cometadata/datacite-rtg-text-other-reclassification-records huggingface dataset:
Isolation of equine endothelial cells and life cell angiogenesis assay
Creators: name: Dietze, Kathrin
name: Slosarek, Ilka
name: Fuhrmann-Selter, Tania
name: Hopperdietzel, Carsten
name: Plendl, Johanna
name: Kaessmeyer, Sabine
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2014
Subjects: subject: equine macrovascular endothelial cells
subject: life cell imaging
subject: angiogenesis assay
subject: microparticles
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::590 Tiere (Zoologie)::590 Tiere (Zoologie)

description: Arterial or venous thromboses are frequent clinical complications with the risk of fatal progression. Recent studies suggest the disruption of angiogenesis in the course of thrombus resolution as the underlying pathomechanism. Very similar to the situation in human patients, equine vessels have been described to be particularly susceptible to thrombosis. In contrast to humans, equine donors are readily available to obtain organs and tissues for isolation of endothelial cells. Objective of this study was to isolate equine endothelial cells and develop an angiogenesis assay from primary cultures. Macrovascular endothelial cells were obtained from jugular veins and carotid arteries of nine horses, one of which suffered from inflammatory processes. After enzymatic isolation, the cells were incubated in different selective primary media. Phenotypic identification of endothelial cells was accomplished by morphology and positive staining to von Willebrand factor. The reliable, inexpensive, and standardized combination of methods presented here resulted in pure endothelial cultures for angiogenesis assays that can be used in any cell culture laboratory. Inverted phase microscopy and life cell imaging was used to characterize the stages of the angiogenic cascade of the endothelial cells. Life cell imaging gave new insights into the in vitro formation of capillary like structures including exocytosis of microparticles from endothelial cells before integration into the three-dimensional structure. We hypothesize that a specific population of endothelial cells showing a highly active migration pattern in life cell imaging might play a role in the resolution of thrombosis.
Morphology of the transverse ligament of the atlas and the alar ligaments in the silver fox (Vulpes vulpes var)
Creators: name: Kupczynska, Marta
name: Barszcz, Karolina
name: Janczyk, Pawel
name: Wasowicz, Michal
name: Czubaj, Norbert
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2013
Subjects: subject: atlantoaxial joint
subject: atlantooccipital joint
subject: craniocervical junction
subject: transverse ligament of the atlas
subject: alar ligament
subject: silver fox
subject: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik::590 Tiere (Zoologie)::590 Tiere (Zoologie)

description: Background Recent new anatomical and histological features of craniocervical junction in dogs and cats were described providing evidence of differences between the carnivore species. No information on these structures in foxes exists. Results Two parts of the alar ligaments were found. A longer one aroused from dens of axis to the internal (medial) surface of the occipital condyles and was called apical part. A shorter part originated from the entire length of the lateral edge of the dens of axis and terminated on the internal wall of the vertebral foramen of atlas and thus was called the lateral part. The transverse ligament of the atlas was widened in the mid region, above the dens of axis, and thickened at enthesis. Periosteal fibrocartilage was detected in the transverse ligament of the atlas at the enthesis, and sesamoid fibrocartilage was present on periphery in the middle of the ligament. Conclusions The craniocervical junction in foxes differs in part from other carnivores such as dogs and cats but resembles that of mesaticephalic dogs. The sesamoid and periosteal fibrocartilage supports the transverse ligament of the atlas whereas the alar ligaments have no cartilage.
Effects of silver nanoparticles on primary mixed neural cell cultures: Uptake, oxidative stress and acute calcium responses
Creators: name: Haase, Andrea
name: Rott, Stephanie
name: Mantion, Alexandre
name: Graf, Philipp
name: Plendl, Johanna
name: Thünemann, Andreas F.
name: Meier, Wolfgang P.
name: Taubert, Andreas
name: Luch, Andreas
name: Reiser, Georg
Publisher: name: Freie Universität Berlin
Year: 2012
Subjects: subject: silver nanoparticles
subject: neurons
subject: oxidative stress
subject: protein carbonyls
subject: calcium
subject: 600 Technik, Medizin, angewandte Wissenschaften::610 Medizin und Gesundheit::610 Medizin und Gesundheit

description: In the body, nanoparticles can be systemically distributed and then may affect secondary target organs, such as the central nervous system (CNS). Putative adverse effects on the CNS are rarely investigated to date. Here, we used a mixed primary cell model consisting mainly of neurons and astrocytes and a minor proportion of oligodendrocytes to analyze the effects of well-characterized 20 and 40 nm silver nanoparticles (SNP). Similar gold nanoparticles served as control and proved inert for all endpoints tested. SNP induced a strong size-dependent cytotoxicity. Additionally, in the low concentration range (up to 10 μg/ml of SNP), the further differentiated cultures were more sensitive to SNP treatment. For detailed studies, we used low/medium dose concentrations (up to 20 μg/ml) and found strong oxidative stress responses. Reactive oxygen species (ROS) were detected along with the formation of protein carbonyls and the induction of heme oxygenase-1. We observed an acute calcium response, which clearly preceded oxidative stress responses. ROS formation was reduced by antioxidants, whereas the calcium response could not be alleviated by antioxidants. Finally, we looked into the responses of neurons and astrocytes separately. Astrocytes were much more vulnerable to SNP treatment compared with neurons. Consistently, SNP were mainly taken up by astrocytes and not by neurons. Immunofluorescence studies of mixed cell cultures indicated stronger effects on astrocyte morphology. Altogether, we can demonstrate strong effects of SNP associated with calcium dysregulation and ROS formation in primary neural cells, which were detectable already at moderate dosages.
New draft itemUsing Bootstrap for More Accurate Confidence Interval
Creators: name: Yuanjing Ma
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: Statistics
subject: FOS: Mathematics

