Obesity: Epidemiology, Pathophysiology and Prevention by Debasis Bagchi and Harry G. Preuss
With unparalleled depth and breadth of coverage, Obesity: Epidemiology, Pathophysiology and Prevention is a comprehensive resource for sound, up-to-the-minute data for managing obesity. Divided into eight sections, the text covers epidemiology and pathophysiology, associated degenerative diseases, drug development and safety, the intricacies of childhood obesity, and the benefits of bariatric surgery. An expansive portion of the book considers natural, nutritional, and physical approaches to weight management. It explores exercise; diet; and gender differences; along with research on a wide range of functional foods, neutraceuticals, and natural supplements such as hydroxycitric acid, marine lipids, polyphenolic compounds, trivalent chromium, and ephedra.
Natural English Reading & Writing Skills Elementary Resource Book The 14 reading lessons are based around accessible, authentically-sourced texts from newspapers and websites to leaflets and fiction. You'll find familiar reading skills such as predicting and reading for specific information along with more challenging ones such as inferring.
Knowledge Representation and the Semantics of Natural Language (Cognitive Technologies)
The book presents an interdisciplinary approach to knowledge
representation and the treatment of semantic phenomena of natural
language, which is positioned between artificial intelligence,
computational linguistics, and cognitive psychology. The proposed
method is based on Multilayered Extended Semantic Networks (MultiNets),
which can be used for theoretical investigations into the semantics of
natural language, for cognitive modeling, for describing lexical
entries in a computational lexicon, and for natural language processing
(NLP). Part I deals with fundamental problems of semantic knowledge
representation and semantic interpretation of natural language
phenomena. Part II provides a systematic description of the
representational means of MultiNet, one of the most comprehensive and
thoroughly specified collections of relations and functions used in
real NLP applications. MultiNet is embedded into a system of software
tools comprising a workbench for the knowledge engineer, a semantic
interpreter translating natural language expressions into formal
meaning structures, and a workbench for the computer lexicographer. The
book has been used for courses in artificial intelligence at several
universities and is one of the cornerstones for teaching computational
linguistics in a virtual electronic laboratory.
Acts Of God - The Unnatural History Of Natural Disaster In America
The ten most costly catastrophes in U.S. history have all been
natural disasters--seven of them hurricanes--and all have occurred
since 1989, a period, ironically, that Congress has dubbed the Decade
for Natural Disaster Reduction. Ted Steinberg, professor of history
and law at Case Western Reserve University, looks at how much of
the death and destruction has been well within the realm of human
control. Surveying more than a century of losses from weather and
seismic extremes, he exposes the fallacy of seeing such calamities
as simply random events. Acts of God explores the unnatural history
of natural calamity, the decisions of business leaders and government
officials that have paved the way for the greater losses of life
and property, especially among those least able to withstand such
blows--America's poor, elderly and minorities. Seeing nature or
God as the primary culprit, Steinberg argues, has helped to obscure
the fact that, in truth, some Americans are better protected from
violence of nature than their counterparts lower down the socioeconomic
ladder. Donald Worster, the author of
Dust Bowl: The Southern
Plains in the 1930s, says, "This compelling book blows away
many obscuring clouds of misunderstanding and denial in our national
environmental memory."
