1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910136654703321

Autore

Cooper Jayda

Titolo

Food for animals / / Jayda Cooper

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Rosen Classroom, , 2017

ISBN

1-5081-2376-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (12 pages)

Collana

Rosen real readers

Disciplina

811.52

Soggetti

Animals - Food

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910963814903321

Titolo

Research in finance . Vol. 29 / / edited by John W. Kensinger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bingley, U.K., : Emerald, 2013

ISBN

1-78190-759-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (200 p.)

Collana

Research in finance, , 0196-3821

Altri autori (Persone)

KensingerJohn W

Disciplina

332

Soggetti

Finance - Research

Finance, Public

Economic policy

Business & Economics - Finance

Business & Economics - Banks & Banking

Law - Bankruptcy & Insolvency

Finance

Banking

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

Introduction / John W. Kensinger -- Eurozone banking union "Ante Portas" / Wolfgang Hartmann -- Earnings management and audit qualifications : a non-matched sample approach / Josep Garcia-Blandon, Josep Maria Argiles Bosch, Monica Martinez-Blasco -- The real asset anomaly : a critical long view of capital markets and institutions from realized returns of corporate assets in over 50 years / James S. Ang, Gregory L. Nagel -- On the estimation of risk premium in the gold futures market : using the Goldman Sachs commodity index (GSCI) approach / Helen Xu, Eric C. Lin, John W. Kensinger -- The privatization wave : reaction to regulation or move to greater efficiency? / John W. Kensinger -- Negative pricing in U.S. electric power production and distribution / Kevin Jones -- Head and shoulders above the rest? The performance of institutional portfolio managers who use technical analysis / David M. Smith, Christophe Faugère, Ying Wang.

Sommario/riassunto

The theme of Research in Finance vol. 29 is "Dealing with Crisis and Regulation." The volume begins with a examination of the European financial crisis, and possible solutions. Next is a look (using advanced empirical methods) at audit qualifications for accounting firms in Spain. Then the international aspect of the volume shifts to business strategies for competition between two major companies that dominate their industry in Mexico. The empirical analysis then shifts to a long-range (up to 50 years) look at anomalies in the real return on corporate equity compared with the realized returns from the real assets of corporations. This look at the value of real assets compared with financial assets is complemented by a look at the stabilizing influence of the recently expanding commodity futures trading in oil and gold. Then our attention shifts to regulation and some unintended consequences. Over the past ten years in the United States we have seen a substantial increase in going private transactions, accompanied by a substantial decline in initial public offerings. The next chapter considers whether this is simply a response to the regulatory burdens imposed by the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, or a response to other more deeply underlying factors in the financial markets. Then the regulatory examination shifts to the electric power grid, and some unintended consequences of the new regulations requiring retail utilities to buy all the power produced by wind and solar generators linked to their grid.The essence of the problem is that wind generators do not produce power at a consistent level, so conventional generators must be available to pick up the slack when the wind is not blowing strongly. The conventional generating plants must be ready to spool up quickly when needed. Then the conventional generating plants must be ready to spool down quickly when the wind generators begin producing strongly. Frequent spooling up and down places significant stress upon the conventional generators, increasing maintenance costs while at the same time reducing revenues.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910920447403321

Autore

Nagarajan Deepesh

Titolo

Antibiotics and Their Mechanisms of Action / / edited by Deepesh Nagarajan

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2024

ISBN

9789819768516

9819768519

Edizione

[1st ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (185 pages)

Disciplina

615

Soggetti

Pharmacology

Medical microbiology

Drug delivery systems

Medical Microbiology

Drug Delivery

Antibiòtics

Mecanismes de reacció (Química)

Llibres electrònics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Chapter 1. The history of antibiotics -- Chapter 2. Methods for antibiotic discovery -- Chapter 3. Penicillin -- Chapter 4. Vancomycin -- Chapter 5. Antimicrobial peptides -- Chapter 6. Quinolones -- Chapter 7. Rifampicin -- Chapter 8. Tetracyclines -- Chapter 9. Streptomycin -- Chapter 10. Chloramphenicol -- Chapter 11. Antimetabolites -- Chapter 12. Mycolic acid inhibitors -- Chapter 13. Other antimicrobial agents -- Chapter 14. Antibiotic Pharmacology and Biopharmaceutics.

Sommario/riassunto

“Antibiotics and their mechanisms of action” provides a deep and lucid understanding of the mechanisms of action of various antibiotics. The experiments followed to decipher the mechanisms have been explained in great depth, which is a novelty in this textbook. Most undergraduate textbooks on antibiotics place emphasis on their use from the clinician’s perspective. Taking penicillin as an example, typical textbooks



discuss its discovery, penicillin’s β-lactam derivatives, routes of administration, the diseases and pathogens treated with β-lactam antibiotics, side effects, and finally the mechanisms of resistance that have evolved against penicillin. No description of how its mechanism of action was deciphered is ever provided. This textbook describes how simple experiments using protoplasts, covalent affinity chromatography, SYPRO Orange binding assays, and X-ray crystallography have all been used to elucidate the mechanism of action of penicillin. Like this, the complicated mechanisms of action of different antibiotics have been presented in simple terms with the help of original illustrations. Chapters 8-10 cover the mechanisms of action of anti-ribosomal antibiotics (tetracycline, streptomycin, chloramphenicol). Elucidating the mechanisms of action for these antibiotics requires complex experiments such as ex vivo transcription via a cell-free ribosomal reaction mixture, photolabelling experiments, and sucrose density gradient centrifugation of radiolabelled translation reactants and products. These experiments are conveyed to the reader in the simplest possible language and with easily understandable, appealing illustrations. Finally, the reader is challenged at the end of every chapter with original questions, testing whether hecan apply the concepts he learned in the preceding chapter to research-level problems. This book is written primarily for undergraduate students in microbiology or biotechnology courses to help them develop a simplistic yet comprehensive understanding of the mechanisms underlying antibiotics action. It is believed that this book will prepare the students for PhD level research.