description: This article investigates the bootstrap methods for producing good approximate confidence intervals. The first section introduces the motivated example and compare different approximated confidence intervals with the exact intervals. Section two serves as an overview of different bootstrap methods. Inspired by Efron’s paper (1994), this article further explores the possibility to apply the bootstrap method to common odds ratio in a series of 2 by 2 contingency tables. The third section explains the procedure and gives the results of Monte Carlo simulations.
Heat shock protein 90 inhibitors induce functional inhibition of human natural killer cells in a dose-dependent manner
Creators: name: Li, Qi
name: Yang, Hui
name: Zhang, Jian
name: Yin, Da-Chuan
name: Shang, Peng
name: Huyan, Ting
name: Dong, Dan-Dan
name: Huang, Qing-Sheng
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Infectious Diseases
subject: FOS: Health sciences
subject: Hematology
subject: Cancer
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Chemistry
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Physiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biochemistry

description: Heat shock protein 90 (Hsp90) is a ubiquitously expressed ATP-dependent molecular chaperone across all species that helps to the correct the folding of many proteins related to important signaling pathways. Tumor cells expressing Hsp90 have more ATP-binding affinity than normal cells. Many correlative inhibitors have been developed to promising anti-tumor strategies and have been evaluated in clinical trials. However, the effect of Hsp90 inhibitors on immunocytes cannot be ignored. Natural killer (NK) cells are key components of the innate immune system that play a pivotal role in tumor surveillance. The present study has investigated the potential effect of four Hsp90 inhibitors (NVP-AUY922, BIIB021, 17-DMAG, and SNX-2112) on human primary NK cells. The viability, cytotoxicity, apoptosis, phenotype, and cytokine secretion of NK cells after inhibitor treatment were assessed. The results of this study demonstrated that the inhibitors had negative effects on NK cell activity in a dose-dependent manner. The four inhibitors significantly reduced the cytotoxicity of the NK cells by decreasing viability, inducing apoptosis and down-regulating the expression of cytokines and functional receptors. These findings suggest that more attention should be given to the effect of Hsp90 inhibitors on NK cell function during clinical trials and also represent a potential immunosuppressant strategy.
From 2D layer to 2D → 3D parallel interpenetration: Syntheses, structures and luminescent properties
Creators: name: Wang, Xiaofang
name: Yang, Feifei
name: Zhang, Hong
name: Luo, Yuhui
name: Yu, Xiaoyang
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Physiology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Medicine
subject: Physics
subject: Biochemistry

description: Two new coordination polymers based on 1,1’-(1,4-butanediyl)bis(imidazole) (bbi) and 5-hydroxyisophthalic acid (OH-BDC), [Co2(HO-BDC)2(bbi)2]·H2O (1) and [Zn(HO-BDC)(bbi)] (2), have been hydrothermally synthesized. The complexes were characterized by single crystal X-ray diffraction, IR and elemental analysis. The structure determination reveals that 1 manifests a deeply corrugated 2D layer with a (4,4) lattice. For 2, there is a highly undulating 2D (4,4) layer structure. The layers penetrate by each other to give a 2D → 3D parallel interpenetrating network. Fluorescence properties and thermal stabilities of 1 and 2 in the solid state have been studied.
Matlab Code
Creators: name: Alireza Moazen-Ahmadi
name: Howard, Carl
name: Grainger, Steven
name: Larizza, Francesco
Publisher: name: figshare
Year: 2017
Subjects: subject: 91304 Dynamics, Vibration and Vibration Control
subject: FOS: Mechanical engineering

