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Jewish community in the Prussian lands (Warmia and Masuria) throughout the history. An outline of the problem
No full textThe author presents the state of research on the cultural heritage of Jews living in the area of Warmia and Masuria. In her view, this community – forgotten in some sense – has left traces of its centuries-old presence in the region, i.e. prayer houses (synagogues), Jewish cemeteries, tombstones (matzevahs), residential and industrial buildings, not only to be cared for but also to be used in an attempt to restore the memory of the living presence of Jews in this vast and picturesque area.IZABELA LEWANDOWSKA, dr hab., prof. UWM. Pracownik Instytutu Historii i Stosunków Międzynarodowych Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie. Specjalności naukowe: historia regionu; dydaktyka historii; historia mówiona. Zainteresowania naukowo-badawcze: edukacja i świadomość regionalna; oral history; dzieje i kultura Warmii i Mazur; turystyka historyczna. Opublikowała m. in. monografie: Konserwatorskie zwierzenia. Rozmowy z Lucjanem Czubielem konserwatorem zabytków w Olsztynie 1956–1993. Wywiad-rzeka. Materiały źródłowe, Olsztyn 2015; Trudne dziedzictwo ziemi: Warmia i Mazury 1945–1989, Olsztyn 2014, ss. 432. Historia odkrywana na nowo: Krzyżacy na Warmii i Mazurach: 1-6 lipca 2010 roku, red. I. Lewandowska, Purda 2010, ss. 95. Izabela Lewandowska, Jan Chłosta, Śladami polskich szkół na południowej Warmii w latach 1929–1939: w 80-lecie ich utworzenia, Olsztyn 2010, ss. 248.Instytut Historii i Stosunków Międzynarodowych, Uniwersytet Warmińsko-Mazurski w OlsztynieI. Lewandowska, Trudne dziedzictwo ziemi. Warmia i Mazury 1945–1989, Olsztyn 2012.E. Kruk, Wyrwane karty, w: tegoż, Szkice z mazurskiego brulionu, Olsztyn 2003.S. Achremczyk, Diaspora żydowska w Olsztynie, w: tegoż, Między Wisłą a Niemnem. Szkice historyczne, Olsztyn 2008.J. M. Łapo, „Tylko Żydzi są panami nad naszymi jeziorami”. Postrzeganie ludności żydowskiej przez Mazurów, „Masovia”, t. 8, 2005.J. Chłosta, Żydzi na Warmii, w: tegoż, Słownik Warmii (historyczno-geograficzny), Olsztyn 2002.A. Kossert, Z dziejów gminy żydowskiej w Szczytnie, w: Powiat Szczycieński. Przeszłość – współczesność, red. G. Jasiński, Z. Kudrzycki, A. Misiuk, Szczytno 2006.34937
Design and optimization of the secondary circuit for the WCLL BB option of the EU-DEMO power plant
Full text linkEU-DEMO will be a DEMOnstration Fusion power plant designed to demonstrate production of grid electricity from fusion at the level of a few hundred MW. The Primary Heat Transfer System (PHTS) transfers heat from the breeding blanket (BB), divertor and vacuum vessel to the secondary Power Conversion System (PCS) responsible for conversion of thermal energy into electricity. Two main BB conceptions, and the relative PHTSs, for EU-DEMO are being developed: the Helium Cooled Pebble Bed (HCPB) BB and the Water Cooled Lithium Lead (WCLL) BB. Two options for each conception are considered: with or without the Intermediate Heat Transfer System (IHTS), containing the Energy Storage System (ESS), between the BB PHTS and PCS. The role of IHTS+ ESS is to ensure continuous smooth thermal energy transfer from the reactor sources to PCS despite the pulsed operation of the DEMO reactor. In the present work we discuss the mature concept of the PCS configuration for the option WCLL BB with the IHTS+ESS (based on the 2018 EU-DEMO reference), which allows almost constant production of electricity during both plasma pulse and dwell phases. The operating parameters of the circuit were optimized to minimize the temperature oscillations ΔT = |Tpulse - Tdwell| in all the circuit components, which occur due to the pulsation of the DEMO cold sources of Divertor and Vacuum Vessel whose HXs are integrated in PCS itself. Operation of the PCS circuit during the pulse and dwell phases was simulated using the GateCycle software, to show the system performance and to enable discussion on the feasibility of the concept
Cross-Linguistic and Cross-Cultural Conceptualization of Specialized Terms in Corporate Culture
