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Agrobacterium-mediated barley transformation.
More than ten years have passed since the first successful Agrobacterium-mediated
barley transformation experiment, however it is still quite challenging to establish a stably
functioning agroinfiltration protocol. Efficiency of the method depends mainly on the transformation
and co-cultivation conditions, and also the components of the tissue-culture media.
With the use of an optimized media we have been able to set up a reliable, properly functioning
transformation protocol. The first generation of transgenic barley plants, transformed with a
transformation cassette carrying an aldo-keto-reductase gene from Arabidopsis thaliana and
the hpt marker gene, were analyzed at nucleic acid (both DNA and RNA) and at protein levels.
The key factors of success proved to be the use of Silwet L-77 (surfactant) in transformation
inoculum, the Cu-content of regenerating media and the continuous visual monitoring of the
transformed callus during the somatic embryogenesi
Emotional Processes in Elaborating a Historical Trauma in the Daily Press
Twentieth century has witnessed several cases of mass traumatization when groups as
wholes were ostracized even threated with annihilation. From the perspectives of identity
trauma, when harms are afflicted to a group of people by other groups because of their
categorical membership, ethnic and national traumas stand out. This paper aims to
investigate long-term consequences of permanent traumatization on national identity
with presenting a narrative social psychological study as a potential way of empirical
exploration of the processes of collective traumatization and trauma elaboration. A
Narrative Trauma Elaboration Model has been introduced which identifies linguistic
markers of the elaboration process. Newspaper articles (word count = 203172) about a
significant national trauma of the Hungarian history, Treaty of Trianon (1920), were chosen
from a ninety year time span and emotional expressions of narratives were analysed with
a narrative categorical content analytic tool (NarrCat). Longitudinal pattern of data show
very weak emotional processing of the traumatic event. Results are discussed in terms
of collective victimhood as core element of national identity and its effects on trauma
elaboration
Wiener Index and Remoteness in Triangulations and Quadrangulations
Let be a a connected graph. The Wiener index of a connected graph is the
sum of the distances between all unordered pairs of vertices. We provide
asymptotic formulae for the maximum Wiener index of simple triangulations and
quadrangulations with given connectivity, as the order increases, and make
conjectures for the extremal triangulations and quadrangulations based on
computational evidence. If denotes the arithmetic mean
of the distances from to all other vertices of , then the remoteness of
is defined as the largest value of over all vertices
of . We give sharp upper bounds on the remoteness of simple
triangulations and quadrangulations of given order and connectivity
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