Journal articles: 'Short mystery'

1

Culliford, Larry. "A short series of short pieces (with questions)." Psychiatric Bulletin 15, no. 3 (March 1991): 187. http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/pb.15.3.187.

Full text

Abstract:

The ancient texts which survive speak highly of mystery. It is not only inevitable for the human mind to find fascination in mystery. Mystery is at the heart of things. Through wisdom it may be penetrated. We are taught acceptance of mystery, to meditate upon it; to relax and find comfort there, inspiration, succour, confidence.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

2

Schilling, G. "ASTROPHYSICS: Short Gamma Ray Bursts: Mystery Solved." Science 310, no. 5745 (October 7, 2005): 37b. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.310.5745.37b.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

3

Schor, Sandra. "The Short, Happy Life of Ms. Mystery." Journal of Basic Writing 10, no. 1 (1991): 16–25. http://dx.doi.org/10.37514/jbw-j.1991.10.1.03.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

4

Sedwick, Caitlin. "Bridging the gap toward understanding short-term synaptic plasticity." Journal of General Physiology 150, no. 8 (July 11, 2018): 1045. http://dx.doi.org/10.1085/jgp.201812166.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

5

Curcio, Frances R., and J. Lewis McNeece. "The Case of Video Viewing, Reading, and Writing in Mathematics Class: Solving the Mystery." Mathematics Teacher 86, no. 8 (November 1993): 682–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.5951/mt.86.8.0682.

Full text

Abstract:

The element of mystery can be a naturally intriguing component of a mathematics lesson for middle school students. Mystery stories capture students“ interest and attention and contribute to developing critical-reading skills (Crouse and Bassett 1975; Curcio 1982; Scalzitti 1982). When presenting mystery stories within the context of a mathematics lesson, students often ask, “What does this have to do with mathematics?” Significant connections can be made between solving a mystery and solving a mathematics problem that supply a rationale for incorporating mystery stories in the mathematics class. In particular, similarities in the questions a problem solver asks when confronting a problem (Polya 1973) and the questions a detective asks in solving a mystery can be found in figure 1. After solving short mystery stories, students will see the connection between solving a mystery and solving a mathematics problem.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

6

C, Arun Ganesh, Sujitha P, Ashvind Ashvind, and Sujatha Sridharan. "SIBLINGS WITH SHORT STATURE AND BRITTLE HAIR- MYSTERY UNVEILED." Journal of Evolution of Medical and Dental Sciences 7, no. 13 (March 26, 2018): 1679–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.14260/jemds/2018/379.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

7

Vardoulakis, Dimitris. "How Many Does It Take to Dance? The Mystery of the Political in G. K. Chesterton." Paragraph 40, no. 2 (July 2017): 174–92. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/para.2017.0224.

Full text

Abstract:

Mystery is not merely a theological or literary category for G. K. Chesterton. It is also instrumental in understanding his conception of the political. The essay demonstrates the political significance of mystery through a close reading of Chesterton's short story ‘The Noticeable Conduct of Professor Chadd’. A comparison with Heidegger's construal of the political will highlight Chesterton's originality.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

8

Rahmah, Yuliani. "Edogawa Rampo’s short story Kagami Jigoku: A Structural Study." KIRYOKU 4, no. 1 (June 6, 2020): 7–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.14710/kiryoku.v4i1.7-17.

Full text

Abstract:

The purpose of this research is to analyze the intrinsic elements found in the short story Kagami Jigoku by Edogawa Rampo. By using structural methods the analysis process find out the intrinsic elements which builds the Kagami Jikoku short story. As a result it is known that the Kagami Jikoku is a short story with a mystery theme as the hallmark of Rampo as its author. The characteristic of this short story can be seen from the theme which raised the unusual obsession problem of the main characters. With the first person point of view which tells in unusual way from the other short stories, the regression plot in Kagami Jikoku is able to tell the unique phenomenon of Japanese society and its modern technology through elements of place, time and socio-cultural aspects of Japanese society in the modern era

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

9

Rajput, Shahid Ahmad. "BEAUTY AND MYSTERY OF GANDHARA ART." Researcher: A Research Journal of Culture and Society 3, no. 3 (October 31, 2018): 1–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/researcher.v3i3.21546.

Full text

Abstract:

This paper is a short history to establish the location, era and the main actors involved in the creation of a civilization what is generally known as Gandhara. It also includes a brief history of the Art and Architecture of Gandhara as the main feature and the beauty and mystery associated therein. Limitation of the length of paper will keep our discussion on three main centers as below. Necessary visual evidence is also included to justify the Beauty and the Mystery attached to the art of Gandhara for which this paper is initiated. Fact of the matter is that hundreds of books are written on Gandhara Civilization but this point “Beauty and Mystery of Gandhara” has hardly been addressed. This paper is therefore an attempt to fill the gap long felt by the author and last but not the least this paper is dedicated to the love and affection to the artwork of the monks who produced the Master Pieces of Gandhara, both in Stone and Stucco. The analysis is made according to the existing literature and author's own experience and interpretation. Researcher: A Research Journal of Culture and Society Vol. 3, No. 3, January 2018, Page: 1-12

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

10

Kozlova, Ya O. "The Motif of Mystery in Calendar Short Stories of A. P. Chekhov 1883‒1887.The Motif of Mystery in Calendar Short Stories of A. P. Chekhov 1883‒1887." Vestnik NSU. Series: History and Philology 18, no. 2 (2019): 148–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/1818-7919-2019-18-2-148-154.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

11

Huang, Yunte. "The Lasting Lure of the Asian Mystery." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 133, no. 2 (March 2018): 384–87. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2018.133.2.384.

