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UNINA9910461638203321 |
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Climate change adaptation : for health and social services / / editors, Rae Walker and Wendy Mason ; cover design by Karen de Heer |
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Clayton South, [Victoria] : , : CSIRO Publishing, , 2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (284 p.) |
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Climatic changes - Health aspects |
Environmental health |
Medical climatology |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index. |
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Climate Change Adaptation for Health and Social Services; Contents; List of contributors; Introduction: climate change adaptation in the health and social services sector; Part 1: Issues; Part 2: Vulnerable populations and appropriate adaptations; Part 3: Organisational adaptation; Appendix: climate change adaptation audit tool; Index; 1 Health and social impacts of climate change; 2 Adaptation: living with a changing environment; 3 Mitigation of climate change; 4 Communicating about climate change; 5 People with disability and their carers; 6 People who are elderly or have chronic conditions |
7 Women and children8 Climate change: impact on country and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture; 9 Support for adaptation in culturally and linguistically diverse communities; 10 Rural communities experiencing climate change: a systems approach to adaptation; 11 Community-based health and social services: managing risks from climate change; 12 Engaging communities in climate change adaptation; Introduction; Climate change and global health; Main health and social effects of climate change in Australia; Climate change as an equity issue |
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Importance of multi-sectoral partnerships in strengthening health and wellbeingCase study: communities coming together to strengthen health and social outcomes in conditions of adversity; Discussion; Conclusion; References; Introduction; The adaptation challenge; Climate projections and uncertainty; Direct and indirect impacts; Vulnerability assessments; Issues of equity and fairness; Pathways to adaptation; Towards effective engagement; Drivers that promote adaptation; Barriers that hinder adaptation; Measuring success; Monitoring and evaluation; Learning from case studies |
Case study: adapting coastal communities to sea-level riseCase study: adapting low-income households to extreme heat; Conclusion; References; Introduction; Carbon dioxide and fossil fuels; Language; Impacts of climate change; Floods; Fire; Emergency management; Mitigation and adaptation; Less energy and different energy; Energy auditing companies; Different energy; Social change; Examples of mitigation programs; The mitigation imperative; Endnote; References; Introduction; A variety of climate-related conversations; Climate change conversations can feel daunting - but don't have to be |
Preparing for the conversationsFraming the message; Presenting information vividly; Conclusion; References; Introduction; Climate change and health risks; Definitions of disability; Population of people with disability and their carers; Issues for people with disability and their carers; social justice approach to climate change and disability; A functional approach to emergencies and disability; Reasons disability organisations are concerned about emergencies; Issues for people with disability in emergencies; Inclusive planning to meet functional needs; Key areas of action |
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What we need to do in local communities to support and protect the people most vulnerable to the impacts of climate change in Australia. |
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UNINA9910830835903321 |
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Pathway analysis for drug discovery [[electronic resource] ] : computational infrastructure and applications / / edited by Anton Yuryev |
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Hoboken, N.J., : John Wiley & Sons, c2008 |
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1-281-83126-3 |
9786611831264 |
0-470-39927-9 |
0-470-39926-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (332 p.) |
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Collana |
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Wiley series on technologies for the pharmaceutical industry |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Drug development - Data processing |
DNA microarrays - Data processing |
Computational biology |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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PATHWAY ANALYSIS FOR DRUG DISCOVERY; CONTENTS; Preface; Contributors; 1 Introduction to Pathway Analysis; 2 Software Infrastructure and Data Model for Pathway Analysis; 3 Automatic Pathway Inference in Heterogeneous Biological Association Networks; 4 Algorithmic Basis for Pathway Visualization; 5 Pathway Analysis of High-Throughput Experimental Data; 6 Integrative Pathway Analysis of Disease Molecular Data; 7 Whole-Genome Expression Profiling of Papillary Serous Ovarian Cancer: Activated Pathways, Potential Targets, and Noise; 8 Mammalian Proteome and Toxicant Network Analysis |
9 Unraveling Mechanisms of Toxicity with the Power of Pathways: ToxWiz Tool as an Illustrative Example10 Impact of Chemistry Information on Pathway Analysis; 11 Propagation of Concentration Perturbations in Equilibrium Protein Binding Networks; 12 An Adaptive System Model of the Yeast Glucose Sensor System; 13 Present and Future of Pathway Analysis in Drug Discovery; Index |
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This book introduces drug researchers to the novel computational |
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approaches of pathway analysis and explains the existing applications that can save time and money in the drug discovery process. It covers traditional computational methods and software for pathway analysis microarray, proteomics, and metabolomics. It explains pathway reconstruction of diseases and toxic states, pathway analysis in various phases, dynamic modeling of drug responses, and more. This is a core resource for drug discovery and pharmaceutical industry researchers, chemists, and biologists and for professionals in rela |
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