The aim of this Special Issue is to review, understand, and evaluate new and exciting opportunities from the field on regenerative medicine, biomaterials, and stem cell research for the bioengineering of human liver grafts that can be applied for transplantation and personalized treatment of end-stage liver disease.The development of culture conditions for long-term expansion of LGR5+ intestina…
This book defines the new field of "Bioeconomy" as the sustainable and innovative use of biomass and biological knowledge to provide food, feed, industrial products, bioenergy and ecological services. The chapters highlight the importance of bioeconomy-related concepts in public, scientific, and political discourse. Using an interdisciplinary approach, the authors outline the dimensions of the …
This book focuses on opportunities and challenges in implementing a bioeconomy strategy from a research and education perspective. It draws on contributions presented during the 30th EURAGRI annual conference held in Tartu (Estonia) in September 2016, as well as on other workshops organised as part of EURAGRI. EURAGRI is an informal gathering of EU research and higher education organisations an…
"[T]he volume represents an important contribution to the examination of issues for which Blanton has furthered scholarship, organized as three sections with cases from Mesoamerica, the Old World, and cross-cultural studies." -American Antiquity. Alternative Pathways to Complexity focuses on the themes of architecture, economics, and power in the evolution of complex societies. Case studies f…
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on bloomsburycollections.com. The global economic crisis of 2008-2009 exposed systemic failings at the core of economic policy making worldwide. The crisis came on top of several other crises, including skyrocketing and highly volatile world food and energy prices and climate change. This book ar…
A Reader in Early Franciscan Theology menyajikan untuk pertama kalinya dalam bahasa Inggris bagian-bagian kunci dari Summa Halensis, salah satu karya besar pertama dalam genre summa yang membuat skolastisisme terkenal. Karya sistematis filsafat dan teologi ini ditulis secara kolaboratif sebagian besar antara tahun 1236 dan 1245 oleh anggota pendiri aliran Fransiskan, seperti Alexander dari Hale…
A Queer History of Adolescence mengungkapkan kategori usia—dan masa remaja, khususnya—sebagai mekanisme yang tak terbantahkan dan esensial dalam produksi perbedaan itu sendiri. Mengambil dari arsip yang dinamis dan bervariasi, termasuk surat kabar Inggris dan Amerika, makalah dan pamflet medis, serta literatur remaja dan anak-anak yang beredar di kedua sisi Atlantik, Gabrielle Owen berpenda…
Revolusi Rusia adalah ledakan demokrasi massa dari bawah. Revolusi ini mengubah orang-orang yang terlibat dan menginspirasi puluhan juta orang di seluruh dunia. Dampak globalnya mengguncang sistem kapitalis hingga ke fondasinya dan hampir meruntuhkannya. Namun pada akhirnya, gerakan revolusioner dihancurkan oleh teror kontra-revolusioner paling mematikan dalam sejarah. Dan karena sejarah nyata …
In Allegories of the Anthropocene Elizabeth M. DeLoughrey traces how indigenous and postcolonial peoples in the Caribbean and Pacific Islands grapple with the enormity of colonialism and anthropogenic climate change through art, poetry, and literature. In these works, authors and artists use allegory as a means to understand the multiscalar complexities of the Anthropocene and to critique the v…
The Bioresource center Ghent is the central hospital-integrated biobank of Ghent University Hospital. Our mission is to facilitate translational biomedical research by collecting, storing and providing high quality biospecimens to researchers. Several of our biobank partners store large amounts of cell lines