86 research outputs found
Investigating the threshold of VOICE
No full textNeumark, N., Gibson, R., & van Leeuwen, T. (Eds.) (2010). VOICE – Vocal Aesthetics in Digital Arts and Media
Investigating the threshold of VOICE
No full textNeumark, N., Gibson, R., & van Leeuwen, T. (Eds.) (2010). VOICE – Vocal Aesthetics in Digital Arts and Media
CARE1, a TY3-gypsy long terminal repeat retrotransposon in the food legume chickpea (Cicer arietinum L)
No full textWe report a novel Ty3-gypsy long terminal repeat retrotransposon CARE1 (_Cicer arietinum_ retro-element 1) in chickpea. This 5920-bp AT-rich (63%) element carries 723-bp 5' and 897-bp 3' LTRs respectively flanking an internal region of 4300-bp. The LTRs of CARE1 show 93.9% nucleotide identity to each other and have 4-bp (ACTA) terminal inverted repeats. A 17-bp potential tRNAmet primer binding site downstream to 5' LTR and a 13-bp polypurine tract upstream to 3' LTR have been identified. The order of domains (Gag-proteinase-reverse transcriptase-RNaseH-integrase) in the deduced amino acid sequence and phylogenetic tree constructed using reverse transcriptase sequences places CARE1 in the gypsy group of retrotransposons. Homologues of a number of _cis_-elements including CCAAT, TATA and GT-1 have been detected in the regulatory region or the 5' LTR of CARE1. Transgenic tobacco plants containing 5' LTR:GUS construct show that its 5'-LTR is inactive in a heterologous system under normal as well as tissue culture conditions. Genomic Southern blot experiments using 5’LTR of the element as a probe show that CARE1 or its related elements are present in the genomes of various chickpea accessions from various geographic regions
Cosmopolitan speakers and their cultural cartographies
No full textLanguage learners' increased mobility and the ubiquity of virtual intercultural encounters has challenged traditional ideas of ‘cultures’. Moreover, representations of cultures as consumable life-choices has meant that learners are no longer locked into standard and static cultural identities. Language learners are better defined as cosmopolitan individuals with subjective and complex socio-political and historical identities. Such models push the boundaries of current concepts in language pedagogy to new understandings of who the language learner is and a refashioning of the cultural maps they inhabit. This article presents a model for cultural understanding that draws on the theoretical framework of Beck's Cosmopolitan Vision and its related concepts of ‘Banal Cosmopolitanism’ and ‘Cosmopolitan Empathy’. Narrative accounts are used to illustrate the experience of a group of students of Arabic and Serbian/Croatian and their use of the cultural resources at their disposal to construct their own subjective cosmopolitan life-worlds. Through the analysis of learners' everyday cultural practices inside and outside the educational environment, the scope of the intercultural experience is revisited and a new paradigm for the language learner is presented. The Cosmopolitan Speaker (CS) described in this article is a subject who adopts a flâneur-like disposition to reflect on and scrutinise the target culture. Armed with this highly personal interpretation of reality, CSs will be able to take part in their own cultural trajectories and imagine and ‘figure’ their own cartography of the world
EC91-130 A 1991 Guide for Herbicide Use in Nebraska
No full textExtension Circular 91-130: This circular is the guide to herbicide use in Nebraska Farming (1991)
EC92-130 A 1992 Guide for....Herbicide Use in Nebraska
No full textExtension Circular 92-130: This extension is the 1992 Herbicide use in Nebraska Farming (1992)
Genetics of Symbiosis in Lotus japonicus: Recombinant Inbred Lines, Comparative Genetic Maps, and Map Position of 35 Symbiotic Loci
No full textSandal, Niels et al.Development of molecular tools for the analysis of the plant genetic contribution to rhizobial and mycorrhizal symbiosis has provided major advances in our understanding of plant-microbe interactions, and several key symbiotic genes have been identified and characterized. In order to increase the efficiency of genetic analysis in the model legume Lotus japonicus, we present here a selection of improved genetic tools. The two genetic linkage maps previously developed from an interspecific cross between L. japonicus Gifu and L. filicaulis, and an intraspecific cross between the two ecotypes L. japonicus Gifu and L. japonicus MG-20, were aligned through a set of anchor markers. Regions of linkage groups, where genetic resolution is obtained preferentially using one or the other parental combination, are highlighted. Additional genetic resolution and stabilized mapping populations were obtained in recombinant inbred lines derived by a single seed descent from the two populations. For faster mapping of new loci, a selection of reliable markers spread over the chromosome arms provides a common framework for more efficient identification of new alleles and new symbiotic loci among uncharacterized mutant lines. Combining resources from the Lotus community, map positions of a large collection of symbiotic loci are provided together with alleles and closely linked molecular markers. Altogether, this establishes a common genetic resource for Lotus spp. A web-based version will enable this resource to be curated and updated regularly.The Institute of Grassland and Environmental Research is grant-aided by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council, N. Rispail was funded by the European Union (EU) RTN HPRN-CT-2000-00086 Lotus; E. Tuck was funded by a studentship from the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Research in K. Szczyglowski’s laboratory is supported by Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada Crop Genomics Initiative and research grant no. 3277A01 from National Sciences and Engineering Research Council. Research in the laboratories of M. Hayashi, M. Kawaguchi, H. Kouchi, and R. Ohtomo is supported by CREST/JST. Research in A. J. Marquez’s laboratory is supported by EU project MRTN-CT-2003-505227 and BFU2005-03120 (Spain). T. G. Radu was supported by the EU training network Integral.N
Crime Fiction and the Future
No full textThe essays starts providing a working definition of science fiction, focusing on the most recent developments and the theoretical frame they are built on:Ref.: (Gunn 2002a) (Gunn 2002a) (Gunn 2002b)(Gunn 2003a)(Gunn 2003b)(Suvin and Canavan 2016)(Scholes and Rabkin 1977). There is a specific focus on the contiguity between the two genres, localizing a more or less precise moment in time when crime fiction and science fiction – both considered in their general features and broadest formulae – seem to develop a deeper contiguity. Approached authors are P. K. Dick and China Miéville
Transcriptional snapshots provide insights into the molecular basis of arbuscular mycorrhiza in the model legume Medicago truncatula
No full textHohnjec N, Henckel K, Bekel T, et al. Transcriptional snapshots provide insights into the molecular basis of arbuscular mycorrhiza in the model legume Medicago truncatula. FUNCTIONAL PLANT BIOLOGY. 2006;33(8):737-748.The arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) association between terrestrial plants and soil fungi of the phylum Glomeromycota is the most widespread beneficial plant-microbe interaction on earth. In the course of the symbiosis, fungal hyphae colonise plant roots and supply limiting nutrients, in particular phosphorus, in exchange for carbon compounds. Owing to the obligate biotrophy of mycorrhizal fungi and the lack of genetic systems to study them, targeted molecular studies on AM symbioses proved to be difficult. With the emergence of plant genomics and the selection of suitable models, an application of untargeted expression pro. ling experiments became possible. In the model legume Medicago truncatula, high-throughput expressed sequence tag (EST)-sequencing in conjunction with in silico and experimental transcriptome pro. ling provided transcriptional snapshots that together defined the global genetic program activated during AM. Owing to an asynchronous development of the symbiosis, several hundred genes found to be activated during the symbiosis cannot be easily correlated with symbiotic structures, but the expression of selected genes has been extended to the cellular level to correlate gene expression with specific stages of AM development. These approaches identified marker genes for the AM symbiosis and provided the first insights into the molecular basis of gene expression regulation during AM
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