The social amoebae : the biology of cellular slime molds / by Bonner, John Tyler

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The life cycle -- Evolution -- Ecology -- Behavior of amoebae and cell masses -- Morphogenesis -- Differentiation -- The future.…”
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Amoeba management : the dynamic management system for rapid market response / by Inamori, Kazuo, 1932-2022

Table of Contents: “…Front Cover; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1 -- Each Employee Will Take an Active Role in Their Own Respective Unit; Chapter 2 -- Business Philosophy Is Crucial for Management; Chapter 3 -- How to Organize Amoebas; Chapter 4 -- The Hourly Efficiency System: Focus on the Work Floor; Chapter 5 -- Fire Up Your Employees; Q & amp;A Case Studies from Seiwajyuku Seminars; Afterword; Back Cover.…”
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Brain-eating amoebae : biology and pathogenesis of Naegleria fowleri / by Siddiqui, Ruqaiyyah, Ali, Ibne Karim M., Cope, Jennifer R., Khan, Naveed Ahmed

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Idempotent mathematics and mathematical physics : international workshop, February 3-10, 2003, Erwin Schrödinger International Institute for Mathematical Physics, Vienna, Austria

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Wetware : a computer in every living cell by Bray, Dennis

Table of Contents: “…Clever cells -- Simulated life -- Protein switches -- Protein signals -- Cell wiring -- Neural nets -- Cell awareness -- Molecular morphing -- Cells together -- Genetic circuits -- Robots -- The juice -- Amoeba redux.…”
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Bridging islands : venture companies and the future of Japanese and American industry by Kneller, Robert

Table of Contents: “…Two worlds of innovation -- Autarkic large companies -- Upholding the Pecking order : universities and their relations with industry -- Up the rocky road : venture case studies -- IPO or bust : venture financing -- Amoeba innovation : the alternative to ventures -- Innovation across time and space : advantage new companies.…”
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Sustainable compromises : a yurt, a straw bale house, and ecological living by Boye, Alan, 1950-

Table of Contents: “…What I Lived For -- Sustainable Compromises -- Where I Live -- Water -- Design -- Foundations -- El Sol -- Economics -- The Beautiful Tree and Other Disasters -- The Amoeba -- The Straw That Broke The -- Finances -- Collaboration -- Artifacts -- Solitude -- Visitors -- Thick Skin in a Winter of Discontent -- Spring -- Higher Laws -- Postscript: Mistakes Were Made.…”
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Human parasitology by Bogitsh, Burton J. (Burton Jerome)

Table of Contents: “…Symbiosis and parasitism -- Parasite-host interactions -- General characteristics of the protozoa -- Visceral protozoa 1: amoebae and ciliates -- Visceral protozoa 2: flagellates -- Blood and tissue protozoa 1: hemoflagellates -- Blood and tissue protozoa 2: human malaria -- Blood and tissue protozoa 3: other apicomplexans -- General characteristics of the trematoda -- Visceral flukes -- Blood flukes -- General characteristics of the cestoidea -- Intestinal tapeworms -- Extraintestinal tapeworms -- General characteristics of the nematoda -- Intestinal nematodes -- Blood and tissue nematodes -- Arthropods as vectors.…”
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Management Control Systems in Japan. by Shimizu, Takashi

Table of Contents: “…The case of Disco11 Microprofit centers: amoeba system in Kyocera; 12 The story of a comeback from bankruptcy: Japan Airlines; Index.…”
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The sustainability transformation : how to accelerate positive change in challenging times by AtKisson, Alan, 1960-

Table of Contents: “….; Chapter 1 The Hope Graph; Chapter 2 The Meeting at Hotel Petrol; Chapter 3 The Golden Coffin; Chapter 4 Murder in The Big Easy; Chapter 5 Solving a Very Big Problem; Chapter 6 Make Money, Do Good ... and Save the World; Chapter 7 A Compass for the 21st Century; Chapter 8 How to Build a Pyramid; Chapter 9 Journey into the Amoeba; Chapter 10 Playing with Power; Chapter 11 An Army for Sustainability; Coda; Notes and References; Appendices; Index.…”
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Life under the sun by Ensminger, Peter A., 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Phycomyces, the Fungus That Sees -- 10. Dictyostelium, the Amoeba and the Slug -- 11. High Hopes for Hypericin -- 12. …”
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Life under the sun by Ensminger, Peter A., 1957-

