Késő szarmata temetőrészlet Makó-Dáli ugaron : újabb adatok a szarmata kori védőfegyverzethez

Archaeologists of the Móra Ferenc Museum carried out preventive excavations prior to the construction of Motorway M43, in the area northeast from Makó in 2013, supervised by András Benedek. In the outskirts of Makó called Dáli-ugar a fragment of both a Bronze Age settlement and a Sarmatian settlement were excavated as well as a late Sarmatian cemetery dated to the period ranging from the 4th to the early 5th century AD. Two Sarmatian pottery kilns unearthed in the settlement have already been published (see Bene-Benedek–Benedek 2017). The excavated part of the cemetery comprised 16 graves in a small, 50×30 meter area. The graves were organized in four rows. 14 graves were oriented south-north, while two west-east. 14 graves had been completely or partially robbed. Four graves contained no grave goods, just human remains. Female graves yielded a bronze earring with a hook-and-loop clasp and a silver earring with a flat ending. Infant graves contained two semicircular torques made of silver wire with loops at the ends. A silver axe-shaped pedant, bracelets with coning and overlapping endings and a fragment of a bracelet with a sightly coning endings constituted some further finds. The brooches belong to the returned foot type, two of which were made of silver and two were made of bronze, each originating from two female graves (the larger silver variant from grave No. 40, and the three small brooches from grave No. 239). Grave No. 303 of a male contained an iron brooch with a returned foot lying on the chest area. A female buried in grave No. 296 wore a hose or boots embroidered with beads. The rest of the grave goods were composed of oval buckles, needles, and knifes. Four south-north oriented graves were equipped with grey wheel thrown pottery and one grave with a handmade pottery placed to the northern end of the pit. Two grave pit displayed traces of coffins, one even combined with some fragments which might have belonged to a coffin hook. Very little is known about metal armours used in the Sarmatian period in the Carpathian Basin. However, in grave No. 283, which had been robbed, two square-shaped lamellar(?) iron armour plates with rounded edges were found, and a fragment of a third piece. With the assistance of the Radiological Clinic of Szeged (Affidea Magyarország Kft.), we took X-ray photos of the two complete armours pieces to map the eyelets which got covered by the corrosion. The pieces are nearly identical to the Avarian era lamellar armours. In form and size they are analogous to the Hajdúdorog and Kunszentmárton type, but they have a smaller U-shaped incision on their longer side (Szilágyi 2017)

Kora Tudor hitviták (1525-1535) = Early Modern Religious Controversies (1525-1535)

A Kora Tudor Hitviták c. kutatás a hazai anglisztikában eddig feltáratlan területet vizsgált. 2006: A kutatók tanulmányozták Morus eretnekségekről írt munkáját és Tyndale válaszát. Fabiny Tibor 2 angol és 2 magyar tanulmányt írt, és előadott Tyndale-ről Lichfieldben. Tóta Péter Benedek 1 angol tanulmányt írt, részt vett a dallasi Morus-központ konferenciáján, és megválasztották a Moreana vezetőségébe. 2007: FT 1 hetet kutatott Skóciában és előadott a dallasi Morus-központ konferenciáján TPB-vel együtt, aki Amherstben is tartott előadást. 2008: Megjelent a kutatás keretében elindított Kora Tudor Irodalom és Vallás sorozat 1. kötete. FT előadott a liverpooli Tyndale/More-konferencián, és dallasi előadása elektronikus formában megjelent. TPB dallasi előadása szintén megjelent, s még 1 angol, ill. 1 magyar tanulmányt írt. 2009: FT előadott Tyndale-ről Bécsben, valamint Tyndale teológiájáról a Wesley Főiskolán. TPB előadott a londoni VIII. Henrik-konferencián. A HUSSE 9 konferencián a kutatócsoport külön szekcióban ismertette a kutatást. 2010: FT Londonban kutatott, illetve előadott az MTA terminológia-konferenciáján Tyndale-ről. TPB a Leuvenben, illetve Londonban kutatott, és írt egy tanulmányt Morusról. 2011. januárjában FT Londonban kutatott, és előadott a HUSSE 10 konferencián, s folytatja hitvitával foglalkozó tanulmányainak sajtó alá rendezését. TPB folytatja Morus-tanulmányainak sajtó alá rendezését. Megjelent a Kora Tudor Irodalom és Vallás sorozat 2. kötete. | The Early Tudor Religious Controversies Project explored an unknown field in English Studies in Hungary. 2006: The researchers studied More’s work on heresies and Tyndale’s answer. Fabiny Tibor published 2 studies in English and 2 in Hungarian; gave a paper on Tyndale in Lichfield. Tóta Péter Benedek published an article in Hungarian, attended a conference at the More Center in Dallas (MCD), and was elected into the Board of Directors of Moreana. 2007: FT did research for a week in Scotland; gave a paper at MCD. TPB also gave a paper at MCD and another one in Amherst. 2008: The 1st vol. of “Kora Tudor Irodalom és Vallás” was published. FT gave a paper at the Liverpool Tyndale/More-conference; his MCD-paper was published in electronic format together with TPB’s paper. TPB published a paper in English and one in Hungarian. 2009: FT gave a paper on Tyndale in Vienna, and one on Tyndale’s theology at the Wesley College. TPB gave a paper at the conference on Henry VIII in London. At the HUSSE 9 Conference they presented their project in a special session. 2010: FT did research in London; gave a paper on Tyndale’s terminology at the Hungarian Academy. TPB did research in Leuven and London; published a paper on More. January 2011: FT did research in London, gave a paper at the HUSSE 10 conference; started preparing his Tyndale-articles for publication in Hungarian. TPB also started collecting his papers on More for publication. The 2nd vol. of “Kora Tudor Irodalom és Vallás” was published

