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IBPP Research Associates: Namibia/Turkey
No full textThis article - The Globalization of Old Age, by Serdan Sayan - was posted on the January 9, 2003 issue of The Namibian (Namibia). It has not been posted in Scholarly Commons due to copyright restrictions. Though a subscription for full access to the article is required, partial access to the article is available online in the archives of Project Syndicate.
The article discusses wealth inequality and the aging, or graying, of the world\u27s richest nations and the subsequent possible global impact of this demographic reality.
The author is Vice-Chairman and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Economics, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
PENERAPAN KONSEP COMFORT OF HUMAN CIRCULATION DAN ARSITEKTUR NEO VERNAKULAR PADA REDESAIN PASAR TRADISIONAL DESA SAYAN
No full textTraditional markets are places where buying and selling transactions take place between traders and buyers by implementing a bargaining system that is characteristic of traditional markets. Many people depend on the existence of traditional markets. Especially for lower middle class people. Sayan Village Traditional Market, Ubud District, Gianyar Regency is a location for trading daily necessities such as fruit, vegetables, meat, prayer tools, and others. The problems faced by this market are unhygienic market conditions and the appearance of slums, buildings and spatial layout. Sayan Market experiences an inadequate and disorganized condition, with a number of areas not being utilized optimally, such as chaotic parking and kiosk facilities and main market stalls that are neglected and not well maintained. This can cause people to feel uncomfortable, and people prefer modern markets that prioritize cleanliness. The research method used by the author to prepare this research is a qualitative method in the form of literature study, observation, documentation and interviews. Based on the existing problems, it is necessary to redesign the Traditional Market in Sayan Village, Ubud District, Gianyar Regency so that it can accommodate functions well packaged in a new, clean, comfortable market appearance and pay attention to more optimal circulatio
Moss occurrences in Salair-Kuznetsk Region (Altai-Sayan mountain country)
No full textIn the flora of large regions, mosses comprise about a quarter of the total diversity of higher plants. However, now mosses are the least studied group of higher plants. Data on moss species distribution are fragmentary, especially in Russia with its vast expanse and low density of botanists.The author for many years has been studying the bryoflora of various areas of the Salair-Kuznetsk Region. In addition to the herbarium collection, the author's bryological relevés were organised as a Database. It stores all the assembled information for the years about the locations of the species, including when the specimens were not placed in the herbarium.The article describes three datasets that were arranged from the author's databases for three geomorphological units in the northwest of Altai-Sayan mountain country (South Siberia). Together, these three units are combined into the Salair-Kuznetsk Region. The datasets are:1. Moss occurrences in the Kuznetsk upland.The dataset consists of 3940 occurrence records and includes both preserved specimens (1135) and ‘human observations’ of the author (2805). The material was collected mainly from 1992-2011; some samples collected by A. N. Vasiliev in 1970-1971 (165) were also taken into account. A total of 312 moss taxa belonging to 135 genera and 41 families are reported for the region.2. Moss occurrences in Salair Ridge.The dataset consists of 2442 occurrence records and includes both preserved specimens (553) and ‘human observations’ of the author (1889). The material was collected mainly from 1992-1996; a total of 231 moss taxa belonging to 119 genera and 35 families are reported for the region.3. Moss occurrences in Kuznetsk Depression.The dataset consists of 1690 occurrence records and includes both preserved specimens (281) and ‘human observations’ of the author (1409). The material was collected mainly from 2007-2014; a total of 155 moss taxa belonging to 85 genera and 30 families are reported for the region.All the records are geo-linked. The uncertainty of coordinates in metres varies from 500.0-10000.0 m for the earliest records that are geo-linked by topo-map, to 10.0-100.0 m for records after 2003 that are geo-linked by GPS.The article summarises the results of the author's long-term bryological investigations in the Salair-Kuznetsk Region (northwest of Altai-Sayan mountain country, South Siberia).In total, 8072 occurrence records for 366 moss species from 148 genera and 41 families are published for the territory. The datasets contribute to filling gaps in the moss species distribution and ecology
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Feyda Sayan-Cengiz , Beyond Headscarf Culture in Turkey's Retail Sector (New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 206). Pp. 192. $95.00 cloth. ISBN: 9781137546944
No full textFeyda Sayan-Cengiz’s first ethnography examines lower-class, headscarf-wearing women who work in the private sector and their precarity at work through the politics of visibility, class, and gender. The author takes issues with what she calls “culturalist lenses” that often carelessly divide women as either Islamist or secularist based on their headscarf (or lack of it). In Sayan Cengiz’s argument, such a lens not only fails to reflect the fluidity and diversity she witnesses in Turkish social life, but does so “at the expense of folding issues of social inequality into cultural difference-based social stratification” (p. 3).
