1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910461071703321

Titolo

Civilians and modern war : armed conflict and the ideology of violence / / edited by Daniel Rothbart, Karina V. Korostelina and Mohammed D. Cherkaoui

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Routledge, , 2012

ISBN

1-283-54634-5

9786613858795

1-136-33340-1

0-203-12256-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (369 p.)

Collana

War, conflict and ethics

Altri autori (Persone)

CherkaouiMohammed D. <1960->

KorostelinaK. V (Karina Valentinovna)

RothbartDaniel

Disciplina

305.9/0695

Soggetti

Civilians in war

Combatants and noncombatants (International law)

Civilian war casualties

War victims

Military history, Modern - 20th century

Military history, Modern - 21st century

War - Moral and ethical aspects

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; Civilians and Modern War; Copyright; Contents; List of figures and tables; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgments; 1. The place and plight of civilians in modern war; Part I: Targeting civilians; 2. The role of civilians in American war ideology; 3. Devastating civilians at home: the plight of Crimean Tatars and Californians of Asian descent during World War; 4. Military culture and civilian victimization: the Allied bombing of Germany in World War II; 5. Double victims: the recruitment and treatment of child soldiers in Chechnya; Part II: Preserving civilian immunity



6. The politics of civilian identity7. Israeli soldiers' perceptions of Palestinian civilians during the 2009 Gaza War; 8. Civilian vulnerability in asymmetric conflict: lessons from the Second Lebanon and Gaza Wars; 9. In the shadow of soldiers: faceless victims in public media narrative; 10. Civilians, pundits, and the mediatized ideology; Part III: Redressing anti-civilian; 11. Trans-regional military dimensions of civilian protection: a two-part problem with a two-part solution; 12. Civilians under the law: inequality, universalisms, and intersectionality as intervention

13. The price of justice14. Preventing genocide: towards systematic engagement by states; 15. Making amends: a new expectation for civilian losses in armed conflict; 16. Conclusion: the road ahead; Name index; Subject index

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores the issue of civilian devastation in modern warfare, focusing on the complex processes that effectively establish civilians' identity in times of war.Underpinning the physicality of war's tumult are structural forces that create landscapes of civilian vulnerability. Such forces operate in four sectors of modern warfare: nationalistic ideology, state-sponsored militaries, global media, and international institutions. Each sector promotes its own constructions of civilian identity in relation to militant combatants: constructions that prove lethal to the civil



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910782300703321

Titolo

Genome sequencing technology and algorithms / / Sun Kim, Haixu Tang, Elaine R. Mardis, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston : , : Artech House, , ©2008

[Piscataqay, New Jersey] : , : IEEE Xplore, , [2007]

ISBN

1-59693-095-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (275 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KimSun <1962->

TangHaixu

MardisElaine <1962->

Disciplina

572.86

Soggetti

Genomes - Analysis

Nucleotide sequence

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

An overview of new DNA sequencing technology -- Array-based pyrosequencing technology -- The role of resequencing arrays in revolutionizing DNA sequencing -- Polony sequencing -- Genome sequencing: a complex path to personalized medicine -- Overview of genome assembly techniques -- Fragment assembly algorithms -- Assembly for double-ended short read sequencing technologies -- Genome characterization in the post-human genome project era -- The haplotyping problem: an overview of computational models and solutions -- Analysis of genomic alterations in cancer -- High-throughput assessments of epigenomics in human disease -- Comparative sequencing, assembly, and anchoring.

Sommario/riassunto

"From a who's who of pioneers in the field comes a unique resource covering the latest advances in next generation genome sequencing and assembly. This groundbreaking book includes non-conventional techniques that are paving the way to potential new biomedical applications. Practitioners find unparalleled access to state-of-the-art DNA sequencing technologies, new algorithmic sequence assembly techniques, and emerging methods for both resequencing and de novo genome analysis, which all together offer the most solid foundation



possible for tackling the full range of experimental and computational challenges in the genome sciences today."--Jacket.