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Record Nr.

UNINA9910456818403321

Autore

Callahan Joan R

Titolo

Emerging biological threats [[electronic resource] ] : a reference guide / / Joan R. Callahan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Santa Barbara, CA, : Greenwood Press, c2010

ISBN

3-13-372094-5

1-282-38593-3

9786612385933

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (342 p.)

Collana

Non-Series

Disciplina

362.196''9-dc22

571.992

Soggetti

Emerging infectious diseases

Health risk assessment

Food security

Electronic books.

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

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; 1. Introduction; Public Health: A Short History; Koch and His Postulates; Hazard, Threat, and Risk; Outbreaks, Epidemics, and Pandemics; What Is Popular Culture?; More Definitions; So How Bad Is It?; 2. Five Big Ones; HIV Disease and AIDS; Malaria; Tuberculosis; Influenza; Hepatitis B and C; 3. Five More (and Complications); Measles; Dysenteries and Enteric Fevers; Dengue and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever; Bad Bugs and Miracle Drugs; Emerging Diseases; What about Pneumonia?; What about Meningitis and Encephalitis?; Conclusion; 4. Food Insecurity

What about Bees?Mad Cow Disease; Foot-and-Mouth Disease; Anthrax; Rinderpest; Heartwater; Classical Swine Fever; Blue-Ear Pig Disease; Newcastle Disease; Avian Influenza; Honeybee Colony Collapse Disorder; Conclusion; 5. Food Insecurity, Continued; Citrus Tristeza Virus; Bacterial Wilt; Southern Corn Leaf Blight; Citrus Canker; Late Blight of Potato; Soybean Rust; Witches' Broom Disease; Phoma Stem Canker; Asian Soybean Aphid; Locusts; Conclusion: One to Grow On; 6. Making Things Worse; Too Many Babies: Overpopulation; Too Much



Carbon: Global Climate Change

Not Enough Food: Famine, Pestilence, Destruction, and DeathToo Much Food: Metabolic Syndrome and Type 2 Diabetes; Too Many Sick People: The Healthcare Crisis; Too Many Angry People: Bioterrorism; Too Many Experts: The Bogus Health Industry; Too Many Drugs: Substance Abuse; Too Much UV: Stratospheric Ozone Depletion Revisited; Too Many Cooks: Environmental Management Issues; Conclusion; 7. Fighting Back; Part 1: Balking the Enemy's Plans; Health Education; Better Food; A Higher Power; Basic Research; Water, Toilets, and Garbage; Part 2: Preventing the Junction of the Enemy's Forces

Lookouts: Surveillance and ScreeningArming the People: Vaccination; Holding the Line: Convenient Barriers; The Fifth Column: Ringers and Decoys; A Clean Camp: Home, School, and Workplace; Part 3: Attacking the Enemy's Army in the Field; Killing the Enemy: Snipers and WMDs; Disabling the Enemy's Transportation: Inconvenient Barriers; Destroying the Enemy's Resources: Habitat Modification; Enlisting Allies: Biological Controls; Bugout: Postexposure Prophylaxis; Part 4: Besieging Walled Cities; Mopping Up: Disease Eradication and Elimination; Occupation: Public Health Enforcement

Recruitment: Help WantedWho's Going to Pay for This?; Tuberculosis: The Million-Year War; Postscript: Making Friends; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z

Sommario/riassunto

What biological agents should we truly be afraid of? Which have garnered more attention than they warrant? <i>Emerging Biological Threats: A Reference Guide</i> is the antidote for the confusion surrounding the potentially devastating impact of pathogens on the human community. Written by a frontline professional in epidemiology, it is the most authoritative yet engagingly written resource available on the real risks we face, and the countermeasures used to confront them.    <i>Emerging Biological Threats</i> provides the information needed to understand significant direct threats to human he



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910795205303321

Autore

Geck Paul <1982->

Titolo

Automotive lightweighting using advanced high-strength steels / / by Paul Geck

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Warrendale, Pennsylvania (400 Commonwealth Dr., Warrendale PA USA) : , : Society of Automotive Engineers, , [2014]

ISBN

0-7680-8849-6

0-7680-8129-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xiii, 184 pages) : illustrations (mostly color)

Collana

Society of Automotive Engineers. Electronic publications

Disciplina

629.2/32

Soggetti

Steel, Automobile

Lightweight steel

Steel, High strength

Automobiles - Materials - Research

Automobiles - Design and construction

Automobiles - Weight

TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Materials Science / Metals & Alloys

TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Automotive

Materials science

Automotive technology and trades

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"SAE Order Number R-431."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Advanced high-strength steel technology -- Chapter 2. Impediments and enablers for advanced high-strength steels -- Chapter 3. Example applications of advanced high-strength steels -- Chapter 4. Comparison of advanced high-strength steels with alternative materials -- Chapter 5. Future direction of advanced high-strength steels -- Chapter 6. Conclusions and recommendations -- About the author.

Sommario/riassunto

"In support of the latest automotive challenges in terms of weight reduction, I wrote this book in an attempt to lay out the true opportunities for alternative material utility in automobiles and to offer the most up-to-date design guidance in efficient architectures



supported with the application of AHSS while exploring weight savings and resulting fuel economy advantages of this strategy. Realistic comparisons with other alternative materials are made through detailed analysis. Many projects that I have been part of will be explored to demonstrate how AHSS [advanced high-strength Steels ] technology has developed and to get us to the foothills of the mountain that we, as automobile design people, now must climb."--Preface.