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Silk cocoon of Bombyx mori: Proteins and posttranslational modifications – heavy phosphorylation and evidence for lysine‐mediated cross links
Authors: Chen Wei‐Qiang , Priewalder Helga , Pradeep John Julius Paul , Lubec Gert
Published: December 2009

Although silk is used to produce textiles and serves as a valuable biomaterial in medicine, information on silk proteins of the cocoon is limited. Scanning electron microscopy was applied to morphologically characterise the sample and the solubility of cocoon in lithium thiocyanate and 2‐DE was carried out with multi‐enzyme in‐gel digestion followed by MS identification of silk‐peptides. High‐sequence coverage of the silk cocoon proteins fibroin light and heavy chain, sericins and fibrohexamerins was revealed and PTMs as heavy phosphorylation of silk fibroin heavy chain; lysine hydroxylation and Lys‐>allysine formation have been observed providing evidence for lysine‐mediated cross linking of silk as found in collagens, which has not been reported so far. Tyrosine oxidation verified the presence of di‐tyrosine cross links. A high degree of sequence conflicts probably representing single‐nucleotide polymorphisms was observed. PTM and sequence conflicts may be modulating structure and physicochemical properties of silk.
Kinetic study of the polymerization of aromatic polyurethane prepolymers by high‐throughput experimentation
Authors: Majoros László I. , Dekeyser Bernard , Hoogenboom Richard , Fijten Martin W. M. , Geeraert Jan , Haucourt Nancy , Schubert Ulrich S.
Published: December 2009

In this contribution, high‐throughput screening experiments are reported to study the polymerization of different aromatic polyurethane (PU) prepolymers. The prepared prepolymers were synthesized from toluene diisocyanate (T80) with different molar mass polyether diols and polyether triols, respectively. The reactions were performed in solution using a Chemspeed Accelerator™ SLT106 automated parallel synthesizer as well as in bulk to evaluate the high‐throughput approach for this kind of prepolymers. More than 100 samples were prepared and characterized by GPC within 1 week labor time to investigate the reaction kinetics and to compare the resulting trends obtained by high‐throughput experimentation (HTE) or by conventional, bulk prepolymerization. The synthesis of the prepared prepolymers with a linear (T80‐Diol) or a branched (T80‐Triol) structure followed a second‐order kinetic in solution but showed deviation from this phenomenon in bulk under the selected reaction conditions, although the same trends are observed in both cases. The calculation of the rate constants allowed comparing the reactivity of different prepolymer systems, which could have a significant influence on the industrial application and processing of these materials. As a result, the HTE approach was found to represent a powerful tool for the kinetic studies of PU prepolymers. Moreover, in spite of the complexity of the curing process, the results obtained by high‐throughput solution polymerization can be applied for evaluating the bulk polymerization. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Polym Sci Part A: Polym Chem 48: 570–580, 2010
The effects of atom pyramidalization and square distribution on the stability of F4F6‐(BN)n polyhedrons
Authors: Li Rui , Gan Li‐Hua , Hui Qun , Li Qian
Published: December 2009

The structures and stability of F4F6‐(BN)n polyhedrons (n = 20–30) with the alternation of B and N atoms were studied with DFT method. The calculation results reveal that the atoms at square–square fusions with large pyramidalization angles are remarkably extruded out of the surfaces of (BN)n polyhedrons. The energetically favorable isomers do not contain square–square bonds and the energies of those isomers containing square–square bonds increase with the number of square–square bonds linearly, demonstrating that the energetically favorable structures of F4F6‐(BN)n polyhedrons satisfy the isolated square rule and square adjacency penalty rule. The atom pyramidalization determines the stability of the isomers. The binding energy is fitted to the numbers of vertices formed from different faces and a model is proposed to predict the relative stability of these polyhedral molecules. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Int J Quantum Chem, 2011
Structure of endemic fish assemblages in the upper Yangtze River Basin
Authors: He Yongfeng , Wang Jianwei , Lek Sovan , Cao Wenxuan , Lek‐Ang Sithan
Published: December 2009

This study focused on characterizing the endemic fish assemblages in the upper Yangtze River Basin and identifying the relative influences of catchment land‐cover variables on observed fish patterns in order to suggest a conservation strategy. A model based on a self‐organizing map was applied to determine endemic fish assemblages along the river network, based on presence/absence data for 124 endemic species. Five fish assemblages (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb1, IIb2) were described. These assemblages varied significantly in terms of individual species patterns as well as species richness. Indicator species were identified for each class of community (0, 3, 9, 27, 0 species for cluster Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb1, IIb2, respectively). Structure of the endemic fish assemblages in the upper Yangtze River was highly correlated with local topographic and geomorphic characteristics. Simultaneously, the catchment land cover features also reflected out this endemic fish distribution structure. Among 18 land‐cover types, alpine and sub‐alpine meadow, together with farmland, were revealed to be the most important factors both in discriminating the endemic fish assemblages and in correlating species distributions by using discriminant analysis and co‐inertia analysis. Finally, in order to preserve the rare and endemic fish in the upper Yangtze River, reserve networks, rather than a single national nature reserve, should be established. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Influence of a Voltage Reference Wire and a Current Lead Wire to a Transient Voltage on a Vertical Conductor
Authors: Yutthagowith Peerawut , Ametani Akihiro , Nagaoka Naoto , Baba Yoshihiro
Published: December 2009

