Lectin-Microorganism Interactions

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Provides in-depth coverage of lectins and their interactions with micro-organisms and demonstrates how lectins function as probes for viral, bacterial, fungal and protozoal surfaces, as well as for blood group antigens.

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Lectin-Microorganism Interactions
R. Doyle
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October 1994. EPA 905-R-94-024. Great Lakes National Program Office, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Compressed Gases: Compressed Hazards (Acs Laboratory Safety Video Series)

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Compressed Gases: Compressed Hazards (Acs Laboratory Safety Video Series)
George Whitmyre
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The Fundamentals of Laboratory Safety: Physical Hazards in the Academic Laboratory

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The Fundamentals of Laboratory Safety: Physical Hazards in the Academic Laboratory
William J. Mahn
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Hazards in the Chemical Laboratory

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Hazards in the chemical laboratory

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Chromosomal aberration analysis in workers exposed to chemical and biological hazards in research laboratories [An article from: Environmental Research]

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Chromosomal aberration analysis in workers exposed to chemical and biological hazards in research laboratories [An article from: Environmental Research]
M.F.M. Almeida Santos , I. Ferrari , and H. Luna
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Cytogenetic monitoring of individuals occupationally exposed to chemical and biological hazards has found increased frequencies of cells with chromosomal aberrations. During the present study we analyzed the frequency of chromosomal aberrations in cells from individuals working in various chemistry and biology research laboratories of the University of Brasilia, Brazil. When evaluated jointly and compared to a control group there was no significant increase in the frequency of chromosomal aberrations in the laboratory personnel. However, a group constituted of individuals of the Genetics Laboratory showed a statistically significant increase in the frequency of structural chromosomal aberrations of the chromatid gap type.

What hazards lurk in your laboratory and what to do about them?: An article from: Canadian Chemical News

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What hazards lurk in your laboratory and what to do about them?: An article from: Canadian Chemical News
Roger Cockerline
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Title: What hazards lurk in your laboratory and what to do about them?
Author: Roger Cockerline
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Date: June 1, 1999
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Oh, shipmates and world-mates, all round! we the people suffer many abuses. Our gun-deck is full of complaints. In vain from Lieutenants do we appeal to the Captain; in vain--while on board our world-frigate--to the indefinite Navy Commissioners, so far out of sight aloft. Yet the worst of our evils we blindly inflict upon ourselves; our officers can not remove them, even if they would. From the last ills no being can save another; therein each man must be his own saviour.

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Harsh Life Aboard a US Navy Ship in the Last Days of Sail.......2007-06-22

The title, "White Jacket", serves as a double entendre by the author, Herman Melville. He actually sews up a hand-stitched jacket made from white sail cloth and other material, but it is ill-fitting, continually wet, ineffective against the cold, and actually the source of trouble between himself and the crew. So, the white jacket is a suit of his own making that very well brings about his own downfall. In the end, he discards it when he sees himself about to drown. And so, Melville uses this theme to serve as a metaphor for white superiority and the threatening danger of civil war over slavery.

Indeed, Melville experiences effective slavery during his voyage aboard the USS United States (USS Neversink in the book) during its run from the Pacific back to the Atlantic. And like so many black slaves, he and his crewmates suffer the ever-present threat of public lashings for even minor infractions. So, Melville also uses his book as an indictment against a hypocritical system, whereby officers are never wrong and never experience corporal punishment but the enlisted crew remain in perpetual danger of arousing the slightest displeasure of any officer with the ultimate result of a humiliating public lashing. However, no military organization could function effectively if it were a democratic institution; who would ever risk their life in such a case? (Even the early Communists quickly abandoned that principle.)

But the vast majority of the book focuses on the minute details of life aboard a frigate during the age of sail. Several hundred (500?) souls are packed into the space of a single wooden vessel for months on end. How the ship is organized and the rituals of life aboard ship are the mainstay of the book. Melville describes in factual detail the actual work (trimming sails, cleaning decks, etc.), the daily routines (meals on deck, standing watches, playing cards in secret, sleeping in the crew's quarters), the professions (sailor, waistman, quartermaster, boatswain, carpenter, surgeon, captain, commodore, purser, midshipmen, chaplain, pharmacist, cook, cockswain, gunner, and yeoman), the less usual events (floggings, making a port of call, receiving official dignitaries aboard ship, rounding Cape Horn, the order of Neptune initiation rites, rumors of war), and all the underlying social structure and tensions ever-present.

