Pekka Ervast

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Myofibroblasts (MFB) are found in most tissues of the body. They have the matrix-producing functions of fibroblasts and contractile properties that are known from smooth muscle cells. Fundamental work of the last decades has shed remarkable light on their origin, biological functions and role in disease. During hepatic injury, they fulfill manifold functions in connective tissue remodeling and wound healing, but overshooting activity of MFB on the other side induces fibrosis and cirrhosis. The present e-book "Liver myofibroblasts" contains 9 articles providing comprehensive information on "hot topics" of MFB. In our opening editorial we provide a short overview of the origin of MFB and their relevance in extracellular matrix formation which is the hallmark of hepatic fibrosis. Thereafter, leading experts in the field share their current perspectives on special topics of (i) MFB in development and disease, ii) their role in hepatic fibrogenesis, and (iii) promising therapies and targets that are suitable to interfere with hepatic fibrosis.

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Daniel Soares da Costa

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O objetivo desta coletânea é demonstrar como a organização de corpora linguísticos diferentes atende aos diversos tipos de pesquisa linguística, sejam eles centrados numa mesma língua – abordando diferentes fenômenos dessalíngua – ou focados em outras línguas naturais.A obraagrega sete pesquisas linguísticas de diferentes estudiosos – que se amparam em aportes teóricos também diversos –,as quais têm como base para coleta de dados a organização de algum tipo de corpus linguístico. De enfoque tanto sincrônico quanto diacrônico, de cunho variacionista e também formalista, os trabalhos englobam os quatro níveis básicos de análise linguística: o fonológico, omorfológico, o semântico e o sintático.Talita de Cássia Marine apresenta, no primeiro capítulo, uma análise descritivo-comparativa do sistema de pronomes demonstrativos do Português do Brasil e do Português de Portugal. Ela analisa cartas de leitoras da revista brasileira Capricho, e da portuguesa Ragazza, para caracterizar a configuração, se ternária ou binária, em que se encontram tais pronomes nas referenciações anafóricas no uso contemporâneo da língua.No capítulo 2, Caroline Carnielli Biazolli avalia o uso de textos jornalísticos como fonte de extração de dados para o estudo de processos de variação e mudança linguística. Seu foco é a posição dos clíticos pronominais, adjungidos a lexias verbais simples e a complexos verbais, e o corpus são textos do jornal A Província de São Paulo (atualmente O Estado deSão Paulo), entre 1880 e 1920.O terceiro capítulo, de Juliana Bertucci Barbosa, apresenta um estudo diacrônico de textos do Português Brasileiro do século 16 ao 20, que procura, entre outros objetivos, verificar valores semânticos do Pretérito Perfeito Simples e do Perfeito Composto do modo Indicativo da língua.Leandro Silveira de Araújo, autor do capítulo 4, baseia-se em um corpus constituído de entrevistas radiofônicas, representativas de umagrande cidade de cada região dialetal da Argentina para estudar o uso doPretérito Perfecto Compuestono espanhol falado no país.No quinto capítulo Alexandre Monte analisa a presença ou a ausência da marca formal de plural no verbo na relação sujeito/verbo, com o objetivo de compreender os fatores linguísticos e sociais que condicionam/determinam a variação linguística no âmbito da concordância verbal. O corpus da pesquisa é uma amostra da língua falada de uma comunidade periférica de São Carlos, interior de São Paulo.As Cantigas de Santa Maria, de Afonso X compostas na segunda metade do século 13 em galego-português, e OsLusíadas (1572), de Camões serviram de corpora para Juliana Simões Fonte e Gladis Massini-Cagliari no estudo apresentado no capítulo 6. As autoras analisam rimas da poesia remanescente de períodos passados da Língua Portuguesa para demonstrar a contribuição de textos poéticos no estudo das vogais do Português Antigo.O último capítulo resume os resultados da tese de doutorado de Daniel Soares da Costa, que organiza a obra. Ele apresenta uma nova proposta metodológica, baseada em uma conexão entre a música e a linguística como ferramenta para a coleta de dados relativos à prosódia de línguas mortas. O autor toma as versões transcritas por Anglés (1943) das cem primeiras Cantigas de Santa Maria de Afonso X para analisar a atribuição do acento lexical e secundário no Português Arcaico.

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Charles Darwin

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The Different Forms of Flowers on Plants of the Same Species is a book by Charles Darwin first published in 1877. It is the fifth of his six books devoted solely to the study of plants (excluding The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication). From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA).

