Advances in Rings, Modules and Factorizations [[electronic resource] ] : Graz, Austria, February 19-23, 2018 / / edited by Alberto Facchini, Marco Fontana, Alfred Geroldinger, Bruce Olberding

• Record Nr.: UNISA996418278403316
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2020
• ISBN: 3-030-43416-8
• Edizione: [1st ed. 2020.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (341 pages)
• Collana: Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, , 2194-1009 ; ; 321
• Disciplina: 512.4
• Soggetti: Commutative algebra; Commutative rings; Group theory; Associative rings; Rings (Algebra); Commutative Rings and Algebras; Group Theory and Generalizations; Associative Rings and Algebras
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Anh, P. N., Kearnes, K., and Szendrei, A: Commutative Rings Whose Principal Ideals Have Unique Generators -- Brantner, J., Geroldinger, A., and Reinhart, A: On monoids of ideals of orders in quadratic number fields -- Chang, G. W.: UMT-domains: A survey -- D’Anna, M., Guerrieri, L., and Micale, V: The Ap ́ery Set of a Good Semigroup -- Domokos, M.: On syzygies for rings of invariants of abelian groups -- Dumitrescu, T.: A Bazzoni-type theorem for multiplicative lattices -- Paniagua, M., Facchini, A., Gran., M. and Janelidize, G: What is the spectral category? -- Finocchiaro, C. and Tartarone, F: A survey on the local invertibility of ideals in commutative rings -- Fontana, M., Houston, E., and Park, M. H: Idempotence and divisoriality in Prufer-like domains -- Frisch, S.: Simultaneous interpolation and P-adic approximation by integer-valued polynomials -- Fusacchia, G. and Salce, L: Length functions over Prufer domains -- Kainrath, F.: On some ; arithmetical properties of noetherian domains -- Lombardi, H.: Spectral spaces versus distributive lattices: a dictionary -- Lucas, T. G.: Valuative Marot rings -- Prihoda, P.: Classifying modules in Add of a class of modules with semilocal endomorphism rings -- Rangaswamy, K.: The multiplicative ideal theory of Leavitt path algebras of directed graphs- a survey -- Spirito, D.: When two principal star operations are the same -- Mattiello, F., Pavon, S., and Tonolo, A: Tilting modules and tilting torsion pairs -Filtrations induced by tilting modules.
• Sommario/riassunto: Occasioned by the international conference "Rings and Factorizations" held in February 2018 at University of Graz, Austria, this volume represents a wide range of research trends in the theory of commutative and non-commutative rings and their modules, including multiplicative ideal theory, Dedekind and Krull rings and their generalizations, rings of integer valued-polynomials, topological aspects of ring theory, factorization theory in rings and semigroups and direct-sum decompositions of modules. The volume will be of interest to researchers seeking to extend or utilize work in these areas as well as graduate students wishing to find entryways into active areas of current research in algebra. A novel aspect of the volume is an emphasis on how diverse types of algebraic structures and contexts (rings, modules, semigroups, categories) may be treated with overlapping and reinforcing approaches. .

Essential Microbiology

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910795833603321
• Autore: Hogg Stuart
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hoboken : , : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, , 2013; ©2013
• ISBN: 9781118527252; 9781119978909
• Edizione: [2nd ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (527 pages)
• Disciplina: 579
• Soggetti: Microbiological Phenomena; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- Essential Microbiology -- Contents -- Preface to Second Edition -- Preface to First Edition -- Acknowledgements -- About the Companion Website -- I Introduction -- 1 Microbiology: What, Why and How? -- 1.1 What is microbiology? -- 1.2 Why is microbiology important? -- 1.3 How do we know? Microbiology in perspective: to the Golden Age and beyond -- 1.4 Light microscopy -- 1.5 Electron microscopy -- 2 Biochemical Principles -- 2.1 Atomic structure -- 2.1.1 Isotopes -- 2.1.2 Chemical bonds -- 2.2 Acids, bases and pH -- 2.3 Biomacromolecules -- 2.3.1 Carbohydrates -- 2.3.2 Proteins -- 2.3.3 Higher levels