The Heldan
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However, Jaran's romance won me over.
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The romance here didn't work for me at all. The people who fell for each other did so out of the blue; I didn't feel Read this because I have a goal to read all of the Del Rey Discovery books. The people who fell for each other did so out of the blue; I didn't feel their attraction at all.
In the case of one couple, it was completely mystifying - in one chapter you see the guy completely abusing and humiliating the woman, she hates him, and in the next chapter they're a couple. The main relationship in the story wasn't much better.
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The main character, Senea, is somewhat befuddling as well. She seems pretty ordinary - but everyone she meets either instantly hates her or loves her. The emotions in this book, overall, just don't work.
The plot felt pretty typical - young village woman is recruited into an elite-but-feared caste of warriors. Each walled town in this area has a cadre of warriors who are in conflict with one another but aren't allowed to communicate with each other in any way. The lead warrior and romantic interest wants to either make peace or discover forgotten magical secrets that will allow his group a military advantage; unfortunately there is dissension within the ranks. The setup didn't really make much sense - there wasn't enough background to convince me or explain how the peculiar social system described came into place.
This book has been one of my guilty pleasures since high school, so I was excited to see it available as an e-book. It hasn't held up so well to my adult sensibilities I find Senea too passive as a character and was bothered that the threat of sexual abuse among the Helden is not addressed , but it's still one of those books that makes me happy.
The e-book version available on Kindle is a revised edition. There are very few changes to the content, all good. They include better descriptions of th This book has been one of my guilty pleasures since high school, so I was excited to see it available as an e-book. They include better descriptions of the Ja'sid power, a few lines by Mara about Vayhawk's strange name, and changes to the term 'Black Ja'sid' which referred to their clothing, but might have been edited because of racial concerns?
The author also view spoiler [revised the ending slightly and removed the out-of-character scenes with Sky kidnapping Senea. I noticed, reading with the paperback in one hand and my Kindle in the other, that the author had reworked many sentences to reduce wordiness and passive voice sentence constructions. I'd definitely recommend the Revised edition over the original! Sep 09, Jennifer rated it really liked it Shelves: I honestly don't know why I like this book so much.
But I guess there are just some things you can't explain. There's just something about it that makes me come back to it and read it again and again.
Neil Van Helden
I wouldn't say this is the best book I've read, but I enjoyed it nonetheless. Mar 08, Heather rated it it was amazing. This may be particularly important for areas of the body which cannot be isolated with a tourniquet when bitten such as the torso. Professor van Helden has published more than peer reviewed original research articles in top ranking journals including Nature, Nature Medicine and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
He has presented at over 50 national and international conferences and has been awarded the HMRI Award for Research Excellence in Skip to main content. Professor Dirk van Helden. Heart pacemaking The lymphatic system Vascular mechanisms including the role of the endothelium and pericytes in various organs gastrointestinal tract, brain, lung etc. Smooth muscle mechanisms in the gastrointestinal and reproductive tracts. Thader, Friedrich Altmann, D. Charge-induced unzipping of isolated proteins to a defined secondary structure February, In our newest publication we present a combined experimental and theoretical study on the secondary structure of isolated proteins as a function of charge state.
The observations are interpreted in terms of Coulomb-driven transitions in secondary structures from mostly helical to extended C5-type hydrogen-bonded structures. Support for this interpretation comes from simple energy considerations as well as from quantum chemical calculations on model peptides. This transition in secondary structure is most likely universal for isolated proteins that occur in mass spectrometric experiments.
Carbohydrates are ubiquitous biological polymers that are important in a broad range of biological processes. However, owing to their branched structures and the presence of stereogenic centres at each glycosidic linkage between monomers, carbohydrates are harder to characterize than are peptides and oligonucleotides. Methods such as nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy can be used to characterize glycosidic linkages, but this technique requires milligram amounts of material and cannot detect small amounts of coexisting isomers.
Mass spectrometry, on the other hand, can provide information on carbohydrate composition and connectivity for even small amounts of sample, but it cannot be used to distinguish between stereoisomers. We analysed six synthetic carbohydrate isomers that differ in composition, connectivity, or configuration. Our data show that coexisting carbohydrate isomers can be identified, and relative concentrations of the minor isomer as low as 0. In addition, the analysis is rapid, and requires no derivatization and only small amounts of sample. This method could have an impact on the field of carbohydrate synthesis similar to that of the advent of high-performance liquid chromatography on the field of peptide assembly in the late s.
