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Record Nr.

UNINA9910460170103321

Autore

Acharya Amitav

Titolo

Whose ideas matter? [[electronic resource] ] : agency and power in Asian regionalism / / Amitav Acharya

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2009

ISBN

0-8014-5975-3

Descrizione fisica

x, 189 p. : ill

Collana

Cornell studies in political economy

Classificazione

ML 9200

Disciplina

327.5

Soggetti

Regionalism - Asia

International agencies - Asia

Asian cooperation

Electronic books.

Asia Foreign relations

Asia Politics and government 1945-

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 179-182) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Illustrations and Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Why Study the Norm Dynamics of Asian Regionalism? -- 2. Perspectives on Norm Diffusion -- 3. Ideas and Power: Non- Intervention and Collective Defense -- 4. Constructing Asia's Cognitive Prior -- 5. Resistance and Change: Common Security and Collective Intervention -- 6. Conclusions, Extensions, and Extrapolations -- Appendix: Key Concepts, Regional Definition -- Bibliography of Primary Sources -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Asia is a crucial battleground for power and influence in the international system. It is also a theater of new experiments in regional cooperation that could redefine global order. Whose Ideas Matter? is the first book to explore the diffusion of ideas and norms in the international system from the perspective of local actors, with Asian regional institutions as its main focus.There's no Asian equivalent of the EU or of NATO. Why has Asia, and in particular Southeast Asia, avoided such multilateral institutions? Most accounts focus on U.S. interests and perceptions or intraregional rivalries to explain the design and effectiveness of regional institutions in Asia such as SEATO, ASEAN,



and the ASEAN Regional Forum. Amitav Acharya instead foregrounds the ideas of Asian policymakers, including their response to the global norms of sovereignty and nonintervention. Asian regional institutions are shaped by contestations and compromises involving emerging global norms and the preexisting beliefs and practices of local actors.Acharya terms this perspective "constitutive localization" and argues that international politics is not all about Western ideas and norms forcing their way into non-Western societies while the latter remain passive recipients. Rather, ideas are conditioned and accepted by local agents who shape the diffusion of ideas and norms in the international system. Acharya sketches a normative trajectory of Asian regionalism that constitutes an important contribution to the global sovereignty regime and explains a remarkable continuity in the design and functions of Asian regional institutions.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910963394703321

Titolo

Congestive heart failure : symptoms, causes and treatment / / Josias E. Garcia and Victoro R. Wright, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Nova Science Publishers, c2010

ISBN

1-61761-958-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (244 p.)

Collana

Cardiology research and clinical developments

Altri autori (Persone)

GarciaJosias E

WrightVictoro R

Disciplina

616.1/29

Soggetti

Congestive heart failure

Heart failure

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

""CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE: SYMPTOMS, CAUSES AND TREATMENT""; ""CONGESTIVE HEART FAILURE: SYMPTOMS, CAUSES AND TREATMENT""; ""CONTENTS""; ""PREFACE""; ""MONITORING PULMONARY EDEMA IN CHF PATIENTS WITH A HYBRID BIO-IMPEDANCE APPROACH""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""1. PULMONARY EDEMA IN CHF PATIENTS � ORIGINS AND MEASURING TECHNIQUES""; ""2. THE BIO-IMPEDANCE APPROACH IN



MEASURING PULMONARY EDEMA""; ""3. A HYBRID BIO-IMPEDANCE SYSTEM FOR DIAGNOSING AND MONITORING CHF PATIENTS""; ""3.1. Technical Design""; ""3.1.1. Hardware design""; ""3.1.2. Software design""; ""Lung resistivity estimation""

""RR and QT interval calculation""""3.2. Clinical Results""; ""3.2.1. Baseline measurements""; ""3.2.2. CHF patients� classification and long-term monitoring""; ""3.2.3. Monitoring CHF patients under intravenous diuretics treatment""; ""3.2.4. Correlation between bio-impedance measurements and X-ray radiographs""; ""3.3. Monitoring CHF Patients at Home Via a Telemedicine Approach""; ""4. SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS""; ""REFERENCES""; ""THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER DEFIBRILLATOR SHOCKS AND HEART FAILURE: A REVIEW OF PATHOGENESIS AND MANAGEMENT""; ""ABSTRACT""

""1. MADIT II AND SCD-HEFT: TWO MAJOR RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS OF IMPLANTABLE CARDIOVERTER-DEFIBRILLATOR THERAPY""""2. PATHOGENESIS OF HEART FAILURE IN PATIENTS WITH ICD SHOCKS""; ""The Effect of Shock: Appropriate and Inappropriate Shocks""; ""ICD Shocks and the Activation of Sympathetic Nervous System""; ""The Activation of Sympathetic Nervous System and the Psychiatric Consequences: Impact on Heart Failure Progression""; ""MANAGEMENT""; ""Patient Selection""; ""Optimal Medical Management of Heart Failure""; ""Device Programming""; ""Anti-Arrhythmic Medications, Including Amiodarone""

""Management of Psychiatric Symptoms and Syndromes""""Organized Protocol for Review of Patients Receiving ICD Shocks""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""REVERSIBLE LEFT VENTRICULAR DYSFUNCTION: THE TAKOTSUBO SYNDROME""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""Epidemiology""; ""Aetiology""; ""Clinical Features""; ""Diagnosis""; ""Laboratory Data""; ""Cardiac Biomarkers""; ""Stress Hormones""; ""Electrocardiography""; ""Echocardiography""; ""Coronary Angiography and Ventriculography""; ""Cardiovascular magnetic resonance imaging""; ""Myocardial Single Photon Emission Computed Tomography""

""Endomyocardial Biopsies""""Pathophysiological Mechanisms""; ""Multivessel Epicardial Coronary Artery Spasm""; ""Coronary Microvascular Impairment""; ""Catecholamine Cardiotoxicity""; ""Therepeutic Options""; ""Prognosis""; ""CONCLUSION""; ""REFERENCES""; ""OXIDATIVE STRESS AND HEART FAILURE: STILL A VIABLE THERAPEUTIC TARGET?""; ""ABSTRACT""; ""INTRODUCTION""; ""SOURCES OF OXIDATIVE STRESS IN HEART FAILURE""; ""PHYSIOLOGICAL IMPORTANCE OF REDOX SIGNALING""; ""IMPLICATIONS FOR STEM CELL THERAPY""; ""REDOX-SMART DRUG DESIGN FOR HEART FAILURE""; ""CONCLUSION AND PERSPECTIVES""

""ACKNOWLEDGEMENT""

Sommario/riassunto

Congestive heart failure (CHF) is a disease that originates from an inadequacy of the heart to maintain blood circulation, resulting in congestion and edema in the body tissues. CHF affects about five million patients in the US alone and an estimated 23 million patients worldwide, and is the only cardiac disease that is growing in prevalence, due to both increasing survival rates of myocardial infarctions and ageing population. In this book, the authors aim to uncover the many hormonal influences on myocardial function and discuss possible aetiological mechanisms, diagnostic modalities and management strategies of the Takotsubo syndrome.