Towards a Blending-Based Approach to Early Christian Characters: Nicodemus as a Test Case

Abstract This article presents a blending-based approach to characters in early Christian narratives. Even cognitive approaches to complex characters (including my previous work) tend to frame character development as a primarily linear unidirectional process. However, the human mind integrates incoming information through processes that are more recursive than linear and more synergistic than summative. I propose that Cognitive Blending Theory, pioneered by Gilles Fauconnier & Mark Turner, provides a heuristic approach that better accounts for the complexity of cognitive information processing. First, I articulate a blending-based approach to ancient characters. Next, I show the validity of such an approach by modeling the blends for each of Nicodemus’s appearances in John’s gospel, focusing on the novel insights only available through blending. As will become apparent, these blends are interrelated, building upon and challenging one another on the path toward a complete characterization of “Nicodemus” across John’s gospel. I conclude with brief reflections on the future prospects of blending-based character studies. 

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Characterization of the novel aspartic proteinases, BACE and BACE2

Neuroscience Research ◽

10.1016/s0168-0102(00)81592-8 ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 38 ◽

pp. S124

Author(s):

S Kametaka

Keyword(s):

The Novel ◽

Aspartic Proteinases

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A Study of Memory and Psychological Defense Mechanism in Julian Barnes’s The Sense of an Ending

International Journal of Linguistics Literature & Translation ◽

10.32996/ijllt.2019.2.4.28 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Hossein Aliakbari Harehdasht ◽

Zahra Ekbatäni

Keyword(s):

Defense Mechanisms ◽

Defense Mechanism ◽

Human Mind ◽

The Novel ◽

Psychological Defense ◽

Julian Barnes ◽

Self Image

In The Sense of an Ending, Julian Barnes portrays the mysterious workings of the human mind as it distorts facts towards the end of a self-image that one can live with. The protagonist in the novel deploys certain psychological defense mechanisms in order to protect himself from feelings of anxiety, only to experience even more profound anxiety due to his excessive use of them. The significance of the present paper lies in its novel view of the book. So far, the critique on the novel has mainly been focused on the workings of time on memory; however, the present paper investigates how psychological defense mechanisms blur the protagonist’s perception of reality and distort his memories. This paper also attempts to attract scholarly interest in the study of psychological defense mechanisms in the study of The Sense of an Ending which has so far been to the best of our knowledge overlooked

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Experimental Characterization of Mechanical Behavior of Cord-Rubber Composites

Tire Science and Technology ◽

10.2346/1.2150974 ◽

1982 ◽

Vol 10 (1) ◽

pp. 37-54 ◽

Cited By ~ 11

Author(s):

M. Kumar ◽

C. W. Bert

Keyword(s):

Response Characteristic ◽

Cord Compression ◽

Complete Characterization ◽

Strain Response ◽

Strain Gages ◽

Experimental Characterization ◽

Rubber Composites ◽

Stress Strain ◽

Strain Data

Abstract Unidirectional cord-rubber specimens in the form of tensile coupons and sandwich beams were used. Using specimens with the cords oriented at 0°, 45°, and 90° to the loading direction and appropriate data reduction, we were able to obtain complete characterization for the in-plane stress-strain response of single-ply, unidirectional cord-rubber composites. All strains were measured by means of liquid mercury strain gages, for which the nonlinear strain response characteristic was obtained by calibration. Stress-strain data were obtained for the cases of both cord tension and cord compression. Materials investigated were aramid-rubber, polyester-rubber, and steel-rubber.

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H∞ performance of weighted interval plants: complete characterization of vertex results

1993 American Control Conference ◽

10.23919/acc.1993.4792931 ◽

1993 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

C. V. Hollot ◽

R. Tempo

Keyword(s):

Complete Characterization ◽

Interval Plants

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Characterization of CMOS Structures (0.6 µm process) Submitted to HBM and COM ESD Stress Tests

ISTFA 1997: Conference Proceedings from the 23rd International Symposium for Testing and Failure Analysis ◽

10.31399/asm.cp.istfa1997p0315 ◽

1997 ◽

Author(s):

G. Meneghesso ◽

E. Zanoni ◽

P. Colombo ◽

M. Brambilla ◽

R. Annunziata ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Electron Microscopy ◽

Electrostatic Discharge ◽

Stress Test ◽

Complete Characterization ◽

Stress Tests ◽

Test Procedures ◽

Emission Microscopy ◽

Fast Rise ◽

Scanning Electron

Abstract In this work, we present new results concerning electrostatic discharge (ESD) robustness of 0.6 μm CMOS structures. Devices have been tested according to both HBM and socketed CDM (sCDM) ESD test procedures. Test structures have been submitted to a complete characterization consisting in: 1) measurement of the tum-on time of the protection structures submitted to pulses with very fast rise times; 2) ESD stress test with the HBM and sCDM models; 3) failure analysis based on emission microscopy (EMMI) and Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM).

