Download or read book Cognitive Biology written by Gennaro Auletta and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2011-07-14 with total page 1107 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing a new conceptual scaffold for further research in biology and cognition, this book introduces the new field of Cognitive Biology: a systems biology approach showing that further progress in this field will depend on a deep recognition of developmental processes, as well as on the consideration of the developed organism as an agent able to modify and control its surrounding environment. The role of cognition, the means through which the organism is able to cope with its environment, cannot be underestimated. In particular, it is shown that this activity is grounded on a theory of information based on Bayesian probabilities. The organism is considered as a cybernetic system able to integrate a processor as a source of variety (the genetic system), a regulator of its own homeostasis (the metabolic system), and a selecting system separating the self from the non-self (the membrane in unicellular organisms). Any organism is a complex system that can survive only if it is able to maintain its internal order against the spontaneous tendency towards disruption. Therefore, it is forced to monitor and control its environment and so to establish feedback circuits resulting in co-adaptation. Cognitive and biological processes are shown to be inseparable.

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Download or read book New Dictionary Armenian English written by Matthias Bedrossian and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 819 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bedrossian's Armenian-English grammar is an essential tool for those working in classical Armenian, especially in biblical texts, for which he provides many brief citations, unsigned. The dictionary itself is an excellent example of the superb scholarship that was pursued by the Mechitarist Fathers at San Lazzaro, Venice; another example is the 1805 edition of the Bible prepared by H. Zohrapian. It was first printed at Venice, 1875-1879; reprinted in Beirut: Librairie du Liban, 1973. This reprint has been unavailable for some time. There is really no replacement for Bedrossian in the English-speaking world and its republication is most welcome.--Claude CoxMcMaster Divinity College

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Download or read book The Encyclopaedic dictionary a new practical and exhaustive work of reference to all the words in the English language with a full account of their origin meaning pronunciation history and use written by Robert Hunter and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 1342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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