Embryology

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910971086403321
• Autore: Arora Mohan P
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Dryden Press, 1949
• ISBN: 9786612798948; 9781282798946; 1282798944; 9789350440049; 9350440040; 9781441660787; 144166078X; 9786000026721; 6000026722
• Edizione: [Rev. ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (509 p.); 1 online resource
• Altri autori (Persone): KantaChander
• Disciplina: 611.013
• Soggetti: Embryology
• 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: COVER; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; SEX AND PROCREATION; REPRODUCTION; VIRGINAL REPRODUCTION OR PARTHENOGENESIS; INTERSEXES; GAMETOGENESIS; THE DISCHARGE OF SEX CELLS; FERTILIZATION; CLEAVAGE; MORULA AND BLASTULA; GASTRULATION; DIFFERENTIATION; METAMORPHOSIS; THE HORMONAL CONTROL OF METAMORPHOSIS; EMBRYONIC INDUCTION; NUCLEO-CYTOPLASMIC INTERACTION; REGENERATION; FOETAL MEMBRANES; PlACENTATION IN MAMMALS; DEVELOPMENT OF BALANOGLOSSUS; DEVELOPMENT OF HERDMANIA; DEVELOPMENT OF COLONIAL ASCIDIANS; DEVELOPMENT OF AMPHIOXUS; DEVELOPMENT OF LAMPREY OR PETROMYZON; EMBRYONIC DEVELOPMENT OF FISHES; DEVELOPMENT OF FROGDEVELOPMENT OF CHICK; EMBRYOLOGY OF THE MAMMALS; PARENTAL CARE OF THE EMBRYO; GLOSSARY OF EMBRYOLOGICAL TERMS; INDEX
• Sommario/riassunto: The insightful compilation offers comprehensive account of the fundamental principles of embryology. It not only introduces reproductive physiology, sexual interactions, and environmental responses, but also provides the physiological and endocinological background. All important points are illustrated diagrammatically. The title is not intended to be comprehensive nor could it be at length, but if concentration as puttingacross the basic principles of the subject as briefly and deucedly as possible. IT does this with the aid of careful selected examples-some recent and other classics of the f

Civil commitment of sexually dangerous persons / / Nathan James, Kenneth R. Thomas and Cassandra Foley

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910971111903321
• Autore: James Nathan
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Nova Science Publishers, c2008; [Washington, D.C.] : , : Congressional Research Service, , 2019-
• ISBN: 1-62081-879-5
• Edizione: [[Library of Congress public edition].]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (78 p.)
• Collana: Report / Congressional Research Service ; ; RL34068
• Altri autori (Persone): ThomasKenneth R; FoleyCassandra
• Disciplina: 345.73/0253
• Soggetti: Civil commitment of sex offenders - United States; Sex offenders - United States; Recidivism - United States; United States
• 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: Background on civil commitment -- History of civil commitment laws -- Supreme Court rulings on civil commitment -- Kansas v. Hendricks -- Kansas v. Crane -- Civil commitment legislation in the 109th Congress -- Sex offender recidivism -- Limitations of studies on sex offender recidivism -- Sex offender recidivism data -- Sex offender treatment -- Can sex offenders be treated? -- Sex offender treatment research issues -- Select issues who should be civilly committed? -- Do ; sex offenders specialize in sex crimes? -- Are some sex offenders more dangerous than others? -- Future dangerousness -- Safe to release -- Less-restrictive alternatives -- Indeterminate sentences for sex offenders -- Cost of civil commitment.
• Sommario/riassunto: This text discusses the 109th Congress passed legislation that allows the federal government to civilly commit 'sexually dangerous persons' and how likely or unlikely it is for sex offenders to re-offend.