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    VAN DER VEEN, A. Maurits; "Ideas, Interests and Foreign Aid"; Cambridge University Press; New York, United States of America; 2011; pp. 290. ISBN: 978-0-521-26409-9 Paperback

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    Author: VAN DER VEEN, A. Maurits; "Ideas, Interests and Foreign Aid"; Cambridge University Press; New York, United States of America; 2011; pp. 290. ISBN: 978-0-521-26409-9 Paperbac

    Een pleidooi voor verdediging: Maurits Dekker en de retoriek van 'Waarom ik niet krankzinnig ben' (1929)

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    In the twenties and thirties of the twentieth century, the Dutch author Maurits Dekker (1898-1962) published a number of psychological novels in which madness plays a significant role. One of those novels, Waarom ik niet krankzinnig ben (Why I am not insane, 1929), was originally published as a mystification. As Dekker explains in the preface to the second edition, he wanted to lead his critics up the garden path and presented himself as a Russian author. Conspicuously, the rhetoric of his preface resembles the rhetoric of the allegedly mad narrator of Waarom ik niet krankzinnig ben. In the final section of the article, the opening paragraph of the novel will be analysed precisely in terms of rhetoric and speech acts. This enables us to specify the way in which the narrator accuses himself in his excuses, the way in which he verbally attacks the narratee even though he claims he is only defending himself against the judgments of the psychiatrists

    A distributed amplifier system for bilayer lipid membrane (BLM) arrays with noise and individual offset cancellation

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    Lipid bilayer membrane (BLM) arrays are required for high throughput analysis, for example drug screening or advanced DNA sequencing. Complex microfluidic devices are being developed but these are restricted in terms of array size and structure or have integrated electronic sensing with limited noise performance. We present a compact and scalable multichannel electrophysiology platform based on a hybrid approach that combines integrated state-of-the-art microelectronics with low-cost disposable fluidics providing a platform for high-quality parallel single ion channel recording. Specifically, we have developed a new integrated circuit amplifier based on a novel noise cancellation scheme that eliminates flicker noise derived from devices under test and amplifiers. The system is demonstrated through the simultaneous recording of ion channel activity from eight bilayer membranes. The platform is scalable and could be extended to much larger array sizes, limited only by electronic data decimation and communication capabilities
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