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This collection calls for improved technical communication for the
public through an embodied, situated understanding of environmental
risk that promotes social justice. In addition to providing a
series of chapters about recent issues on risk communication, this
volume offers a diverse look at methodological practices for
students, researchers, and practitioners looking to address
embodied aspects of crisis and risk that incorporate UX,
storytelling, and dynamic text. It includes chapters that bring
embodiment to the forefront of risk communication, highlighting the
cycle of content creation, dissemination, public response and
decision making, continuing iterations of educational efforts, and
recovery, toward increasing adaptive capacity as a whole. In
addition, this work directs necessary attention to overcoming
perceptual difficulties, memory lapses, definitional differences,
access issues, and pedagogical problems in the communication of
risks to diverse publics. This collection is essential reading for
scholars and can be used as a supplemental text or casebook for
courses in technical communication, environmental communication,
risk and crisis communication, science communication, and public
health.
The effective sterilisation of any material or device to be
implanted in or used in close contact with the human body is
essential for the elimination of harmful agents such as bacteria.
Sterilisation of biomaterials and medical devices reviews
established and commonly used technologies alongside new and
emerging processes.
Following an introduction to the key concepts and challenges
involved in sterilisation, the sterilisation of biomaterials and
medical devices using steam and dry heat, ionising radiation and
ethylene oxide is reviewed. A range of non-traditional
sterilisation techniques, such as hydrogen peroxide gas plasma,
ozone and steam formaldehyde, is then discussed together with
research in sterilisation and decontamination of surfaces by plasma
discharges. Sterilisation techniques for polymers, drug-device
products and tissue allografts are then reviewed, together with
antimicrobial coatings for self-sterilisation and the challenge
presented by prions and endotoxins in the sterilisation of reusable
medical devices. The book concludes with a discussion of future
trends in the sterilisation of biomaterials and medical devices.
With its distinguished editors and expert team of international
contributors, Sterilisation of biomaterials and medical devices is
an essential reference for all materials scientists, engineers and
researchers within the medical devices industry. It also provides a
thorough overview for academics and clinicians working in this
area.
Reviews established and commonly used technologies alongside new
and emerging processesIntroduces and reviews the key concepts and
challenges involved in sterilisationDiscusses future trends in the
sterilisation of biomaterials and medical devices"
This collection calls for improved technical communication for the
public through an embodied, situated understanding of environmental
risk that promotes social justice. In addition to providing a
series of chapters about recent issues on risk communication, this
volume offers a diverse look at methodological practices for
students, researchers, and practitioners looking to address
embodied aspects of crisis and risk that incorporate UX,
storytelling, and dynamic text. It includes chapters that bring
embodiment to the forefront of risk communication, highlighting the
cycle of content creation, dissemination, public response and
decision making, continuing iterations of educational efforts, and
recovery, toward increasing adaptive capacity as a whole. In
addition, this work directs necessary attention to overcoming
perceptual difficulties, memory lapses, definitional differences,
access issues, and pedagogical problems in the communication of
risks to diverse publics. This collection is essential reading for
scholars and can be used as a supplemental text or casebook for
courses in technical communication, environmental communication,
risk and crisis communication, science communication, and public
health.
Robert Darvel, a young and penniless French engineer at the turn of
the twentieth century, is an amateur astronomer obsessed with the
planet Mars. Transported by a combination of science and psychic
powers to Mars, Robert must navigate the dangers of the Red Planet
while trying to return to his fiancee on Earth. Through his
travels, we discover that Mars can not only support life but is
also home to three different types of vampires. This riveting
combination of science fiction and the adventure story provides a
vivid depiction of an imagined Mars and its strange, unearthly
creatures who might be closer to earthly humans than we would care
to believe. Originally published in French as two separate volumes,
translated as The Prisoner of the Planet Mars (1908) and The War of
the Vampires (1909), this vintage work is available to
English-language audiences unabridged for the first time and
masterfully translated by David Beus and Brian Evenson.
Sandwiched between Arnould Galopin's Doctor Omega (1906) and Edgar
Rice Burroughs' A Princess of Mars (1912), Gustave Le Rouge's
masterpiece, Le Prisonnier de la Plante Mars (1908) and its sequel,
La Guerre des Vampires (1909), are a Martian Odyssey in which young
engineer Robert Darvel is dispatched to Mars ny the psychic powers
of Hindu Brahmins. On the Red Planet, Darvel runs afoul of hostile,
bat-winged, blood-sucking natives, a once-powerful civilization now
ruled by the Great Brain. The entity eventually sends Darvel back
to Earth, unfortunately with some of the vampires. The second
volume deals with the war of the vampires back on Earth. Planetary
romance blends here with "cosmic horror" as the characters switch
from swashbuckling he-men to helpless bundles of gibbering terror.
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