1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910701327703321

Titolo

National strategy for global supply chain security [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : President of the United States, , 2012

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (16 unnumbered pages)

Soggetti

National security - United States

Ports of entry - Security measures - United States

Emergency management - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on June 8, 2012).

"January 23, 2012."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910789569803321

Titolo

Information and living systems : philosophical and scientific perspectives / / edited by George Terzis and Robert Arp

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, ©2011

©2011

ISBN

1-283-11901-3

9786613119018

0-262-29524-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (459 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

TerzisGeorge <1951->

ArpRobert

Disciplina

570

Soggetti

Information theory in biology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"Bradford book."



Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

The need for a universal definition of life in twenty-first-century biology / Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo and Alvaro Moreno -- Energy coupling / Yaşar Demirel -- Bioinformation as a triadic relation / Alfredo Marcos -- The biosemiotic approach in biology : theoretical bases and applied models / João Queiroz ... [et al.] -- Problem solving in the life cycles of multicellular organisms : immunology and cancer / Niall Shanks and Rebecca A. Pyles -- The informational nature of biological causality / Alvaro Moreno and Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo -- The self-construction of a living organism / Natalia López-Moratella and María Cerezo -- Plasticity and complexity in biology : topological organization, regulatory protein networks, and mechanisms of genetic expression / Luciano Boi -- Decision making in the economy of nature : value as information / Benoit Hardy-Vallee -- Information theory and perception : the role of constraints, and what do we maximize information about? / Roland Baddeley, Benjamin Vincent, and David Attewell -- Attention, information, and epistemic perception / Nicolas J. Bullot -- Biolinguistics and information / Cedric Boeckx and Juan Uriagereka -- The biology of personality / Aurelio Jose Figueredo ... [et al.].

Sommario/riassunto

'Information and Living Systems' offers a collection of papers in which scientists & philosophers discuss the informational nature of biological organization at levels ranging from the genetic to the cognitive and linguistic.