Science as cultural practice. Volume 1, Cultures and politics of research from the early modern period to the age of extremes

Table of Contents: “…Remarks on Contemporary Techno-science and the Field of STSThe Politics of Cognition: Genesis and Development of Ludwik Fleck's 'Comparative Epistemology'* -- Science and Politics in the Philosophy of Science: Popper, Kuhn, and Polanyi -- Links and Their Traces: Cultural Strategies, Resources, and Conjunctures of Experimental and Mathematical Practices -- List of contributors -- Bibliography…”
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Ballistic imaging

Table of Contents: “…Implications for a national reference ballistic image database -- Experimental evidence on sources of variability and imaging standards -- Feasibility of a national reference ballistic image database -- pt. 4. …”
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Robotics, Computer Vision and Intelligent Systems First International Conference, ROBOVIS 2020, Virtual Event, November 4-6, 2020, and Second International Conference, ROBOVIS 2021...

Table of Contents: “…Multi-sensorial Environment Perception in Urban Environment -- An Extended Visual Intelligence Scheme for Disassembly in Automated Recycling Routines -- Multi-agent Path Finding and Acting with Small Reflex-based Mobile Robots -- Design and Experimental Analysis of an Adaptive Cruise Control -- Human-likeness Indicator for Robot Posture Control and Balance -- Visual Guidance of an on-Orbit Free-floating Manipulator using a Mobile Camera -- Semantic Segmentation of Marine Species in an Unconstrained Underwater Environment -- Social Embodiment of Companion Robots in Smart Spaces: IoRT for Independent Living -- Rapid Structure from Motion Frame Selection for Markerless Monocular SLAM -- Detecting Tool Keypoints with Synthetic Training Data -- Generating Versatile Training Samples for UAV Trajectory Prediction.…”
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The return of the moguls : how Jeff Bezos and John Henry are remaking newspapers for the twenty-first century by Kennedy, Dan, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The rise and fall of newspapers in a time of turmoil -- The swashbuckler: Jeff Bezos puts his stamp on a legendary newspaper -- The crux of the matter: John Henry's culture of experimentation -- Unrequited love: spurned in Boston and Maine, Aaron Kushner looks west -- This is your brain on the Internet: can news break free of the distraction machine? …”


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Narrative thought and narrative language

Table of Contents: “…Olson -- The joint construction of stories by preschool children and an experimenter / A.D. Pellegrini, Lee Galda -- Canonicality and consciousness in child narrative / Joan Lucariello -- Narrative and the child's theory of mind / Janet W. …”


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Émile Zola : the father of naturalism. by 50MINUTES.COM

Table of Contents: “…Intro; Ã#x89;mile Zola; Context; From Monarchy to Empire to Republic; Evolutions and revolutions on the road to modernity; The veneration of science and history; 19th-century literature: from idealism to realism; Biography; From Romantic idealism to realist disillusionment; Modest beginnings in the literary world; Ambitious projects; Social and political commitment in his later years; Characteristics of Zolaâ#x80;#x99;s work; The birth of the experimental novel; The writer as observer of reality; Meticulous description and rigorous construction; Literary devices and networks of symbols.…”
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Composite repair : theory and design by Duong, Cong N.

Table of Contents: “…A Preliminary Design Approach for Corrosion Repairs -- 11. Experimental Verification of Analytical Methods -- 12. …”
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Writing successful science proposals by Friedland, Andrew J., 1959-

Table of Contents: “…Getting started -- Authorship from start to finish -- Basic organization and effective communication -- Developing your conceptual framework and significance statement -- A title may be more important than you think -- The project summary guides the reader -- Objectives, hypotheses, and specific aims : an exhaustive list is exhausting -- Lay the foundation in the introduction -- Experimental design and methods : what will you actually do? …”
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Celebrity influence : politics, persuasion, and issue-based advocacy by Harvey, Mark, 1969-

Table of Contents: “…-- The power of persuasion: celebrities frame political issues -- The times they are a-changin': celebrity power revisited -- Appendix A : Summaries of celebrities' political activities in the time series -- Appendix B : Methodology on chapter 3 content analysis -- Appendix C : Time series OLS and logistical regression estimates from chapter 3 -- Appendix D : Survey samples -- Appendix E : Methodology on credibility study -- Appendix F : Methodology on surveys and means tests -- Appendix G : Experimental logit estimates from chapter 5 -- Notes -- Bibliography.…”
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Medical ethics