description: Matlab scripts to produce figures from the journal article and a basic script to manipulate the experimental data.
Desiring war: apocalypse, commodity fetish, and the end of history
Creators: name: Runions, Erin
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This paper argues that the repeated buzzwords history and freedom in official documents of the Bush administration work to conflate religious and economic desire, as a means of motivating war. Bushs apocalyptically inflected invocation of a personified history, who calls the U.S. to defend and advance freedom, also betrays a philosophical underpinning that is illuminated through Francis Fukuyamas explication of the end of history. This exploration of the religio-philosophical framework for Bushs public discourse pays attention to the ways in which it mirrors Fukuyamas ultimately neoconservative, Nietzchean reading of Kojve, in which the Hegelian fight unto death is never quite resolved. Copyright 2004 Erin Runions. No part of this article may be reproduced by any means without the written consent of the publisher.
Book review of Patton and Protevis Between Deleuze and Derrida
Creators: name: Aichele, George
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This is a book review of Between Deleuze and Derrida, edited by Paul Patton and John Protevi (Continuum Books, London, 2003. ISBN: 0-8264-5973-0). Copyright 2005 Monash University ePress. No part of this article may be reproduced by any means without the written consent of the publisher.
Gale Yees Poor Banished Children of Eve
Creators: name: McKinlay, Judith E
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Judith McKinlay reviews Poor Banished Children of Eve: Woman as Evil in the Hebrew Bible by Gale A. Yee. (Fortress Press, Minneapolis, 2003. ISBN: 0-8006-3457-8) Copyright 2005 Monash University ePress. No part of this article may be reproduced by any means without the written consent of the publisher.
The political limits of Lacan: book review of Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left
Creators: name: Boer, Roland
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Roland Boer reviews Contingency, Hegemony, Universality: Contemporary Dialogues on the Left, by Judith Butler, Ernesto Laclau and Slavoj iek (Verso, London, 2000. ISBN: 1-85984-278-X). Copyright 2004 Monash University ePress. No part of this article may be reproduced by any means without the written consent of the publisher.
Review of Richard Walshs Reading the Gospels in the Dark: Portrayals of Jesus in Film
Creators: name: Petterson, Christina
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Christina Petterson reviews Reading the Gospels in the Dark: Portrayals of Jesus in Film, by Richard Walsh. (London and New York: Trinity Press International; 2003. ISBN: 156338387x.) Copyright 2005 Christina Petterson. No part of this article may be reproduced by any means without the written consent of the publisher.
A new phenolic derivative with soluble epoxide hydrolase and nuclear factor-kappaB inhibitory activity from the aqueous extract of Acacia catechu
Creators: name: Li, Wei
name: Zhao, Yan
name: Sun, Ya Nan
name: Song, Seok Bean
name: Yan, Xi Tao
name: Reum Jo, A.
name: Seong Kang, Jong
name: Young Ho, Kim
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Virology
subject: Hematology
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biotechnology
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Microbiology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Biochemistry

description: One novel phenolic compound, (4S,5R)-4-(3,4-dihydroxyphenyl)-5-(3-oxobutyl)dihydrofuran-2(3H)-one (1), as well as 12 known compounds (2–13) was obtained from the aqueous extract of Acacia catechu and their chemical structures were determined by spectroscopic analysis. Compounds 8 and 9 exhibited significant soluble epoxide hydrolase (sEH) inhibitory activities with IC50 values of 26.6 ± 0.5 and 24.4 ± 5.6 μM, respectively. Compounds 7–10 showed significant inhibitory effects on TNFα-induced nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB) transcriptional activity in a dose-dependent manner, with IC50 values ranging from 11.15 to 19.45 μM.
Kol Nidre: speaking of the unspoken (of)
Creators: name: Prosic, Tamara
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: This essay is an attempt to view Kol Nidre, the custom of annulling all vows at Yom Kippur, as a result of certain historical developments, certain religious traditions and certain dynamics of the psyche. Copyright 2007 Tamara Prosic. No part of this article may be reproduced by any means without the written consent of the publisher.
Review of Allan Stoekl, Batailles Peak: Energy, Religion, and Postsustainability: (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2007)
Creators: name: Imray, Kathryn
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: No description provided Copyright 2009 Kathryn Imray. No part of this article may be reproduced by any means without the written consent of the publisher.
No association between wolframin gene H611R polymorphism and mood disorders: Evidence from 2570 subjects
Creators: name: Wang, Juan
name: Tang, Xiao-Wu
name: Zou, Yan-Feng
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Mental Health
subject: Science Policy
subject: Cancer
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences

