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Rhinovirus Infections: Rethinking the Impact on Human Health and Disease provides a timely review of the impact of rhinovirus infections on human health. It identifies disease mechanisms relating to the virus, human host and environmental factors. This viewpoint allows us to look forward to the development of treatments for a virus for which treatment options are currently non-existent. By providing detailed insights into this virus, its host and the environmental factors that play into rhinovirus induced diseases, this book explains disease mechanisms and summarizes existing and developing therapeutic approaches for better research, diagnosis and potential treatments.--

Hygiene. Public health. Protection --- Virus diseases. --- Rhinoviruses. --- Rhinovirus. --- Picornaviridae Infections.

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Are infectious diseases caused by novel entities, viruses that have rapidly evolved into more pathogenic forms, or viruses that have crossed species divides and become more virulent in their alternative host? These questions and how new diseases such as AIDS emerged have prompted renewed interest in the ways viruses originated and co-evolved with their hosts.Origin and Evolution of Viruses presents a full and clear description of general viral concepts and specific viral systems, and provides an excellent foundation to our understanding of how viruses emerged.This unique and com

Viruses --- Virus diseases. --- Evolution. --- VIRUSES --- HIV --- PLANT VIRUSES --- PICORNAVIRIDAE --- INFLUENZA --- PARVOVIRIDAE --- HERPESVIRIDAE --- AFRICAN SWINE FEVER VIRUS --- PATHOGENICITY

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Microorganisms, viruses and computer programmes encode all the information they need to reproduce and spread themselves. The mechanisms in the living world, in viruses and even in the world of technical systems are amazingly similar. The book shows how great the parallels of these replication systems are and what they are based on. The excursus also leads into the fascinating world of genetics, to the question of what constitutes life, and to software that replicates itself independently. Content: · What is life? · Basic concepts of molecular genetics · Viruses and early genetics · Algorithms and self-replicating computer programs · What is information? · Coding of information in technology and biology · Coevolution of life and technology The author Rafael Ball holds a PHD in biology, is a historian of science and a librarian. He is director of the ETH Library Zurich and lecturer in library science and management. He works on questions of information theory, scholarly communication and the effects of digitisation He is the author of numerous relevant publications, editor of information science journals and speaker at meetings and conferences.

Human biochemistry --- Biotechnology --- Computer science --- Computer. Automation --- medische biochemie --- bio-engineering --- computers --- informatica --- maatschappij --- biotechnologie --- COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020 --- -Computer viruses. --- Microorganisms --- Virus diseases --- Behavior. --- Transmission.

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By the early eighteenth century, the economic primacy, cultural efflorescence, and geopolitical power of the Dutch Republic appeared to be waning. The end of this Golden Age was also an era of natural disasters. Between the late seventeenth and the mid-eighteenth century, Dutch communities weathered numerous calamities, including river and coastal floods, cattle plagues, and an outbreak of strange mollusks that threatened the literal foundations of the Republic. Adam Sundberg demonstrates that these disasters emerged out of longstanding changes in environment and society. They were also fundamental to the Dutch experience and understanding of eighteenth-century decline. Disasters provoked widespread suffering, but they also opened opportunities to retool management strategies, expand the scale of response, and to reconsider the ultimate meaning of catastrophe. This book reveals a dynamic and often resilient picture of a society coping with calamity at odds with historical assessments of eighteenth-century stagnation.

COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020 --- -Environmental degradation --- Environmental degradation. --- Floods --- Floods. --- NATURE / General. --- Natural disasters --- Natural disasters. --- Rinderpest --- Rinderpest. --- History --- Netherlands. --- -Rinderpest --- Environmental degradation --- Flooding --- Inundations --- Water --- Degradation, Environmental --- Destruction, Environmental --- Deterioration, Environmental --- Environmental destruction --- Environmental deterioration --- Environmental quality --- Bovine typhus --- Cattle plague (Rinderpest) --- Contagious typhus in cattle --- Plague, Cattle (Rinderpest) --- Typhus, Contagious, in cattle --- Cattle --- Epidemics --- Natural calamities --- Disasters --- Virus diseases --- History. --- History of the Low Countries --- anno 1700-1799