Building on discussions in Contemporary Archaeology this book challenges the border between material and discursive culture, advocating for a novel conception of capitalism's artifacts. The artifacts examined within (temperatures) are instantaneous electric pulses, algorithmic outputs, and momentary fluctuations in mercury. The artifacts of the capitalized never sit still, operating at subatomic and solar scales. Temperatures, as numerical materials precariously straddling the colonially constructed nature-culture divide, exemplify the abstraction necessary to pursue the perpetually accelerating asymmetrical growth of wealth-a pursuit that engenders multiple environmental and economic calamities. This book offers indispensable contributions to science studies, urban geography, semiotics, the philosophy of materiality, the history of thermodynamics, heterodox economics, performative scholarship, and queer ecocriticism.

Providing a quantitative assessment of threatened plant populations, that holds for varying management scenarios, has become an essential part of conservation planning. Here, renowned plant ecologists provide information on: major threats to plants, when and where to conduct a plant viability assessment (PVA), what type of PVA to conduct, what alternative options to PVA are available, what information is required for which kind of viability assessment, what attributes of the population in question should be considered, and what the limits of the PVA would be. As such, this volume can be used as a training tool for the environmental manager or a teaching aid for reviewing the current state of knowledge on plant population viability.

Providing a quantitative assessment of threatened plant populations, that holds for varying management scenarios, has become an essential part of conservation planning. Here, renowned plant ecologists provide information on: major threats to plants, when and where to conduct a plant viability assessment (PVA), what type of PVA to conduct, what alternative options to PVA are available, what information is required for which kind of viability assessment, what attributes of the population in question should be considered, and what the limits of the PVA would be. As such, this volume can be used as a training tool for the environmental manager or a teaching aid for reviewing the current state of knowledge on plant population viability.

New Directions in Print Culture Studies features new methods and approaches to cultural and literary history that draw on periodicals, print culture, and material culture, thus revising and rewriting what we think we know about the aesthetic, cultural, and social history of transnational America. The unifying questions posed and answered in this book are methodological: How can we make material, archival objects meaningful? How can we engage and contest dominant conceptions of aesthetic, historical, and literary periods? How can we present archival material in ways that make it accessible to other scholars and students? What theoretical commitments does a focus on material objects entail? New Directions in Print Culture Studies brings together leading scholars to address the methodological, historical, and theoretical commitments that emerge from studying how periodicals, books, images, and ideas circulated from the 19th century to the present. Reaching beyond national boundaries, the essays in this book focus on the different materials and archives we can use to rewrite literary history in ways that highlight not a canon of “major” literary works, but instead the networks, dialogues, and tensions that define print cultures in various moments and movements.

In Deutschland erkranken jahrlich 47.500 Frauen neu an Brustkrebs, 10.000 Frauen an Eierstockkrebs. Dies sind die haufigsten Krebserkrankungen der Frau. Ein Teil dieser Falle geht auf bekannte ererbte Gendefekte zuruck (BRCA 1 und BRCA 2, Mutationen treten bei ca. 115.000 Frauen auf). Frauen mit diesen Gendefekten tragen ein sehr hohes Risiko, schon in jungen Jahren an Brust- oder Eierstockkrebs zu erkranken. Ausserdem haben Sie ein hohes Rezidivrisiko.

Ein interdisziplinares Autorenteam hat fur den Bundesverband der AOK ein so genanntes "Health Technology Assessment" zur Diagnostik und Beratung des erblichen Brust- und Eierstockkrebses erstellt. Das Buch bietet einen kompakten Uberblick uber:

- die genetische Beratung

- die verschiedenen molekulargenetischen Testverfahren

- ihre diagnostische Treffsicherheit und Verlasslichkeit und

- die Kosten

Es soll als Grundlage fur alle weiteren einzufuhrenden Testprogramme fur erblich bedingte Krebserkrankungen in Deutschland dienen."