Hydrated materials : applications in biomedicine and the environment / / edited by Yoshitaka Nakanishi

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910787331303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Boca Raton, Florida : , : CRC Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• ISBN: 0-429-07637-1; 981-4463-22-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (156 p.)
• Disciplina: 541.372
• Soggetti: Hydration; Materials - Mechanical properties; Materials - Technological innovations
• 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 at the end of each chapters.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 Mechanics of Materials; Chapter 2 Tribology: Friction, Wear and Lubrication; Chapter 3 Articular Cartilage; Chapter 4 The Human Skin and Hydration; Chapter 5 Hydrogel Materials for Tissue Engineering; Chapter 6 Polyethylene Glycol Gel for Orthopaedic Technologies; Chapter 7 Environmentally Friendly Bearing and Sealing Systems with Artificial Articular Cartilage for Power Generation from Natural Energy; Chapter 8 Controlling Water- Based or Oil- Based Film between Shoes and the Floor to Prevent Slips and Falls; Back Cover
• Sommario/riassunto: Water covers more than 70% of the earth's surface and is an essential and major component of all living matter. However, artificially hydrated materials, including hydrophilic materials, are far fewer than one might expect. Currently, these materials are in a state of development for applications in fields such as biomedicine, environmental engineering, and industrial engineering. So what do artificially hydrated materials hold for the future? This book is a great introduction to hydrated materials, presenting academic and practical content that gives a feel of theoretical as well as real-worl

The Ecology of Place : Contributions of Place-Based Research to Ecological Understanding / / Ian Billick, Mary V. Price

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910791574403321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Chicago : , : University of Chicago Press, , [2012]; ©2010
• ISBN: 1-283-05810-3; 9786613058102; 0-226-05044-0
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (479 p.)
• Disciplina: 577.072
• Soggetti: Ecology - Longitudinal studies; Ecology - Research
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Papers of the scientific symposium to celebrate the 75th birthday of the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory"--CIP data.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- 1. The Ecology of Place -- The Imprint of Place on Ecology and Ecologists -- 2. The Role of Place in the History of Ecology -- 3. Leopold's Legacy: An Ecology of Place -- The Idiosyncrasy of Place: Challenges and Opportunities -- 4. Ecological Invariance and the Search for Generality in Ecology -- 5. Convergence and Divergence in Mediterranean-Climate Ecosystems: What We Can Learn by Comparing Similar Places -- 6. Ecological Insights into the Causes of an Adaptive Radiation from Long-Term Field Studies of Darwin's Finches -- 7. Individual Fitness, Social Behavior, and Population Dynamics of Yellow-Bellied Marmots -- 8. The Aleutian Archipelago: Addressing the Functional Importance of Carnivory through Variation in Space and Time -- Building an Understanding of Place -- 9. Understanding the Role of Predation in Open Systems: The Value of Place-Based Research -- 10. The Ecology of Place in Oak Forests: Progressive Integration of Pairwise Interactions into Webs -- 11. A Sense of Place: Tatoosh -- 12. The Ecology of Place and Natural Resource Management: Examples from Marine and Terrestrial Ecosystems -- The Interaction between Local and General Understanding -- 13. Case Studies and Ecological Understanding -- ; 14. Responsive Science: The Interplay of Theory, Observation, and Experiment in Long-Term, Place-Based Research -- 15. To Know a Tropical Forest: What Mechanisms Maintain High Tree Diversity on Barro Colorado Island, Panama? -- Building the Capacity for Place-Based Research -- 16. The Model Ecosystem as a Paradigm of Place-Based Research: The Intersection of Geology, Ecology, and Economics at the McLaughlin Reserve -- 17. Managing Place-Based Data: The Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory as a Case Study -- 18. Local People, Scientific Inquiry, and the Ecology and Conservation of Place in Latin America -- 19. Concluding Remarks: Taking Advantage of the Power of Place -- List of Contributors -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Ecologists can spend a lifetime researching a small patch of the earth, studying the interactions between organisms and the environment, and exploring the roles those interactions play in determining distribution, abundance, and evolutionary change. With so few ecologists and so many systems to study, generalizations are essential. But how do you extrapolate knowledge about a well-studied area and apply it elsewhere? Through a range of original essays written by eminent ecologists and naturalists, The Ecology of Place explores how place-focused research yields exportable general knowledge as well as practical local knowledge, and how society can facilitate ecological understanding by investing in field sites, place-centered databases, interdisciplinary collaborations, and field-oriented education programs that emphasize natural history. This unique patchwork of case-study narratives, philosophical musings, and historical analyses is tied together with commentaries from editors Ian Billick and Mary Price that develop and synthesize common threads. The result is a unique volume rich with all-too-rare insights into how science is actually done, as told by scientists themselves.