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Reduced production of DHEA associated with the diseases that accompany aging has led to its use as a nutritional supplement for antiaging, metabolic support, and other purposes. This volume reviews the past ten years of research into this hormone and explores its potential for future study. Topics discussed include the biology of DHEA, prevention as well as treatment of various human disease states by changing DHEA levels, using DHEA levels to predict the risk of disease, the role of DHEA in several disease states, animal models and their relation to studies done on humans, and adverse effects in DHEA-supplemented women.

After a review of the usual measures, including specificity, sensitivity, positive predictive value, negative predictive value, and the area under the ROC curve, this book expands its scope to cover the more advanced topics of verification bias, diagnostic tests with imperfect gold standards, and medical tests where no gold standard is available. The author offers a practical treatment by including R and WinBUGS code in the examples and by employing the Bayesian approach throughout the text. He also provides practical problems at the end of each chapter.

Standard work is a major component of kaizen activities and effective Lean tools. Part of the Lean Tools for Healthcare Series, this user-friendly book contains innovative features designed to optimize this tool 's use. The text explains how standard work establishes the best way to do work and why it should be the basis for all continuous improvement activities. It describes work in terms of cycle time, work in process, takt time, and layout. Margin assists reveal key terms and points, how-to steps, and healthcare examples, making this a valuable resource for healthcare professionals starting their Lean journey.

Using mercury pollution as an example, this book illustrates the interdisciplinary approach required for solving environmental problems. It explains the details of the natural cycling of mercury in and on the earth and discusses how humans have dramatically disrupted its exchange among the earth¿s soil, air, and water. The chapters discuss history, media, and politics in relation to mercury and contain links to established websites with specific resources for readers. Also included are smaller case studies, such as the Minamata tragedy, fish consumption, and international treaties.

Focusing on the use of new biotechnologies to create more sustainable agriculture within the framework of global environmental changes, this book is the first reference to highlight related developments in molecular biology and genetic engineering. It discusses new emerging technologies such as metabolomics, metagenomics, nutrigenomics, and more recently ionomics and their translation to agricultural research and productive technologies. An international team of experts from 16 countries presents concrete examples of the use of omics technologies in food production systems and their application to soil-plant-environment interactions.

This authoritative work emphasizes the vital role of carbon-neutral energy sources, transportation fuels, and associated technologies for establishing a sustainable energy future. Each chapter draws on the insight of world-renowned experts in such diverse fields as photochemistry, fuel-generating enzymes, nuclear energy, and alternative fuel vehicles. The book covers renewable, nuclear, and decarbonized fossil energy; hydrogen fuel, biofuels, and synthetic fuels; and photochemical, thermochemical, electrochemical, and biological systems. It also analyzes the technical, economic, and environmental challenges hindering widespread commercial adoption of carbon-neutral technologies.

Discussing nutritional therapies in the management of gastrointestinal and liver issues, this important reference brings together experts in the field of nutrition, gastroenterology, and hepatology to offer dietary, nutritional, and natural therapies for gastrointestinal and hepatic ailments in order to improve overall health. Providing a review of the digestive tract, liver, and core concepts, it presents the nutritional consequences and considerations of digestive and liver disorders including celiac disease, cancers, malabsorption, alcoholic and nonalcoholic liver disease, viral hepatitis, cirrhosis, irritable bowel syndrome, and obesity. It also addresses the unique issues of hospitalized patients and includes a toolbox of key concepts, charts, tables, algorithms, and practical therapeutic strategies.

Completely revised and updated to reflect changes in the field, this third edition provides an integrated view of membranes as functioning units. Incorporating recent advances in membrane protein structure, membrane rafts, and membrane fusion, it focuses on lipids and the lipid bilayer, membrane protein structure and function, and lipid transport. Additionally, the roles of cholesterol in the biology of cells, the structures of G-protein coupled receptors, membrane lipids as modulators of membrane-bound enzymes, and viral fusion mechanisms are presented and analyzed in depth.

A remarkable interplay exists between the fields of elliptic functions and orthogonal polynomials. This title combines these two areas of study. It establishes a mathematical field that intersects with classical subjects at many points. It provides information on important properties of polynomials.