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Complete characterization of spin chains with two Ising symmetries

EPL (Europhysics Letters) ◽

10.1209/0295-5075/125/10008 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 125 (1) ◽

pp. 10008 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Bat-el Friedman ◽

Atanu Rajak ◽

Emanuele G. Dalla Torre

Keyword(s):

Complete Characterization ◽

Spin Chains

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On the star forest polytope for trees and cycles

RAIRO - Operations Research ◽

10.1051/ro/2018076 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 53 (5) ◽

pp. 1763-1773

Author(s):

Meziane Aider ◽

Lamia Aoudia ◽

Mourad Baïou ◽

A. Ridha Mahjoub ◽

Viet Hung Nguyen

Keyword(s):

Undirected Graph ◽

Dominating Set ◽

Discrete Math ◽

Complete Characterization ◽

Facial Structure ◽

Maximum Weight ◽

Single Node ◽

End Node ◽

Vertex Disjoint

Let G = (V, E) be an undirected graph where the edges in E have non-negative weights. A star in G is either a single node of G or a subgraph of G where all the edges share one common end-node. A star forest is a collection of vertex-disjoint stars in G. The weight of a star forest is the sum of the weights of its edges. This paper deals with the problem of finding a Maximum Weight Spanning Star Forest (MWSFP) in G. This problem is NP-hard but can be solved in polynomial time when G is a cactus [Nguyen, Discrete Math. Algorithms App. 7 (2015) 1550018]. In this paper, we present a polyhedral investigation of the MWSFP. More precisely, we study the facial structure of the star forest polytope, denoted by SFP(G), which is the convex hull of the incidence vectors of the star forests of G. First, we prove several basic properties of SFP(G) and propose an integer programming formulation for MWSFP. Then, we give a class of facet-defining inequalities, called M-tree inequalities, for SFP(G). We show that for the case when G is a tree, the M-tree and the nonnegativity inequalities give a complete characterization of SFP(G). Finally, based on the description of the dominating set polytope on cycles given by Bouchakour et al. [Eur. J. Combin. 29 (2008) 652–661], we give a complete linear description of SFP(G) when G is a cycle.

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Protein complex formation in methionine chain-elongation and leucine biosynthesis

Scientific Reports ◽

10.1038/s41598-021-82790-4 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 11 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Li-Qun Chen ◽

Shweta Chhajed ◽

Tong Zhang ◽

Joseph M. Collins ◽

Qiuying Pang ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Protein Complexes ◽

Complete Characterization ◽

Bimolecular Fluorescence Complementation ◽

Chain Elongation ◽

Substrate Channeling ◽

Leucine Biosynthesis ◽

Protein Complex Formation ◽

Genes Encoding ◽

Isopropylmalate Dehydrogenase

AbstractDuring the past two decades, glucosinolate (GLS) metabolic pathways have been under extensive studies because of the importance of the specialized metabolites in plant defense against herbivores and pathogens. The studies have led to a nearly complete characterization of biosynthetic genes in the reference plant Arabidopsis thaliana. Before methionine incorporation into the core structure of aliphatic GLS, it undergoes chain-elongation through an iterative three-step process recruited from leucine biosynthesis. Although enzymes catalyzing each step of the reaction have been characterized, the regulatory mode is largely unknown. In this study, using three independent approaches, yeast two-hybrid (Y2H), coimmunoprecipitation (Co-IP) and bimolecular fluorescence complementation (BiFC), we uncovered the presence of protein complexes consisting of isopropylmalate isomerase (IPMI) and isopropylmalate dehydrogenase (IPMDH). In addition, simultaneous decreases in both IPMI and IPMDH activities in a leuc:ipmdh1 double mutants resulted in aggregated changes of GLS profiles compared to either leuc or ipmdh1 single mutants. Although the biological importance of the formation of IPMI and IPMDH protein complexes has not been documented in any organisms, these complexes may represent a new regulatory mechanism of substrate channeling in GLS and/or leucine biosynthesis. Since genes encoding the two enzymes are widely distributed in eukaryotic and prokaryotic genomes, such complexes may have universal significance in the regulation of leucine biosynthesis.

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