A Study of Postmodern Narrative in Michael Cunningham's The Hours

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Hajar Abbasi Narinabad

2012-09-01

Full Text Available This project aims at providing a detailed analysis of the major features of the theory of postmodern narrative and at going through the novel The Hours by the American writer Michael Cunningham concentrating on some postmodern narrative techniques. To do so, the researcher goes through the theories set forth by some postmodern theoreticians like Roland Barthes, Jacque Derrida, Jean-François Lyotard and Julia Kristeva to investigate the postmodern narrative techniques and elements used in the novel. The researcher first examines the theories and then critically applies them on the novel. The article goes through the most eminent elements of postmodern narrative including intertextuality, stream of consciousness style, fragmentation and representation respectively which are delicately utilized in The Hours. The article concludes by recommending a few directions for the further research.

Karistus või kasvatus? / Massimiliano Uggeri, Isabel Jimenez, Jarek Kruk, Jaan Sootak ; intervjueerinud Tiina Siimets

Index Scriptorium Estoniae

2011-01-01

Küsimustele, milline karistus tekitab trotsi, millisel sõnal on lapse silmis kaalu ja kuidas paistab see aja mööduses erinevast rahvusest inimestele, vastavad itaallane Massimiliano Uggeri, hispaanlane Isabel Jimenez, poolakas Jarek Kruk ja eestlane Jaan Sootak

Entre muitas histórias: comentários ao texto da autora Maria Isabel Barreno

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Ivete Lara Camargos Walty

2001-03-01

Full Text Available O texto da autora Maria Isabel Barreno aqui apresentado é ele próprio um mapa de vários caminhos, ou fragmentos de mapas, nós de um hipertexto, escritura marcada pela subjetividade autoral em suas diversas possibilidades

Caracterización de la comunidad vegetal en una asociación de gramíneas mejoradas y Leucaena leucocephala cv.: Cunningham Characterization of the plant community in an association of improved grasses and Leucaena leucocephala cv.: Cunningham

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Tania Sánchez

2007-11-01

Full Text Available En una vaquería de la Empresa Genética de Matanzas se realizó un estudio durante cinco años, con el objetivo de caracterizar el comportamiento de la comunidad vegetal en una asociación de gramíneas mejoradas y Leucaena leucocephala cv. Cunningham en condiciones comerciales. Se determinó la composición botánica del pastizal, la densidad de arbóreas, la disponibilidad de materia seca y los contenidos de MS, PB, Ca y P de las especies presentes en el sistema. La composición botánica del pastizal se caracterizó por un porcentaje de pastos mejorados superior al 50%, con predominio de Cynodon nlemfuensis cv. Jamaicano y Panicum maximum cv. Likoni; mientras que la leucaena mantuvo la densidad de plantas, como una adaptación a las condiciones del sistema. La disponibilidad de materia seca total fue superior a las 3 t/ha/rotación durante la etapa experimental. Se concluye que en la asociación de gramíneas mejoradas y L. leucocephala cv. Cunningham se presentó una alta disponibilidad de materia seca y persistencia del pastizal durante los cinco años del estudio, con valores de PB en las gramíneas mejoradas de 9,6-9,8% y en la leucaena de 25%, sin la aplicación de riego ni fertilizantes químicos, lo cual permitió atenuar las diferencias entre los períodos lluvioso y poco lluvioso.In a dairy of the Genetic Enterprise of Matanzas, a work was carried out for five years, with the objective of characterizing the performance of the plant community in an association of improved grasses and Leucaena leucocephala cv Cunningham under commercial conditions. The botanical composition of the pastureland, tree density, dry matter availability and DM, CP, Ca and P contents of the species present in the system were determined. The botanical composition of the pastureland was characterized by a percentage of improved pastures higher than 50%, with predominance of Cynodon nlemfuensis cv. Jamaicano and Panicum maximum cv. Likoni; while leucaena

Teores de Elementos Minerais e Caracterização Física da Uva Isabel (Vitis labrusca L. Produzida em Boa Vista/RR

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Magda Márcia Becker

2014-07-01

Full Text Available The Roraima viticulture began in 2003 with the creation of the Vale do Rio Branco project, in which the cultivation of grapes was enlarged for a commercial production. However, no information has been found in literature  about the mineral content of grapes produced. Considering the essentiality and importance of this information for human nutrition, quantification of species K by flame photometry and Ca, Fe and Zn by flame atomic absorption spectrometry in pulps of grapes of the Isabel, Vitis labrusca L. variety, cultivated in Boa Vista/RR has been realized, as well as determination of the physical characteristics of the grape bunches and berries. The determinations´ results indicate that K had the highest concentration, followed by Ca, Fe and Zn, being similar to the data, described in other literature sources, except for Ca, which showed smaller, indicating an intervention demand of culture methods employed to optimize the absorption of this species by vines. The consumption of Isabel grape can contribute to the achievement of the adequate intake recommendations of mineral elements. The results of the physical characterization let us classify Isabel grape bunches to very small, loose and green stalks. Overall, this study reveals new data about the physical characteristics and mineral composition present in Isabel grape grown in Boa Vista/RR.

Mujer y melodrama familiar. Una revisión del género en Mi vida sin mí, de Isabel Coixet / Woman and Family Melodrama. My Life Without Me (Isabel Coixet as a Gender/Genre Revision

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Beatriz Herrero Jiménez

2016-09-01

Full Text Available El melodrama clásico, mal entendido como Woman´s Film, construye en la mayoría de sus relatos clásicos a la mujer como significante de pasividad y renuncia. Desde los estudios de género, y más concretamente desde la teoría fílmica feminista, se ha analizado exhaustivamente un subgénero cinematográfico que se entiende como fundamental, ya que saca a la luz las restricciones que les son impuestas a las mujeres en la sociedad patriarcal en general y más concretamente en la institución familiar. Mi vida sin mí (Isabel Coixet, 2003 se enmarca, en apariencia, dentro del corte clásico del subgénero melodramático familiar para subvertir, después, sus propias convenciones. Isabel Coixet se desmarca conscientemente de la identificación masoquista que proporciona el melodrama a la espectadora, critica la representación clásica de la mujer y se aleja de la oposición predominante en el cine entre maternidad-sexualidad. La directora española construye una mujer como sujeto múltiple, contradictorio y en progreso que no se conforma con proponer vías de resistencia a las imposiciones patriarcales, y que no reduce su identidad a la faceta maternal. La mujer del melodrama de Coixet es útil en tanto modelo de identificación diegético y extradiegético para la organización de un nuevo sistema –social, cinemático, etc.– que no ponga sus bases en el binomio dominación-sumisión. Haciendo esto, Isabel Coixet expande los límites del melodrama hasta el terreno del feminismo.Palabras clave: melodrama familiar, Woman´s Film, Women´s Cinema, género, maternidad, patriarcado, espectatoriedad, sexualidad, feminismo.AbstractClassic melodrama, misunderstood as `Woman´s Film´, has usually intented to build women as a signifier of passivity and resignation. Gender Studies, and more specifically Feminist Film Theory, have exhaustively analyzed a subgenre which is understood as an essential one to their aim: family melodrama brings to light

La gastronomía como elemento comunicativo en los personajes de las novelas de Isabel Allende

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Acosta, Yanet

2011-12-01

Full Text Available En español: La novelista chilena Isabel Allende entra en la Historia a través de las vidas de la gente, desde la cotidianeidad, por lo que la cocina se convierte en uno de sus principales herramientas de escritura. El estudio de la totalidad de su obra literaria aporta el conocimiento de los recursos que la autora utiliza para conseguirlo. Con esta investigación se demuestra la utilidad que puede tener el aspecto gastronómico en el ejercicio literario.In english: Chilean novelist Isabel Allende enters history through the lives of people, from everyday life, so the kitchen becomes one of the main tools of writing. The study of all his literary work provides the knowledge of the resources the author used to achieve it. This research demonstrates the utility of gastronomy in the literary exercise.

Archiviare il futuro. I lasciti di Pina Bausch e Merce Cunningham

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Susanne Franco

2014-12-01

Full Text Available The essay examines the main theories that in recent times have transformed the archive from the object of historical and philological research to a critical issue for the humanities, interrogating its status and function. The effect of these theories on dance and performance studies is a more sophisticated set of tools to follow the traces of something traditionally ephemeral such as a live performance. A comparative analysis of the structure of archives and the modes of transmission created by the heirs who managed the tangible and intangible heritage of Pina Bauch and Merce Cunningham, both deceased in 2009, is the starting point for an inquiry into the themes of the function of memory, the processes of incorporation and their impact on the writing of (dance history.

Gastronomy as a communicative element in the characters in the novels of Isabel Allende

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Janet ACOSTA

2014-01-01

Chilean novelist Isabel Allende enters history through the lives of people, from everyday life, so the kitchen becomes one of the main tools of writing. The study of all his literary work provides the knowledge of the resources the author used to achieve it. This research demonstrates the utility of gastronomy in the literary exercise.

Correção do mosto da uva Isabel com diferentes produtos na Serra Gaúcha Must correction of the Isabel grape with different products in the Serra Gaúcha - RS, Brazil

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Luiz Antenor Rizzon

2005-04-01

Full Text Available A uva Isabel da Serra Gaúcha geralmente não alcança teor de açúcar suficiente para produzir vinho equilibrado e, em determinados casos, para atingir 10% v/v de álcool, concentração mínima para vinho de mesa estabelecida pela legislação brasileira. O objetivo do presente trabalho foi avaliar o efeito de diferentes produtos utilizados para correção do mosto na composição química do vinho Isabel. O experimento constou de seis tratamentos: testemunha (sem correção, sacarose, açúcar mascavo, mosto concentrado, álcool vínico e glicose de milho. Os vinhos foram elaborados em microvinificações, com seis repetições. As amostras foram avaliadas através das análises clássicas, efetuadas por métodos físico-químicos, e dos elementos minerais por absorção atômica. A sacarose foi o produto mais adequado para a correção do mosto, pois não incorporou componentes estranhos, não alterou a relação álcool em peso/extrato seco reduzido e apresentou elevado rendimento alcoólico. O álcool vínico pode ser utilizado desde que seja um produto genuíno de procedência garantida, preferencialmente obtido de vinho branco.The cv. Isabel grown in the Serra Gaúcha region in general does not produce a balanced wine, because it sometimes does not reach, the minimum stablished by Brazilian legislation 10% v/v of alcohol. The aim of this work was to evaluate the effects of different products used in the must sugar correction on the chemical composition of the Isabel wine. The experiment had six treatments - control (without correction and correction with saccharose, brown sugar, concentrated must, wine alcohol and mayz glucose; there were six replications. The wine was elaborated by microvinification. The samples were evaluated through classical analysis made by physico-chemical methods and the mineral elements determined by atomic absorption. Results showed that saccharose was the most adequate product for chaptalisation because it did

Gastronomy as a communicative element in the characters in the novels of Isabel Allende

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Janet ACOSTA

2014-07-01

Full Text Available Chilean novelist Isabel Allende enters history through the lives of people, from everyday life, so the kitchen becomes one of the main tools of writing. The study of all his literary work provides the knowledge of the resources the author used to achieve it. This research demonstrates the utility of gastronomy in the literary exercise.

O carbonato de cálcio na desacidificação do vinho Isabel The calcium carbonate in the desacidification of Isabella wine

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Luiz Antenor Rizzon

2005-06-01

Full Text Available A uva Isabel (Vitis labrusca é a cultivar de videira mais difundida na Região Vitícola da Serra Gaúcha. Entre outras finalidades, é utilizada para a elaboração de vinho tinto de mesa, o qual, geralmente, apresenta acidez elevada, devido ao teor de ácido tartárico livre. O objetivo do presente trabalho foi avaliar a influência de diferentes doses de carbonato de cálcio (0,0; 0,5; 1,0; 1,5; 2,0; 2,5 e 3,0 g L-1 na correção da acidez e na composição do vinho Isabel da Serra Gaúcha. O estudo foi realizado na Embrapa Uva e Vinho, em Bento Gonçalves - RS, na safra de 2002. O delineamento experimental utilizado foi o de blocos casualizados, com sete tratamentos e quatro repetições. As análises dos vinhos, realizadas dez dias após o tratamento, constaram da densidade, álcool, acidez total, acidez volátil, pH, açúcares redutores, extrato seco, extrato seco reduzido, cinzas, densidade ótica a 420, 520 e 620 nm, intensidade de cor e coloração, efetuadas através de métodos físico-químicos. O ácido tartárico foi determinado através da cromatografia líquida de alta eficiência (CLAE. O potássio e o cálcio foram analisados por espectrofotometria de absorção atômica. Além da redução da acidez do vinho Isabel, o carbonato de cálcio interferiu na cor, no extrato seco, nas cinzas e no teor de elementos minerais do vinho Isabel.Isabel grape (Vitis labrusca is the variety mostly spread in the Serra Gaúcha Region which is used, among other purposes, to elaborate red table wines. This wine usually presents high acidity, due to the level of free tartaric acid. The purpose of this work was to evaluate the effect of different doses of calcium carbonate in acidity and in the Isabel wine composition of the Serra Gaúcha region. The study carried out at Embrapa Uva e Vinho consisted of application in Isabel wine, from the 2002 vintage, different concentrations of calcium carbonate (0,0; 0,5; 1,0; 1,5; 2,0; 2,5 and 3,0 g L-1. The

Isabel Allende o la morfología de las voces femeninas

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Eva Ciuk

2001-12-01

Full Text Available Leer obras de la escritora chilena Isabel Allende es como escuchar una composición musical polifónica. Voces que han permanecido ignoradas por los compositores de la gran sinfonía latinoamericana salen del silencio para cantar y contar en voz alta lo que la historiografía y la cultura oficial no les ha permitido expresar. Son voces del silencio, voces de las víctimas del rígido sistema patriarcal, victimas de la violencia y de la brutalidad del régimen dictatorial y voces de los marginados, postergados y excluidos de una colectividad conformista y artificial. En cambio las voces escogidas por la escritora para cantar la melodía principal son las femeninas, voces que en el contexto latinoamericano podian desahogarse sólo en el ámbito cerrado del hogar doméstico. Isabel Allende transforma las mujeres que permanecieron excluidas del gran acontecer histórico, de la vida cotidiana, social, cultural y política de su proprio país en las grandes protagonistas de su obra literaria. La dimensión de la mujer latinoamericana que ha sido relegada al silencio y al olvido, a la pasividad, a la subordinación y resignación emerge aquí con una energía vital y transgresora que transforma las protagonistas en figuras determinadas y subversivas que reclaman para elias una transformación y mejoramiento de sus condiciones de existencia.

Diseño de un plan de marketing para mejorar el posicionamiento de la microempresa que fabrica ropa deportiva, confecciones Isabel del Valle de Tumbaco.

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Cajas Banegas, Cinthya Belén; Pacheco Tonato, Marlene Isabel

2014-01-01

This thesis aims to determine the most effective market strategies to achieve the positioning of "Confecciones Isabel", whereas provided that its objective is aimed at notably help the community to offer sports garments made with intelligent fabric. The research aims to develop a "design of a Marketing plan. to improve the positioning of microenterprise "Confecciones Isabel", which will allow to establish strategies and action plans to help microenterprise to position their products and in...

STABILITY OF ANTHOCYANINS FROM AGROINDUSTRIAL RESIDUE OF ISABEL GRAPE GROWN IN SÃO FRANCISCO VALLEY, BRAZIL

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Full Text Available ABSTRACT Grape by-products are promising and sustainable sources of anthocyanins. Considering the factors related to degradation of those pigments, spectrophotometric and kinetic analyzes were carried out with the aim to evaluate the light and heat stability of anthocyanins from Isabel grape residue. We found that the exposure to luminosity (80W; 2500 lux and high temperature (= 70ºC significantly affected the absorption and content of those compounds (p <0.05, whose the most stable condition was obtained at 50°C (t1/2: 37.7h; k: 1.84 x 10-2 h-1 and protected from light (t1/2: 3,320.6h; k: 2.09 x 10-4 h-1. Therefore, the anthocyanins from the agroindustrial residue of Isabel grape are an alternative of natural colorants for food that can be packaged in opaque packaging and not subjected to severe heat treatment during processing.

La casa y hacienda de un señor mexica: Un estudio analítico de la “Información de doña Isabel de Moctezuma”

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Kalyuta, Anastasya

2008-12-01

Full Text Available The essay is dedicated to analysis of the “Información de doña Isabel de Moctezuma”, set of documents now belonging to the General Archive of Indies in Seville (Spain. This source is the detailed record of litigation initiated in 1546 by the conquistador Juan Cano de Saavedra on behalf of his wife, Tecuichpochtzin, the daughter of the last Prehispanic Mexica ruler Motecuhzoma Xocoyotzin who after the baptism was called doña Isabel de Moctezuma. The objective of litigation was the restitution of vast land holdings, buildings and objects of value, claimed to be doña Isabel “patrimony” (patrimonio that is the property which she was to inherit from her parents and grandparents, members of the royal dynasty of Tenochtitlan, outlost during the Spanish conquest. The richness of the historical data contained in “Información de doña Isabel de Moctezuma” makes it invaluable source for study of such important topics as the land tenure and matrimonial alliances of the Prehispanic Mexica nobility and subsequent response of their descendants to the challenge of the Colonial period.

El ensayo se dedica al análisis de los datos contenidos en la “Información de doña Isabel de Moctezuma”, una serie de documentos que constituyen un testimonio detallado del litigio iniciado en 1546 por el conquistador Juan Cano de Saavedra en nombre de su esposa Tecuichpoctzin, bautizada como doña Isabel, hija de Motecuhzoma Xocoyotzin, el ultimo gobernante prehispánico de los mexicas. La meta del litigio consistió en la restitución de las tierras, edificios y objetos de valor declarados patrimonio de doña Isabel, que ella debía heredar de sus padres y abuelos, miembros del linaje gobernante de Tenochtitlan. La riqueza de datos históricos que nos presenta esta fuente la hace indispensable para el estudio, por un lado, de la tenencia de tierra entre la nobleza mexica prehispánica y, por el otro, de sus alianzas matrimoniales y de las

Acidez na vinificação em tinto das uvas Isabel, Cabernet Sauvignon e Cabernet Franc

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Rizzon Luiz Antenor

2002-01-01

Full Text Available A acidez é uma das características gustativas mais importantes dos vinhos e influencia sua estabilidade e coloração. Devido à insolubilização do ácido tartárico sob a forma de sais, a acidez titulável e o pH podem ser alterados durante a vinificação de acordo com o teor de potássio da uva. Este trabalho avaliou a evolução da acidez durante a vinificação de três cultivares de uvas tintas (Isabel - Vitis labrusca -, Cabernet Sauvignon e Cabernet Franc - Vitis vinifera da Serra Gaúcha. Os vinhos foram elaborados por microvinificação na safra de 1995, sendo avaliados a evolução da acidez titulável, pH, ácido tartárico e potássio imediatamente após o esmagamento da uva, na descuba e após a fermentação alcoólica, a fermentação malolática e a estabilização tartárica, totalizando análises em cinco fases da vinificação. Os resultados mostraram uma evolução diferente da acidez, avaliados através do pH, da acidez titulável, do ácido tartárico e do potássio, na vinificação em tinto da uva Isabel em relação à Cabernet Sauvignon e à Cabernet Franc, nas fases compreendidas entre o esmagamento da uva e a descuba. O vinho Isabel se caracterizou por apresentar teores mais elevados de acidez titulável e ácido tartárico e mais baixos de potássio e pH, em relação aos vinhos Cabernet Sauvignon e Cabernet Franc.

Una principessa azteca: Tecuichpotzin Ichcaxochitzin – Isabel de Moctezuma

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Rosa Maria Grillo

2016-12-01

Full Text Available In the framework of the ‘gender studies’ dedicated to forgotten women in history, a prominent place is occupied by Tecuichpotzin Ichcaxochitzin (“Cotton flower, the revered daughter of the lord”   daughter of Moctezuma II, was probably born at the end of the first decade of the sixteenth century. Baptized as Isabel de Moctezuma, she lived a life straddling two worlds and two eras: daughter and wife of kings, repudiated by Cortés, she is sometimes described as the anti Malinche, loyal to her people but perfectly integrated in the colonial system. This paper will compare different sources – historical chronicles of that time and subsequent periods, historical fiction   in order to provide a credible profile and to correctly interpret such contradictory comments and opinions.

Qualidade de uva 'Isabel' tratada com cloreto de cálcio em pós-colheita e armazenada sob atmosfera modificada

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Rosana Sousa da Silva

2012-03-01

Full Text Available Uvas 'Isabel' foram tratadas após a colheita com cloreto de cálcio (CaCl2 e submetidas a atmosfera modificada para avaliação da manutenção de sua qualidade durante o armazenamento, a 12±1 ºC e 85±2% de UR. O experimento foi conduzido em delineamento inteiramente casualizado, em esquema fatorial 5 x 2 x 5, com 3 repetições, sendo cinco doses de CaCl2 (0,0; 0,5; 1,0; 2,0 e 4,0%, dois tipos de atmosfera [ambiente e modificada (AM] e cinco períodos, durante o armazenamento refrigerado. As avaliações foram acidez titulável (AT, sólidos solúveis (SS, relação SS/AT, pH, ácido ascórbico, incidência de podridão, perda de massa, aparência do engaço e índice de degrana. A AM reduziu a perda de massa, a incidência de podridão e manteve a aparência verde do engaço, ampliando a vida útil de uva 'Isabel' em seis dias. Doses de CaCl2 entre 0,5 e 2,0% reduziram a incidência de podridão. A aplicação de CaCl2 associado à AM reduziu a degrana em uva 'Isabel' durante o armazenamento refrigerado.

Optimization of the HS-SPME-GC/MS technique for determining volatile compounds in red wines made from Isabel grapes (Vitis labrusca

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Narciza Maria de Oliveira ARCANJO

2015-01-01

Full Text Available AbstractBrazilian wine production is characterized by Vitis labrusca grape varieties, especially the economically important Isabel cultivar, with over 80% of its production destined for table wine production. The objective of this study was to optimize and validate the conditions for extracting volatile compounds from wine with the solid-phase microextraction technique, using the response surface method. Based on the response surface analysis, it can be concluded that the central point values maximize the process of extracting volatile compounds from wine, i.e., an equilibrium time of 15 minutes, an extraction time of 35 minutes, and an extraction temperature of 30 °C. Esters were the most numerous compounds found under these extraction conditions, indicating that wines made from Isabel cultivar grapes are characterized by compounds that confer a fruity aroma; this finding corroborates the scientific literature.

The Power of Love: Rewriting the Romance in Isabel Allende's The House of the Spirits and Eva Luna

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Frances Jane P. Abao

2000-12-01

Full Text Available Despite its ongoing popularity with women readers, romantic fiction has traditionally been regarded as an instrument of women's oppression, largely due to its reinforcement and even glorification of sexual stereotypes and bourgeois values. Latin American writer Isabel Allende's novels The House of the Spirits and Eva Luna both contain a number of the elements and conventions of romantic fiction, including distinct similarities to the two acknowledged foundations of this genre: Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre and Emily Brontë's Wuthering Heights.However, The House of the Spirits and Eva Luna can also be read as rewritings of the genre of romantic fiction. In these two texts, Isabel Allende appropriates and then reworks certain conventions of romantic fiction in order to portray her notion of "fulfilling egalitarian relationships" between men and women. Nevertheless, despite these feminist revisions, Allende's rewritten romances do retain the "wish-fulfillment" element-or ideal-of romantic fiction, its depiction of women's fantasy of feminine values being appreciated and validated within heterosexual romantic relationships in the real world.

Efeito da safra vitícola na composição da uva, do mosto e do vinho Isabel da Serra Gaúcha, Brasil

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2006-01-01

Entre os fatores que interferem na composição e na qualidade do vinho, destaca-se a safra vitícola, com suas variações climáticas. Com este objetivo, avaliou-se o efeito das safras de 1999, 2000 e 2001 na composição da uva, do mosto e do vinho Isabel da Serra Gaúcha. Nesse sentido, foram selecionados vinte e dois produtores de uva Isabel de onze municípios dessa região. Por ocasião da maturação, para as avaliações da uva e do mosto e a elaboração das microvinificações, foram colhidos 60kg de ...

CANALES, SIFONES Y ALMENARAS. EL IMPACTO AMBIENTAL DE LAS INFRAESTRUCTURAS DEL CANAL DE ISABEL II (MADRID

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José A. Sotelo Navalpotro

2013-01-01

Full Text Available El presente artículo tiene como finalidad, valorar el impacto ambiental de las conducciones del Canal de Isabel II en el contexto del paisaje. Partimos de la idea según la cual, las infraestructuras del Canal de Isabel II, y más que formar parte del paisaje por el que se extienden, son el propio paisaje. Nuestra zona de estudio es el noroeste de la Comunidad de Madrid (síntesis de la interacción de los propios agentes naturales, de la ocupación humana y de los usos del suelo, área a la que nos aproximarnos a través de la investigación de la integración paisajística, entendida ésta como una estrategia de intervención en el territorio, que tiene como objetivo principal orientar las transformaciones del paisaje o corregir las ya realizadas, para conseguir su adaptación al propio paisaje. En definitiva, nos encontramos ante la necesidad de ajustar un objeto o actuación territorial a las características fisonómicas de un paisaje dado, o de algunos de sus componentes, así como a su carácter y a sus contenidos semánticos.

Las relaciones hispano-británicas durante el reinado de Isabel II

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Gemma Alonso Torres

1995-01-01

Full Text Available A lo largo de casi todo el siglo xix, la política de España estuvo hipotecada en manos de los gobiernos francés y, preferentemente, inglés. Este hecho supuso una dependencia total de París y Londres. Los acontecimientos políticos provocados por las guerras carlistas, la subida al trono de Isabel II y posterior reconocimiento de la reina, causaron un déficit en las arcas del Tesoro español, lo que motivó un endeudamiento continuo que se plasmó en la emisión de Deuda pública, adquirida por subditos belgas, holandeses, franceses y principalmente ingleses.

Reseña del libro "New Approaches to Specialized English Lexicology and Lexicography" de Isabel Balteiro (ed.)

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Edo Marzá, Nuria

2012-01-01

The book New Approaches to Specialized English Lexicology and Lexicography, edited by Isabel Balteiro, is a collection of eleven relevant contributions aimed at analysing English and EsP lexicology and lexicography and relating them to other linguistic and non-linguistic disciplines. In fact, one of its main strengths is the fact that it links these areas with less academic or prototypically linguistic fields such as comics, fashion and even cinema.

Tolerância de porta-enxertos de videira ao alumínio do solo

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José Carlos Fráguas

1999-07-01

Full Text Available Onze porta-enxertos e duas cultivares americanas de videira (Vitis spp foram avaliadas mediante níveis de saturação por Al no solo (Cambissolo Húmico álico, objetivando alcançar a tolerância diferenciada ao Al. O trabalho foi conduzido em casa de vegetação, com seis tratamentos completamente casualizados e quatro repetições, na Embrapa-Centro Nacional de Pesquisa de Uva e Vinho, em Bento Gonçalves, RS, no período de 1987 a 1990. As características avaliadas foram: altura das plantas, comprimento das raízes, peso da matéria seca da parte aérea e das raízes e teores de P, K, Ca e Mg em folhas e raízes. Diante dos acréscimos ou aumentos verificados em cada característica (variação % e por cultivar, foi possível estabelecer a tolerância diferenciada das cultivares. O teor de K na parte aérea não foi afetado pelos níveis de saturação por Al, enquanto os teores de Ca e Mg foram os mais afetados. O teor de P teve um comportamento estável entre os níveis de saturação por Al. As cultivares Isabel e Cunningham apresentaram diferença na tolerância ao Al do solo; a Cunningham teve melhor comportamento. Os porta-enxertos R99, Rupestris du Lot e Kober 5BB, juntamente com Isabel, foram os mais sensíveis ao Al, e P1103, 101-14 e 196-17Cl foram os mais tolerantes.

A Perda de um(a) Filho(a) Jovem no Romance Paula, de Isabel Allende

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Cazanatto, Elenice; Martta, Margareth Kuhn

2014-01-01

O adoecimento e a perda de um filho são situações não naturalmente esperadas na perspectiva do ciclo vital, provocando uma ruptura na vida dos pais, despertando sentimentos intensos e muito sofrimento. No romance autobiográficoPaula,a autora Isabel Allende escreve para a filha que estava internada na UTI de um hospital, há alguns meses, com um diagnóstico pouco favorável. O presente artigo trata de uma leitura psicanalítica sobre a perda de um (a) filho (a) adulto-jovem, tomando como objeto d...

Influences of the Saharan Air Layer on the Formation and Intensification of Hurricane Isabel (2003): Analysis of AIRS data and Numerical Simulation

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Wu, L.; Braun, S. A.

2006-12-01

Over the past two decades, little advance has been made in prediction of tropical cyclone intensity while substantial improvements have been made in forecasting hurricane tracks. One reason is that we don't well understand the physical processes that govern tropical cyclone intensity. Recent studies have suggested that the Saharan Air Layer (SAL) may be yet another piece of the puzzle in advancing our understanding of tropical cyclone intensity change in the Atlantic basin. The SAL is an elevated mixed layer, forming as air moves across the vast Sahara Desert, in particular during boreal summer months. The SAL contains warm, dry air as well as a substantial amount of mineral dust, which can affect radiative heating and modify cloud processes. Using the retrieved temperature and humidity profiles from the AIRS suite on the NASA Aqua satellite, the SAL and its influences on the formation and intensification of Hurricane Isabel (2003) are analyzed and simulated with MM5. When the warmth and dryness of the SAL (the thermodynamic effect) is considered by relaxing the model thermodynamic state to the AIRS profiles, MM5 can well simulate the large-scale flow patterns and the activity of Hurricane Isabel in terms of the timing and location of formation and the subsequent track. Compared with the experiment without nudging the AIRS data, it is suggested that the simulated SAL effect may delay the formation and intensification of Hurricane Isabel. This case study generally confirms the argument by Dunion and Velden (2004) that the SAL can suppress Atlantic tropical cyclone activity by increasing the vertical wind shear, reducing the mean relative humidity, and stabilizing the environment at lower levels.

Prevalencia de alergia alimentaria y sensibilización a leche, maní y camarón en adolescentes de octavo y noveno de básica de Cuenca y Santa Isabel

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Ramírez Jimbo, Patricia Liliana

2015-01-01

La alergia alimentaria es una respuesta inmunológica a la ingestión de ciertos alimentos, los síntomas varían desde leves hasta fatales. El objetivo de este trabajo es reportar la prevalencia de alergia alimentaria y sensibilización a leche, maní y camarón en adolescentes de octavo y noveno de básica de Cuenca y Santa Isabel. El estudio fue descriptivo transversal realizado en 1008 adolescentes de Cuenca y 500 de Santa Isabel, mediante la aplicación de encuestas y test cutáneos. El alérgeno m...

Influences of Appalachian orography on heavy rainfall and rainfall variability associated with the passage of hurricane Isabel by ensemble simulations

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Oldaker, Guy; Liu, Liping; Lin, Yuh-Lang

2017-12-01

This study focuses on the heavy rainfall event associated with hurricane Isabel's (2003) passage over the Appalachian mountains of the eastern United States. Specifically, an ensemble consisting of two groups of simulations using the Weather Research and Forecasting model (WRF), with and without topography, is performed to investigate the orographic influences on heavy rainfall and rainfall variability. In general, the simulated ensemble mean with full terrain is able to reproduce the key observed 24-h rainfall amount and distribution, while the flat-terrain mean lacks in this respect. In fact, 30-h rainfall amounts are reduced by 75% with the removal of topography. Rainfall variability is also significantly increased with the presence of orography. Further analysis shows that the complex interaction between the hurricane and terrain along with contributions from varied microphysics, cumulus parametrization, and planetary boundary layer schemes have a pronounced effect on rainfall and rainfall variability. This study follows closely with a previous study, but for a different TC case of Isabel (2003). It is an important sensitivity test for a different TC in a very different environment. This study reveals that the rainfall variability behaves similarly, even with different settings of the environment.

Population screening for glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiencies in Isabel Province, Solomon Islands, using a modified enzyme assay on filter paper dried bloodspots

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Landry Losi

2010-08-01

Full Text Available Abstract Background Glucose-6-phosphate dehydrogenase deficiency poses a significant impediment to primaquine use for the elimination of liver stage infection with Plasmodium vivax and for gametocyte clearance, because of the risk of life-threatening haemolytic anaemia that can occur in G6PD deficient patients. Although a range of methods for screening G6PD deficiency have been described, almost all require skilled personnel, expensive laboratory equipment, freshly collected blood, and are time consuming; factors that render them unsuitable for mass-screening purposes. Methods A published WST8/1-methoxy PMS method was adapted to assay G6PD activity in a 96-well format using dried blood spots, and used it to undertake population screening within a malaria survey undertaken in Isabel Province, Solomon Islands. The assay results were compared to a biochemical test and a recently marketed rapid diagnostic test. Results Comparative testing with biochemical and rapid diagnostic test indicated that results obtained by filter paper assay were accurate providing that blood spots were assayed within 5 days when stored at ambient temperature and 10 days when stored at 4 degrees. Screening of 8541 people from 41 villages in Isabel Province, Solomon Islands revealed the prevalence of G6PD deficiency as defined by enzyme activity Conclusions The assay enabled simple and quick semi-quantitative population screening in a malaria-endemic region. The study indicated a high prevalence of G6PD deficiency in Isabel Province and highlights the critical need to consider G6PD deficiency in the context of P. vivax malaria elimination strategies in Solomon Islands, particularly in light of the potential role of primaquine mass drug administration.

Polifenóis totais e avaliação sensorial de suco de uvas Isabel tratadas com ultrassom Phenolic compounds and sensory evaluation of juice from Isabel grapes treated with ultrasound

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Carine Glaucia Comarella

2012-05-01

Full Text Available O suco de uva no Brasil é um produto amplamente consumido por suas características sensoriais e nutricionais; porém, tratamentos durante o seu processamento podem ocasionar perdas de compostos fenólicos importantes na definição dessas características. O ultrassom é apontado como um possível elicitor desses compostos, visto que o estresse mecânico provocado por cavitação acústica e microagitação estimula respostas de defesa na planta que levam à síntese dessas substâncias. Neste estudo, diferentes densidades de potência (53 e 113 W.cm-2 e tempos de exposição (1, 5 e 10 minutos de ultrassom foram aplicados em uvas Isabel e seu efeito sobre o conteúdo de polifenóis totais e o aspecto sensorial dos sucos foi avaliado. O ultrassom causou um acréscimo de até 83% no teor de polifenóis totais, melhorando também as características sensoriais dos sucos, tendo sido estes os preferidos pelos provadores.Grape juice in Brazil is a product widely consumed for their sensory and nutritional characteristics, however, treatments during processing can cause loss of phenolic compounds important in defining these characteristics. Ultrasound is cited as a possible elicitor of these compounds, since the mechanical stress caused by acoustic cavitation and microstreaming stimulates the plant defense responses that lead to synthesis of these substances. In this study, different power densities (53 and 113 W.cm-2 and exposure times (1, 5 and 10 minutes of ultrasound were applied in Isabel grapes and its effect on the total polyphenols content and sensory aspect of the juices was evaluated. The ultrasound caused an increase of up to 83% in total polyphenols content, improving the sensory characteristics of juices, being chosen as preferred by the tasters.

¿Hacia el fin de la itinerancia? Isabel I de Castilla

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Mª Isabel DEL VAL VALDIVIESO

2009-05-01

Full Text Available Aunque ciertos organismos de la administración del reino están ya asentados en determinados lugares, y se observan algunos indicios de sedentarización, entre ellos el establecimiento de la casa del príncipe Juan en Almazán, la corte de Isabel la Católica sigue siendo itinerante como la de sus antecesores. Con el fin de constatar esta circunstancia, en el presente artículo se estudia el trayecto seguido por Isabel I de Castilla en dos ocasiones, el primer año de reinado, y el último viaje que realiza. En 1475 el espacio recorrido se extiende entre Palencia y Toledo, se trata de un periplo con ida (hacia el Sur y regreso al norte del Duero. En 1503, el viaje se desarrolla entre Alcalá de Henares y Medina del Campo, villa en la que morirá la reina Católica el 26 de noviembre de 1504. En ambas ocasiones, la reina atiende todos los asuntos del gobierno de sus reinos allí donde se encuentre.Malgré l’installation de certains organes de l’administration du royaume dans des lieux précis et quelques indices de sédentarisation, comme l’établissement de la maison du Prince Juan à Almazán, la cour d’Isabelle la Catholique est, comme celle de ses prédécesseurs, itinérante. Cet article se propose d’étudier deux trajets parcourus par Isabelle Ire de Castille : celui qu’elle réalise au cours de la première année de son règne, et le dernier. En 1475, l’espace parcouru s’étend de Palencia à Tolède ; il s’agit d’un trajet vers le sud pour l’aller et au nord du Duero pour le retour. En 1503, le voyage se déroule entre Alcalá de Henares et Medina del Campo, où la reine meurt le 26 novembre 1504. Lors de ces deux déplacements, la reine administre son royaume de l’endroit où elle se trouve.

Mariano Bellver (1817-1876, escultor de cámara de Isabel II

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Melendreras Gimeno, José Luis

2002-09-01

Full Text Available Hijo de Francisco Bellver y Llop, también escultor como su padre. Nació en Madrid en 1817, estudiando en la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando, siendo discípulo en esta noble institución del escultor de Cámara José Tomás. Mariano Bellver contribuyó de forma activa al esplendor del Liceo Artístico y Literario de Madrid. Realizó numerosos trabajos, logrando una pública consideración de sus obras. Fue nombrado escultor de Cámara Honorario de Isabel II, jurando su cargo el 3 de mayo de 1860, ante don Buenaventura Carlos Arriban, Comendador de Número de la Real Casa y de la Orden de Carlos III, Jefe Superior de la Administración, Jubilado y Secretario de la Intendencia General de la Real Casa y Patrimonio.…

Resting energy expenditure prediction in recreational athletes of 18-35 years: confirmation of Cunningham equation and an improved weight-based alternative.

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ten Haaf, Twan; Weijs, Peter J M

2014-01-01

Resting energy expenditure (REE) is expected to be higher in athletes because of their relatively high fat free mass (FFM). Therefore, REE predictive equation for recreational athletes may be required. The aim of this study was to validate existing REE predictive equations and to develop a new recreational athlete specific equation. 90 (53 M, 37 F) adult athletes, exercising on average 9.1 ± 5.0 hours a week and 5.0 ± 1.8 times a week, were included. REE was measured using indirect calorimetry (Vmax Encore n29), FFM and FM were measured using air displacement plethysmography. Multiple linear regression analysis was used to develop a new FFM-based and weight-based REE predictive equation. The percentage accurate predictions (within 10% of measured REE), percentage bias, root mean square error and limits of agreement were calculated. Results: The Cunningham equation and the new weight-based equation REE(kJ / d) = 49.940* weight(kg) + 2459.053* height(m) - 34.014* age(y) + 799.257* sex(M = 1,F = 0) + 122.502 and the new FFM-based equation REE(kJ / d) = 95.272*FFM(kg) + 2026.161 performed equally well. De Lorenzo's equation predicted REE less accurate, but better than the other generally used REE predictive equations. Harris-Benedict, WHO, Schofield, Mifflin and Owen all showed less than 50% accuracy. For a population of (Dutch) recreational athletes, the REE can accurately be predicted with the existing Cunningham equation. Since body composition measurement is not always possible, and other generally used equations fail, the new weight-based equation is advised for use in sports nutrition.

Ressenya a Grifoll, Isabel, Julián Acebrón, Flocel Sabaté (eds. (2014: Cartografies de l’ànima. Identitat, memòria i escriptura, Lleida, Pagès Editors, 2014, 248 pàgs. ISBN:978-84-9975-517-5; i Acebrón, Julián, Isabel Grifoll, Flocel Sabaté (eds. (2015: La Construcció d’identitats imaginades. Literatura medieval i ideologia, Lleida, Pagès Editors, 2015, 320 pàgs. ISBN:978-84-9975-704-9

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Vicent Martines

2016-12-01

Full Text Available Review to Grifoll, Isabel, Julián Acebrón, Flocel Sabaté (eds. (2014: Cartografies de l’ànima. Identitat, memòria i escriptura, Lleida, Pagès Editors, 2014, 248 pàgs. ISBN:978-84-9975-517-5; and Acebrón, Julián, Isabel Grifoll, Flocel Sabaté (eds. (2015: La Construcció d’identitats imaginades. Literatura medieval i ideologia, Lleida, Pagès Editors, 2015, 320 pàgs. ISBN:978-84-9975-704-9

Acidez na vinificação em tinto das uvas Isabel, Cabernet Sauvignon e Cabernet Franc

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Rizzon Luiz Antenor; Miele Alberto

2002-01-01

A acidez é uma das características gustativas mais importantes dos vinhos e influencia sua estabilidade e coloração. Devido à insolubilização do ácido tartárico sob a forma de sais, a acidez titulável e o pH podem ser alterados durante a vinificação de acordo com o teor de potássio da uva. Este trabalho avaliou a evolução da acidez durante a vinificação de três cultivares de uvas tintas (Isabel - Vitis labrusca -, Cabernet Sauvignon e Cabernet Franc - Vitis vinifera) da Serra Gaúcha. Os vinho...

Phenology of pea crop (Pisum sativum L. var. Santa Isabel) in the Bogotá plateau at open field and under plastic cover

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Galindo Pacheco, J.R.; Clavijo Porras, J.

2009-01-01

The assessment of environment effects on plant development is important to identify suitable zones and schedule crop production. In this research, plant development of pea (Pisum sativum L. var. Santa Isabel) was evaluated under Bogotá flat highland, Colombia, environmental conditions (2640 m over sea level, 14°C, 80% R.H., rainfall of 800 mm/year). Two experiments were done under plastic cover [es

R. B. Cunninghame Graham’s “Aurora La Cujiñi” (1898 : An Exploration / Aurora La Cujiñi” (1898 de R. B. Cunninghame Graham - Una indagación

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John C. Mc Intyre

2011-06-01

Full Text Available Abstract: In Aurora La Cujiñi-A realistic sketch in Seville, published by the Scottish writer R. B. Cunninghame Graham in 1898, the frontispiece showed the sepia image of a female flamenco dancer. What might ‘La Cujiñi’ mean? Charles Davillier and Gustave Doré in 1862-63 note the existence of a Sevillan dancer with this name. In 2011 the present writer was gifted an old lithograph, in colour, published in Seville ‘c. 1850’ and entitled ‘Aurora La Cujiñí’ - with ñ and í. The two images are supplied. ‘Aurora La Cujiñi’ really existed. Graham’s sketch has five phases: Seville; the bullfight; the crowd’s return to town; a low-quality flamenco show; and the highly stirring performance by an initially anonymous female dancer - the dead Aurora brought back to life. Graham emphasises the Seville blend of blood and sensuality in a realist style also capable of mockery and criticism. Graham’s writing includes a good variety of well-controlled Spanish vocabulary, his empathy with horses and a deep nostalgia for times past. W. H. Hudson, writer and friend of Graham, in 1894 recommended that Graham should read the Argentine sketches published by Alfred Ébélot in 1890. In Aurora La Cujiñi Graham in 1898 is beginning to show mastery of the literary sketch. Question: Might Lorca have read Aurora La Cujiñi before drafting “Teoría y juego del duende”? Resumen: En Aurora La Cujiñi-A realistic sketch in Seville (1898 del escritor escocés R. B. Cunninghame Graham, el frontispicio llevaba la imagen en sepia de una bailadora de flamenco. ¿Qué podría significar ‘La Cujiñi’? Charles Davillier y Gustave Doré en 1862-1863 apuntan la existencia de una bailaora sevillana con este nombre. En 2011 al que esto escribe le regalaron una litografía antigua, en color, publicada en Sevilla ‘hacia 1850’ e intitulada ‘Aurora la Cujiñí’ - con ñ y con í. Se incluyen las dos imágenes. ‘Aurora La Cujiñi’ realmente

Extração, secagem por atomização e microencapsulamento de antocianinas do bagaço da uva "Isabel" (Vitis labrusca Extraction, spray drying and microencapsulating of 'Isabel' grape (Vitis labrusca bagasse anthocyanin

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Eunice Valduga

2008-10-01

Full Text Available Objetivou-se obter neste trabalho um corante natural (antocianina, na forma de pó a partir do bagaço de uva da cultivar "Isabel" (Vitis labrusca, onde foram realizados estudos de extração e encapsulamento. Empregou-se o método de extração por imersão mediante técnica de planejamento experimental, onde as variáveis avaliadas foram pH da solução de extração (1-2, volume de etanol (100-250 mL, tempo de extração (3-7 h e temperatura de extração (15-35ºC. A concentração máxima de antocianinas totais obtidas foi de 300 mg/100 g de bagaço de uva (umidade 5% nos níveis inferiores de pH (1,0 e tempo (3 horas e superiores de temperatura (35ºC e volume de etanol (250 mL. Os extratos foram secos por atomização. A melhor condição para o encapsulamento e a secagem foi quando utilizaram-se proporções iguais de maltodextrina e goma arábica.This work had the aim of obtaining a natural pigment (anthocyanin at powder form from 'Isabel' grape bagasse (Vitis labrusca, studying the extraction and encapsulating steps one applied the method of extraction by immersion by experimental design technique, when the factors investigated were pH of the extraction solution (1-2, volume of ethanol (100-250 mL, extraction time (3-7 h and extraction temperature (15-35 °C. The maximum concentration of total anthocyanin was 300 mg/100g of grape bagasse (5% moisture at the lower levels of pH (1.0 and time (3 h, and at upper levels of temperature (35ºC and amount of ethanol (250 mL. The extracts were dried by a spray process. The best condition for encapsulating and drying was obtained when equal amounts of maltodextrin and Arabic gum were used.

JC virus antibody index in natalizumab-treated patients: correlations with John Cunningham virus DNA and C-reactive protein level

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Lanzillo R

2014-10-01

Full Text Available Roberta Lanzillo,1 Raffaele Liuzzi,2 Luca Vallefuoco,3 Marcello Moccia,1 Luca Amato,1 Giovanni Vacca,1 Veria Vacchiano,1 Giuseppe Portella,3 Vincenzo Brescia Morra1 1Neurological Sciences Department, Federico II University, 2Institute of Biostructure and Bioimaging, National Research Council, 3Clinical Pathology Department, Federico II University, Naples, ItalyAbstract: Natalizumab-treated patients have a higher risk of developing progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy. Exposure to John Cunningham virus (JCV is a prerequisite for PML (progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy. To assess JCV exposure in multiple sclerosis patients, we performed a serological examination, obtained the antibody index, performed real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR to detect JCV DNA in plasma and urine, and investigated the role of ultrasensitive C-reactive protein (usCRP as a possible biological marker of JCV reactivation. We retrospectively analyzed consecutive natalizumab-treated multiple sclerosis patients who underwent a JCV antibody test through a two-step enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (STRATIFY test to the measure of serum usCRP levels, and to perform blood and urine JCV PCR. The studied cohort included 97 relapsing–remitting patients (60 women. Fifty-two patients (53.6% tested positive for anti-JCV antibodies. PCR showed JCV DNA in the urine of 30 out of 83 (36.1% patients and 28 out of 44 seropositive patients (63.6%, with a 6.7% false-negative rate for the STRATIFY test. Normalized optical density values were higher in urinary JCV DNA-positive patients (P<0.0001. Interestingly, the level of usCRP was higher in urinary JCV DNA-positive patients and correlated to the number of DNA copies in urine (P=0.028. As expected, patients' age correlated with JCV seropositivity and with JC viruria (P=0.02 and P=0.001, respectively. JC viruria was significantly correlated with a high JCV antibody index and high serum usCRP levels. We suggest that PCR and

Changes in vector species composition and current vector biology and behaviour will favour malaria elimination in Santa Isabel Province, Solomon Islands

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Beebe Nigel W

2011-09-01

Full Text Available Abstract Background In 2009, Santa Isabel Province in the Solomon Islands embarked on a malaria elimination programme. However, very little is known in the Province about the anopheline fauna, which species are vectors, their bionomics and how they may respond to intensified intervention measures. The purpose of this study was to provide baseline data on the malaria vectors and to ascertain the possibility of successfully eliminating malaria using the existing conventional vector control measures, such as indoor residual spraying (IRS and long-lasting insecticidal nets (LLIN. Methods Entomological surveys were undertaken during October 2009. To determine species composition and distribution larval surveys were conducted across on the whole island. For malaria transmission studies, adult anophelines were sampled using human landing catches from two villages - one coastal and one inland. Results Five Anopheles species were found on Santa Isabel: Anopheles farauti, Anopheles hinesorum, Anopheles lungae, Anopheles solomonis, and Anopheles nataliae. Anopheles hinesorum was the most widespread species. Anopheles farauti was abundant, but found only on the coast. Anopheles punctulatus and Anopheles koliensis were not found. Anopheles farauti was the only species found biting in the coastal village, it was incriminated as a vector in this study; it fed early in the night but equally so indoors and outdoors, and had a low survival rate. Anopheles solomonis was the main species biting humans in the inland village, it was extremely exophagic, with low survival rates, and readily fed on pigs. Conclusion The disappearance of the two major vectors, An. punctulatus and An. koliensis, from Santa Isabel and the predominance of An. hinesorum, a non-vector species may facilitate malaria elimination measures. Anopheles farauti was identified as the main coastal vector with An. solomonis as a possible inland vector. The behaviour of An. solomonis is novel as it has

Efecto del almacenamiento al ambiente en semillas de Leucaena leucocephala cv. Cunningham sometidas a hidratación parcial Effect of storage under ambient conditions on seeds from Leucaena leucocephala cv. Cunningham subject to partial hydration

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Yolanda González

2012-12-01

Full Text Available El objetivo del trabajo fue estudiar el efecto del almacenamiento al ambiente en la germinación de las semillas de Leucaena leucocephala cv. Cunningham sometidas a hidratación parcial. Los tratamientos fueron: control, sin escarificación (T0; escarificación térmica (ET con H2O a 80°C, durante dos minutos (T1; ET más hidratación parcial, en bandeja con agua corriente por 28 horas (T2; ET más hidratación parcial, en saco de yute humedecido con agua corriente por 28 horas (T3; ET más hidratación parcial, en bandeja con agua corriente y TMTD al 0,1% (plaguicida por 28 horas (T4; ET más hidratación parcial, en saco de yute humedecido con agua corriente y TMTD al 0,1% (plaguicida por 28 horas (T5. Las semillas hidratadas se deshidrataron durante 72 horas al aire y a la sombra, antes de almacenarlas. Se midió la germinación y la viabilidad a 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 18, 30 y 42 meses. Se utilizó un diseño totalmente aleatorizado y cuatro réplicas por tratamiento. Hubo diferencias significativas (PThe objective of the work was to study the effect of storage under ambient conditions on the germination of seeds from Leucaena leucocephala cv. Cunningham subject to partial hydration. The treatments were: control, no scarification (T0; thermal scarification (TS with H2O at 80ºC, for two minutes (T1; TS plus partial hydration, on tray with tap water for 28 hours (T2; TS plus partial hydration, in jute sac moist with tap water for 28 hours (T3; TS plus partial hydration in tray with tap water and TMTD at 0,1% (pesticide for 28 hours (T4; TS plus partial hydration, in jute sac moist with tap water and TMTD at 0,1% (pesticide for 28 hours (T5. The hydrated seeds were dehydrated during 72 hours exposed to air and under shade, before being stored. Germination and viability were measured after 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 18, 30 and 42 months. A completely randomized design and four replications per treatment were used. There were significant differences (P<0

Memórias, histórias e representações sociais do bairro de Vila Isabel e de uma de suas favelas (RJ, Brasil Memories, stories and social representations of the district of Vila Isabel and one of its slums (RJ, Brazil

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Fernanda Delvalhas Piccolo

2009-05-01

Full Text Available A partir da etnografia realizada num Centro Comunitário do Morro dos Macacos, localizado no bairro de Vila Isabel, na cidade do Rio de Janeiro (Brasil, o presente artigo discute a história e a memória do morro e do bairro, explorando alguns eventos realizados nesses locais, que ora reforçam a história e a memória oficiais, ora ressaltam outras versões e memórias existentes e, por vezes, divergentes. Esses eventos interessam como expressões simbólicas dos indivíduos e grupos, ao darem visibilidade às redes de relações, por reforçarem pertencimentos e criarem laços sociais. Importam por contribuírem para a criação de histórias e memórias - oficiais e não-oficiais - que atuam na construção de identidades e representações sociais que, por sua vez, orientam as práticas dos moradores dessas localidades.Based on an ethnography carried out in a community center in Morro dos Macacos, located in Bairro de Vila Isabel, a district in the Northern section of Rio de Janeiro city (Brazil, the present article is about the history and memories of that slum and neighborhood. It examines some events that reinforce its official history and memory or emphasize other stories and memories, different or alike. Those events are interesting symbolical expressions of individuals and groups, for they give visibility to social networks, since they reinforce a sense of belonging to a group and create social links. They are also important for contributing to create stories and memories - official and unofficial - that build social identities and representations that guide its inhabitants’ practices.

Aspectos sociopolíticos da epidemia de toxoplasmose em Santa Isabel do Ivaí (PR Socio-political aspects of toxoplasmosis epidemic in Santa Isabel do Ivaí, Paraná State, Brazil

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Márcio José de Almeida

2011-01-01

Full Text Available Em 2002, o município de Santa Isabel do Ivaí (PR, em virtude de uma epidemia de toxoplasmose, tornou-se lócus privilegiado de investigações sanitárias. As informações disponíveis indicam tratar-se da maior já registrada no mundo: 426 pessoas apresentaram sorologia sugestiva de infecção aguda por T. gondii (IgM reator. Esta pesquisa foi realizada com o objetivo de identificar as ações desenvolvidas pelos serviços de saúde e de saneamento durante o período, observando os conflitos políticos ocorridos no processo e identificando as medidas tomadas pelas autoridades sanitárias durante e após a epidemia. Trata-se de um estudo interdisciplinar, que busca a compreensão mais aprofundada e abrangente dos problemas de saúde pública. A investigação foi baseada na análise de conteúdo de documentos da imprensa e institucionais e entrevistas. Segundo dados oficiais, a causa da epidemia foi a contaminação de um dos reservatórios de água que abastecem a cidade. A pesquisa mostrou que fatores de ordem política e social, como a instabilidade partidária e o nível de dependência política da sociedade local, contribuíram para a ocorrência do surto e para as dificuldades enfrentadas pelos agentes de saúde no decorrer da crise.In 2002, due to a toxoplasmosis epidemic Santa Isabel do Ivaí, Paraná State, was the focus of sanitary investigations. Four hundred and twenty six individuals had serology suggestive of acute T. gondii infection (IgM reactor, considered the largest outbreak of toxoplasmosis ever reported in the world. This research was meant to identify actions carried out by the sanitation and health services sector at that time, highlighting the political conflicts that took place during the process and identifying the measures taken by the sanitary authorities during and after the epidemic period. This is an interdisciplinary study aimed at understanding major problems of public health like this one. The investigation

Metodologia comparada e análise da cobertura da corrupção política [Entrevista com Isabel Ferin Cunha

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Fernanda Castilho

2016-10-01

Full Text Available A Prof.ª Dr.ª Isabel Ferin Cunha possui uma relação extremamente próxima com o Brasil desde os anos 1980, quando cursou mestrado e doutorado na Escola de Comunicações e Artes da Universidade de São Paulo (ECA-USP. Em virtude dessa relação privilegiada não apenas como o Brasil, mas como o espaço lusófono, na Universidade de Coimbra (Portugal, onde leciona no Departamento de Filosofia, Comunicação e Informação da Faculdade de Letras (FLUC, a docente orienta grande parte dos estudantes estrangeiros de língua portuguesa. O projeto “Corrupção política nos media: uma perspetiva comparada”, que atualmente coordena, financiado pela agência portuguesa de fomento FCT (Fundação para Ciência e Tecnologia, tem como objetivo analisar a cobertura jornalística da corrupção tanto na imprensa, como na televisão, para além da internet (blogs políticos, em três países: Portugal, Brasil e Moçambique. Nessa entrevista, Isabel Ferin aponta as dificuldades inerentes à realização de pesquisas comparadas, indicando caminhos para transpor questões como a utilização de metodologias comuns e análise de dados provenientes de diferentes realidades sociais e midiáticas. Por outro lado, afirma que o tratamento da corrupção política na mídia é um dos fatores da transformação da democracia no ocidente.

Un retrato desconocido de Isabel la Católica

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Flor, Pedro

2013-03-01

Full Text Available The reserves of the National Gallery, London, house a painting identified as Mary Magdalene, by an unknown master most likely of Franco-Flemish origin. The iconographical identification of the subject derives from the small jar that she holds. A more thorough study of the piece, however, leads us to raise the hypothesis that it is actually a portrait of Isabella the Catholic, based on comparisons with other representations of this queen, as well as on the jewellery she wears. In spite of the stylistic comparisons made with contemporary works, it is difficult to establish the artist with precision. Nevertheless, we propose Michel Sittow –or someone from his artistic circle– whose activity at the service of the Spanish crown is documented precisely towards the end of the 15th and beginning of the 16th century.Las reservas de la National Gallery de Londres albergan una pintura identificada como María Magdalena atribuida a un maestro desconocido de posible origen franco-flamenco. La identificación iconográfica del personaje se basa en el pequeño frasco que sujeta. Sin embargo, un análisis más detallado de la obra nos permite plantear la hipótesis de que se trate antes de un retrato de Isabel la Católica, no sólo por comparación con otros ejemplares iconográficos de la Reina, sino también por las joyas que ostenta. Partiendo de la comparación estilística con obras coevas resulta problemático determinar con precisión el autor de la pintura, pero es posible que se trate de Michel Sittow o alguien de su círculo de influencia, cuya actividad se conoce precisamente a finales del siglo XV y principios del XVI al servicio de la corona española.

Variación de la recarga entre La Plata y Santa Isabel (provincias de Buenos Aires y La Pampa - Argentina) : Propuesta metodológica

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Hernández, Mario Alberto; Giai, Santiago B.

1996-01-01

Se analiza la recarga potencial de aguas subterráneas sobre un perfil entre La Plata y Santa Isabel (Buenos Aires y La Pampa). El mismo tiene la particularidad de ser perpendicular a las isohietas, extendiéndose desde una zona húmeda lindante con el río de la Plata, hasta otra de fuerte aridez y continentalidad, unos 900 km al Oeste. Algunos de los factores influyentes en el monto de la recarga tienen el mismo valor en todo el perfil, alcanzando su intervención igual peso en todas las local...

Participative restoration of the monument national Bosque de Piedra Isabel Rubio

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Barbarita Mijans Moreno

2013-06-01

Full Text Available The work was carried out in four hectares of the «Monument National» Bosque Piedra Isabel Rubio, belonging to the Forest Company Macurije municipality Guane. Ecosystem that possesses national significance because it constitutes a valuable monumental example, it summarizes natural aspects as their calcareous formations of the Jurassic period, besides their intangible values associated to the rural traditions. The objective of the research is to propose a plan of action participative for the restoration of this ecosystem starting from the results obtained in diagnose participative. Among the used scientific methods, they are the research Action Participative and the participant observation, for the collection of information the interview was used in depth, and the meetings in groups. As important results the presence of a strong pressure antropic is obtained on the flora, fauna and rocks of the minimogotes, the introduction of exotic and invasive species, and soil erosion, in consequence the degradation of the ecosystem and loss of the biodiversity. Another significant result constituted it the scarce level of the actors' knowledge regarding the category of this forest and the administrative juridical regulations that govern it. The removed evidences of these communities show that the necessity to diminish the antropics actions and to elevate the sensibility regarding the conservation, they impose a demand of knowledge to satisfy by means of training actions with the participation of the local actors and instrumentation of the regulative apparatus.

Desenvolvimento e estudos de estabilidade de cremes e géis contendo sementes e extratos do bagaço da uva Isabel (Vitis labrusca L.