of protein structure -- 2.3.4 Nucleic acids -- 2.3.5 Lipids -- 3 Cell Structure and Organisation -- 3.1 The prokaryotic cell -- 3.1.1 Prokaryotic cell structure -- 3.1.2 Genetic material -- 3.1.3 Ribosomes -- 3.1.4 Inclusion bodies -- 3.1.5 Endospores -- 3.1.6 The plasma membrane -- 3.1.7 The bacterial cell wall -- 3.1.8 Beyond the cell wall -- 3.2 The eukaryotic cell -- 3.2.1 The nucleus -- 3.2.2 Endoplasmic reticulum -- 3.2.3 Golgi apparatus -- 3.2.4 Lysosomes -- 3.2.5 Mitochondria -- 3.2.6 Chloroplasts -- 3.2.7 Vacuoles -- 3.2.8 Plasma membrane -- 3.2.9 Cell wall -- 3.2.10 Flagella and cilia -- 3.3 Cell division in prokaryotes and eukaryotes -- II Microbial Nutrition, Growth and Metabolism -- 4 Microbial Nutrition and Cultivation -- 4.1 Nutritional categories -- 4.2 How do nutrients get into the microbial ; cell? -- 4.3 Laboratory cultivation of microorganisms -- 4.3.1 Obtaining a pure culture -- 4.3.2 Growth media for the cultivation of bacteria -- 4.3.3 Preservation of microbial cultures -- 5 Microbial Growth -- 5.1 Estimation of microbial numbers -- 5.2 Factors affecting microbial growth -- 5.2.1 Temperature -- 5.2.2 pH -- 5.2.3 Oxygen -- 5.2.4 Carbon dioxide -- 5.2.5 Osmotic pressure -- 5.2.6 Light.; 5.3 The kinetics of microbial growth -- 5.3.1 Lag phase -- 5.3.2 Log (exponential) phase -- 5.3.3 Stationary phase -- 5.3.4 Death phase -- 5.3.5 Batch culture and continuous culture -- 5.4 Growth in multicellular microorganisms -- 6 Microbial Metabolism -- 6.1 Why is energy needed? -- 6.2 Enzymes -- 6.2.1 Enzyme classification -- 6.2.2 Certain enzymes have a non-protein component -- 6.2.3 How do enzymes speed up a reaction? -- 6.2.4 Environmental factors affect enzyme activity -- 6.3 Principles of energy generation -- 6.3.1 Oxidation-reduction reactions -- 6.3.2 Why glucose? -- 6.3.3 Glycolysis -- 6.3.4 Glycolysis is not the only way to metabolise glucose -- 6.3.5 Aerobic respiration -- 6.3.6 Oxidative phosphorylation and the electron transport chain -- 6.3.7 Fermentation -- 6.3.8 Other types of fermentation -- 6.3.9 Metabolism of lipids and proteins -- 6.3.10 Anaerobic respiration -- 6.3.11 Energy may be generated by the oxidation of inorganic molecules -- 6.4 Photosynthesis -- 6.4.1 Oxygenic photosynthesis -- 6.4.2 Where does photosynthesis take place? -- 6.4.3 'Light' reactions -- 6.4.4 'Dark' reactions -- 6.4.5 Anoxygenic photosynthesis -- 6.5 Anabolic reactions -- 6.5.1 Biosynthesis of carbohydrates -- 6.5.2 Biosynthesis of lipids -- 6.5.3 Biosynthesis of nucleic acids -- 6.5.4 Biosynthesis of amino acids -- 6.6 The regulation of metabolism -- III Microbial Diversity -- 7 Prokaryote Diversity -- 7.1 Domain: Archaea -- 7.1.1 General features of the Archaea -- 7.1.2 Classification of the Archaea -- 7.2 Domain: Bacteria -- 7.2.1 Phylum: Proteobacteria -- 7.2.2 Other Gram-negative phyla -- 7.2.3 The Gram-positive bacteria: phyla Actinobacteria, Firmicutes and Tenericutes -- 8 The Fungi -- 8.1 General biology of the fungi -- 8.1.1 Morphology -- 8.1.2 Nutrition -- 8.1.3 Reproduction -- 8.2 Classification of the Fungi -- 8.2.1 Phylum Ascomycota.; 8.2.2 Phylum Basidiomycota -- 8.2.3 Phylum Microsporidia -- 8.2.4 Phylum Chytridiomycota -- 8.2.5 Phylum Blastocladiomycota and phylum Neocallimastigomycota -- 8.2.6 Phylum Glomeromycota -- 8.2.7 Subphyla incertae sedis -- 9 The Protista -- 9.1 The 'algae' -- 9.1.1 Structural characteristics of algal protists -- 9.1.2 Euglenophyta -- 9.1.3 Dinoflagellata -- 9.1.4 Diatoms -- 9.1.5 Chlorophyta -- 9.1.6 Phaeophyta -- 9.1.7 Rhodophyta -- 9.2 The 'protozoa' -- 9.2.1 The zooflagellates (Mastigophora) -- 9.2.2 The amoebas (Sarcodina) -- 9.2.3 Amoebas with external shells: Foraminifera and Radiolaria -- 9.2.4 The ciliates (Ciliophora) -- 9.2.5 The Sporozoans (Apicomplexa) -- 9.3 The slime moulds and water moulds (the fungus-like protists) -- 9.3.1 Oomycota (water moulds) -- 9.3.2 Myxogastrida (Myxomycota, the plasmodial slime moulds) -- 9.3.3 Dictyostelida (cellular slime moulds) -- 9.4 Protistan taxonomy: a modern view -- 10 Viruses -- 10.1 What are viruses? -- 10.2 Viral structure -- 10.2.1 The viral genome -- 10.2.2 Capsid structure -- 10.2.3 The viral envelope -- 10.3 Classification of viruses -- 10.4 Viral replication cycles -- 10.4.1 Replication cycles in bacteriophages -- 10.4.2 Lysogenic replication cycle -- 10.4.3 Replication cycles in animal viruses -- 10.4.4 Replication of RNA viruses -- 10.4.5 Replication cycles in plant viruses -- 10.5 Viroids -- 10.6 Prions -- 10.7 Cultivating viruses -- IV Microbial Genetics -- 11 Microbial Genetics -- 11.1 How do we know genes are made of DNA? -- 11.2 DNA replication -- 11.2.1 DNA replication in prokaryotes -- 11.2.2 What happens when replication ; goes wrong? -- 11.2.3 DNA replication in eukaryotes -- 11.3 What exactly do genes do? -- 11.3.1 How does a gene direct the synthesis of a protein? -- 11.3.2 The genetic code -- 11.3.3 Transcription in prokaryotes -- 11.3.4 Translation.; 11.4 Regulation of gene expression -- 11.4.1 Induction of gene expression -- 11.4.2 Repression of gene expression -- 11.4.3 Global gene regulation -- 11.5 The molecular basis of mutations -- 11.5.1 How do mutations occur? -- 11.5.2 Mutations can add or remove nucleotides -- 11.5.3 Mutations can be reversed -- 11.5.4 Mutations have a variety of mechanisms -- 11.5.5 Mutations also occur in viruses -- 11.5.6 Mutagenic agents increase the rate of mutations -- 11.5.7 DNA damage can be repaired -- 11.5.8 Carcinogenicity testing: the Ames test -- 11.6 Genetic transfer in microorganisms -- 11.6.1 Transformation -- 11.6.2 How does transformation occur? -- 11.6.3 Induced competence -- 11.6.4 Conjugation -- 11.6.5 Gene transfer in conjugation is one way only -- 11.6.6 Transduction -- 11.6.7 Transposable elements -- 12 Microorganisms in Genetic Engineering -- 12.1 Plasmid cloning vectors -- 12.2 Bacteriophages as cloning vectors -- 12.3 YACs, BACs and PACs -- 12.4 Expression vectors -- 12.5 Eukaryotic cloning vectors -- 12.6 Viruses as vectors in eukaryotic systems -- 12.7 Cloning vectors for higher plants -- 12.8 Applications of gene cloning in the microbial world -- 12.9 DNA microarrays -- 12.10 Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) -- V Microorganisms in the Environment -- 13 Microbial Associations -- 13.1 Microbial associations with animals -- 13.2 Microbial associations with plants -- 13.2.1 Plant diseases -- 13.3 Microbial associations with other microorganisms -- 14 Microorganisms in the Environment -- 14.1 The carbon cycle -- 14.2 The nitrogen cycle -- 14.3 The sulphur cycle -- 14.4 The microbiology of soil -- 14.5 The microbiology of freshwater -- 14.6 The microbiology of seawater -- 14.7 Detection and isolation of microorganisms in the environment -- 14.8 Beneficial effects of microorganisms in the environment.; 14.8.1 Solid waste treatment: composting and landfill -- 14.8.2 Wastewater treatment -- 14.8.3 Bioremediation -- 14.9 Harmful effects of microorganisms in the environment -- VI Medical Microbiology -- 15 Human Microbial Diseases -- 15.1 Transmission -- 15.2 Attachment and colonisation -- 15.2.1 Skin -- 15.2.2 Mucous membranes -- 15.2.3 How do pathogens penetrate the mucosa? -- 15.3 Bacterial toxins -- 15.3.1 Exotoxins -- 15.3.2 Endotoxins -- 15.3.3 Superantigens -- 15.3.4 Siderophores -- 15.4 Bacterial diseases in humans -- 15.4.1 Waterborne transmission: cholera -- 15.4.2 Airborne transmission: 'strep' throat -- 15.4.3 Contact transmission: syphilis -- 15.4.4 Vector-borne transmission: plague -- 15.5 Viral diseases in humans -- 15.5.1 Airborne transmission: influenza -- 15.5.2 Transmission by water or food: viral gastroenteritis -- 15.5.3 Vector-borne transmission -- 15.5.4 Latent and slow (persistent) viral infections -- 15.5.5 Viruses and cancer -- 15.5.6 Emerging and re-emerging viral diseases -- 15.5.7 Virus vaccines -- 15.6 Protists and disease -- 15.6.1 Malaria -- 15.6.2 Toxoplasmosis -- 15.6.3 Cryptosporidiosis -- 15.6.4 Leishmaniasis -- 15.6.5 Amoebic dysentery -- 15.7 Fungal diseases in humans -- 15.8 Algal diseases of humans -- 16 The Control of Microorganisms -- 16.1 Sterilisation -- 16.1.1 Sterilisation by irradiation -- 16.1.2 Filtration -- 16.1.3 Sterilisation using ethylene oxide -- 16.2 Disinfection -- 16.2.1 Alcohols -- 16.2.2 Halogens -- 16.2.3 Phenolics -- 16.2.4 Surfactants -- 16.3 The kinetics of cell death -- 16.3.1 Killing by irradiation -- 17 Antimicrobial Agents -- 17.1 Antibiotics -- 17.1.1 What other properties should an antibiotic have? -- 17.1.2 How do antibiotics ; work? -- 17.1.3 I: Inhibitors of cell wall synthesis -- 17.1.4 II: Antibiotics that disrupt cell membranes -- 17.1.5 III: Inhibitors of protein synthesis.; 17.1.6 IV: Inhibitors of nucleic acid synthesis.
