The Milky Way: Four Centuries of Discovery of the Galaxy.- Hi Clouds Beyond the Galactic Disk.- The Wham Northern Sky Survey and the Nature of the Warm Ionized Medium in the Galaxy.- The Structure of Galactic Hydrogen on the Largest Scales.- The Bu-Fcrao Galactic Ring Survey.- The View of the Interstellar Medium with the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey.- Dark Hydrogen in the Galactic Plane.- Diffuse Infrared Excess Features in the Canadian Galactic Plane Survey.- The Oxygen Abundance in Our Galaxy.- Ionization of the Galactic Halo.- Diffuse Ionized Gas and the Disk-Halo Interaction in Spiral Galaxies.- Are All the DIGs the Same?.- Radio Halos in Star Forming Galaxies.- Brackett-? Line Survey of the Ionized Hydrogen in the Galactic Plane.- Leaky H II Regions and Heliumionization in the Reynolds Layer.- Reynolds Layers in Nearby Galaxies: The Face-On View.- Volume Filling Factors of the Dig.- Latest Results of the Sethi Survey at Arecibo.- Job Accomplished? The Escape of Ionizing Radiation from the Disks of Spiral Galaxies.- Modeling the Diffuse Ionized Gas with Cloudy.- Diffuse Ionized Medium Panel Discussion.- Absorption Line Studies in the Halo.- Dynamical Evolution of High Velocity Clouds in the Galactic Halo.- Pulsar Bow Shocks as Probes of Warm Neutral Gas.- Highly Ionized HVCs Towards Pks 2155-304: Galactic or Extragalactic?.- Towards an Understanding of the Dynamics of the Milky Way.- Fuse Observations of Ovi Emission from the Galactic Fountain.- Pattern Speeds of Three Spirals Using Co and the Tremaine-Weinberg Method.- Gas Infall Onto the Superthin Ic 2233.- High-Velocity Gas Observed Towards the Shajn 147 Supernova Remnant.- Hot Gas in the Galaxy.- Bubbles and Superbubbles.- The Chandra View of M101: What Can We Learn About the Milky Way?.- Fuse Observationsof the Vela Supernova Remnant.- Circumstellar Interaction in Young Radio Supernovae.- Chandra Archive of Nearby Galaxies. I. Normal Galaxies.- Hi Shells in the 2nd Galactic Quadrant.- Key Science Programs for the Spear Mission.- Chandra Archive of Nearby Galaxies. II. Galaxies with Nuclear Activity.- Heating and Cooling in the ISM.- The Galactic Centre and Its Black Hole.- Stellar Metallicities and the Formation of the Galactic Bulge.- The Galactic Bar.- Stellar Distribution in the Galactic Disk from NIR Color-Magnitude Diagrams.- Stellar Clusters in the Nucleus of Galaxie.- Massive Young Clusters.- Deep Multicolor NIR Surver of the Galactic Plane.- Tracing the History of the Galaxy with Globular Clusters.- Tidal Debris in the Galactic Halo.- Star Formation in High-Redshift ISM.- Gas Inflow in Spiral Galaxies from Kiloparsec to Parsec Scale.- Open Clusters as Tracers of the Cygnus ARM.- Triaxial Bulge and In-Plane Bar of the Milky Way.- Tidal Shocks on Globular Clusters.- Evolution of Globular Cluster Populations in Compact Galaxy Groups.- Near IR Color-Magnitude Diagrams of Bulge Globular Clusters.- Magnetic Fields in the Milky Way and Other Spiral Galaxies.- The Origin of Galactic Magnetic Fields.- Magnetic Turbulence in the WIM.- Magnetic Fields and Spiral Structure.- Calculations of the Dynamo Coefficients in Galactic Magnetic Fields with Shear.- Galactic Magnetic Fields, from Radio Polarimetry of the WIM.- Radio Polarimetry in the Sothern Galactic Plane Survey.- The Truncation of the Stellar Disk of the Milky Way: A Magnetic Effect?.- The Parker Instability.- 3D MHD Modeling of the Galaxy.- The Frequency Evolution of Interstellar Pulse Broadening from Radio Pulsars.- 3D HD and MHD Adaptive Mesh Refinement Simulations of the Global and Local ISM.- The Turbulent Interstellar Medium: Insights and Questions from Numerical Models.- Hi: Temperatures, Magnetism, Turbulence, Morphology.- Cosmic Rays and ? Rays in the Galaxy.- Probing the Disk-Halo Connection Through the Local Interstellar Chimney.- The Spear (Spectroscopy of Emission from Astrophysical Radiation) Mission.- Dense Gas Contours Surrounding the Local Cavity: Comparison with the Soft X-Ray Background Emission Map.- Fuse Observations of the Hot Post-AGB Star ZNG 1 in the Globular Cluster M5.- 3D Simulations of the Local Bubble: How Much Ovi Can We Expect?.- XMM-Newton Observations of the Local Bubble and the Galactic Halo.- The Temperature of Massive Stars.- Fuse Survey Of The Local Interstellar Medium.- Diffuse Ovi Emission Towards the Loop I Superbubble.- The Local Bubble: Where is the ?300,000 K Gas?.- Is the Local Bubble Dead?.- Closing Remarks.
