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 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...
All living things are remarkably complex, yet their DNA is unstable, undergoing countless random mutations over generations. Despite this instabili...
The change in the "type of religion" in ancient Israel from the time of Exile to the post-exilic period, which was paralleled by and connected with the creation of a canon, has been the subject of various research studies in religious history. It is the purpose of the present volume of collected papers to examine whether and how the categories of "Primary and secondary religion" developed by T. Sundermeier and J. Assmann can be used to describe this change. The volume combines contributions from various disciplines (Theology/Old Testament Studies, Egyptology, Ancient Oriental Studies,...
The change in the "type of religion" in ancient Israel from the time of Exile to the post-exilic period, which was paralleled by and connected with...
Since its inception, the market for credit derivatives has shown impressive growth and has hit a volume of more than $54 trillion in 2008. Credit derivatives are bilateral financial contracts that seek to transfer defined credit risks in a credit product or bunch of credit products to a counterparty. They have fundamentally changed the way banks price, manage, transact, originate, distribute and account for credit risk; they are being used for risk management and hedging as well as for speculation, balance-sheet management and regulatory capital purposes. Long celebrated as a way for banks to...
Since its inception, the market for credit derivatives has shown impressive growth and has hit a volume of more than $54 trillion in 2008. Credit deri...
The history of life is a nearly four billion year old story of transformative change. This change ranges from dramatic macroscopic innovations such as the evolution of wings or eyes, to a myriad of molecular changes that form the basis of macroscopic innovations. We are familiar with many examples of innovations (qualitatively new phenotypes that can provide a critical advantage) but have no systematic understanding of the principles that allow organisms to innovate. This book proposes several such principles as the basis of a theory of innovation, integrating recent knowledge about complex...
The history of life is a nearly four billion year old story of transformative change. This change ranges from dramatic macroscopic innovations such as...
What can a fingernail tell us about the mysteries of creation? In one sense, a nail is merely a hunk of mute matter, yet in another, it's an information superhighway quite literally at our fingertips. Every moment, streams of molecular signals direct our cells to move, flatten, swell, shrink, divide, or die. Andreas Wagner's ambitious new book explores this hidden web of unimaginably complex interactions in every living being. In the process, he unveils a host of paradoxes underpinning our understanding of modern biology, contradictions he considers gatekeepers at the frontiers of...
What can a fingernail tell us about the mysteries of creation? In one sense, a nail is merely a hunk of mute matter, yet in another, it's an inform...
Magisterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Filmwissenschaft, Note: 1.3, Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz (Filmwissenschaft), Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Die ersten Bilder eines Filmes gehoren meist dem Vorspann, einem zwitterartigen Konstrukt zwischen Realitat und filmischer Handlung. Anders als der Trailer zum Film, welcher die Aufgabe der Werbung zu erfullen hat, muss der Vorspann nichts mehr verkaufen - die Zuschauer haben sich schon fur den Film entschieden. Dennoch ist er eines der wichtigsten Instrumente, um den Zuschauer aus seiner Welt abzuholen und in die filmische Diegese...
Magisterarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich Filmwissenschaft, Note: 1.3, Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz (Filmwissenschaft), Sprache: Deutsch...
Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich BWL - Unternehmensfuhrung, Management, Organisation, Note: 1,0, Hochschule fur angewandte Wissenschaften Wurzburg-Schweinfurt (Fakultat Betriebswirtschaft), Veranstaltung: Unternehmensfuhrung, Sprache: Deutsch, Abstract: Laut einer von Roland Berger durchgefuhrten Umfrage stellt die Insolvenz, insbesondere fur mittelstandische Unternehmer, die schlechteste aller Sanierungsoptionen dar. Wenn erst einmal der Insolvenzantrag gestellt ist, gelingt es in den wenigsten Fallen bedeutende Kunden weiterhin ans Unternehmen zu binden, entscheidende...
Diplomarbeit aus dem Jahr 2010 im Fachbereich BWL - Unternehmensfuhrung, Management, Organisation, Note: 1,0, Hochschule fur angewandte Wissenschaften...
Natural selection can preserve innovations, but it cannot create them. Nature s many innovations some uncannily perfect call for natural principles that accelerate life s ability to innovate. Darwin s theory of natural selection explains how useful adaptations are preserved over time. But the biggest mystery about evolution eluded him. As genetics pioneer Hugo de Vries put it, natural selection may explain the survival of the fittest, but it cannot explain the arrival of the fittest. Can random mutations over a mere 3.8 billion years really be responsible for wings, eyeballs, knees,...
Natural selection can preserve innovations, but it cannot create them. Nature s many innovations some uncannily perfect call for natural principles th...
Andreas Wagner untersucht in dieser ethnografischen Studie anhand von Kooperationen eines internationalen Kinderhilfswerkes mit Gemeindegruppen in Sambia, Athiopien, Kenia, Uganda und Mosambik, wie durch die Zusammenarbeit international agierender NGOs mit lokalen Communities Graswurzelorganisationen geschaffen werden, um der problematischen Lebenssituation vulnerabler Kinder zu begegnen. Diese Community-Based Organisations werdendurch Interaktionen und komplexe Aushandlungsprozesse hergestellt und als anschlussfahige, lokale Partner fur Geberorganisationen der...
Andreas Wagner untersucht in dieser ethnografischen Studie anhand von Kooperationen eines internationalen Kinderhilfswerkes mit Gemeindegruppen in Sam...
Images of the body in ancient Near Eastern civilizations are radically different from body images today. This has significant consequences for our understanding of the biblical notion of God's human shape; there are bound to be misconceptions. Andreas Wagner illuminates these misconceptions, and reveals the sometimes distant pictorial world of ancient body images. He contrasts these with contemporary models and makes the matter of the Old Testament concept of God's human form accessible and clear in this exciting, richly detailed work.
Wagner begins with three methodological...
Images of the body in ancient Near Eastern civilizations are radically different from body images today. This has significant consequences for our ...