The scholarly discussion on the headscarf in Turkey is dominated by questions about Islamic revivalism in the 1990s, and how, during this period, religious women started demanding modern and Western values and access to spaces such as universities and the political arenas. This
literature, often unavoidably, furthered the (mis)understanding that Islamic visibility (headscarf) is the immediate indicator of religiosity, Muslimhood, or Islamism. However, Sayan-Cengiz’s work ethnographically demonstrates how complex the picture is for many women, especially those from the lower class
POSITION OF PRADANA IN NYEBURIN MARRIAGE REVIEWED FROM THE LAW OF BALI INDIGENOUS HERITAGE IN BANJAR KUTUH DESA SAYAN KECAMATAN UBUD KABUPATEN GIANYAR
No full textThe aims of this study are to know the Nyeburin Marriage Inheritance System in Banjar Kutuh, Sayan Village, Ubud District, Gianyar Regency women as Purusa or nyentana men as Pradana if their inheritance is in the form of land assets and to know the position of social social status of men as Pradana in Nyeburin Marriage in indigenous communities in the Village of Sayan Banjar Kutuh, Ubud District, Gianyar Regency. This method uses Empirical legal research. Using the statutory approach, case approach, and conceptual approach. Sources of data are sourced from primary data (field research) and secondary data (library research). Data collection techniques consisted of interview techniques, document study techniques, and literature study techniques. The data collected was analyzed descriptive qualitatively. The author uses the theory of justice, the theory of legal certainty, the theory of reception in complex u. Based on the results of the study it was found that the inheritance of nyeburin marriage in Banjar village is still strong in women because of their status as Purusa and their social social status is different if the work of a person who becomes a pradana, for example, a doctor may look higher. The conclusion is that a woman still has the right to inherit because as a purusa and if the inheritance in the form of land remains the right of the woman and in social status remains the head of the household in the community remains the same except for work that makes their social status different
Single-Particle Cryo-EM: What happens inside the Black Box?
No full textElectron microscopy has been an important method for visualising biological structures and processes since the 1940s. The discovery of a practical vitreous-ice specimen-preparation technique in the mid-1980s [Adrian 1984] led to modern-day Cryogenic Electron Microscopy (Cryo-EM) which in recent years has become a major technique for studying the architecture of biological macromolecules. Many further instrumental and data-analysis improvements were established in the decades after the introduction of the “vitreous-ice” state of water. Especially the advent of direct electron detectors boosted the quality of the recorded data, allowing atomic-resolution information of biological complexes to be harvested in the early 2010s, developments that truly revolutionized the use of Cryo-EM in structural biology. Single-Particle Analysis (SPA) of isolated molecules, prepared in a thin layer of vitreous water, has proven a most successful approach in structural biology and now often supplants the use of classical techniques like X-ray crystallography, especially for large biological complexes. The ever-increasing number of researchers using Cryo-EM is reflected by the growing number of depositions in the Electron Microscopy Data Bank (EMDB). Explaining this methodology to a new generation of researchers has now become a priority. In writing this review we were reminded of some persistent confusions that emerged in the early days of Cryo-EM but that continue to muddle the field. A new problem with the prolific use of Graphic User Interfaces (GUIs), is that the underlying methodology is often no longer transparent to the users of these “black boxes”. Complicated procedures, well hidden behind a GUI window, may contain methodological flaws that the user must be aware of. The conquering of markets in this booming Cryo-EM field – crucial for developing new pharmaceuticals – must not prevail over scientific integrity. We here describe and critically review the principles of single-particle Cryo-EM. We warn for procedures that have gone astray and could generate serious problems especially in the quality-control of Single-Particle Cryogenic Electron Microscopy
Special Issue on “Recent Advances in Robust Adaptive Control”
