1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910794998803321

Autore

O'Donnell Nicholas M.

Titolo

A tragic fate : law and ethics in the battle over Nazi-looted art / / Nicholas M. O'Donnell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chicago, Illinois : , : American Bar Association, , 2017

©2017

ISBN

1-63425-734-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (350 pages)

Disciplina

940.53/18144

Soggetti

Art thefts

Art thefts - Europe - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Part one. Art and culture in occupied Europe -- From there to here : legislated plunder in the Third Reich and the Allied response -- Part two. The new era -- The Washington Conference and its ethical parallels -- Portrait of Wally and the politics of seizure -- A new door opens : Maria Altmann and the portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer -- Landscape with smokestacks and early trends -- The Max Stern estate -- Part three. Out of time? -- Bakalar and the defense of laches -- California legislative amendments and the legacy of Jacques Goudstikker -- The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Oskar Reichel, and provenance research -- Prescriptive law in Louisiana -- The Nathan heirs, the Detroit Institute of Arts, and the Toledo Museum of Art -- The knives come out -- Part four. Back and forth -- Paul von Mendelssohn-Bartholdy -- Lâeone Meyer and the University of Oklahoma -- Legally present : a jurisdictional hook -- The Pissarro of Lily Cassirer -- Hungary and the Herzog Collection -- Commercial activity or sovereign act? -- Part five. The worst system in the world but all the rest -- Progress or broken promises? : restitution claims procedures among the signatories to the Washington Conference principles -- A tragic fate : conclusions and possibilities.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910960545603321

Titolo

Selenium in nutrition / / Subcommittee on Selenium, Committee on Animal Nutrition, Board on Agriculture, National Research Council

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academy Press, 1983

ISBN

9786610245840

9781280245848

1280245840

9780309567794

0309567793

Edizione

[Rev. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (184 p.)

Disciplina

612/.3924

Soggetti

Selenium in human nutrition

Selenium in animal nutrition

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Bibliography: p. 136-174.

Nota di contenuto

Selenium in Nutrition -- Copyright -- Preface -- Contents -- Selenium in Nutrition -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Chemistry -- PROPERTIES OF ELEMENTAL SELENIUM -- CHEMISTRY OF SELENIUM-CONTAINING COMPOUNDS -- METHODS OF ANALYSIS -- 3 Distribution -- GEOLOGICAL DISTRIBUTION -- COMMERCIAL SOURCES -- SELENIUM IN SOILS -- TOXIC SELENIFEROUS SOILS -- NONTOXIC SELENIFEROUS SOILS -- LOW-SELENIUM SOILS -- FORMS OF SELENIUM IN SOILS AND FACTORS AFFECTING AVAILABILITY TO PLANTS -- SOIL MANAGEMENT PRACTICES AND SELENIUM IN PLANTS -- SELENIUM IN PLANTS -- EFFECT OF SPECIES -- SELENIUM AS A PLANT MICRONUTRIENT -- TOXICITY TO PLANTS -- CHEMICAL FORMS -- METABOLISM IN PLANTS -- SELENIUM IN ANIMAL FEEDSTUFFS -- REGIONAL DISTRIBUTION IN CROPS -- VARIABILITY IN CONCENTRATION -- BIOLOGICAL AVAILABILITY -- SELENIUM IN WATER -- DRINKING WATER, SPRINGS, AND WELLS -- RIVERS, LAKES, AND IRRIGATION WATER -- OCEANS -- SELENIUM IN HUMAN FOODS -- DISTRIBUTION BY FOOD GROUPS -- CONCENTRATIONS IN SELENIFEROUS REGIONS -- CONCENTRATIONS IN NONSELENIFEROUS REGIONS -- DAIRY PRODUCTS AND EGGS -- CEREAL



PRODUCTS -- MEAT, POULTRY, AND FISH AND OTHER SEAFOODS -- FRUITS AND VEGETABLES -- BABY FOODS -- DIETARY SELENIUM LEVELS IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES -- CONTRIBUTIONS OF WATER -- SELENIUM CYCLING IN NATURE -- 4 Biochemical Functions -- NATURE AND PROPERTIES OF GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE -- GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE ACTIVITY IN ANIMALS -- GLUTATHIONE-S-TRANSFERASE -- FUNCTION OF GLUTATHIONE PEROXIDASE -- OTHER FUNCTIONS OF SELENIUM -- NUTRITIONAL AND METABOLIC INTERRELATIONSHIPS -- 5 Metabolism -- DIETARY FORMS -- ABSORPTION -- VASCULAR TRANSPORT -- BODY RETENTION AND TISSUE DISTRIBUTION -- METABOLISM -- INORGANIC SELENIUM -- ORGANIC SELENIUM -- REDUCTION OF SELENIUM -- PREVIOUS SELENIUM INTAKE -- RUMEN MICROORGANISMS -- INFLUENCE OF SULFUR -- INFLUENCE OF ARSENIC -- INFLUENCE OF OTHER ELEMENTS.

EFFECTS OF VITAMIN E -- MISCELLANEOUS FACTORS -- EXCRETION -- 6 Nutritional Aspects -- DIETARY REQUIREMENTS OF ANIMALS FOR SELENIUM -- MEETING SELENIUM REQUIREMENTS FOR ANIMALS -- DEFICIENCY SIGNS IN ANIMALS -- RATS -- MICE -- HAMSTERS -- GUINEA PIGS -- RABBITS -- NONHUMAN PRIMATES -- FISH -- CHICKENS -- TURKEYS -- DUCKS -- JAPANESE QUAIL -- SWINE -- Tolerance to Iron -- Blood Enzymes -- Gross Pathology and Histopathology -- CATTLE AND SHEEP -- Nutritional Myopathy -- Reproduction and Retained Placenta -- Other Selenium-Related Diseases -- HORSES -- DOGS -- WILD ANIMALS -- SELENIUM IN HUMAN NUTRITION -- 7 Effects of Excess Selenium -- SELENIUM TOXICITY IN LABORATORY ANIMALS -- ACUTE TOXICITY -- CHRONIC TOXICITY -- SELENIUM TOXICITY IN FARM ANIMALS -- SELENIUM OVEREXPOSURE IN HUMANS -- 8 Selenium and Human Health -- HIGH SELENIUM EXPOSURE -- CANCER -- DENTAL CARIES -- REPRODUCTION -- AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS -- CONCLUSIONS -- LOW SELENIUM EXPOSURE -- CANCER -- CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE -- REPRODUCTION AND NEONATAL HEALTH -- INFECTIOUS DISEASES -- CYSTIC FIBROSIS -- SELENIUM SUPPLEMENTS -- CONCLUSIONS -- 9 Summary -- References.