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Originally published in French, this updated and expanded English translation offers a definitive treatment on clays and effects on human health including the long history of clays used as pharmaceutical and therapeutic agents, the origins of clays, their structural properties and modes of action.
The rapid population growth and the increase in the per capita income, especially in the group of emerging countries referred to as BRIC countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa) has created huge pressure for the expansion of the agricultural growing area and the crop yields to meet the rising demand. As a result, many areas that have been considered marginal for growing crops, due to their low fertility, drought, salinity, and many other abiotic stresses, have now been incorporated in the production system. Additionally, climate change has brought new challenges to agriculture to produce food, feed, fiber and biofuels. To cope with these new challenges, many plant breeding p...
Tivemos a satisfação de organizar este livro intitulado Ciências Humanas e Sociedade: estudos interdisciplinares. As temáticas aqui presentes relacionam-se não unicamente às chamadas “ciências humanas”, mas também a outras áreas do saber, como as ciências sociais. Com efeito, este é um livro de temática essencialmente interdisciplinar. Trata-se de obra coletiva. Por essa razão, agradecemos a cada coautor por sua especial contribuição. O campo das ciências humanas possui inegável complexidade. Conforme preleciona Foucault em sua obra As Palavras e as Coisas: uma arqueologia das ciências humanas, “as ciências humanas, com efeito, endereçam-se ao homem, na medida em qu...
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Includes entries for maps and atlases.
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This thesis describes lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals (LCLCs) with exotic elastic and viscous properties. The first part of the thesis presents a thorough analysis of the elastic and viscous properties of LCLCs as functions of concentration, temperature and ionic contents, while the second part explores an active nematic system: living liquid crystals, which represent a combination of LCLC and living bacteria. LCLCs are an emerging class of liquid crystals that have shown profound connections to biological systems in two aspects. First, the assembly process of the chromonic aggregates is essentially the same as DNA oligomers and other super-molecular assemblies of biological origin. LCLC...