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A son's journey through his father's dementia. As a cardiologist,
Sandeep Jauhar is trained to think logically and dispassionately
about medical problems, and primed to offer his patients
reassurance and solutions. But when his father is diagnosed with
Alzheimer’s there are no magic treatments or miracle drugs –
only the promise of unstoppable decline. For years Jauhar watches
his father undergo a distressing transformation. Once a prominent
research geneticist and author, he now repeats questions over and
over, forgets what he has eaten for breakfast, makes baffling
financial decisions and turns into a liability behind the wheel.
Jauhar investigates the science of dementia and what actually
happens in the brain as we age and our memory falters, uncovering
the history of Alzheimer’s from first discovery to the most
cutting-edge research, and whether modern treatments offer any hope
in a global crisis. A blend of science, history and memoir, My
Father’s Brain is a brutally honest and moving account of how
Jauhar and his siblings grappled every day with some of life’s
toughest questions.
‘Jauhar weaves his own personal and family story into his history of the heart…very effectively… This gives a certain dramatic tension to the book, as it tells the fascinating and rather wonderful history of cardiology.’
–Henry Marsh, New Statesman
A Mail on Sunday Book of the Year
The heart lies at the centre of life. For cardiologist Sandeep Jauhar it is an obsession.
In this fascinating history he interweaves gripping scenes from the operating theatre with the moving tale of his family’s history of heart problems – from the death of his grandfather to the ominous signs of how he himself might die.
Jauhar looks at the pioneers who risked patients’ lives and their own careers, and confronts the limits of medical technology, arguing that how we live is more important than any device or drug we may invent. Heart is the all-encompassing story of the engine of life.
Presented here are modern and classical aspects of cytogenetics as
well as biotechnology in relation to improvement of the
Festuca-Lolium group of grasses. Festuca and its close relative
Lolium are very valuable genera of temperate agriculture. These
fascinating genera contain some highly productive, nutritious, and
well-adapted grasses widely used for agricultural and recreational
purposes world wide. The book is organizedinto 15 chapters devoted
to taxonomy and systematics; species evolution and divergence by
increase in chromosome number as well as by change in DNA content;
genetic control of chromosome pairing and its breeding and
phylogenetic implications; B chromosomes, induced polyploidy and
haploidy inrelation to varietal improvement; wide hybridization,
genome relationships, and plant improvement; genomic balance in
relation to hybrid fertility and hererosis breeding; biotechnology
and its potential applications in plant improvement. It is of
special interest to geneticists, taxonomists, evolutionists,
biotechnologists, and plant breeders.
Summarizing landmark research, Volume 2 of this essential series
furnishes information on the availability of germplasm resources
that breeders can exploit for producing high-yielding cereal crop
varieties. Written by leading international experts, this volume
offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date information on
employing genetic resources to increase the yield of those cereal
crops that provide the main source of nutrition for two-thirds of
the world. In thirteen succinct chapters, Genetic Resources,
Chromosome Engineering, and Crop Improvement: Cereals, Volume 2
focuses on wheat, rice, maize, oats, barley, millet, sorghum, and
rye, as well as triticale: a wheat and rye hybrid with great
potential. An introductory chapter outlines the cytogenetic
architecture of cereal crops, describes the principles and
strategies of cytogenetics and breeding, and summarizes landmarks
in current research. This sets the stage for the ensuing
crop-specific chapters. Each chapter generally provides a
comprehensive account of the crop, its origin, wild relatives,
exploitation of genetic resources in the primary, secondary, and
tertiary gene pools through breeding and cytogenetic manipulation,
and genetic enrichment using the tools of molecular genetics and
biotechnology. Certain to become the standard reference for
improving the yields of these critical grains, this book is the
definitive source of information for plant breeders, agronomists,
cytogeneticists, taxonomists, molecular biologists,
biotechnologists, and graduate students and researchers in these
fields.
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. By 2050, human
population is expected to reach 9.7 billion. The demand for
increased food production needs to be met from ever reducing
resources of land, water and other environmental constraints. Rice
remains the staple food source for a majority of the global
populations, but especially in Asia where ninety percent of rice is
grown and consumed. Climate change continues to impose abiotic and
biotic stresses that curtail rice quality and yields. Researchers
have been challenged to provide innovative solutions to maintain,
or even increase, rice production. Amongst them, the 'green super
rice' breeding strategy has been successful for leading the
development and release of multiple abiotic and biotic stress
tolerant rice varieties. Recent advances in plant molecular biology
and biotechnologies have led to the identification of stress
responsive genes and signaling pathways, which open up new
paradigms to augment rice productivity. Accordingly, transcription
factors, protein kinases and enzymes for generating protective
metabolites and proteins all contribute to an intricate network of
events that guard and maintain cellular integrity. In addition,
various quantitative trait loci associated with elevated stress
tolerance have been cloned, resulting in the detection of novel
genes for biotic and abiotic stress resistance. Mechanistic
understanding of the genetic basis of traits, such as N and P use,
is allowing rice researchers to engineer nutrient-efficient rice
varieties, which would result in higher yields with lower inputs.
