Mr. Median

Mr. Median
Author: Sean B. Cochrane
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 285
Release: 2011
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0957060114

Can you handle reality? What about the next one? When Jack Purnell decides to end it all, he certainly doesn't expect to find himself standing back on top of the building he had just fallen from. What happened to the afterlife; the big black nothing? After that, things just get confusing. For one thing, his new life is different to his old life - his signature is different: his flat is different. Not only that, when he gets killed by a car later that day, he finds himself very much alive in yet another strange reality... and then it happens again... and again... It's driving him slowly insane, so Jack has questions. Is he in purgatory? Why can't he stay comfortably dead? Why does he keep meeting the same familiar people in each ridiculous reality and most importantly...what is that big swirling column thing? Join Jack in his darkly comic reality-hopping nightmare where he searches to find himself, his true love and an insight into the peculiar workings of the universe.

Oversight Hearing on the Davis-Bacon Act

Oversight Hearing on the Davis-Bacon Act
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor. Subcommittee on Labor Standards
Publisher:
Total Pages: 376
Release: 1980
Genre: Wages
ISBN:

Exploring Causal Risk Factors for Metabolic and Endocrine Disorders

Exploring Causal Risk Factors for Metabolic and Endocrine Disorders
Author: Youxin Wang
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
Total Pages: 197
Release: 2024-02-15
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 2832544657

Metabolic and endocrine disorders are the main burden of noncommunicable chronic diseases, and they serve as important risk factors for cardiovascular diseases or multiple cancers. To date, a large number of correlates have been identified, but few of them were modifiable and causal. In general, causal relationships can be conceptualized not only in a probabilistic sense involving statistical terms and procedures, but also in the complexity of biological phenomena. The limited understanding of many underlying mechanisms hinders a deterministic conceptualization of disease causation. The identification of modifiable risk factors that have a causal effect on the incidence of these diseases and their complications is critical to the primary or secondary prevention of metabolic and endocrine diseases.

Handbook of Sleep Research

Handbook of Sleep Research
Author:
Publisher: Academic Press
Total Pages: 758
Release: 2019-06-21
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0128137444

Handbook of Sleep Research, Volume 30, provides a comprehensive review of the current status of the neuroscience of sleep research. It begins with an overview of the neural, hormonal and genetic mechanisms of sleep and wake regulation before outlining the various proposed functions of sleep and the role it plays in plasticity, and in learning and memory. Finally, the book discusses disorders of sleep and waking, covering both lifestyle factors that cause disrupted sleep and psychiatric and neurological conditions that contribute to disorders. - Emphasizes a comparative and multidisciplinary approach to the topic of sleep - Covers the neurobiology and physiology of sleep stages, mechanisms of waking, and dreaming - Discusses in detail the proposed functions of sleep, from health and rest, to memory consolidation and synaptic plasticity - Examines the current state of research in mammalian and non-mammalian species, ranging from primates to invertebrates