Hebatnya, struktur yang benar-benar baru masih ditemukan untuk bahan yang terbuat dari satu elemen: karbon. Mungkin ada 'revolusi' dalam bahan khusus karbon. Memang, baru-baru ini, dua hadiah Nobel diberikan untuk bentuk karbon baru: untuk fullerene pada tahun 1996, dan untuk graphene pada tahun 2010. Dan keajaiban dan keindahan tabung nano karbon telah menarik perhatian dunia ilmiah selama leb…
Karbohidrat adalah bio-molekul yang sangat melimpah; mereka ada di semua permukaan sel mamalia serta di permukaan sel bakteri. Pada mamalia, sebagian besar protein yang disekresikan adalah glikosilasi, dengan komponen glikan terdiri dari sejumlah besar massa glikoprotein. Meskipun, bertahun-tahun yang lalu peristiwa pengenalan karbohidrat-protein ditunjukkan sebagai terlibat dalam pengenalan di…
This book examines how the Ming state transformed the multi-ethnic society of Yunnan into a province. Yunnan had remained outside the ambit of central government when ruled by the Dali kingdom, 937-1253, and its foundation as a province by the Yuan regime in 1276 did not disrupt Dali kingdom style political, social and religious institutions. It was the Ming state in the fourteenth to seventeen…
Before new interventions can be used in disease control programmes, it is essential that they are carefully evaluated in "field trials", which may be complex and expensive undertakings. Descriptions of the detailed procedures and methods used in trials that have been conducted in the past have generally not been published. As a consequence, those planning such trials have few guidelines availab…
Managing Digital Records in Africa draws on the research work of the InterPARES Trust (ITrust) project that investigated interrelated archival issues focusing on legal analysis, infrastructure, trust, authentication, and education within the African context. This research-focused book provides a legal analysis and systematic assessment of how African institutions manage digital records in four …
At first sight one might think that religion and humor contradict each other or at least are not a fruitful pair. The study Religious Humor in Evangelical Christian and Mormon Culture by Elisha McIntyre, an Australian scholar in the study of religion, shows that this isn't true at all, although differences in the effectiveness of humor persist depending on its purpose and the involved agents.
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If marine organisms are to persist through the Anthropocene, they will need to be resilient, but what is resilience, and can resilience of marine organisms build within a single lifetime or over generations? The aim of this review is to evaluate the resilience capacity of marine animals in a time of unprecedented global climate change. Resilience is the capacity of an ecosystem, society, or org…
This paper addresses several critical issues relating to the organization of internships at universities, dealing above all with ‘curricular’ internships, i.e., those apprenticeship experiences included as mandatory in university courses. Starting from the idea of ‘informal learning’, the paper shows the strong connection between new workplace needs and the potentiality of pedagogical a…