I enjoyed the book and would recommend it to anyone interested in life aboard naval ships in the days of sail. With the rise of modern wireless communication, captains no longer enjoy such an absolute despotism as in times previous, but he still remains the unchallenged master aboard US navy vessels. While much of life aboard ship has changed, probably half of the book would still be quite familiar to modern-day sailors.

Second to one.......2004-10-26

This book is second only to Moby-Dick in the list of Melville's greatest works. And Melville's greatest works are America's greatest works.

White-Jacket has it all; humor, pathos, poetry and philosophy. This book makes me not only admire Melville the author but love Melville the man.

To suggest that the book would be better off without its "sermons" against cruelty in the Man-of-War's world is to suggest that Melville should have written some other book. He didn't write that book, he wrote this one and this is the one he wanted us to read. God bless him.

Life Within A Total Institution.......2003-09-30

I read this book after reading Erving Goffman's "Asylums". In that book, Goffman, a sociologist, discusses the rise of "Total Institutions", i.e. institutions that totally control the lives of those within. Melville's "White Jacket" is a book that Goffman often referred to in order to illustrate different aspects of life within the total institution.

The introductory essay to this book discusses White Jacket in relationship to the growing bro-ha-ha over slavery, but I thought the book was much more interesting then that.

What was most suprising to me, having never read Melville before, was how funny some of the chapters were. Episodes involving Surgeon Cuticle amputating the leg of an unwilling seaman recall the funniest moments of television shows like Monty Python or the Simpsons.

Melville's accurate portrayal of life within the "T.I.", reminded me of Ken Kesey's "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest". There, the setting is an insane asylum, here it is a Man O' Wear, but both books deal with the tactics and strategies an individual might employ when faced with an oppressive living environment.

Although I am not sure when, or if, I might try to tackle author's masterpiece 'Moby Dick', I did come away from this book with a profound respect for Melville's capabilities as a writer. I will no longer take for granted his status among the pantheon of American writers.

White-Jacket.......2001-12-12

I feel quite strange presuming to give a numerical rating to a book by one of American literature's greatest authors.

It's important for readers to realize that White-Jacket is not what would, in the modern day, be considered a novel. There is essentially no plot structure. It's a melange of events, descriptive passages and polemic, narrated by the eponymous White-Jacket, whom I suspect of being Melville himself. At times the book is entertainingly humorous - as when the narrator tries to get rid of his famous jacket. And much of the description of life aboard a man-of-war is fascinating -- the book would make a helpful companion for people reading modern novels such as O'Brian's series. (And, of course, White-Jacket probably was one of the sources used by O'Brian and other aquatic novelists.) The polemic -- Melville's rants against flogging and his pacifist pleas -- I found tiresome, as I always find polemic, regardless of its aims.

Questionable Authority.......1999-12-09

If you find yourself in a position where the individuals in authority over you are, in the actual state of affairs, your moral inferiors, then on this level alone you will be able to appreciate this book.

White Jacket or The World on a Man-of-War

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White Jacket or The World on a Man-of-War
Herman Melville
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White jacket, or, A world in a man-of-war

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White jacket, or, A world in a man-of-war
Herman Melville
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Herman Melville Redburn His 1st Voyage: White-Jacket or the World in a Man of War Moby Dick or the Whale

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Herman Melville Redburn His 1st Voyage: White-Jacket or the World in a Man of War Moby Dick or the Whale
Herman Melville
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White Jacket : The World in a Man Of War

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White Jacket : The World in a Man Of War
Herman Melville
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White Jacket or The World in a Man-of-War (The World's Classics, No. CCLIII)

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White Jacket or The World in a Man-of-War (The World's Classics, No. CCLIII)
Herman Melville
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White Jacket, or The World in a Man-of War

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White Jacket, or The World in a Man-of War
Herman Melville
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White Jacket: Or the World in a Man-of War
Herman Melville
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White Jacket: Or the World in a Man-Of-war
Herman Melville
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WHITE-JACKET - Or, The World in a Man-of-War; World's Classics Series

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WHITE-JACKET - Or, The World in a Man-of-War; World's Classics Series
Herman Melville
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