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JOãO RONALDO N. FERREIRA

2010-12-01

Full Text Available No cenário mundial, inúmeras indústrias de cosméticos buscam a inovação, utilizando-se de matérias-primas de origens diversificadas, principalmente oriundas de vegetais, representando uma alternativa de substituição de materiais sintéticos por naturais. Com esse intuito, no presente estudo, realizou-se o desenvolvimento e a avaliação da estabilidade de emulsões e géis contendo extratos e sementes do bagaço da uva Isabel (Vitis labrusca L., uma espécie de uva rica em compostos fenólicos e flavonoides com grande atividade antioxidante. Com isso, buscou-se evidenciar o período em que os produtos mantiveram suas propriedades físico-químicas, frente a variações climáticas forçadas em estudos acelerados, durante o período de armazenamento. Foram preparados cremes contendo 5 e 10% de extrato glicólico do bagaço da uva e géis contendo 10% de sementes trituradas, sendo acondicionados em condições ambientais distintas e avaliados, através de testes físico-químicos, no período de 60 dias. Durante esse período, não foram evidenciados sinais de instabilidade físico-química nos cremes analisados frente às condições testadas. No entanto, o gel apresentou leve alteração da cor e do odor, sugerindo a necessidade de estabilização físico-química de seus constituintes naturais com a adição de antioxidantes. Palavras-chave: Antioxidante. Esfoliante. Estabilidade. Uva Isabel. Vitis labrusca L. ABSTRACT Development and testing of the stability of creams and gels containing extracts of the pomace and seeds of Isabel grapes (Vitis labrusca L. Numerous cosmetic companies around the world seek innovation, using raw materials of various origins, mainly derived from plants, as natural alternatives to synthetic materials. With this in mind, this study was carried out to develop and test the stability of emulsions and gels, respectively containing extracts of pomace and seeds of Isabel grape (Vitis labrusca L., a

Análisis morfológico y métrico de la dentición y metapodios del oso de Deninger (Ursus deningeri Von Reichenau de la Cueva Sta. Isabel de Ranero. Aminocronología (Valle de Carranza - Bizkaia - País Vasco

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TORRES, T., NESTARES, T., COBO, R., ORTIZ, J.E., CANTERO, M.A., ORTIZ, J., VIDAL, R., PRIETO, J.O.

2001-01-01

Full Text Available Se realiza un análisis métrico y morfológico de la dentición y metapodios del material de Ursus deningeri excavado en la Cueva Santa Isabel en Ranero (Bizkaia. Los resultados obtenidos se comparan con los de otras poblaciones ibéricas de U. deningeri (La Lucia en Quintanilla, Cantabria ; Cueva Mayor (sima de los Huesos en Atapuerca, Burgos y Lezetxiki en Mondragón, Gipuzkoa y de Ursus speleaus (Eiros en Triacastela, Lugo ; La Lucía, La Pasada en Guriezo, Cantabria ; Lezetxiki, Arrikrutz en Oñati, Gipuzkoa ; Ekain en Deba, Gipuzkoa ; Troskaeta en Ataun, Gipuzkoa ; Coro Tracito, Tella-Sin, Huesca ; El Toll en Moia, Barcelona y el Reguerillo en Patones, Madrid. El análisis morfológico y métrico revela que las muestras de oso de Santa Isabel se agrupan bien con las de U. deningeri de La Lucia y de la Sima de los huesos, pero con caracteres ligeramente más evolucionados a los de esta última, existiendo una gran distancia métrica morfológica con las poblaciones de U. spelaeus. El análisis de la racemización del ácido del colágeno de la dentina de las poblaciones de oso de las cavernas de la Península Ibérica ha permitido establecer que los osos de la Cueva de Santa Isabel son sincrónimos, o tal vez, algo más antiguos que los de la Sima de los Huesos. La ligera discrepancia existente entre la bioestratigrafía deducida a partir de la morfología dental y la obtenida mediante análisis de la racemización del ácido aspártico, se podría explicar por diferencias en las condiciones tafonómicas del yacimiento y/o un inferior número de muestras para el yacimiento de Santa Isabel.

Efeito da safra vitícola na composição da uva, do mosto e do vinho Isabel da Serra Gaúcha, Brasil

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Rizzon Luiz Antenor

2006-01-01

Full Text Available Entre os fatores que interferem na composição e na qualidade do vinho, destaca-se a safra vitícola, com suas variações climáticas. Com este objetivo, avaliou-se o efeito das safras de 1999, 2000 e 2001 na composição da uva, do mosto e do vinho Isabel da Serra Gaúcha. Nesse sentido, foram selecionados vinte e dois produtores de uva Isabel de onze municípios dessa região. Por ocasião da maturação, para as avaliações da uva e do mosto e a elaboração das microvinificações, foram colhidos 60kg de uva de cada viticultor. A safra vitícola interferiu significativamente no peso do cacho e da baga, mas não alterou a relação peso da ráquis/peso do cacho. No mosto, observaram-se diferenças em todas as variáveis, exceto para a relação degreesBrix/acidez total. No vinho, teve efeito na maior parte das variáveis avaliadas, com exceção aos cátions K, Mn, Cu e Rb. Em geral, a safra de 1999 foi a melhor, pois apresentou parâmetros mais adequados de acidez total, extrato seco, extrato seco reduzido, alcalinidade das cinzas, taninos, antocianinas e glicerol, variáveis essas que determinam a estrutura e a cor dos vinhos, importantes fatores para sua qualidade.

Os retratos de Maria Isabel e Maria Francisca de Bragança, de Nicolas-Antoine Taunay

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Elaine Dias

2011-01-01

Full Text Available Nicolas-Antoine Taunay, French landscape painter, produced also several portraits during his stay at the Rio de Janeiro Court. In this city, in 1816, he paints the queen Carlota Joaquina and all her daughters. In this group, two portraits have a very special way: the paintings still today catalogued as Maria Francisca and Maria Teresa, but probably being Maria Isabel and Maria Francisca de Assis - princesses that, in this year, left Brazil to marry the Spanish King Fernando VII, and his brother Carlos Maria Isidro de Bourbon. In this article, beyond to describe these portraits (and analyse the identities of the portrayed princesses, I analyse their functions in the Court society and the mains artists of this gender in Europe. I will discuss, as well, the hypothesis about the Taunay choices. In this sense, I will analyse the possible circulation of the typologies of portrait between Italy, Portugal, Spain and France, understanding these productions by Taunay and the functions occupied by these portraits in the political relations between Brazil and Europe.

Effects of Aquifer Development and Changes in Irrigation Practices on Ground-Water Availability in the Santa Isabel Area, Puerto Rico

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Kuniansky, Eve L.; Gómez-Gómez, Fernando; Torres-Gonzalez, Sigfredo

2003-01-01

The alluvial aquifer in the area of Santa Isabel is located within the South Coastal Plain aquifer of Puerto Rico. Variations in precipitation, changes in irrigation practices, and increasing public-supply water demand have been the primary factors controlling water-level fluctuations within the aquifer. Until the late 1970s, much of the land in the study area was irrigated using inefficient furrow flooding methods that required large volumes of both surface and ground water. A gradual shift in irrigation practices from furrow systems to more efficient micro-drip irrigation systems occurred between the late 1970s and the late 1980s. Irrigation return flow from the furrow-irrigation systems was a major component of recharge to the aquifer. By the early 1990s, furrow-type systems had been replaced by the micro-drip irrigation systems. Water levels declined about 20 feet in the aquifer from 1985 until present (February 2003). The main effect of the changes in agricultural practices is the reduction in recharge to the aquifer and total irrigation withdrawals. Increases in ground-water withdrawals for public supply offset the reduction in ground-water withdrawals for irrigation such that the total estimated pumping rate in 2003 was only 8 percent less than in 1987. Micro-drip irrigation resulted in the loss of irrigation return flow to the aquifer. These changes resulted in lowering the water table below sea level over most of the Santa Isabel area. By 2002, lowering of the water table reversed the natural discharge along the coast and resulted in the inland movement of seawater, which may result in increased salinity of the aquifer, as had occurred in other parts of the South Coastal Plain. Management alternatives for the South Coastal Plain aquifer in the vicinity of Santa Isabel include limiting groundwater withdrawals or implementing artificial recharge measures. Another alternative for the prevention of saltwater intrusion is to inject freshwater or treated sewage

The Madrid Royal Schools of St. Elisabeth and Loreto according Constitutions of 1715 and 1718 Los Reales Colegios de Santa Isabel y Loreto de Madrid según sus constituciones de 1715 y 1718

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Beatriz COMELLA GUTIÉRREZ

2013-02-01

Full Text Available The Madrid Royal Schools of Saint Elizabeth and Loreto were founded by Philip II at the end of 16th Century. Both institutions provided education for orphan girls. They still exist as Catholic coeducational schools granted by the Education Department. These two Schools were Royal Sponsorship belonging to Palace ecclesiastical jurisdiction. The Schools Constitutions sanctioned by Philip V have been preserved until now. Although these Schools have a parallel history, the mentioned Constitutions are completely different for each School. According to these Norms, the Madrid Royal Schools of Saint Elizabeth and Loreto have many differences between them.Los Reales Colegios de Santa Isabel y Loreto de Madrid para niñas huérfanas fueron fundados por Felipe II a finales del siglo XVI. Ambas instituciones siguen funcionando en la actualidad como centros educativos católicos mixtos y concertados. Los dos fueron patronatos reales pertenecientes a la jurisdicción eclesiástica de Palacio. Se han conservado las Constituciones de ambos aprobadas bajo el reinado de Felipe V. Aunque los Colegios tienen una historia paralela, la citada normativa es muy diferente para cada institución; según las Constituciones, Santa Isabel y Loreto tienen más aspectos diferenciadores que comunes.

Comportamiento productivo de vacas lecheras Mambí de Cuba en una asociación de gramíneas y Leucaena leucocephala cv. Cunningham Productive performance of Cuban Mambí dairy cows in an association of grasses and Leucaena leucocephala cv. Cunningham

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Tania Sánchez

2008-12-01

Full Text Available Se evaluó el comportamiento de los indicadores productivos de vacas Mambí (¾ Holstein x ¼ Cebú de Cuba en una asociación de gramíneas mejoradas y Leucaena leucocephala cv. Cunningham, en una vaquería de la Empresa Genética de Matanzas. El pesaje de leche se realizó durante dos años al 100% de los animales en ordeño, con una frecuencia mensual. Se determinó la producción de leche por vaca en ordeño y la producción por vaca total, así como la influencia del bimestre de producción, la época del año, el número de la lactancia y el año, en el comportamiento productivo. Se alcanzó coincidencia entre la curva real y potencial de producción de leche, con una eficiencia superior al 85%; los mayores valores se obtuvieron en el período lluvioso. Al analizar la producción de leche por bimestre los mejores resultados se alcanzaron en julio-agosto. Además se lograron valores de producción por lactancia de 2 030-2 159 kg y por hectárea de 2 744-3 025 kg. A su vez, cuando se analizó el efecto de la época del año en el peso de los terneros al nacer no se encontraron diferencias significativas; los valores fueron superiores a 37,5 kg para ambos períodos. Se concluye que con la asociación de gramíneas mejoradas y leucaena se obtuvieron producciones totales, por lactancia y por hectárea aceptables, lo cual conllevó un adecuado nivel de rentabilidad en la vaquería, con ganancias superiores a los 1 000 pesos por hectárea.The performance of the productive indicators of Mambí cows (3/4 Holstein x ¼ Zebu from Cuba was evaluated in an association of improved grasses and Leucaena leucocephala cv. Cunningham, at a dairy unit of the Genetic Livestock Production Enterprise of Matanzas. The milk weighing was performed for two years in 100% of the milking animals, with a monthly frequency. Milk production per milking cow and total production per cow were determined, as well as the influence of production two-month period, season

The Tourism Carrying Capacity of Underwater Trails in Isabel Island National Park, Mexico

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Ríos-Jara, Eduardo; Galván-Villa, Cristian Moisés; Rodríguez-Zaragoza, Fabián Alejandro; López-Uriarte, Ernesto; Muñoz-Fernández, Vicente Teófilo

2013-08-01

The popularity of ecotourism in the marine protected areas of Mexico has increased over the last 10 years; in particular there is a large development of a SCUBA diving industry in the Mexican Pacific including Isabel Island. Given the risks associated with human activity in the marine environments around this island, we propose two ecotourism management strategies: (1) the creation and use of underwater trails, and (2) the estimation of the specific tourism carrying capacity (TCC) for each trail. Six underwater trails were selected in sites that presented elements of biological, geological, and scenic interest, using information obtained during field observations. The methodology used to estimate the TCC was based upon the physical and biological conditions of each site, the infrastructure and equipment available, and the characteristics of the service providers and the administrators of the park. Correction factors of the TCC included elements of the quality of the visit and the threat and vulnerability of the marine environment of each trail (e.g., divers' expertise, size and distance between groups of divers, accessibility, wind, coral coverage). The TCC values ranged between 1,252 and 1,642 dives/year/trail, with a total of 8,597 dives/year for all six trails. Although these numbers are higher than the actual number of recreational visitors to the island (~1,000 dives per year), there is a need for adequate preventive management if the diving sites are to maintain their esthetic appeal and biological characteristics. Such management might be initially directed toward using only the sites and the TCC proposed here.

The tourism carrying capacity of underwater trails in Isabel Island National Park, Mexico.

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Ríos-Jara, Eduardo; Galván-Villa, Cristian Moisés; Rodríguez-Zaragoza, Fabián Alejandro; López-Uriarte, Ernesto; Muñoz-Fernández, Vicente Teófilo

2013-08-01

The popularity of ecotourism in the marine protected areas of Mexico has increased over the last 10 years; in particular there is a large development of a SCUBA diving industry in the Mexican Pacific including Isabel Island. Given the risks associated with human activity in the marine environments around this island, we propose two ecotourism management strategies: (1) the creation and use of underwater trails, and (2) the estimation of the specific tourism carrying capacity (TCC) for each trail. Six underwater trails were selected in sites that presented elements of biological, geological, and scenic interest, using information obtained during field observations. The methodology used to estimate the TCC was based upon the physical and biological conditions of each site, the infrastructure and equipment available, and the characteristics of the service providers and the administrators of the park. Correction factors of the TCC included elements of the quality of the visit and the threat and vulnerability of the marine environment of each trail (e.g., divers' expertise, size and distance between groups of divers, accessibility, wind, coral coverage). The TCC values ranged between 1,252 and 1,642 dives/year/trail, with a total of 8,597 dives/year for all six trails. Although these numbers are higher than the actual number of recreational visitors to the island (~1,000 dives per year), there is a need for adequate preventive management if the diving sites are to maintain their esthetic appeal and biological characteristics. Such management might be initially directed toward using only the sites and the TCC proposed here.

Fluorose dentária em crianças de Princesa Isabel, Paraíba

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FORTE Franklin Delano Soares

2001-01-01

Full Text Available Diversas localidades da Paraíba possuem níveis moderados ou elevados de fluoreto in natura nas águas de abastecimento. Nas áreas onde os níveis de fluoretos são considerados "ótimos" para a região (0,6 ppm, já constatou-se uma moderada prevalência de fluorose dentária (30-40%. O presente trabalho teve por objetivo observar a prevalência de fluorose dentária na cidade de Princesa Isabel, com níveis "subótimos" de fluoretos (0,4 ppm. Foram selecionados aleatoriamente 142 escolares de 10 a 15 anos para o levantamento de fluorose dentária pelo índice TF (de Thylstrup e Fejerskov. Os exames foram realizados por três examinadores previamente calibrados, sob luz natural indireta e após escovação supervisionada e secagem dos elementos dentários. Cerca de 20% dos escolares examinados apresentaram fluorose dentária, sendo que 70% com TF 1 e outros 30% distribuídos em diversos graus (TF 2 a 5. Fluorose foi mais prevalente no sexo masculino e em dentes pré-molares. Embora a fluorose dentária observada esteja dentro dos níveis esperados para o teor de fluoretos (0,4 ppm, outras fontes sistêmicas de fluoretos devem ser controladas. A prevalência de fluorose dentária observada não é problema de saúde pública nesta localidade.

The ‘other’ side of history as depicted in Isabel Allende’s Of Love and Shadows

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M. Wenzel

1996-05-01

Full Text Available The proceedings of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in South Africa have once again foregrounded the trauma involved in reconstructing a past fraught with political and personal violence and have, at the same time, also illustrated the therapeutic quality of testimony. Literature has always played a vital role in the process of coming to terms with reality. As a woman within a postcolonial context, Isabel Allende bears witness to political oppression and gender discrimination in her novels. They serve as examples of testimonial literature which focus on the plight of women as marginalized citizens and represent a collective conscience in testimony to the atrocities of the past. This is accomplished through the interaction of her fictional characters with a recognizable historical context. In Of Love and Shadows, her female protagonist, Irene, asserts her individuality through writing/reporting which questions the validity of the male-oriented and so-called “objective” historical reportage. By creating disparate and complementary perspectives which accentuate the female/personal as well as the male/public aspects of experience, Allende proposes a recognition of the personal and the peripheral in the documentation of historical events; she underlines the validity of the “other” side of experience and history.

Diseño de un programa educativo de preparación para la jubilación en jubilados (as de Santa Isabel de las Lajas

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Dailys Suárez Iglesias

2013-10-01

Full Text Available Resumen Ante la problemática social que se plantea en torno al envejecimiento, la presente investigación se propuso diseñar la propuesta de un programa educativo de preparación para la jubilación dirigido a jubilados (as del municipio Santa Isabel de las Lajas, Cienfuegos, Cuba. Constó de dos etapas, una diagnóstica (enero del 2007 a junio del 2008 y otra de diseño (de junio de 2008 a enero del 2009; la primera tuvo diseño de investigación explicativo, transversal, retrospectivo, cuasiexperimental, participaron como muestra 164 jubilados y tres grupos nominales de actores sociales; se emplearon: encuestas, cuestionario, entrevistas, grupo nominal, diagrama Ishikawa, método de Ranqueo, la matriz DAFO; en la segunda se realizó un diseño de intervención, prospectivo. La metodología que se siguió fue la planificación estratégica, su validación fue por criterios de especialistas. Se identificaron los factores socioculturales, familiares e individuales influyentes en la adaptación a la jubilación y su repercusión psicológica, se constató que no existe en el municipio un programa de preparación para la jubilación, más de la mitad de los jubilados no están adaptados a la jubilación. Se diseñó un programa educativo de preparación para la jubilación, el cual cumple con los requisitos establecidos para su diseño y aplicabilidad. (DUAZARY 2010, 49 - 59AbstractFacing the present day situation in regard to persons getting old, the present investigation intended to design a proposal of a an educative program for the preparation of retirement directed to old person who want to retire in Santa Isabel de Las Lajas town, Cienfuegos, Cuba. The investigation had two phases. One devoted to make a diagnostic (January 2007 –June 2008 and the other devoted to design the educative program (June 2008—January 2008. The diagnostic, applied in San Isabel de Las Lajas, Cienfuegos, Cuba, consisted in identifying the factors which influence

Grapevine yield components and composition of Isabel grape produced according to the organic and conventional systems

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Miele Alberto

2016-01-01

Full Text Available There is an increasing demand for organic grapes by the juice industry of Serra Gaúcha, Brazil. This region presents a humid and hot summer, ideal climatic conditions for the development of a number of diseases. To control such diseases and problems brought about by other organisms, growers apply pesticides on the grapevines which may leave residues in grapes. However, in general, grapes produced by organic system have lower yield, but there is a lack of research data on this subject. Thus, an experiment was carried out over three years in order to compare the yield components and the physicochemical composition of the must of Isabel grapes conducted in both production systems. When the grapes were ripe, variables related to yield components were evaluated, such as the number of clusters/vine, yield/vine and weight/cluster. Then the grapes were sampled and taken to the laboratory where they were crushed and the musts were centrifuged and analyzed. The 3-year data mean were submitted to correlation analysis and Principal Component Analysis. The results show that conventional grapevines produced 2.18 times more than organic. However, the grapes from the organic system had higher density, Brix, pH, Brix/titratable acidity ratio, P and Mg but lower K, and Ca varied little between both production systems.

Mapping the history and current situation of research on John Cunningham virus – a bibliometric analysis

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Guan Yi-fu

2009-03-01

Full Text Available Abstract Background John Cunningham virus (JCV constitutes a family of polyoma viruses, which plays important roles in the progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML and tumorigenesis. However, no bibliometric investigation has been reported to guide the researchers and potential readers. Methods Papers were collected from database Sci-expanded and Pubmed until May 22, 2008. The highly-productive authors, institutes and countries, highly-cited authors and journals were ranked. The highly-cited articles were subjected to co-citation and chronological analysis with highly-frequent MeSH words for co-occurrence analysis. Results Until now, 1785 articles about JCV were indexed in Sci-expanded and 1506 in Pubmed. The main document type was original article. USA, Japan and Italy were the largest three producers about JCV. Temple University published 128 papers and ranked the top, followed by University of Tokyo. Khalili K and Yogo Y became the core authors due to more than 20 documents produced. Journal of Neurovirology published more than 15 papers and ranked the top. Padgett BL and Berger JR were the first two highly-cited authors. Journal of Virology and Journal of Neurovirology respectively ranked to the first two highly-cited journals. These top highly-cited articles were divided into 5 aspects: (1 The correlation between JC virus and tumors; (2 Causal correlation of JCV with PML; (3 Polyoma virus infection and its related diseases in renal-allograft recipients; (4 Detection of JCV antibody, oncogene and its encoding protein; (5 Genetics and molecular biology of JCV. The MeSH/subheadings were classified into five groups: (1 JCV and virus infectious diseases; (2 JCV pathogenicity and pathological appearance of PML; (3 JCV isolation and detection; (4 Immunology of JCV and PML; (5 JCV genetics and tumors. Conclusion JCV investigation mainly focused on its isolation and detection, as well as its correlation with PML and tumors. Establishment of

Hindcasting of Storm Surges, Currents, and Waves at Lower Delaware Bay during Hurricane Isabel

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Salehi, M.

2017-12-01

Hurricanes are a major threat to coastal communities and infrastructures including nuclear power plants located in low-lying coastal zones. In response, their sensitive elements should be protected by smart design to withstand against drastic impact of such natural phenomena. Accurate and reliable estimate of hurricane attributes is the first step to that effort. Numerical models have extensively grown over the past few years and are effective tools in modeling large scale natural events such as hurricane. The impact of low probability hurricanes on the lower Delaware Bay is investigated using dynamically coupled meteorological, hydrodynamic, and wave components of Delft3D software. Efforts are made to significantly reduce the computational overburden of performing such analysis for the industry, yet keeping the same level of accuracy at the area of study (AOS). The model is comprised of overall and nested domains. The overall model domain includes portion of Atlantic Ocean, Delaware, and Chesapeake bays. The nested model domain includes Delaware Bay, its floodplain, and portion of the continental shelf. This study is portion of a larger modeling effort to study the impact of low probability hurricanes on sensitive infrastructures located at the coastal zones prone to hurricane activity. The AOS is located on the east bank of Delaware Bay almost 16 miles upstream of its mouth. Model generated wind speed, significant wave height, water surface elevation, and current are calibrated for hurricane Isabel (2003). The model calibration results agreed reasonably well with field observations. Furthermore, sensitivity of surge and wave responses to various hurricane parameters was tested. In line with findings from other researchers, accuracy of wind field played a major role in hindcasting the hurricane attributes.

Resistência induzida em frutos de videira 'Isabel' (Vitis Labrusca e seus efeitos sobre a qualidade pós-colheita Induced resistance in fruits of 'Isabel' vine (Vitis labrusca and its effects on post-harvest quality

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Kedma Maria Silva Pinto

2013-03-01

Full Text Available A indução de resistência tem sido apontada como alternativa sustentável para o manejo de doenças, mas pouco se sabe sobre a interferência de tais produtos na qualidade pós-colheita dos frutos. Assim, o presente trabalho tem por objetivo avaliar a produção e a maturação de frutos de videira 'Isabel' (Vitis labrusca, oriundos de plantas tratadas com elicitores de resistência, em Natuba-PB. Os experimentos foram realizados nos períodos de setembro de 2009 a janeiro de 2010 (safra 1 e de fevereiro a junho de 2010 (safra 2. Foram utilizados oito tratamentos (Testemunha; Fungicida (Metiram + Piraclostrobina; Fosfito de potássio; Agro-Mós®; Fungicida + Fosfito de potássio; Fungicida + Agro-Mós®; Fosfito de potássio + Agro-Mós® e Fungicida + Fosfito de potássio + Agro-Mós® e quatro repetições de 5 plantas. As aplicações foram realizadas a cada 10 dias, iniciando-se 20 dias após a poda, totalizando 12 aplicações. As coletas de frutos foram realizadas aos 45; 60;90 e 120 dias após a poda. As variáveis analisadas foram: massa dos cachos, comprimento e diâmetro dos cachos, rendimento de polpa, sólidos solúveis (SS, pH, acidez titulável (AT e relação SS/AT. O tratamento com fosfito de potássio promoveu o aumento de 24% no comprimento dos cachos, em relação à testemunha, na primeira safra. O rendimento de polpa e a relação SS/AT não foram influenciados pelos tratamentos, e o teor de sólidos solúveis foi influenciado positivamente pela aplicação de fosfito de potássio, com incrementos superiores a 60%, em ambas as safras avaliadas.Induction of resistance has been identified as a sustainable alternative for disease management, but little information is known about the interference of such products in the postharvest fruit. Thus, the present study aims to evaluate the production and ripening of grapes 'Isabel' (Vitis labrusca from plants treated with resistance elicitors in Natuba-PB, Brazil. The experiments

Incidencias del uso de las NTIC en las formas de aprendizaje de los estudiantes de la Escuela del Milenio Mejía D7 vs. la Escuela Fiscal Isabel Ruilova Calahorrano: 2015-2016

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Salazar Cando, Martha Patricia

2017-01-01

El propósito de esta investigación fue analizar las incidencias del uso de las NTIC en las formas de aprendizaje de los estudiantes de la Escuela del Milenio Mejía D7 vs. La Escuela Fiscal Isabel Ruilova Calahorrano: 2015 -2016, las dos instituciones pertenecen al sistema fiscal, con la diferencia que la unidad del milenio tiene tecnología de punta, en cambio la escuela fiscal no dispone de tecnología, esto permitió establecer un estudio en las formas de aprender con el uso de las NTIC y sin ...

INFLUÊNCIA DE TRATAMENTOS PRÉ-GERMINATIVOS, TEMPERATURA E LUMINOSIDADE NA GERMINAÇÃO DE SEMENTES DE LEUCENA (Leucaena leucocephala (Lam. De Wit., cv. CUNNINGHAM

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Alexandre Bosco de Oliveira

2009-01-01

Full Text Available The research was lead in two experiments with the objective of to identify methods to superation of dormancy in seeds of Leucaena leucocephala, Cunningham variety, and to verify the effect of light and temperatures in germination of this species. In first the seeds were submitted the nine methods to superation of dormancy: immersion in water under ambient temperature during 24, 48 and 72 hours, immersion in hot water under temperatures of 60, 80 and 100oC, immersion in sulfuric acid per 5 and 10 minutes, beyond of the witness. In second experiment, after treatment with sulfuric acid for 10 minutes, the seeds were sowed in tabledoch paper type Germitest and put to germinate under ten combinations: continue light and constant temperature of 20, 25, 30 and 35oC; dark continue and constant temperature of 20, 25, 30 and 35oC; alternated temperature of 20-30 and 25-35, both with fotoperiod of eight hours. Conclusion the specie Leucaena leucocephala presents seeds dormancy, detach-itself the sulfuric acid as efficient method to the superation of dormancy; the seeds of leucena are insensitive to the light and your germination was not influenced by the temperatures useds.

Relación entre el clima social familiar y la autoestima de los estudiantes del cuarto grado de educación secundaria de la I.E. Isabel Chimpu Ocllo del distrito de San Martín de Porres - Lima

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Pejerrey Campodónico, Rubeni

2015-01-01

El presente trabajo se originó gracias a la convivencia diaria con los estudiantes de la IE Isabel Chimpu Ocllo en la que surge la necesidad por determinar la relación entre el clima social familiar y la autoestima de los estudiantes, toda vez que merecen ser comprendidos y orientados adecuadamente ante cuestiones evidentes donde los adolescentes en su mayoría manifiestan actitudes impacientes, violentas e irrespetan las normas de convivencia. El trinomio de la educación: estudiantes, padres ...

Prevalencia y grado de pie plano según estado nutricional en niños escolares de las instituciones educativas Santa Isabel de Hungría y Santa Teresita de Jesús. Casma. 2010

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Sánchez Reyna, Luis Fernando

2016-01-01

El objetivo del estudio fue establecer la prevalencia y grado de pie plano en relación al estado nutricional en niños escolares matriculados en las Instituciones Educativas Santa Isabel de Hungría y Santa Teresita de Jesús de la ciudad de Casma. Este estudio cuantitativo, descriptivo y transversal evaluó a 321 niños escolares durante el año 2010. Se clasificó en niños eutróficos, con sobrepeso y obesidad según las tablas del IMC para la edad de la OMS, y en niños con pie normal o pie plano de...

Evaluación del establecimiento de Leucaena leucocephala cv. Cunningham en una finca ganadera del municipio de Perico, Matanzas, Cuba

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Katia Bover

Full Text Available El objetivo de este trabajo fue evaluar el establecimiento de Leucaena leucocephala cv. Cunningham en una finca de la cooperativa de créditos y servicios (CCS Ramón Rodríguez Milián, del municipio de Perico. Se trabajó en un área de 6 ha, dividida en cinco cuartones, y se realizó una preparación en franjas de 2 m de ancho. Se determinó la supervivencia después del trasplante, la altura, el número de ramas y la composición florística del pastizal; así como el efecto de las labores de limpieza y el daño causado por los animales en la altura. Se aplicó un análisis de varianza y los datos se procesaron con el paquete estadístico SPSS® versión 10.0 para Windows XP. La supervivencia de las plantas fue de 98 %; la labor de limpieza tuvo un efecto positivo en el crecimiento, mientras que la defoliación de la planta por los animales afectó el establecimiento. La población de pastos naturales (jiribilla y pitilla se mantuvo alrededor de 66 % y la de las principales leguminosas volubles (teramnus, glycine y siratro disminuyó de 12 % en el tercer mes después de realizado el trasplante, a 6 % en el decimoquinto mes. El sistema se consideró establecido cuando las plantas sobrepasaron los 2 m de altura. Se concluye que la labor de limpieza influyó positivamente en el comportamiento de la altura y el establecimiento de L. leucocephala, mientras que las defoliaciones causadas por los animales lo retrasaron.

ROOTSTOCKS EFFECTS ON THE PHYSICOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF BORDÔ, ISABEL AND IAC 138-22 MÁXIMO MUST AND WINE

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MARLON JOCIMAR RODRIGUES DA SILVA

2017-09-01

Full Text Available ABSTRACT It has been demonstrated that rootstocks can influence grape characteristics, but there are few data in literature about the rootstocks influence in the wine characteristics, especially in wines elaborated with Vitis labrusca or hybrid grapes. This study evaluated the influence of ‘IAC 766’ and ‘106-8 Mgt’ rootstocks on the physicochemical characteristics of ‘Bordô’, ‘Isabel’ and ‘IAC 138-22 ‘Máximo’ musts and wines. The musts were evaluated for pH, soluble solids, total acidity and soluble solids/acidity ratio. The wines were evaluated for density, alcohol content; total, volatile and fixed acidity; pH, dry extract, reducing sugars, reduced dry extract, alcohol in weight/reduced dry extract; free and total sulfur dioxide; anthocyanins, polyphenols index (I 280; polyphenols and total flavonoids and antioxidant activity. The ‘Bordô’, ‘Isabel’ and IAC 138-22 ‘Máximo’ musts had low soluble solids for winemaking. The ‘106-8 Mgt’ rootstock promoted higher dry extract content and reduced dry extract in Bordô wine, and lower total and fixed acidity in IAC 138-22 Máximo wine. In Isabel wine, higher pH was promoted by the ‘IAC 766’ rootstock. Aside from low total acidity of the Bordô wine, all the physicochemical characteristics of the wines studied are in accordance with Brazilian law. There was no effect of rootstocks in the phenolics content and antioxidant activity of wines.

Systematic review of the published data on the worldwide prevalence of John Cunningham virus in patients with multiple sclerosis and neuromyelitis optica.

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Paz, Sonia Patricia Castedo; Branco, Luciana; Pereira, Marina Alves de Camargo; Spessotto, Caroline; Fragoso, Yara Dadalti

2018-01-01

John Cunningham virus (JCV) is a polyoma virus that infects humans, mainly in childhood or adolescence, and presents no symptomatic manifestations. JCV can cause progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) in immunosuppressed individuals, including those undergoing treatment for multiple sclerosis (MS) and neuromyelitis optica (NMO). PML is a severe and potentially fatal disease of the brain. The prevalence of JCV antibodies in human serum has been reported to be between 50.0 and 90.0%. The aim of the present study was to review worldwide data on populations of patients with MS and NMO in order to establish the rates of JCV seropositivity in these individuals. The present review followed the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) guidelines and used the following search terms: "JCV" OR "JC virus" AND "multiple sclerosis" OR "MS" OR "NMO" OR "neuromyelitis optica" AND "prevalence." These terms were searched for both in smaller and in larger clusters of words. The databases searched included PubMed, MEDLINE, SciELO, LILACS, Google Scholar, and Embase. After the initial selection, 18 papers were included in the review. These articles reported the prevalence of JCV antibodies in the serum of patients with MS or NMO living in 26 countries. The systematic review identified data on 29,319 patients with MS/NMO and found that 57.1% of them (16,730 individuals) were seropositive for the anti-JCV antibody (range, 40.0 to 69.0%). The median worldwide prevalence of JCV among adults with MS or NMO was found to be 57.1%.

Combining dispersal, landscape connectivity and habitat suitability to assess climate-induced changes in the distribution of Cunningham's skink, Egernia cunninghami.

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Ofori, Benjamin Y; Stow, Adam J; Baumgartner, John B; Beaumont, Linda J

2017-01-01

The ability of species to track their climate niche is dependent on their dispersal potential and the connectivity of the landscape matrix linking current and future suitable habitat. However, studies modeling climate-driven range shifts rarely address the movement of species across landscapes realistically, often assuming "unlimited" or "no" dispersal. Here, we incorporate dispersal rate and landscape connectivity with a species distribution model (Maxent) to assess the extent to which the Cunningham's skink (Egernia cunninghami) may be capable of tracking spatial shifts in suitable habitat as climate changes. Our model was projected onto four contrasting, but equally plausible, scenarios describing futures that are (relative to now) hot/wet, warm/dry, hot/with similar precipitation and warm/wet, at six time horizons with decadal intervals (2020-2070) and at two spatial resolutions: 1 km and 250 m. The size of suitable habitat was projected to decline 23-63% at 1 km and 26-64% at 250 m, by 2070. Combining Maxent output with the dispersal rate of the species and connectivity of the intervening landscape matrix showed that most current populations in regions projected to become unsuitable in the medium to long term, will be unable to shift the distance necessary to reach suitable habitat. In particular, numerous populations currently inhabiting the trailing edge of the species' range are highly unlikely to be able to disperse fast enough to track climate change. Unless these populations are capable of adaptation they are likely to be extirpated. We note, however, that the core of the species distribution remains suitable across the broad spectrum of climate scenarios considered. Our findings highlight challenges faced by philopatric species and the importance of adaptation for the persistence of peripheral populations under climate change.

Combining dispersal, landscape connectivity and habitat suitability to assess climate-induced changes in the distribution of Cunningham's skink, Egernia cunninghami.

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Benjamin Y Ofori

Full Text Available The ability of species to track their climate niche is dependent on their dispersal potential and the connectivity of the landscape matrix linking current and future suitable habitat. However, studies modeling climate-driven range shifts rarely address the movement of species across landscapes realistically, often assuming "unlimited" or "no" dispersal. Here, we incorporate dispersal rate and landscape connectivity with a species distribution model (Maxent to assess the extent to which the Cunningham's skink (Egernia cunninghami may be capable of tracking spatial shifts in suitable habitat as climate changes. Our model was projected onto four contrasting, but equally plausible, scenarios describing futures that are (relative to now hot/wet, warm/dry, hot/with similar precipitation and warm/wet, at six time horizons with decadal intervals (2020-2070 and at two spatial resolutions: 1 km and 250 m. The size of suitable habitat was projected to decline 23-63% at 1 km and 26-64% at 250 m, by 2070. Combining Maxent output with the dispersal rate of the species and connectivity of the intervening landscape matrix showed that most current populations in regions projected to become unsuitable in the medium to long term, will be unable to shift the distance necessary to reach suitable habitat. In particular, numerous populations currently inhabiting the trailing edge of the species' range are highly unlikely to be able to disperse fast enough to track climate change. Unless these populations are capable of adaptation they are likely to be extirpated. We note, however, that the core of the species distribution remains suitable across the broad spectrum of climate scenarios considered. Our findings highlight challenges faced by philopatric species and the importance of adaptation for the persistence of peripheral populations under climate change.

The effect of Isabel grape addition on the physicochemical, microbiological and sensory characteristics of probiotic goat milk yogurt.

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Silva, Francyeli Araújo; de Oliveira, Maria Elieidy Gomes; de Figueirêdo, Rossana Maria Feitosa; Sampaio, Karoliny Brito; de Souza, Evandro Leite; de Oliveira, Carlos Eduardo Vasconcelos; Pintado, Maria Manuela Estevez; Ramos do Egypto Queiroga, Rita de Cássia

2017-06-21

Goat milk is an attractive food because of its nutritional properties, easy digestibility and hypoallergenicity. Goat milk yogurt is an appropriate matrix for the inclusion of new ingredients such as probiotic cultures, fruit and its derivatives. Grapes are rich in polyphenols and recognized for their health benefits. The aim of this study was to improve the quality characteristics of probiotic goat milk yogurt by the addition of an Isabel grape (Vitis labrusca L.) preparation (IGP). For this, the influence of the addition of IGP on the physicochemical, microbiological and sensory characteristics of goat milk yogurt containing the probiotic Lactobacillus acidophilus LA-05 was evaluated during 28 days of refrigerated storage (5 ± 0.5 °C). Four yogurt formulations were prepared, each varying in the added IGP amount, as follows: Y0 (not containing IGP), YG15 (containing 15 g per 100 mL of IGP), YG20 (containing 20 g per 100 mL of IGP), and YG25 (containing 25 g per 100 mL of IGP). All formulations showed probiotic counts ranging from 7 to 8 log CFU mL -1 over the assessed storage period. The addition of 20 g per 100 mL of IGP affected positively the colour, viscosity, and sensory acceptance of the yogurt formulations. The production of goat milk yogurt containing L. acidophilus LA-05 and IGP is an option for developing a new goat dairy product with added value due to the inclusion of components with potential functional properties.

Valor nutritivo e utilização do feno de leucena (Leucaena leucocephala cv. Cunningham para coelhos em crescimento Nutritional feeding value and use of Leucaena hay (Leucaena leucocephala cv. Cunningham for growing rabbits

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Denise Fontana Figueiredo

2000-05-01

Full Text Available Dois experimentos foram realizados com o objetivo de avaliar a utilização do feno de leucena (Leucaena leucocephala cv.Cunningham para coelhos em crescimento. No ensaio de digestibilidade foram utilizados 28 coelhos da raça Nova Zelândia Branco, com 40 dias de idade, distribuídos em um delineamento experimental inteiramente casualizado, com dois tratamentos e 14 repetições. Foram utilizadas duas dietas, uma referência e uma teste na qual o feno de leucena substituiu 25% da matéria seca da dieta-referência. Os teores de matéria seca digestível, matéria orgânica digestível, proteína digestível, fibra em detergente neutro digestível e energia digestível do feno de leucena foram, respectivamente, de 26,87%; 25,30%; 5,32%; 14,66% e 1.286Kcal/kg. No experimento de desempenho foram utilizados 80 coelhos da raça Nova Zelândia Branco, de 35 a 70 dias de idade. Os animais foram distribuídos num delineamento experimental inteiramente casualizado, com cinco tratamentos (cinco níveis de inclusão de feno de leucena: 0, 25, 50, 75 e 100%, em substituição ao feno de alfafa, oito repetições e dois animais por unidade experimental. Os níveis crescentes de substituição do feno de alfafa pelo feno de leucena, não afetaram o desempenho dos coelhos durante o período experimental. Os dados mostram que o feno de leucena substituiu eficientemente o feno de alfafa em dietas para coelhos em crescimento.Two trial were carried out to determine the performance of rabbits fed on diets which included Leucaena hay (Leucaena leucocephala cv. Cunninghan. Twenty-eight 40-day old White New Zealand rabbits were employed for the digestibility trial, in a completely randomized design with two treatments and 14 replications. Reference and test diets were used in which Leucaena hay replaced 25% of the dry matter in the reference diet. Digestible dry matter, digestible organic matter, digestible protein, digestible F.D.N. and digestible energy contents of

Systematic review of the published data on the worldwide prevalence of John Cunningham virus in patients with multiple sclerosis and neuromyelitis optica

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Sonia Patricia Castedo Paz

2018-01-01

Full Text Available OBJECTIVES John Cunningham virus (JCV is a polyoma virus that infects humans, mainly in childhood or adolescence, and presents no symptomatic manifestations. JCV can cause progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML in immunosuppressed individuals, including those undergoing treatment for multiple sclerosis (MS and neuromyelitis optica (NMO. PML is a severe and potentially fatal disease of the brain. The prevalence of JCV antibodies in human serum has been reported to be between 50.0 and 90.0%. The aim of the present study was to review worldwide data on populations of patients with MS and NMO in order to establish the rates of JCV seropositivity in these individuals. METHODS The present review followed the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses guidelines and used the following search terms: “JCV” OR “JC virus” AND “multiple sclerosis” OR “MS” OR “NMO” OR “neuromyelitis optica” AND “prevalence.” These terms were searched for both in smaller and in larger clusters of words. The databases searched included PubMed, MEDLINE, SciELO, LILACS, Google Scholar, and Embase. RESULTS After the initial selection, 18 papers were included in the review. These articles reported the prevalence of JCV antibodies in the serum of patients with MS or NMO living in 26 countries. The systematic review identified data on 29,319 patients with MS/NMO and found that 57.1% of them (16,730 individuals were seropositive for the anti-JCV antibody (range, 40.0 to 69.0%. CONCLUSIONS The median worldwide prevalence of JCV among adults with MS or NMO was found to be 57.1%.

Isabel la Católica y el marqués de Cádiz, o la cortesía en la representación historiográfica del poder

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Juan Luis CARRIAZO RUBIO

2006-03-01

Full Text Available On analyse ici la reconstruction, dans les chroniques, du processus complexe de soumission de la maison d’Arcos à la nouvelle monarchie qu’incarne la reine Isabelle. La présence d’une femme sur le trône de Castille fut, pour les chroniqueurs, l’occasion de condenser dans une série de scènes d’une grande intensité littéraire, le rapprochement compliqué, non sans négociations, qui fit de Rodrigo Ponce de León, l’adversaire redouté, un héros, voire une icône du projet politique des Rois Catholiques. Palencia, Valera, Pulgar ou encore Bernáldez, entre autres, proposent des versions parfois divergentes où ils attribuent, moyennant quelques écarts sensibles, un rôle plus ou moins important à Isabelle dans sa réconciliation avec le marquis. Mais au-delà des intérêts et des marques de loyauté des chroniqueurs, la présence même de la reine est un moyen de compléter le profil guerrier de ce héros de la frontière par l’évocation de manifestations de courtoisie des plus raffinées.Se analiza aquí la plasmación cronística del complejo proceso de sumisión de la Casa de Arcos a la nueva monarquía encarnada por la reina Isabel. No en vano, la presencia de una mujer en el trono de Castilla brindó a los cronistas la posibilidad de condensar en una serie de escenas de gran intensidad literaria el complicado acercamiento, no exento de negociaciones, que transformó a Rodrigo Ponce de León de adversario temido en héroe e incluso icono del proyecto político de los Reyes Católicos. Palencia, Valera, Pulgar o Bernáldez, entre otros, ofrecen relatos no siempre coincidentes que divergen de manera sensible al conceder a Isabel mayor o menor protagonismo en la reconciliación con el marqués. Pero más allá de los intereses y lealtades de los cronistas, la propia presencia de la reina les permite completar el perfil guerrero del héroe fronterizo con las más refinadas manifestaciones de cortesía.

Archive of post-Hurricane Isabel coastal oblique aerial photographs collected during U.S. Geological Survey Field Activity 03CCH01 from Ocean City, Maryland, to Fort Caswell, North Carolina and Inland from Waynesboro to Redwood, Virginia, September 21 - 23, 2003

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Subino, Janice A.; Morgan, Karen L.M.; Krohn, M. Dennis; Dadisman, Shawn V.

2013-01-01

On September 21 - 23, 2003, the United States Geological Survey (USGS) conducted an oblique aerial photographic survey along the Atlantic coast from Ocean City, Md., to Fort Caswell, N.C., and inland oblique aerial photographic survey from Waynesboro to Redwood, Va., aboard a Navajo Piper twin-engine airplane. The coastal survey was conducted at an altitude of 500 feet (ft) and approximately 1,000 ft offshore. For the inland photos, the aircraft tried to stay approximately 500 ft above the terrain. These coastal photos were used to document coastal changes like beach erosion and overwash caused by Hurricane Isabel, while the inland photos looked for potential landslides caused by heavy rains. The photos may also be used as baseline data for future coastal change analysis. The USGS and the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) surveyed the impact zone of Hurricane Isabel to better understand the changes in vulnerability of the Nation’s coasts to extreme storms (Morgan, 2009). This report serves as an archive of photographs collected during the September 21 - 23, 2003, post-Hurricane Isabel coastal and inland oblique aerial survey along with associated survey maps, KML files, navigation files, digital Field Activity Collection System (FACS) logs, and Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) metadata. Refer to the Acronyms page for expansions of all acronyms and abbreviations used in this report. The USGS St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center (SPCMSC) assigns a unique identifier to each cruise or field activity. For example, 03CCH01 tells us the data were collected in 2003 for the Coastal Change Hazards (CCH) study and the data were collected during the first field activity for that project in that calendar year. Refer to http://walrus.wr.usgs.gov/infobank/programs/html/definition/activity.html for a detailed description of the method used to assign the ID number. The photographs provided here are Joint Photographic Experts Group (JPEG

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Shipley, Jesse Weaver (2013). Living the Hiplife: Celebrity and. Entrepreneurship in Ghanaian Popular Music. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. ISBN: 9780822353669. xiii, 329 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95 ...

Mujeres detrás de la escena: Isabel Carrasquilla y Sofía Ospina de Navarro, dramaturgas al margen en la primera mitad del siglo XX en Colombia

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Nancy Johana Correa Serna

2018-01-01

Full Text Available El artículo analiza las representaciones de género de tres comedias de Isabel Carrasquilla de Arango y dos de Sofía Ospina de Navarro, quienes son consideradas como intelectuales; productoras de representaciones y de discursos. Aunque su destacada posición social les permitió intervenir en la escena pública de Medellín, dominada por esquemas masculinos, en parte como un legado de ese poder letrado del siglo XIX, estuvieron al margen, pues no contaron con educación superior y, dentro de la escena cultural, su actividad intelectual se asoció generalmente a las figuras masculinas que las rodearon durante sus vidas. Así mismo, sus producciones fueron identificadas con los denominados géneros menores: crónica, cuento y pequeñas obras teatrales, que se consideraban aceptables y propicias para las mujeres. Sin embargo, sus comedias presentan una visión renovada, y a veces transgredida, sobre los estereotipos de género de la época.

Significación y trascendencia del género epistolar en la política cortesana: la correspondencia inédita entre la Infanta Isabel Clara Eugenia y el Marqués de Velada

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Santiago Martínez Hernández

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Full Text Available The aim of this paper is make known the unpublished correspondence maintained between the Infanta Isabel Clara Eugenia and the Marquis of Velada, her lord high steward for a period of eleven years in the early seventeenth century. This private correspondence has become a vital source of information, especially for the historiography of the court, specifically in comparison with official correspondence. The content of the letters brings nuance and personal judgements which, by virtue of the freedom with which they were written, prove to have a much greater value than the public documents. Certainly, the letters not only transmitted news but also became a powerful means for maintaining the relationship over a considerable distance. This correspondence provides a number of insights into the political and personal relations between a princess and a courtier. The article also includes a transcription and abstract of the letters.

A importância da educação ambiental no processo de construção e execução de projeto político pedagógico em escolas municipais de Princesa Isabel – PB

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Elayne Bernardino de Sousa

2015-06-01

Full Text Available A preocupação com a Educação Ambiental (EA tem incentivado diversos estudiosos de diferentes áreas a contemplarem esse tema e a desenvolverem novas perspectivas sobre ele. Muitos autores a relacionava somente com a preservação e ações conservacionistas do meio ambiente, mas sua dimensão vai além, a exemplo da própria interação entre os sujeitos como uma dessas propostas. Nesse sentido, este artigo é resultado de um projeto do programa de Iniciação Cientifica e Tecnológica (PIBICT. O objetivo deste trabalho é identificar a importância da EA no processo de construção e execução do Projeto Político Pedagógico (PPP nas escolas municipais de Princesa Isabel – PB. A metodologia se fez por meio de entrevistas e aplicação de questionários, além de análise documental do PPP existente, do regimento escolar, do plano de desenvolvimento da escola, do projeto Selo Verde na Escola: pensar, sentir e agir e do Projeto COM-VIDA. Ademais, as observações/conversas informais durante os contatos com a escola e seus atores sociais também foram valorizadas. Os resultados da pesquisa mostraram que as escolas municipais urbanas de Princesa Isabel ainda estão atreladas a uma visão reducionista da temática ambiental, pois não conseguem, ainda, identificar a EA como um processo amplo, em que a relação sociedade/natureza está presente, tendo muitas vezes a percepção de conscientização à preservação ao meio ambiente, mas não priorizam as interações entre os sujeitos e destes com o meio por meio de atividades cotidianas.

Las sociedades musicales en el Madrid de Isabel II (1833-1868

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Diez Huerga, M. Aurelia

2003-12-01

Full Text Available After the fall of the monarchist absolutism, the middle class, whom the economic liberalism gives an unprecedented strength, demands new entertainments, new places to make profitable social relationships and, definitely, new ways to show their influence and power. On the other hand, the shift of political rules allows people to express and gather, even if with some restrictions, and opens the door to the progressive democratization of society, with its cultural consequences. That ensemble of factors leads to the appearance of many different institutions but with a constant feature: the defence of the liberal ideas, the good fellowship and communication among individuals (which includes the recreational side, the cultural divulging and artistic expression. It is at this point that establishments with both musical and educational activity must be taken into account. This essay intends to go through organizations such as Liceo Artístico y Literario, Instituto Español, La Unión, Museo Lírico, El Genio and many other artistic societies which proliferated during the 1830s and 1840s, centres with an intense social and musical activity in Madrid during Isabel II's era. Their influence in this area must be underlined, as devoted to promote performance, composition and, which is highly important, music instruction. The selected society of Madrid could be found there, gathered to learn music rudiments, singing and playing as well as to listen to the repertory in vogue at that time and to take part itself in its performance.

Tras la caída del absolutismo monárquico, la burguesía, a quien el liberalismo económico dota de una pujanza sin precedentes, demanda nuevos entretenimientos, nuevos espacios para granjearse relaciones sociales convenientes y, en definitiva, nuevas formas para ostentar su influencia y poder. Por otra parte, el cambio de régimen político abre las puertas a las libertades de expresión y de reunión, aunque sea con

That Bookstore in Blytheville

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Philhours, Melodie Jordan; Alberson, Amy Kurck; Naylor, Catherine

2011-01-01

Mary Gay Shipley built a charming business in Blytheville, Arkansas. She and her bookstore have a national reputation in the book world. Can that Bookstore in Blytheville leverage its reputation and charm into real profit? (Contains 2 notes.)

Effects of changing irrigation practices on the ground-water hydrology of the Santa Isabel-Juana Diaz area, south central Puerto Rico

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Ramos-Gines, Orlando

1994-01-01

Prior to 1930, the principal source of water for irrigation in the Santa Isabel-Juana Diaz area was surface water from outside the study area, which was delivered by a complex channel-pond system. Recharge from water applied to the fields, estimated to be 18.7 million of gallons per day, and discharge by ground-water flow to sea, estimated to be 17 million of gallons per day, were the major water- budget components prior to intensive development of the ground-water resources. Development of the ground-water resources after 1930 resulted in a substantial increase in irrigation, primarily furrow irrigation. The surface water supplied by the complex channel-pond system continued to be used and ground-water withdrawals increased sub- stantially. By 1966-68, ground-water recharge from irrigation water applied to the fields, estimated to be 37 million of gallons per day, and discharge by pumpage for irrigation, estimated to be 77 million of gallons per day, were the two major components of the ground-water budget. By 1987, drip irrigation had become the principal method of irrigation in the study area, and surface-water irrigation had, for the most part, been discontinued. The estimated aquifer recharge from irrigation water in 1987 was about 6.6 million of gallons per day, which occurred primarily in the remaining fields where furrow irrigation was still practiced. Although aquifer recharge had been reduced as a result of the conversion from furrow to drip irrigation, water levels in the aquifer were higher in 1987 than in 1968 because of the large reduction in ground-water withdrawals and subsequent recovery of ground-water levels.

The Literal and the Literary: A Note on the Historical References in Isabel Allende's La casa de los espíritus

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2003-06-01

Full Text Available Stripped of much of its individuality as a piece of literature and relegated to the niche set aside for women's writing, Isabel Allende's La casa de los espíritus has sometimes wrongfully been critically condemned as a mere facsimile of García Màrquez's seminal Latin American novel. However, if critics were to reexamine La casa de los espíritus as a work of fiction in which its writer attempts to give voice to, and achieve personal closure of, historical events so tragically real for her, its comparisons with that "other" Latin American novel might be less frequent. This article contends that Allende uses a mixture of traceable historical facts, unsubstantiated personal accounts, and urban myths perpetuated by popular hearsay to present a plausible version of what could have happened during the events surrounding the fall of Salvador Allende on September 11, 1973. The crux of the argument presented will be that by superimposing unsubstantiated or distorted fact and local myth, Allende calls into play an understanding of traceable historical referents and creates a sense of associative identification between the reader and the text and the characters within. This reconstituted image provides a reinterpretation of what happened, a plausible scenario by means of which one can negotiate or interpret the varying shades of "truth" associated with the events as they may have occurred. This article further argues that through the use of familiar and identifiable images of a closer-to-the-fact fictionalization of real historical incidences, Allende is able to create a more credible characterization and historicity in the novel as well as sensitise her target reader to the resultant social and political changes of what many of her countrymen consider the single most fateful day in their nation's history.

Grievance and Arbitration Practices and Decisions in Schools: Outcomes of Rational Decision Making?

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Osborne-Lampkin, La'Tara

2010-01-01

Some researchers suggest that grievance procedures and the arbitration process are effective tools that encourage careful decision making by school districts and administrative staff in the handling of personnel decisions (Shipley, 1974). Others contend that grievance procedures, which typically include arbitration as the final stage of the…

Avaliação do potencial de cinco cultivares de videiras americanas para sucos de uva no sul de Minas Gerais Potential evaluation of five american cultivars for grape juices in the south of Minas Gerais state

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Giuliano Elias Pereira

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Full Text Available Objetivou-se, no presente trabalho realizar uma caracterização dos sucos de uva de cinco cultivares de videira americana Vitis labrusca (Folha de Figo, Alwood, Concord, BRS-Rúbea e Isabel segundo suas características visuais, olfativas e gustativas, utilizando um método descritivo por um painel de degustadores da Embrapa Uva e Vinho (EMBRAPA/CNPUV de Bento Gonçalves e da Associação Brasileira de Enologia (ABE, constituído por doze degustadores. De acordo com os resultados, os sucos das cultivares Isabel e Folha de Figo foram superiores aos demais, segundo a análise de componentes principais (ACP, principalmente pelas variáveis limpidez, equilíbrio olfativo, intensidade e corpo gustativo, persistência olfato-gustativa e julgamento geral (notas. O suco Folha de Figo foi superior ao Isabel quanto à tonalidade, sendo o primeiro caracterizado como vermelho-violáceo. A cultivar Folha de Figo é a mais utilizada na região para a produção de suco, podendo os produtores utilizarem também a cultivar Isabel, que mostrou potencial nas condições edafo-climáticas do sul de Minas Gerais.The present work was designed to accomplish the characterization of the different grape juices of five grapevine cultivars of Vitis labrusca (Folha de Figo, Alwood, Concord, BRS-Rúbea e Isabel according to their visual, smell and taste characteristics utilizing a descriptive method by a panel of tasters of Embrapa Grape and Wine (EMBRAPA/CNPUV of Bento Gonçalves, and of the Brazilian Enology Association (ABE consisting of 12 tasters. According to the results, the juices of the cultivars Isabel and Folha de Figo were higher than the others, analyzed statistically according to the Principal Component Analysis (PCA, mainly by the visual cleanliness variables, olfatory equilibrium, gustative body and quality, olfato-gustative persistence and general judgement (scores and the juice of Folha de Figo was higher than Isabel according to visual shade, the former

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Home; Journals; Bulletin of Materials Science. ISABEL HERRMANN. Articles written in Bulletin of Materials Science. Volume 41 Issue 1 February 2018 pp 18. Advanced nanofibrous textile-based dressing material for treating chronic wounds · ISABEL HERRMANN EKO SUPRIYANTO SARAVANA KUMAR JAGANATHAN A ...

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... CLAUDIA FRIEDLANDER ROBERT MAX FRIESEN KATHLEEN ELLEN FUKUNAGA MIWA FULLER NICHOLAS ALAN FULLER NICHOLAS... SHIPLEY ROBERT ANTHONY SIM JEONG SUN SIMON ANTHONY NICHOLAS SIMON JULIE ANN SINN JUSTINE TUNG SITTARO... JAMES TAN YANQIANG TANAKA RYO TANG MARX THERN EDINA RITTER THERN JR ROBERT WILLIAM TIEN LAUREN TSAK YEN...

Validation of Brain Event-Related Potentials as Indicators of Cognitive Styles, Abilities, and Aptitudes.

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1983-02-01

1970; Callaway, 1973, 1975; Chalke & Ertl, 1965; Ertl, 1969; Ertl & Schafer, 1969; Galbraith, Gliddon, & Busk , 1970; Gucker, 1973; Marcus, 1970...related to intelligence--although not always (Bigum, Dustman, & Beck, 1970; Galbraith, Gliddon, & Busk , 1970; Perry, McCoy, Cunningham, Falgout...be directly related to intelligence--but not always (Bigum, Dustman, & Beck, 1970; Galbraith, Gliddon, & Busk , 1970; Perry, McCoy, Cunningham, Falgot

Gestión interactoral del hábitat a nivel barrial. Prácticas profesionales en Barrio Santa Isabel - Córdoba

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2006-01-01

Full Text Available Tradicionalmente la vivienda ha sido concebida como mero objeto físico, dejando al margen el concepto social de la vivienda y su papel para satisfacer necesidades humanas. Por ello resulta fundamental promover desde los ámbitos locales abordajes integrales (propuestas que partiendo de la vivienda como proceso social incorporen otros objetivos, y un notable nivel de participación y articulación de actores (gestión asociada. La vivienda se transforma así en un instrumento que permite la implementación de procesos constructivoeducativos tendientes a descubrir y desarrollar las potencialidades locales, como así también dejar instaladas capacidades, no sólo en la comunidad sino en los equipos técnicos involucrados. Bajo esta concepción, el Servicio Socio-Habitacional (SSH de la Facultad de Arquitectura de la Universidad Católica de Córdoba, a través de la metodología de aprendizaje-servicio, ha desarrollado durante los años 2004-2005 sus actividades de formación y acción conjuntamente con la Junta de Participación Ciudadana de Barrio Santa Isabel de la ciudad de Córdoba. A través de la complementación de los aportes no sólo de cada una de las áreas de la carrera sino de diversos actores sociales, se han desarrollado variadas acciones desde una visión integral a partir de la especificidad arquitectónica, llegando a constituirse en una de las cinco Mejores Prácticas Educativas Solidarias del país. Estas acciones se encuadran dentro de una discusión conceptual, que partiendo de la naturaleza misma de la problemática existente, intenta impulsar un cambio de conciencia respecto a la necesidad de superar enfoques sectoriales, favoreciendo una formación académicoprofesional específicamente capacitada y comprometida en acciones que tiendan a superarla.

