Sebagai instrumen fundamental dalam seluruh proses komunikasi, tanda telah menjadi pusat penyelidikan intelektual modern melalui disiplin semiotika. Thomas A. Sebeok, salah satu pemikir paling berpengaruh dalam bidang ini, menyajikan dalam volume ini kumpulan esai yang mengeksplorasi "Doktrin Tanda-tanda"—sebuah tradisi intelektual yang berakar dari pemikiran Locke dan Peirce hingga era konte…
Mengambil masalah dengan Teori Tata Bahasa Transformasional, yang telah mendominasi studi bahasa sejak Noam Chomsky memperkenalkannya lebih dari tiga puluh tahun yang lalu, Sebastian Shaumyan memisahkan bahasa dari psikologi, dengan alasan bahwa bahasa menempati dunia yang berbeda, yaitu dunia semiotik. Penulis mengembangkan teori unik berdasarkan analisis sifat semiotik bahasa, yang ia namakan…
Buku ini berisi bab-bab yang dirujuk secara tepat, dengan penekanan pada agen antibakteri yang memiliki kegunaan klinis dan alternatif untuk agen antibakteri sintetis melalui ulasan mendetail tentang penyakit dan pengendaliannya menggunakan pendekatan alternatif. Buku ini bertujuan untuk menjelaskan penyakit bakteri dan pengendaliannya melalui obat-obatan sintetis yang digantikan oleh bahan kim…
Koleksi ini merayakan berdirinya Semiotics Society of America. Sepuluh esai ini mencakup berbagai aspek semiotika, mulai dari dasar medisnya hingga masalah filosofis, logika, seni, dan perspektif ilmu sosial. Judulnya menggemakan pernyataan oleh pendiri besar Amerika dari teori tanda modern, C. S. Peirce, yang berpendapat bahwa seluruh alam semesta dipenuhi dengan tanda-tanda, jika tidak secara…
The human intestine is home of an almost inconceivable large number of microorganisms. The human gut microbiota can therefore be pictured as an organ placed within a host organism. The human gut microbiome, which in total may contain >100 times the number of genes present in our genome, endows us with functional features that we did not have to evolve ourselves.
”A construção da Biblioteca Joanina parece ter obedecido a dois propósitos claros: um rei que quis eternizar-se e uma Universidade que necessitava de um espaço para guardar os seus livros.(...)Ao escrever agora sobre a Biblioteca Joanina, com critério e desenvolvimento, Carlos Fiolhais revela a erudição e o espírito inquisitivo que bem lhe conhecemos de muitos outros textos e que faze…
Evidence for the potential role of organ specific cardiovascular renin–angiotensin systems (RAS) has been demonstrated experimentally and clinically with respect to certain cardiovascular and renal diseases. These findings have been supported by studies involving pharmacological inhibition during ischemic heart disease, myocardial infarction, cardiac failure; hypertension associated with l…
Global concern about climate change caused by the exploitation of fossil fuels is encouraging the use of renewable energies. For instance, the European Union aims to be climate neutral by 2050. Biogas is an interesting renewable energy source due to its high calorific value. Today, biogas is mainly used for the production of electricity and heat by a combined heat and power engine. However, bef…
Biotechnology is the scientific field of studying and applying the most efficient methods and techniques to get useful end-products for the human society by using viable micro-organisms, cells, and tissues of plants or animals, or even certain functional components of their organisms, that are grown in fully controlled conditions to maximize their specific metabolism inside fully automatic bior…
Algae biomass has enormous potential to produce fuels and value-added products. Algae-derived biofuels and bioproducts offer great promise in contributing to U.S. energy security and in mitigating the environmental concerns associated with conventional fuels. Algae's ability to grow in low quality water/wastewater and to accumulate lipids has encouraged scientists to investigate algae as a medi…