Microbial ecology [[electronic resource] ] : an evolutionary approach / / J. Vaun McArthur
| Microbial ecology [[electronic resource] ] : an evolutionary approach / / J. Vaun McArthur |
| Autore | McArthur J. Vaun |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Boston, : Elsevier, AP, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (429 p.) |
| Disciplina | 579/.17 |
| Soggetto topico |
Microbial ecology
Surface chemistry |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-282-55248-1
9786612552489 0-08-051154-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Front cover; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; Section I: Ecology and Evolution; 1: Core Concepts in Studying Ecology and Evolution; The Beginnings of Microbiology; Viruses; Bacteria; Photosynthetic Bacteria; Gliding Bacteria; Sheathed Bacteria; Budding and Prosthecate Bacteria; Spirochetes; Spiral and Curved Bacteria; Strictly Aerobic Gram-Negative Rods; Facultative Anaerobic Gram-Negative Rods; Strictly Anaerobic Gram-Negative Rods; Nonphotosynthetic Autotrophic Bacteria; Gram-Negative Cocci; Gram-Positive Cocci; Endospore-Forming Bacteria
Non-Spore-Forming, Gram-Positive RodsBranching Bacteria; Obligate Intracellular Bacteria; Ecology Becomes a Science; Evolution; Natural Selection; Patterns of Selection; Evolutionary Ecology; 2: Molecules and Origins of Life; Chemistry of Life; Water; Biological Elements; Early Atmosphere and the Beginnings of Life; Miller Flask Experiment; Which Molecule Came First?; Genes-First Models; Proteins-First Models; Dual-Origin Models; 3: Species Concepts and Speciation; Universal Species Concept; Biological Species Concept; Phenetic and Related Species Concepts; Evolutionary Species Concept Phylogenetic Species ConceptBacterial Taxonomy; Bacterial Species Concepts; Application of the Phenetic Species Concept to Bacteria; Application of the Phylogenetic Species Concept; Speciation; Bacterial Speciation; Mismatch Repair as a Speciation Mechanism; Rapid Speciation?; Operons; Genome Economization and Speciation; Hypermutation; Genome Reduction; Section II: Ecology of Individuals; 4: The Individual; What Is an Individual?; Study of Individuals; Study of Individual Microorganisms; Genetic Individuals; Ramets; Ecological Individual; Niche; Abiotic Constraints; 5: Growth and Feeding Growth and Surface-to-Volume RatiosEcology of Feeding; Metabolic Energy; Role of Carbon; Microbial Feeding Strategies; Costs of Feeding; Generalists and Specialists; Optimal Foraging and Microbes; Cheating; Free-Living Microorganisms; Food Chains and Webs; Fermentations; 6: Ecology of Sex; Reproductive Ecology; Microbial Reproduction; Conjugation; Transposons; Transformation; Transduction; Advantages and Disadvantages of Sex; Rate of Reproduction; Plasmids and Extrachromosomal DNA; When Would Plasmids Be Favorable?; Genes on Plasmids; Plasmids in Streams; Plasmids in Lakes Hot Spots for Plasmid TransferTransformation in Nature; Section III: Living Together in Populations; 7: Fundamentals of Microbial Population Ecology; Populations in Ecology; Properties of Populations; Density; Natality and Fecundity; Mortality, Longevity, and Senescence; Immigration and Emigration; Microbial Population Ecology; Population Growth; Density Dependence and Independence; r and K Selection; 8: Metapopulations, Multicellularity, and Modular Growth; Metapopulations; Dispersal; Modularity; Source and Sinks; Population Ecology of Genes; Sources of Phenotypic and Genotypic Variation Sources of Genic and Chromosomal Genetic Variation |
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| Amsterdam ; ; Boston, : Elsevier, AP, c2006 | ||
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Microbial ecology [[electronic resource] ] : an evolutionary approach / / J. Vaun McArthur
| Microbial ecology [[electronic resource] ] : an evolutionary approach / / J. Vaun McArthur |