• Sommario/riassunto: Essential Microbiology 2nd Edition is a fully revised comprehensive introductory text aimed at students taking a first course in the subject. It provides an ideal entry into the world of microorganisms, considering all aspects of their biology (structure, metabolism, genetics), and illustrates the remarkable diversity of microbial life by devoting a chapter to each of the main taxonomic groupings. The second part of the book introduces the reader to aspects of applied microbiology, exploring the involvement of microorganisms in areas as diverse as food and drink production, genetic engineering, global recycling systems and infectious disease. Essential Microbiology explains the key points of each topic but avoids overburdening the student with unnecessary detail. Now in full colour it makes extensive use of clear line diagrams to clarify sometimes difficult concepts or mechanisms. A companion web site includes further material including MCQs, enabling the student to assess their understanding of the main concepts that have been covered. This edition has been fully revised and updated to reflect the developments that have occurred in recent years and includes a completely new section devoted to medical microbiology. Students of any life science degree course will find this a concise and valuable introduction to microbiology.

The Dawn that never comes : Shimazaki Tōson and Japanese nationalism / / Michael K. Bourdaghs

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910777467703321
• Autore: Bourdaghs Michael K
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, : Columbia University Press, 2003
• ISBN: 0-231-50341-5
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (x, 273 pages)
• Collana: Studies of the East Asian Institute
• Disciplina: 895.6/34
• Soggetti: Nationalism in literature
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-263) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter one. Toson, Literary History, and National Imagination -- Chapter two. The Disease of Nationalism, the Empire of Hygiene: The Broken Commandment as Hygiene Manual -- Chapter three. Triangulating the Nation: Representing and Publishing The Family -- Chapter four. Suicide and Childbirth in the I-Novel: "Women's Literature" in Spring and New Life -- Chapter five. The Times and Spaces of Nations: The Multiple Chronotopes of Before the Dawn -- Epilogue. The Most Japanese of Things -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: A critical rethinking of theories of national imagination, The Dawn That Never Comes offers the most detailed reading to date in English of one of modern Japan's most influential poets and novelists, Shimazaki Toson (1872-1943). It also reveals how Toson's works influenced the production of a fluid, shifting form of national imagination that has characterized twentieth-century Japan. Analyzing Toson's major works, Michael K. Bourdaghs demonstrates that the construction of national imagination requires a complex interweaving of varied-and sometimes contradictory-figures for imagining the national community. Many scholars have shown, for example, that modern hygiene has functioned in nationalist thought as a method of excluding foreign others as diseased. This study explores the multiple images of illness appearing in Toson's fiction to demonstrate that hygiene employs more than one model of pathology, and it reveals how this multiplicity functioned to ; produce the combinations of exclusion and assimilation required to sustain a sense of national community. Others have argued that nationalism is inherently ambivalent and self-contradictory; Bourdaghs shows more concretely both how this is so and why it is necessary and provides, in the process, a new way of thinking about national imagination. Individual chapters take up such issues as modern medicine and the discourses of national health; ideologies of the family and its representation in modern literary works; the gendering of the canon of national literature; and the multiple forms of space and time that narratives of national history require.