Embedded Efficiency: A Social Networks Approach to Popular Support and Dark Network Structure

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2016-03-01

Sean F. Everton, and Dan Cunningham. “Dark Network Resilience in a Hostile Environment: Optimizing Centralization and Density.” Criminology , Criminal...33 Sean F. Everton and Dan Cunningham, “Dark Network Resilience in a Hostile Environment: Optimizing Centralization and Density,” Criminology ...Centralization and Density” Criminology , Criminal Justice Law, & Society 16, no. 1 (2015): 1- 20. Gill, Paul, Jeongyoon Lee, Karl R. Rethemeyer, John

Naturaleza y significado de los libros de cuentas de John Isham, mercader de Isabel I, Reina de Inglaterra

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2005-12-01

Full Text Available De todos los libros de cuentas de John Isham tan sólo se conservan dos Libros Mayores. Representan el esfuerzo continuado, durante un intervalo de doce años, para confeccionar un balance de situación. Es indudable que John Isham se había familiarizado con los rudimentos del arte de la teneduría de libros durante su periodo de aprendiz, bajo la supervisión de su patrón, probablemente en Amberes. El uso que hace de la partida doble, aunque sólo ocupa una pequeña parte del primer Libro Mayor y ninguna del segundo, indica que apostaba por el progreso.El valor de estos dos Libros Mayores del siglo XVI es grande, pues nos dice mucho de la estructura de la exportación de paños, usos que un mercader mediano hace de su capital y otros aspectos dfíciles de averiguar por otras vías. En ambos volúmenes las partidas recogen multitud de detalles que nos hablan del entramado del comercio internacional inglés en el floreciente reinado de Isabel I. Al lado de la parida dole aparecen las compañías gremiales que concedieron al comercio inglés la fueza y el esplendor sobre los que se asentó el Imperio Británico.Out of all the account books of John Isham, only two ledgers are preserved at present. They represent a constant effort, for a twelve-year interval, in order to produce a balance sheet. John Isham, no doubt, had learnt the technicalities of the art of bookkeeping duritng his appenticeship period, under his master's supervision, probably in Antwerp. His use of the double entry system, despite it si only present in some sections of the first ledger and none of the second, it is a clear indication that he favoured progress.The value of these two ledgers is remarkable. They talk about the structure of cloth exportation, how a medium-sized merchant used his capital and some other aspects which are difficult to find out through other means. In both volumes entries release multiple details which tell us about the international English commerce

A Search for Gene Fusions/Translocations in Breast Cancer

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2008). The transcriptional landscape of the yeast genome defined by RNA sequencing. Science 320, 1344–1349. Palanisamy, N., Ateeq, B., Kalyana-Sundaram...census of human cancer genes. Nat Rev Cancer 4, 177–183. [2] Santarius T, Shipley J, Brewer D, Stratton MR, and Cooper CS (2010). A census of amplified

Emotional Dynamics in Conflict and Conflict Transformation

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Poder, Poul; Bramsen, Isabel

2018-01-01

Isabel Bramsen & Poul Poder 2018. Emotional Dynamics in Conflict and Conflict Transformation. Berghof Handbook for Conflict Transformation, Online Edition. Berlin: Berghof Foundation. Isabel Bramsen & Poul Poder 2018. Emotional Dynamics in Conflict and Conflict Transformation. Berghof Handbook for Conflict Transformation, Online Edition. Berlin: Berghof Foundation.

Sounding the alarm on chronic kidney disease in farming communities: María Isabel Rodríguez MD. Minister of health, El Salvador. Interview by Conner Gorry.

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Rodríguez, María Isabel

2013-07-01

In April 2013, a consortium of regional health ministries, nongovernmental organizations, aid agencies, clinical specialists and researchers from diverse sectors convened in San Salvador to discuss the epidemic of chronic kidney disease of unknown or non-traditional causes (CKDu) plaguing agricultural communities in Central America and beyond. The three-day meeting, where presentation of research on the clinical and epidemiological characteristics of CKDu roused significant debate, led the Pan American Health Organization to declare CKDu "a pressing and serious health problem [which] represents a burden for families, communities, health systems and society as a whole."[1] This High-level Meeting on Chronic Kidney Disease of Non-Traditional Causes in Central America (24-26 April) followed several international meetings at which Dr María Isabel Rodríguez, El Salvador's Minister of Health, presented studies on the disease burden in her country, where end-stage renal disease is the leading cause of hospital deaths. She outlined results of original scientific research by Dr Carlos Orantes (first published in MEDICC Review), that described an "elevated prevalence of chronic kidney disease, chronic renal failure and risk factors" among the patients studied, noting that "the most common [form] was chronic kidney disease of unknown cause, associated with neither diabetes nor hypertension."[2] In this interview with MEDICC Review, Dr Rodríguez discussed the gravity of the problem in Salvadoran agricultural communities; the importance of CKDu research in other countries; and the urgent need for intersectoral action and active community participation to confront and control the epidemic.

Process Development for the Fabrication of Spheroidal Microdevice Packages Utilizing MEMS Technologies

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2014-03-27

32 17. SEM photographs of electrodeposited photoresist at a) an...known as electrodeposition , and is made possible with special photoresists developed by Shipley Ltd, known as PEPR 2400 and Eagle 2100 ED. The...photoresists are actually aqueous solutions containing positively charged “micelles” which collect on the cathode of a plating bath. By coating a wafer

Formalising Living Labs to achieve organisational objectives in emerging economies

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Smit, D

2011-05-01

Full Text Available Conference Proceedings Paul Cunningham and Miriam Cunningham (Eds) IIMC International Information Management Corporation, 2011 ISBN: 978-1-905824-24-3 Formalising Living Labs to Achieve Organisational Objectives in Emerging Economies Danie SMIT1... organisation, a university) in the innovation process. In contrast to closed- innovation where firms only use internal sources, open-innovation suggests the companies use both external and internal sources. This shift in innovation paradigm becomes more...

The Influence of the Competition in Contracting Act on the Volume of Competitive Prime Contract Awards for Major Hard Goods and Non-Major Hard Goods Purchased by the Department of Defense

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1988-11-16

parts was less than for sole source acquired spare parts see, Alan E. Olsen ; James E. Cunningham; and Donald J. Wilkins, "A Cost-Benefit Analysis of...Washington, D.C. Logistc Management-Institute, MUTT- I 339 I Zusman, Morris; Asher, Norman; Wetzler, Elliot; Bennett, Debbie; Gustaves, Selmer ; Higgins...Acquisition." Masters Thesis, Naval Postgraduate School, 1984. Olsen , Alan E.; Cunningham, James E.; and Wilkins, Donald J. "A Cost-Benefit Analysis of

Intelligent fractions learning system: implementation

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Smith, Andrew C

2011-05-01

Full Text Available Conference Proceedings Paul Cunningham and Miriam Cunningham (Eds) IIMC International Information Management Corporation, 2011 ISBN: 978-1-905824-24-3 An Intelligent Fractions Learning System: Implementation Andrew Cyrus SMITH1, Teemu H. LAINE2 1CSIR... to fractions. Our aim with the current research project is to extend the existing UFractions learning system to incorporate automatic data capturing. ?Intelligent UFractions? allows a teacher to remotely monitor the children?s progress during...

The Port Isabel Fold Belt: Salt enhanced Neogene Gravitational Spreading in the East Breaks, Western Gulf of Mexico

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Lebit, Hermann; Clavaud, Marie; Whitehead, Sam; Opdyke, Scott; Luneburg, Catalina

2017-04-01

The Port Isabel fold belt is situated at the northwestern corner of the deep water Gulf of Mexico where the regional E-W trending Texas-Louisiana shelf bends into the NNE-SSW trend of the East Mexico Shelf. The fold belt forms an allochthonous wedge that ramps up from West to East with its front occupied by shallow salt complexes (local canopies). It is assumed that the belt predominantly comprises Oligocene siliciclastic sequences which reveal eastward facing folds and thrusts with a NE-SW regional trend. The structural architecture of the fold belt is very well imaged on recently processed 3D seismic volumes. Crystal III is a wide-azimuth survey acquired in 2011 and reprocessed in 2016 leveraging newly developed state-of-the-art technology. 3D deghosting, directional designature and multi-model 3D SRME resulted in broader frequency spectrum. The new image benefits from unique implementation of FWI, combined with classic tomographic updates. Seismically transparent zones indicating over-pressured shales are limited to the core of anticlines or to the footwall of internal thrust. Mobile shales associated with diapirs are absent in the study area. In contrast, salt is mobile and apparently forms the major decollement of the PIFB as indicated by remnant salt preferentially located in triangles along the major thrusts and fault intersections or at the core of anticlines. Shallow salt diapirs seam to root in the fold belt, while lacking evidence for salt feeders being connected to the deep salt underlying the Mesozoic to Paleogene substratum of the fold belt. Towards the WNW the fold belt is transient into a extensional regime, characterized by roll-over structures associated with deep reaching normal faults which form ultra-deep mini basins filled with Neogene deposits. Kinematic restorations confirm the simultaneous evolution of the deep mini basins and the outboard fold belt. This resembles a gravitational spreading system with the extensional tectonics of the deep

Stopping-power and mass energy-absorption coefficient ratios for Solid Water

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Ho, A.K.; Paliwal, B.R.

1986-01-01

The AAPM Task Group 21 protocol provides tables of ratios of average restricted stopping powers and ratios of mean energy-absorption coefficients for different materials. These values were based on the work of Cunningham and Schulz. We have calculated these quantities for Solid Water (manufactured by RMI), using the same x-ray spectra and method as that used by Cunningham and Schulz. These values should be useful to people who are using Solid Water for high-energy photon calibration

Anthropomorphic Interfaces on Automation Trust, Dependence, and Performance inYounger and Older Adults

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2015-10-26

Nomadic radio: Speech and audio interaction for contextual messaging in nomadic environments. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 7(3...be assessed: perceptual speed ( digit -symbol substitution; Wechsler, 1997), working memory (automated operation span (Aospan); Unsworth, Heitz...cognitive abilities test. These tests include the digit symbol test, reverse digit span test, and the Shipley vocabulary test. These tests will gather

Comparison of different methods to estimate BMR in adoloscent student population.

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Patil, Suchitra R; Bharadwaj, Jyoti

2011-01-01

There is a growing clinical emphasis for the measurement of BMR and energy expenditure in clinical and research investigation such as obesity, exercise, cancer, under-nutrition, trauma and infections. Hence, there is a motivation towards calculating basal metabolic rate using standard equations. The objective of the present work is to identify an appropriate equation in Indian environment for the estimation of calorie needs and basal metabolic rate using the measured height, weight, age and skin fold parameters of an individual. Basal metabolic rates of adolescent male and female population aged between 17-20 years were estimated using equations proposed by FAO, ICMR, Cunningham, Harris Benedict, Fredrix and Miffin. Calorie needs were calculated using factorial approach which involves the multiplication of basal metabolic rate with appropriate physical activity factor. Basal metabolic rates estimated by FAO, Cunningham, Harris-Benedict, Fredrix and Miffin are reduced by 5%. These reduced basal metabolic rates and calorie needs are compared with that obtained by Cunningham's equation which is considered as accurate equation. Comparison of the basal metabolic rates and calorie needs obtained by Cunningham equation with all equations such as Harris-Benedict, FAO, Fredrix and Miffin after 5% reduction and ICMR equation without reduction indicates that Harris-Benedict, Fredrix, Miffin and FAO equations can be used for male and female adolescent populations for Indian environment. In conclusion, Harris-Benedict equation is an appropriate equation for both male and female adolescent population for Indian environment.

m-Living Labs, A framework for collaborative community advancement

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Buitendag, A

2012-05-01

Full Text Available that will allow any HTML5 content to be used easily on any platform without the need to convert it for the hardware it is to run on. This means that the user of a desktop application may use the same application while mobile without the need to get a modified... Conference Proceedings Paul Cunningham and Miriam Cunningham (Eds) IIMC International Information Management Corporation, 2012 ISBN: 978-1-905824-34-2 Copyright ? 2012 The authors www.IST-Africa.org/Conference2012 Page 1 of 10 m-Living Labs...

The ticks (Acari: Ixodida: Argasidae, Ixodidae) of Paraguay

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2007-01-01

20u209S, 60u209W Parque Defensores del Chaco 20u149S, 60u129W ALTO PARANÁ Ciudad del Este 25u329S, 54u379W BOQUERÓN Colonia Fernheim 22u149S, 59u509W...female, host unknown, Parque Defensores del Chaco, 5 December 1981, coll. J. A. Kochalka), RML 119014 (two males and one female, ex Catagonus wagneri...Moro, 22 June 2002, coll. M. Cunningham), RML 123661 (one female, ex Pa. onca, Parque Defensores del Chaco, 16 July 2003, coll. M. Cunningham), RML

Deconstructing racial differences: the effects of quality of education and cerebrovascular risk factors.

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Carvalho, Janessa O; Tommet, Doug; Crane, Paul K; Thomas, Michael L; Claxton, Amy; Habeck, Christian; Manly, Jennifer J; Romero, Heather R

2015-07-01

To evaluate the effects of vascular conditions and education quality on cognition over time in White and African American (AA) older adults. We investigated cross-sectional and longitudinal racial differences in executive functioning (EF) and memory composites among Whites (n = 461) and AAs (n = 118) enrolled in a cohort study. We examined whether cerebrovascular risk factors and Shipley Vocabulary scores (a proxy for education quality) accounted for racial differences. On average, AAs had lower quality of education and more cerebrovascular risk factors including hypertension, diabetes, and obesity. AAs had lower mean EF and memory at baseline, but there were no group differences in rates of decline. Cross-sectional racial differences in EF and memory persisted after controlling for vascular disease, but disappeared when controlling for Shipley Vocabulary. Quality of education appears to be more important than cerebrovascular risk factors in explaining cross-sectional differences in memory and EF performance between White and AA older adults. Further investigation is needed regarding the relative contribution of education quality and cerebrovascular risk factors to cognitive decline among ethnically/racially diverse older adults. © The Author 2014. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of The Gerontological Society of America. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oup.com.

Care work versus career work: sibling conflict over getting priorities right.

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Lashewicz, Bonnie

2011-01-01

As the average age of the Canadian population continues to increase, and providing care at home to frail older adults becomes ever more prevalent, support for family and friend caregivers remains a key social policy issue. Economic support is an important consideration given the impact of caregiving on labour force participation. Yet the caregiving/paid work relationship is not always straightforward. While caregiving often restricts employment, limited attachment to employment may also influence the decision to provide care. Isabel's story, collected as part of a study of sibling views of fairness in sharing parent care as well as parent assets, provides a case study in how siblings give different priority to care work versus career work and what support needs arise including those related to sibling conflict over differing priorities. Isabel claims she sacrificed her career to care for her ailing mother while her siblings argue that through caregiving, Isabel was sheltered from the paid workforce.

Psychoacoustics and Passive Sonar Detection

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1974-09-09

not matched to the signal duration. This simple physical model provides a faiily credible replica of the detection performance of the ear, under...al., 1956; Veniar, 1958; Swets, Shipley, McKey und Gree^., 1959; Creelman , 1960; Green, 1961; and Gundy, 1961). In general, the experiments first...Acoust. Soc. Am. 3_7. 1064, (1965). 5. CD. Creelman , "Detection of Signals of Uncertain Frequency", J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 32, 805, (1960). 6. J.P

Computer Modeling of Complete IC Fabrication Process.

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Caracterização química e determinação dos estádios fenológicos de variedades de videiras cultivadas no Norte Fluminense Chemical characterization and phenological determination of grapes cultivated in the North area of Rio de Janeiro state

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Felipe Cavalcanti Carneiro da Silva

2008-03-01

Full Text Available O experimento foi conduzido no município de Campos dos Goytacazes- RJ, durante os anos de 2005 e 2006, com o intuito de proceder a uma caracterização química e fenológica de variedades de videira cultivadas na região Norte Fluminense. Utilizou-se de plantas das variedades: Romana, Isabel, Kyoho, Moscatel de Hamburgo, Roberta e Niágara Rosada. Para a determinação do clico fenológico das seis variedades, realizaram-se podas em 20-03-2005 e 15-02-006. Para a poda realizada em fevereiro, verificou-se redução do período de poda à colheita em todas as variedades, sendo a variedade Isabel a mais tardia, com ciclo médio de 124 dias para os dois anos.The experiment was carried out in Campos dos Goytacazes County, RJ, in 2005 and 2006, aiming to characterize chemically and phenologically different grapes varieties, such as 'Romana', 'Isabel', 'Kyoho', 'Moscatel de Hamburgo', 'Roberta' and 'Niagara Rosada', cultivated in the North of the state of Rio de Janeiro. The six studied varieties were pruned on 03/20/2005 and 02/15/2006 to determine the phenological cycle. Pruning in February evidenced a reduction of the pruning-harvest period in all varieties. 'Isabel' was the latest variety, with a mean cycle of 124 days in both years.

Bioactive compounds and juice quality from selected grape cultivars

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Renata Vieira da Mota

2017-12-01

Full Text Available ABSTRACT Grape juices have been valued due to their potential health benefits, which have demanded increased grape productivity and quality. Five grape cultivars grown in Brazil, Isabel Precoce, Carmem, Violeta, Concord and Bordo were evaluated in 2013 and 2014 seasons for bioactive components and also for juice processing quality traits. Production cycle was the longest for Carmem but lower and similar for Violeta, Isabel, Bordo and Concord. Isabel showed higher productivity (5.4 kg∙plant-1 but lowest soluble solids content (16.9 °Brix, anthocyanins (26.7 mg∙100 g-1 and total phenolics (110.7 mg∙100 g-1. The highest anthocyanins contents were observed in Violeta (189.9 mg∙100 g-1 and Bordo (133.8 mg∙100 g-1. These cultivars were also rich in phenolics (356.1 and 239.5 mg∙100 g-1, respectively. The highest anthocyanin and total phenolics concentrations were found in Violeta juice (2.68 and 6.33 g∙L-1 followed by Bordo (1.44 and 2.86 g∙L-1. Isabel juice had the lowest content, 0.14 and 1.29 g∙L-1, respectively. Biogenic amines were found at low concentrations only in the juices. Putrescine and spermidine were the major amines detected in juices. Phenylethylamine was detected only in Bordo juice from 2013 season and tryptamine was detected only in 2014 season. Blends were preferred over varietal juices except for Carmem.

Thin Film Assembly of Spider Silk-like Block Copolymers

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Shipley, N. H.; Lewis, R. V. Int. J. Biol.Macromol. 1999, 24, 271. (c) Thiel, B. L.; Guess, K. B.; Viney, C. Biopolymers 1997, 41, 703. (13) Silk ...Film Assembly of Spider Silk -like Block Copolymers Sreevidhya T. Krishnaji,†,‡ Wenwen Huang,§ Olena Rabotyagova,†,‡ Eugenia Kharlampieva, ) Ikjun Choi...Received November 26, 2010 We report the self-assembly of monolayers of spider silk -like block copolymers. Langmuir isotherms were obtained for a series of

Praemium Imperiale laureaadid / Priit Kuusk

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2006-01-01

Japan Art Association'i preemia (110000 eurot) said pianist Martha Argerich, balletilavastaja ja -trupijuht Merce Cunningham, maalikunstnik Robert Ryman, skulptuuride eest Issey Miyake ja arhitekt Yoshio Taniguchi

The role of regulation in the new environment

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Probyn, S.; Budd, P.; Cunningham, D.; Brett, T.; Rounding, M.

1997-01-01

The present and future regulatory environment was debated by a panel consisting of Stephen Probyn, President of an investment firm, Peter Budd, a partner with the Toronto law firm of Bennet Jones Verchere, Douglas Cunningham, Managing Director of CIBC Dominion Securities, Tom Brett, President of IPPSO, and Marie Rounding, Chairperson of the Ontario Energy Board. The present regulatory regime was reviewed by Peter Budd. In speaking of the new regulations he warned that residential and commercial customers are opting for other fuels, while industrial users are looking seriously at self-generation. Citizens and corporate customers will set the agenda if power suppliers don't take the lead. Mr. Cunningham argued that regulatory responsibility should be handed over to the Ontario Energy Board; Ontario Hydro should not be regulating municipal utilities with which it intends to compete. IPPSO President Tom Brett supported Mr. Cunningham saying that the transition to a new type of regulation is a second-order change: the first order of business is to establish an independent regulatory regime. OEB Chairperson Marie Rounding echoed the panelists' argument that the process for regulating Ontario Hydro must change. The present OEB Act has been a barrier to regulatory change; legislative amendments must come sooner rather than later; ratepayers deserve better

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Operational research to inform a sub-national surveillance intervention for malaria elimination in Solomon Islands

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Atkinson Jo-An

2012-03-01

Full Text Available Abstract Background Successful reduction of malaria transmission to very low levels has made Isabel Province, Solomon Islands, a target for early elimination by 2014. High malaria transmission in neighbouring provinces and the potential for local asymptomatic infections to cause malaria resurgence highlights the need for sub-national tailoring of surveillance interventions. This study contributes to a situational analysis of malaria in Isabel Province to inform an appropriate surveillance intervention. Methods A mixed method study was carried out in Isabel Province in late 2009 and early 2010. The quantitative component was a population-based prevalence survey of 8,554 people from 129 villages, which were selected using a spatially stratified sampling approach to achieve uniform geographical coverage of populated areas. Diagnosis was initially based on Giemsa-stained blood slides followed by molecular analysis using polymerase chain reaction (PCR. Local perceptions and practices related to management of fever and treatment-seeking that would impact a surveillance intervention were also explored using qualitative research methods. Results Approximately 33% (8,554/26,221 of the population of Isabel Province participated in the survey. Only one subject was found to be infected with Plasmodium falciparum (Pf (96 parasites/μL using Giemsa-stained blood films, giving a prevalence of 0.01%. PCR analysis detected a further 13 cases, giving an estimated malaria prevalence of 0.51%. There was a wide geographical distribution of infected subjects. None reported having travelled outside Isabel Province in the previous three months suggesting low-level indigenous malaria transmission. The qualitative findings provide warning signs that the current community vigilance approach to surveillance will not be sufficient to achieve elimination. In addition, fever severity is being used by individuals as an indicator for malaria and a trigger for timely treatment

Exploring the mitochondrial DNA variability of the Amazonian Yanomami.

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Varano, Sara; Scorrano, Gabriele; Martínez-Labarga, Cristina; Finocchio, Andrea; Rapone, Cesare; Berti, Andrea; Rickards, Olga

2016-11-01

The aim of this study was to explore the mitochondrial variability in the Yanomami population to reconstruct its demographic history and explore its genetic composition in relation to its cultural and linguistic features. A total of 174 human head hair shafts -collected in 1958- belonging to individuals from a Yanomami group living in Santa Isabel, Brazil, were analyzed. Automated extraction of the hairs was performed, and several methods were applied to optimize the analysis of the degraded DNA. The mtDNA hypervariable segments I-II, along with the 9-bp COII-tRNA Lys deletion, were investigated. Using published data from the Yanomami and other Amazonian populations, several statistical analyses were carried out to explore the genetic variability within the study population. Ninety eight percent of the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequences analyzed belonged to Native American haplogroups, while 2% belonged to African haplogroups. Compared with the Yanomami groups previously studied, the Santa Isabel sample seemed more genetically similar to other Amazonian populations. Among the Yanomami samples studied to date, the Santa Isabel Yanomami show a higher genetic heterogeneity. This could be due to gene flow with non-Yanomami populations, as well as to the introduction of new mitochondrial haplotypes by gold miners. In both cases, the geographic location of Santa Isabel might have made this Yanomami village less isolated than the others, suggesting that the Rio Negro played a central role in increasing its genetic variability. On the whole, the Yanomami were quite genetically diversified, probably mirroring their great linguistic heterogeneity. Am. J. Hum. Biol. 28:846-856, 2016. © 2016Wiley Periodicals, Inc. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Chemical characteristics of grape juices from different cultivar and rootstock combinations

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Rita de Cássia Mirela Resende Nassur

2014-07-01

Full Text Available The objective of this work was to evaluate the influence of different combinations of grape cultivars and rootstocks on chemical characteristics of grape juices. Six treatments were evaluated, consisting of combinations between the Isabel Precoce and BRS Cora grape cultivars and the 'IAC 766', 'IAC 313', and 'IAC 572' rootstocks. Approximately 10 L of juice were obtained per treatment. Analyses of color, total soluble solids content, pH, anthocyanins, total phenolics, total sugars, and quantification and identification of biogenic amines by HPLC were performed. Biogenic amines, such as putrescine, cadaverine, spermidine, and spermine, were found in all evaluated cultivars. By principal component analysis (PCA, treatments can be divided into two groups, according to the cultivar. Juices obtained from 'Isabel Precoce' are characterized by higher levels of total sugar content and soluble solids; however, juices from 'BRS Cora' are positively correlated with phenolic content, anthocyanins, and color and acidity parameters. The differences found by PCA for juices from the Isabel Precoce and BRS Cora cultivars indicate that, regardless of the rootstock used, the most important factor in the chemical characterization of juices is the grape cultivar.

Leadership in nursing education: voices from the past.

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Gosline, Mary Beth

2004-01-01

When education for nurses became a reality, leaders in the emerging profession spoke out early and often for educational improvements to prepare those who would nurse. The writings and speeches of Isabel Hampton Robb, Mary Adelaide Nutting, Lavinia Lloyd Dock, Lillian Wald, and Isabel Maitland Stewart formed the basis for a qualitative study that documents the voices of early nursing leaders who contributed to the development of nursing education as it moved from "training" toward professional education in a university setting. What is documented in the literature is the desire of these women to enhance the professional status of nursing through improvements in its educational system.

Comparative study of resist stabilization techniques for metal etch processing

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Becker, Gerry; Ross, Matthew F.; Wong, Selmer S.; Minter, Jason P.; Marlowe, Trey; Livesay, William R.

1999-06-01

This study investigates resist stabilization techniques as they are applied to a metal etch application. The techniques that are compared are conventional deep-UV/thermal stabilization, or UV bake, and electron beam stabilization. The electron beam tool use din this study, an ElectronCure system from AlliedSignal Inc., ELectron Vision Group, utilizes a flood electron source and a non-thermal process. These stabilization techniques are compared with respect to a metal etch process. In this study, two types of resist are considered for stabilization and etch: a g/i-line resist, Shipley SPR-3012, and an advanced i-line, Shipley SPR 955- Cm. For each of these resist the effects of stabilization on resist features are evaluated by post-stabilization SEM analysis. Etch selectivity in all cases is evaluated by using a timed metal etch, and measuring resists remaining relative to total metal thickness etched. Etch selectivity is presented as a function of stabilization condition. Analyses of the effects of the type of stabilization on this method of selectivity measurement are also presented. SEM analysis was also performed on the features after a compete etch process, and is detailed as a function of stabilization condition. Post-etch cleaning is also an important factor impacted by pre-etch resist stabilization. Results of post- etch cleaning are presented for both stabilization methods. SEM inspection is also detailed for the metal features after resist removal processing.

PRODUTIVIDADE DE CULTIVARES DE UVAS PARA SUCO SOBRE DIFERENTES PORTA-ENXERTOS IAC EM MOCOCA-SP YIELD OF JUICE GRAPE CULTIVARS GRAFTED ON SOME IAC ROOTSTOCKS

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MAURILO MONTEIRO TERRA

2001-08-01

Full Text Available Estimou-se o potencial de produção de uvas das cultivares copa Concord, Isabel e Seibel 2, recomendadas para produção de suco, enxertadas sobre os porta-enxertos IAC 313 'Tropical', 'IAC 571-6', IAC 572 'Jales', e IAC 766 'Campinas', num experimento conduzido, durante seis anos, na Estação Experimental de Mococa (21º28'S, 47º01'W do Instituto Agronômico de Campinas. Para a variedade Concord, as maiores produções médias foram obtidas quando se utilizaram os porta-enxertos 'IAC 313', 'IAC 571-6' e 'IAC 572', totalizando 3,86kg/planta, 3,81kg/planta e 3,65kg/planta, respectivamente; para 'Isabel', quando se empregaram os porta-enxertos 'IAC 572', 'IAC 571-6' e 'IAC 313', somando 3,85kg/planta, 3,63kg/planta e 3,26kg/planta; para o cv. Seibel 2, quando se fez uso dos porta-enxertos 'IAC 313', 'IAC 572' e 'IAC 571-6', auferiram-se 2,61kg/planta, 2,40kg/planta e 2,10kg/planta; por outro lado, para as três variedades, o porta-enxerto de pior performance foi o 'IAC 766'. Quanto ao vigor, representado pela massa dos ramos podados ao longo dos anos, os melhores porta-enxertos para 'Concord' foram 'IAC 572' e 'IAC 313'; para 'Isabel': 'IAC 766' e 'IAC 313'; e para 'Seibel 2': 'IAC 766' e 'IAC 572'.The yield potential of juice grape cultivars, namely Concord, Isabel and Seibel 2, grafted on 'IAC 313', 'IAC 571-6', 'IAC 572' and 'IAC 766' rootstocks was studied in an experiment conducted for six years at Mococa Experimental Station (21º28'S, 47º01'W. Regarding Concord cultivar, the greatest mean yields were achieved when grafted on 'IAC 313', 'IAC 571-6' and 'IAC 572'rootstocks, respectively 3.86kg/plant, 3.81 kg/plant and 3.65 kg/plant. 'Isabel' gave the largest grape productions when grafted on 'IAC 572' (3.85kg/plant, 'IAC 571-6' (3.63kg/plant and 'IAC 313' (3.26kg/plant. The best grape yields of 'Seibel-2' were obtained when it was grafted on 'IAC 313', 'IAC 572' and 'IAC 571-6', being respectively 2.61kg/plant, 2.40 kg/plant and 2.10 kg

Earlobe creases

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Influência do dióxido de enxofre e cultivares de videira na formação de alguns compostos voláteis e na qualidade sensorial do destilado de vinho Influence of sulfur dioxide and grape varieties at the formation of some volatile compounds and at the sensory quality of the wine distillate

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Marco Antonio SALTON

2000-12-01

Full Text Available Com o objetivo de estudar o efeito do SO2 e das cultivares de videira - Herbemont, Couderc 13, Trebbiano e Isabel - na composição química e na qualidade sensorial do destilado de vinho, efetuaram-se microvinificações e posterior destilação dos vinhos na safra de 1996. As análises dos compostos voláteis foram feitas através de cromatografia gasosa e a avaliação sensorial dos destilados foi efetuada pelo grupo de degustação da Embrapa Uva e Vinho. Os resultados mostraram que o SO2 favoreceu a formação de etanal nas cultivares estudadas. Observou-se também um aumento na soma dos álcoois superiores em função do SO2, exceto para o destilado da cv. Isabel. Constatou-se que o destilado de Isabel se caracterizou por apresentar teor mais elevado de metanol e mais baixo de 1-propanol, possivelmente devido ao sistema de vinificação. O destilado de Isabel, juntamente com o de Couderc 13, apresentou teores mais baixos de 2-metil-1-propanol, 3-metil-1-butanol e da soma dos álcoois superiores. O destilado de Trebbiano apresentou teor mais elevado de 2-metil-1-propanol e juntamente com o de Herbemont teores mais elevados de 1-propanol, 2-metil-1-butanol, 3-metil-1-butanol e na soma dos álcoois superiores. A avaliação sensorial evidenciou que o SO2 influenciou na qualidade de aroma, no gosto agradável e na qualidade geral dos destilados das cultivares Herbemont e Trebbiano. O de Herbemont se caracterizou por apresentar menor qualidade de aroma, gosto agradável, tipicidade e qualidade geral. Apresentou, ainda, nota mais elevada para aroma e gosto indesejáveis.With the aim of studying the influence of SO2 and grape varieties - Herbemont, Couderc 13, Trebbiano and Isabella, on the chemical composition and sensory quality of wine distillates, some microvinification and posterior distillation of wines were made, at the harvest of 1996. The analyses of volatile components were made through gas chromatography and the sensory evaluation of

Estratégias de leitura e competência leitora: contribuições para a prática de ensino em História Reading strategies and reading comprehension: contributions to the teaching of History

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Vitória Rodrigues e Silva

2004-01-01

Full Text Available Este artigo tem por objetivo tecer algumas considerações sobre as contribuições que a metodologia de leitura apresentada por Isabel Sole pode oferecer para a prática do ensino de História. O aprimoramento da competência leitora, papel central da escola, deve ser preocupação permanente dos professores dessa disciplina, contribuindo desse modo para a melhoria do desempenho dos alunos do Ensino Básico.This article intends to discuss about the benefits of the reading strategies to the teaching of History, showed by Isabel Solé, in order to improve the development of the students' reading comprehension and, this way, improve their school learning perfomance.

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Supporting your child with weight loss

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Inteligibilní bytí stvořených věcí v Bohu v nauce o ideách Jana Wyclifa

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Herold, Vilém

2015-01-01

Roč. 63, č. 6 (2015), s. 815-829 ISSN 0015-1831 Institutional support: RVO:67985955 Keywords : De ideis * John Wyclif * ideas in God's mind * John Cunningham * Jean Gerson * Thomas Netter * pantheism Subject RIV: AA - Philosophy ; Religion

Comparing the measured basal metabolic rates in patients with chronic disorders of consciousness to the estimated basal metabolic rate calculated from common predictive equations.

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Xiao, Guizhen; Xie, Qiuyou; He, Yanbin; Wang, Ziwen; Chen, Yan; Jiang, Mengliu; Ni, Xiaoxiao; Wang, Qinxian; Murong, Min; Guo, Yequn; Qiu, Xiaowen; Yu, Ronghao

2017-10-01

Accurately predicting the basal metabolic rate (BMR) of patients in a vegetative state (VS) or minimally conscious state (MCS) is critical to proper nutritional therapy, but commonly used equations have not been shown to be accurate. Therefore, we compared the BMR measured by indirect calorimetry (IC) to BMR values estimated using common predictive equations in VS and MCS patients. Body composition variables were measured using the bioelectric impedance analysis (BIA) technique. BMR was measured by IC in 82 patients (64 men and 18 women) with VS or MCS. Patients were classified by body mass index as underweight (BMR was estimated for each group using the Harris-Benedict (H-B), Schofield, or Cunningham equations and compared to the measured BMR using Bland-Altman analyses. For the underweight group, there was a significant difference between the measured BMR values and the estimated BMR values calculated using the H-B, Schofield, and Cunningham equations (p BMR values estimated using the H-B and Cunningham equations were different significantly from the measured BMR (p BMR in the normal-weight group. The Schofield equation showed the best concordance (only 41.5%) with the BMR values measured by IC. None of the commonly used equations to estimate BMR were suitable for the VS or MCS populations. Indirect calorimetry is the preferred way to avoid either over or underestimate of BMR values. Copyright © 2016. Published by Elsevier Ltd.

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Determining rejection regions and power that optimize the inspector's chances of detecting diversion and/or falsification

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Goldman, A.S.; Whitty, W.J.; Hafer, J.F.; Markin, J.T.; Shipley, J.P.

1981-01-01

Three specific models are investigated: (1) diversion and k distinct falsifications (k + 1 degrees of freedom); (2) diversion and the accumulation of all the falsifications (2 degrees of freedom); (3) diversion only (1 degree of freedom). A test statistic has been derived for models (1) and (2) by the likelihood ratio procedure under the hypothesis of zero falsification and zero diversion versus a one-sided alternative of positive diversion, positive falsification, or both. An analogous test has been developed for model (3) for diversion only. A detailed discussion of this development is given by Shipley. J.P. Shipley, Notes for the Seminar on Data Generation and Evaluation for Safeguards, Los Alamos National Laboratory Seminar, Los Alamos, New Mexico, July 7-9, 1980 (to be published). Utilizing his notation, the test variables called Inspector's Sufficient Statistics - ISS 0 , ISS 1 , and ISS 2 - are used for testing the above three models (1), (2), and (3) respectively. Note that ISS 2 corresponds to the well-known MUF-D statistic, which is currently in vogue. These two tests, for purposes of this discussion, are equivalent. The objectives of this paper are to review the ISS procedures, develop optimal critical regions for ISS tests, and compare detection probability (power) curves for models (1), (2), and (3). Optimal critical regions depend upon values obtained from one-sided chi-squared tests with more than one degree of freedom. Details of such a procedure are not to be found in the literature, and this strange neglect was one of the motivating factors in this study

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Talons and beaks are viable but underutilized samples for detecting organophosphorus and carbamate pesticide poisoning in raptors. Ngaio Richards, Irene Zorrilla, Joseph Lalah, Peter Otieno, Isabel Fernandez, Monica Calvino, Joaquin Garcia ...

Peron võitleb enda Argentinale väljaandmisega / Heiki Suurkask

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2007-01-01

Argentina endisel presidendil Isabel Peronil oli Argentina praeguse võimu hinnangul kontakte nn. surmaüksustega, mis mõrvasid vasakpoolseid aktiviste. I. Peron pandi Hispaanias koduaresti. Lisa: Ööklubi lavalt presidenditoolile

Comparing concentration methods: parasitrap® versus Kato-Katz for ...

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Comparing concentration methods: parasitrap® versus Kato-Katz for studying the prevalence of Helminths in Bengo province, Angola. Clara Mirante, Isabel Clemente, Graciette Zambu, Catarina Alexandre, Teresa Ganga, Carlos Mayer, Miguel Brito ...

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A INFLUÊNCIA DO CAMPUS DO VALE DA UFRGS NA URBANIZAÇÃO DO SEU ENTORNO A PARTIR DA PERSPECTIVA DOS MORADORES DO BAIRRO SANTA ISABEL, VIAMÃO/RS

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Joseli Andrades Maia

2016-09-01

Full Text Available Desde a sua criação, a função das Universidades tem evoluído: de uma instituição de ensino formal a uma agente criadora e modeladora de espaços, atraindo a população não acadêmica para o seu entorno e auxiliando na produção e orientação do uso do solo no qual está inserida. A presente pesquisa analisou parte do bairro viamonense Santa Isabel, especialmente a vila Jardim Universitário, localizado na divisa com o Campus do Vale da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS, este em Porto Alegre (POA. Partindo da questão se o Campus do Vale influenciou na expansão da urbanização do seu entorno, os principais instrumentos de coleta de dados foram a entrevista e o questionário com os moradores locais, totalizando 354 pessoas. Segundo 62,7% desses, a UFRGS foi responsável pela expansão da urbanização. Embora quantitativamente os valores encontrados apontem essa responsabilidade ao campus, outros fatores também foram importantes, como o caso do valor do uso do solo. Em um primeiro momento o bairro se constituiu como uma alternativa viável para a residência, devido o preço dos lotes e a localização próxima à capital, beneficiando aqueles que trabalhavam em POA. Em um segundo momento, no final da década de 1970 – a partir da construção do Campus do Vale – observou-se a expansão da urbanização com o aumento da população e a redução de áreas vazias para dar espaço à construção civil. Em campo analisou-se a grande relação que há entre moradores e os pontos de serviços oferecidos nas dependências da universidade, como é o caso do terminal de ônibus, agências bancárias e farmácia, além de gerar empregos e valorizar os imóveis próximos, dada a importância do aluguel para os estudantes.

For People with Osteoporosis: How to Find a Doctor

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... With Osteoporosis: How to Find a Doctor For People With Osteoporosis: How to Find a Doctor Isabel ... a doctor with expertise in osteoporosis. For many people, finding a doctor who is knowledgeable about osteoporosis ...

Doña Mencía de Mendoza y su residencia en el Palacio del Real en Valencia

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Hidalgo Ogáyar, Juana

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Full Text Available Documents preserved in the Archivo del Palau reveal the furnishings that Mencía de Mendoza had in the Royal Palace at Valencia, particularly luxury beds such as those of the Empress Isabel of Portugal and Queen Mary of France. Painters active at her court, especially Juan de Bolaños, are also discussed.

Con la ayuda de varios documentos conservados en el Archivo del Palau, se dan a conocer diferentes enseres que Doña Mencía de Mendoza tenía en el Palacio del Real en Valencia, destacando camas de lujo como la de la Emperatriz Isabel de Portugal o la de María de Francia. Se dan a conocer algunos pintores activos en su corte como Juan de Bolaños.

Two executives, one career.

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Cunningham, Cynthia R; Murray, Shelley S

2005-02-01

For six years, Cynthia Cunningham and Shelley Murray shared an executive job at Fleet Bank. One desk, one chair, one computer, one telephone, and one voice-mail account. To their clients and colleagues, they were effectively one person, though one person with the strengths and ideas of two, seamlessly handing projects back and forth. Although their department was dissolved after the bank merged with Bank of America, the two continue to consider themselves a package-they have one resume, and they are seeking their next opportunity together. Their choice to share a job was not only a quality-of-life decision but one intended to keep their careers on course: "Taking two separate part-time jobs would have thrown us completely off track" they write in this first-person account."We're both ambitious people, and neither of us wanted just a job. We wanted careers" In this article, the two highly motivated women reveal their determination to manage the demands of both family and career. Flextime,telecommuting, and compressed workweeks are just some of the options open to executives seeking greater work/ life balance, and the job share, as described by Cunningham and Murray, could well be the next solution for those wishing to avoid major trade-offs between their personal and professional lives. Cunningham and Murray describe in vivid detail how they structured their unusual arrangement, how they sold themselves to management, and the hurdles they faced along the way. Theirs is a win-win story, for the company and for them.

How Portuguese and American Teachers Plan for Literacy Instruction

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Spear-Swerling, Louise; Lopes, Joao; Oliveira, Celia; Zibulsky, Jamie

2016-01-01

This study explored American and Portuguese elementary teachers' preferences in planning for literacy instruction using the Language Arts Activity Grid (LAAG; Cunningham, Zibulsky, Stanovich, & Stanovich, 2009), on which teachers described their preferred instructional activities for a hypothetical 2-h language arts block. Portuguese teachers…

Elementary Science Teachers' Integration of Engineering Design into Science Instruction: Results from a Randomised Controlled Trial

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Maeng, Jennifer L.; Whitworth, Brooke A.; Gonczi, Amanda L.; Navy, Shannon L.; Wheeler, Lindsay B.

2017-01-01

This randomised controlled trial used a mixed-methods approach to investigate the frequency and how elementary teachers integrated engineering design (ED) principles into their science instruction following professional development (PD). The ED components of the PD were aligned with Cunningham and Carlsen's [(2014). "Teaching engineering…

Progressiv multifokal leukoencefalopati hos en patient med myelomatose

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Willert, Cecilie Balslev; Engsig, Frederik Neess; Eskildsen, Helle Wulf

2015-01-01

Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) is a rare demyelinating disease in the central nervous system. It is caused by reactivation of John Cunningham-virus and has a grave prognosis. PML occurs most frequently in HIV-patients, but can also be seen in patients with iatrogenic...

Influence of HIV and other risk factors on tuberculosis

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TB has a negative impact on HIV, increasing the risk of HIV-related morbidity ... Objectives. To describe the sociodemographic and outcome characteristics of TB patients, and to identify risk factors associated with TB ..... Cunningham J, Perkins M. Diagnostics for tuberculosis: Global demand and market potential. 2006.

Global Education: Charges and Counter-Charges.

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Wronski, Stanley P.

1988-01-01

Discusses criticisms of global education by Gregg L. Cunningham in a report for Thomas G. Tancredo, and the National Council for the Social Studies' response to the report. Contends that an ethnocentric curriculum restricts students ability to think critically. Distinguishes between cultural relativism and moral relativism. (DB)

Preregistered Replication of "Affective Flexibility: Evaluative Processing Goals Shape Amygdala Activity".

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Lumian, Daniel S; McRae, Kateri

2017-09-01

The human amygdala is sensitive to stimulus characteristics, and growing evidence suggests that it is also responsive to cognitive framing in the form of evaluative goals. To examine whether different evaluations of stimulus characteristics shape amygdala activation, we conducted a preregistered replication of Cunningham, Van Bavel, and Johnsen's (2008) study demonstrating flexible mapping of amygdala activation to stimulus characteristics, depending on evaluative goals. Participants underwent functional MRI scanning while viewing famous names under three conditions: They were asked to report their overall attitude toward each name, their positive associations only, or their negative associations only. We observed an interaction between condition and rating type, identified as the effect of interest in Cunningham et al. (2008). Specifically, postscan positivity, but not negativity, ratings predicted left amygdala activation when participants were asked to evaluate positive, but not negative, associations with the names. These results provide convergent evidence that cognitive framing, in the form of evaluative goals, can significantly alter whether amygdala activation indexes positivity or negativity.

The Advent of Streaming Television in Denmark - Ratings Revisited

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Lai, Signe Sophus

Digital media convergence is turning television practices upside down, including advertising, the motives for political and administrative decisions, and also extends to planning, producing, distributing, and programming content (Buzzard 2012; Cunningham and Silver 2013; Havens 2014; Ihlebæk, Syv......-demand. It discusses the potential impact of declining accuracy of audience measurement on market actors’ decisions concerning streaming, as well as potential strategies for improving audience measurement.......Digital media convergence is turning television practices upside down, including advertising, the motives for political and administrative decisions, and also extends to planning, producing, distributing, and programming content (Buzzard 2012; Cunningham and Silver 2013; Havens 2014; Ihlebæk....... It is noteworthy that although the shift towards online television distribution entails that viewing become measurable by the existing system for online audience tracking (Gemius), market actors have so far failed in their attempt to consolidate online measurements of viewing time with audience ratings of flow...

African Journal of Biotechnology - Vol 15, No 30 (2016)

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Tetranychus urticae Koch.) in peanut · EMAIL FREE FULL TEXT EMAIL FREE FULL TEXT DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT. Maria Isabel G. Martins, Antonio Euzébio G. Sant'Ana, Felipe Matheus T. Vasconcelos, Wbyratan L. Silva, ...

Searching for Solutions: Supervising Student Employees

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Comer, Alberta Davis

2003-01-01

Lending services units at Indiana State University's Cunningham Memorial Library depend heavily on student employees to fulfill their specific missions. Problems attributed to poor communication and lack of motivation among student employees were causing negative impacts on the units' abilities to function well. To resolve these problems,…

Reinnervation of Paralyzed Muscle by Nerve Muscle Endplate Band Grafting

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2016-10-01

nerve branch supplying the NMEG was placed on bipolar stainless steel hook electrodes and stimulated. ES with supramaximal pulses (0.1 msec; 3V) was...Sprouting, synapse formation and repression. Neuroscience 1983;8(3):403– 416 18 Covault J, Cunningham JM, Sanes JR. Neurite outgrowth on cryostat

[Teacher Training.

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Palmatier, Robert A., Ed.

1977-01-01

This issue collects three articles concerning reading-teacher training. "Language, Failure, and Panda Bears" by Patricia M. Cunningham calls attention to dialect difficulties in the classroom and provides ideas for teacher training programs and for public schools to solve this problem. William H. Rupley, in "Improving Teacher Effectiveness in…

What's Wrong with Talking about the Scientific Revolution? Applying Lessons from History of Science to Applied Fields of Science Studies

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Orthia, Lindy A.

2016-01-01

Since the mid-twentieth century, the 'Scientific Revolution' has arguably occupied centre stage in most Westerners', and many non-Westerners', conceptions of science history. Yet among history of science specialists that position has been profoundly contested. Most radically, historians Andrew Cunningham and Perry Williams in 1993 proposed to…

Serial Cities: Australian Literary Cities and the Rhetoric of Scale

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Brigid Rooney

2015-03-01

Sophie Cunningham, Melbourne (2011 Matthew Condon, Brisbane (2010 Paul Daley, Canberra (2012 Delia Falconer, Sydney (2010 Kerryn Goldsworthy, Adelaide (2011 Eleanor Hogan, Alice Springs (2012 Tess Lea, Darwin (2014 Peter Timms, In Search of Hobart (2012 David Whish-Wilson, Perth (2013

Taastatud Jaani kiriku interjöörid 21. sajandi kontekstis / Krista Kodres

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2006-01-01

Tartu Jaani kiriku interjööridest. Kunstiajaloolane Kaur Alttoa. Sisekujundajad: Tea Tammelaan, Malle Jürgenson, Krista Lepland. Terrakotaskulptuure on konserveerinud, algul koos sakslastega (Sven Wallasch, keemik Eberhard Wendler), Eve Alttoa. Fassaadiskulptuuride koopiad valmistab Isabel Aaso. Ka Urmo Rausi akendeprojektist

Bulletin of Materials Science | Indian Academy of Sciences

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Home; Journals; Bulletin of Materials Science. SARAVANA KUMAR JAGANATHAN. Articles written in Bulletin of Materials Science. Volume 41 Issue 1 February 2018 pp 18. Advanced nanofibrous textile-based dressing material for treating chronic wounds · ISABEL HERRMANN EKO SUPRIYANTO SARAVANA KUMAR ...

La conservación del patrimonio genético : colecciones de ADN y tejidos

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Rey Fraile, Isabel

2014-01-01

Memoria preparada para optar al grado de doctor presentada por Isabel Rey Fraile en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Facultad de Ciencias biológicas, Dpto de Biología celular. Fecha de la defensa de tesis el 30 junio 2014

Bridging the Gap between Human Resource Development and Adult Education: Part Two, the Critical Turn

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Hatcher, Tim; Bowles, Tuere

2014-01-01

Human resource development (HRD) as a scholarly endeavor and as a practice is often criticized in the adult education (AE) literature and by AE scholars as manipulative and oppressive and, through training and other interventions, controlling workers for strictly economic ends (Baptiste, 2001; Cunningham, 2004; Schied, 2001; Welton, 1995). The…

Bridging the Gap between Human Resource Development and Adult Education: Part One, Assumptions, Definitions, and Critiques

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Hatcher, Tim; Bowles, Tuere

2013-01-01

Human resource development (HRD) as a scholarly endeavor and as a practice is often criticized in the adult education (AE) literature and by AE scholars as manipulative and oppressive and, through training and other interventions, controlling workers for strictly economic ends (Baptiste, 2001; Cunningham, 2004; Schied, 2001; Welton, 1995).…

Apollo 7 prime crew during water egress training in Gulf of Mexico

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1968-01-01

The prime crew of the first manned Apollo space mission, Apollo 7, is seen in Apollo Command Module Boilerplate 1102 during water egress training in the Gulf of Mexico. In foreground is Astronaut Walter M. Schirra Jr., in center is Astronaut Donn F. Eisele, and in background is Astronaut Walter Cunningham.

Tartu Jaani kiriku skulptuuride konserveerimisest / Eve Alttoa

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Alttoa, Eve

2006-01-01

Terrakotaskulptuuridest, nende seisundist, terrakotaskulptuuride konserveerimise metoodika väljatöötamisest, Saksamaa abist, fassaadi- ja interjööriskulptuuridest. Fasaadiskulptuuride koopiad on valmistanud skulptuurirestauraatorid Isabel Aaso ja Alesh Zahradnik. Fassaadil on ka August Volzi aastail 1899-1904 tehtud koopiad. Bibliograafia lk. 16

(SSR) and inter simple sequence repeat (ISSR)

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MRT

2012-07-12

Jul 12, 2012 ... E-mail: msheidai@yahoo.com, msheidai@sbu.ac.ir. Tel: +98 ... Stewart, 1997; Van Esbroeck and Bowman, 1998; Kumar et al., 2003 ..... Isabel N, Tremblay L, Michaud M, Tremblay FM, Bousquet J (1993). RAPDs as an aid to ...

Arcillas y biocarbones para la eliminación de contaminantes de origen agrícola en aguas: ensayo en filtro a escala precomercial

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Durán, Esperanza

2017-01-01

297 páginas.-- Tesis para obtener el título de Doctor por la Universidad de Sevilla con la calificación de Sobresaliente Cum laude.-- Tutora: Dra. Isabel González Díez, Profesora Titular de la Universidad de Sevilla

Vulture News

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... underutilized samples for detecting organophosphorus and carbamate pesticide poisoning in raptors · EMAIL FREE FULL TEXT EMAIL FREE FULL TEXT · DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT. Ngaio Richards, Irene Zorrilla, Joseph Lalah, Peter Otieno, Isabel Fernandez, Monica Calvino, Joaquin Garcia ...

Vulture News - Vol 72 (2017)

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... but underutilized samples for detecting organophosphorus and carbamate pesticide poisoning in raptors · EMAIL FREE FULL TEXT EMAIL FREE FULL TEXT DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT. Ngaio Richards, Irene Zorrilla, Joseph Lalah, Peter Otieno, Isabel Fernandez, Monica Calvino, Joaquin Garcia ...

Riskantne 21. sajandi äri / Isabel Frommelt

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Frommelt, Isabel

2004-01-01

Artiklis otsitakse vastust küsimustele, kuidas ettevõtted saaksid anda panuse julgeoleku suurendamisse, eriti seoses terrorismiohu vähendamisega ja kas äritegevus toimib endiselt tavapäraselt või on see nüüd riskantsem

1 Isabel Allende: Carnalismo and Female Identity

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2015-04-27

Apr 27, 2015 ... the strange, the uncanny, the eerie and the dreamlike – but not the fantastic – aspects of ... search for those things, a search for spirituality, for nature, for the .... She put her papers in order, and salvaged her notebooks that.

A justiça e a produção do direito em Castela no século XV = Justice and Law production in Castille in Century XV

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Vidotte, Adriana

2011-01-01

Full Text Available O reinado dos Reis Católicos – Fernando de Aragão e Isabel de Castela – (1474-1504 se situa no período de transição da Idade Média para a Idade Moderna e foi considerado um período de paz e justiça em Castela. Isto nos possibilita questionar sobre as implicações, para o direito, da organização de um reino em uma era de transição. Propomos verificar o que caracteriza a passagem de um direito medieval para um direito moderno, e quais os elementos que indicam essa transição no governo dos Reis Católicos. Enfatizamos duas prerrogativas principais, uma de tradição medieval, a de juiz, e outra de caráter moderno, a legislativa, que se encerram na figuras de Fernando e Isabel

Strategic Analysis of the 2014 Wounded Warrior Project Annual Alumni Survey: A Way Forward

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2015-01-01

Corporation, RR-522-WWP, 2014. As of June 25, 2015: http://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RR522.html Cunningham, Mary , Meghan Henry, and Webb Lyons...Meissa Jones, and Kenneth R. Conner , “Treatment-Seeking Barriers for Veterans of the Iraq and Afghanistan Conflicts Who Screen Positive for PTSD

Bingo! / Tiina Tammet

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Tammet, Tiina, 1971-

2005-01-01

Diarmuid Gavin Design'i kujundatud Rahvuslik Loteriiaed (The National Lottery Garden) Chelsea aiandusnäitusel. Rohelisi toone täiendavad värvilised metallist pallid. Kõrgete metallvarbade otsas moodustavad pallid värvika õielaine, aia eesosas saab neist pergola. Pallid vooderdavad ka mullikujulist aiapaviljoni. Aia teostas Sean Cunningham. 3 värv. ill

Military Review: Airland Battle Future

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1991-02-01

iciy haronl~pizIilg coti pwe. RieInk fanc , sychoiniation,%-rIit and ham ontion i 11,11C Wil tx~t, i meeani mom d feetig hatdierent ll ila ifrn lsa...Indian, Polish and South African troops. Panzergruppe Afilka ( Gene Rommei) Eighth Army (General Alan Cunningham) DeUfsches Afika Korps (DAK) 13th

A model for supersonic and hypersonic impactors for nanoparticles

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Abouali, Omid; Ahmadi, Goodarz

2005-01-01

In this study the performance of supersonic and hypersonic impactors for collection efficiency of nanoparticles (in the size range of 2-100 nm) under various operating conditions is analyzed. Axisymmetric forms of the compressible Navier-Stokes and energy equations are solved and the airflow and thermal condition in the impactor are evaluated. A Lagrangian particle trajectory analysis procedure is used and the deposition rates of different size particles under various operating conditions are studied. For dilute particle concentrations, the assumption of one-way interaction is used and the effect of particles on gas flow field is ignored. The importance of drag, lift and Brownian forces on particle motions in supersonic impactors is discussed. Sensitivity of the simulation results to the use of different assumptions for the Cunningham correction coefficient is studied. It is shown that accurate evaluation of the gas mean free path and the Cunningham correction factor is important for accurate simulation of nano-particle transport and deposition in supersonic/hypersonic impactors. The computer simulation results are compared favorably with the available experimental data

Leer la interculturalidad

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Carmen Servén Díez

2010-01-01

Full Text Available Reseña de la obra: Isabel Tejerina Lobo (Coord.. Leer la interculturalidad: una propuesta didáctica para la ESO desde la narrativa, el álbum y el teatro. Cantabria. Universidad de Cantabria-Gobierno de Cantabria. 2008. ISBN 978-84-691-5119-8

77 FR 21761 - Notice of Effectiveness of Exempt Wholesale Generator Status

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2012-04-11

... DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Notice of Effectiveness of Exempt Wholesale Generator Status Docket Nos. Bishop Hill Interconnection LLC........ EG12-24-000. Tenaska Washington Partners, L.P....... EG12-25-000. Pattern Santa Isabel LLC EG12-26-000. Mariposa Energy, LLC EG12...

77 FR 25538 - Quarterly Publication of Individuals, Who Have Chosen To Expatriate

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2012-04-30

... ERIK PAUL FURLER NICOLAS SILVAN FURRER GAJA MARIA FURRER JONAS KEVIN FURRER SACHA GABRIELLA GAGNON... CATHERINE MARIE MILNE NATASHA JANE MIN CHRIS SHIK MIN STEVE BAE MIZRACHI ELI HAIM MONTAGUE ALEXANDRE NICOLAS... CHRISTIAN MARTIN SYZ ISABEL SUSAN TAN CHUAN LIONG TAN WEI-EE BEVERLY [[Page 25544

Bridge: Intelligent Tutoring with Intermediate Representations

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1988-05-01

Research and Development Center and Psychology Department University of Pittsburgh Pittsburgh, PA. 15260 The Artificial Intelligence and Psychology...problem never introduces more than one unfamiliar plan. Inteligent Tutoring With Intermediate Representations - Bonar and Cunniigbam 4 You must have a... Inteligent Tutoring With ntermediate Representations - Bonar and Cunningham 7 The requirements are specified at four differcnt levels, corresponding to

Diagnosing Contributions of Sensory and Cognitive Deficits to Hearing Dysfunction in Blast-Exposed/TBI Service Members

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2017-10-01

The speech, spatial and qualities of hearing scale (SSQ). International Journal of Audiology, 43(2), 85–99. 11 Quad Chart Diagnosing contributions... Service Members” PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Dr. Barbara Shinn-Cunningham CONTRACTING ORGANIZATION: Boston University Boston, MA 02215-1703 REPORT DATE...information, including suggestions for reducing this burden to Department of Defense, Washington Headquarters Services , Directorate for Information Operations

) E STRYI) TEE~ I)IE VOOR()OST

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vyandelike voetsoldate op te tree. Volgens 5. SA Infanteriebrigadegroephoofkwartier se een ..... van hulle is kpl R. R. G. White, wat sy een oog verloor het. Sktr A. B. Cunningham van. 3 Transvaal Scottish se C ... toe hulle dit nader as 2000 tree van die sen- trale fortifikasies waag en slaag oak daarin am die pantserkarre aan ...

Homme kell 18 avatakse Tallinna Kunstihoones NIFKA näitus...

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Kapitali mõistet uuriv rahvusvaheline grupinäitus "Kapital (see veab meid alt)". Kuraator Simon Sheikh, osalejad loetletud. Avaldatakse ka raamat, kus tutvustatakse Will Bradley, Katja Diefenbachi, Stephan Geene'i, Brian Holmes'i, Trude Iverseni, Oleg Kirejevi, Isabell Lorey, Gerald Rauningi ja Natascha Sadr Haghighiani loomingut ja esseesid

Browse Title Index

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Items 1 - 50 of 154 ... Vol 68, No 1 (2015), A preliminary assessment of the palate and tongue for detecting organophosphorus and carbamate pesticide exposure in the degraded carcasses of vultures and other animals, Abstract PDF PDF. Ngaio L Richards, Irene Zorilla, Isabel Fernandez, Monica Calvino, Joaquin Garcia, ...