Table of Contents: “…Phycomyces, the Fungus That Sees -- 10. Dictyostelium, the Amoeba and the Slug -- 11. High Hopes for Hypericin -- 12. …”
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Human parasitology by Bogitsh, Burton J. (Burton Jerome)

Table of Contents: “…Symbiosis and parasitism -- Parasite-host interactions -- General characteristics of the euprotista (protozoa) -- Visceral protozoa I: rhizopods (amoebae) and ciliphorans -- Visceral protozoa II: flagellates -- Blood and tissue protozoa I: hemoflagellates -- Blood and tissue protozoa II: human malaria -- Blood and tissue protozoa III: other protists -- General characteristics of the trematoda -- Visceral flukes -- Blood flukes -- General characteristics of the cestoda -- Intestinal tapeworms -- Extraintestinal tapeworms -- General characteristics of the nematoda -- Intestinal nematodes -- Blood and tissue nematodes -- Arthropods as vectors -- Appendix A: Drugs for parasitic infections: partial list of generic and brand names -- Appendix B: Current chemotherapeutic regimens -- Appendix C: Adverse effects of antiparasitic drugs.…”

Cells and societies by Bonner, John Tyler

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New essays on the origin of language

Table of Contents: “…Biological aspects of the question -- On the subcortical bases of the evolution of language -- Origin of the human language faculty: the language amoeba hypothesis -- 2. The first language -- The apparent paradox of language evolution: can Universal Grammar be explained by adaptive selection? …”
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Paniker's textbook of medical parasitology by Paniker, C. K. Jayaram

Table of Contents: “…Prelims; Chapter-01_General Introduction Parasitology; Chapter-02_Protozoa; Chapter-03_Amoebae; Chapter-04_Intestinal, Oral, and Genital Flagellates; Chapter-05_Hemoflagellates; Chapter-06_Malaria and Babesia; Chapter-07_Coccidia; Chapter-08_Microspora; Chapter-09_Pneumocystis Jirovecii; Chapter-10_Balantidium Coli; Chapter-11_Helminths General Features; Chapter-12_Cestodes Tapeworms; Chapter-13_Trematodes Flukes; Chapter-14_Nematodes General Features; Chapter-15_Trichinella Spiralis; Chapter-16_Trichuris Trichiura; Chapter-17_Strongyloides Stercoralis; Chapter-18_Hookworm.…”
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Pain woman takes your keys, and other essays from a nervous system by Huber, Sonya, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Side projects and secret identities -- My alternate selves with pain in silver lamé bodysuits -- The cough drop and the puzzle of modernity -- From inside the egg -- Cupcakes -- Amoeba girl -- III. My machines -- The status of pain -- Peering into the dark of the self, with selfie -- Augmentation -- Interstate and interbeing -- Pain woman takes your keys -- IV. …”
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Insurmountable simplicities : 39 philosophical conundrums by Casati, Roberto, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…Room 88 -- About a useless project -- The poet as a young man -- The chain of events leading up to the goal -- Zombie Inc. sleeping pills -- Partial amnesia -- Person transplant -- My ice cream, your ice cream -- Playing lotto in Reverse City -- Lucky numbers -- The invisible disorder -- A missive from the bell-ringer -- Sparkling bubbles -- Dates of birth -- Four-Seasons Island -- Lost beauty spots -- Hic sunt leones -- Reflections -- The last case of the President of Amoebas -- The hidden statue -- A cupboard in pieces -- Holter monitor -- Row 13 -- Train cancelled -- Satellites -- Verbatim -- The intelligent dictionary -- The traveler's pictionary -- Ink marks -- Forced choices -- What does the majority want? …”
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Biogeography An Ecological and Evolutionary Approach. by Cox, C. Barry

Table of Contents: “…Biogeography Today -- Further Reading -- References -- SECTION I: The Challenge of Existing -- 2 Patterns of Distribution: Finding a Home -- Limits of Distribution -- The Niche -- Overcoming the Barriers -- Climatic Limits: The Palms -- A Successful Family: The Daisies (Asteraceae) -- Patterns among Plovers -- Magnolias: Evolutionary Relicts -- The Strange Case of the Testate Amoeba -- Climatic Relicts -- Topographical Limits and Endemism -- Physical Limits -- Species Interaction: A Case of the Blues -- Competition -- Reducing Competition -- Predators and Prey, Parasites and Hosts -- Migration…”
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Host - pathogen interaction : microbial metabolism, pathogenicity and antiinfectives