Table of Contents: “…Caplan -- The physician-patient relationship / Howard Brody -- Limiting procreation / Judith Areen -- Human experimentation / A.M. Capron -- Informed consent / Tom L. …”
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Reflectance Confocal Microscopy for Skin Diseases by Hofmann-Wellenhof, Rainer

Table of Contents: “…From the Contents: CONFOCAL REFLECTANCE MICROSCOPY – THE ESSENTIALS -- NORMAL SKIN -- MELANOCYTIC LESIONS -- MELANOCYTIC NEVI -- MELANOMA -- Superficial Spreading Melanoma -- Melanoma Progression -- Nodular Melanoma -- Lentigo Maligna -- Amelanotic Melanoma -- NON-MELANOCYTIC SKIN LESIONS -- Semeiology and Pattern Analysis In  Non-Melanocytic Lesions -- Dermoscopic and Histologic Correlations -- Solar Lentigo, Seborrheic Keratosis and Lichen Planus Like-Keratosi -- Basal Cell Carcinoma -- Actinic Keratoses -- Squamous Cell Carcinoma -- Cutaneous Lymphoma -- Potpourri of Non Melanocytic Skin Lesions -- INFLAMMATORY SKIN DISEASES -- MONITORING OF SKIN LESIONS AND THERAPY CONTROL -- FUTURE ASPECTS -- Tele-Reflectance Confocal Microscopy -- Automated Diagnosis and Reflectance Confocal Microscopy -- Experimental Applications and Future Directions -- CONSENSUS TERMINOLOGY GLOSSARY.…”
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Advanced Surface Enhancement Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Advanced Surface Enhancement (INCASE 2019)—Research Towards Industrialisation

Table of Contents: “…Optimization of shot peening for titanium alloys Ti 10-2-3 in CONDOR project -- Mechanical Investigations on Composite Peened Aluminium -- Influence of wetblast treatment on fatigue strength of magnesium alloy AZ31 -- Process Model for Evaluating the Peen Velocity in Shot Peening Machine -- Experimental study of single shot process: toward a surface state predictive tool -- Microstructural changes in electroplated chromium coating-substrate interfaces induced by shot peening -- Investigation on theoretical analysis of residual stress distribution induced by shot peening in 2397 Aluminum-Lithium alloy. …”
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Odd girls and twilight lovers : a history of lesbian life in twentieth-century America by Faderman, Lillian

Table of Contents: “…"The loves of women for each other" : "romantic friends" in the twentieth century -- A worm in the bud : the early sexologists and love between women -- Lesbian chic: experimentation and repression in the 1920s -- Wastelands and oases: the 1930s -- "Naked amazons and queer damozels" : World War II and its aftermath -- The love that dares not speak its name : McCarthyism and its legacy -- Butches, femmes, and kikis : creating lesbian subcultures in the 1950s and '60s -- "Not a public relations movement" : lesbian revolutions in the 1960s through '70s -- Lesbian Nation : creating a women-identified-women community in the 1970s -- Lesbian sex wars in the 1980s -- From tower of Babel to community: lesbian life in the 1980s -- Epilogue: Social constructions and the metamorphoses of love between women.…”
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Progress in Engineering Technology IV

Table of Contents: “…Brake Squeal Analysis and Optimization using the Finite Element Method and Taguchi Techniques -- 2. Potential Experimental Analysis of Electrical Discharge Machine Process Parameters on Stainless Steel ANSI 304 -- 3. …”
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Advances in Acoustics and Vibration IV Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Acoustics and Vibration (ICAV2022), December 19-21, 2022, Sousse, Tunisia

