scholarly journals The Collection of Jane Ryan & William Saunders

2022 ◽  
pp. 37-46
Author(s):  
Pio Abad

This paper focuses on an ongoing project that began in 2012, entitled The Collection of Jane Ryan & William Saunders. This project is an attempt to reconstitute the Marcos Collection. Sourced from auction catalogues, museum archives, and scant government records, their lavish inventory of commissioned portraits, jewellery, Regency silverware, and old master paintings is reproduced as photographic installations, postcards, and three-dimensional prints. Reconstruction, in this instance, becomes a sustained democratic gesture, allowing an increasingly forgetful public to access a collection that has remained unavailable through a systemic failure by successive post-dictatorial governments to institutionalize collective acts of remembering.

2001 ◽  
Vol 205 ◽  
pp. 234-235
Author(s):  
R. Fux ◽  
T. Axelrod ◽  
P. Popowski

Many evidences demonstrate that the Milky Way is a barred galaxy with the near end of the bar pointing in the first Galactic quadrant (e.g. Gerhard 1999 for a review), thus offering an exceptional chance to study the detailed three-dimensional structure and dynamics of a real bar. One of the best tracer of the Galactic bulge/bar are the red clump stars: they are very numerous, sufficiently bright to be detected throughout the bulge, and their absolute I-magnitude has an intrinsic dispersion of only 0.2 magnitude, with a mean value almost independent of colour and metallicity (Paczyński & Stanek 1998, Udalski 2000). Here we outline an ongoing project aiming to recover the 3D bulge stellar distribution as primarily traced by these stars, as in Stanek et al. (1997), but in a non-parametric way and from the VR database of the MACHO experiment within an almost fully observed ∼ 8° × 8° bulge area centred on (l, b) ≈ (4°, − 6°) (e.g. Alcock et al. 1997), soon complemented with I-band photometry.


2019 ◽  
Vol 292 ◽  
pp. 153-158
Author(s):  
Miroslav Šrámek ◽  
Josef Novák

The paper focuses on structural design of a precast concrete element used for an innovative precast concrete pavement system for airports which is being developed within an ongoing project at Faculty of Civil Engineering CTU in Prague. The object of the structural design consists in designing reinforcement for the selected element with respect to crack width, tensile stress limitation in reinforcement and compressive stress limitation in concrete. The amount of reinforcement is highly affected by both applied load and the presence of imperfection in pavement bedding. In order to examine the behavior of the element subject to the load from Airbus A380800F, a three-dimensional model was created and analyzed by using Newton-Raphson's method and FEM. The data obtained from the numerical simulation served for the optimization of the element reinforcement.


1991 ◽  
Vol 7 (04) ◽  
pp. 205-219
Author(s):  
William R. Schmidt ◽  
James R. Vander Schaaf ◽  
Richard V. Shields

The significant benefits achieved by the Navy from application of a CAD/CAM modeling technique to the Aegis Destroyer Construction Program are described. Building a computer model of the ship—the Arleigh Burke Class (DDG 51)—prior to construction reduces interferences and improves design accuracy and completeness. Major challenges addressed by the paper are the translation to CAD of an existing paper design and the transfer of three-dimensional CAD product models in order to permit construction of the ship at two different yards. This ongoing project represents a major cooperative effort between the Navy, design agencies, weapons systems manufacturers, and two private shipyards.


Author(s):  
A. Adami ◽  
C. Balletti ◽  
F. Fassi ◽  
L. Fregonese ◽  
F. Guerra ◽  
...  