Updated to include recent results from intensive worldwide research efforts in materials science, surface science, and corrosion science, the third edition of this bestselling book explores the latest advances in corrosion and protection mechanisms. It presents a detailed account of the chemical and electrochemical surface reactions that govern corrosion as well as the link between microscopic forces and macroscopic behavior. Revised and expanded, this edition includes four new chapters on corrosion fundamentals, the passivity of metals, high temperature corrosion, and the corrosion of aluminum alloys.

Offers coverage of audio engineering, transducers, and sensor networking technology. This book includes chapters on digital audio processing, as well as acoustics and vibrations transducers. It addresses the use of meta-data architectures using XML and agent-based automated data mining and control.

This volume presents several theoretical perspectives on the relation between cognition & emotion. The format is ideal for graduate seminar use or reference by researchers in social cognition seeking to compare the explanatory power & scope

While the term midrash--from the Hebrew darash, searched or interpreted--can refer to both legal and extralegal scriptural exegesis, it most commonly refers to symbolic legends, stories, and parables used to make moral or ethical concepts accessible to the layman

While discussion concerning the validity of the plant approach to nutrition and disease treatment continues, the explosion of natural product use has generated concern regarding their effectiveness and possible danger. Using a rational, sequential approach, this book explores the development of efficacious medicinal herbal products.

Addresses many of the issues created by the Internet and goes beyond the topic of advertising and the web to include topics such as customization, site design, word of mouth processes, and the study of consumer decision making while online.

Covers the breadth of sports and media scholarship, one of the topics bridging media entertainment, sports management, and popular culture. Organized into historical, institutional, spectator, and critical studies perspectives, this book is for scholars, researchers, and students in the areas of media entertainment, popular culture, and more.

Here is a practical, hands-on book that will aid in the identification and reduction of job stress. This unique volume describes how burnout develops and offers a model with which to identify job stressorsproviding a thorough understanding of professional burnout. Experts in the fields of medicine, social work, mental health, and education examine the values, ethics, and morality of individuals, health care organizations, and society that may lead to burnout. They also offer successful intervention strategies for reducing or efficiently managing causative factors.

This encyclopedia brings together in one volume all of the literary and extra-literary references pertinent to the Nibelungen tradition.

A single-authored text that incorporates authoritative short excerpts from primary sources on the theoretical and applied aspects of the philosophy of human rights

Specifically developed for students without an education background, this collection of readings provides accessible, essential articles for professors and students of introductory Foundations of Education courses.

An accessible and comprehensive exploration of the enduring issues and dilemmas surrounding U.S. immigration policy.

A discussion of the schooling of ethnic minority children and youth. The issues covered include: identity and school adjustment - revisiting the "acting white" assumption; a triarchic model of minority children's school achievement; analyzing cultural models and settings; and more.

This special issue of the "Journal of Education for Students Placed at Risk" examines direction instruction reading programmes.

This book contains discussions of radiation theory, quantum statistics and the many-body problem, and more advanced topics in collision theory. It is intended as a text for a first-year graduate quantum mechanics course.

This study addresses the importance of soil processes in the global carbon cycle, and on the mechanisms that influence carbon cycling in the soil-plant-atmosphere continuum. Topics covered include: soil carbon dynamics and processes; modelling SOC; and methods of SOC determinations.

A guide to porous pavement materials. It begins with five chapters that lay a foundation for various porous pavement materials and applications, introducing the types of materials and arrangements, their roles in the urban environment, and the principles of pavement structure, hydrology, and rooting space.

Jihad is the most organized force against Western capitalism since the Soviet era. Yet jihadism is multifaceted and complex, much broader than Al Qaeda alone. This book offers an introduction to jihadism and explains how the two key movements variously influence jihadi activists.

This study frames the social dynamics of Latin American in terms of two types of cultural momentum: foundational momentum and the momentum of global order in contemporary Latin America.

This volume focuses on policies and practices in the education of China's national minorities with the purpose of assessing the goals and impact of state sponsored education for China's non-Han people's.

This Encyclopaedia provides an up-to-date survey of archaeological method and theory, as well as the application of physical and biological sciences in archaeological research.