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"Unraveling Cancer: Progress and Future Directions in Cancer Research" delves into the multifaceted nature of cancer, exploring its causes, types, signs and symptoms, detection and diagnosis, treatment, coping strategies, living with cancer, prevention measures, and future directions in cancer research. The book covers genetic, environmental, and lifestyle factors contributing to cancer development, different types of cancer, early warning signs and...
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2018.
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What Did We Learn From Innovator TV Meteorologists?Linking This Study of the Innovators With Current Findings; Conclusion; References; Chapter 8: News Coverage of Cancer Research: Does Disclosure of Scientific Uncertainty Enhance Credibility?; Capturing Perceptions of Credibility; Uncertainty and Credibility; Method; Results; Discussion; References; Chapter 9: Evaluating Online Health Information Systems; Introduction; Formative Research; Process...
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[2013]
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A thoroughly enthralling book that proves the truth of the adage, ""with age comes wisdom"" Based on video recorded interviews and extensive surveys of more than 450 Centenarians, this unforgettable book brings you into a world few human beings have ever known. What must it be like to have lived an entire century-and not just any century, but one of the most fertile, productive, cataclysmic, revolutionary hundred-year periods in the history of the...
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[2020]
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"The gripping story of a chemical weapons catastrophe, its cover-up, and how one army doctor's discovery led to the development of chemotherapy. On the night of December 2, 1943, the Luftwaffe bombed a critical Allied port in Bari, Italy, sinking seventeen ships and killing over a thousand servicemen and hundreds of civilians. Caught in the surprise air raid was the John Harvey, an American Liberty ship carrying a top-secret cargo of 2,000 mustard...
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Lü du yu cong shu volume YLB13
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2007.
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中文(繁體)
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Traditional Chinese edition of Intuition. What is the price for fame and success? What is the price scientists are willing to pay for more grant? Let this research scientist tell the story of how some researchers will stop at nothing to get published. But in the end, truth triumphs relentlessly.
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Her name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. She was a poor Southern tobacco farmer, yet her cells--taken without her knowledge--became one of the most important tools in medicine. The first "immortal" human cells grown in culture, they are still alive today, though she has been dead for more than sixty years. HeLa cells were vital for developing the polio vaccine; uncovered secrets of cancer and viruses; helped lead to in vitro...
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2017.
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"James D. Watson, the Nobel laureate whose pioneering work helped unlock the mystery of DNA's structure, charts the greatest scientific journey of our time, from the discovery of the double helix to today's controversies to what the future may hold. This edition has been updated to include new findings in gene editing, epigenetics, agricultural chemistry, as well as two entirely new chapters on personal genomics and cancer research"--Provided by publisher....
15) Tika in action
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©2012
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Tika in Action is a hands-on guide to content mining with Apache Tika. The book's many examples and case studies offer real-world experience from domains ranging from search engines to digital asset management and scientific data processing. About the Technology Tika is an Apache toolkit that has built into it everything you and your app need to know about file formats. Using Tika, your applications can discover and extract content from digital documents...
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2016.
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Science-based industries such as biotechnology offer the potential of high growth, but they are fraught with risk. The payoffs can take many years to materialize or may never come. Even though the traditional venture capital/entrepreneurial model has been shown to stimulate innovation in a wide range of technology settings (software, computers, Internet, electronics, et cetera), it wasn't designed to deal with the costs, risks, and slow payout of...
17) The dragonfly effect: quick, effective, and powerful ways to use social media to drive social change
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©2010
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"Proven strategies for harnessing the power of social media to drive social change Many books teach the mechanics of using Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to compete in business. But no book addresses how to harness the incredible power of social media to make a difference. The Dragonfly Effect shows you how to tap social media and consumer psychological insights to achieve a single, concrete goal. Named for the only insect that is able to move in...
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2009.
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This new edition addresses current developments in cancer research and offers more tips on how people living with cancer can fight it and how healthy people can prevent it. The new edition includes: the latest research on anticancer foods, including new alternatives to sugar and cautions about some that are now on the market; new information about how vitamin D strengthens the immune system; warnings about common food contaminants that have recently...
19) 30 for 30
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[2011]
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Kings ransom: On August 9, 1988, the NHL was forever changed with the single stroke of a pen when the Edmonton Oilers sent Wayne Gretzky to the Los Angeles Kings. Acclaimed director Peter Berg (Friday night lights, The kingdom) presents the captivating story of the trade that knocked the wind out of an entire country and placed a star-studded city at the feet of a 27-year-old known simply as "The Great One."
The band that wouldn't die: In late March...
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