The Primitives of Linguistic Meaning

Semantics: Primes and Universals. Anna Wierzbicka. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 1996. 500 pp.     

Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality

Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality. Anna Livia and Kira Hall. eds. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.460 pp.     

Framing Globalization: Wedding Pictures,Funeral Photography,and Family Snapshots in Rural China

Balikci-Denjongpa, Anna. Tingvong: a Lepcha Village in Sikkim. Dawa T. Lepcha, cinematographer; Anna Balikci-Denjongpa, anthropologist and project coordinator; Asen Balikci, visual anthropology advisor. Produced by the Namgyal Institute of Tibetology, Gangtok, Sikkim. DVD, 60 mins., color; 2005. Distributed by RAI Film and Video Library, Concord Video and Film Council, Ltd., Rosehill Centre, 22 Hines Rd., Ipswich IP3 9BG, UK. Tel: +44(0)1473-726-012; fax: +44(0)1473-274-531; e-mail: sales@concor.des.co.uk     

Understanding Cultures through Their Key Words: English, Russian, Polish, German, and Japanese

Understanding Cultures through Their Key Words: English, Russian, Polish, German, and Japanese. Anna Wierzbicka. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997. 318 pp.     

East African Politics

The Culture of Politics in Modern Kenya. Angelique Haugerud
Networks of Dissolution: Somalia Undone. Anna Simons     

The Russian Concept of Work: Suffering, Drama, and Tradition in Pre- and Post-Revolutionary Russia

The Russian Concept of Work: Suffering, Drama, and Tradition in Pre- and Post-Revolutionary Russia. Anna Feldman Leibovich. Westport, CT: Praeger, 1995. 166 pp.     

The Ethnographer's Eye: Ways of Seeing in Modern Anthropology: Visual Methods in Social Research

The Ethnographer's Eye: Ways of Seeing in Modern Anthropology. Anna Grimshaw. Cambridge: University of Cambridge Press, 2001. 222 pp.
Visual Methods in Social Research. Marcus Banks. New York City: Sage Publications, 2001. 201 pp.     

Characterization of Bacillus subtilis bacteriophages

Brodetsky, Anna M. (University of California, Los Angeles), and W. R. Romig. Characterization of Bacillus subtilis bacteriophages. J. Bacteriol. 90:1655-1663. 1965.-A group of six phages, SP5, SP6, SP7, SP8, SP9, and SP13, which use the Marburg strain of Bacillus subtilis as host was characterized. These phages, referred to as group 1, were examined for the following properties: host range, plaque morphology, stability, adsorption kinetics, one-step growth characteristics, calcium requirements, serum neutralization, thermal inactivation, and inactivation by ultraviolet irradiation. Five unrelated B. subtilis phages, SP3, SP10, PBS1, SP alpha, and SP beta, were included in the studies. When first isolated, none of the group 1 phages was able to replicate efficiently on B. subtilis SB19, a mutant of the "transforming" B. subtilis 168. Host range mutants capable of growth in SB19 were isolated for all of the group 1 phages except SP13, and are designated the "star" phages (SP5* through SP9*). For characterization, SB19 was used as host for the star phages, and another B. subtilis mutant, 168B, was host for SP13.     

Speaking of Feelings

Emotions in Crosslinguistic Perspective. Jean Harkins and Anna Wierzbicka. eds. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter, 2001. 421 pp.
Metaphor and Emotion: Language, Culture, and Body in Human Feeling. Zoltan Kövecses. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000. 223 pp.
The Navigation of Feeling:. Framework for the History of Emotions. William Reddy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 308 pp.     

Doing Our Home Work: Anthropologists on Homelessness and Housing in the United States

There's No Place like Home: Anthropological Perspectives on Housing and Homelessness in the United States. Anna Lou Dehavenon. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 1996.206 pp.
Ttie Unequal Homeless: Men on tlie Street, Women in Their Place. Joanne Passaro. New York: Routledge, 1996. 128 pp.
Homesteading in New York City, 1978-1993: The Divided Heart of Loisaida. Malve von Hassell. Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey, 1996. 205 pp.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Advances in Morphometrics edited by Leslie F. Marcus, Marco Corti, Anna Loy, Gavin J. P. Naylor and Dennis E. Slice
Concise Encyclopedia Biology , translated by Thomas A. Scott. Walter de Gruyter
Modeling Biological Systems. Principles and Applications , by James W. Haefner.     

