Maldi-tof And Tandem Ms For Clinical Microbiology

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This book highlights the triumph of MALDI–TOF mass spectrometry over the past decade and provides insight into new and expanding technologies through a comprehensive range of short chapters that enable the reader to gauge their current status and how they may progress over the next decade. This book serves as a platform to consolidate current strengths of the technology and highlight new frontiers in tandem MS/MS that are likely to eventually supersede MALDI–TOF MS. Chapters discuss:

Challenges of Identifying Mycobacterium to the Species level

Identification of Bacteroides and Other Clinically Relevant Anaerobes

Identification of Species in Mixed Microbial Populations

Detection of Resistance Mechanisms

Proteomics as a biomarker discovery and validation platform

Determination of Antimicrobial Resistance using Tandem Mass Spectrometry

Resistance And Change In World Politics: International Dissidence

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This edited volume analyses different forms of resistance against international institutions and charts their success or failure in changing the normative orders embodied in these institutions. Non-state groups and specific states alike advocate alternative global politics, at the same time finding themselves demonized as pariahs and outlaws who disturb established systems of governance. However, over time, some of these actors not only manage to shake off such allegations, but even find their normative convictions accepted by international institutions. This book develops an innovative conceptual framework to understand and explain these processes, using seven cases studies in diverse policy fields; including international security, health, migration, religion and internet politics. This framework demonstrates the importance of coalition-building and strategic framing in order to form a successful resistance and bring change in world politics.

Oppression And Resistance In Southern Higher And Adult Education: Mississippi And The Dynamics Of Equity And Social Justice

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This book explores the long history of oppression and resistance in adult and higher education, situated in Mississippi. The state serves as a unique site in which intersecting narratives around race, ethnicity, social class, opportunity, democracy, and equity have played out over the past several decades. In this book, the authors highlight the experiences of students and adults in Mississippi who provide both covert, subtle resistance to the dominant, oppressive educational narrative in the state, as well as those who provide active, visible resistance. Using critical pedagogy and critical theory to drive their analysis, the authors highlight the systematic and continuous nature of oppression, and theorize ways forward toward liberation in Mississippi, the South, and the nation.