Full text linkThis study is at the crossroads of cognitive linguistics, lexicography and terminology, and explores the cross-linguistic and cross-cultural boundaries of their approaches to perception and categorization in order to expose any cultural constraints superimposed on the creativity of specialized translators. Objects of analysis in this study are conceptualization and designation as emerging from specialized text types that are not typically associated with creativity or culture specificity, texts that are more descriptive or prescriptive rather than expressive or persuasive. By investigating specialized terms that only apparently seem to be unrelated to the relevant source (SC) or target culture (TC), the study proves that not only are they actually culture-specific items themselves, but also that they refer to archetypal categories (e.g., form, size, color, etc.) that defy conceptual universals. Starting from the concepts themselves, as represented in pictures, graphs, charts, or similar visual aids, the association between signifier and signified is reconstructed in multiple languages, giving priority to none of them, so as to expose the cultural differences of each in denoting (and connoting) the referent, and the difficulties the translator would meet in providing acceptable solutions for the target culture. Based on the outcome of this study, the cross-cultural constrains acting upon and limiting the creative performance of specialized translators appear to be unsurmountable within the same specific domain if the SL/SC terms have already been lexicalized in the TL/TC, but less so when the translation crosses domains to achieve other goals, in which case the translator is left free to even transcreate
Dr. Duane M. Jackson, Morehouse College, July 2011
No full textThis video is a conversation with Dr. Duane M. Jackson. Dr. Jackson talks about his paper, "Recall and the Serial Position Effect: The Role of Primacy and Recency on Accounting Students' Performance." Jackie Daniel, AUC Woodruff Library, is the interviewer
"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States" By M. Carey.
No full text"Reflections on the subject of Emigration from Europe with a view to Settlement in the United States: containing bried sketches of the moral and political character of those states.
By M. Carey, member of the American philosophical, and of the American Antiquarian Society, and author of The Olive Branch, Cindiciae Hibernicae, essays on banking, on political economy, and on internal improvement.
To which are now added the English editor's comments on the subject; together with Important Advice to Emigrants, and Cautions Against Impositions Practiced in the Outports
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe 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
Dr. Glendon Swarthout
No full textHosted by Roger M. Busfield, MSU Assistant Professor of Speech and Theater, Meet the Author is designed to introduce a general audience to a contemporary author and their work through in-depth interviews. This episode features a conversation between Dr. Glendon Swarthout, prolific author and English professor at MSU, and assistant professors Sam S. Baskett and Theodore B. Strandness
Wound‐induced triacylglycerol biosynthesis is jasmonoy‐l‐isoleucin and abscisic acid independent
No full textTriacylglycerol (TAG) plays a significant role during plant stress – it maintains lipid homeostasis. Upon wounding plants accumulate TAG, likely as a storage form of fatty acids (FAs) that originate from damaged membranes. This study asked if this process depends on the two phytohormones jasmonoyl-isoleucine (JA-Ile) and abscisic acid (ABA), which are involved in wound signalling.
To analyse regulation of wound-induced TAG accumulation, we used mutants deficient in JA-Ile, with reduced ABA and the myb96 mutant, which is deficient in an ABA-dependent transcription factor. The expression of genes involved in TAG biosynthesis, and TAG content after wounding were analysed via LC–MS and GC-FID, plastidial lipid content in all mentioned mutant lines was also determined. The localization of newly synthesized TAG was investigated using lipid droplet staining.
TAG accumulation upon wounding was confirmed as well as the fact that the newly synthesized TAG are mostly composed of polyunsaturated fatty acids. Nevertheless, all tested mutant lines were able to accumulate TAG similar to the WT. We observed differences in reduction of plastidial lipids – in WT plants this was higher than in mutant lines. Newly synthesized TAGs were stored in lipid droplets at and around the wounded area.
Our results show that TAG accumulation upon wounding is not dependent on JA-Ile or ABA. The newly synthesized TAG species are composed of unsaturated fatty acids of membrane origin, and most likely serves as a transient energy store.Göttingen Graduate School of Neuroscience and Molecular Biology (GGNB)Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100001659Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/50110000003
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