1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910787113103321

Autore

Peterson A. Townsend (Andrew Townsend), <1964->

Titolo

Mapping disease transmission risk : enriching models using biogeography and ecology / / A. Townsend Peterson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore : , : Johns Hopkins University Press, , 2014

ISBN

1-4214-1474-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (225 p.)

Disciplina

614.4/2

Soggetti

Medical mapping

Medical geography

Public health surveillance

Epidemiology

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

""Cover""; ""Contents""; ""Preface""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""1 Introduction""; ""Ecology and Biogeography""; ""This Book""; ""Conclusions""; ""Part I: Distributional Ecology""; ""2 General Conceptual Framework for Species� Distributions""; ""Historical Background""; ""A General Schema of Distributional Ecology""; ""Disease Systems""; ""Conclusions""; ""3 Status of Data for Understanding Disease Distributions""; ""Disease Case-Occurrence Data Sets""; ""Relevant Biodiversity Occurrence Data Sets""; ""Georeferencing""; ""The Meaning of No Records""; ""Conclusions""

""4 Current Tools for Understanding Disease Distributions""""The Current Toolkit""; ""Shortcomings of the Current Methodologies""; ""Conclusions""; ""Part II: Disease Modeling Basics""; ""5 Modifications to the Basic Framework""; ""Disease Peculiarities""; ""Real-World Examples: West Nile Virus and Others""; ""Implications for Disease Modeling""; ""Conclusions""; ""6 Modeling Components versus Outcomes""; ""Disease Transmission Systems as Sets of Interacting Species""; ""Black-Box Approaches""; ""Component-Based Approaches""; ""Combined Approaches""; ""Conclusions""

""7 Space-Only versus Space-and-Environment Models""""Examples and Illustrations""; ""Contrasting the Two Types of Models""; ""Conclusions""; ""Part III: Preparing the Data""; ""8 Garbage-In-



Garbage-Out Principle""; ""Problems with Data Quality""; ""Biases Created by Geography""; ""Conclusions""; ""9 Assembling Occurrence Data""; ""General Considerations""; ""Obtaining and Improving Occurrence Data""; ""Compatibility and Study Design""; ""Conclusions""; ""10 Assembling Environmental Data""; ""Relevance to Species� Distributions""; ""General Considerations""

""Modifiable Areal Unit Problem""""Specific Data Resources""; ""Conclusions""; ""11 Study Areas and BAM""; ""Defining the Area M""; ""Sampling Considerations""; ""BAM Configurations""; ""Details of M and A for Model Transfers""; ""Conclusions""; ""Part IV: Developing Models""; ""12 Calibrating Niche Models""; ""Introduction to Niche Models""; ""Nuts and Bolts""; ""Calibrating the “Best� Model""; ""Transferring and Extrapolating""; ""Characterizing Ecological Niches""; ""Conclusions""; ""13 Processing Raw Outputs into Useful Maps""; ""Choosing Appropriate Thresholds""

""From Potential to Actual Distributions""""Projecting and Transferring Models""; ""Conclusions""; ""14 Evaluating Niche Models""; ""Controversies and Inappropriate Approaches""; ""Basic Concepts""; ""The Confusion Matrix and Its Implications""; ""Binary Model Evaluation""; ""Continuous Model Evaluation""; ""Model Evaluation and Model Performance""; ""Conclusions""; ""15 Developing Risk Maps""; ""Initial Estimates""; ""Risk Modifiers""; ""Type I versus Type II Errors""; ""Overlay, Testing, and Simulation""; ""Conclusions""; ""Part V: Examples of Applications""; ""16 Identifying Risk Factors""

""Black-Box Disease Ecology""



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910966731403321

Autore

Covino Deborah Caslav <1960->

Titolo

Amending the abject body : aesthetic makeovers in medicine and culture / / Deborah Caslav Covino

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : State University of New York Press, c2004

ISBN

9780791484333

0791484335

9781423740261

1423740262

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (163 p.)

Collana

SUNY series in feminist criticism and theory

Disciplina

306.4/613

Soggetti

Body image in women

Self-perception in women

Women - Physiology

Human body - Social aspects

Surgery, Plastic

Feminist theory

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-148) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Abjection -- Normalizing the Body -- Outside-In -- “I’m Doing it for Me” -- Making Over Abjection -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Feminist theorists have often argued that aesthetic surgeries and body makeovers dehumanize and disempower women patients, whose efforts at self-improvement lead to their objectification. Amending the Abject Body proposes that although objectification is an important element in this phenomenon, the explosive growth of "makeover culture" can be understood as a process of both abjection (ridding ourselves of the unwanted) and identification (joining the community of what Julia Kristeva calls "clean and proper bodies"). Drawing from the advertisement and advocacy of body makeovers on television, in aesthetic surgery trade books, and in the print and Web-based



marketing of face lifts, tummy tucks, and Botox injections, Deborah Caslav Covino articulates the relationship among objectification, abjection, and identification, and offers a fuller understanding of contemporary beauty-desire.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910960528403321

Titolo

Methods in stream ecology / / [edited by] F. Richard Hauer and Gary A. Lamberti

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Diego, Calif., : Academic Press/Elsevier, c2007

ISBN

0-08-054743-5

0-08-051150-3

Edizione

[2nd ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (894 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

HauerF. Richard

LambertiGary Anthony

Disciplina

577.6/4

Soggetti

Stream ecology - Methodology

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

section A. Physical processes -- section B. Material transport, uptake, and storage -- section C. Stream biota -- section D. Community interactions -- section E. Ecosystem processes -- section F. Ecosystem quality.

Sommario/riassunto

Now in its second edition, Methods in Stream Ecology covers six important areas of the field: Physical Stream Ecology, Material Transport and Storage, Stream Biotia, Community Interactions, Ecosystem Process, and Ecosystem Quality. This bestselling title has been significantly revised and updated, providing a complete series of field and laboratory protocols in stream ecology.* NEW information on remote sensing, the relation between stream flow and alluviation, and additional coverage of macrophyte* Offers a brand new chapter on Riparian Zones* Provides a variety of exer