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Record Nr.

UNINA9911019349903321

Titolo

Practical endocrinology and diabetes in children / / Joseph E. Raine ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Malden, Mass., : Blackwell Pub., c2006

ISBN

1-280-74801-X

9786610748013

0-470-98493-7

0-470-99485-1

1-4051-7313-0

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

RaineJoseph E

Disciplina

618.92462

Soggetti

Diabetes in children

Pediatric endocrinology

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

Diabetes mellitus -- Hypoglycaemia -- Short stature -- Tall stature -- Puberty -- Thyroid disorders -- Intersex and other disorders of sexual differentiation -- Adrenal disorders -- Salt and water balance -- Calcium and bone -- Obesity -- Endocrine effects of cancer treatment.

Sommario/riassunto

The practical manual for pediatricians and endocrinologists Practical Endocrinology and Diabetes in Children, Second Edition, continues to provide a very practical overview of managing endocrine problems in children. Coverage of each disorder reflects its clinical importance. The material is organized in such a way that it can be referred to at a moment's notice. Helpful overviews of epidemiology, pathophysiology, investigations, differential diagnoses and psychosocial issues support the advice on management principles.  New features of this Second Edition inclu



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910960706603321

Titolo

The social life of climate change models : anticipating nature / / edited by Kirsten Hastrup and Martin Skrydstrup

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Routledge, 2012

New York : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-136-20365-6

0-203-09387-9

1-283-84247-5

1-136-20366-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (249 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in anthropology ; ; 8

Altri autori (Persone)

HastrupKirsten

SkrydstrupMartin

Disciplina

551.601/1

Soggetti

Climatic changes - Forecasting

Ethnology

Anthropology

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; The Social Life of Climate Change Models; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Figures; Preface and Acknowledgements; 1 Anticipating Nature: The Productive Uncertainty of Climate Models; 2 How Climate Models Gain and Exercise Authority; 3 Certain Figures: Modelling Nature among Environmental Experts in Coastal Tamil Nadu; 4 Enacting Cyclones: The Mixed Response to Climate Change in the Cook Islands; 5 Anticipation on Thin Ice: Diagrammatic Reasoning in the High Arctic

6 Deciding the Future in the Land of Snow: Tibet as an Arena for Conflicting Forms of Knowledge and Policy7 Scaling Climate: The Politics of Anticipation; 8 Emancipating Nature: What the Flood Apprentice Learned from a Modelling Tutorial; 9 Modelling Ice: A Field Diary of Anticipation on the Greenland Ice Sheet; 10 Predictability in Question: On Climate Modelling in Physics; 11 Constructing Evidence and Trust: How Did Climate Scientists' Confidence in Their Models and Simulations Emerge?; 12 Afterword: Reopening the Book of Nature(s);



Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Drawing on a combination of perspectives from diverse fields, this volume offers an anthropological study of climate change and the ways in which people attempt to predict its local implications, showing how the processes of knowledge making among lay people and experts are not only comparable but also deeply entangled. Through analysis of predictive practices in a diversity of regions affected by climate change - including coastal India, the Cook Islands, Tibet, and the High Arctic, and various domains of scientific expertise and policy making such as ice core drilling, flood risk modellin

3.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00024483

Autore

TANIZAKI Jun'ichiro

Titolo

In'ei raisan / Jun'ichiro Tanizaki

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Tokyo, : Chuoko ronsha, 1975 170 p., : 16 cm

ISBN

41-220-0259-1

Classificazione

GIA VI BA

Soggetti

Letteratura giapponese - Narrativa - Sec. 20

Lingua di pubblicazione

Giapponese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia