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Ehrlichiosis
A vector-borne disease of animals and humans
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book is a direct result of a symposium held in December 1988, in Washington, DC, honoring Professor Emeritus Miodrag Ristic for his contributions to rickettsial disease research, in general, and, to ehrlichiosis, in particular. He and his colleagues in the United States Army Medical Research...
Antibiotic Associated Diarrhoea and Colitis
The role of Clostridium difficile in gastrointestinal disorders
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Cell Engineering
Transient Expression
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The advantages of the baculovirus system are rooted in the properties of the virus and the host (insect, or cell lines derived from it). During the normal infection cycle, two forms of the virus are produced: an early budded virus (BY) form (Kost et al. , 2000), in which the viral DNA and structural...
Zoonoses - Infections Affecting Humans and Animals
Focus on Public Health Aspects
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2014
The book will cover the most important zoonoses with a public health impact and debate actual developments in this field from a One Health perspective. The outline of the book follows a “setting” approach, i.e. special settings of zoonoses with a public health aspect, rather than presenting a...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
The ecology of potamoplankton has received less attention than lake plankton. These proceedings produce a synthesis of the composition, community structure and dynamics of lotic phytoplankton, which are intuitively submitted to a strong physical control in the flowing environment, perceived as much...
Coastal Towns in Transition
Local Perceptions of Landscape Change
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2009
Many coastal areas around the world are experiencing dramatic landscape changes as a result of increased tourism development and the "sea change phenomenon" – the migration of affluent urbanites to small coastal towns seeking beautiful, natural surroundings. In response to these changes...
by Kevin Vaughn
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
Immunocytochemistry of plant cells is the first book exclusively dedicated to this topic. The first and largest portion of the book is concerned with a group of proven protocols and variations on these protocols that might prove useful, many developed or modified in the author's laboratory. The second...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2011
Global warming is expected to change fire regimes, likely increasing the severity and extent of wildfires in many ecosystems around the world. What will be the landscape-scale effects of these altered fire regimes? Within what theoretical contexts can we accurately assess these effects? We explore...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This is the second volume in the series Nutrients in Ecosystems. Sulphur as an essential plant nutrient has received little attention. This is explained by the facts that sulphur was obviously in sufficient supply from the atmosphere, from soil and as a by-product in mineral fertilizers. Increases...
Grasshoppers and Grassland Health
Managing Grasshopper Outbreaks without Risking Environmental Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Acridids (grasshoppers and locusts) can range from being rare curiosities to abundant menaces. Some are threatened with extinction and become subjects of intensive conservation efforts, while others are devastating pests and become the objects of massive control programmes. Even within a species,...
Soils and the Environment
A Guide to Soil Surveys and their Applications
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
As we enter the last decades of the twentieth century, many persistent and perplexing problems continue to afflict humankind. Thus it is appropriate to address, in a new group of books, two of the monumental issues that haunt people throughout the world. Soils and the Environment by Professor Gerald...
Late Cenozoic Yushe Basin, Shanxi Province, China: Geology and Fossil Mammals
Volume I:History, Geology, and Magnetostratigraphy
Language: English
Release Date: February 20, 2013
The Late Cenozoic Yushe Basin, Shanxi Province, China embodies the bulk of our knowledge on successions of terrestrial vertebrates in the northern part of East Asia. Everything we know about Asian mammals of the last 6 million years has a historical basis in the documentation of the geology of Yushe. ...
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Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2016
The objective of this volume is to showcase the contemporary state of research on recognizing and evaluating the performance of stone age weapons from a variety of viewpoints, including investigating their cognitive and evolutionary significance.
New archaeological finds and experimental...