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Protein backbone and sidechain torsion angles predicted from NMR chemical shifts using artificial neural networks
A new program, TALOS-N, is introduced for predicting protein backbone torsion angles from NMR chemical shifts. The program relies far more extensively on the use of trained artificial neural networks than its predecessor, TALOS+. Validation on an independent set of proteins indicates that backbone torsion angles can be predicted for a larger, ≥90 % fraction of the residues, with an error rate smaller than ca 3.5 %, using an acceptance criterion that is nearly two-fold tighter than that used previously, and a root mean square difference between predicted and crystallographically observed (
ϕ
,
ψ
) torsion angles of ca 12º. TALOS-N also reports sidechain χ
1
rotameric states for about 50 % of the residues, and a consistency with reference structures of 89 %. The program includes a neural network trained to identify secondary structure from residue sequence and chemical shifts.
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The grand strategy of classical Sparta : the Persian challenge
Historian Paul Rahe presents a fresh appreciation of the pivotal role of Spartan strategy and tactics in its defeat of the mightiest empire of the ancient world.
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Stealing Helen
It's a familiar story: a beautiful woman is abducted and her husband journeys to recover her. This story's best-known incarnation is also a central Greek myth-the abduction of Helen that led to the Trojan War.Stealing Helensurveys a vast range of folktales and texts exhibiting the story pattern of the abducted beautiful wife and makes a detailed comparison with the Helen of Troy myth. Lowell Edmunds shows that certain Sanskrit, Welsh, and Old Irish texts suggest there was an Indo-European story of the abducted wife before the Helen myth of theIliadbecame known.
Investigating Helen's status in ancient Greek sources, Edmunds argues that if Helen was just one trope of the abducted wife, the quest for Helen's origin in Spartan cult can be abandoned, as can the quest for an Indo-European goddess who grew into the Helen myth. He explains that Helen was not a divine essence but a narrative figure that could replicate itself as needed, at various times or places in ancient Greece. Edmunds recovers some of these narrative Helens, such as those of the Pythagoreans and of Simon Magus, which then inspired the Helens of the Faust legend and Goethe.
Stealing Helenoffers a detailed critique of prevailing views behind the \"real\" Helen and presents an eye-opening exploration of the many sources for this international mythical and literary icon.
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Damaris (Acts 17:34) and an Aristocratic Family from Sparta
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This article surveys epigraphic evidence for Damaris, Damares and Damari(o)n to show that these are distinctively Spartan or Laconian names. It rejects the hypothesis that Damaris is a Lukan construction from Homeric δάµαρ (wife) or a typical name for a courtesan. Positively, it suggests that the woman named Damaris in Acts 17:34 could be imagined as a member of the Voluseni family, a prominent Spartan family connected with the Athenian elite. Finally, it examines the rhetorical force that a recognizably Spartan name could have in the narrative of Acts.
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Sparta's Second Attic War
The latest volume in Paul Rahe's expansive history of Sparta's response to the challenges posed to its grand strategy.
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The Spartans : a very short introduction
Famous throughout history for their doomed stand at Thermopylae, and immortalised by contemporary Athenian writers who viewed them as the exotic other, the Spartans, and their brutality and bravery, both fascinate and appal us. Andrew Bayliss reveals the best and the worst of this harsh society, separating myth from reality.
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Persian Refugees in Ancient Greece
The paper examines the case of Persian men who fled the country and arrived as refugees in Greece. For the fifth century B.C. are attested Rhoesaces, Zopyrus and Amorges, while for the fourth an unnamed son of Pharnabazus, Artabazus, Amminapes and Sisines. Many details about their flight often remain obscure, but these episodes fit interestingly in the framework of international affairs. The main aspects that will be considered are the country in which they take refuge, the reasons for their flight, the relations with the country that hosts them and their role in international politics.
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