Conférence de presse | Press Conference

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2018-01-01

10:00-11:00 Conférence de presse en présence de Lucio Rossi, chef du projet LHC à Haute Luminosité et Isabel Bejar Alonso, chargée de la configuration, de la qualité et des ressources du projet LHC à Haute Luminosité.

Notes on the ecology and status of some forest mammals in four ...

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Notes on the ecology and status of some forest mammals in four Eastern Arc Mountains, Tanzania. Norbert J Cordeiro, Nathalie Seddon, David R Capper, Jonathan MM Ekstrom, Kim M Howell, Isabel S Isherwood, Charles AM Msuya, Jonas T Mushi, Andrew W Perkin, Robert G Pople, William T Stanley ...

Terrain Referenced Navigation Using SIFT Features in LiDAR Range-Based Data

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2014-12-26

62] Mesas-Carrascosa, Francisco Javier, Isabel Luisa Castillejo-Gonzalez, Manuel Sanchex de La Orden, and Alfonso Garcia-Ferrer Porras. “Combin...System”. Proceeding of the ION 44th Annual Meeting. 1998. [86] Rueda, Antonio, José M Noguera, and Carmen Martı́nez- Cruz . “A Flooding Algorithm for

Space Research in Africa: Challenges and Opportunities | Ligate ...

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All of these examples show that at a certain stage in history, Africa was a leader in science and technology (Shibanda & Isabel, 2000). However in the 21st Century, Africa has lagged behind technologically compared to all the other continents. Space research and deployment of supporting technologies including remote ...

Delegation of Canadian scientists accompanied by Swiss Ambassador to Canada Urs Ziswiler (fourth from left) visiting the ATLAS assembly hall.

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Maximilien Brice

2002-01-01

From left to right: John Ellis, Michael Bancroft, Robert Orr, Ambassor Ziswiler, Brigitte Léger, Robert McPherson, Isabel Trigger, Arthur Carty, Claude Leroy, James Pinfold, Louise Proulx, Carmen Charette (partly hidden), Alain Caillé, Dennis Salahub, Paul Guild, Alain Shotter, Nigel Lloyd, Regula Bubb, Benjamin Smith, Pekka Sinervo, Peter Jenni.

African Journal of Biotechnology - Vol 15, No 33 (2016)

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Micropropagation of caçari under different nutritive culture media, antioxidants, and levels of agar and pH · EMAIL FREE FULL TEXT EMAIL FREE FULL TEXT DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT DOWNLOAD FULL TEXT. Maria Da Conceicao Da Rocha Araujo, Edvan Alves Chagas, Maria Isabel Ribeiro Garcia, Sara Thiele Sobral ...

Coastal Storm Surge Analysis: Modeling System Validation. Report 4: Intermediate Submission No. 2.0

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2013-07-01

Hurricane Isabel, Hurricane Ernesto, and Extratropical Storm Ida. Model skill was accessed by quantitative comparison of model output to wind, wave...25. Extratropical Storm Nor’Ida maximum wind speeds. ......................................................... 41  Figure 26. Extratropical Storm ...Nor’Ida wind validation stations. ........................................................ 42  Figure 27. Comparisons of Extratropical Storm Nor’Ida wind

Novel foods dossier analysis (Annex 2)

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Cachapa Rodrigues, I.

2009-01-01

In the NFR case study by Isabel Cachapa Rodrigues three novel foods dossiers have been analysed. The dossiers have been chosen from the UK because in this country they are made available on the internet. Remarkably in all three a qualification other than novel food would have been defendable. These

Science in the Bilingual Classroom

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Gutierrez, Patricia A.

1996-07-01

One in seven children in the United States speaks a language other than English at home. Their difficulties with English may seem like a barrier to science education. But science education can be the impetus they need to overcome their difficulties with English. With sidebars by Isabel Hawkins and George Musser.

Diversity within American cassava germ plasm based on RAPD markers

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Carlos Colombo

2000-03-01

Full Text Available This work focuses on the genetic diversity of American cassava through RAPD molecular markers. The 126 genotypes studied were distributed on four geographical levels ranging from local to continental. Samples included ethnocultivars from the Santa Isabel community in the Brazilian Amazon, local cultivars collected in the State of São Paulo, native accessions from very diverse Brazilian regions, and representative accessions from the Centro Internacional de Agricultura Tropical (CIAT core collection. Eighty-eight polymorphic bands were analyzed. Results revealed the weak genetic structure of the cassava analyzed. The pattern formed by the first two axes of the principal coordinates analysis (PCoA revealed an overlapping of the São Paulo State genotype, the Brazilian group and the core collection accessions. The Santa Isabel ethnocultures formed a separate group. The weak genetic structure of cassava can be explained by the common practice of exchanging botanical material among small producers as well as by recombinations among genotypes. When the genotypes were analyzed using climatic data, the sample sites were found to be structured according to temperature and precipitation. RAPD markers proved very useful in the genetic diversity study, resulting in important implications for cassava germ plasm collections and genetic breeding.Este trabalho enfoca a diversidade genética de mandiocas americanas através de marcadores moleculares do tipo RAPD. Os 126 genótipos estudados estão distribuídos em quatro escalas geográficas, indo do local ao continental, ou seja, etnocultivares de uma comunidade chamada Santa Isabel, na Amazônia brasileira, cultivares locais coletados no Estado de São Paulo, um grupo representado por acessos oriundos das mais diversas regiões brasileiras e acessos representantes da "core collection" do CIAT. Oitenta e oito bandas RAPD polimórficas foram retidas para as análises. A estrutura genética das mandiocas deste

Selection of a Planning Horizon for a Hybrid Microgrid Using Simulated Wind Forecasts

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2014-12-01

microgrid robustness and efficiency and may provide operators with real-time guidance and control policies for microgrid operation. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The...A PLANNING HORIZON FOR A HYBRID MICROGRID USING SIMULATED WIND FORECASTS Mumtaz Karatas Turkish Naval Academy Tuzla, Istanbul, 34942, TURKEY Emily M...Craparo Dashi I. Singham Naval Postgraduate School 1411 Cunningham Road Monterey, CA, 93943 USA ABSTRACT Hybrid microgrids containing renewable energy

The Dilemma of Inclusivity in the Globalization of Academia

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Castano Rodriguez, Carolina

2015-01-01

This paper extends the conversation started by Mariona Espinet, Mercè Izquierdo, Clara Garcia-Pujol; Ludovic Morge and Isabel Martins and Susana de Souza regarding the diverse issues faced by the internationalisation of science education journals. I use my own experience as an early career researcher coming from an underrepresented culture and…

Informe de acción de incidencia regional Colombia: Fondo de ...

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7 La información que sirvió de insumo para elaborar este artículo, se consultó en documentos elaborados por el. Ministerio de Comunicaciones de la República de Colombia y en entrevistas realizadas con Juan David Olarte, coordinador del Fondo de Comunicaciones, e Isabel Abello, directora administrativa del ...

Berlinale eredad hetked võistlevad ilmetutega / Kristiina Davidjants

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Davidjants, Kristiina, 1974-

2008-01-01

58. Berliini filmifestivali filme - hiinlase "Armastuses oleme kindlad" ("Zuo you"), Paul Thomas Andersoni Upton Sinclairi "Õli" järgi lavastatud "Veri hakkab voolama" ("There Will Be Blood"), Soome film "Must jää" (režii Petri Kotwica), prantslase Eric Zonca "Julia" (peaosas Tilda Swinton), Isabel Coixet' "Eleegia" (Ameerika Ühendriigid)

Caracterización del género Pseudo-nitzschia en la Costa Catalana

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Quijano-Scheggia, Sonia

2008-01-01

Memoria de tesis doctoral presentada por Sonia Isabel Quijano Scheggia para optar al grado de Doctora por la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), realizada bajo la dirección de la Dra. Esther Garcés i Pieres del Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM-CSIC).-- 169 pages

Investigar la comunicación en Loja- Ecuador: el valor de la formación, producción y consumo

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Isidro Marín Gutiérrez

2015-01-01

Nombre de libro: Investigar la comunicación en Loja- Ecuador: el valor de la formación, producción y consumo. - Coordinadora: Ana Isabel Rodríguez Vázquez. - Ciudad: Loja. - Editorial: Universidad Técnica Particular de Loja. - Año: 2012. - Páginas: 568. - ISBN: 978-9942-08-397-5.

Action Foundations! a Comic (Book) Tale of Defending Educational Studies

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Nuñez, Isabel; Konkol, Pamela J.

2013-01-01

When defending educational foundations, Isabel Nunez and Pamela Konkol sometimes find themselves responding to the question of "why?"-often phrased, "But WHYYYYY do we have to take a class on this stuff??? (We want to take more methods!)." As distressing as this can be for teacher educators whose own work reveals rather a…

La educación como conflicto intercultural en América Latina : el caso de los movimientos indígenas del CRIC (Colombia) y la CONAIE (Ecuador) /

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González Terreros, María Isabel

2011-01-01

 tesis que para obtener el grado de Doctor en Estudios Latinoamericanos, presenta María Isabel González Terreros ; asesor Silvia Soriano Hernández. VII, 265 páginas : fotografías, mapas. Doctorado en Estudios Latinoamericanos UNAM, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, 2011

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2009-10-05

Oct 5, 2009 ... Mediterranean faba bean (Vicia faba L.) with ISSR markers. Field. Crops Res. 108: 39-44. Thimmappaiah WG, Santhosh D, Shobha, Melwyn GS (2008). Assessment of genetic diversity in cashew germplasm using RAPD and ISSR markers. Scientia Horticulturae. 11(022): 1-7. Veerle L, Isabel RR, Els C, De ...

Leaders from Nursing's History.

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Fondiller, Shirley H.; And Others

1995-01-01

Looks at the lives and accomplishments of four leaders in professional nursing: (1) Loretta Ford, who championed the cause of nurse practitioners; (2) Mable Staupers, a pioneer in community health and nursing; (3) Janet Geister, a leader in private nursing; and (4) Isabel Stewart, who led the movement to standardize nursing education. (JOW)

Isabel Allende: Carnalismo and Female Identity | Kotiah | University ...

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In an attempt to represent various facets of Latin American female identity, this article uses carnalismo as recurring trope while reinstating the particular ... To this end, theoretical frameworks of carnalismo suggest a desire to attract attention to unequal power relations and a consequent desire to celebrate these women.

Elementary science teachers' integration of engineering design into science instruction: results from a randomised controlled trial

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Maeng, Jennifer L.; Whitworth, Brooke A.; Gonczi, Amanda L.; Navy, Shannon L.; Wheeler, Lindsay B.

2017-07-01

This randomised controlled trial used a mixed-methods approach to investigate the frequency and how elementary teachers integrated engineering design (ED) principles into their science instruction following professional development (PD). The ED components of the PD were aligned with Cunningham and Carlsen's [(2014). Teaching engineering practices. Journal of Science Teacher Education, 25, 197-210] guidelines for ED PD and promoted inclusion of ED within science teaching. The treatment group included 219 teachers from 83 schools. Participants in the control group included 145 teachers from 60 schools in a mid-Atlantic state. Data sources, including lesson overviews and videotaped classroom observations, were analysed quantitatively to determine the frequency of ED integration and qualitatively to describe how teachers incorporated ED into instruction after attending the PD. Results indicated more participants who attended the PD (55%) incorporated ED into instruction compared with the control participants (24%), χ2(1, n = 401) = 33.225, p .05) through ED lessons. In ED lessons, students typically conducted research and created and tested initial designs. The results suggest the PD supported teachers in implementing ED into their science instruction and support the efficacy of using Cunningham and Carlsen's (2014) guidelines to inform ED PD design.

Biomass accumulation and chemical composition of Massai grass intercropped with forage legumes on an integrated crop-livestock-forest system

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Tatiana da Costa Moreno Gama

2014-06-01

Full Text Available The objective was to evaluate the use of woody legumes (Albizia lebbeck, Cratylia argentea, Dipteryx Allata (Baru, a Leucaena hybrid (L. leucocephala + L. diversifolia, and Leucaena leucocephalacv. Cunningham and herbaceous legumes (Arachis pintoi intercropped with Panicum maximum cv. Massai, simultaneously implanted in a maize crop. The study made use of a randomized block experimental design with four replications. Assessments of biomass accumulation and forage nutritional value were made after the maize harvest, between June 2008 and October 2010. It was found that the residues of maize provided better growing conditions for Massai grass during the dry season. L. leucocephala cv. Cunningham and the Leucaena hybrid had the highest accumulation of all forage legumes evaluated, and provided the best nutritional value of all the arrangements tested. Of all woody legumes tested in this system, Leucaena was considered feasible for intercropping with Massai grass. The intercrop of perennial woody Baru with maize is not recommended. Albizia lebbeck and Cratylia argentea require further study, especially the yield assessment at different cutting intervals and cutting heights. Arachis pintoi had a low participation in the intercropping, showing greater performance over time, indicating slow thriving in this experimental condition.

Injúrias causadas por mosca-das-frutas sul-americana em cultivares de videira

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Marcelo Zart

2011-01-01

Full Text Available A mosca-das-frutas sul-americana, Anastrepha fraterculus (Wiedemann (Diptera: Tephritidae, é uma das principais pragas da fruticultura no Brasil. O objetivo deste estudo foi identificar a suscetibilidade quanto à queda e deformação de bagas de diferentes cultivares/espécies de uva pela injúria causada pela oviposição de A. fraterculus. O trabalho foi realizado em vinhedos das cultivares 'Cabernet Sauvignon' (Vitis vinifera, 'Moscato Embrapa' (75% de V. vinifera e 'Isabel' (Vitis labrusca, localizados em Bento Gonçalves (RS, na safra 2006/2007. Dois casais de A. fraterculus foram confinados por cacho, em gaiolas de tecido voile, durante os estádios fenológicos de grão ervilha, início da compactação, início da maturação e maturação plena dos cachos. Queda significativa de bagas devido ao ataque de A. fraterculus foi registrada na cultivar 'Cabernet Sauvignon' quando a infestação foi realizada nos estádios fenológicos de grão ervilha e início da compactação de cacho; estádios de grão ervilha em 'Moscato Embrapa'; e nos estádios de grão ervilha, início da compactação e início da maturação do cacho na cultivar 'Isabel'. Foi registrada deformação de bagas quando as infestações foram realizadas nos estádios de grão ervilha e início da compactação de cacho em 'Cabernet Sauvignon', 'Moscato Embrapa' e 'Isabel'. O desenvolvimento larval até a fase de pupa foi observado somente na cultivar 'Moscato Embrapa'.

Cost analysis of the development and implementation of a spatial decision support system for malaria elimination in Solomon Islands.

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Marston, Luke; Kelly, Gerard C; Hale, Erick; Clements, Archie C A; Hodge, Andrew; Jimenez-Soto, Eliana

2014-08-18

The goal of malaria elimination faces numerous challenges. New tools are required to support the scale up of interventions and improve national malaria programme capacity to conduct detailed surveillance. This study investigates the cost factors influencing the development and implementation of a spatial decision support system (SDSS) for malaria elimination in the two elimination provinces of Isabel and Temotu, Solomon Islands. Financial and economic costs to develop and implement a SDSS were estimated using the Solomon Islands programme's financial records. Using an ingredients approach, verified by stakeholders and operational reports, total costs for each province were quantified. A budget impact sensitivity analysis was conducted to investigate the influence of variations in standard budgetary components on the costs and to identify potential cost savings. A total investment of US$ 96,046 (2012 constant dollars) was required to develop and implement the SDSS in two provinces (Temotu Province US$ 49,806 and Isabel Province US$ 46,240). The single largest expense category was for computerized equipment totalling approximately US$ 30,085. Geographical reconnaissance was the most expensive phase of development and implementation, accounting for approximately 62% of total costs. Sensitivity analysis identified different cost factors between the provinces. Reduced equipment costs would deliver a budget saving of approximately 10% in Isabel Province. Combined travel costs represented the greatest influence on the total budget in the more remote Temotu Province. This study provides the first cost analysis of an operational surveillance tool used specifically for malaria elimination in the South-West Pacific. It is demonstrated that the costs of such a decision support system are driven by specialized equipment and travel expenses. Such factors should be closely scrutinized in future programme budgets to ensure maximum efficiencies are gained and available resources

Proyecto Vidas paralelas indígena: revelando el pueblo Piratapuia / Waíkhana del Amazonas, Brasil.

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Evelyn NERY

2012-03-01

Full Text Available Este relato de experiencia se refiere al grupo étnico Piratapuia o Waíkhana, que habita el noroccidente del Estado del Amazonas en el Brasil. En este caso, se aborda más especificamente el componente de ese grupo étnico residiendo en el municipio de Santa Isabel do Rio Negro. Se relata la historia del pueblo Saúde Indígena Tempus - Actas de Saúde Coletiva Revista Tempus Actas de Saúde Coletiva 80 Piratapuia más especificamente al componente de ese grupo étnico, en el municipio de Santa Isabel do Rio Negro. Se relata la historia del grupo étnico haciendo énfasis en su migración a partir del Alto Rio Negro para el curso medio del mismo, la influência de la misión saleciana y de la invasión de los buscadores de oro (garimpeiros, así como la convivencia con otras etnias (tukano y yanomami, entre otras. Son mostrados también detalles de la organización social que incluye la estrutura de clanes con sus jerarquías. Se describen las distintas asociaciones indígenas de la región que consiguieron forjar una conciencia en la población del municipío, en donde actualmente 90,0% se asume como perteneciente a grupos étnicos indígenas. Con respecto a la cultura, se detacan las prácticas de cura y auto-cuidado proporcionadas por los “benzederos”. La estructura de sanidad pertenece al polo de Sta. Isabel, con un hospital y una unidad básica de salud, siendo que el Distrito Especial Indígena de Salud fue ampliado para garantizar la cobertura al medio Rio Negro. Sin embargo, se señalan las dificultades generadas por las enormes distancias de desplazamiento.

Generation Unbound: Drifting into Sex and Parenthood without Marriage

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Sawhill, Isabel V.

2014-01-01

Over half of all births to young adults in the United States now occur outside of marriage, and many are unplanned. The result is increased poverty and inequality for children. The left argues for more social support for unmarried parents; the right argues for a return to traditional marriage. In "Generation Unbound," Isabel V. Sawhill…

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2012-08-21

... duration that the moveable bridges will be maintained in the closed position. The races have been reserved... of Transportation (NCDOT) bridges: The S.R. 74 Bridge, across the AIWW, mile 283.1 at Wrightsville Beach, NC; the Cape Fear Memorial Bridge across the Cape Fear River, mile 26.8; and the Isabel S. Holmes...

Douglas-fir tussock moth- and Douglas-fir beetle-caused mortality in a ponderosa pine/Douglas-fir forest in the Colorado Front Range, USA

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Jose F. Negron; Ann M. Lynch; Willis C. Schaupp; Vladimir Bocharnikov

2014-01-01

An outbreak of the Douglas-fir tussock moth, Orgyia pseudotsugata McDunnough, occurred in the South Platte River drainage on the Pike-San Isabel National Forest in the Colorado Front Range attacking Douglas-fir, Pseudotsuga menziesii (Mirb.) Franco. Stocking levels, species composition, and tree size in heavily and lightly defoliated stands were similar. Douglas-fir...

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2004-01-01

15. aprillist Adamson-Ericu muuseumis Juta Kivimäe koostatud näitus "Eesti esimesi naisskulptoreid". Näeb režissöör Rein Raamatu portreefilmi "Maire Männik, 54 Rue du Montparnasse" (2000). 12. V teabepäeval esinevad J. Kivimäe, Isabel Aaso, Mari-Liis Tammi, Reet Varblane, Rein Raamat

The White Male as Narrative Axis in Mayra Santos-Febres’s Nuestra señora de la noche

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2013-01-01

Full Text Available Mayra Santos-Febres’s 2006 novel, Nuestra señora de la noche , is based on the life of the Puerto Rican madam, Isabel la Negra, a legendary figure in Puerto Rican culture. Using both Mervin Alleyne’s theory of racial discrimination and Aída Hurtado’s theory of racially-based gender discrimination, which shows how the reactions of white and black females are governed by their relation of dependency on or rejection by the white male, this study illustrates how the character Isabel la Negra evolves as a postmodern, feminist character who opposes racism and gender subordination in Puerto Rico through her role as a prostitute. Conversely, the study also illustrates how madness, associated with both white (Cristina Rangel and black (Montse females in the novel, is a powerless rather than feminist strategy, into which women descend due to their mistreatment by patriarchal society. The study illustrates how Fernando Fornarís, the white male protagonist, serves as the narrative axis for the development of women’s polarized reactions to patriarchal domination in the novel.

Focusing, Sustaining, and Switching Attention

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2013-09-12

Refereed articles Schwartz A and BG Shinn-Cunningham (2013). Dynamic range compression effects spatial selection of speech sounds in normal-hearing...34Foundations of binaural hearing: Why does spatial hearing matter?," Annual Meeting of the Academy of Audiology , Anaheim, CA, 3 April 2013 [invited keynote...Keynote Speaker, Binaural Active Audition Symposium, Kyoto Japan, March 2013 Keynote Speaker, Annual Meeting of the Academy of Audiology , Anaheim, CA

Creative and Tactile Astronomy: Exploring the Universe Using All the Senses

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Borges, Isabel; Canas, Lina; Alexander, Alison; Wiltsher, Ruth

2015-01-01

Creative and Tactile Astronomy is an educational project developed by English and Portuguese teachers. Isabel Borges and Lina Canas from Portugal and Alison Alexander and Ruth Wiltsher from the United Kingdom met for the first time at the 2013 Science on Stage Festival in Slubice-Oder, on the border between Germany and Poland. As a consequence of…

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Learning to Understand Natural Language with Less Human Effort

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2015-05-01

Supervision Distant supervision is a recent trend in information extraction. Distantly-supervised extractors are trained using a corpus of unlabeled text...consists of fill-in-the-blank natural language questions such as “Incan emperor ” or “Cunningham directed Auchtre’s second music video .” These questions...with an 132 unknown knowledge base, simultaneously learning how to semantically parse language and pop - ulate the knowledge base. The weakly

Marine oil dietary supplementation reduces delayed onset muscle soreness after a 30 km run

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Baum, Klaus; Telford, Richard D; Cunningham, Ross B

2013-01-01

Klaus Baum,1 Richard D Telford,2 Ross B Cunningham,3 1Trainingsinstitut Prof Baum, Köln, Germany; 2College of Medicine, Biology, and Environment, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia; 3The Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia Objective: Runners are prone to delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) during long distance training. This especially holds for unaccustomed training volumes at moderate to high int...

Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy restricted to the posterior fossa in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus

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Goncalves, Fabricio Guimaraes; Lamb, Leslie; Del Carpio-O' Donovan, Raquel, E-mail: goncalves.neuroradio@gmail.com [McGill University Health Center Montreal General Hospital (Canada)

2011-11-15

Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy is a neurological infectious disease caused by the John Cunningham polyoma virus (JCV), an opportunistic agent with worldwide distribution. This disease is frequently seen in immunosuppressed patients and rarely associated with systemic lupus erythematosus. In the central nervous system PML demyelinating lesions occur in the supratentorial compartment. The authors describe a rare case of PML secondary to SLE treatment with atypical presentation restricted to the posterior fossa (author)

Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy restricted to the posterior fossa in a patient with systemic lupus erythematosus

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Goncalves, Fabricio Guimaraes; Lamb, Leslie; Del Carpio-O'Donovan, Raquel

2011-01-01

Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy is a neurological infectious disease caused by the John Cunningham polyoma virus (JCV), an opportunistic agent with worldwide distribution. This disease is frequently seen in immunosuppressed patients and rarely associated with systemic lupus erythematosus. In the central nervous system PML demyelinating lesions occur in the supratentorial compartment. The authors describe a rare case of PML secondary to SLE treatment with atypical presentation restricted to the posterior fossa (author)

Urban Sustainability at the Limits: Development rhetorics and realities in Tanzania

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William Cunningham Bissell

2011-01-01

William Cunningham Bissell argues that proposed new urban master plans in Tanzania are unlikely to resolve growing concerns about long-term sustainability. Policies and plans are formulated in a top-down manner, marginalizing the poor and pathologizing the strategies they must pursue to survive. Nor is further growth the answer to the problems that free market policies have already unleashed. Sustainability cannot be achieved without transforming political culture, engaging everyday citizens ...

Negative Social Contextual Stressors and Somatic Symptoms Among Young Black Males: An Exploratory Study

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Scott, Lionel D.; McCoy, Henrika

2015-01-01

This study examines whether negative social contextual stressors were associated with somatic symptoms among young Black males (N = 74) after accounting for background and psychological characteristics. Using Cunningham and Spencer’s Black Male Experiences Measure, negative social contextual stressors connoted those experiences connected to the personal attributes, devaluation, and negative imagery of young Black males, such as being followed when entering a store or police or security guards...

The Relationship of Stated Learning Preferences, Personality Type, and Career Background to Academic and Leadership Performance at the United States Air Command and Staff College

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1999-12-11

Kolb envisioned experiential 26 Table 2 Subscales on the NASSP Learning Styles Profile Cognitive Styles Perceptual Responses Analytic Skill...Research Type Theory and Learning Preferences Jung and the Theory of Psychological Types Isabel Briggs Myers’ Contribution to Jung’s Work The Myers...Implications Recommendations for Further Study Summary of Specific Conclusions Discussion Grounded Curriculum Learning Preferences Type Theory Student

Why Diversity Matters: A Roundtable Discussion on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Librarianship

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Juleah Swanson

2015-07-01

Full Text Available In Brief:  After presenting together at ACRL 2015 to share research we conducted on race, identity, and diversity in academic librarianship, we reconvene panelists Ione T. Damasco, Cataloger Librarian at the University of Dayton, Isabel Gonzalez-Smith, Undergraduate Experience Librarian at the University of Illinois, Chicago, Dracine Hodges, Head of Acquisitions at Ohio State University, Todd […

Fibroblast Activation Protein-Alpha, a Serine Protease that Facilitates Metastasis by Modification of Diverse Microenvironments

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2011-10-01

diabetes and hematopoietic stem cell engraftment [21]. Sitagliptin is a DPPIV inhibitor already approved for type 2 diabetes because it has...activation protein (FAP) in hepatitis C virus infection. Adv Exp Med Biol 524:235–243 12. Levy MT, McCaughan GW, Abbott CA, Park JE, Cunningham AM...kb ( Abbott et al., 1994). Three different splice variants of FAP have been observed in mouse embryonic tissues, with all three predicted to encode

Forensic Spoorology: Seeing and Understanding Human Behavior through Observation, Classification and Interpretation of Spoor Evidence

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2011-06-10

for the selection to this renowned military college. Without the confidence of U.S. Marshal Mauri Sheer and Chief Deputy Tony Gasaway, I would not...spoor, the tracker will be blinded to the spoor. Roland Robbins , Mantracking: Introduction to the Step-By-Step Method, asserts: One of the most... Robbins , Mantracking: Introduction to the Step-By-Step Method (Montrose, CA: Search and Rescue Magazine, 1977), 38-39. 26 Cunningham, 80. 27 Kevin Reeve

What’s behind a definition? Netting the ‘slippery fish’!

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Oxborrow, L; Clarke, J

2012-01-01

Objectives: The paper explains the process and problems of mapping a localised creative industry sector, contrasting the findings of secondary data with primary data from within the field; identifying implications for policy and innovation. Prior Work: Cunningham et al (2009) term creative industries and innovation as conceptually ‘slippery fish’ concurring with authors who espouse the difficulty of defining creative industries (Boggs, 2009; Galloway and Dunlop, 2007). Even though Flew et al ...

Effects of Mixtures on Liquid and Solid Fragment Size Distributions

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2016-05-01

bins, too few size bins, fixed bin widths, or inadequately- varying bin widths. Overpopulated bins – which typically occur for smaller fragments...2010 C. V. B. Cunningham, The Kuz-Ram Fragmentation Model – 20 Years On, In R. Holmberg et. al., Editors, Proceedings of the 3 rd World ...1992 P. K. Sahoo and T. Riedel, Mean Value Theorems and Functional Equations, World Scientific, 1998 K. A. Sallam, C. Aalburg, G.M. Faeth

Spatial Light Modulators and Applications: Summaries of Papers Presented at the Spatial Light Modulators and Applications Topical Meeting Held on March 15-17, 1993 in Palm Springs, California

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1993-03-17

Seiko Epson Corp., Japan. We present three CGH reconstructions JTuC1 Extended generalized shuffle networks, G. W Richards , by using TFT LC-SLMs. They are...from optical interconnections to optical nonstationary objects, acomputing, Richard C. Williamson, MIT L-ýcotn Laboratory Optical 10:00 am-10:30 am...percent / volt using asymmetric Fabry-Perot structures," Appl. Phys. Lett. 56 1126-1128 (1990) 7. K. W. Goossen , J. E. Cunningham, and W. Y. Jan

The dilemma of inclusivity in the globalization of academia

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Castano Rodriguez, Carolina

2015-12-01

This paper extends the conversation started by Mariona Espinet, Mercè Izquierdo, Clara Garcia-Pujol; Ludovic Morge and Isabel Martins and Susana de Souza regarding the diverse issues faced by the internationalisation of science education journals. I use my own experience as an early career researcher coming from an underrepresented culture and language within academia to expand on these issues. I focus on the issues which I have experienced the most: the disconnection between university research and school practice and the struggles with the unspoken power structures. As I delve into my experience, I argue that we are failing to ask the right questions to create a science education community that is inclusive of diverse views and multicultural perspectives. We need to rethink how we can avoid colonisation of school teachers, as Isabel and Susana describe, but also the colonisation of those academics and teachers who are from non-English speaking cultures. I urge us to carry more debates such as the one initiated by these three authors, exposing and debating about the different power structures within science education so that we can progress in empowering all those voices that have been silenced.

Informal presentations by fuel fabricators and others [contributed by J. Cunningham, ORNL

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Cunningham, J.

1993-01-01

Full text: My remarks are going to be very brief. I've made many of them from the floor already. I do want to thank Dick Lewis for giving us the much needed information on the nonproliferation policy of the U.S., particularly as it impacts the research and test reactor fuel business. The laboratory, about a year and one half ago, look at, before we had this kind of information, what its position should be regarding the research in reactor test business. And at that time, they decided that they would be very supportive of the program, it was an important national and international program and that the facilities and manpower sources of the laboratory would be made available for this program. Now that decision hasn't changed at all. There's been much discussion at Oak Ridge, though, regarding the underlying basis for that decision, and we have been waiting for information. And you probably could have gathered by some of my questioning, since represent a portion of management, I was looking for that information and we got it last night. I would like to make a plea to reiterate the need to keep costs down and to get the safeguard question answered insofar as an impact's cost, because from an experimental point of view, most of the programs that are underway at Oak Ridge and elsewhere within DOE cannot tolerate costs that are going to go up much more than 10%. Programatically, there's not that kind of money and that means the experimental program would have to be that some of them would have to be shut down. So it is very important that we keep the costs, the implemental increase in cost, going from the highly enriched to the low level enriched fuel, below 10%. I just want to make a couple of other remarks. We have, in the facilities at Oak Ridge, a rather extensive fabrication capability that is available. The laboratory committed the test facility, the Oak Ridge National Lab's ORR, and HFIR to this program if needed. They also want us to cooperate in the transfer and exchange of information for fabricators, whether they be domestic or overseas. So we are charged from a technical point of view with getting this information out to the people who have a need to know. A question came up on the void fraction. When Mel Martin presented his information, you will recall, he ran into 25% void volume that was of a micro form porosity character. That was the finding from the initial plates that were rolled with these high concentrations of U 3 O 8 . They do not represent what is going to be the final answer because there are many things one can do to reduce that and that is part of the program: we'll be looking at how to get that void volume down to the level that we want to help out and give us to accommodate irradiation effects. One of the ways to get the costs down, as we heard, is to get long-life fuel. Even though we'll be forced to go down in enrichment, we're going to be looking awfully hard at trying to get the lives of these fuel elements to have their resident time in the reactor. In fabrication costs, we always play for high priority on keeping fabrication costs down and that concludes what I have to say. (author)

Manejo forestal y diversidad arbórea : efectos del aprovechamiento forestal en la Reserva de la Mariposa Monarca, México /

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Navarrete Pérez Negrón, José Luis

2011-01-01

 tesis que para obtener el grado de Doctor en Geografía, presenta José Luis Navarrete Pérez Negrón ; asesor María Isabel Ramírez Ramírez, Diego Rafael Pérez Salicrup, Ángel Guadalupe Priego Santander. 103 páginas : ilustraciones. Doctorado en Geografía UNAM, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, 2011

Rastreando el origen, desarrollo e interacción de los adictos al amor /

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Retana Franco, Blanca Estela

2011-01-01

 tesis que para obtener el grado de Doctor en Psicología, presenta Blanca Estela Retana Franco ; asesor Rozzana Sánchez Aragón, Rolando Dfaz Loving, Oscar Prospero García, Sofía Rivera Aragón, Isabel Reyes Lagunes. V, 393 páginas : diagramas, fotografías. Doctorado en Psicología UNAM, Facultad de Psicología, 2011

Avaliação sensorial de uvas de mesa produzidas no Vale do São Francisco e comercializadas em João Pessoa - PB Sensorial evatuation of table grapes produced in the São Francisco Valley and traded in João Pessoa - PB

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Robson de Jesus Mascarenhas

2010-12-01

Full Text Available Tomando-se como base o nível crescente de exigência do consumidor por frutas de mesa, as características de qualidade das uvas 'Itália', 'Festival' ('Superior Seedless', 'Benitaka' e 'Isabel', expostas à venda em três redes de supermercados, na cidade de João Pessoa - Paraíba - Brasil, foram avaliadas em dezembro de 2007. Inicialmente, foram selecionados e treinados julgadores que estabeleceram e definiram os seguintes atributos sensoriais de importância: tonalidade e uniformidade de cor, aroma, firmeza, presença de sementes, suculência, doçura, acidez, sabor e qualidade global. Os diâmetros, comprimentos e pesos das bagas estavam condizentes com os parâmetros comerciais ou varietais. Os conteúdos de sólidos solúveis (SS, com exceção da uva 'Benitaka', apresentaram-se em conformidade com os padrões comerciais. Apenas a cultivar Festival, com a menor acidez titulável (AT, apresentou relação SS/AT aceitável. Foram realizadas três sessões de análises descritivas quantitativas (ADQ, nas quais a uva 'Itália' foi a de melhor sabor e, em conjunto com a apirênica 'Festival', apresentou maiores doçuras e qualidade global. A cultivar Isabel apresentou a cor mais forte , enquanto a Festival foi a melhor no atributo semente. Aplicou-se o Teste de Preferência por Ordenação, no qual as uvas 'Itália' e 'Festival' foram as preferidas.Taking into account the increasing demand by table fruits consumers, the quality characteristics of the grapes 'Italy', 'Festival' ('Superior Seedless', 'Benitaka', and 'Isabel' exposed for sale in three supermarket chains from the city of João Pessoa - Paraíba - Brazil, were evaluated in December, 2007. Initially, it was selected and trained judges that established and defined the following sensorial attributes of importance: tonality and color, uniformity, aroma, firmness, presence of seeds, succulence, sweetness, acidity, flavor, and global quality. Diameters, lengths, and weight of berries

Extraterrestrial matter in the oceans

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estimates of the total abundance of cosmic dust and also quantitative estimates of the flux of stony spherules on earth. Brownlee et al. (1975) and Blanchard and Davis (1978) simulated atmospheric entry conditions on natural and artificial analogs... obliterated/masked these important events in the earth’s history. 89 References Barnes V.E. (1989), Origin of tektites, Texas J. of Sci.,41, 5-33. Blanchard M.B. and Cunningham G. (1974) Artificial meteor ablation studies - olivine. J. Geophys...

The semiosis of students’ conceptual understanding of biochemistry

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Musaeus, Peter; Mathiesen, Søren Læssøe; Dahl, Mads Ronald

2013-01-01

University students learning of scientific concepts can be described as a process of semiosis at three different levels: Ontogenetic, whereby students over time actively acquire signs that represent new meaning to themselves; mesogenetic, whereby a teacher through teaching an dialogue activities...... together with students build conceptual understanding; sociogenetic, whereby the scientific achievements of a science disseminate into the classroom. Semiotic processes have been investigated in educational semiotics (Cunningham, 1992), sociocultural psychology (Valsiner, 2007) and research on math...

Identification and Validation of Established and Novel Biomarkers for Infections in Burns

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2016-10-01

Dr. Nicole Enman, Science Officer, CDMRP, Phone : (301) 619-7040, Email: nicole.m.enman.ctr@mail.mil Overlap: None 1 KL2 TR001441-01 (Ameredes...Science Officer, CDMRP, Phone : (301) 619-7040, Email:nicole.m.enman.ctr@mail.mil Overlap: None ***New Award*** UL1TR001439 (Tyler) 04/01/16-03/31...Cunningham) 09/01/13-04/30/18 5% NIH/NIDA $136,017 Translational Addiction Sciences Center, Core A Goals: The Translational Addiction

Improving the Efficiency of Photon Collection by Compton Rescue

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2011-03-01

burnished by vibratory shot peening,” Acta Physica Polonica , vol. A 110, pp. 739–46, 2006. [4] M. Cunningham et al., “First-generation hybrid compact...Department of Defense, or the United States Government. This material is declared a work of the U.S. Government and is not subject to copyright...R. Kowash (Member) Date AFIT/GAP/ENP/11-M10 Abstract A method to improve the efficiency of photon collection in thin planar HPGe de- tectors was

Sharing resources@CERN

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2002-01-01

The library is launching a 'sharing resources@CERN' campaign, aiming to increase the library's utility by including the thousands of books bought by individual groups at CERN. This will improve sharing of information among CERN staff and users. Photo 01: L. to r. Eduardo Aldaz, from the PS division, Corrado Pettenati, Head Librarian, and Isabel Bejar, from the ST division, read their divisional copies of the same book.

Estructura del sueño y funciones ejecutivas en niños con depresión /

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Moo Estrella, Jesús Antonio

2012-01-01

 tesis que para obtener el grado de Doctor en Psicología presenta Jesús Antonio Moo Estrella ; jurado de examen de grado directora de tesis: Dra. Matilde Valencia Flores, comité: Dra. Feggy Ostrosky Shejet, Dra. Rosa Elena Ulloa Flores, Dra. Isabel Reyes Lagunes, Dr. Ariel Vite Sierrax, 83 páginasDoctorado en Psicología UNAM, Facultad de Psicología, 2012

The CI-Flow Project: A System for Total Water Level Prediction from the Summit to the Sea

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2011-11-01

round and may be applied to all types of coastal storms , including intense cool- season extratropical cyclones (i.e., nor’easters). In addition...associated with waves, tides, storm surge, rivers, and rainfall, including interactions at the tidal/surge interface Within this project, Cl-FLOW addresses...presented for Hurricane Isabel (2003), Hurricane Earl (20I0), and Tropical Storm Nicole (2010) for the Tar -Pamlico and Neuse River basins of North

Measurement of the primary and scatter dose in high energy photon beams

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Van der Linden, P M [Catharina Ziekenhuis, Eindhoven (Netherlands). Radiotherapy Dept.; Tiourina, T B; Dries, W

1995-12-01

A method is presented to measure the primary and scatter components separately in a water tank using a small cylindrical absorber. Results from this experiment are compared with Monte Carlo calculations. The measurement setup consists of a small cylindrical absorber placed on a central axis of the beam a few centimetres above the radiation detector. Both absorber and detector move along the central axis while absorbed dose is registered. As the primary radiation is fully blocked, only scatter component is measured when a cylindrical absorber is used. Measurements in open fields result in the total absorbed dose being the sum of primary and scatter components. The primary dose component can be derived by substraction. Absorbers with different diameters are used. With decreasing dimensions the relative contribution of the dose due to scatter radiation increases. A steep increase is observed when the range of laterally scattered electrons becomes comparable with the radius of the absorber. Two different Monte Carlo simulations have been performed: with and without secondary electron transport. The data obtained for the former case perfectly agrees with the experiment. The situation where the secondary electron is assumed zero (i.e. local energy deposition) simulates the Cunningham model. Our results show that the Cunningham model predicts lower scatter component under the block edge which can be important for these applications.

The Antiaircraft Journal. Volume 93, Number 6, November-December 1950

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1950-12-01

compromise. Russia and the satellites deposited a reser- vation against freeing the original Detaining Power from responsibility. HUl\\ IANE TREATMENT OF...H., 543 Flynn Ave., Redwood City, Calif. Cox, Thomas R., 46 Maitland Rd., Stamford, Conn. DeRita, Joseph, Box 83, Lafayette, R. I. DiEnno, John, Jr... Ian 2-40 Broudy, Harold, Capt. 2- 2 Cunningham, Elmo E., 1st Lt. 5- 7 Currie, A. A., Lt. Col. 1-26 Dillon, Joseph V., Brig. Gen 6-34 Dineley, R. L., M

Natalizumab kan inducere progressiv multifokal leukoencefalopati

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Theódórsdóttir, Asta; Blaabjerg, Morten; Falah, Masoud

2014-01-01

A 41-year-old woman with relapsing-remitting multiple sclerosis came to the outpatient-clinic, prior to a scheduled infusion with natalizumab. She had been treated with natalizumab for four years. Prior to treatment she did not wish to have her John Cunningham virus status tested. At the consulta....... At the consultation she appeared disoriented and answered questions inadequately. An MRI was consistent with progressive multifocal leucoencephalopathy, and treatment with plasmapheresis was startet immediatly. The patient deceased four months later....

The Benefit of Mirtazapine in the Treatment of Progressive Multifocal Leukoencephalopathy in a Young HIV-positive Patient

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Miranda, Jorge; Sandoval, Hugo; Ramos-Duran, Luis; Tonarelli, Silvina B.

2018-01-01

Highly active antiretroviral therapy is well-established in the treatment of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive patients. Nonadherence with therapy regimens often leads to the occurrence of opportunistic infections that further complicate treatment and challenge the treating physician. We report a young HIV-positive patient who suffered from progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy caused by the human John Cunningham virus and showed objective clinical improvement after adding mirtazapine to the treatment regimen, an observation that is supported by the emerging literature. PMID:29497578

Porous and Phase Change Nanomaterials For Photonic Applications

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2014-08-28

Y. Han , M. S. Zhao, G. Morthier, and R. Baets. Athermal silicon-on-insulator ring resonators by overlaying a polymer cladding on narrowed waveguides...integrated photonics. Advanced Materials, 22(23):2561, 2010. [152] T. Sondergaard, S. M. Novikov, T. Holmgaard, R. L. Eriksen, J. Beermann, Z. H. Han , K...726, 2011. [181] N. N. Feng, D. Z. Feng, S. R. Liao, X. Wang, P. Dong, H. Liang, C. C. Kung , W. Qian, J. Fong, R. Shafiiha, Y. Luo, J. Cunningham, A. V

The queen, the prince, and the ideologue: Alonso Ortiz’s notions of queenship at the court of the Catholic Kings

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Silleras-Fernández, Núria

2016-06-01

Full Text Available In the court of the Catholic Monarchs (r. 1474-1516, Isabel I of Castile and Fernando II of Aragon, that of a ruling queen, humanists constructed theories of what it meant to be a ruler. Alonso Ortiz, one of the humanists attached to their court, composed the Latin text, Liber de educatione Johannis Serenissimi Principis et primogeniti regum potentissimorum Castelle Aragonum et Siciliae Ferdinandi et Helisabet inclyta prosapia coniugum clarissimorum, a book that reflects an idealized and disempowered humanist vision of elite women that contrasts with the agency they wielded in historical fact.En la corte de los Reyes Católicos (1474-1516, Isabel I de Castilla y Fernando II de Aragón, una corte en la que una reina gobernaba, los humanistas construyeron teorías sobre lo que significaba ser un gobernante. Alonso Ortiz, un humanista de su corte, compuso el texto latino: Liber de educatione Johannis Serenissimi Principis et primogeniti regum potentissimorum Castelle Aragonum et Siciliae Ferdinandi et Helisabet inclyta prosapia coniugum clarissimorum, libro que refleja una visión idealizada y despojada de poder de las mujeres de la élite, hecho este que contrasta con la capacidad de actuación que éstas tuvieron según la evidencia histórica.

A Storm Surge and Inundation Model of the Back River Watershed at NASA Langley Research Center

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Loftis, Jon Derek; Wang, Harry V.; DeYoung, Russell J.

2013-01-01

This report on a Virginia Institute for Marine Science project demonstrates that the sub-grid modeling technology (now as part of Chesapeake Bay Inundation Prediction System, CIPS) can incorporate high-resolution Lidar measurements provided by NASA Langley Research Center into the sub-grid model framework to resolve detailed topographic features for use as a hydrological transport model for run-off simulations within NASA Langley and Langley Air Force Base. The rainfall over land accumulates in the ditches/channels resolved via the model sub-grid was tested to simulate the run-off induced by heavy precipitation. Possessing both the capabilities for storm surge and run-off simulations, the CIPS model was then applied to simulate real storm events starting with Hurricane Isabel in 2003. It will be shown that the model can generate highly accurate on-land inundation maps as demonstrated by excellent comparison of the Langley tidal gauge time series data (CAPABLE.larc.nasa.gov) and spatial patterns of real storm wrack line measurements with the model results simulated during Hurricanes Isabel (2003), Irene (2011), and a 2009 Nor'easter. With confidence built upon the model's performance, sea level rise scenarios from the ICCP (International Climate Change Partnership) were also included in the model scenario runs to simulate future inundation cases.

MUÑOZ-ALONSO, G. y VILLASEÑOR, I. Descubriendo el pensamiento a través del documento: las Historias de la Filosofía en las Bibliotecas de la Red Madroño

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L. Fernando Ramos Simón

2011-03-01

Full Text Available El libro, Descubriendo el pensamiento a través del documento, tiene su punto de arranque, tal y como se nos advierte en el mismo, en los años noventa. Por dos caminos, aparentemente separados, tanto Isabel Villaseñor, docente de la Facultad de Ciencias de la Documentación de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid, como Gemma Muñoz-Alonso, docente de la Facultad de Filosofía de esa misma Universidad, y docente hasta hace poco vinculada a la docencia en la Facultad de Ciencias de la Documentación, dedicaban sus investigaciones a temas relacionados con las Fuentes de Información Documentales. Después de la tesis doctoral, y la publicación de la obra Fuentes de Información en Filosofía Jurídica española (siglos XIX-XXI, de Isabel Villaseñor, ambas autoras decidieron colaborar en una obra en la que pudieran, por fin, plasmar conjuntamente sus inquietudes intelectuales. En una palabra: el libro tiene dos autoras, cuya participación en el mismo ha sido complementaria, la mirada del profesional de la Documentación, y el profesional de la Filosofía.........

24 June 2014 - Latin America Ambassadors to Switzerland visiting the LHC tunnel at Point 1 with Beams Department R. A. Fernandez

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Egli, Laurent

2014-01-01

Visitors present in random order: Ambassador Antonio Gustavo Trombetta (Argentina) ; Ambassador Igor Kipman (Brasil) ; Ambassador Beatriz Londoño Soto (Colombia) ; Ambassador Isabel Montero de la Cámara (Costa Rica) ; Ambassador María del Pilar Fernandez Otero (Cuba) ; Ambassador Jorge Castro-Valle Kuehne (México) ; Researcher Luis Roberto Flores Castillo (México) ; Chargé d’affaires Esteban Paez Gonzalez (Paraguay) ; Ambassador Luis Juan Chuquihuara Chil (Perú) ; Ambassador Cesar Osvelio Méndez (Venezuela)

Human Signatures for Personnel Detection

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2010-09-14

eternal gratitude, my sister Isabel, Walter Hunter, but specially my mother whose incredible sacrifice is finally paying off, and Eileen who always...higher than the others. A high contrast image will exhibit a large variety of gray tones and great detail and also will have high dynamic range...with a gray line. By manipulating each color separately we can choose a color for each object detected. 66 currentr = round(trackedlist(currentID

Hearing Loss Associated with US Military Combat Deployment

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2015-02-01

Jason M. Jones Tomoko I. Hooper Isabel G. Jacobson Edward J. Boyko Report No. 13-59 The views expressed in this article are those of the...limited. A study of US Army soldiers who visited audiology clinics noted that hearing loss was identifi ed in 68.6% of post-deployment diagnoses and...disorders, hearing loss, military personnel Access this article online Quick Response Code: Website: www.noiseandhealth.org DOI: 10.4103/1463

A bimodal temom model for particle Brownian coagulation in the continuum-slip regime

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He Qing

2016-01-01

Full Text Available In this paper, a bimodal Taylor-series expansion moment of method is proposed to deal with Brownian coagulation in the continuum-slip regime, where the non-linear terms in the Cunningham correction factor is approximated by Taylor-series expansion technology. The results show that both the number concentration and volume fraction decrease with time in the smaller mode due to the intra and inter coagulation, and the asymptotic behavior of the larger mode is as same as that in the continuum regime.

The Poetry of Robert Burns: “A Melancholy not unallied to Mirth.”

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Karyn COSTA

2006-06-01

Full Text Available When Allan Cunningham concluded his 1834 Life of Burns with this critical judgement of Robert Burns’s poetry he was in fact summing up the schizophrenic nature of the Scottish character and identity. Scottish duality is still prevalent in the Highland-Lowland divide, the Catholic-Protestant rivalry, the linguistic differences Scots versus Gaelic, the English and Scottish competition for power, the past battling with the present in the search for a national identity free from myth and a sense ...

Neil Armstrong talks of his experiences at Apollo 11 anniversary banquet

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1999-01-01

Neil Armstrong, former Apollo 11 astronaut, and first man to walk on the moon, talks about his experiences for an enthusiastic audience at the Apollo/Saturn V Center, part of the KSC Visitor Complex. The occasion was a banquet celebrating the 30th anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch and moon landing, July 16 and July 20, 1969. Among other guests at the banquet were astronauts Wally Schirra, Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin and Walt Cunningham. Gene Cernan was the last man to walk on the moon.

A Star in the Western Sky: John Birmingham, Astronomer and Poet

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Mohr, P.

John Birmingham (1814-1884) of Millbrook, County Galway, was an outstanding amateur astronomer, now completely forgotten. He discovered the 1866 nova, T Coronae Borealis. Later his name was assigned to a feature near Anaxagoras on the Moon. In 1884 the Royal Irish Academy awarded him its Cunningham Gold Medal for his catalogue of the red variable stars. John Birmingham was not only an acute observer, he also wrote numerous semi-popular articles on many aspects of astronomy. He was also active in geology and railway surveying.

ANÁLISIS DE UN BROTE DE SARAMPIÓN EN UNA BARRIADA DE LA PROVINCIA DE SEVILLA, ESPAÑA

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Antonio Luna Sánchez

2013-01-01

Full Text Available Fundamentos: En 2011 en Sevilla (España un brote de Sarampión afec- tó a 1.759 personas. Comenzó en la Barriada de Santa Isabel, San Juan de Az- nalfarache (Sevilla, donde reside una comunidad Romaní. El objetivo del trabajo es describir epidemiologicamente el brote en la localidad y calcular el riesgo de enfermar por sarampión de los residentes en la barriada Santa Isa- bel. Método: Se diseñó un estudio de cohortes retrospectivo. Se consideró población expuesta a los residentes en la barriada de Santa Isabel y no ex- puesta a la del resto del municipio. Las fuentes de datos fueron: el Instituto de Estadística de Andalucía, el Ayuntamiento del municipio y el Sistema de Vi- gilancia Epidemiológica de Andalucía. Se describió el brote y se calcularon incidencias y el Riesgo Relativo. Los casos fueron confirmados por criterios clínicos, de laboratorio y/o epidemiológicos. Resultados: En la barriada los casos se concentraron entre el colectivo etario de entre 2 y 19 años, mientras que en el resto de la localidad se produ- jo en menores de 2 y mayores de 19 años. La incidencia global del brote fue de 0,98 por 1.000 habitantes. En San Juan de 4,94 . Entre los expuestos fue de 23,15 y de 2,1 en los no expuestos. En el colectivo de 2 a 19 años la inciden- cia fue 89,58 por 1.000 habitantes en la Barriada y de 5,33 por 1.000 habitan- tes en el resto de la localidad. Conclusiones: El brote afectó en mayor medida a menores de 20 años, a población no vacunada y residente en la Barriada Santa Isabel. El riesgo de enfermar de Sarampión en la Barriada fue de 11 y de 17 en el colectivo entre 2 y 19 años. Precisamos elaborar estrategias que reduzcan las desigualdades en salud que acompañan a algunos brotes epidémicos.

Tradition and changes in the Lima ceramics of Huaca Pucllana

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Ccencho Huamaní, José

2017-01-01

This article presents the results of an analysis of ceramics from the site of Huaca Pucllana carried out by Isabel Flores, director of the Huaca Pucllana Archaeological Project. This research is approached from the perspective of chronologicaldiferentiation, arriving at the continuities and changes that occurred in ceramics at the site during its construction and occupation by the Lima society from 530-650 AD. Five pottery types were identified that relate to three constructive phases and a f...

Estimating the Basal metabolic rate from fat free mass in individuals with motor complete spinal cord injury.

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Chun, S M; Kim, H-R; Shin, H I

2017-09-01

Cross-sectional study. This study aimed to validate the existing basal metabolic rate (BMR) predictive equations that include fat free mass (FFM) as an independent variable and, based on the FFM assessment, to develop a new SCI population-specific equation. Outpatient clinic in a general hospital. Our study group was formed of 50 individuals with chronic motor complete SCI: 27 patients with tetraplegia and 23 with paraplegia. Both BMR and FFM values were measured by indirect calorimetry (IC) and the whole-body dual energy X-ray absorptiometry, respectively. The BMR values measured by IC were compared with the values estimated from the Cunningham equation. Multiple linear regression analysis was performed to develop a new FFM-based, BMR predictive equation. The mean value of BMR measured by IC was 1274.8 (s.d.=235.2) kcal day -1 . The intra-class correlation coefficient (ICC) between values measured by IC and estimated from the Cunningham equation was 0.845 and the limits of agreement ranged from -30.6 to 241.3 kcal. SCI population specific BMR predictive equation was developed; BMR (kcal day -1 )=24.5 × FFM (kg)+244.4. The newly developed equation showed ICC of 0.866 with the limits of agreement from -229.0 to 233.1 kcal day -1 . A considerable bias from the BMR values measured by IC was still observed, which warrants clinical consideration when applying FFM-based BMR prediction equations to individuals with SCI.

Program packages for dynamics systems analysis and design

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Athani, V.V.

1976-01-01

The development of computer program packages for dynamic system analysis and design are reported. The purpose of developing these program packages is to take the burden of writing computer programs off the mind of the system engineer and to enable him to concentrate on his main system analysis and design work. Towards this end, four standard computer program packages have been prepared : (1) TFANA - starting from system transfer function this program computes transient response, frequency response, root locus and stability by Routh Hurwitz criterion, (2) TFSYN - classical synthesis using algebraic method of Shipley, (3) MODANA - starting from state equations of the system this program computes solution of state equations, controllability, observability and stability, (4) OPTCON - This program obtains solutions of (i) linear regulator problem, (ii) servomechanism problems and (iii) problem of pole placement. The paper describes these program packages with the help of flowcharts and illustrates their use with the help of examples. (author)

International Conference on Indium Phosphide and Related Materials, Held in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, on 11 - 15 May 1997.

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1998-01-14

used to induce the WSE. 8 I. Bar-Joseph, K. W. Goossen , J. M. Kuo, R. F. Kopf, D. A. B. Miller, and D. S. Chemla, IV. Summary Appl. Phys. Lett. 55, 340...epitaxy," Appl. Phys. Lett., Vol. 70, pp. 96-98, 2848, June 1992 January 1997 (2) K. W. Goossen , J. E. Cunningham, M. B. Santos, and (11) K. K Loi...References I Dallesasse J.M., Holonyack N., Sugg A.R., Richard T.A., El-Zein N., Appl. Phys. Lett. 57, (1990) 2844. 2 Huffaker D.L., Shin J., Deppe D.G

Screening for the presence of antimicrobial activity in few Indian seaweeds

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). Chemical variation in the tropical seaweed Stypopodium zonale (Dictyotaceae). Phytochem., 24, 1279-1283. Jimenez-Escrig, Antonio and Goni, Isabel Cambrodón.(1999). A., Evaluación nutricional y efectos fisiológicos de macroalgas marinas comestibles.... Archivos Latinoamericanos de Nutrición, 49: 114–120 Goñi. Mabeau, S. and Fleurence J. (1993). Seaweed in food products: biochemical and nutritional aspects. Trends in Food Science and Technology, 4, 103–107. Olesen, P.E., Maretaki A. and Almodovar L...

Typologie postav v románovém díle Dům duchů Isabely Allendové

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Novotná, Tereza

2015-01-01

This thesis analyzes not only the book itself but also the development and transformation of main characters of the novel The House of the Spirits written by Chilean author Isabel Allende. The work deals with an introduction period of the Spanish-American fiction of the twentieth century, with emphasis on magic realism and related spirituality and historical events of the 20th century Chile. The text also focuses on the general theory of characters and plot outlines and structure of the novel...

Macroevolución y microevolución en sistemas insulares: el patrón Rand Flora en el género Canarina

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Mairal Pisa, Mario

2015-01-01

Tesis Doctoral leída en la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos de Madrid en 2015. Directora de la Tesis: Isabel Sanmartín Bastida. Codirectora: María Luisa Alarcón Codirector: Cavero Juan José Aldasoro Martín Global change and the current biodiversity crisis have increased the need to understand the effect of climate change on patterns of biodiversity distribution and the mechanisms or factors underlying them. To understand the origin of these biodiversity patterns, scientists have resort...

An Observational Study of Tropical Cyclone Spin-Up in Supertyphoon Jangmi and Hurricane Georges

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2011-12-01

Marks et al. (2008) flight level and radar observations from Hurricane Hugo shown in Figure 9 (their Figure 3) and Hurricane Isabel (Montgomery et al...Figure 3c and Figure 6c) and Persing and Montgomery (2003, their Figures 8, 9, and 12). For the case of Hurricane Hugo , a cross-section of the... Hurricane Hugo (1989). Mon. Wea. Rev., 136, 1237–1259. McTaggart-Cowan, R., L. F. Bosart, J. R. Gyakum, and E. H. Atallah, 2007: Hurricane Katrina

Téma sebeobětování žen na příkladu divadelního scénáře Prolomit vlny

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Jelínková, Jarmila

2011-01-01

Jarmila Jelínková - Self-devotion women motive showed on the "Breaking the waves" scenerply Abstract The article analyzes the character of Bess in the script of Lars von Trier and Vivian Nielsen's drama Breaking the Waves. The portrayal of Bess' behavior, life, and relationships to her husband, the church and God are interpreted from the perspective of feminist theology as introduced by Isabel Carter Heyward. The main message of the play is the parallel to Jesus' sacrifice of pure altruism le...

Cell volume and geometric parameters determination in living cells using confocal microscopy and 3D reconstruction

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sprotocols

2015-01-01

Authors: David Hevia, Aida Rodriguez-Garcia, Marta Alonso-Gervós, Isabel Quirós-González, Henar M Cimadevilla, Carmen Gómez-Cordovés, Rosa M Sainz & Juan C Mayo ### Abstract The protocol reported here describes a simple, easy, fast and reproducible method aimed to know the geometric parameters of living cells based on confocal laser scanning microscopy combined with 3D reconstruction software. Briefly, the method is based on intrinsic fluorescence properties of acridine orange (AO), a...