This paper reviews the effect of a reference voltage wire and a current lead wire when measuring a transient voltage on a vertical conductor. An analytical electromagnetic fields approach has been employed to explain the effect of the voltage reference wire and the current lead wire on voltage measurement. A hybrid electromagnetic‐circuit model is applied to investigate the effect of induced voltage on the horizontal reference voltage wire on measurement at the top of a vertical conductor. The results obtained show that the reference voltage wire perpendicular to the vertical conductor and the current lead wire causes a minor effect on the peak value of the measured voltage and current at the top of the vertical conductor and affects the voltage waveform. The estimated surge impedance of a vertical conductor is affected by the configuration of a current lead wire and a voltage reference wire. Additionally, an experimental configuration mitigated electromagnetic coupling is proposed. Copyright © 2010 Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Electric and Magnetic Field Distribution Inside High Voltage Power Substations. Numerical Modeling and Experimental Measurements
Authors: Munteanu Calin , Visan Gheorghe , Pop Ioan T.
Published: December 2009

The paper emphasizes the results of the first systematic electromagnetic field measurements performed in high and very high voltage substations belonging to the Romanian National Power Grid in order to face the requirements of the EU Directives regarding the human exposure to the electromagnetic fields. In the first part of the paper, the experimental field measurement results from a recently rehabilitated 400/220 kV substation belonging to the Romanian Transport and System Operator (TSO) Company are presented. It follows the experimental field measurement results from two 110/20/10 kV electricity distribution substations. The high intensity field zones are highlighted and the highest field value found is compared with the exposure limits given by the actual legislation. In the second part of the paper, analytical field computation methods are approached following two main reasons: to validate the experimental results and to proof the analytical methods efficiency in evaluation of the electromagnetic field values in the neighborhood of the power devices from complex systems such as the substations. The final conclusions of the study performed and the actions proposed to be taken in practice finish the paper. Copyright © 2010 Institute of Electrical Engineers of Japan. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Mitral valve–tricuspid valve distance as a sonographic marker of trisomy 21
Authors: Grace D. , Eggers P. , Glantz J. C. , Ozcan T.
Published: December 2009

Objective

Pathologic studies suggest that a decreased mitral valve–tricuspid valve distance (MTD) is found in trisomy 21 fetuses without cardiac defects. We assessed the feasibility of using the MTD as a second‐trimester sonographic marker for trisomy 21.

Methods

We performed a retrospective case–control study of all cases of trisomy 21 at our institution from 1998 to 2008. Cases without a prenatally identified cardiac defect and with adequate images from 15 to 26 weeks' gestation were assessed. The distance between the medial insertions of the mitral and tricuspid valves (i.e. the MTD) onto the ventricular septum was obtained. We also obtained the MTD from normal controls during the study period. Multiple linear regression analysis was used to assess the effects of gestational age and trisomy 21 on MTD. Gestational age‐specific percentiles and multiples of the median were calculated, and curves were fitted using linear regression analysis.

Results

We identified 57 trisomy 21 fetuses with a measurable MTD and compared these with 634 control fetuses. Multiple linear regression analysis revealed a positive correlation between MTD and gestational age and a negative correlation between trisomy 21 and MTD. Using a cut‐off of the 5th percentile, the MTD detected 70% of trisomy 21 cases with a 3.8% false‐positive rate in the controls.

Conclusions

The MTD increases with gestational age and is lower in fetuses with trisomy 21. Twenty (35%) of the 57 cases had no sonographic marker of trisomy 21 except an MTD below the 5th percentile for gestational age. The MTD was a useful independent marker for trisomy 21 in the second trimester. Copyright © 2010 ISUOG. Published by John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
The Asia‐Pacific Partnership: implementation challenges and interplay with Kyoto
Authors: Taplin Ros , McGee Jeffrey
Published: December 2009