C.-E.A. Winslow Day: Proceedings of the June 3, 1977 Centenary Celebration

Sponsored by Yale University, the City of New Haven, and the John B. Pierce Foundation, the C.-E.A. Winslow Day program consisted of speeches by Mr. Leonard Woodcock, President Emeritus, U.A.W., the Honorable Kenneth Gibson, Mayor of Newark, and Dr. Hector Acuña, Director, Pan American Health Organization; reminiscences of Ira Hiscock, Anna M.R. Lauder Professor Emeritus of Public Health, Mary Elizabeth Tennant, Associate Professor Emeritus of Nursing (Public Health), A. Pharo Gagge, Emeritus Fellow, John B. Pierce Foundation, and Mrs. Harriet Welch, Former President of the VNA of New Haven. The proceedings also included the presentation of gifts and the official C.-E.A. Winslow Day Proclamation.     

Sense and Sense Making in the Caucasus

A Small Corner of Hell: Dispatches from Chechnya . Anna Politkovskaya. Alexander Burry and Tatiana Tulchinsky, trans., with an introduction by Georgi Derluguian. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003. 232 pp.
Bourdieu's Secret Admirer in the Caucasus:. World-System Biography . Georgi M. Derluguian. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005. 416 pp.
Chechnya: Life in. War-Torn Society . Valery Tishkov. Tatiana Sokolova, trans., with. foreword by Mikhail Gorbachev. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004. 284 pp.     

Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation

Legacies: The Story of the Immigrant Second Generation. Alejandro Portes and Rubén G. Rumbaut. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2001. 430 pp.
Hispanas de Queens: Latino Panethnicity in. New York City Neighborhood. Milagros and Ricourt and Ruby Danta. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2003. 168 pp.
Transnational Latina/o Communities: Politics, Processes, and Cultures. Carlos G. Vélez-Ibañez and Anna Sampaio, eds. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2002. 307 pp.     

Inheritance of time to flowering in chickpea in a short-season temperate environment

Time to flowering is central in determining the adaptation and productivity of chickpea in short-season temperate environments. We studied the genetic control of this trait in three crosses, 272-2 x CDC Anna, 298T-9 x CDC Anna, and 298T-9 x CDC Frontier. From each cross, 180 F2 plants and parents were evaluated for time to flowering under greenhouse conditions. In summer 2004, multiple generations including P1, F1, P2, F2, and F2:3 (also called MG5) were evaluated for time to flowering under field conditions. The data on time to flowering in the F(2) populations were continuous in distribution but deviated from normal distribution. The F2:3 families derived from this showed a bimodal distribution for time to flowering, a typical case of major-gene inheritance model with duplicate recessive epistasis. A joint segregation analysis of MG5 also revealed that time to flowering in chickpea was controlled by two major genes along with other polygenes. Late flowering was dominant over early flowering for both major genes with digenic interaction between them, mainly an additive x additive type. This information can be used to formulate the most efficient breeding strategy for improvement of time to flowering in chickpea in short-season temperate environments.     

The Ten Most Wanted Solutions in Protein Bioinformatics. * Anna Tramontano

From the size and title of the book, Anna Tramontano has takenon a difficult task: describe ten challenges in protein bioinformaticsin less than 200 pages. The author is not content to cover tentopics in any restricted sense; each problem (chapter) addressesbroad categories, such as, sequence alignment, function predictionor membrane proteins. Taken as a set, the ten problems justabout span the entire protein bioinformatics space. Given thebrisk pace of research all of these areas, discussing the plethoraof approaches could easily fill 200 pages     

Yellow ooze

This is a piece from the annual Yale Internal Medicine Residency Program's Writers' Workshop, which began in 2003. Abraham Verghese and Richard Selzer, among the best known physician-writers in the United States, have served as workshop leaders, teaching the craft of writing to more than 35 residents. In designing the workshop, Anna B. Reisman, assistant professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine and VA Connecticut Health Care System, and Dr. Asghar Rastegar had the goal of making participants better physicians by providing a creative outlet for reflection.The stories and essays written by the Writers' Workshop participants present a range of experiences, real and imagined, and take readers deep into the minds of young doctors trying to make sense of what they do.     

