1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910442459403321

Titolo

Biological DNA sensor : the impact of nucleic acids on diseases and vaccinology / / [edited by] Ken J. Ishii, Choon Kit Tang

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam : , : Elsevier/Academic Press, , [2014]

ISBN

978-0-12-404732-7

Descrizione fisica

xvi, 352 pages : illustrations ; ; 24 cm

Disciplina

615.4

Locazione

FAGBC

Collocazione

60 615.4 ISHK 2014

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910458991403321

Titolo

Assessment of intraseasonal to interannual climate prediction and predictability [[electronic resource] /] / Committee on Assessment of Intraseasonal to Interannual Climate Prediction and Predictability, Board on Atmospheric Sciences and Climate, Division on Earth and Life Studies

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C., : National Academies Press, 2010

ISBN

1-282-78721-7

9786612787218

0-309-15184-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (193 p.)

Collana

National Research Council

Disciplina

551.63

Soggetti

Climatology

Climatology - Research

Electronic books.

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.

Nota di contenuto

""Front Matter ""; ""Contents""; ""Summary ""; ""1 Introduction""; ""2 Climate Prediction""; ""3 Building Blocks of Intraseasonal to Interannual Forecasting""; ""4 Case Studies ""; ""5 Best Practices ""; ""6 Recommendations and Remarks  on Implementation""; ""References ""; ""Appendix A Background Information  on Statistical Techniques ""; ""Appendix B Committee Membersâ€? Biographical Information ""

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910959791303321

Autore

Ong Aihwa

Titolo

Buddha is hiding : refugees, citizenship, the new America / / Aihwa Ong

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2003

ISBN

9786612762925

9781597345132

159734513X

9780520937161

0520937163

9781282762923

1282762923

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (355 p.)

Collana

California series in public anthropology ; ; 5

Disciplina

305.895/93079466

Soggetti

Cambodian Americans - California - Oakland - Social conditions

Cambodian Americans - California - Oakland - Ethnic identity

Cambodian Americans - Civil rights - California - Oakland

Refugees - California - Oakland - Social conditions

Refugees - Civil rights - California - Oakland

Citizenship - Social aspects - United States

Oakland (Calif.) Social conditions

Oakland (Calif.) Ethnic relations

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

Front matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- Introduction: Government and Citizenship -- Part I. In Pol Pot Time -- PART II. Governing through Freedom -- PART III. Church and Marketplace -- PART IV. Reconfigurations of Citizenship -- Afterword: Assemblages of Human Needs -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Fleeing the murderous Pol Pot regime, Cambodian refugees arrive in America as at once the victims and the heroes of America's misadventures in Southeast Asia; and their encounters with American citizenship are contradictory as well. Service providers, bureaucrats, and employers exhort them to be self-reliant, individualistic, and free, even as the system and the culture constrain them within terms of ethnicity, race, and class. Buddha Is Hiding tells the story of Cambodian Americans experiencing American citizenship from the bottom-up. Based on extensive fieldwork in Oakland and San Francisco, the study puts a human face on how American institutions-of health, welfare, law, police, church, and industry-affect minority citizens as they negotiate American culture and re-interpret the American dream. In her earlier book, Flexible Citizenship, anthropologist Aihwa Ong wrote of elite Asians shuttling across the Pacific. This parallel study tells the very different story of "the other Asians" whose route takes them from refugee camps to California's inner-city and high-tech enclaves. In Buddha Is Hiding we see these refugees becoming new citizen-subjects through a dual process of being-made and self-making, balancing religious salvation and entrepreneurial values as they endure and undermine, absorb and deflect conflicting lessons about welfare, work, medicine, gender, parenting, and mass culture. Trying to hold on to the values of family and home culture, Cambodian Americans nonetheless often feel that "Buddha is hiding." Tracing the entangled paths of poor and rich Asians in the American nation, Ong raises new questions about the form and meaning of citizenship in an era of globalization.



4.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910959265303321

Titolo

Aquatic animals : biology, habitats and threats / / David L. Eder, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Nova Science Publishers, c2012

ISBN

1-61470-131-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Collana

Marine biology

Animal science, issues and professions

Altri autori (Persone)

EderDavid L

Disciplina

591.76

Soggetti

Aquatic animals - Microbiology

Aquatic animals - Toxicology

Aquatic animals - Diseases

Aquatic habitats

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

Intro -- AQUATIC ANIMALS -- AQUATIC ANIMALS -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACOUSTIC ECOLOGY OF PINNIPEDS IN POLAR HABITATS -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- What is Acoustic Ecology? -- POLAR REGIONS -- SUB POLAR REGIONS -- POLAR REGIONS AS HABITAT FOR PINNIPEDS -- Adaptations for Life in An Ice Habitat -- Different Species Use Different Ice Types -- The Role of Vocalizations for Polar Pinnipeds -- POLAR PINNIPED ACOUSTIC ECOLOGY -- Impact of Ice on the Acoustic Environment -- Seasonal Variation in the Biotic Soundscape and Inter-Specific Competition for Acoustic Space -- Territoriality in an Unstable Environment -- ENVIRONMENTAL THREATS -- Habitat Modification -- Ecosystem Alteration -- Stresses to Body Condition and Health -- Increased Human Interactions -- CASE STUDY: ARCTIC PINNIPEDS -- Acoustic Data: Bering Sea -- Acoustic Activity of Arctic Pinnipeds in Relation to Ice Conditions -- Inter-Specific Vocal Comparison of Arctic Pinnipeds -- CASE STUDY: ANTARCTIC PINNIPEDS -- Acoustic Data: PALAOA -- Acoustic Activity of Antarctic Pinnipeds in Relation to Ice Conditions -- CONCLUSION -- What Can We Learn by Taking a Bi-Polar/Comparative Approach? -- Outlook -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Reviewed by -- REFERENCES -- IMMUNOTOXICOLOGICAL REACTIVITY OF HEMOCYTE OF JUVENILE



