American Recovery and Reinvestment Act site inspection of sewer pump station rehabilitation and improvements, Town of Ball, Louisiana [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910699713403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: [Washington, D.C.] : , : U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Inspector General, , [2010]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (5 pages)
• Collana: Site inspection report
• Soggetti: Pumping stations - Louisiana - Ball (Town); Sewerage - Louisiana - Ball (Town) - Maintenance and repair
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Title from PDF title screen (viewed Oct. 19, 2011).; "November 9, 2010."; "Report No. 11-R-0014."

Love & death in Renaissance Italy / / Thomas V. Cohen

• Record Nr.: UNISA996248215903316
• Autore: Cohen Thomas V (Thomas Vance), <1942->
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , 2004; ©2004
• ISBN: 1-282-50417-7; 9786612504174; 0-226-11260-8
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (viii, 306 pages) : illustrations, map
• Disciplina: 945/.05
• Soggetti: Renaissance - Italy; Italy Social life and customs To 1500 Sources
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-287) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Double murder in Cretone Castle -- Lost love and a handkerchief -- The last will of Vittoria Giustini -- "This is my dowry" : the vile loves of prosecutor Pallantieri -- The lady lives, the pigeon dies -- Three in a bed : the seduction of Innocentia.
• Sommario/riassunto: Gratuitous sex. Graphic violence. Lies, revenge, and murder. Before there was digital cable or reality television, there was Renaissance Italy and the courts in which Italian magistrates meted out justice to the vicious and the villainous, the scabrous and the scandalous. Love and Death in Renaissance Italy retells six piquant episodes from the Italian court just after 1550, as the Renaissance gave way to an era of Catholic reformation. Each of the chapters in this history chronicles a domestic drama around which the lives of ordinary Romans are suddenly and violently altered. You might read the gruesome murder that opens the book-when an Italian noble takes revenge on his wife and her bastard lover as he catches them in delicto flagrante-as straight from the pages of Boccaccio. But this tale, like the other stories Cohen recalls here, is true, and its recounting in this scintillating work is based on assiduous research in court proceedings kept in the state archives in Rome. Love and Death in Renaissance Italy contains stories of a forbidden love for an orphan nun, of brothers who cruelly exact a will from their dying ; teenage sister, and of a malicious papal prosecutor who not only rapes a band of sisters, but turns their shambling father into a pimp! Cohen retells each cruel episode with a blend of sly wit and warm sympathy and then wraps his tales in ruminations on their lessons, both for the history of their own time and for historians writing today. What results is a book at once poignant and painfully human as well as deliciously entertaining.

Antibacterial Surfaces / / edited by Elena Ivanova, Russell Crawford

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910298442803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2015
• ISBN: 3-319-18594-2
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2015.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (175 p.)
• Disciplina: 610
• Soggetti: Medicine - Research; Biology - Research; Cytology; Proteins; Biophysics; Biomedical Research; Cell Biology; Protein Biochemistry
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1 Introduction to antibacterial surfaces, Hayden K. Webb, Russell J. Crawford and Elena P. Ivanova -- 2 Natural antibacterial surfaces, Song Ha Nguyen, Hayden K. Webb, Russell J. Crawford and Elena P. Ivanova -- 3 Simple to fabricate artificial antibacterial surfaces, A. Balcytis, Gediminas Seniutinas, F. Lapierre, Saulius Juodkazis -- 4 Electroactive antimicrobial surfaces, Paul J. Molino, B. Zhang, Michael J. Higgins -- 5 Manufacture of chemically modified antibacterial surfaces, Hitesh ; Pingle, Peng-Yuan Wang, Peter Kingshott -- 6 Design and fabrication of antibacterial metallic implant surfaces, Vy T. H. Pham, Chris M. Bhadra, Vi Khanh Truong, Russell J. Crawford, Elena P. Ivanova -- 7 Cytotoxic effects and biocompatibility of antimicrobial materials, Olha Bazaka and Kateryna Bazaka -- 8 Development of Fimbrolides and Halogenated Furanones as Antimicrobial Agents, Kitty K. K. Ho, Samuel K. Kutty, Daniel Chan, Renxun Chen, Mark D. P. Willcox, Naresh Kumara -- Index.
• Sommario/riassunto: ‘Antibacterial Surfaces’ covers the advances being made in the design of antibacterial surfaces, which have the ability to either prevent the initial attachment of bacterial cells, or kill any cells that come into contact with these surfaces. This book discusses the mechanisms associated with the attachment of bacteria to surfaces and the main strategies currently being employed to control the initial attachment processes. These strategies are expanded upon in the subsequent chapters, where the definition and description of antibacterial surfaces are clarified, as are the mechanisms that come into play when determining the effectiveness of an antibacterial surface. Subsequent chapters discuss a number of naturally occurring antibacterial surfaces, the methods currently being used for producing synthetic antibacterial surfaces, and the current and potential applications of such materials. This book will be of great interest to people who work with materials that need to remain free of bacterial films, from designing safer biomedical implants to the production of self-cleaning materials where the prevention of biofilm formation has significant economic advantages.