Excitation functions of the {sup nat}Cr(p,x){sup 44}Ti, {sup 56}Fe(p,x){sup 44}Ti, {sup nat}Ni(p,x){sup 44}Ti and {sup 93}Nb(p,x){sup 44}Ti reactions at energies up to 2.6 GeV

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Titarenko, Yu. E.; Batyaev, V.F.; Pavlov, K.V.; Titarenko, A. Yu. [National Research Center Kurchatov Institute, Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow 117218 (Russian Federation); Zhivun, V.M. [National Research Center Kurchatov Institute, Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow 117218 (Russian Federation); National Research Nuclear University MEPhI (Moscow Engineering Physics Institute), Moscow 115409 (Russian Federation); Chauzova, M.V.; Balyuk, S.A.; Bebenin, P.V. [National Research Center Kurchatov Institute, Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow 117218 (Russian Federation); Ignatyuk, A.V. [National Research Center Kurchatov Institute, Institute for Theoretical and Experimental Physics, Moscow 117218 (Russian Federation); Institute of Physics and Power Engineering, Obninsk 249033 (Russian Federation); Mashnik, S.G. [Los Alamos National Laboratory (United States); Leray, S.; Boudard, A.; David, J.C.; Mancusi, D. [CEA/Saclay, Irfu/SPhN, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette, Cedex (France); Cugnon, J. [University of Liege (Belgium); Yariv, Y. [SoreqNRC, Yavne (Israel); Nishihara, K.; Matsuda, N. [JAEA, Tokai (Japan); Kumawat, H. [BARC, Mumbai (India); Stankovskiy, A. Yu. [SCK-CEN (Belgium)

2016-06-11

The paper presents the measured cumulative yields of {sup 44}Ti for {sup nat}Cr, {sup 56}Fe, {sup nat}Ni and {sup 93}Nb samples irradiated by protons at the energy range 0.04–2.6 GeV. The obtained excitation functions are compared with calculations of the well-known codes: ISABEL, Bertini, INCL4.2+ABLA, INCL4.5+ABLA07, PHITS, CASCADE07 and CEM03.02. The predictive power of these codes regarding the studied nuclides is analyzed.

Desarrollo de métodos analíticos para la separación de contaminantes quirales mediante HPLC

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Usán Sanz, Violeta

2009-01-01

Proyecto Fin de Carrera leído en la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos en el curso académico 2008/2009. Tutores del Proyecto: Isabel Sierra Alonso y Sonia Morante Zarcero El desarrollo de nuevas tecnologías de análisis en los últimos años ha permitido detectar en aguas la presencia de los denominados contaminantes emergentes. Los betabloqueantes, un grupo importante de este tipo de contaminantes, son fármacos empleados en el tratamiento de los trastornos del ritmo cardiaco. Por lo genera...

Proyecto de explotación y construcción de un cebadero en sistema Intensivo para 216 terneros en Velilla de la Sierra (Soria)

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Borjabad Arancón, Ana Isabel

2017-01-01

El presente documento corresponde al Trabajo Fin de Grado del alumno Ana Isabel Borjabad Arancón para la Titulación de GRADO EN INGENIERIAS AGRICOLA Y MEDIO RURAL. EL objeto del proyecto consiste en la realización de una explotación de ganado vacuno intensivo, denominado cebadero, incluyendo en dicha realización todas las construcciones necesarias así como el estudio y programa de manejo de la explotación. El promotor del proyecto es un agricultor de Velilla de la Sierra,...

La conservación y reutilización de los datos científicos en España. Informe del grupo de trabajo de buenas prácticas

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Grupo de Trabajo de “Depósito y Gestión de datos en Acceso Abierto” del proyecto RECOLECTA

2012-01-01

Coordinación: Cristina González Copeiro (FECYT) Jordi Serrano-Muñoz (UPC). -- Participantes: Alicia García-García (UCV) Antonia Ferrer-Sapena (UPV) Fernanda Peset (UPV) Isabel Bernal (CSIC) Izaskun Lacunza (FECYT) Javier Gómez (UA) Luís Martínez-Uribe (Fundación Juan March) Manuela Palafox (UCM) Mercedes de Miguel Estévez (FECYT) Paz Fernández (Fundación Juan March) Pilar Rico Castro (FECYT) Ricard de la Vega (CESCA) Victoria Rasero (UC3M) E...

Phase 3: Key findings from workshops in South Africa and Tanzania

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Herselman, Marlien

2016-12-01

Full Text Available • Better service delivery • Cultural influence • Language • Data privacy • Inhibitor is social media as people can lie • Cultural differences Value-based • Sophisticated technology accessible to disabled and elderly • Can potentially exclude a... Ecosystem, CSIR Meraka, Pretoria, South Africa. eBook available from https://goo.gl/uSQWW0 ISBN 978-0-7988-5632-4 (hbk) ISBN 978-0-7988-5634-8 (ebk) Cover design: Kashan Advertising Language edited by: Isabel Claassen CSIR Meiring Naudé...

Florence Nightingale y Federico Rubio: reformadores de la Enfermería moderna española

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Santainés Borredá, Elena; Faus Gabandé, Francisco; Camaño Puig, Ramón; Sarturi, Fernanda

2012-01-01

En diferentes bases de datos aparecen publicaciones donde se menciona al cirujano Federico Rubio en relación con la enfermera Florence Nightingale, otorgándole un protagonismo en la enfermería moderna española. Mediante este trabajo proponemos analizar la influencia que Nightingale pudo haber tenido en Rubio. Partiendo de la vida y obra del fundador de la Escuela de Enfermeras de Santa Isabel de Hungría, valoraremos las coincidencias temporo-espaciales con la Dama de la Lámpara. Nuestros obje...

FORAGE OFFER AND INTAKE AND MILK PRODUCTION IN DUAL PURPOSE CATTLE MANAGED UNDER SILVOPASTORAL SYSTEMS IN TEPALCATEPEC, MICHOACAN

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Hector Manuel Bacab-Pérez

2011-11-01

Full Text Available The study was carried out during the dry season (March to May in three dual-purpose cattle farms located in Tepalcatepec, Michoacan, Mexico, in order to evaluate the forage offer and intake, and milk production in Brown Swiss cows. Two farms had silvopastoral systems with Leucaena leucocephala cv. Cunningham associated with Panicum maximum cv. Tanzania, and one of them also included mango trees (Mangifera indica; the third farm had a traditional system with Cynodon plectostachyus in monoculture. In the traditional system, cows were offered 8 kg animal-1 day-1 of concentrate feed during the milking period, and only 1.5 kg animal-1 day-1 in the silvopastoral systems. Edible forage offer in the silvopastoral farms was 2470 and 2693 kg DM ha-1 grazing-1, and in the traditional system it was 948 kg DM ha-1 grazing-1. Forage intake in the silvopastoral systems was 8.25 and 11.81 kg DM animal-1 day-1, whereas in the traditional system it was 3.63 kg DM animal-1 day-1. Milk production in the silvopastoral system was 9.0 and 9.2 kg animal-1 day-1, while in the traditional system it was 10.4 kg animal-1 day-1. The silvopastoral systems with L. leucocephala cv. Cunningham associated with P. maximum cv. Tanzania produced high edible forage offer and allowed to obtain milk yield similar to that of the traditional system with C. plectostachyus in monoculture, but on a lower concentrate feed intake.

María Isabel, el feminicidio con rostro adolescente en Guatemala

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Muñoz Vargas, Osvaldo

2011-01-01

 Resumen El autor ilustra este ensayo con el caso Véliz Franco (Guatemala, diciembre de 2001), el cual descarna la brutalidad de la agresión, la escasa información académica y forense sobre el feminicidio adolescente y la inercia estatal por hallar a los responsables de esta manifestación de homicidio. De igual manera, resalta el papel de las organizaciones no gubernamentales ante la Comisión Interamericana de Derechos Humanos (CIDH), en especial la necesidad de contrarrestar la impunidad gen...

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Singh S

2011-03-01

Full Text Available Singh S, Mak I, Power P, Cunnigham M, Turcotte R, Ghert MGene transfection in primary stem-like cells of giant cell tumor of bone. Stem Cells and Cloning: Advances and Applications. 2010;3:129–134.Dr Melissa Cunningham’s name was spelt incorrectly in the published paper. The corrected citation is: Singh S, Mak I, Power P, Cunningham M, Turcotte R, Ghert M. Gene transfection in primary stem-like cells of giant cell tumor of bone. Stem Cells and Cloning: Advances and Applications. 2010;3:129–134.Read the original article

Neil Armstrong chats with attendees at Apollo 11 anniversary banquet.

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1999-01-01

Former Apollo 11 astronaut Neil A. Armstrong is the center of attention at the anniversary banquet honoring the Apollo team, the people who made the entire lunar landing program possible. The banquet was held in the Apollo/Saturn V Center, part of the KSC Visitor Complex. This is the 30th anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch and moon landing, July 16 and July 20, 1969. Neil Armstrong was the first man to set foot on the moon. He appeared at the banquet with other former astronauts Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin, Gene Cernan, Walt Cunningham and others.

Neil Armstrong gets round of applaus at Apollo 11 anniversary banquet.

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1999-01-01

Former Apollo 11 astronaut Neil A. Armstrong stands to a round of applause after being introduced at the anniversary banquet honoring the Apollo team, the people who made the entire lunar landing program possible. The banquet was held in the Apollo/Saturn V Center, part of the KSC Visitor Complex. This is the 30th anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch and moon landing, July 16 and July 20, 1969. Neil Armstrong was the first man to set foot on the moon. He appeared at the banquet with other former astronauts Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin, Gene Cernan, Walt Cunningham and others.

Comportamento da área foliar da videira “Isabel” submetida a diferentes tipos e doses de biofertilizantes

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Olivânia dos Santos Nascimento

2014-06-01

Full Text Available Objetivou-se verificar o efeito da aplicação de diferentes tipos e doses de biofertilizante, na área foliar da videira ‘Isabel’ em cultivo orgânico nas condições edafoclimáticas de Catolé do Rocha-PB. Estudou-se os efeitos de 5 tipos de biofertilizante biofertilizante e 8 doses na área foliar da videira ‘Isabel’ após a primeira poda de produção. O experimento foi conduzido sob condições de campo, em área pertencente à Universidade Estadual da Paraíba, Campus IV. O delineamento adotado foi o de blocos casualizados, com 40 tratamentos, no esquema fatorial 5 x 8, com 4  repetições, totalizando 160 parcelas experimentais, os tratamentos consistiram em aplicações crescentes de diferentes biofertilizante, aplicados de forma independente. O valor da área foliar unitária da videira Isabel aumentou com o incremento da dose do biofertilizante B1 até um limite ótimo de 0,93 L/planta/aplicação; o valor da área foliar unitária diminuiu com o aumento da dose do biofertilizante B1 acima do limite ótimo de 0,93 L/planta/aplicação; a utilização de biofertilizante enriquecido com farinha de rocha e leguminosa (B3 proporcionou maior área foliar unitária e área foliar da planta da videira Isabel.

La enseñanza de la Geografía en el Instituto-Escuela. // The teaching of geography in Instituto-Escuela

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Enrique Arjona Gallego

2013-06-01

Full Text Available (ES La experiencia que presentamos es una aplicación didáctica del patrimonio histórico del Instituto-Escuela (1918-1936, conservado en el Instituto “Isabel la Católica”. La realizamos con nuestros alumnos de 4º de ESO a lo largo del curso 2012-2013 con dos objetivos: que conocieran las innovaciones educativas del Instituto-Escuela, y en concreto cómo se enseñaba en él la Geografía, e iniciarlos en la investigación histórica. Para llevar a cabo su trabajo, nuestros alumnos utilizaron los cuadernos de clase del antiguo alumnado del Instituto-Escuela, analizando sus contenidos y la metodología empleada por los profesores para el aprendizaje de la Geografía. // (EN The experience we are presenting is a didactic application of the historical heritage of the Instituto-Escuela (1918-1936, preserved at the Institute “Isabel La Católica”. We did it with our students of 4th year of Secondary Education along the year 2012-2013. The experience had two objectives: they knew the educational innovations in the school and to be more precise how geography was taught in it and to introduce to historical research. To carry out their work, our students used notebooks from former students of the school, by analyzing their contents and the methodology used to learn geography by teachers.

Gloria Bautista Gutierrez: realism mágico, cosmos latinoamericano teoría y práctica. Editorial América Latina, Santafé de Bogotá, D.C., edición noviembre 1991, p. 141

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Branka Kalenić Ramšak

1993-12-01

Full Text Available La autora de este libro, Gloria Bautista Gutiérrez, actualmente profesora en la Universidad de Clemson (South Caroline, en Estados Unidos, ha publicado basta ahora muchos ensayos de crítica literaria fijando su especial atención en temas literarios contemponineos, sobre todo en los narradores hispanoamericanos del iglo XX, como son por ejemplo Gabriel García Márquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Emesto Sábato, Juan Rulfo, Carlos Fuentes, Isabel Allende y otros. Como resultado de varios años de investigación y ensefianza apareció en 1991 el libro Realismo mágico, cpsmos latinoamericano donde la pofesora Bautista vio la necesidad de esclarecer el término "realismo mágico" tan vaga y libremente empleado por muchos críticos literarios hispanoamericanos y europeos a lo largo de nuestro siglo. El mayor valor del libro es el esfuerzo de alumbrar y hacer más comprensible el término mencionado, de concretizar y determinar sus límites formales, tanto en el campo teórico como en el práctico, porque en la segunda parte dellibro la teoría se aplica a dos novelas, a Cien años de soledad y a La casa de los espíritus, cuyos autores son escritores muy eminentes, el Nobel colombiano Gabriel García Márquez y la chilena Isabel Allende.

SEPHYRES 1: A Symptom Checker based on Semantic Pain Descriptors and Weight Spreading

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Ali SANAEIFAR

2016-12-01

Full Text Available Semantic-enabled medical diagnostic systems, which have exploited an ontology in their internal engines, have failed to perfectly describe disease profiles, especially in complex medical terms having a variant generality level or certainty in the medical literature. The main objective of this paper was to present an ontology with a highly matching grade of proeminent medical concepts able to analyze the patient’s descriptive medical condition. Focusing on semantic pain descriptors and weight spreading techniques, we proposed a semantic-pseudo-fuzzy engine entitled SEPHYRES, with which we tried to present an ontology-based solution using not only a generic semantic reasoner but also complementary domain-heuristic reasoning. Having applied the valid evidence-based references along with local experts, we illustrated how the resilient expressive model represents the complex medical term relations. The twenty test cases were extracted from the MEDSCAPE and PubMed databases and the precision and recall were calculated. Finally, the results were compared against the Isabel symptom checker and performed the Wilcoxon signed-rank test. The recall measures indicated that the accuracy was equal to 75%, if the system was adjusted to only ten results as differential diagnoses. Moreover, the Wilcoxon signed-rank test showed that there was significant difference between SEPHYRES and Isabel symptom checker (P= 0.016 so that this method is sufficiently able to improve semantic expressiveness in both professional medical diagnosis and patient decision aid systems.

Crítica de Libros.

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Fernando Colina Pérez; Ana Isabel Segura; Loreto García; Mauricio Jalón; María Bolaños Atienza

2000-01-01

Robert J. STOLLER, Dolor y pasión. Un psicoanalista explora el mundo sadomasoquista, Buenos Aires, Manantial, 1998. Fernando Colina Harold I. KAPLAN, Benjamin J. SADOCK, Sinopsis de Psiquiatría, Madrid, Médica Panamericana, 1999.Ana Isabel Segura Azucena COUCEIRO, Bioética para clínicos, Madrid, Triacastella, 1999. Loreto García Armando GARCÍA GONZÁLEZ, Raquel ÁLVAREZ PELÁEZ, En busca de la raza perfecta. Eugenesia e higiene en Cuba (1898-1958), Madrid, CSIC, 1999. Mauricio Jalón Raquel ÁLVAR...

Proceedings - II Nanosciesce and Nanotecnology Biomedicals Symposium

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Luís Monteiro Rodrigues et al; Isabel V. Figueiredo

2013-01-01

Programa Open Session | Sessão de abertura Pres. do Conselho de Admin. do INFARMED, Dr. Eurico Castro Alves Pres. do Conselho de Admin. da Univ Lusófona, Manuel de A. Damásio Diretor da Escola de Ciências e Tecnologias da Saúde Luís Monteiro Rodrigues (Presidente do Simpósio) Presidente da Sociedade Portuguesa de Ciências em Animais de Laboratório, Isabel V. Figueiredo 1st Session |Sessão 1 Nanomedicine: past and future | Nanomedicina: passado e futuro Chairman |...

Uso de tutoriales multimedia como complemento pedagógico para la enseñanza de funciones de variable real en educación media

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Soto Moreno, Ángel Marcelo

2015-01-01

Se desarrolló un tutorial multimedia como complemento pedagógico para la enseñanza – aprendizaje de funciones de variable real en los estudiantes de educación media de la Unidad Educativa Isabel de Godin. Luego de la clase presencial, en el horario de recuperación pedagógica se utilizó el tutorial para reforzar los conocimientos adquiridos en el aula, el mismo trabajo lo hacían en casa; estas actividades se realizaron durante un trimestre para determinar la incidencia que tien...

Síndrome de dolor miofascial y alteraciones del procesamiento nociceptivo en pacientes con epicondilalgia lateral

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Fernández Carnero, Josué

2010-01-01

Tesis Doctotal leída en la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos en noviembre de 2010. Directores de la Tesis: Dr. D. Juan Carlos Miangolarra Page y Dra. María Isabel Martín Fontelles Introducción: La Epicondilalgia Lateral (EL) es una de las afecciones más frecuentes del miembro superior, pero no por ello es más conocida su etiología. Los mecanismos nociceptivos responsables del dolor en este tipo de afección aún no se han aclarado por completo. Existen evidencias de que los pacientes c...

Demonstration of electronic pattern switching and 10x pattern demagnification in a maskless micro-ion beam reduction lithography system

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Ngo, V.V.; Akker, B.; Leung, K.N.; Noh, I.; Scott, K.L.; Wilde, S.

2002-01-01

A proof-of-principle ion projection lithography (IPL) system called Maskless Micro-ion beam Reduction Lithography (MMRL) has been developed and tested at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) for future integrated circuits (ICs) manufacturing and thin film media patterning [1]. This MMRL system is aimed at completely eliminating the first stage of the conventional IPL system [2] that contains the complicated beam optics design in front of the stencil mask and the mask itself. It consists of a multicusp RF plasma generator, a multi-beamlet pattern generator, and an all-electrostatic ion optical column. Results from ion beam exposures on PMMA and Shipley UVII-HS resists using 75 keV H+ are presented in this paper. Proof-of-principle electronic pattern switching together with 10x reduction ion optics (using a pattern generator made of nine 50-(micro)m switchable apertures) has been performed and is reported in this paper. In addition, the fabrication of a micro-fabricated pattern generator [3] on an SOI membrane is also presented

Photoresist thin-film effects on alignment process capability

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Flores, Gary E.; Flack, Warren W.

1993-08-01

Two photoresists were selected for alignment characterization based on their dissimilar coating properties and observed differences on alignment capability. The materials are Dynachem OFPR-800 and Shipley System 8. Both photoresists were examined on two challenging alignment levels in a submicron CMOS process, a nitride level and a planarized second level metal. An Ultratech Stepper model 1500 which features a darkfield alignment system with a broadband green light for alignment signal detection was used for this project. Initially, statistically designed linear screening experiments were performed to examine six process factors for each photoresist: viscosity, spin acceleration, spin speed, spin time, softbake time, and softbake temperature. Using the results derived from the screening experiments, a more thorough examination of the statistically significant process factors was performed. A full quadratic experimental design was conducted to examine viscosity, spin speed, and spin time coating properties on alignment. This included a characterization of both intra and inter wafer alignment control and alignment process capability. Insight to the different alignment behavior is analyzed in terms of photoresist material properties and the physical nature of the alignment detection system.

A case of natalizumab-associated progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy with repeated negative CSF JCV testing.

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Mazda, Monica E; Brosch, Jared R; Wiens, Andrea L; Bonnin, José M; Kamer, Aaron P; Mattson, David H; Snook, Riley J

2013-05-01

The development of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) in patients treated with natalizumab is a well-known potential risk. Diagnosis of PML can be confounded in patients with multiple sclerosis (MS) if new demyelinating lesions develop, and the sensitivity of existing diagnostic tests is less than ideal. In the case presented here, four samples of cerebrospinal fluid tested negative for John Cunningham virus (JCV) DNA by polymerase chain reaction, yet brain biopsy eventually proved positive by immunohistochemistry. A review of the limitations of existing clinical diagnostic tests is addressed, and we review the most recent literature on the proper management of natalizumab-treated MS patients.

Estonian combustible shale kukersite: its chemistry technology and analysis

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Luts, K

1944-01-01

Nearly all investigators, except Cunningham-Craig, believe that kukersite represents a maritime product of plant origin. In all probability the deposition of the material that formed kukersite took place in large open seas, at a depth of at least 200 meters and in quiet water not subject to the motion of the sea. The temperature at that depth may have been warm; that of the surface was not below 15/sup 0/C. Variation in the temperature of the water had an effect upon the alternation of the kukersite and the limestone layers in the deposit. Decaying process probably changed the original algal masses to the present kukersite.

Avaliação sensorial de uvas de mesa produzidas no Vale do São Francisco e comercializadas em João Pessoa - PB

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Robson de Jesus Mascarenhas

2010-12-01

Full Text Available Tomando-se como base o nível crescente de exigência do consumidor por frutas de mesa, as características de qualidade das uvas 'Itália', 'Festival' ('Superior Seedless', 'Benitaka' e 'Isabel', expostas à venda em três redes de supermercados, na cidade de João Pessoa - Paraíba - Brasil, foram avaliadas em dezembro de 2007. Inicialmente, foram selecionados e treinados julgadores que estabeleceram e definiram os seguintes atributos sensoriais de importância: tonalidade e uniformidade de cor, aroma, firmeza, presença de sementes, suculência, doçura, acidez, sabor e qualidade global. Os diâmetros, comprimentos e pesos das bagas estavam condizentes com os parâmetros comerciais ou varietais. Os conteúdos de sólidos solúveis (SS, com exceção da uva 'Benitaka', apresentaram-se em conformidade com os padrões comerciais. Apenas a cultivar Festival, com a menor acidez titulável (AT, apresentou relação SS/AT aceitável. Foram realizadas três sessões de análises descritivas quantitativas (ADQ, nas quais a uva 'Itália' foi a de melhor sabor e, em conjunto com a apirênica 'Festival', apresentou maiores doçuras e qualidade global. A cultivar Isabel apresentou a cor mais forte , enquanto a Festival foi a melhor no atributo semente. Aplicou-se o Teste de Preferência por Ordenação, no qual as uvas 'Itália' e 'Festival' foram as preferidas.

Clima social escolar y déficit de atención en estudiantes de primer grado de secundaria de una I.E. de la Victoria, Lima , 2016

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Cuadros Huamán, Lelis Milagros

2016-01-01

La presente investigación tuvo como objetivo general, determinar la relación entre el clima social escolar y el déficit de atención en los estudiantes de primer grado de secundaria en la Institución Educativa Isabel La Católica, distrito de La Victoria - 2016, la población es de 150 estudiantes, el muestreo es no probabilístico, el tamaño de la muestra fue de 150 estudiantes, en los cuales se han empleado la variable: Clima social escolar y déficit de atención. El método emp...

A incubação de empresas : boas práticas e fatores críticos de sucesso

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Campos, João Pedro Coelho de

2015-01-01

Relatório de estágio do mestrado em Gestão, apresentado à Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra, sob a orientação de Pedro Godinho e Isabel Maria Bontempo de Sá O presente relatório foi elaborado como parte integrante do Mestrado em Gestão da Faculdade de Economia da Universidade de Coimbra e pretende ser o reflexo do estágio curricular realizado no Conselho Empresarial do Centro/Câmara de Comércio e Indústria do Centro (CEC/CCIC), durante o período de 2 de fevereiro de 2015 a 2...

Os desenhos animados e as crianças : um estudo multicaso sobre as preferências de desenhos animados por crianças do 1º ciclo do ensino básico

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Morais, Sandra Araújo Martins

2008-01-01

Dissertação de mestrado em Estudos da Criança (área de especialização em Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação) Em diversos estudos efectuados, nomeadamente no de Bredorode Santos (1991), Sara Pereira (2002) e Ana Maria Magalhães e Isabel Alçada (1993), as crianças indicam os desenhos animados como a programação específica na qual costumam despender mais tempo de visionamento, quer durante a semana, quer ao fim-de-semana. Todavia, a partir da revisão da literatura, verifi...

Ciudades legibles: los lugares y sus textos. Metodologías de diseño para identificar rasgos gráficos y proyectar sistemas de información visual

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Wilkomirsky Uribe, Michèle

2016-01-01

Tesis Doctoral leída en la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos de Madrid en 2016. Directora de la Tesis: Isabel del Río de la Hoz Al visitar un lugar por primera vez lo hacemos desde una lejanía intelectual. La gráfica hace que esta lejanía se vuelva proximidad. La comunicación visual es la parte de la disciplina del diseño gráfico que contribuye a legibilizar lo que una ciudad atesora y que no es necesariamente explícita a simple vista. En un lugar ¿ciudad o poblado¿ es casi imposible...

Soigner à l’hôpital : histoire de la profession d’infirmière au Portugal (1886-1955

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Helena da Silva

2011-07-01

Full Text Available Composition du juryMadame Catherine Rollet (Pré-rapportrice, Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines,Madame Isabel Dos Guimarães Sá (Pré-rapportrice, Universidade do Minho,Monsieur Jean-Pierre Goubert (directeur de thèse, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris,Madame Margarida Durães (co-directrice de thèse, Universidade do MinhoThèse soutenue le 10 décembre 2010Mention : Très honorable avec félicitations du juryRésuméLe but de ce travail est d’analyser le processu...

Investigación Autobiográfica en la Formación Universitaria. Una Metodología que facilita procesos Transformadores de Educación Existencial y Social.

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Jurado Jiménez, María Dolores

2016-01-01

Este trabajo de investigación comenzó con la idea de indagar sobre un modelo de formación que nos ilusionó y empezó a apasionarnos, cuestión que en ese momento se explicitó a la directora inicial de tesis, la profesora Isabel López Górriz. Aunque hasta mucho tiempo después no se tuvo consciencia de que la necesidad existencial era otra, cuestión de la que la profesora pronto se percató y fue guiándonos para que tomáramos consciencia de dicha necesidad. Ella intuyó que nuestra prioridad vital ...

Avaliação de compostos fenólicos em geléia de uva produzida com a variedade IAC-138-22 (máximo)

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Luciula Lemos Lima Morelli

2011-01-01

Resumo: O presente trabalho buscou avaliar a presença de compostos fenólicos antioxidantes em geleia de uva produzida com a variedade Máximo (IAC-138-22), por meio de (1) métodos colorimétricos e (2) cromatografia liquida de alta eficiência. Foram produzidas 3 formulações de geleia com a nova variedade e 3 outras com a mistura entre as variedades Niágara Rosada e Isabel, para efeito comparativo. As formulações diferiam em relação à quantidade de casca de uva incorporada à formulação, sendo a ...

Autógrafos de Cristobal Colón: Ensayo de Análisis Grafológico de su Escritura

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Boletín Cultural y Bibliográfico Banco de la República

1968-02-01

Full Text Available Absolutamente el único mapa o dibujo topográfico que resta de Colón. De este marino, que toda su vida confeccionó mapas, que de modo seguro tuvo que haber dibujado las derrotas de sus viajes, que se sabe que regaló un gran mapa a Isabel, solo queda este pedazo de papel (hoy en el Archivo de la Casa de Alba, en Madrid, "misteriosamente adquirido por la Duquesa de Alba", según Thacher (I, p. 477, quien lo reproduce en (III, p. 8 9 y dice : "Evidentemente dibujado en enero de 1493.

«A face mutante do presbítero»

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Duque, João

2010-01-01

O presente texto é resultado do trabalho conjunto de um grupo de Teólogos, docentes do Núcleo de Braga da Faculdade de Teologia, nomeadamente: Isabel Varanda, P. José Vilar, P. Sérgio Torres, P. Joaquim Félix e João Duque. Tem como base um levantamento da situação do presbítero em geral e tem em vista provocar a reflexão sobre a identidade do mesmo presbítero, no contexto dos desafios contemporâneos e os modos possíveis de realização dessa identidade.

Desigualdades en las escuelas primarias de la ciudad de Rosario: presencia de inmigrantes

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Segura, María Laura; Pozzo, María Isabel

2015-01-01

El presente trabajo forma parte de mi Tesis de Licenciatura en Ciencias de la Educación por la U.N.R. titulada “Inclusión cultural de niños migrantes y descendientes en escuelas primarias de la ciudad de Rosario”, dirigida por la Dra. María Isabel Pozzo. La investigación fue llevada a cabo durante el período de los años 2009- 2012. Al iniciar la investigación, surgieron los siguientes interrogantes: ¿cómo resulta la inserción de los alumnos migrantes en las instituciones educativas?; ¿existen...

Topografía superficial y subglaciar de un sector aledaño a la Base O'Higgins, ubicada en el extremo norte de la Península Antártica

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Cárdenas M,Carlos; Johnson G,Erling; Carvallo B,Rubén

2011-01-01

En enero de 2009, durante una campaña al sector norte de la Península Antártica específicamente en los alrededores de la Base Chilena Bernardo O´Higgins, ubicada en el islote Isabel Riquelme de la rada Covadonga en el cabo Legoupi (63° 19’ S; 57° 53’ W), se realizaron mediciones de espesor del hielo utilizando un sistema de radar de impulso que consta de tres componentes principales: Transmisor, Receptor y un Sistema de Adquisición de Datos. El transmisor genera una señal de radio...

JLAB Hurricane recovery

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A. Hutton; D. Arenius; J. Benesch; S. Chattopadhyay; E. F. Daly; O. Garza; R. Kazimi; R. Lauzi; L. Merminga; W. Merz; R. Nelson; W. Oren; M. Poelker; P. Powers; J. Preble; V. Ganni; C. R. Reece; R. Rimmer; M. Spata; S. Suhring

2004-01-01

Hurricane Isabel, originally a Category 5 storm, arrived at Jefferson Lab on September 18, 2003 with winds of only 75 mph, creating little direct damage to the infrastructure. However, electric power was lost for four days allowing the superconducting cryomodules to warm up and causing a total loss of the liquid helium. The subsequent recovery of the cryomodules and the impact of the considerable amount of opportunistic preventive maintenance provides important lessons for all accelerator complexes, not only those with superconducting elements. The details of how the recovery process was structured and the resulting improvement in accelerator availability will be discussed in detail

Contenidos transmedia de las teleseries españolas: clasificación, análisis y panorama en 2013

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Rodríguez Ferrándiz, Raúl; Ortiz Gordo, Félix; Sáez Núñez, Virginia

2014-01-01

En este artículo analizamos los contenidos transmedia que tienen como “nave nodriza” las series programadas por las cadenas de televisión tanto nacionales (La 1, Antena 3, Telecinco) como autonómicas (TV3, ETB, TVG, Canal Sur) con producción propia y de estreno en 2013. Son en total 33 títulos, entre los que se encuentran Aída, Frágiles, La que se avecina (Telecinco); El barco, Bandolera, Amar es para siempre, El tiempo entre costuras (Antena 3); Cuéntame, Gran Reserva, Isabel, Águila Roja (L...

"The nightmare is over": Magazine Writing and the 1976 coup

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Borrelli, Marcelo Hernán; Saborido, Jorge

2014-01-01

Este artículo analiza el discurso editorial de la revista Redacción en los meses previos al golpe de Estado del 24 de marzo de 1976, ante el marco de desestabilización del gobierno de Isabel Perón y a la perspectiva de una nueva intervención para la toma del poder estatal por parte de las Fuerzas Armadas Argentinas. Asimismo, se estudian los posicionamientos de la revista una vez concretado el golpe y ante los primeros pasos de la dictadura militar. De fuerte tono crítico hacia la administrac...

Factors influencing smallholder commercial tree planting in Isabel Province, the Solomon Islands

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Versteeg, Stephanie; Hansen, Christian Pilegaard; Pouliot, Mariéve

2017-01-01

and multiple regression models, and qualitative analysis were used to generate results. The study finds that a market for existing planted timber resources, improved extension services and, in the longer-term, more livelihood-appropriate small-scale (agro)forestry systems are critical to facilitate the ongoing...

ESI-PR61, Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico 2000 (Environmental Sensitivity Index Map)

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F00482: NOS Hydrographic Survey , Port Isabel Investigation, Texas, 2001-09-25

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Failure is an option: Reactions to failure in elementary engineering design projects

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Johnson, Matthew M.

Recent reform documents in science education have called for teachers to use epistemic practices of science and engineering researchers to teach disciplinary content (NRC, 2007; NRC, 2012; NGSS Lead States, 2013). Although this creates challenges for classroom teachers unfamiliar with engineering, it has created a need for high quality research about how students and teachers engage in engineering activities to improve curriculum development and teaching pedagogy. While framers of the Next Generation Science Standards (NRC, 2012; NGSS Lead States 2013) focused on the similarities of the practices of science researchers and engineering designers, some have proposed that engineering has a unique set of epistemic practices, including improving from failure (Cunningham & Carlsen, 2014; Cunningham & Kelly, in review). While no one will deny failures occur in science, failure in engineering is thought of in fundamentally different ways. In the study presented here, video data from eight classes of elementary students engaged in one of two civil engineering units were analyzed using methods borrowed from psychology, anthropology, and sociolinguistics to investigate: 1) the nature of failure in elementary engineering design; 2) the ways in which teachers react to failure; and 3) how the collective actions of students and teachers support or constrain improvement in engineering design. I propose new ways of considering the types and causes of failure, and note three teacher reactions to failure: the manager, the cheerleader, and the strategic partner. Because the goal of iteration in engineering is improvement, I also studied improvement. Students only systematically improve when they have the opportunity, productive strategies, and fair comparisons between prototypes. I then investigate the use of student engineering journals to assess learning from the process of improvement after failure. After discussion, I consider implications from this work as well as future research

La última obra de Virginia Woolf: Las horas, de Stephen Daldry

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María del Mar Paúl Arranz

2007-05-01

Full Text Available Dado el vínculo que entre la literatura y el cine, se discute la pertinencia de ciertos métodos de análisis en el tratamiento que ha dado el cine a los textos literarios. La película Las horas (2003 se presenta como una muestra de un diálogo creativo no sólo con la novela de Michel Cunningham de la que parte, sino con la obra literaria de Virginia Woolf, que está en la base de ambas. La película nos invita a replantearnos aspectos de la condición humana otorgando a las mujeres un absoluto e insólito protagonismo.

Exploring trust in online health information: a study of user experiences of patients.co.uk.

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Cunningham, Anna; Johnson, Frances

2016-12-01

This feature has been co-authored by Anna Cunningham and her supervisor Frances Johnson. It is based on the research Anna conducted for her dissertation, which she completed as part of her MA in Library and Information Management at Manchester Metropolitan University. The study explored how people assess the trustworthiness of online health information, and the participants were asked to talk aloud whilst viewing information on the consumer health information website patients.co.uk. The study confirmed that their assessment was based on the information usefulness and credibility as well as identifying the factors relating to information quality and website design that helped to form these judgements. A. M. © 2016 Health Libraries Group.

Mean size among the particles of short-lived radon daughter products in the atmosphere

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Nakatani, S.

1980-01-01

The diffusion-battery method is used to classify the radioactive particles according to their sizes. The diffusion coefficient is determined from the fractional penetration of the particles through the battery. Particle radii are derived from the diffusion coefficients with the Stokes-Cunningham-Millikan formula. At the exit and entrance of the battery, individual concentrations of radon daughter products 218 Po, 214 Pb, 214 Bi are determined. Thus the mean sizes of individual radon daughters can be obtained from the fractional penetration of individual nuclides through the diffusion battery. Despite large statistical fluctuations the mean size of 214 Bi is always shifted toward the larger size region as compared with those of other radionuclides

Comportamento de cultivares de trigo em dois solos do estado de São Paulo A Comparative study of wheat cultivars on two types of soil in the state of São Paulo

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Carlos Eduardo de Oliveira Camargo

1975-01-01

Full Text Available Foram instalados dois ensaios de cultivares de trigo, sendo um na Estação Experimental de Tietê, e o outro, na Fazenda Santa Isabel, município de Itaberá. Os cultivares IRN-526-63, Pitic-62 e IRN-152-63, de origem mexicana, não se adaptaram às condições adversas do sul do Estado (Itaberá, entre as quais destacaram-se: baixa saturação em bases, baixíssimo teor de fósforo e principalmente a influência do Al3+ trocável ocasionando "crestamento" nas plantas. Os cultivares IAC-10, IAC-7, BH-1146, IAC-9, S-33, IAC-11 e IAC-8 apresentaram tolerância a essa condição adversa. No ensaio de Tietê, onde o solo mostrou altos teores de K+ e PO4³ , bom teor de Ca2+ 4- Mg2+ , não apresentando alumínio livre, os cultivares IRN-526-63 e Pitic-62 desenvolveram-se normalmente, apresentando produções superiores às dos demais cultivares estudados.This paper presents the results of two cultivar trials on wheat (Triticum aestivum L., carried out at the Tietê Experiment Station and at Santa Isabel Farm, Itaberá. The cultivars IRN-526-63, IRN-152-63 e Pitic-62, Mexican germoplasms, were very susceptible to "crestamento" at Itaberá soil, giving small yields. The Brazilian germoplasms showed tolerance to Al3+ , with average yields. At Tietê trial, IRN-526 and Pitic-62 cultivars showed good performance, having the most yield in this condition.

Executive functioning and general cognitive ability in pregnant women and matched controls.

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Onyper, Serge V; Searleman, Alan; Thacher, Pamela V; Maine, Emily E; Johnson, Alicia G

2010-11-01

The current study compared the performances of pregnant women with education- and age-matched controls on a variety of measures that assessed perceptual speed, short-term and working memory capacity, subjective memory complaints, sleep quality, level of fatigue, executive functioning, episodic and prospective memory, and crystallized and fluid intelligence. A primary purpose was to test the hypothesis of Henry and Rendell (2007) that pregnancy-related declines in cognitive functioning would be especially evident in tasks that place a high demand on executive processes. We also investigated a parallel hypothesis: that the pregnant women would experience a broad-based reduction in cognitive capability. Very limited support was found for the executive functioning hypothesis. Pregnant women scored lower only on the measure of verbal fluency (Controlled Oral Word Association Test, COWAT) but not on the Wisconsin Card Sorting Task or on any working memory measures. Furthermore, group differences in COWAT performance disappeared after controlling for verbal IQ (Shipley vocabulary). In addition, there was no support for the general decline hypothesis. We conclude that pregnancy-associated differences in performance observed in the current study were relatively mild and rarely reached either clinical or practical significance.

A Europa moderna a Leste e as identidades politicas (II)

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Amorim, Fernando

2008-01-01

O poder da casa dos Habsburgos desenvolve-se a partir dos seus domínios hereditários originalmente situados na actual Áustria e Eslovénia, no séc. XIII (1278), tornando-se proeminente quando Carlos de Habsburgo, filho de Filipe “o Formoso” e de Joana “a Louca” de Castela, e neto de Maximiliano I de Áustria e Maria de Burgúndia (pelo lado paterno) e de Fernando II de Aragão e Isabel I “a Católica” (pelo lado materno) ascendeu aos tronos de Castela e Aragão (Carlos I de Espanha), a partir de 15...

Radiation calculations using LAHET/MCNP/CINDER90

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Waters, L.

1994-01-01

The LAHET monte carlo code system has recently been expanded to include high energy hadronic interactions via the FLUKA code, while retaining the original Los Alamos versions of HETC and ISABEL at lower energies. Electrons and photons are transported with EGS4 or ITS, while the MCNP coupled neutron/photon monte carlo code provides analysis of neutrons with kinetic energies less than 20 MeV. An interface with the CINDER activation code is now in common use. Various other changes have been made to facilitate analysis of high energy accelerator radiation environments and experimental physics apparatus, such as those found at SSC and RHIC. Current code developments and applications are reviewed

O Jornalismo nas Rádios Comunitárias

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Rosembach, Cilto José

2006-01-01

O presente estudo analisa o jornalismo nas rádios comunitárias a partir do paradigma da comunicação popular, alternativa e da contextualização histórica das rádios comunitárias no Brasil. A programação jornalística de duas rádios comunitárias no Estado de São Paulo é analisada a partir do referencial teórico que elucida a comunicação popular e prioriza os conceitos de jornalismo popular. São analisadas a Rádio Cantareira FM 107,5, de Vila Isabel, distrito de Brasilândia, São...

Validación de la historia clínica informatizada de atención primaria y su aplicación para la investigación clínico-epidemiológica de la hipertensión arterial en una cohorte de pacientes con diabetes tipo 2

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Burgos Lunar, Carmen de

2017-01-01

Tesis Doctoral leída en la Universidad Rey Juan Carlos de Madrid en 2012. Directores de la Tesis: Isabel del Cura González, Rodrigo Jiménez García y Juan Carlos Abánades Herranz La hipertensión arterial es un factor de riesgo cardiovascular que afecta al 35% de la población adulta española. En la población diabética esta prevalencia es entre 1.5 y 2.3 veces mayor que en sujetos no diabéticos. Las implicaciones pronósticas que implica la coexistencia de diabetes e hipertensión arterial son ...

Entre fans anda el juego: audiencias creativas, series de televisión y narrativas transmedia

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Establés, María-José

2016-01-01

Este artículo analiza cómo las comunidades de fans en red de las series Isabel y El Ministerio del Tiempo han contribuido a la ampliación de sus universos narrativos transmediáticos, a través de foros, blogs y redes sociales. Así, las fans han abierto el debate sobre el papel que debe desempeñar la televisión pública como generadora de contenidos de calidad debido a su vocación de servicio público. La metodología que se ha empleado se ha basado en la observación participante como aca-fan y en...

Cistoadenocarcinoma mucinoso de ovario en estadio terminal, en embarazo complicado con muerte fetal tardía. Presentación de un caso.

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Hansy Díaz Pérez; Rafael Pérez Castro; Juan Carlos Maura Tandrón; Caridad Cordovés Brito; Julio Concepción Bombino

2007-01-01

Presentamos un caso de Cistoadenocarcinoma mucinoso de ovario en un embarazo de 36.4 semanas de gestación complicado con muerte fetal tardía. que ingresó en el Hospital Materno Provincial “Isabel María de Valdivia y Salas de Sancti-Spíritus” diagnosticándose el tumor de ovario en un estadío avanzado de la enfermedad con un cuadro clínico florido y múltiples hallazgos al exámen físico que motivó varios planteamientos y dudas en el diagnóstico ,no realizándose el mismo durante la vigilancia pr...

La presidencia de María Estela Martínez de Perón : la búsqueda de legitimidad y la descalificación del “otro” (1974-1976)

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Napal, María Celeste

2016-01-01

Napal, M. C. (2016). La presidencia de María Estela Martínez de Perón: la búsqueda de legitimidad y la descalificación del “otro” (1974-1976). Divulgatio, 1(1). El presente artículo busca analizar, a través de los discursos presidenciales, la imagen que la presidente María Estela Martínez de Perón (Isabel) construye del “otro” no partidario en un contexto político en el que se ve cuestionada su propia legitimidad. Partimos de la idea de que el período de su presidencia (1° de julio de 1974...

H10429: NOS Hydrographic Survey , Approaches to Port Isabel, Texas, 1992-10-06

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Biomarkers in the evolution of multiple sclerosis.

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Berger, Thomas

2017-11-01

Nonimaging biomarkers can be applied in differential diagnosis, evaluation of disease progression and therapy monitoring of multiple sclerosis (MS). Presence of oligoclonal IgG bands in cerebrospinal fluid is a diagnostic element and a negative predictor of MS evolution. AQP4 antibodies are pathogenic and diagnostic for neuromyelitis optica spectrum disorder. Antibodies to myelin oligodendrocyte glycoprotein develop in about 50% of predominantly pediatric patients with acute disseminated encephalomyelitis, but their possible role in pathogenesis is unknown. Currently, there are no individualized biomarkers suitable to track disease progression. Neutralizing antibodies against IFN-β, natalizumab and daclizumab arise with variable frequency and reduce treatment efficacy. The anti-John Cunningham virus antibody index has potential as a biomarker for risk of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy.

Negative Social Contextual Stressors and Somatic Symptoms Among Young Black Males: An Exploratory Study.

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Scott, Lionel D; McCoy, Henrika

This study examines whether negative social contextual stressors were associated with somatic symptoms among young Black males ( N = 74) after accounting for background and psychological characteristics. Using Cunningham and Spencer's Black Male Experiences Measure, negative social contextual stressors connoted those experiences connected to the personal attributes, devaluation, and negative imagery of young Black males, such as being followed when entering a store or police or security guards asking them what they are doing when hanging out (e.g., in the park or playground or on the street corner). Results showed that such stressors made a unique and significant contribution to the experience of somatic symptoms. Future research directions and implications for addressing the larger societal perceptions of young Black males are discussed.

Estéticas de lo cotidiano. Cuatro visiones de la realidad en la pintura española contemporánea = Every day life aesthetics: four visions of reality in contemporary Spanish painting

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Maria José Pena García

2014-12-01

Full Text Available Los preceptos religiosos y tradicionales, y la legislación antifeminista y pronatalista llevada a cabo durante el franquismo, devolvía a las mujeres a la esfera doméstica. En este contexto se formaron cuatro artistas nacidas entre 1928 y 1938: Esperanza Parada, Amalia Avia, María Moreno e Isabel  Quintanilla. Optaron por el lenguaje figurativo para mostrar su personal visión de la realidad y de esta forma participaron en la renovación del panorama de la plástica española de la década de los sesenta, un momento de convergencia de varios estilos: el expresionismo abstracto (Grupo El Paso, el realismo social y el Pop, que centraban el debate artístico. A través de sus cuadros hablan sobre sí mismas y sobre aquello que les rodea, compartiendo el interés por la temática relacionada con la vida cotidiana y la preocupación por las luces y las sombras del momento histórico.Franquism broght women back home by antifeminist and pro-birth legislation and the weight given to traditional and religious precepts. In this context were brought up 4 artists: Esperanza Parada, Amalia Avia, María Moreno and Isabel Quintanilla (all born between the years 1928-1938. They chose figurative language to show their personal vision of reality, and in that way, they participated in the renovation of spanish art thas took place in the sixties. It was a moment in which different styles converged: Abstract expressionism (Grupo El Paso, social realism, and Pop. Through their paintings these artists talk about themselves, sharing everyday life themes with the light and shadows of their historical moment.

Estimativa da similaridade genética e identificação de cultivares do morangueiro por análise de RAPD Estimate of the genetic similarity and identification of strawberry cultivars by RAPD analysis

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José Henrique Conti

2002-06-01

Full Text Available Caracteres moleculares do morango foram avaliados para conhecer cultivares que estão sendo introduzidas no Brasil. Utilizou-se o método do polimorfismo de DNA amplificado ao acaso (RAPD. Os caracteres moleculares com maior poder de discriminação foram os "marcadores" gerados pelos "primers" Operon B8, Operon B19 e Operon G5, que foram eficientes para discriminar as vinte e seis cultivares estudadas. Os dados foram interpretados com o auxílio de dendograma, mapa de bandas, quadro de identificação e chave dicotômica. Foi possível distinguir seis grupos de similaridade, dois deles com cultivares selecionadas no Brasil, sendo um com 'Campinas', 'Agf 80', 'Piedade', 'Jundiaí' e 'Monte Alegre' e o outro com 'Obaira' e 'Mantiqueira'; três grupos com cultivares introduzidas, sendo o primeiro com 'Lassen', 'Reiko', 'Chandler', 'Pajaro', 'Blackmore' e 'Seascape', o segundo com 'Fern' e 'Oso Grande' e o terceiro com 'Florida Belle' e 'Selva' O último grupo reuniu as cultivares 'Dover' e 'Dabreak' junto com 'Princesa Isabel'.Strawberry cultivars introduced in Brazil were identified through molecular study. The method of Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA (RAPD was used. Molecular characters with larger discrimination power were produced by the primers Operon B8, Operon B19 and Operon G5. These were efficient to discriminate the twenty six studied cultivars. Data were analised through dendogram, bandmap, picture and dicotomic key. Six similarity groups were distinguished: Two with cultivars selected in Brazil, one with 'Campinas', 'Agf 80', 'Piedade', 'Jundiaí' and 'Monte Alegre' and the other with 'Obaira' and 'Mantiqueira'; three with introduced cultivars the first of which 'Lassen', 'Reiko', 'Chandler', 'Pajaro', 'Blackmore' and 'Seascape', the second with 'Fern' and 'Oso Grande' and the third with 'Florida Belle' and 'Selva'. The last group united the cultivars 'Dover' and 'Dabreak' with 'Princesa Isabel'.

La enseñanza del Proyecto Urbano: a propósito de algunos trabajos de la asignatura de Urbanística (sotos y bordes en Aranjuez

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Daniel Zarza Balluguera

1998-02-01

The study proposes a methodology for analyzing urban space, through an objective description of its physical and functional reality and by a subjective approach, the mental image that has a sample of users. For the description of urban reality a centrality index has been used rooted in a quantitative characteristic, the connectivity, of the visual lines departing from each space. The case study proposed is Isabel II square in Madrid. Three methods have been used to acquire information: questionnaires on photographs, questionnaires on personal memories and maps drawn by each interviewed, aiming at overlapping their results in order to avoid system shortages. Discussion also addresses the importance of morphological and functional characteristics to build city image structure.

La denuncia a través de la mujer: La casa de la laguna, de Rosario Ferré

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Ana Molestina

2015-08-01

Full Text Available La historia puertorriqueña es una historia de imposiciones identitarias, choques culturales y ambivalencia desde la llegada de los españoles a la isla. En La casa de la laguna, Ferré analiza el pasado  y el presente de Puerto Rico. Crea una reconstrucción simbolizada en la historia de las familias Mendizábal-Monfort, en la cual Isabel Monfort, trata de descubrir las causas del fracaso de su matrimonio. En esta búsqueda y reflexión personal, se representan las versiones olvidadas o silenciadas de la historia puertorriqueña y de igual manera, da voz y vida a las mujeres marginadas o silenciadas.

Indiana State University Undergraduate Students' Channels of Knowledge of and Use of Cunningham Memorial Library's Public Services.

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Lyle, Jack W.

An application of the diffusion of innovations theory to library marketing, this study was designed to determine what channels of knowledge are more effective in persuading undergraduate students to adopt the use of library public services. To explore this topic at the local level, the following question was formulated: By what communication…

CARACTERIZACIÓN DE DIEZ CULTIVARES FORRAJEROS DE Leucaena leucocephala BASADA EN LA COMPOSICIÓN QUÍMICA Y LA DEGRADABILIDAD RUMINAL

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Danny García M

2008-08-01

Full Text Available Objetivo. Estudiar las variaciones en la composición química y la degradabilidad ruminal de diez cultivares de Leucaena leucocephala Lam. de Wit. mediante el análisis de componentes principales (ACP. Materiales y métodos. Se tomaron muestras durante tres años para evaluar la composición química, los niveles de metabolitos secundarios y la degradabilidad ruminal en ovinos. Los datos fueron analizados con el paquete estadístico SPSS y mediante el diagrama tridimensional se obtuvieron las agrupaciones de las accesiones en dependencia de sus características nutritivas. Resultados. Con los primeros tres componentes del ACP se explicó el 85.83 % de la variabilidad. La concentración de proteínas, fracción fibrosa, minerales, polifenoles, fitatos y la degradación ruminal presentaron las mayores fluctuaciones. Las agrupaciones formadas permitieron identificar seis grupos con características químicas diferentes (G1: elevada cantidad de proteínas, baja proporción de fibra y de metabolitos secundarios y elevada degradación -cv. CNIA-250 y cv. K-28-; G-2: elevado contenido de materia seca, proteínas y fenoles, poca fracción de fibra y taninos y baja degradabilidad ruminal -cv. Ipil-Ipil-; G-3: composición nutricional promedio -cv. México-; G-4: bajo contenido de materia seca, fenoles, mimosina y elevada degradación ruminal -cv. Cunningham, cv. 7 y cv. América-; G-5: elevado contenido de materia seca, fenoles y valor nutritivo medio -cv. K-8 y cv. K-67-; G-6: elevado porcentaje de materia seca y taninos, y baja degradabilidad -cv. Perú-. Conclusiones. La biomasa comestible de los cultivares Cunningham, América, 7, México, CNIA-250 y K-28 constituyen las mejores opciones para la alimentación de rumiantes.

Are predictive equations for estimating resting energy expenditure accurate in Asian Indian male weightlifters?

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Mini Joseph

2017-01-01

Full Text Available Background: The accuracy of existing predictive equations to determine the resting energy expenditure (REE of professional weightlifters remains scarcely studied. Our study aimed at assessing the REE of male Asian Indian weightlifters with indirect calorimetry and to compare the measured REE (mREE with published equations. A new equation using potential anthropometric variables to predict REE was also evaluated. Materials and Methods: REE was measured on 30 male professional weightlifters aged between 17 and 28 years using indirect calorimetry and compared with the eight formulas predicted by Harris–Benedicts, Mifflin-St. Jeor, FAO/WHO/UNU, ICMR, Cunninghams, Owen, Katch-McArdle, and Nelson. Pearson correlation coefficient, intraclass correlation coefficient, and multiple linear regression analysis were carried out to study the agreement between the different methods, association with anthropometric variables, and to formulate a new prediction equation for this population. Results: Pearson correlation coefficients between mREE and the anthropometric variables showed positive significance with suprailiac skinfold thickness, lean body mass (LBM, waist circumference, hip circumference, bone mineral mass, and body mass. All eight predictive equations underestimated the REE of the weightlifters when compared with the mREE. The highest mean difference was 636 kcal/day (Owen, 1986 and the lowest difference was 375 kcal/day (Cunninghams, 1980. Multiple linear regression done stepwise showed that LBM was the only significant determinant of REE in this group of sportspersons. A new equation using LBM as the independent variable for calculating REE was computed. REE for weightlifters = −164.065 + 0.039 (LBM (confidence interval −1122.984, 794.854]. This new equation reduced the mean difference with mREE by 2.36 + 369.15 kcal/day (standard error = 67.40. Conclusion: The significant finding of this study was that all the prediction equations

Logistic regression function for detection of suspicious performance during baseline evaluations using concussion vital signs.

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Hill, Benjamin David; Womble, Melissa N; Rohling, Martin L

2015-01-01

This study utilized logistic regression to determine whether performance patterns on Concussion Vital Signs (CVS) could differentiate known groups with either genuine or feigned performance. For the embedded measure development group (n = 174), clinical patients and undergraduate students categorized as feigning obtained significantly lower scores on the overall test battery mean for the CVS, Shipley-2 composite score, and California Verbal Learning Test-Second Edition subtests than did genuinely performing individuals. The final full model of 3 predictor variables (Verbal Memory immediate hits, Verbal Memory immediate correct passes, and Stroop Test complex reaction time correct) was significant and correctly classified individuals in their known group 83% of the time (sensitivity = .65; specificity = .97) in a mixed sample of young-adult clinical cases and simulators. The CVS logistic regression function was applied to a separate undergraduate college group (n = 378) that was asked to perform genuinely and identified 5% as having possibly feigned performance indicating a low false-positive rate. The failure rate was 11% and 16% at baseline cognitive testing in samples of high school and college athletes, respectively. These findings have particular relevance given the increasing use of computerized test batteries for baseline cognitive testing and return-to-play decisions after concussion.

Organic antireflective coatings for 193-nm lithography

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Trefonas, Peter, III; Blacksmith, Robert F.; Szmanda, Charles R.; Kavanagh, Robert J.; Adams, Timothy G.; Taylor, Gary N.; Coley, Suzanne; Pohlers, Gerd

1999-06-01

Organic anti-reflective coatings (ARCs) continue to play an important role in semiconductor manufacturing. These materials provide a convenient means of greatly reducing the resist photospeed swing and reflective notching. In this paper, we describe a novel class of ARC materials optimized for lithographic applications using 193 nm exposure tools. These ARCs are based upon polymers containing hydroxyl-alkyl methacrylate monomers for crosslinkable sites, styrene for a chromophore at 193 nm, and additional alkyl-methacrylate monomers as property modifiers. A glycouril crosslinker and a thermally-activated acidic catalyst provide a route to forming an impervious crosslinked film activate data high bake temperatures. ARC compositions can be adjusted to optimize the film's real and imaginary refractive indices. Selection of optimal target indices for 193 nm lithographic processing through simulations is described. Potential chromophores for 193 nm were explored using ZNDO modeling. We show how these theoretical studies were combined with material selection criteria to yield a versatile organic anti-reflectant film, Shipley 193 G0 ARC. Lithographic process data indicates the materials is capable of supporting high resolution patterning, with the line features displaying a sharp resist/ARC interface with low line edge roughness. The resist Eo swing is successfully reduced from 43 percent to 6 percent.

100-nm gate lithography for double-gate transistors

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Krasnoperova, Azalia A.; Zhang, Ying; Babich, Inna V.; Treichler, John; Yoon, Jung H.; Guarini, Kathryn; Solomon, Paul M.

2001-09-01

The double gate field effect transistor (FET) is an exploratory device that promises certain performance advantages compared to traditional CMOS FETs. It can be scaled down further than the traditional devices because of the greater electrostatic control by the gates on the channel (about twice as short a channel length for the same gate oxide thickness), has steeper sub-threshold slope and about double the current for the same width. This paper presents lithographic results for double gate FET's developed at IBM's T. J. Watson Research Center. The device is built on bonded wafers with top and bottom gates self-aligned to each other. The channel is sandwiched between the top and bottom polysilicon gates and the gate length is defined using DUV lithography. An alternating phase shift mask was used to pattern gates with critical dimensions of 75 nm, 100 nm and 125 nm in photoresist. 50 nm gates in photoresist have also been patterned by 20% over-exposure of nominal 100 nm lines. No trim mask was needed because of a specific way the device was laid out. UV110 photoresist from Shipley on AR-3 antireflective layer were used. Process windows, developed and etched patterns are presented.

On the advancements of conformal transformations and their associated symmetries in geometry and theoretical physics

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Kastrup, H.A.

2008-08-01

The historical developments of conformal transformations and symmetries are sketched: Their origin from stereographic projections of the globe, their blossoming in two dimensions within the eld of analytic complex functions, the generic role of transformations by reciprocal radii in dimensions higher than two and their linearization in terms of polyspherical coordinates by Darboux, Weyl's attempt to extend General Relativity, the slow rise of nite dimensional conformal transformations in classical eld theories and the problem of their interpretation, then since about 1970 the rapid spread of their acceptance for asymptotic and structural problems in quantum eld theories and beyond, up to the current AdS=CFT conjecture. The occasion for the present article: hundred years ago Bateman and Cunningham discovered the form invariance of Maxwell's equations for electromagnetism with respect to conformal space-time transformations. (orig.)

The selection of stopping power and mass energy absorption coefficient data for the HPA Code of Practice for dosimetry

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Williams, P.C.

1985-01-01

The author draws attention to a discussion by Cunningham and Schultz (1984) which states that, 'with the exception of the NACP and AAPM protocols, the selection of stopping power and energy absorption coefficient ratios has been based upon only the stated accelerating potential of the accelerator', and points out that the HPA Revised Code of Practice should be added to these exceptions. In calculating the HPA's new Csub(lambda) values, a similar, but not identical, approach was taken in order to determine the stopping power and absorption coefficient ratios at each radiation quality. It was recognised that the approximation of a spectrum to a monoenergetic spectrum of between 0.4 and 0.45 of the maximum energy, as had been done in calculating the values, given in ICRU Report 14, was incorrect. (U.K.)

On the advancements of conformal transformations and their associated symmetries in geometry and theoretical physics

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Kastrup, H A [Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany). Theory Group

2008-08-15

The historical developments of conformal transformations and symmetries are sketched: Their origin from stereographic projections of the globe, their blossoming in two dimensions within the eld of analytic complex functions, the generic role of transformations by reciprocal radii in dimensions higher than two and their linearization in terms of polyspherical coordinates by Darboux, Weyl's attempt to extend General Relativity, the slow rise of nite dimensional conformal transformations in classical eld theories and the problem of their interpretation, then since about 1970 the rapid spread of their acceptance for asymptotic and structural problems in quantum eld theories and beyond, up to the current AdS=CFT conjecture. The occasion for the present article: hundred years ago Bateman and Cunningham discovered the form invariance of Maxwell's equations for electromagnetism with respect to conformal space-time transformations. (orig.)

NASA Administrator Dan Goldin greets Neil Armstrong at Apollo 11 anniversary banquet.

