Special Issue Landscapes Of Disease

Author : Katerina Gardikas
Publisher : Central European University Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9789633861912

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Landscapes of Disease by Katerina Gardikas Pdf

Malaria has existed in Greece since prehistoric times. Its prevalence fluctuated depending on climatic, socioeconomic and political changes. The book focuses on the factors that contributed to the spreading of the disease in the years between independent statehood in 1830 and the elimination of malaria in the 1970s. By the nineteenth century, Greece was the most malarious country in Europe and the one most heavily infected with its lethal form, falciparum malaria. Owing to pressures on the environment from economic development, agrarian colonization and heightened mobility, the situation became so serious that malaria became a routine part of everyday life for practically all Greek families, further exacerbated by wars. The country’s highly fragmented geography and its variable rainfall distribution created an environment that was ideal for sustaining and spreading of diseases, which, in turn, affected the tolerance of the population to malaria. In their struggle with physical suffering and death, the Greeks developed a culture of avid quinine consumption and were likewise eager to embrace the DDT spraying campaign of the immediate post WW II years, which, overall, had a positive demographic effect.

Author : James D. A. Millington,John Wainwright
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2018-09-27
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : 9783038422808

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Agent-Based Modelling and Landscape Change by James D. A. Millington,John Wainwright Pdf

This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Agent-Based Modelling and Landscape Change" that was published in Land

Author : Serge Morand,Michael Kosoy
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9782889634835

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Ecological and Evolutionary Aspects of Complex Relations between Micro- and Macroparasites and their Wild Animal Hosts by Serge Morand,Michael Kosoy Pdf

Author : Purvi Parwani
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2023-09-19
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780443183157

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Changing landscape of Heart failure imaging, An Issue of Heart Failure Clinics, An Issue of Heart Failure Clinics, E-Book by Purvi Parwani Pdf

In this issue of Heart Failure Clinics, guest editor Dr. Purvi Parwani brings her considerable expertise to the topic of the Changing Landscape of Heart Failure Imaging. Top experts cover the latest updates in heart failure imaging; imaging in HCM: beyond risk stratification; aortic stenosis: advanced Imaging parameters and the changing treatment landscape; mitral regurgitation: advanced Imaging parameters and the changing treatment landscape; heart failure preserved EF in women; and more. Contains 12 relevant, practice-oriented topics including artificial intelligence in heart failure imaging; ischemic cardiomyopathy: imaging-guided therapies; evaluation and management of cardiac sarcoidosis with advanced imaging; viral myocarditis and dilated cardiomyopathy: changing diagnostic insight from advanced imaging; and more. Provides in-depth clinical reviews on the changing landscape of heart failure imaging, offering actionable insights for clinical practice. Presents the latest information on this timely, focused topic under the leadership of experienced editors in the field. Authors synthesize and distill the latest research and practice guidelines to create clinically significant, topic-based reviews.

Author : Toni Ibrahim,Jean-Yves Blay,Alberto Bongiovanni,Alessandro De Vita
Publisher : Frontiers Media SA
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-12-22
Category : Science
ISBN : 9782889662579

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New Insights in the Landscape of Rare Tumors: Translational and Clinical Research Perspective by Toni Ibrahim,Jean-Yves Blay,Alberto Bongiovanni,Alessandro De Vita Pdf

TI has received honoraria from Eisai as a consultant and grants or funding to his institution from Novartis. TI participated in congress for which travel and accommodations were paid by Ipsen, Pharmamar, and Novartis.

Author : Matteo Garbelotto ,Paolo Gonthier
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2018-04-13
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9783038426714

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Forest Pathology and Plant Health by Matteo Garbelotto ,Paolo Gonthier Pdf

This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Forest Pathology and Plant Health" that was published in Forests

Author : Neal M. Davies,Kishor M. Wasan
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-23
Category : Electronic book
ISBN : 9783038427971

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Pharmacokinetics and Drug Metabolism in Canada: The Current Landscape by Neal M. Davies,Kishor M. Wasan Pdf

This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Pharmacokinetics and Drug Metabolism in Canada: The Current Landscape" that was published in Pharmaceutics

Author : Henning Steinfeld,Harold A. Mooney,Fritz Schneider,Laurie E. Neville
Publisher : Island Press
Page : 416 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013-03-06
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781597269261

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Livestock in a Changing Landscape, Volume 1 by Henning Steinfeld,Harold A. Mooney,Fritz Schneider,Laurie E. Neville Pdf

The rapidly changing nature of animal production systems, especially increasing intensification and globalization, is playing out in complex ways around the world. Over the last century, livestock keeping evolved from a means of harnessing marginal resources to produce items for local consumption to a key component of global food chains. Livestock in a Changing Landscape offers a comprehensive examination of these important and far-reaching trends. The books are an outgrowth of a collaborative effort involving international nongovernmental organizations including the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (UN FAO), the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), the Swiss College of Agriculture (SHL), the French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD), and the Scientific Committee for Problems of the Environment (SCOPE). Volume 1 examines the forces shaping change in livestock production and management; the resulting impacts on landscapes, land use, and social systems; and potential policy and management responses. Volume 2 explores needs and draws experience from region-specific contexts and detailed case studies. The case studies describe how drivers and consequences of change play out in specific geographical areas, and how public and private responses are shaped and implemented. Together, the volumes present new, sustainable approaches to the challenges created by fundamental shifts in livestock management and production, and represent an essential resource for policy makers, industry managers, and academics involved with this issue.