Full text

Abstract:

Among the numerous accolades and awards garnered by viet thanh nguyen's debut novel, the sympathizer (2015), the one receiving the least attention from academic critics will probably be the Edgar Award, bestowed by the Mystery Writers of America. After all, The Sympathizer boasts aesthetic achievements that far exceed the generic confines of a conventional mystery novel. Also, even in the age of cultural studies, when the divide between the popular and the elite is supposed to have all but disappeared, literary scholars, if they are honest with themselves, still hang on to the notion that there is a qualitative difference, or a hierarchy, separating literary fiction from crime fiction, the highbrow from the lowbrow. It may be true that we no longer live at a time when an eminent critic like Edmund Wilson would attack mystery novels by asserting, as he did in 1945, partly in response to Agatha Christie's popular mystery novel The Murder of Roger Ackroyd, that “with so many fine books to read …; there is no need to bore ourselves with this rubbish” (qtd. in Bradford 117). And there is more than half a century separating us from the era when Ross Macdonald, one of the most accomplished practitioners of the mystery genre as well as a trained literary scholar, lamented in his 1954 lecture at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he had received a doctoral degree in English, that “[t]hough it is one of the dominant literary forms of our age, the mystery has received very little study” (11). Even after Jacques Lacan and Jacques Derrida enshrined Edgar Allan Poe's detective short story “The Purloined Letter” as a darling of poststructuralist analysis, most literary scholars worth their salt would continue to regard crime fiction as a subpar genre, something that, as Macdonald said, is reserved for their leisure hours, akin to crossword puzzles in a newspaper (11). Or, as Wilson put it, “Who cares who killed Roger Ackroyd?” (qtd. in Bradford 117).

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

12

Jones, Clara. "‘Mystery at the Lilacs’ (1938): Elizabeth Bowen's Thriller Serial for Home and Country." Literature & History 27, no. 1 (March 21, 2018): 3–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0306197318755671.

Full text

Abstract:

This article introduces a rediscovered 1938 serial by Elizabeth Bowen ‘specially written’ for Home and Country, the monthly organ of the National Federation of Women's Institutes. It situates ‘Mystery at the Lilacs’ within the periodical culture of ‘ Home and Country’, paying particular attention to Bowen's engagement with the social and cultural debates that played out across its pages, and considers how Bowen's serial compares with her other contemporary literary projects. Far from being an aberration or curiosity, this serial overlaps thematically with Bowen's other interwar short stories. Self-reflexively concerned with the status of the writer in the community and preoccupied with the relationship between ‘high’ and popular culture, ‘Mystery at the Lilacs’ has much to tell us about Bowen's thinking about politics and culture in the interwar period.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

13

Crane, Jonathan. "‘What’s Wrong with Carpets?’." Short Fiction in Theory & Practice 9, no. 2 (October 1, 2019): 145–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/fict_00007_1.

Full text

Abstract:

The short story ‘What’s Wrong with Carpets’ continues in the Chekhovian tradition, exploring reality as it is while metonymically signifying the protagonist’s whole life through the glimpse. Moreover, by representing a slice-of-life from modern Britain, with younger generations experiencing job and housing insecurity as a consequence of economic conditions, the story is freighted with subtle sociopolitical implication. The story, therefore, works counter to Charles E. May’s contention that whilst the short story is able to render the mystery and ambiguity of human reality, it has never had a political agenda, and has never succeeded in emphasizing social content. The story is followed by a short essay on its composition.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

14

Knobloch-Westerwick, Silvia, and Caterina Keplinger. "Murder for Pleasure." Journal of Media Psychology 20, no. 3 (January 2008): 117–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.1027/1864-1105.20.3.117.

Full text

Abstract:

This experiment investigated how complexity of the presented clues and need-for-cognition affect crime fiction enjoyment. A short murder story, divided into four segments, was presented to 154 participants. Complexity was manipulated as three-step factor through combinations of clues hinting toward either suspect A or B in the first three segments, while the last segment revealed the culprit. Readers indicated suspicions and enjoyment after each segment. Finally, respondents reported overall enjoyment and affective responses before completing the need-for-cognition scale. Results for enjoyment of the entire mystery and during reception show that higher complexity was generally enjoyed less. Furthermore, need-for-cognition affected enjoyment in curvilinear fashion overall, with medium need-for-cognition resulting in greater enjoyment. Respondents with high need-for-cognition were an exception in that they enjoyed medium complexity during mystery exposure the most.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

15

Rubio Gijón, Pablo. "“El caso Berciani” de Alan Pauls: un viaje a los bajos fondos." Acta Hispanica 21 (January 1, 2016): 131–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.14232/actahisp.2016.21.131-141.

Full text

Abstract:

“El caso Berciani” (1992) relates to the genre of detective and mystery fiction by parody and distortion. Alan Pauls (Buenos Aires, 1959) explores the relation between order and abjection. In so doing, “El caso Berciani” becomes a thorough reflection on the failure of modernization. This article explores how this short story uses detective fiction to elaborate on knowledge and interpretation, and urban dystopias and social tensions.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

16

Harris, PD. "Movement of Oxygen in Skeletal Muscle." Physiology 1, no. 5 (October 1, 1986): 147–49. http://dx.doi.org/10.1152/physiologyonline.1986.1.5.147.

Full text

Abstract:

In skeletal muscle the level of oxygen in outflowing venous blood is much higher than the level of oxygen in tissue. This puzzling finding suggests that oxygen moves in some unexpected way. The author uses the concept of short-circuit diffusion of oxygen between adjacent arterioles and venules to unravel the mystery and to provide new interpretations of microvascular responses to hypoxia and intermittent claudication.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

17

Kustec, Aleksander. "Unravelling the mystery of reality : typical Canadian elements in the short stories of Alice Munro." Acta Neophilologica 31 (December 1, 1998): 105–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/an.31.0.105-114.

Full text

Abstract:

The contemporary Canadian short story has a specific place among literary genres in Canadian literature. It culminated in the sixties of this century, when the Canadians looked to their literature with greater interest. Canadian short story writers started to write in a different tone, and showed special interest for new themes. After 1960 authors, such as Henry Kreisel, Norman Levine, Anne Hebert, Mavis Gallant, Ethel Wilson, Joyce Marshall, Hugh Hood, Hugh Garner, Margaret Laurence, Audrey Callahan Thomas, Mordecai Richler, and Alice Munro, refused to use the traditional plot, and showed more interest for characterisation. By using a typical Canadian setting, their stories began to reflect social events of their time. A new awareness of identity stepped forward, and above all their stories became a reflection of the diversity of life in all Canadian provinces. The contemporary Canadian short story writers began to overstep the boundaries of their imagination.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

18

Kustec, Aleksander. "Unravelling the mystery of reality : typical Canadian elements in the short stories of Alice Munro." Acta Neophilologica 31 (December 1, 1998): 105–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/an.31.1.105-114.

