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UNINA9910701977703321 |
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Autore |
Lepore Brian J |
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Border security [[electronic resource] ] : observations on costs, benefits, and challenges of a Department of Defense role in helping to secure the southwest land border : testimony before the Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security, Committee on Homeland Security, House of Representatives / / statement of Brian J. Lepore |
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[Washington, D.C.] : , : U.S. Govt. Accountability Office, , [2012] |
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1 online resource (12 pages) |
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Testimony ; ; GAO-12-657T |
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Border security - Southwestern States |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Title from PDF title screen (viewed July 5, 2012). |
"For release ... April 17, 2012." |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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UNINA9910790558003321 |
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Reading Layamon's Brut : approaches and explorations / / edited by Rosamund Allen, Jane Roberts and Carole Weinberg |
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Amsterdam : , : Rodopi, , 2013 |
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1 online resource (756 pages) : illustrations, map |
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DQR studies in literature ; ; 52 |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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AllenRosamund <1942-> |
RobertsJane <1936-> |
WeinbergCarole |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [691]-729) and index. |
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Introducion / Rosamund Allen, Jane Roberts and Carole Weinberg -- Did Lawman nod, or is it we that yawn? / Rosamund Allen -- The Brut as Saxon literature: the new philologists read Lawman / Haruko Momma -- "pe tiden of pisse londe": finding and losing Wales in La3amon's Brut / Simon Meecham-Jones -- The Severn: barrier or highway? / Andrew Wehner -- The political notion of kingship in La3amon's Brut / Eric Stanley -- Queer masculiinty in Lawman's Brut / John Brennan -- La3amon's leir: language, succession, and history / Kenneth J. Tiller -- Losing the past: Cezar's moment of time in Lawman's Brut / Joseph D. Parry -- Lawman, Bede, and the context of slavery / Daniel Donoghue -- Drinking of blood, burning of women / Andrew Breeze -- The coronation of Arthur and Guenevere in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae, Wace's Roman de Brut, and Lawman's Brut / Charlotte A.T. Wulf -- La3amon's gestures: body language in the Brut / Barry Windeatt -- Conquest by word: the meeting of language in La3amon's Brut / Hannah McKendrick Bailey -- A tale of two cities: London and Winchester in La3amon's Brut / Ian Kirby -- When are Saxon's "©nglisc"?: language and readerly identity in La3amon's Brut / Margaret Lamont -- Mapping the national narrative: place-name etymology in La3amon's Brut and its sources / Joanna Bellis -- The lexical field "warrior" in La3amon's Brut: a comparative analysis of the two versions / Christine Elsweiler -- The language of |
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law: lond and hond in La3amon's Brut / Deborah Marcum -- Fri©ʻ and Gri©ʻ: La3amon and the legal language of Wulfstan / Scott Kleinman -- La3amon's prosody: Califula and Otho, metres apart / Erik Kooper -- Getting La3amon's Brut into sharper focus / Jane Roberts -- Julius Ceasar and the language of history in La3amon's Brut / Carole Weinberg -- La3amon's Ursula and the influence of Roman epic / Neil Cartlidge -- Constructing tonwenne: a gesture and its history / Gail Ivy Berlin -- Wace to La3amon via Waldef / Judith Weiss -- Translating England in medieval Iceland: Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britannie and Breta sogur / Sarah Baccianti -- La3amon's Welsh / Jennifer Miller -- The wisdom of hindsight in La3amon and some contemporaries / M. Leigh Harrison -- Reading the lanscapes of La3amon's Arthur: place, meaning and intertextuality / Gareth Griffith -- La3amon's Brut and the vernacular text: widening the context / Elizabeth J. Bryan. |
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For Layamon, or Lawman (both forms are used), a parish priest living on the Welsh March c.1200, the criteria of language, race and territory all provided ways of defining the nation state, which is why his Brut commands a diverse readership to-day. The range of view-points in this book reflects the breadth and complexity of La3amon’s own vision of the way his world is moulded by past conquests and racial tensions. The Brut is an open-ended narrative of Britain, its peoples, and its place-names as they changed under new rulers, and tells, for the first time in English, the rise and fall of Arthur, highlighting his role in the unfolding history of Britain. Beginning with its legendary founder, Brutus, the story is imagined anew, and although it concludes with an Anglo-Saxon kingdom, La3amon’s closing words remind us that changes will come: i-wurðe þet iwurðe: i-wurðe Godes wille. Amen . This book offers detailed discussion and new perspectives. Its contributors explore aspects of behaviour and attitudes, personal and national identity and governance, language, metre, and the reception of La3amon’s Brut in later times. Comparisons are made with Latin writings and with French, Welsh, Spanish and Icelandic, placing La3amon firmly within a European network of readers and redactors. The book will interest those working on medieval chronicles, as well as specialists in medieval law, custom, English language and literature, and comparative literature. |
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UNINA9910825664903321 |
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Autore |
Wagner Andreas <1967 January 26-> |
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Robustness and evolvability in living systems / / Andreas Wagner |
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Princeton, New Jersey : , : Princeton University Press, , [2005] |
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©2005 |
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0-691-12240-7 |
1-4008-4938-1 |
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[Course Book] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (384 p.) |
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Princeton Studies in Complexity ; ; 24 |
Princeton studies in complexity |
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Molecular evolution |
Mutation (Biology) |
Biological systems - Stability |
Robust control |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [323]-358) and index. |
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Introduction -- The genetic alphabet -- The genetic code -- RNA structure -- Proteins and point mutations -- Proteins and recombination -- Regulatory DNA regions and their reorganization in evolution -- Metabolic pathways -- Metabolic networks -- Drosophila segmentation and other gene regulatory networks -- Phenotypic traits, cryptic variation, and human diseases -- The many ways of building the same body -- Neutral spaces -- Evolvability and neutral mutations -- Redundancy of parts or distributed robustness? -- Robustness as an evolved adaptation to mutations -- Robustness as an evolved adaptation to environmental change and noise -- Robustness and fragility: advantages to variation and trade-offs -- Robustness in natural systems and self-organization -- Robustness in man-made systems. |
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All living things are remarkably complex, yet their DNA is unstable, undergoing countless random mutations over generations. Despite this instability, most animals do not grow two heads or die, plants continue to thrive, and bacteria continue to divide. Robustness and Evolvability in Living Systems tackles this perplexing paradox. The book explores |
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why genetic changes do not cause organisms to fail catastrophically and how evolution shapes organisms' robustness. Andreas Wagner looks at this problem from the ground up, starting with the alphabet of DNA, the genetic code, RNA, and protein molecules, moving on to genetic networks and embryonic development, and working his way up to whole organisms. He then develops an evolutionary explanation for robustness. Wagner shows how evolution by natural selection preferentially finds and favors robust solutions to the problems organisms face in surviving and reproducing. Such robustness, he argues, also enhances the potential for future evolutionary innovation. Wagner also argues that robustness has less to do with organisms having plenty of spare parts (the redundancy theory that has been popular) and more to do with the reality that mutations can change organisms in ways that do not substantively affect their fitness. Unparalleled in its field, this book offers the most detailed analysis available of all facets of robustness within organisms. It will appeal not only to biologists but also to engineers interested in the design of robust systems and to social scientists concerned with robustness in human communities and populations. |
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