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This book provides a detailed overview of the progress and
challenges of non-traditional approaches for tackling antimicrobial
resistance. The first chapter covers the factors that make microbes
more likely to develop multidrug resistance. The book goes on to
discuss the antimicrobial properties of propolis, essential oils
and other microbial constituents that are used or under
investigation to treat multidrug-resistant infections.
Additionally, it covers alternative compounds that work as
antimicrobial agents, their mechanisms of action, and how they
might be utilized in conjunction with conventional drugs to
circumvent drug resistance. The book explores the application of
phage therapy and recent advancements in phage-based infection
control with an emphasis on multidrug-resistant infections and
discusses drug repurposing as a strategy to develop new
antimicrobial agents efficiently and expeditiously. Additionally,
it discusses the uses of nanoparticles in the treatment of
infections brought on by multidrug-resistant pathogens and examines
the use of different nanotechnology-based approaches to fudge
microbial resistance mechanisms. It concludes by reviewing recent
studies on microbial quorum-sensing systems and focuses on the
significance of quorum-sensing systems in controlling microbial
resistance mechanisms and at the same time highlights the
importance and role of antimicrobial stewardship program to fight
microbial infections. The book is an invaluable source of knowledge
and information for academics, basic and clinical researchers,
clinicians, and paramedic staff involved in one way or the other in
the development and use of antimicrobial agents and strategies to
combat multidrug resistance.
After the Second World War, nationalism emerged as the principle
expression of resistance to Western imperialism in a variety of
regions from the Indian subcontinent to Africa, to parts of Latin
America and the Pacific Rim. With the Bandung Conference and the
formation of the Non-Aligned Movement, many of Europe's former
colonies banded together to form a common bloc, aligned with
neither the advanced capitalist "First World" nor with the
socialist "Second World." In this historical context, the category
of "Third World literature" emerged, a category that has itself
spawned a whole industry of scholarly and critical studies,
particularly in the metropolitan West, but increasingly in the
homelands of the Third World itself. Setting himself against the
growing tendency to homogenize "Third World" literature and
cultures, Aijaz Ahmad has produced a spirited critique of the major
theoretical statements on "colonial discourse" and
"post-colonialism," dismantling many of the commonplaces and
conceits that dominate contemporary cultural criticism. With
lengthy considerations of, among others, Fredric Jameson, Edward
Said, and the Subaltern Studies group, In Theory also contains
brilliant analyses of the concept of Indian literature, of the
genealogy of the term "Third World," and of the conditions under
which so-called "colonial discourse theory" emerged in metropolitan
intellectual circles. Erudite and lucid, Ahmad's remapping of the
terrain of cultural theory is certain to provoke passionate
response.
Combination Therapy against Multidrug Resistance explores the
potential of combination therapy as an efficient strategy to combat
multi-drug resistance. Multidrug resistance (MDR) occurs when
microorganisms such as bacteria, fungi, viruses, and parasites are
excessively exposed to antimicrobial drugs such as antibiotics,
antifungals, or antivirals, and in response the microorganism
undergoes mutations or develops different resistance mechanisms to
combat the drug for its survival. MDR is becoming an increasingly
serious problem in both developed and developing nations. Bacterial
resistance to antibiotics has developed faster than the production
of new antibiotics, making bacterial infections increasingly
difficult to treat, and the same is true for a variety of other
diseases. Combination therapy proves to be a promising strategy as
it offers potential benefits such as a broad spectrum of efficacy,
greater potency than the drugs used in monotherapy, improved safety
and tolerability, and reduction in the number of resistant
organisms. This book considers how combination therapy can be
applied in multiple situations, including cancer, HIV,
tuberculosis, fungal infections, and more. Combination Therapy
Against Multidrug Resistance gathers the most relevant information
on the prospects of combination therapy as a strategy to combat
multridrug resistance and helping to motivate the industrial sector
and government agencies to invest more in research and development
of this strategy as a weapon to tackle the multidrug resistance
problem. It will be useful to academics and researchers involved in
the development of new antimicrobial or antiinfective agents and
treatment strtategies to combat multidrug resistance. Clinicians
and medical nurses working in the field of infection prevention and
control (IPC) will also find the book relevant
The book is an attempt to understand the interface between
ethnicity and cultural assimilation. The Pakhtoons or Pashtuns are
the world's largest (patriarchal) segmentary lineage ethnic group.
