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- The Action-Adventure Heroine: Rediscovering an American Literary Character, 1697–1895 by Sandra Wilson SmithReed, Ashley (Project Muse, 2019)
- After Khomeini: New Directions in Iran's Foreign Policy [Book review]Boroujerdi, Mehrzad (Middle East Institute, 1996-03-01)A book review of After Khomeini: New Directions in Iran's Foreign Policy, by K. L. Afrasiabi. Boulder, San Francisco and Oxford: Westview Press, 1994. xii + 212. Appendix to p. 217. Bibl. to p. 231. Index to p. 244. $54.95
- After Khomeini: New Directions in Iran's Foreign Policy [Book review]Boroujerdi, Mehrzad (Cambridge University Press, 2011-09-01)A book review of After Khomeini: New Directions in Iran's Foreign Policy, by K. L. Afrasiabi. Boulder, San Francisco and Oxford: Westview Press, 1994. xii + 212. Appendix to p. 217. Bibl. to p. 231. Index to p. 244. $54.95
- Aligning evidence generation and use across health, development, and environmentTallis, Heather; Kreis, Katharine; Olander, Lydia P.; Ringler, Claudia; Ameyaw, David; Borsuk, Mark E.; Fletschner, Diana; Game, Edward; Gilligan, Daniel O.; Jeuland, Marc; Kennedy, Gina; Masuda, Yuta J.; Mehta, Sumi; Miller, Nicholas; Parker, Megan; Pollino, Carmel; Rajaratnam, Julie; Wilkie, David; Zhang, Wei; Ahmed, Selena; Ajayi, Oluyede C.; Alderman, Harold; Arhonditsis, George; Azevedo, Ines; Badola, Ruchi; Bailis, Rob; Balvanera, Patricia; Barbour, Emily; Bardini, Mark; Barton, David N.; Baumgartner, Jill; Benton, Tim G.; Bobrow, Emily; Bossio, Deborah; Bostrom, Ann; Braimoh, Ademola; Brondizio, Eduardo; Brown, Joe; Bryant, Benjamin P.; Calder, Ryan S. D.; Chaplin-Kramer, Becky; Cullen, Alison; DeMello, Nicole; Dickinson, Katherine L.; Ebi, Kristie L.; Eves, Heather E.; Fanzo, Jessica; Ferraro, Paul J.; Fisher, Brendan; Frongillo, Edward A.; Galford, Gillian; Garrity, Dennis; Gatere, Lydiah; Grieshop, Andrew P.; Grigg, Nicola J.; Groves, Craig; Gugerty, Mary Kay; Hamm, Michael; Hou, Xiaoyue; Huang, Cindy; Imhoff, Marc; Jack, Darby; Jones, Andrew D.; Kelsey, Rodd; Kothari, Monica; Kumar, Ritesh; Lachat, Carl; Larsen, Ashley E.; Lawrence, Mark; DeClerck, Fabrice; Levin, Phillip S.; Mabaya, Edward; Gibson, Jacqueline MacDonald; McDonald, Robert; Mace, Georgina; Maertens, Ricardo; Mangale, Dorothy; Martino, Robin; Mason, Sara A.; Mehta, Lyla; Meinzen-Dick, Ruth; Merz, Barbara; Msangi, Siwa; Murray, Grant; Murray, Kris A.; Naude, Celeste E.; Newlands, Nathaniel K.; Nkonya, Ephraim; Peterman, Amber; Petruney, Tricia; Possingham, Hugh; Puri, Jyotsna; Remans, Roseline; Remlinger, Lisa; Ricketts, Taylor H.; Reta, Bedilu; Robinson, Brian E.; Roe, Dilys; Rosenthal, Joshua; Shen, Guofeng; Shindell, Drew; Stewart-Koster, Ben; Sunderland, Terry; Sutherland, William J.; Tewksbury, Joshua; Wasser, Heather; Wear, Stephanie; Webb, Chris; Whittington, Dale; Wilkerson, Marit; Wittmer, Heidi; Wood, Benjamin DK K.; Wood, Stephen; Wu, Joyce; Yadama, Gautam; Zobrist, Stephanie (Elsevier, 2019-08-01)Although health, development, and environment challenges are interconnected, evidence remains fractured across sectors due to methodological and conceptual differences in research and practice. Aligned methods are needed to support Sustainable Development Goal advances and similar agendas. The Bridge Collaborative, an emergent research-practice collaboration, presents principles and recommendations that help harmonize methods for evidence generation and use. Recommendations were generated in the context of designing and evaluating evidence of impact for interventions related to five global challenges (stabilizing the global climate, making food production sustainable, decreasing air pollution and respiratory disease, improving sanitation and water security, and solving hunger and malnutrition) and serve as a starting point for further iteration and testing in a broader set of contexts and disciplines. We adopted six principles and emphasize three methodological recommendations: (1) creation of compatible results chains, (2) consideration of all relevant types of evidence, and (3) evaluation of strength of evidence using a unified rubric. We provide detailed suggestions for how these recommendations can be applied in practice, streamlining efforts to apply multi-objective approaches and/or synthesize evidence in multidisciplinary or transdisciplinary teams. These recommendations advance the necessary process of reconciling existing evidence standards in health, development, and environment, and initiate a common basis for integrated evidence generation and use in research, practice, and policy design.
