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Jeunesse: Lecture suivie
No full textI am delighted to have found this little paperback in a favorite bookshop in Paris. I look forward to using it myself. It brings two of his best illustrators to a pupil's book of Florian's fables. The colored illustrations are not the only help for those of us trying to understand a sometimes difficult author. There are vocabulary notes, comments, and -- especially -- a short discussion of each fable's moral. These discussions are pleasantly candid, as in this comment on "La taupe et les lapins": "La fable de Florian est peut-être moins claire qu'elle n'y paraȋt" (55). Great work on rendering the colored illustrations!Language note: FrenchFloria
Fables de Florian, Nouvelle Edition
No full textHere is a small edition, 3¼" x 5¼," of 162 pages. It seems to be identical to Bodemann #274, published by the same people two years earlier. As Bodemann notes in a very short description, the illustrations come as three panels per page. One panel often represents two fables. My favorites among these very small illustrations are "The Blind and the Lame" (18); "Two Bachelors" (48); "Owl and Pigeon" (83); and "Ass and Flute" (111). Do not miss the gigantic crocodile on 120! Illustrations occur facing these pages: 1, 12, 18, 29, 38, 48, 66, 83, 111, and 120. There is an AI at the back.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Language note: FrenchNo Autho
Interview with Florian Bieber
No full textInterview with Florian Bieber, lecturer in East European Politics at the University of Kent in Canterbury, England. Interview conducted in Ithaca, NY on March 13, 2009. Dr. Bieber has worked in Belgrade (Serbia) and Sarajevo (Bosnia-Herzegovina) for the European Centre for Minority Issues and has taught at the Central European University, at the University of Sarajevo and at the University of Bologna. He is also the author of a book about Serbian nationalism, entitled Nationalism in Serbia from the Death of Tito to the Fall of Milosevic (Muenster: Lit Verlag, 2005, in German), and another book, Post-War Bosnia: Ethnic Structure, Inequality and Governance of the Public Sector (London: Palgrave, 2006). He?s at Cornell this spring semester of 2009 as the Luigi Einaudi Chair in European and International Studies.Bieber's current book project (01:30)
Bieber's reflections on the 20th anniversary of 1989 (02:00)
On Bieber's background in political science and history (03:19)
When interdisciplinarity works best (5:22)
On the "ghettoization" of the Balkans and its causes/possible solutions (6:30)
Unique contribution of our field to other fields (9:38)
Addressing the ongoing perception of a division of Europe into "East" and "West" (12:04)
On Bieber's interest in the study of nationalism (16:17)
Is there such a thing as "good nationalism"? (19:12)
On Bieber's "European" upbringing and early education (21:34)
Bieber on experiences/opportunities all Europeans should ideally have (24:56)
On the future of Southeastern Europe (26:17)1_ruh0kx6
Local Micro-Partition Coefficients Govern Solute Permeability of Cholesterol-Containing Membranes
No full textLocal Micro-Partition Coefficients Govern Solute Permeability of Cholesterol-Containing Membranes
No full textFables de Florian
No full textNouvelle édition, ornée de figures. This diminutive but complete edition (3¼ x 5¼) is not in Bodemann. The British Library seems to have an edition of Florian published by Genets Jeune in 1808. There are four illustrations here: The Cat and the Binoculars (56); The Children and the Partridges (122); The Savant and the Farmer (138); The Countryman and the River (182). There is an AI at the back. The first title-page lists 1821 as the publication date, but the second title-page has 1820.This is a hardbound book (hard cover)Language note: FrenchJean-Pierre Claris de Floria
Avalanches of sediment form deep-marine depositions
No full textThe deep ocean is the largest sedimentary system basin on the planet. It serves as the primary storage point for all terrestrially weathered sediment that makes it beyond the near-shore environment. These deep-marine offshore deposits have become a focus of attention in exploration due to the progressive depletion of conventional onshore reservoirs. Florian Pohl’s performs experiments in the Eurotank of Utrecht University linking the sedimentological characteristics of turbidity currents to the topography of the ocean floor
Turbidity currents and their deposits in abrupt morphological transition zones