The Asia‐Pacific Partnership (APP) for Clean Development and Climate, a multilateral agreement between Australia, Canada, China, India, Japan, the Republic of Korea (Korea) and the United States of America, is a nonbinding memorandum of understanding directed at international cooperation on development, energy, environment and climate change issues involving business and industry voluntary action on technology transfer, and research and development. It has been hailed as a new model for an international climate agreement and as an alternative to the Kyoto Protocol. However, APP implementation has had challenges. As an opposing model to that of Kyoto, it is in contravention of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change's (UNFCCC's) principle of common but differentiated responsibilities and a contributor to the crumbling of climate governance. Cooperation rather than competition ideally should be the future for the relationship between the APP and the UNFCCC/Kyoto. Business and industry are involved in implementation of the Kyoto mechanisms under the UN climate regime currently; and for that reason, synchronicity between the APP and Kyoto agreements would be ideal. For example, APP nations could be involved in joint ‘regional’ emissions trading as the United States, Canada, Australia, Korea, and Japan all are in the process of establishing national schemes. However, for the APP to be a complement to Kyoto and not a barrier to its effectiveness, many hurdles need to be overcome including equity issues, additionality questions, capacity building concerns, trade barriers, intellectual property issues, adequacy of funding, assessment of APP emissions reductions, and renewal of US interest in UN climate regime participation. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Policy and Governance > Multilevel and Transnational Climate Change Governance
Communicating climate change: history, challenges, process and future directions
Authors: Moser Susanne C.
Published: December 2009

Since anthropogenic climate change first emerged on the public agenda in the mid‐to‐late 1980s, public communication of climate change and—more recently—the question of how to communicate it most effectively have witnessed a steep rise. This paper synthesizes what is known, presumed, and still unknown about how to effectively communicate this problem. An introductory historical overview of climate change communication is followed by a discussion of the challenges that communicators face in trying to convey the issue (invisibility of causes, distant impacts, lack of immediacy and direct experience of the impacts, lack of gratification for taking mitigative actions, disbelief in human's global influence, complexity and uncertainty, inadequate signals indicating the need for change, perceptual limits and self‐interest). The core of the paper focuses on key aspects of the communication process (purpose and scope of the communication, audience, framing, messages, messengers, modes and channels of communication, and assessing the outcomes and effectiveness of a communication). These elements are placed in relationship to several contextual factors that affect the communication process. The paper concludes with suggestions for future research on climate change communication. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Perceptions, Behavior, and Communication of Climate Change > Communication
Ethics and climate change: an introduction
Authors: Gardiner Stephen M.
Published: December 2009

Climate ethics is an emerging field. This paper serves as a critical introductory overview. It focuses on five areas of discussion that are particularly relevant to substantive climate policy: the treatment of scientific uncertainty, responsibility for past emissions, the setting of mitigation targets, and the places of adaptation and geoengineering in the policy portfolio. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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Climate, Nature, and Ethics > Ethics and Climate Change
Introduction: Is the Asia‐Pacific Partnership a viable alternative to Kyoto? An editorial essay
Authors: Betsill Michele M.
Published: December 2009

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Policy and Governance > Multilevel and Transnational Climate Change Governance
Diagnostic efficacy of the fluorometric determination of enzyme activity for Pompe disease from dried blood specimens compared with lymphocytes—possibility for newborn screening
Authors: Lukacs Zoltan , Nieves Cobos Paulina , Mengel Eugen , Hartung Ralf , Beck Michael , Deschauer Marcus , Keil Angelika , Santer René
Published: December 2009

Background

Pompe disease is a rare, autosomal‐recessive disorder which results from a defect in the lysosomal enzyme acid α‐glucosidase (GAA). The onset of this disease is highly variable, with infantile types being the most severe. Traditionally, lymphocytes, fibroblasts or muscle biopsies were necessary for enzyme activity measurement, because these materials do not express maltase‐glucoamylase (MGA) that interferes with the assay. Recently, acarbose was found to inhibit MGA activity selectively, so that dried blood became accessible for GAA assessment.

Aim

To evaluate the diagnostic efficacy of GAA measurement in dried blood specimens (DBSs) in comparison with lymphocytes. If DBSs provided reliable results, the diagnosis of Pompe disease could be facilitated, and high‐throughput screening would become possible.

Methods and results

GAA activity was measured in DBSs of known patients at pH 3.8 (with and without acarbose) and at pH 7.0. Additionally, lymphocytes were obtained from the same patients, and the enzyme activity was determined at pH 4 to pH 7. In total, seven infantile patients and 29 patients with late‐onset variants were investigated. All patients were reliably identified by both methods. Furthermore, a simplified protocol was established for neonatal screening.

Conclusion

The fluorometric technique for the assessment of GAA activity in DBS provides a reliable diagnosis for all variants of Pompe disease. The assay protocol could be simplified for neonatal screening, without increasing the false positive rate significantly or burdening the laboratory with time‐consuming procedures.
Effect of preantral mouse follicle culture period on meiotic maturation and developmental competence of oocytes
Authors: Nonowaki Shouko , Takahashi Katsuhiko , Horiuchi Toshitaka
Published: December 2009

Purpose

The aim of this study is to determine the optimal culture period for meiotic maturation and developmental competence of in vitro‐grown mouse oocytes.

Methods

Early preantral follicles with diameter of 100–130 μm were collected mechanically from day 14 mouse ovaries and cultured for 8, 10, and 12 days. The diameters of follicles and oocytes were measured, and chromatin configuration in oocytes was observed. We also examined meiotic maturation by human chorionic gonadotropin (hCG)/epidermal growth factor (EGF) stimulation, developmental competence of fertilized oocytes to blastocysts, and apoptosis in blastocysts.

