Early museum pioneers Émile Gavet and his American contemporaries like Alva Vanderbilt, Isabella Gardner, and George Barnard were not interested in re-creating specific periods with academic rigour. Gardner and Barnard bought objects they liked, arranged them sympathetically, and created atmospheric and inviting total environments. They perhaps realized that historical precision was impossible…

Laboratory acoustic measurements are performed with Lucite fracture models to understand the scattering characteristics of a seismic wave in a fracture zone. The fracture models include single, dual, and multiple fracture zones with varying fracture apertures, height, and spacing. Fractures are created by both very fine saw cuts and laser-etching. A vertical P-wave source is used with vertical …

RNA editing is a process of targeted alterations of nucleotides in all types of RNA molecules (e.g., rRNA, tRNA, mRNA, and miRNA). As a result, the transcriptional output differs from its genomic DNA template. RNA editing can be defined both by biochemical mechanisms and by enzymes that perform these reactions. There are high levels of RNA editing detected in the mammalian nervous system, sugg…

On 2010 January 18 and 22, two earthquakes of MW 5.3 and 5.2, respectively, occurred near the town of Efpalio on the western Gulf of Corinth. We performed a shear wave splitting analysis using the cross-correlation method and calculated VP/VS ratios for events that occurred in the epicentral area of the Efpalio earthquakes, between 2009 January and 2010 December. The data analysis revealed thep…

Humans have dramatically altered landscapes as a result of urban and agricultural development, which has led to decreases in the quality and quantity of habitats for animals. This is particularly the case for freshwater fish that reside in fluvial systems, given that changes to adjacent lands have direct impacts on the structure and function of watersheds. Because choices of habitat have physio…

Regarding the exploitation of natural resources, storage of waste or subsurface construction, there is an increasing need to obtain comprehensive knowledge about the subsurface and its temporal changes. We investigate the possibility of a passive monitoring using ambient seismic noise, which is cheap and continuous compared to active seismics. We work with data acquired with a seismic network i…

Whiteflies are important agricultural insect pests, whose evolutionary success is related to a long-term association with a bacterial endosymbiont, Candidatus Portieraaleyrodidarum. To completely characterize this endosymbiont clade, we sequenced the genomes of three new Portiera strains covering the two extant whitefly subfamilies. Using endosymbiont and mitochondrial sequences we …

Ascorbic acid (AsA) is an important antioxidant in plants and an essential vitamin for humans. Extending the study of AsA-related genes from Arabidopsis thaliana to Brassica rapa could she dlight on the evolution of AsA in plants and inform crop breeding. In this study,we conducted whole - genomeannotation, molecular-evolution and gene - expression analyses of all known AsA - relatedgenes in B.…

Thousands of ELT professionals attend conferences around the world each year and such activity is assumed to make a positive contribution to these individuals’ professional development and work. Evidence of what exactly those benefits are is, though, scarce, and this article reports a study seeking to identify, from delegates’ own perspectives, the impact that attending conferences has. Ove…

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