description: Background: In the past few decades, a number of studies have investigated the association of the wolframin (WFS1) gene H611R polymorphism with mood disorders, but the findings are not always consistent. Aims: The objective of the present study is to assess the association between WFS1 gene H611R polymorphism and mood disorders by using a meta-analysis. Methods: A comprehensive literature search of PubMed, Excerpta Medica Database, Elsevier Science Direct and China National Knowledge Infrastructure databases was conducted to identify relevant articles, with the last report up to April 15, 2014. Pooled odds ratio (OR) with 95% confidence interval (CI) was estimated. Results: Seven studies including 1318 cases and 1252 controls were selected from potentially relevant articles. This meta-analysis showed that there was no significant association between WFS1 gene H611R polymorphism and mood disorders (R vs. H: OR = 0.93, 95% CI = 0.82–1.05, P = 0.22; HR+ RR vs. HH: OR = 0.98, 95% CI = 0.82–1.17, P = 0.80; RR vs. HH+ HR: OR = 0.84, 95% CI = 0.67–1.04, P = 0.11; RR vs. HH: OR = 0.86, 95% CI = 0.67–1.10, P = 0.24; HR vs. HH: OR = 1.03, 95% CI = 0.78–1.36, P = 0.83). In subgroup analyses by ethnicity, we did not detect any significant association of this polymorphism with mood disorders in Caucasian and Asian populations (P > 0.05). In subgroup analyses by types of mood disorders, we also did not detect any significant association of this polymorphism with bipolar disorder or major depressive disorder (P > 0.05). Conclusions: The results of this meta-analysis suggest that there is no association between WFS1 gene H611R polymorphism and mood disorders.
Review of Kim Paffenroth, Gospel of the Living Dead
Creators: name: Walsh, Richard
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Richard Walsh reviews Kim Paffenroths Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romeros Visions of Hell on Earth. Waco, Texas: Baylor University Press; 2006. Copyright 2007 Richard Walsh. No part of this article may be reproduced by any means without the written consent of the publisher.
Review of Jane Schabergs The Resurrection of Mary Magdalene
Creators: name: Walsh, Richard
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Richard Walsh reviews Jane Schabergs The Resurrection of Mary Magdalene: Legends, Apocrypha, and the Christian Testament (New York/London: Continuum, 2004). Copyright 2005 Richard Walsh. No part of this article may be reproduced by any means without the written consent of the publisher.
Review of G. Gerlardini (ed.), Hebrews
Creators: name: Petterson, Christina
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Christina Petterson reviews G. Gelardini (ed.), Hebrews: Contemporary Methods New Insights, Leiden: Brill, 2005. Copyright 2007 Christina Petterson. No part of this article may be reproduced by any means without the written consent of the publisher.
Review of Rolf A Jacobsons Many are Saying: The Function of Direct Discourse in the Hebrew Psalter
Creators: name: Burt, Sean
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Sean Burt reviews Many are Saying: The Function of Direct Discourse in the Hebrew Psalter, by Rolf A Jacobson. (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series; 397; New York: T & T Clark International; 2004. ISBN 0567081931.) Copyright 2005 Sean Burt. No part of this article may be reproduced by any means without the written consent of the publisher.
Wrestling with The Passion of the Christ: at the movies with Roland Barthes and Mel Gibson
Creators: name: Walsh, Richard
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Gibson offers his spectacle of Christ suffering as a reel sacrament. To do so, he writes the Hollywood passion hero and the legalistic Western Christian myth over Jesus, or lifts the sign of Jesus suffering into those mythic orders. In the West, as Gibsons success shows, this myth often masquerades as the nature of things. This myth transforms us into bastards who consume the suffering of others at a safe distance. We can confess this myth, as if it were a hierophany, or we can wrestle with it, exposing it as an interpretation. Copyright 2005 Richard Walsh. No part of this article may be reproduced by any means without the written consent of the publisher.
New sesquiterpene and thiophene derivatives from Artemisia rupestris
Creators: name: Zhang, Chen
name: Liu, Bing-Yu
name: Zeng, Ke-Wu
name: Guo, Xiao-Yu
name: Jiang, Yong
name: Tu, Peng-Fei
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biochemistry

description: A new sesquiterpene, rupestrisin A (1), and three new thiophene derivatives, rupestrienes A–C (2–4), were isolated from Artemisia rupestris. Their structures were determined by analyses of MS and NMR spectroscopic data, and the absolute configuration of 1 was established by calculated ECD spectra using time-dependent density functional theory. In in vitro bioassays, compounds 1–4 showed inhibitory effects on LPS-stimulated NO production in BV-2 microglial cells with IC50 values of 24.3, 20.3, 8.5, and 5.3 μM, respectively.
WPSS a Web Panel Sample Service
Creators: name: Agren, Quentin
name: Michaud, Geneviève
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020
Subjects: Social Sciences, Surveys