Full text

Abstract:

The contemporary Canadian short story has a specific place among literary genres in Canadian literature. It culminated in the sixties of this century, when the Canadians looked to their literature with greater interest. Canadian short story writers started to write in a different tone, and showed special interest for new themes. After 1960 authors, such as Henry Kreisel, Norman Levine, Anne Hebert, Mavis Gallant, Ethel Wilson, Joyce Marshall, Hugh Hood, Hugh Garner, Margaret Laurence, Audrey Callahan Thomas, Mordecai Richler, and Alice Munro, refused to use the traditional plot, and showed more interest for characterisation. By using a typical Canadian setting, their stories began to reflect social events of their time. A new awareness of identity stepped forward, and above all their stories became a reflection of the diversity of life in all Canadian provinces. The contemporary Canadian short story writers began to overstep the boundaries of their imagination.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

19

Karpukhina, T. P. "AESTHETIC ASPECTS OF EKPHRASIS IN GUY DE MAUPASSANT’S SHORT STORY «UN PORTRAIT» («A PORTRAIT»)." Bulletin of Kemerovo State University, no. 1 (April 25, 2018): 193–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.21603/2078-8975-2018-1-193-200.

Full text

Abstract:

The current article features the phenomenon of ekphrasis, i.e. a verbal representation of a work of fine arts in fiction, as presented in Guy de Maupassant’s short story "Un portrait". Aesthetic aspects of ekphrasis alongside the linguistic means of its expression are subjected to analysis. The leitmotif of the short story is the thematic motive of an enigmatic, inexplicable mystery that is unraveled at the end of the story. The firstperson narration begins with the description of a gentleman whose indescribable charm fascinates everyone he meets. Being invited to his house, the narrator notices a portrait of an extremely charming lady that happens to be the host’s mother, who died very young. That is how the mystery of the irresistible and captivating charm of the gentleman is solved. The portrait turns out to be a doppelganger of the host, and thus the archetypal ekphrastic motif of an image coming to life is realized. Both the main character of the story as a human being in the flesh and the image in the picture as a still, non-living work of art, manifest themselves as equally significant aesthetic objects, united by one common inherent quality, i.e. the magic and charm of beauty. The beauty does not ensue from the well-bred manners of the son or from a spell-binding expression of the mother’s eyes; the beauty lies in their capability of being absolutely natural, in harmony with their own selves. Aesthetic aspects of the ekphrastic description find their expression in a variety of linguistic means (epithets, metaphor, personification, simile, syntactic parallelism, etc.). Particular significance belongs to a big number of lexical units pertaining to visual perception, which is a specific feature of the archetypal scheme of ekphrasis. Equally important are the words and phrases characterizing the vitality of the image portrayed.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

20

Lee, Sun-mi. "Comparative Study of Gong’an and Mystery Novels: Focusing on Sanyan and Cheng Xiaoqing’s Short Stories." JOURNAL OF CHINESE HUMANITIES 77 (April 30, 2021): 167–91. http://dx.doi.org/10.35955/jch.2021.04.77.167.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

21

Cofran, John. "The Identity of Adah Isaacs Menken: A Theatrical Mystery Solved." Theatre Survey 31, no. 1 (May 1990): 47–54. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0040557400000971.

Full text

Abstract:

On the night of 7 June 1861, at a playhouse in Albany, New York, actress Adah Isaacs Menken, on horseback, wearing nothing but a fleshcolored bodystocking, galloped up a stage mountain into theatrical history. The combination of danger and nudity shocked and excited her Victorian audience. In an age when women swathed themselves in yards of crinoline, her performance proved scandalous; critics agreed that, though she wore “pink fleshings,” she so explicitly revealed the female form that she might as well have been naked. One reviewer warned that “no pure youth could witness her performance and come away untainted. Naturally, such cautions increased curiosity; soon Menken became the most notorious, highest paid actress of her day. She toured with her show Mazeppa through the northeast, the American west, and the capitals of Europe before succumbing to cancer a short seven years later in Paris.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

22

Lung, C., D. Marconi, M. Pop, and A. V. Pop. "Resistance of High-Tc Superconductors: Review Article." Studia Universitatis Babeș-Bolyai Physica 65, no. 1-2 (December 30, 2020): 87–96. http://dx.doi.org/10.24193/subbphys.2020.09.

Full text

Abstract:

"The origin of resistance and its relation to the superconducting mechanism remain a profound, unsolved mystery. Currently, model parameters used to fit normal state properties are specific and vary arbitrarily from one doping. This short review illustrates the electrical resistivity of ceramic high temperature superconductors copper oxides. The article gives a summary of the prevailing arguments of researchers to relate the material to ceramic HTS compounds. Keywords: superconductivity, HTC ceramic compounds, resistivity. "

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

23

Weisent, Jennifer, and Elizabeth May. "Mystery or Mycobacterium? Lessons learned from a challenging incision site infection." Veterinary Record Case Reports 7, no. 2 (June 2019): e000804. http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/vetreccr-2018-000804.

Full text

Abstract:

An eight-month-old female domestic short hair cat underwent routine ovariohysterectomy and was adopted from a shelter nine days later. A refractory infection associated with the abdominal incision site proved unresponsive to surgical debridement and multiple courses of oral antibiotic treatment over 10 weeks, resulting in relinquishment of the cat. Initial diagnostic test samples submitted by the shelter veterinarian failed to identify a causative agent for a deep pyogranulomatous dermatitis and panniculitis. The lesions resolved following treatment with oral pradofloxacin, and the cat was adopted but subsequently lost to follow-up. This case highlights the importance of generating a differential diagnoses list and outlines difficulties obtaining appropriate and timely diagnostic testing and treatment, especially in cases involving multiple practitioners and financial constraints. The report also emphasises how a challenging and potentially zoonotic infection might be overlooked and under-reported, specifically in low-income and shelter settings.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

24

Hetzler, Leo A. ""The Collected Works, Vol. XIV: Short Stories, Fairy Tales, Mystery Stories—Illustrations," by G. K. Chesterton." Chesterton Review 20, no. 2 (1994): 315–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/chesterton1994202/399.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

25

Baines, A. T., M. McVey, B. Rybarczyk, J. T. Thompson, and H. R. Wilkins. "Mystery of the Toxic Flea Dip: An Interactive Approach to Teaching Aerobic Cellular Respiration." Cell Biology Education 3, no. 1 (March 2004): 62–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1187/cbe.03-06-0022.