Results

The follicular diameter increased significantly from days 4 to 10, and the diameter of day 12 oocytes was significantly larger than day 8 or earlier oocytes. Chromatin configuration around the nucleolus was transformed from “nonsurrounded (immature)” to “surrounded (mature)” after 10 days. Furthermore, MII rate of day 10 and 12 oocytes was significantly higher than that of day 8 oocytes. The blastocyst rate of day 10 oocytes was higher than that of day 8 or 12 oocytes. The blastocyst apoptotic rate of day 12 oocytes was higher than that of day 10 oocytes.

Conclusions

Long culture periods of in vitro‐grown oocytes affect meiotic maturation, developmental competence to blastocysts, and apoptosis.
More than Words: On the Importance of Picture–Text Congruence in the Online Environment
Authors: Van Rompay Thomas J.L. , De Vries Peter W. , Van Venrooij Xaviera G.
Published: December 2009

This paper addresses effects of picture–text congruence in the online environment on consumer response. Based on recent theorizing on processing fluency, it is argued that congruence among symbolic meanings connoted by pictorial and textual elements of web design increases processing fluency, in turn enhancing attitude formation. Since symbolic meaning integration requires elaborate processing, the influence of individual differences reflecting consumers’ information processing is discussed and predictions are formulated. An experimental study was conducted requiring participants to evaluate an online hotel booking site in which symbolic meanings connoted by hotel appearance and hotel description either matched or mismatched. Results show that picture–text congruence positively affects product attitude via processing fluency but only so for participants high in need for cognition. These findings indicate that picture–text congruence in web design may impact consumer response, thereby highlighting the importance of careful consideration of the online environment.
Music Criticism in Nineteenth-Century France
Authors: Ellis Katharine
Published: December 2009

This book focuses on the musical writings in the daily and periodical press in France during the nineteenth century. It covers the criticism of a wide range of Western music, from c.1580 to 1880, explaining how composers such as Bach and Beethoven secured a permanent place in the repertory. In particular, Dr Ellis considers the music journalism of the Revue et Gazette musicale de Paris, the single most important specialist periodical of the mid-nineteenth century, explaining how French music criticism was influenced by aesthetic and philosophical movements. Dr Ellis analyses the process of canon formation, the development of French musicology and the increasing sensitivity of critics to questions of performance practice. Chapters on new music examine the conflict inevitable in publishers' journals, between commercial interest and aesthetic integrity.
Justice and Difference in the Works of Rousseau
Authors: Still Judith
Published: December 2009

According to Rousseau, the best relationship between unequals is one of 'benificence', giving, receiving and repaying benefits. This 1993 book addresses the problem implicit in his writings of whether it is indeed possible for a just and generous relationship to exist between non-equals. Judith Still draws together issues in Rousseau's work which are often treated in isolation: the state, just relations between individuals, sexual politics and the constructing of a feminine identity. She analyses his works, his classical sources, and the conceptual underpinnings of his ethics, crossing the boundary between study of Rousseau as a complex and sensitive writer of fiction and autobiography and consideration of his political and ethical theory. Using techniques of reading drawn from literary theory, particularly from the work of Derrida, de Man and Starobinski, she argues that for Rousseau it is sexual difference which disturbs the practice of benificence.
Modern Arabic Drama in Egypt
Authors: Badawi M. M.
Published: December 2009

This book is the first critical survey of modern Egyptian drama during the period of its maturity from the 1930s to the present day. A discussion of the work of Tawfiq al-Hakim is followed by an examination of the less experimental plays of his successors, Mahmud Taymur, Bakathir and Fathi Radwan.
Paul: Crisis in Galatia
Authors: Howard George
Published: December 2009

This is the second edition of a work which first appeared in 1979. The first edition gave an interpretation of Paul's Letters to the Galatians which proceeded along the following lines: firstly, Paul's opponents at Galatia were Jewish Christians who believed that Gentiles had to accept the Law in order to be saved; secondly, that Paul first revealed his noncircumcision gospel to James, Cephas and John at the Jerusalem Conference; thirdly, Paul's view of justification by faith was seen in terms of Christ keeping faith with Abraham's promise that all nations would be blessed; and fourthly, that Paul considered Torah as binding upon Jewish Christians, but not upon Gentiles. In his second edition, the author brings the discussion into line with his present thinking, and proposes a more nuanced view of the Galatian opponents. These, he feels, did not all share the same opinions, although they were Jewish Christians. The chief discrepancy in their views consisted in the fact that some believed all Gentiles would be saved at the present time if they kept the Law, while others thought the Gentiles would be saved, rather, at the dawn of the age to come.
The Jewish Chronicle and Anglo-Jewry, 1841–1991
Authors: Cesarani David
Published: December 2009

