Note: Intro -- Farmland Conservation -- Farmland Conservation -- Copyright -- Contents -- Advisory board -- About the authors -- Acknowledgements -- About this book -- 1: All farming systems -- 2: Arable farming -- 3: Perennial (non-timber) crops -- 4: Livestock farming -- 5: Residential and commercial development -- 6: Agri-chemicals -- 7: Transport and service corridors -- 8: Hunting and trapping (for pest control, food or sport) -- 9: Natural system modification -- 10: Invasive and other problematic species -- 11: Education and awareness -- Index.

Note: Medicinal Applications of Coordination Chemistry -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- CHAPTER 1 Introduction -- 1.1 Metals in Medicine - A Historical Perspective -- 1.2 Metals and Human Biochemistry -- 1.3 Metallopharmaceuticals -- 1.3.1 General Requirements -- 1.3.2 Structure-Activity Relationships -- 1.3.3 Clinical Trials -- 1.4 The Special Properties of Metals -- 1.4.1 Comparison with Organic and Biological Compounds -- 1.4.2 Coordination Chemistry -- CHAPTER 2 The Chemistry of Metals in a Nutshell -- 2.1 The Structure of Materials -- 2.1.1 States of Matter -- 2.1.2 Chemical Elements -- 2.1.3 Chemical Compounds -- 2.2 The Structures and Properties of Atoms -- 2.2.1 Electron Configurations -- 2.2.2 The Spacial Distribution of Electrons in Atoms -- 2.2.3 The Electronic Properties of Atoms and Ions -- 2.2.4 The Radii of Atoms and Ions -- 2.3 The Formation of Compounds -- 2.3.1 Chemical Bonds -- 2.3.2 The Ionic Bond -- 2.3.3 The Covalent Bond -- 2.3.4 The Coordinate Bond -- 2.3.5 Polarity in Bonding -- 2.4 The Chemistry of Metals - An Overview -- 2.4.1 The Oxidation Numbers and Electron Configurations of Metal Ions -- 2.4.2 The Structures of Metal Compounds -- 2.5 Bonding in Metal Complexes -- 2.5.1 The Crystal Field Theory and Octahedral Complexes -- 2.5.2 The MO Theory and Octahedral Complexes -- 2.5.3 The Eighteen-Electron Rule -- 2.5.4 The Crystal Field Theory and Complexes of CN 4 -- 2.6 The Magnetism and Spectroscopy of Metal Complexes -- 2.6.1 The Electronic Spectra of Metal Complexes -- 2.6.2 Lanthanide Luminescence -- 2.6.3 The Magnetic Properties of Transitional Element Complexes -- 2.7 The Energetics of Metal Complex Formation -- 2.7.1 Equilibrium or Stability Constants -- 2.7.2 Hard and Soft Donors or Acceptors -- 2.7.3 The Chelate and Macrocyclic Effects -- 2.8 Reactions at Metal Centres -- 2.8.1 Thermodynamic and Kinetic Stability. , 2.8.2 Substitution Reactions at Metal Centres -- 2.8.3 Mechanisms of Substitution at Metal Centres -- 2.9 Redox Potentials -- 2.10 Conclusions -- CHAPTER 3 Diagnostic Medicine -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Anatomical Imaging -- 3.2.1 Magnetic Resonance Imaging Contrast Agents -- 3.2.2 X-ray Contrast Agents -- 3.3 Functional Imaging -- 3.3.1 Radiopharmaceuticals for Functional Imaging -- 3.3.2 Nuclear Medicine -- 3.3.3 Radiopharmaceuticals -- 3.3.4 Aspects of Technetium Chemistry -- 3.3.5 Blood-pool Imaging and Labelled Blood Cells -- 3.3.6 99mTc SPECT Imaging Agents for Bone -- 3.3.7 Kidney Imaging -- 3.3.8 Liver and Hepatobiliary System -- 3.3.9 Heart SPECT and PET Imaging -- 3.3.10 Brain Imaging -- 3.3.11 Tumors Abscesses and Hypoxia -- 3.3.12 Synthetic Approaches to Bifunctional 99mTc Radiopharmaceuticals -- 3.4 In vitro Applications -- CHAPTER 4 Therapeutic Medicine -- 4.1 The Use of Metal Compounds in Therapy -- 4.2 Chelation Therapy -- 4.2.1 Metal Sequestration -- 4.2.2 Macrocyclic Antibiotics -- 4.2.3 Metal Intoxication -- 4.2.4 Thalassaemia-Iron -- 4.2.5 Wilson Disease-Copper -- 4.3 Cancer Therapy -- 4.3.1 Metal Complexes in Cancer Therapy -- 4.3.2 Platinum and Palladium Anticancer Agents -- 4.3.3 Non-Platinum Anticancer Agents -- 4.4 Rheumatoid Arthritis -- 4.4.1 Introduction -- 4.4.2 Gold Chemistry -- 4.4.3 Gold Compounds for the Treatment of Rheumatoid Arthritis -- 4.5 Diabetes -- 4.5.1 Vanadium and Diabetes -- 4.5.2 Vanadium Chemistry -- 4.5.3 Vanadium Salts as Insulin Mimics -- 4.5.4 Vanadium Coordination Compounds as Insulin Mimics -- 4.5.5 Mechanism of Action of Vanadium Compounds -- 4.6 Cardiovascular System -- 4.6.1 In vivo Management of Gaseous Compounds -- 4.6.2 Superoxide Dismutase Mimics -- 4.6.3 Nitric Oxide Management -- 4.7 Therapeutic Radiopharmaceuticals -- 4.7.1 Radiation Therapy -- 4.7.2 α-Emitters -- 4.7.3 β-Emitters. , 4.7.4 Radiosensitisers -- CHAPTER 5 Metallopharmaceuticals Design -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Structure Activity Relationships -- 5.2.1 Organic Molecules -- 5.2.2 Metallopharmaceuticals -- 5.3 Future Directions -- Further Reading -- Subject Index.

Note: Front Cover -- Animal Feeding Stuffs Legislation of the UK: A Concise Guide -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Chapter 2. UK Animal feeding stuffs law -- Chapter 3. Acts -- 3.1 Agriculture Act 1970 Part IV -- 3.2 Medicines Act 1968 -- 3.3 Animal Health and Welfare Act 1984 -- 3.4 Regulations under the Medicines Act -- Chapter 4. Definitions -- 4.1 Animals -- 4.2 Description of material -- 4.3 Terms used under Agriculture Act Regulations -- 4.4 Terms used under Medicines Act Regulations -- Chapter 5. Raw materials and straights -- 5.1 General form of the statutory statements -- 5.2 Undesirable substances -- 5.3 Limits of variation (tolerances) -- 5.4 Names, descriptions and declarations -- 5.5 Controls on certain protein sources -- Chapter 6. Compound feeding stuffs -- 6.1 General form of the statutory statements under the Agriculture Act 1970 and its Regulations -- 6.2 Packaging -- 6.3 Moisture in certain compound feeding stuffs -- 6.4 Statutory declarations -- 6.5 Molassed feeding stuffs -- 6.6 Mineral feeding stuffs -- 6.7 Undesirable substances -- 6.8 Non-medicinal additives in compound feeding stuffs -- 6.9 Medicated compound animal feeding stuffs -- 6.10 Prescription only medicines in feeds - special provisions and the written veterinary direction -- 6.11 Limits of variation (tolerances) - nutrients, additives and medicinal products -- Chapter 7. Additives and premixtures -- 7.1 General form of the statutory statements -- 7.2 Controls and labelling -- 7.3 Packaging -- Chapter 8. Registration of manufacturers -- 8.1 Registered manufacturers-Register A -- 8.2 Notified manufacturers-Register B -- Chapter 9. Sampling and analyses -- 9.1 Sampling -- 9.2 Inspectors' rights -- 9.3 Informal samples -- 9.4 Purchasers' rights -- 9.5 Analysis -- Appendix 1: Specimen labels -- Appendix 2: Current proposals. , 1. Declaration of metabolisable energy in poultry feeds -- 2. Anatoxin in raw materials -- 3. Recommended standard withdrawal periods for medicated feeding stuffs -- 4. European feed label -- 5. Bentonite and Montmorrillonite -- 6. Cadmium -- 7. Iron in Milk replacer feeds -- Appendix 3: Codes of practice for medicated feeds -- Introduction -- Procedure -- A Code of practice for registered manufacturers of medicated animal feeding stuffs-Register A -- B Code of practice for notified manufacturers of medicated animal feeding stuffs-Register B -- Index.

