1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910790770603321

Autore

Marchand Peter J

Titolo

Life in the Cold : An Introduction to Winter Ecology, fourth edition / / Peter J. Marchand

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lebanon, NH : , : University Press of New England, , [2014]

ISBN

1-61168-506-0

Edizione

[Fourth edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Disciplina

578.4/2

Soggetti

Ecology

Winter

Cold adaptation

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Title Page; Table of Contents; Preface to the Fourth Edition; 1 | Winter Paths: Options for Overwintering Success; Migration; Hibernation; Resistance; 2 | The Changing Snowpack; Destructive Metamorphism; Constructive Metamorphism; Melt Metamorphism; The Insulative Value of a Snowcover; Snow and Radiant Energy; 3 | Plants and the Winter Environment; Acclimating to the Cold; Weathering the Winter Drought; The Evergreen Advantage; Mechanical Forces of Winter; 4 | Animals and the Winter Environment; The Basics of Energy Exchange; Warm Bodies in Cold Environments; Bergmann's and Gloger's Rules

The Cold-Blooded Gamble5 | Life under Ice; Temperature/Density Relationships; Freezing around the Edges; Dormancy versus Activity; Dealing with Oxygen Depletion; 6 | Plant-Animal Interactions: Food for Thought; Bargaining with Hoarders; Coping with Browsers; Plants and the Quality of Subnivean Life; The Carbon Dioxide Debate; 7 | Winter Profiles: A Season in the Lives of Selected Animals; The Northern Cervids; Semiaquatic Mammals; Gallinaceous Birds; 8 | Humans in Cold Places; Circulatory Responses to Cold; Increasing Heat Output; Mind over Temperature; 9 | The Changing Snowpack, II

Broken MirrorSpecies on the Move; Unwelcome Thaw; Glossary; Notes; Index; List of Unit Conversion Factors



Sommario/riassunto

A revised edition of a classic work on cold climate ecosystems, with a new chapter on climate change

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910784291303321

Titolo

Schleiermacher und Kierkegaard [[electronic resource] ] : Subjektivität und Wahrheit : Akten des Schleiermacher-Kierkegaard-Kongresses in Kopenhagen, Oktober 2003 / / herausgegeben von Niels Jørgen Cappelørn ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin ; ; New York, : Walter de Gruyter, c2006

ISBN

1-282-19478-X

9786612194788

3-11-915994-8

3-11-019964-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (764 p.)

Collana

Kierkegaard studies. Monograph series, , 1434-2952 ; ; 11

Schleiermacher-Archiv, , 1861-6038 ; ; Bd. 21

Classificazione

CG 6877

Altri autori (Persone)

CappelørnNiels Jørgen

Disciplina

190

Soggetti

Subjectivity

Truth

Philosophy, Modern - 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

International conference proceedings.

Thirty-one contributions in German and 10 in English.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Table of Contents -- Die Bedeutung Schleiermachers und Kierkegaards in der gedanklichen Auseinandersetzung über eine dänische Kirchenverfassung -- Subjektivität und Wahrheit -- Subjektivität und Un-Wahrheit -- Sprache und Erkenntnis bei Schleiermacher -- Arbeit am Unübertragbaren: Schleiermachers Bestimmung des Ästhetischen -- Wahrnehmung und Schema: Zur zentralen Bedeutung des bildlichen Denkens in Schleiermachers Dialektik -- The Role of Music in Schleiermacher's and Kierkegaard's Writings -- Gefühl und Selbstbewusstsein: Der Begriff der Subjektivität in Schleiermachers philosophischer Ethik -- The Single Individual and