This book addresses the major neglected tropical diseases (NTDs) - based on their prevalence and the years of healthy life lost to disability - in Latin American and Caribbean countries. These include Chagas disease, leishmaniasis, hookworm infection, and other soil-transmitted helminth infections, followed by dengue, schistosomiasis, leishmaniasis, leprosy, cysticercosis, bartonellosis, Plasmodium vivax malaria, and onchocerciasis. Topics like disease burden, major manifestations and approaches to the control and elimination of NTDs in Latin America and the Caribbean are discussed in detail. As such, the book will be of general interest to basic researchers and clinicians engaged in infectious disease, tropical medicine, and parasitology, and a must-have for scientists specialized in the characteristics of this region of the world.?
Iron plays a crucial role in many biochemical processes. In recent years intensive research has led to a better understanding of the function of iron in cellular metabolism. In more than twenty articles internationally renowned experts give a thorough account of the recent developments of this fascinating field. The book focuses on the central questions, e.g. transport, storage, and utilization of iron in cells, the three-dimensional structure of iron-containing proteins, the physiological function of heme and iron sulfur-containing proteins, and the regulatory mechanisms in heme biosynthesis and redox regulation of signal transduction.
The interdisciplinary character of the book is designed to explore the many facets of the new findings and to provide a comprehensive overview of recent advances for biochemists, bioinorganic chemists, molecular biologists, microbiologists and immunologists. The reviews are supplemented with valuable background information, results and numerous references. This book emphasizes the relationships between the different disciplines concerned with iron metabolism and opens new perspectives for future research!
The explosion in the generation of information parallels the explosion of computational resources. The use of computers to collect, store and manipulate chemical information is at the heart of chemoinformatics. These methodologies, whose main target thus far has been the pharmaceutical field, are general and can be applied to other types of chemical data sets, such as those containing food chemicals. While the use of chemical information methodologies to address food-related challenges is still in its infancy, interest is growing and will continue to do so as the methods prove useful, particularly for providing practical solutions to food industry challenges. Foodinformatics gives an overview of basic concepts, applications, tools and perspectives of the emerging field of foodinformatics. The book is an important addition to the literature and will be of interest of food chemists, nutritionists, informaticians and scientists of related fields. About the Editors Karina Martínez-Mayorga, Instituto de Química, UNAM, Mexico City, México and Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies, Port St. Lucie, FL, USA José Luis Medina-Franco, Instituto de Química, UNAM, México City, México, and Torrey Pines Institute for Molecular Studies, Port St. Lucie, FL, USA
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
27 Septembre 2012
9783653020137
The current attempt in European politics to develop a European identity makes scientific research about discourses on Europe especially relevant. This book takes an analytical gaze at philosophical and political attempts to conceptualise Europe from antiquity to the present and contributes to the understanding of how they are intertwined with the historical contexts in which they have been forged. The volume offers an interdisciplinary approach to the topic of ideas of and for Europe - historical concepts of Europe, Europe as seen from its peripheries and from outside, current concepts of European identity, European memorial culture and reflections on Europe's prospects - and is of special interest to anyone concerned with questions of European identity.
Pedro Dorado Montero was one of Spain's most relevant authors. He contributed to modern Criminal law and Penology with a very unique theory: the Protective Law for Criminals. In a time when neoclassical penal theories and new positivist theories clashed, Dorado Montero's proposal served as a bridge between the criminal law conceptions of the 19th and 20th centuries.In order to explore his role in the introduction of positivism within Spain and the subsequent success of this trend, this book addresses several aspects. The first three analyzed are his scholarly career, the historical and international context in which he lived, and the various European and other international influences he was exposed to. On this basis, two major points are then discussed.Firstly, Dorado Montero has been traditionally included within the movement known as correccionalismo. However, his legal-philosophical and criminal thought indicates otherwise. It seems to lie closer to positivism than to neoclassical positions. This research aims at challenging the accuracy of the `eclectic' label which traditional historiography has applied to him.In turn, Dorado Montero described a reality in which every moral value and legal representation was a mere product of mankind's imagination. Man is responsible for the elaboration of morals, law and culture in his own mind. Thus, for him, there were as many moral and legal orders as there were human beings on the planet. Such a claim is polemic even today. Unsurprisingly, the author received criticism from both neoclassical and positivist schools. Thus, the existence of a `Doradian positivism' is explored. Despite the growing interest in these topics over the last few decades, Dorado Montero has somehow been overlooked - even though his Derecho protector de los criminales described the criminal law of the future as well, one that will have to face the new neurological, medical, psychological and genetic challenges of our time.
