The Biology of Blood-Sucking in Insects

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Fully updated since it was first published in 1991, this second edition focuses on the biological modifications common to blood-sucking insects and outlines their medical, social and economic impact. It also covers host-insect interactions and the transmission of parasites by blood-sucking insects. The final chapter is designed as a useful quick-reference section.

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Blood-sucking insects transmit many of the most debilitating diseases to man including malaria, sleeping sickness, filariasis, dengue, typhus and plague. Additionally these insects cause major economic losses in agriculture by direct damage to livestock. This new edition of The Biology of Blood-Sucking in Insects has been fully updated since it was first published in 1991. It provides a unique, topic-led commentary on the biological aspects that are common to blood-sucking insects. This account focuses on the biological adaptations that clearly suit the blood-sucking habit and further discusses host-insect interactions and the transmission of parasites by blood-sucking insects. It also outlines the medical, social and economic impact of blood-sucking insects. The final chapter is designed as a useful quick-reference section. Written in a clear, concise fashion and well illustrated throughout, the text will be of direct interest to advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of medical and veterinary entomology and parasitology.

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Biology of Blood-Sucking Insects
M.J. Lehane
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Blood-sucking Insects (Studies in Biology)

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M.W. Service
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The subject of this monograph is the use of tree transducers to study general properties of formal models for giving semantics to context-free languages. Such formal models include attribute grammars with synthesized attributes only, denotational semantics, and attribute grammars with synthesized and inherited attributes. The authors consider top-down tree transducers, macro tree transducers, attributed tree transducers, and macro attributed tree transducers. A unified terminology is used to define them, and their transformational capacities are compared. Composition and decomposition of the tree transformations induced by the transducers are investigated intensively. This handbook on tree transducers is a base for further research as well as for lecturing the subject to graduate students.

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Coordination Programming: Mechanisms, Models and Semantics

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Coordination Programming: Mechanisms, Models and Semantics

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Coordination, considered abstractly, is an ubiquitous notion in computer science: for example, programming languages coordinate elementary instructions; operating systems coordinate accesses to hardware resources; database transaction schedulers coordinate accesses to shared data; etc. All these situations have some common features, which can be identified at the abstract level as "coordination mechanisms". This book focuses on a class of coordination models where multiple pieces of software coordinate their activities through some shared dataspace. The book has three parts. Part 1 presents the main coordination models studied in this book (Gamma, LO, TAO, LambdaN). Part 2 focuses on various semantics aspects of coordination, applied mainly to Gamma. Part 3 presents actual implementations of coordination models and an application.

Domain Modeling and the Duration Calculus: International Training School, Shanghai, China, September 17-21, 2007, Advanced Lectures (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

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Domain Modeling and the Duration Calculus: International Training School, Shanghai, China, September 17-21, 2007, Advanced Lectures (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

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This book presents thoroughly revised tutorial papers based on lectures given by leading researchers at the International Training School on Domain Modeling and the Duration Calculus, held in Shanghai, China, in September 2007 as an associated event of ICTAC 2007, the 4th International Colloquium on Theoretical Aspects of Computing.

The four tutorial papers presented provide competent coverage of software security, domain modeling of software engineering, and duration calculus for real time systems - originating from lectures of leading experts in these fields from Europe and Asia. Topics addressed in detail are: development of real-time systems, domain engineering using abstract modeling, the area of duration calculus, and formal methods like language description using the operational semantics approach.

Formal Methods and Stochastic Models for Performance Evaluation: Fourth European Performance Engineering Workshop, EPEW 2007, Berlin, Germany, September ... (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

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Formal Methods and Stochastic Models for Performance Evaluation: Fourth European Performance Engineering Workshop, EPEW 2007, Berlin, Germany, September ... (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

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ASIN: 3540752102

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th European Performance Engineering Workshop, EPEW 2007, held in Berlin, Germany, September 27-28, 2007.

The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 53 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on Markov Chains, Process Algebra, Wireless Networks, Queueing Theory and Applications of Queueing, Benchmarking and Bounding, Grid and Peer-to-Peer Systems.

Models of Sharing Graphs: A Categorical Semantics of Let and Letrec (Distinguished Dissertations (Springer-Verlag).)

