Droides submarinos, las nuevas fronteras de la exploración del océano. Premio RU Cool (Rutgers University) a la innovación tecnológica en oceanografía 2013

[ES] La Universidad de Rutgers y la Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, a través de su Estación de Oceanografía Espacial SEAS Canarias que dirige el Dr. Antonio González Ramos, han colaborado en cinco proyectos de recogida de datos oceánicos desarrollados en el 2008 y el 2013. Estos proyectos son considerados hitos científicos al usar minisubmarinos no tripulados que han batido récords de distancia y tiempo en el agua nunca antes conseguidos. El Dr. González Ramos (Facultad de Ciencias del Mar) recibió el premio en una gala en esta universidad norteamericana, celebrada con motivo del 20 aniversario de su Instituto de Ciencias Marinas y Costeras (RU COOL). González Ramos desarrolló la herramienta Pinzon4D, un sistema de predicción que permite mostrar predicciones de las corrientes oceánicas de 0 a 1000 metros para el mismo día, así como una predicción de tres días, a través de la aplicación Google Earth. La novedad y utilidad de esta herramienta han hecho que se convierta en el protocolo del pilotaje para las dos misiones globales actuales. La herramienta Pinzon-4D se presentará como parte de la Challenger Mission en la próxima sesión plenaria de la Comisión Oceanográfica Internacional (UNESCO). El equipo de trabajo considera que el éxito de este tipo de proyectos radica en tres pilares: la innovación tecnológica, la cooperación internacional y la visibilidad de la información

Photo of cards handed out by police to female students at Rutgers University

General note: Title and date provided by Bettye Lane.

Rutgers '76 : twenty-five years after : a souvenir of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the graduation from Rutgers college, N.J., of the class of 1876. 1876-1901.

Preface signed: H.M.C. [i.e. Henry Miller Cox]

Songs of Rutgers. [music] /

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An address delivered before the Peithessophian and Philoclean Societies of Rutgers College : on the literary character of the Scriptures /

"Delivered and published by request of the Peithessophian Society."

Stability, an indispensable element of usefulness and greatness. An address delivered before the alumni of Rutgers College, July 14, 1840 ...

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An address, delivered before the Peithessophian and Philoclean Societies of Rutgers College.

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A discourse delivered before the trustees, faculty, and students of Rutgers College, at New-Brunswick, New Jersey, on Tuesday, the 14th of July, 1829, the day preceding the annual commencement. ...

Addressed to "Gentlemen of the Philoclean and Peithessophian Societies."

Addresses : delivered at the inauguration of the Hon. Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck, as president of Rutgers College, New Brunswick, N.J., Sept. 15, 1840.

Contains addresses by Philip Milledoler and Abraham Bruyn Hasbrouck.

Rutgers College Publications

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Phylogenetic position of the acariform mites: sensitivity to homology assessment under total evidence

Background: Mites (Acari) have traditionally been treated as monophyletic, albeit composed of two major lineages: Acariformes and Parasitiformes. Yet recent studies based on morphology, molecular data, or combinations thereof, have increasingly drawn their monophyly into question. Furthermore, the usually basal (molecular) position of one or both mite lineages among the chelicerates is in conflict to their morphology, and to the widely accepted view that mites are close relatives of Ricinulei. Results: The phylogenetic position of the acariform mites is examined through employing SSU, partial LSU sequences, and morphology from 91 chelicerate extant terminals (forty Acariformes). In a static homology framework, molecular sequences were aligned using their secondary structure as guide, whereby regions of ambiguous alignment were discarded, and pre-aligned sequences analyzed under parsimony and different mixed models in a Bayesian inference. Parsimony and Bayesian analyses led to trees largely congruent concerning infraordinal, well-supported branches, but with low support for inter-ordinal relationships. An exception is Solifugae + Acariformes (P. P = 100%, J. = 0.91). In a dynamic homology framework, two analyses were run: a standard POY analysis and an analysis constrained by secondary structure. Both analyses led to largely congruent trees; supporting a (Palpigradi (Solifugae Acariformes)) clade and Ricinulei as sister group of Tetrapulmonata with the topology (Ricinulei (Amblypygi (Uropygi Araneae))). Combined analysis with two different morphological data matrices were run in order to evaluate the impact of constraining the analysis on the recovered topology when employing secondary structure as a guide for homology establishment. The constrained combined analysis yielded two topologies similar to the exclusively molecular analysis for both morphological matrices, except for the recovery of Pedipalpi instead of the (Uropygi Araneae) clade. The standard (direct optimization) POY analysis, however, led to the recovery of trees differing in the absence of the otherwise well-supported group Solifugae + Acariformes. Conclusions: Previous studies combining ribosomal sequences and morphology often recovered topologies similar to purely morphological analyses of Chelicerata. The apparent stability of certain clades not recovered here, like Haplocnemata and Acari, is regarded as a byproduct of the way the molecular homology was previously established using the instrumentalist approach implemented in POY. Constraining the analysis by a priori homology assessment is defended here as a way of maintaining the severity of the test when adding new data to the analysis. Although the strength of the method advocated here is keeping phylogenetic information from regions usually discarded in an exclusively static homology framework; it still has the inconvenience of being uninformative on the effect of alignment ambiguity on resampling methods of clade support estimation. Finally, putative morphological apomorphies of Solifugae + Acariformes are the reduction of the proximal cheliceral podomere, medial abutting of the leg coxae, loss of sperm nuclear membrane, and presence of differentiated germinative and secretory regions in the testis delivering their products into a common lumen.