1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990007108310403321

Titolo

Il suicidio nel mondo contemporaneo / a cura di Luigi Pavan, Diego De Leo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Padova : Liviana, [1988]

ISBN

88-7675-527-6

Descrizione fisica

XVI, 268 p. ; 24 cm

Collana

Saggi ; 16

Disciplina

616.858445

Locazione

FSPBC

Collocazione

Collez. 1975 (16)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910450270903321

Autore

Andreasen Nancy C

Titolo

Brave new brain [[electronic resource] ] : conquering mental illness in the era of the genome / / Nancy C. Andreasen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2001

ISBN

1-280-53175-4

9786610531752

0-19-530286-9

0-19-803315-X

1-60256-849-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (389 p.)

Disciplina

616.89/042

Soggetti

Mental illness

Mental illness - Genetic aspects

Human genome

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa



Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I: BROKEN BRAINS AND TROUBLED MINDS -- CHAPTER 1 Brave New Brain: Confronting the Burden of Mental Illness -- CHAPTER 2 A Waking Nightmare: Mental Illness and Ordinary People -- CHAPTER 3 Broken Brains, Troubled Minds: Being Blinded by False Dichotomies -- Part II: MIND MEETS MOLECULE -- CHAPTER 4 The Brain: The Mind's Dynamic Orchestra -- CHAPTER 5 Mapping the Genome: The Blueprint of Life ... and Death -- CHAPTER 6 Mapping the Mind: Using Neuroimaging to Observe How the Brain Thinks -- Part III: THE BURDEN OF MENTAL ILLNESS -- CHAPTER 7 Understanding What Mental Illnesses Are: The Past Is Prologue to Progress -- CHAPTER 8 Schizophrenia: A Mind Divided -- CHAPTER 9 Mood Disorders: Riding the Emotional Roller Coaster -- CHAPTER 10 Dementias: A Death in Life -- CHAPTER 11 Anxiety Disorders: The Stress Regulator Goes Wild -- Part IV: BRAVE NEW BRAIN -- CHAPTER 12 O Brave New World: Conquering Mental Illness in the Era of the Genome -- References and Suggested Readings -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Nancy Andreasen, a leading neuroscientist who is also Editor-in-Chief of the prestigious American Journal of Psychiatry as well as the winner of the illustrious National Medal of Science, offers here a state-of-the-art look at what we know about the human brain and the human genome-and shows how these two vast branches of knowledge are coming together in a boldly ambitious effort to conquer mental illness. Scientists today know more about the brain than ever before, thanks to new imaging techniques and to discoveries in neuroscience and molecular biology. Andreasen gives us an engaging and readable description of how it all works, from the billions of neurons to the tiny thalamus to the moral monitor in our prefrontal cortex. She also shows the progress made in mapping the human genome, whose 30,000-40,000 genes are almost all active in the brain. In perhaps the most fascinating section of the book, we read gripping stories of the people who develop mental illness, the friends and relatives who share their suffering, the physicians who treat them, and the scientists who study them so that better treatments can be found.This section covers four major disorders-schizophrenia, manic depression, anxiety disorders, and dementia-revealing what causes them, what happens to the mind and brain, and how the illnesses are treated. Finally, the book shows how the powerful tools of genetics and neuroscience will be combined during the next decades to build healthier brains and minds. Andreasen's bestselling The Broken Brain broke new ground in the public understanding of mental illness. Now, by revealing how combining genome mapping with brain mapping can unlock the mysteries of mental illness, she again offers general readers a remarkably fresh perspective on these devastating diseases-their nature, treatment, and possible future prevention.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454603403321

Autore

Ghiaasiaan Seyed Mostafa <1953->

Titolo

Two-phase flow, boiling and condensation in conventional and miniature systems / / S. Mostafa Ghiaasiaan [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2007

ISBN

1-107-18547-5

9786612001253

0-511-47959-X

1-282-00125-6

0-511-48039-3

0-511-47718-X

0-511-47574-8

0-511-61941-3

0-511-47870-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xx, 613 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Disciplina

620.1/064

Soggetti

Fluid dynamics

Two-phase flow

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 561-599) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; Frequently Used Notation; Greek characters; Superscripts; Subscripts; Abbreviations; PART ONE: TWO-PHASE FLOW; 1 Thermodynamic and Single-Phase Flow Fundamentals; 2 Gas-Liquid Interfacial Phenomena; 3 Two-Phase Mixtures, Fluid Dispersions, and Liquid Films; 4 Two-Phase Flow Regimes - I; 5 Two-Phase Flow Modeling; 6 The Drift Flux Model and Void-Quality Relations; 7 Two-Phase Flow Regimes - II; 8 Pressure Drop in Two-Phase Flow; 9 Countercurrent Flow Limitation; 10 Two-Phase Flow in Small Flow Passages; PART TWO: BOILING AND CONDENSATION

11 Pool Boiling12 Flow Boiling; 13 Critical Heat Flux and Post-CHF Heat Transfer in Flow Boiling; 14 Flow Boiling and CHF in Small Passages; 15 Fundamentals of Condensation; 16 Internal-Flow Condensation and Condensation on Liquid Jets and Droplets; 17 Choking in Two-Phase



Flow; APPENDIX A: Thermodynamic Properties of Saturated Water and Steam; APPENDIX B: Transport Properties of Saturated Water and Steam; APPENDIX C: Thermodynamic Properties of Saturated Liquid and Vapor for Selected Refrigerants; APPENDIX D: Properties of Selected Ideal Gases at 1 Atmosphere

APPENDIX E: Binary Diffusion Coefficients of Selected Gases in Air at 1 AtmosphereaAPPENDIX F: Henry's Constant of Dilute Aqueous Solutions of Selected Substances at Moderate Pressures; APPENDIX G: Diffusion Coefficients of Selected Substances in Water at Infinite Dilution at 25oC; APPENDIX H: Lennard-Jones Potential Model Constants for Selected Molecules; APPENDIX I: Collision Integrates for the Lennard-Jones Potential Model; APPENDIX J: Physical Constants; APPENDIX K: Unit Conversions; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This text is an introduction to gas-liquid two-phase flow, boiling and condensation for graduate students, professionals, and researchers in mechanical, nuclear, and chemical engineering. The book provides a balanced coverage of two-phase flow and phase change fundamentals, well-established art and science dealing with conventional systems, and the rapidly developing areas of microchannel flow and heat transfer. It is based on the author's more than 15 years of teaching experience. Instructors teaching multiphase flow have had to rely on a multitude of books and reference materials. This book remedies that problem by covering all the topics essential for a graduate course. Important areas include: two-phase flow model conservation equations and their numerical solution; condensation with and without noncondensables; and two-phase flow, boiling, and condensation in mini and microchannels.