No full textThe principle transport agent in deep ocean environments are turbidity currents, avalanches of sediment and water that travel down the continental slope. Turbidity currents usually flow within deep-marine channels, comparable to terrestrial rivers on land, which can extend for 1000s kilometers across the ocean floor. At the downstream end of these channels are lobe shaped sandy deposits called submarine fans that represent potential reservoirs for hydrocarbons but also a sink for any material transported by the turbidity currents such as microplastic. The internal structure of submarine fans and their location depends on how sediment is deposited by the turbidity currents. Sediment deposition is controlled by the turbidity current dynamics that are strongly affected by changes in the ocean-floor topography across which the turbidity current is flowing. This thesis investigates these effects and links the turbidity current dynamics to the resulting deposition pattern. For this, turbidity currents are physically modeled in the laboratory and exhumed ‘real-world’ deep-marine deposits are investigated in outcrops. Experiments focused on turbidity currents going across a decrease in ocean-floor gradient and explains how these topographic change triggers deposition. A second experiment series dealt with turbidity currents leaving the confinement of a channel and revealed a novel flow mechanism we called ‘flow relaxation’. Flow relaxation describes the lateral spreading and thinning of the flows resulting in erosion and sediment bypass. The experiment results are used to explain sedimentary structures observed in the outcrop and to reconstruct and predict changes of the ancient ocean-floor topography
Jakub Deml's Letters to Josef Florian
No full textTitle: The Letters of Jakub Deml to Josef Florian Author: Igor Pejchal Department: Institute of Czech Literature and Literary Theory Thesis Supervisor: Mgr. Daniela Iwashita, Ph.D. Key Words: correspondence, Jakub Deml, Josef Florian, Josef Ševčík, Otokar Březina, František Bílek, Pavla Kytlicová, Curia of Brno, Studium edition Abstract: The diploma thesis named The Letters of Jakub Deml to Josef Florian includes the edition of all the letters of the writer Jakub Deml (1878-1961). The correspondence from 1903 to 1935 includes 346 units and exploits 6 sources: the copies of letters done by Jaroslav Staněk, handwritten letters archived in Moravian Museum in Brno and LA PNP, Prague, letters addressed to Josef Florian as edited by Jiří Olič and hand-written originals possessed by two private owners. The edition of the collected letters is accompanied by a list of letters, an editorial note and translations of excerpts which are not in Czech. An accompanying study deals with the editorial history of these collected letters, the relationship of Jakup Deml and Josef Florian in the time of their collaboration and provides an outline of the future research tasks regarding this edition. The letters of Jakub Deml to Josef Florian are published in print in..
Local Partition Coefficients Govern Solute Permeability of Cholesterol-Containing Membranes
No full textAbstractThe permeability of lipid membranes for metabolic molecules or drugs is routinely estimated from the solute’s oil/water partition coefficient. However, the molecular determinants that modulate the permeability in different lipid compositions have remained unclear. Here, we combine scanning electrochemical microscopy and molecular-dynamics simulations to study the effect of cholesterol on membrane permeability, because cholesterol is abundant in all animal membranes. The permeability of membranes from natural lipid mixtures to both hydrophilic and hydrophobic solutes monotonously decreases with cholesterol concentration [Chol]. The same is true for hydrophilic solutes and planar bilayers composed of dioleoyl-phosphatidylcholine or dioleoyl-phosphatidyl-ethanolamine. However, these synthetic lipids give rise to a bell-shaped dependence of membrane permeability on [Chol] for very hydrophobic solutes. The simulations indicate that cholesterol does not affect the diffusion constant inside the membrane. Instead, local partition coefficients at the lipid headgroups and at the lipid tails are modulated oppositely by cholesterol, explaining the experimental findings. Structurally, these modulations are induced by looser packing at the lipid headgroups and tighter packing at the tails upon the addition of cholesterol
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