- Ben Fletcher : The Life and Times of a Black Wobbly, Revised and Expanded 2nd Edition [Book review]Stilley, Jeff (York University Libraries, 2021-08-22)
- Bone marrow mononuclear cells for joint therapy: The role of macrophages in inflammation resolution and tissue repairMenarim, Bruno C.; MacLeod, James N.; Dahlgren, Linda A. (Baishideng, 2021-07-26)Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most prevalent joint disease causing major disability and medical expenditures. Synovitis is a central feature of OA and is primarily driven by macrophages. Synovial macrophages not only drive inflammation but also its resolution, through a coordinated, simultaneous expression of pro- and anti-inflammatory mechanisms that are essential to counteract damage and recover homeostasis. Current OA therapies are largely based on anti-inflammatory principles and therefore block pro-inflammatory mechanisms such as prostaglandin E2 and Nuclear factor-kappa B signaling pathways. However, such mechanisms are also innately required for mounting a pro-resolving response, and their blockage often results in chronic low-grade inflammation. Following minor injury, macrophages shield the damaged area and drive tissue repair. If the damage is more extensive, macrophages incite inflammation recruiting more macrophages from the bone marrow to maximize tissue repair and ultimately resolve inflammation. However, sustained damage and inflammation often overwhelms pro-resolving mechanisms of synovial macrophages leading to the chronic inflammation and related tissue degeneration observed in OA. Recently, experimental and clinical studies have shown that joint injection with autologous bone marrow mononuclear cells replenishes inflamed joints with macrophage and hematopoietic progenitors, enhancing mechanisms of inflammation resolution, providing remarkable and long-lasting effects. Besides creating an ideal environment for resolution with high concentrations of interleukin-10 and anabolic growth factors, macrophage progenitors also have a direct role in tissue repair. Macrophages constitute a large part of the early granulation tissue, and further transdifferentiate from myeloid into a mesenchymal phenotype. These cells, characterized as fibrocytes, are essential for repairing osteochondral defects. Ongoing "omics" studies focused on identifying key drivers of macrophage-mediated resolution of joint inflammation and those required for efficient osteochondral repair, have the potential to uncover ways for developing engineered macrophages or off-the-shelf pro-resolving therapies that can benefit patients suffering from many types of arthropaties, not only OA.
- Book Review - An Adventure Living With Simple Technology: A Review of Better Off: Flipping the Switch on Technology ReviewedLinnell, Charles C. (Council on Technology Teacher Education and the International Technology and Engineering Educators Association, 2006)
- Book Review - Are We Thinking About Technology?Wicklein, Robert C.; Hames, Claude D.; Rufo, Kenneth (Council on Technology Teacher Education and the International Technology and Engineering Educators Association, 2001)
- Book Review - Changing the Subject: Innovations in Science, Mathematics and Technology EducationHill, Ann Marie; Hepburn, Gary (Council on Technology Teacher Education and the International Technology and Engineering Educators Association, 1997)
- Book Review - Creativity in Technology Education: A Review of Explaining Creativity: The Sciences of Human InnovationChou, Pao-Nan (Council on Technology Teacher Education and the International Technology and Engineering Educators Association, 2011)
- Book Review - High-Tech Society: The Story of the Information Technology RevolutionSnyder, Mark (Council on Technology Teacher Education and the International Technology and Engineering Educators Association, 1990)
- Book Review - Human Rights and Politically Incorrect Thinking versus Technically SpeakingPetrina, Stephen (Council on Technology Teacher Education and the International Technology and Engineering Educators Association, 2003)
- Book Review - Learner-centered teaching: Five key changes to practiceFoster, Patrick N. (Council on Technology Teacher Education and the International Technology and Engineering Educators Association, 2005)
- Book Review - Mega-Trends 2000: Ten New Directions for the 1990'sLevy, Daniel A. (Council on Technology Teacher Education and the International Technology and Engineering Educators Association, 1990)
- Book Review - Narrative Schooling: Experiential Learning and the Transformation of American EducationHill, Roger B. (Council on Technology Teacher Education and the International Technology and Engineering Educators Association, 1995)
- Book Review - Passion for ManufacturingWalker, Harvey Fred (Council on Technology Teacher Education and the International Technology and Engineering Educators Association, 1995)
- Book Review - Philosophy of TechnologyMitcham, Carl (Council on Technology Teacher Education and the International Technology and Engineering Educators Association, 1991)
- Book Review - Science and Technology in World History: An IntroductionSianez, David M. (Council on Technology Teacher Education and the International Technology and Engineering Educators Association, 2002)
- Book Review - Silicon Snake Oil: Second Thoughts on the Information HighwayVestich, Eli T. (Council on Technology Teacher Education and the International Technology and Engineering Educators Association, 1997)
- Book Review - Society and technological changeMarkert, Linda Rae (Council on Technology Teacher Education and the International Technology and Engineering Educators Association, 1989)