3,267 research outputs found
New Roads for Patron-Driven E-books:Collection Development and Technical Services Implications of a Patron-Driven Acquisitions Pilot at Rutgers
No full textCollection development librarians have long struggled to meet user demands for new titles. Too often, required resources are not purchased, while some purchased resources do not circulate. E-books selected through patron-driven plans are a solution but present new challenges for both selectors and catalogers. Radical changes to traditional technical services workflows are required, and selectors must modify the selection process to give more choice to the user. Rutgers University librarians have adopted an innovative new technical services workflow and collection-development model to manage a successful, patron-driven acquisitions project for e-books in the fields of math and computer science.This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis Group in Journal of Electronic Resources Librarianship on 13/12/2011, available online at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/1941126X.2011.627043
The politics of fashion: perceptions of power in female clothing and ornamentation as reflected in the sixteenth-century Chinese novel Jin Ping Mei
No full textThis thesis examines issues of female power and influence in sixteenth-century China focusing on how women and their roles were perceived in the changing social environment of the mid-late Ming dynasty. Using aspects of a New Historicist approach, information from contemporary literary and historical sources are analysed alongside each other. With its emphasis on the lives of women and preoccupation with the description of material objects, the late Ming novel Jin Ping Mei forms an important element in the thesis. China in the sixteenth century saw expanding urbanisation, the emergence of a new wealthy merchant class, increasing visibility of women and a questioning of traditional morality. Fashion consciousness, as one of the most conspicuous aspects of the new material culture, is a possible indicator of these trends. Traditional Western theories contend that fashion began in the particular context of Renaissance Europe. However, this study argues that a similar fashion awareness existed in China too, and was manifested in a competitive striving for social status, in this case specifically among women. In contrast to previous studies which downplayed the impact women had on defining traditional Chinese culture, this thesis demonstrates how women and their sartorial choices began to redefine the boundaries of material culture, influencing literati discourse which, in turn, re- influenced female behaviour
Review of Mayer, R.; Knothe, F.; Shuo, H. (2022) Reflected beauty: Chinese reverse glass paintings from the Mei Lin Collection
No full textIn this well-documented, bilingual, and richly illustrated catalogue, published for the long-anticipated exhibition Reflected Beauty: Chinese Reverse Glass Paintings from the Mei Lin Collection at the University Museum and Art Gallery of the University of Hong Kong (September 2021-January 2022), the authors give us a profound insight into the phenomenon of reverse painting on glass and mirror paintings, with a particular focus on those from the Mei Lin Collection assembled by the Sinologist, author, and translator Rupprecht Mayer and his wife Haitang Mayer-Liem. Composed of over one hundred works acquired in East Asia between 1968 and 2012, this is one of the world's most important collections of Chinese reverse glass paintings from the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries.Modern and Contemporary Studie
Correlation Spectroscopy and Molecular Dynamics Simulations to Study the Structural Features of Proteins
No full textIn this work, we used a combination of fluorescence correlation spectroscopy (FCS) and molecular dynamics (MD) simulation methodologies to acquire structural information on pH-induced unfolding of the maltotriose-binding protein from Thermus thermophilus (MalE2). FCS has emerged as a powerful technique for characterizing the dynamics of molecules and it is, in fact, used to study molecular diffusion on timescale of microsecond and longer. Our results showed that keeping temperature constant, the protein diffusion coefficient decreased from 84±4 μm2/s to 44±3 μm2/s when pH was changed from 7.0 to 4.0. An even more marked decrease of the MalE2 diffusion coefficient (31±3 μm2/s) was registered when pH was raised from 7.0 to 10.0. According to the size of MalE2 (a monomeric protein with a molecular weight of 43 kDa) as well as of its globular native shape, the values of 44 μm2/s and 31 μm2/s could be ascribed to deformations of the protein structure, which enhances its propensity to form aggregates at extreme pH values. The obtained fluorescence correlation data, corroborated by circular dichroism, fluorescence emission and light-scattering experiments, are discussed together with the MD simulations results
Spazi pubblici e luoghi condivisi. Progetti architettonici per le città europee
No full textSotto la responsabilità intellettuale e supervisione diretta dell'autore, il volume raccoglie i contributi scritti dai relatori che hanno partecipato al ciclo di conferenze Spazi pubblici e luoghi condivisi. Progetti architettonici per le città europee, ideato da Guya Bertelli e coordinato dal sottoscritto. Il symposium è stato promosso dal Dipartimento di Architettura e Studi Urbani (DAStU) e le conferenze hanno avuto luogo, tra il 2012 e il 2013, presso la sede centrale del Politecnico di Milano e presso il Campus Arata del Polo Territoriale di Piacenza.