Table of Contents: “…Outer Membrane Proteins as Potential Anti-infective Drug Targets in / Robert L Davies -- Identification of Anti-infective Compounds Using Amoebae / Christopher F Harrison, Hubert Hilbi -- Stress Biology in Fungi and "Omic" Approaches as Suitable Tools for Analyzing Plant-Microbe Interactions / Stefan Jacob, Alexander Yemelin -- Targeting Plasmids: New Ways to Plasmid Curing / Anja Schüffler, Corinna Kübler -- Regulation of Secondary Metabolism in the Gray Mold Fungus / Muriel Viaud, Julia Schumacher, Antoine Porquier, Adeline Simon.…”
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Progress in the humanities? : comparing the objects of culture and science by Gay, Volney Patrick

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Randomness in evolution by Bonner, John Tyler

Table of Contents: “…Protostelium: a single amoeba secretes a thin stalk and rises into the air.; Fig. 9. …”
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Ishiro Honda : a life in film, from Godzilla to Kurosawa by Ryfle, Steve, Godziszewski, Ed

Table of Contents: “…Monsters or Bust -- King Kong Escapes (1967), Destroy All Monsters (1968), Latitude Zero (1969), -- All Monsters Attack (1969), Space Amoeba (1970), Terror of Mechagodzilla (1975) -- V. …”
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Biogeography of Microscopic Organisms : Is Everything Small Everywhere?. by Fontaneto, Diego

Table of Contents: “…7 Arcellinida testate amoebae (Amoebozoa: Arcellinida): model of organisms for assessing microbial biogeography8 Everything is not everywhere: the distribution of cactophilic yeast; Part IV: Pluricellular eukaryotes; 9 Coalescent analyses reveal contrasting patterns of intercontinental gene flow in arctic-alpine and boreal-temperate fungi; 10 Biogeography and phylogeography of lichen fungi and their photobionts; 11 Biogeography of mosses and allies: does size matter?…”
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Heating, Cooling, Lighting Sustainable Design Methods for Architects. by Lechner, Norbert

Table of Contents: “…1.11 Sustainability Codes and Voluntary Programs -- 1.12 Integrated Design -- 1.13 Decision Making -- 1.14 Conclusion -- Key Ideas of Chapter 1 -- Resources -- Chapter 2: Sustainable Design and Energy Sources -- 2.1 Easter Island: Learning from the Past -- 2.2 Sustainable Design -- 2.3 Reuse, Recycle, and Regenerate by Design -- 2.4 The Sustainability Movement -- 2.5 Population and Affluence -- 2.6 Growth -- 2.7 Exponential Growth -- 2.8 The Amoeba Analogy -- 2.9 Supply versus Efficiency -- 2.10 Sustainable-Design Issues -- 2.11 Climate Change -- 2.12 The Global Greenhouse -- 2.13 The Ozone Hole…”
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Microbiology and Infectious Diseases on the Move. by MacKinnon, Rory

Table of Contents: “…Protozoa; 4.1 Protozoal classification; 4.2 Amoeba; 4.3 Coccidia (sporozoa); 4.4 Flagellates; 5. …”
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Activated Sludge and Nutrient Removal by Federation, Water Environment

Table of Contents: “…2.1 DESCRIPTION -- 2.2 PARTS AND FUNCTION -- 2.3 HOW THEY FEED -- 2.4 HOW THEY GROW -- 3.0 BACTERIA DEFINED BY GROWTH PATTERN: FLOC FORMERS VS FILAMENTOUS MICROORGANISMS -- 4.0 BACTERIA DEFINED BY DISSOLVED OXYGEN LEVEL -- 5.0 FILAMENTOUS MICROORGANISMS -- 5.1 LOW DISSOLVED OXYGEN -- 5.2 LOW FOOD-TO-MICROORGANISM RATIO -- 5.3 LOW NUTRIENTS-PHOSPHORUS OR NITROGEN -- 5.4 PH -- 5.5 FILAMENT CONTROL -- 6.0 PROTOZOA AND METAZOA -- 6.1 PROTOZOA -- 6.1.1 FLAGELLATES -- 6.1.2 AMOEBA (TESTATE AND NAKED) -- 6.1.3 FREE-SWIMMING CILIATES -- 6.1.4 ATTACHED (STALKED) CILIATES -- 6.1.5 CRAWLER CILIATES…”
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Digital @ Scale. by Swaminathan, Anand

