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Record Nr.

UNINA9910557684203321

Autore

Lovisari Lorenzo

Titolo

The Physical Properties of the Groups of Galaxies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (250 p.)

Soggetti

Research and information: general

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Galaxy groups consist of a few tens of galaxies bound in a common gravitational potential and contain a significant fraction of the overall universal baryon budget. Therefore, they are key to our understanding of how the bulk of matter in the Universe accretes and forms hierarchical structures and how different sources of feedback affect their gravitational collapse. However, despite their crucial role in cosmic structure formation and evolution, galaxy groups have received less attention compared to massive clusters. This is perhaps in part due to their rarity in being observed and properly characterized. With the advent of eROSITA, many thousands of galaxy groups will be detected by X-ray, complementing optical and SZ coverage. In this Special Issue we collected and organized the latest developments in our understanding of these systems and present future prospects from both observational and theoretical points of view.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910988384003321

Autore

Lesser Jeff

Titolo

Living and Dying in São Paulo : Immigrants, Health, and the Built Environment in Brazil / / Jeffrey Lesser

Pubbl/distr/stampa

2025

Durham : , : Duke University Press, , [2025]

ISBN

9781478094111

1478094117

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (319 p.)

Classificazione

HIS033000MED078000SOC008050

Disciplina

362.1098161

Soggetti

Environmental health - Brazil - São Paulo

Immigrants - Health and hygiene - Brazil - São Paulo

Public health - Brazil - São Paulo

Social classes - Health aspects - Brazil - São Paulo

HISTORY / Latin America / South America

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- contents -- A Long Set Of Acknowledgments -- An Introduction -- 1 Naming a Death -- 2 Bom Retiro Is the World? -- 3 Bad Health in a Good Retreat -- 4 Enforcing Health -- 5 A Building Block of Health -- 6 Unliving Rats and Undead Immigrants -- A Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

There is a saying in Brazil: “Mosquitoes are democratic: they bite the rich and the poor alike.” Why then is bad health---from violence to respiratory disease, from malaria to dengue---dispersed unevenly across different social and national groups? In Living and Dying in São Paulo, Jeffrey Lesser focuses on the Bom Retiro neighborhood to explore such questions by examining the competing visions of well-being in Brazil among racialized immigrants and policymakers and health officials. He analyzes the fraught relationship between Bom Retiro residents and the state and health care agencies that have overseen community sanitation efforts since the mid-nineteenth century, drawing out the connected systems of the built environment, public health laws and practices, and citizenship. Lesser employs the



concept of “residues” to outline how continuing historical material, legislative, and social legacies structure contemporary daily life and health outcomes in the neighborhood. In so doing, Lesser creates a dialogue between the past and the present, showing how the relationship between culture and disease is both layered and interconnected.