| Autore | McArthur J. Vaun |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Boston, : Elsevier, AP, c2006 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (429 p.) |
| Disciplina | 579/.17 |
| Soggetto topico |
Microbial ecology
Surface chemistry |
| ISBN |
1-282-55248-1
9786612552489 0-08-051154-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Front cover; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; Preface; Section I: Ecology and Evolution; 1: Core Concepts in Studying Ecology and Evolution; The Beginnings of Microbiology; Viruses; Bacteria; Photosynthetic Bacteria; Gliding Bacteria; Sheathed Bacteria; Budding and Prosthecate Bacteria; Spirochetes; Spiral and Curved Bacteria; Strictly Aerobic Gram-Negative Rods; Facultative Anaerobic Gram-Negative Rods; Strictly Anaerobic Gram-Negative Rods; Nonphotosynthetic Autotrophic Bacteria; Gram-Negative Cocci; Gram-Positive Cocci; Endospore-Forming Bacteria
Non-Spore-Forming, Gram-Positive RodsBranching Bacteria; Obligate Intracellular Bacteria; Ecology Becomes a Science; Evolution; Natural Selection; Patterns of Selection; Evolutionary Ecology; 2: Molecules and Origins of Life; Chemistry of Life; Water; Biological Elements; Early Atmosphere and the Beginnings of Life; Miller Flask Experiment; Which Molecule Came First?; Genes-First Models; Proteins-First Models; Dual-Origin Models; 3: Species Concepts and Speciation; Universal Species Concept; Biological Species Concept; Phenetic and Related Species Concepts; Evolutionary Species Concept Phylogenetic Species ConceptBacterial Taxonomy; Bacterial Species Concepts; Application of the Phenetic Species Concept to Bacteria; Application of the Phylogenetic Species Concept; Speciation; Bacterial Speciation; Mismatch Repair as a Speciation Mechanism; Rapid Speciation?; Operons; Genome Economization and Speciation; Hypermutation; Genome Reduction; Section II: Ecology of Individuals; 4: The Individual; What Is an Individual?; Study of Individuals; Study of Individual Microorganisms; Genetic Individuals; Ramets; Ecological Individual; Niche; Abiotic Constraints; 5: Growth and Feeding Growth and Surface-to-Volume RatiosEcology of Feeding; Metabolic Energy; Role of Carbon; Microbial Feeding Strategies; Costs of Feeding; Generalists and Specialists; Optimal Foraging and Microbes; Cheating; Free-Living Microorganisms; Food Chains and Webs; Fermentations; 6: Ecology of Sex; Reproductive Ecology; Microbial Reproduction; Conjugation; Transposons; Transformation; Transduction; Advantages and Disadvantages of Sex; Rate of Reproduction; Plasmids and Extrachromosomal DNA; When Would Plasmids Be Favorable?; Genes on Plasmids; Plasmids in Streams; Plasmids in Lakes Hot Spots for Plasmid TransferTransformation in Nature; Section III: Living Together in Populations; 7: Fundamentals of Microbial Population Ecology; Populations in Ecology; Properties of Populations; Density; Natality and Fecundity; Mortality, Longevity, and Senescence; Immigration and Emigration; Microbial Population Ecology; Population Growth; Density Dependence and Independence; r and K Selection; 8: Metapopulations, Multicellularity, and Modular Growth; Metapopulations; Dispersal; Modularity; Source and Sinks; Population Ecology of Genes; Sources of Phenotypic and Genotypic Variation Sources of Genic and Chromosomal Genetic Variation |
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| Amsterdam ; ; Boston, : Elsevier, AP, c2006 | ||
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Multi-camera networks : principles and applications / / Hamid Aghajan, Andrea Cavallaro, [editors]
| Multi-camera networks : principles and applications / / Hamid Aghajan, Andrea Cavallaro, [editors] |
| Autore | Aghajan Hamid K |
| Edizione | [1st edition] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Amsterdam ; ; Boston, : Elsevier, AP, c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (623 p.) |