description: ESS ERIC in collaboration with Sciences Po decided to develop a Web Panel Sample Service as part of the SSHOC project. This software will be used by ESS ERIC for CRONOS-2, a cross-national panel, as part of ESS-SUSTAIN-2 H2020 project. This presentation outlines the main functionalities of the system and describes the user roles and rights to manage respondent contact data in a privacy-compliant manner and trigger survey life-cycle actions.
description: {"references": ["https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3595981"]}
Davidmachine
Creators: name: Britt, Brian
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Recent David studies from scholars such as Baruch Halpern and Steven McKenzie have called into question the historicity of biblical accounts and have substituted sacred images of David with decidedly secular ones. But the biblical David is neither purely secular nor sacred; rather, he filters the horrors of warfare and politics into the heroism and ideals of the Deuteronomistic tradition. By analogy to Heiner Mller's 1979 play, Hamletmachine, this paper considers the biblical portrait of David as a cyborg-like Davidmachine, a hybridic figure compelled to embody and commensurate competing, if not contradictory, religious and literary demands. As machine, the biblical David illustrates the place of necessity in the canon itself, a necessity that illustrates the concepts of tragedy and tradition in Walter Benjamin's study of German tragic drama. Copyright 2010 Brian Britt. No part of this article may be reproduced by any means without the written consent of the publisher.
From Plato to Adam: the biblical exegesis of Walter Benjamin
Creators: name: Boer, Roland
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Walter Benjamin finds the Bible a slippery text. For all his interest over a number of writings, especially The Task of the Translator, On Language as Such and the Language of Man and The Origin of German Tragic Drama, and for all the efforts to develop a theory of history deeply indebted to the Bible, the biblical text trips him up, refusing to provide what he wishes to find. This article traces those difficulties. Copyright 2007 Roland Boer. No part of this article may be reproduced by any means without the written consent of the publisher.
Review of Roland Boer (ed.), Bakhtin and Genre Theory in Biblical Studies: (SemeiaSt 63; Atlanta: Scholars, 2007)
Creators: name: Sneed, Mark
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: No description provided Copyright 2008 Mark Sneed. No part of this article may be reproduced by any means without the written consent of the publisher.
Review of Susanne Scholz, Introducing the Women's Hebrew Bible: (London: T&T Clark , 2007)
Creators: name: Carden, Michael
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: No description provided Copyright 2009 Michael Carden. No part of this article may be reproduced by any means without the written consent of the publisher.
Reviewing Edgar W Conrads Reading the Latter Prophets: Toward a New Canonical Criticism
Creators: name: Miscall, Peter D
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Peter Miscall reviews Edgar W Conrads Reading the Latter Prophets: Toward a New Canonical Criticism (London and New York: T & T Clark International; 2003. JSOT Sup Series 376). Copyright 2005 Peter D Miscall. No part of this article may be reproduced by any means without the written consent of the publisher.
Simulating Christ: luke and John, and the canonical control of meaning
Creators: name: Aichele, George
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: I examine the effect that the 'synopsis' between the gospels of Luke and John have on the New Testament's intertextual construction of 'Jesus Christ'. I draw particularly on the theories of Deleuze and of Barthes. I conclude that Luke and John, in combination with the letters of Paul, form a simulacrum of Christ that overwhelms and absorbs any divergences that may appear in the other gospels. This in turn plays a large part in defining the Christian 'Gospel' as a theological/ideological construct. Copyright 2008 George Aichele. No part of this article may be reproduced by any means without the written consent of the publisher.
A new taraxastane-type triterpenoid glycoside from the roots of Clematis uncinata
Creators: name: Wang, Ying
name: Ye, Wen-Cai
name: Li, Shuo-Guo
name: Li, Man-Mei
name: Zhao, Bing-Xin
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cancer
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Microbiology
subject: Biochemistry

description: A new taraxastane-type triterpenoid glycoside, clematiunicinoside I (1), together with four known ones (2–5), was isolated from the roots of Clematis uncinata. The structure of the new compound was elucidated on the basis of spectroscopic analyses and acid hydrolysis. The cytotoxic activities of all the compounds against caski cervical cancer (Caski) cells were evaluated. This is the first report of the presence of taraxastane-type triterpenoid glycoside in the genus Clematis.
Review of Philip R. Davies, Memories of Ancient Israel. An Introduction to Biblical History - Ancient and Modern: (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2008)
Creators: name: Miscall, Peter
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: No description provided Copyright 2010 Peter D. Miscall. No part of this article may be reproduced by any means without the written consent of the publisher.
Review of Laura Donaldson and Kwok Pui-Lan (eds.), Postcolonialism, Feminism and Religious Discourse: (New York: Routledge, 2002)
Creators: name: Fuchs, Esther
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: No description provided Copyright 2007 Esther Fuchs. No part of this article may be reproduced by any means without the written consent of the publisher.
Habermas' formal pragmatics and the speech act of Stephen
Creators: name: Knight, E Alfred
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The concept of formal pragmatics exhibits the potential for rationality that is supposed to be implicit in the everyday language practices of societies. It is located in certain idealisations that guide communicative action to the extent that communication is linked to validity. While this reconstructive theory seeks to identify universal presuppositions of everyday communication in modern societies, this paper will show that it can be transposed onto an ancient communication (Stephens speech) as an example of communicative action. Interpreting Stephens speech according to Habermas formal pragmatics in the communicative framework, infers a conception of purpose and potential to build on this example for other speech acts and communicative processes in the Bible. The problem with communicative rationality is that it cannot be reduced to any local context without the risk of it becoming useless for universal application and falling into moral relativism. However, the Bible is full of idealised normative suppositions that can provide standards for justifiable purposive and illocutionary activity. Even though Habermas hopes to provide a post-metaphysical alternative to pre-modern ideals of normativity, it will be shown that the pre-modern biblical text can still be an inspiration for the communicative rationality he sought after. Therefore, the aim of this paper is to analyse the speech act of Stephen in Acts 6:87:60 in relation to his formal pragmatics within the context of communicative action, as an example of critical biblical interpretation. Copyright 2010 E Alfred Knight. No part of this article may be reproduced by any means without the written consent of the publisher.
Indole alkaloid glucosides from the roots of Isatis indigotica
Creators: name: Liu, Yu-Feng
name: Chen, Ming-Hua
name: Lin, Sheng
name: Li, Yu-Huan
name: Zhang, Dan
name: Jiang, Jian-Dong
name: Shi, Jian-Gong
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Virology
subject: Plant Biology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Immunology
subject: FOS: Clinical medicine
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Pharmacology
subject: Biochemistry