Founded in 1841, The Jewish Chronicle is the oldest continuously published Jewish newspaper in the world. A force for change, a forum for debate and a shaper of Jewish identity, it has played a central part in the development of modern Anglo-Jewry. More than just a mirror of Anglo-Jewish mores, registering waves of immigration and social change, The Jewish Chronicle has been an active player in historical events. Its editors have intervened decisively in communal history and debated with British statesmen. No historian can understand the inner life of British Jews without looking at the social reports, the sports column, the arts and cultural coverage and the advertising that the paper has carried. This book, written by a noted historian of Jewish social affairs, gives an insight into the working of a newspaper, the struggles between editors and directors, and the boardroom politics. It is the story of a publishing adventure that became an institution and helped to shape the destiny of an entire community.
Community, Class and Careers
Authors: Bennett Michael J.
Published: December 2009

This study of Cheshire and Lancashire society in the late fourteenth and early fifteenth centuries is a unique attempt to reconstruct the social life of an English region in the later Middle Ages. Drawing on the voluminous archives of the two palatinates and the extensive muniment collections of local families, it offers an unusually rich and wide-ranging analysis of a dynamic regional society at a dramatic stage in its history.
The Making of a Ruling Class
Authors: Jenkins Philip
Published: December 2009

This study provides an extensive survey of the economic activities of the gentry, their role as entrepreneurs and as popularisers of the metropolitan culture of Georgian London. It describes how during the eighteenth century, local elites from remote corners of Britain were amalgamated into one new ruling class, a body distinguished by common attitudes, social outlook, living standards and educational patterns. The author provides a synthesis of social, economic and political changes in the years prior to industrialisation. Political changes are studied in detail, and the changing role of political parties and ideologies is examined. Then, after a comprehensive study of the activities and attitudes of the gentry, the book concludes by attempting to explain precisely why Britain should have led the world in the twin processes of industrialisation and modernisation.
Fair Shares for All
Authors: Gross Jean-Pierre
Published: December 2009

This study explores the egalitarian policies pursued in the provinces during the radical phase of the French Revolution, but moves away from the habit of looking at such issues in terms of the Terror alone. It challenges revisionist readings of Jacobinism that dwell on its totalitarian potential or portray it as dangerously utopian. The mainstream Jacobin agenda emphasised 'fair shares' and equal opportunities for all in a private ownership market economy. It sought to achieve social justice without jeopardising human rights and tended thus to complement, rather than undermine, the liberal, individualist programme of the Revolution. The book stresses the relevance of the 'Enlightenment legacy', the close affinity between Girondins and Montagnards, the key role played by many lesser-known figures and the moral ascendancy of Robespierre. It reassesses the basic social and economic issues at stake in the Revolution, which cannot be understood solely in terms of political discourse.
Risks at Sea
Authors: Spooner Frank C.
Published: December 2009

This book places the marine insurance business of Amsterdam in the wider context of the political economy of Europe during the second half of the eighteenth century. The analysis is based on the simultaneous quotations of premiums for the twenty-two groups of destinations which formed a major part of the commerical matrix of the Netherlands. It considers the operation of the market at two levels. On the one hand, the provision of insurance responded to risk uncertainties in the market: in the 1760s and 1770s, Amsterdam experienced three serious unheavals, in the form of the financial crises of 1763 and 1772–73 and the hostilities leading to American independence and the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War. On the other hand, underwriters accepted risks in situations of structural uncertainty. The book is fully illustrated with graphs and maps and uses a wide range of original documents drawn from archives and libraries in Europe. An appendix provides the basic data of premiums quoted in the price-lists of the market.
Observing Variable Stars
Authors: Levy David H. , Mattei Janet A.
Published: December 2009

David Levy's entertaining, well-researched book is aimed at the amateur enthusiast who likes to learn enjoyably. Beginning with advice on binoculars and telescopes, and how to observe the night sky effectively, the author goes on to describe thoroughly the field of variable star observation, a field in which amateurs have made important contributions. He shows how to interpret variations in light output in terms of the life of a star, from birth through to sometimes violent death. All of the major variable stars are described and classified, as well as other variable objects such as active galaxies, asteroids, comets and the sun. The book also contains a guide to the seasonal night sky. Throughout, practical observations serve to complement the text, producing an exciting, very readable introduction to this fascinating subject.
Analysis on Fractals
Authors: Kigami Jun
Published: December 2009

This book covers analysis on fractals, a developing area of mathematics which focuses on the dynamical aspects of fractals, such as heat diffusion on fractals and the vibration of a material with fractal structure. The book provides a self-contained introduction to the subject, starting from the basic geometry of self-similar sets and going on to discuss recent results, including the properties of eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of the Laplacians, and the asymptotical behaviors of heat kernels on self-similar sets. Requiring only a basic knowledge of advanced analysis, general topology and measure theory, this book will be of value to graduate students and researchers in analysis and probability theory. It will also be useful as a supplementary text for graduate courses covering fractals.
The Jews in Australia
Authors: Rutland Suzanne D.
Published: December 2009

