This book provides one of the best currently available overviews of human-computer interaction across different cultures, disciplines and countries. It contains the selected proceedings of Interact '95 - the Fifth International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction - arranged by the International Federation for Information Processing and held in Lillehammer, Norway, in June 1995.

Opera, for those not acquainted with its conventions, can be confounding. This book contains analyses of the stories and music of nine beloved operas, presented in chronological order from the late 1700s through the early 1900s. These works are most readily approached with an understanding of the conventions of the genres, as well as the social conditions that influenced the composers and librettists. In examining each work, the various genres are explained, and the popular and intellectual movements that influenced the operas are discussed, as well as the original source material. The operas covered in the text are Mozart's The Magic Flute, Beethoven's Fidelio, Donizetti's Lucia de Lammermoor, Wagner's The Flying Dutchman, Verdi's Rigoletto, Bizet's Carmen, Leonvacallo's Pagliacci, Strauss' Salome, and Brecht's The Threepenny Opera.

Giacomo Puccini, composer of some of the world's most popular operas, including La Boheme, Tosca, and Madame Butterfly, was also a highly literary person who based his librettos on existing works of literature. This work explores that literary inheritance in an effort to enhance the listener's appreciation of the operatic experience. The author argues that the majority of Puccini's operas compose a grand cycle that finds its roots in the romance genre of 12th century France, serving to celebrate the strong, independent heroine. Via a close examination of the source works, the librettos, and the scores, this book offers fresh perspective on Puccini's legacy.

Modifications and Targeting of Protein Termini, Part B, Volume 686 in the Methods in Enzymology serial, highlights new advances in the field with this new volume presenting interesting chapters on a variety of timely topics, including In vitro production of N-degron fused proteins and its application, Identification of N-degrons and N-recognins using peptide pull-downs combined with quantitative mass spectrometry-based proteomics, Monitoring ADO-dependent proteolysis in cells using fluorescent reporter proteins, Monitoring the interactions between N-degrons and N-recognins of the Arg/N-degron pathway, Characterization and chemical modulation of p62/SQSTM1/Sequestosome-1 as an autophagic N-recognin of the Arg/N-degron pathway. Other chapters cover Analysis of higher plant N-degron pathway components and substrates via expression in S. cerevisiae, Building libraries to dissect terminal degrons with fluorescent timers, Affinity isolation and biochemical characterization of N-degron ligands using the N-recognin, ClpS, Probing the effects of N-terminal acetylation on a-synuclein structure, aggregation and toxicity, Increasing the coverage of the N-terminome with Lys-N Amino Terminal enrichment (LATE), and more.

Die Entwicklung neuer thrombolytisch wirksamer Medikamente einer- seits und ein rascher, auch technologisch bedingter Fortschritt moderner Gefasschirurgie andererseits sind notwendige Grunde, um den Wert der medikamentosen Thrombolyse erneut abzufragen. Der potentielle Nut- zen der Wiedereroffnung eines thrombotisch verschlossenen Gefasses muss in einem vertretbaren Verhaltnis zu den potentiellen Gefahren des Verfahrens stehen. Dabei hat sich gezeigt, dass die angiographisch erwie- sene Wiedereroffnung eines Gefasses u.V. nur ein vorubergehender Teil- erfolg ist und in die Beurteilung des Verfahrens unbedingt der langfristi- ge Nutzen, etwa die Haufigkeit postthrombotischer Syndrome oder die Letalitat nach Herzinfarkt, mit einbezogen werden mussen. Vnerlasslich ist daruber hinaus die Analyse der Komplikationen. Dieser Aufgabe hat sich eine Gruppe der auf diesem Gebiete erfah- rensten europaischen Kliniker gestellt und beim Deutschen Hamatolo- gen-Kongress 1983 in Munster in Vortragen und einem langfristig vorbe- reiteten Tischgesprach eine kritische Analyse der derzeitigen Situation gegeben. Vielleicht stellt dieses Buch eine Art abschliessender Wertung der ersten Generation von Thrombolytika - Streptokinase, Vrokinas- dar, wo die zweite Generation - Gewebe-Aktivatoren des fibrinolyti- schen Systems - eben in die klinische Erprobung eingefuhrt werden. Die Herausgeber sind den Autoren fur die konzise und kritische Dar- stellung ihrer Themen zu Dank verpflichtet.

