1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990001289550403321

Titolo

Dispositions / edited by Raimo Tuomela

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Dordrecht (NL) : Reidel, 1978

Collana

Synthese Library ; 113

Locazione

MA1

Collocazione

C-25-(113

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910456217703321

Titolo

Desiccation and survival in plants [[electronic resource] ] : drying without dying / / edited by M. Black and H.W. Pritchard

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Wallingford, Oxon, UK ; ; New York, : CABI Pub., c2002

ISBN

1-280-82923-0

9786610829231

0-85199-719-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (422 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BlackMichael

PritchardH. W

Disciplina

581.4

Soggetti

Plant-water relationships

Plants - Drought tolerance

Plants - 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 indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Contributors; Preface; Part I Introduction; 1 Drying Without



Dying; Part II Methodology; 2 Methods for the Study of Water Relations Under Desiccation Stress; 3 Experimental Aspects of Drying and Recovery; 4 Biochemical and Biophysical Methods for Quantifying Desiccation Phenomena in Seeds and Vegetative Tissues; Part III Biology of Dehydration; 5 Desiccation Sensitivity in Orthodox and Recalcitrant Seeds in Relation to Development; 6 Pollen and Spores: Desiccation Tolerance in Pollen and the Spores of Lower Plants and Fungi

7 Vegetative Tissues: Bryophytes, Vascular Resurrection Plants and Vegetative Propagules8 Systematic and Evolutionary Aspects of Desiccation Tolerance in Seeds; Part IV Mechanisms of Damage and Tolerance; 9 Desiccation Stress and Damage; 10 Biochemistry and Biophysics of Tolerance Systems; 11 Molecular Genetics of Desiccation and Tolerant Systems; 12 Rehydration of Dried Systems: Membranes and the Nuclear Genome; Part V Retrospect and Prospect; 13 Damage and Tolerance in Retrospect and Prospect; Glossary; Taxonomic Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book is divided into three sections, dealing with: the technical background to desiccation tolerance studies; the frequency and levels of dehydration stress tolerance in biological systems; mechanisms of damage and tolerance.



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910462539803321

Autore

Campe Rùˆdiger

Titolo

The game of probability [[electronic resource] ] : literature and calculation from Pascal to Kleist / / Rudiger Campe ; translated by Ellwood H. Wiggins, Jr

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California, : Stanford University Press, 2012

ISBN

0-8047-8466-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (503 p.)

Collana

Cultural Memory in the Present

Cultural memory in the present

Altri autori (Persone)

WigginsEllwood

Disciplina

809/.93384

Soggetti

European literature - 17th century - History and criticism

European literature - 18th century - History and criticism

Probability in literature

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Originally published in German under the title Spiel der Wahrscheinlichkeit."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; Part I.  Games for Example; 1. Theology and the Law: Dice in the Air; 2. Numbers and Calculation in Context: The Game of Decision-Pascal; 3. Writing the Calculation of Chances: Justiceand Fair Game-Christiaan Huygens; 4. Probability, a Postscript to the Theory of Chance: Logic and Contractual Law-Arnauld, Leibniz, Pufendorf; 5. Probability Applied: Ancient Topoi and the Theory of Games of Chance-Jacob Bernoulli; 6. Continued Proclamations: The Law of logica probabilium-Leibniz; 7. Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, or, The Improbability of Survival

Part II. Verisimilitude Spelled Out8. Numbers and Tables in Narration: Juristsand Clergymen and Their Bureaucratic Hobbies; 9. Novels and Tables: Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year and Schnabel's Die Insel Felsenburg; 10. The Theory of Probability and the Form of the Novel: Daniel Bernoulli on Utility Value, the Anthropology of Risk, and Gellert's Epistolary Fiction; 11. "Improbable Probability": The Theory of the Novel and Its Trope-Fielding's Tom Jones and Wieland's Agathon; 12. The Appearance of Truth: Logic, Aesthetics,and Experimentation-Lambert



13. "Probable" or Plausible": Mathematical Formula Versus Philosophical Discourse-Kant14. Kleist's "Improbable Veracities," or, A Romantic Ending; Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography

Sommario/riassunto

There exist literary histories of probability and scientific histories of probability, but it has generally been thought that the two did not meet. Campe begs to differ. Mathematical probability, he argues, took over the role of the old probability of poets, orators, and logicians, albeit in scientific terms. Indeed, mathematical probability would not even have been possible without the other probability, whose roots lay in classical antiquity. The Game of Probability revisits the seventeenth and eighteenth-century ""probabilistic revolution,"" providing a history of the re

4.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910780447503321

Autore

Baranovitch Nimrod

Titolo

China's new voices [[electronic resource] ] : popular music, ethnicity, gender, and politics, 1978-1997

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, 2003

ISBN

9781417508094

0-520-93653-1

1-59734-531-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (349 p.)

Disciplina

306.4/84

Soggetti

China - Civilization - 1976-

Popular music

Popular music-- Social aspects-- China

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. China Diversified: An Overview of Popular Music in the Reform Era, 1978 -1997; 2. The Negotiation of Minority/ Majority Identities and Representation in Popular Music Culture; 3. Negotiating Gender in Post-Revolutionary Popular Music Culture: Reconstructing Manhood,



Womanhood, and Sexuality; 4. Popular Music and State Politics: Hegemony, Resistance, Symbiosis, and Unity; Notes; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This is the most comprehensive study to date of the rich popular music scene in contemporary China. Focusing on the city of Beijing and drawing upon extensive fieldwork, China's New Voices shows that during the 1980's and 1990's, rock and pop music, combined with new technologies and the new market economy, have enabled marginalized groups to achieve a new public voice that is often independent of the state.