Jews form only a tiny proportion of the Australian population, yet they have made outstanding contributions and have influenced Australian society immeasurably. Stories such as that of Sir John Monash, Australian commander-in-chief during World War I, whose legacy continues through Monash University, show how Jews have reached the highest echelons of Australian society. The Jews in Australia explores what makes the Australian Jewish community different from other Jewish communities around the world. It traces the community's history from its convict origins in 1788 through to today's vibrant Jewish culture in Australia, and highlights the social and cultural impact the Jews have had on Australia. As well as looking at the emergence of a specific faith tradition in Australia, the book also explores how Jews, as Australia's first ethnic group, have integrated into multicultural Australia.
Verdi and the French Aesthetic
Authors: Giger Andreas
Published: December 2009

Focusing on Verdi's French operas, Giger shows how the composer acquired an ever better understanding of the various approaches to French versification while gradually bringing his works in line with French melodic aesthetic. In his first French opera, Jérusalem, Verdi treated the text in an overly cautious manner, trying to avoid prosodic mistakes; in Les Vêpres siciliennes he began to apply more freedom, scanning the verses against some prosodic accents to convey the lightheartedness of a melody; and in Don Carlos he finally drew on the entire palette of prosodic interpretations. Most of Verdi's melodic accomplishments in the French operas carried over into the subsequent Italian ones, setting the stage for what later would be called operatic verismo. Drawing attention to the significance of the libretto for the development of nineteenth-century French and Italian opera, this text illustrates Verdi's gradual mastery of the challenges he faced, and their historical significance.
The Big End of Town
Authors: Fleming Grant , Merrett David , Ville Simon
Published: December 2009

Never before had a book been published which provides such a comprehensive study of Australian corporate leadership over the past 100 years. Written by a team of economic historians The Big End of Town, first published in 2004, is a proper business history of twentieth-century Australia. This book traces the evolution of large business enterprises in Australia, from the giants of the nineteenth century - such as Dalgety's, CSR and BHP - to the contemporary leaders in Newscorp and Qantas. It delves into why the market leaders became the major players, examines what was crucial to their success, and their roles in leading the Australian economy. By investigating their evolution this book provides a useful evaluation of the factors that have led to their competitive success and provides an essential guide for all businesses in Australia and beyond.
How to Argue with an Economist
Authors: Edwards Lindy
Published: December 2009

This fascinating book reflects on how economics has become central to our lives, and how the 'economic rationalist' perspective has become the lens through which all matters in Australian public life are viewed. It explains how this economic worldview systematically overlooks important social issues and how it transforms Australian culture. How to Argue with an Economist invites a broad general audience into debates that were once reserved for experts. Lindy Edwards, a former economic adviser in the Prime Minister's Department, has a talent for expressing concepts simply. She distils economics' key ideas into a lively and enjoyable read, explaining how economists think and then how you can argue with them.
The Historical Performance of Music
Authors: Lawson Colin , Stowell Robin
Published: December 2009

Offering students and performers a concise overview of historical performance, this 1999 book takes into account the many significant developments in the discipline. It addresses practical matters rather than philosophical issues and guides readers towards further investigation and interpretation of the evidence provided, not only in the various early instrumental and vocal treatises, but also in examples from the mainstream repertory. Designed as a parent volume for the series Cambridge Handbooks to the Historical Performance of Music, this book provides an historical basis for artistic decision-making which has as its goal the re-creation of performances as close as possible to the composer's original conception. It relates many of the issues discussed to major works by Bach, Mozart, Berlioz and Brahms, composed c.1700–c.1900, the core period which forms the principal (though not exclusive) focus for the whole series.
Statius and Virgil
Authors: Ganiban Randall T.
Published: December 2009

At the end of the Thebaid, Statius enjoins his epic 'not to compete with the divine Aeneid but rather to follow at a distance and always revere its footprints'. The nature of the Thebaid's interaction with the Aeneid is, however, a matter of debate. This 2007 book argues that the Thebaid reworks themes, scenes, and ideas from Virgil in order to show that the Aeneid's representation of monarchy is inadequate. It also demonstrates how the Thebaid's fascination with horror, spectacle, and unspeakable violence is tied to Statius' critique of the moral and political virtues at the heart of the Aeneid. Professor Ganiban offers both a way to interpret the Thebaid and a largely sequential reading of the poem.
The Passions in Play
Authors: Schiesaro Alessandro
Published: December 2009

This monograph is devoted to the most important of Seneca's tragedies, Thyestes, which has had a notable influence on Western drama from Shakespeare to Antonin Artaud. Thyestes emerges as the mastertext of 'Silver' Latin poetry, and as an original reflection on the nature of theatre comparable to Euripides' Bacchae. The book analyses the complex structure of the play, its main themes, the relationship between Seneca's vibrant style and his obsession with dark issues of revenge and regression. Substantial discussion of other plays - especially Trojan Women, Oedipus and Medea - permits a comprehensive re-evaluation of Seneca's poetics and its pivotal role in post-Virgilian literature. Topics explored include the relationship between Seneca's plays and his theory of the emotions, the connection between poetic inspiration and the Underworld, and Seneca's treatment of time, which, in a perspective informed by psychoanalysis, is seen as a central preoccupation of Senecan tragedy.
Abusive Mouths in Classical Athens
Authors: Worman Nancy
Published: December 2009