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1999-01-01

During an anniversary banquet honoring the Apollo team, the people who made the entire lunar landing program possible, former Apollo astronaut Neil A. Armstrong (left) shakes the hand of Judy Goldin (center), wife of NASA Administrator Daniel S. Goldin (right). The banquet was held in the Apollo/Saturn V Center, part of the KSC Visitor Complex. This is the 30th anniversary of the Apollo 11 launch and moon landing, July 16 and July 20, 1969. Among the guests at the banquet were former Apollo astronauts are Neil A. Armstrong and Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin who flew on Apollo 11, the launch of the first moon landing; Gene Cernan, who flew on Apollo 10 and 17 and was the last man to walk on the moon; and Walt Cunningham, who flew on Apollo 7.

One project of Educational Innovation applying news Information and Communications Technologies (ICT): CyberAula 2.0

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Mendiola, M. A.; Aguado, P. L.; Espejo, R.

2012-04-01

The main objective of the CyberAula 2.0 project is to support, record and validate videoconferencing and lecture recording services by means the integration of the Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM) Moodle Platform with both the Global Plaza platform and Isabel videoconference tool. Each class session is broadcast on the Internet and then recorded, enabling geographically distant students to participate in on-campus classes. All the software used in the project is open source. The videoconferencing tool that we have used is called Isabel and the web platform to schedule, perform, stream, record and publish the videoconferences automatically is called GlobalPlaza. Both of them have been developed at UPM (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid) and are specifically designed for educational purposes. Each class session is broadcasted on the Internet and recorded, enabling geographically distant students to participate live in on-campus classes with questions through a chat tool or through the same videoconference. In order to provide educational support to GlobalPlaza, the CyberAula 2.0 project has been proposed. GlobalPlaza (Barra et al., 2011) is the web platform to schedule, perform, stream, record and publish videoconferences automatically. It is integrated with the videoconferencing tool called Isabel (Quemada et al, 2005), which is a real-time collaboration tool for the Internet, which supports advanced collaborative web/videoconferencing with application sharing and TV like media integration. Both of them are open source solutions which have been developed at our university. GlobalPlaza is a web application developed in the context of the GLOBAL project, a research project supported by the European Commission's seventh framework program. Students can review the recording lectures when needed through Moodle. In this paper we present the project developed at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Agrónomos (ETSIA), Secondary Cycle free

«La teoría del todo». Neurología: Esclerosis lateral amiotrófica

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José Elías GARCÍA SÁNCHEZ

2015-07-01

Full Text Available Recreación de la vida de Stephen Hawking (Eddie Redmayne desde 1963, cuando se encontraba en Cambridge para realizar su tesis doctoral, hasta que fue nombrado caballero por Isabel II y se vislumbra el fin de su primer matrimonio. En 1963 conoce a la que sería su pri? mera mujer, contrapunto femenino de la historia, y se le manifiesta la enfermedad. Este proceso, que comenzó tempranamente, no acabó con su existencia en poco tiem? po, como suele ser habitual, sino que ha sobrevivido.Premios: Óscar al Mejor Actor (Eddie Redmayne y nomi? nada a la Mejor Película, Mejor Actriz (Felicity Jones, Mejor Guión Adaptado y Mejor Banda Sonora (2015.

Resistencia a la cosificación desde las representaciones heredadas. El caso del documental La mujer, cosa de hombres

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Rosario Torres

2012-06-01

Full Text Available El presente artículo analiza el documental de Isabel Coixet La mujer, cosa de hombres (2009, el cual refleja la publicidad emitida en televisiones españolas en los últimos 50 años y su impacto en la audiencia. Se examina a  continuación cómo la directora: invita a plantearse la conexión entre la distribución de roles tradicionales (diseminados por spots publicitarios y el abuso doméstico; explora el tratamiento de este asunto en la televisión y, finalmente, dota de visibilidad a un tema tradicionalmente tabú, invitando al diálogo y a la reflexión y sugiriendo el replanteamiento de presupuestos sociales profundamente enraizados.

Lighting up: magical realism and resistance to dictatorships in Latin America

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Gretha Leite Maia

2017-01-01

Full Text Available This is a study that articulates the literary genre magical realism and the movement of resistance to military dictatorships in Latin America during the twentieth century. For that, the definition of the fantastic literary genre from T. Todorov is examined. The reasons for using fantastic fiction after the development of a realistic literature are investigated below. Finally, two works representative of Latin American fantastic realism are analyzed: Incident in Antares, by the Brazilian writer Erico Verissimo, and The House of the Spirits, by the Chilean writer Isabel Allende. This path allowed us to conclude that magical realism collaborated with the resistance to the military dictatorships in Latin America and fulfills the function of constructing and preserving the collective memory of this historical period.

Descomposición del follaje de Leucaena leucocephala cv. Cunningham asociada con Morus alba var. tigríada

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Full Text Available El presente estudio se diseñó en una parcela experimental donde se utiliza, desde hace diez años, el follaje de Leucaena leucocephala (leucaena como abono verde en el cultivo de Morus alba (morera, con el objetivo de determinar la velocidad de descomposición del follaje de la leguminosa y la relación de este proceso con algunos de los factores bióticos y abióticos presentes en el sistema. Para el estudio de la dinámica de la descomposición del follaje se utilizó el método de bolsas de hojarasca (litter bags. El follaje depositado en estas bolsas fue evaluado en seis momentos durante la etapa de estudio, que abarcó dos años. En cada fecha de recolección, a la hojarasca remanente de cada bolsa se le determinó la población de macrofauna mediante la separación manual, según la metodología del Programa de Investigación Internacional "Biología y Fertilidad del Suelo Tropical" (TSBF. La composición taxonómica de la macrofauna asociada al proceso de descomposición del follaje de leucaena estuvo constituida por cuatro Phylum, seis clases y siete órdenes. El 97% de los organismos eran detritívoros y el 3% depredadores. El tipo de bolsa no influyó en la descomposición del follaje y los factores climáticos desempeñaron un rol decisivo en este proceso.

Force Factor Modulation in Electro Dynamic Loudspeakers

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Risbo, Lars; Agerkvist, Finn T.; Tinggaard, Carsten

2016-01-01

The relationship between the non-linear phenomenon of ’reluctance force’ and the position dependency of the voice coil inductance was established in 1949 by Cunningham, who called it ’magnetic attraction force’. This paper revisits Cunningham’s analysis and expands it into a generalised form...... that includes the frequency dependency and applies to coils with non-inductive (lossy) blocked impedance. The paper also demonstrates that Cunningham’s force can be explained physically as a modulation of the force factor which again is directly linked to modulation of the flux of the coil. A verification based...... on both experiments and simulations is presented along discussions of the impact of force factor modulation for various motor topologies. Finally, it is shown that the popular L2R2 coil impedance model does not correctly predict the force unless the new analysis is applied....

On the advancements of conformal transformations and their associated symmetries in geometry and theoretical physics

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Kastrup, H.A. [Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY), Hamburg (Germany). Theory Group

2008-08-15

The historical developments of conformal transformations and symmetries are sketched: Their origin from stereographic projections of the globe, their blossoming in two dimensions within the eld of analytic complex functions, the generic role of transformations by reciprocal radii in dimensions higher than two and their linearization in terms of polyspherical coordinates by Darboux, Weyl's attempt to extend General Relativity, the slow rise of nite dimensional conformal transformations in classical eld theories and the problem of their interpretation, then since about 1970 the rapid spread of their acceptance for asymptotic and structural problems in quantum eld theories and beyond, up to the current AdS=CFT conjecture. The occasion for the present article: hundred years ago Bateman and Cunningham discovered the form invariance of Maxwell's equations for electromagnetism with respect to conformal space-time transformations. (orig.)

Late relapse of progressive multifocal leucoencephalopathy postallogenic transplant in a young patient with CLL.

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Sanchez-Quintana, Ana; Breña-Atienza, Joaquín; Marrero-Santos, Carmen; Alvarez-Acosta, Luis

2013-08-05

We describe a case of progressive multifocal leucoencephalopathy (PML) in a 39-year-old patient diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) who underwent two allogenic matched-sibling stem cell transplantations. PML was confirmed just after the first transplantation with cerebral MRI and by PCR in the cerebrospinal fluid. After immunosuppression withdrawal and cidofovir treatment, he achieved a reversal of clinical symptoms, John Cunningham (JC) virus positivity and MRI lesions regression. He remained asymptomatic for 5 years with no signs of infection activity, even though he received three new chemotherapy regimens due to a CLL relapse. However, after the second stem cell transplantation, new neurological symptoms began and a reactivation of the JC virus infection was detected. This time, treatment with mefloquine was started, but he experienced a progressive neurological deterioration and died 1 month after the symptoms began.

Long-term Stewardship of Mixed Wastes: Passive Reactive Barriers for Simultaneous In Situ Remediation of Chlorinated Solvent, Heavy Metal and Radioactive

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Gerlach, Robin

2005-01-01

This project report addresses one part of a 3-way collaboration between researchers (Drs. Robin Gerlach and Al Cunningham) at Montana State University's (MSU's) Center for Biofilm Engineering (CBE), (Dr. Brent Peyton at) the WSU/NSF IGERT Center for Multiphase Environmental Research (CMER) at Washington State University (WSU), and (Drs. William Apel and Frank Roberto at) the Biotechnology Department at the INEEL. Each part of this project is funded under a different contract with the Science Division of the US Department of Energy. The project is designed to evaluate the possibility to develop a subsurface remediation technology for mixed wastes at Department of Energy sites using a group of common soil bacteria of the genus Cellulomonas. We are seeking to gain a better understanding of microbial transformation of chromium, uranium, and carbon tetrachloride by Cellulomonas spp. in simulated subsurface environments

ERP implementation in hospitals: a case study.

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Agarwal, Divya; Garg, Poonam

2012-01-01

In a competitive healthcare sector, hospitals have to focus on their processes in order to deliver high-quality care while at the same time reducing costs. Many hospitals have decided to adopt one or another Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system to improve their businesses, but implementing an ERP system can be a demanding endeavour. The systems are so difficult to implement that some are successful; many have failed, causing multimillion dollar losses. The challenge of ERP solutions lie in implementation because they are complex, time consuming and expensive too. This paper describes the various process workflows and phases of ERP implementation at Fortis Hospital Cunningham Road, Bangalore, India. This knowledge will provide valuable insights for the researchers and practitioners to understand the different process workflows and to make informed decisions when implementing ERP in any hospital.

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Cláudio Henrique Zawadzki

2013-03-01

Full Text Available Hypostomus delimai is described from the rio Tocantins, Tocantins State, and from the rio Araguaia, Pará, and Tocantins States, Brazil. The new species is distinguished from all other Hypostomus species, except from H. carinatus, H. hoplonites, and H. watwata, by the presence of five to eight (mode seven predorsal plates limiting posterior border of the supraoccipital bone (vs. one to three plates. It can be distinguished from H. carinatus, H. hoplonites, and H. watwata by having pale spots over darker background on body and fins (vs. dark spots over lighter background. The species was only found in the middle stretches of the rio Tocantins-Araguaia basin. The first collection of specimens assigned to the new species was done in the rio Tocantins before the construction of the Tucuruí dam. Recently additional material was collected in the rio Araguaia, in a habitat that soon will be flooded for the construction of the Santa Isabel hydroelectric power station.Hypostomus delimai é descrita do rio Tocantins no estado do Tocantins e do rio Araguaia, entre os estados do Pará e Tocantins, Brasil. A espécie nova é diagnosticada das demais espécies de Hypostomus, com exceção de H. carinatus, H. hoplonites e H. watwata por possuir de cinco a oito (moda sete placas pré-dorsais margeando a borda posterior do supraoccipital (vs. uma ou até três placas. Difere de H. carinatus, H. hoplonites, e H. watwata por apresentar pintas claras sobre o corpo e nadadeiras (vs. pintas escuras sobre fundo claro. A espécie nova foi encontrada somente no trecho médio da bacia do rio Tocantins-Araguaia. Os primeiros registros da espécie nova foram feitos no rio Tocantins antes da construção da barragem de Tucuruí. Recentemente, material adicional foi coletado no rio Araguaia, em um habitat que será brevemente inundado pela construção da hidrelétrica de Santa Isabel.

Métodos de inoculação de Phakopsora euvitis Ono em Vitis labrusca L. Inoculation methods of Phakopsora euvitis Ono in Vitis labrusca L.

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Erbs Cintra de Souza Gomes

2010-04-01

Full Text Available A ferrugem é uma das principais doenças da videira, com ocorrência registrada em diversas regiões produtoras. Neste trabalho, foram avaliados três métodos de inoculação de Phakopsora euvitis em mudas de videira 'Isabel' com o objetivo de selecionar um método para determinação da patogenicidade. Mudas oriundas de bacelos de videira foram inoculadas com esporos de P. euvitis e mantidas sob temperatura entre 25±4°C e UR 85±10% durante 13 dias. O delineamento experimental foi inteiramente casualizado, com 10 repetições. Os tratamentos foram compostos por: T1 - pincelamento de esporos; T2 - pulverização com suspensão de esporos com 2,7x10³ esporos mL-1; T3 - discos de folhas de videira com sintomas afixados em cinco folhas por planta; e T4 - Testemunha. O método do pincelamento de esporos foi o mais eficiente, com início dos sintomas a partir do quinto dia e, após 13 dias, 100% das folhas apresentavam sinais do patógeno.Rust is one of the most important diseases in grapevine, with occurrence recorded in many production areas. In this research it was evaluated three methods of Phakopsora euvitis inoculation on grapevine seedlings cv. 'Isabel' with the objective of selecting an inoculation method for rapid pathogenicity determination. Grapevine seedlings were inoculated with P. euvitis and maintained under conditions of 25±4C and UR 85±10% for 13 days. The experimental design was completely randomized, with 10 replications. The treatments were: T1 - brush of pathogen spores; T2 - spores suspension spraying (2.7x10³ spores mL-1; T3 - disks of grapevine leaves with symptoms stuck in five leaves per plant and T4 - control. The spore brushing method was the most efficient, showing early symptoms at five days, and 100% of the leaves showing pathogen symptoms 13 days after treatment.

Earthquakes in the kindergarten educate for risk mitigation

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Mata, Isabel; Rodrigues, Isabel; Matias, Luis

2016-04-01

"Earthquakes in the kindergarten educate for risk mitigation" Isabel Rodrigues, Jardim de Infância D. Dinis, Odivelas, Isabel Mata, Secondary School Adelaide Cabette, Odivelas Luis Matias (UL / IDL), Instituto Dom Luiz, Universityof Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal In Portugal Education for risk is now recognized as a child training component and young learners should develop the right skills in the first years of life. School can have an important role in this process, as a privileged actor in the mobilization of every society, providing and promoting dynamic and educational practices aimed at the wider spectrum of education for citizenship, the adoption of safety behaviours, prevention and adequate management of risk. The Group of Schools Adelaide Cabette in Odivelas is now a set of schools, from Kindergarten to Secondary. Aiming at educating for risk prevention, we developed an experiment with a pre-school class directed to the seismic risk, which was extended to Earth Sciences because it is difficult to teach this topic to the youngest learners, either from Kindergarten or from Primary School, as they haven't learned enough about planet Earth (many don't even know that it is not flat but round like a ball). This experiment involved a working project 1, which was initially developed in one of the classrooms, in kindergarten D. Dinis, and many questions have been asked by the students. The explanation for the students' questions gave origin to a set of experiences developed in the Secondary school. The same class concluded the project in their own classroom. In this project the young learners could have contact with pre-school teachers, secondary and university researchers, thus promoting the sharing of different knowledge, including the scientific linked to the educational one. We would like to share our poster summarizing our experience which we feltwas not only a great challenge, but also a rewarding way to disseminate science to the youngest learners. 1. Keywords

A construção da imagem de uma personagem histórica nas minisséries televisivas

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Machado, Michelli

2010-01-01

Full Text Available O artigo busca fazer algumas considerações sobre a midiatização da narrativa histórica em minisséries, a partir de uma análise da construção ficcional de personagens históricas feita pela televisão. A figura da Princesa Isabel nas minisséries Abolição e República apresenta-se como cenário para essa análise de personagens reais apresentadas por releituras contemporâneas da história. Autores como Coutinho, Martín-Barbero e Rey nos ajudaram entender a metodologia audiovisual de análise da imagem e servirão de base teórica para a construção do exercício proposto nesse texto

Editorial 1: Presente y futuro de la Comunicación Estratégica. Estudios de caso / The Present and Future of Strategic Communication. Case Studies

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Victoria Tur-Viñes

2014-12-01

Full Text Available Con este número, concluimos el quinto año de edición continuada de Revista Mediterránea de Comunicación. La comunicación estratégica es el tema monográfico del dossier, coordinado por la profesora Catedrática Dra. María Isabel de Salas Nestares de la Universidad CEU Cardenal Herrera de Valencia (España. Ha contado con siete colaboraciones, una de ellas internacional. La complementariedad de los textos permite disfrutar de una panorámica actual del estado de la comunicación estratégica en el seno de las organizaciones sin dejar de lado los obstáculos superados y los retos futuros. Encuentran detalles y comentarios sobre su contenido en el editorial de la coordinadora.

Water radiological surveillance (II)

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Pablo San Martin de, M.

2008-01-01

This paper summarizes the characteristics of the Environmental Surveillance Radiological Networks (ESRN) currently operating in CEDEX. In the first part, the Spanish Continental Waters ESRN has been presented. This second one describes Spanish Costal Waters ESRN and the High Sensitivity Networks in Continental and Marine Waters. It also presents the Radiological Surveillance of Drinking Waters that CEDEX carries out in waters of public consumption management by the Canal de Isabel II (CYII) and by the Mancomunity of Canals Taibilla (M.C.T.). The legislation applicable in each case is reviewed as well. Due to its extension the article has been divided into two parts. As Spanish Continental Waters ESRN has been reviewed in the first part, the others ESRN are discussed in this second one. (Author) 10 refs

Recuperar el afán de conocimientos de Leonardo da Vinci en la era de las nuevas tecnologías: arte, ciencia y vida cotidiana

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Carretero Gómez, Mª.B.

2007-09-01

Full Text Available En este artículo describimos de forma resumida el trabajo interdisciplinar,que formando parte de un proyecto de innovación educativa,han llevado a cabo un grupo de profesores de enseñanza secundaria pertenecientes al I.E.S.Isabel la Católica.El eje central del mismo ha sido la figura de Leonardo da Vinci maestro en numerosasdisciplinas:pintor,escultor,cocinero,inventor etc.Con él hemos querido contagiar a nuestros alumnos de su incansable afán por conocer y aprender.Se han realizado numerosas actividades (talleres,proyección de películas,recetas de cocina etc.quedestacan por la interconexión entre distintas áreas del saber y por la participación mayoritaria tanto del profesorado como del alumnado del centro.

y vida cotidiana

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Ma. Begoña Carretero-Gómez

2007-01-01

Full Text Available En este artículo describimos de forma resumida el trabajo interdisciplinar, que formando parte de un proyecto de innovación educativa, han llevado a cabo un grupo de profesores de enseñanza secundaria pertenecientes al I.E.S. Isabel la Católica. El eje central del mismo ha sido la figura de Leonardo da Vinci maestro en numerosas disciplinas: pintor, escultor, cocinero, inventor etc. Con él hemos querido contagiar a nuestros alumnos de su incansable afán por conocer y aprender. Se han realizado numerosas actividades (talleres, proyección de películas, recetas de cocina etc. que destacan por la interconexión entre distintas áreas del saber y por la participación mayoritaria tanto del profesorado como del alumnado del centro.

El equívoco de la literatura infantil

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Claudia Cadena Silva

1991-05-01

Full Text Available Torta de cumpleaños: Historias de Eusebio, I. Ivar da Coll. Ilustraciones del autor. Carlos Valencia Editores, Bogotá, 1989, 28 págs. Tengo miedo: Historias de Eusebio, II. Ivar da Coll. Ilustraciones del autor. Carlos Valencia Editores, Bogotá, 1989, 36 págs. Garabato: Historias de Eusebio, III. Ivar da Coll. Ilustraciones del autor. Carlos Valencia Editores, Bogotá, 1990, 32 págs. Isabel en invierno. Antonio Caballero. Ilustraciones del autor. Carlos Valencia Editores, Bogotá, 1989, 24 págs. Pégale duro, Joey. Beatriz Caballero. Ilustraciones de Ernesto Díaz. Carlos Valencia Editores, Bogotá, 20 págs. Conjuros y sortilegios. Irene Vasco, Cristina López. Ilustraciones de Cristina López. Carlos Valencia Editores, Bogotá, 1990, 24 págs.

Vidas precárias entre normalização e movimentação

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Nicolas Wasser

2016-04-01

Full Text Available O último livro de Isabell Lorey, teórica política e social da Alemanha, trata do entrecruzamento de precariedade como novo dispositivo governamental na era do pós-fordismo, por um lado, e por outro lado, como carregador de capacidades transformativas. Inspirada pela multiplicidade dos movimentos EuroMayDay e Occupy, Lorey amplia a noção de precariedade de Robert Castel e propõe uma reflexão sobre as alternativas políticas a partir da recusa à sensação de insegurança. Ressaltando a contribuição do livro para o estudo sociológico de protestos sociais recentes, assim como das relações de trabalho, o texto apresenta e discute a abordagem inovadora da autora.

Hurricane Isabel Aerial Photography: High-Resolution Imagery of the North Carolina Outer Banks After Landfall

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Recognition of viral and self-antigens by TH1 and TH1/TH17 central memory cells in patients with multiple sclerosis reveals distinct roles in immune surveillance and relapses.

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Paroni, Moira; Maltese, Virginia; De Simone, Marco; Ranzani, Valeria; Larghi, Paola; Fenoglio, Chiara; Pietroboni, Anna M; De Riz, Milena A; Crosti, Maria C; Maglie, Stefano; Moro, Monica; Caprioli, Flavio; Rossi, Riccardo; Rossetti, Grazisa; Galimberti, Daniela; Pagani, Massimiliano; Scarpini, Elio; Abrignani, Sergio; Geginat, Jens

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Multiple sclerosis (MS) is an inflammatory demyelinating disease of the central nervous system (CNS) that is caused by autoreactive T cells and associated with viral infections. However, the phenotype of pathogenic T cells in peripheral blood remains to be defined, and how viruses promote MS is debated. We aimed to identify and characterize potentially pathogenic autoreactive T cells, as well as protective antiviral T cells, in patients with MS. We analyzed CD4 + helper T-cell subsets from peripheral blood or cerebrospinal fluid for cytokine production, gene expression, plasticity, homing potentials, and their reactivity to self-antigens and viral antigens in healthy subjects and patients with MS. Moreover, we monitored their frequencies in untreated and fingolimod- or natalizumab-treated patients with MS. T H 1/T H 17 central memory (T H 1/T H 17 CM ) cells were selectively increased in peripheral blood of patients with relapsing-remitting MS with a high disease score. T H 1/T H 17 CM cells were closely related to conventional T H 17 cells but had more pathogenic features. In particular, they could shuttle between lymph nodes and the CNS and produced encephalitogenic cytokines. The cerebrospinal fluid of patients with active MS was enriched for CXCL10 and contained mainly CXCR3-expressing T H 1 and T H 1/T H 17 subsets. However, while T H 1 cells responded consistently to viruses, T H 1/T H 17 CM cells reacted strongly with John Cunningham virus in healthy subjects but responded instead to myelin-derived self-antigens in patients with MS. Fingolimod and natalizumab therapies efficiently targeted autoreactive T H 1/T H 17 CM cells but also blocked virus-specific T H 1 cells. We propose that autoreactive T H 1/T H 17 CM cells expand in patients with MS and promote relapses after bystander recruitment to the CNS, whereas T H 1 cells perform immune surveillance. Thus the selective targeting of T H 1/T H 17 cells could inhibit relapses without causing John Cunningham

Networks and spatial patterns of extremist organizations in North and West Africa

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Walther, Olivier; Leuprecht, Christian; Skillicorn, David

2018-01-01

(Cunningham 2006; Findley and Rudloff 2012). Building on network science and spatial analysis, the overall objective of this chapter is to bridge these strands of literature and lay the foundations for a more formal approach to social and spatial networks of belligerents in the region. Examining...... of ensuring border integrity through border patrols and law enforcement. The chapter proceeds as follows. The second section reviews the literature on the social and spatial organization of state and non-state organizations, paying particular attention to the role of networks and national borders. The third...... and stability” (MaliActu 2016). The much-debated letter, which arrived one month before Ansar Dine attacked a UN convoy in the north of the country (RFI 2016), is the latest development in a tortuous military career for ag Ghaly, who, since the 1990s, has been a foreign fighter for the late Colonel Gaddafi...

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2005-01-01

Ward Cunningham describes a wiki as "the simplest online database that could possibly work". The cost of this simplicity is that wikis are generally limited to a single collection containing a single kind of record (viz. WikiMarkupLanguage records). WikiD extends the Wiki model to support multiple collections containing arbitrary schemas of XML records with minimal additional complexity. WikiD is essentially a lightweight framework combining: * Open-source implementations of various loosely-coupled open-standard protocols (e.g. OpenURL, SRW/U, SRW Update, OAI-PMH, RSS) * An open-source version-controlled database. * A set of bootstrap collections. * XSL Stylesheets to render collection-level open-standard protocol responses into HTML for human consumption. Automated processes can ignore the stylesheet reference and use the open-standard protocol responses directly. Possible applications for WikiD include collaborative maintenance of registries, thesauri, taxonomies, reviews, and documentation. In addition to ...

Beyond classical physics

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Cunningham, Mark A

2018-01-01

This undergraduate textbook discusses the nature of the microscopic universe from a modern perspective, based on Einstein's notions of relativity and Noether's proof of the emergence of conservation laws from symmetries of the equations of motion. These ideas drove the development of the Standard Model of particle physics and string theory. The second half of the book explores various aspects of many-body physics, ranging from chemical systems to plasmas to black holes. Like the previous textbook authored by by Mark Cunningham, Neoclassical Physics, this text uses a guided discovery approach of instruction, highlighting the experimental results that drove development of our modern picture of subatomic physics. Many problems utilize Mathematica software to enable students to explore the meaning of different equations in a graphical manner. Students will gain an appreciation of the current state of physical theory, in preparation for more detailed, advanced study as upperclassmen.

Análise musical de Six Melodies (1950, de John Cage: contexto e procedimentos composicionais

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Ana Leticia Crozetta Zomer

2018-04-01

Full Text Available Neste trabalho apresentamos uma análise da obra Six Melodies, do compositor norte-americano John Cage (1912-1992. Criada em 1950, a obra pertence ao seu segundo período composicional, denominado Período Romântico (1938-1950 por Solomon (1998, 2002. A análise musical se deu a partir da investigação dos processos composicionais (micro-macrocosmic form e gamut technique, abordando aspectos formais e estruturais da obra. Dessa forma, procuramos revelar detalhes a respeito da estética de Cage durante seus primeiros anos como compositor e da influência que seu companheiro, Merce Cunningham, exerceu sobre as obras deste período. O estudo das técnicas composicionais desenvolvidas durante o Período Romântico reflete a mudança no pensamento estético-filosófico do compositor.

Chesapeake Bay Breakwater Database Project, Section 227 Demonstration Site: Hurricane Isabel Impacts to Four Breakwater Systems

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Hardaway , Jr., C. S; Milligan, D. A; Wilcox, C. A; Meneghini, L. M; Thomas, G. R; Comer, T. R

2006-01-01

.... A multiyear project evaluates post-construction data collected for 41 of these breakwaters and surrounding area including elevation surveys, vegetation, surveys, hydrodynamic analysis and photographs...

Computerized planning and dosimetry for brachytherapy in carcinomas cervix

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Kizilbash, N.A.; Jabeen, K.; Hussain, R.

1996-01-01

A project on the use of computerize planning and dosimetry for brachytherapy in carcinoma of cervix was started at NORI (Nuclear Medicine, Oncology and Radiotherapy Institute, Islamabad) in september 1990. A total number of 182 patients were included in the study over a period of three years. The treatment of all these patients was done by external radiation as well as the intracavitary therapy. Planning and dosimetry was done according to ICRU 38 recommendations. 70 patients were planned with two computers TP-II (Dr. J. Cunningham's software) and PC based system (Dr. Kallinger's software, BTI system). From the results of the two computers TP-II and PC, it can be seen that the difference in a absorbed dose for all recommended points in not going to harm the patient. The dose to the bladder and the rectum in our studies is quite low because of the low activity in the ovoid sources. (author)

JC Virus Leuko-Encephalopathy in Reduced Intensity Conditioning Cord Blood Transplant Recipient with a Review of the Literature.

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El-Cheikh, Jean; Fürst, Sabine; Casalonga, Francois; Crocchiolo, Roberto; Castagna, Luca; Granata, Angela; Oudin, Claire; Faucher, Catherine; Berger, Pierre; Sarran, Anthony; Blaise, Didier

2012-01-01

We report here the case of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML) related to human polyomavirus JC (JCV) infection after an allogeneic transplantation with umbilical cord blood cells in 59-year-old woman with follicular Non Hodgkin lymphoma. She presented with dysphagia and weakness; magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated marked signal abnormality in the sub-cortical white matter of the left frontal lobe and in the posterior limb of the right internal capsule. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis of the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) was positive for John Cunningham (JC) virus. JC viral DNA in the CSF was positive, establishing the diagnosis of PML. Brain biopsy was not done. Extensive investigations for other viral infections seen in immuno-compromised patients were negative. The patient's neurologic deficits rapidly increased throughout her hospital stay, and she died one month after the diagnosis. These findings could have practical implications and demonstrate that in patients presenting neurological symptoms and radiological signs after UCBT, the JCV encephalitis must be early suspected.

Metaphorical Awareness: A New Horizon in Vocabulary Retention by Asian EFL Learners

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Natasha Pourdana

2014-07-01

Full Text Available The present study investigates the impact of English metaphorical awareness on the vocabulary retention by 60 intermediate EFL learners in Iran. Participants in this study were all English as a Foreign language (EFL learners placed in the intermediate level of both genders ranging from 16 to 20 years of age at Qeshm language institute, Kerman, Iran. An Oxford Placement Test (OPT was administered to homogenize the participants and divided them into two intact experimental and control groups. The experimental group was exposed to and performed on 20 minutes English metaphorical awareness tasks of Pictorial Idioms, Poems, and Matching in sixteen 90-minute sessions. The controllgroup received the vocabulary exercises in New Cutting Edge (3rd Edition (Cunningham, Moor & Eales 2007 in turn The experimental group outperformed the controlgroup in this study.  In an independent sample t-Test, and a high effect size (Cohn’s d=2.84 supported the positive impact of metaphorical awareness on EFL learners' vocabulary retention.

Long-Term Stewardship of Mixed Wastes: Passive Reactive Barriers for Simultaneous In Situ Remediation of Chlorinated Solvent, Heavy Metal, and Radionuclide Contaminants

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Peyton, Brent, M.; Gerlach, Robin; Cunningham, Al, B.; Apel, William, A.; Roberto, Francisco

2007-12-04

This project report summarizes the results of a 3-way collaboration between researchers at Montana State University’s (MSU’s) Center for Biofilm Engineering (CBE) (Drs. Robin Gerlach and Al Cunningham), the WSU/NSF IGERT Center for Multiphase Environmental Research (CMER) at Washington State University (WSU) (Dr. Brent Peyton who recently moved to MSU), and the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) (Drs. William Apel and Frank Roberto). At WSU, removal of uranium (U) from aqueous solution was studied using Cellulomonas sp. strain ES6, under anaerobic, non-growth conditions. The Cellulomonadaceae are environmentally relevant subsurface bacteria, and strain ES6 was isolated from the DOE Hanford subsurface. To better understand the role of the pH buffer in the U immobilization process, both bicarbonate and PIPES buffers were used. Our results show for the first time the strain ES6 has multiple U immobilization mechanisms within one organism. Citations to resulting publications are included in the report.

Investigating the origin of the asteroids and early findings on Vesta historical studies in asteroid research

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Cunningham, Clifford J

2017-01-01

This book assesses the origin of asteroids by analyzing the discovery of Vesta in 1807. Wilhelm Olbers, who discovered Vesta, suggested that the asteroids were the result of a primordial planet’s explosion. Cunningham studies that idea in detail through the writings of Sir David Brewster in Scotland, the era's most prolific writer about the asteroids. He also examines the link between meteorites and asteroids, revealing a synergy between Ernst Chladni, Romantic symbolism, and the music of the spheres. Vesta was a lightning rod for controversy throughout the nineteenth century with observers arguing over its size and color, and the astounding notion that it was self-luminous. It was also a major force for change, as new methods in the field of celestial mechanics were developed to study the orbital perturbations it is subject to. A large selection of private correspondence and scientific papers complete the first comprehensive historical study of Vesta ever published. With a synoptic look at the four astero...

Ação de quitosana sobre o desenvolvimento de Plasmopara viticola e Elsinoe ampelina, in vitro e em videiras cv. Isabel Chitosan action on Plasmopara viticola and Elsinoe ampelina development in vitro and in grapevines cv. Isabel

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Aline José Maia

2010-09-01

Full Text Available Este trabalho teve como objetivos avaliar o efeito da quitosana no controle dos fungos Plasmopara viticola e Elsinoe ampelina, agentes causais do míldio e da antracnose da videira, respectivamente. As concentrações de 0, 20, 40, 80 e 160 mg L-1 de quitosana foram utilizadas nos seguintes experimentos: testes de crescimento micelial, de germinação de esporos e ensaio em condições de campo. Para os dois últimos ensaios, adicionou-se tratamentos padrões com mancozeb e calda bordalesa. Verificou-se redução no crescimento micelial de E. ampelina sendo que a maior concentração de quitosana (160 mg L-1 reduziu em 57% o desenvolvimento do fungo, 192 horas após incubação. Nos testes de germinação, a dose de 160 mg L-1 de quitosana reduziu a germinação de esporos de E. ampelina em aproximadamente 98% e de P. viticola em 60%, não diferindo dos tratamentos com calda bordalesa e mancozeb. Nos ensaios a campo as maiores doses de quitosana (80 e 160 mg L-1 apresentaram um decréscimo na severidade de antracnose entre 93 e 81%. Para o míldio, a concentração de 160 mg L-1 apresentou um decréscimo de aproximadamente 81%. Baseando-se nestes resultados, pode-se concluir que a quitosana tem um grande potencial no controle do míldio e da antracnose da videira.This work aimed to evaluate the effect of chitosan on the control of fungi Elsinoe ampelina and Plasmopara viticola, the causal agents of downy mildew and anthracnose in grapevines, respectively. The concentrations of 0, 20, 40, 80 and 160 mg L-1 chitosan were used in the following trials: mycelial growth, spore germination, and experiment in field conditions. For the last two trials standard treatments with mancozeb and bordeax mixture were added. There was a reduction in E. ampelina mycelial growth and the highest chitosan concentration (160 mg L-1 decreased by 57% the fungus development at 192 hours after incubation. In the germination tests, the concentration of 160 mg L-1 chitosan reduced spore germination in E. ampelina by approximately 98% and P. viticola by 60%, not differing from the treatments with bordeaux mixture and mancozeb. In the field trial the highest chitosan concentrations (80 and 160 mg L-1 decreased anthracnose severity between 93 and 81%. For downy mildew, the concentration of 160 mg L-1 decreased the disease by approximately 81%. Based on these results, chitosan has a great potential for the control of downy mildew and anthracnose in grapevines.

Brain entropy and human intelligence: A resting-state fMRI study

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Calderone, Daniel; Morales, Leah J.

2018-01-01

Human intelligence comprises comprehension of and reasoning about an infinitely variable external environment. A brain capable of large variability in neural configurations, or states, will more easily understand and predict variable external events. Entropy measures the variety of configurations possible within a system, and recently the concept of brain entropy has been defined as the number of neural states a given brain can access. This study investigates the relationship between human intelligence and brain entropy, to determine whether neural variability as reflected in neuroimaging signals carries information about intellectual ability. We hypothesize that intelligence will be positively associated with entropy in a sample of 892 healthy adults, using resting-state fMRI. Intelligence is measured with the Shipley Vocabulary and WASI Matrix Reasoning tests. Brain entropy was positively associated with intelligence. This relation was most strongly observed in the prefrontal cortex, inferior temporal lobes, and cerebellum. This relationship between high brain entropy and high intelligence indicates an essential role for entropy in brain functioning. It demonstrates that access to variable neural states predicts complex behavioral performance, and specifically shows that entropy derived from neuroimaging signals at rest carries information about intellectual capacity. Future work in this area may elucidate the links between brain entropy in both resting and active states and various forms of intelligence. This insight has the potential to provide predictive information about adaptive behavior and to delineate the subdivisions and nature of intelligence based on entropic patterns. PMID:29432427

Brain entropy and human intelligence: A resting-state fMRI study.

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Saxe, Glenn N; Calderone, Daniel; Morales, Leah J

2018-01-01

Human intelligence comprises comprehension of and reasoning about an infinitely variable external environment. A brain capable of large variability in neural configurations, or states, will more easily understand and predict variable external events. Entropy measures the variety of configurations possible within a system, and recently the concept of brain entropy has been defined as the number of neural states a given brain can access. This study investigates the relationship between human intelligence and brain entropy, to determine whether neural variability as reflected in neuroimaging signals carries information about intellectual ability. We hypothesize that intelligence will be positively associated with entropy in a sample of 892 healthy adults, using resting-state fMRI. Intelligence is measured with the Shipley Vocabulary and WASI Matrix Reasoning tests. Brain entropy was positively associated with intelligence. This relation was most strongly observed in the prefrontal cortex, inferior temporal lobes, and cerebellum. This relationship between high brain entropy and high intelligence indicates an essential role for entropy in brain functioning. It demonstrates that access to variable neural states predicts complex behavioral performance, and specifically shows that entropy derived from neuroimaging signals at rest carries information about intellectual capacity. Future work in this area may elucidate the links between brain entropy in both resting and active states and various forms of intelligence. This insight has the potential to provide predictive information about adaptive behavior and to delineate the subdivisions and nature of intelligence based on entropic patterns.

Managing A Lake/Aquifer System-Science, Policy, and the Public Interest

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Shaver, R. B.

2009-12-01

Lake Isabel is a small (312 ha) natural lake located in central North Dakota in the glaciated Missouri Coteau. The average lake depth is about 1.8 m with a maximum depth of about 3.6 to 4.6 m. The lake overlies the Central Dakota aquifer complex which is comprised of three sand and gravel aquifer units that are either directly or indirectly (through leakage) hydraulically connected to the lake. The aquifer is a major water source for center pivot irrigation. During the 2001-2008 drought, lower lake levels reduced lake recreation, including leaving many boat docks unusable. Lake homeowners attribute lake level decline to irrigation pumping and believe that irrigation should be curtailed. There is no water right associated with Lake Isabel because there are no constructed works associated with the lake. Therefore, under North Dakota statute the lake cannot be protected as a prior (senior) appropriator. The lake does have standing under the public interest as defined by North Dakota statute. Evaluation of the public interest involves the integration of both science and policy. Is it in the best interest of the people of the state to prohibit ground water withdrawals for irrigation to protect the lake? This is a policy decision, not a scientific decision. The basis of the policy decision should include an economic analysis of the irrigated crops, fish, wildlife, recreation, and lake property. In addition, priority of use and lake level history should be considered. The issue can likely be resolved without scientific controversy arising from hydrologic system uncertainty. If the decision is to protect the lake at some level, the issue becomes “scientized” and the following questions need to be answered: 1) Does irrigation pumping effect changes in lake levels? 2) Is our level of scientific understanding sufficient to determine what volume of irrigation pumping will cause what amount of lake level change? 3) Given aquifer lag time response to changes in pumping and

Gross and microscopic pathology of lesions in Pocillopora spp. from the subtropical eastern Pacific

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Rodríguez-Villalobos, Jenny Carolina; Rocha-Olivares, Axayácatl; Work, Thierry M.; Calderon-Aguilera, Luis Eduardo; Cáceres-Martínez, Jorge Abelardo

2014-01-01

Coral reefs are threatened by a variety of factors including diseases that have caused significant damage in some regions such as in the Caribbean. At present, no data are available on coral diseases in the Mexican Pacific where Pocillopora spp. is a dominant component of coral communities. Here, we describe gross and microscopic morphology of lesions found in pocilloporids at four sites in the Mexican Pacific. Corals were identified and their lesions photographed and quantified in the field. Tissue samples were collected from healthy and affected colonies for histopathology. We recorded seven species of pocilloporids at the study sites with Isla Isabel being the location with the highest coral diversity (H′ = 1.27). Lesions were present in 42% of the colonies and included discoloration (32%), predation-induced tissue loss (30%), unexplained tissue loss (3%) and overgrowth by sponges or algae (35%). The most affected species, P. damicornis (50%), was also one of the most common in the region. No species was more prone to a particular lesion, but there was a significant association between location and the presence of lesions. Northern Islas Marietas (61%) and Isla Isabel (41%) had the highest prevalence of lesions, followed by Manzanillo (37%) and Bahías de Huatulco (23%). Histological changes included atrophy of the surface body wall with depletion of zooxanthellae (91%) in corals with discoloration (bleaching). Ablation of tissue from mesoglea (18%) was also observed. Colonies with unexplained tissue loss showed atrophy and thinning of the epidermis (89%), characterized by cuboidal instead of pseudocolumnar cells normally found in healthy pseudocolumnar ciliated epithelium. Bacterial aggregates between the mesoglea and gastrodermis (11%) were very conspicuous in healthy and diseased corals. Lesions produced by fish bites and gastropods were associated with tissue atrophy (40%) and, in some cases, algal overgrowth near the lesion (20%). No infectious

Efeito do extrato de alho na quebra de dormência de gemas de videiras e no controle in vitro do agente causal da antracnose (Elsinoe ampelina Shear Effect of garlic extract on bud break of grapevines and in vitro control of causal agent of antracnose (Elsinoe ampelina Shear

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Renato Vasconcelos Botelho

2009-03-01

Full Text Available Considerando a redução ou eliminação do uso de substâncias sintéticas que preconizam os sistemas sustentáveis de produção de frutas, este trabalho teve como objetivo a busca de novas alternativas para a quebra de dormência e o controle de doenças em videiras. Estacas de videira contendo uma gema foram pulverizadas com os seguintes tratamentos: 1 testemunha; 2 OV (óleo vegetal 1%; 3 extrato de alho (EA 3%; 4 EA 3% + OV 1%. Posteriormente, as estacas foram mantidas em câmara de crescimento (25±2.5ºC por 56 dias. O único tratamento que estimulou a brotação das estacas de videira cv. Isabel Precoce foi o EA 3% + OV 1%, que atingiu 35% de brotação, diferindo estatisticamente dos tratamentos- testemunha (12,5%, OV 1% (17,5% e EA 3% (15,0%. Provavelmente, o estádio de endodormência profunda das gemas, após apenas 90 horas de frio ( Considering the reduction or elimination of synthetic compounds used in sustainable fruit production systems, this work aimed to search for new alternatives for bud break dormancy and diseases control in grapevines. Single-bud cuttings of grapevines were sprayed with the following treatments: 1 control, 2 1% SO (soybean oil, 3 3% GE (garlic extract, 4 3% GE + 1% SO. After that, the cuttings were kept in a growth chamber (25±2.5ºC for 56 days. The unique treatment that stimulated sprouting of grapevines cv. Isabel Precoce was 3% GE + 1% S, that reached 35% sprouting, differing statistically from the control (12.5%, 1% SO (17.5% and 3% GE (15.0%. Probably, the stage of deep endodormancy of buds, after only 90 chilling hours (< 7.0ºC, avoided better results of bud breaks treatments. Three experiments were carried out in vitro, with different garlic extract doses aiming to evaluate the control of the fungus Elsinoe ampelina. In all trials, there were quadratic effects on mycelial growth, without differences between garlic extract treatments, evidencing its fungicide effect, even for the lowest dose of 0

Sobre la fortuna de Boccaccio en la tradición peninsular. Las primeras traducciones catalanas y la incorporación de la misoginia en Cataluña

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Lola Esteva de Llobet

2013-12-01

Full Text Available Con la traducción al catalán de Il Corbaccio por el mercader Narcís Franch (1498 se inicia una doble corriente peninsular de misoginia y feminismo. Sus argumentos pasaron a formar parte del pensamiento misógino defendido por el Arciprestre de Talavera, Bernat Metge, Jaume Roig, Francesc Eiximenis y Pere Torrelles. Sin embargo, esta tendencia de vituperio e invectiva contra las mujeres tuvo también sus detractores, lo que originó la llamada «querella de las mujeres» en defensa de sus valores. Hombres y mujeres como Christine de Pizan, Teresa de Cartagena, Isabel, Enrique de Villena y Rodríguez del Padrón atacaron la reprobación sistemática del sexo femenino, basándose en el De claris mulieribus de Boccaccio Partiendo de los argumentos pro y anti femeninos de La Fiammetta y Il Corbaccio se revisan textos y argumentos misóginos de la tradición, con el fin de elaborar una teoría sobre la «querelle de las mujeres» en la tradición catalana y castellana. The Catalan translation of II Corbaccio made by the merchant Narcís Franch (1948 initiates a double stream of though in the Spanish peninsula about misogyny and feminism. His arguments became part of the misogyny though defended by Arciprestre de Talavera, Bernat Metge, Jaume Roig, Francesc Eiximenis and Pere Torrelles. Nevertheless, this trend of though about disgrace and invective against women also had its detractors, which originated the socalled «querelle des femmes» in defense of their values. Men and women like Christine de Pizan, Teresa de Cartagena, Isabel, Enrique de Villena and Rodríguez del Padrón attacked the systematic condemnation of women, inspired by the Claris mulieribus of Boccaccio. Based on the arguments pro and against female of La Fiammetta and Il Corbaccio, this article will reviews other texts and misogynous arguments of the tradition, with the purpose of concluding my theory about the «querelle des femmes» in Catalonia and Castile.

Microbiological study of bulls of indulgence of the 15th-16th centuries

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Jurado, V.; Porca, E. [Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiologia, CSIC, Apartado 1052, 41080 Sevilla (Spain); Pastrana, M.P. [Centro de Conservacion y Restauracion de Bienes Culturales, Junta de Castilla y Leon, Simancas (Spain); Cuezva, S.; Fernandez-Cortes, A. [Museo Nacional de Ciencias Naturales, CSIC, Madrid (Spain); Saiz-Jimenez, C., E-mail: saiz@irnase.csic.es [Instituto de Recursos Naturales y Agrobiologia, CSIC, Apartado 1052, 41080 Sevilla (Spain)

2010-08-01

During the restoration of the church of 'San Esteban' in Cuellar (Segovia, Spain) a few sepulchres were opened. Among them was that of Dona Isabel de Zuazo, from the 16th century. Together with the corpse was found a series of printed documents from the 15th-16th centuries, most of which were bulls of indulgence. A microbiological study of the documents was carried out using techniques of isolation and molecular microbiology, together with scanning electron microscopy. Most of the identified bacteria were highly suggestive of a human origin, particularly the predominance of Clostridium species consistent with the flora of the human intestinal tract. Our results demonstrate that appreciable post-mortem migration of bacteria has taken place from the corpse to the historic documents. This can be explained considering that the documents were found on pelvic region, and were contaminated by body fluids and putrefaction.

Characterization of mineral phases of agricultural soil samples of Colombian coffee using Mössbauer spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction

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Rodríguez, Humberto Bustos; Lozano, Dagoberto Oyola; Martínez, Yebrayl Antonio Rojas; Pinilla, Marlene Rivera; Alcázar, German Antonio Pérez

2012-03-01

Soil chemical analysis, X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Mössbauer spectrometry (MS) of 57Fe were used to characterize mineral phases of samples taken from the productive layer (horizon A) of agricultural coffee soil from Tolima (Colombia). Chemical analysis shows the chemical and textural parameters of samples from two different regions of Tolima, i.e., Ibagué and Santa Isabel. By XRD phases like illite (I), andesine (A) and quartz (Q) in both samples were identified. The quantity of these phases is different for the two samples. The MS spectra taken at room temperature were adjusted by using five doublets, three of them associated to Fe + 3 type sites and the other two to Fe + 2 type sites. According to their isomer shift and quadrupole splitting the presence of phases like illite (detected by DRX), nontronite and biotite (not detected by XRD) can be postulated.

Characterization of mineral phases of agricultural soil samples of Colombian coffee using Moessbauer spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction

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Rodriguez, Humberto Bustos, E-mail: hbustos@ut.edu.co; Lozano, Dagoberto Oyola; Martinez, Yebrayl Antonio Rojas; Pinilla, Marlene Rivera [Universidad del Tolima, Grupo Ciencia de Materiales y Tecnologia en Plasma (Colombia); Alcazar, German Antonio Perez [Universidad del Valle, Grupo Metalurgia Fisica y Teoria de las Transiciones de Fase (Colombia)

2012-03-15

Soil chemical analysis, X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Moessbauer spectrometry (MS) of {sup 57}Fe were used to characterize mineral phases of samples taken from the productive layer (horizon A) of agricultural coffee soil from Tolima (Colombia). Chemical analysis shows the chemical and textural parameters of samples from two different regions of Tolima, i.e., Ibague and Santa Isabel. By XRD phases like illite (I), andesine (A) and quartz (Q) in both samples were identified. The quantity of these phases is different for the two samples. The MS spectra taken at room temperature were adjusted by using five doublets, three of them associated to Fe{sup + 3} type sites and the other two to Fe{sup + 2} type sites. According to their isomer shift and quadrupole splitting the presence of phases like illite (detected by DRX), nontronite and biotite (not detected by XRD) can be postulated.

Mining Affected Rambla Study: Rambla del Beal, Cartagena (Murcia); Estudio de una Rambla Afectada por la Acitividad Minera: Rambla del Beal, Cartagena (Murcia)

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Rodriguez, L F; Millan, R; Alvarez, A M; Garcia, G; Cardona, A I

2010-10-22

This study was carried out in the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid and the CIEMAT. The Universidad Politecnica de Cartagena provided this research framed in a project, funded by the European Union, in order to study impacts from mining activity in the Sierra de Cartagena. Moreover this study is included in the environmental science final project of Luis Francisco Rodriguez Mendizabal, directed by Rocio Millan, Ana Isabel Cardona and Ana Maria Alvarez. The objective of this study is to characterize s strongly affected by mining activity rambla which is associated to tailings carriage. In that way, through many soil parameters study, carriage trends are inferred in this system. In the study area 4 drillings up to 6 meters were performed. These are considered the most representative sites for the ramble. for many soil parameters samples were analysed from depths. In the end of the document principal conclusions are exposed. (Author) 10 refs.

Microbiological study of bulls of indulgence of the 15th-16th centuries

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Jurado, V.; Porca, E.; Pastrana, M.P.; Cuezva, S.; Fernandez-Cortes, A.; Saiz-Jimenez, C.

2010-01-01

During the restoration of the church of 'San Esteban' in Cuellar (Segovia, Spain) a few sepulchres were opened. Among them was that of Dona Isabel de Zuazo, from the 16th century. Together with the corpse was found a series of printed documents from the 15th-16th centuries, most of which were bulls of indulgence. A microbiological study of the documents was carried out using techniques of isolation and molecular microbiology, together with scanning electron microscopy. Most of the identified bacteria were highly suggestive of a human origin, particularly the predominance of Clostridium species consistent with the flora of the human intestinal tract. Our results demonstrate that appreciable post-mortem migration of bacteria has taken place from the corpse to the historic documents. This can be explained considering that the documents were found on pelvic region, and were contaminated by body fluids and putrefaction.

Characterization of mineral phases of agricultural soil samples of Colombian coffee using Mössbauer spectroscopy and X-ray diffraction

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Rodríguez, Humberto Bustos; Lozano, Dagoberto Oyola; Martínez, Yebrayl Antonio Rojas; Pinilla, Marlene Rivera; Alcázar, German Antonio Pérez

2012-01-01

Soil chemical analysis, X-ray diffraction (XRD) and Mössbauer spectrometry (MS) of 57 Fe were used to characterize mineral phases of samples taken from the productive layer (horizon A) of agricultural coffee soil from Tolima (Colombia). Chemical analysis shows the chemical and textural parameters of samples from two different regions of Tolima, i.e., Ibagué and Santa Isabel. By XRD phases like illite (I), andesine (A) and quartz (Q) in both samples were identified. The quantity of these phases is different for the two samples. The MS spectra taken at room temperature were adjusted by using five doublets, three of them associated to Fe  + 3 type sites and the other two to Fe  + 2 type sites. According to their isomer shift and quadrupole splitting the presence of phases like illite (detected by DRX), nontronite and biotite (not detected by XRD) can be postulated.

The aptitude of the soils for the production of sugarcane. Part 2: Comparison of two methods at ‘Ciudad Caracas’ sugarcane mill

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Nelson C. Arzola Pina

2015-03-01

Full Text Available The object of this study was to compare two methods for determining the aptitude of soils for growing Sugarcane in Cuba. The information was provided by three sugarcane farms owned by Ciudad Caracas sugarcane mill in the municipality of Santa Isabel de Las Lajas in Cienfuegos. The information of the soils from each farm was taken from the 1:25 000 scale cadastral maps designed by Ministerio de la Agricultura (MINAG. Rainfall data was collected from the nearby stations rain gauges. And the sugarcane yield was reported by each farm. The aptitude of the soils was determined by two methods (AGRO 24 de 1993 y Arzola de 1999 using the information available. Results showed that both methods are appropriate for selecting soils with higher productive potential, and are a useful tool for making right decisions for optimizing the land use at each sugarcane farm.

Yeast diversity isolated from grape musts during spontaneous fermentation from a Brazilian winery.

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Bezerra-Bussoli, Carolina; Baffi, Milla Alves; Gomes, Eleni; Da-Silva, Roberto

2013-09-01

Saccharomyces and non-Saccharomyces yeast species from a winery located in Brazil were identified by ribosomal gene-sequencing analysis. A total of 130 yeast strains were isolated from grape surfaces and musts during alcoholic fermentation from Isabel, Bordeaux, and Cabernet Sauvignon varieties. Samples were submitted to PCR-RFLP analysis and genomic sequencing. Thirteen species were identified: Candida quercitrusa, Candida stellata, Cryptococcus flavescens, Cryptococcus laurentii, Hanseniaspora uvarum, Issatchenkia occidentalis, Issatchenkia orientalis, Issatchenkia terricola, Pichia kluyveri, Pichia guilliermondii, Pichia sp., Saccharomyces cerevisiae, and Sporidiobolus pararoseus. A sequential substitution of species during the different stages of fermentation, with a dominance of non-Saccharomyces yeasts at the beginning, and a successive replacement of species by S. cerevisiae strains at the final steps were observed. This is the first report about the yeast distribution present throughout the alcoholic fermentation in a Brazilian winery, providing supportive information for future studies on their contribution to wine quality.

Mining Affected Rambla Study: Rambla del Beal, Cartagena (Murcia)

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Rodriguez, L. F.; Millan, R.; Alvarez, A. M.; Garcia, G.; Cardona, A. I.

2010-01-01

This study was carried out in the Universidad Autonoma de Madrid and the CIEMAT. The Universidad Politecnica de Cartagena provided this research framed in a project, funded by the European Union, in order to study impacts from mining activity in the Sierra de Cartagena. Moreover this study is included in the environmental science final project of Luis Francisco Rodriguez Mendizabal, directed by Rocio Millan, Ana Isabel Cardona and Ana Maria Alvarez. The objective of this study is to characterize s strongly affected by mining activity rambla which is associated to tailings carriage. In that way, through many soil parameters study, carriage trends are inferred in this system. In the study area 4 drillings up to 6 meters were performed. These are considered the most representative sites for the ramble. for many soil parameters samples were analysed from depths. In the end of the document principal conclusions are exposed. (Author) 10 refs.

El Marqués de Alta-Villa (1845-1909 y su método completo de canto (1905: la escuela lírica francesa en España

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María del Coral Morales-Villar

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Full Text Available Método completo de canto (1905 del Marqués de Alta-Villa constituye una curiosa e interesante aportación a la metodología de la enseñanza del canto lírico. Junto a una intensa actividad en la corte, Alta-Villa dedicó gran parte de su vida al periodismo, la crítica musical, la interpretación lírica y la enseñanza del canto. Su estancia en París como Secretario personal de Isabel II, le permitió moverse en los círculos musicales más selectos, conocer de cerca los últimos estilos y repertorios vocales y promover la música vocal española. Como maestro de canto llevó a cabo una importante labor docente que culminó con la publicación en su tratado de canto.

Avaliação de genótipos de Leucaena spp. nas condições edafoclimáticas de São Carlos, SP: I. caracterização fenotípica e avaliação agronômica Evaluation of Leucaena spp. genotypes in the edaphic and climatic conditions of São Carlos, SP: I. phenotypical characterization and agronomical evaluation

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Full Text Available Para avaliar genótipos promissores de Leucaena spp., foi instalado experimento em Latossolo Vermelho-Amarelo distrófico, na área da EMBRAPA-CPPSE em São Carlos, situada a 22°01'S e 47°53'W, com altitude de 856 m e média de precipitação anual de 1502 mm. Foram testados os seguintes genótipos: Leucaena leucocephala cv. Texas 1074 (T1, L.leucocephala 29 A9 (T2, L.leucocephala 11 x L.diversifolia 25 (T3, L.leucocephala 11 x L.leucocephala 26 (T4, L.leucocephala 24-19/2-39 X L.diversifolia 26 (T5 e L.leucocephala cv. Cunningham (testemunha. Através das avaliações efetuadas durante o período de estabelecimento (15 meses, verificou-se que: a as plantas de L.leucocephala 24-19/2-39 x L.diversifolia 26 se mostraram mais ramificadas e com maior produção de sementes; b as plantas de L.leucocephala 11 x L.diversifolia 26 apresentaram a maior produção de matéria seca consumível; c os materiais apresentaram brotação após o corte, semelhante ou inferior à testemunha.To test promising genotypes of Leucaena spp., selected in a breeding program, an experiment was conducted in a distrofic Red-Yellow Latossol, at the experimental station of EMBRAPA/CPPSE, São Carlos,SP, located at 22°01' and 47°53'W, altitude of 856 m and with a mean annual precipitation of 1502 mm. The following genotypes were tested: L.leucocephala cv. Texas 1074 (T1, L.leucocephala 29 A9 (T2, L.leucocephala 11 x L.diversifolia 25 (T3, L.leucocephala 11 x L.diversifolia 26 (T4, L.leucocephala 24-19/2-39 x L.diversifolia 26 (T5 and L.leucocephala cv. Cunningham (control. Evaluations were performed during the establishment period (fifteen months and it was concluded that: a the plants of L.leucocephala 24-19/2-39 x L.diversifolia 26, with early flowering, were the most branched and presented the greatest seed yield; b the plants of L.leucocephala 11 x L.diversifolia 26, showed the greatest edible dry matter yield; c the genotypes presented similar or worse growth, than

Symmetries In Graphs, Maps, And Polytopes Workshop 2014

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Jajcay, Robert

2016-01-01

This volume contains seventeen of the best papers delivered at the SIGMAP Workshop 2014, representing the most recent advances in the field of symmetries of discrete objects and structures, with a particular emphasis on connections between maps, Riemann surfaces and dessins d’enfant. Providing the global community of researchers in the field with the opportunity to gather, converse and present their newest findings and advances, the Symmetries In Graphs, Maps, and Polytopes Workshop 2014 was the fifth in a series of workshops. The initial workshop, organized by Steve Wilson in Flagstaff, Arizona, in 1998, was followed in 2002 and 2006 by two meetings held in Aveiro, Portugal, organized by Antonio Breda d’Azevedo, and a fourth workshop held in Oaxaca, Mexico, organized by Isabel Hubard in 2010. This book should appeal to both specialists and those seeking a broad overview of what is happening in the area of symmetries of discrete objects and structures.

O Tratado de Tordesilhas e sua projeção

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Héctor José Tanzi

1976-12-01

Full Text Available (primeiro parágrafo do artigo Em fins de 1479, Castela e Portugal derimiam momentaneamente os trâmites de uma cruel contenda, num tratado de paz pelo qual Fernando e Isabel logravam uma efetiva elevação ao trono e Afonso V de Portugal abandonava a idéia de casar-se com a filha bastarda de Henrique IV, chamada a Beltraneja; esse foi o Tratado das Tercerías de Moura. Porém, ao  mesmo tempo que punha fim ao pleito dinástico, regulamentava-se a questão africana do Reino de Fez e reconhecia-se a Portugal a posse de Guiné, Açores e Cabo Verde, " ... e todas as ilhas que agora se tem descoberto e qualquer outras ilhas que se acharem e se conquistarem das ilhas da Canária para baixo contra Guiné..." no tratado chamado de Alcaçobas.