According to Ethnologue, the total population of the group is
estimated to be around 50 million. The I] chapter on "ETHNICITY: A
CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK" debates about the conceptual analysis,
theory, perspectives and discussions about ethnicity in sociology
and Social anthropology. The II] chapter entitled "CULTURAL
ASSIMILATION" provides a thorough understanding and analysis of
this grand narrative of social anthropology. Besides it looks into
the cultural assimilation of Kashmiri Pakhtoons with main
implications for their society. Chapter III] "PAKHTOONS: SOCIETY,
TRADITIONS AND ASSIMILATION" deals with those cultural aspects of
Pakhtoon society which are linked with their tradition and have met
assimilation. The main focus of this chapter has been to bring into
limelight the nature and degree of assimilation of the cultural
elements of the Pakhtoon society and the overall impacts of the
process on the ethnicity of Kashmiri Pakhtoons. The scope of this
chapter is confined mainly to the micro structures and institutions
of Pakhtoon culture and society. Chapter IV] "ASSIMILATION OF
MACRO-SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS AMONG PAKHTOONS" discusses the impacts of
assimilation on the macro social institutions like political and
economic systems of the Pakhtoon society through a comparative
analysis with the Pathans of India and Pakistan. It also deals with
the changes and new cultural adoptions in crafts and sports among
the Kashmiri Pakhtoons. Assimilation has been analyzed in relation
to the education and economic institutions like the occupational
structure of the Pakhtoon society in Kashmir.
The internet has become the global publishing platform, for open
access Journals covering a wide range of subject areas. Library and
Information Science is no exception, and now we find a significant
portion of its literature appearing in open access journals. The
present study is however focused on Bibliometric study of select
open access journals in the field of Library & Information
Science, from 2004-2008. The scope of the study is confined to the
bibliometric analysis of "Ariadne, Information Research: an
international electronic journal, E-JASL: The Electronic Journal of
Academic and Special Librarianship, and Electronic Journal of
Knowledge Management," from 2004-2008. Chapter I gives an
introduction, objectives, scope and the methodology adopted for the
research work. Chapter II gives the historical background of
bibliometrics including characteristics & Laws. It also
provides an introduction of Open access Journals Selected for the
study. Chapter III reviews various studies already conducted on the
concerned subject and provides first hand information about results
and conclusions drawn. Chapter IV deals with the data analysis and
the results are revealed in the form of
Major theorists discuss Derrida's most political work and Derrida
responds. Fredric Jameson, Antonio Negri, Terry Eagleton, Pierre
Macherey and others engage in a debate on Marx with Jacques Derrida
With the publication of Specters of Marx in 1993, Jacques Derrida
redeemed a longstanding pledge to confront Marx's texts directly
and in detail. His characteristically bravura presentation provided
a provocative re-reading of the classics in the Western tradition
and posed a series of challenges to Marxism. In a timely
intervention in one of today's most vital theoretical debates, the
contributors to Ghostly Demarcations respond to the distinctive
program projected by Specters of Marx, The volume features
sympathetic meditations on the relationship between Marxism and
deconstruction by Fredric Jameson, Werner Hamacher, Antonio Negri,
Warren Montag, and Rastko Mcnik, brief polemical reviews by Terry
Eagleton and Pierre Macherey, and sustained political critiques by
Tom Lewis and Aijaz Ahmad. The volume concludes with Derrida's
reply to his critics in which he sharpens his views about the vexed
relationship between Marxism and deconstruction. Verso's
beautifully designed Radical Thinkers series, which brings together
seminal works by leading left-wing intellectuals, is a
sophisticated blend of theory and thought. The authors whose
writings are included in the series have worked tirelessly to
expose the mechanisms by which culture and knowledge are
manufactured, managed and controlled.--Ziauddin Sardar, New
Statesman
In March 1998, India broke a quarter-century's silence when it
detonated a series of nuclear devices in the Rajasthan desert.
Having announced it possessed the requisite credentials for
membership in the nuclear club in 1974, India quickly disavowed any
desire to join, pledging not to develop its capability further.. As
the Pokhran explosions revealed, that promise would not be kept for
ever, and the principal beneficiary of its breaking was now to be a
right-wing government seeking to shore up its shaky political base
by demonstrating its commitment to the 'Hindu bomb'. While most in
the West were taken unawares by this sudden bellicosity in the land
of Ghandi, more scrupulous observers on the South-Asian scene
insisted it had a clear history. In this, his first book since the
hotly debated In Theory, Aijaz Ahmad untangles many of the
intertwined threads of historical and political traditions in a
still-too-poorly-understood region of the world.
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Late Imperial Culture (Paperback, New)
E.Ann Kaplan, Michael Sprinker, Roman de la Campa; Contributions by Aijaz Ahmad, Caren Kaplan, …
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Spanning time and space from late Victorian Britain and Ireland to
postwar America and Latin America, Late Imperial Culture maps
crucial regions in the terrain of imperial cultural practices
including theater, film, photography, fiction, autobiography, and
body art. The forms reviewed in this lively collection range from
those which accept and reproduce empire's dominant self-images to
scathing critiques of the oppressions that colonialism has visited
upon its subjects and the price it continues to exact from them. A
diverse range of theoretically sophisticated and historically
informed contributors take as given two fundamental facts about the
culture of imperialism: firstly, that it has a long and complex
history which, in the present epoch, merits its being designated
"late"; and, secondly, that its impact on the contemporary world is
far from exhausted. Together they highlight the contradictions in
the serried cultural practices of imperialism in its different
historical periods. Contributors: Aijaz Ahmad, Steven Cagan, Roman
de la Campa, David Glover, May Joseph, Caren Kaplan, Rob Nixon,
Ella Shohat, Robert Stam, and Marianna Torgovnick.
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