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Record Nr.

UNINA9910317733903321

Titolo

Advances in Agrophysical Research / / Stanislaw Grundas, Andrzej Stepniewski, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

IntechOpen, 2013

[Place of publication not identified] : , : IntechOpen, , [2013]

©2013

ISBN

953-51-5384-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (397 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

631.43

Soggetti

Soil physics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

The idea of this book was born due to the rapid increase of the interest in excellence of agricultural production in the aspect of both – the quality of raw material for food production as well as in the aspect of environment protection. Agrophysics is a field of science that focuses on the quality of agriculture as a whole i.e. the interaction between human and environment, especially the interaction between soil, plant, atmosphere and machine. Physics with its laws, principles and rules is a good tool for description of the interactions, as well as of the results of these interactions. Some aspects of chemistry, biology and other fields of science are also taken under consideration. This interdisciplinary approach can result in holistic description of processes which should lead to improvement of the efficiency of obtaining the raw materials to ensure a sufficient amount of food, safe for human health. This book could be regarded as the contribution to this description. The reader can find some basic as well, as more particular aspects of the contemporary agriculture, starting with the soil characteristics and treatment, plant growth and agricultural products’ properties and processing.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822591403321

Titolo

Mathematical studies on human disease dynamics : emerging paradigms and challenges : AMS-IMS-SIAM Joint Summer Research Conference on modeling the dynamics of human diseases : emerging paradigms and challenges, July 17-21, 2005, Snowbird, Utah / / Abba B. Gumel, editor-in-chief ; Carlos Castillo-Chavez, Ronald E. Mickens, Dominic P. Clemence, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Providence, Rhode Island : , : American Mathematical Society, , [2006]

©2006

ISBN

0-8218-8073-X

0-8218-3775-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (406 p.)

Collana

Contemporary mathematics, , 0271-4132 ; ; 410

Disciplina

614.401/5118

Soggetti

Epidemiology - Mathematical models

Diseases - Mathematical models

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.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Prologue""; ""List of Participants""; ""The impact of environmental variation on hantavirus infection in rodents""; ""Preventive treatment of tuberculosis through contact tracing""; ""Optimal vaccination strategies for an influenza-like illness in a heterogeneous population""; ""Mathematical applications associated with the deliberate release of infectious agents""; ""Critical response to post-outbreak vaccination against foot-and-mouth disease""; ""Some promising approaches to tumor-immune modeling""

""Impact of prophylactic vaccination against human papillomavirus infection""""Population dynamics of developmental deficits due to an environmental neurotoxicant""; ""Optimal therapy regimens for treatment-resistant mutations of HIV""; ""Cancer modeling: A perspective on what's new and what's next""; ""Understanding a killer: A predictive model for tumor development""; ""Optimal control methods applied to disease models""; ""Infection dynamics on small-world networks""; ""Moving beyond averages: Individual-level variation in disease transmission""



""Models for the spread of HIV /AIDS: Trends in Southern Africa""""Epidemic spread in populations at demographic equilibrium""; ""Models for Dengue transmission and control""; ""Seasonality of rotavirus infection with its vaccination""; ""Current research issues in mosquito-borne diseases modeling""; ""The role of transactional sex in spreading HIV in Nigeria""