Kinship: Reflections on Kierkegaard and Schleiermacher -- Human Nature and Fall in Schleiermacher and Kierkegaard -- Feeling and Sense, Ethics and Culture: Perspectives on Religion and Culture in Schleiermacher and Cassirer -- Theology and the Non-Theological Study of Religion: A Critical Assessment of Schleiermacher's Legacy -- Existenz-Mitteilung - nicht unmittelbares Selbstbewusstsein: Kierkegaards Kritik transzendentaler Religionsbegründung -- "Die Sache ist viel entsetzlicher": Religiosität bei Kierkegaard und Schleiermacher -- The Changeless God of Schleiermacher and Kierkegaard -- Das Wesen des Christentums als geschichtliche Erfahrung des Bewusstseinslebens -- Subjektivität und Wahrheit -- Der Augenblick bei Sören Kierkegaard und Friedrich Schleiermacher -- Individuum und Gesellschaft -- Die Eine Frömmigkeit und die Vielen Frommen: Zu Schleiermachers Theorie der Vergesellschaftung des religiösen Bewusstseins -- Entwurf und Vergewisserung: Lebensgeschichte bei Schleiermacher -- "What did I fi nd? Not my": On Kierkegaard's Journals and the Pseudonymous Autobiography -- The Archimedean Point - Kierkegaard on History and Identity -- Vereinzeltes Gattungsbewusstsein: Pädagogische Reflexionen -- Der Apfel der Erkenntnis: Zum (Macht-) Verhältnis der Geschlechter in frühen Texten Kierkegaards -- Bildung durch Besitz? -- Das Werden des Sittlichen aus dem "Gefühl für das Mangelhafte im Gesamtleben": Das "unmittelbare Selbstbewußtsein" in Schleiermachers Ethik und Erziehungstheorie -- Die Schrift im Selbst: Das Äußere im Inneren − oder umgekehrt -- Die Schleiermachersche Individualitätskonzeption in Hinblick auf die Moderne -- Eigentlich nur das Gebiet der persönlichen Reibungen: Schleiermachers bewegliche Konzeption eines beweglichen Staates -- Der Begriff der Individualität bei F. Schleiermacher und S. Kierkegaard im Lichte der geistigen Situation der Nachmoderne -- Sünde und Erlösung -- Selbstbewusstsein und Gesamtbewusstsein im Reich der Sünde und der Erlösung bei Schleiermacher -- Anthropologie Schleiermachers -- Vier Thesen zur Anthropologie Kierkegaards -- Absolute Dependence or Infinite Desire? Comparing Soteriological Themes in Schleiermacher and Kierkegaard -- Schleiermachers doppelte Eschatologie -- Schleiermacher und Kierkegaard im Wechsel der Zeiten -- Die Religion der individuellen Freiheit: Schleiermachers und Kierkegaards Neubeschreibung des Christentums als traditionskritische Individuenreligion -- Zur historischen Hermeneutik bei Schleiermacher -- Das Zeitalter der "Reflexion" und "Nivellierung": Kierkegaards Eine literarische Anzeige als kritische Diagnose -- The Metaphysics of Interiority: The Two Paths of Schleiermacher and Kierkegaard -- More than Kindred Spirits: Kierkegaard and Schleiermacher on Repentance -- Leben aus der Vergangenheit - zur Kritik Kierkegaards an einer begrifflichen Erfassung der Wirklichkeit -- Schleiermachers Platon -- Über den Werth des Sokrates als Philosophen: Einige Anmerkungen zu Schleiermacher und Kierkegaard -- Back matter

Sommario/riassunto

The volume presents the main proceedings from the International Congress on Schleiermacher and Kierkegaard at Copenhagen in October 2003. It reflects profoundly the modern interest in the relationship between those two figures representing the 19th century's philosophy and theology. This title is being published at the same time as volume11 of the series "Kierkegaard Studies. Monograph Series" and as volume 21 of the series"Schleiermacher-Archiv".



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Record Nr.

UNINA9910346757003321

Autore

Jose M. Romero

Titolo

Evolution of Gene Regulatory Networks in Plant Development

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frontiers Media SA, 2018

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 p.)

Collana

Frontiers Research Topics

Soggetti

Botany & plant sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

During their life cycle plants undergo a wide variety of morphological and developmental changes. Impinging these developmental processes there is a layer of gene, protein and metabolic networks that are responsible for the initiation of the correct developmental transitions at the right time of the year to ensure plant life success. New omic technologies are allowing the acquisition of massive amount of data to develop holistic and integrative analysis to understand complex processes. Among them, Microarray, Next-generation Sequencing (NGS) and Proteomics are providing enormous amount of data from different plant species and developmental stages, thus allowing the analysis of gene networks globally. Besides, the comparison of molecular networks from different species is providing information on their evolutionary history, shedding light on the origin of many key genes/proteins. Moreover, developmental processes are not only genetically programed but are also affected by internal and external signals. Metabolism, light, hormone action, temperature, biotic and abiotic stresses, etc. have a deep effect on developmental programs. The interface and interplay between these internal and external circuits with developmental programs can be unraveled through the integration of systematic experimentation with the computational analysis of the generated omics data (Molecular Systems Biology). This Research Topic intends to deepen in the different plant developmental pathways and how the corresponding gene networks evolved from a Molecular



Systems Biology perspective. Global approaches for photoperiod, circadian clock and hormone regulated processes; pattern formation, phase-transitions, organ development, etc. will provide new insights on how plant complexity was built during evolution. Understanding the interface and interplay between different regulatory networks will also provide fundamental information on plant biology and focus on those traits that may be important for next-generation agriculture.