1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779396503321

Titolo

Corneal healing responses to injuries and refractive surgeries / / editor, T. Nishida

Pubbl/distr/stampa

The Hague : , : Kugler Publications, , 1998

©1998

ISBN

90-6299-806-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (151 pages) : illustrations

Altri autori (Persone)

NishidaTeruo <1947->

Disciplina

617.719

617.755

Soggetti

Cornea - Diseases

Cornea - Surgery

Eye - Refractive errors - Surgery

Keratotomy, Radial

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers presented at the Santen International Symposium.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

PREFACE; CONTRIBUTORS; CORNEAL EPITHELIAL WOUND HEALING; PHENOTYPIC CHANGES OF CELL ACTIVITY DURING CORNEAL WOUND HEALING; GROWTH FACTORS AND CYTOKINES IN CORNEAL WOUND HEALING; REGULATION OF EPITHELIAL CELL PROLIFERATION DURING CORNEAL REPAIR; SPARC: A CONTRACTION-STIMULATING FACTOR DERIVED FROM CORNEAL EPITHELIAL CELLS; REGULATING OF LIMBAL EPITHELIAL STEM CELLS; CORNEAL AND CONJUNCTIVAL EPITHELIAL STEM CELLS PLAY A CENTRAL ROLE IN THE RESPONSE OF ANTERIOROCULAR SURFACE EPITHELIA TO INJURIES; ALTERATIONS IN EXTRACELLULAR MATRIX INEXPERIMENTAL ALKALI BURN OF THE CORNEA

WOUND HEALING RESPONSES IN TEAR FLUID AFTER PHOTOREFRACTIVE KERATECTOMY CORNEAL RESPONSES TO THE EXCIMER LASER; CORNEAL WOUND HEALING RESPONSES TO REFRACTIVE SURGERY; KERATOCYTE APOPTOSIS: INITIATION OF WOUND HEALING FOLLOWING REFRACTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; INDEX OF AUTHORS

Sommario/riassunto

PrefaceThe Santen International Symposium ""Corneal Healing Responses to Injuries and Refractive Surgeries"", was held to bring



together those working in the field of corneal disorders and refractive surgeries to provide them with a forum in which the latest developments could be presented and discussed. Over the last decade, the crystal clear and transparent corneas have been challenged by various types of surgical insult to correct refractive errors. These Proceedings provide a comprehensive coverage of the material covered in this Symposium, allowing the reader to remain up-to-date.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786647403321

Autore

Thornton Bruce S.

Titolo

Democracy's dangers and discontents : the tyranny of the majority from the Greeks to Obama / / Bruce S. Thornton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California : , : Hoover Institution Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8179-1798-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (209 p.)

Collana

Hoover Institution press publication  Democracy's dangers & discontents

Disciplina

321.809049

Soggetti

Democracy - 20th century

Democracy - 21st century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Triumph of Democracy and the Antidemocratic Tradition; 1 The Monitory Failures of Athenian Democracy; 2 The Antidemocratic Tradition and the American Founding; 3 Democracy and Leviathan; Conclusion: Restoring Limited Government; Bibliography; About the Author; About the Hoover Institution's Working Group on the Role of Military History in Contemporary Conflict; Index

Sommario/riassunto

<P style=""MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"" class=MsoNormal>By democracy we usually mean a government comprising popular rule, individual human rights and freedom, and a free-market economy. Yet the flaws in traditional Athenian democracy can instruct us on the weaknesses of



that first element of modern democracies shared with Athens: rule by all citizens equally. In <I>Democracy's Dangers & Discontents</I>, Bruce Thornton discusses those criticisms first aired by ancient critics of Athenian democracy, then traces the historical process by which the Republic of the founders has evolved into something sim