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Response of waxy gene expression in glutinous rice grain to the variation of upstream DNA sequence
No full textMartial arts fiction : translational migrations east and west
Full text linkThis thesis was motivated by Robert Chard's puzzlement over the translational
phenomenon of martial arts fiction in the West. It proposes to address how the
translational migration of martial arts fiction took place, first to other Asian countries in the
1920's, but to the West only after a lapse of a few decades beginning in the early 1990's.
Adopting a descriptive approach as described by Gideon Toury, the thesis is intended to
add further to the limited inventory of case studies in urgent demand to test the polysystem
theory propounded by Even-Zohar.
The thesis is made up of two parts. Part I is a macro-level study of martial arts fiction,
intended to contribute to testing the limits of the polysystem theory. After examining
Chinese fiction as a low form in the Chinese literary polysystem and its weak function as
translated literature in the Western literary polysystem, the study explores the translational
phenomenon of martial arts fiction in the West as well as the concurrent phenomenon as to
why so little of martial arts fiction has been translated into Western languages, compared to
the copious amount into other Asian languages, to the extent of stimulating a new literary
genre or (re)writing martial arts fiction in indigenous languages in Indonesia, Vietnam and
Korea, sinicized countries or countries boasting large overseas Chinese communities.
Issues and problems related to these translational activities and cultural phenomena are
presented as tools to test the limits of the polysystem theory.
Part II is a micro-level study focussing on the specifics of rendering Fox Volant of the
Snowy Mountain by Jin Yong into English. I will argue, in the main, that many difficulties,
inherent in both the translating and reading processes, can be constructed within the
theoretical framework of Andre Lefevere's concept of "constraint", particularly that of the
universe of discourse. Lefevere's connotation of the universe of discourse will be expanded
to embrace different cultural presuppositions and literary assumptions underlying two
divergent world cultures, hence different reader expectations in the reading process.
It is hoped that the findings and results of this descriptive case history of martial arts fiction
as a literary genre in translational migrations will contribute to the accumulation of
knowledge
sj-docx-1-tag-10.1177_17562848221102307 – Supplemental material for The hospitalization burden of inflammatory bowel disease in China: a nationwide study from 2013 to 2018
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-tag-10.1177_17562848221102307 for The hospitalization burden of inflammatory bowel disease in China: a nationwide study from 2013 to 2018 by Yi-Ming He, Ren Mao, Gang Yuan, Rui-Ming Liang, Jian-Yan Long, Xiao-Qi Ye, Marietta Iacucci, Subrata Ghosh, Shomron Ben-Horin, Gilaad G. Kaplan, Yao He, Joseph J.Y. Sung, Sui Peng, Hai-Bo Wang and Min-Hu Chen in Therapeutic Advances in Gastroenterology</p
A Review on Automatic Generation of Architectural Space Layouts with Energy Performance Optimization
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.Climate Design and SustainabilityDesign InformaticsBuilding ServicesArchitectural Engineering +Technolog
Pseudorobillarda sichuanensis J. Y. Song & Jian K. Liu
No full textPseudorobillarda sichuanensis J.Y. Song & Jian K. Liu, sp. nov. MycoBank: MB844119; FIGURE 2 Etymology: In reference to the location where the fungus was collected, Sichuan Province, China. Holotype: HKAS 124018 Saprobic on a dead culm of Bambusa sp. in terrestrial habitat. Forming black, lenticular spots on the host surface, with Conidiomata breaking through raised cracks with a black center. teleomorph: Undetermined. anamorph: Conidiomata 170–320 μm diam. × 100–180 μm high (x = 237 × 128 μm; n = 10), pycnidial, scattered, immersed to slightly erumpent, multilocular or unilocular, forming a slit-like opening at the apex, black, glabrous, ostiolate. Ostiole in the center of the pileus, circular, dark brown, ostiolar canal filled with hyaline cells, non-papillate. Conidiomatal wall 9–16 μm diam. (x = 12.5 μm; n = 10), multi-layered, composed of thick-walled, hyaline to brown cells of textura angularis or textura prismatica. Conidiophores arising all around the cavity of the conidiomata, reduced to conidiogenous cells, mixed with paraphyses and embedded in a mucilage matrix. Paraphyses 24.5–66 μm long × 1.5–2.5 μm wide (x = 39.5 × 2 μm; n = 20), hyaline, unbranched, narrowly cylindrical to filiform, 1-septate, smooth-walled. Conidiogenous cells 3–4.5 × 2–3.5 μm (x = 4 × 2.6 μm; n = 20), enteroblastic, phialidic, subcylindrical, hyaline, straight, smoothwalled. Conidia 12–17 × 2.5–4 μm (x = 14.5 × 3.5 μm; n = 30), subcylindrical to naviculate, hyaline, rounded at apex, slightly truncated at the base, aseptate, 1–4-guttulate, smooth-walled, bearing 3–4 unbranched, filiform, attenuated, flexuous apical appendages (11–16 μm long). Mean conidial length/width (L/W) ratio = 4.5 (n = 30). Culture characteristics: Conidia germinated on PDA in 24 hours. Germ tube produced from two-end of the conidia, without sporulation. Colonies on PDA, reaching 30 mm diam. after seven days at 25 °C, rough, dry, opaque, felty, flat, initially white, gradually becoming light pink in the middle and white at the margin, with regular margin and reverse white. Material examined: CHINA, Sichuan Province, Chengdu, Science City Mountain