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class Culture, Technology and the Image explores the technologies deployed when images are archived, accessed and distributed. The chapters discuss the ways in which habits and techniques used in learning and communicating knowledge about images are affected by technological developments. The volume discusses a wide range of issues, including access and participation; research, pedagogy and teaching; curation and documentation; circulation and re-use; and conservation and preservation. The book illustrates how knowledge about images is intertwined with the methods that are used to store, retrieve and analyse those images and the information associated with them. Focusing on the implications of technology for processes and practices brings into view the permeable nature of boundaries between such disciplines as art history, media studies, museum studies and archiving. As such, this text will appeal to a broad academic audience, including art historians interested in the digital; media studies scholars; digital humanities scholars interested in expanding beyond textual scholarship; as well as new students in any of these fields.

The authors of Cultures of Power proffer diverse perspectives on the prehistory of government in Northern France, Spain, Germany, the Low Countries, and England. Political, social, ecclesiastical, and cultural history are brought to bear on topics such as aristocracies, women, rituals, commemoration, and manifestations of power through literary, legal, and scriptural means

This book explores and compares the contemporary military cultures of the United States and the United Kingdom. The last decade has witnessed astonishing global events, from 9/11 and military operations in Afghanistan in the same year, to the military intervention in Libya in 2011. Western military forces have been involved in all of these campaigns and have been engaged in continuous military operations for over ten years. It is therefore now apt to focus a spotlight on the military cultures of these state-based armed forces. This book examines how contemporary American and British military cu.

Tobacco has become one of the most widely used and traded commodities on
the planet. Reflecting contemporary anthropological interest in material culture
studies, Anthropology of Tobacco makes the plant the centre of its own contentious,
global story in which, instead of a passive commodity, tobacco becomes a
powerful player in a global adventure involving people, corporations and public
health.
Bringing together a range of perspectives from the social and natural
sciences as well as the arts and humanities, Anthropology of Tobacco weaves
stories together from a range of historical, cross-cultural and literary sources
and empirical research. These combine with contemporary anthropological
theories of agency and cross-species relationships to offer fresh perspectives on
how an apparently humble plant has progressed to world domination, and the
consequences of it having done so. It also considers what needs to happen if,
as some public health advocates would have it, we are seriously to imagine 'a
world without tobacco'.
This book presents students, scholars and practitioners in anthropology,
public health and social policy with unique and multiple perspectives on
tobacco-human relations.

Metabolically versatile pure cultures were isolated from textile dye effluent and petrochemical industry which were able to utilize 150 mg/l of 4-Chlorophenol and 85 mg/l of 4-Nitrophenol as the sole carbon and energy source respectively. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16 S rRNA gene sequence reveals that the strains were found to be phylogenetically close to Bacillus cereus HWB1 and Pseudomonas taiwanensis ECAe22 respectively. Optimization of physicochemical parameters was performed with Change of one variable at a time (COVT) approach. Optimized physical parameters for degradation by Bacillus cereus HWB1 was found to be 30 0C, pH 7 and 150 rpm whereas for Pseudomonas taiwanensis ECAe22 it was found to be 30 0C, pH 8.5 and 150 rpm. Supplementation of an additional substrate such as yeast extract was found to increase the rate of 4-Chlorophenol and 4-Nitrophenol degradation owing to the increase in biomass production resulting in enhanced biodegradation. Biodegraded samples of these phenolic compounds showed negligible phytotoxicity as compared to the untreated samples thereby proving that employing these pure cultures can help in mitigating environmental contamination by phenolic compounds in the near future.Keywords: Biodegradation, 4-Chlorophenol,4-Nitrophenol, pure cultures,16S rRNA, phylogenetic analysisAbbreviation: 4-CP: 4-Chlorophenol; 4-NP: 4-Nitrophenol; AU: Absorbance Unit; MSM: MinimalSalt Media