Remarkable impact of PAHs and TPHs on the richness and diversity of bacterial species in surface soils exposed to long-term hydrocarbon pollution

Nowadays, because of substantial use of petroleum-derived fuels the number and extension of hydrocarbon polluted terrestrial ecosystems is in growth worldwide. In remediation of aforementioned sites bioremediation still tends to be an innovative, environmentally attractive technology. Although huge amount of information is available concerning the hydrocarbon degradation potential of cultivable hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria little is known about the in situ long-term effects of petroleum derived compounds on the structure of soil microbiota. Therefore, in this study our aim was to determine the longterm impact of total petroleum hydrocarbons (TPHs), volatile petroleum hydrocarbons (VPHs), total alkyl benzenes (TABs) as well as of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) on the structure of bacterial communities of four different contaminated soil samples. Our results indicated that a very high amount of TPH affected positively the diversity of hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria. This finding was supported by the occurrence of representatives of the a-, b-, c-Proteobacteria, Actinobacteria, Flavobacteriia and Bacilli classes. High concentration of VPHs and TABs contributed to the predominance of actinobacterial isolates. In PAH impacted samples the concentration of PAHs negatively correlated with the diversity of bacterial species. Heavily PAH polluted soil samples were mainly inhabited by the representatives of the b-, c- Proteobacteria (overwhelming dominance of Pseudomonas sp.) and Actinobacteria

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Identifying the Rate-Limiting Elementary Steps of Nitrogen Fixation with Single-Site Fe Model Complexes

Biomimetic nitrogen fixation provides an attractive alternative for the century-old Haber−Bosch process; however, the performance of the currently available molecular biomimetic catalysts is very limited. In this work, we are aiming to understand the catalytic cycle of one of the most promising biomimetic complex families that can be the cornerstone of future computer-aided rational design of biomimetic complexes. We calculate the Gibbs free energy of all elementary reaction steps of homogeneous dinitrogen reduction to NH3 on singlesite iron complexes with EPPP tetradentate ligands (E = B, Si). We examine all possible mechanisms and identify the dominant pathways and the critical elementary steps that can be ratedetermining in the catalytic cycle of nitrogen fixation. We find that the catalytic mechanism depends on the applied ligand and that the distal pathway observed with E = B is the most favorable route regarding the catalytic performance. Our calculations also reveal the lack of thermodynamic driving force in the last steps of the catalytic cycle that can be responsible for the low catalytic activity of the studied biomimetic catalysts. Our results can serve as a starting point for the rational design of biomimetic complexes, which should focus on establishing a steadily decreasing Gibbs free energy profile, as suggested by the Sabatier principle

Zoogloea oleivorans sp. nov., a floc-forming, petroleum hydrocarbon-degrading bacterium isolated from biofilm

A floc-forming, Gram-stain-negative, petroleum hydrocarbon-degrading bacterial strain, designated BucT, was isolated from a petroleum hydrocarbon-contaminated site in Hungary. Phylogenetic analysis based on 16S rRNA gene sequences revealed that strain BucT formed a distinct phyletic lineage within the genus Zoogloea. Its closest relative was found to be Zoogloea caeni EMB43T (97.2% 16S rRNA gene sequence similarity) followed by Zoogloea oryzae A-7T (95.9 %), Zoogloea ramigera ATCC 19544T (95.5 %) and Zoogloea resiniphila DhA-35T (95.4 %). The level of DNA–DNA relatedness between strain BucT and Z. caeni EMB43T was 31.6 %. Cells of strain BucT are facultatively aerobic, rod-shaped, and motile by means of a polar flagellum. The strain grew at temperatures of 5–35 6C (optimum 25–28 6C), and at pH 6.0–9.0 (optimum 6.5–7.5). The predominant fatty acids were C16 : 0, C10 : 0 3-OH, C12 : 0 and summed feature 3 (C16 : 1v7c and/or iso-C15 : 0 2-OH). The major respiratory quinone was ubiquinone-8 (Q-8) and the predominant polar lipid was phosphatidylethanolamine. The genomic DNA G+C content was 63.2 mol%. On the basis of the chemotaxonomic, molecular and phenotypic data, isolate BucT is considered to represent a novel species of the genus Zoogloea, for which the name Zoogloea oleivorans sp. nov. is proposed. The type strain is BucT (5DSM 28387T5NCAIM B 02570T)

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Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/43270/1/11046_2005_Article_BF02089882.pd