The first woman to ski solo to the South Pole tells the story of what it took to get there At home in Norway it is eight o’clock on Christmas Eve night, but ahead, at the Amundsen–Scott base that has been visible for hours, it is already early in the morning of Christmas Day when Liv Arnesen, after skiing solo for 745 miles in fifty days, finally arrives. She had been dreaming of the South Pole for most of her forty-one years, and now, even in her joy at having reached her goal in December 1994, she has to ask herself: what took you so long? In Skiing into the Bright Open Arnesen describes the exhausting, exhilarating experience of being the first known woman to ski unsupported to the South Pole. She also answers her own question, framing her account of her historic expedition with her longtime struggle to find the freedom and confidence to follow her dreams into uncharted territory.  From her childhood in Norway to the seasons she spent working as a guide on Svalbard, the Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, Arnesen courted the cold, and her memoir reflects the knowledge and passion for Arctic and Antarctic exploration that grew with her adventures in the wintry reaches of Norway and beyond. Tracing her path from the heroic stories of explorers like Fridtjof Nansen and Ernest Shackleton to her own crossing of the Greenland Ice Cap in 1992, Arnesen credits the inspiring feats of those who preceded her but also describes the obstacles—including niggling self-doubt—that tradition, convention, and downright prejudice put in her way as she endeavored to find the support and sponsorship granted to men in her field. A tale of solitary adventure in the bleak and beautiful bone-chilling cold of Antarctica, Skiing into the Bright Open tells a story of gritty determination, thrilling achievement, and perseverance in the face of near despair and daunting odds; it is, ultimately, an object lesson in the power of a dream if one is willing to pursue it to the ends of the earth.

Methods in Enzymology serial highlights new advances in the field with this new volume presenting interesting chapters. Each chapter is written by an international board of authors.

The American civil rights movement represents one of the most remarkable social revolutions in all of world history. While no one would discount the significance of the leadership of Martin Luther King and others, we should also recognize that the fight could not have been waged without the countless foot soldiers in the trenches. As an important corrective to the traditional "great man" studies, these essays emphasize the importance of grassroots actions and individual agency in the effort to bring about national civil renewal. These biographies assert the importance of individuals on the local level working towards civil rights and the influence that this primarily African-American movement had on others including La Raza, the Native American Movement, feminism, and gay rights. Through engaging biographies of such varied individuals as Abraham Galloway, Ida B. Wells, James K. Vardaman, Jose Angel Gutierrez, and Sylvia Rivera, Glisson widens the scope of most Civil Rights studies beyond the 1954-1965 time frame to include its full history since the Civil War. By widening the time frame studied, these essays underscore the difficult, often unrewarded and generational nature of social change.

The extraordinary story of the first two women to cross Antarctica The fascinating chronicle of Liv Arnesen and Ann Bancroft’s dramatic journey as the first two women to cross Antarctica, No Horizon Is So Far follows the explorers from the planning of their expedition through their brutal trek from the Norwegian sector all the way to McMurdo Station as they walked, skied, and ice-sailed for almost three months in temperatures reaching as low as -35°F, all while towing their 250-pound supply sledges across 1,700 miles of ice full of dangerous crevasses. Through website transmissions and satellite phone calls, Ann and Liv, two former schoolteachers, were able to broadcast their expedition to more than three million students in sixty-five countries to teach geography, science, and the importance of following your dreams.   

Despite ambitious political plans and substantial economic investments, there are - at best - mixed experiences with the introduction of ICTs in classroom settings in most western countries. Norway is an interesting case in point because it is the OECD country with the highest ICT use among pupils and the best school level ICT infrastructure, yet at the same time experiences the greatest relative decline in skills and knowledge from 2003 to 2009 as measured in the PISA study. In trying to better understand some of the processes responsible for this state of affairs, this book examines how and why teachers of English as a foreign language (EFL) make use of ICTs in their teaching. Based on data from a national survey of lower secondary school EFL-teachers, it is possible to discern the common characteristics of high ICT intensity teachers. Among the most salient factors we find stronger faith in the objectives set out in national plans and strategies. Educational ICT initiatives enter a subject specific context which must be sufficiently acknowledged by administrators and policy makers in order to make optimal use of ICTs' positive potential.

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