Small angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) is used for low resolution structural characterization of proteins often in combination with other experimental techniques. After briefly reviewing the theory of SAXS we discuss computational methods based on 1) the Debye equation and 2)…

Luke's unpublished journal of his visit to western Anatolia in 1669/70 lists ten churches at Chonai/Colossae, which supports the arguments of Foss for the importance of the city well into the Byzantine period.

Purpose. The relation between transfection efficiency of DNA/polymer complexes and DNA conformational alterations is investigated. The buffering capacity of several synthetic polymers is also studied to relate their performance in transfection efficiency. Methods. The cationic polymer/DNA interaction was evaluated by…

Lucian's essay Teacher of Rhetoric implies the existence, already in the second century, of the abbreviated curriculum in rhetorical education to which Libanius testifies in the fourth.

The British Library possesses the only surviving copy of Elmsley's edition of the plays of Sophocles, which evidently was withdrawn from circulation after printing; it reveals Elmsley's scholarly development at an earlier age than has been appreciated.

Harpocration's representation of Philochorus' statements about the making of pompeia in Athens cannot be an exact quotation and cannot come from his Atthis , but more likely from his antiquarian writings.

Curse tablets placed in lamps thrown into the spring of Anna Perenna in Rome in late antiquity are explained in terms of the Christians' view of pagan water nymphs as still-active and malevolent demons.

The diversity and the weaknesses and value of the ancient commentaries can be illustrated through various examples, which show their evolution across antiquity and the middle ages.

The "good eris" in Works and Days is so presented as to parallel Pandora, who is seen as bringing about evils but who yet was the stimulus to labor that is an ethical imperative.

The crisis of succession near the end of Lysimachus' reign was prompted by the altered fortunes of his wife Arsinoe once her brother became king of Egypt as Ptolemy II in 285 B.C.