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Byline: Meital Balmas, Tamir Sheafer This study is the first comparative analysis of mediated political personalization in the international arena; its contribution to the research in the field is twofold: (a) through a longitudinal analysis, it shows that media coverage of foreign countries focuses increasingly on state leaders rather than on the countries per se; and (b) it accounts for variations in the level of mediated political personalization between pairs of countries: the greater the distance between a pair of countries, in terms of values, political interests, economic relations, and geographical distance, the more their news coverage of each other focuses on the foreign country's leader at the expense of other political aspects. Author Affiliation:

This article focuses on the effects of censorship on the translations of two of Roth's novels into Spanish: Portnoy's Complaint (1969) and The Professor of Desire (1977). These two novels, published in Spanish for the first time in 1977 and 1978 respectively - a period when Spain had barely left behind General Francisco Franco's dictatorship (1939-1975) - suffered various forms of censorship. The article shows how the four criteria (Abellán 1980) used by the censors of the period - sexual morality, linguistic decorum, politics and respect for religion as an institution - were applied in the case of these two Roth novels. © 2013 The Johns Hopkins University Press.

We demonstrate localized electrodeposition of anisotropic metal nanoobjects, namely Au nanorods (GNR), on indium tin oxide (ITO) using scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM). A gold microelectrode was the source of the gold ions whereby double pulse chronoamperometry was employed to generate initially Au seeds which were further grown under controlled conditions. The distance between the microelectrode and the ITO surface as well as the different experimental parameters (electrodeposition regime, solution composition and temperature) were optimized to produce faceted gold seeds with the required characteristics (size and distribution). Colloidal chemical synthesis was successfully exploited for better understanding the role of the surfactant and different additives in breaking the crystallographic symmetry and anisotropic growth of GNR. Experiments performed in a conventional three-electrode cell revealed the most appropriate electrochemical conditions allowing high yield synthesis of nanorods with well-defined shape as well as nanocubes and bipyramids.[on SciFinder (R)]

We demonstrate localized electrodeposition of anisotropic metal nanoobjects, namely Au nanorods (GNR), on indium tin oxide (ITO) using scanning electrochem. microscopy (SECM). A gold microelectrode was the source of the gold ions whereby double pulse chronoamperometry was employed to generate initially Au seeds which were further grown under controlled conditions. The distance between the microelectrode and the ITO surface as well as the different exptl. parameters (electrodeposition regime, soln. compn. and temp.) were optimized to produce faceted gold seeds with the required characteristics (size and distribution). Colloidal chem. synthesis was successfully exploited for better understanding the role of the surfactant and different additives in breaking the crystallog. symmetry and anisotropic growth of GNR. Expts. performed in a conventional three-electrode cell revealed the most appropriate electrochem. conditions allowing high yield synthesis of nanorods with well-defined shape as well as nanocubes and bipyramids. [on SciFinder(R)]