| Disciplina |
621.38834
621.38928 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
AghajanHamid K
CavallaroAndrea |
| Soggetto topico |
Sensor networks
Cameras Computer vision Computer networks Signal processing - Digital techniques Electronic surveillance Video recording |
| ISBN |
9786612120671
9781282120679 1282120670 9780080878003 0080878008 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Front Cover; Multi-Camera Networks; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Foreword; Preface; Part 1: Multi-Camera Calibration and Topology; Chapter 1. Multi-View Geometry for Camera Networks; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Image Formation; 1.2.1 Perspective Projection; 1.2.2 Camera Matrices; 1.2.3 Estimating the Camera Matrix; 1.3 Two-Camera Geometry; 1.3.1 Epipolar Geometry and Its Estimation; 1.3.2 Relating the Fundamental Matrix to the Camera Matrices; 1.3.3 Estimating the Fundamental Matrix; 1.4 Projective Transformations; 1.4.1 Estimating Projective Transformations
1.4.2 Rectifying Projective Transformations1.5 Feature Detection and Matching; 1.6 Multi-Camera Geometry; 1.6.1 Affine Reconstruction; 1.6.2 Projective Reconstruction; 1.6.3 Metric Reconstruction; 1.6.4 Bundle Adjustment; 1.7 Conclusions; 1.7.1 Resources; References; Chapter 2. Multi-View Calibration, Synchronization, and Dynamic Scene Reconstruction; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Camera Network Calibration and Synchronization; 2.2.1 Epipolar Geometry from Dynamic Silhouettes; 2.2.2 Related Work; 2.2.3 Camera Network Calibration; 2.2.4 Computing the Metric Reconstruction 2.2.5 Camera Network Synchronization2.2.6 Results; 2.3 Dynamic Scene Reconstruction from Silhouette Cues; 2.3.1 Related Work; 2.3.2 Probabilistic Framework; 2.3.3 Automatic Learning and Tracking; 2.3.4 Results and Evaluation; 2.4 Conclusions; References; Chapter 3. Actuation-Assisted Localization of Distributed Camera Sensor Networks; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Methodology; 3.2.1 Base Triangle; 3.2.2 Large-Scale Networks; 3.2.3 Bundle Adjustment Refinement; 3.3 Actuation Planning; 3.3.1 Actuation Strategies; 3.3.2 Actuation Termination Rules; 3.4 System Description; 3.4.1 Actuated Camera Platform 3.4.2 Optical Communication Beaconing3.4.3 Network Architecture; 3.5 Evaluation; 3.5.1 Localization Accuracy; 3.5.2 Node Density; 3.5.3 Latency; 3.6 Conclusions; References; Chapter 4. Building an Algebraic Topological Model of Wireless Camera Networks; 4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Mathematical Background; 4.2.1 Simplicial Homology; 4.2.2 Example; 4.2.3 Cech Theorem; 4.3 The Camera and the Environment Models; 4.4 The CN-Complex; 4.5 Recovering Topology: 2D Case; 4.5.1 Algorithms; 4.5.2 Simulation in 2D; 4.6 Recovering Topology: 2.5D Case; 4.6.1 Mapping from 2.5D to 2D; 4.6.2 Building the CN-Complex 4.6.3 Experimentation4.7 Conclusions; References; Chapter 5. Optimal Placement of Multiple Visual Sensors; 5.1 Introduction; 5.1.1 Related Work; 5.1.2 Organization; 5.2 Problem Formulation; 5.2.1 Definitions; 5.2.2 Problem Statements; 5.2.3 Modeling a Camera's Field of View; 5.2.4 Modeling Space; 5.3 Approaches; 5.3.1 Exact Algorithms; 5.3.2 Heuristics; 5.3.3 Random Selection and Placement; 5.4 Experiments; 5.4.1 Comparison of Approaches; 5.4.2 Complex Space Examples; 5.5 Possible Extensions; 5.6 Conclusions; References; Chapter 6. Optimal Visual Sensor Network Configuration; 6.1 Introduction 6.1.1 Organization |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9911006626303321 |
Aghajan Hamid K
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| Amsterdam ; ; Boston, : Elsevier, AP, c2009 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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