Download or read book Sleight of Heart written by Margaret Teresa Wadey and published by . This book was released on 1975-01 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sleight of Heart written by Roberta Tracy and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sleight of Heart written by Kara Galloway and published by . This book was released on 1991-01-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Sleight of Mind written by Matt Cook and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “fun, brain-twisting book . . . will make you think” as it explores more than 75 paradoxes in mathematics, philosophy, physics, and the social sciences (Sean Carroll, New York Times–bestselling author of Something Deeply Hidden). Paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick. A magician’s purpose is to create the appearance of impossibility, to pull a rabbit from an empty hat. Yet paradox doesn’t require tangibles, like rabbits or hats. Paradox works in the abstract, with words and concepts and symbols, to create the illusion of contradiction. There are no contradictions in reality, but there can appear to be. In Sleight of Mind, Matt Cook and a few collaborators dive deeply into more than 75 paradoxes in mathematics, physics, philosophy, and the social sciences. As each paradox is discussed and resolved, Cook helps readers discover the meaning of knowledge and the proper formation of concepts—and how reason can dispel the illusion of contradiction. The journey begins with “a most ingenious paradox” from Gilbert and Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance. Readers will then travel from Ancient Greece to cutting-edge laboratories, encounter infinity and its different sizes, and discover mathematical impossibilities inherent in elections. They will tackle conundrums in probability, induction, geometry, and game theory; perform “supertasks”; build apparent perpetual motion machines; meet twins living in different millennia; explore the strange quantum world—and much more.

Download or read book Sleight of Heart written by Susan B Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-26 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All is not well on lovely Bull Island, Georgia, for a twelve-year-old boy has gone missing. When the police discover two bodies--one alive and one dead--the questions begin: Who is the victim? What was the cause of death? Was it accidental or deliberate? Only the reader knows for sure.

Download or read book Sleight written by Jennifer Sommersby and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-04-03 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The greatest treasure, a most dangerous magic. Growing up in the Cinzio Traveling Players Company, Genevieve Flannery is accustomed to a life most teenagers could never imagine: daily workouts of extravagant acrobatics; wild animals for pets; and her mother, Delia, whose mind has always been tortured by visions—but whose love Geni never questions. In a world of performers who mystify and amaze on a daily basis, Delia’s ghostly hallucinations never seemed all that strange . . . until the evening Geni and her mother are performing an aerial routine they’ve done hundreds of times, and Delia falls to her death. That night, a dark curtain in Geni’s life opens. Everything has changed. As they reel from the tragedy, the Cinzio Players are also grappling with the circus’s new owner: a generous, mysterious man whose connection to the circus—Geni suspects—has a dark history. And with the discovery of an otherworldly inheritance and her perilous mission to protect it, Geni is suddenly stumbling into a new reality of her own, her life interrupted daily by the terrors only Delia used to see. As the visions around her grow stronger, and her magical legacy becomes even more menacing, Geni is not sure who she should trust or love. Worst of all, she’s starting to question whether she can trust her own mind.

Download or read book Clinical Guide to Cardiac Autonomic Tests written by M. Malik and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-04-17 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following systematic development of technical aspects and physiological understanding, and clinical applicability of cardiac autonomic testing, this book provides a detailed guide to performing individual autonomic tests in both research and clinical settings. The book is structured in three parts covering the physiological background of cardiac autonomic regulations, description of technology and interpretation of individual autonomic tests, and applicability of the individual tests under various clinical circumstances and in defined populations of patients. The book is intended to serve both research and clinical cardiologists as well as research and clinical specialists of other medical fields who use the assessment of cardiac modulations to investigate the autonomic nervous system.

