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This introductory article gives an overview of the history and culture of intimacy in nineteenth-century art, architecture and literature, and discusses key theories and concepts. It explains how through a re-imagination of the potentialities of ‘intimacy’, nineteenth-century writers, artists and architects expressed the lived realities and the philosophical and aesthetic concerns of a rapidly changing society. It raises key questions ...

The present paper offers a translation of the Atharvavedic hymns 19.53-54 (in the Śaunakīya recension), dedicated to Time, also known as Kālasūkta. These hymns also exist in the Paippalāda recension (11.8-9). This is the only early Vedic text the subject of which is Time, considered as a deified cosmogonic notion superior to all other deities. The translation is accompanied by a detailed philological and grammatical commentary.

This paper offers a new interpretation of the Vedic word piśá-. On the basis of a philological analysis of the two Vedic passages where this word is attested, as well as comparative evidence from other Indo-European languages, I will argue that this word should be translated as ‘cheetah’ or ‘leopard’, rather than as ‘antelope’ or ‘stag’. A new translation of the difficult Atharvavedic stanza 19.49.4 (Śaunakīya) is offered.

Nucleotide sugar 4,6-dehydratases belong to the Short-chain Dehydrogenase/Reductase (SDR) superfamily and catalyze the conversion of an NDP-hexose to an NDP-4-keto-6-deoxy hexose, a key step in the biosynthesis of a plethora of deoxy and amino sugars. Here, we present a colorimetric assay for the detection of their reaction products (NDP-4-keto-6-deoxy hexoses) using concentrated sulfuric acid and an ethanolic resorcinol solution. Under these ...