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The Asia-Pacific region is now clearly witnessing the rapid ageing of many of its nations, to the extent that it will soon be the region with, relatively, the largest number of older persons. This book focuses on the challenges that this demographic trend poses to economies and societies in the region, and the policies that have evolved to date to meet new demands. It looks forward over the coming decades to consider how societies and economies will deal with ageing and the necessary structural and behavioural changes that this will entail. eBook available with sample pages: EB:0203463080
First published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor &
Francis, an informa company.
During recent years, an increasing amount of academic research
has focused on older people with a particular emphasis on settings,
places and spaces. This book provides a comprehensive review of
research and the policy area of 'ageing and place'.
An insightful book on an important topic, Andrews and Phillips
have together edited a valuable information and reference source
for those with interests in the spatial dimensions of ageing in the
twenty-first century. Ranging from macro-scale perspectives on the
distribution of older populations on national scales, to the
meaning of specific local places and settings to older individuals,
on the micro-scale, the book spans an entire range of research
traditions and international perspectives.
During recent years, an increasing amount of academic research has
focused on older people with a particular emphasis on settings,
places and spaces. This book provides a comprehensive review of
research and the policy area of 'ageing and place'. An insightful
book on an important topic, Andrews and Phillips have together
edited a valuable information and reference source for those with
interests in the spatial dimensions of ageing in the twenty-first
century. Ranging from macro-scale perspectives on the distribution
of older populations on national scales, to the meaning of specific
local places and settings to older individuals, on the micro-scale,
the book spans an entire range of research traditions and
international perspectives.
This is an authoritative account of the history and philosophy of
the Islamic faith, shown in more than 300 photographs and fine-art
illustrations. This is an insightful and accessible study of
Islamic faith and Muslim life. It examines the essential principles
of Islamic belief such as one God, the attributes of Allah, divine
will, free will, the day of judgement, and heaven and hell. It
includes a fascinating overview of the spiritual aspects of Islam,
as well as its wider influence on social institutions, such as
marriage, the family, businesses, courts and government. It
describes the distinguishing features of the Sunni, Shia and Sufi
denominations. It is stunningly illustrated with over 300 colour
photographs, including magnificent fine-art paintings. Islam is a
powerful force today, with Muslims representing around a quarter of
the global population, some 1.4 billion people. It is one of the
world's younger faiths, yet in its 1400-year history its impact has
been astonishing and immense. The purpose of this book is to
provide a refreshing and detailed guide to and insight into the
beliefs and religious practices of the Islamic faith. The volume
begins by exploring the theological beliefs and the ritual worship
practices of Islam, such as the six articles of belief and the five
pillars of faith. The life of a Muslim is then described, from the
social interaction between people to the rules of dress for men and
women. The final chapter reviews the unity and division amongst the
worldwide Muslim community. Each chapter also includes special
themed spreads, highlighting particular issues, people and places
of importance to Islam. Lavishly illustrated with over 300
photographs and fine-art paintings, this superb book offers a
factual account of Islamic beliefs and rituals, and provides a
greater understanding of Islam and its teachings.
This edited volume features essays derived from presentations
delivered at the 15th Biennial Public Address Conference held at
Syracuse University in October 2016, as well as additional
material. The Conceit of Context explores the often invoked-indeed
a central term in the history of rhetorical studies-but less often
engaged concept of context. In this volume, we center the notion of
context as the site of engagement, critique, and imagination,
seeking to deepen the critical and political promise of context in
the study of public discourse.
Global Health continues to provide readers with a comprehensive,
up-to-date and thought-provoking outline and understanding of the
constantly evolving global health landscape. In this new edition
the authors have maintained the successful structure and
organisation of the previous edition to examine and explain recent
health changes and consider likely future patterns. New or expanded
topics covered include: emerging and re-emerging infectious disease
threats increasing awareness of, and interest in, antimicrobial
resistance and superbugs terrorism, global conflict and health the
new UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development the drive for
Universal Health Coverage (UHC) the use of information technology
in global health substance abuse palliative and end-of-life-care
ethical issues in global health. Using clear and original
explanations of complex issues, this text makes extensive use of
boxed case studies and international examples, with discussion
questions posed for readers at the end of each chapter. Readers
will also be able to take advantage of the new website that was
designed to complement this book. Global Health is essential
reading for students and researchers of global health, public
health and development studies.