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Water treatment in developed and developing nations : an international perspective

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 4: Assessment of Domestic Wastewater Disposal in Some Selected Wards of Maiduguri Metropolis, Borno State, NigeriaChapter 5: Detection of Free-Living Amoebae Using Amoebal Enrichment in a Wastewater Treatment Plant of Gauteng Province, South Africa; Chapter 6: Water and Wastewater Management and Biomass to Energy Conversion in a Meat Processing Plant in Brazil: A Case Study; Part II: Developed Nations; Chapter 7: Intra- and Inter-Pandemic Variations of Antiviral, Antibiotics and Decongestants in Wastewater Treatment Plants and Receiving Rivers.…”
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Principles of Veterinary Parasitology. by Jacobs, Dennis

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 4 Protozoa (single-celled parasites)4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Key concepts; 4.3 Ciliates; 4.4 Amoebae; 4.5 Flagellates; 4.6 Coccidia; 4.7 Tissue cyst-forming coccidia; 4.8 Blood-borne apicomplexans; 4.9 Cryptosporidia; 4.10 Antiprotozoal drugs; Chapter 5 Platyhelminthes ('flatworms'); 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 Cestodes; 5.3 Cyclophyllidean tapeworms; 5.4 Pseudophyllidean tapeworms; 5.5 Cestocidal drugs; 5.6 Trematodes; 5.7 Flukicidal drugs; Chapter 6 Nematoda ('roundworms') part 1: concepts and bursate nematodes; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Key concepts; 6.3 Bursate nematodes.…”
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Schaechter's mechanisms of microbial disease

Table of Contents: “…Establishment of infectious diseases -- The normal microbiota -- Biology of infectious agents -- Genetic approaches to studying bacterial pathogenesis -- Biological basis for antibacterial action -- Innate immunity -- Adaptive immunity -- The parasite's way of life -- Damage by microbial toxins -- Introduction to the pathogenic bacteria -- Staphylococci: abscesses and toxin-mediated diseases -- Streptococci and enterococci: "strep throat" and beyond -- Pneumococcus and bacterial pneumonia -- Neisseriae: gonococcus and meningococcus -- Bacteroids, intra-abdominal infection, and abscesses -- Enteric bacteria: secretory diarrhea -- Invasive and tissue-damaging enteric bacterial pathogens: bloody diarrhea and dysentery -- Pseudomonas aeruginosa: a ubiquitous opportunist -- Bordetella and whooping cough -- Clostridia: diarrheal disease, tissue infection, botulism, and tetanus -- Legionella: parasite of amoebae and macrophages -- Helicobacter pylori: pathogenesis of a persistent bacterial infection -- Mycobacteria: tuberculosis and leprosy -- Syphilis: a disease with a history -- Borrelia burgdorferi and Lyme disease -- Cat scatch disease, bacillary angiomatosis, and other bartonelloses -- Chlamydiae: genital, ocular, and respiratory pathogens -- Rocky mountain spotted fever and other rickettsioses -- Mycoplasma: curiosity and pathogen -- Strategies to combat bacterial infections -- Biology of viruses -- Picornaviruses and coronaviruses --…”