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Models of Sharing Graphs: A Categorical Semantics of Let and Letrec (Distinguished Dissertations (Springer-Verlag).)
Masahito Hasegawa
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Models of Sharing Graphs presents a sound mathematical basis for reasoning about models of computation involving shared resources, including graph rewriting systems, denotational semantics and concurrency theory. An algebraic approach, based on the language of category theory, is taken throughout this work, which enables the author to describe several aspects of the notion of sharing in a systematic way. In particular, a novel account of recursive computation created from cyclic sharing is developed using this framework.

Programming Languages and Systems: 5th Asian Symposium, APLAS 2007, Singapore, November 28-December 1, 2007, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

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Programming Languages and Systems: 5th Asian Symposium, APLAS 2007, Singapore, November 28-December 1, 2007, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th Asian Symposium on Programming Languages and Systems, APLAS 2007, held in Singapore, in November/December 2007.

The 25 revised full papers presented together with 3 invited talks were carefully reviewed and selected from 84 submissions. The symposium addresses all issues in programming languages and systems - ranging from foundational to practical issues. The papers focus on topics such as semantics, logics, foundational theory, type systems, language design, program analysis, optimization, transformation, software security, safety, verification, compiler systems, interpreters, abstract machines, domain-specific languages and systems, as well as programming tools and environments.

Semantics of Programming Languages and Model Theory (Algebra, Logic, and Applications, Vol 5)

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Semantics of Programming Languages and Model Theory (Algebra, Logic, and Applications, Vol 5)

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ASIN: 2881249353

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The interplay between mathematical logic and the theory of programming languages has aroused an increasing amount of interest during the last decades. In this research area, the mathematical fields of model theory, logic and ordered structures have received new stimuli from computer science. Simultaneously, complex mathematical methods have defined new applications in the entire area of semantics of programming languages. Many of the more difficult problems in the theory of computation require a combination of methods from model theory, logic and ordered structures as well as from semantics. The articles in this book deal with both the specialised aspects of the relationship and with pure methods in each of the fields of model theory, ordered structures and semantics. Whereas some chapters are concerned with original research in this area, review articles for the nonspecialist are also included.
M. Droste is at the University GHS Essen, Germany and Y. Gurevich is at the University of Michigan, US

Static Analysis: 7th International Symposium, SAS 2000, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, June 29 - July 6, 2000, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

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Static Analysis: 7th International Symposium, SAS 2000, Santa Barbara, CA, USA, June 29 - July 6, 2000, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

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ASIN: 3540676686

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Static Analysis Symposium, SAS 2000, held in Santa Barbara, CA, USA, in June/July 2000.The 20 revised full papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 52 submissions. Also included are 2 invited full papers. All current aspects of high-performance implementation and verification of programming languages are addressed, in particular object logics, model checking, constraint solving, abstract interpretation, program transformation, rewriting, confidentiality analysis, typed languages, unified analysis, code optimization, termination, code specialization, and guided abstraction.

Theoretical Aspects of Computer Software: Third International Symposium, TACS'97, Sendai, Japan, September 23 - 26, 1997, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

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ASIN: 354063388X

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Software, TACS'97, held in Sendai, Japan, in September 1997. The book presents 20 revised full papers selected from a total of 46 submissions. Also included are seven invited papers by internationally leading scientists. Among the topics addressed are action calculi, polymorphisms, type theory, lambda calculi, refinement, finite transition systems, model checking, process algebras, logical frameworks, higher-order logics, etc.

Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems: 7th International Conference, TACAS 2001 Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences ... (Lecture Notes in Computer Science)

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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2001.The 36 revised full papers presented together with an invited contribution were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 125 submissions. The papers are organized in sections on symbolic verification, infinite state systems - deduction and abstraction, application of model checking techniques, timed and probabilistic systems, hardware - design and verification, software verification, testing - techniques and tools, implementation techniques, semantics and compositional verification, logics and model checking, and ETAPS tool demonstration.

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Women have been writing, and writing very well, about nature for hundreds of years, but, as in so many other fields, their contributions were overlooked and undervalued until recently. Lorraine Anderson's anthology Sisters of the Earth is just the remedy. In it, Anderson gathers writing on nature from a range of authors, among them the relatively familiar Sally Carrighar, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings, Ann Zwinger, Rachel Carson, and Ursula Le Guin and younger contemporaries like Pat Mora, Terry Tempest Williams, Luci Tapahonso, and Joy Harjo. Anderson showcases essays, fiction, and poetry in roughly equal measure, and her intelligent notes and introduction add much to this generous--and long overdue, and most welcome--collection.