Park (30°40.99′ N, 104°08.24′ E), on dead culms of Bambusa sp. (Poaceae), 10 September 2021, Jingyi Song (HKAS 124018, holotype; HUEST 22.0027, isotype); ex-type living culture CGMCC 3.20951 (= UESTCC 22.0029). Notes: Pseudorobillarda sichuanensis fits well with the generic concept of Pseudorobillarda by its pycnidial conidiomata, paraphyses, phialidic conidiogenous cells, and subcylindrical conidia with appendages at one end. However, it differs from other species in having subcylindrical to fusiform, aseptate, guttulate conidia with 3–4 apical appendages. A detailed morphological comparison of Pseudorobillarda species is provided in TABLE 2. Pseudorobillarda sichuanensis (sp. nov.) resembles to P. aquatica, P. bolusanthi, P. camelliae-sinensis, P. eucalypti, P. siamensis, P. sojae and P. texana in having aseptate conidia. While P. eucalypti, P. siamensis and P. sojae are distinguished from P. sichuanensis by the absent of paraphyses. Pseudorobillarda aquatica has larger (25–35 μm), eguttulate conidia, while P. sichuanensis has smaller, guttulate conidia (12–17 μm). Pseudorobillarda sichuanensis resembles P. texana in having similar conidiogenous cells and conidia. However, P. sichuanensis has conidiomata with a circular, non-papillate ostiole, conidia with a rounded apex and slightly truncated base, and shorter apical appendages. While P. texana has conidiomata with oval, beaked ostiole and conidia with both ends rounded (Plaingam et al. 2005). In addition, the Mean conidial L/W ratio of P. sichuanensis (4.6) is significantly less than P. texana (5.5). The multi-gene (LSU-SSU-ITS- rpb2) phylogenetic analysis suggested that Pseudorobillarda sichuanensis clustered together with P. texana and formed a distinct lineage. In addition, a comparison of the ITS region reveals a 62 bp (base pair) difference (without gaps) between P. sichuanensis and P. texana which provides further evidence to support the establishment of new species.Published as part of Song, Jing-Yi, Tian, Qing & Liu, Jian-Kui, 2022, Pseudorobillarda sichuanensis sp. nov. associated with Bambusa sp. from Sichuan province, China, pp. 256-266 in Phytotaxa 561 (3) on pages 259-261, DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.561.3.3, http://zenodo.org/record/706986
Les Fables de La Fontaine et Hitler
No full textI had known several of the designs in this book for years and despaired of ever finding them. Then I found them in the 2010 facsimile reproduction of the 1939 original by Nouvelles Editions Latines. I wrote when I catalogued that edition that I was all the more eager to find an original. I had never had one in my hand. I was amazed to find this copy on eBay and even more amazed when I won the auction. This original was published shortly before the German conquest of France and the consequent destruction of materials like this, materials critical of Nazis. Ten fables are presented with their La Fontaine texts utterly intact. The blurb on the back cover of the reproduction has it right: Cet album, textes et dessins, dénonçait la férocité et la mégalomanie du chancelier allemand. In this book it is the satirical illustrations that make the difference! Several seem to me to apply less well. Among those that may seem to stretch La Fontaine in order to criticize Hitler, I would list FC and GA. Who is that asking Hitler the crow to drop the cheese that is Poland? And I would never have envisioned Hitler as the artist grasshopper needing to ask the ants for shelter…. Several illustrations, though, hit the mark perfectly! Those that seem made for criticizing Hitler have the representations that I have seen and remembered, particularly WL and MM. Hitler as a milkmaid is a riot! Notice the doll or girl lying near the lamb in WL's illustration. The Wolf Become a Shepherd portrays the shepherd as the angel of peace sleeping in the pasture. One that seems more a prophecy than a critique is OR. Who is that goddess that sends the lightning down to uproot the Hitler-oak? OF similarly looks forward to Hitler's self-explosion.Language note: FrenchJean de La Fontain
Correction to: Graft immaturity and safety concerns in transplanted human kidney organoids
No full textAfter online publication of this article, the authors noticed an error in the Affiliation section. The correct statement of this article should have read as below. © 2020, The Author(s).11Nsciescopuskc
Remembering Corporal J.Y. Joyner : An Historical Fiction
No full textThis is a creative nonfiction narrative about the farm life and military service of a Nash County resident J.Y. Joyner. This narrative will be a combination of real-life facts reality-based situations and settings derived from extensive research and will be told from a fictional point-of-view. This style is influenced and inspired by the work of author/historian Stephen Ambrose (Band of Brothers Citizen Soldiers) Phillip Gerrard (Cape Fear Rising) William Faulkner (As I Lay Dying) and the books of Jeff and Michael Shaara (Killer Angels Gods & Generals The Last Full Measure). The work of these authors takes carefully researched time periods and settings factual events and in some cases -- particularly with the Shaaras -- uses a fictional character/observer/narrator to tell the story relate the events while adding interest and color. The projected length of this manuscript is approximately 50 pages. I will present this narrative in this format for several reasons. Joyner was killed in World War II and I first came across his name on a plaque at the Nash County Courthouse in Nashville NC listed along with other natives who died in wars. Years ago as part of an ongoing series of