...; Mfsd2b, Multiple facilitator superfamily domain containing 2B; PBS, Phosphate-buffered saline; S1P, Sphingosine 1-phosphate; S1PR1, Sphingosine 1-phosphate receptor 1; S1PR3, Sphingosine 1-phosphate receptor 3; SphK, Sphingosine kinase; Spns2, Spinster homolog 2; TBS-T, Tris-buffed saline containing 0.1...

...:1000, microtubule-associated protein light chain 3 (LC3) B (Sigma) diluted at 1:1000, cathepsin D (Proteintech) diluted at 1:800, Atg5 (Cell Signaling Technology) diluted at 1:1000, Spinster 1 (Santa Cruz Biotechnology) diluted at 1:1000, and the internal control β-actin (Santa Cruz Biotechnology...

... of the Oxford University Press, Standard Journals Publication Model ( https://dbpia.nl.go.kr/journals/pages/open_access/funder_policies/chorus/standard_publication_model ) Protein Cell 2013, 4(5): 364 372 DOI 10.1007/s13238-013-3015-z Protein & Cell RESEARCH ARTICLE C13C4.5/Spinster, an evolutionarily...

... in the provinces invested in it. For instance, Mary Horner, a spinster from Bishops Waltham, a small town in Hampshire, died in 1698 with an estate worth £190 14s. 6d. She had invested £10 (or over 5 percent) of her estate in the Million Lottery. ⁶ Anne Murphy has also found that a significant...

... years and to maintain themselves in old age. Spinsters and widows put their capital into government funds, both lottery loans and annuities, in particular. A survey of the women who invested in the government funds is provided, with a particular close up on those women who bought Life Annuities in 1745...

...The spinster is one of the most pathologized characterisations of female ageing in cultural texts, continuing to be a source of social unease for much of the twentieth century. This chapter establishes the broader social and historical contexts underlying such representations, before considering...

...This chapter considers representations of spinster teachers and bluestockings in British film of the twentieth century. The spinster teacher was an apocryphal figure, her education, authority and independence rendered her a threat to the patriarchal framework of marriage and family. Such anxieties...

... by which rabbinic tradition had always marked the inherent difference between the sexes and assigned the discrete spheres of activity. It also talks about messianic believers who displayed an unprecedented willingness to recognize as fully legitimate the phenomenon of 'spinster', 'maiden', or 'virgin...

...Chapter Five uncovers a previously unobserved strategy used by Christie to grant agency to Marple. This chapter argues that Christie parodically evokes the heroic paradigm in strategic depictions of Marple. Textual evidence demonstrates that Christie aligns the spinster-sleuth with ideals...

..., including popular-culture representations from memes to the recent film Wild Nights with Emily. Demonstrating what a lesbian/female-female homoerotic critical lens makes possible, this essay puts alongside these readings an account of Dickinson’s “spinster poetics” and the ways some of her...

...A middle-aged spinster presides over the rural and urban landscapes of Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Lolly Willowes, or The Loving Huntsman (1926), E. H. Young’s Miss Mole (1930), and Winifred Holtby’s South Riding (1936). Each novel surveys a postwar...

... areas of the town, a phenomenon described as ‘spinster clustering’. This pattern in the suburbs and poor tenements may be related to the migration of women into the town and is apparent from the poll tax listings. Women frequently turned to their peers for companionship, mutual support, exchange...

...This chapter traces the emergence of the negative stereotypes of the spinster and the old maid. Examining various genres of literature from the Middle Ages to the 18th century, it focuses on three phases in the development of ideas about singlewomen. In the Middle Ages, singlewomen were largely...

.... It examines the contributions of working and propertied singlewomen in early modern towns. It also traces the origins of the spinster and old maid stereotypes to the late 17th century, revealing how singlewomen became marginalized in Protestant English society. The book concludes by examining the writing...

... Caribbean converts converts total i e Salafis with non Muslim families ethnicity and Salafi groups gangs Eritreans diaspora in Britain Nigerians diaspora in Britain racism Salafism in Britain shari’a Somali language ‘Muslim spinster crisis’ Muslims in Britain Abu Khadeejah contraception Salafi...

... literate) maintaining close links by letters. At the lower levels of society, support might include the loan of clothes, patching up a sister’s marital relationship, and physical violence directed against a personal enemy. Even young spinsters could have agency. The chapter also explores the contrasting...

...Chapter11 scrutinizes Sylvia Townsend Warner’s (1893–1978) debut novel Lolly Willowes (1926), which tells the tale of spinster Laura ‘Lolly’ Willowes, who ends up becoming a witch liberated and empowered by Satan. The book caused a major stir, and is, it is argued, the most...

... by virtue of circumstances or out of choice, is challenging. ‘Unmarried’ mothers are the exception, but only because they were often cited as a warning to readers. This chapter focuses on the ‘spinster’ and the widow. These single women were not perceived to pose a threat to the moral fabric of society...

... that her engagements with the clue-puzzle pushed the form to its limits; however, Christie’s incursions into other genres, within her crime fictions, are rarely examined. The third is the variety of underhanded ways that Christie devised to grant agency to her spinster-sleuth and other female characters...