1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910459518803321

Autore

Harrison Robert Pogue

Titolo

Forests [[electronic resource] ] : the shadow of civilization / / Robert Pogue Harrison

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c1992

ISBN

1-282-64631-1

9786612646317

0-226-31805-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Disciplina

809/.9336

Soggetti

Forests in literature

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 (p. 267-276) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. FIRST THE FORESTS -- 2. SHADOWS OF LAW -- 3. ENLIGHTENMENT -- 4. FORESTS OF NOSTALGIA -- 5. DWELLING -- EPILOGUE: THE ECOLOGY OF FINITUDE -- Notes and Bibliography -- Works Cited -- Index -- Illustration Credits

Sommario/riassunto

In this wide-ranging exploration of the role of forests in Western thought, Robert Pogue Harrison enriches our understanding not only of the forest's place in the cultural imagination of the West, but also of the ecological dilemmas that now confront us so urgently. Consistently insightful and beautifully written, this work is especially compelling at a time when the forest, as a source of wonder, respect, and meaning, disappears daily from the earth. "Forests is one of the most remarkable essays on the human place in nature I have ever read, and belongs on the small shelf that includes Raymond Williams' masterpiece, The Country and the City. Elegantly conceived, beautifully written, and powerfully argued, [Forests] is a model of scholarship at its passionate best. No one who cares about cultural history, about the human place in nature, or about the future of our earthly home, should miss it.-William Cronon, Yale Review "Forests is, among other things, a work of scholarship, and one of immense value . . . one that we have needed. It



can be read and reread, added to and commented on for some time to come."-John Haines, The New York Times Book Review

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910437581103321

Titolo

Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare : Third International Conference, MobiHealth 2012, Paris, France, November 21-23, 2012, Revised Selected Papers / / edited by Balwant Godara, Konstantina S Nikita

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013

ISBN

3-642-37893-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2013.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XIV, 457 p. 190 illus.)

Collana

Lecture Notes of the Institute for Computer Sciences, Social Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering, , 1867-822X ; ; 61

Disciplina

610.285

Soggetti

Medical informatics

Computers and civilization

Computer networks

Data mining

Health Informatics

Computers and Society

Computer Communication Networks

Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

A Complete TV-Based Solution for Remote Patient Monitoring and Care -- Biomedical Monitoring of Non-hospitalized Subjects Using Disruption-Tolerant Wireless Sensors -- ANT+ Medical Health Kit for Older Adults -- Smart Media Services through TV Sets for Elderly and Dependent Persons -- User Centered Design of an Interactive Mobile Assistance and Supervision System for Rehabilitation Purposes -- One IMU is Sufficient: A Study Evaluating Effects of Dual-Tasks on Gait in Elderly People -- On the Use of Nomadic Relaying for Emergency



Telemedicine Services -- A Mobile Healthcare System for Sub-saharan Africa -- A Novel Method for Feature Extraction in Vocal Fold Pathology Diagnosis -- Monitoring Respiratory Sounds: Compressed Sensing Reconstruction via OMP on Android Smartphone -- A Personalized Model for Galvanic Coupling in Intrabody Communication Systems -- Switching from Traditional Medical Applications to Mobile Devices: Cardiac and Cochlear Implants -- Persuasive Design in Mobile Applications for Mental Well-Being: Multidisciplinary Expert Review -- Fundamental Study for Optical BAN -- Spectrum Sensing Improvement in Cognitive Radio Networks for Real-Time Patients Monitoring -- Theoretical Analysis and Modeling of Link Adaptation Schemes in Body Area Networks -- Mobile Multi-parametric Sensor System for Diagnosis of Epilepsy and Brain Related Disorders -- An Integrated Broker Platform for Open eHealth Domain -- Data Processing from mHealth Patient Data Acquisition Related to Extracting Structured Data from EH Records -- Performance Evaluation of EC-ElGamal Encryption Algorithm for Wireless Sensor Networks -- An Analog Front-End and ADC Integrated Circuit for Implantable Force and Orientation Measurements in Joint Prosthesis -- Active Textile Antennas as a Platform for More Energy-Efficient and Reliable Wireless Links in Healthcare -- Identifying Physiological Features from the Radio Propagation Signal of Low-Power Wireless Sensors -- Cooperative and Low-Power Wireless Sensor Network for Efficient Body-Centric Communications in Healthcare Applications -- A Distributed Dynamic Mobility Architecture with Integral Cross-Layered and Context-Aware Interface for Reliable Provision of High Bitrate mHealth Services -- Depression Diagnostic and Screening Tools Using Android OS Platform.

Sommario/riassunto

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare, MobiHealth 2012, and of the two workshops: Workshop on Advances in Personalized Healthcare Services, Wearable Mobile Monitoring, and Social Media Pervasive Technologies (APHS 2012), and Workshop on Advances in Wireless Physical Layer Communications for Emerging Healthcare Applications (IWAWPLC 2012), all held in Paris, France, in November 2012. The 39 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 66 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections covering wearable, outdoor and home-based applications; remote diagnosis and patient management; data processing; sensor devices and systems; biomedical monitoring in relation to society and the environment; body area networks; telemedicine systems for disease-specific applications; data collection and management; papers from the invited session "Implants"; papers from the IWAWPLC and APHS workshops.