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Lissa Evans. Horten's Miraculous Mechanisms: Magic, Mystery, & a Very Strange Adventure

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Year:2012

Enter a wonderful world filled with real magic, mystery, and danger.As if being small and having S. Horten as his name isn't bad enough, now 10-year-old Stuart is forced to move far away from all his friends.But on his very first day in his new home, Stuart's swept up in an extraordinary adventure: the quest to find his great-uncle Tony--a famous magician who literally disappeared off the face of the earth--and Tony's marvelous, long-lost workshop.A Along the way, Stuart reluctantly accepts help from the annoying triplets next doora?¦ and encounters trouble from another magician who's also desperate to get hold of Tony's treasures.A quirky, smart, charming page-turner, Horten's Miraculous Mechanisms will enchant young readers--as well as teachers, librarians, and parents.A A Long-listed for the Carnegie Medal (2012) and the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize (2011)

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Mohammad Albanna. Chitosan-based heart valve with improved mechanical properties: A tissue engineering approach

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Year:2012

Chitosan is being widely studied for tissue engineering applications due to its biocompatibility and biodegradability.However, its use in load-bearing applications is limited due to moderate to low mechanical properties.In this work,we investigated the effectiveness of a fiber reinforcement method for enhancing the mechanical properties of chitosan scaffolds.The results showed that incorporating fibers improved scaffold strength and stiffness in proportion to the fiber/scaffold mass ratio.A fiber-reinforced heart valve leaflet scaffold achieved strength values comparable to the radial values of human pulmonary and aortic valves.Various chemical and physical treatments were studied to improve the mechanical properties of chitosan fibers.With combination of chemical and physical treatments, fiber stiffness improved 40fold compared to unmodified fibers.Utility of isolated ovine bone marrow-derived MSCs was evaluated for cardiovascular tissue engineering applications. The effect of...

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Anupam Ghosh. Information Sharing in Supply Chain: The Role of Governance Mechanisms

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Year:2012

One important reason behind deficient supply chain performance is poor coordination among the companies or organizations that make up the chain. Researchers emphasize that sharing of information is an effective coordination mechanism that can integrate the chain activities and improve overall chain profitability. However, sharing of information is risky as other partners in the chain may behave opportunistically, having gained access to private information. To reduce such risk and succeed in sharing information, firms in the chain need to agree on a set of governance mechanisms that will direct the chain relationship. Though previous research studies emphasize the need of governance mechanisms for information sharing among supply chain members, there is little or no research that has studied the role of governance mechanisms in supply chain information sharing. This research studies the role of three governance mechanisms of trust, bargaining power, and contract in information sharing...

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James E. Meade. Planning and the Price Mechanism (Routledge Revivals): The Liberal-Socialist Solution (Collected Works of James Meade)

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Year:2012

First published in 1948, this book outlines a solution to contemporary economic problems in the post-war years. This solution aims to make the best use of our price mechanism, free initiative and competition, but also involves the socialization of certain monopolistic concerns and the state control of the price mechanism in such a way as to maintain full employment, to achieve an equitable distribution of income and property, and to restore equilibrium to our balance of payments. It is an outline of that middle way which the author calls the Liberal-Socialist solution.

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Charles James Appleby. Appleby's Illustrated Handbook Of Machinery ...

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Year:2012

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as...

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Joanna Ortiz-Alcantara. Small Molecule Inhibitors of the SARS-CoV Nsp15: Mechanism of Action and Insight Into Coronavirus Infection

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Year:2012

The Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome (SARS) virus encodes several unusual RNA processing enzymes, including Nsp15, an endoribonuclease that cleaves 3a?? of uridylates through a Ribonuclease A-like mechanism. Crystal structures confirmed that the Nsp15 ac

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Justina Namukombo. Explaining Implementation Gap: Case of Zambian Art Programme Actors, exclusion mechanism, cultural beliefs

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Year:2012

Since 2002 Zambia has been implementing ART for HIV/AIDS patients in the public sector. This programme was conducted within WHO '3 by 5'framework.Implementation of ART in Zambia that time faced serious problems of human resource shortages and other capaci