Esther Surasky Pinck Papers - Accession 293

The Esther Surasky Pinck Papers consist of correspondence and newspaper clippings, relating to the Pinck, Surasky, and Polier families, together with concert, literary, and drama programs, newsletters, photographs, citations, poems, and memorabilia. The papers contain information on Mrs. Pinck’s years at Winthrop and her extensive work for Jewish causes, such as the United Jewish Appeal, the Jewish National Fund, Technion, Hadassah, and the Hebrew Home for the Aged. There is also a biographical file on Mrs. Pinck’s husband, Dr. Louis A. Pinck, who was a chemist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/1321/thumbnail.jp

Primary structure and location of the genome-linked protein (VPg) of grapevine fanleaf nepovirus

AbstractThe genome linked protein VPg covalently linked to the RNAs of grapevine fanleaf nepovirus has been sequenced. The VPg (Mr=2931) composed of 24 residues is linked by its N-terminal Ser β-OH group to the viral RNAs. The VPg mapped from residues 1218 to 1241 of the 253K polyprotein encoded by GFLV RNA1

Internetworking satellite and local exchange networks for personal communications applications

The demand for personal communications services has shown unprecedented growth, and the next decade and beyond promise an era in which the needs for ubiquitous, transparent and personalized access to information will continue to expand in both scale and scope. The exchange of personalized information is growing from two-way voice to include data communications, electronic messaging and information services, image transfer, video, and interactive multimedia. The emergence of new land-based and satellite-based wireless networks illustrates the expanding scale and trend toward globalization and the need to establish new local exchange and exchange access services to meet the communications needs of people on the move. An important issue is to identify the roles that satellite networking can play in meeting these new communications needs. The unique capabilities of satellites, in providing coverage to large geographic areas, reaching widely dispersed users, for position location determination, and in offering broadcast and multicast services, can complement and extend the capabilities of terrestrial networks. As an initial step in exploring the opportunities afforded by the merger of satellite-based and land-based networks, several experiments utilizing the NASA ACTS satellite and the public switched local exchange network were undertaken to demonstrate the use of satellites in the delivery of personal communications services

THE FUTURE OF OPEN ACCESS BOOKS: FINDINGS FROM A GLOBAL SURVEY OF ACADEMIC BOOK AUTHORS

This report presents the findings from an online survey conducted in February and March 2019 to gather author feedback on open access (OA) books. Survey questions were designed to build on previous studies of OA for journal authors, as well as previous research on OA books, to assess the current awareness, attitudes and behaviours of authors who have and have not previously published OA. The raw anonymised data has been made freely available under a CC BY licence.2 Of 5,509 responses, 2,542 book authors completed the survey, and only these responses have been analysed here. Of these, 407 authors had previously published at least one OA book, 2,037 authors had not published an OA book, and 98 authors did not know whether they had published an OA book previously.3 Additionally, from the total number of book authors, 917 had published one or more chapters OA in an otherwise non-OA book

Hydrographic Observations and Recovery of the Moorings

METEOR expedition M34 was carried out as part of the long-range investigations being pursued under the Special Research Project (SFB) No. 261, for the reconstruction of mass budget and current systems in the South Atlantic during the Late Quaternary. On METEOR cruise M34 samples and data were recovered from the upwelling region off Namibia, the central South Atlantic, and off North Brazil and Barbados. The cruise consisted of four legs, starting in Cape Town on January 3, 1996, and ending at Barbados on April 15, 1996. During the first leg, seismic and echographic measurements along a series of profiles as well as the sampling of surface sediments in the Cape Basin area was performed. These investigations provide basic information for a deep coring operation by the international Ocean Drilling Program, which is being prepared for by the University of Bremen. The main objective of the second leg was to investigate the biogeochemical processes in sediments of the upwelling area off Namibia. The scientific groups of the Max-Planck-Institut for Marine Microbiology and the Department of Geoscience of the University of Bremen worked closely together to produce new data for the biogeochemical reaction rates. On the third leg sediment cores were receovered to supplement the sample materials of SFB 261 in the central South Atlantic. Core-station profiles were taken from the Angola Basin to the Mid-Ocean-Ridge, and from there into the Brazil Basin. This cruise served also as a continuation of the investigations of the Institut für Meereskunde Kiel and the Traceroceanography of the University of Bremen, which are studying the spread of bottom water on the southern edge of the Brazil Basin, and determining temporal changes in the chlorofluoromethane content of the water, respectively. Three signal generator moorings were also recovered. The main objective of the fourth leg was to determine the seasonal particle sedimentaton in the western equatorial Atlantic and to extend the investigations of sediments from the Amazon Fan and Ceara Rise

