Download or read book Parasites of the Universe written by Evelyn Moores and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-01-29 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Parasites of the Universe explores what life might be like in a future with few resources, countless diseases, poisonous waters, and a deadly, infiltrating sun. The story is told through the life experience of a woman who is a member of one of the three diminutive tribes that gather in a small semi-inhabitable region. It presents binding and oppressive traditions and delicate interactions between peoples and a harsh environment.
Download or read book Host Manipulations by Parasites and Viruses written by Heinz Mehlhorn and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-11-09 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume focuses on parasite-host relationships and the behavioral changes parasites may trigger in their hosts. Parasites have developed strategies which enhance their chances to find a host to survive inside its body and to become most easily transmitted to one another. Many of these parasites influence the host’s behavior by various mechanisms, so that the rate of their transmissions to further hosts becomes considerably enhanced in comparison to that of non-influenced specimens of the same host species. A broad number of recent studies elucidate more and more examples in an extreme spectrum of host-parasite relationships, where successful transmission and /or survival of a parasite inside a host is based on parasite-derived behavioral manipulations of the hosts. In the literature, an increasing numbers of papers appear which prove that these behavioral alterations are based on complicated psychoimmunologic, neuropharmacologic and genomically steered mechanisms. Researchers working in parasitology or behavioral sciences will find this work thought-provoking, instructive and informative.
Download or read book Parasitism and Host Behaviour written by C F Barnard and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 1990-08-09 with total page 393 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent ideas and experimental studies suggest that the relationship between parasitism and host behaviour has been a powerful shaping force in the evolution not only of behaviour patterns themselves but, through them, of morphology and population and community dynamics. This book brings together recent work across the disciplines of parasitology an
Download or read book Dream Dust Parasites written by Ian Hobson and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2003-09 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The year is 2011 and Samuel Elmsmore is adrift in the universe. After a series of breakdowns he awakens as a virtual prisoner in a hostel for the mentally ill. He's estranged from his family and friends, and is jobless after an unfortunate incident with an axe. He's also lost much of his memory and sense of identity and is about to learn that the government is monitoring him as a suspected terrorist. As he wanders the streets of a vast metropolis, the ghouls of his past start to merge with the nightmare creatures of a society turned predatory. He encounters a surreal band of activists, musicians and street-people. Among them is Annie, a strange woman who seems to know everything about everybody. Does she hold the key to his past? In Dream-Dust Parasites, Ian Hobson has written a fast-paced novel for the end-time of the species. His characters are cynical of utopian solutions and haunted, at every turn, by the vertigo that typifies post-millennium life. A must read for anyone struggling to make sense of the contemporary zeitgeist!
Download or read book Food Webs written by John C. Moore and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents new approaches to studying food webs, using practical and policy examples to demonstrate the theory behind ecosystem management decisions.
Download or read book GaN Transistors for Efficient Power Conversion written by Alex Lidow and published by Efficient Power Publications. This book was released on 2012 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Physics of Semiconductor Devices written by V. K. Jain and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-11-27 with total page 841 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this workshop is to spread the vast amount of information available on semiconductor physics to every possible field throughout the scientific community. As a result, the latest findings, research and discoveries can be quickly disseminated. This workshop provides all participating research groups with an excellent platform for interaction and collaboration with other members of their respective scientific community. This workshop’s technical sessions include various current and significant topics for applications and scientific developments, including • Optoelectronics • VLSI & ULSI Technology • Photovoltaics • MEMS & Sensors • Device Modeling and Simulation • High Frequency/ Power Devices • Nanotechnology and Emerging Areas • Organic Electronics • Displays and Lighting Many eminent scientists from various national and international organizations are actively participating with their latest research works and also equally supporting this mega event by joining the various organizing committees.