Expectativas y limitaciones de la democracia en la Sevilla del Sexenio (1868-1874

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1990-01-01

Full Text Available Frente a las limitaciones ideológicas y políticas del régimen isabelino surgió en 1868 un relanzamiento político promovido a través de una coalición compuesta de unionistas, progresistas y demócratas en torno a un programa que tenía como puntos fundamentales el derrocamiento de la monarquía de Isabel II y el planteamiento de un nuevo sistema sustantado en la soberanía nacional y que tendría que ser definido en unas Cortes Constituyentes elegidas por sufragio universal. Se partía así de unas perspectivas liberalizadoras y éstas terminaron por asentarse a través de ios programas de las juntas revolucionarias y de la presión popular que incorporaron toda una serie de reivindicaciones de libertades y derechos de los ciudadanos imponiéndose el tono democrático típico del movimiento revolucionario de 1868.

A new species of Hypostomus Lacépède, 1803 (Siluriformes: Loricariidae from the rio Tocantins-Araguaia basin, Brazil

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Full Text Available Hypostomus delimaiis described from the rio Tocantins, Tocantins State, and from the rio Araguaia, Pará, and Tocantins States, Brazil. The new species is distinguished from all other Hypostomusspecies, except from H. carinatus, H. hoplonites, and H. watwata, by the presence of five to eight (mode seven predorsal plates limiting posterior border of the supraoccipital bone (vs. one to three plates. It can be distinguished from H. carinatus, H. hoplonites, and H. watwata by having pale spots over darker background on body and fins (vs. dark spots over lighter background. The species was only found in the middle stretches of the rio Tocantins-Araguaia basin. The first collection of specimens assigned to the new species was done in the rio Tocantins before the construction of the Tucuruí dam. Recently additional material was collected in the rio Araguaia, in a habitat that soon will be flooded for the construction of the Santa Isabel hydroelectric power station.

EL SOL, LA COCINA SOLAR Y LA SOLIDARIDAD: UNA RECETA MUY SABROSA

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Mª Begoña Carretero Gómez

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Full Text Available Nuestro mundo actual se enfrenta a grandes problemas medioambientales. Todos estos problemas están teniendo graves repercusiones en la agricultura, bosques, reserva de agua y en definitiva en la salud humana. Dos de los objetivos del desarrollo del milenio son: el intento de garantizar la sostenibilidad del medioambiente y la erradicación de la pobreza extrema y el hambre. En relación con estos dos objetivos pensamos que sería posible realizar actividades que permitieran al alumnado del IES Isabel la Católica de Guadahortuna, ser consciente de las diferentes realidades que existen en el mundo, hemos optado por centrarnos en actividadesrelacionadas con el uso de las energías alternativas y concretamente en la energía solar. Tras la búsqueda de información en Internet, nos decidimos por la fabricación de tres modelos diferentes de cocinas con las que además hemos elaborado varias recetas.

EL SOL, LA COCINA SOLAR Y LA SOLIDARIDAD: UNA RECETA MUY SABROSA

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Mª Begoña Carretero Gómez

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Full Text Available Nuestro mundo actual se enfrenta a grandes problemas medioambientales. Todos estos problemas están teniendo graves repercusiones en la agricultura, bosques, reserva de agua y en definitiva en la salud humana. Dos de los objetivos del desarrollo del milenio son: el intento de garantizar la sostenibilidad del medio ambiente y la erradicación de la pobreza extrema y el hambre. En relación con estos dos objetivos pensamos que sería posible realizar actividades que permitieran al alumnado del IES Isabel la Católica de Guadahortuna, ser consciente de las diferentes realidades que existen en el mundo, hemos optado por centrarnos en actividades relacionadas con el uso de las energías alternativas y concretamente en la energía solar. Tras la búsqueda de información en Internet, nos decidimos por la fabricación de tres modelos diferentes de cocinas con las que además hemos elaborado varias recetas.

HiLumi prepares its construction phase with industry

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2015-01-01

The High-Luminosity LHC project is now seeking industrial suppliers and collaborations to start the construction phase and make the high-luminosity upgrade happen. The “HiLumi LHC goes to Industry” event held on 26 June aimed to foster R&D collaborations and knowledge exchange between CERN and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) - the perfect opportunity for them to match their capacity with the requirements of HiLumi.   Isabel Bejar-Alonso (High-Luminosity LHC Technical Coordinator) addresses the participants of the “HiLumi LHC goes to Industry” event held at IdeaSquare on 26 June. To reach the 14 TeV and 3000 fb-1 goal of the High-Luminosity LHC, more than 1.2 km of the current LHC machine will need to be replaced with high-technology components that require cutting-edge technologies. HiLumi experts have already identified more than 65 technology areas and even more challenging components that need to be manufactured, assembled and tested bef...

The CERN “Concurso” spreads particle physics all over Spain

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Antonella Del Rosso

2014-01-01

Launched in December last year by CERN in collaboration with the Prince of Asturias Foundation, the competition involved hundreds of young and very young students in Spain. The six winners will visit CERN in April.   “This initiative was intended to raise awareness about particle physics, CERN and science in general,” says CERN’s Isabel Béjar Alonso, a member of the Spanish physics community and one of the driving forces behind the initiative. “The feedback we have received is extremely positive and we are very happy that the competition was so successful!” Organised using a portion of the prize-money associated with the prestigious award that CERN received in 2013 from the Prince of Asturias Foundation, the contest succeeded in the challenge of inspiring a large number of schools, teachers and pupils (see box). “We received hundreds of contributions from all over Spain and for each age range, in the for...

Evaluadores de artículos Caldasia Vol. 16 Nros. 76-79

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1991-12-01

Full Text Available Acero, Arturo / Acosta Alfredo / Aguirre, C. Jaime / Álvarez, Humberto / Andrade, Gonzalo / Arévalo, Isabel / Barrera, Eduardo / Barriga, Ernesto / Bernal, Amanda / Bernal, Rodrigo / Bulla, / M. Germán / Cadena, Albert  / Cala, Plutarco / Campos Martha / Cogollo, Álvaro / Cuadros, Tomas Chamorro, Clara / Churchill, Steven Díaz, Santiago / Duarte, Martha / Dueñas;Hernando / Duque, Santiago / Fernandez, Jose L. / Forero, Eduardo / Franco, Esperanza / Franco, Pilar / Fuertes, Javier / Galeano, Gloria / Galvis, Germán / Gaviria, Elizabeth / Gaviria, Santiago / Gómez, Marcela / González, Favio  / Hernández, C. Jorge / Idrobo, Jesús / La Marca, Enrique / Linares, Mauricio / Londoño, Concha / Lynch,John / Lozano, Gustavo / Lozano, Nubia / Mora, O. Luis E. / Muñoz, Paulina / Murillo, María T. / Orozco, Clara I. / Palacio, Pablo / Pineda, Fabio / Pinto, N. María / Rangel, Orlando / Restrepo, Rubén / Reyes, Carmen / Rueda, Vicente / Ruiz, Pedro M. / Samper, Cristian / Smith, Ernesto / Stiles, Gary / Tchecliakova, Nadya / Turbay, Luisa F. / Uribe, Jaime / Zenner, Ingerborg / Zuluaga,  Silvio

Why Diversity Matters: A Roundtable Discussion on Racial and Ethnic Diversity in Librarianship

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Juleah Swanson

2015-07-01

Full Text Available In Brief:  After presenting together at ACRL 2015 to share research we conducted on race, identity, and diversity in academic librarianship, we reconvene panelists Ione T. Damasco, Cataloger Librarian at the University of Dayton, Isabel Gonzalez-Smith, Undergraduate Experience Librarian at the University of Illinois, Chicago, Dracine Hodges, Head of Acquisitions at Ohio State University, Todd Honma, Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies at Pitzer College, Juleah Swanson, Head of Acquisition Services at the University of Colorado Boulder, and Azusa Tanaka, Japanese Studies Librarian at the University of Washington in a virtual roundtable discussion. Resuming the conversation that started at ACRL, we discuss why diversity really matters to academic libraries, librarians, and the profession, and where to go from here. We conclude this article with a series of questions for readers to consider, share, and discuss among colleagues to continue and advance the conversation on diversity in libraries.

Los Reyes Católicos en la pintura española del siglo XIX

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Rincón García, Wifredo

2004-05-01

Full Text Available A lo largo del siglo XIX, uno de los temas históricos más recurrentes de la pintura española será el reinado de los Reyes Católicos y los artistas se sucederán a lo largo del siglo plasmando los más diversos momentos de la vida y el gobierno de Isabel I de Castilla y Fernando II de Aragón que, tras unir sus vidas y sus coronas, unificaron también los reinos hispánicos y juntos culminaron en 1492 la larga tarea de la reconquista iniciada muchos siglos antes. Durante su reinado tuvo lugar también el Descubrimiento de América, sin lugar a dudas, otro de los hitos históricos más importantes de la pintura española y en cuya iconografía estos monarcas juegan también un papel importante.…

Mapping cognitive structures of community college students engaged in basic electrostatics laboratories

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Haggerty, Dennis Charles

Community college students need to be abstract thinkers in order to be successful in the introductory Physics curriculum. The purpose of this dissertation is to map the abstract thinking of community college Physics students. The laboratory environment was used as a vehicle for the mapping. Three laboratory experiments were encountered. One laboratory was based on the classic Piagetian task, the centripetal motion (CM) problem. The other two laboratories were introductory electrostatic Physics experiments, Resistance (RES) and Capacitance (CAP). The students performed all laboratories using the thinking-aloud technique. The researcher collected their verbal protocols using audiotapes. The audiotaped data was quantified by comparing it to a scoring matrix based on the Piagetian logical operators (Inhelder & Piaget, 1958) for abstract thinking. The students received scores for each laboratory experiment. These scores were compared to a reliable test of intellectual functioning, the Shipley Institute of Living Scale (SILS). Spearman rank correlation coefficients (SRCC) were obtained for SILS versus CM; SILS versus RES; and SILS versus CAP. Statistically significant results were obtained for SILS versus CM and SILS versus RES at the p < 0.05 level. When an outlier to the data was considered and suppressed, the SILS versus CAP was also statistically significant at the p < 0.05 level. The scoring matrix permits a bridge from the qualitative Piagetian level of cognitive development to a quantified, mapped level of cognitive development. The ability to quantify student abstract thinking in Physics education provides a means to adjust an instructional approach. This approach could lead to a proper state of Physics education.

The Fastskin Revolution From Human Fish to Swimming Androids

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Jennifer Craik

2011-04-01

Full Text Available The story of fastskin swimsuits reflects some of the challenges facing the impact of technology in postmodern culture. Introduced in 1999 and ratified for the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games, fastskin swimsuits were touted as revolutionising competitive swimming. Ten years later, they were banned by the world’s swimming regulatory body FINA (the Fédération Internationale de Natation, with the ban taking effect from January 2010 (Shipley 2009. The reason was the controversy caused by the large number of world records that were broken by competitors wearing polyurethane swimsuits, the next generation of the original fast skin suits. These suits were deemed to be providing an artificial advantage by increasing buoyancy and reducing drag. This had been an issue ever since they were introduced, yet FINA had approved the suits and, thereby, unleashed an unstoppable technological revolution of the sport of competitive swimming. Underlying this was the issue about its implications of the transformation of a sport based on the movement of the human body through water without the aid of artificial devices or apparatus. This article argues that the advent of the fastskin has not only transformed the art of swimming but has created a new image of the swimmer as a virtual android rather than a human fish. In turn, the image of the sport of swimming has been re-mapped as a technical artefact and sci-fi spectacle based on a radically transformed concept of the swimming body as a material object that has implications for the ideal of the fashionable body.

Management of Viral Central Nervous System Infections: A Primer for Clinicians

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P Brandon Bookstaver

2017-04-01

Full Text Available Viruses are a common cause of central nervous system (CNS infections with many host, agent, and environmental factors influencing the expression of viral diseases. Viruses can be responsible for CNS disease through a variety of mechanisms including direct infection and replication within the CNS resulting in encephalitis, infection limited to the meninges, or immune-related processes such as acute disseminated encephalomyelitis. Common pathogens including herpes simplex virus, varicella zoster, and enterovirus are responsible for the greatest number of cases in immunocompetent hosts. Other herpes viruses (eg, cytomegalovirus, John Cunningham virus are more common in immunocompromised hosts. Arboviruses such as Japanese encephalitis virus and Zika virus are important pathogens globally, but the prevalence varies significantly by geographic region and often season. Early diagnosis from radiographic evidence and molecular (eg, rapid diagnostics is important for targeted therapy. Antivirals may be used effectively against some pathogens, although several viruses have no effective treatment. This article provides a review of epidemiology, diagnostics, and management of common viral pathogens in CNS disease.

Gravitational perturbations of the Schwarzschild spacetime: A practical covariant and gauge-invariant formalism

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Martel, Karl; Poisson, Eric

2005-01-01

We present a formalism to study the metric perturbations of the Schwarzschild spacetime. The formalism is gauge invariant, and it is also covariant under two-dimensional coordinate transformations that leave the angular coordinates unchanged. The formalism is applied to the typical problem of calculating the gravitational waves produced by material sources moving in the Schwarzschild spacetime. We examine the radiation escaping to future null infinity as well as the radiation crossing the event horizon. The waveforms, the energy radiated, and the angular-momentum radiated can all be expressed in terms of two gauge-invariant scalar functions that satisfy one-dimensional wave equations. The first is the Zerilli-Moncrief function, which satisfies the Zerilli equation, and which represents the even-parity sector of the perturbation. The second is the Cunningham-Price-Moncrief function, which satisfies the Regge-Wheeler equation, and which represents the odd-parity sector of the perturbation. The covariant forms of these wave equations are presented here, complete with covariant source terms that are derived from the stress-energy tensor of the matter responsible for the perturbation

Unbound motion on a Schwarzschild background: Practical approaches to frequency domain computations

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Hopper, Seth

2018-03-01

Gravitational perturbations due to a point particle moving on a static black hole background are naturally described in Regge-Wheeler gauge. The first-order field equations reduce to a single master wave equation for each radiative mode. The master function satisfying this wave equation is a linear combination of the metric perturbation amplitudes with a source term arising from the stress-energy tensor of the point particle. The original master functions were found by Regge and Wheeler (odd parity) and Zerilli (even parity). Subsequent work by Moncrief and then Cunningham, Price and Moncrief introduced new master variables which allow time domain reconstruction of the metric perturbation amplitudes. Here, I explore the relationship between these different functions and develop a general procedure for deriving new higher-order master functions from ones already known. The benefit of higher-order functions is that their source terms always converge faster at large distance than their lower-order counterparts. This makes for a dramatic improvement in both the speed and accuracy of frequency domain codes when analyzing unbound motion.

Rose garden promises of intelligent tutoring systems: Blossom or thorn

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Shute, Valerie J.

1991-01-01

Intelligent tutoring systems (ITS) have been in existence for over a decade. However, few controlled evaluation studies have been conducted comparing the effectiveness of these systems to more traditional instruction methods. Two main promises of ITSs are examined: (1) Engender more effective and efficient learning in relation to traditional formats; and (2) Reduce the range of learning outcome measures where a majority of individuals are elevated to high performance levels. Bloom (1984) has referred to these as the two sigma problem; to achieve two standard deviation improvements with tutoring over traditional instruction methods. Four ITSs are discussed in relation to the two promises. These tutors have undergone systematic, controlled evaluations: (1) The LISP tutor (Anderson Farrell and Sauers, 1984); (2) Smithtown (Shute and Glaser, in press); (3) Sherlock (Lesgold, Lajoie, Bunzo and Eggan, 1990); and (4) The Pascal ITS (Bonar, Cunningham, Beatty and Well, 1988). Results show that these four tutors do accelerate learning with no degradation in final outcome. Suggestions for improvements to the design and evaluation of ITSs are discussed.

Cine-club

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2010-01-01

Thursday 3 June 2010 at 20:30 / Jeudi 3 Juin 2010 à 20:30 CERN Main Auditorium / Amphithéâtre Principal The Wind That Shakes the Barley By/de : Ken Loach (UK, 2005) 124 min.   With/ avec : Cillian Murphy, Padraic Delaney, Liam Cunningham, Orla Fitzgerald Golden Palm, Cannes Film Festival 2006 Ireland, 1920. Damien and Teddy are brothers. But while the latter is already the leader of a guerrilla squad fighting for the independence of his motherland, Damien, a medical graduate of University College, would rather further his training at the London hospital where he has found a place. However, shortly before his departure, he happens to witness atrocities committed by the ferocious Black and Tans and finally decides to join the resistance group led by Teddy. The two brothers fight side by side until a truce is signed. But peace is short-lived and when one faction of the freedom-fighters accepts a treaty with the British that is regarded as unfair by the oth...

Early investigations of Ceres and the discovery of Pallas historical studies in asteroid research

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An asteroid scholar, Cunningham in this book picks up where his Discovery of the First Asteroid, Ceres left off in telling the story of the impact created by the discovery of this new class of object in the early 1800s. The best and brightest minds of mathematics, science, and philosophy were fascinated by Ceres, and figures as diverse as Gauss, Herschel, Brougham, Kant, and Laplace all contributed something to the conversation. The first few chapters deal with the mathematical and philosophical aspects of the discovery, and the rivalry between Germany and France that so affected science and astronomy of that era. The jockeying for glory over the discovery of Ceres by both Piazzi and Bode is examined in detail, as is the reception given to Herschel’s use of the word 'asteroid.' Archival research that reveals the creator of the word 'asteroid' is presented in this book. Astronomy was a truly cosmopolitan field at the time, spanning across various disciplines, and the discovery of Pallas, a story completely t...

Neutron Detection with a Cryogenic Spectrometer

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Bell, Z W; Cristy, S S; Lamberti, V E

2003-01-01

Cryogenic calorimeters are used for x-ray detection because of their exquisite energy resolution and have found application in x-ray astronomy, and the search for dark matter. These devices operate by detecting the heat pulse produced by ionization in an absorber cooled to temperatures below 1 K. Such temperatures are needed to lower the absorber's heat capacity to the point that the deposition of even a few eV results in a measurable temperature excursion. Typical absorbers for dark matter measurements are massive Si or Ge crystals, and, with Ge, have achieved a resolution of 650 eV at 10 keV. Chow, et al., report the measurement of the 60 keV emission from sup 2 sup 4 sup 1 Am with 230 eV resolution using a superconducting tin absorber. Cunningham, et al., also using a superconducting tin absorber, have recently reported a four-fold improvement over Chow. With such results being reported from the x- and gamma-ray world it is natural to examine the possibilities for cryogenic neutron spectroscopy. Such a det...

Bode’s law and the discovery of Juno historical studies in asteroid research

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Cunningham, Clifford J

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Johann Bode developed a so-called law of planetary distances best known as Bode’s Law. The story of the discovery of Juno in 1804 by Karl Harding tells how Juno fit into that scheme and is examined as it relates to the philosopher Georg Hegel’s 1801 thesis that there could be no planets between Mars and Jupiter. By 1804 that gap was not only filled but had three residents: Ceres, Pallas and Juno! When Juno was discovered no one could have imagined its study would call into question Newton’s law of gravity, or be the impetus for developing the mathematics of the fast Fourier transform by Carl Gauss. Clifford Cunningham, a dedicated scholar, opens to scrutiny this critical moment of astronomical discovery, continuing the story of asteroid begun in earlier volumes of this series. The fascinating issues raised by the discovery of Juno take us on an extraordinary journey. The revelation of the existence of this new class of celestial bodies transformed our understanding of the Solar System, the implications ...

Discovery of the first asteroid, Ceres historical studies in asteroid research

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Cunningham, Clifford

2016-01-01

Based on extensive primary sources, many never previously translated into English, this is the definitive account of the origins of Ceres as it went from being classified as a new planet to reclassification as the first of a previously unknown group of celestial objects. Cunningham opens this critical moment of astronomical discovery to full modern analysis for the first time. This book includes all the voluminous correspondence, translated into English, between the astronomers of Europe about the startling discovery of Ceres by Piazzi in 1801. It covers the period up to March 1802, at which time Pallas was discovered. Also included are Piazzi's two monographs about Ceres, and the sections of two books dealing with Ceres, one by Johann Bode, the other by Johann Schroeter. The origin of the word 'asteroid' is explained, along with several chapters on the antecedents of the story going back to ancient Greek times. The formulation of Bode's Law is given, as are the details on the efforts of Baron von Zach to org...

Las periodistas españolas pintadas por sí mismas

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Ezama Gil, Ángeles

2014-06-01

Full Text Available In some of their writings and speeches, five major Spanish journalists, who were also magazine contributors and editors, addressed the status of women journalists between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries: Emilia Pardo Bazán, Concepción Gimeno, Carmen de Burgos (Colombine, Isabel Oyarzábal and Carmen Eva Nelken (Magda Donato. All of them agreed on the idea that women have an innate predisposition for the practice of journalism, and that the press is a platform from which to educate other women. Their journalism is inspired by two primary patterns, the nineteenth-century chronicle, which originated in France, and the more modern interview and report approach, originating in the English-speaking world. In the practice of journalism the only limitations for women in Spain seemed to be the role of editor-in-chief of a daily newspaper and the report genre; both of which were controlled by men, while women were assigned to journalistic genres such as the chronicle and the interview, considered to be better suited to them.Cinco grandes periodistas españolas, que fueron colaboradoras, redactoras y directoras de revistas, abordaron en algunos de sus escritos y discursos la definición del status de la mujer periodista entre los siglos XIX y XX: Emilia Pardo Bazán, Concepción Gimeno, Carmen de Burgos (Colombine, Isabel Oyarzábal y Carmen Eva Nelken (Magda Donato. En todas ellas es común la idea de que la mujer posee cualidades innatas para el ejercicio del periodismo, y de que la prensa es una tribuna desde la que educar a sus congéneres del mismo sexo. Su periodismo se nutre de dos modelos primordiales, el decimonónico de la crónica, de origen francés, y los más modernos de la entrevista y el reportaje, de origen anglosajón. En el ejercicio periodístico las únicas limitaciones para las mujeres en España parecen ser la función de directora de periódico diario y el género del reportaje, ambos de sesgo claramente masculino, en tanto

De "El Auténtico" a "La Voz": el pensamiento de la izquierda peronista antes y después de la dictadura (1975-1984

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Joaquín Baeza Belda

2010-01-01

Full Text Available En 1975, en el contexto del conflictivo y cada vez más represivo gobierno de Isabel Perón, la organización armada Montoneros, de la izquierda peronista, decide lanzar un partido político propio, el Partido Peronista Auténtico, con la intención de desarrollar una labor fuera de la clandestinidad. El partido editó además el periódico El Auténtico, en el que se expresaban las ideas de este importante segmento de la izquierda peronista. Tras el golpe de 1976 y varios años de dura represión, durante los primeros pasos de la apertura política se creó el diario La Voz, en torno al que se reagrupó gran parte de la izquierda peronista superviviente que se desarrollaba a partir de la línea interna Intransigencia y Movilización. Si bien no es posible encontrar una sucesión directa entre ambas publicaciones, las continuidades son evidentes y su comparación permite estudiar los cambios producidos en el ideario y en la cultura política del peronismo y sus sectores de izquierda durante la transición a la democracia.______________ABSTRACT:In 1975, in the context of the troubled and ever more repressive government of Isabel Peron, the Montoneros, a guerrilla force from the peronist left, decided to create their own political party: Partido Peronista Auténtico. Their aim was to develop their activities outside clandestinity.  Besides, they started to publish El Autentico, a newspaper through which they expressed the ideas of this important segment of the peronist left. After the 1976 coup d’état, and several years of harsh repression, the first steps to political liberalization were taken. It was in those years that the newspaper La Voz was created as a meeting point for most of the surviving peronist left, which formed part of the Intransigencia y Movilización movement, an internal line within the party.  Although there is no direct succesion between both publications, there is a clear continuity between them. This is why their

EL INGRESO DE LA MUJER CHILENA A LA UNIVERSIDAD Y LOS CAMBIOS EN LA COSTUMBRE POR MEDIO DE LA LEY 1872-1877

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KARIN SÁNCHEZ MANRÍQUEZ

2006-12-01

Full Text Available El artículo reconstruye el proceso que llevó a la firma del llamado "Decreto Amunátegui", que permitió el ingreso de la mujer chilena a la universidad, y estudia la polémica que causó esta medida en la opinión pública. Para ello, se da cuenta de los intentos de dos directoras de colegios secundarios femeninos, Antonia Tarragó e Isabel Le Brun (en 1872 y 1876, respectivamente, porque sus alumnas dieran exámenes válidos para entrar a la Universidad de Chile. Los comentarios de sus infructuosos intentos en la prensa crearon el ambiente necesario para que el Ministro de Instrucción Pública, Miguel Luis Amunátegui, firmara, en febrero de 1877, el decreto que facilitaba a las mujeres el ingreso a la educación superior. Se estudia el significado de esta medida en el contexto de la secularización que experimentaba la sociedad chilena, lo cual se aprecia en la polémica desatada entre la prensa católica y la prensa liberal luego de la firma del mencionado decreto. Se concluye que esta medida refleja la tensión modernidad / tradición que caracteriza a la segunda mitad del siglo XIX chilenoThis article reconstructs the process that culminated in the "Decreto Amunátegui", which allowed Chilean women the application to university studies. It analyzes the polemics which took place in the country's public opinion, starting with the initiative by Antonia Tarragó and Isabel Le Brun (1872 and 1876 respectively for the recognition of high school exams as valid to apply to the Universidad de Chile. Press commentaries on their unsuccessful efforts contributed to building up the political environment for the signature, in February, 1877, by Miguel Luis Amunátegui, Minister of Education, of the decree facilitating the admittance of women to higher education. This article reflects on the significance of this decree in the context of the underlying secularization process, by paying special attention to the conflict expressed in the positions

ROOTSTOCKS EFFECTS ON THE PHYSICOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF BORDÔ, ISABEL AND IAC 138-22 MÁXIMO MUST AND WINE

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MARLON JOCIMAR RODRIGUES DA SILVA; LUCIANA TREVISAN BRUNELLI; MARA FERNANDES MOURA; JOSÉ LUIZ HERNANDES; SARITA LEONEL; MARCO ANTONIO TECCHIO

2017-01-01

ABSTRACT It has been demonstrated that rootstocks can influence grape characteristics, but there are few data in literature about the rootstocks influence in the wine characteristics, especially in wines elaborated with Vitis labrusca or hybrid grapes. This study evaluated the influence of ‘IAC 766’ and ‘106-8 Mgt’ rootstocks on the physicochemical characteristics of ‘Bordô’, ‘Isabel’ and ‘IAC 138-22 ‘Máximo’ musts and wines. The musts were evaluated for pH, soluble solids, total acidity and...

Descomposición de la hojarasca en un sistema silvopastoril de Panicum maximum y Leucaena leucocephala (Lam de Wit cv. Cunningham: II. Influencia de los factores climáticos Litter decomposition in a silvopastoral system of Panicum maximum and Leucaena leucocephala (Lam de Wit cv. Cunningham: II. Influence of climatic factors

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Saray Sánchez

2009-12-01

Full Text Available Con el objetivo de determinar la descomposición de la hojarasca en un sistema silvopastoril de Panicum maximum y Leucaena leucocephala y su relación con algunos factores del clima, se realizó este experimento en la EEPF «Indio Hatuey». La descomposición de la hojarasca se determinó como la pérdida de biomasa a través del tiempo, con relación al peso inicial. Para el estudio de la dinámica de la descomposición se utilizó el método de bolsas de hojarasca (litter bags; se registró diariamente el comportamiento de la temperatura media, la humedad relativa, la precipitación y los días con lluvias, en la estación metereológica situada a 1 km del área experimental. Se utilizó el análisis de correlación y regresión para conocer la interrelación entre las variables y los modelos de mejor ajuste. Se consideró, como variables independientes, los factores climáticos estudiados, y como variable dependiente el porcentaje de biomasa perdida. De forma general, los resultados demostraron que el comportamiento de la descomposición de la hojarasca, tanto en la guinea como en la leucaena, estuvo relacionado con los factores climáticos que prevalecieron durante el período experimental y, por tanto, es posible explicar este proceso en ambos pastizales a partir de la acción conjunta de la temperatura, la humedad relativa y la precipitación.With the objective of determining the litter decomposition in a silvopastoral system of Panicum maximum and Leucaena leucocephala and its relationship to some climate factors, this trial was conducted at the EEPF «Indio Hatuey». Litter decomposition was determined as the loss of biomass through time, with regards to initial weight. For studying the decomposition dynamics the method of litter bags was used; the performance of mean temperature, relative humidity, rainfall and days with rain, was daily recorded at the meteorological station located 1 km away from the experimental area. . The correlation and regression analysis was used to learn the interrelation between the variables and the best adjustment models. The studied climatic factors were considered independent variables, and the lost biomass percentage was considered a dependent variable. In general, the results showed that the performance of litter decomposition, in Guinea grass as well as leucaena, was related to the climatic factors that prevailed during the experimental period and, thus, it is possible to explain this process in both pasturelands from the joint action of temperature, relative humidity and rainfall.

A review of the Paectes arcigera species complex (Guenée (Lepidoptera, Euteliidae

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Full Text Available Five new species of Paectes Hübner [1818] related to Paectes arcigera (Guenée (Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, British Virgin Islands, Guadeloupe, Dominica, St. Lucia, Trinidad and P. longiformis Pogue (Brazil are described: P. asper sp. n. (Florida, Bahamas, Cuba, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, British Virgin Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands, Dominica, Colombia, P. medialba sp. n. (Argentina, P. similis sp. n. (Brazil, P. sinuosa sp. n. (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and P. tumida sp. n. (Colombia, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana. Adults and genitalia are illustrated for all species. Taxonomic changes include the rev. stat. of P. nana (Walker (Florida, Greater Antilles, Mexico, Guatemala, Galapagos as a valid species and revised synonyms P. indefatigabilis Schaus and P. isabel Schaus as junior synonyms of P. nana instead of P. arcigera. New host records for P. sinuosa and P. nana reared on Brazilian peppertree (Schinus terebinthifolius Raddi, Anacardiaceae are presented. The holotype and female genitalia of P. obrotunda (Guenée are illustrated.

Cistoadenocarcinoma mucinoso de ovario en estadio terminal, en embarazo complicado con muerte fetal tardía. Presentación de un caso.

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Hansy Díaz Pérez

2007-06-01

Full Text Available Presentamos un caso de Cistoadenocarcinoma mucinoso de ovario en un embarazo de 36.4 semanas de gestación complicado con muerte fetal tardía. que ingresó en el Hospital Materno Provincial “Isabel María de Valdivia y Salas de Sancti-Spíritus” diagnosticándose el tumor de ovario en un estadío avanzado de la enfermedad con un cuadro clínico florido y múltiples hallazgos al exámen físico que motivó varios planteamientos y dudas en el diagnóstico ,no realizándose el mismo durante la vigilancia prenatal habitual ni durante la ecografía pélvica que se realiza durante esta, siendo un hallazgo durante la laparotomía exploradora ya cuando la paciente se encontraba en la fase final del cuadro que la lleva al fallecimiento en la Unidad de cuidados intensivos al tercer día del ingreso con asistencia ventilatoria y múltiples complicaciones.

Estatutos de la Universidad de Salamanca: la reforma de 1550-1551

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María FERNÁNDEZ UGARTE

2009-12-01

Full Text Available La Universidad de Salamanca está en el siglo XVI, en permanente estado de cambio. Desde principios del siglo, con los Reyes Católicos, hasta finales, bajo Felipe II, ese espíritu de renovación se hará patente de un modo continuo. Del interés de Isabel, reflejado en su visita de 1487, no vamos aquí a tratar; pero sí hemos de recordar que Fernando el Católico envió en 1512 al Obispo de Cuenca, Ramírez de Villaescusa, para tantear una reforma. En 1529, bajo el rectorado de Pérez de Oliva, asistimos a un proceso similar, cuya profundidad aun está discutiéndose. En 1538, en pleno reinado de Carlos V, se establecerán los famosos Estatutos que estarán vigentes durante más de veinte años. En 1550, el Consejo Real envía al Obispo de Coria, Diego Enríquez de Almansa, con el mismo intento reformador, como en el presente trabajo podremos comprobar.

SRF Performance of CEBAF After Thermal Cycle to Ambient Temperature

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Rimmer, Robert; Preble, Joseph P; Reece, Charles E

2005-01-01

In September 2003, in the wake of Hurricane Isabel, JLab was without power for four days after a tree fell on the main power lines feeding the site. This was long enough to lose insulating vacuum in the cryomodules and cryogenic systems resulting in the whole accelerator warming up and the total loss of the liquid helium inventory. This thermal cycle stressed many of the cryomodule components causing several cavities to become inoperable due to helium to vacuum leaks. At the same time the thermal cycle released years of adsorbed gas from the cold surfaces. Over the next days and weeks this gas was pumped away, the insulating vacuum was restored and the machine was cooled back down and re-commissioned. In a testament to the robustness of SRF technology, only a small loss in energy capability was apparent, although individual cavities had quite different field-emission characteristics compared to before the event. In Summer 2004 a section of the machine was again cycled to room temperature during the long maint...

Nas sombras da Ditadura: as marcas da violência em Uma varanda sobre o silêncio e De amor y de sombra

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Cristiane Aparecida da Rosa Rossi

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Full Text Available Com base no estudo dos romances Uma varanda sobre o silêncio, do escritor brasileiro Josué Montello (1917-2006, e De amor y de sombra, da escritora chilena Isabel Allende (1942, pretendemos compreender a maneira como o autoritarismo político instaurado no Brasil, a partir de 1964 a 1985, conforma a vida do indivíduo, de modo a cercear sua liberdade, impedindo-o de agir livremente. Com base nisso, dizemos que o estado autoritário age como coator e intensificador do sofrimento humano, de modo a tornar o cidadão comum incapaz de governar sua vida, sem que a opressão condicione sua conduta. Dessa forma, a fim de realizarmos este estudo, faremos uma análise comparativa dos referidos romances, aliando-os à pesquisa bibliográfica. Os resultados apontarão para os desaparecimentos de Mário Júlio e de Evangelina Ranquileo como exemplos, casos de violência comumente encontrados no Brasil e no Chile, no período que sucedeu o golpe militar de 1964.

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Rosa María Montero Tejada

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Full Text Available RESEÑA 1 de : Beceiro Pita, Isabel; Córdoba de la Llave, Ricardo. Parentesco, poder y mentalidad. La nobleza castellana (siglos XII-XV. Madrid : CSIC, 1990. RESEÑA 2 de : Coll-Vinet, Roberto; Bernal Cruz, Francisco J. Curso de documentación. Madrid : Edit. Dossat, 1990. RESEÑA 3 de : Corral García, Esteban. Ordenanzas de los concejos castellanos : formación, contenidos y manifestaciones: siglos XIII-XVIII. Burgos : S.E., 1988. RESEÑA 4 de : García Oliva, María Dolores. Organización económica y social del concejo de Cáceres en la baja Edad Media. Cáceres : Institución Cultural el Brócense, 1990. RESEÑA 5 de : Magdalena Nom de Deu, JOsé Ramón. Libro de viajes de Benjamín de Tudela. Barcelona : Biblioteca Nueva Sefarad, Ríopiedras Ediciones, 1989. RESEÑA 6 de : TOrres Fontes, Juan. Repartimiento de Orihuela. Murcia : Ed. Academia Alfonso X el Sabio / Patronato Ángel García Rogel, 1988.

A review of the Paectes arcigera species complex (Guenée) (Lepidoptera, Euteliidae)

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Pogue, Michael G.

2013-01-01

Abstract Five new species of Paectes Hübner [1818] related to Paectes arcigera (Guenée) (Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, British Virgin Islands, Guadeloupe, Dominica, St. Lucia, Trinidad) and Paectes longiformis Pogue (Brazil) are described: Paectes asper sp. n. (Florida, Bahamas, Cuba, Cayman Islands, Jamaica, Haiti, Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, British Virgin Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands, Dominica, Colombia), Paectes medialba sp. n. (Argentina), Paectes similis sp. n. (Brazil), Paectes sinuosa sp. n. (Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay), and Paectes tumida sp. n. (Colombia, Guyana, Suriname, French Guiana). Adults and genitalia are illustrated for all species. Taxonomic changes include the rev. stat. of Paectes nana (Walker) (Florida, Greater Antilles, Mexico, Guatemala, Galapagos) as a valid species and revised synonyms Paectes indefatigabilis Schaus and Paectes isabel Schaus as junior synonyms of Paectes nana instead of Paectes arcigera. New host records for Paectes sinuosa and Paectes nana reared on Brazilian peppertree (Schinus terebinthifolius Raddi, Anacardiaceae) are presented. The holotype and female genitalia of Paectes obrotunda (Guenée) are illustrated. PMID:23730180

Sharing resources@CERN

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2002-01-01

The library is launching a 'sharing resources@CERN' campaign, aiming to increase the library's utility by including the thousands of books bought by individual groups at CERN. This will improve sharing of information among CERN staff and users. Until now many people were unaware that copies of the same book (or standard, or journal) are often held not only by the library but by different divisions. (Here Eduardo Aldaz, from the PS division, and Isabel Bejar, from the ST division, read their divisional copies of the same book.) The idea behind the library's new sharing resources@CERN' initiative is not at all to collect the books in individual collections at the CERN library, but simply to register them in the Library database. Those not belonging to the library will in principle be unavailable for loan, but should be able to be consulted by anybody at CERN who is interested. "When you need a book urgently and it is not available in the library,' said PS Division engineer Eduardo Aldaz Carroll, it is a sham...

Obtaining interspecific hybrids, and molecular analysis by microsatellite markers in grapevine

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Mariane Ruzza Schuck

2011-11-01

Full Text Available The objective of this work was to assess the potential of interspecific hybridization of Vitis labruscana and Muscadinia rotundifolia by using artificial cross-pollinations. Microsatellite markers were used to confirm interspecific hybridizations and the identity of the parental genotypes. In crosses in which M. rotundifolia was used as the female parent, no true hybrids were obtained. In the reciprocal crosses, 114 seedlings were identified as true V. labruscana x M. rotundifolia hybrids. Self pollination occurred in direct and in reciprocal crosses. The crossings between 'Bordo' x 'Carlos', 'Magnolia', 'Regale' and' Roanoke', and between' Isabel' x 'Bountiful', 'Carlos', 'Magnolia', 'Regale' and 'Roanoke' were confirmed. The 15 markers evaluated showed that two M. rotundifolia parental genotypes had the same fingerprint profile, indicating a like lyplanting error. The success of hybridization depends mainly on the species and on the cultivar used as the female parent. Microsatellite markers are efficient to confirm the paternity of interspecific F1 hybrids and to determine the correct identity of M. rotundifolia cultivars.

Talleres para celebrar la semana de la ciencia

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Ma. Begoña Carretero Gómez

2008-01-01

Full Text Available El objetivo principal de esta experiencia ha sido acercar el trabajo científico a nuestro alumnado, de manera que comprueben que todo lo que ocurre a nuestro alrededor tiene una explicación y una razón de ser. Hemos querido hacer la ciencia más cercana porque creemos que, para que el proceso enseñanza aprendizaje sea efectivo, es necesario que el alumnado sea protagonista indiscutible del mismo. Por ello, en el I.E.S. Isabel la Católica de Guadahortuna, hemos desarrollado una jornada sobre ciencia que hemos hecho coincidir con la “VI semana de la ciencia” celebrada a nivel nacional. Como tema de trabajo elegimos el cuerpo humano y la salud. Para ello, se han organizado tres talleres relacionados con el cuerpo humano: su anatomía; su fisiología; así como los efectos ocasionados por el consumo de determinadas sustancias. Con ellos hemos intentado contribuir a la alfabetización científica de nuestros jóvenes (Laugksch, 2000; Cajas, 2001.

Talleres para celebrar la semana de la ciencia

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Carretero, Mª.B. Y Sánchez-Guadix, Mª.A.

2008-01-01

Full Text Available El objetivo principal de esta experiencia ha sido acercar el trabajo científico a nuestro alumnado,de manera que comprueben que todo lo que ocurre a nuestro alrededor tiene una explicación y una razón de ser. Hemos querido hacer la ciencia más cercana porque creemos que,para que el proceso enseñanza aprendizaje sea efectivo,esnecesario que el alumnado sea protagonista indiscutible del mismo. Por ello,en el I.E.S.Isabel la Católica de Guadahortuna,hemos desarrollado una jornada sobre ciencia que hemos hecho coincidir con la “VI semana de la ciencia ” celebrada a nivel nacional. Como tema de trabajo elegimos el cuerpo humano y la salud. Para ello, sehan organizado tres talleres relacionados con el cuerpo humano:su anatomía; su fisiología; así como los efectos ocasionados por el consumo de determinadas sustancias. Con ellos hemos intentado contribuir a la alfabetización científica de nuestros jóvenes (Laugksch,2000;Cajas,2001.

Scandinavia and Persiles: from the Geography to History

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Juan Antonio Garrido Ardila

2016-11-01

Full Text Available Following from the many discussions of the Nordic setting of Persiles, this article considers Cervantes’s choice of the Northern European backdrop and the Scandinavian nationality of the main characters, in a time when the New World and the Mediterranean appeared as the obvious locations for Byzantine novels. This article examines firstly the negative portrayal of the English in Persiles, as well as in La española inglesa, compared to that of Arnaldo, crown prince of Denmark. It then considers the political relations between Spain and Denmark-Norway, including the marriage of Isabel de Austria to Christian II and the treaty of Speyer, in order to explain the idealisation of Arnaldo, Persiles and Sigismunda. The “dánaos” are here identified as the people of Jutland who revolted against Christian II, and Arnaldo is presented as partly a fictionalised Christian II. In sum, Cervantes chose Scandinavia as the setting for Persiles and the land of its main characters because he acknowledged Denmark-Norway as Spain’s ally in Protestant Europe.

Heroin delay discounting: Modulation by pharmacological state, drug-use impulsivity, and intelligence.

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Stoltman, Jonathan J K; Woodcock, Eric A; Lister, Jamey J; Lundahl, Leslie H; Greenwald, Mark K

2015-12-01

Delay discounting (DD) refers to how rapidly an individual devalues goods based on delays to receipt. DD usually is considered a trait variable but can be state dependent, yet few studies have assessed commodity valuation at short, naturalistically relevant time intervals that might enable state-dependent analysis. This study aimed to determine whether drug-use impulsivity and intelligence influence heroin DD at short (ecologically relevant) delays during two pharmacological states (heroin satiation and withdrawal). Out-of-treatment, intensive heroin users (n = 170; 53.5% African American; 66.7% male) provided complete DD data during imagined heroin satiation and withdrawal. Delays were 3, 6, 12, 24, 48, 72, and 96 hours; maximum delayed heroin amount was thirty $10 bags. Indifference points were used to calculate area under the curve (AUC). We also assessed drug-use impulsivity (subscales from the Impulsive Relapse Questionnaire [IRQ]) and estimated intelligence (Shipley IQ) as predictors of DD. Heroin discounting was greater (smaller AUC) during withdrawal than satiation. In regression analyses, lower intelligence and IRQ Capacity for Delay as well as higher IRQ Speed (to return to drug use) predicted greater heroin discounting in the satiation condition. Lower intelligence and higher IRQ Speed predicted greater discounting in the withdrawal condition. Sex, race, substance use variables, and other IRQ subscales were not significantly related to the withdrawal or satiation DD behavior. In summary, heroin discounting was temporally rapid, pharmacologically state dependent, and predicted by drug-use impulsivity and estimated intelligence. These findings highlight a novel and sensitive measure of acute DD that is easy to administer. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2015 APA, all rights reserved).

Movement and Meaning: An Enquiry into the Signifying Properties of Martha Graham's "Diversion of Angels" (1948) and Merce Cunningham's "Points in Space" (1986)

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Bannerman, Henrietta Lilian

2010-01-01

The premise of this article is the usefulness of Charles Sanders Peirce's semiotic theory when it is used in the activity of decoding or recouping meaning from "pure" dance works. It begins with a survey of the field of semiotics and although it concentrates on sign theory as formulated by Peirce, other principles of semiotics such as theories of…

Testing the Kerr Black Hole Hypothesis Using X-Ray Reflection Spectroscopy

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Bambi, Cosimo; Nampalliwar, Sourabh [Center for Field Theory and Particle Physics and Department of Physics, Fudan University, 200433 Shanghai (China); Cárdenas-Avendaño, Alejandro [Programa de Matemática, Fundación Universitaria Konrad Lorenz, 110231 Bogotá (Colombia); Dauser, Thomas [Remeis Observatory and ECAP, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, D-96049 Bamberg (Germany); García, Javier A., E-mail: bambi@fudan.edu.cn [Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, MA 02138 (United States)

2017-06-20

We present the first X-ray reflection model for testing the assumption that the metric of astrophysical black holes is described by the Kerr solution. We employ the formalism of the transfer function proposed by Cunningham. The calculations of the reflection spectrum of a thin accretion disk are split into two parts: the calculation of the transfer function and the calculation of the local spectrum at any emission point in the disk. The transfer function only depends on the background metric and takes into account all the relativistic effects (gravitational redshift, Doppler boosting, and light bending). Our code computes the transfer function for a spacetime described by the Johannsen metric and can easily be extended to any stationary, axisymmetric, and asymptotically flat spacetime. Transfer functions and single line shapes in the Kerr metric are compared to those calculated from existing codes to check that we reach the necessary accuracy. We also simulate some observations with NuSTAR and LAD/eXTP and fit the data with our new model to show the potential capabilities of current and future observations to constrain possible deviations from the Kerr metric.

Art promoting mental health literacy and a positive attitude towards people with experience of mental illness.

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Koh, Eugen; Shrimpton, Bradley

2014-03-01

Exhibitions of art by people with experience of mental illness are increasingly being staged to improve awareness of mental health issues in the general community and to counter the stigma of mental illness. However, few exhibitions have incorporated research to ascertain their actual effectiveness. This paper reports the results of a study that considered the responses of 10,000 people after they viewed exhibitions of art produced by people with experience of mental illness. These works were selected from the Cunningham Dax Collection, one of the world's most extensive collection of artworks by people with experience of mental illness and/or psychological trauma. More than 90% of respondents agreed with three propositions that the exhibitions helped them: (1) gain a better understanding of mental illness; (2) gain a more sympathetic understanding of the suffering of people with mental illness; and (3) appreciate the ability and creativity of people with mental illness. The results suggest that exhibitions can successfully promote mental health literacy and contribute to positive attitudes towards people with experience of mental illness. This paper explores these findings and raises questions about how the presentation of artworks in an exhibition influences their effectiveness in mental health promotion.

Identification of structural protein-protein interactions of herpes simplex virus type 1.

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Lee, Jin H; Vittone, Valerio; Diefenbach, Eve; Cunningham, Anthony L; Diefenbach, Russell J

2008-09-01

In this study we have defined protein-protein interactions between the structural proteins of herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) using a LexA yeast two-hybrid system. The majority of the capsid, tegument and envelope proteins of HSV-1 were screened in a matrix approach. A total of 40 binary interactions were detected including 9 out of 10 previously identified tegument-tegument interactions (Vittone, V., Diefenbach, E., Triffett, D., Douglas, M.W., Cunningham, A.L., and Diefenbach, R.J., 2005. Determination of interactions between tegument proteins of herpes simplex virus type 1. J. Virol. 79, 9566-9571). A total of 12 interactions involving the capsid protein pUL35 (VP26) and 11 interactions involving the tegument protein pUL46 (VP11/12) were identified. The most significant novel interactions detected in this study, which are likely to play a role in viral assembly, include pUL35-pUL37 (capsid-tegument), pUL46-pUL37 (tegument-tegument) and pUL49 (VP22)-pUS9 (tegument-envelope). This information will provide further insights into the pathways of HSV-1 assembly and the identified interactions are potential targets for new antiviral drugs.

Central nervous system infection following allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation.

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Hanajiri, Ryo; Kobayashi, Takeshi; Yoshioka, Kosuke; Watanabe, Daisuke; Watakabe, Kyoko; Murata, Yutaka; Hagino, Takeshi; Seno, Yasushi; Najima, Yuho; Igarashi, Aiko; Doki, Noriko; Kakihana, Kazuhiko; Sakamaki, Hisashi; Ohashi, Kazuteru

2017-03-01

Here, we described the clinical characteristics and outcomes of central nervous system (CNS) infections occurring after allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) in a single institution over the previous 6 years. Charts of 353 consecutive allogeneic transplant recipients were retrospectively reviewed for CNS infection. A total of 17 cases of CNS infection were identified at a median of 38 days (range, 10-1028 days) after allo-HSCT. Causative pathogens were human herpesvirus-6 (n=6), enterococcus (n=2), staphylococcus (n=2), streptococcus (n=2), varicella zoster virus (n=1), cytomegalovirus (n=1), John Cunningham virus (n=1), adenovirus (n=1), and Toxoplasma gondii (n=1). The cumulative incidence of CNS infection was 4.1% at 1 year and 5.5% at 5 years. Multivariate analysis revealed that high-risk disease status was a risk factor for developing CNS infection (p=.02), and that overall survival at 3 years after allo-HSCT was 33% in patients with CNS infection and 53% in those without CNS infection (p=.04). Copyright © 2016 King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre. Published by Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Acid-rain induced changes in streamwater quality during storms on Catoctin Mountain, Maryland

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Rice, Karen C.; Bricker, O.P.

1992-01-01

Catoctin Mountain receives some of the most acidic (lowest pH) rain in the United States. In 1990, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), in cooperation with the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) and the Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR), began a study of the effects of acid rain on the quality of streamwater on the part of Catoctin Mountain within Cunningham Falls State Park, Maryland (fig. 1). Samples of precipitation collected on the mountain by the USGS since 1982 have been analyzed for acidity and concentration of chemical constituents. During 1982-91, the volume-weighted average pH of precipitation was 4.2. (Volume weighting corrects for the effect of acids being washed out of the atmosphere at the beginning of rainfall). The pH value is measured on a logarithmic scale, which means that for each whole number change, the acidity changes by a factor of 10. Thus rain with a pH of 4.2 is more than 10 times as acidic as uncontaminated rain, which has a pH of about 5.6. The acidity of rain during several rainstorms on Catoctin Mountain was more than 100 times more acidic than uncontaminated rain.

Dose calculations for irregular fields using three-dimensional first-scatter integration

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Boesecke, R.; Scharfenberg, H.; Schlegel, W.; Hartmann, G.H.

1986-01-01

This paper describes a method of dose calculations for irregular fields which requires only the mean energy of the incident photons, the geometrical properties of the irregular field and of the therapy unit, and the attenuation coefficient of tissue. The method goes back to an approach including spatial aspects of photon scattering for inhomogeneities for the calculation of dose reduction factors as proposed by Sontag and Cunningham (1978). It is based on the separation of dose into a primary component and a scattered component. The scattered component can generally be calculated for each field by integration over dose contributions from scattering in neighbouring volume elements. The quotient of this scattering contribution in the irregular field and the scattering contribution in the equivalent open field is then the correction factor for scattering in an irregular field. A correction factor for the primary component can be calculated if the attenuation of the photons in the shielding block is properly taken into account. The correction factor is simply given by the quotient of primary photons of the irregular field and the primary photons of the open field. (author)

Utilization of nitrogen fixing trees

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Brewbaker, J.L.; Beldt, R. van den; MacDicken, K.; Budowski, G.; Kass, D.C.L.; Russo, R.O.; Escalante, G.; Herrera, R.; Aranguren, J.; Arkcoll, D.B.; Doebereinger, J. (cord.)

1983-01-01

Six papers from the symposium are noted. Brewbaker, J.L., Beldt, R. van den, MacDicken, K. Fuelwood uses and properties of nitrogen-fixing trees, pp 193-204, (Refs. 15). Includes a list of 35 nitrogen-fixing trees of high fuelwood value. Budowski, G.; Kass, D.C.L.; Russo, R.O. Leguminous trees for shade, pp 205-222, (Refs. 68). Escalante, G., Herrera, R., Aranguren, J.; Nitrogen fixation in shade trees (Erythrina poeppigiana) in cocoa plantations in northern Venezuela, pp 223-230, (Refs. 13). Arkcoll, D.B.; Some leguminous trees providing useful fruits in the North of Brazil, pp 235-239, (Refs. 13). This paper deals with Parkia platycephala, Pentaclethra macroloba, Swartzia sp., Cassia leiandra, Hymenaea courbaril, dipteryz odorata, Inga edulis, I. macrophylla, and I. cinnamonea. Baggio, A.J.; Possibilities of the use of Gliricidia sepium in agroforestry systems in Brazil, pp 241-243; (Refs. 15). Seiffert, N.F.; Biological nitrogen and protein production of Leucaena cultivars grown to supplement the nutrition of ruminants, pp 245-249, (Refs. 14). Leucaena leucocephala cv. Peru, L. campina grande (L. leucocephala), and L. cunningham (L. leucocephalae) were promising for use as browse by beef cattle in central Brazil.

LLE Review Quarterly Report (July - September 2004). Volume 100

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Schmid, Ansgar W. [Univ. of Rochester, NY (United States). Lab. for Laser Energetics

2004-09-01

The key article in this volume of the LLE Review, covering July-September 2004, addresses "Shock Propagation in Deuterium-Tritium-Saturated Foam" by T. J. B. Collins (LLE) and A. Poludnenko, A. Cunningham, and A. Frank (UR, Department of Physics and Astronomy) (p. 227). Testing the assumption of homogeneous mixing in fibrous foams saturated with cryogenic deuterium and tritium, shock passage in wetted-foam mixtures was simulated by the adaptive-mesh, two-dimensional hydrodynamic code AstroBEAR. For foam fibers of diameter ~1/10 µm and relevant foam densities, the mixing length behind the shock is found to be of the order of microns. Transverse motion dampens out sufficiently that, at the mixing region's edge farthest from the shock, Rankine-Hugoniot jump conditions are obeyed to within a few percent and shock speeds are also within a few percent of their homogeneous values. In addition, questions of feedthrough and feedout are addressed, showing that the stability of the shock front, once it leaves the wetted-foam layer, minimizes the effect of feedthrough. As a result, simulations of whole-foam-pellet implosions may model the wetted foam as a homogeneous mixture.

How visual working memory contents influence priming of visual attention.

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Carlisle, Nancy B; Kristjánsson, Árni

2017-04-12

Recent evidence shows that when the contents of visual working memory overlap with targets and distractors in a pop-out search task, intertrial priming is inhibited (Kristjánsson, Sævarsson & Driver, Psychon Bull Rev 20(3):514-521, 2013, Experiment 2, Psychonomic Bulletin and Review). This may reflect an interesting interaction between implicit short-term memory-thought to underlie intertrial priming-and explicit visual working memory. Evidence from a non-pop-out search task suggests that it may specifically be holding distractors in visual working memory that disrupts intertrial priming (Cunningham & Egeth, Psychol Sci 27(4):476-485, 2016, Experiment 2, Psychological Science). We examined whether the inhibition of priming depends on whether feature values in visual working memory overlap with targets or distractors in the pop-out search, and we found that the inhibition of priming resulted from holding distractors in visual working memory. These results are consistent with separate mechanisms of target and distractor effects in intertrial priming, and support the notion that the impact of implicit short-term memory and explicit visual working memory can interact when each provides conflicting attentional signals.