Microfluidic Microbial Bioelectrochemical Systems: An Integrated Investigation Platform for a More Fundamental Understanding of Electroactive Bacterial Biofilms

It is the ambition of many researchers to finally be able to close in on the fundamental, coupled phenomena that occur during the formation and expression of electrocatalytic activity in electroactive biofilms. It is because of this desire to understand that bioelectrochemical systems (BESs) have been miniaturized into microBES by taking advantage of the worldwide development of microfluidics. Microfluidics tools applied to bioelectrochemistry permit even more fundamental studies of interactions and coupled phenomena occurring at the microscale, thanks, in particular, to the concomitant combination of electroanalysis, spectroscopic analytical techniques and real-time microscopy that is now possible. The analytical microsystem is therefore much better suited to the monitoring, not only of electroactive biofilm formation but also of the expression and disentangling of extracellular electron transfer (EET) catalytic mechanisms. This article reviews the details of the configurations of microfluidic BESs designed for selected objectives and their microfabrication techniques. Because the aim is to manipulate microvolumes and due to the high modularity of the experimental systems, the interfacial conditions between electrodes and electrolytes are perfectly controlled in terms of physicochemistry (pH, nutrients, chemical effectors, etc.) and hydrodynamics (shear, material transport, etc.). Most of the theoretical advances have been obtained thanks to work carried out using models of electroactive bacteria monocultures, mainly to simplify biological investigation systems. However, a huge virgin field of investigation still remains to be explored by taking advantage of the capacities of microfluidic BESs regarding the complexity and interactions of mixed electroactive biofilms

Physical and Biogeochemical Studies in the Subtropical and Tropical Atlantic

Maria S. Merian Cruise Report MSM18/L2 Cruise No. 18, Leg 2 May 11 – June 19, 2011 Mindelo (Cape Verde Islands) – Mindelo (Cape Verde Islands

Circulation and Oxygen Distribution in the Tropical Atlantic Cruise No. 80, Leg 1; October 26 to November 23, 2009 Mindelo (Cape Verde) to Mindelo (Cape Verde)

METEOR cruise 80/1 was a contribution to the SFB 754 “Climate-Biogeochemistry Interactions in the Tropical Ocean”. Shipboard, glider and moored observations are used to study the temporal and spatial variability of physical and biogeochemical parameters within the oxygen minimum zone (OMZ) of the tropical North Atlantic. As part of the BMBF “Nordatlantik” project, it further focuses on the equatorial current system including the Equatorial Undercurrent (EUC) and intermediate currents below. During the cruise, hydrographic station observations were performed using a CTD/O2 rosette, including water sampling for salinity, oxygen, nutrients and other biogeochemical tracers. Underway current measurements were successfully carried out with the 75 kHz ADCP borrowed from R/V POSEIDON during the first part of the cruise, and R/V METEOR’s 38 kHz ADCP during the second part. During M80/1, an intensive mooring program was carried out with 8 mooring recoveries and 8 mooring deployments. Right at the beginning of the cruise, a multidisciplinary mooring near the Cape Verde Islands was recovered and redeployed. Within the framework of SFB 754, two moorings with CTD/O2 profilers were recovered and redeployed with other instrumentation in the center and at the southern rim of the OMZ of the tropical North Atlantic. The equatorial mooring array as part of BMBF “North Atlantic” project consists of 5 current meter moorings along 23°W between 2°S and 2°N. It is aimed at quantifying the variability of the thermocline water supply toward the equatorial cold tongue which develops east of 10°W during boreal summer. Several glider missions were performed during the cruise. One glider was recovered that was deployed two months earlier. Another glider was deployed for two short term missions, near the equator for about 8 days and near 8°N for one day. This glider was equipped with a new microstructure probe in addition to standard sensors, i.e. CTD/O2, chlorophyll and turbidity