Full text

Abstract:

We designed an interrupted case study to teach aerobic cellular respiration to major and nonmajor biology students. The case is based loosely on a real-life incident of rotenone poisoning. It places students in the role of a coroner who must determine the cause of death of the victim. The case is presented to the students in four parts. Each part is followed by discussion questions that the students answer in small groups prior to a classwide discussion. Successive parts of the case provide additional clues to the mystery and help the students focus on the physiological processes involved in aerobic respiration. Students learn the information required to solve the mystery by reading the course textbook prior to class, listening to short lectures interspersed throughout the case, and discussing the case in small groups. The case ends with small group discussions in which the students are given the names and specific molecular targets of other poisons of aerobic respiration and asked to determine which process (i.e., glycolysis, citric acid cycle, or the electron transport chain) the toxin disrupts.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

26

Payne, Christopher N. "In/Visible Peoples, In/Visible Lands: Overlapping Histories in Wang Chia-hsiang’s Historical Fantasy." International Journal of Taiwan Studies 2, no. 1 (January 20, 2019): 3–31. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/24688800-00201002.

Full text

Abstract:

This essay considers two narrative texts by the nature essayist and fiction writer Wang Chia-hsiang (Wang Jiaxiang); namely, the short story ‘On Lamatasinsin and Dahu Ali’ (1995), and the short novel Mystery of the Little People (1996). Structured around ethnographic journeys into the Taiwanese mountainous hinterland, the texts concern the main protagonists, two earnest (Han) Taiwanese ethnographers, who narrate stories that traverse the island’s histories, lands, and written remnants. The paper argues that the two stories purposefully overlap multiple historical, colonial, and environmental encounters and temporal moments as a means to fictionalise the past as inherently heterarchical. The tales thus fabulise new literary spaces in which the Taiwanese relationship to yesteryear—the peoples, the lands—can be cognised alternatively.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

27

McKay, Belinda. "‘What's in a Name?’ The Mystery of Ellerton Gay." Queensland Review 21, no. 1 (May 8, 2014): 49–61. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/qre.2014.7.

Full text

Abstract:

Serendipity has always played a role in research, and today the availability of digitised newspapers through Trove offers new opportunities for chance discoveries. A couple of years ago, Glenn R. Cooke — then Research Curator of Queensland Heritage at the Queensland Art Gallery — referred me to a snippet from The Queenslander of 15 October 1892, where the Melbourne correspondent writes: My attention was recently drawn to ‘Drifting’, a novel by a Queensland lady who uses the nom de plume of ‘Ellerton Gay.’ She lived, I believe, for eighteen years in Toowoomba, and is the wife of Mr. J. Watts-Grimes, who is well known in squatting circles. She has lived in England six years, and there she has embalmed her memories of the Queensland which is so dear to her. ‘Drifting’ is much admired here. ‘What's in a name?’ asks the title of one of Ellerton Gay's short stories. The pseudonym, which was evidently an open secret in her lifetime, has subsequently obscured ‘Ellerton Gay’ and her creator, Emma Watts Grimes, from the view of literary historians: Patrick Buckridge and I, for example, overlooked her in our historical survey of literature in Queensland, By the book (2007). Until very recently, the AustLit Database listed her as male, with no further biographical details, and — despite its recent facsimile republication of her novel, Drifting under the Southern Cross (1890) — the British Library fails to make the link between Ellerton Gay and Emma Watts Grimes in its catalogue entry. The reissue of this novel, justifiably ‘much admired’ in its own time, suggests that its elusive author is worth a reappraisal. Since Ellerton Gay's oeuvre draws extensively on the lived experience of Emma Watts Grimes and her extended family, this article provides a biographical sketch before discussing the fictional works.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

28

Witczak, Patryk. "Człowiek wobec tajemnicy śmierci w krótkich formach prozatorskich Michaiła Arcybaszewa." Acta Polono-Ruthenica 3, no. XXIII (September 30, 2018): 59–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.31648/apr.2823.

Full text

Abstract:

From the earliest times, people have been bending over the issue of death, trying to reach its essence. Therefore, death has become one of the leading literary motifs. The article analyses human attitudes towards death depicted in short prose forms of Mikhail Artsybashev. The writer took the position that the mystery of death is impenetrable and all attempts to discover it do not bring any expected results. The essence of death can be reached neither by mind nor through any mystical knowledge. It just needs to be accepted.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

29

Dong, Gang. "Building a ninefold symmetrical barrel: structural dissections of centriole assembly." Open Biology 5, no. 8 (August 2015): 150082. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsob.150082.

Full text

Abstract:

Centrioles are short microtubule-based organelles with a conserved ninefold symmetry. They are essential for both centrosome formation and cilium biogenesis in most eukaryotes. A core set of five centriolar proteins has been identified and their sequential recruitment to procentrioles has been established. However, structures at atomic resolution for most of the centriolar components were scarce, and the underlying molecular mechanisms for centriole assembly had been a mystery—until recently. In this review, I briefly summarize recent advancements in high-resolution structural characterization of the core centriolar components and discuss perspectives in the field.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

30

Kennedy, Victor. "An Exploration of Canadian Identity in Recent Literary Narratives of the Franklin Expeditions." ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries 3, no. 1-2 (June 20, 2006): 193–200. http://dx.doi.org/10.4312/elope.3.1-2.193-200.

