“…Although cancer has been linked to low-dose radiation exposure for decades, there is increasing evidence that low-dose radiation exposure may also be associated with cardiovascular disease, neurological disorders, immune dysfunction, and cataracts.Recent advances in research, new tools, and a coordinated multidisciplinary research program could help fill knowledge gaps about the health impacts of low-dose radiation exposures. This report calls for the development of a U.S. research program to study how low doses of radiation affect cancer, cardiovascular disease, neurological disorders, and other disease risks. …”

“…Reading this text leaves one with a sense of awe and inspiration and calls one to work to change the unjust structure of higher education that overtly and subtly mute voices of the ‘other’.” — Larry Ortiz, professor and director, MSW Program, California State University Dominguez Hills…”

“…Service providers are increasingly called upon to serve clients at home, a setting even a seasoned professional can find difficult to negotiate. …”

“…Envisioning African Intersex exposes the citational chains of erroneous raced claimed that underpin medical premises about so-called "hermaphroditism," and unseats them with activists' challenges to medical violence and articulations of new decolonial visions of gender"--…”

“…Against the prevailing view of late antiquity as a time when only so-called elites were interested in religious and ritual differentiation, the evidence presented here reveals that the desire to distinguish between religious and ritual insiders and outsiders cut across diverse social strata. …”

“…The volume employs a multimodal, longitudinal conversation analytic (CA) approach in its analysis of data from video-recorded interactions of several elementary and advanced L2 speakers of French as they build their interactional competence, understood as the ability to accomplish social actions and activities in the L2 in context-dependent and recipient-designed ways. Skogmyr Marian calls attention to three key dimensions of complaining in these conversations - its structural organization, the interactional resources people use when they complain, and how speakers' shared interactional histories and changing social relationships affect complaint practices. …”

“…As with the previous sixteen editions of the Q2SWinet symposium series, the scope of this year 's Symposium will remain on general issues related to QoS and security in wireless and mobile networks networking and computing. The call for papers has attracted many high-quality submissions worldwide. …”

“…Volume 26 of the AFIPS Conference Proceedings is a permanent record of the papers presented at the 1964 Fall Joint Computer Conference. Part I, called AFIPS I, was distributed at the Conference; this book, which is Part II, hence AFIPS II, includes information which, because of its nature and timeliness, could not be made available for publication prior to the time of the Conference. …”

“…Jack Tannous argues that key to understanding these dramatic religious transformations are ordinary religious believers, often called "the simple" in late antique and medieval sources. …”

“…"Las carreteras de la muerte avanzan con estrépito, chirriantes y siniestras, por las calles de París. Seis son las que hoy acarrean su ración de vino a la guillotina". …”

“…With the recent release of Java 2 Enterprise Edition 1.4, developers are being called on to add even greater, more complex levels of interconnectivity to their applications. …”

“…Updates in this edition include the role of iterators in Python 3, web scraping with Scrapy and BeautifulSoup, using Requests to call web pages without strings, new tools for distribution and installation, and much more. …”

“…To address this void, Renee Alexander Craft examines an Afro-Latin Carnival performance tradition called "Congo" as it is enacted in the town of Portobelo, Panama-the nexus of trade in the Spanish colonial world. …”

“…Yet, the general media disdain the flood of sports statistics available today: sports are pure and analytic tools are not. Well, if the so-called purists find tools like baseball’s sabermetrics upsetting, then they’d better brace themselves for the new wave of data analytics. …”

“…At the same time, immersive storytelling calls for re-discussing issues of journalism ethics and truthfulness, transparency, privacy, manipulation and surveillance. …”

“…Based on a survey of more than one million people, this research-conducted by the International Injury Research Unit, Department of International Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health and two Bangladesh partners, the Center for Injury Prevention and Research and the International Center for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh with funding from Bloomberg Philanthropies, was part of a large-scale, population-based, child-drowning prevention project called "Saving of Lives from Drowning in Bangladesh." …”

“…When the world’s biggest brands want to sharpen their digital marketing strategy, they call Neil Hoyne – Google’s Chief Measurement Strategist and Senior Fellow at the Wharton School. …”

“…Through what the book calls the midburden, right-to-farm laws dispossess the many in favor of the few, paving the path to rural poverty. …”

“…Developing realistic strategic plans and roadmaps customized to your organization Getting started fast, and iterating small steps to powerful success Addressing all customer touchpoints: Web, e-mail, call centers, direct mail, sales contacts, tech support, and more Establishing realistic expectations and metrics Translating your CRM objectives into essential organizational changes Designing integrated customer databases and infrastructure Understanding the crucial interactions between the technical and management aspects of CRM…”

“…The layout manager chapter, for example, is over 100 pages long and includes what readers have called the best explanation of GridBagLayout on the planet. …”