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Record Nr.

UNINA9910158766703321

Autore

Murphy USAF Col. David J

Titolo

Naval Strategy During The American Civil War

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Francisco : , : Golden Springs Publishing, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

9781786253811

178625381X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (43 pages)

Disciplina

359.4

Soggetti

Naval strategy

Blockade

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ABSTRACT -- CHAPTER 1-UNION NAVAL STRATEGY -- Union Naval Blockade -- Joint Army and Navy Operations in the East -- Naval Strategy in the Western Theater -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 2-CONFEDERATE NAVAL STRATEGY -- Privateering -- Commerce Raiding -- Conclusion -- CHAPTER 3-NAVAL TECHNOLOGY -- Background -- Merrimac and Monitor -- Strategic Implications -- Mines and Submarine Warfare -- Conclusion -- BIBLIOGRAPHY.

Sommario/riassunto

The objective of the research project is to examine how the Union and Confederate naval strategies and new naval technologies affected the conduct of the American Civil War. With regard to the Union Navy's strategy, the effectiveness of the blockade, Western River Campaign, and amphibious operations were examined. Discussions on the Union blockade also touch on the effectiveness on Confederate blockade runners. The Confederate strategies of using privateers and commerce raiders are examined. Confederate coastal and river defenses are examined within the context of new technology, specifically with respect to ironclad ships and the use of mines, torpedoes, and submarines.The paper shows how naval strategy did play a major role in the outcome of the Civil War. Although it cannot be said that naval strategies were singularly decisive, they certainly were vitally important



and often overlooked in history books.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910161648203321

Autore

Zaritsky Arieh

Titolo

The Bacterial Cell: Coupling between Growth, Nucleoid Replication, Cell Division and Shape

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frontiers Media SA, 2016

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (324 p.)

Collana

Frontiers Research Topics

Soggetti

Microbiology (non-medical)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Bacterial Physiology was inaugurated as a discipline by the seminal research of Maaløe, Schaechter and Kjeldgaard published in 1958. Their work clarified the relationship between cell composition and growth rate and led to unravel the temporal coupling between chromosome replication and the subsequent cell division by Helmstetter et al. a decade later. Now, after half a century this field has become a major research direction that attracts interest of many scientists from different disciplines. The outstanding question how the most basic cellular processes - mass growth, chromosome replication and cell division - are inter-coordinated in both space and time is still unresolved at the molecular level. Several particularly pertinent questions that are intensively studied follow: (a) what is the primary signal to place the Z-ring precisely between the two replicating and segregating nucleoids? (b) Is this coupling related to the structure and position of the nucleoid itself? (c) How does a bacterium determine and maintain its shape and dimensions? Possible answers include gene expression-based mechanisms, self-organization of protein assemblies and physical principles such as micro-phase separations by excluded volume interactions, diffusion ratchets and membrane stress or curvature. The relationships between biochemical reactions and



physical forces are yet to be conceived and discovered. This e-book discusses the above mentioned and related questions. The book also serves as an important depository for state-of-the-art technologies, methods, theoretical simulations and innovative ideas and hypotheses for future testing. Integrating the information gained from various angles will likely help decipher how a relatively simple cell such as a bacterium incorporates its multitude of pathways and processes into a highly efficient self-organized system. The knowledge may be helpful in the ambition to artificially reconstruct a simple living system and to develop new antibacterial drugs.