1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910817603703321

Titolo

Reverse genetics of RNA viruses : applications and perspectives / / edited by Anne Bridgen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex, : John Wiley & Sons, 2013

ISBN

9781118405338

1118405331

9781299190207

1299190200

9781118405352

1118405358

9781118405345

111840534X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (414 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BridgenAnne <1961->

Disciplina

579.2/5

Soggetti

RNA viruses

Reverse genetics

Viral proteins

Viral vaccines

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

Definitions of reverse genetics, +ve, -ve, sense and doubled stranded (DS) RNA viruses / Anne Bridgen -- Coronavirus reverse genetics / Paul Britton -- Hepatitis C and use of reverse genetics in drug design / Natalia Frias Staheli -- Norovirus reverse genetics / Ian Goodfellow -- Rhabdovirus reverse genetics / Klaus Conzelmann -- Modification of measles virus and application to pathogenesis studies / Paul Duprex -- Bunyavirus reverse genetics and application to interaction with host cells / Richard Elliott -- Influenza A virus vaccines / Wendy Barclay -- Bluetongue virus reverse genetics / Mark Boyce -- Reovirus reverse genetics / Rob Hoeben -- Reverse genetics and quasispecies / Marco Vignuzzi -- Summary and perspectives / Anne Bridgen.

Sommario/riassunto

Reverse genetics, the genetic manipulation of RNA viruses to create a



wild-type or modified virus, has led to important advances in our understanding of viral gene function and interaction with host cells. Since many severe viral human and animal pathogens are RNA viruses, including those responsible for polio, measles, rotaviral diarrhoea  and influenza infections, it is also an extremely powerful technique with important potential application for the prevention and control of a range of human and animal viral diseases.  Reverse Genetics of RNA Viruses provides a comprehensive

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910957584603321

Titolo

Gender and power in affluent Asia / / edited by Krishna Sen and Maila Stivens

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1998

ISBN

1-134-71095-X

1-134-71096-8

1-280-31862-7

0-203-44682-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (338 p.)

Collana

The new rich in Asia series

Altri autori (Persone)

SenKrishna

StivensMaila

Disciplina

305.42/0959

Soggetti

Women - Southeast Asia - Social conditions

Women - Southeast Asia - Economic conditions

Women in development - Southeast Asia

Middle class - Southeast Asia

Middle class women - Southeast Asia

Sex role - Southeast Asia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"This book is a project of the Asia Research Centre, Murdoch University, Western Australia"--T.p.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Preface; Acknowledgments; Theorising gender, power and modernity in affluent Asia; Indonesian women at work: reframing the



subject; Love and sex in an Indonesian mining town; Sex, gender and the making of the new Malay middle classes; Between compliance and resistance: women and the middle-class way of life in Singapore; 'Flower vase and housewife': women and consumerism in post-Mao China; Chinese cultural revivalism: changing gender constructions in the Yangtze River delta

Vietnam's women in the renovation era'Dutiful daughters', estranged sisters: women in Thailand; The gendering of post-war Philippine politics; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Gender and Power in Affluent Asia is the first major study to analyse the relationships between gender and power which have accompanied the rise of Asian affluence.