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Myosin VI Lever Arm Rotation: Fixed or Variable?
No full textTwo recent articles addressed the power-stroke of myosin VI molecules during stepping. Although both groups measured the angles of fluorescent probes attached on the myosin VI molecule lever arm using polarized fluorescence techniques, they differ about whether the myosin VI lever arm rotation is fixed1 or variable2. Here we discuss the causes of the discrepancy between the two studies and the implications for myosin VI processive motility
Life on the land : the interrelationship between identity and community in the Irish fiction of Maria Edgeworth, William Carleton and Charles Lever
No full textThis thesis examines and evaluates the response made by three
nineteenth century Irish writers of fiction to the most pressing
social problem of their time, namely: How might life on the land
be firmly established and maintained? The three writers concerned
— Maria Edgeworth, William Carleton and Charles Lever — are shown
to possess a common artistic vision, which is preserited as an answer
to the question posed. The answer consists of a demonstration of
how the resources of an enabling individual must blend with the
requirements of life on the land as it is.
By way of introduction, the significance of the theme for
both the literary and socio—political contexts of the period
(1800-1872) is described, and the problems of dealing with-nineteenth
century Irish fiction — problems concerned with its status
in the national cultural heritage, its variety and its artistic
characteristics — are outlined.
The four Irish novels of Maria Edgeworth are given a special
status in her overall output, and her handling of the theme in them
is considered as the prototype of her successors' manner of dealing
with it. Carleton and Lever are taken as portraying the Edgeworth
model under stress. Carleton's work is represented by a selection
of pieces from his Traits and Stories of the Irish Peasantry;
Lever's by three novels from the 1850's and '60's. All three
writers are located in their contemporary cultural milieux, and
their individual treatments of the theme are described and compared.
In conclusion, a general characterisation of the type of fiction
produced by the trio is offered, and a basis for its artistic
relationship to Irish fiction of more recent times is rehearsed.
The thesis facilitates a new periodisation of the history of
nineteenth century Irish fiction. It also offers a revised
conception of a tradition, of Irish fiction. These are the
contributions it makes to knowledge of the subject treated
The postliberal politics of halal: new directions in the civilizing process?
No full textThis paper examines the emergence of postliberal halal politics in European societies. Building on research undertaken during the EU funded Dialrel project, it examines how the Malaysian state is inserting hegemonic claims into transnational space in order to dominate the international halal market. Moving beyond the idea of horizontally aligned networks of transnational power as the dominant framework for understanding social and economic change, the paper explores the complex interweaving of the large-scale macro processes and everyday micro practices underpinning the rise of Malaysia’s postliberal halal strategy. It is argued that the processes of social and economic differentiation emerging as a result of these processes have the potential to be an important step in the global civilizing process. In conclusion, the paper discusses the implication of these developments for figurational sociology
Plow Bar and Regulating Lever
No full textPatent for a plow bar and regulating lever. This invention is to improve regulating depth of plow
The Income Lever and the Allocation of Aid
No full textAbstract: The article develops a concept and a measure of the monetary capacity of a country to reduce its own poverty and shows how these tools can be used to guide budget allocations or the allocation of aid. The authors call this concept the income lever. Making use of tax and distributive theory, the article shows how different redistributive criteria correspond to the different normative criteria of the income lever. It then constructs various income lever indexes based on these criteria and uses such indexes to rank countries according to their own capacity to reduce poverty
Multi-Agent Fuzzy Logic Controller applied to One Lever Variable Pitch Turboprop Aircraft
No full textModern aircraft turboprop engines are generally managed by pilots by using the well-established two-levers approach which allows the pilot to control independently the engine thrust (power lever) and the propeller rotational speed (condition lever). On the other hand, the twolevers governing system presents several disadvantages in terms of pilot training, fuel consumption and aircraft maintenance. The one-lever approach tries to solve such drawbacks regulating at the same time the engine power and the propeller pitch. In the present work a Multi-Agent Fuzzy Logic control algorithm has been proposed to implement the one-lever approach for the control of the variable pitch turboprop aircraft propulsion system. The whole aircraft ecosystem has been developed in Simulink® framework to verify the feasibility and performance of the proposed one-lever approach
Throttle Lever.
No full textPatent for a new and improved throttle lever, including instructions and illustrations
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
La comunicazione. Il dizionario di scienze e tecniche
No full textRivoltella, P. C. & Franco, L., Adriano, Z. (a cura di) (2002). La comunicazione. Il dizionario di scienze e tecniche. Roma: Eri-Elledici-LAS
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