Download or read book Sleight of Hand written by Charlie Cochet and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-06-30 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Former Special Forces Green Beret, Sacha "Joker" Wilder, is well-versed on the subject of demolitions. As a silent partner of Four Kings Security, Joker spends his days working alongside his brothers-in-arms and his best boy, Chip-a bomb-sniffing Belgian Malinois with sass. Years of military and private security experience have prepared Joker for almost anything, except the explosive attraction between him and Giovanni Galanos. When Gio returns from his travels abroad, everyone is charmed by the handsome billionaire philanthropist, but in Joker's experience, anyone who's too good to be true usually is. Gio is hiding something, but the more time Joker spends around Gio, the more his walls start crumbling, leaving him exposed and at risk of losing his heart, something he swore he would never do. Love is for suckers, and that's not him. For years Gio has dedicated his life to his charity work, helping people around the globe, but when things go horribly wrong during one particular trip, Gio decides it's time to come home for good. The desire for family, and a certain ex-Green Beret with a chip on his shoulder, has Gio eager to restart his life Stateside. For all of Sacha's blustering and griping, no one makes Gio feel safer. If only Sacha could see how right they are for each other. Danger lurks in the shadows as someone sets their sights on Gio, and secrets are forced into the light. If Gio and Joker are to have any kind of future together, they'll have to face difficult truths, because where love is concerned, it'll take more than sleight of hand to make things work. The Kings: Wild Cards series is a spin-off of the Four Kings Security series.

Download or read book Computer Analysis of Cardiovascular Signals written by M. Di Rienzo and published by IOS Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CHAPTER 17: Respiratory Pattern, Invested Effort, and Variability in Heart Rate and Blood Pressure During the Performance of Mental Tasks -- CHAPTER 18: Power Spectra of Blood Pressure in Normotensive and Spontaneously Hypertensive Rats: Relationship with Sympathetic Cardiovascular Control -- CHAPTER 19: Sympathectomy, Sinoaortic Denervation and Spectral Powers of Blood Pressure and Heart Rate in Lyon Rats -- CHAPTER 20: Heart Rate Variability in Chronic Heart Failure -- CHAPTER 21: Spectral Analysis of Blood Pressure and Heart Rate in Patients with Myocardial Infarction -- CHAPTER 22: Heart Rate Variability and Sudden Death: What's the Connection? -- CHAPTER 23: Power Spectrum Analysis of Heart Rate in Diabetic. Patients: A Marker of Autonomic Dysfunction -- References -- Author Index

Download or read book Sleight of Paw written by Sofie Kelly and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-09-06 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a local do-gooder is killed, small town librarian Kathleen Paulson and her magical cats have to dig up trouble in the second mystery in the New York Times bestselling series. Kathleen never wanted to be the crazy cat lady. But when Owen and Hercules followed her home from mysterious Wisteria Manor, she realized her mind wasn’t playing tricks on her—her cats have magical abilities. When the body of elderly Agatha Shepherd is found near Kath's favorite local café, she knows Owen's talent for turning invisible and Hercules's ability to walk through walls will give the felines access to clues Kath couldn't get without arousing suspicion. Someone is hiding some dark secrets—and it will take a bit of furtive investigating to catch the cold-hearted killer.

Download or read book The Sleight of Heart written by Benjamin Parsons and published by . This book was released on 2010-12-06 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latter-day folk tales of tragic romance and black comedy, with supernatural twists. Illustrated throughout by the author.A beguiling fortune-hunter pursued by a sinister figure from the depths of the sea...A desperate man saved from drowning who cannot be saved from himself...A mysterious foundling whose heart is lost beneath the waves...A couple enslaved by the tyranny of their own love...-And a cunning beauty whose wiles invoke a terrible supernatural retribution.

Download or read book Sleight of Hand written by Ainsley St Claire and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-24 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The night was magical, the morning after wasn't.I was celebrating selling my company when I noticed him enter the bar. Landon knew just what to say and one thing led to another. It was supposed to be a onetime thing, but reality slapped me in the face the next morning. He arrived to sign the purchase papers, and now I was committed to work for him for an entire decade. When I can't make my code work, his patience runs thin. Someone is sabotaging us, and if we can't figure it out, I'll have no company, no money, and no future.That night Tinsley offered something I couldn't resist. Now she works for me, and I have to put that night behind us. The project isn't getting finished, and the competition is nipping at our heels. My firm put a lot of money into this, and if I can't get it sorted out we lose and it affects a lot of people. I thought I was going to ruin her for other men when this was over, but she may ruin me first.Competition in the sector is fierce. Mutual attraction and a looming deadline collide in a volatile mix when Landon and Tinsley are forced together. Will missing coworkers, paparazzi, paternity suits, poker tournaments, and other distractions all conspire to threaten their future?Sleight of Hand is a standalone romantic suspense novel with a happy ending. It's the third book in the Billionaire Tech Series featuring the characters from the Venture Capitalist and Clear Security series.