Author : Julie Collins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020-03-24
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780429862342

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The Architecture and Landscape of Health by Julie Collins Pdf

The Architecture and Landscape of Health explores buildings and landscapes that were designed to treat or prevent disease in the era before pharmaceuticals and biomedicine emerged as first line treatments. Written from an architectural perspective, it examines the historical relationship between health and place through the emergence of dedicated therapeutic building types from the late eighteenth to the early twentieth century, a time when the environment was viewed as integral to the health of both the individual and the population. This book provides an overview of ideas surrounding health and place and their impact on architecture and designed landscapes. Different therapeutic buildings and places are examined, including public parks, asylums, sanatoria, leprosaria, quarantine stations, public baths and healthy homes. Each chapter outlines the medical context, common therapies, a history of buildings designed in response to these, and an examination of how such places were perceived to have functioned. Illustrated using geographically and temporally diverse examples, the book includes designs drawn from locations across the world including Europe, the Americas, Africa, Australia and Asia. The Architecture and Landscape of Health identifies and examines moments in the conversation between health and design, and is a timely look back on the resultant buildings and places, offering insights which could inform the design of therapeutic places of the future. An ideal read for researchers, academics and upper-level postgraduate students interested in architecture, and architectural history, particularly relating to healthcare design and medical history.

Author : Alexandra Widmer,Veronika Lipphardt
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781785332722

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Health and Difference by Alexandra Widmer,Veronika Lipphardt Pdf

Human variation represented a central research topic for life scientists and posed challenging administrative issues for colonial bureaucrats in the first half of the 20th century. By following scientists’ and administrators’ interests in innovating styles and tools for making and circulating documents, in reshaping landscapes and environments, and in fixing distances between humans, the book advances new understandings of the materiality of colonial institutional life and governance.

Author : Mark Jackson
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 691 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2011-08-25
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199546497

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The Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine by Mark Jackson Pdf

In three sections, the Oxford Handbook of the History of Medicine celebrates the richness and variety of medical history around the world. It explore medical developments and trends in writing history according to period, place, and theme.

Author : Bruce Hannon,Matthias Ruth
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-16
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780387095608

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Dynamic Modeling of Diseases and Pests by Bruce Hannon,Matthias Ruth Pdf

The ease of use of the programs in the application to ever more complex cases of disease and pestilence. The lack of need on the part of the student or modelers of mathematics beyond algebra and the lack of need of any prior computer programming experience. The surprising insights that can be gained from initially simple systems models.

Author : R.H.G Jongman
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2005-05-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 1402029101

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The New Dimensions of the European Landscapes by R.H.G Jongman Pdf

The European Landscape is under stress of changing land use and a changing attitude of its users. Globalization, the disappearance of the iron curtain and the recent EU enlargement to 25 countries have changed the economic and environmental dimensions of Europe. Europe is changing its face from a western and eastern part to one European Union and to fast connections between its centres of activity. The rural and cultural heritage of Europe has to be adapted to cope with this change. However, its landscape is worth to be conserved as well, because it represents the European history in the same way as castles and churches. It even more represents the history of the common people, because it has been the tradition of the rural population that made these landscapes. It cannot be prevented that Europe is changing and it is good that Europe adapts to the new dimensions of the world. We, in Europe, have to define what we think is important and what must be conserved, what can be adapted to be used for new functions and what can be abolished because it has no value. These decisions will determine the new dimensions of the European landscapes. The Frontis Workshop on the New Dimensions of the European Landscape was held on 10-12 June 2002. Wageningen University and Research Centre organized this workshop aiming to develop visions on the landscape in Europe, its development and design in the future and to strengthen the international network in landscape planning.

Author : Jeffrey M. Klopatek,Robert H. Gardner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781461205296

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Landscape Ecological Analysis by Jeffrey M. Klopatek,Robert H. Gardner Pdf

Growth in the field of landscape ecology has included the development of methods and results that can be applied to an impressive range of environmental issues. This book addresses a broad spectrum of political, theoretical and applied aspects that often arise in the design and execution of landscape studies. The concepts of geographical scale and hierarchy arising within the confines of landscape ecology are examined, and a series of techniques are presented to address problems in spatial and temporal analysis. This book will provide the reader with a current perspective on this rapidly evolving science.

Author : Karen Beazley,Robert Baldwin
Publisher : MDPI
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783038977322

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Biodiversity and Protected Areas by Karen Beazley,Robert Baldwin Pdf

Biodiversity and Protected Areas assembles twelve topics from around the world, illustrating the complexities and promise of addressing the biodiversity crisis. Authors from Mongolia, Africa, India, Canada, Iraq, and the United States dwell on particular aspects and challenges relevant to those regions. Lessons and approaches from interesting localities, coupled with global analyses give the reader a synthetic view of emerging problems. The opportunities for understanding common issues across different geographies abound, such as comparing local conservation in sub-Saharan Africa with a distribution of very small protected areas in Massachusetts. Several topics will be of immediate interest to policymakers. The book is illustrated with numerous color maps and figures and the authors strove for clear, uncomplicated writing. The editors provide an overview of chapters, placing them in the context of other biodiversity and protected area literature. Students and conservationists attempting to broaden their views of biodiversity and protected areas should find this collection to be interesting.