Le quattro giornate di studio sono state organizzate in modo tale che il dibattito prendesse in esame, nell’ambito della stessa giornata, una coppia di città europee, rendendo possibile un fertile confronto. I contributi dei relatori - Enric Massip Bosh e Carlos Garcia Vazquez; Hervé Dubois e Gill Novarina; Stefan Vieths e Michele Giovanni Caja; Francisco Arqués Soler e Maria Vittoria
Capitanucci - sono articolati in quattro diversi capitoli. Ciascun capitolo presenta gli interventi della relativa giornata di studio ed è aperto da un’introduzione, e seguito da una conclusione a firma del coordinatore della giornata. I quattro capitoli sono inoltre preceduti da un’introduzione di Gabriele Pasqui e dai saggi di Guya Bertelli, Michele Roda e del sottoscritto che riflettono, attraverso uno sguardo critico, sul ruolo e sul significato dello spazio pubblico nella città contemporanea.Under the intellectual responsibility and direct supervision of the author, the publication collects contributions by the lecturers in the series of conference Public spaces and shared places. Architectural projects for the European cities created by Guya Bertelli and coordinated by Pasquale Mei. The symposium was sponsored by the Department of Architecture and Urban studies (DAStU) and the conferences have been organized in 2012 and 2013 at Politecnico di Milano, Campus Leonardo, and at Arata Campus, in the Territorial Campus of Piacenza. The debates were part of the four working days; each one was dedicated to an interesting comparison between two European cities. The contributions of the lecturers - Enric Massip Bosh and Carlos Garcia Vazquez; Hervé Dubois and Gill Novarina; Stefan Vieths and Michele Giovanni Caja; Arqués Francisco Soler and Maria Vittoria Capitanucci - are divided into four different chapters. Each chapter presents the intervention of a specific day and is opened by the introduction, and followed by a conclusion by the coordinator of the same day. The four chapters are introduced by a forward by Gabriele Pasqui and essays by Guya Bertelli, Michele Roda and Pasquale Mei, reflecting a critical view on the role and the meaning of the public space in the contemporary city
Debietmeting (ADCP) Roompot-Veerse Dam, 29 mei 1997
No full textDebietmeting (ADCP) Roompot-Veerse Dam 29 mei 1997.Deltawerken, Oosterscheld
Stroom- en sedimentmeting Veerse Dam - Roompot, 24 mei 1993
No full textStroom- en sedimentmeting Veerse Dam - Roompot 24 mei 1993.Deltawerken, Oosterscheld
Conformational Dynamics of Lipoxygenases and Their Interaction with Biological Membranes
No full textLipoxygenases (LOXs) are a family of enzymes that includes different fatty acid oxygenases with a common tridimensional structure. The main functions of LOXs are the production of signaling compounds and the structural modifications of biological membranes. These features of LOXs, their widespread presence in all living organisms, and their involvement in human diseases have attracted the attention of the scientific community over the last decades, leading to several studies mainly focused on understanding their catalytic mechanism and designing effective inhibitors. The aim of this review is to discuss the state-of-the-art of a different, much less explored aspect of LOXs, that is, their interaction with lipid bilayers. To this end, the general architecture of six relevant LOXs (namely human 5-, 12-, and 15-LOX, rabbit 12/15-LOX, coral 8-LOX, and soybean 15-LOX), with different specificity towards the fatty acid substrates, is analyzed through the available crystallographic models. Then, their putative interface with a model membrane is examined in the frame of the conformational flexibility of LOXs, that is due to their peculiar tertiary structure. Finally, the possible future developments that emerge from the available data are discussed
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