Money talks: moral economies of earning a living in neoliberal East Africa

Neoliberal restructuring has targeted not just the economy, but also polity, society and culture, in the name of creating capitalist market societies. The societal repercussions of neoliberal policy and reform in terms of moral economy remain understudied. This article seeks to address this gap by analysing moral economy characteristics and dynamics in neoliberalised communities, as perceived by traders in Uganda and sex workers in Kenya. The interview data reveal perceived drivers that contributed to a significant moral dominance of money, self-interest, short-termism, opportunism and pragmatism. Equally notable are a perceived (i) close interaction between political–economic and moral–economic dynamics, and (ii) significant impact of the political–economic structure on moral agency. Respondents primarily referred to material factors usually closely linked to neoliberal reform, as key drivers of local moral economies. We thus speak of a neoliberalisation of moral economies, itself part of the wider process of embedding and locking-in market society structures in the two countries. An improved political economy of moral economy can help keep track of this phenomenon

From Bosch’ Stable. Hieronymus Bosch and The Adoration of the Magi [English translation]

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Uit de stal van Bosch. Jheronimus Bosch en de Aanbidding der Koningen

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Hieronymus Bosch. Painter and Draughtsman. Catalogue Raisonné

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Bosch Research and Conservation Project (BRCP) Research Reports 159-164. Vienna, Gemäldegalerie der Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien, Last Judgment Triptych

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The precision of NMR structure ensembles revisited.

Contains fulltext : 79477.pdf (publisher's version ) (Closed access)Biomolecular structures provide the basis for many studies in research areas such as structure-based drug design and homology modeling. In order to use molecular coordinates it is important that they are reliable in terms of accurate description of the experimental data and in terms of the overall and local geometry. Besides these primary quality criteria an indication is needed for the uncertainty in the atomic coordinates that may arise from the dynamic behavior of the considered molecules as well as from experimental- and computational procedures.In contrast to the crystallographic B-factor, a good measure for the uncertainty in NMR-derived atomic coordinates is still not available. It has become clear in recent years that the widely used atomic Root Mean Square Deviation (RMSD), which is a measure for the precision of the data, overestimates the accuracy of NMR structure ensembles and therefore is a problematic measure for the uncertainty in the atomic coordinates.In this study we report a method that yields a more realistic estimate of the uncertainty in the atomic coordinates by maximizing the RMSD of an ensemble of structures, while maintaining the accordance with the experimentally derived data. The results indicate that the RMSD of most NMR structure ensembles can be significantly increased compromising neither geometric quality nor NMR data. This maximized RMSD therefore seems a better estimate of the true uncertainty in the atomic coordinates