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„Springers Einwürfe“ – eine kritisch-amüsante Begleitung des Forschungsbetriebs In diesem interdisziplinären Lesebuch beantwortet der Physiker und Essayist Michael Springer, was Sie schon immer über Wissenschaft wissen wollten, aber nicht zu fragen wagten: Hat die Erforschung der Kugelblitze eine komische Seite? Welche Chancen hat die Naturforschung, die in den Entwicklungsländern betrieben wird? Kommt man mit Schwimmbewegungen in der Schwerelosigkeit vom Fleck? Kann die Quantenphysik die Freiheit des Willens garantieren? Wie erklärt sich die skurrile Vielfalt tierischer Penisformen? Lassen sich aus Suchanfragen im Internet drohende Epidemien vorhersagen? Aus vielen Einzelresultaten, die auf ihre allgemeine Relevanz abgeklopft werden, entsteht ein interdisziplinäres Panorama des Forschungsbetriebs. Indem der Autor über die Kluft zwischen den „zwei Kulturen“ – Naturwissenschaft und allgemeine Bildung – hin und her tänzelt, wird der Leser zugleich kompetent informiert und gut unterhalten. .

Physics. --- Life sciences. --- Popular Science in Physics. --- Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary. --- Physics, general. --- Life Sciences, general.

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"This current volume seeks to provide some clarity regarding the history and current capabilities of the cyber domain. Its authors have largely, though not exclusively, focused upon the Western experience, particularly the United States. In part, this is due to the availability of open source, unclassified data. Not only are the sources more readily available, but they tend to be more applicable to the target audience for this work. The authors come from a wide variety of backgrounds, with a substantial number of them serving in the military or other governmental institutions. As such, it needs to be stated that the ideas and arguments presented in this volume are the opinions of the individual authors, based upon their expertise, and do not represent the position of any government, military entity, or institution."--Provided by publisher.

Cyberspace operations (Military science) --- Cyberterrorism --- Attacks on computers --- Computer attacks --- Cyber attacks --- Cyber terrorism --- Cyber war --- Cyberwarfare --- Electronic terrorism (Cyberterrorism) --- Computer crimes --- Terrorism --- Cyber war (Military science) --- Cyberwar (Military science) --- Cyberspace warfare (Military science) --- Cyberwarfare (Military science) --- Offensive cyber operations (Military science) --- Military art and science

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This book provides a detailed discussion of the theoretical and practical implications of the change driven by ICTs. Such a change is often much more profound than an emphasis on information technology and society can capture, for not only does it bring about ethical and policy vacuums that call for a new understanding of ethics, politics and law, but it also “re-ontologizes reality”, as propounded by Luciano Floridi’s philosophy and ethics of information. The informational turn is transforming our understanding of reality by challenging the conventional ways we have of thinking about our world and our identities in terms of stable and enduring structures and beliefs. The information age we inhabit brings to completion our self-understanding as informational systems that produce, process, and exchange information with other informational systems, in an environment that is itself made up of information. The present volume provides us with a better understanding of the normative nature and role of information, helping us to grasp the sense and extent to which informational resources serve as “constraining affordances” guiding our behaviours. It does so by delineating the background against which we build our beliefs about reality, make decisions, and behave, through our interactions with a multi-agent system that is increasingly dependent on ICTs. The book will be of interest to a vast audience, ranging from information technologists, ethicists, policy makers, social and legal scholars, and all those willing to embrace the following three tenets: we construct our world and ourselves informationally; by constructing our world and ourselves we thereby become aware of our limits; it is precisely these limits that make us become human beings.

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This volume presents state-of-the art methods for the synthesis, design, assembly, post synthesis processing, and application of synthetic DNA to modern biotechnology. Chapters are divided into three general sections focusing on protocols for the computational design of synthetic DNA sequences, the synthesis, assembly and cloning of synthetic DNA, and post-synthesis error reduction strategies. Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format, chapters include introductions to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls. Authoritative and cutting-edge, Synthetic DNA: Methods and Protocols aims to help researchers further their research on manipulate DNA sequences.

Human genetics. --- Human Genetics. --- Genetics --- Heredity, Human --- Human biology --- Physical anthropology

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This volume focuses on applications of split inteins, and the progress that has been made in the past 5 years on discovery and engineering of fast and more efficient split inteins. The first few chapters in Split Inteins: Methods and Protocols explore new techniques on how to use split inteins for affinity purification of overproduced proteins, and split-intein based technologies to prepare cyclic peptides and proteins. The next few chapters discuss semisynthetic protein trans-splicing using one synthetic intein piece, synthetic intein-extein pieces used to deliver other cargos for chemical modification both of purified proteins and of proteins in living cells, as well as isotopic labeling of proteins for NMR studies, and a discussion on how protein block copolymers can be generated by protein trans-splicing to form protein hydrogels. The last few chapters deal with intein applications in transgenic plants and conditional inteins that can be regulated in artificial ways by small molecules or light, a cassette-based approach to quickly test many intein insertion positions, and a computational approach to predict new intein split sites (the approach also works for other proteins). Written in the highly successful Methods in Molecular Biology series format, chapters include introduction to their respective topics, lists of the necessary materials and reagents, step-by-step, readily reproducible laboratory protocols, and tips on troubleshooting and avoiding known pitfalls. Cutting-edge and thorough, Split Inteins: Methods and Protocols is a valuable resource that will provide guidance toward possibilities of split intein applications, explore proven and detailed protocols adaptable to various research projects, and inspire new method developments.

Biochemistry. --- Protein Science. --- Biological chemistry --- Chemical composition of organisms --- Organisms --- Physiological chemistry --- Biology --- Chemistry --- Medical sciences --- Composition