Note: Cover -- Contents -- Advisory board -- About the authors -- Acknowledgements -- 1. About this book -- 2. Habitat protection -- Key messages -- 2.1. Legally protect habitats -- 2.2. Ensure connectivity between habitat patches -- 2.3. Provide or retain un-harvested buffer strips -- 3. Education and awareness raising -- Key messages -- 3.1. Raise awareness amongst the general public through campaigns and public information -- 3.2. Provide bird feeding materials to families with young children -- 3.3. Enhance bird taxonomy skills through higher education and training -- 3.4. Provide training to conservationists and land managers on bird ecology and conservation -- 4. Threat: Residential and commercial development -- Key messages -- 4.1. Angle windows to reduce collisions -- 4.2. Mark or tint windows to reduce collision mortality -- 5. Threat: Agriculture -- Key messages - All farming systems -- Key messages - Arable farming -- Key messages - Livestock farming -- Key messages - Perennial, non-timber crops -- Key messages - Aquaculture -- All farming systems -- 5.1. Support or maintain low-intensity agricultural systems -- 5.2. Practise integrated farm management -- 5.3. Food labelling schemes relating to biodiversity-friendly farming -- 5.4. Increase the proportion of natural/semi-natural vegetation in the farmed landscape -- 5.5. Pay farmers to cover the costs of conservation measures -- 5.6. Cross compliance standards for all subsidy payments -- 5.7. Reduce field size (or maintain small fields) -- 5.8. Provide or retain set-aside areas in farmland -- 5.9. Manage hedges to benefit wildlife -- 5.10. Plant new hedges -- 5.11. Manage stone-faced hedge banks to benefit birds -- 5.12. Manage ditches to benefit wildlife -- 5.13. Protect in-field trees -- 5.14. Plant in-field trees -- 5.15. Tree pollarding and tree surgery. , 5.16. Plant wild bird seed or cover mixture -- 5.17. Plant nectar flower mixture/wildflower strips -- 5.18. Create uncultivated margins around intensive arable or pasture fields -- 5.19. Plant grass buffer strips/margins around arable or pasture fields -- 5.20. Use mowing techniques to reduce chick mortality -- 5.21. Provide refuges in fields during harvest or mowing -- 5.22. Mark bird nests during harvest or mowing -- 5.23. Relocate nests at harvest time to reduce nestling mortality -- 5.24. Make direct payments per clutch for farmland birds -- 5.25. Control scrub on farmland -- 5.26. Take field corners out of management -- 5.27. Reduce conflict by deterring birds from taking crops -- Arable farming -- 5.28. Increase crop diversity -- 5.29. Implement 'mosaic management' -- 5.30. Leave overwinter stubbles -- 5.31. Plant nettle strips -- 5.32. Leave unharvested cereal headlands within arable fields -- 5.33. Plant crops in spring rather than autumn -- 5.34. Undersow spring cereals,with clover for example -- 5.35. Plant more than one crop per field (intercropping) -- 5.36. Revert arable land to permanent grassland -- 5.37. Reduce tillage -- 5.38. Add 1%barley into wheat crop for corn buntings -- 5.39. Leave uncropped, cultivated margins or plots (includes lapwing and stone curlew plots) -- 5.40. Create skylark plots -- 5.41. Create corn bunting plots -- 5.42. Plant cereals in wide-spaced rows -- 5.43. Create beetle banks -- Livestock farming -- 5.44. Maintain species-rich, semi-natural grassland -- 5.45. Reduce management intensity on permanent grasslands -- 5.46. Reduce grazing intensity -- 5.47. Provide short grass for waders -- 5.48. Raise mowing height on grasslands -- 5.49. Delay mowing date or first grazing date on grasslands -- 5.50. Leave uncut rye grass in silage fields -- 5.51. Plant cereals for wholecrop silage. , 5.52. Maintain lowland heathland -- 5.53. Maintain rush pastures -- 5.54. Maintain traditional water meadows -- 5.55. Maintain upland heath/moor -- 5.56. Plant Brassica fodder crops -- 5.57. Use mixed stocking -- 5.58. Use traditional breeds of livestock -- 5.59. Maintain wood pasture and parkland -- 5.60. Exclude grazers from semi-natural habitats (including woodland) -- 5.61. Protect nests from livestock to reduce trampling -- 5.62. Mark fences to reduce bird collision mortality -- 5.63. Create open patches or strips in permanent grassland -- Perennial, non-timber crops -- 5.64. Maintain traditional orchards -- 5.65. Manage perennial bioenergy crops to benefit wildlife -- Aquaculture -- 5.66. Reduce conflict with humans to reduce persecution -- 5.67. Scare birds from fish farms -- 5.68. Disturb birds at roosts -- 5.69. Use electric fencing to exclude fish-eating birds -- 5.70. Use netting to exclude fish-eating birds -- 5.71. Disturb birds using