1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462383303321

Autore

Frakes Jerold C

Titolo

Politics of Interpretation : Alterity and Ideology in Old Yiddish Studies [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, NY, USA, : State University of New York Press, 1988

ISBN

1-4384-0315-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (303 p.)

Disciplina

437/.947

Soggetti

Yiddish philology - Historiography

Yiddish literature - History and criticism

HISTORY

Jewish

Middle Eastern Languages & Literatures

Languages & Literatures

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph



2.

Record Nr.

UNISA996231346503316

Titolo

Bass player

Pubbl/distr/stampa

San Francisco, CA, : Miller Freeman Publications, c1990-

New York, NY, : Future Publishing Limited

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

787

Soggetti

Bass guitar

Bass guitarists

Guitare basse

Periodicals.

Périodiques.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Periodico

Note generali

Title from cover.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910887930503321

Autore

Thivent Viviane

Titolo

Science and sustainable development

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bondy, France, : IRD Éditions, 2024

ISBN

2-7099-2825-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (226 p.)

Collana

Grands enjeux

Altri autori (Persone)

SabriéMarie-Lise

MourierThomas

Disciplina

338.927

Soggetti

Sustainable development

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Part 1 Introduction -- Aiming for fairer societies -- Microlending and maximum debt -- An economy based on precarious employment -- The missing proportion of women -- Governance and corruption seen from the bottom -- Developing public education in the cities -- The multilingualism textbook -- Questioning the development process -- The Mega-Chad network -- Securing the peasants' land rights -- Local cultures -- The evolutionary history of mankind -- Migration in 3-D -- A world of encampments -- African forms of Christianity in Morocco -- Invisible health trajectories -- Migratory links -- Displaced minorities -- Yes to triple therapy in Africa -- Being born without HIV -- Replaying and changing the scene -- A sugar paste to combat hunger -- Preventing the effects of malnutrition -- Combating deficiencies -- Preventing obesity in the Maghreb -- Part 2 Introduction -- Hazards, risks and vulnerabilities -- Niakhar: sentinel area since 1962 -- Genealogy of Plasmodium -- The mosquito net revolution -- Preventing malaria intermittently -- Protecting pregnant women from malaria -- Reconstructing the history of HIV -- The battle against Ebola -- Ebola: a predetermined ending? -- Humanising biosecurity measures -- The OCP programme, or how to eradicate "river blindness" -- The effect of insecticides on the environment -- Testing before treating -- Lights out for the tsetse fly? -- Pioneers in the Zika virus -- Developing mosquito factories -- Vaccinating dogs to save humans -- Detecting drug-resistant tuberculosis -- Climate-related epidemics -- Closely monitored glaciers -- Watching out for our water -- Heat wave



warning in Africa -- Assessing seismic risks -- Long-lasting eruptions -- Mapping resources to manage priorities -- Sounding out the hidden side of earthquakes -- Using data to improve road safety -- Record levels of plastic pollution in fresh water -- Tracesense, measuring traces of pollution -- Mesotoga: bacteria found in polluted environments -- Catching cyanobacteria red-handed -- Part 3 Introduction -- Sustainable agriculture and food security -- Sequestering carbon in soil -- Erosion in the shade of trees -- Plant symbiosis -- Macrofauna, macro-effect -- Correcting the pH of soil -- Small dams, major effects -- Water in African soil -- Measuring water -- Khettaras: living vestiges -- Trees: the backbone of agriculture -- Land: a scientific tool for development -- The Amazon forest hiding behind felled trees -- Optimising agricultural knowledge -- From IPCC to operational status -- First mapping of rice yellow mottle virus -- Cassava and its bacteria legacy -- Unwitting pests -- Fields under thermal surveillance -- Raising policy-makers' awareness of bio-invasions -- Sexing to develop date palms -- Turning green waste into gold -- Moving towards sustainable aquaculture -- Controlling reproduction -- Tropical tuna under surveillance -- Moving towards more sustainable baits -- Adaptive fishing in Peru -- Part 4 Introduction -- Ecosystem dynamics and biodiversity conservation -- Crackdown on El Niño -- Exploring tropical oceans: the Pirata programme -- Modelling upwelling -- Critical zone observatories -- From local hydrology to global climate -- The paradoxes of the Sahel -- Flooding caused by downpours -- Small catchments, great results -- Gauging rivers from space -- Exploring South America's past climate -- A sea of fresh water -- Soils in all their forms -- Sand, dust and wind -- Cataloguing the French Guiana forest -- Pastures and humans drip-fed by glaciers -- The proportion of birds -- Discovery of "super coral" in New Caledonia -- Part 5 Introduction -- Open science and shared knowledge -- Supporting teams of scientists -- Mosquitoes, viruses and globalisation -- Supporting the creation of clinical research centres in Africa -- Training health supervisors -- "Boundless" modelling -- Home-made GIS -- Public data on West African fisheries -- Mapping out regulations -- Rice as a common good -- Custodians of agricultural diversity -- The French Guiana forest in a herbarium -- A botanist in my smartphone -- At the cutting edge of ethnopharmacology -- Participative archaeology in the Marquesas Islands -- Discovering a new civilisation -- Anthology of atlases -- Virtual education -- Science as a tool for citizens -- Knowledge and images accessible to everyone -- List of scientific contributors.

Sommario/riassunto

Up until the 1980s, Africa was plagued by a scourge which is now almost forgotten: onchocerciasis or "river blindness", a blinding disease which devastated rural societies and transformed fertile soils into no man's land.