This book explores the circulation of anger and hostility in
contemporary American culture with particular attention to the
fantasy of refusal, a dream of rejecting all the structures of the
contemporary political and economic system. Framing the question of
public sentiment through the lens of rhetorical studies, this book
traces the circulation of symbols that craft public feelings in
contemporary popular cinema. Analyzing popular twenty-first century
films as invitations to a particular way of feeling, the book
delves into the way popular sentiments are circulated and
intensified. The book examines dystopian films (The Purge, The
Cabin in the Woods), science fiction (Snowpiercer), and superhero
narratives (the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Joker). Across these
varied films, an affective economy that emphasizes grief, betrayal,
refusal, and an underlying rage at the seeming hopelessness of
contemporary culture is uncovered. These examinations are framed in
terms of ongoing political protests ranging from Occupy Wall
Street, the Tea Party, Black Lives Matter, and the 6th January 2021
invasion of the US Capitol Building.
Leaving Atlantis is a suite of poems that explores the unstable
territory between public and private. They are addressed to the
great Barbadian novelist and thinker, George Lamming, the silent
but speaking partner in a relationship of love that comes between
two writers when "your flag is flying at half-mast". The suite
works at multiple levels, as a record of the negotiation of
feelings, permissions, exclusions and treaties between two persons
who have to confront the reality of long lives that have
accumulated "memories I cannot share", and not least that the poet
is a woman of deep religious faith, and the man a lifelong Marxist
and non-believer. What the poems also deal with in a moving but
resolutely unsentimental way is the fact that the age of one of the
partners makes the temporal finiteness of the relationship a matter
of acute awareness. What is the poet to think when she sees the man
throwing out and putting his papers in order? "Clearing out?" The
poems also meditate on the ironies of a relationship with a man who
has both been public property as a writer and a leader of the
struggle for Caribbean sovereignty, but also an intensely private
person, habituated to a life of movement and temporariness. Quite
literally, Leaving Atlantis references the moment when the writer
is forced to leave, with a rude absence of notice, the hotel at
Bathsheba on the Atlantic coast of Barbados, his refuge for many
years. Is the relationship and provision of a home a "Coming Home",
the arrival at a place of rest after the turbulence of a life of
struggle, or does it threaten a loss of autonomy after a life of
privacy and independence? What of sovereignty now when "I am your
dotage, your vulnerable/ season"? More than a portrait, fascinating
and intimate as it is, of a public man; more than an exploration of
the writing of the man for clues about what he might be thinking
(and an acceptance of the ultimate mystery and unknowability of the
intimate other), this is a suite of poems about the miracle of
love, and how it may come at any time.
Cytochromes P450 (CYPs) comprise a large superfamily of proteins
that are of central importance in the detoxification or activation
of a tremendous number of natural and synthetic hydrophobic
xenobiotics, including many therapeutic drugs, chemical carcinogens
and environmental pollutants. CYPs are important in mediating
interactions between an organism and its chemical environment and
in the regulation of physiological processes. Cytochrome P450
Protocols, Third Edition focuses on high-throughput methods for the
simultaneous analysis of multiple CYPs, substrates or ligands.
Although the emphasis is on CYPs of mammalian origin, it reflects
an increasing interest in CYPs of bacterial species. Also included
are chapters on cytochrome P450 reductase (the redox partner of
CYPs) and the flavin-containing monooxygenases (FMOs), and
metabolomic and lipidomic approaches for identification of
endogenous substrates of CYPs ('de-orphanizing' CYP substrates).
Written in the successful Methods in Molecular Biology (TM) series
format, chapters include introductions to their respective topics,
lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step,
readily reproducible protocols, and notes on troubleshooting and
avoiding known pitfalls. Authoritative and easily accessible,
Cytochrome P450 Protocols, Third Edition provides a wide range of
techniques accessible to researchers in fields as diverse as
biochemistry, molecular biology, pharmacology, toxicology,
environmental biology and genetics.
This edited volume features essays derived from presentations
delivered at the 15th Biennial Public Address Conference held at
Syracuse University in October 2016, as well as additional
material. The Conceit of Context explores the often invoked-indeed
a central term in the history of rhetorical studies-but less often
engaged concept of context. In this volume, we center the notion of
context as the site of engagement, critique, and imagination,
seeking to deepen the critical and political promise of context in
the study of public discourse.
Biz Jets: Technology and Market Structure in the Corporate Jet
Aircraft Industry traces the development of business jet aircraft
from the mid-1950s through early 1993. It begins with a discussion
of the technological and market opportunities existing in the
period prior to the introduction of the Lockheed JetStar and the
North American Sabreliner. The subsequent appearances of other biz
jets -- the Learjets, HS-125s, Jet Commanders, Falcons,
Gulfstreams, Citations, Challengers, Mitsubishis and derivative
aircraft are treated in considerable detail. Biz Jets also covers
'planes involved in many unsuccessful attempts to enter the
industry from 1955 through 1993. The study shows that while the
industry has been quite concentrated throughout its history, the
positions of the leading firms have always been contestable.