foot patrols -- 5.72. Use 'mussel socks ' to prevent birds from attacking shellfish -- 5.73. Translocate birds away from fish farms -- 5.74. Increase water turbidity to reduce fish predation by birds -- 5.75. Provide refuges for fish within ponds -- 5.76. Use in-water devices to reduce fish loss from ponds -- 5.77. Spray water to deter birds from ponds -- 5.78. Deter birds from landing on shellfish culture gear -- 6. Threat:Energy production and mining -- Key messages -- 6.1. Paint wind turbines to increase their visibility -- 7. Threat:Transportation and service corridors -- Key messages - Verges and airports -- Key messages - Power lines and electricity pylons -- Verges and airports -- 7.1. Mow roadside verges -- 7.2. Sow roadside verges -- 7.3. Scare or otherwise deter birds from airports -- Power lines and electricity pylons -- 7.4. Bury or isolate power lines to reduce incidental mortality. , 7.5. Remove earth wires to reduce incidental mortality -- 7.6. Thicken earth wire to reduce incidental mortality -- 7.7. Mark power lines to reduce incidental mortality -- 7.8. Use raptor models to deter birds and so reduce incidental mortality -- 7.9. Add perches to electricity pylons to reduce electrocution -- 7.10. Insulate power pylons to prevent electrocution -- 7.11. Use perch-deterrents to stop raptors perching on pylons -- 7.12. Reduce electrocutions by using plastic, not aluminium, leg rings to mark birds -- 8. Threat: Biological resource use -- Key messages - reducing exploitation and conflict -- Key messages - reducing fisheries bycatch -- Reducing exploitation and conflict -- 8.1. Use legislative regulation to protect wild populations -- 8.2. Increase 'on-the-ground' protection to reduce unsustainable levels of exploitation -- 8.3. Promote sustainable alternative livelihoods -- 8.4. Use education programmes and local engagement to help reduce persecution or exploitation of species -- 8.5. Employ local people as 'biomonitors -- 8.6. Mark eggs to reduce their appeal to egg collectors -- 8.7. Relocate nestlings to reduce poaching -- 8.8. Use wildlife refuges to reduce hunting disturbance -- 8.9. Introduce voluntary 'maximum shoot distances' -- 8.10. Provide 'sacrificial' grasslands to reduce the impact of wild geese on crops -- 8.11. Move fish-eating birds to reduce conflict with fishermen -- 8.12. Scare fish-eating birds from areas to reduce conflict -- Reduce fisheries bycatch -- 8.13. Set longlines at night to reduce seabird bycatch -- 8.14. Turn deck lights off during night-time setting of longlines to reduce bycatch -- 8.15. Use streamer lines to reduce seabird bycatch on longlines -- 8.16. Use larger hooks to reduce seabird bycatch -- 8.17. Use a water cannon when setting longlines to reduce seabird bycatch. , 8.18. Set lines underwater to reduce seabird bycatch -- 8.19. Set longlines at the side of the boat to reduce seabird bycatch -- 8.20. Use a line shooter to reduce seabird bycatch -- 8.21. Use bait throwers to reduce seabird bycatch -- 8.22. Tow buoys behind longlining boats to reduce seabird bycatch -- 8.23. Dye baits to reduce seabird bycatch -- 8.24. Use high-visibility longlines to reduce seabird bycatch -- 8.25. Use a sonic scarer when setting longlines to reduce seabird bycatch -- 8.26. Weight baits or lines to reduce longline bycatch of seabirds -- 8.27. Use shark liver oil to deter birds when setting lines -- 8.28. Thaw bait before setting lines to reduce seabird bycatch -- 8.29. Reduce seabird bycatch by releasing offal overboard when setting longlines -- 8.30. Use bird exclusion devices such as 'Brickle curtains' to reduce seabird mortality when hauling longlines -- 8.31. Use acoustic alerts on gillnets to reduce seabird bycatch -- 8.32. Use high-visibility mesh on gillnets to reduce seabird bycatch -- 8.33. Reduce gillnet deployment time to reduce seabird bycatch -- 8.34. Mark trawler warp cables to reduce seabird collisions -- 8.35. Reduce 'ghost fishing' by lost//discarded gear -- 8.36. Reduce bycatch through seasonal or area closures -- 9. Threat: Human intrusions and disturbance -- Key messages -- 9.1. Use wildlife refuges to reduce hunting disturbance -- 9.2. Use signs and access restrictions to reduce disturbance at nest sites -- 9.3. Set minimum distances for approaching birds (buffer zones) -- 9.4. Provide paths to limit the extent of disturbance -- 9.5. Reduce visitor group size -- 9.6. Use voluntary agreements with local people to reduce disturbance -- 9.7. Start educational programmes for personal watercraft owners -- 9.8. Habituate birds to human visitors. , 9.9. Use nest covers to reduce the impact of research on predation of ground-nesting seabirds.