MUDCRAB OF SUNDARBANS BIOSPHERE RESERVE OF INDIA -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- MATERIALS AND METHODS -- 1. Collection, Transportation and Maintenance of S. Serrata -- 2. Treatment with Sodium Arsenite -- 3. Collection of Hemolymph -- 4. Testing of Cell Viability -- 5. Determination of Total Hemocyte Count (THC) -- 6. Aggregation Assay -- 7. Non-Self Surface Adhesion Assay -- 8. Assay of Phagocytic Response Under the Challenged Yeast -- 9. Activity of Superoxide Anion (O2-) -- 10. Activity of Nitric Oxide (NO) -- 11. Activity of Phenoloxidase (PO) -- 12. Estimation of Protein.

13. Statistical Analyses -- RESULT AND DISCUSSION -- ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- REFERENCES -- THE POTENTIAL THREAT OF GENOTOXIC METALS TO MARINE MAMMAL HEALTH:  A CASE STUDY OF CHROMIUM TOXICITY  IN TOOTHED AND BALEEN WHALES -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- MATERIALS AND METHODS -- Biopsy Collection -- Development of Whale Cell Lines -- Cr(VI) Compounds -- Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectroscopy -- Measuring Cell Death -- Measuring Clastogenicity -- RESULTS -- Determining Cr in Levels in Whale Skin -- Evaluating the Toxicity of Cr to Cetaceans -- Toxicity Context from the Cr Literature -- Toxicity Context from Whale Cell Culture Studies -- Cr Cytotoxicity Studies in Whale Cells -- Cr Genotoxicity Studies in Whale Cells -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- HYALELLA GENUS: ANTHROPOGENIC THREATS TO A BIOINDICATOR -- ABSTRACT -- INTRODUCTION -- OBJECTIVE -- Hyalella Genus and Chemical Stressors -- Biomarkers as Means of Assessing the Toxicity -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- THE AROMATIC HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR MEDIATED CYTOCHROME  P450 1A INDUCTION IN AQUATIC ANIMALS: BIOMONITORING OF ORGANIC POLLUTION IN AN AQUATIC ENVIRONMENT -- ABSTRACT -- 1. INTRODUCTION -- 2. CYTOCHROME P450 - ORIGIN AND EVOLUTION -- 3. MECHANISM OF CYTOCHROMEP 450 -- 4. CYTOCHROME P450 IN AQUATIC ORGANISMS -- 5. CATALYTIC CYCLE OF CYP450 AND MONOOXYGENASE REACTION -- 6. CYP450 MEDIATED XENOBIOTIC (BENZO(A)PYRENE) METABOLISM IN AQUATIC ORGANISMS -- 7. AROMATIC HYDROCARBON RECEPTOR (AHR)  AND ITS MECHANISM -- 8. AHR IN AQUATIC ORGANISMS -- 9. CYP1A AS A BIOMARKER TO ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION -- 10. FUTURE DIRECTIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- ROLE OF BACTERIA IN THE CHILLED STORAGE AND CRYOPRESERVATION OF SPERM IN AQUATIC ANIMALS: A REVIEW -- ABSTRACT -- 1. A SHORT OVERVIEW OF THEORY ON CHILLED STORED- AND CRYOPRESERVED SPERM -- 1.1. Sperm Quality -- 1.2. Short-Term Storage of Sperm.

1.3. Long-Term Storage of Sperm -- 2. BACTERIAL CONTAMINATION IN THE CHILLED STORED- AND CRYOPRESERVED SPERM -- 2.1. Occurrence of Bacteria in Aquatic Animals -- 2.2. Type and Number of Bacteria in Sperms of Aquatic Animals -- 2.3. Bacterial Profiles in the Chilled Stored Sperm/ Spermatophores of Aquatic Animals -- 2.3.1. Effect of Extenders on Bacterial Profiles in the Chilled Storage Process -- 2.3.2. Role of Contaminated Bacteria in Chilled Storage Process -- 2.3.3. Effect of Antibiotics on Contaminated Bacteria in Chilled Stored Sperm -- 2.4. Bacterial Profiles in Cryopreserved Sperm/ Spermatophores of Aquatic Animals -- 2.4.1. Change in Bacterial Flora of Cryopreserved Sperm/Spermatophores During Storage in Liquid Nitrogen -- 3. BIOSECURITY AND RISK ASSESSMENT  OF CRYOPRESERVED SPERM -- 4. CONCLUDING REMARKS AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- REFERENCES -- INDEX.

Sommario/riassunto

This book presents topical research from across the globe in the study of the biology, habitats and threats to aquatic animals. Topics discussed include the acoustic ecology of pinnipeds in polar habitats; the immunotoxicological reactivity of hemocytes of juvenile mudcrabs;



the potential threat of genotoxic metals to marine mammal health; toxic contaminants in aquatic medium concerns and the role of bacteria in the chilled storage and cryopreservation of sperm in aquatic animals.