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Whose sister? ‘Convenient pigeonholes’, Peter Owen and the publishing of Anna Kavan
No full textIn a letter to a friend in 1948, Anna Kavan complained that the failure of her most recent novel, Sleep Has His House, was due to the publisher’s failure to market it properly. Inappropriate marketing, she said, failed to counteract the tendency of booksellers and critics to rely on ‘convenient pigeonholes’ when responding to experimental writing. It has been the ‘convenient pigeonholes’ used by critics to damn experimental writing by women which have been the focus of much of the recent feminist literary critical return to the post-war decades (see, for example, Clarke, 2019). However, Kavan’s complaint is an indication that our analysis of the critical labelling which misreads, appropriates or ignores this writing needs to be taken further back – to the role of the publisher. This chapter investigates the constraints on the existence and assessment of experimental writing by women by considering the act of not publishing. Kavan’s complaint assumes that the inaction of her publisher led to disaster for Sleep Has His House, but an examination of the correspondence between Kavan and Peter Owen, her publisher between the late 1950s and her death in 1968, and of Peter Owen’s posthumous publication of Kavan until the present, suggests that it is the acts of publishers too which rely on those ‘convenient pigeonholes’ and so spell different kinds of disaster for experimental writing by women
Studium NK receptorů a jiných proteinů metodami rekombinantní exprese a hmotnostní spektrometrie
No full textUniverzita Karlova v Praze P írodov decká fakultař ě Katedra biochemie Studium receptor NK bun k a jinýchů ě protein pomocí rekombinantní expreseů a hmotnostní spektrometrie Autoreferát dizertační práce Daniel Kavan Školitel: Prof. RNDr. Karel Bezouška, DSc. Praha 2010 Daniel Kavan Úvod Úvod NK bu ky a jeden z jejich receptor CD69ň ů P irození zabiječi (NK bu ky) jsou subpopulacíř ň velkých granulárních lymfocyt , kterým na bun čnémů ě povrchu schází receptory charakteristické pro B a T bu ky.ň Jsou nicmén charakterizovány p ítomností NKp46 a NKp30ě ř [Moretta L. et. al. 2002]. Pojmenování bun k p irozeníě ř zabiječi vzniklo podle funkce v organismu, protože nepot ebují žádnou p edchozí aktivaci a p esto jsou schopnyř ř ř eliminovat nenormální (tedy infikované nebo transformované) bu ky z tkánň ě [Kiessling R. et. al. 1975]. Tato funkčnost je založena na kontrole MHC molekul I. T ídyř okolních bun k. Výsledná akce (zničení nebo nezničeníě cílové bu ky) je výsledkem rovnováhy aktivačních aň inhibičních signál zprost edkovanými povrchovýmiů ř receptory a p evedenými na konkrétní signální dráhyř [Raulet D. H. et. al. 2001]. Specifita NK bun k není závislá na jediném druhuě receptoru, jako je tomu u B a T bun k, ale je dánaě r znorodostí jejich povrchových receptor [Lanier L. L.ů ů 2005]. Tyto receptory pak...Charles University in Prague Faculty of Science Department of Biochemistry Studies of NK cell receptors and other proteins using recombinant expressions and mass spectrometry Summary of Ph. D. Thesis Daniel Kavan Supervisor: Prof. RNDr. Karel Bezouška, DSc. Prague 2010 Daniel Kavan Introduction Introduction NK cells and CD69 as one of their surface receptors Natural killer cells (NK cells) are the subpopulation of large granular lymfocytes, which lacks the surface receptors typical for B cells or T cells. They are characterized by the presence of NKp46 and NKp30 [Moretta L. et. al. 2002], however. They were named natural killers according to their function in the organism, as they do not need any activation and nevertheless they are able to eliminate abnormal (i. e. infected or transformed) cells from the tissue [Kiessling R. et. al. 1975]. This function is dependent on scanning the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I molecules of ambient cells. The resulting action (killing or not killing the target cell) is dependent on the balance of activating and inhibiting signals mediated by the NK cell surface receptors and forwarded to the specific signaling pathway [Raulet D. H. et. al. 2001]. Specificity of NK cells is not based only on one type of antigen receptor as it is in case of T and B cells,...Department of BiochemistryKatedra biochemieFaculty of SciencePřírodovědecká fakult
Studies of NK cell receptors and other proteins using recombinant expression and mass spectrometry
No full textCharles University in Prague Faculty of Science Department of Biochemistry Studies of NK cell receptors and other proteins using recombinant expressions and mass spectrometry Summary of Ph. D. Thesis Daniel Kavan Supervisor: Prof. RNDr. Karel Bezouška, DSc. Prague 2010 Daniel Kavan Introduction Introduction NK cells and CD69 as one of their surface receptors Natural killer cells (NK cells) are the subpopulation of large granular lymfocytes, which lacks the surface receptors typical for B cells or T cells. They are characterized by the presence of NKp46 and NKp30 [Moretta L. et. al. 2002], however. They were named natural killers according to their function in the organism, as they do not need any activation and nevertheless they are able to eliminate abnormal (i. e. infected or transformed) cells from the tissue [Kiessling R. et. al. 1975]. This function is dependent on scanning the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I molecules of ambient cells. The resulting action (killing or not killing the target cell) is dependent on the balance of activating and inhibiting signals mediated by the NK cell surface receptors and forwarded to the specific signaling pathway [Raulet D. H. et. al. 2001]. Specificity of NK cells is not based only on one type of antigen receptor as it is in case of T and B cells,..