Note: Trace Element Medicine And Chelation Therapy -- Contents -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- What is Life? -- Evolution -- Composition and Structure of Living Systems -- Further Reading -- Chapter 2 The Elemental Composition of the Human Body -- The Elements in the Human Body -- Supplying Elements to the Body -- Metals and Human Health -- Further Reading -- Chapter 3 Metal Ions, Complexes, and Chemical Speciation -- Elements and the Periodic Table -- Solvents In Vivo -- Coordination Complexes -- Bonding -- Chelation -- Metal-Ligand Selectivity -- Hard and Soft Acids and Bases -- Bio-inorganic Chemistry -- Oxidation-Reduction Reactions -- Hydrolysis of Complexes -- Polynuclear Complexes -- Uncharged Metal-Ligand Complexes -- Labile and Inert Complexes -- Chemical Speciation Modelling -- Further Reading -- Chapter 4 Chelation, Ligands, and Drugs -- Bonding to Transition Metal Ions -- The Chelate Effect -- Metal-Ligand Selectivity, a Combination of the Chelate Effect and the HSAB Approach -- Metabolic Specificity In Vivo -- Chelating Drugs Designed for Mobilizing and/or Excreting Metal Ions from Humans -- Further Reading -- Chapter 5 Delivery of Trace Elements to Humans -- Means of Mineral Supplementation -- Absorption of Ligands from the Gastrointestinal Tract -- Iron, Zinc, and Copper Supplementation -- Biochemistry of Trace Element Delivery -- Further Reading -- Chapter 6 Agents Containing Metals -- Recommended Daily Amounts and Biological Half-lives -- Foods -- Food Additives -- Flavour Stimulants -- Supplements -- 'Health Foods' -- Folklore and Alternative Medicines -- Healthcare Agents -- Cosmetics -- Therapeuticals -- Chelation and Anticancer Activity -- Ulcer Therapy using Bismuth Compounds -- Parenteral Nutrition -- Wound Dressings -- Skin Protection and Decontamination -- Metals as Radioprotective Agents -- Meaningful Therapies. , Concluding Remarks -- Further Reading -- Chapter 7 Chelating Agents and Therapy -- Introduction -- Selectivity of Ligand Drugs for Metal Ions using Formation Constant Data -- EDTA, its Evolution, and Use -- Chemical Properties of EDTA -- In Vivo Chelation of Radionuclides -- Toxicity of EDTA -- Nephrotoxicity and Heavy Metal Chelates -- Rate of Administration and Dosage of EDTA -- Sulfur-containing Agents -- Removal of an Excess of an Essential Metal, e.g. Iron -- Excretion and 'Topping-up' Therapy -- Criteria of Success -- Metal Complexes used in Diagnosis and Chemotherapy -- Concluding Remarks -- Further Reading -- Chapter 8 Dietary and Environmental Aspects -- Diet -- National Food Surveys -- Crop Protection -- Food Fortification -- Food Intolerance -- Foods Linked with Health and a Longer Life -- Environmental Aspects -- Further Reading -- Chapter 9 The Future -- Subject Index.

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