description: Five new indole alkaloid glucosides named isatindigotindolosides A-E (1–5), along with three known analogs (6–8), were isolated from an aqueous extract of the Isatis indigotica roots. Their structures including the absolute configurations were determined based on comprehensive spectroscopic data analysis, combined with chemical methods and electronic circular dichroism spectra calculations. In the preliminary assays, compounds 1, 6 and 7 showed antiviral activity against influenza virus A/Hanfang/359/95 (H3N2) with IC50 values of 14.6–33.3 μM. Compound 1 also exhibited inhibitory effect against nitric oxide (NO) production in microglial cell BV2 with an inhibition ratio of 93.0% at 10 μM.
Review of Derek Kruegers Writing and Holiness: The Practice of Authorship in the Early Christian East
Creators: name: Van Heest, Katrina
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Katrina Van Heest reviews Writing and Holiness: The Practice of Authorship in the Early Christian East, by Derek Krueger (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004). Copyright 2006 Katrina Van Heest. No part of this article may be reproduced by any means without the written consent of the publisher.
Review of Dan W. Clanton Jr., Daring, Disreputable, and Devout: Interpreting the Bible's Women in the Arts and Music: (New York: T and T Clark International, 2009)
Creators: name: McKinlay, Judith E.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: No description provided Copyright 2010 Judith E. McKinlay. No part of this article may be reproduced by any means without the written consent of the publisher.
Review of Brian Britt, Rewriting Moses
Creators: name: Sneed, Mark
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Mark Sneed reviews Brian Britts Rewriting Moses: Tha Narrative Eclipse of the Text (Journal for the Study of the Old Testament Supplement Series 402; Gender, Culture, Theory 14; London: T & T Clark, 2004). Copyright 2007 Mark Sneed. No part of this article may be reproduced by any means without the written consent of the publisher.
Review of Musa Wenkosi Dube, The HIV and AIDS Bible: Selected Essays: (University of Scranton Press, 2008)
Creators: name: Carden, Michael
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: No description provided Copyright 2009 Michael Carden. No part of this article may be reproduced by any means without the written consent of the publisher.
Chemical constituents from the roots and stems of Litsea cubeba
Creators: name: Guo, Qiang
name: Zeng, Ke-Wu
name: Tu, Peng-Fei
name: Bai, Rui-Feng
name: Su, Guo-Zhu
name: Zhu, Zhi-Xiang
name: Chai, Xing-Yun
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Inorganic Chemistry
subject: FOS: Chemical sciences
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biochemistry

description: A new monoterpene and a new lignan, named litsecols A and B (1 and 2), respectively, together with nine known compounds (3–11), were isolated in a continuous investigation on the roots and stems of Litsea cubeba. Their structures were elucidated on the basis of extensive spectroscopic data analysis, and the absolute configuration of 1 was resolved by X-ray diffraction analysis. Compounds 2–5 and 7–9 showed significant inhibitory activity against nitric oxide (NO) production in lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced murine microglial (Bv-2) cell line. Compounds 10 and 11 exhibited significant neuroprotective effect against hydrogen peroxide-induced oxidative damage in rat adrenal pheochromocytoma (PC12) cell line.
Review of George Aicheles The Control of Biblical Meaning: Canon as Semiotic Mechanism
Creators: name: Jobling, David
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: David Jobling reviews George Aicheles The Control of Biblical Meaning: Canon as Semiotic Mechanism. (Harrisburg, Pa: Trinity Press International; 2001. xi + 259 pp. ISBN 1563383330.) Copyright 2005 David Jobling. No part of this article may be reproduced by any means without the written consent of the publisher.
Review of Kimberly B. Stratton, Naming the Witch. Magic, Ideology, & Stereotype in the Ancient World (Gender, Theory and Religion Series): (New York: Columbia University Press, 2007)
Creators: name: Petterson, Christina
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: No description provided Copyright 2009 Christina Petterson. No part of this article may be reproduced by any means without the written consent of the publisher.
Reviewing That We May be Mutually Encouraged: Feminism and the New Perspective in Pauline Studies
Creators: name: Bird, Jennifer
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Jennifer Bird reviews That We May be Mutually Encouraged: Feminism and the New Perspective in Pauline Studies, by Kathy Ehrensperger (T&T Clark, New York, 2004. ISBN: 0-5670-2460-X). Copyright 2005 Jennifer Bird. No part of this article may be reproduced by any means without the written consent of the publisher.
Zwitterionic Ligands Bound to Cdse/Zns Quantum Dots Prevent Adhesion to Mammalian Cells
Creators: name: Tang, Rui
name: Rotello, Vincent M.
name: Landis, Ryan F.
name: Hou, Singyuk
name: Yazdani, Mahdieh
name: Lee, Yiwei
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: Hematology
Cancer
Biological Sciences
Chemistry
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Molecular Biology
Cell Biology
Biophysics