Download or read book Liberating Yourself from Lyme written by Vir McCoy and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn to understand what your body is telling you and discover the optimum treatment path for your unique Lyme symptoms • Shares the authors’ 10-year journeys to overcome chronic Lyme and details their successful healing protocol • Reveals how to increase your sensitivity to what your body is telling you to discover remedies and healing actions for your individual symptoms • Explores the antibiotics, herbs, diet, exercise, beliefs, immune health, and self-healing meditations that the authors used for a complete healing For some people, recovering from a Lyme disease infection can become an endless battle with physical, mental, and neurological symptoms, especially if it’s not diagnosed early. After they both contracted Lyme in 2001, Vir McCoy and Kara Zahl embarked on standard antibiotic protocols. Soon they both began to have intuitive or sensory impressions about specific remedies their bodies needed, the nature of the disease, and why they were chronically ill. Backing up their intuitive impressions with scientific evidence, they developed a protocol that brought them each a full recovery after nearly 10 years battling chronic Lyme. In this medical intuitive approach to Lyme, the authors share their personal Lyme journeys and their integrative healing protocol that bridges the scientific and the spiritual. They explore the peculiarities of Lyme disease, including how Lyme is often misdiagnosed, giving it time to establish itself deep within the body’s organs and nervous system, and examine in detail new and standard remedies, with thorough scientific references. They share the spiritual/psychological strategies they successfully employed against Lyme and its coinfections and explain how to increase your sensitivity to what your body is telling you to discover natural remedies and healing actions unique to your individual symptoms. Outlining a program of herbs, diet, and exercise that can work in tandem with traditional Lyme treatments, they also explore how to help the body get rid of this pathogen that possesses an incredible ability to adapt to various treatments and thwart their effectiveness. Expanding beyond Lyme, the authors offer self-help meditations to help you heal on a deeper level and explain how to access the “holographic medicine chest” to draw on for stronger immunity, energetic healing, and support at any time.
Download or read book Reproductive Biology written by Martin Thiel and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rickey Cothran and Martin Thiel explore the reproductive biology of crustaceans from allocation strategies at the individual level to the ecology of mating systems.
Download or read book Ecology of Wildlife Host Parasite Interactions written by Bryan T. Grenfell and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new collection of articles, edited by Bryan T. Grenfell includes: Factors affecting the evolution of virulence: nematode parasites of fig wasps; Maintenance of a microparasite infecting several host species in the Seregeti; Wildlife disease and conservation in Hawaii: pathogenicity of avian malaria (Plasmodium relictum) in experimentally infected Iiwi (Vestiaria coccinia).
Download or read book Reproductive Biology written by Rickey Cothran and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-18 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the sixth volume of a ten-volume series on The Natural History of the Crustacea. The volume synthesizes in nineteen chapters our current understanding of diverse topics in crustacean reproductive biology. In the first part of this book, the chapters address allocation strategies to reproduction, gamete production, brooding behavior, and other components of parental care in crustaceans. The second part of the volume centers on sexual systems in crustaceans. The third section of the volume covers crustacean mating systems and sexual selection. Reproductive Biology ends with three chapters covering diverse topics including reproductive rhythms, crustacean personality research, and record breaking crustaceans with respect to reproductive characters.
Download or read book Device Characterization and Modeling of Large Size GaN HEMTs written by Jaime Alberto Zamudio Flores and published by kassel university press GmbH. This book was released on 2012-08-21 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work presents a comprehensive modeling strategy for advanced large-size AlGaN/GaN HEMTs. A 22-element equivalent circuit with 12 extrinsic elements, including 6 capacitances, serves as small-signal model and as basis for a large-signal model. ANalysis of such capacitances leads to original equations, employed to form capacitance ratios. BAsic assumptions of existing parameter extractions for 22-element equivalent circuits are perfected: A) Required capacitance ratios are evaluated with device's top-view images. B) Influences of field plates and source air-bridges on these ratios are considered. The large-signal model contains a gate charge's non-quasi-static model and a dispersive-IDS model. THe extrinsic-to-intrinsic voltage transformation needed to calculate non-quasi-static parameters from small-signal parameters is improved with a new description for the measurement's boundary bias points. ALl IDS-model parameters, including time constants of charge-trapping and self-heating, are extracted using pulsed-DC IV and IDS-transient measurements, highlighting the modeling strategy's empirical character.
Download or read book Superman The Deadly Double written by David Lee Seidman and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After chasing the evil MALA through space, SUPERMAN returns to Earth, and he finds people running from him. While MALA had decoyed SUPERMAN, her partner, JAX-UR, disguised himself as SUPERMAN and terrorized the world. Now JAX-UR and MALA plan to save the people of Earth from SUPERMAN, become their new hero, and lead them in JAX-UR’S quest to take over the planet. SUPERMAN has to stop JAX-UR and MALA, but it’s not easy when they have a whole world on their side.
Download or read book Dynamics of Pond Aquaculture written by Hillary S. Egna and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2017-12-14 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The culmination of over a decade's worth of research by the Pond Dynamics/Aquaculture Collaborative Research Support Program (CRSP), Dynamics of Pond Aquaculture not only explains the physical, chemical, and biological processes that interact in pond culture systems, but also presents real-world research findings and considers the people who depend on these systems. This book uses data from CRSP field research sites in East Africa, Southeast Asia, Central America, and North America to present a complete picture of the pond system and the environment in which it exists. A thorough study of the principles and practices of aquaculture, the book reflects the state of the art in pond aquaculture and incorporates recent advances that have changed the science in the last decade or so. It provides a thorough review of the many methods, techniques, and ideas that comprise this complex and fascinating area of study.
