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Fractal Calculus of Functions on Cantor Tartan Spaces
In this manuscript, integrals and derivatives of functions on Cantor tartan spaces are defined. The generalisation of standard calculus, which is called F η -calculus, is utilised to obtain definitions of the integral and derivative of functions on Cantor tartan spaces of different dimensions. Differential equations involving the new derivatives are solved. Illustrative examples are presented to check the details.
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The Tartan Ribbon or Further Experiments of Maxwell’s Disappointment/Sutton’s Accident
On 17 May 1861, James Clerk Maxwell delivered a lecture at the Royal Society where he demonstrated, using a lantern slide projection, his theory for colour perception in the human eye via the additive colour process known today as RGB. Three images from three separate lantern slide projectors were projected onto a surface. The same colour filters with which the object had been photographed where then placed in front of each projection lens, carefully realigned, and what has been called “the first colour photograph” was supposed to have been created. It was a series of happy accidents, during capture and exposure, and a misinterpretation of the results—mostly long after the event itself—that has invented this commonly referred to fictional “First Ever” title. In the following retelling of the historical details in their chronological order and through a series of experiments with historically correct emulsions, we will clearly outline the errors and where they occurred.
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From tartan to tartanry
From Tartan to Tartanry critically reevaluates one of the more controversial issues in current debates on Scottish culture—whether Scottish identity and ideas about Scotland are manufactured or organically linked to the country's heritage. The volume unites the voices of leading researchers, who conduct historical and critically sound evaluations of this issue.
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Striped Expression of Leucine-Rich Repeat Proteins Coordinates Cell Intercalation and Compartment Boundary Formation in the Early Drosophila Embryo
Planar polarity is a commonly observed phenomenon in which proteins display a consistent asymmetry in their subcellular localization or activity across the plane of a tissue. During animal development, planar polarity is a fundamental mechanism for coordinating the behaviors of groups of cells to achieve anisotropic tissue remodeling, growth, and organization. Therefore, a primary focus of developmental biology research has been to understand the molecular mechanisms underlying planar polarity in a variety of systems to identify conserved principles of tissue organization. In the early Drosophila embryo, the germband neuroectoderm epithelium rapidly doubles in length along the anterior-posterior axis through a process known as convergent extension (CE); it also becomes subdivided into tandem tissue compartments through the formation of compartment boundaries (CBs). Both processes are dependent on the planar polarity of proteins involved in cellular tension and adhesion. The enrichment of actomyosin-based tension and adherens junction-based adhesion at specific cell-cell contacts is required for coordinated cell intercalation, which drives CE, and the creation of highly stable cell-cell contacts at CBs. Recent studies have revealed a system for rapid cellular polarization triggered by the expression of leucine-rich-repeat (LRR) cell-surface proteins in striped patterns. In particular, the non-uniform expression of Toll-2, Toll-6, Toll-8, and Tartan generates local cellular asymmetries that allow cells to distinguish between cell-cell contacts oriented parallel or perpendicular to the anterior-posterior axis. In this review, we discuss (1) the biomechanical underpinnings of CE and CB formation, (2) how the initial symmetry-breaking events of anterior-posterior patterning culminate in planar polarity, and (3) recent advances in understanding the molecular mechanisms downstream of LRR receptors that lead to planar polarized tension and junctional adhesion.
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Clans, Families and Kinship Structures in Scotland—An Essay
Anyone who has visited a Scottish Games or Gathering in North America will be struck by the number of Clan societies occupying tents around the Games ground and participating in a “Parade of Tartans”. Yet, a substantial number of these do not represent Highlands or Borders Clans, but are really descendants of Lowland Families. The “Clan” appellation has been applied wrongly to all of Scotland, as though this were the universal or at least the dominant form of social/kinship organization. The cultural appendages of that—kilts, tartans and Gaelic language—are considered uniformly Scottish. In reality, the clan system was a minority social structure in Scotland. The uncritical adoption of the term “Clan” ignores and minimizes the larger and more important Lowland Family structure. The nature of these two structures—Clan and Family—are compared and contrasted, and a case made for greater recognition of the Lowland Family as the pre-eminent form of social structure in Scotland. This has implications for, inter alia, genealogy, Scottish cultural and language studies, ethnicity and Y-DNA testing.
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Gus Noble of Chicago discusses the history and significance of the Scottish kilt and tartan
Interview with Gus Noble. Gus gives a tour of a one of a kind Scottish museum, conducts a tour of the Caledonian House grounds, discusses a brief history about Tartan's and Kilts.
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Tartan Polonaise: Scottish Crime Fiction in Poland
This paper examines the position of contemporary Scottish crime fiction in the Polish polysystem. It investigates the definition of tartan noir and the challenges the genre poses in translation.Such concerns seem especially valid in the case of Denise Mina in whose Paddy Meehan series, next to the female protagonist, one of the most important characters is the city of Glasgow with its menacing architecture and the coarse language of its inhabitants. Thus the second part of this paper analyses the Polish translations of Mina’s trilogy in order to show how the dialect and other culture-specific items have been dealt with by two Polish translators.
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The hidden potential of building systems: the Marburg Building System as an example
Many system-built buildings of the 1960s have come under criticism lately, while the reasons for their development have fallen into oblivion. Many of the buildings appear incomprehensible or even absurd if their basic concepts are ignored and the main influence of strategies for optimisation and rationalisation are not taken into consideration. In addition, the physical ageing of the buildings is often very poor. While expressive individual buildings and prototypes, as well as the creations of famous architects and large-scale utopian visions from the boom years, seem to gain more and more recognition, the large mass of system buildings, constructed at the same time or subsequently, are hardly appreciated - despite the fact that their underlying core concepts aimed at openness, growth and modification, and were therefore intrinsically sustainable and long-lasting. The buildings at the Lahnberge Campus of Marburg University were the first to use the building system devised by Helmut Spieker, known as the Marburg Building System, based on the tartan grid. These buildings are used as a basis for the investigation of the hidden potential of building systems and to discuss opportunities for their continued use and development in the 21st century.
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KILTED at Macnaughtons of Pitlochry since 1835
The early forms of tartan would simply have been made from what has been described as \"wool of many colors,\" tinted using the herbs dyes available, and those tartans would not have had the distinct family or clan connections we know today. The waist, taken firmly but not tightly at the level of the navel, the fullest part of the hip, and the length, which is taken from two inches above the hip bone to an imaginary point just reaching the top of the knee cap. According to traditionalists, tartan, other than a plaid, should never be worn above the waist, so wearing a tartan tie with a kilt is considered wrong.
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