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Myxomycetes: Biology, Systematics, Biogeography and Ecology, Second Edition provides a complete collection of general and technical information on myxomycetes microorganisms. Its broad scope takes an integrated approach, considering a number of important aspects surrounding their genetics and molecular phylogeny. The book treats myxomycetes as a distinct group from fungi and includes molecular information that discusses systematics and evolutionary pathways. Written and developed by an international team of specialists, this second edition contains updated information on all aspects of myxomycetes. It incorporates relevant and new material on current barcoding developments, plasmodial network experimentation, and non-STEM disciplinary assimilation of myxomycete information. This book is a unique and authoritative resource for researchers in organismal biology and ecology disciplines, as well as students and academics in biology, ecology, microbiology, and similar subject areas. Written in a simple, concise and relatively non-technical style, allowing for a broad readership within biological, environmental and life science programs at academic and research institutions Contains the comprehensive body of information available on myxomycetes under one cover, with contributions from the leading authorities in their respective areas of expertise Provides straightforward, compiled information about myxomycetes and the potential of this group for basic and applied research Offers completely updated material in every chapter, including new material on barcoding and Physarum polycephalum biological factors.

Myxomycetes. --- Acellular slime molds --- Aerogastres --- Molds, Slime --- Mycetozoa --- Myxogastres --- Plasmoidial slime molds --- Slime fungi --- Slime molds --- Slime moulds --- True slime molds --- Rhizopoda

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582.24 --- Myxomycetes --- Acellular slime molds --- Aerogastres --- Molds, Slime --- Mycetozoa --- Myxogastres --- Plasmoidial slime molds --- Slime fungi --- Slime molds --- Slime moulds --- True slime molds --- Rhizopoda --- Myxomycetes. Myxothallophyta. Mycetozoa. Phytosarcodina. Slime fungi --- FUN Fungi & Lichenes --- Fungi --- 582.24 Myxomycetes. Myxothallophyta. Mycetozoa. Phytosarcodina. Slime fungi

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Environmental Mycology in Public Health: Fungi and Mycotoxins Risk Assessment and Management provides the most updated information on fungi, an essential element in the survival of our global ecology that can also pose a significant threat to the health of occupants when they are present in buildings. As the exposure to fungi in homes is a significant risk factor for a number of respiratory symptoms, including allergies and hypersensitivity pneumonitis, this book presents information on fungi and their disease agents, important aspects of exposure assessment, and their impacts on health.

Mycology --- Fungi --- Myxomycetes --- Health aspects. --- Risk assessment. --- Acellular slime molds --- Aerogastres --- Molds, Slime --- Mycetozoa --- Myxogastres --- Plasmoidial slime molds --- Slime fungi --- Slime molds --- Slime moulds --- True slime molds --- Rhizopoda --- Fungal kingdom --- Fungus kingdom --- Funguses --- Mycobiota --- Mycota --- Cryptogams --- Botany --- Microbiology --- Fungal biology --- Fungology --- Fungus biology

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This book is devoted to Slime mould Physarum polycephalum, which is a large single cell capable for distributed sensing, concurrent information processing, parallel computation and decentralized actuation. The ease of culturing and experimenting with Physarum makes this slime mould an ideal substrate for real-world implementations of unconventional sensing and computing devices The book is a treatise of theoretical and experimental laboratory studies on sensing and computing properties of slime mould, and on the development of mathematical and logical theories of Physarum behavior. It is shown how to make logical gates and circuits, electronic devices (memristors, diodes, transistors, wires, chemical and tactile sensors) with the slime mould. The book demonstrates how to modify properties of Physarum computing circuits with functional nano-particles and polymers, to interface the slime mould with field-programmable arrays, and to use Physarum as a controller of microbial fuel cells. A unique multi-agent model of slime is shown to serve well as a software slime mould capable for solving problems of computational geometry and graph optimization. The multiagent model is complemented by cellular automata models with parallel accelerations. Presented mathematical models inspired by Physarum include non-quantum implementation of Shor's factorization, structural learning, computation of shortest path tree on dynamic graphs, supply chain network design, p-adic computing and syllogistic reasoning. The book is a unique composition of vibrant and lavishly illustrated essays which will inspire scientists, engineers and artists to exploit natural phenomena in designs of future and emergent computing and sensing devices. It is a 'bible' of experimental computing with spatially extended living substrates, it spanstopics from biology of slime mould, to bio-sensing, to unconventional computing devices androbotics, non-classical logics and music and arts. .

Computer Science --- Engineering & Applied Sciences --- Bionics. --- Myxomycetes. --- Acellular slime molds --- Aerogastres --- Molds, Slime --- Mycetozoa --- Myxogastres --- Plasmoidial slime molds --- Slime fungi --- Slime molds --- Slime moulds --- True slime molds --- Intellectronics --- Engineering. --- Artificial intelligence. --- Bioinformatics. --- Computational intelligence. --- Complexity, Computational. --- Robotics. --- Automation. --- Complexity. --- Computational Intelligence. --- Artificial Intelligence (incl. Robotics). --- Applications of Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos Theory. --- Robotics and Automation. --- Automatic factories --- Automatic production --- Computer control --- Engineering cybernetics --- Factories --- Industrial engineering --- Mechanization --- Assembly-line methods --- Automatic control --- Automatic machinery --- CAD/CAM systems --- Robotics --- Automation --- Machine theory --- Complexity, Computational --- Electronic data processing --- Intelligence, Computational --- Artificial intelligence --- Soft computing --- Bio-informatics --- Biological informatics --- Biology --- Information science --- Computational biology --- Systems biology --- AI (Artificial intelligence) --- Artificial thinking --- Electronic brains --- Intelligence, Artificial --- Intelligent machines --- Machine intelligence --- Thinking, Artificial --- Bionics --- Cognitive science --- Digital computer simulation --- Logic machines --- Self-organizing systems --- Simulation methods --- Fifth generation computers --- Neural computers --- Construction --- Industrial arts --- Technology --- Data processing --- Rhizopoda --- Bioengineering --- Biophysics --- Cybernetics --- Systems engineering --- Artificial Intelligence. --- Computational complexity. --- Statistical physics. --- Physics --- Mathematical statistics --- Statistical methods