Full text

Abstract:

Sir John Franklin’s three expeditions to the high Arctic in 1819, 1825, and 1845 have become the stuff of Canadian legend, enshrined in history books, songs, short stories, novels, and web sites. Franklin set out in 1845 to discover the Northwest Passage with the most advanced technology the British Empire could muster, and disappeared forever. Many rescue explorations found only scant evidence of the Expedition, and the mystery was finally solved only recently. This paper will explore four recent fictional works on Franklin’s expeditions, Stan Rogers’ song “Northwest Passage”, Margaret Atwood’s short story “The Age of Lead”, Rudy Wiebe’s A Discovery of Strangers, and John Wilson’s North with Franklin: the Lost Journals of James Fitzjames, to see how Franklin’s ghost has haunted the hopes and values of nineteenth-century, as well as modern, Canada.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

31

Yee, Gary, and Larry Cuban. "When is Tenure Long Enough? A Historical Analysis of Superintendent Turnover and Tenure in Urban School Districts." Educational Administration Quarterly 32, no. 1_suppl (December 1996): 615–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0013161x960321003.

Full text

Abstract:

The short tenure and frequent turnover of urban superintendents has been attributed to the growing unmanageability of urban school districts. This instability at the top is said to limit the prospects for sustained reform. In this article, we calculate the average tenure of urban superintendents since the turn of the century. Our research suggests that the tenure of superintendents has been decreasing, but not in a linear fashion and not as precipitously as is often reported in the press. We believe that a complex mix of environmental, local, and professional factors may help explain changes in tenure, but the causal and interactive relationships between them remains a mystery. Nevertheless, our findings suggest the longer-than-anticipated tenures raise questions about the relationship of "short tenures" and the problems facing urban school districts.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

32

Goggin, Danica E., and Kathryn J. Steadman. "Blue and green are frequently seen: responses of seeds to short- and mid-wavelength light." Seed Science Research 22, no. 1 (December 1, 2011): 27–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0960258511000444.

Full text

Abstract:

AbstractSeeds have long been a model system for studying the intricacies of phytochrome-mediated light perception and signalling. However, very little is known about how they perceive blue and green light. Cryptochromes and phototropins, the major blue-light receptors in plants, are increasingly well-studied in vegetative tissues, but their role in light perception in seeds largely remains a mystery. Green light elicits a number of responses in plants that cannot be explained by the action of any of the known photoreceptors, and some seeds are apparently also capable of perceiving green light. Here, the responses of seeds to blue and green light are collated from a thorough examination of the literature and considered from the perspective of the potential photoreceptor(s) mediating them. Knowledge of how seeds perceive wavelengths that are suboptimal for phytochrome activation could help to improve germination and seedling establishment for both crop and native species.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

33

Sluder, Greenfield. "One to only two: a short history of the centrosome and its duplication." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 369, no. 1650 (September 5, 2014): 20130455. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2013.0455.

Full text

Abstract:

This review discusses some of the history of the fundamental, but not fully solved problem of how the centrosome duplicates from one to only two as the cell prepares for mitosis. We start with some of the early descriptions of the centrosome and the remarkably prescient but then controversial inferences drawn concerning its function in the cell. For more than 100 years, one of the most difficult issues for the concept of the centrosome has been to integrate observations that centrosomes appear to be important for spindle assembly in animal cells yet are not evident in higher plant cells and some animal cells. This stirred debate over the existence of centrosomes and their importance. A parallel debate concerned the role of the centrioles in organizing centrosomes. The relatively recent elucidation of bipolar spindle assembly around chromatin allows a re-examination of the role of centrioles in controlling centrosome duplication in animal cells. The problem of how centrosomes precisely double in preparation for mitosis in animal cells has now moved to the mystery of how only one procentriole is assembled at each mother centriole.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

34

Amos, William, and Andrew Clarke. "Body temperature predicts maximum microsatellite length in mammals." Biology Letters 4, no. 4 (June 3, 2008): 399–401. http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2008.0209.

Full text

Abstract:

A long-standing mystery in genome evolution is why short tandem repeats vary so much in length and frequency. Here, we test the hypothesis that body temperature acts to influence the rate and nature of slippage-based mutations. Using the data from both 28 species where genome sequencing is advanced and 76 species from which marker loci have been published, we show that in mammals, maximum repeat number is inversely correlated with body temperature, with warmer-blooded species having shorter ‘long’ microsatellites. Our results support a model of microsatellite evolution in which maximum length is limited by a temperature-dependent stability threshold.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

35

Y, Lalitha. "Postmodernism in the Fiction Synchology Summary of Kumaraselvas Fiction." International Research Journal of Tamil 3, S-1 (June 14, 2021): 132–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.34256/irjt21s121.

Full text

Abstract:

The article Post Modernism, written by writer Kumaraselva, examines the emergence of postmodernism in the short stories Nagamalai, Karatam, Ukilu, Vidalu and Uyirmaranam, and then modernity does not see anything as universal and analyses everything separately. It is also expanding beyond the limits of art and literature to philosophy, politics, lifestyle, technology, architecture, drama, cinema. Postmodernism created myths with a mystery that distorts language, distorts stories and expresses the poetry of the language. It also attracts the attention of the readers and gives them a happy reading experience. It is noteworthy that postmodernism is not theory but also in life.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

36

Kusumaningsih, Sri Ayu, and Ahmad Bahtiar. "Relationship of Characters and Illustration in Short Story 9 Dari Nadira By Leila S. Chudori." Bahasa: Jurnal Keilmuan Pendidikan Bahasa dan Sastra Indonesia 1, no. 2 (January 30, 2021): 86–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.26499/bahasa.v1i2.13.

