Molecular approaches in plant abiotic stress / / editors: R.K. Gaur, Pradeep Sharma

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911110388903321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Boca Raton, Fla. : , : CRC Press, , 2014
• ISBN: 0-429-07350-X; 1-4665-8893-4; 9780429073502
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (430 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): GaurRajarshi Kumar; SharmaPradeep K. <1953->
• Disciplina: 631.5/82; 631.582
• Soggetti: Crops - Effect of stress on; Crops - Physiology; Crop improvement; Crops - Genetics
• 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 Cover; Preface; Contents; List of Contributors; 1. Genes Ppd and Vrn as Components of Molecular Genetic System of Wheat Regulation Resistance (Triticum aestivum L.) to Abiotic Stress; 2. Plant WRKY Gene Family and its Response to Abiotic Stress; 3. Induced Tolerance and Priming for Abiotic Stress in Plants; 4. Roles of HSP70 in Plant Abiotic Stress; 5. Potential Role of Small RNAs during Stress in Plants; 6. DeepSuperSAGE in a Friendly Bioinformatic Approach: Identifying Molecular Targets Responding to Abiotic Stress in Plants; 7. Regulation of Translation as Response to Abiotic Stress; 8. Metabolomics and its Role in Study of Plant Abiotic Stress Responses9. Molecular Approaches for Plant Transcription Factor Characterization; 10. New Insights in the Functional Genomics of Plants Responding to Abiotic Stress; 11. Cold Stress Signaling and Tolerance in Rice; 12. Mathematical Modelling for Investigation of Plant Cold Tolerance; 13. Physiological, Biochemical and Molecular Mechanisms of Drought Tolerance in Plants; 14. Proteomic Analyses of Alterations in ; Plant Proteome Under Drought Stress; 15. AREB/ABF Proteins are Master Transcription Factors that Mediate ABA-Dependent Gene Regulation During Water-stress16. Root Studies for Drought Tolerance in Wheat; 17. Abiotic Stress in Lotus: Aluminum and Drought; 18. Genes Regulated in Plants under Salt Stress; 19. Molecular Aspects of Crop Response to Abiotic Stress with Emphasis on Drought and Salinity; 20. Plant-arthropod Interactions Affected by Water Deficit Stress through Association with Changes in Plant free Amino Acid Accumulations; 21. Hydrogen Sulfide as a Potent Regulator of Plant Responses to Abiotic Stress Factors; 22. Multifaceted Role of Glutathione in Environmental Stress ManagementAbout the Editors; Color Plate Section
• Sommario/riassunto: Plants under abiotic stress are those suffering from drought, extreme temperatures, flood and other natural-but non-living-factors. Abiotic stress is responsible for reduced yields in several major crops, and climate change is focusing research in this area. To minimize cellular damage cause by such stresses, plants have evolved complex, well-coordinated adaptive responses that operate at the transcriptional level. Understanding these processes is key to manipulating plant performance to withstand stress. This book deals with the role of gene silencing in the adaptation of plants to these s

Dynamic systems theory and embodiment in psychotherapy research. A new look at process and outcome

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911115455003321
• Autore: Sergio Salvatore
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Frontiers Media SA, 2016
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (151 p.)
• Collana: Frontiers Research Topics
• Soggetti: Psychology
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: In an attempt to cease from reducing the world and its phenomena to linear modeling and analytic dissection, Dynamic Systems Theories (DST) and Embodiment theories and methods aim to account for the complex, dynamic, and non-linear phenomena that we constantly deal with in psychology. For instance, a DST and Embodiment perspective can enrich psychology's understanding of communicative processes both in clinical and non-clinical settings. In psychotherapy, research has shown that there are a number of common factors contributing to psychotherapy outcome, of which the therapeutic relationship is the most important one. These findings give communication a central role in the psychotherapy process. In the traditional view, the underlying model of understanding psychotherapy processes is that of a number of components summatively coming together enabling us to make a linear causal prediction. Yet, communication is inherently dynamic. A shift to viewing the communication process in psychotherapy as a field dynamic phenomenon helps us to take into account nonlinear phenomena, such as feedback processes within and between persons. We thus propose an embodied enactive dynamic systems view as a new theoretical and methodological perspective that can more realistically capture what happens among and between two persons in psychotherapy. This view is broader than that of most current models in psychotherapy research. DST and Embodied Enactive Approaches can offer solutions to the prevailing neglect of non-linear phenomena in ; Western science, to better account for the complex dynamics of reality, and to move to a more holistic level of analysis. DST and Embodied Enactive Approaches have developed not in a single discipline but in a joined movement based on various fields such as physics, biology, robotics, anthropology, philosophy, linguistics, neuroscience, and psychology, and have only recently entered clinical theorizing. The two new paradigms are presently triggering a rethinking of the therapeutic process by recognizing the embodied nature of psychological and communicative phenomena. Their integration opens up a promising scenario in the field of psychotherapy research, developing new, profoundly transdisciplinary, theoretical concepts, methodologies, and standards of knowledge. The notion of field dynamics enables us to account for the role of the communicational context in the regulation of intra-psychological processes, while at the same time avoiding the pitfalls of an ontologization of the hierarchy of systemic organization. Moreover, the new approach implements methodological strategies that can transcend the conventional opposition between idiographic and nomothetic sciences.