Ultracold IR spectra of the protonated five amino acid peptide leu-enkephalin Tyr-Gly-Gly-Phe-Leu embedded in superfluid helium droplets have been recorded using a free-electron laser as radiation source. The results show resolved spectra, which are in good agreement with theoretical calculations, as well as with the available gas-phase data indicating that the helium environment does not induce a significant matrix-shift. In addition, the effect of the interaction between the charge and the peptide backbone has been further investigated by complexing protonated leu-enkephalin with one crown-6 molecule.
Good agreement between the experimental and theoretical results allow for an assignment of a preferred molecular structure. Further experiments revealed that the investigated light-induced structural transition dramatically influences the aggregation behaviour of the molecule. Solvent and Permittivity Dependence March 12, The immediate environment of a molecule can have a profound influence on its properties. Benzocaine, the ethyl ester of para-aminobenzoic acid, which finds an application as a local anesthetic LA , is found to adopt in its protonated form at least two populations of distinct structures in the gas phase and their relative intensities strongly depend on the properties of the solvent used in the electrospray ionization ESI process.
The results allow for an unambiguous identification of two protomeric species - the N- and O-protonated form. Density functional theory DFT calculations link these structures to the most stable solution and gas-phase structures, respectively, with the electric properties of the surrounding medium being the main determinant for the preferred protonation site. The fact that the N-protonated form of benzocaine can be found in the gas phase is owed to kinetic trapping of the solution phase structure during transfer into the experimental setup.
These observations confirm earlier studies on similar molecules where N- and O-protonation has been suggested. We would like to cordially invite you and your co-workers to our workshop on ion mobility-mass spectrometry, which will take part from At the first day there will be talks on the fundamentals and applications of IM-MS, while the second day will be devoted to practical work for which we will prepare four stations with hands-on experiments and modelling case studies.
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We are looking forward to seeing you there. Exploring the conformational preferences of residue peptides in isolation: Reliable, quantitative predictions of the structure of peptides based on their amino-acid sequence information are an ongoing challenge.
We here explore the energy landscapes of two unsolvated residue peptides that result from a shift of the position of one amino acid in otherwise the same sequence. Our main goal is to assess the performance of current state-of-the-art density-functional theory for predicting the structure of such large and complex systems, where weak interactions such as dispersion or hydrogen bonds play a crucial role. For validation of the theoretical results, we employ experimental gas-phase ion mobility-mass spectrometry and IR spectroscopy.
We also take harmonic vibrational and rotational free energy into account. We show that this scenario is consistent with both experiments. The top-down approach in protein sequencing requires simple methods in which the analyte can be readily dissociated at every position along the backbone. In this context, ultraviolet photodissociation UVPD recently emerged as a promising tool because, in contrast to slow heating techniques such as collision induced dissociation CID , the absorption of UV light is followed by a rather statistically distributed cleavage of backbone bonds.
As a result, nearly complete sequence coverage can be obtained. It is well-known, however, that gas-phase proteins can adopt a variety of different, sometimes coexisting conformations and the influence of this structural diversity on the UVPD fragmentation behavior is not clear.
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Our data show that certain conformers fall into groups with similar UVPD fragmentation pattern. Surprisingly, however, the conformers within each group can differ tremendously in their collision cross section. In natural peptides, helices are stabilized by hydrogen bonds that point backward along the sequence direction. We perform ion-mobility mass-spectrometry and vibrational spectroscopy in the gas phase, allied to state-of-the-art density-functional theory simulations of these molecular systems in order to characterize their structure. By pushing the limits of theory and experiments, we show that one cannot assign a single preferred structure type due to the densely populated energy landscape and present an interpretation of the data that suggests an equilibrium of three helical structures.
In our most recent publication we demonstrate the calibration of travelling wave ion mobility-mass spectrometer to estimate CCS of carbohydrates. Glycosylation is one of the most common post-translational modifications occurring in proteins.
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A detailed structural characterization of the involved carbohydrates is still challenging, since multiple regio- and stereoisomers with an identical monosaccharide composition may exist. Ion mobility-mass spectrometry IM-MS is a promising technique for the separation and structural analysis of complex carbohydrate.
Measured drift-times can be converted into collision cross sections CCSs , which can be compared and implemented into databases. However, most of the currently used commercial IM-MS instruments utilize a non-uniform travelling wave field to propel the ions through the IM cell. As a result, CCSs measurements cannot be performed directly. Here, we present a calibration dataset for negatively charged N-glycans and their fragments.
Moreover, we show that the well defined polysaccharide dextran is also a suitable calibrant for CCS estimations. In addition, our data indicate that a considerably increased error has to be taken into account when reference CCSs acquired in a different drift gas are used for calibration.