Full text

Abstract:

This study is to find out the relationship of characters to illustrations in a collection of 9short stories from NadiraKarya Leila S. Chudori. In the collection, there are four short stories that contain illustrations of the main characters namely "Melukis Langit”, "Tasbih", "Sebilah Pisau", and "At Pedder Bay". The method used in this research is descriptive qualitative method by using Charles Sanders Pierce's Semiotic Theory which includes sign and object. The study of characterization or characterization is done in two methods namely direct (telling) and indirect (showing). The results of this study indicate that out of the 4 short stories analyzed only 3 short stories that have character relationships with illustrations, namely the short story "Melukis Langit", "Tasbih" and "Sebilah Pisau". Short story of "Melukis Langit" depicts Nadira's character who is strong against her father's behavior since the death of his mother. The short story illustration shows Nadira crying in the bathroom to vent her sadness. Short story "Tasbih" describes Mr. X with a mysterious character illustrated by showing Mr. X's face full of mystery while the short story "Sebilah Pisau" tells Kris who is Nadira's secret admirer. Kris's character is displayed with illustrations illustrating the event when Nadira was surprised to see Kris's table filled with Nadira's picture. Short story "At Pedder Bay" tells Nadira's old friend Marc who is also an admirer of Nadira for a long time. The main character, Marc in this short story is not illustrated in the illustration. The short story shows a background, namely the lake and the figure of the woman sitting pensively.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

37

Sileem, Afifi H., Hesham M. Sallam, Abdel Galil A. Hewaidy, Ellen R. Miller, and Gregg F. Gunnell. "A new anthracothere (Artiodactyla) from the early Oligocene, Fayum, Egypt, and the mystery of African ‘Rhagatherium’ solved." Journal of Paleontology 90, no. 1 (January 2016): 170–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/jpa.2016.13.

Full text

Abstract:

AbstractRecent work on new anthracothere (Mammalia, Artiodactyla) specimens from the Jebel Qatrani Formation, early Oligocene, Fayum, Egypt, has revealed the presence of a new genus.Nabotheriumnew genus is described on the basis of a partial skull, several mandibular and maxillary specimens, and isolated teeth. The new genus exhibits a distinctive combination of features not seen in other Paleogene anthracotheres. The most noticeable characteristics of the new genus include the presence of large and well-developed upper and lower canines, caniniform third incisors, the presence of only a short diastema between the canine and first premolar, and broad, bunodont cheek teeth. This is in contrast to other contemporary anthracotheres, including other forms from the Fayum, which show a spatulate third incisor, a reduced canine, a much longer canine-premolar diastema, and more narrow, bunoselenodont cheek teeth. The presence of a relatively short rostrum with closely packed incisors, low-crowned and simple premolars, and low-crowned, bunodont molars indicates that members of the new genus would have been more efficient at crushing foods than slicing vegetation, and suggests a more varied herbivorous and frugivorous diet than was favored by other, more bunoselenodont Fayum anthracotheres.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

38

Round, Julia. "‘little gothics’: Misty and the ‘Strange Stories’ of British Girls’ Comics." Gothic Studies 23, no. 2 (July 2021): 163–80. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/gothic.2021.0092.

Full text

Abstract:

This article uses a critical framework that draws on the Gothic carnival, children’s Gothic, and Female Gothic to analyse the understudied spooky stories of British comics. It begins by surveying the emergence of short-form horror in American and British comics from the 1950s onwards, which evolved into a particular type of girls’ weekly tale: the ‘Strange Story.’ It then examines the way that the British mystery title Misty (IPC, 1978–80) developed this template in its single stories. This focuses on four key attributes: the directive role of a host character, an oral tone, content that includes two-dimensional characters and an ironic or unexpected plot reversal, and a narrative structure that drives exclusively towards this final point. The article argues that the repetition of this formula and the tales’ short format draw attention to their combination of subversion/conservatism and horror/humour: foregrounding a central paradox of Gothic.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

39

Dudareva, M. A., and N. Z. Koltsova. "Life and Death Ethoses in the Short Story The Mystery of Foreseen Death by Aleksandr Grin: Imaginative Apophatic Reality." Concept: philosophy, religion, culture 5, no. 1 (April 1, 2021): 25–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.24833/2541-8831-2021-1-17-25-33.

Full text

Abstract:

The paper is dedicated to the issue of the apophatic component of artistic culture associated with Thanatos that is developed in the literature oeuvre of Aleksandr Grin. Setting Grin’s short story The Mystery of Foreseen Death as the research object, this texts seeks to provide insight into the image of death and the examination of its spiritual and material manifestations that reflected the logocentric approach that was then popular among the Russian thinkers. To pursue this aim, the methodology of this study should allow identifying the ontological perspective of Grin’s story. Thus, the methodological foundations embrace the onto-hermeneutic approach to the analysis of literary work. In revealing the ontological dimension of the story much attention is paid to the ethos of life and death, the protagonist’s artistic imaginative experience of reality. In the story under study death is ambivalent: it is bodily, anthropological, as indicated by the repetitive image of neck on the execution block. At the same time, it is apophatic, as indicated by the darkened end of the story, the bewilderment of skeptical scientists that arose because of the main event of the story, namely the protagonist’s execution. In this regard, it appears to be effective to consider the anthroposophical thought of Rudolf Steiner that was absorbed by a large part of Russian intelligentsia at the beginning of the 20th century. This doctrine stresses the reflections on a person’s experience of death in reality. The imaginative aspect of anthroposophism was developed by Grin’s close friend, a neighbor in Crimean Cimmeria, Maximilian Voloshin, a disciple of the teachings of Steiner. The conclusions that can be drawn from the study are as follows: Grin’s story presents a detailed imaginative death experience, which makes it possible to raise the issue of it being part of the broader anthroposophical teaching. The Mystery of Foreseen Death indirectly expresses the Steinerian ideas and at the same time it fits into the framework of the Russian apophatic artistic tradition. The article also raises the issue of the apophatic component of Russian artistic culture, the thanatological experience of which can help in overcoming crisis situations nowadays. The findings of the research, in this way, can have an effect on better understanding in several fields: in literature studies (philology), in the history of Russian literature, in cultural studies and in philosophy.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

40

Harbinson, M. J. "Virgil's ‘White Bird’." Classical Quarterly 36, no. 1 (May 1986): 276–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0009838800010806.

