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Ancient tsunami records in the viscous remanent magnetization of reworked boulders in the Kingdom of Tonga
No full textThe movement history of boulders is crucial for the reconstruction of paleo-tsunamis. We report findings from viscous remanent magnetization studies of the boulders on Tongatapu Island, aiming to reconstruct their reworkings. Two boulders exhibited viscous remanence, whereas two larger boulders lacked viscous components but exhibited stable remanence. Both the viscous and stable components deviated from the geomagnetic field direction. These observations indicate that: (a) the boulders with a viscous component were reworked before the latest event, which could have reworked all boulders, and (b) the magnitude of the latest event was larger than that of an earlier event. The reworked timing indicated that the event occurred between 3,000 years ago and the fifteenth century. The difference in the wave height required to move boulders on the eastern and western coasts suggests that the source of the earlier tsunami was likely an eruption due to volcanoes along the Tonga Ridge.</p
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe 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
PARP-1 : interaction du domaine de liaison à l'adn avec des oligonucléotides simple brin
No full textLa PARP-1 est une enzyme modulaire très conservée, dont la structure comprend: 1) un domaine amino-terminal de liaison à l'ADN (DBD), contenant un signal de localisation nucléaire et trois doigts de zinc Znl, Zn2 et le Zn3 récemment découverts, ces trois doigts agissent comme détecteur moléculaire de cassures dans l'ADN; 2) un domaine régulateur central contenant un motif BRCT et des sites accepteurs de poly (ADP-ribose) permettant d'inactiver la PARP-1 (réaction d'automodification) ; et 3) un domaine carboxy-terminal catalytique renfermant le site actif. Dans notre étude, après avoir clone différentes protéines recombinantes par PCR, nous avons fait des essais de poly (ADP) ribosylation sur des extraits crus des cellules. En outre, nous avons fait des essais de retardement sur gel (EMSA) avec des oligonucleotides pour évaluer les interactions des peptides, correspondants aux fragments du domaine DBD, avec ces oligonucleotides afin d'essayer d'expliquer le mode d'activation de l'enzyme
Étude sur l'interaction entre les différents domaines de la PARP-1 et diverses structures de l'ADN
No full textD'après notre stratégie de clonage, nous avons obtenu des protéines recombinantes dérivées de la PARP-1 correspondantes au premier doigt de Zn (Znl), au deuxième doigt de Zn (Zn2), au troisième doigt de Zn (Zn3), au domaine DB-WRG-CAT et au domaine WRG-CAT. Pour démontrer que Znl et Zn2 interagissent avec l'ADN simple brin nous avons utilisé des essais de retard sur gel (EMSA). Nos résultats suggèrent que Znl et Zn2 ont la capacité de se lier à l'ADN simple brin avec une haute préférence pour poly (dA), poly (T) et poly (dC). Parmi les sondes d'ADN simple brin, Zn3 a montré une affinité pour poly(T), poly(dG) et poly(dC). Remarquablement, Zn3 a montré une forte Uaison aux sondes d'ARN. Ce résultat nous pennet de suggérer un rôle de Zn3 dans le processus de transcription. L'enzyme pourrait être en contact avec des hybrides ARN-ADN lors de ce processus. Cependant le rôle précis de Zn3 reste encore à établir. Les doigts de Znl, Zn2 et Zn3 ainsi que le fragment WGR-CAT n'ont montré aucune affinité pour l'ADN double brin. Par ailleurs, nous avons clone une région de 60 acides aminés situés entre le domaine BRCT et le domaine WRG de la protéine PARP-1; nous l'avons baptisée région DB. Le fragment DB-WRG-CAT a montré une forte affinité par l'ADN double brin. Ce résultat suggère que la région DB est responsable de l'interaction de la protéine PARP-1 avec l'ADN double brin. Pour déterminer si la PARP-1 se lie à une structure de l'ADN simple brin et double brin, et pour démontrer si cette interaction est capable d'activer l'enzyme, nous avons construit différentes structures d'ADN qui comportent une boucle d'adénine ou de thymidine. Nos résultats suggèrent que l'ADN qui comporte une jonction entre simple et double brin agit comme un activateur potentiel de la PARP-1. Finalement, nous proposons un modèle qui pennet de comprendre l'interaction de la PARP-1 avec l'ADN qui est retrouvé dans plusieurs processus biologiques
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Get PDFWe 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
IPv6 performance analysis on FreeBSD workstation using simple applications
No full textThe twenty five year- old Internet Protocol (IP) or known as IPv4, has its own history in connecting the world for information exchange. Its' new successor, IPv6 with promising functionality and capability is being designed to replace the predecessor. This paper analyses the performance of the new IP compared to old IP on dual stack implementation of KAME [7] FreeBSD [9] using ping and FTP application. Packet transmission time as been taken as the measurement metric. Test results of experiment shows that IPv6 performance is inferior to IPv4 and does not conform with the theoretical results
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