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UNINA9910698376303321 |
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Stine Deborah D. |
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America COMPETES Act : programs, funding, and selected issues / / Deborah D. Stine |
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Washington, District of Columbia : , : Library of Congress, Congressional Research Service, , 2008 |
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1 online resource (66 pages) : illustrations |
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CRS report for Congress ; ; RL34328 |
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Federal aid to research - United States |
Science - Study and teaching - Law and legislation |
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On August 2, 2007, Congress passed the America COMPETES(Creating Opportunities to Meaningfully Promote Excellence in Technology Education and Science) Act (H.R. 2272), which the President signed into law (P.L. 110-69) on August 9, 2007. The act responds to concerns that the United States may not be able to compete economically with other nations in the future due to insufficient investment today in science and technology research and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education and workforce development. A similar concern had led President Bush to announce the American Competitiveness Initiative (ACI) in January 2006 during his State of the Union address. The America COMPETES Act authorizes an increase in the nation's investment in science and engineering research and in STEM education from kindergarten to graduate school and postdoctoral education. The act also establishes the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) and Discovery Science and Engineering Innovation Institutes. The act authorizes increases in funding for the National Science Foundation (NSF), National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) laboratories, and the Department of Energy Office of Science over FY2008-FY2010. If maintained, the increases would double the budgets of those agencies over seven years. The Administration's ACI also proposes increases in these budgets, but at a |
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rate that would double them over 10 years instead of 7. Within DOE, ARPA-E is designed to support transformational energy technology research projects with the goal of enhancing the economic and energy security of the U.S. The effort is based on that of the DOD Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. The Administration and others support the conceptual goal of ARPA-E, but questions whether or not the DARPA model can be used for the energy sector, and has concerns about it potentially redirecting funds from current DOE research activities. |
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UNINA9910733287403321 |
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Orlandi Luigi |
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Andronikos Kallistos: A Byzantine Scholar and His Manuscripts in Italian Humanism / / Luigi Orlandi |
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Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2023] |
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©2023 |
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[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (XIX, 623 p.) |
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Studies in Manuscript Cultures , , 2365-9696 ; ; 32 |
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LITERARY CRITICISM / General |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1 Towards a New Biographical Profile -- 2 Tracing Manuscripts in Time and Space: On Kallistos’ Scribal Activity!" -- 3 The Fate of Andronikos’ Books -- 4 Writing and Learning Greek at the School of Andronikos Kallistos -- 5 From the Desk of a Byzantine Philologist -- 6 Andronikos’ Traces in Manuscripts: A Summary Catalogue -- Appendix: Texts -- 1 Defence of Theodoros Gazes against Michael Apostoles -- 2 Monody on wretched Constantinople -- 3 Diairesis on the science of physics -- 4 Letter to Palla Strozzi! -- 5 Letters to Demetrios <Chalkondyles> -- 6 Letter to Georgios Disypatos Palaiologos -- 7 Epigram to Homer -- 8 Epigram in praise of Bessarion’s book In Calumniatorem Platonis! -- 9 Epigrams on |
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the death of Albiera -- Plate -- Reference -- Index of names -- Index of manuscripts, incunabula, and archival sources -- Index of main watermarks |
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The interest in Andronikos Kallistos, a leading personality among the Greek émigrés who participated in Italian Humanism, arose at the end of the nineteenth century within the frame of the studies on Byzantine scholars of the Renaissance. Researchers have only glimpsed the depth of Kallistos’ erudite personality. To date, nearly 130 manuscripts have been found bearing evidence of his work as a copyist and philologist. However, research into both his scribal and scholarly activity remains fragmented into many isolated contributions, mainly concerning specific chapters of the manuscript tradition of classical Greek authors. Adopting a synergistic approach to historical, philological, codicological, and paleographic data within this framework, this monograph study aims to fulfil the following tasks: outlining an updated biography; defining Kallistos’ scribal activity better by means of a thorough examination of all surviving manuscript sources; attempting to reconstruct the development of his book collection; acknowledging Kallistos’ scholarly activity both as a teacher and philologist; making an inventory of all the manuscripts which bear traces of his writing; and, finally, publishing Kallistos’ works. |
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