Geomatics technics and methods are now able to provide a great contribution to the Cultural Heritage (CH) processes, being adaptable to different purposes: management, diagnosis, restoration, protection, study and research, communication, formation and fruition of the Cultural Heritage. This experimentation was done with an eye to encouraging and promoting the development of principles and good practices for recording, documentation and information management of cultural heritage. <br><br> This research focuses on the documentation path of a cultural asset, in particular a Renaissance statue, aimed to achieve a three dimensional model useful for many digital applications and for solid reproduction. The digital copy can be used in many contexts and represents an efficient tool to preserve and promote CH. It can be included in virtual museum archives and catalogues, shared on network with cultural operators and users, and it permits the contextualization of the asset in its artistic and historical background. Moreover, the possibility to obtain a hard copy, reproduced through 3D printing, allows to reach new opportunities of interaction with CH. <br><br> In this article, two techniques for the digitization of the terracotta bust of Francesco II Gonzaga, in the City Museum of Mantua, are described: the triangulation scanner and dense image matching photogrammetry. As well as the description of the acquisition and the elaborations, other aspects are taken into account: the characteristics of the object, the place for the acquisition, the ultimate goal and the economic availability. There are also highlighted the optimization pipeline to get the correct three-dimensional models and a 3D printed copy. A separate section discusses the comparison of the realized model to identify the positive and negative aspects of each adopted application.


1966 ◽  
Vol 25 ◽  
pp. 227-229 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Brouwer

The paper presents a summary of the results obtained by C. J. Cohen and E. C. Hubbard, who established by numerical integration that a resonance relation exists between the orbits of Neptune and Pluto. The problem may be explored further by approximating the motion of Pluto by that of a particle with negligible mass in the three-dimensional (circular) restricted problem. The mass of Pluto and the eccentricity of Neptune's orbit are ignored in this approximation. Significant features of the problem appear to be the presence of two critical arguments and the possibility that the orbit may be related to a periodic orbit of the third kind.


Author(s):  
M. Boublik ◽  
W. Hellmann ◽  
F. Jenkins

The present knowledge of the three-dimensional structure of ribosomes is far too limited to enable a complete understanding of the various roles which ribosomes play in protein biosynthesis. The spatial arrangement of proteins and ribonuclec acids in ribosomes can be analysed in many ways. Determination of binding sites for individual proteins on ribonuclec acid and locations of the mutual positions of proteins on the ribosome using labeling with fluorescent dyes, cross-linking reagents, neutron-diffraction or antibodies against ribosomal proteins seem to be most successful approaches. Structure and function of ribosomes can be correlated be depleting the complete ribosomes of some proteins to the functionally inactive core and by subsequent partial reconstitution in order to regain active ribosomal particles.


Author(s):  
P.L. Moore

Previous freeze fracture results on the intact giant, amoeba Chaos carolinensis indicated the presence of a fibrillar arrangement of filaments within the cytoplasm. A complete interpretation of the three dimensional ultrastructure of these structures, and their possible role in amoeboid movement was not possible, since comparable results could not be obtained with conventional fixation of intact amoebae. Progress in interpreting the freeze fracture images of amoebae required a more thorough understanding of the different types of filaments present in amoebae, and of the ways in which they could be organized while remaining functional.The recent development of a calcium sensitive, demembranated, amoeboid model of Chaos carolinensis has made it possible to achieve a better understanding of such functional arrangements of amoeboid filaments. In these models the motility of demembranated cytoplasm can be controlled in vitro, and the chemical conditions necessary for contractility, and cytoplasmic streaming can be investigated. It is clear from these studies that “fibrils” exist in amoeboid models, and that they are capable of contracting along their length under conditions similar to those which cause contraction in vertebrate muscles.


Author(s):  
G. Stöffler ◽  
R.W. Bald ◽  
J. Dieckhoff ◽  
H. Eckhard ◽  
R. Lührmann ◽  
...  

A central step towards an understanding of the structure and function of the Escherichia coli ribosome, a large multicomponent assembly, is the elucidation of the spatial arrangement of its 54 proteins and its three rRNA molecules. The structural organization of ribosomal components has been investigated by a number of experimental approaches. Specific antibodies directed against each of the 54 ribosomal proteins of Escherichia coli have been performed to examine antibody-subunit complexes by electron microscopy. The position of the bound antibody, specific for a particular protein, can be determined; it indicates the location of the corresponding protein on the ribosomal surface.The three-dimensional distribution of each of the 21 small subunit proteins on the ribosomal surface has been determined by immuno electron microscopy: the 21 proteins have been found exposed with altogether 43 antibody binding sites. Each one of 12 proteins showed antibody binding at remote positions on the subunit surface, indicating highly extended conformations of the proteins concerned within the 30S ribosomal subunit; the remaining proteins are, however, not necessarily globular in shape (Fig. 1).


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