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Trends in Contemporary Islam: A Preliminary Attempt at a Classification

THE MUSLIM WORLD, Issue 3 2007
Abdullah Saeed
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Analysis of protein profiles of genetically modified potato tubers by matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry

RAPID COMMUNICATIONS IN MASS SPECTROMETRY, Issue 5 2003
M. Careri
Traceability of genetically modified (GM) foods demands the development of appropriate reliable techniques in order to identify and quantify peptide or nucleic acid residues in GM plants and food products through the food chain. In this study the applicability of matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOFMS) was demonstrated for the characterization of proteins of transformed and untransformed potato (Solanum Tuberosum L.) tubers. In GM tubers the expression level of the G1-1 gene, which regulates transition from dormancy to sprouting tubers, was inhibited by antisense technology. The analysis of antisense transformed lines showed that several of them exhibited a significant delay in sprouting relative to the control lines, in accordance with a decrease in the transcript level. Preliminary attempts to compare the protein patterns obtained from transformed and control lines using traditional electrophoresis were not able to reveal differences in the low-kDa range. Instead, MALDI-TOFMS applied to total peptide extract without any purification was able to distinguish spectral patterns of transformed and untransformed lines. In particular, several characteristic peaks from m/z 4373 to 4932 were detected only in the mass spectra of GM tuber samples. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

Infection of Gymnodinium sanguineum by the Dinoflagellate Amoebophryasp.: Effect of Nutrient Environment on Parasite Generation Time, Reproduction, and Infectivity

THE JOURNAL OF EUKARYOTIC MICROBIOLOGY, Issue 5 2000
WONHO YIH
ABSTRACT. Preliminary attempts to culture Amoebophrya sp., a parasite of Gymnodinium sanguineum from Chesapeake Bay, indicated that success may be influenced by water quality. To explore that possibility, we determined development time, reproductive output, and infectivity of progeny (i.e. dinospores) for Amoebophrya sp. maintained on G. sanguineum grown in four different culture media. The duration of the parasite's intracellular growth phase showed no significant difference among treatments; however, the time requiredfor completion of multiple parasite generations did, with elapsed time to the middle of the third generation being shorter in nutrient-repletemedia. Parasites of hosts grown in nutrient-replete medium also produced three to four times more dinospores than those infectinghosts under low-nutrient conditions, with mean values of 380 and 130 dinospores/host, respectively. Dinospore production relative tohost biovolume also differed, with peak values of 7.4 per 1,000 ,m3 host for nutrient-replete medium and 4.8 per 1,000 ,m3 host fornutrient-limited medium. Furthermore, dinospores produced by "high-nutrient" parasites had a higher success rate than those formedby "low-nutrient" parasites. Results suggest that Amoebophrya sp. is well adapted to exploit G. sanguineum populations in nutrient-enrichedenvironments. [source]

Radiographic clues to fractures of distal humerus in archaeological remains

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OSTEOARCHAEOLOGY, Issue 4 2001
B Glencross
Abstract Today, distal humeral fractures occur most frequently in children and adolescents, and are usually the result of a fall onto extended arms, or less often on flexed elbows. Trauma to the distal humerus at the physis and epiphyses often produces non-displaced or mildly displaced fractures that are difficult to recognize radiographically. To help identify these types of injuries, clinicians have developed two measurement techniques that are applied to the X-rays of the injured bones. In a preliminary attempt to assess the usefulness of these measurement techniques for recognizing trauma in archaeological skeletal remains, 25 humeri from two Ontario ossuary samples were submitted to radiography. Clinical data on distal humeral fractures, their incidence, and mechanisms of injury were also used to interpret the lifestyles and cultural activities of the aboriginal individuals under study. While only one healed fracture was suspected after gross observation, a total of four fractures were ultimately identified using the two measurements, the humerotangential-angle (HTA) and the anterior hunieral line (AHL). Our results provide indirect, but telling, evidence of accidental childhood injuries to distal humerus in an archaeological population. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source]

Toward a Critical Phenomenology of "Illegality": State Power, Criminalization, and Abjectivity among Undocumented Migrant Workers in Tel Aviv, Israel

INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION, Issue 3 2007
Sarah S. Willen
ABSTRACT Given the vast scope and magnitude of the phenomenon of so-called "illegal" migration in the present historical moment, this article contends that phenomenologically engaged ethnography has a crucial role to play in sensitizing not only anthropologists, but also policymakers, politicians, and broader publics to the complicated, often anxiety-ridden and frightening realities associated with "the condition of migrant illegality," both of specific host society settings and comparatively across the globe. In theoretical terms, the article constitutes a preliminary attempt to link pressing questions in the fields of legal anthropology and anthropology of transnational migration, on one hand, with recent work by phenomenologically oriented scholars interested in the anthropology of experience, on the other. The article calls upon ethnographers of undocumented transnational migration to bridge these areas of scholarship by applying what can helpfully be characterized as a "critical phenomenological" approach to the study of migrant "illegality" (Willen, 2006; see also Desjarlais, 2003). This critical phenomenological approach involves a three-dimensional model of illegality: first, as a form of juridical status; second, as a sociopolitical condition; and third, as a mode of being-in-the-world. In developing this model, the article draws upon 26 non-consecutive months of ethnographic field research conducted within the communities of undocumented West African (Nigerian and Ghanaian) and Filipino migrants in Tel Aviv, Israel, between 2000 and 2004. During the first part of this period, "illegal" migrants in Israel were generally treated as benign, excluded "Others." Beginning in mid-2002, however, a resource-intensive, government-sponsored campaign of mass arrest and deportation reconfigured the condition of migrant "illegality" in Israel and, in effect, transformed these benign "Others" into wanted criminals. By analyzing this transformation the article highlights the profound significance of examining not only the judicial and sociopolitical dimensions of what it means to be "illegal" but also its impact on migrants' modes of being-in-the-world. [source]

Culture and power: the rise of Afrikaner nationalism revisited,1

NATIONS AND NATIONALISM, Issue 3 2010
MARIANA KRIEL
ABSTRACT. Outside parliament, the story of Afrikaner nationalism is largely a story of political (and sometimes economic) activists establishing language and cultural organisations. In a preliminary attempt to systematise the intentions and achievements of these extra-parliamentary components of the Afrikaner movement, this article critiques and refines Joep Leerssen's model of nationalism as ,the cultivation of culture' (Nations and Nationalism 12, 4: 559,78). Drawing on the examples of the Genootskap van Regte Afrikaanders and the Afrikaner-Broederbond, I revisit the relationship between cultural and political nationalism , both as concepts and as actual movements , and question the notion of a dichotomy. [source]

Neo-liberalism and the Decline of Democratic Governance in Australia: A Problem of Institutional Design?

POLITICAL STUDIES, Issue 1 2005
Ian Marsh
This paper is a preliminary attempt to evaluate changing patterns of democratic governance, at least in Westminster-style parliamentary settings, and possibly more generally. It has two specific purposes: first, to propose a paradigm for evaluating the empirical evolution of democratic governance; and second, to illustrate the explanatory potential of this paradigm through a mini-case study of changing patterns of governance in one particular polity. The conceptual framework is drawn from March and Olsen's eponymous study (1995) from which polar (,thick' and ,thin') forms of democratic governance are derived. Four conjectures about its evolution are then explored. First, in its mass party phase, the pattern of democratic governance approximated the ,thick' pole. Second, the subsequent evolution of democratic politics has been in the direction of the ,thin' (minimalist or populist) pole. Third, the cause of this shift was a failure to adapt political institutions to changing citizen identities, which was masked by the ascendancy amongst political elites of the neo-liberal account of governance. Fourth, the paper considers the means by which democratic governance might be renewed. The approach is applied to explain changes in Australian politics over recent decades. [source]

An Australian Outlook on International Affairs?

AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND HISTORY, Issue 3 2009
The Evolution of International Relations Theory in Australia
Disciplinary histories of Australian International Relations (IR) theory have tended to focus on the 1960s , when a number of Australian scholars returned from the UK to take up posts at the Australian National University's Department of International Relations , as the beginning of a discipline that has subsequently flourished through various disciplinary debates and global events. This article offers a preliminary attempt at narrating a more complete history of Australian IR by beginning to recover much-neglected contributions made in the early interwar years. From these earliest years through to the current "era of critical diversity", it is argued, Australian scholars have made considerable contributions not just to the intellectual formation of an Australian outlook on international affairs, but to an understanding of international relations itself. [source]

Hesitantly into the arena: An account of trainee teachers' and sixth form students' preliminary attempts to enter into dialogue through email

ENGLISH IN EDUCATION, Issue 3 2009
Nicholas McGuinn
Abstract Teacher training is increasingly accountable to central government. Trainees , the word itself is significant , are expected to demonstrate competence in a wide range of professional standards if they are to achieve qualified teacher status. Training partnership schools, understandably, impose their own conditions for entry into their ,communities of practice'. In these circumstances, trainees , and their trainers , have increasingly fewer opportunities for risk taking or for exploring new configurations of the teacher pupil relationship. This paper describes an attempt to exploit the potential of email as a means of granting access to a ,pedagogical arena' in which trainees and students might attempt to negotiate their own ways of working together. It concludes by suggesting that both groups found this a challenging task and by noting that the trainers involved decided that, if the project were to run again, a certain amount of autonomy would need to be sacrificed to direction. [source]