A Space of One's Own: Women's Magazine Consumption Within Family Life

This is a study of women's magazine consumption in the home. It explores issues of time and space, and addresses the importance the women who took part in the study place on magazine consumption in their lives, given the 'juggling' lifestyles experiences by most of them. The study reveals family life to be a landscape within which these women carve out what they perceive as valuable and rare time and space for themselves. The authors argue that in contemporary life women's magazines play a key part in the quest for me-time and time away from others, in both a tangible and experiential sense

Developing green infrastructure ‘thinking’: devising and applying an interactive group-based methodology for practitioners

Recent years have witnessed a wave of interest in the concept of green infrastructure (GI) as a means of applying an ecosystem approach to spatial planning practice; however, more limited attention has been paid to decision-making processes or tools to enhance GI within spatial plans and guidance. We address this deficit by reporting on the development and application of an interactive group-based methodology to enhance GI ‘thinking’ and interdisciplinary collaboration, drawing on the literature on the sociology of interactions. Our findings suggest that a game-based approach to GI problem-solving was successful in breaking down professional barriers by creating an informal learning arena, providing an enabling opportunity for participants to solve problems in an iterative, non-linear style to develop principles for action with transferability to ongoing plan formation. This style of problem-solving was characterised by shifting norms and routines of interaction, leading to problem re-framing and a search for alternative solutions

Chapter 2 - Human mitochondrial transcription and translation

The maintenance and expression of the mammalian mitochondrial genome (mtDNA) is a fundamental aspect of mitochondrial biogenesis. The mtDNA is transcribed as precursor polycistronic transcripts containing 11 mRNAs, 2 rRNAs, punctuated by 22 tRNAs. They require to be processed to engage in the assembly of unique mitochondrial ribosomes (the rRNAs), or mRNA translation into 13 proteins, all components of the OXPHOS enzymes, essential for aerobic cellular energy production. Through evolution, most genes of the ancestral bacterial endosymbiont have been transferred to the nucleus. Therefore the regulation of all fundamental aspects of mitochondrial gene expression relies on proteins that are encoded by the nuclear genome, translated by cytosolic ribosomes, and imported into the mitochondria. In this chapter, we describe the mechanisms underlying mammalian mitochondrial transcription, and translation and the characteristics and function of the factors involved