1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910707034603321

Autore

Ansari Rafat R.

Titolo

A fiber optic probe for monitoring protein aggregation, nucleation, and crystallization / / Rafat R. Ansari [and five others]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cleveland, Ohio : , : National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Lewis Research Center, , November 1996

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (11 pages) : illustrations

Collana

NASA technical memorandum ; ; 107120

Soggetti

Light scattering

Protein crystal growth

Microgravity

Gravitational effects

Crystal growth

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed March 29, 2016).

"November 1996."

"Prepared for the Sixth International Conference on Crystallization of Biological Macromolecules sponsored by the Hiroshima Prefecture, Hiroshima City, the Ministry of Education, Science, Sports and Culture, and the International Union of Crystallography, Hiroshima, Japan, November 12-17, 1995."

"Performing organization: National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, Ohio"--Report documentation page.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (page 11).



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910797008503321

Autore

Smith Matthew <1973->

Titolo

Another person's poison : a history of food allergy / / Matthew Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Columbia University Press, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

0-231-53919-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (307 p.)

Collana

Arts and traditions of the table : perspectives on culinary history

Disciplina

616.97/5

Soggetti

Food allergy - History

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

Food allergy before allergy -- Anaphylaxis, allergy, and the food factor in disease -- Strangest of all maladies -- Panic? or the pantry? -- An immunological explosion? -- The problem with peanuts.

Sommario/riassunto

To some, food allergies seem like fabricated cries for attention. To others, they pose a dangerous health threat. Food allergies are bound up with so many personal and ideological concerns that it is difficult to determine what is medical and what is myth. Another Person's Poison parses the political, economic, cultural, and genuine health factors of a phenomenon that dominates our interactions with others and our understanding of ourselves. For most of the twentieth century, food allergies were considered a fad or junk science. While many physicians and clinicians argued that certain foods could cause a range of chronic problems, from asthma and eczema to migraines and hyperactivity, others believed that allergies were psychosomatic. 'This book traces the trajectory of this debate and its effect on public-health policy and the production, manufacture, and consumption of food. Are rising allergy rates purely the result of effective lobbying and a booming industry built on self-diagnosis and expensive remedies? Or should physicians become more flexible in their approach to food allergies and more careful in their diagnoses? Exploring the issue from scientific, political, economic, social, and patient-centered perspectives, this book is the first to engage fully with the history of a major modern affliction, illuminating society's troubled relationship with food, disease, nature,



and the creation of medical knowledge.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910349370903321

Autore

Van Caeneghem Jozefien

Titolo

Legal Aspects of Ethnic Data Collection and Positive Action : The Roma Minority in Europe / / by Jozefien Van Caeneghem

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2019

ISBN

3-030-23668-4

Edizione

[1st ed. 2019.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (752 pages)

Disciplina

342.40873

342.4087

Soggetti

Human rights

Ethnicity

Europe—Politics and government

Law—Europe

Social justice

Computer security

Human Rights

Ethnicity Studies

European Politics

European Law

Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights

Privacy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

FM -- Introduction -- Human Rights and the Roma: Key Concepts -- Part I: Ethnic Data Collection -- Ethnic Data Collection: Key Elements, Rules and Principles -- Ethnic Data Collection: Benefits, Risks, Data Sources and Methods -- Challenges to Collecting Ethnic Data on the Roma Minority in Europe -- Part II: Positive Action -- Positive Action and the Link with Ethnic Data -- International Framework on Positive



Action -- European Framework on Positive Action -- Positive Action for the Roma Minority in Europe -- Positive Action for Roma in Four Key Areas -- Inter-Cultural Mediation to Enhance Roma Inclusion -- Final Conclusions and Recommendations.

Sommario/riassunto

This book addresses the legal feasibility of ethnic data collection and positive action for equality and anti-discrimination purposes, and considers how they could be used to promote the Roma minority’s inclusion in Europe. The book’s central aim is to research how a societal problem can be improved upon from a legal perspective. The controversy surrounding ethnic data collection and positive action severely limits their use at the national level. Accordingly, legal and political concerns are analysed and addressed in order to demonstrate that it is possible to collect such data and to implement such measures while fully respecting international and European human rights norms, provided that certain conditions are met. Part I focuses on ethnic data collection and explores the key rules and principles that govern it, the ways in which this equality tool could be used, and how potential obstacles might be overcome. It also identifies and addresses the specific challenges that arise when collecting ethnic data on the Roma minority in Europe. In turn, Part II explores positive action and the broad range of measures covered by the concept, before analysing the applicable international and European framework. It reviews the benefits and challenges of implementing positive action for Roma, identifies best practices, and gives special consideration to inter-cultural mediation in the advancement of Roma inclusion. The book concludes with an overview of the main findings on both topics and by identifying three essential elements that must be in place, in addition to full respect for the applicable legal rules, in order to combat discrimination and achieve the inclusion of Roma in Europe by complementing existing anti-discrimination frameworks with the collection of ethnic data and the implementation of positive action schemes.