A fragmentary story: episcopal culture in Milan during Lothar I’s reign?

Claudins reign

The claudin family of integral membrane proteins was identified as the major protein component of the tight junctions in all vertebrates. Since their identification, claudins, and their associated pfam00822 superfamily of proteins have been implicated in a wide variety of cellular processes. Claudin homologs have been identified in invertebrates as well, including Drosophila and C. elegans. Rec...

Information technology and culture: Identifying fragmentary and holistic perspectives of culture

In this paper, we review the literature on information technology (IT) and culture. The construct of ‘‘culture’’ has alternately been defined and studied by international scholars as national culture, and by organizational scholars as organizational or corporate culture. We argue that, despite the considerable amount of research activity in these areas, the two research traditions have existed ...

features of short story in translated and non-translated literature: a polysystemic perspective

ترجمه متون ادبی در دنیای امروز از اهمیت ویژه ای برخوردار است. فرهنگ های مختلف با استفاده از متون ادبی ملل و فرهنگ های دیگر سعی در غنی کردن فرهنگ و ادبیات کشور خود دارند. کشور ما نیز از این قاعده مستثنی نیست. در ایران، ترجمه متون ادبی اروپائی که با دوران مشروطه ایرانی آغاز می شود موجب تغییرات اساسی در فرهنگ، شیوه زندگی و تفکر ایرانیان شده است. در این دوران نه تنها در امورات سیاسی و فکری کشور تغی...

Death in the Hippodrome: sexual politics and legal culture in the reign of Mehmet IV.

It Is a Story

[Note: These pages were my rough private notes that I made in preparation for the talk I gave. Needless to say, I didn’t cover all this material in my talk. I am willing, but hesitant, to put it on the web because of three reasons, the primary one being that I haven’t yet put in proper references for any of the results cited. The second reason is that in its next draft I will be separating much...