Chapter Cell Culture and Maintenance of the Evolutionary Forms of Trypanosoma…

This chapter aims to present and discuss the main cell culture techniques used for the growth and maintenance of the different evolutionary forms of the protozoan Trypanosoma cruzi, the etiologic agent of the Chagas disease. Chagas disease is a neglected tropical disease endemic in several Latin American countries. Here, we intend to present the main difficulties, advantages, and disadvantages …

Chapter 4 Endemic Mycoses and Allergies

In this book, we discuss the changing medical and public profile of fungal infections in the period 1850–2000. We consider four sets of diseases: ringworm and athlete’s foot (dermatophytosis); thrush or candidiasis (infection with Candida albicans); endemic, geographically specific infections in North America (coccidioidomycosis, blastomycosis and histoplasmosis) and mycotoxins; a…

Chapter Unmanned Aerial Systems

Unmanned aerial platforms are a means to gather efficiently valuable aerial information to support the crisis manager for further tactical planning and deployment. They can provide continuous support to the coordinators and operators by scanning blocked sectors or establish an communication network. This chapter describes how aerial platforms were tailored to search and rescue (SAR) requirement…

Chapter The ‘Second Level’ Education Professional: a Traineeship Programm…

n this chapter, we outline the process that led to the development of the current traineeship programme − Tirocinio Formativo e di Orientamento (TFO) related to the Master’s Degree Course in Education at the University of Milan-Bicocca. We focus particularly on the interconnection between developing professional competences and addressing the issue of employability

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Game | World | Architectonics: Transdisciplinary Approaches on Structures and…

In its current digital, pictorial and viral ubiquity, architecture no longer has to be bodily present, but has a mediating role. As a medial hinge it folds different disciplines of media and art onto the realm of the everyday. Here, the idea of architectonics can be understood as the architectural implications of computer games in a broader sense to address the matter of architecture in game wo…

An Introduction to Digital Signal Processing

An Introduction to Digital Signal Processing aims at undergraduate students who have basic knowledge in C programming, Circuit Theory, Systems and Simulations, and Spectral Analysis. The book is focused on basic concepts of digital signal processing, MATLAB simulation and implementation on selected DSP hardware in which the candidate is introduced to the basic concepts first before embarking to…

Claiming Space: Locations and Orientations in World Literatures

Contributor(s) Ekelund, Bo G. (editor) Mahmutović, Adnan (editor) Wulff, Helena (editor) Language English Perlihat publikasi penuh This open access book explores literary works and practices – always existing in the dynamic relation between locations and orientations – in a series of carefully designed case studies. Explicitly expressed or implied, manifesting itself sometimes as di…

Evaluating Interreligious Peacebuilding and Dialogue: Methods and Frameworks

Featuring chapters by well-established interreligious peacebuilders from around the world, this volume examines the challenges and implications faced by religious and interreligious peacebuilders and provides new models and tools for monitoring and evaluating religious and interreligious peacebuilding projects. It is a critical tool and point of reference for those developing and implementing r…

Houses, Secrets, and the Closet : Locating Masculinities from the Gothic Nove…

»Houses, Secrets, and the Closet« investigates the literary production of masculinities and their relation to secrets and sexualities in 18th and 19th century fiction. It focusses on close readings of Gothic fiction, Sensation Novels, and tales by Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, William Godwin, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Wilkie Collins, and Henry James. The study approaches these texts throug…