A sermon, preached in the West Church in Boston, January 2, 1831 : being a quarter of a century from the settlement of the present minister /

Includes a history of the West Church (p. [17]-20).

The young minister's companion, or, A collection of valuable and scarce treatises on the pastoral office, ...

Also on t.p.: Comprising Mason's Student and pastor; Burnet's Pastoral care; MacGill's Considerations, etc.; Baxter's Reformed pastor; Jennings, Of preaching Christ; Jennings, Of particular and experimental preaching; Watts's Rules of ministerial conduct; and Doddridge on the evil of neglecting souls.

The American builder's general price book and estimator, now first published to elucidate the principles of ascertaining the correct value of every description of artificers' work required in building, from the prime cost of materials and labour in any part of the United States ... to which are added, a variety of useful tables, memorandums, etc.

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich., University Microfilms [n.d.] (American culture series, Reel 35.10)

The practical mechanic's pocket guide, or, a concise treatise on the prime movers of machinery and the weight and strength of materials with numerous practical rules and tables /

With: The universal calculator's pocket guide. Glasgow : M'Phun, 1844. - The practical engineer's pocket guide. Glasgow : M'Phun, 1847. - The practical mathematician's pocket guide. Glasgow : M'Phun, 1847.

The Christian minister's affectionate advice to a new married couple.

Mode of access: Internet.

Two sermons preached 21st November, 1830 : in commemoration of the organizing of the first church in Concord, and the settlement of the first minister, on the 18th November, 1730 /

Notes: p. [57]-102.

The Christian minister approving himself by his views, his labours and his trials : a sermon, preached at the New Meeting-house, in Birmingham, March 24, 1833, being the centenary of the birth of Dr. Priestley /

Crook B/577a.

The cabinet minister : a farce in four acts /

Mode of access: Internet.

The Christian minister's great work : the sermon at the consecration of the Right Rev. George Upfold, D. D., Bishop ... in the Diocese of Indiana ; preached in Christ Church, Indianapolis, Sunday, December 16, 1849 /

"Published by request of the Standing Committee of the Diocese of Indiana."

The prime ministers of Britain, 1721-1921,

Mode of access: Internet.

Political strategy, leadership, and policy entrepreneurship in Japanese defense policy and politics: A comparison of three prime ministerships

Since the end of the Cold War, Japan's defense policy and politics has gone through significant changes. Throughout the post cold war period, US-Japan alliance managers, politicians with differing visions and preferences, scholars, think tanks, and the actions of foreign governments have all played significant roles in influencing these changes. Along with these actors, the Japanese prime minister has played an important, if sometimes subtle, role in the realm of defense policy and politics. Japanese prime ministers, though significantly weaker than many heads of state, nevertheless play an important role in policy by empowering different actors (bureaucratic actors, independent commissions, or civil actors), through personal diplomacy, through agenda-setting, and through symbolic acts of state. The power of the prime minister to influence policy processes, however, has frequently varied by prime minister. My dissertation investigates how different political strategies and entrepreneurial insights by the prime minister have influenced defense policy and politics since the end of the Cold War. In addition, it seeks to explain how the quality of political strategy and entrepreneurial insight employed by different prime ministers was important in the success of different approaches to defense. My dissertation employs a comparative case study approach to examine how different prime ministerial strategies have mattered in the realm of Japanese defense policy and politics. Three prime ministers have been chosen: Prime Minister Hashimoto Ryutaro (1996-1998); Prime Minister Koizumi Junichiro (2001-2006); and Prime Minister Hatoyama Yukio (2009-2010). These prime ministers have been chosen to provide maximum contrast on issues of policy preference, cabinet management, choice of partners, and overall strategy. As my dissertation finds, the quality of political strategy has been an important aspect of Japan's defense transformation. Successful strategies have frequently used the knowledge and accumulated personal networks of bureaucrats, supplemented bureaucratic initiatives with top-down personal diplomacy, and used a revitalized US-Japan strategic relationship as a political resource for a stronger prime ministership. Though alternative approaches, such as those that have looked to displace the influence of bureaucrats and the US in defense policy, have been less successful, this dissertation also finds theoretical evidence that alternatives may exist.

The State of the Nation Debate as part of the democratic parliamentary ritual: Rajoy and Rubalcaba discourse analysis, 2014

In this article we analyze the Debate on the State of the Nation 2014. The methodology consists in coding the speeches of the prime minister, Mariano Rajoy (PP) and the then opposition leader Alfredo Perez Rubalcaba (PSOE) through extracting word clouds, branched maps and word trees that have shown the most common concepts and premises. This preliminary analysis of two dimensions, quantitative and qualitative, makes it much easier and viable subsequent discourse analysis where we focus on the different types of arguments in the communicative act: claim/solution, circumstantial premises, goal premises, value premises, meansgoal premises, alternative options/addressing alternative options.

The relationship between adipokines and the onset of type 2 diabetes in middle-aged men: The PRIME study

Aims: Epidemiological evidence suggests that adipokines may be associated with the onset of type 2 diabetes, but the evidence to date is limited and inconclusive. This study examined the association between adiponectin and leptin and the subsequent diagnosis of type 2 diabetes in a UK population based cohort of non-diabetic middle-aged men.
Methods: Baseline serum levels of leptin and adiponectin were measured in 1839 nondiabetic men aged 50–60 years who were participating in the prospective populationbased PRIME study. Over a mean follow-up of 14.7 years, new cases of type 2 diabetes were determined from self-reported clinical information with subsequent validation by general practitioners.
Results: 151 Participants developed type 2 diabetes during follow-up. In Cox regression models adjusted for age, men in the top third of the leptin distribution were at increased risk (hazard ratio (HR) 4.27, 95% CI 2.67–6.83) and men in the top third of the adiponectin
distribution at reduced risk (HR 0.24, 95% CI 0.14–0.42) relative to men in the bottom third. However, significance was lost for leptin after additional adjustment for BMI, waist to hip ratio, lifestyle factors and biological risk factors, including C-reactive protein (CRP). Further adjustment for HOMA-IR also resulted in loss of significance for adiponectin.
Conclusions: This study provides evidence that adipokines are associated with men’s future type 2 diabetes risk but not independently of other risk factors.