Emerging treatments for advanced pancreatic cancer: clinical potential of albumin-bound paclitaxel

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Fontana E

2014-06-01

Full Text Available Elisa Fontana, Francesco Sclafani, David Cunningham Department of Medicine, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust, London and Surrey, UK Abstract: The management of pancreatic cancer has historically represented a major challenge for oncologists. The inherent aggressiveness of this tumor and the fibrotic features of the surrounding stromal tissue have significantly limited the impact of standard chemotherapy. Moreover, the paucity of available tumor tissue has hampered a better understanding of the biology of this disease as well as the development of new treatment strategies. Recently, the therapeutic landscape of metastatic pancreatic cancer has been enriched by two new combination regimens (FOLFIRINOX and gemcitabine-nab-paclitaxel which have been demonstrated to improve the outcome in patients with good performance status. Moreover, the peritumoral stroma has been increasingly recognized as a potential therapeutic target for this disease, and several new agents targeting stromal components are currently under investigation. In this paper, we review the current treatment options for advanced pancreatic cancer, highlight the role of the peritumoral stroma, and discuss the clinical potential of nab-paclitaxel and antistromal treatment strategies. Keywords: pancreatic cancer, nab-paclitaxel, stroma, SPARC

Estrogens of multiple classes and their role in mental health disease mechanisms

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Cheryl S Watson

2010-06-01

Full Text Available Cheryl S Watson1, Rebecca A Alyea1, Kathryn A Cunningham2, Yow-Jiun Jeng11Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Univ of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USAAbstract: Gender and sex hormones can influence a variety of mental health states, including mood, cognitive development and function, and vulnerability to neurodegenerative diseases and brain damage. Functions of neuronal cells may be altered by estrogens depending upon the availability of different physiological estrogenic ligands; these ligands and their effects vary with life stages, the genetic or postgenetic regulation of receptor levels in specific tissues, or the intercession of competing nonphysiological ligands (either intentional or unintentional, beneficial to health or not. Here we review evidence for how different estrogens (physiological and environmental/dietary, acting via different estrogen receptor subtypes residing in alternative subcellular locations, influence brain functions and behavior. We also discuss the families of receptors and transporters for monoamine neurotransmitters and how they may interact with the estrogenic signaling pathways.Keywords: estrogen receptor α, estrogen receptor β, GPR30, GPER, xenoestrogens, phytoestrogens, transporters, brain function, neurotransmitter receptors

Cardiac, renal, and neurological benefits of preoperative levosimendan administration in patients with right ventricular dysfunction and pulmonary hypertension undergoing cardiac surgery: evaluation with two biomarkers neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin and neuronal enolase

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2016-04-01

Full Text Available José Luis Guerrero-Orriach,1 Daniel Ariza-Villanueva,1 Ana Florez-Vela,1 Lourdes Garrido-Sánchez,2,3 María Isabel Moreno-Cortés,1 Manuel Galán-Ortega,1 Alicia Ramírez-Fernández,1 Juan Alcaide Torres,3 Concepción Santiago Fernandez,3 Isabel Navarro Arce,1 José María Melero-Tejedor,4 Manuel Rubio-Navarro,1 José Cruz-Mañas1 1Department of Cardio-Anaesthesiology, University Hospital Virgen de la Victoria, Málaga, Spain; 2CIBER Fisiología de la Obesidad y Nutrición (CIBEROBN, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Málaga, Spain; 3Department of Nutrition and Endocrinology, Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas de Málaga (IBIMA, University Hospital Virgen de la Victoria, Málaga, Spain; 4Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, University Hospital Virgen de la Victoria, Málaga, Spain Purpose: To evaluate if the preoperative administration of levosimendan in patients with right ventricular (RV dysfunction, pulmonary hypertension, and high perioperative risk would improve cardiac function and would also have a protective effect on renal and neurological functions, assessed using two biomarkers neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin (N-GAL and neuronal enolase. Methods: This is an observational study. Twenty-seven high-risk cardiac patients with RV dysfunction and pulmonary hypertension, scheduled for cardiac valve surgery, were prospectively followed after preoperative administration of levosimendan. Levosimendan was administered preoperatively on the day before surgery. All patients were considered high risk of cardiac and perioperative renal complications. Cardiac function was assessed by echocardiography, renal function by urinary N-GAL levels, and the acute kidney injury scale. Neuronal damage was assessed by neuron-specific enolase levels. Results: After surgery, no significant variations were found in mean and SE levels of N-GAL (14.31 [28.34] ng/mL vs 13.41 [38.24] ng/mL, neuron-specific enolase (5.40 [0.41] ng/mL vs 4.32 [0.61] ng

Diversidade de abelhas visitantes das flores de Citrus em pomares de laranjeira e tangerineira Diversity of flowers visiting bees of Citrus in salinas, state of minas gerais

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Eduardo Tigre do Nascimento

2011-03-01

Full Text Available A presença de abelhas em culturas de valor comercial, no período de florescimento, é importante não apenas para garantir a polinização cruzada, quando indispensável, mas também para incrementar a produção de frutos e sementes. Nessa perspectiva, o presente trabalho teve a finalidade de identificar as abelhas visitantes das flores em pomar de laranjeira (Citrus sinensis e tangerineira (Citrus reticulata em Salinas - MG. O trabalho foi conduzido na fazenda experimental Santa Isabel, da Escola Agrotécnica Federal de Salinas - MG, em pomares de laranjeira com as variedades, pera, baía e baianinha, e de tangerineira, variedade poncã. As coletas das abelhas visitantes das culturas da laranjeira e tangerineira foram feitas nas floradas principais, entre os meses de agosto e outubro. Foram coletadas as abelhas que visitaram as flores nos horários entre 06 h e 18 h, totalizando 52 horas na laranjeira e 50 horas na tangerineira. No pomar de laranjeira, foram coletados 5.045 espécimes com riqueza de 12 espécies, e na tangerineira, 1.428 espécimes com 20 espécies. As espécies de abelhas de maior predominância e dominância em todos os horários amostrados foram Apis mellifera e Trigona spinipes na cultura da laranjeira e A. mellifera, T. spinipes e Tetragonisca angustula na cultura da tangerineira.The presence of bees on cultures with commercial value during flowering is important to ensure the cross-pollination, when necessary, but also to increase the production of fruits and seeds. This work aimed to identify flowers' visiting bees on orange and tangerine orchards in Salinas - MG. The work was leaded on Santa Isabel experimental farm of the Federal Agro-technical School of Salinas - MG, on orange orchards (Citrus sinensis with pear, bahia and baianinha varieties in the spacing of 5,0 x 6,0, and on tangerine orchards (C. reticulate using poncã variety in the spacing of 5,0 x 5,0. The sampling of visiting bees from orange and tangerine

Caracterização botânica de cultivares de morangueiro Botanical characterization of strawberry cultivars

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Rachel Benetti Queiroz Voltan

1996-01-01

Full Text Available Foi realizado um estudo de caracterização botânica em seis cultivares de morangueiro (Fragaria X ananassa Duch. quatro desenvolvidos no Brasil - 'Campinas (IAC-2712', 'Guarani (IAC-5074', 'AGF 080' e 'IAC Princesa Isabel' - e dois introduzidos - 'Reiko', do Japão, e 'Sequóia', dos Estados Unidos - visando sua distinção taxonômica. Os experimentos foram desenvolvidos na Estação Experimental de Monte Alegre do Sul (SP durante os anos agrícolas de 1992/93. Os caracteres morfológicos que se mostraram úteis na diferenciação dos seis cultivares foram os seguintes: tipo de planta; número de folíolos; coloração da folha; razão entre o comprimento e a largura dos folíolos medianos; ângulo da base do limbo do folíolo mediano; comprimento das estipulas; posição das flores primárias em relação à folhagem; número de pétalas das flores primárias; razão entre o comprimento e a largura das pétalas; receptáculo do ovário; forma das infrutescências e da base da infrutescência; posição do cálice e calículo; espaços vazios no interior da infrutescência e comprimento e largura da infrutescência. Para a identificação dos cultivares, foi elaborada uma chave analítica. Os cultivares AGF 080 e Campinas não foram distinguidos com base nos caracteres analisados.Six strawberry cultivars (Fragaria X ananassa Duch., four developed in Brazil (AGF 080, Campinas, Guarani and IAC Princesa Isabel and two introduced (Reiko from Japan and Sequoia from USA were botanically evaluated in order to screening morphological vegetativa and reproductive characters to get the taxonomical distinction of them. Two experiments were carried out in 1992 and 1993 at the Experimental Station of Monte Alegre do Sul, Instituto Agronômico (IAC, State of São Paulo, Brazil. The following morphological characters were screened to distinguish the cultivars studied: growing habit; leaflet number; leaf colour; middle leaflet length and width ratio; middle

Determinación de compuestos hidrocarbonados en la pared celular de P. maximum y L. leucocephala en silvopastoreo Determination of hydrocarbonated compounds in the cell wall from P. maximum and L. leucocephala under silvopastoral system conditions

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Tania Sánchez

2009-09-01

Full Text Available Con el objetivo de determinar la concentración de n-alcanos y alcoholes de cadena larga en la pared celular de Panicum maximum cv. Likoni y Leucaena leucocephala cv. Cunningham, se realizó un estudio en una asociación de gramíneas mejoradas y leucaena de 10 años de establecida, la cual ocupa un área de 1,6 ha. Se seleccionaron dichas especies por ser las más representativas en la composición florística. Las muestras se colectaron de enero a diciembre del 2005 y se secaron. La concentración de n-alcanos de cadena impar fue de 167,97 y 222,96 mg/kg de MS y 134,11 y 137,27 mg/kg de MS para guinea y leucaena, en el período poco lluvioso y en el lluvioso, respectivamente. A su vez la concentración de alcoholes de cadena par para la leucaena presentó un valor mayor(2 754,60 y 3 830,18 mg/kg de MS para el período poco lluvioso y lluvioso, respectivamente, que en la guinea (2 571,73-3 679,65 mg/kg de MS para cada período, respectivamente. Se concluye que la concentración de n-alcanos de cadena larga impar fue baja para P. maximum y L. leucocephala en ambos períodos del año; sin embargo, presentaron concentraciones elevadas de alcoholes de cadena larga par, que pudieran ser utilizados como marcadores naturales en las dos especies.With the objective of determining the concentration of n-alkanes and long-chain alcohols in the cell wall of Panicum maximum cv. Likoni and Leucaena leucocephala cv. Cunningham, a study was conducted in an association of improved grasses and leucaena ten years after being established, which occupies an area of 1,6 ha. Such species were selected for being the most representative ones in the floristic composition. The samples were collected from January to December, 2005 and were dried. The concentration of odd-chain n-alkanes was 167,97 and 222,96 mg/kg DM and 134,11 and 137,27 mg/kg DM for Guinea grass and leucaena in the dry and rainy season, respectively. In turn, the concentration of even-chain alcohols for

The role of convexity in perceptual completion: beyond good continuation.

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Liu, Z; Jacobs, D W; Basri, R

1999-01-01

Since the seminal work of the Gestalt psychologists, there has been great interest in understanding what factors determine the perceptual organization of images. While the Gestaltists demonstrated the significance of grouping cues such as similarity, proximity and good continuation, it has not been well understood whether their catalog of grouping cues is complete--in part due to the paucity of effective methodologies for examining the significance of various grouping cues. We describe a novel, objective method to study perceptual grouping of planar regions separated by an occluder. We demonstrate that the stronger the grouping between two such regions, the harder it will be to resolve their relative stereoscopic depth. We use this new method to call into question many existing theories of perceptual completion (Ullman, S. (1976). Biological Cybernetics, 25, 1-6; Shashua, A., & Ullman, S. (1988). 2nd International Conference on Computer Vision (pp. 321-327); Parent, P., & Zucker, S. (1989). IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, 11, 823-839; Kellman, P. J., & Shipley, T. F. (1991). Cognitive psychology, Liveright, New York; Heitger, R., & von der Heydt, R. (1993). A computational model of neural contour processing, figure-ground segregation and illusory contours. In Internal Conference Computer Vision (pp. 32-40); Mumford, D. (1994). Algebraic geometry and its applications, Springer, New York; Williams, L. R., & Jacobs, D. W. (1997). Neural Computation, 9, 837-858) that are based on Gestalt grouping cues by demonstrating that convexity plays a strong role in perceptual completion. In some cases convexity dominates the effects of the well known Gestalt cue of good continuation. While convexity has been known to play a role in figure/ground segmentation (Rubin, 1927; Kanizsa & Gerbino, 1976), this is the first demonstration of its importance in perceptual completion.

Inicios de la misión en América: Isabel La Católica, Colón y Boil

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Olaechea Labayen, Juan B.

2001-12-01

Full Text Available Analysis of the beginning of Christianity in America, with references to the building of the first churches during the age of discovery and the first explorations in the New World.

Análisis del inicio del cristianismo en América, refiriendo la construcción de los primeros templos en los años del descubrimiento y las primeras exploraciones del Nuevo Mundo.

A different approach to estimate nonlinear regression model using numerical methods

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Mahaboob, B.; Venkateswarlu, B.; Mokeshrayalu, G.; Balasiddamuni, P.

2017-11-01

This research paper concerns with the computational methods namely the Gauss-Newton method, Gradient algorithm methods (Newton-Raphson method, Steepest Descent or Steepest Ascent algorithm method, the Method of Scoring, the Method of Quadratic Hill-Climbing) based on numerical analysis to estimate parameters of nonlinear regression model in a very different way. Principles of matrix calculus have been used to discuss the Gradient-Algorithm methods. Yonathan Bard [1] discussed a comparison of gradient methods for the solution of nonlinear parameter estimation problems. However this article discusses an analytical approach to the gradient algorithm methods in a different way. This paper describes a new iterative technique namely Gauss-Newton method which differs from the iterative technique proposed by Gorden K. Smyth [2]. Hans Georg Bock et.al [10] proposed numerical methods for parameter estimation in DAE’s (Differential algebraic equation). Isabel Reis Dos Santos et al [11], Introduced weighted least squares procedure for estimating the unknown parameters of a nonlinear regression metamodel. For large-scale non smooth convex minimization the Hager and Zhang (HZ) conjugate gradient Method and the modified HZ (MHZ) method were presented by Gonglin Yuan et al [12].

Eli Hecksher as a Portrait Maker

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Benny Carlson

2017-04-01

Full Text Available Eli Heckscher was not only author of extensive investigations into economic history. He was also skillful in depicting phenomena in small format in encyclopædias, journals and newspapers. This article presents Heckscher as portrait maker of economic scholars. In these portraits—what he emphasized, what he praised, what he criticized—one can discern the stance of the portrait maker himself. Overall, his portraits are permeated by admiration of sharp theoretical analyses and massive economic historical investigations. He admires the founding fathers of political economy, Adam Smith and David Ricardo, stresses continuity in the development of economic thought, praises humble innovators like David Davidson, Knut Wicksell and Alfred Marshall and denounces (what he perceives as pretentious innovators like Gustav Cassel and John Maynard Keynes. He is critical towards economists who attempt to break out of the classical and neoclassical tradition, especially representatives of the German historical school, and what he judges to be a new type of mercantilism, represented by Bertil Ohlin and Keynes. At the same time he appreciates voluminous and solid investigations into economic history, even if performed without theoretical beacons, by scholars like William Cunningham, William Ashley, John Clapham, Marc Bloch, Richard Ehrenberg and Werner Sombart.

Oncogenic Viral Prevalence in Invasive Vulvar Cancer Specimens from HIV Positive and Negative Women in Botswana

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Tesfalul, Martha; Simbiri, Kenneth; Wheat, Chikoti M.; Motsepe, Didintle; Goldbach, Hayley; Armstrong, Kathleen; Hudson, Kathryn; Kayembe, Mukendi K.; Robertson, Erle; Kovarik, Carrie

2014-01-01

Objective The primary aim of this study is to describe the prevalence of select oncogenic viruses within vulvar squamous cell carcinoma (VSCC) and their association with Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) status in women in Botswana, where the national HIV prevalence is the third highest in the world. Methods/materials A cross-sectional study of biopsy-confirmed VSCC specimens and corresponding clinical data was conducted in Gaborone, Botswana. Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) and Immunohistochemistry (IHC) viral testing were done for Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV), Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) strains, and Kaposi's Sarcoma Herpesvirus (KSHV), and PCR viral testing alone was done for John Cunningham Virus (JCV). Results HPV prevalence by PCR was 100% (39/39 35/35) among tested samples. HPV16 was the most prevalent HPV strain (82.9% by PCR, 94.7% by either PCR or IHC). KSHV prevalence by PCR had a significant association with HIV status (p = 0.013), but not by IHC (p = 0.650). Conclusions The high burden of HPV, specifically HPV16, in VSCC in Botswana suggests a distinct HPV profile that differs from other studied populations, which provides increased motivation for HPV vaccination efforts. Oncogenic viruses KSHV and EBV were also more prevalent in our study population though their potential role in VSCC pathology is unclear. PMID:24651632

Ansel Adams: early works

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Throckmorton, Jodi

2010-02-01

Ansel Adams (1902-1984), photographer, musician, naturalist, explorer, critic, and teacher, was a giant in the field of landscape photography. In his images of the unspoiled Western landscape, he strove to capture the sublime: the transcendentalist concept that nature can generate the experience of awe for the viewer. Many viewers are familiar with the heroic, high-contrast prints on high-gloss paper that Adams made to order beginning in the 1970s; much less well known are the intimate prints that the artist crafted earlier in his career. This exhibition focuses on these masterful small prints from the 1920s into the 1950s. During this time period, Adams's printing style changed dramatically. The painterly, soft-focus, warm-toned style of the Parmelian Prints of the High Sierras from the 1920s evolved into the sharp-focus style of the f/64 school of photography that Adams co-founded in the 1930s with Edward Weston and Imogen Cunningham. After World War II, Adams opted for a cooler, higher-contrast look for his prints. Throughout the various styles in which he chose to work, Adams explored the power of nature and succeeded in establishing landscape photography as a legitimate form of modern art.

Use of interleukin-2 for management of natalizumab-associated progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy: case report and review of literature

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Dubey, Divyanshu; Zhang, Yinan; Graves, Donna; DeSena, Allen D.; Frohman, Elliot; Greenberg, Benjamin

2015-01-01

A 51-year-old woman with relapsing–remitting multiple sclerosis (RRMS) and 3-year history of natalizumab use developed expressive aphasia. A brain magnetic resonance image (MRI) showed left frontotemporal and right parietal lesion with mild contrast enhancement and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) was positive for John Cunningham virus (JCV) by polymerase chain reaction (PCR). The patient received five cycles of plasmapheresis followed by intravenous immunoglobulin. Despite this intervention, her speech deteriorated and she developed right hemiparesis. Upon referral to our institution, CSF quantitative JCV PCR was notable for 834 copies/ml. The patient was given an initial dose of 50,000 units of interleukin-2 (IL-2) subcutaneously (SQ) followed by 1 million units IL-2 SQ daily. Due to concern for immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome (IRIS), the patient also received intravenous methylprednisone weekly. The regimen was tolerated well by the patient with no severe adverse effects. Clinically, the patient showed some improvement, and became more responsive and regained right lower extremity antigravity strength. After 12 weeks of IL-2 therapy, JCV quantitative PCR was notable for 31 copies/ml and the patient was more responsive. Due to persistence of JCV, IL-2 therapy was changed to mefloquine. At follow up after 6 months, the patient showed no clinical deterioration. PMID:27134676

Science Teachers' Misconceptions in Science and Engineering Distinctions: Reflections on Modern Research Examples

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Antink-Meyer, Allison; Meyer, Daniel Z.

2016-10-01

The aim of this exploratory study was to learn about the misconceptions that may arise for elementary and high school science teachers in their reflections on science and engineering practice. Using readings and videos of real science and engineering work, teachers' reflections were used to uncover the underpinnings of their understandings. This knowledge ultimately provides information about supporting professional development (PD) for science teachers' knowledge of engineering. Six science teachers (two elementary and four high school teachers) participated in the study as part of an online PD experience. Cunningham and Carlsen's (Journal of Science Teacher Education 25:197-210, 2014) relative emphases of science and engineering practices were used to frame the design of PD activities and the analyses of teachers' views. Analyses suggest misconceptions within the eight practices of science and engineering from the US Next Generation Science Standards in four areas. These are that: (1) the nature of the practices in both science and engineering research is determined by the long-term implications of the research regardless of the nature of the immediate work, (2) engineering and science are hierarchical, (3) creativity is inappropriate, and (4) research outcomes cannot be processes. We discuss the nature of these understandings among participants and the implications for engineering education PD for science teachers.

Descomposición de la hojarasca en un sistema silvopastoril de Panicum maximum y Leucaena leucocephala (Lam de Wit cv. Cunningham: I. Influencia de su composición química Litter decomposition in a silvopastoral system of Panicum maximum and Leucaena leucocephala (Lam de Wit cv. Cunningham: I. Influence of their chemical composition

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Saray Sánchez

2009-09-01

Full Text Available Con el objetivo de determinar la descomposición de la hojarasca y su relación con la composición química de Panicum maximum y Leucaena leucocephala en un sistema silvopastoril, se realizó este experimento en la EEPF "Indio Hatuey". La descomposición de la hojarasca se determinó como la pérdida de biomasa a través del tiempo, con relación al peso inicial. Para el estudio de la dinámica de la descomposición se utilizó el método de bolsas de hojarasca (litter bags. En cada especie se presentó un patrón diferente de descomposición de la hojarasca; la tasa promedio de descomposición de la hojarasca en leucaena fue mayor que en la guinea. En ambas especies se encontró una rápida pérdida de peso durante los primeros 30 días y después el proceso fue más lento. Este comportamiento puede estar relacionado con la composición química de los pastos, pues el porcentaje de biomasa perdida de la hojarasca de L. leucocephala presentó una mayor correlación con las concentraciones del contenido celular, la relación lignina/nitrógeno, la celulosa y el Nt. Se observó una dependencia significativa y negativa de la hojarasca de P. maximum con las concentraciones de la FND y la hemicelulosa; mientras que se relacionó de forma positiva con las de N-FND y la relación lignina/nitrógenoWith the objective of determining the litter decomposition and its relationship to the chemical composition of Panicum maximum and Leucaena leucocephala in a silvopastoral system, this trial was conducted at the EEPF «Indio Hatuey». Litter decomposition was determined as biomass loss through time, with regards to initial weight. For studying the decomposition dynamics, the method of litter bags was used. In each species a different litter decomposition pattern appeared; the average litter decomposition rate was higher in leucaena than in Guinea grass. Rapid weight loss was found in both species during the first 30 days and afterwards the process was slower. This behavior could be related to the chemical composition of pastures, because the percentage of lost biomass in L. leucocephala litter showed a higher correlation to the cell content concentrations, lignin/nitrogen relationship, cellulose and Nt. A significant and negative dependence was observed between the P. maximum litter and the concentrations of NDF and hemicellulose; while it was positively related to the N-NDF concentrations and the lignin/nitrogen relationship.

Innovaciones técnicas, estilísticas y temáticas en la cerámica de los Zuloaga

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Rubio Celada, A.

1999-08-01

Full Text Available The Zuloagas’ ceramics covers several generations, since the 1870’s. The first artists in the family were Guillermo, Germán and Daniel. Their father, Eusebio, arquebusier of Queen Isabel II and Chief of the Royal Gunsmith’s House, sent them to study to the school of ceramics in Sévres, France. The resurgence of the factory of La Moncloa, in Madrid, was possible thanks to them. The Zuloagas restored the traditional techniques in ceramics; for example, the one of “cuerda seca” or “cuenca”-glazed and lustre painted ones, introducing the styles that were on fashion in Europe: Neo-Renaissance and Modernism. In 1893, Daniel Zuloaga settled into the Vargas factory in Segovia, and he opened, at the beginning of the XIX century his own workshop in the church of San Juan de los Caballeros, of Romanesque style, placed in the centre of this town, Segovia. Here he was helped by his son and daughters, Juan, Esperanza and Teodora, adopting new trends in art, like the Neo-Romanesque style and the Regionalist style, with themes he took from Castilian models and customs, within the aesthetic lines of the 98’s Generation.In his workshop he constantly investigated into ceramics and he even developed original techniques, like glazing on slate or applying photographs to ceramics.

La cerámica de los Zuloaga abarca varias generaciones, desde los años setenta del siglo XIX. Los primeros son Guillermo, Germán y Daniel, a los que su padre, Eusebio, arcabucero de Isabel II y director de la Real Armería, manda a estudiar a la Escuela de Cerámica de Sèvres. A ellos se deberá el resurgir de la fábrica de la Moncloa. Los Zuloaga recuperarán las técnicas cerámicas tradicionales, como la cuerda seca, la cuenca y el reflejo metálico, introduciendo los estilos de moda en Europa como el Neorrenacimiento y el Modernismo. En 1893 Daniel Zuloaga se establece en la Fábrica de Vargas en Segovia, instalando a principios de siglo su propio taller, en

ATITUDE HISTORIADORA NA LEITURA DOS NÃO-LUGARES. (Dossíê: Práticas de Ensino e Aprendizagem: a experiência docente e os desafios epistemológicos e metodológicos da educação

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Marco Antonio Silva

2018-04-01

Full Text Available HISTORICAL ATTITUDE IN THE READING OF NON-PLACESResumo: Neste artigo, discute-se os conceitos de atitude historiadora propostos na Base Nacional Comum Curricular (BNCC; letramento em História, baseado nas proposições de consciência histórica de Jorn Rüsen e trabalhadas por Isabel Barca e Peter Lee; leitura de mundo por meio dos objetos e do patrimônio cultural, na perspectiva defendida por Régis Ramos; e a ação pedagógica, alicerçada na Teoria dos Andaimes. Fez-se um breve levantamento sobre os “Não Lugares” e, por fim, foram apresentados os resultados da leitura de um grupo de arquitetos sobre os artifícios presentes nos Shopping Centers e lojas comerciais para induzir comportamentos de frequentadores, para aquisição excessiva de bens e serviços. Defende-se a tese de que essa possibilidade de leitura de um exemplar típico de não lugar, a partir da ótica de profissionais do ramo da arquitetura, pode ampliar o repertório de técnicas e procedimentos dos professores de História para sua própria leitura de mundo. Além disso, pode tornar-se mais uma referência para auxiliá-lo na construção de estratégias para um processo ensino-aprendizagem, voltado para o desenvolvimento de uma atitude historiadora.Palavras-chaves: Ensino de História, Metodológia, Educação Patrimonial Abstract: This article discusses the concepts of historian attitude proposed in the Base Nacional Comum Curricular (BNCC; Literacy in History, based on the historical consciousness propositions of Jorn Rüsen and worked by Isabel Barca and Peter Lee; world reading through objects and cultural patrimony, in the perspective defended by Régis Ramos; and the pedagogical action, based on the Scaffolding Theory. There was a brief collection of information about “Non-places” and, finally, the results of the reading of a group of architects about the artifacts present in Shopping Malls and commercial stores to induce goers’ behaviors for excessive

Quantificação de 5-metiltetrahidrofolato no processamento e conservação de vinhos de uvas viníferas e híbridas Quantification of 5-methyltetrahydrofolate in the processing and conservation of wines made of winegrapes and hybrid grapes

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Elizete Maria Pesamosca Facco

2007-12-01

Full Text Available Os folatos compõem uma classe de vitaminas redescoberta nas últimas décadas pela sua importante associação com diversas funções, nos vários processos metabólicos no organismo humano. As principais fontes descritas na literatura são os vegetais, os cereais e as leveduras. Objetivou-se quantificar o 5-metiltetrahidrofolato (5-metilTFH em vinhos durante o processamento e conservação. Foram coletadas amostras de vinhos tintos das variedades viníferas Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot e Pinot noir, e das não viníferas Isabel (tinta e Niágara (branca na colheita, no final da fermentação alcoólica, e maloláctica e seguindo-se aos 4, 7, 12 e 24 meses de conservação a partir do início da fermentação. A técnica de Cromatografia Líquida de Alta Eficiência (CLAE foi utilizada para a separação, identificação e quantificação. Os resultados mostraram que os níveis de 5-metil-THF aumentaram consideravelmente durante a fermentação alcoólica e continuaram aumentando até o término da fermentação maloláctica. Os níveis mantiveram-se estáveis durante um período de 3 a 6 meses para o vinho branco e de 1 a 2 anos para os vinhos tintos, dependendo da variedade. Os vinhos tintos de viníferas se mostraram uma boa fonte de 5-metilTHF.Folates are a class of vitamins that have been rediscovered in recent decades because of their association with various metabolic processes in the human organism. The main sources of folates described the scientific literature are vegetables, cereals and yeasts. The purpose of this study was to quantify 5-methyltetrahydrofolate (5-methyl-THF in wines during wine production and aging. Red wines made from Cabernet Sauvignon, Merlot, and Pinot Noir wine grape varieties, and from Isabel (red and Niagara (white non-wine grape varieties were analyzed. The samples were analyzed at the beginning of fermentation, at the end of alcoholic and malolactic fermentation, and periodically at 4, 7, 12 and 24 months of

Biodisponibilidad de fósforo en un suelo del sur de Santa Fe (Argentina: Efectos de dos fuentes fosfatadas y sus mezclas con urea Phosphorus bioavailability in a soil of the south of Santa Fe (Argentina: Effects of two phosphate sources and their mixtures with urea

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M. M. Silva Rossi

2006-12-01

Full Text Available Los objetivos de este trabajo fueron: i determinar en qué medida las fuentes fosfatadas y sus mezclas con urea afectan la biodisponibilidad de P, ii analizar los efectos de interacción urea/fuente fosfatada, y iii analizar el efecto de la urea sobre el P nativo del suelo. El experimento se condujo en un Hapludol típico Serie Santa Isabel (pH 6,1; 29 g kg-1 de materia orgánica; 12,4 mg kg-1 de P extractable; P total, 446 mg kg-1; MBC 35,8 L kg-1. Se hicieron ensayos de fertilización de trigo con dos fuentes fosfatadas: fosfato monoamónico y fosfato diamónico en dosis de 0, 9 y 17 kg P/ha, en mezclas físicas con urea en dosis de 0, 19 y 37 kg N/ha. Se concluyó que la aplicación de urea no causa efectos sobre los tenores de fósforo nativo en la zona de aplicación. Además, la disponibilidad del fósforo aplicado varía con la dosis y fuente fosfatada utilizada: la aplicación de fosfato monoamónico aumenta significativamente la biodisponibilidad del nutriente en este suelo, con respecto al fosfato diamónico. La utilización de mezclas de fertilizantes fosfatados, con bajas dosis de urea, aumenta la biodisponibilidad del nutriente para el trigo, con relación a las aplicaciones fosfatadas puras.The aims of this work were: i to determine to what extent the phosphorus sources and the mixtures with urea affect P bioavailability, ii to test interaction of urea/phosphate- source effects, and iii to test the effect of urea on the native P of the soil . The experiment was performed in a Santa Isabel Typic Hapludoll (soil organic matter: 29 g kg-1; pH: 6.1; extractable P: 12.4 mg kg-1; and total P: 446 mg kg-1; CBM 35.8 L kg-1. Fertilization assays of wheat with two phosphate sources were carried out: monoammonium phosphate and diammonium phosphate in rates of 0. 9 and 17 kg P/ha, in physical mixtures with urea in rates of 0. 19 and 37 kg N/ha. It was concluded that in the soil tested, the use of urea causes no effects on the native phosphorus

An ethnobotanical study of anti-malarial plants among indigenous people on the upper Negro River in the Brazilian Amazon.

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Frausin, Gina; Hidalgo, Ari de Freitas; Lima, Renata Braga Souza; Kinupp, Valdely Ferreira; Ming, Lin Chau; Pohlit, Adrian Martin; Milliken, William

2015-11-04

In this article we present the plants used for the treatment of malaria and associated symptoms in Santa Isabel do Rio Negro in the Brazilian Amazon. The region has important biological and cultural diversities including more than twenty indigenous ethnic groups and a strong history in traditional medicine. The aims of this study are to survey information in the Baniwa, Baré, Desana, Piratapuia, Tariana, Tukano, Tuyuca and Yanomami ethnic communities and among caboclos (mixed-ethnicity) on (a) plant species used for the treatment of malaria and associated symptoms, (b) dosage forms and (c) distribution of these anti-malarial plants in the Amazon. Information was obtained through classical ethnobotanical and ethnopharmacological methods from interviews with 146 informants in Santa Isabel municipality on the upper Negro River, Brazil. Fifty-five mainly native neotropical plant species from 34 families were in use. The detailed uses of these plants were documented. The result was 187 records (64.5%) of plants for the specific treatment of malaria, 51 records (17.6%) of plants used in the treatment of liver problems and 29 records (10.0%) of plants used in the control of fevers associated with malaria. Other uses described were blood fortification ('dar sangue'), headache and prophylaxis. Most of the therapeutic preparations were decoctions and infusions based on stem bark, root bark and leaves. These were administered by mouth. In some cases, remedies were prepared with up to three different plant species. Also, plants were used together with other ingredients such as insects, mammals, gunpowder and milk. This is the first study on the anti-malarial plants from this region of the Amazon. Aspidosperma spp. and Ampelozizyphus amazonicus Ducke were the most cited species in the communities surveyed. These species have experimental proof supporting their anti-malarial efficacy. The dosage of the therapeutic preparations depends on the kind of plant, quantity of plant

Descomposición de la hojarasca en un sistema silvopastoril de Panicum maximum y Leucaena leucocephala (Lam de Wit cv. Cunningham: III. Influencia de la densidad y diversidad de la macrofauna asociada Litter decomposition in a silvopastoral system of Panicum maximum and Leucaena leucocephala (Lam de Wit cv. Cunningham: III. Influence of density and diversity of the associated macrofauna

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Saray Sánchez

2010-03-01

Full Text Available Con el objetivo de determinar la descomposición de la hojarasca en un sistema silvopastoril de Panicum maximum y Leucaena leucocephala y su relación con la densidad y la diversidad de la macrofauna asociada, se realizó este experimento en la EEPF «Indio Hatuey». Esta se determinó como la pérdida de biomasa a través del tiempo, con relación al peso inicial. Para el estudio de la dinámica de la descomposición se utilizó el método de bolsas de hojarasca (litter bags. Se escogieron al azar cuatro bolsas a los 30, 60, 90, 120, 150, 180 y 210 días de situadas en el pastizal. En cada fecha de recolección, a la hojarasca remanente de cada bolsa se le determinó la población de macrofauna (organismos con diámetro mayor que 2 mm mediante la separación manual, y se calculó el valor promedio de la densidad (individuos/m², así como la abundancia proporcional (% para cada taxón. Se utilizó el análisis de correlación y regresión para conocer la interrelación entre las variables y los modelos de mejor ajuste. De acuerdo con los resultados se concluye que las condiciones de humedad y temperatura que genera el árbol en este sistema, así como la calidad de su hojarasca, posibilitan la presencia de una diversa y estable fauna asociada a las bolsas, la cual influyó en el proceso de descomposición.The trial was conducted at the EEPF «Indio Hatuey» in order to determine the litter decomposition in a silvopastoral system of Panicum maximum and Leucaena leucocephala and its relation to the density and diversity of the associated macrofauna. It was determined as biomass loss through time, with regards to initial weight. For the study of the decomposition dynamics the litter bag method was used. Four bags were randomly chosen 30, 60, 90, 120, 150, 180 and 210 days after being placed in the pastureland. In each collection date, to the remnant litter of each bag, the macrofauna (organisms with diameter higher than 2 mm population was determined by means of manual separation, and the average value of density (individuals/m², as well as the proportional abundance (% for each taxon, was calculated. The correlation and regression analysis was used to learn the interrelation among variables and the best adjustment models. According to the results, it is concluded that the humidity and temperature conditions generated by the tree in this system, as well as the quality of its litter, allow the presence of a diverse and stable fauna associated to the bags, which influenced the decomposition process.

SRF Performance of CEBAF After Thermal Cycle to Ambient Temperature

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Robert Rimmer; Jay Benesch; Joseph Preble; Charles Reece

2005-01-01

In September 2003, in the wake of Hurricane Isabel, JLab was without power for four days after a tree fell on the main power lines feeding the site. This was long enough to lose insulating vacuum in the cryomodules and cryogenic systems resulting in the whole accelerator warming up and the total loss of the liquid helium inventory. This thermal cycle stressed many of the cryomodule components causing several cavities to become inoperable due to helium to vacuum leaks. At the same time the thermal cycle released years of adsorbed gas from the cold surfaces. Over the next days and weeks this gas was pumped away, the insulating vacuum was restored and the machine was cooled back down and re-commissioned. In a testament to the robustness of SRF technology, only a small loss in energy capability was apparent, although individual cavities had quite different field-emission characteristics compared to before the event. In Summer 2004 a section of the machine was again cycled to room temperature during the long maintenance shutdown. We report on the overall SRF performance of the machine after these major disturbances and on efforts to characterize and optimize the new behavior for high-energy running

Royal Policy and the Transfer ot the Consulado under the Old Regime

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Allan J. KUETHE

2017-11-01

Full Text Available The abrupt transfer of the Casa de la Contratación and the Consulado de Cargadores a Indias from Seville to Cádiz in 1717 opened a political struggle between the two cities that would not be completely resolved until the enlightened absolutism of the Marqués de la Ensenada imposed its will. This struggle witnessed old regime politics at both their best and their worst. The present work seeks to analyze the several manifestations of this competition as well as the broader settings in which they occurred. While the new absolutism first appeared through the abad Alberoni in the original transfer and again through its affirmation by the duque de Ripperdá, with the hand of Queen Isabel not far beneath the surface, the traditional culture of consultation and compromise would eventually emerge and permit Seville to retain important powers until much later. Then, in a new era with much different priorities, which were heavily influenced by the coming of the War of the Asiento, royal absolutism as personified by Ensenada and his immediate predecessors would strip Sevilla of its remaining rights and at long last complete the transfer that had begun over twenty-six years before. 

Color, physicochemical parameters and antioxidant potential of whole grape juices subject to different UV-C radiation doses

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Paôla de Castro Henrique

2016-04-01

Full Text Available ABSTRACT Knowing that moderate stress such as UV radiation can activate defense mechanisms in plants, the use of UV-C radiation appears as hypothesis of a promising technique that would help to stimulate and enhance beneficial compounds for health, through a clean and healthy technology. In this study, the possible induction of secondary metabolism, the increase in the content of phytochemical compounds and physicochemical changes through the use of UV-C radiation were evaluated on whole grape juices produced with Vitis labrusca grapes, cultivar Isabel Precoce. Grapes were harvested, sanitized, exposed to UV-C radiation at doses of 0, 2, 4 and 6 KJ m-2, and then the juices were prepared and packed into amber glass bottles at room temperature. Analyses were performed at 0, 30, 60, 90 and 120 days of storage. Based on results obtained and conditions in which the experiment was performed, UV-C treatment in grapes caused abiotic stress in the fruits, affecting color, titratable acidity, soluble solids/titratable acidity ratio, vitamin C and percentage of protection against oxidation. Application of UV-C did not change levels of phenolic compounds in fruit juices or the percentage of scavenging free radicals, pH and soluble solids.

Hurricane disturbance benefits nesting American Oystercatchers (Haematopus palliatus)

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Simons, Theodore R.; Schulte, Shiloh A.

2016-01-01

Coastal ecosystems are under increasing pressure from human activity, introduced species, sea level rise, and storm activity. Hurricanes are a powerful destructive force, but can also renew coastal habitats. In 2003, Hurricane Isabel altered the barrier islands of North Carolina, flattening dunes and creating sand flats. American Oystercatchers (Haematopus palliatus) are large shorebirds that inhabit the coastal zone throughout the year. Alternative survival models were evaluated for 699 American Oystercatcher nests on North Core Banks and South Core Banks, North Carolina, USA, from 1999–2007. Nest survival on North Core Banks increased from 0.170 (SE = 0.002) to 0.772 (SE = 0.090) after the hurricane, with a carry-over effect lasting 2 years. A simple year effects model described nest survival on South Core Banks. Habitat had no effect on survival except when the overall rate of nest survival was at intermediate levels (0.300–0.600), when nests on open flats survived at a higher rate (0.600; SE = 0.112) than nests in dune habitat (0.243; SE = 0.094). Predator activity declined on North Core Banks after the hurricane and corresponded with an increase in nest survival. Periodic years with elevated nest survival may offset low annual productivity and contribute to the stability of American Oystercatcher populations.

The five functions of psychological type.

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Myers, Steve

2016-04-01

From the mid-1930s to the end of his life, Jung complained that most readers misunderstood the main point of his book Psychological Types. He viewed being a type as one-sided and problematic for a variety of reasons. His symbol-based solution to the 'type problem' involved developing a transcendent function to become the new dominant function of consciousness. However, this function has not featured in the popular use of his typology and Isabel Briggs Myers believed that the one-sidedness of Jung's eight types could be balanced by the auxiliary function. This has led to the transcendent function being widely ignored, and to a developmental philosophy that encourages a degree of one-sidedness. This divergence of popular type theory and analytical psychology is the result of various factors, such as Jung describing typology as containing four functions, and a letter in 1950 where Jung apparently supported Myers' version of type theory. This hinders the application of analytical psychology to normal psychology, and particularly individual and cultural development. If we refer to Jung's typology as containing five functions not four, this more accurately represents both the content of the book Psychological Types and the primary value Jung saw in typology. © 2016 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

[The woman in neurosurgery at the national institute of neurology and neurosurgery].

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Mejía-Pérez, Sonia Iliana; Cervera-Martínez, Claudia; Sánchez-Correa, Thalía Estefanía; Corona-Vázquezo, Teresa

Women have always had a hard time in the history of medicine; Dr. Isabel Blackwell was the first woman in history to practice medicine. Dr. Diana Beck became the world´s first female neurosurgeon. The first Latin American female neurosurgeon was Dr. María Cristina García Sancho y Álvarez-Tostado. All of these women had to face a large number of social, cultural, and economic obstacles in their path; however, this situation has changed gradually. Dr. Ana Lilia Siordia Karam was the first neurosurgeon to graduate from INNN. Nineteen years later the second female neurosurgeon at this institute was Dr. María Petra Herrera Guerrero. During their time at this institute they endured a lot of difficulties, especially with most of their coworkers; however, some coworkers treated them with respect and no gender distinction. Nowadays, four of the 25 total neurosurgery residents at INNN are women, and even though some of them have had to endure acts of gender discrimination, the general situation has changed. With work and respect, women have managed to have a larger role in the surgical field. We hope that in the near future a gender discrimination-free environment will be achieved in medicine and its specialties.

Among Paulas, Martas, Pedros, Anas... in order to understand the complex subjects/knowledge relations in the context of historical learning

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Flávia Eloisa Caimi

2013-12-01

Full Text Available We comprehend the learning room as a space where teachers and students knowledge cross it other, permeated by the idiosyncrasies from the society that surrounds the school. This study aims know the pedagogical practice of two teachers in the history teaching for the formers years of the fundamental school, to comprehend as the work that they develop interfere in the student’s historical knowledge construction. The study of case method of survey had the contribution of the teachers of two municipal schools from Londrina. The data, collected through the observation inside the learning room and semi structured interviews with the teachers, were analyzed from the theoretical assumptions announced by Isabel Barca, Hilary Cooper and Keity Barton. We concluded that there are similarities and differences on the teacher’s practice and the students behavior in both classrooms. From a general view, the work with the history is based, nearly exclusively, in the didactical book reading and in the demand to the students retain the information from it. There’s a silence in front of the questions raised by the students about the content and the mechanisms that permit the students to comprehend that the past can have many interpretations are inexistent.

Self education and the production of indigenous children in the Northwest Amazon (Brazil

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Rita de Cácia Oenning da Silva

2016-01-01

Full Text Available Supported by ethnographic documentation, by the anthropological literature and by data collected in the field, this article relates the process by which indigenous peoples in the northwest Amazon learn and teach children with the rich dialogue about the production of persons. The techniques and the meaning of «producing people» are transmitted in day to day life, in the interaction between generations, and in the narratives of specialists and family members (especially grandparents. At the same time, this process is intertwined with ritual and mythic knowledge transmission, which is, if not always explicit, always present in the indigenous groups of the region. Children also play active roles in this process of formation and self- formation; in this article, I lay out this social agency my means of a careful description of the day in the life of children in the multiethnic village of Tabocal do uneiuxi, santa Isabel do Rio negro. In this narrative, I point of the ways that children are agents in their own education and self-production, emphasizing their protagonism in the process of «producing people», as they incorporate and transform knowledge.

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Comité Editorial

2017-03-01

Full Text Available Evaluadores NacionalesMagdalena Arnao, Universidad Nacional de CórdobaMaría Gabriela Chaparro, Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Pcia. de Buenos AiresEmilio Crenzel, Universidad de Buenos AiresDaniel Feierstein, Universidad Nacional de Tres de FebreroAna María Gorosito Kramer, Universidad Nacional de MisionesAnne Gustavsson, Universidad Nacional de San MartínPaula Silvana Novellino, Museo de Ciencias Naturales y Antropológicas Juan Cornelio MoyanoNatalia Ojeda, Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Pcia. de Buenos AiresFrancisco Pazzarelli, Universidad Nacional de CórdobaJaime Peire, Universidad Nacional de Tres de FebreroAna Ramos, Universidad Nacional de Río NegroAgustina Rodríguez Romero, Universidad Nacional de Tres de FebreroCarlos Salamanca, Flacso – Argentina.Jorge Suby, Universidad Nacional del Centro de la Pcia. de Buenos AiresEvaluadores Extranjeros  Karina Biondi, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, BrasilVincent Hirtzel, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique – CNRS, FranciaMaría Isabel Jociles Rubio, Universidad Compultense de Madrid, EspañaLiuba Kogan, Universidad del Pacífico, PerúDiana Marre, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, EspañaMario Ruffer, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, México

Pigment dispersion syndrome associated with intraocular lens implantation: a new surgical technique

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M Isabel Canut Jordana

2010-11-01

Full Text Available M Isabel Canut Jordana1, Daniel Pérez Formigó1, Rodrigo Abreu González2, Jeroni Nadal Reus11Barraquer Ophthalmology Centre, Barcelona, Spain; 2University Hospital of La Candelaria, Tenerife, SpainAims: We report the case of a myopic patient who, after intraocular lens transplant in the posterior chamber, suffered elevated intraocular pressure due to pigment dispersion, with recurrent episodes of blurred vision. The patient was treated with a new surgical technique that can avoid potential iridolenticular contact.Methods: Complete ophthalmologic examination and optical coherence tomography (OCT of the anterior segment were performed.Results: Contact between the pigmentary epithelium and the iris with an intraocular lens was revealed by utrasound biomicroscopy and OCT. In this case, Nd:YAG laser iridotomy and laser iridoplasty were not effective for iridolenticular separation and control of the pigment dispersion. We propose a new technique: stitches on the surface of the iris to obtain good iridolenticular separation and good intraocular pressure control.Conclusion: Stitches on the iris surface should be considered as optional therapy in pigmentary glaucoma secondary to intraocular lens implantation. This surgical technique can avoid potential iridolenticular contacts more definitively.Keywords: pigmentary glaucoma, intraocular lens, optical coherence tomography, laser

Increasing incidence of malaria in the Negro River basin, Brazilian Amazon.

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Cabral, A C; Fé, N F; Suárez-Mutis, M C; Bóia, M N; Carvalho-Costa, F A

2010-08-01

Malaria in Brazil is virtually restricted to the Amazon Region, where it has a heterogeneous geographic distribution. We reviewed secondary data in order to describe the regional and temporal distribution of 8018 malaria cases seen between 2003 and 2007 in Santa Isabel do Rio Negro, a municipality in the northwest Brazilian Amazon. A significant rise in malaria incidence, mainly in the Yanomami Indian reservation, was observed during this time. Anopheline breeding sites were also mapped and entomological data were obtained through the capture of larval and adult mosquitoes. Thirty-three potential breeding sites were identified in the urban and periurban areas, 28 of which were positive for anopheline larvae. Anopheles darlingi specimens were captured in both intra- and peridomicile locations in the urban areas. Demographic data were also assessed via a sectional survey, revealing that the majority of dwellings were vulnerable to mosquitoes. This study suggests that urban and periurban areas of this municipality are highly susceptible to epidemic malaria, which is endemic in the Yanomami Indian reservation near the city. In addition, transmission can be perpetuated autochthonously in the urban area, drawing attention to the continuous need for preventative measures such as controlling adult and aquatic stages of mosquitoes and improving housing.

Using Large-Eddy Simulations to Define Spectral and Coherence Characteristics of the Hurricane Boundary Layer for Wind-Energy Applications

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Worsnop, Rochelle P.; Bryan, George H.; Lundquist, Julie K.; Zhang, Jun A.

2017-10-01

Offshore wind-energy development is planned for regions where hurricanes commonly occur, such as the USA Atlantic Coast. Even the most robust wind-turbine design (IEC Class I) may be unable to withstand a Category-2 hurricane (hub-height wind speeds >50 m s^{-1}). Characteristics of the hurricane boundary layer that affect the structural integrity of turbines, especially in major hurricanes, are poorly understood, primarily due to a lack of adequate observations that span typical turbine heights (wind profiles of an idealized Category-5 hurricane at high spatial (10 m) and temporal (0.1 s) resolution. By comparison with unique flight-level observations from a field project, we find that a relatively simple configuration of the Cloud Model I model accurately represents the properties of Hurricane Isabel (2003) in terms of mean wind speeds, wind-speed variances, and power spectra. Comparisons of power spectra and coherence curves derived from our hurricane simulations to those used in current turbine design standards suggest that adjustments to these standards may be needed to capture characteristics of turbulence seen within the simulated hurricane boundary layer. To enable improved design standards for wind turbines to withstand hurricanes, we suggest modifications to account for shifts in peak power to higher frequencies and greater spectral coherence at large separations.

Social media: the way forward or a waste of time for physicians?

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DeCamp, M; Cunningham, A M

2013-01-01

Social media is everywhere; its use has grown exponentially over recent years. The prevalence of these outlets for communication raises some interesting and potentially risky issues for physicians. On the one hand, some believe that physicians should have a strong social media presence and can benefit greatly from access to a global community of peers and leaders through blogs, online forums, Facebook, Twitter and other communication channels. Dr Anne Marie Cunningham provides a strong case for the advantages of developing networks and figuring out who and what to pay attention to online. On the other hand however, others believe that the use of social media places doctors at a professional and ethical risk and is essentially a waste of time for the already time-pressured physician. Professor DeCamp argues that the risks of social media outweigh their benefits. It makes it more difficult to maintain a distinction between private and professional personas, and as we have seen, one mistyped or inappropriate comment can have potentially negative consequences when taken out of context. With an already time-pressured day, the priority should be patients, not tweets. Whatever your thoughts on the benefits and risks of social media, it is here to stay. Specific guidelines and guidance are needed to ensure that physicians who decide to join an online community reap the benefits of global communication, rather than regret it.

An alternative approach to compensators design for photon beams used in radiotherapy

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Jurkovic, S.; Zauhar, G.; Bistrovic, M.; Faj, D.; Kaliman, Z.; Smilovic Radojcic, D.

2007-01-01

The use of compensators in order to achieve desired dose distribution has a long history and is a well-established technique in radiation therapy planning. There are several different calculation methods for determining a compensator's thickness. An alternative method that is based on the Cunningham's modification of Clarkson's method to calculate scattered radiation in beams with an inhomogeneous cross-section is proposed. It is well known that the total dose distribution of radiotherapy photon beam consists of the contributions of the primary beam, attenuated by the tissue layer, and the scattered radiation generated by the primary radiation in single and multiple photon scatter events. The scattered component can be represented as a function of the primary radiation. The central point of our method is the numerical estimation of the primary distribution required to achieve the desired total distribution. Now using the calculated primary distribution, the shape of the modulator could be determined. In this way the contribution of the scattered component is validated in a more accurate way than using effective attenuation coefficients, which is a common practice. The method is verified in various clinical situations and compared with the standard method. The accuracy, although dependent on geometry, was improved by at least 2%. With more complex geometries there is an even higher gain in accuracy with our method when compared to the standard method

Noninfectious uveitis: strategies to optimize treatment compliance and adherence

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Dolz-Marco R

2015-08-01

Full Text Available Rosa Dolz-Marco,1 Roberto Gallego-Pinazo,1 Manuel Díaz-Llopis,2 Emmett T Cunningham Jr,3–6 J Fernando Arévalo7,8 1Unit of Macula, Department of Ophthalmology, University and Polytechnic Hospital La Fe, 2Faculty of Medicine, University of Valencia, Spain; 3Department of Ophthalmology, California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, 4Department of Ophthalmology, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, 5The Francis I Proctor Foundation, University of California San Francisco Medical Center, 6West Coast Retina Medical Group, San Francisco, CA, USA; 7Vitreoretina Division, King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; 8Retina Division, Wilmer Eye Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA Abstract: Noninfectious uveitis includes a heterogenous group of sight-threatening ocular and systemic disorders. Significant progress has been made in the treatment of noninfectious uveitis in recent years, particularly with regard to the effective use of corticosteroids and non-corticosteroid immunosuppressive drugs, including biologic agents. All of these therapeutic approaches are limited, however, by any given patient’s ability to comply with and adhere to their prescribed treatment. In fact, compliance and adherence are among the most important patient-related determinants of treatment success. We discuss strategies to optimize compliance and adherence. Keywords: noninfectious uveitis, intraocular inflammation, immunosuppressive treatment, adherence, compliance, therapeutic failure

Basal Metabolic Rate of Adolescent Modern Pentathlon Athletes: Agreement between Indirect Calorimetry and Predictive Equations and the Correlation with Body Parameters

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Loureiro, Luiz Lannes; Fonseca, Sidnei; Castro, Natalia Gomes Casanova de Oliveira e; dos Passos, Renata Baratta; Porto, Cristiana Pedrosa Melo; Pierucci, Anna Paola Trindade Rocha

2015-01-01

Purpose The accurate estimative of energy needs is crucial for an optimal physical performance among athletes and the basal metabolic rate (BMR) equations often are not well adjusted for adolescent athletes requiring the use of specific methods, such as the golden standard indirect calorimetry (IC). Therefore, we had the aim to analyse the agreement between the BMR of adolescents pentathletes measured by IC and estimated by commonly used predictive equations. Methods Twenty-eight athletes (17 males and 11 females) were evaluated for BMR, using IC and the predictive equations Harris and Benedict (HB), Cunningham (CUN), Henry and Rees (HR) and FAO/WHO/UNU (FAO). Body composition was obtained using DXA and sexual maturity data were retrieved through validated questionnaires. The correlations among anthropometric variables an IC were analysed by T-student test and ICC, while the agreement between IC and the predictive equations was analysed according to Bland and Altman and by survival-agreement plotting. Results The whole sample average BMR measured by IC was significantly different from the estimated by FAO (pBMR when compared with IC (T Test). When compared to the golden standard IC, using Bland and Altman, ICC and Survival-Agreement, the equations underestimated the energy needs of adolescent pentathlon athletes up to 300kcal/day. Therefore, they should be used with caution when estimating individual energy requirements in such populations. PMID:26569101

YNOGK: A NEW PUBLIC CODE FOR CALCULATING NULL GEODESICS IN THE KERR SPACETIME

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Yang Xiaolin; Wang Jiancheng, E-mail: yangxl@ynao.ac.cn [National Astronomical Observatories, Yunnan Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Kunming 650011 (China)

2013-07-01

Following the work of Dexter and Agol, we present a new public code for the fast calculation of null geodesics in the Kerr spacetime. Using Weierstrass's and Jacobi's elliptic functions, we express all coordinates and affine parameters as analytical and numerical functions of a parameter p, which is an integral value along the geodesic. This is the main difference between our code and previous similar ones. The advantage of this treatment is that the information about the turning points does not need to be specified in advance by the user, and many applications such as imaging, the calculation of line profiles, and the observer-emitter problem, become root-finding problems. All elliptic integrations are computed by Carlson's elliptic integral method as in Dexter and Agol, which guarantees the fast computational speed of our code. The formulae to compute the constants of motion given by Cunningham and Bardeen have been extended, which allow one to readily handle situations in which the emitter or the observer has an arbitrary distance from, and motion state with respect to, the central compact object. The validation of the code has been extensively tested through applications to toy problems from the literature. The source FORTRAN code is freely available for download on our Web site http://www1.ynao.ac.cn/{approx}yangxl/yxl.html.

YNOGK: A NEW PUBLIC CODE FOR CALCULATING NULL GEODESICS IN THE KERR SPACETIME

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Yang Xiaolin; Wang Jiancheng

2013-01-01

Following the work of Dexter and Agol, we present a new public code for the fast calculation of null geodesics in the Kerr spacetime. Using Weierstrass's and Jacobi's elliptic functions, we express all coordinates and affine parameters as analytical and numerical functions of a parameter p, which is an integral value along the geodesic. This is the main difference between our code and previous similar ones. The advantage of this treatment is that the information about the turning points does not need to be specified in advance by the user, and many applications such as imaging, the calculation of line profiles, and the observer-emitter problem, become root-finding problems. All elliptic integrations are computed by Carlson's elliptic integral method as in Dexter and Agol, which guarantees the fast computational speed of our code. The formulae to compute the constants of motion given by Cunningham and Bardeen have been extended, which allow one to readily handle situations in which the emitter or the observer has an arbitrary distance from, and motion state with respect to, the central compact object. The validation of the code has been extensively tested through applications to toy problems from the literature. The source FORTRAN code is freely available for download on our Web site http://www1.ynao.ac.cn/~yangxl/yxl.html.

A prominent lactate peak as a potential key magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS feature of progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML: Spectrum pattern observed in three patients

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Duško Kozić

2017-11-01

Full Text Available Progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy (PML is a rare, often fatal, opportunistic infection, associated with demyelinating process. PML is caused by John Cunningham (JC polyomavirus, and predominantly affects patients with human immunodeficiency virus (HIV infection or other immunocompromised patients. The purpose of this study was to determine the role of magnetic resonance spectroscopy (MRS in establishing the diagnosis of PML. MRS with long and short echo time was performed in two patients with PML associated with HIV infection and in one PML patient associated with chronic lymphocytic leukemia. The most prominent peak on the obtained spectra was for lactate; it showed 2-3 times higher concentration of lactate compared to choline, almost 4-6 times higher lactate concentration compared to creatine, and 4-11 times higher lactate in comparison to N-acetylaspartate concentration. Similar spectrum pattern was observed in all patients. To the best of our knowledge, this is a new finding that might be useful in early diagnosis of PML. Nevertheless, further confirmation of our results is needed, since we analyzed the spectrum pattern only in three patients. Overall, our results could help in early detection of PML, especially in non-HIV patients, and thus prevent the fatal outcome of the disease. MRS could also be useful in detecting “tumefactive” demyelinating lesions in PML patients, associated with immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome, to avoid misdiagnosis of neoplasm.

Rendimento de cultivares de tomate para processamento em Goias Yield of processing tomato cultivars in Goiás State, Brazil

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Nei Peixoto

1999-03-01

Full Text Available Seis ensaios de competição de cultivares de tomate para processamento industrial foram conduzidos nos municípios goianos de Anápolis, Jataí, Porangatú e Santa Isabel, em 1990, e Anápolis e Porangatu, em 1991. O delineamento experimental utilizado foi de blocos casualizados com quatro repetições, tendo as parcelas 80 plantas em 1990 e 70 em 1991. Em Porangatu, em 1990, as plantas foram mais precoces, florescendo 35 e 41 dias após a semeadura e iniciando-se a colheita 38 dias após a antese. Em Anápolis, também em 1990, a floração iniciou-se de 54 a 60 dias após a semeadura e, a colheita, 46 dias após a antese. As cultivares Petomech, IPA 6 e Topmech Melhorado destacaram-se entre as mais produtivas, apresentando frutos firmes, seguidas das cultivares IPA 5 e Agrocica 72. As cultivares Roma VFN, Rossol e Agrocica 08, por outro lado, revelaram-se produtivas, mas com frutos pouco firmes, sendo impróprias para o transporte a longa distância. Com exceção da cultivar Itaparica, que apresentou melhor desempenho relativo nos ambientes menos favoráveis, os genótipos apresentaram, para rendimento, resposta diretamente proporcional à melhoria do ambiente, caracterizado pela média geral dos genótipos dentro de cada experimento. As cultivares Agrocica 08, IPA 5, Nemadoro e UC 204, foram as mais influenciadas pelas variações do ambiente, enquanto as cultivares Agrocica 33, Calmec VF, IPA 6, Rio Fuego, Santa Adélia, Topmec Melhorado e UC 82 foram as mais estáveis.Six field trials were carried out to evaluate processing tomato cultivars in four counties in the State of Goiás, Brazil (Anápolis, Jataí, Porangatú and Santa Isabel, in 1990, and Anápolis and Porangatu, in 1991. The experiment was conducted as a randomized block design, with four replications, and plots of 80 plants in 1990 and 70 plants in 1991. The plant cycle was shorter in Porangatu (1990, where temperatures were higher than Anápolis. In Porangatu, plant flowering

Mass treatment for intestinal helminthisis control in an Amazonian endemic area in Brazil Tratamento em massa para controle das helmintíases intestinais em área endêmica na Amazônia Brasileira

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Márcio Neves Bóia

2006-08-01

Full Text Available The objective of the present study was to estimate the prevalence of soil-transmitted helminthiasis and evaluate the sanitary conditions and the role of a mass treatment campaign for control of these infections in Santa Isabel do Rio Negro. A cross-sectional survey was carried out in 2002, to obtain data related to the sanitary conditions of the population and fecal samples for parasitological examination in 308 individuals, followed by a mass treatment with albendazole or mebendazole with coverage of 83% of the city population in 2003. A new survey was carried out in 2004, involving 214 individuals, for comparison of the prevalences of intestinal parasitosis before and after the mass treatment. The prevalences of ascariasis, trichuriasis and hookworm infection were 48%; 27% and 21% respectively in 2002. There was a significant decrease for the frequency of infections by Ascaris lumbricoides (p O presente trabalho objetivou avaliar a prevalência e o papel de um tratamento em massa das helmintíases intestinais em Santa Isabel do Rio Negro, Estado do Amazonas, Brasil. Foi realizado em 2002 um estudo seccional, incluindo inquérito copro-parasitológico, objetivando a obtenção das prevalências das parasitoses intestinais e dados sobre as condições sanitárias do local, estudando-se uma amostra de 308 indivíduos. Em 2003 foi realizada intervenção para tratamento em massa das helmintíases intestinais com administração de albendazol (ou mebendazol para crianças entre 12 e 24 meses na sede do município, alcançando-se 83% de cobertura. Novo inquérito copro-parasitológico foi realizado em 2004, para comparação das prevalências antes a após o tratamento. As prevalências das infecções por Ascaris lumbricoides, Trichuris trichiura e ancilostomídeos foram 48%, 27% e 21%, respectivamente em 2002. Em 2004 observou-se redução significativa das infecções por Ascaris lumbricoides (p < 0,05; OR / 95% IC = 0,44 / 0,30 - 0,65, Trichuris

Application and validation of a warning system for grapevine downy mildew controlusing fungicides Aplicação e validação de um sistema de aviso para o controle do míldio da videira, com fungicidas

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Erlei Melo Reis

2013-03-01

Full Text Available Most warning systems for plant disease control are based on Vinho, in Bento Gonçalves - RS, during the growing seasons 2000/ weather models dependent on the relationships between leaf wetness 01, 2002/03 and 2003/2004, using the grape cultivar Isabel. The duration and mean air temperature in this period considering the conventional system used by local growers was compared with the target disease intensity. For the development of a warning system to new warning system by using different cumulative daily disease severity control grapevine downy mildew, the equation generated by Lalancette values (CDDSV as the criterion to schedule fungicide application and et al. (7 was used. This equation was employed to elaborate a critical reapplication. In experiments conducted in 2003/04, CDDSV of 12 - period table and program a computerized device, which records, though 14 showed promising to schedule the first spraying and the interval electronic sensors, leaf wetness duration, mean temperature in this between fungicide applications, reducing by 37.5% the number of period and automatically calculates the daily value of probability of applications and maintaining the same control efficiency in leaves infection occurrence. The system was validated at Embrapa Uva e and bunches, similarly to the conventional system.A maioria dos sistemas de aviso para o controle de doenças de O sistema foi validado na Embrapa Uva e Vinho, em Bento Gonçalves plantas utilizam como fundamento o modelo climático baseado - RS, conduzido nas safras agrícolas de 2000/01, 2002/03 e 2003/ nas interações entre a duração do molhamento foliar e a 2004 utilizando-se o cultivar Isabel. O sistema convencional utilizado temperatura média nesse período sobre a intensidade da doença pelos produtores foi comparado com o modelo de aviso utilizando alvo. No desenvolvimento de um modelo de aviso para o controle como critério indicador do momento para a aplicação e reaplicação do m