1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910809945503321

Autore

Walters Stephen John Kasabuski <1953->

Titolo

Boom towns : restoring the urban American dream / / Stephen J. K. Walters

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California : , : Stanford University Press, , 2014

©2014

ISBN

0-8047-9227-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 pages)

Collana

Stanford Economics and Finance

Disciplina

307.760973

Soggetti

Urban policy - United States

Urban renewal - United States

Urban economics

Right of property - Economic aspects - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Preface. Even Detroit -- Chapter 1. What We’ve Lost—and Why -- Chapter 2. Fleeing Robin Hood -- Chapter 3. A 1-Percent Solution -- Chapter 4. The Conquest of Capital -- Chapter 5. A Better Climate -- Chapter 6. Things Fall Apart -- Chapter 7. Three Simple Rules -- Chapter 8. No Little Plans -- Chapter 9. Control Freaks -- Chapter 10. Reclaiming the Commons -- Chapter 11. Boom Commandments -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

American cities, once economic and social launch pads for their residents, are all too often plagued by poverty and decay. One need only to look at the ruins of Detroit to see how far some once-great cities have fallen, or at Boston and San Francisco for evidence that such decline is reversible. In Boom Towns, Stephen J.K. Walters diagnoses the root causes of urban decline in order to prescribe remedies that will enable cities to thrive once again. Arguing that commonplace explanations for urban decay misunderstand the nature of our towns, Walters reconceives of cities as dense accumulations of capital in all of its forms—places that attract people by making their labor more productive and their leisure more pleasurable. Policymakers, therefore, must properly define and enforce property rights in order to prevent



the flight of capital and the resulting demise of urban centers. Using vivid evocations of iconic towns and the people who crucially affected their destinies, Walters shows how public policy measures which aim to revitalize often do more harm than good. He then outlines a more promising set of policies to remedy the capital shortage that continues to afflict many cities and needlessly limit their residents' opportunities. With its fresh interpretation of one of the American quandaries of our day, Boom Towns offers a novel contribution to the debate about American cities and a program for their restoration.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910155300603321

Autore

Loske Achim M

Titolo

Medical and Biomedical Applications of Shock Waves / / by Achim M. Loske

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

9783319475707

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XXIII, 378 p. 198 illus., 184 illus. in color.)

Collana

Shock Wave and High Pressure Phenomena, , 2197-9529

Disciplina

533.293

Soggetti

Acoustics

Radiology

Biomedical engineering

Urology

Gene therapy

Ultrasound

Biomedical Engineering and Bioengineering

Gene Therapy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- Brief Historical Background -- Shock Waves as used in Biomedical Applications -- Shock Wave Interaction with Matter -- Shock Wave Lithotripsy -- Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy -- Novel uses and Potential Applicatitions.



Sommario/riassunto

This book provides current, comprehensive, and clear explanations of the physics behind medical and biomedical applications of shock waves. Extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy is one of the greatest medical advances of our time, and its techniques and clinical devices are continuously evolving. Further research continues to improve the understanding of calculi fragmentation and tissue-damaging mechanisms. Shock waves are also used in orthopedics and traumatology. Possible applications in oncology, cardiology, dentistry, gene therapy, cell transfection, transformation of fungi and bacteria, as well as the inactivation of microorganisms are promising approaches for clinical treatment, industrial applications and research. Medical and Biomedical Applications of Shock Waves is useful as a guide for students, technicians and researchers working in universities and laboratories. Chemists, biologists, physicians and veterinarians, involved in research or clinical practice will find useful advice, but also engineers and physicists may benefit from the overview of current research endeavors and future directions. Furthermore, it may also serve to direct manufacturers towards the design of more efficient and safer clinical, industrial and laboratory equipment.



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910306659503321

Titolo

Global journal of transfusion medicine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands] : , : Wolters Kluwer, , 2016-

ISSN

2455-8893

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

[E]

Soggetti

Blood - Transfusion

Sang - Transfusion

Periodicals.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Title from content provider.

Sommario/riassunto

Global Journal of Transfusion Medicine is a bi-annual peer reviewed international journal published by the Asian Association of Transfusion Medicine(AATM). The journal does not charge for submission, processing or publication of manuscripts. The process for manuscript submission to the Global Journal of transfusion Medicine (GJTM) is now open access.