Likewise, the research in micronutrients biosynthesis opens doors
to genetic engineering of metabolic pathways to enhance
micronutrients production. With third generation sequencing
techniques on the horizon, exciting progress can be expected to
vastly improve molecular markers for gene-trait associations
forecast with increasing accuracy. This book emphasizes on the
areas of rice science that attempt to overcome the foremost
limitations in rice production. Our intention is to highlight
research advances in the fields of physiology, molecular breeding
and genetics, with a special focus on increasing productivity,
improving biotic and abiotic stress tolerance and nutritional
quality of rice.
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. By 2050, human
population is expected to reach 9.7 billion. The demand for
increased food production needs to be met from ever reducing
resources of land, water and other environmental constraints. Rice
remains the staple food source for a majority of the global
populations, but especially in Asia where ninety percent of rice is
grown and consumed. Climate change continues to impose abiotic and
biotic stresses that curtail rice quality and yields. Researchers
have been challenged to provide innovative solutions to maintain,
or even increase, rice production. Amongst them, the 'green super
rice' breeding strategy has been successful for leading the
development and release of multiple abiotic and biotic stress
tolerant rice varieties. Recent advances in plant molecular biology
and biotechnologies have led to the identification of stress
responsive genes and signaling pathways, which open up new
paradigms to augment rice productivity. Accordingly, transcription
factors, protein kinases and enzymes for generating protective
metabolites and proteins all contribute to an intricate network of
events that guard and maintain cellular integrity. In addition,
various quantitative trait loci associated with elevated stress
tolerance have been cloned, resulting in the detection of novel
genes for biotic and abiotic stress resistance. Mechanistic
understanding of the genetic basis of traits, such as N and P use,
is allowing rice researchers to engineer nutrient-efficient rice
varieties, which would result in higher yields with lower inputs.
Likewise, the research in micronutrients biosynthesis opens doors
to genetic engineering of metabolic pathways to enhance
micronutrients production. With third generation sequencing
techniques on the horizon, exciting progress can be expected to
vastly improve molecular markers for gene-trait associations
forecast with increasing accuracy. This book emphasizes on the
areas of rice science that attempt to overcome the foremost
limitations in rice production. Our intention is to highlight
research advances in the fields of physiology, molecular breeding
and genetics, with a special focus on increasing productivity,
improving biotic and abiotic stress tolerance and nutritional
quality of rice.
"Intern "is Dr. Sandeep Jauhar's story of his days and nights in
residency at a busy hospital in New York City, a trial that led him
to question his every assumption about medical care today.
Residency--and especially its first year, the internship--is
legendary for its brutality, and Jauhar's experience was even more
harrowing than most. He switched from physics to medicine in order
to follow a more humane calling--only to find that his new
profession often had little regard for patients' concerns. He
struggled to find a place among squadrons of cocky residents and
doctors. He challenged the practices of the internship in "The New
York Times," attracting the suspicions of the medical bureaucracy.
Then, suddenly stricken, he became a patient himself--and came to
see that today's high-tech, high-pressure medicine can be a humane
science after all. Jauhar's beautifully written memoir explains the
inner workings of modern medicine with rare candor and insight.
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book
may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages,
poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the
original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We
believe this work is culturally important, and despite the
imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of
our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works
worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in
the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Summarizing landmark research, Volume 2 of this essential series
furnishes information on the availability of germplasm resources
that breeders can exploit for producing high-yielding cereal crop
varieties. Written by leading international experts, this volume
offers the most comprehensive and up-to-date information on
employing genetic resources to increase the yield of those cereal
crops that provide the main source of nutrition for two-thirds of
the world. In thirteen succinct chapters, Genetic Resources,
Chromosome Engineering, and Crop Improvement: Cereals, Volume 2
focuses on wheat, rice, maize, oats, barley, millet, sorghum, and
rye, as well as triticale: a wheat and rye hybrid with great
potential. An introductory chapter outlines the cytogenetic
architecture of cereal crops, describes the principles and
strategies of cytogenetics and breeding, and summarizes landmarks
in current research. This sets the stage for the ensuing
crop-specific chapters. Each chapter generally provides a
comprehensive account of the crop, its origin, wild relatives,
exploitation of genetic resources in the primary, secondary, and
tertiary gene pools through breeding and cytogenetic manipulation,
and genetic enrichment using the tools of molecular genetics and
biotechnology. Certain to become the standard reference for
improving the yields of these critical grains, this book is the
definitive source of information for plant breeders, agronomists,
cytogeneticists, taxonomists, molecular biologists,
biotechnologists, and graduate students and researchers in these
fields.
The Mughal emperor Humayun (1508-56) ruled over parts of modern-day
India, Afghanistan and Pakistan during his eventful reign. He came
to the throne at the age of twenty-two in 1530 and thereafter faced
a series of challenges to his control. Throughout this time he was
served by his water-bearer, Jauhar, who later wrote these memoirs
of his master and his campaigns. This translation from Persian to
English was first published in 1832 by Charles Stewart (1764-1837),
who had been a professor of oriental languages at the East India
College, Haileybury. Jauhar gives a valuable eyewitness narrative
of events during a fraught period of Indian history, also providing
an insight into Humayun's character. The work begins with an
account of his victory over Bahadur Shah and the conquest of
Gujarat in the 1530s. It goes on to describe battles with Sher Shah
Suri and other campaigns until his death.
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