China and Africa


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This book investigates the expanding involvement of China in security cooperation in Africa. Drawing on leading and emerging scholars in the field, the volume uses a combination of analytical insights and case studies to unpack the complexity of security challenges confronting China and the continent. It interrogates how security considerations impact upon the growing economic and social links China has developed with African states.




47 Easy DIY Survival Projects


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Do You Like DIY Projects? How About Makeshift Survival Ideas? If so, then this book is for you! In fact, when you're finished you'll have accomplished a wide variety of fast and easy survival actions, everything from increasing your water supply to making your own cleaners, creating a bug out bag, a 30-second makeshift stove, documenting your possessions, and plenty more. I also realize that we're all pressed for time, that's why these 47 DIY survival projects were handpicked by me to take only ten minutes a day. When finished, you'll have covered nearly every major area of preparedness, including water, food, medical, safety, cooking, gardening, lighting, and evacuation. Realize that you can accomplish so much to further your survival with dozens of easy-to-finish projects found within. But, first... Who I Am, Why Listen To Me... My name is Damian Brindle. I'm a longtime survival blogger with many thousands of readers. I've spent the past decade studying and discovering nearly everything I can about survival, especially at home preparedness, to ensure my own family's survival. Over the last several years I've dedicated my life and my time to helping others just like you better survive disasters of all kinds. Like I said, it's my life. I'm also husband to a wonderful wife and father to two growing boys... as well as a devoted Christian and fellow Patriot. I've spent years ensuring my family will be 100% safe, secure, and ready for disasters of all kinds and now I'm offering you the chance to take an important--even crucial--action for yourself by ensuring your family is ready as well. Here's What's Covered Inside... 8 General Survival Projects (create an emergency binder, document your possessions, prepare your pets, and more) 5 DIY Water Projects (how to store water quickly and properly treat it so you don't get sick) 8 DIY Food Projects (know how to NOT get sick when the power goes out, make homemade MREs, boost vitamin yields of grains, etc.) 5 DIY Cooking Projects (use a thermos to cook with, build a 30-second rocket stove, vegetable can stove, and more) 7 DIY Safety and Security Projects (which NOAA radio to buy, develop a fire escape plan, how to earthquake "proof" shelving, etc.) 4 DIY Hygiene Projects (homemade cleaners, rodent traps, makeshift toilets) 5 "Get Ready to Evacuate" Projects (how to get your bedside ready, pocket survival kits, bug out bag, and more) 5 Miscellaneous Projects (stockpiling cash, makeshift lamps, etc.) Why You Must Prepare Yourself Now... Disasters, including earthquakes, hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, blizzards, floods, and so many more won't wait for you to be ready for them, and most strike without warning! You simply MUST prepare yourself now... here's how to get yourself and your family prepared with dozens of easy-to-finish survival projects in only ten minutes a day without even realizing it. Get the Book Now So You Stay Safe It's simple to do, just scroll up and click the "Buy Now" button and you'll get this knowledge instantly delivered to your fingertips only moments from now. Don't wait. Discover how to do what so many fail to fast and easy, all by following an expert in the field. Remember, we'll cover a wide variety of DIY survival ideas, including water, food, medical, safety, cooking, gardening, lighting, and evacuation... all of which could just save your life. Scroll Up And Click The "Buy Now" Button Discover how to jump-start your survival today with 47 easy, ten-minute DIY ideas anyone can do.




Counting Processes and Survival Analysis


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The Wiley-Interscience Paperback Series consists of selected books that have been made more accessible to consumers in an effort to increase global appeal and general circulation. With these new unabridged softcover volumes, Wiley hopes to extend the lives of these works by making them available to future generations of statisticians, mathematicians, and scientists. "The book is a valuable completion of the literature in this field. It is written in an ambitious mathematical style and can be recommended to statisticians as well as biostatisticians." -Biometrische Zeitschrift "Not many books manage to combine convincingly topics from probability theory over mathematical statistics to applied statistics. This is one of them. The book has other strong points to recommend it: it is written with meticulous care, in a lucid style, general results being illustrated by examples from statistical theory and practice, and a bunch of exercises serve to further elucidate and elaborate on the text." -Mathematical Reviews "This book gives a thorough introduction to martingale and counting process methods in survival analysis thereby filling a gap in the literature." -Zentralblatt für Mathematik und ihre Grenzgebiete/Mathematics Abstracts "The authors have performed a valuable service to researchers in providing this material in [a] self-contained and accessible form. . . This text [is] essential reading for the probabilist or mathematical statistician working in the area of survival analysis." -Short Book Reviews, International Statistical Institute Counting Processes and Survival Analysis explores the martingale approach to the statistical analysis of counting processes, with an emphasis on the application of those methods to censored failure time data. This approach has proven remarkably successful in yielding results about statistical methods for many problems arising in censored data. A thorough treatment of the calculus of martingales as well as the most important applications of these methods to censored data is offered. Additionally, the book examines classical problems in asymptotic distribution theory for counting process methods and newer methods for graphical analysis and diagnostics of censored data. Exercises are included to provide practice in applying martingale methods and insight into the calculus itself.




SAS Survival Handbook


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From basic first aid and campcraft to strategies for coping with any type of disaster, this is the definitive survival guide. Two 16-page color sections. Line art throughout.




Frontline


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Since 2001, Western forces have been involved in a series of major military campaigns, primarily in Iraq and Afghanistan but also in Africa. For all the sophistication of the contemporary Western way of war with its digital technologies and precision weapons, infantry soldier have been frequently involved in close combat of an intensity which is comparable to the wars of the twentieth century. At the small unit level, combat has been as brutal as ever. Yet, in many cases, they have prevailed even when they were surprised or disadvantaged. How and why have professional Western soldiers been willing and able to fight effectively together during these campaigns? Through a series of rich historical and ethnographic case-studies, this collection seeks to analyse the experience of combat soldiers on operations in the last decade. The book explores the motivation, training, and culture of the professional Western soldier, highlighting differences and commonalities between the troops of different nations. This book is a project of the Changing Character of War programme at the University of Oxford.










Advances in Biological Understanding of Tumor Radiation Resistance


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This eBook is a collection of articles from a Frontiers Research Topic. Frontiers Research Topics are very popular trademarks of the Frontiers Journals Series: they are collections of at least ten articles, all centered on a particular subject. With their unique mix of varied contributions from Original Research to Review Articles, Frontiers Research Topics unify the most influential researchers, the latest key findings and historical advances in a hot research area! Find out more on how to host your own Frontiers Research Topic or contribute to one as an author by contacting the Frontiers Editorial Office: frontiersin.org/about/contact.




Current Concepts in Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy, Second Edition


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Current Concepts in Arrhythmogenic Cardiomyopathy, Second Edition presents essential insights into all aspects of this complex disease and will serve as a valuable guide to help readers provide the best possible care for their patients. Discussion by internationally recognized authorities includes: -Increasing evidence that arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy is not necessarily confined to the RV, but often involves both ventricles -Basic and clinical science of arrhythmogenic cardiomyopathy -Pathophysiology, molecular mechanisms, and genetic background -The mechanisms of disease progression leading to a diversity of diseasephenotypes -Guidance in the clinical setting for diagnosis, risk stratification, and therapy