This study of the language of insult charts abuse in classical Athenian literature that centres on the mouth and its appetites, especially talking, eating, drinking, and sexual activities. Attic comedy, Platonic dialogue, and fourth-century oratory often deploy insulting depictions of the mouth and its excesses in order to deride professional speakers as sophists, demagogues, and women. Although the patterns of imagery explored are very prominent in ancient invective and later western literary traditions, this is the first book to discuss this phenomenon in classical literature. It responds to a growing interest in both abusive speech genres and the representation of the body, illuminating an iambic discourse that isolates the intemperate mouth as a visible emblem of behaviours ridiculed in the democratic arenas of classical Athens.
Plato'sCratylus
Authors: Sedley David
Published: December 2009

Plato's Cratylus is a brilliant but enigmatic dialogue. It bears on a topic, the relation of language to knowledge, which has never ceased to be of central philosophical importance, but tackles it in ways which at times look alien to us. In this reappraisal of the dialogue, Professor Sedley argues that the etymologies which take up well over half of it are not an embarrassing lapse or semi-private joke on Plato's part. On the contrary, if taken seriously as they should be, they are the key to understanding both the dialogue itself and Plato's linguistic philosophy more broadly. The book's main argument is so formulated as to be intelligible to readers with no knowledge of Greek, and will have a significant impact both on the study of Plato and on the history of linguistic thought.
Greeks and Pre-Greeks
Authors: Finkelberg Margalit
Published: December 2009

By systematically confronting Greek tradition of the Heroic Age with the evidence of both linguistics and archaeology, Margalit Finkelberg proposes a multidisciplinary assessment of the ethnic, linguistic and cultural situation in Greece in the second millennium BC. The main thesis of this book is that the Greeks started their history as a multi-ethnic population group consisting of both Greek-speaking newcomers and the indigenous population of the land and that the body of 'Hellenes' as known to us from the historic period was a deliberate self-creation. The book addresses such issues as the structure of heroic genealogy, the linguistic and cultural identity of the indigenous population of Greece, the patterns of marriage between heterogeneous groups as they emerge in literary and historical sources, the dialect map of Bronze Age Greece, the factors responsible for the collapse of the Mycenaean civilisation and finally, the construction of the myth of the Trojan War.
Writing Greek Law
Authors: Gagarin Michael
Published: December 2009

The use of writing in the development of Greek law was unique. In this comparative study Professor Gagarin shows the reader how Greek law developed and explains why it became so different from the legal systems with which most legal historians are familiar. While other early communities wrote codes of law for academic or propaganda purposes, the Greeks used writing extensively to make their laws available to a relatively large segment of the community. On the other hand, the Greeks made little use of writing in litigation whereas other cultures used it extensively in this area, often putting written documents at the heart of the judicial process. Greek law thereby avoided becoming excessively technical and never saw the development of a specialised legal profession. This book will be of interest to those with an interest in the history of law, as well as ancient historians.
Land and Power in Ptolemaic Egypt
Authors: Manning J. G.
Published: December 2009

This history of land tenure under the Ptolemies explores the relationship between the new Ptolemaic state and the ancient traditions of landholding and tenure. Departing from the traditional emphasis on the Fayyum, it offers a coherent framework for understanding the structure of the Ptolemaic state, and thus of the economy as a whole. Drawing on both Greek and demotic papyri, as well as hieroglyphic inscriptions and theories taken from the social sciences, Professor Manning argues that the traditional central state 'despotic' model of the Egyptian economy is insufficient. The result is a subtler picture of the complex relationship between the demands of the new state and the ancient, locally organized social structure of Egypt. By revealing the dynamics between central and local power in Egypt, the book shows that Ptolemaic economic power ultimately shaped Roman Egyptian social and economic institutions.
Mass Oratory and Political Power in the Late Roman Republic
Authors: Morstein-Marx Robert
Published: December 2009

This book highlights the role played by public, political discourse in shaping the distribution of power between Senate and People in the Late Roman Republic. Against the background of the debate between 'oligarchical' and 'democratic' interpretations of Republican politics, Robert Morstein-Marx emphasizes the perpetual negotiation and reproduction of political power through mass communication. The book analyses the ideology of Republican mass oratory and situates its rhetoric fully within the institutional and historical context of the public meetings (contiones) in which these speeches were heard. Examples of contional orations, drawn chiefly from Cicero and Sallust, are subjected to an analysis that is influenced by contemporary political theory and empirical studies of public opinion and the media, rooted in a detailed examination of key events and institutional structures, and illuminated by a vivid sense of the urban space in which the contio was set.
Aristotle in China
Authors: Wardy Robert
Published: December 2009

