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UNISOBSOBE00021586 |
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Autore |
Cicero, Marcus Tullius |
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19: De natura deorum Academica / Cicero ; with an english translation by H. Rackham |
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London : Heinemann |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 1967 |
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<The >Loeb Classical Library |
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Monografia |
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UNINA9911142854003321 |
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Autore |
Meierhenrich Uwe |
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Amino acids and the asymmetry of life : caught in the act of formation / / Uwe Meierhenrich ; with a foreword by Henri B. Kagan |
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Berlin, : Springer, c2008 |
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1-281-86226-6 |
9786611862268 |
3-540-76886-6 |
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[1st ed. 2008.] |
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1 online resource (258 p.) |
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Advances in astrobiology and biogeophysics |
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Exobiology |
Life - Origin |
Asymmetry (Chemistry) |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Tracing Life’s Origin: From Amino Acids to Space Mission ROSETTA -- Stereochemistry for the Study of the Origin of Life -- Minority Report: Life’s Chiral Molecules of Opposite Handedness -- When Crystals Deliver Chirality to Life -- When Parity Falls: The Weak Nuclear Interaction -- Chiral Fields: Light, Magnetism, and Chirality -- Key to the Prebiotic Origin of Amino Acids -- A New Record for Chiral Molecules in Meteorites -- The New Space Race: Chiral Molecules on Comets and on Mars -- Accelerating the Carousel: Amplification Mechanisms. |
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"How did life originate and why were left-handed molecules selected for its architecture?" This question of high public and interdisciplinary scientific interest is the central theme of this book. It is widely known that in processes triggering the origin of life on Earth, the equal occurrence, the parity between left-handed amino acids and their right-handed mirror images, was violated. The balance is inevitably tipped to the left – provoking that life’s proteins today exclusively implement the left form of amino acids. Written in an intoxicating style, this book describes how the basic building blocks of life, the amino acids, formed. After a comprehensible introduction into stereochemistry, the author addresses the inherent property of amino acids in living organisms, namely the preference for left-handedness. What was the cause for violation of parity of amino acids in the emergence of life on Earth? All the fascinating models proposed by physicists, chemists and biologist are vividly presented including the scientific conflicts. The author describes the attempt to verify any of those models with the chirality module of the ROSETTA mission, a probe built and launched with the mission to land on a comet and analyse whether there are chiral organic compounds that could have been brought to the Earth by cometary impacts. A truly interdisciplinary astrobiology book, "Amino Acids and the Asymmetry of Life", will fascinate students, researchers and all readers with backgrounds in natural sciences.. With a foreword by Henri B. Kagan. |
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UNINA9911146978203321 |
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Titolo |
Academic and professional identities in higher education : the challenges of a diversifying workforce / / edited by George Gordon and Celia Whitchurch |
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New York, : Routledge, 2010 |
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1-135-22408-0 |
1-135-22409-9 |
1-282-37694-2 |
9786612376948 |
0-203-86525-1 |
9780203865255 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (289 p.) |
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International studies in higher education |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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GordonGeorge |
WhitchurchCelia |
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Disciplina |
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College teachers - Professional relationships |
Scholars - Professional relationships |
Group identity |
Diversity in the workplace |
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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 and index. |
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Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Series Editors' Introduction; Contributors; Preface; Part I Contexts and Concepts; 1 Introduction: Change and Continuity in Academic and Professional Identities; 2 Global Contexts; 3 Envisioning Invisible Workforces: Enhancing Intellectual Capital; 4 Innovative University Management; Part II Implications for Institutions; Introduction; 5 Evolving Academic Career Pathways in England; 6 Managing Academic and Professional Careers in Japan; 7 Being an Academic in Contemporary South Africa |
8 The Impact of Changing Recruitment Practices on Academic ProfilesPart III Implications for Individuals; Introduction; 9 Traditions of |
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Academic Professionalism and Shifting Academic Identities; 10 Convergence and Divergence in Professional Identities; 11 The Changing Roles and Identities of Library and Information Services Staff; Part IV Challenging Boundaries; Introduction; 12 Rethinking Faculty Work and Workplaces; 13 Developing Higher Education Professionals: Challenges and Possibilities; 14 The Challenges of a Diversifying Workforce; Index |
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The latest volume in the Routledge International Studies in Higher Education Series, Academic and Professional Identities in Higher Education: The Challenges of a Diversifying Workforce, reviews the implications of new forms of academic and professional identity, which have emerged largely as a result of a broadening disciplinary base and increasing permeability between higher education and external environments. The volume addresses the challenges faced by those responsible for the wellbeing of academic faculty and professional staff. International perspectives examine curr |
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