Imaging of tissue blood flow (BF) distributions provides vital information for the diagnosis and therapeutic monitoring of various vascular diseases. The innovative near-infrared speckle contrast diffuse correlation tomography (scDCT) technique produces full 3D BF distributions. Many advanced features are provided over competing technologies including high sampling density, fast data acquisition, noninvasiveness, noncontact, affordability, portability, and translatability across varied sub...

The possibility that Polynesian seafarers made landfall and interacted with the native people of the New World before Columbus has been the topic of academic discussion for well over a century, although American archaeologists have considered the idea verboten since the 1970s. Fresh discoveries made with the aid of new technologies along with re-evaluation of longstanding but often-ignored evidence provide a stronger case than ever before for multiple prehistoric Polynesian landfalls. This...

Postphenomenology and Media: Essays on Human–Media–World Relations sheds light on how new, digital media are shaping humans and their world. It does so by using the postphenomenological framework to comprehensively study “human-media relations,” making use of conceptual instruments such as the transparency-opacity distinction, embodiment, multistability, variational analysis, and cultural hermeneutics. This collection outlines central issues of media and mediation theory that can ...

Particular focus on advances in understanding insect species and landscape ecology, which provide the foundations for effective IPMCovers latest research on classical, conservation and augmentative biological controlReviews key developments in use of entomopathogenic fungi, viruses and nematodes

Learn how to better clinically serve risky adolescentsfrom the clients themselves!Clinical and Research Uses of an Adolescent Mental Health Intake Questionnaire: What Kids Need to Talk About explores the research on adolescent behavior culled from the answers to a clinician-designed intake questionnaire given to adolescent clients asking how they view their own risks, what they worry about, and what they wish to talk about. Respected authorities discuss the enlightening findings an...

Är vi på väg mot en framtid utan antibiotika? Vad innebär i så fall denna postantibiotiska framtid för mänskligheten?Antibiotikaresistens är en av vår tids mest akuta samhällsutmaningar. I vissa länder finns redan bakterier som står emot nästan all antibiotika, och globalt sett orsakar resistensen hundratusentals dödsfall årligen. Problemen ökar också i Sverige, där vår moderna sjukvård bygger på att vi har tillgång till effektiv antibiotika. I en framtid utan antibiotika behöver v...

There is increasing understanding that climate change will have profound, mostly harmful effects on human health. In this authoritative book, international experts examine long-recognized areas of health concern for populations vulnerable to climate change, describing effects that are both direct, such as heat waves, and indirect, such as via vector-borne diseases. Set in a broad international, economic, political and environmental context, this unique book expands these issues by reviving...

This book brings together expert opinions from scientists to consider the evidence for climate change and its impacts on ticks and tick-borne infections. It considers what is meant by 'climate change', how effective climate models are in relation to ecosystems, and provides predictions for changes in climate at global, regional and local scales relevant for ticks and tick-borne infections. It examines changes to tick distribution and the evidence that climate change is responsible. The eff...

Bruce Springsteen might be the quintessential American rock musician but his songs have resonated with fans from all walks of life and from all over the world. This unique collection features reflections from a diverse array of writers who explain what Springsteen means to them and describe how they have been moved, shaped, and challenged by his music.Contributors to Long Walk Home include novelists like Richard Russo, rock critics like Greil Marcus and Gillian Gaar, and o...

From a team of leading experts comes a comprehensive, multidisciplinary examination of the most current research including the complex issue of violence and violent behavior. The handbook examines a range of theoretical, policy, and research issues and provides a comprehensive overview of aggressive and violent behavior. The breadth of coverage is impressive, ranging from research on biological factors related to violence and behavior-genetics to research on terrrorism and the impact of vi...

Don Harris findet in seiner Londoner Wohnung einen geflochtenen Seidenschal — eine Todesbotschaft der chinesischen Triaden? Sein Freund Terry Sheridan rät ihm, in dieser Angelegenheit dessen Bekannte Li um Rat zu bitten. Als Harris schließlich Li aufsucht, entgehen beide nur knapp einem Anschlag. Don Harris scheint in das Fadenkreuz der Triaden geraten zu sein, die ihre bösartigen Machenschaften nicht mehr nur in Asien betreiben. Oder stecken hinter all dem die Höllensöhne…?

Zum ersten Mal seit sehr langer Zeit spürte er, wie der Wunsch nach einem normalen Leben in ihm aufkeimte. Ein Leben fernab von dem Wahnsinn, mit dem sich Don fast täglich konfrontiert sah. Zum ersten Mal sehnte er sich nach der Zeit zurück, als er nur ein Agent unter vielen war — und nicht der Auserwählte, wobei er keine Ahnung hatte, was das überhaupt bedeutete. Noch nicht."