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Sisters of the Earth is a stirring collection of women’s writing on nature: Nature as healer. Nature as delight. Nature as mother and sister. Nature as victim. Nature as companion and reminder of what is wild in us all. Here, among more than a hundred poets and prose writers, are Diane Ackerman on the opium of sunsets; Ursula K. Le Guin envisioning an alternative world in which human beings are not estranged from their planet; and Julia Butterfly Hill on weathering a fierce storm in the redwood tree where she lived for more than two years. Here, too, are poems, essays, stories, and journal entries by Emily Dickinson, Alice Walker, Terry Tempest Williams, Willa Cather, Gretel Erlich, Adrienne Rich, and others—each offering a vivid, eloquent response to the natural world.

This second edition of Sisters of the Earth is fully revised and updated with a new preface and nearly fifty new pieces, including new contributions by Louise Erdrich, Pam Houston, Zora Neale Hurston, Starhawk, Joy Williams, Kathleen Norris, Rita Dove, and Barbara Kingsolver.

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It's Not Just For Women!.......2005-07-02

I've assigned Lorraine Anderson's Sisters of the Earth in my nature writing and literature classes since it first came out. I teach at a co-ed college and both male as well as female students identify with its strong sense of place as well as its sincere approach to concerns regarding nature. In course reviews, they tell me, "Assign this book again!" The eloquence of both prose and poetry in this book is as startling as the heron landing just now on the shore of my Mississippi River house as I write this review. In short, this collection touches the soul.

Anthology of short bits by women naturalists.......2004-02-21

Naturalists is perhaps too narrow a word choice for the one hundred contributors to this anthology; I suspect only a few would use that word when describing themselves. Their ages span more than a century, so the style of writing varies widely, but each has something quite special to share with a reader looking for a few moments of luminousness or quiet revelation in the midst of a busy day.
Here's one of my favorite bits, and I'm paraphrasing: Men climb mountains to conquer them; women climb mountains to go deeper within themselves, to feel a oneness with nature. When I read that, I lifted my eyes from the page, stared at the horizon and thought how much more poetic and truthful that is than the usual Mars/Venus type of comparison.
Contributors range from regionalist Sarah Orne Jewett to internationalist Diane Ackerman; there are African Americans, Native Americans, Jews, Catholics, mystics, and poets among this mix, with plenty of boundary crossing.
Very lovely. Not, I believe, a book meant to be read cover to cover. Rather, let it rest beside your favorite reading chair or at your bedside, and read a few entries now and then at random. I think you'll be charmed, as I was.

Something for Everyone.......2002-06-29

I found a lot more than I'd expected in this book. The editor obviously put a lot of thought into her selection of authors and passages from their works. It seemed to me as if these were the passages I would have marked for rereading had I read those works myself. Pretty much every selection struck me as being beautifully inspirational, poetic, or otherwise moving. I'd forgotten how much simply reading about nature can do to lift and heal the spirit. I also learned a lot: I was unaware that so many women have been writing about nature for so many years -- and it was sobering to realize that much of what the earlier authors wrote about no longer exists in our world today.

The author bios themselves make for fascinating reading. (You can't help but wonder how your own life would be summed up in a paragraph or two.) And of course, as I'd expect from any good anthology, this collection inspired me to add quite a few items to my "to-read" list. The nearly 40-page bibliography includes very helpful summaries, and lists not just the sources of this anthology's selections but many other works as well.

Whatever you might expect from Sisters of the Earth, I doubt you'll be disappointed. There should be something in it for everyone -- and it's a pretty book that would make a great gift.

Journeying.......2000-03-26

I have found this book to be wonderful in the growth process of the spirit. A truly marvelous piece of work, a compilation that is worth a second volume, indeed. This is a perfect "anytime" gift, to your self as well as others that are journeying the spirit.

One of the best books I have ever read.......1998-07-10

Sisters of the Earth is one of the best books I have ever read. It is a collection of stories on woman's relationship to the earth. Each short piece is written by a woman from the United States from any time in our history - about some connection she has with the earth. I've turned down so many pages in this book and put in little post-it notes saying "great!". After reading one of the stories a new author's work is now available to me. I give this book to others as a gift all the time. The stories themselves are personal reflections of nature that speak softly to me of the wonders I am surrounded by and often fail to notice. These stories remind me of where I really live and how powerful my connection is to the earth. I would love to see a second volume by Lorraine Anderson on this topic, she has selected well. I have also read Cries of the Spirit, also a book about woman's connection to the earth and found it very good also.

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