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UNINA9910465743803321 |
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Campbell A. Malcolm |
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Animal physiology / / A. Malcolm Campbell and Christopher J. Paradise |
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New York, NY : , : Momentum Press, , [2016] |
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©2016 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (72 pages) : illustrations |
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Collana |
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Physiology, Comparative |
Electronic books. |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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1. Mammals have cellular clock mechanism -- Ethical, legal, social implications: sleep is connected to daily rhythms -- |
2. Maternal immune system tolerates non-self fetus -- |
3. Maintaining body weight and fat levels -- Ethical, legal, social implications: challenges of the obesity epidemic -- |
4. Animals age and die at different rates -- Ethical, legal, social implications: end of life issues -- |
Conclusions -- Glossary -- Index. |
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This book examines four examples of animal physiology that illustrate emergent properties in whole organisms. The first example shows how mammals coordinate the activity of all their cells using a daily rhythm. The second case explains an apparent contradiction that happens every time a woman gets pregnant and delivers a healthy baby--how the immune system tolerates a foreign tissue such as the fetus. The next case study in this book shows how bodies regulate the amount of fat using a complex interaction of proteins that function as a lipostat, a self-regulating fat maintenance system. Finally, the book provides an understanding of why some species live long lives while others die after very short lives, and under what conditions each situation is favored. What is evolutionarily adaptive about death? These four case studies provide sufficient evidence to understand how animals regulate many of their own metabolic functions. |
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UNINA9910817286703321 |
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Bland Roger (Roger Farrant) |
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The Cunetio and Normanby hoards : Roger Bland, Edward Besly and Andrew Burnett, with notes to aid identification by Sam Moorhead |
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London : , : Spink, , 2018 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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Coins, Roman - Great Britain |
Coin hoards - Great Britain |
England Antiquities, Roman |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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The Cunetio treasure : Roman coinage of the third century AD / Edward Besly & Roger Bland ; with contributions by Ian Carradice & Christopher Gingell -- The Normanby hoard / edited by Roger Bland and Andrew Burnett. |
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The Cunetio and Normanby hoards are the two of the largest Roman coin hoards from Britain. They both comprise mostly 'radiate' coins struck in the second half of the 3rd century and are the most important catalogues for people identifying radiate coins in Britain dating from AD 253 to AD 275. The Cunetio hoard was originally published as a single volume, 'The Cunetio Treasure by E.M. Besly and R.F. Bland (British Museum Press, 1983). The Normanby hoard was published along with several other hoards in 'The Normanby Hoard and other Roman coin hoards: Coin Hoards from Roman Britain VIII' edited by R.F. Bland and A.M. Burnett (British Museum Press, 1988). This edition provides the two hoards in one volume with a note on more recent work on the radiate coinage of AD 253-96 and notes to aid identification by Sam Moorhead. |
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