Published August, 2015
By Marc Vanderheyden and Jozef Bartunek
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The refined pathophysiologal understanding of the heart failure syndrome together with the surge of new technological advances led to innovative medical and interventional treatment strategies improving the outcome of heart failure patients.

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Published August, 2015
By Uri Gophna
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Although the phenomenon of lateral gene transfer has been known since the 1940's, it was the genomics era that has really revealed the extent and many facets of this evolutionary/genetic phenomenon.

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Published August, 2015
By Elisabeth Jeanne Van Bockstaele and Elisabeth J Van Bockstaele
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Scientists have shown significant interaction between these two systems in a variety of psychiatric and neurological disorders such as affective disorders, multiple sclerosis, and pain or pain disorders.

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Published August, 2015
By W David Wick and Otto O. Yang
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In the relatively few decades since the introduction of HIV into the human population, variants of the virus have diverged to such an extent that, were the discussion about something other than viruses, said variants could easily be classified as different species.

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Published August, 2015
By Ichiro Kawachi, S.V. Subramanian, Soshi Takao, John L Loeb and Frances Lehman Loeb Professor of Social Epidemiology and Chair of the Department of Social & Behavioral Sciences Ichiro Kawachi and S V Subramanian
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c) cutting-edge directions for social capital research, including studies of the origins of community social capital, the use of social network analysis to investigate social capital, and novel methods for investigating the link between social capital and crime.

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Published August, 2015
By Deborah Finkel and Chandra A. Reynolds
Publisher: Springer (Springer-Verlag New York Inc.)
Series: Advances in Behavior Genetics
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Recent advances in both collection and statistical modeling of twin data, particularly longitudinal twin data, make this an especially advantageous moment to produce a work that presents a collection of the groundbreaking research on cognitive abilities across the lifespan.

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Published August, 2015
By Giuseppe La Torre
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Among health professionals the prevalence of tobacco smoke is extremely high, more than other professional categories, and this could be partly attributed to a low weight that tobacco smoking has in the medical curriculum of future physicians, that will contribute in a determinant way to healthy choices of their patients.

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Published August, 2015
By Roberta Locko
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Quality and Patient Safety in Imaging

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Published July, 2015
By Charles Harris, Jen-Chywan Wang, PhD, Charles Harris, MD, PhD and Jen-Chywan Wang
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Series: Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology
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The second section will discuss the effects of glucocorticoids on metabolism, while the third section will cover the effects of glucocorticoids on key tissues. The final section will discuss general topics, such as animal models in glucocorticoid research and clinical implications of glucocorticoid research.

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Published July, 2015
By Jay D. Humphrey and Sherry L. O’Rourke
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This book covers the fundamentals of biomechanics. Topics include bio solids, biofluids, stress, balance and equilibrium. Students are encouraged to contextualize principles and exercises within a "big picture" of biomechanics. This is an ideal book for undergraduate students with interests in biomedical engineering.

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