02080nam 22005414a 450 991078304010332120230925172622.00-313-07525-5(CKB)1000000000004775(OCoLC)70749348(CaPaEBR)ebrary10005692(SSID)ssj0000194226(PQKBManifestationID)11182016(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000194226(PQKBWorkID)10231771(PQKB)10593635(MiAaPQ)EBC3000544(Au-PeEL)EBL3000544(CaPaEBR)ebr10005692(OCoLC)697709414(EXLCZ)99100000000000477520010501d2002 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe lopsided spread of Christianity toward an understanding of the diffusion of religions /Robert L. MontgomeryWestport, Conn. :Praeger,2002.1 online resource (xv, 190 pages)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-275-97361-1 Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-178) and indexes.Between the empires The nearest empire to the East The great civilization of South Asia Central Asia and China The rise of a new order A comparative analysis Religious pluralism: past, present, and future Social scientific concepts and theories and the spread of religionsCompares the spread of Christianity to the East to its more successful spread to the West, illustrating and explaining its uneven diffusion.MissionsHistoryChristian sociologyHistoryMissionsHistory.Christian sociologyHistory.270Montgomery Robert L695413MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910783040103321The lopsided spread of Christianity3856418UNINA03621nam 2200445z- 450 991016164880332120210212(CKB)3710000001041976(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/57384(oapen)doab57384(EXLCZ)99371000000104197620202102d2016 |y 0engurmn|---annantxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierPutting the "why" back into bone "archytecture"Frontiers Media SA20161 online resource (82 p.)Frontiers Research Topics2-88919-311-X A large literature exists on trabecular and cortical bone morphology. The engineering performance of bone, implied from its 3d architecture, is often the endpoint of bone biology experiments, being clinically relevant to bone fracture. How and why does bone travel along its complex spatio-temporal trajectory to acquire its architecture? The question "why" can have two meanings. The first, "teleological - why is an architecture advantageous?" - is the domain of substantial biomechanical research to date. The second, "etiological - how did an architecture come about?" - has received far less attention. This Frontiers Bone Research Topic invited contributions addressing this "etiological why" - what mechanisms can coordinate the activity of bone forming and resorbing cells to produce the observed complex and efficient bone architectures? One mechanism is proposed - chaotic nonlinear pattern formation (NPF) which underlies - in a unifying way - natural structures as disparate as trabecular bone, swarms of birds flying or shoaling fish, island formation, fluid turbulence and others. At the heart of NPF is the fact that simple rules operating between interacting elements multiplied and repeated many times, lead to complex and structured patterns. This paradigm of growth and form leads to a profound link between bone regulation and its architecture: in bone "the architecture is the regulation". The former is the emergent consequence of the latter. Whatever mechanism does determine bone's developing architecture has to operate at the level of individual sites of formation and resorption and coupling between the two. This has implications as to how we understand the effect on bone of agents such as gene products or drugs. It may be for instance that the "tuning" of coupling between formation and resorption might be as important as the achievement of enhanced bone volume. The ten articles that were contributed to this Topic were just what we hoped for - a snapshot of leading edge bone biology research which addresses the question of how bone gets its shape. We hope that you find these papers thought-provoking, and that they might stimulate new ideas in the research into bone architecture, growth and adaptation, and how to preserve healthy bone from gestation and childhood until old age.Bone architectureBone biomaterialsCortical bonecouplingGrowth and DevelopmentMechanotransductionmorphometryNonlinear pattern formationremodellingTrabecular bonePhil Salmonauth1278855Daniel ChappardauthAndrew Anthony PitsillidesauthBOOK9910161648803321Putting the "why" back into bone "archytecture"3014024UNINA