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The Number of Standard and of Effective Multiple Alignments
No full textDress A, Morgenstern B, Stoye J. The Number of Standard and of Effective Multiple Alignments. Appl. Math. Lett. 1998;11(4):43-49
Conserving and Sustaining Culture through Traditional Dress
No full textThe government of Botswana through its National Policy on Culture (2001) and the National Ecotourism Strategy (2002) is committed to preserving national culture and historical heritage. The policy stipulates that valuable heritage must be preserved and developed in order to foster a sense of national identity, pride and unity. It is necessary to reformulate cultural values and valuing processes, in order to better understand the Setswana culture and its meaning in material objects. To this end, dress as one of the valuable material culture objects is essential for signifying and expressing subtle cultural value and social relationships. The intimate link between people and their traditional dress lies at the core of ethnic identity, and has assumed a higher level of significance among consumers and tourists who collect symbolic items. A specific emphasis on a national traditional dress seems to be lacking in Botswana. This paper argues that there is need to restore traditional dress in Botswana, which would serve as a symbol of national identity and cultural heritage. The paper is based on the findings of a study that explored the historical underpinnings of national dress in Botswana, and how national dress could be used to sustain culture
Let Freedom Read Dress Poster
No full textPoster promoting the Let Freedom Read Dress exhibit on display in the J. Willard Marriott Library September 22 to October 23, 2023
Stability of multiple alignments and phylogenetic trees: an analysis of ABC-transporter proteins family
No full textWagner H, Morgenstern B, Dress A. Stability of multiple alignments and phylogenetic trees: an analysis of ABC-transporter proteins family. Algorithms for Molecular Biology. 2008;3(1): 15.Background: Sequence-based phylogeny reconstruction is a fundamental task in Bioinformatics. Practically all methods for phylogeny reconstruction are based on multiple alignments. The quality and stability of the underlying alignments is therefore crucial for phylogenetic analysis. Results: In this short report, we investigate alignments and alignment-based phylogenies constructed for a set of 22 ABC transporters using CLUSTAL W and DIALIGN. Comparing the 22 "one-out phylogenies" one can obtain for this sequence set, some intrinsic phylogenetic instability is observed - even if attention is restricted to branches with high bootstrapping frequencies, the so-called safe branches. We show that this instability is caused by the fact that both, CLUSTAL W as well as DIALIGN, apparently get "confused" by sequence repeats in some of the ABC-transporter. To deal with such problems, two new DIALIGN options are introduced that prove helpful in our context, the "exclude-fragment" (or "xfr") and the "self-comparison" (or "sc") option. Conclusion: "One-out strategies", known to be a useful tool for testing the stability of all sorts of data-analysis procedures, can successfully be used also in testing alignment stability. In case instabilities are observed, the sequences under consideration should be carefully checked for putative causes. In case one suspects sequence repeats to be the cause, the new "sc" option can be used to detect such repeats, and the "xfr" option can help to resolve the resulting problems
Application Research of 3D Printing Technology on Dress Forms
No full textAbstract— Dress form is an essential tool in the clothing-making process for pattern block development, draping and quality inspection. However, it is noted that a single dress form is not applicable for a large variety body shapes. There are adjustable dress forms and custom-made dress forms to attempt to make up for the insufficiency of conventional dress forms. However, such types of dress forms are rather costly and their effectiveness is debatable. With this is mind, a customised adjustable kit for the dress form was developed, with the aim to cover different sizes and shapes more precisely. The kit adopts 3D printing technology which enables generating and changing the shape of components efficiently
Let Freedom Read Dress on exhibit (back view), J. Willard Marriott Library
No full textThe Let Freedom Read Dress was on display in the J. Willard Marriott Library September 22 to October 23, 2023, overlapping with the American Library Association\u27s Banned Book Week
Let Freedom Read Dress on exhibit (front view), J. Willard Marriott Library
No full textThe Let Freedom Read Dress was on display next to book display of frequently censored books in the J. Willard Marriott Library September 22 to October 23, 2023, overlapping with the American Library Association\u27s Banned Book Week
Kirby installs Let Freedom Read Dress exhibit, J. Willard Marriott Library
No full textThe Let Freedom Read Dress was on display in the J. Willard Marriott Library September 22 to October 23, 2023, overlapping with the American Library Association\u27s Banned Book Week
Gia Bianca Stephens modeling Let Freedom Read Dress [02]
No full textSalt Lake City drag artist, Gia Bianca Stephens, models the Let Freedom Read Dress created by Kirby Gene Anderson and Rachel Jane Wittmann for the J. Willard Marriott Library\u27s 2023 Banned Book Week promotions
Gia Bianca Stephens modeling Let Freedom Read Dress [03]
No full textSalt Lake City drag artist, Gia Bianca Stephens, models the Let Freedom Read Dress created by Kirby Gene Anderson and Rachel Jane Wittmann for the J. Willard Marriott Library\u27s 2023 Banned Book Week promotions
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