Conceptual breakthroughs in ethology and animal behavior by Breed, Michael D.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- 50,000 years before present : the dawn of human evolution -- 12,000 years before present : domestication -- 1623 : social behavior -- 1700s : classifying life -- 1729 : biological clocks -- 1800s : birds in their natural setting -- 1800s : the great explorers -- 1859 : Darwin and behavior -- 1859 : Darwin and social insects -- 1882 : George Romanes and the birth of comparative psychology -- 1894 : Morgan's canon -- 1914 : Sensory physiology and behavior -- 1938 : Skinner and learning -- 1940 : orientation -- 1941 : bat echolocation -- 1947 : the evolution of clutch size -- 1948 : cognitive maps -- 1948 : hormones and behavior -- 1948 : information theory -- 1953 : the chasm between ethology and comparative psychology -- 1954 : life history phenomena -- 1954 : zeitgebers (time-givers) for biological clocks -- 1956 : the Coolidge effect -- 1957 : psychophysical laws -- 1960 : motivation and drive -- 1963 : the four questions -- 1964 : dopamine and reward reinforcement -- 1964 : inclusive fitness and the evolution of altruism -- 1965 : Harry Harlow and social isolation in monkeys -- 1967 : island biogeography -- 1968 : tool use -- 1969 : territoriality and habitat choice -- 1970 : sperm competition -- 1971 : behavioral genetics -- 1971 : reciprocal altruism -- 1971 : selfish herds -- 1973 : episodic memory -- 1973 : game theory -- 1973 : the many eyes hypothesis -- 1973 : the Red Queen -- 1973 : animal conflict -- 1974 : Caenorhabditis elegans behavioral genetics -- 1974 : standardizing behavioral observation methods -- 1974 : parent-offspring conflict -- 1975 : group selection -- 1975 : sociobiology -- 1975 : the handicap principle -- 1976 : marginal value theorem -- 1977 : self-medication -- 1977 : the evolution of mating systems -- 1978 : animal models for depression -- 1978 : theory of mind -- 1980 : dispersal -- 1980 : semantic communication -- 1980 : the risk paradigm -- 1981 : prisoner's dilemma -- 1981 : producers and scroungers -- 1982 : the Hamilton-Zuk hypothesis -- 1982 : the hippocampus and navigation -- 1983 : reproductive skew -- 1985 : an animal model for anxiety -- 1988 : brood parasitism -- 1990 : fear -- 1990 : the challenge hypothesis -- 1991 : pain in animals -- 1991 : receiver psychology -- 1992 : working memory -- 1994 : ecosystem engineers -- 1996 : conservation behavior -- 1996 : the molecular basis of learning -- 1998 : self-organization of social systems -- 1998 : gaze following -- 1999 : multimodal communication -- 2000 : emotion and the brain -- 2000 : social amoebas and their genomes -- 2002 : social networks -- 2004 : behavioral syndromes -- personality in animals -- 2004 : maternal epigenetics -- 2004 : public and private information -- 2014 : keystone individuals.…”
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Food Safety The Science of Keeping Food Safe. by Shaw, Ian C.

Table of Contents: “…Flukes -- Trematodes -- Anatomy of flukes -- Liver fluke -- Fasciola hepatica -- Nematodes -- Anatomy of nematodes -- Food-borne nematodes that affect humans -- Protozoa -- Amoebae -- Cryptosporidium -- Giardia -- Sarcocystis -- Toxoplasma -- Take home messages -- Further reading -- 6 Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) -- Introduction -- The history of BSE -- The epidemiology of BSE in England -- Spongiform encephalopathies -- Prions -- The symptoms of BSE -- BSE cases in the UK -- BSE transmission and the origins of PrPSC -- The risk to human consumers of BSE beef -- nvCJD -- A case of nvCJD…”
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The Biology and Troubleshooting of Facultative Lagoons. by Gerardi, Michael H.

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 12 Blue-Green Algae (Cyanobacteria)Tetrads; Toxin-Producing Cyanobacteria; Cylindro; Chapter 13 Algae, Alkalinity, and pH; Phosphorus and pH; Nitrogen and pH; Sulfur and pH; Metal Removal and pH; Chapter 14 Control Measures for Undesired Algal Growth; Physical Measures; Chemical Measures; Biological Measures; Phosphorus Removal; Part IV Higher Life Forms; Chapter 15 Protozoa; Amoebae (Sarcodina); Flagellates (Mastigophora); Free-Swimming Ciliates (Holotrichia); Crawling (Creeping) Ciliates (Spirotrichia); Stalk Ciliates (Peritrichia); Protozoan Succession and Regression.…”
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Optical Trapping and Manipulation of Neutral Particles Using Lasers : a Reprint Volume With Commentaries.

Table of Contents: “…In Vivo force measurement of Dynein in giant amoeba Reticulomyxa. 7.2. Measurement of the force produced by kinesin. 7.3. …”
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Viruses of microorganisms

Table of Contents: “…Viruses of Microorganisms in Soil Ecosystems -- Goals of this chapter -- The soil habitat -- Viral abundance in soils -- Viral diversity -- Ecological impacts of viral infection -- Viruses of Archaea -- Viruses of Fungi -- Cyanobacteria, algae, and diatoms -- Viruses of amoebae and protozoa -- Conclusions -- References -- 5. …”
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Praise of chromosome "folly" : confessions of an untamed molecular structure by Lima-de-Faria, A.

Table of Contents: “…Cells can commit suicide but amoebae are potentially immortal. 95. Both the cell and the chromosome have an unfailing memory. 96. …”
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Water-borne protozoa in humans

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Fungi, bacteria, and protists. Investigating protists

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Infested! : Living with parasites

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