Download or read book Parasites Pests and Predators written by S. M. Gaafar and published by Elsevier Science & Technology. This book was released on 1985 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Invertebrates; Effects of parasites on animal and meat production; Means of dissemination of parasites; Control of parasites by Chemotherapy; Genetic control of parasites; Biological control of parasites; Parasiticides and the environment; Public health significance of animal parasites; Intestinal Protozoa; Blood Protozoa; Flukes of domestic animals; Tapeworms; Trichostrongylosis in ruminants; Ascaridoses of domesticated animals; Equine strongylosis; Lungworms of ruminants; Flies and myiasis; Mange mites and other parasitic mites; Ticks; Importance of immunology in relation to parasitism and animal production; Vertebrates; Vertebrate predators, competitors and disease carriers of livestock introduction and overview; Predators of Southern Africa; Asian predators of livestock; Australian predators of livestock; Large mammal and bird predators of livestock in North America; Reptilian and small mammalian predators of livestock in North America; Wild Ungulates as competitors of livestock; European rabbit and hare as pests of livestock; Competition of rodents and other small mammals with livestock in the United States; Livestock diseases caused; Effects of vampire bats and paralytic rabies on livestock production.
Download or read book MOS Devices for Low Voltage and Low Energy Applications written by Yasuhisa Omura and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-02-28 with total page 483 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helps readers understand the physics behind MOS devices for low-voltage and low-energy applications Based on timely published and unpublished work written by expert authors Discusses various promising MOS devices applicable to low-energy environmental and biomedical uses Describes the physical effects (quantum, tunneling) of MOS devices Demonstrates the performance of devices, helping readers to choose right devices applicable to an industrial or consumer environment Addresses some Ge-based devices and other compound-material-based devices for high-frequency applications and future development of high performance devices. "Seemingly innocuous everyday devices such as smartphones, tablets and services such as on-line gaming or internet keyword searches consume vast amounts of energy. Even when in standby mode, all these devices consume energy. The upcoming 'Internet of Things' (IoT) is expected to deploy 60 billion electronic devices spread out in our homes, cars and cities. Britain is already consuming up to 16 per cent of all its power through internet use and this rate is doubling every four years. According to The UK's Daily Mail May (2015), if usage rates continue, all of Britain's power supply could be consumed by internet use in just 20 years. In 2013, U.S. data centers consumed an estimated 91 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity, corresponding to the power generated by seventeen 1000-megawatt nuclear power plants. Data center electricity consumption is projected to increase to roughly 140 billion kilowatt-hours annually by 2020, the equivalent annual output of 50 nuclear power plants." —Natural Resources Defense Council, USA, Feb. 2015 All these examples stress the urgent need for developing electronic devices that consume as little energy as possible. The book “MOS Devices for Low-Voltage and Low-Energy Applications” explores the different transistor options that can be utilized to achieve that goal. It describes in detail the physics and performance of transistors that can be operated at low voltage and consume little power, such as subthreshold operation in bulk transistors, fully depleted SOI devices, tunnel FETs, multigate and gate-all-around MOSFETs. Examples of low-energy circuits making use of these devices are given as well. "The book MOS Devices for Low-Voltage and Low-Energy Applications is a good reference for graduate students, researchers, semiconductor and electrical engineers who will design the electronic systems of tomorrow." —Dr. Jean-Pierre Colinge, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) "The authors present a creative way to show how different MOS devices can be used for low-voltage and low-power applications. They start with Bulk MOSFET, following with SOI MOSFET, FinFET, gate-all-around MOSFET, Tunnel-FET and others. It is presented the physics behind the devices, models, simulations, experimental results and applications. This book is interesting for researchers, graduate and undergraduate students. The low-energy field is an important topic for integrated circuits in the future and none can stay out of this." —Prof. Joao A. Martino, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Download or read book Multi MHz High Frequency Resonant DC DC Power Converter written by Dianguo Xu and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-08-08 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyzes multi-MHz high frequency resonant DC-DC power converters with operating frequencies ranging from several MHz to tens of MHz in detail, aiming to support researchers and engineers with a focus on multi-MHz high frequency converters. The inverter stage, rectifier stage, matching network stage are analyzed in detail. Based on the three basic stages, typical non-isolated and isolated resonant DC-DC converters are depicted. To reduce the high driving loss under multi-MHz, resonant driving methods are introduced and improved. Also, the design and selection methods of passive and active component under multi-MHz frequency are described, especially for aircore inductor and transformer. Furthermore, multi-MHz resonant converter provides an approach for achieving flexible system.
