1.

Record Nr.

UNISALENTO991004344937507536

Autore

Blumenthal, Elke

Titolo

Museum Aegyptiacum : Kunstwerke pharaonischer Zeit aud Agypten und Nubien im Agyptischen Museum / Elke Blumenthal

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leipzig : Karl-Marx Universitat, 1984

Descrizione fisica

8 p. : ill. ; 22 x 20 cm

Disciplina

932.0074

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910799208003321

Autore

Kumar Nitish

Titolo

Lead Toxicity Mitigation: Sustainable Nexus Approaches / / edited by Nitish Kumar, Amrit Kumar Jha

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer Nature Switzerland : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2024

ISBN

9783031461460

3031461460

Edizione

[1st ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 pages)

Collana

Environmental Contamination Remediation and Management, , 2522-5855

Altri autori (Persone)

JhaAmrit Kumar

Disciplina

660.6

Soggetti

Biotechnology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Environmental lead exposure - A continuing challenge -- Effects of Lead: Neurological and Cellular Perspective -- Lead exposure and poisoning in livestock and wildlife -- A systematic review of lead exposure on mental health -- Human health hazards and risks generated by the implication/bioaccumulation of lead from the environment in the food chain -- Cellular and Neurological Effects of



Lead (Pb) Toxicity -- Phytoremediation of lead present in environment: A review -- Application of nanoadsorbents for lead decontamination in water -- Microbial tolerance strategies against Lead toxicity -- Effects and responses of lead toxicity in plants -- Lead removal from naturally contaminated waters: a review of methods combining chemical and biological treatments -- Antioxidant defense: Key mechanism of lead intolerance. .

Sommario/riassunto

This edited book brings together a diverse group of researchers to address the challenges posed by global mass poisoning caused by lead contamination of soil and plants. Lead is among the elements that have been most extensively used by man over time. This has led to extensive pollution of surface soils on the local scale, mainly associated with mining and smelting of the metal and addition of organic lead compounds to petrol. Release of lead to the atmosphere from various high-temperature processes has led to surface contamination on the regional and even global scale. Lead is particularly strongly bound to humic matter in organic-rich soil and to iron oxides in mineral soil and is rather immobile in the soil unless present at very high concentrations. In addition, plants grown on lead-rich soils incorporate lead and thus the concentration of lead in crop plants may be increased. Lead enters in the food chain through consumption of plant material. A high concentration of lead has been found to be harmful to vegetation. As the lead concentration increases, it adversely affects several biological parameters and eventually renders the soil barren. The book sheds light on this global environmental issue and proposes solutions to contamination through multi-disciplinary approaches. This book contains three sections. First section describes the different sources and distribution of lead in soil and plant ecosystems. Second section explains the health risks linked to lead toxicity. Third section addresses sustainable lead toxicity mitigation strategies using the potential applications of recent biological technology. This book is a valuable resource to students, academics, researchers, and environmental professionals doing field work on contamination throughout the world.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910961158603321

Autore

Dolis John

Titolo

Transnational Na(rra)tion : Home and Homeland in Nineteenth-Century American Literature

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 2015

ISBN

1-61147-817-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (212 p.)

Disciplina

810.9358

Soggetti

American literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism

National characteristics, American, in literature

Transnationalism in literature

American literature - 19th century - History and criticism

English

Languages & Literatures

American Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Pre-lude""; ""Overture""; ""First Movement""; ""Second Movement""; ""Third Movement""; ""Fourth Movement""; ""Finale""; ""References""; ""Index""; ""About the Author""

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines American literary texts whose portrayal of ""American"" identity involves the incorporation of a ""foreign body"" as the precondition for a comprehensive understanding of itself. This nexus of disconcerting textual dynamics arises precisely insofar as both citizen/subject and national identity depend upon a certain alterity, an ""other"" which constitutes the secondary term of a binary structure. ""American"" identity thus finds itself ironically con-fused and interwoven with another culture or another nation, double-crossed in the enactment of itself. Individual chapters ar