Indeed, leaders at one point in time have often been displaced by
others who succeeded in marshalling technological and market
opportunities to their advantage. Manufacturers have had to
undertake continuous efforts to improve the price-performance
characteristics of their aircraft to gain and hold their market
shares. Rivalries in the effective use of the stream of new
technologies have brought forth new aircraft with both better
performance and lower operating costs. At the same time, however,
participation in the market has been extremely risky. Only a few
companies have been able to earn profits. Entries, exits and
mergers have altered the structure of the industry, but it remained
decidedly unstable at least through 1992.
Fifteen years have passed since I was working at a dam site super
vising grouting work. That was not the first time that I had to car
ry out engineering geological investigations for several similar
projects, which always included testing programmes to find out the
permeability of the rock, and often I was in charge of grouting
work. It thus attracted my attention when this particular grouting
programme did not run as intended: most of the grout holes took
only very little grout It could not be the aim of the invested work
simply to drill holes and fill them again without bringing about
any further improvement. Fortunately, I had the chance to be en
gaged in many other grouting programmes in the following years and
used all these examples to analyse as thoroughly as possible the
permeability of the rocks being treated in view of their grout
ability. The more I studied, the stronger my conviction grew that
our rules which had decided the grouting of rock for many de cades
should be developed further, and therefore I occupied my self with
contributing some ideas for a new basis to investigation and
judgment of permeability of rock and for a more adequate
application of this technology."
Growth of immobilized cells can be viewed as an alternative to
growth of free cells in many instances. In others, immobilization
confers a precision of control over the process not possible in
free growth. Immobilization of cells can sometimes be considered to
be a lower cost alternative to immobilization of enzymes. In this
volume, immobilization procedures based on mechanical means and
bonding of various types are examined, with detailed application
examples. These applications include microorganisms, plant and
animal cells, sub-cellular organelles and multiple enzyme systems.
Particular attention is devoted to enzyme properties in immobilized
cells and the properties of the carrier. The volume should provide
the reader with a comprehensive overview of the subject, together
with copious references. As well as serving as a research
monograph, it could be used to provide reference material for a
graduate course. Special thanks are due Mrs. JENNIFER KERBY for her
dedicated work in the preparation of the manuscript, and IT-CHIN
HSIEH for bibliographical assistance. COLIN R. PHILLIPS Toronto,
July 1988 YIU C. POON v Table of Contents 1 Introduction. 1
References . 9 2 Methods of Cell Immobilization 11 2.1 Mechanical
Immobilization . 11 2.1.1 Mycelial Pellet and Mat 11 2.1.2
Encapsulation .. 48 2.1.3 Dialysis Culture. . . 49 2.1.4
Entrapment. .... 50 2.2 Covalent Attachment 61 2.3 Ionic Attachment
62 2.3.1 Flocculation 62 2.3.2 Adsorption . 64 References . 66 3
Special Problems and Extended Applications . 75 3.1 Special
Problems and Techniques .
For this second edition of their much praised Cytochrome P450, the
editors have collected accounts of the essential core techniques
that use the latest methodologies for the investigation of P450s.
Highlights include protocols for spectral analysis and purification
of P450s, enzymatic assays of P450s and flavin-containing
monooxygenases (FMOs), expression of P450s and FMOs in heterologous
systems, and the production and use of antipeptide antibodies.
Additional chapters contain readily reproducible techniques for the
transfection of hepatocytes for gene regulation studies, P450
reporter gene assays, in situ hybridization, and analysis of
genetic polymorphisms. Although the emphasis is on P450s of
mammalian origin, many of the readily reproducible methods
described are suitable for P450s from any source.
For this second edition of their much praised Cytochrome P450, the
editors have collected accounts of the essential core techniques
that use the latest methodologies for the investigation of P450s.
Highlights include protocols for spectral analysis and purification
of P450s, enzymatic assays of P450s and flavin-containing
monooxygenases (FMOs), expression of P450s and FMOs in heterologous
systems, and the production and use of antipeptide antibodies.
Additional chapters contain readily reproducible techniques for the
transfection of hepatocytes for gene regulation studies, P450
reporter gene assays, in situ hybridization, and analysis of
genetic polymorphisms. Although the emphasis is on P450s of
mammalian origin, many of the readily reproducible methods
described are suitable for P450s from any source.
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