Studies of NK cell receptors and other proteins using recombinant expression and mass spectrometry
No full textCharles University in Prague Faculty of Science Department of Biochemistry Studies of NK cell receptors and other proteins using recombinant expressions and mass spectrometry Summary of Ph. D. Thesis Daniel Kavan Supervisor: Prof. RNDr. Karel Bezouška, DSc. Prague 2010 Daniel Kavan Introduction Introduction NK cells and CD69 as one of their surface receptors Natural killer cells (NK cells) are the subpopulation of large granular lymfocytes, which lacks the surface receptors typical for B cells or T cells. They are characterized by the presence of NKp46 and NKp30 [Moretta L. et. al. 2002], however. They were named natural killers according to their function in the organism, as they do not need any activation and nevertheless they are able to eliminate abnormal (i. e. infected or transformed) cells from the tissue [Kiessling R. et. al. 1975]. This function is dependent on scanning the major histocompatibility complex (MHC) class I molecules of ambient cells. The resulting action (killing or not killing the target cell) is dependent on the balance of activating and inhibiting signals mediated by the NK cell surface receptors and forwarded to the specific signaling pathway [Raulet D. H. et. al. 2001]. Specificity of NK cells is not based only on one type of antigen receptor as it is in case of T and B cells,..
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
No full textThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Square Dancing with the Stars to Enhance Dynamic Hirschman Linkages?
No full textIn this Presidential Address, the author takes the reader on a reconnaissance of his life and time as a regional scientist. He points out scenery he found scintillating along the way, hoping that some may pick up the banner and chew on a few of the ideas for a while. He suggests a revisit to Albert O. Hirschman’s notion of key sectors and more empirical analysis related to Marcus Berliant’s and Masahisa Fujita’s notion of knowledge creation and transfer.Presidential Address, San Antonio, Texas, March 29, 2014 (53rd Meetings of the Southern Regional Science Association
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
No full textWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Letter from unknown writer to Jesse L. Boyce
No full textLetter to Jesse L. Boyce from unknown author (possibly Jack) about the investigation into the powder magazine located in the Grand Canyon. Some personal news is included in the letter such as the writer's marriage to the daughter of C.A. Taylor, former Supervisor of Cochise County
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
No full textWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Electrochemical Properties of Transparent Conducting Films of Tantalum-Doped Titanium Dioxide
No full textHighly conducting, optically transparent Ta-doped TiO2 (anatase) thin films are grown on ordinary soda-lime glass substrate by pulsed-laser deposition. They exhibit quasi-reversible cyclic voltammograms of Fe(CN)63-/4- and dimethylviologen redox couples, mimicking the electrochemical activity of F-doped SnO2 (FTO). Hence, our Ta-doped titania films can prospectively replace FTO, e.g. in dye-sensitized and perovskite solar cells. However, these films are idle for the Ru(bpy)32+ oxidation, which is attributed to the space-charge barrier. The flatband potentials are near the values for undoped reference films and/or for the pristine anatase single-crystal electrode. Our films show photoelectrochemical activity upon irradiation with UV light at potentials positive to flatband. The photocurrents decrease proportionally to the increase of Ta-content. The Li-insertion ability analogously decreases with the increasing Ta-content which is attributed to the positive charge of Ta5+ cations which occupy the Ti4+ sites in anatase lattice. Consistent with the quasi-metallic nature of our films, the Li-extraction peak in cyclic voltammograms shows no cut at larger potentials
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