description: Zwitterionic materials are useful tools in material science and biology as they provide high water solubility while preventing nonspecific interactions. Quantum dots (QDs) functionalized with zwitterionic and quaternary ammonium ligands were synthesized to investigate their interactions with the outer membrane of HeLa cells. Quaternary ammonium functionalized quantum dots adhered strongly to the cell surface while zwitterionic QDs had no cell adhesion. These results demonstrate that future noninteracting nanoparticles based on this design are possible.
Review of Wesley J. Bergen and Armin Siedlecki (eds.), Voyages in Uncharted Waters: Essays on the Theory and Practice of Biblical Interpretation in Honour of David Jobling: (Sheffield: Sheffield Phoenix Press, 2006)
Creators: name: Miscall, Peter D
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: No description provided Copyright 2008 Peter D. Miscall. No part of this article may be reproduced by any means without the written consent of the publisher.
Review of John J. Collins, The Bible After Babel: Historical Criticism in a Postmodern Age: (Grand Rapids, MI: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2005)
Creators: name: Aichele, George
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: No description provided Copyright 2008 George Aichele. No part of this article may be reproduced by any means without the written consent of the publisher.
Biblical scholarship in the age of bio-power: Albert Schweitzer and the degenerate physiology of the historical Jesus
Creators: name: Blanton, Ward
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Cinema Theory has for a long time been haunted by the question: is noir a genre of its own kind or a kind of anamorphic distortion affecting different genres? From the very beginning, noir was not limited to hard-boiled detective stories: reverberations of noir motifs are easily discernible in comedies (Arsenic and Old Lace), in westerns (Pursued), in political and social dramas (All the Kings Men, The Lost Weekend), etc. Do we have here a secondary impact of something that originally constitutes a genre of its own (the noir crime universe), or is the crime film only one of the possible fields of application of the noir logic? That is, is noir a predicate that entertains toward the crime universe the same relationship as toward comedy or western, a kind of logical operator introducing the same anamorphic distortion in every genre to which it is applied, so that finding its strongest application in the crime film turns on nothing but historical contingency (iek, Tarrying with the Negative: Kant, Hegel, and the Critique of Ideology, 1993, pp. 9-10)? Copyright 2005 Ward Blanton. No part of this article may be reproduced by any means without the written consent of the publisher.
Unique subcellular distribution of phosphorylated Plk1 (Ser137 and Thr210) in mouse oocytes during meiotic division and pPlk1Ser137 involvement in spindle formation and REC8 cleavage
Creators: name: Du, Juan
name: Cao, Yan
name: Wang, Qian
name: Zhang, Nana
name: Liu, Xiaoyu
name: Chen, Dandan
name: Liu, Xiaoyun
name: Xu, Qunyuan
name: Ma, Wei
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Cardiology
subject: Developmental Biology
subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Molecular Biology
subject: Genetics
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Cell Biology
subject: Biochemistry
subject: Biophysics

