Cellular Microbiology celebrates its 20th anniversary: The age of maturity

This chapter looks at how the Song dynasty (960–1279) reconsolidated central power and eliminated the provincial regimes that had developed in the wake of Tang decentralization. During the first thirty years after 960, they fostered astute policies that promoted and took advantage of continuing economic expansion. To administer their new polity, the Song emperors recruited through the examination system a new class of bureaucratic elite that Western writings on China often call the ‘literati’. The aristocrats of Tang had given way to the merchants and bureaucrats of Song. However, although the Song expanded Chinese economic and political power into South China, it never completed the conquest of all the traditional Chinese lands in the north. The Song coexisted with a series of alien or conquest dynasties to its north and west.

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Introduction: Reflections on Asian American Politics on the 20th Anniversary of the Asian Pacific American Caucus

Political Science and Politics ◽

10.1017/s1049096520001973 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 54 (2) ◽

pp. 221-225

Author(s):

Andrew L. Aoki ◽

Janelle Wong

Keyword(s):

Asian American ◽

American Politics ◽

Asian Pacific American ◽

20Th Anniversary ◽

Asian Pacific

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Report on CLEF 2019

ACM SIGIR Forum ◽

10.1145/3458553.3458571 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 53 (2) ◽

pp. 108-118

Author(s):

Martin Braschler ◽

Linda Cappellato ◽

Fabio Crestani ◽

Nicola Ferro ◽

Gundula Heinatz Bürki ◽

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Keyword(s):

Standard Test ◽

Future Perspectives ◽

Research Papers ◽

Test Collections ◽

Lessons Learnt ◽

Wide Range ◽

The Future ◽

20Th Anniversary

This is a report on the tenth edition of the Conference and Labs of the Evaluation Forum (CLEF 2019), held from September 9--12, 2019, in Lugano, Switzerland. CLEF was a four day event combining a Conference and an Evaluation Forum. The Conference featured keynotes by Bruce Croft, Yair Neuman, and Miguel Martínez, and presentation of peer reviewed research papers covering a wide range of topics in addition to many posters. The Evaluation Forum consisted to nine Labs: CENTRE, CheckThat, eHealth, eRisk, ImageCLEF, LifeCLEF, PAN, PIR-CLEF, and ProtestNews, addressing a wide range of tasks, media, languages, and ways to go beyond standard test collections. CLEF 2019 marked the 20th anniversary of CLEF, which was celebrated with a dedicated session and a book on the lessons learnt in twenty years of evaluation activities and the future perspectives for CLEF. CLEF 2019 also introduced the Industry Days to further extend the reach and impact of CLEF.

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Emerging Data on the Diversity of Molecular Mechanisms Involving C/D snoRNAs

Non-Coding RNA ◽

10.3390/ncrna7020030 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 7 (2) ◽

pp. 30

Author(s):

Laeya Baldini ◽

Bruno Charpentier ◽

Stéphane Labialle

Keyword(s):

Ribosomal Rna ◽

Molecular Mechanisms ◽

Molecular Level ◽

Accurate Description ◽

Small Nucleolar Rnas ◽

Age Of Maturity ◽

Non Coding Rnas ◽

And Function ◽

Nucleolar Rnas

Box C/D small nucleolar RNAs (C/D snoRNAs) represent an ancient family of small non-coding RNAs that are classically viewed as housekeeping guides for the 2′-O-methylation of ribosomal RNA in Archaea and Eukaryotes. However, an extensive set of studies now argues that they are involved in mechanisms that go well beyond this function. Here, we present these pieces of evidence in light of the current comprehension of the molecular mechanisms that control C/D snoRNA expression and function. From this inventory emerges that an accurate description of these activities at a molecular level is required to let the snoRNA field enter in a second age of maturity.

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