Full text

Abstract:

‘Candida avis’ is usually assumed to be the white stork (Ciconia ciconia). T. E. Page, the Loeb editors and others give a footnote to this effect. T. F. Royds in The Beasts, Birds and Bees of Virgil (Oxford, 1914) says of ‘Candida avis’:‘This is by common consent ‘Ciconia alba’, the white stork. It is a migrant in Mediterranean countries…a most useful bird feeding chiefly on snakes and other reptiles’He then cites Pliny (N.H. 10.31) and Juvenal (14.74–5) ‘serpente ciconia pullos nutrit’ to confirm the snake-eating propensities of the stork.Virgil's ornithological mystery is not, however, quite so easily resolved. There is another contender for ‘Candida avis’, one more convincing both on a textual and an ornithological basis — Circaetus gallicus, the short-toed eagle.The short-toed eagle is the only European snake eagle, its diet being almost exclusively snakes. Lizards, and much less frequently small mammals or birds, may also be taken.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

41

Al-Araj, Anna. "Mystical Experiences in the Fiction of Edward Stachura." Ruch Literacki 57, no. 5 (September 1, 2016): 565–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/ruch-2017-0084.

Full text

Abstract:

Summary This article examines some aspects of the fiction of Edward Stachura, especially those that lend to it an aura of mystery and unreality. It cannot be denied that some kind of mystical experience (usually wrapped up in borderline situations of death or extreme suffering) lies at heart of his novels and short stories, and remains the object of his unflagging explorations. His fascination with the strange and elusive realms of human experiences can be traced back to his debut novel, All the Brilliance (Ca a jaskrawość). It grew more intense each year to reach its climax in 1977–1979, the time he wrote a collection of short stories Self (Się) and a loose collection of philosophical musings Fabula rasa. These three books seem to be most representative for the evolution of Stachura’s attitude towards ‘the beyond’. Moreover, they provide the best insights into Stachura’s mind, as revealed through his fictional alter egos Edmund Szerucki, Michał Kątny, I-Man and Man-Nobody.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

42

Prostak, Rafał. "Credobaptism and religious policy. Separation of church and state, freedom of religion, and religious tolerance in the writings of the early Baptists." Chrześcijaństwo-Świat-Polityka, no. 24 (May 11, 2020): 214–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.21697/csp.2020.24.1.28.

Full text

Abstract:

The aim of the article is to reconstruct the relationships between the Baptist understanding of baptism (credobaptism; believer’s baptism) and church and the religious policy promoted by the early Baptists. The following texts are explored: A Short Declaration of the Mystery of Iniquity (1612) by Thomas Helwys; Persecution for Religion Judged and Condemned (1615) by John Murton; and Religious Peace: Or, a Plea for Liberty of Conscience (1614) by Leonard Busher. Helwys and Murton were leaders of the congregation of Spitalfields, the first Baptist community in the Kingdom of England. Busher, lesser known, probably belonged to the congregation, and his said work is the first treaty to defend freedom of religion by a Baptist.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

43

Borisova, A. B. "The Short Story of A. P. Platonov «The Impossible»: Genre-Narrative Structure, Function of Duality as a Way of Modeling of the Author’s Personality." Studies in Theory of Literary Plot and Narratology, no. 1 (2019): 160–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.25205/2410-7883-2019-1-160-171.

Full text

Abstract:

In this article the short story of A. P. Platonov “The Impossible” (1921) is considered as a multidimensional wholeness, with a complex structure – at the level of genre and of narration. We highlight biography, scientific article, elements of a philosophical essay, lyric and philosophical poem in the genre structure. In addition to a neutral background, we highlight the lyrical monologue, scientific and publicistic discourse at the narrative level. The genre and stylistic heterogeneity of this short story did not allow researchers to unambiguously determine its genre dominant for a long time. It was not by chance that at first in earlier studies “The Impossible” was classified as a publicistic genre. Only in the first volume of the Scientific publication of Collected works this story is included in the corpus of Early Short Stories of Platonov. In a certain perspective, this work can indeed be read as a publicistic article containing the author’s reflection on philosophical, scientific concepts in the specific manner of Platonov, with overstepping beyond the boundaries of one genre. The focus on the addressee, declared at the beginning of “The Impossible”, activates its communicative function. The inclusion of his own technical developments by Platonov in this story introduces an element of scientific autobiography. At the same time, “The Impossible” is the life story of the “new saint”: the embodiment of the image of the “new human”, whose life, if it did not end so suddenly, could open the way to the Mystery of the World – the main metaphysical problem that occupied the mind of the young Platonov. At the same time it is the lyrical narration about the “sobbing” beauty of the world and the incredible, “impossible” love of the hero – the narrator’s alter ego to his beloved Maria. Using the technique of duality, the author is able to express his most intimate experiences through the image of the “other”, to expose his own soul to the reader. The unifying layer that maintains the integrity of this story is the motive structure with such basic components as the motives of the Mystery, the transfiguration of the world in the version of rebellion into the universe, light, impossible, silence, music, love, death and immortality, etc.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

44

Čipkár, Ivan. "Mystery or not? Quantum cognition and the interpretation of the fantastic in Neil Gaiman." Ars Aeterna 8, no. 1 (June 1, 2016): 24–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/aa-2016-0003.

Full text

Abstract:

AbstractThe present paper describes a reader-response experiment focusing on the perception of the genre of the fantastic. It also proposes an update of the genre’s structuralist definition to better conform to contemporary cognitive research. Participants answered questions relating to the interpretation of events and important symbols in a Neil Gaiman short story and were also asked if they considered the story “fantasy” or “realistic fiction.” Tzvetan Todorov characterized the fantastic as a hesitation between the uncanny (realistic interpretation) and the marvelous (supernatural interpretation). Neil Gaiman, a popular contemporary author of genre fiction, has utilized this hesitation between psychological and supernatural explanations of his stories to great effect. The results show a consistently higher degree of enjoyment in readers who were aware of the dual interpretation and partook in the hesitation. This paper also introduces the concept of quantum cognition into literary theory and explains the benefit of using terminology from this discipline in a reader-response context. The findings of this study could be the first step towards a better understanding of the different ways in which readers cognitively approach the fantastic or genre in general.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

45

Segal-Rudnik, Nina. "«Вечный муж» и традиция мениппеи." Roczniki Humanistyczne 69, no. 7 (August 11, 2021): 171–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.18290/rh21697-11.