Table of Contents: “…On the vibrations of functionally gradient porous shells -- Effects of the mechanical characteristics on the dynamic behavior of a bolted structure under transient excitation -- Experimental investigation on the dynamics of a hydraulic dual tube automobile strut damper -- Numerical study of machining vibration effect on machined surface roughness in orthogonal milling -- On Vibration Effect on the electro-thermal mechanical behavior of the BGA solder joints -- Large deflection of smart magneto-electro-elastic cylindrical shell -- Analysis of nonlinear behavior of smart MEE composite plate -- Non-destructive identification of damage mechanisms in unidirectional composites by acoustic emission and machine learning-based clustering -- Mechanical behavior and damage of advanced iron-based Metal Matrix Composite under shear.…”
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MIF Family Cytokines in Innate Immunity and Homeostasis

Table of Contents: “…MIF and CD74-dependent Mechanisms -- HSP90-stabilized MIF in Oncogenesis and Cell Growth Control- CD74, MIF, and Breast Tumorigenesis: Insights from Recent Large-scale Tumor Genomics and Proteomics Studies -- MIF-dependent Regulation of Monocyte/Macrophage Polarization -- Advances in understanding the role of MIF in the pathogenesis of autoimmune diseases -- Role of MIF in Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis and Multiple Sclerosis -- Role of MIF in Hepatic Inflammatory Diseases and Fibrosis -- MIF and Pulmonary Disease -- MIF Mediates Pelvic Inflammation and Pain -- MIF Family Proteins in Cardiac Ischemia / Reperfusion Injury -- The MIF-CD74 Inflammatory Axis in Alphaviral Infection -- MIF in Eosinophilic Inflammation -- The Role of MIF in Parasitic Infections -- Parasite MIF Orthologs.…”
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On the rural : economy, sociology, geography by Lefebvre, Henri, 1901-1991

Table of Contents: “…Introduction to From the rural to the urban (1969) -- Problems of rural sociology : the peasant community and its historical-sociological problems (1949) -- Social classes in rural areas : Tuscany and the Mezzadria classica (1950) -- Perspectives on rural sociology (1953) -- Social relations, population phenomena, and labor problems in the agricultural sector of underdeveloped countries (1954) -- The village community (1956) -- The theory of ground rent and rural sociology (1956) -- The Marxist-Leninist theory of ground rent (1964) -- Introduction to the psychosociology of everyday life (1960) -- The new urban complex : Lacq-Mourenx and the urban problems of the new working class (1960) -- Experimental utopia : for a new urbanism (1961) -- The valley of Campan : a study in historical sociology (1963) -- Publication history.…”
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Mechanics of Natural Solids by Kolymbas, D. (Dimitrios)

Table of Contents: “…Size effects and long term behaviour of coarse granular media -- Nature: A very sophisticated experimentalist -- Confined comminution in granular materials: from discrete to continuum -- Elastic-wave imaging of geomechanical properties and processes -- Sand as an archetypical natural solid -- Physical foundations of sand mechanics -- Experimental studies of the viscoplasticty of ice and snow -- Particle-level processes in the development of discontinuities in granular materials -- Snow mechanics in view of the transition between a sintered and granular material -- Distinct Element Method (DEM) modelling of laboratory to outcrop-scale fracturing of natural rocks -- Fracture of Ice -- Following the energy trail in cohesionless granular solids -- Mechanisms of localized deformation/damage in geomaterials -- Grain crushing, pore collapse and strain localization in porous rock.…”
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Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks for Smart Cities Second International Workshop, 2016

Table of Contents: “…Vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications -- Vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications for smart cities -- Medium access control protocols for VANETs -- Routing protocols for active safety in VANETs -- Geographical routing protocols for VANETs -- Architectures, algorithms and protocols design for data dissemination, processing, and aggregation in vehicular networks -- Security, privacy in vehicular networks -- QoS provisioning for vehicular networks -- Vehicular clouds: architecture design, algorithms and protocols for smart cities -- Software defined networking and virtualization for vehicles -- Vehicular social networks -- Group mobility/Platooning/Autonomous driving in smart cities -- 5G technologies for vehicular communications -- Simulation and performance evaluation techniques for vehicular networks -- Results from experimental systems and testbeds for VANET.…”
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Parkinson's disease : medical and surgical treatment

Table of Contents: “…Friedman -- Surgical therapy for Parkinson's disease / Nawaz Hack & Michael S. Okun -- Experimental therapeutics for motor symptoms of Parkinson's disease / Susan H. …”
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