1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910457122303321

Autore

Gissen David

Titolo

Subnature [[electronic resource] ] : architecture's other environments / / David Gissen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Princeton Architectural Press, 2009

ISBN

1-56898-951-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (224 p.)

Disciplina

710/.47

Soggetti

Architecture - Environmental aspects

Architecture - Human factors

Buildings - Environmental engineering

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Pt. 1. Dankness -- Smoke -- Gas -- Exhaust -- Pt. 2. Dust -- Puddles -- Mud -- Debris -- Pt. 3. Weeds -- Insects -- Pigeons -- Crowds.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910782616903321

Autore

Jiloha R. C

Titolo

Tobacco use [[electronic resource] ] : health and behaviour / / R.C. Jiloha

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Delhi, : New Age International (P) Ltd., Publishers, 2008

ISBN

1-282-07425-3

9786612074257

81-224-2649-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (405 p.)

Disciplina

158

613.8/5

616.865

Soggetti

Tobacco use - Health aspects - India

Nicotine addiction - Treatment - India

Smoking cessation - India

Tobacco use - Health aspects

Nicotine addiction - Treatment

Smoking cessation

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; Preface; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1. History of Tobacco Use: New World's Revenge; Chapter 2. Global Trends in Tobacco Use; Chapter 3. Tobacco: Cultivation, Curing and Commerce; Chapter 4. Nicotine: Pharmacokinetics, Metabolism and Pharmacodynamics; Chapter 5. Addiction Model: Tobacco Use as Drug Dependence; Chapter 6. People at Risk: Initiation and Maintenance of Tobacco Use; Chapter 7. Women and Children: Victims of Passive Smoking; Chapter 8. Tobacco use and Medical Morbidity; Chapter 9. Tobacco Use in Psychiatric Patients

Chapter 10. Smoking-Cessation and Treatment of Tobacco DependenceChapter 11. Tobacco Control in India; Chapter 12. Tobacco Use:2020 and Beyond; Index

Sommario/riassunto

About the Book:  Smoking is injurious to health. It has been estimated



that about 1.3 billion are addicted to smoking and unless steps are taken to make people aware of the growing menace, 650 million people are likely to die prematurely due to the extensive use of tobacco.    The book, Tobacco Use: Health and Behaviour, in twelve chapters, deals with a wide range of issues concerning its cultivation and its impact on the health of its users. It provides a critical test for our concepts of reality; discusses how it has assumed political, economic and medical importance since its introduction;

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910557286803321

Autore

Ntouyas Sotiris K

Titolo

Differential and Difference Equations : A Themed Issue Dedicated to Prof. Hari M. Srivastava on the Occasion of his 80th Birthday

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (372 p.)

Soggetti

Mathematics & science

Research & information: general

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

This Special Issue deals with the theory and applications of differential and difference equations, and includes papers for different branches of differential equations, such as - Boundary Value Problems for Fractional Differential Equations and Inclusions - Spectral Theory for Fractional Differential Equations - Generalized Abel's Integral Equations - Oscillation Results for Higher Order Differential Equations - Stability of Equilibria under Stochastic Perturbations - Harmonic Functions - Coincidence Continuation Theory for Multivalued Maps - Generalized Briot-Bouquet Differential Equation - Nonlocal Inverse Problem - Lyapunov Type Theorems for Exponential Stability - Fuzzy Functions on Time Scales - Modified Helmholtz Equation on a Regular Hexagon