Full text

Abstract:

The article examines the motif structure of the main characters in Dostoevsky’s The Eternal Husband against the background of menippea and its various genres. The parodic transformations of the images and motifs of Dostoevsky's previous texts, especially the novel The Idiot, modify the traditional love triangle of the short story. The relationship between the protagonist and the antagonist reflects the ambivalence of the archetypal scheme “king vs jester” and the way it appears in Hugo’s romantic drama Le Roi s’amuse and Verdi’s opera Rigoletto. The plot of revenge and vindication of trampled dignity dates back to the genre of medieval mock mystery (R. Jakobson) and its narrative of the Easter resurrection, posing the problem of Christianity and its values in the Russian society of the time.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

46

Kim, Young, Sung Kim, and Byung Choe. "The Role of Hydrogen in Hydrogen Embrittlement of Metals: The Case of Stainless Steel." Metals 9, no. 4 (April 3, 2019): 406. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/met9040406.

Full text

Abstract:

Hydrogen embrittlement (HE) of metals has remained a mystery in materials science for more than a century. To try to clarify this mystery, tensile tests were conducted at room temperature (RT) on a 316 stainless steel (SS) in air and hydrogen of 70 MPa. With an aim to directly observe the effect of hydrogen on ordering of 316 SS during deformation, electron diffraction patterns and images were obtained from thin foils made by a focused ion beam from the fracture surfaces of the tensile specimens. To prove lattice contraction by ordering, a 40% CW 316 SS specimen was thermally aged at 400 °C to incur ordering and its lattice contraction by ordering was determined using neutron diffraction by measuring its lattice parameters before and after aging. We demonstrate that atomic ordering is promoted by hydrogen, leading to formation of short-range order and a high number of planar dislocations in the 316 SS, and causing its anisotropic lattice contraction. Hence, hydrogen embrittlement of metals is controlled by hydrogen-enhanced ordering during RT deformation in hydrogen. Hydrogen-enhanced ordering will cause the ordered metals to be more resistant to HE than the disordered ones, which is evidenced by the previous observations where furnace-cooled metals with order are more resistant to HE than water-quenched or cold worked metals with disorder. This finding strongly supports our proposal that strain-induced martensite is a disordered phase.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

47

Quealy-Gainer, Kate. "Life Is Short and Then You Die: Mystery Writers of America Present First Encounters with Murder ed. by Kelley Armstrong." Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books 73, no. 2 (2019): 56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/bcc.2019.0633.

Full text

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

48

Francis, Roger A. "The Final Days of Edgar Allan Poe: Clues to an Old Mystery Using 21st Century Medical Science." OMEGA - Journal of Death and Dying 60, no. 2 (March 2010): 165–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.2190/om.60.2.d.

Full text

Abstract:

This study examines all documented information regarding the final days and death of Edgar Allan Poe (1809–1849), in an attempt to determine the most likely cause of death of the American poet, short story writer, and literary critic. Information was gathered from letters, newspaper accounts, and magazine articles written during the period after Poe's death, and also from biographies and medical journal articles written up until the present. A chronology of Poe's final days was constructed, and this was used to form a differential diagnosis of possible causes of death. Death theories over the last 160 years were analyzed using this information. This analysis, along with a review of Poe's past medical history, would seem to support an alcohol-related cause of death.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

49

Lan, Pengfei, Bin Zhou, Ming Tan, Shaobai Li, Mi Cao, Jian Wu, and Ming Lei. "Structural insight into precursor ribosomal RNA processing by ribonuclease MRP." Science 369, no. 6504 (June 25, 2020): 656–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/science.abc0149.

Full text

Abstract:

Ribonuclease (RNase) MRP is a conserved eukaryotic ribonucleoprotein complex that plays essential roles in precursor ribosomal RNA (pre-rRNA) processing and cell cycle regulation. In contrast to RNase P, which selectively cleaves transfer RNA–like substrates, it has remained a mystery how RNase MRP recognizes its diverse substrates. To address this question, we determined cryo–electron microscopy structures of Saccharomyces cerevisiae RNase MRP alone and in complex with a fragment of pre-rRNA. These structures and the results of biochemical studies reveal that coevolution of both protein and RNA subunits has transformed RNase MRP into a distinct ribonuclease that processes single-stranded RNAs by recognizing a short, loosely defined consensus sequence. This broad substrate specificity suggests that RNase MRP may have myriad yet unrecognized substrates that could play important roles in various cellular contexts.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

50

Spichtinger, P., and M. Krämer. "Tropical tropopause ice clouds: a dynamic approach to the mystery of low crystal numbers." Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics Discussions 12, no. 10 (October 25, 2012): 28109–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/acpd-12-28109-2012.

Full text

Abstract:

Abstract. The occurrence of high, persistent ice supersaturation inside and outside cold cirrus in the tropical tropopause layer (TTL) remains an enigma that is intensely debated as the "ice supersaturation puzzle". However, it was recently confirmed that observed supersaturations are consistent with very low ice crystal concentrations, which is incompatible with the idea that homogeneous freezing is the major method of ice formation in the TTL. Thus, the tropical tropopause "ice supersaturation puzzle" has become an "ice nucleation puzzle". To explain the low ice crystal concentrations, a number of mainly heterogeneous freezing methods have been proposed. Here, we reproduce in situ measurements of frequencies of occurrence of ice crystal concentrations by extensive model simulations, driven by the special dynamic conditions in the TTL, namely the superposition of slow large-scale updraughts with high-frequency short waves. From the simulations, it follows that the full range of observed ice crystal concentrations can be explained when the model results of the scenarios are mixed for both heterogeneous/homogeneous and pure homogeneous ice formation occurring in very slow (<1 cm s−1) and faster (>1 cm s−1) large-scale updraughts. This statistical analysis shows that about 80% of TTL cirrus can be explained by "classical" homogeneous ice nucleation, while the remaining 20% stem from heterogeneous and homogeneous freezing occurring within the same environment. The mechanism limiting ice crystal production via homogeneous freezing in an environment full of gravity waves is the shortness of the gravity waves, which stalls freezing events before a higher ice crystal concentration can be formed.

APA, Harvard, Vancouver, ISO, and other styles

Journal articles on the topic 'Short mystery'

Create a spot-on reference in APA, MLA, Chicago, Harvard, and other styles