Memorial Day columns for the local newspaper I discovered I could find very little information about him. While working on a research project I discovered a headstone -- relatively new -- at Oakwood Cemetery in Spring Hope NC. As part of that project I was able to find out his unit where it was in action and where he was most likely killed -- just before the Battle of the Bulge. By using first person I will be able to disjoint time and present a unique approach and perspective to the narrative through the eyes of a detached observer. I want to use the first-person narrative to move Joyner from a name on a plaque to an identity of a young boy who was sent to war on a continent on the other side of the world. By closing the distance between the story and the narrator I intend to hold the reader's interest and involve them more deeply into the story. The narrative will cover the present in the form of finding this stone in the cemetery and seeing Joyner's name on a plaque at the Courthouse in Nashville; the time and place where Joyner was killed in action; and how his farm family back home dealt with the loss and also how it affected daily life on the farm -- which was very reliant on labor over machines at that point in history. The first part of the manuscript will be first-person from the point of view of the narrator who finds the marker in the cemetery; the second part of the manuscript will be from the viewpoint of Joyner's younger brother. The majority of my research will come from newspaper accounts websites unit records and books written about the war and the 1940s in America. Additional material will come from personal interviews of people who grew up on farms in southern Nash County era during this time. My interest in this project is to create a narrative that blends nonfiction and fiction but is researched based. By blending these genres filling in blanks where facts cannot be located I will create a narrative that will hopefully push boundaries and offer uncommon viewpoints and less stereotypical presentation of history -- especially with topics that have been written about so much: war the South and rural farm life
Remembering Corporal J.Y. Joyner : An Historical Fiction
No full textThis is a creative nonfiction narrative about the farm life and military service of a Nash County resident, J.Y. Joyner. This narrative will be a combination of real-life facts, reality-based situations and settings derived from extensive research and will be told from a fictional point-of-view. This style is influenced and inspired by the work of author/historian Stephen Ambrose (Band of Brothers, Citizen Soldiers), Phillip Gerrard (Cape Fear Rising), William Faulkner (As I Lay Dying) and the books of Jeff and Michael Shaara (Killer Angels, Gods & Generals, The Last Full Measure). The work of these authors takes carefully researched time periods and settings, factual events and in some cases -- particularly with the Shaaras -- uses a fictional character/observer/narrator to tell the story, relate the events while adding interest and color. The projected length of this manuscript is approximately 50 pages. I will present this narrative in this format for several reasons. Joyner was killed in World War II, and I first came across his name on a plaque at the Nash County Courthouse in Nashville, NC, listed along with other natives who died in wars. Years ago, as part of an ongoing series of Memorial Day columns for the local newspaper, I discovered I could find very little information about him. While working on a research project, I discovered a headstone -- relatively new -- at Oakwood Cemetery in Spring Hope, NC. As part of that project, I was able to find out his unit, where it was in action and where he was most likely killed -- just before the Battle of the Bulge. By using first person, I will be able to disjoint time and present a unique approach and perspective to the narrative through the eyes of a detached observer. I want to use the first-person narrative to move Joyner from a name on a plaque to an identity of a young boy who was sent to war on a continent on the other side of the world. By closing the distance between the story and the narrator, I intend to hold the reader's interest and involve them more deeply into the story. The narrative will cover the present, in the form of finding this stone in the cemetery and seeing Joyner's name on a plaque at the Courthouse in Nashville; the time and place where Joyner was killed in action; and how his farm family back home dealt with the loss and also how it affected daily life on the farm -- which was very reliant on labor over machines at that point in history. The first part of the manuscript will be first-person from the point of view of the narrator who finds the marker in the cemetery; the second part of the manuscript will be from the viewpoint of Joyner's younger brother. The majority of my research will come from newspaper accounts, websites, unit records and books written about the war and the 1940s in America. Additional material will come from personal interviews of people who grew up on farms in southern Nash County era during this time. My interest in this project is to create a narrative that blends nonfiction and fiction, but is researched based. By blending these genres, filling in blanks where facts cannot be located, I will create a narrative that will hopefully push boundaries and offer uncommon viewpoints and less stereotypical presentation of history -- especially with topics that have been written about so much: war, the South and rural farm life.M.A
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