal infections has been the emergence of severe skin and soft tissue infections, and an increasing prevalence of toxic shock, especially due to S. suis (Tang et al. 2006), group C (Keiser 1992) and group G β -haemolytic streptococci (Barnham et al. 2002). Penicillin remains the mainstay of treatment for most infections, although some strains of group C and G streptococci are tolerant (minimum bactericidal concentration difficult or impossible to achieve in vivo) (Portnoy et al. 1981; Rolston and LeFrock 1984) and occasionally strains with increased minimum inhibitory concentrations (MIC) for penicillin are reported.Agents preventing exotoxin formation, such as clindamycin and occasionally human intravenous immunoglobulin, may be used in overwhelming infection where circulating exotoxins need to be neutralized in order to damp down the massive release of cytokines generated by their production (Darenberg et al. 2003). Prevention of human disease focuses on maintaining good hygienic practice when dealing with live animals or handling raw meat or fish products, covering skin lesions, thorough cooking of meats and pasteurization of milk.
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Clarke, Andrew. Torpor and hibernation. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780199551668.003.0011.

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A diurnal (circadian) rhythm in body temperature is a widespread, and possibly universal, feature of endotherms. Some mammals and birds down-regulate their metabolic rate significantly by night, allowing their body temperature to drop sufficiently that they become inactive and enter torpor. Both the minimum temperature achieved and the duration of torpor are highly variable. Daily torpor is principally a response to reduced energy intake, and a drop in ambient temperature. Hibernation is essentially an extreme form of torpor. Small mammals hibernating at high latitudes have regular arousals during which they urinate and may feed. Bears hibernate with relatively high body temperature, and do not undergo arousal. Only one bird, the poorwill, is known to hibernate. Rewarming during arousal may be fuelled exclusively by metabolism (for example in small mammals in the Arctic) or with significant energy input from basking (for example in subtropical arid areas). The capacity for torpor appears to be an ancestral character in both mammals and birds, possibly related to the origin of endothermy in small species subject to marked diurnal and/or seasonal variation in body temperature. Both deep hibernation and strict endothermy are probably derived characteristics.
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Graf, Sinja. The Humanity of Universal Crime. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197535707.001.0001.

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The international crime of “crimes against humanity” has become integral to contemporary political and legal discourse. However, the conceptual core of the term—an act offending against all of mankind—runs deep in the history of international political thought. In an original excavation of this history, The Humanity of Universal Crime examines theoretical mobilizations of the idea of “universal crime” in colonial and post-colonial contexts. The book demonstrates the overlooked centrality of humanity and criminality to political liberalism’s historical engagement with world politics, thereby breaking with the exhaustively studied status of individual rights in liberal thought. It is argued that invocations of universal crime project humanity as a normatively integrated yet minimally inclusive and hierarchically structured subject. Such visions of humanity have in turn underwritten justifications of foreign rule and outsider intervention based on claims to an injury universally suffered by all mankind. The study foregrounds the political productivity of the notion of universal crime that entails distinct figures, relationships, and forms of authority and agency. The book traces this argument through European political theorists’ deployments of universal crime in assessing the legitimacy of colonial rule and foreign intervention in non-European societies. Analyzing John Locke’s notion of universal crime in the context of English colonialism, the concept’s retooled circulation during the nineteenth century, and contemporary cosmopolitanism’s reliance on crimes against humanity, it identifies an “inclusionary Eurocentrism” that subtends the authorizing and coercive dimensions of universal crime. Unlike much-studied “exclusionary Eurocentrist” thinking, “inclusionary Eurocentrist” arguments have historically extended an unequal, repressive “recognition via liability” to non-European peoples.
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Holden, Richard, and Rosalind Dixon. From Free to Fair Markets. Oxford University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197625972.001.0001.

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Liberalism—and its promise of market-led prosperity—was in crisis well before Covid-19. Recent decades have seen a rise in concentrated unemployment, and a long-term stagnation in real wages, in many of the world’s leading economies. At the same time, the world has witnessed a dramatic rise of corporate power, and the wealth of the top 1%. Alongside this has been the failure of liberal societies to address some of the most pressing challenges of our time, including climate change. Covid-19 has only exacerbated the fragility of work, and the effects of corporate power and inequality. When Covid-19 is over, liberalism will therefore be badly in need of renovation. Indeed, to survive, liberalism will need a radical reboot—to find new ways of tackling the current challenges posed by corporate power, inequality, and climate change. This also means moving beyond recent “neoliberal” versions of liberalism toward a more truly democratic form of liberalism, or from the idea of free markets to a vision of fair markets. Fair market policies are not democratic socialist: they hold on to the idea of markets as promoting growth and freedom. But they insist that markets must be subject to wide-ranging democratic regulation. This book offers a new vision of a “fair markets” approach–and the concrete policies that could make this ideal a reality. It proposes: (1) a universal “green” jobs guarantee; (2) a significant increase in the minimum wage and government support for wages; (3) universal healthcare based on a two-track model of public and private provision, and (4) a similar public baseline for childcare and basic leave benefits for all workers; (5) a new critical infrastructure policy for nation states to sit alongside a commitment to global free trade; and (6) universal pollution taxes, with all proceeds returned directly to citizens by way of a green dividend. The common theme of all the policies is that they combine a commitment to markets with democratic commitments to equal dignity for all citizens, and the regulation of markets in line with majority interests and understandings—or the idea that markets should be both free and fair, and well-functioning, as opposed to simply “free.” Because of this, they are also policies that are “blue,” “pink,” and “green.” The book also explains how to pay for these ideas, and the kind of democratic politics needed to make them a reality.
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