Non-radioactive in situ Hybridization Protocol Applicable for Norway Spruce and a Range of Plant Species

The high-throughput expression analysis technologies available today give scientists an overflow of expression profiles but their resolution in terms of tissue specific expression is limited because of problems in dissecting individual tissues. Expression data needs to be confirmed and complemented with expression patterns using e.g. in situ hybridization, a technique used to localize cell specific mRNA expression. The in situ hybridization method is laborious, time-consuming and often requires extensive optimization depending on species and tissue. In situ experiments are relatively more difficult to perform in woody species such as the conifer Norway spruce (Picea abies). Here we present a modified DIG in situ hybridization protocol, which is fast and applicable on a wide range of plant species including P. abies. With just a few adjustments, including altered RNase treatment and proteinase K concentration, we could use the protocol to study tissue specific expression of homologous genes in male reproductive organs of one gymnosperm and two angiosperm species; P. abies, Arabidopsis thaliana and Brassica napus. The protocol worked equally well for the species and genes studied. AtAP3 and BnAP3 were observed in second and third whorl floral organs in A. thaliana and B. napus and DAL13 in microsporophylls of male cones from P. abies. For P. abies the proteinase K concentration, used to permeablize the tissues, had to be increased to 3 g/ml instead of 1 g/ml, possibly due to more compact tissues and higher levels of phenolics and polysaccharides. For all species the RNase treatment was removed due to reduced signal strength without a corresponding increase in specificity. By comparing tissue specific expression patterns of homologous genes from both flowering plants and a coniferous tree we demonstrate that the DIG in situ protocol presented here, with only minute adjustments, can be applied to a wide range of plant species. Hence, the protocol avoids both extensive species specific optimization and the laborious use of radioactively labeled probes in favor of DIG labeled probes. We have chosen to illustrate the technically demanding steps of the protocol in our film.Anna Karlgren and Jenny Carlsson contributed equally to this study.Corresponding authors: Anna Karlgren at Anna.Karlgren@ebc.uu.se and Jens F. Sundström at Jens.Sundstrom@vbsg.slu.se     

Pavlov, psychoanalysis, and neuroses

Pavlov's discovery of experiment neurosis was serendipitous, yet it was made under the influence of Breuer and Freud's case of Anna O. In 1914, Pavlov's disciple N. R. Shenger-Krestovnikova, exploring the limits of visual discrimination in dogs, noticed that when the discrimination was difficult, the dogs' behavior became disorganized. Pavlov drew an analogy between the condition of Shenger-Krestovnikova's dogs and their disorganized behavior with Anna O.'s situation and her neurotic reaction. Pavlov concluded that he had demonstrated in the laboratory the elements of neurosis in animals and human alike. Schilder's criticism of his position, his later study of human neuroses in clinical settings, and the views of Janet may have induced Pavlov to differentiate between animal and human neuroses.     

The apology

This is the second issue featuring a selected piece from the Yale Internal Medicine Residency Program's Writers' Workshop. The annual workshop began in 2003. Abraham Verghese and Richard Selzer, among the best known physician-writers in the United States, have served as workshop leaders, teaching the craft of writing to more than 35 residents. In designing the workshop, Anna B. Reisman, assistant professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at the Yale University School of Medicine and VA Connecticut Health Care System, and Dr. Asghar Rastegar had the goal of making participants better physicians by providing a creative outlet for reflection.The stories and essays written by the Writers' Workshop participants present a range of experiences, real and imagined, and take readers deep into the minds of young doctors trying to make sense of what they do.