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UNINA9910461264403321 |
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Autore |
Olsen Penny <1949-> |
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Stray feathers [[electronic resource] ] : reflections on the structure, behaviour and evolution of birds / / Penny Olsen & Leo Joseph |
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Collingwood, Vic., : CSIRO Pub., 2011 |
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1-283-15727-6 |
9786613157270 |
0-643-10344-9 |
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1 online resource (287 p.) |
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Birds - Anatomy |
Birds |
Birds - Behavior |
Ornithology |
Electronic books. |
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Logos of: CSIRO and Australian Biological Resources Study (ABRS) at foot of title page. |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-286). |
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Cover; Foreword; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction: watching birds; Anatomy and physiology; The senses; Giving voice; Tongues talking; Plumage; Getting around; Finding and handling food; Optimising foraging and feeding; Reducing competition; Using 'tools'; Communicating; Quality vs quantity; Courtship; Nests; Parental care; Chicks: behaving badly; behaving well; Living together: same species; Living together: different species; Wrapping up; Further reading |
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Superbly illustrated with black and white drawings of a range of birds, Stray Feathers showcases some of the remarkable adaptations of Australian birds. |
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UNINA9910453926303321 |
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Style in African literature [[electronic resource] ] : essays on literary stylistics and narrative styles / / edited by J.K.S. Makokha, Ogone John Obiero and Russell West-Pavlov |
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Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Editions Rodopi, 2012 |
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1 online resource (444 p.) |
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Internationale Forschungen zur allgemeinen und vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft ; ; 154 |
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MakokhaJ. K. S |
ObieroOgone John |
West-PavlovRussell <1964-> |
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African literature (English) - History and criticism |
African literature - 20th century - History and criticism |
African literature - 21st century - History and criticism |
Style, Literary |
Electronic books. |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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pt. I. General perspectives -- pt. II. Perspectives on fiction -- pt. III. Perspectives on orature and poetry -- pt. IV. Perspectives on drama and theatre. |
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Postcolonial and contemporary African literatures have always been marked by an acute sensitivity to the politics of language, an attentiveness inscribed in the linguistic fabric of their own modes of expression. It is curious however, that despite the prevalence of a much-touted ‘linguistic turn’ in twentieth century theory and cultural production, language has frequently been neglected by literary studies in general. Even more curiously, postcolonial literary studies, an erstwhile emergent and now established discipline which has from the outset contained important elements of linguistic critique, has eschewed any sustained engagement with this topic. This absence is salient in the study of African literatures, despite, for instance, the prominence of orature in the African literary tradition right up to the |
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present day, and sporadic meditations on the part of such luminaries as Achebe and Ngũgĩ. Beyond this, however, there has been little scholarly work attuned to the multifarious aspects of language and linguistic politics in the study of African literature. The present volume aims to rectify such lacunae by making a substantial interdisciplinary and transcultural contribution to the gradual reinstatement of the ‘linguistic turn’ in African literary studies. The volume focuses variously on postcolonial and transcultural African literatures, areas of literary production where the confluence of several languages, whether indigenous and (post)colonial in the first case, and local and global in the second case, appears to be a central and decisive factor in the formation and transformation of the continent and its peoples’ cultural identities. |
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UNINA9910367749603321 |
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Autore |
Dato Serena |
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Genetic Determinants of Human Longevity / Serena Dato, Mette Sørensen, Giuseppina Rose |
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MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2019 |
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Basel, Switzerland : , : MDPI, , 2019 |
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1 electronic resource (118 p.) |
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In the last two decades, due to the continuous increase of lifespans in Westernsocieties, and the consequent growing of the elderly population, have witnessedan increase in the number of studies on biological and molecular factors able topromote healthy aging and reach longevity. The study of the genetic componentof human longevity |
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demonstrated that it accounts for 25% of intra populationphenotype variance. The efforts made to characterize the genetic determinantssuggested that the maintenance of cellular integrity, inflammation, oxidativestress response, DNA repair, as well as the use of nutrients, represent the mostimportant pathways correlated with a longer lifespan. However, although aplethora of variants were indicated to be associated with human longevity, onlyvery few were successfully replicated in different populations, probably becauseof population specificity, missing heritability as well as a complex interactionamong genetic factors with lifestyle and cultural factors, which modulate theindividual chance of living longer. Thus, many challenges remain to be addressedin the search for the genetic components of human longevity. This Special Issue isaimed to unify the progress in the analysis of the genetic determinants of humanlongevity, to take stock of the situation and point to future directions of the field.We invite submissions for reviews, research articles, short-communicationsdealing with genetic association studies in human longevity, including all types ofgenetic variation, as well as the characterization of longevity-related genes. |
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