No full textGreen Open Access added to TU Delft Institutional Repository 'You share, we take care!' - Taverne project https://www.openaccess.nl/en/you-share-we-take-care Otherwise as indicated in the copyright section: the publisher is the copyright holder of this work and the author uses the Dutch legislation to make this work public.Team Bart De Schutte
The HathiTrust Digital Library’s potential for musicology research
No full textThe HathiTrust Digital Library (HTDL) is one of the largest digital libraries in the world, containing over fourteen million volumes from the collections of major academic and research libraries. In this paper, we discuss the HTDL's potential for musicology research by providing a bibliometric analysis of the collection as a whole, and of the music materials in particular. A series of case studies illustrates the kinds of musicological research that may be conducted using the HTDL. We highlight several opportunities for improvement, and discuss promising future directions for new knowledge creation through the processing and analysis of large amounts of retrospective data. The HTDL presents significant new opportunities to the study of music that will continue to expand as data, metadata and collection enhancements are introduced
Mechanistic Insight into the Reactivation of BCAII Enzyme from Denatured and Molten Globule States by Eukaryotic Ribosomes and Domain V rRNAs.
No full textIn all life forms, decoding of messenger-RNA into polypeptide chain is accomplished by the ribosome. Several protein chaperones are known to bind at the exit of ribosomal tunnel to ensure proper folding of the nascent chain by inhibiting their premature folding in the densely crowded environment of the cell. However, accumulating evidence suggests that ribosome may play a chaperone role in protein folding events in vitro. Ribosome-mediated folding of denatured proteins by prokaryotic ribosomes has been studied extensively. The RNA-assisted chaperone activity of the prokaryotic ribosome has been attributed to the domain V, a span of 23S rRNA at the intersubunit side of the large subunit encompassing the Peptidyl Transferase Centre. Evidently, this functional property of ribosome is unrelated to the nascent chain protein folding at the exit of the ribosomal tunnel. Here, we seek to scrutinize whether this unique function is conserved in a primitive kinetoplastid group of eukaryotic species Leishmania donovani where the ribosome structure possesses distinct additional features and appears markedly different compared to other higher eukaryotic ribosomes. Bovine Carbonic Anhydrase II (BCAII) enzyme was considered as the model protein. Our results manifest that domain V of the large subunit rRNA of Leishmania ribosomes preserves chaperone activity suggesting that ribosome-mediated protein folding is, indeed, a conserved phenomenon. Further, we aimed to investigate the mechanism underpinning the ribosome-assisted protein reactivation process. Interestingly, the surface plasmon resonance binding analyses exhibit that rRNA guides productive folding by directly interacting with molten globule-like states of the protein. In contrast, native protein shows no notable affinity to the rRNA. Thus, our study not only confirms conserved, RNA-mediated chaperoning role of ribosome but also provides crucial insight into the mechanism of the process
THE ISSUES OF THE USE OF INDIGENOUS SACRAL OBJECTS IN TOURIST INDUSTRY (EXPERIENCE OF THE ALTAI-SAYAN REGION)
No full text<p>Religious objects play an important role in the vital activity of the indigenous peoples of the North, as they accumulate information about the history, traditional culture and the use of local communities. Currently, many of them are gradually fading away or in an unsatisfactory state. Sacred places are getting more and more popular with tourists, which turns them into touristic destinations. That is why the article raises the pressing challenge of including the sacred places of the Northern indigenous peoples into tourist routes.<strong></strong></p><p>The article examines the experience of the regions ofSouthern Siberiain organizing tourism near religious sites.</p><p>As a result of the research, the author comes to the conclusion that the development of tourism in places of power of the indigenous peoples of the North has both positive and negative aspects. The paper gives a number of practical recommendations that would prevent negative consequences of the use of religious objects in tourism. In the conclusion of the article it is said that, with proper organization, tourism can be one of the most effective tools for maintaining and developing the sacred sites in the Altai-Sayan region.</p></jats:p
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