Wandering Workers : Mores, Behavior, Way of Life, and Political Status of Domestic Russian labor migrants / / Andreas Umland, Juri Plusnin, Julia Kazantseva, Simon Kordonsky, Yana Zausaeva, Natalia Zhidkevich, Artemy Pozanenko

• Record Nr.: UNINA9911132457403321
• Autore: Pli︠u︡snin I︠U︡. M (I︠U︡riĭ Mikhaĭlovich)
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hannover, : ibidem, 2015
• ISBN: 3-8382-6713-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (307 p.)
• Collana: Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society ; 141
• Disciplina: 325.47
• Soggetti: mores; behavior; labor; migrants; Russia; otkhodnichestvo; political status; sociology; way of life; statistics; economy
• 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: Contents ; Preface; Preface to the 2013 Russian edition; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1 The phenomenon of оtkhоdniсhestvо; 1.1. The phenomenon of Russian оtkhоdniсhestvо; 1.2. Definition of оtkhоdniсhestvо as a special type of labor migration; 1.3. ""Otkhоdniks"" in other countries. Otkhodnichestvo in the contemporary world; Chapter 2 Russian otkhodnichestvo: milestones; 2.1. Historical otkhodnichestvo of the 17th-20th centuries: causes and drivers; 2.2. Two stages in the evolution of contemporary otkhodnichestvo; 2.3. Typical features of contemporary otkhodnichestvo in Russia; Chapter 3 A study of contemporary otkhodnichestvo3.1. Research methodology requirements; 3.2. Research methods; 3.3. Fieldwork findings: description; Chapter 4 Estimating the population of otkhodniks; 4.1. Statistical data; 4.2. Information on otkhodniks obtained from local mass media; 4.3. Estimations of otkhodniks by local inhabitants; 4.4. Estimates based on the difference between the total workingage population and the number of residents employed in the local economy; 4.5. Aggregating data from household registers with that from district employment centers; 4.6. Using information from school class registers4.7. Data obtained by sagittal mapping; Chapter 5 Regional specialization by type of craft; 5.1. Employment destinations; 5.2. Otkhodnik occupations specific for different areas; Chapter 6 Otkhodnik in society: Who, why and for what purpose seeks jobs away from home?; 6.1. The reasons for engaging in otkhodnichestvo; 6.2. The composition of otkhodniks; 6.3. Job-seeking and ""length of service""; 6.4. Correlation between otkhodnik activities and the educational background; Chapter 7 Otkhodnik in society: Expected and actual compensation, working conditions and reasons to give up otkhodnichestvo7.1. Compensation; 7.2. Working conditions, living arrangements, and leisure; 7.3. The reasons for giving otkhodnichestvo up; Chapter 8 Otkhodnik at home; 8.1. First impression: appearance and behavior; 8.2. Otkhodnik as a social type; 8.3. Otkhodnichestvo: implications for the family; 8.4. The household and everyday life of an otkhodnik; 8.5. Relations with neighbors and status in the local community; Chapter 9 Otkhodniks and the State; 9.1. Participation in local political life9.2. Attitude towards the local authorities; 9.3. Interaction with government and local self-government bodies; 9.4. Public employment centers as a contact point between the authorities and the otkhodniks; Chapter 10 Otkhodnichestvo as a new factor of social and political life in Russia; 10.1. The significance of otkhodnichestvo for the authorities; 10.2. The social and political implications of contemporary otkhodnichestvo; Conclusion; Literature
• Sommario/riassunto: This timely book offers a fresh perspective on the issue of contemporary migratory labor, otkhodnichestvo, in Russia-the temporary departure of inhabitants from small towns and villages for short-term jobs in the major cities of Russia. Although otkhodnichestvo is a mass phenomenon, it is not reflected in official economic statistics. Based on numerous interviews with otkhodniks and local experts, this stunningly original work focuses on the central and northern regions of European Russia. The authors draw a social ; portrait of the contemporary otkhodnik and offer a sociological assessment of the economic and political status these 'wandering workers' live with.; A really interesting book. Obvious are comparisons with other labor and social markets in China, the EU, and even in Australia. […] Naturally, the local authorities do not concern themselves with these out-of-town workers, because they add nothing to their expenditure budgets but bring a lot into the spending side. Dr. Gregory R. Copley, author of "The Art of Victory" (2006) and "UnCivilization: Urban Geopolitics in a Time of Chaos" (2012), President of the International Strategic Studies Association, Washington, DC, USA; This book is a definite breakthrough in sociology. Dr. Tatiana Nefedova, Leading research fellow, Institute of Geography of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow; [The book] provides a better understanding of the current social and economic impact that the Moscow agglomeration and St. Petersburg have on the labor markets and employment pattern of the adult population of working age throughout the European part of Russia. Prof. Dr. Alexander Chepurenko, Dean of the Department of Sociology, Higher School of Economics, Moscow; "This well-translated volume is based on four to five years of field research in 40 regions and dozens of towns in Russia. [...] this is an interesting portrait of migrant workers and a welcome addition to studies of post-Soviet society."; "[...] the authors are to be congratulated for this eye-opening study of a large but previously invisible segment of the Russian labor force [...]. The book has obvious implications for social investment and taxation policies, but should also appeal to sociologists, ethnographers, and historians who will find many of its obversations ripe for comparative analysis."