Francesco Domenico Guerrazzi

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This document constitutes the Policy Paper of the Precoll project-Policies for Regional Cooperation in Lifelong Learning, led by the Università degli Studi di Firenze-Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Educazione e dei Processi Culturali e Formativi/University of Florence-Department of Educational Sciences and Cultural and Training Processes (Agreement nr 2008-11294), in partnership with Generalitat de Catalunya, Junta de Andalucía, Regione Toscana, Welsh Assembly Government, Jämtland County Council, NIACE Dysgu Cymru-National Institute of Adult Continuing Education, Provincia di Livorno Sviluppo Srl, subcontractor Melius Srl (www.mutual-learning.eu). This document has been endorsed by the Earlall General Assembly held in Brussels on 16th February 2010. Moreover Cedefop has been supporting the quality of the work thanks to the regular advice and suggestions delivered by Steven Bainbridge.Questo documento rappresenta il Policy Paper del progetto Precoll, progetto pilota sulle Politiche di Cooperazione tra Regioni nell'ambito dell'Apprendimento lungo tutto l'arco della vita, con capofila l'Università degli Studi di Firenze - Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Educazione e dei Processi Culturali e Formativi (Accordo nr 2008-11294), in partenariato con Generalitat de Catalunya, Junta de Andalucía, Regione Toscana, Welsh Assembly Government, Jämtland County Council, NIACE Dysgu Cymru-National Institute of Adult Continuing Education, Provincia di Livorno Sviluppo Srl, subappaltatore Melius Srl (www.mutual-learning.eu). Questo documento è stato approvato dall'Assemblea Generale di Earlall tenutasi a Bruxelles il 16 febbraio 2010. Inoltre, il Centro Europeo per lo Sviluppo della Formazione Professionale Cedefop ha sostenuto la qualità del lavoro grazie al contributo di Steven Bainbridge.

Jamia Masjid Aqsa

Edward Gibbon

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Harold Avery

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Dwight L. (Dwight Lathrop) Elmendorf

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American Colonization Society

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POSeazy manufactures an All-in-One POS system for restaurants. A POS system permits your business to accept payments from customers and keep track of sales. A POS system operates to confer with the cash register at a mart.

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LATIHAN DALAM MENGUBAH SUHU

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As the highest internal decision-making body within the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland, the General Synod began, from 1876, congregating in Turku every tenth, and then eventually, every fifth year. By the 1960s, this decision-making system was becoming unsatisfactory. An extensive project to answer to the general ideals of the era and to strengthen the efficiency and democracy of the Church administration was initiated. The reformed General Synod got underway in 1974 with biannual gatherings. It was a body consisting of 108 members, including lay representatives, clergymen and the bishops. The General Synod retained its right to decide on ecclesiastical books and continued to hold the sole right to make proposals regarding the Church Act. A new task was to decide on the budget of the entire Church organisation and to steer the activities of the Church as a whole. Additionally, the General Synod received the general authority to handle any issues related to faith and doctrine, such as ecumenical issues. The book Kansankirkko ristipaineessa (A national folk church under conflicting pressures) takes a close look at the General Synod representatives during the years 19742011 and clarifies who the members of the Synod were, how they were elected and what they achieved. The study examines which of these persons held the most power, and what types of coalitions stood out within the work of the General Synod. In addition, the book aims to provide a general overall picture of the General Synod in relation to the Church, economic life, legislation, theological dialogue and the media. The study examines how well the intentions that drove the reform of the General Synod were realised and whether the General Synod was actually progressing as slowly or as briskly as expressed by different observers at different times. Discussions surrounding female ordination, sexual ethics and ecclesiastical books indicate the position of the General Synod within an increasingly diversified society. During the first decade of the 2000s, the General Synod experienced a similar revolution in terms of values as it had when preparing the reform of the Synod around the turn of the 1960s and 70s. The Church began to find itself once again in a missionary situation.

Lidija Rangelovska (editor)

Andrew Jackson

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Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka) Jerome

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David Collings

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This book argues that climate change has a devastating effect on how we think about the future. Once several positive feedback loops in Earth’s dynamic systems, such as the melting of the Arctic icecap or the drying of the Amazon, cross the point of no return, the biosphere is likely to undergo severe and irreversible warming.Nearly everything we do is premised on the assumption that the world we know will endure into the future and provide a sustaining context for our activities. But today the future of a viable biosphere, and thus the purpose of our present activities, is put into question. A disappearing future leads to a broken present, a strange incoherence in the feel of everyday life.We thus face the unprecedented challenge of salvaging a basis for our lives today. That basis, this book argues, may be found in our capacity to assume an infinite responsibility for ecological disaster and, like the biblical Job, to respond with awe to the alien voice that speaks from the whirlwind. By owning disaster and accepting our small place within the inhuman forces of the biosphere, we may discover how to live with responsibility and serenity whatever may come.

Oliver Onions

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Sequel to "The Two Kisses." "Gray Youth" #45682 includes both.

A Stone

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Neltje Blanchan

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Alan Edward Nourse

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""Image of the Gods"", a short science fiction story written by noted American sci fi author Alan E. Nourse, is about an Earth colony battles for freedom.