In this book, Robert Wardy, a philosopher and classicist, turns his attention to the relation between language and thought. He explores this huge topic in an analysis of linguistic relativism, with specific reference to a reading of the ming li t'an ('The Investigation of the Theory of Names'), a seventeenth-century Chinese translation of Aristotle's Categories. Throughout his investigation, Wardy addresses important questions. Do the basis structures of language shape the major thought-patterns of its native speakers? Could philosophy be guided and constrained by the language in which it is done? What factors, from grammar and logic to cultural and religious expectations, influence translation? And does Aristotle survive rendition into Chinese intact? His answers will fascinate philosphers, Sinologists, classicists, linguists and anthropologists, and will make a major contribution to the existing literature.
Paradise, Death and Doomsday in Anglo-Saxon Literature
Authors: Kabir Ananya Jahanara
Published: December 2009

How did the Anglo-Saxons conceptualize the interim between death and Doomsday? In this 2001 book, Ananya Jahanara Kabir presents an investigation into the Anglo-Saxon belief in the 'interim paradise': paradise as a temporary abode for good souls following death and pending the final decisions of Doomsday. She locates the origins of this distinctive sense of paradise within early Christian polemics, establishes its Anglo-Saxon development as a site of contestation and compromise, and argues for its post-Conquest transformation into the doctrine of purgatory. In ranging across Old English prose and poetry as well as Latin apocrypha, exegesis, liturgy, prayers and visions of the otherworld, and combining literary criticism with recent scholarship in early medieval history, early Christian theology and history of ideas, this book is essential reading for scholars of Anglo-Saxon England, historians of Christianity, and all those interested in the impact of the Anglo-Saxon period on the later Middle Ages.
Press Censorship in Jacobean England
Authors: Clegg Cyndia Susan
Published: December 2009

This 2001 book examines the ways in which books were produced, read and received during the reign of King James I. It challenges prevailing attitudes that press censorship in Jacobean England differed little from either the 'whole machinery of control' enacted by the Court of Star Chamber under Elizabeth or the draconian campaign implemented by Archbishop Laud, during the reign of Charles I. Cyndia Clegg, building on her earlier study Press Censorship in Elizabethan England, contends that although the principal mechanisms for controlling the press altered little between 1558 and 1603, the actual practice of censorship under King James I varied significantly from Elizabethan practice. The book combines historical analysis of documents with literary reading of censored texts and exposes the kinds of tensions that really mattered in Jacobean culture. It will be an invaluable resource for literary scholars and historians alike.
Press Censorship in Caroline England
Authors: Clegg Cyndia Susan
Published: December 2009

Between 1625 and 1640, a distinctive cultural awareness of censorship emerged, which ultimately led the Long Parliament to impose drastic changes in press control. The culture of censorship addressed in this study helps to explain the divergent historical interpretations of Caroline censorship as either draconian or benign. Such contradictions transpire because the Caroline regime and its critics employed similar rhetorical strategies that depended on the language of orthodoxy, order, tradition, and law, but to achieve different ends. Building on her two previous studies on press censorship in Elizabethan and Jacobean England, Cyndia Clegg scrutinizes all aspects of Caroline print culture: book production in London, the universities, and on the Continent; licensing and authorization practices in both the Stationers' Company and among the ecclesiastical licensers; cases before the courts of High Commission and Star Chamber and the Stationers' Company's Court of Assistants; and trade regulation.
Shakespeare, Love and Service
Authors: Schalkwyk David
Published: December 2009

Peter Laslett's comment, in The World We Have Lost, that in the early modern period 'every relationship could be seen as a love-relationship' presents the governing idea of this book. In an analysis that includes Shakespeare's sonnets and a wide range of his plays from The Comedy of Errors to The Winter's Tale, David Schalkwyk looks at the ways in which the personal, affective relations of love are informed by the social, structural interactions of service. Showing that service is not a 'class' concept, but rather determined the fundamental conditions of identity across the whole society, the book explores the inter-penetration of structure and effect in relationships as varied as monarch and subject, aristocrat and personal servant, master and slave, husband and wife, and lover and beloved, in the light of differences of rank, gender and sexual identity.
Wordsworth's Philosophic Song
Authors: Jarvis Simon
Published: December 2009

Wordsworth wrote that he longed to compose 'some philosophic Song/Of Truth that cherishes our daily life'. Yet he never finished The Recluse, his long philosophical poem. Simon Jarvis argues that Wordsworth's aspiration to 'philosophic song' is central to his greatness, and changed the way English poetry was written. Some critics see Wordworth as a systematic thinker, while for others he is a poet first, and a thinker only (if at all) second. Jarvis shows instead how essential both philosophy and the 'song' of poetry were to Wordsworth's achievement. Drawing on advanced work in continental philosophy and social theory to address the ideological attacks which have dominated much recent commentary, Jarvis reads Wordsworth's writing both critically and philosophically, to show how Wordsworth thinks through and in verse. This study rethinks the relation between poetry and society itself by analysing the tensions between thinking philosophically and writing poetry.