description: Polo-like kinase 1 (Plk1) is pivotal for proper mitotic progression, its targeting activity is regulated by precise subcellular positioning and phosphorylation. Here we assessed the protein expression, subcellular localization and possible functions of phosphorylated Plk1 (pPlk1Ser137 and pPlk1Thr210) in mouse oocytes during meiotic division. Western blot analysis revealed a peptide of pPlk1Ser137 with high and stable expression from germinal vesicle (GV) until metaphase II (MII), while pPlk1Thr210 was detected as one large single band at GV stage and 2 small bands after germinal vesicle breakdown (GVBD), which maintained stable up to MII. Immunofluorescence analysis showed pPlk1Ser137 was colocalized with microtubule organizing center (MTOC) proteins, γ-tubulin and pericentrin, on spindle poles, concomitantly with persistent concentration at centromeres and dynamic aggregation between chromosome arms. Differently, pPlk1Thr210 was persistently distributed across the whole body of chromosomes after meiotic resumption. The specific Plk1 inhibitor, BI2536, repressed pPlk1Ser137 accumulation at MTOCs and between chromosome arms, consequently disturbed γ-tubulin and pericentrin recruiting to MTOCs, destroyed meiotic spindle formation, and delayed REC8 cleavage, therefore arresting oocytes at metaphase I (MI) with chromosome misalignment. BI2536 completely reversed the premature degradation of REC8 and precocious segregation of chromosomes induced with okadaic acid (OA), an inhibitor to protein phosphatase 2A. Additionally, the protein levels of pPlk1Ser137 and pPlk1Thr210, as well as the subcellular distribution of pPlk1Thr210, were not affected by BI2536. Taken together, our results demonstrate that Plk1 activity is required for meiotic spindle assembly and REC8 cleavage, with pPlk1Ser137 is the action executor, in mouse oocytes during meiotic division.
Review of Madeline Gay McClenney-Sadler, Recovering the Daughters Nakedness: A Formal Analysis of Israelite Kinship Terminology and the Internal Logic of Leviticus 18
Creators: name: Imray, Kathryn
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies, 476. New York, London: T & T Clark, 2007
 Copyright 2008 Kathryn Imray. No part of this article may be reproduced by any means without the written consent of the publisher.
Simulating the sacred in Theodore Strehlow's Songs of Central Australia
Creators: name: Jorgensen, Darren
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: It may be impossible to reconstruct what it meant for the Arrernte people of Central Australia to have the New Testament translated into their language. The continuing practice of Christianity among the Arrernte shows just how powerful this wealth of stories was for this remote community. This act of translation was reversed by the son of the New Testament's Arrernte translator, Theodor Strehlow, who worked on rendering the song-cycles of the Arrernte into English. These are not so much translations as conversions, as Strehlow wrote them into a poetry of rhythm and cadence that was influenced by Greek and Norse myth. In doing so, Strehlow wanted to simulate his own conversion experience, his own experience of this desert people and their lives. To do so he was forced to turn to that which simulates the sacred in Western culture, in the language of poetry and literature. In reading Strehlow's Songs of Central Australia (1971) and the story of its composition, we might begin to approach this conversion to Aboriginalism that took place in the desert of Central Australia, and subsequently reconstruct Strehlow's attempt to reverse religious imperialism. Copyright 2010 Darren Jorgensen. No part of this article may be reproduced by any means without the written consent of the publisher.
New cyclic tetrapeptide from the coral-derived endophytic bacteria Brevibacterium sp. L-4 collected from the South China Sea
Creators: name: Liu, Bing-Xin
name: Peng, Guang-Tian
name: He, Xi-Xin
name: Chen, Xiao-Jie
name: Lei, Ling-Fang
name: Deng, Yun
name: Zhang, Cui-Xian
name: Guo, Qiong
name: Jun Su, Xian
Publisher: name: Taylor & Francis
Year: 2015
Subjects: subject: Biological Sciences
subject: Ecology
subject: FOS: Biological sciences
subject: Chemistry
subject: Earth and Environmental Sciences
subject: Biophysics

description: One new cyclic tetrapeptide cyclic-(Tyr-Ala-Leu-Ser) (1) along with four natural compounds firstly obtained 3H-imidazole-4-carboxylic acid (2), 2-methyl-3H-imidazole-4-carboxylic acid (3), 3-ethylidene-6-isopropyl-piperazine-2,5-dione (4), and 3-isobutylidene-6-methyl piperazine-2,5-dione (5) have been isolated from the coral derived endophytic bacteria Brevibacterium sp. L-4 collected from the South China Sea. Their structures were elucidated through spectroscopic techniques including NMR (1D and 2D), MS, and EA, and their relative configurations were also assigned by NMR analysis.
Review of John Barton. The Nature of Biblical Criticism: (Louisville: Westminster John Knox, 2007. x + 206 pages)
Creators: name: Burnett, Fred W.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: No description provided Copyright 2009 Fred W. Burnett. No part of this article may be reproduced by any means without the written consent of the publisher.
Textually violating Dinah: literary readings, colonizing interpretations, and the pleasure of the text
Creators: name: Penner, Todd
name: Cates, Lilian
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: The story of Dinah in Genesis 34 has been a contentious interpretative site in modern biblical exegesis. There are various positions taken on the precise meaning of both the interaction between Dinah and Shechem, as well as the brutal results that follow in the narrative. Meir Sternberg and Susanne Scholz represent two dramatically different standpoints on the narrative action. In this piece we explore their differing readings in light of the literary poetics of Roland Barthes framed through a postcolonial analytic. We begin by outlining Barthes' understanding of the text of pleasure, which underscores the seductive and erotic character of the undecideable text. We stress in particular the modern desire to close down meaning and to delimit signification in such a narrative. Sternberg's and Scholz's positions are then analyzed through this framework. We return in the final part of the study to underscore the colonizing edge evident in the attempt by interpreters to narrow meaning in Genesis 34, often by giving voice in the space of narrative absence. We argue that an appreciation of literary aesthetics may enhance a postcolonial critical engagement of both ancient texts and modern interpretations. Copyright 2007 Todd Penner and Lilian Gyde Cates. No part of this article may be reproduced by any means without the written consent of the publisher.
Review of Jerome T. Walsh, Ahab: The Construction of a King: (Collegeville, MN: A Michael Glazier Book, Liturgical Press, 2006)
Creators: name: McNeil, Lou
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: No description provided Copyright 2008 Lou McNeil. No part of this article may be reproduced by any means without the written consent of the publisher.
Review of Tikva Frymer-Kensky, Studies in Bible and Feminist Criticism: (Philadelphia: Jewish Publication Society, 2006)
Creators: name: McKinlay, Judith E.
Publisher: name: Monash University
Year: 2017
Subjects: Uncategorized

description: No description provided Copyright 2008 Judith E. McKinlay. No part of this article may be reproduced by any means without the written consent of the publisher.