Download or read book Human Cardiovascular Control written by Loring B. Rowell and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1993 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new analysis of reflex and hormonal control of the human cardiovascular system developed from questions raised in Human Circulation: During Physical Stress (Rowell, 1986) and from recent findings. The goal is to help students, physiologists and clinicians understand the control of pressure, vascular volume, and blood flow by examining the cardiovascular system during orthostasis and exercise, two stresses that most affect these variables. A discussion of the passive physical properties of the vascular system provides a basis for explaining how vascular control is modified by mechanical, neural, and humoral factors. Interactive effects of the vasculature on cardiac performance are emphasized; they reveal the importance of autonomic control, supplemented by muscle pumping, in maintaining adequate ventricular filling pressure. The author's detailed analysis of how total oxygen consumption is restricted focuses on limitations in cardiac pumping ability, oxygen diffusion from lungs to blood and from blood to active muscle, oxidative metabolism and neural control of organ blood flow. An unsolved mystery is the nature of the signals that govern the cardiovascular responses to exercise. This is discussed in a new and critical synthesis of ideas and evidence concerning the "error signals" that are sensed and then corrected by activation of the autonomic nervous system during exercise.

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Download or read book Central Cardiovascular Control written by D. Ganten and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most prominent function of the central nervous system is the control of motor functions by rapidly transmitted impulses through efferent cranial and spinal peripheral nerves. Besides electrically transmitted neural impulses, humoral mechanisms with more sustained actions are exercised by the brain and spinal cord to regulate body homeostasis. Thus, the brain may be regarded as an "endocrine gland" discharging neurohormones (peptides) either into the general circulation (neurohypophyseal hormones) or into the hypothalamo-adenohypophyseal portal circulation (releasing and inhibiting hormones). The brain, therefore, which is protected by the blood-brain barrier from disturbing and potentially noxious exogenous and endogenous agents circulating in the blood, has to have certain neurohemal regions beyond this barrier, such as the neural lobe and the median eminence (infundibulum), where neurohor mones have free access to the blood stream. To regulate somatic and autonomic functions in the best possible way, the central nervous system is highly dependent on feedback signals conveyed through somatic and visceral afferent nerves as well as on peripheral humoral signals such as peripheral hormones and other circulating substances that are under homeostatic regulation, e. g. , peptides, arnines, electrolytes, and other biologically active agents. In this chapter, the role of the blood-brain barrier in the regulation of these sub stances will be discussed with special emphasis on the access through the blood-brain barrier to cardiovascular centers. 2 The Blood-Brain Barrier 2.

Download or read book Reflex Control of the Circulation written by Irving H. Zucker and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2020-02-03 with total page 1088 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reflex Control of the Circulation presents an interdisciplinary discussion of concepts in the reflex control of circulation. This volume describes aspects of autonomic receptor physiology, central pathways of reflex control, the electrophysiology of cardiovascular afferents, the interaction between reflexes, the autonomic control of regional blood flows, the autonomic control of fluid and electrolyte balance, and neurohumoral control of the circulation through normal and pathological states (e.g., hypertension, congestive heart failure). In addition, the regulation of regional blood flow during exercise and developmental aspects of reflex control are examined. Any researcher interested in the autonomic system and its role in circulation will find this book fascinating reading.

Download or read book Cardiovascular Disability written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2010-12-04 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Social Security Administration (SSA) uses a screening tool called the Listing of Impairments to identify claimants who are so severely impaired that they cannot work at all and thus immediately qualify for benefits. In this report, the IOM makes several recommendations for improving SSA's capacity to determine disability benefits more quickly and efficiently using the Listings.